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EVENTS 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. Tickets $10/FREE Members

9.30 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: AN EVENING WITH JOAN SHELLEY The Warhol theater This performance is co-presented with Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society. FREE parking in The Warhol lot Tickets $15/$12 Members & students

Due to popular demand, extended through September 11

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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T DONORA FIELD in North Park on Aug. 7, with the sun at its peak, players sit in pop-up tents, waiting with anticipation. The managers scrutinize their clipboards to determine team lineups in the final seconds before the umpire calls players to the field. The batter steps to the plate; the pitcher takes the mound. One of the managers shouts a last-minute adjustment to the outfielders. The pitcher sets and throws; the bat cracks, and the hitter takes off toward first. A long, high, fly ball careens into the outfield. Players from both benches scream. But the ball is too high and not long enough as it falls into the glove; the batter is out, and the second day of playoffs for the Steel City Softball league has begun. At first blush, it’s just another Sunday rec-league softball game. But for those

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involved, it’s also something more: It’s community. Steel City Softball is an LGBTathletic organization with two leagues in Pittsburgh. Together with Stonewall Sports, a national sports league with a recently founded chapter in Pittsburgh, it provides an outlet for LGBT athletes and allies to have fun and compete.

Pittsburgh’s LBGT sports leagues provide a safe space and competitive spirit {BY BILLY LUDT} “It’s not that I couldn’t have played for someone else,” says softball player Ashley Durham. “For me, anyway, it’s just about having people older than me, younger than me, same age as me to

hang out with, to be a part of the community with. They get me out there. I’m more social than ever. It’s the only place in the world where I feel like a superhero.” While the past two decades have seen great strides in advancing LGBT rights, participants and leaders in these leagues say organizations like theirs are still needed because they provide safe recreational spaces for LGBT players who might be ostracized elsewhere. “We’ll have people write very heartfelt letters because they struggled to play sports in high school,” says Stonewall’s Pittsburgh commissioner, Brian Adams. “Honestly, that’s what we’re here for. It’s less about the competition and it’s more about creating an environment to allow people to be themselves.”

This year alone, Steel City has had more than 240 participating players. Its softball season starts the ﬁrst week of May, and regular play runs until the last week of July, with playoffs shortly afterward. The league accepts all levels of play and is open to LGBT allies as well. The softball league began in 1981 and is the longest-running LGBT sports organization in the Pittsburgh area. Several other LGBT sports leagues work under the Steel City moniker as well — including Steel City Volleyball and Steel City Bowling. In decades past, Steel City didn’t operate publicly as an LGBT sports league for fear of outside persecution. Today, samesex marriage has become legal and LGBT issues are part of the national zeitgeist, but that doesn’t mean discrimination has been eliminated.

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Commissioner Jen Grab emphasizes that there is still a need for safe spaces for LGBT community members to ﬂourish, especially in light of the recent mass shooting at Pulse, a gay bar in Orlando, Fla. Some Steel City players still participate solely in this league because of discrimination. After all, discrimination in the workplace because of sexual orientation has yet to be outlawed at the state or federal level. “It is still perfectly legal to get married on Saturday and lose your job on Monday,” says Grab. Despite the current climate, Grab and her cohorts continue to maintain the league, promoting an athletic as well as social lifestyle with a growing community. Each team organizes weekly practices, and many gather outside of

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the gay community in Raleigh, Adams inquired about bringing Stonewall here. Now, he runs Pittsburgh’s chapter and plays every sport it offers. Adams says that the gay community tends to be fraught with cliques. Stonewall grants him and the rest of the players the chance to expand their comfort zones to an environment outside of the bar scene, while branching into other social groups.

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“It’s a sense of community for Pittsburgh. It really is,” says Stonewall assistant kickball director Daniel Hill. “Anyone who’s in this league, for the most part, can walk into any of the bars on Shadyside on a Friday or Saturday night and know so many people. “When you go out in your own little group and you see these other little

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clusters, you form judgments. What the league has taught me is … so many of these people now are just some of my best friends that I never would have thought to say hello to before kickball came around.” The Mills family can attest to that. Son Alex Johnson played in Stonewall’s summer kickball league. The family attended a Stonewall family-and-friends day a week prior to the league’s playoffs, and Johnson’s mom, Andrea Mills, met many parents who not only supported their children, but also played in the kickball league. “It was, like, really awesome, because it’s a kickball league that allows him to be who he really is,” Mills says. “There’s no judgment or anything, and it was really great to see that.” Johnson moved from his hometown of Latrobe to Pittsburgh, where, he says, the gay community is not as thriving as Pittsburgh’s. “My friends in Pittsburgh always talk about [Stonewall],” says Johnson. “They tried to get me to join last year, but I didn’t. But this year I said, ‘Might as well.’ I have something to do for the summer. And I can get a tan.”

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tives to encourage building-owners to conserve energy and other resources — long-running programs like the Green Building Alliance’s 2030 District and Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Green Workplace Challenge. But a new, smaller-scale project is attempting something similar by harnessing the power of neighbors. Grassroots Green Homes intends to help residents of Oakland and Uptown save energy and cut utility bills. Starting in May, “energy coaches” from the nonprofit Conservation Consultants Inc. fanned out through those neighorhoods, distributing fliers and even knocking on doors to encourage residents to join the Energy Challenge. Each month, participants receive a tool and a tip. The tool might be something as simple as gaskets for electrical outlets to retain cool indoor air in the summer and warm air in winter. Corresponding tip: In summer (if you have air-conditioning), set your thermostat to 78 degrees to cut humidity, and use a ceiling fan to create “wind chill.” You’ll save energy and feel just as cool. As of Aug. 10, CCI reported it had signed up 200 participants who’ll vie to save the most energy over the course of a year. (CCI’s program is an expanded version of an earlier program run by the nonprofit GTECH.) One key is that the challenge’s seven energy coaches are all neighbors themselves — people like Uptown’s Caroline Roach, who has registered 35 households to participate. “It takes a lot of footwork,” says Roach, a mother of four with a background in community outreach. Not everyone she contacts wants to register, and those who do have different motives, ranging from green consciousness to saving money. “Some people,” she adds, “like getting a tool to use.” But she says it’s definitely beneficial to be a recruiter from the neighborhood. “It’s just been good to have that community feel,” says Roach. The competition helps, too. “We’re trying to make it fun,” says Roach. Incentives include gift cards (starting at $10) for turning in monthly surveys. Overall winners will be tallied after this year’s Challenge ends, in April. The Energy Challenge focuses on small changes that could save homeowners up to 15 percent on their gas and electric bills, says Alison Steele, CCI’s manager of community programs and advocacy. That helps the environment, because nearly half of the en-

ergy Americans use is for heating and cooling spaces. But participants must stick to it. “It’s not just a one-time thing,” says Steele. “It’s behavior change. It’s perception change, and really to build habits and build awareness [about] energy efficiency.” Ultimately, CCI hopes to register 500 participants. Complementing the challenge is CCI’s Weatherization Plus program, in which up to 30 qualifying homeowners in Oakland and Uptown will receive a free energy audit and help connecting to resources (like government or utility-company programs) to improve insulation and sealing of their houses. Like many older homes, Anna Hilliard’s lacks much insulation at all; in particular, the attic in her 100-year-old house on Oakland’s Terrace Street is freezing, she says. After seeing fliers at her church and the corner café, Hilliard enrolled in both Weatherization Plus and the Energy Challenge. Steele says work on some Weatherization enrollees’ houses might start this fall. Meanwhile, Hilliard keeps collecting Energy Challenge tips and tools. The retiree, who lives with her sister and daughter, admits she hasn’t yet used the free refrigerator-coil cleaning brush she received, meant to help fridges run more efficiently by removing dust. But she did follow the tip to make sure her fridge stayed two-thirds full, which helps it run colder. Hilliard simply loaded in a few water jugs. And she says that although she expected her electric bill to be “sky-high” with this summer’s heat, it actually dropped, from more than $100 to $80-some. She thinks that maybe the extra containers did it, and adds, “If that’s the case, I’ll put a couple more jugs in!”

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On Aug. 27, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., CCI holds its Grassroots Green Homes Summer Celebration, with the latest tool distribution and food, games and prizes. It’s on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park, and all are welcome. For more information, see www.ccicenter.org.

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was the early 1990s and at my request, my mother got me a mail subscription to the Village Voice. I’d heard of its edgy journalism over the years and I wanted to see it for myself. After six months of the Voice, I subscribed to the Baltimore City Paper. A few years later, living in Illinois, I’d discover the Chicago Reader. I knew these papers had great news, arts and music coverage, but it wasn’t until I lived outside of Chicago and actually used the Reader on the weekends when I’d visit that I learned the value of the pages and pages of listings in the back. When I started working in alt weeklies back in 2000, it was the cutting-edge journalism and the ability to tell stories that no one else was telling that drew me to In Pittsburgh weekly and, later, City Paper. However, I’ve always remained aware of the importance of our comprehensive event listings. And I’ve always believed that the content of the listings is even more important than the delivery method. That’s why starting today, for probably the first time in this paper’s 25 years of publication, you won’t find complete in-paper listings in our pages. The space we have dedicated to listings has changed over the years as the newspaper industry has changed. Except for concert listings, we are moving all of our listings to our website, www.pghcitypaper. com. We are also requiring all of our listings submissions to be made in our new, easy-to-use online-submission tool. We will continue to take fax and emailed submissions up until Aug. 24 for any listings scheduled between today and Sept. 30. And we’ll also input any listings that have already been sent to our offices for events through the end of the year. I know that this news will not please some readers, and I can hear the gathering of pitchforks from here. But with smartphones, tablets and laptops at nearly everyone’s fingertips, our listings are easier than ever to access. Also, we’re not simply subtracting from the paper; we are adding new content that we believe is a better use of our newsprint and resources. In terms of event listings, we have expanded Short List, our rundown of featured events that offers details

beyond event names and addresses. But we’ve got more going on than listings-related changes. You might already have noticed our new dining-and-drink pages that we introduced at the end of June. In addition to our top-notch dining reviews from Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth, we have added two new pages of food-and-drink content, reported and curated by staff writer Celine Roberts. Roberts came to City Paper in 2014 as our assistant listings editor and with her knowledge of local food and drink, I knew I wanted her to become a big part of that coverage. In addition to what she brings to the print edition, she also produces an insightful weekly podcast about the local food scene. In May, after months of readers asking for the return of the News of The Weird column, we decided to give them what they want. But we wanted to provide something new, not just the same syndicated column they could ﬁnd online. That led to Weird Pittsburgh, by local writer Nick Keppler. There’s plenty of strange shit going on in our own backyard; there’s no need to read about the weird stuff happening in Montana. The page also features a weekly comic strip from a Pittsburgh cartoonist, the one and only Wayno. His strange look at the world makes me smile every week. That brings us to the ﬁnal change, which I talked about at length in last week’s paper: CP’s new sports section. We’ll bring you coverage of your favorite teams like the Pirates, Steelers and Penguins, as well as your favorite teams of the future — you know, the ones you don’t know about yet. We’ll also bring you fun features like this week’s, on the proper way to catch a foul ball. You’re also going to notice a new layout of the paper. The goal here, as with all of our changes, is to give you useful, informative, well-written stories from the front of the book to the back. Moving listings from print to online-only allows us to do that. And these might not be the last changes you see. We’re always looking for new features and stories to improve your reading, both in print and online. You can always let me know how you feel and suggest new features and story ideas by emailing me at cdeitch@pghcitypaper.com.

“THE GOAL IS TO GIVE YOU USEFUL, INFORMATIVE, WELL-WRITTEN STORIES FROM THE FRONT OF THE BOOK TO THE BACK.”

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An investigation by PennLive.com found that Pennsylvania is sitting on $3.1 billion worth of its residents’ money and other items while earning interest off it. The Disposition of Unclaimed and Abandoned Property Law requires banks, companies and executors of estates to turn over both money and material items whose rightful owner cannot be found to the Treasury Department. The state quietly shortened the dormancy period by which unclaimed property must be forked over, from seven years to five in 2002 and from five to three in 2014, each time creating a surge of income. (The state received more than $650 million of assets under the law in financial year 20142015, up from about $250 million the previous year.) The treasury adds money from lost paychecks, abandoned bank accounts, utility refunds and unclaimed stocks and bonds to a general investment pool. It stores material items in vaults beneath the treasury complex in Harrisburg and, after three years, sells them at auction. Jewelry, military metals, antique guns, historical documents and sports memorabilia have all passed through. At one point, the treasury held $1.4 million in Smithfield Foods stock, which a man left in his will to a brother who couldn’t immediately be found. Pennsylvanians can claim these assets at any time, and the treasury has a searchable database (in which the author of this column found an unclaimed paycheck from a summer job he held 11 years ago).

A self-appointed “sci-op” researcher was arrested for false impersonation in the course of what he described on his website as a “Social Experiment focused on the feasibility of an unknown person entering into a public hospital.” Somerset Hospital staffers reportedly found Todd Knisely, clad in a white lab coat, wandering the halls. Knisely, 37, allegedly approached a nurse, claimed to be a doctor and asked for directions to the hospital’s IT department. Staffers detained him, as police were called. “He told them he was doing a ‘sci-op’ experiment for an online blog or journal that he writes,” Somerset’s police chief told news station WJAC of Johnstown. In an interview, Knisely said he is the head of a group of hackers and became concerned about the hospital’s cyber and on-site security after a stay as a patient. He explained: “If I were a bad hacker — and I’m not; I’m a ‘white hat,’ — but if I were a bad hacker, I could go into the computer rooms, and now that makes everybody in this town susceptible to data breeches, and that’s very private information.” Although it would seem the hospital successfully detected and repelled the unauthorized person, Knisely wrote on his website, shadowsgovernment.com, “My PSYOP/Social Experiment Revealed Startling Results” (capitalizations in original) and the “Complete Findings & Results” will be published soon.

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The Allegheny Health Network has finally kicked all those little cartoon animals out of its hospitals. A spokesperson told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the company behind the scavenger hunt game Pokémon Go “has complied with our request to remove our hospitals as gyms or ‘Pokestops.’” The game became wildly popular this summer, but some institutions have found the influx of players staring into their cell phones to view virtual creatures hazardous or in poor taste. A spokesperson for West Penn Power told the Trib that Pokémon have “appeared” at its power plants, and security has shooed away teenagers. Also, Squirrel Hill’s Jewish Community Center said in a Facebook post it was “looking into” removing the Pokéstop “at” its Holocaust Center.

The world’s worst youth counselor accidentally shot a 15-year-old boy at

a Harrisburg program for troubled teens. The CEO of Alternative Rehabilitation Communities told PennLive.com that the counselor, who is also a minister, wasn’t trying to intimidate or control the child, but took out the gun to show it off when it went off. The counselor was licensed to carry, but violated the center’s no-firearms policy and has been fired. The boy is expected to fully recover.

A Hollidaysburg couple racked up a list of charges after police allegedly found them using a golf cart to travel to church donation bins and steal the contents, while the driver of the cart was drunk and a three-month-old infant was in the vehicle. According to WJAC, among the charges shared between Patrick Leonard and Tressa Fornari are DUI, reckless endangerment, receiving stolen property and numerous traffic violations.

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Sometimes those landmark birthdays sneak up on you. It wasn’t until Mud City Manglers frontman Ted Tarka was working out the details of the band’s Skull Fest 8 show that he realized, “Holy Shit, this [year] is our 20th anniversary!” And Skull Fest seemed like a fitting venue to celebrate that milestone. The Mud City Manglers will help close the fest with a Sunday-night show at Gooski’s, where they’ll release a cassette compilation of all of their previously released 7-inches. “All our 7-inches are pretty much out of print,” Tarka says. “People are constantly asking me, ‘Can I get one of those?’” Only 100 copies of the tape will be available. “After that,” Tarka says, “let the bastards re-digitize and upload them.” The Manglers started making their trademark grimy garage rock in 1996, though Tarka and drummer Brian Porter have been playing music together since they were 13 and 12, respectively. The band saw several lineup changes in its first decade, but since the addition of bassist Mary Bielich eight years ago, and guitarist Matt Tuite a couple years later, things have remained steady. Listening to the band’s catalog, it’s clear that the members’ love of wild, loose, party-ready punk ’n’ roll has remained steady, too. “We basically were really raw and snotty at the beginning,” Tarka says. “We just kind of evolved that a little bit.” Tarka isn’t the least bit surprised that the Manglers have lasted this long. “It’s so cheesy-sounding, we just love playing music together — drinking beer and playing loud noises,” he says. And if they’re still playing in 2026, that won’t surprise him, either. They already have plans for the near future — Canadian label It’s Trash! Records will put out an unreleased Manglers track on a compilation this fall, and the band aims to start recording a full-length record in the next few months. “It’s been a long time in the works. I think I’ve thrown away more songs than I’ve committed to vinyl.” Nevertheless, Tarka still finds plenty to fuel his rock ’n’ roll. “I’m as pissed off now as I was 20 years ago,” he says with a laugh. “Maybe more.” MWELSH@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

MUD CITY MANGLERS, BATTERED CITIZENS, DIRECT ACTION, HALSHUG 9:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 21. Gooski’s, 3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill. $10. 412-681-1658 or www.skullfestpgh.com

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SPEED OF SOUND {BY BILLY LUDT}

S A KID, Joe Phillips, now the guitarist for the Repos, put a lot of consideration into his music purchases. His goal was to spend as little money for as much music as possible on a single release. Phillips didn’t have much spending money, so the more music on an album, the better. “Then CDs came and everything had fucking 70 minutes of music on it,” says Phillips. “That is way, way, way too much.” Over the past ten years, the Repos have consistently produced a manic style of hardcore punk that sounds, at ﬁrst listen, on the verge of spinning out of control. But it never does. The vocals maintain a concise, growling articulation

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and the bass and guitar keep pace with the machine-gun rate of the drums. Listening to them is like being the pas-

THE REPOS, VANILLA POPPERS, PEACE TALKS, S.L.I.P. 10 p.m. Sat., Aug 20. Cattivo, 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $10. 412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com.

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senger in a car that’s traveling at an ungodly speed: You look out the window,

but nothing registers because the passing vehicles are blurs. You catch a glimpse of a city’s burning skyline before careening into the median. Then you return to the road and repeat the process. “Bands used to play for the longest fucking time. I mean, hardcore bands would play for an hour,” Phillips says. “An hour. That is just too much. And I mean playing. This is before bands used to talk a lot between songs. “I was just like, ‘Man, fuck this.’” When the band was founded in Chicago, in the early 2000s — the members found each other through shared interests in punk rock, skateboarding and occasional delinquency — Phillips made sure that

they played short sets. Ten songs, and 10 songs only. “Doesn’t matter if the songs are a minute long,” he says. “Then the show will be 10 minutes long.” They follow a similar mantra for their records: Full albums are 16 songs, generally clocking in at around that many minutes. But the band (which also currently includes Aaron Aspinwall on vocals, Craig Seeman on drums and Andrew Hinton on bass) is conﬁdent that listeners won’t feel cheated by short sets or short recordings. “Go watch a hardcore band play for an hour,” says Phillips. “It sucks.” This week, the band makes its Pittsburgh debut at Skull Fest, with a set on Aug. 20 at Cattivo, in Lawrenceville. This is the easternmost the band has traversed for a performance; its previous longest voyage was to Cleveland, in September. None of the members of the Repos are professional musicians by trade, and each has a career unrelated to the band. And while most of them live in Chicago,

Aspinwall resides in Grand Rapids, Mich. Recording music remotely isn’t too challenging a task, thanks to modern technology; playing shows is a bit more difﬁcult. The band can manage several dates a year — a few in Chicago and a couple outside of it. Despite plenty of requests to play punk festivals and opening spots for touring acts, Phillips said they have to turn down a lot of shows. Which of course makes tracking down their records extra important. The Repos’ latest album, Poser, was released in April on the label Youth Attack and sold out in a day. The album can be purchased digitally on their Bandcamp, and copies of physical LPs will be available at the show and on Youth Attack’s website. Regardless, the band’s Pittsburgh show is not to be missed. “We don’t play a lot. We’re not going to start playing a lot,” says Phillips. “So, if you want to see the Repos, this is it. Maybe this will be the last time we play. Who knows. Every time could be the last time.” I NF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

SKULL FEST MUST-SEES Set cash aside for some 40s and tall boys of PBR, sew some floss back through that Aus Rotten patch and replace all your missing studs, because, Pittsburgh, it’s time for Skull Fest! Happening Thu., Aug. 18Sun., Aug. 21, Skull Fest 8 boasts a lineup of more than 60 bands. Here are a just a few highlights:

Wear earplugs to the Wolf Eyes set. Trust us, it’s for the best. The Michigan noise-rockers will mangle your eardrums with hellacious sounds, and precautions will be necessary if you’d like to hear past the age of 50. Then take your place in the crowd and attempt to stand up straight against the spastic yet methodical wall of noise. With Haram, Los Huaycos, Choir and NØthing. 6 p.m. Fri., Aug. 19. The Shop, 4314 Main St., Bloomfield. $15. All ages.

Feeling like maybe you can’t hang? Too many sweaty bodies and flailing crusty dreadlocks coming your way? Lucky for you, Skull Fest has caringly provided something a bit more melodic to space out to. Unleash your inner mod to Barcelona post-punkers Belgrado. Be prepared to feel something other than rage and embrace the existential crises you’ll experience following this performance. With Shadow Age and Empty Beings. 10 p.m. Fri., Aug 19. Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $15. 421-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net

The Pittsburgh and Cleveland feud is a little less heated when it comes to music, and — contrary to popular belief — that city’s greatness doesn’t end with Lebron James. Cleveland does hardcore right, and if you’re in the mood for high-quality pissed-off punk (and why wouldn’t you be?), Vanilla Poppers is a must-see. This punk four-piece will have you hurling the nearest chair, table or person into the crowd in no time. Playing at Cattivo with the Repos on Sat., Aug. 20. See show info in main story. BY BILLY LUDT

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heartfelt tenderness. Her delicate soprano and lush acoustics make for thoroughly intimate pop that fills your daydreams with visions of billowing clouds. With material dating back to 2011, the New York City-based artist has gained steady acclaim following the release of 2015’s Soft Stuff EP. Hitting the road with whimsical indie-folk four-piece Florist (also based in New York) for a series of dates that include an Aug. 20 stop at The Mr. Roboto Project, Yacina hopes to bring the homespun intimacy of her bedroom recording sessions to life. “I ﬁnd that I can be much more experimental with my music when I’m performing live,” Yacina says. “Playing live is such a different thing than recording, and it can be more fun.” During live performances, Yacina steps back into a headspace that she has often purposely left behind. With songs like “A Curse,” detailing a love lost to a move, and “Permanent,” exploring dreams of a dead friend, the singer brings a sincere honesty and, at times, melancholy to each of her songs. Beginning her musical endeavors as a freshman in high school, Yacina was inspired by a fellow musician friend, the lo-ﬁ indie-rock artist known as Alex G. “Alex G. showed me a lot of their songs, and I had always thought you needed fancy equipment and a studio to record,” Yacina says. “Through [Alex G.] I learned that you could just use your laptop.” Learning to use Garageband and relying on a few years of guitar lessons, as well

as a laptop microphone, Yacina released her first tracks to an Internet audience in 2011. Since then, Yacina’s confidence in her musical identity has strengthened, and with each release, she’s tried to bring a new element to the recording. “I’ve done music for so long, and I put a lot of pressure on myself to make it different each time,” Yacina says. “I’m always adding more instrumentals. I’ve been fucking around with new songs for tour and taking the time to be more experimental.” One of her most recent experiments was a cover of The Cranberries’ “Sunday,” which she recorded with Girlpool’s Cleo Tucker. In a way, each of Yacina’s releases is an experiment, as she considers her music to be something pursued for enjoyment, and not something that will define her future.

EMILY YACINA, FLORIST, DINOSOUL, FIG 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 20. Mr. Roboto Project, 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $10. www.therobotoproject.com

“It’s hard when you look at music and you ﬁrst start to make money, because it applies a whole different perspective to it,” Yacina says. “I just want to do this for fun. If something doesn’t feel right, I can just say no. I’m lucky in a sense that I can do that, because I’m still in college and have something else I can apply myself to.” For now, Yacina plans to apply herself to the current tour — a pairing that Emily Sprague of Florist is excited about, too. “We both thought it would be fun to do a tour together, and Emily [Yacina] is on summer vacation, so the timing is perfect,” Sprague says. “Yacina is one of my favorite songwriters.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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The laughter at the end of “Gimme Something” conveys the excitement and pleasure the Blue-Hots must have felt in the studio. This opening track presents their skill at jazz vocalese, adding lyrics to a line that might normally be played by trumpet or saxophone. From there, these locals move into exotica territory, playing slow vamps that create a languid, sensual atmosphere, which get embellished with layers of harmonies, counter-melodies and some sharp scat singing. They also pull off a major accomplishment: adding occasional spoken-word sections that sound like neither beatnik-poetry parodies nor overly sincere attempts at that antiquated style. The reverb on the entire production gives the music a nice dreamy sheen, but the voices often get a little lost, as if everyone were leaning in toward the same microphone. It might work onstage, but it loses a little clarity in the studio. BY MIKE SHANLEY

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The last we heard from singer/ songwriter Robert Cook, he’d just released a collection of endearingly off-center Christmas songs. Here, he’s less focused but equally charming. Much of Grey Matter engages in rambly ’60s folk-rock looseness. But the prolific Cook, who writes between 30 and 40 songs a year, isn’t afraid to experiment: The well-executed, if sappy, “Paris” features the requisite accordion, and a barn dance is really the only appropriate forum for “Fiddle And Banjo.” Such variety on one record risks feeling disjointed and tiresome. But even when seemingly dabbling in genre clichés, Cook creates unexpected moments in each song, making for an engaging listen. BY MARGARET WELSH

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[JAZZ] + SAT., AUG. 20 Summer may be exemplified best by the sounds of jazz floating through the evening air on a warm night. The Monroeville Jazz Festival will take place at Tall Trees Amphitheater in Monroeville Community Park West, a perfect place to spread a blanket and enjoy featured performers Chelsea Baratz and Adam James. James is a Canadian performer and entertainer with a background in theater. Baratz, a native of Upper St. Clair, is a bandleader, composer and saxophonist now living in NYC and splitting her time between gigging and recording as a session musician. Food and beverage vendors will be on-site. Meg Fair 6 p.m. 2399 Tilbrook Road, Monroeville. Free. All ages. 412-317-4322 or www.monroeville jazz.org

[SURF ROCK] + SAT. AUG. 20 Why should you go see 79-year-old Dick Dale at the Rex Theater Saturday night? Because when he was here last summer, he played a bass solo … with fucking drumsticks. Atomic Mosquito opens. Charlie Deitch 8:30 p.m. 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $30-40. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com

[HEAVY] + SUN., AUG. 21 Some of the East Coast’s finest heavy bands are turning The Mr. Roboto Project into a hardcore haven with New York’s I Disappear, a group that fuses melodic, smart riffs with aggressive breakdowns. If you love Metallica, you’re going to go wild over Near Death, a band of metalheads who make music that is circle-pit- and two-step-ready. TOS brings the brutal prog-core, while Boston-based Vein will melt faces and blow minds with its weirdo

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experimental hardcore. Try not to throw elbows during Vein’s set, I dare ya. New Pgh HxC band Iron Jungle debuts at the gig. Limber up. MF 7 p.m. 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $10. All ages. www.robotoproject.org

[POP PUNK] + TUES., AUG. 23 Emo-meets-punk pros Bayside will grace Spirit on a stacked bill of what’s good in punk in 2016. Blessed were the early 2000s, thanks to Bayside vocalist Anthony Ranieri’s delightful grit and ear for melody. That band’s sound would go on to Bayside influence a great deal of current pop punk and emo, and the Baysides’ recent, fresh-faced singles surely mean a new album is on the way for old fans. Joining the lineup are The Menzingers, earworm wizards and tenured punk vets. Fresh blood rounds out the show with Sorority Noise, a bouncy emo band worth investing in. MF 8 p.m. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $20-24. {PHOTO COURTESY OF MEGAN THOMPSON} All ages. 412-586-4441 or www.spiritpgh.com

[SLUDGE] + TUES., AUG 23 The Melvins have always existed, and they always will. (At least that’s how it seems.) For real, it’s hard to overstate the influence these self-deprecating elder statesmen of rock have had on heavy music — from doom to experimental to hardcore to drone, there’s nary a sub-genre King Buzzo and Dale Crover haven’t helped shape. If this year’s release, Basses Loaded, is any indication, you can expect rib-thumping riffs and sick noisy harmonies tonight at the Rex Theatre. Helms Alee opens. Margaret Welsh 8 p.m. Tue., Aug. 23. 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $23-25. All ages. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com

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ROCK/POP THU 18 CLUB CAFE. Eric Sommer w/ Aris Paul, Kevin Finn. South Side. 412-431-4950. CRANBERRY COMMUNITY PARK. Lenny Smith & The Instant Gators. Cranberry. 724-776-4806 x1129. HOWLERS. Attaboi, Domestication of Wheat, Noise Nothing, Lonesome Joan. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. PALACE THEATRE. Tim Litvin Band. Greensburg. 724-836-8000. SMILING MOOSE. Husky Burnette, 6 Speed Kill & Bryan McQuaid. South Side. 412-431-4668. STAGE AE. Gov’t Mule, Blackberry Smoke. North Side. 412-229-5483.

FRI 19 ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Employees of Funk. Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968. BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE. God Hates Unicorns, Hedonism Bots, Burned, The Heirs. Knoxville. 412-291-8994.

EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Edwards feat. Nina Sainato. Gibsonia. 412-365-1600. Aris Paul & the Damned. CLUB CAFE. Blackbird Bullet, South Side. 412-431-4090. Ugly Blondes, Easy Roscoe. HOWLERS. Working Breed. South Side. 412-431-4950. Smokey Bellows. Jesse Daniel DIESEL. Rivera, MidKnight Rose, Edwards, Darren Deicide, A Little Less Human. South Side. Paul Labrise, Morgan Erina. 412-431-8800. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Toldyaso! North Huntingdon. & SPEAKEASY. The Jauntee 724-863-8181. w/ The Clock Reads. HOWLERS. Photo Joe & North Side. 412-904-3335. The Negatives, Ben Dumm PARK HOUSE. Dizzier & The East Side Band, Heights. North Side. Devin Moses & The 412-224-2273. Saved, Blue Clutch, THE R BAR. . w ww per Native Alloys. Part Kareeokee. Dormont. a p ty ci h pg of Little Italy Days. 412-942-0882. .com Bloomfield. RIVERTOWNE 412-682-0320. BREWING COMPANY. LEMONT. Groove Doctors. Lenny Smith & The Instant Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. Gators. North Side. 724-519-2145. MR. SMALLS THEATER. SHELBY’S STATION. Dave & THE SHOW w/ Brinner, Soul Andrea Iglar Duo. Bridgeville. Alliance, The Roof, I, Within. 412-319-7938. Millvale. 412-821-4447. SMILING MOOSE. Klaymore w/ OAKS THEATER. End of Summer Siegelord & Shadow of Corvus. Oldies Concert ft. Kardaz. South Side. 412-431-4668. Oakmont. 412-828-6311. PAYNE HILL GRILLE. The Dave Iglar Trio. Clairton. 412-405-8561. BALTIMORE HOUSE. Cerberus. SMILING MOOSE. Bunjie Jambo, Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800. Get to the Chopper. South Side. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY EDEN 412-431-4668. HALL CAMPUS. Jesse Daniel STAGE AE. Blues Traveler & The Wallflowers w/ G. Love & Special Sauce, Howie Day. North Side. 412-229-5483.

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SUN 21 CLUB CAFE. Griffin House. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOWLERS. Donna O Music, Jim Storch & his Uke, Electric Army, Moonspeaker, Thanks Dad. Part of Little Italy Days. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Eva Eris. EP release. Strip District. 412-566-1000. WEST PARK. 8th Street Rox. North Side.

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MON 22 CLUB CAFE. The Delta Saints w/ The Black Six. South Side. 412-431-4950.

TUE 23 FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Jimmy Buffett. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400. HOWLERS. FoundSound Mixtape: The Honey Hounds, The Spectres, Soda Club. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Bachelor Boys Wedding Band. North Side. 412-904-3335. REX THEATER. The Melvins. South Side. 412-381-6811.

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WED 24 BRILLOBOX. Horse Lords. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. CLUB CAFE. Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles w/ Eric ‘Roscoe’ Ambel, Joe Zelek. South Side. 412-431-4950.

DJS THU 18 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse. Millvale. 603-321-0277. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown. 412-471-2058.

FRI 19 ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. East Liberty. 412-621-4900. ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884. THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. RIVERS CASINO. DJ NIN. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

SAT 20 BRILLOBOX. Pandemic: Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Bhangra, Balkan Bass. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. REMEDY. Push It! DJ Huck Finn, DJ Kelly Fasterchild. Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771. RIVERS CASINO. DJ Stasko. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.

SUN 21 THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644.

TUE 23 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta. Reggae & dancehall. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.

WED 24 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 THU 18 DIESEL. Kyle Lucas, It Lives, It

EARLY WARNINGS

Breathes, Litty Ritts & A1-Tyco. South Side. 412-431-8800.

FRI 19 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254.

SAT 20 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254.

BLUES

The Ann Harris Smith Foundation & Laurel Auto Group present

ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays. North Side. 412-321-1834. PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

REGGAE FRI 19

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Blues Orphans. North Side. 412-904-3335. MIKE’S NEW MOON SALOON. Jack of Diamonds. Gibsonia. 724-265-8188. MOONDOG’S. Miss Freddye’s Blues Band. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

The Mountain Goats

COUNTRY {SAT., SEPT. 03}

SAT 20

The Mountain Goats

ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Moody Blues Review. Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968. BEE’Z BISTRO & PUB. Sweaty Betty. Bridgeville. 412-257-9877. MOONDOG’S. Billy Price. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. OAKMONT YACHT CLUB. The Witchdoctors. Oakmont. THE R BAR. Nicole Belli. Dormont. 412-942-0882. WHEELFISH. Jimmy Adler, Yinzside Out. Shadyside. 412-487-8909.

THE R BAR. Mike Mahoney. Dormont. 412-942-0882. SPEAL’S TAVERN. Jimmy Adler. New Alexandria. 724-433-1322.

JAZZ THU 18

Mr. Smalls Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale

{FRI., SEPT. 16}

“Weird Al” Yankovic

Benedum Center, 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown {TUE., OCT. 04}

Bret Michaels

Jergel’s Rhythm Grille, 103 Slade Lane, Warrendale

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Boogie Hustlers. Strip District. 412-566-1000. SOUTHSIDE WORKS TOWN SQUARE. Roger Barbour Jazz Trio. South Side. 412-432-7175. VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. The Jazzed Owls. West End. 412-458-0417.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Denise Sheffey-Powell. Downtown. 412-773-8884. ANDYS WINE BAR. Peg Wilson. GREEN TREE PARK. RML Jazz. Downtown. 412-773-8884. Green Tree. 412-921-9005. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SQUARE. Jeremy Fisher, Jr. SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries w/ Paco Mahone & Tom Wendt. Jam Session. Ballroom. North Downtown. 412-456-6666. Side. 412-904-3335. FRESCO’S. Erin Burkett RODEF SHALOM & Virgil Walters w/ Max CONGREGATION. The Leake. Wexford. Boilermaker Jazz Band. 724-935-7550. Oakland. 412-621-6566. JAMES STREET www. per pa VALLOZZI’S GASTROPUB pghcitym .co PITTSBURGH. Eric & SPEAKEASY. Johnson. Downtown. Sacre’funk. North Side. 412-394-3400. 412-904-3335. THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. ANDORA RESTAURANT Every Saturday, a different band. FOX CHAPEL. Pianist Harry Monroeville. 412-728-4155. Cardillo & vocalist Charlie Sanders. TALL TREES AMPHITHEATER. Fox Chapel. 412-967-1900. Monroeville Jazz Festival. ANDYS WINE BAR. www.monroevillejazzfest.org. Tania Grubbs. Downtown. Monroeville. 412-773-8884. GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander. ANDYS WINE BAR. Downtown. 412-391-1004. The Boilermaker Jazz Band JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Paul Constantino. Downtown. & SPEAKEASY. The Jauntee, 412-773-8884. The Clock Reads. North Side. CITY OF ASYLUM. Roger 412-904-3335. Humphries & RH Factor. North

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A Concert to Benefit the

Johnstown Free Medical Clinic Friday, August 26th, 2016 Peoples Natural Gas Park 90 Johns Street, Johnstown, PA 15901

Doors: 5:30 PM Full Bar & Food Vendors Raffles on Autographed Band Memorabilia

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CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. GREENDANCE - THE WINERY AT SAND HILL. The Flow Band w/ Finneydredlox, Joe Spliff, Debbie Star, Sam Fingers, D Lane. Gibsonia. 724-547-6500.

FRI 19

SUN 21

Lone Pine String Band. Shadyside. 412-363-5845.

WED 24

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STAGE AE. Flume w/ Ryan Hemsworth, HWLS. North Side. 412-229-5483.

FULL LIST ONLINE

FRI 19

WED 24

Side. 412-321-2190. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Ron Wilson’s Meet the Bass Player. North Side. 412-904-3335.

ACOUSTIC

THU 18 ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

FRI 19 NIED’S HOTEL. Slim Forsythe & the Parklane Drifters. Lawrenceville. 412 770-8150. PALACE THEATRE. Scotty McCreery. Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

SAT 20 FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, Colt Ford. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400.

CLASSICAL THU 18 HOODLEBUG BRASS. Unity Chapel, Latrobe. 724-539-2629.

THU 18

SUN 21

MOUNT LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Nan Hoffman. Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Abbie Gardner, Jesse Terry w/ Brooke Annibale. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

ORGANIST BRIAN GURLEY. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland. 412-621-4951.

FRI 19 CLUB CAFE. Judy Kasper & Mike Rodgers. South Side. 412-431-4950. ELWOOD’S PUB. Tony Germaine. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

SAT 20 ACOUSTIC MUSIC WORKS. Elkhorn. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-0710. CLUB CAFE. The Weathered Road, Jimbo Jackson w/ Nico Rivers. South Side. 412-431-4950. PARK HOUSE. Scott Stein. North Side. 412-224-2273. SIXTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Squirrel Hillbillies. Squirrel Hill. 412-417-3707.

SUN 21 HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Cheer’ly Men, Turpentiners,

OTHER MUSIC THU 18 RIVERS CASINO. Kevin Howard Trio. North Side. 412-231-7777.

FRI 19 MEADOWS CASINO. Jimbo & the Soupbones. Washington. 724-503-1200. RIVERS CASINO. Tony Janflone Jr. North Side. 412-231-7777. WIGLE WHISKEY BARREL HOUSE. Arlo Aldo. North Side. 412-235-7796.

SAT 20 MEADOWS CASINO. The Move Makers Band. Washington. 724-503-1200. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Madeline Rae, Ferdinand the Bull. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

MON 22 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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Aug 17- 23 WEDNESDAY 17 Chris Farren

SMILING MOOSE South Side. 412-431-4668. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

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

Old 97â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvalle. 412-821-4447. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

THURSDAY 18

County Parks Summer Concert Series: Duquesne University Tamburitzans SOUTH PARK AMPHITHEATER. Free show. 7:30p.m.

Brew Skies Craft Beer & Music Festival

HARTWOOD ACRES PARK. Free show. 7:30p.m.

HERITAGE PORT Wheeling WV. Over 21 event. Tickets: mountaineerbrewfest.com. 4p.m.

MONDAY 22 The Delta Saints

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

Jam On Walnut WALNUT STREET Shadyside. Featuring Donora and Radio Tokyo. Free event. 7p.m.

TIMBERLINE FOUR SEASONS RESORT Davis WV. Brantley Gilbert: Take Over 21 event. It Outside Tour 2016 Tickets: brewskiesfestival.com. FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Through Aug. 20. Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com or Station Square 1-800-745-3000. 7p.m.

Summer Jam: Good Brother Earl

BESSEMER COURT STAGE Station Square. Free show. 7:30p.m.

Eric Sommer

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

The Jauntee

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SATURDAY 20

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY North Side. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

NEWS

Mountaineer Brewfest 2016

MUSIC

TUESDAY 23 Jimmy Buffett

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com or 1-800-745-3000. 8p.m.

Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival

The Melvins REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

WEST NEWTON. All ages event. Tickets: pittsburghrenfest.com. Through Sept. 25.

SUNDAY 21

Mars Red Sky

County Parks Summer Concert Series: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

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SPIRIT Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9:30p.m.

JIMMY BUFFETT FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION AUGUST 23

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DISCLAIMER :

Bike Pittsburgh assumes no legal responsibility for the events listed. We are merely advertising these events, not organizing them, unless noted in the schedule. If you participate in an event, you do so at your own risk, according to the terms of the event organizer. Discuss any concerns you have with the event organizer, or email us at bikefest@bikepgh.org

*Details subject to change. Dates, times, locations, and additional events are online at: BikePGH.org/BikeFest

F R I DAY A U G U S T 1 9 BikeFest Party 8pm – 12am @ Ace Hotel Pump up your tires and lace up your dancing shoes. No VIPs, no silent auction – we just wanna dance! Remember this is a fun-raiser for BikePGH, your friendly advocates who are dedicated to making Pittsburgh’s streets safer for biking and walking. Food and drink specials will be provided by our amazing partner, Ace Hotel. Entertainment by: Naeem, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Eyejay, DJ Nate Da Phat Barber, Visuals by BikePGH’s own Julie Malice. THIS IS A 21+ Venue. $15 in advance $20 @ door bikepgh.org/bikefest

Thick Bikes Coffee Cruise with Jorge

412 Flock’s Try-A-Bike Jamboree

9am – 12pm @ Thick Bikes, 62 South 15th Street, 15203

10am – 3pm @ Bud Harris Cycling Oval, Highland Park. E-bikes, unicycles, recumbents, tall bikes, trikes, and more

12 Bridges, 3 Rivers, 21 Miles 9:30am – 12pm @ Tazza D’Oro, 1125 N. Highland Ave

10am – 1pm @ Meeting points: www.biketheburgh.com

Lawrenceville Farmers’ Market Bike Festival 1pm – 4pm @ Arsenal Park

5:45pm - 8pm @ Dippy the Dinosaur, ending at the Ace Hotel for BikePGH’s BikeFest Party

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10am – 11:45am @ Lake Elizabeth (Allegheny Commons Park)

There Will Be Hills! 6pm – 8pm @ The Wheel Mill

Mt. Lebanon Cycling and Caffeine Club Road Ride

10:00am – 11:30am @ Over the Bar (OTB) Bicycle Café, 2518 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, 15203

Allegheny Cemetery Historic Bike Tour Mayors of Pittsburgh

7am – 2pm @ Coffee Tree Roasters, 299 Beverly Rd, Mount Lebanon, Pittsburgh, PA, 15216

11am – 1pm @ Butler St Entrance of Allegheny Cemetery, 4734 Butler St, Pittsburgh, 15201

Tour de Red Belt Populaire - Pittsburgh Major Taylor Cycling Club

Roberto Clemente Ride—It’s Back! 12pm – 2:30pm @ Roberto Clemente statue at PNC Park

8am – 3pm @ 600 First Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219

TrailPGH Ride - Get to know Riverview Park

The Every Pittsburgh Neighborhood Ride 8am – 8pm @ Doughboy Square, Corner of Penn & Butler, Lawrenceville

Forgotten Streets: Northside

The Footdown Classic

S U N DAY A U G U S T 2 1 412 Flock’s Ride to the BikeFest Party

Historical City Tour - Bike the Burgh Tours

Allen’s Road Ride C 8:30am – 10:30am @ Immel’s Bike Shop, 5477 William Flinn Hwy, Gibsonia, PA, 15044

12:30pm – 2:30pm @ Main park entrance by the observatory. Mountain Bike Ride

Historical city bike tour with Bike the Burgh

Two Wheels Lots of Green by GTECH 9am – 2pm @ Beltzhoover Community Center, 403 Gearing Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15210

Sunday Ride on the Trail

Coal and Coke Trial Ride

Top Gear Robinson Road Ride

9am – 12pm @ Coal & Coke Trail, details on online calendar.

9:30am – 10:30am @ Trek of Pittsburgh Robinson

3pm – 6pm @ Meeting points: www.biketheburgh.com

9am – 3pm @ Montour Trail, details on online calendar.

Will and Ted’s Bogus Journey

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3pm – 7pm @ Frick Park tennis courts Mountain Biking

M O N DAY A U G U S T 2 2

Gotta Catch ‘em All! Midnight Ride

Snitger’s Group Road Ride

11:45pm - 2:45am @ Friendship Park Sign Pokéstop

9am – 12pm @ 399 Third Street, Beaver, PA, 15009

Weird Bike Wednesday

Achilles International - Handcycling

Northside in Time - Historic Northside 6pm – 9pm @ Cedar & North across from Allegheny General Hospital

6pm – 8pm @ Thick Bikes, 62 S 15th St, 15203

9am – 11am @ Eliza Furnace Trail parking lot

Queergear

Night Lights & Ice Cream Ride with Black Girls Do Bike

6pm - 8pm @ Friendship Park, Friendship & Mathilda

T H U R S DAY A U G U S T 2 5

7pm – 10pm @ 885 Progress Street (off of 16th street bridge in the free parking lot)

Oakmont Verona Peddlers

T U E S DAY A U G U S T 2 3

6am – 8am @ The parking lot of Riverside Park in Oakmont

9:30am – 12pm @ Dippy the Dinosaur, 4100 Forbes Ave

Team Decaf Group Rides

Findlay Township Ride

6am – 8:30am @ Tazza D’Oro, Highland Park

6pm – 8pm @ Findlay Township Activity Center, 310 Main St, Imperial, PA, 15126

#LunchLoop - BikeFest Edition! 12pm – 12:40pm @ Market Square Healthy Ride Station

Forgotten Streets: Hazelwood

Pittsburgh Underwear Bike Ride

Venture Outdoors Art, Bike, and Lunch 10am – 2pm Program cost: $29 (VO members pay $22) Contact erica@ventureoutdoors.org for location.

8:30pm – 12am @ 46th and Butler

S’Side Mountain Bike Ride

It’s a ‘Burgh Thing Bike Ride N’at

6pm – 9pm @ Thick Bikes, 62 S 15th St, 15203

11am – 2pm @ Mullin’s Diner, 876 Progress St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212

TrailPGH Trail Tour: Settlers Cabin 6:30pm – 9pm @ Gilbert Love Grove - Settlers Cabin

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Bicycle Heaven City Ride/Show/Swap Meet

Friday Night Races at the Bud Harris Cycling Track

Hollow Oak Land Trust Mountain Bike Ride 6pm – 8pm @ 1855 Hassam Rd, Moon Twp, 15108

Achilles International Handcycling 6pm – 8pm @ Eliza Furnace Trail

6pm – 8pm @ The Bud Harris Cycling Track

11am – 2pm @ Bicycle Heaven, RJ Casey Industrial Park, 1800 Preble Ave, Pittsburgh

Public Art Bike Tour

Camping w/Bikes a Trip Down the GAP

6pm – 8pm @ Allegheny Landing (exact spot TBD) Please check www.publicartpittsburgh.org

Sat, 5pm – Sun, 3pm @ Thick Bikes, 62 S 15th St.

Critical Mass 6pm – 7:30pm @ Dippy the Dinosaur

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Thick Bikes Beginner Unicycling

PMTCC OTB Bike Ride 6:30am – 8:30am @ OTB Bicycle Café, 2518 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, 15203

Spinnsters Coffee Meetup - BikeFest Edition 8am – 9:30am @ Market Square BikePGH women and biking program.

6:30pm – 8pm @ South Shore Riverfront Park, 2700 S Water St, Pittsburgh, 15203

412 Flock’s Dance & Ride - Bike Extravaganza! 6:30pm – 8pm @ Dippy the Dinosaur

From Oakland to East Liberty History Tour 5:30pm – 6:30pm @ 4800 Frew St by Healthy Ride Station

Mt. Lebanon Cycling and Caffeine Club Road Ride

Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers Bash

7am – 10am @ Coffee Tree Roasters, Mt. Lebanon

6:30pm – 10:30pm @ Grow Pittsburgh Garden Resource Center

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[DANCE]

STARS, BARRES

“WHAT IS THE WORK IF IT’S NOT READ?”

Where Pittsburgh PrideFest’s annual dance showcase signals the beginning of the local summer dance season, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s annual Ballet Under the Stars program at Hartwood Acres ushers in its end. The free outdoor performance on Sun., Aug. 21, part of Allegheny County’s Summer Concert series, continues PBT’s trend of reviving works from the previous season. The company will reprise former National Ballet of Canada artistic director James Kudelka’s The Man in Black, set to six cover songs recorded by Johnny Cash, including his achingly beautiful rendition of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt.” Also being reprised are excerpts of the swashbuckling classical ballet Le Corsaire (“The Pirate”), set to music by Adolphe Adam and others. Excerpts include Act I’s “Pas d’Esclave” and Act II’s pas de trois featuring the slave Ali’s variation made famous by Nureyev. Completing the program will be the world premiere of fiveyear company member Cooper Verona’s “brood.” It’s the 24-year-old’s second commission for the company. The first, “Walking With,” was performed by PBT in May, at Seton Hill University. The new 20-minue ballet for a dozen dancers is set to music by Balkan composers and has a loose narrative about a group of people who communicate through body language and movement. Says Verona: “It explores the good and bad of family life and being a part of a larger group.” Ballet Under the Stars will also introduce dancegoers to new corps de ballet member Yuto Ideno, a former dancer with now defunct Silicon Valley Ballet, and three new company apprentices plucked from PBT School’s graduate program. They are: Mexico City native Daniela Moya; Marshall, Texas, native Amanda Potts; and Clevelander Victoria Watford. Watford, 20, will dance the role of a pirate in Le Corsaire. “My character is supposed to have fun, but in a mean pirate way,” she says. In other roster changes, soloists Hannah Carter, Alejandro Diaz and Luca Sbrizzi were promoted to the rank of principal, and the company said goodbye to dancers Caitlin Peabody, Casey Taylor, Molly Wright and Michaela King. Also, popular principal dancer Christopher Budzynski will retire from PBT after the company kicks off its 48th season with a newly redesigned production of Giselle (with live orchestra), Oct. 28-30 at the Benedum Center. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE’S BALLET UNDER THE STARS 7:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 21, Hartwood Acres Park Middle Road Concert Area, 200 Hartwood Acres, Allison Park. Free. www.pbt.org

Hannah Carter in Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Le Corsaire {PHOTO COURTESY OF RICH SOFRANKO}

{BY STEVE SUCATO}

Iranian author Yaghoub Yadali

[BOOKS]

FOUND IN TRANSLATION {BY TYLER DAGUE}

N 2014, University of Pittsburgh professor Angie Cruz was talking with Chris Heiser and David Shook about Phoneme Media, their publishing house out of Los Angeles specializing in translated works of literature from lesser-heard voices around the world. Shook, Phoneme’s founder and editorial director, and Heiser, the executive director, listened as Cruz praised Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum and the collaborations it was doing with translators. Two years later, Phoneme and City of Asylum, the nonproﬁt whose mission is to provide sanctuary for writers persecuted in their home countries and to stimulate crosscultural exchange, have partnered to publish works by current and former residents. The ﬁrst publication, released in the U.S. this summer, is the awardwinning Rituals of Restless-

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ness, by Yaghoub Yadali. Over the years, City of Asylum has selfpublished a few books. The purpose, says Silvia Duarte, City of Asylum associate director and editor of the group’s online magazine, Sampsonia Way, was primarily to give its writers-in-residence something to bring to the table when pursuing other opportunities. But the organization had few other resources for publication. “Self-publishing is pretty easy these days, but [City of Asylum] didn’t have a sales team, they didn’t have warehousing and they certainly didn’t have distribution,” Heiser says. “We offer a legitimate platform for some of their writers who are already working with translators during their time with City of Asylum. Yadali was City of Asylum’s immediate choice for the first book. Rituals

of Restlessness follows the unsettling escape of a government engineer from both his peevish wife and the grind of an ever-present bureaucracy. The novel won Iran’s Golshiri Foundation Award for best novel of 2004. Despite signiﬁcant acclaim, later outcry over controversial content (Rituals had a scene of adultery that had initially passed the Iranian censorship boards) landed Yadali in prison for a year. Though it also had been named one of the decade’s ten best novels by Iran’s Press Critics Award, Rituals was banned from further publication there. Fleeing persecution, Yadali spent time at Harvard University and the University of Iowa; he was a City of Asylum writer in residence from 20132015 and now continues writing while his wife, Aki Kabiri, studies and teaches at the University of Massachusetts. (Reached by email, Yadali politely declined a request from CP to comment for this article.) Thanks to translator Sara Khalili and Phoneme, Rituals will see its ﬁrst printing in English.

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{BY CHARLES ROSENBLUM}

CORRECTION Last week’s article “Fed Up” mistakenly implied that dance artist Alexandra Bodnarchuk has suffered from clinical depression; she has not. City Paper apologizes for any misconceptions about eating disorders that the article might have communicated. A revised version of the article about Bodnarchuk’s Aug. 18-19 show Something Pretty is at www.pghcitypaper.com. +

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New York Botanical Garden {PHOTO COURTESY OF SALLY GALL}

“These are great writers that really have a place in their country,” says Duarte. “They are really well-known because of their books. They come here — and people know that they are writers if they come to City of Asylum — but they don’t have a book. They lose a lot. This is a way that they have a window to a different market and to be read. What is the work if it’s not read?” Phoneme also had Yadali travel to California, where he spoke at universities, did readings and visited bookstores. Major stops included Skyline Books in Los Angeles with author Hossein Abkenar, a fellow at City of Asylum Las Vegas (which is not affiliated with Pittsburgh’s independently run City of Asylum). The next novel in the partnership, Venezuelan author Israel Centeno’s The Conspiracy, is slated for January release. The goal is one book per year. And each work in the partnership will include a brief summary of the great difficulties the author faced in getting the story to print. “Because each of the books has a description of why it was banned, people can understand the censorship that is commonplace around the world,” Duarte says. “I also think that it’s important for everyone to value their own freedom. It makes you think twice.” City of Asylum plans to commemorate the first two novels in the partnership at the same time with an event this winter at Alphabet City, the group’s under-construction multipurpose center in the former Masonic Building on the North Side. “We want to do a two-in-one,” Duarte says. “It’s really important for us [and] something that we really want to celebrate. We want to do it in our new place, and we want to have the two writers together. We really hope we have Israel and Yaghoub present together.” Beyond the initial novels, Heiser was confident regarding the long-term outlook for the partnership as City of Asylum begins a new era in its 12-year history. “As writers continue to be sheltered at City of Asylum and produce work in collaboration with translators, we plan to continue to publish them,” Heiser says. “It is certainly a commitment on both sides. We’re very excited to continue for the foreseeable future.”

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The challenge of any exhibition about the built environment — landscape, engineering, architecture, interiors — is that you are always showing representations of a thing that exists with greater richness and dimension elsewhere. The New American Garden, a show of work by landscape architects Oehme, van Sweden at 937 Gallery, meets this challenge with richly envisioned and elegantly framed photographic prints of projects including gardens for government entities, often in Washington, D.C. (though the Native Plant and Azalea Garden at the New York Botanical Garden is a pivotal work), as well as lavish residences further afield. In an era when American landscape architecture typically included precisely manicured plantings, Oehme, van Sweden designed freer swaths of species grouped in broader swaths, with more indigenous plants and perennials. Their work spurred the New American Garden movement, with reduced maintenance and reliance on herbicides as added advantages. The work was more meaningful, not just more relaxed. Oehme, van Sweden’s redesign of gardens for the Federal Reserve Building in Washington D.C., puts wavy prairie grasses and a few lush indigenous species where European ornamentals had once been. It becomes “a reflection of the United States and its egalitarian heritage,” said former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board David Lilly in published comments. A similar sense of identity and place marked large residential landscape projects, making them seem suitable rather than grand. An unnamed Nantucket residence, in low but sprawling shingled architecture, is cosseted by local grasses in suitably shallow waves, weaving the house and grounds to the beach and sea along a picturesque horizon. For Pittsburgh, the connection is Parks Conservancy curator Susan Rademacher, who worked with the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to bring the show here, and participated in an opening presentation with Oehme, van Sweden principal Eric Groft. (Both Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden passed away in recent years.) The former editor of Landscape Architecture magazine, Rademacher co-wrote Bold American Gardens in collaboration with the firm’s founding partners. Getting the book lets you benefit from Rademacher’s encyclopedic knowledge and truly superlative design writing. The photos and projects are beautiful on their own, but also as an exhortation to examine the work in its various real and documentary manifestations.

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“stage” of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co.’s production of Seven Guitars — it’s the backyard of playwright August Wilson’s childhood home. That’s in fact the original setting of the 1996 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award winner for best play (also nominated for the Pulitzer, Tony and Drama Desk awards). It’s 1948. All the action is outdoors, and so is the audience. The house is real, as are the chickens nesting under the porch. And the dramatic wallop delivered is real. The title is a vague reference to the métier of the central character, a guitarist-singer down on his luck who sees his big chance. More speciﬁcally, Seven is the number of characters, instruments for the blues and for Wilson’s poetry. They blend in various combinations, and everybody gets at least one big solo. Company artistic director Mark Clayton Southers faced many challenges; there were some rough spots on opening night, but I trust they’ve been patched. Leading the cast as the doomed Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, a smooth Jonathan Berry mixes hope, desperation and sex appeal. But for serious SA, there’s Jamilah Chanie as Ruby, a vixen with a golden (if calculating) heart. Wilson and Playwrights veteran Wali Jamal delivers another great performance as the passionate, shaman-like Hedley.

SEVEN GUITARS continues through Aug. 28. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. at 1727 Bedford Ave., Hill District. (Free parking and shuttle at the Energy and Innovation Center, 1435 Bedford Ave.). $25-35. www.pghplaywrights.org

Leslie “Ezra” Smith and Kevin Brown delineate Barton’s sidemen, respectively the dandy harmonica player Red Carter and Canewell, the doubting drummer. Floyd’s history is not one to inspire enthusiasm from his intimates, especially his main squeeze, Louise, played by Teri Bridgett topping anger with tenderness. Ty Barrow gets some of the best comic lines as the truly querulous Vera. Stage manager Shanita Bivins and crew deserve a medal. There really is something spiritual in the place. Southers prefaced the play with a bit of history, and when he said Wilson’s name I saw the house’s back door open on its own. My seatmates gasped, too. Oh — wear casual shoes and bring bugspray.

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OUTDOOR MAGIC {BY STUART SHEPPARD} FOR SOME reason drama, like dining, is always vivified when experienced outdoors. This is certainly the case with Quantum Theatre’s production of Peribáñez, performed in the Rose Garden of Mellon Park. There’s something transformational about such a setting, where natural humidity and crickets replace the air-conditioning and smoke machines of so many contemporary indoor shows. And like a fine culinary pairing, this work, by the brilliant and prolific 17thcentury Spanish playwright Lope de Vega, is especially poignant alfresco. The set is built into the garden’s steep hillside, and one has to admire the stamina of the actors bounding up and down the stairs. Britton Mauk’s simple wood-andchicken-wire stage — divided into three sections and thrust into the audience — lends a medieval dimensionality appropriate to the play’s 15th-century context. And almost defiantly, the sophistication of C. Todd Brown’s lighting enables startling scene changes and effects that concede nothing by being outside. The story examines what happens when the love of two young peasants is disrupted by a conniving nobleman, and whether honor can be equated with the status of class.

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Co-directors Megan Monaghan Rivas and Tlaloc Rivas create inspired staging that lets the characters switch instantly from interior monologue to external dialogue without affectation. Particularly moving is the cinematic juxtaposition of the princely Commander (Mike Mihm) and the object of his obsessive lust, Casilda (Isabel Pask), as he conjures her from memory and literally wills her apparition into existence on the opposite wing. Siddiq Saunderson plays Peribáñez, Casilda’s affronted husband, who becomes diabolically crafty in protecting his wife. All three actors are excellent, as is Don DiGiulio (Lujan), who displays wonderful comic timing. Sol M. Crespo employs great range in multiple roles, from serious to zany.

watching Weekend Comedy at South Park Theatre. I knew it was the ﬁrst time I’d ever seen it, but I could have sworn I’d seen it before … many, many times. It was only when I tracked down info about Sam Bobrick that it became clear. Mr. Bobrick — who co-wrote this 1985 play with Jeanne Bobrick — enjoyed a very long career in television writing a very particular kind of situation comedy: such shows as Bewitched, The Andy Grifﬁth Show, Get Smart and perhaps his most famous, Saved By the Bell. Weekend Comedy felt so familiar because I’d grown up on that kind of TV, and this play wasn’t even pretending to stray from the template. To a remote cabin in upstate New York longtime married couple Peggy and Frank have come; she’s hoping to coax a little romance out of her husband, a stock type of character best described in the movie Network as “crusty but benign.” Suddenly, in comes young couple Tony and Jill — they’re free-spirited, unmarried globetrotters. Curses! The cabin’s been double-booked! And that’s the plot.

WEEKEND COMEDY continues through Aug. 27. South Park Theatre, Corrigan Drive, South Park. 412-831-8552 or www.southparktheatre.com

Lope de Vega does not make it easy to judge who the moral hero is: the interloping Commander, or the vengeful Peribáñez. Someone must die in the end and, without giving away whom, it is interesting that the character traditionally stabbed in the back is stabbed in the front. This certainly deepens the chill of a dish best served cold.

For the next two days, Frank moans about entitled young people, sexual passion versus time-tested commitment, and a lot of other middle-aged guff. Instead of sending him outside with a beer and the sports section, the three others engage with him … and hilarity ensues. Which, to tell you the truth, it actually does most of the time. They might have been ludicrous, but one thing those TV shows did well was make people laugh. That’s Weekend Comedy, and that’s OK. I mean, mindless fluff is fine if it’s efficiently written mindless fluff consistently hitting the comedy bull’s eye. Helga Terre, playing Peggy, has the “loving wise-cracking wife” role and knows precisely how to work a punch line; it’s pretty amazing watching her land each laugh with machine-like precision again and again. Michael Shahen’s Frank is the exact irascible old coot he needs to be, and manages to score a few yuks himself. And Sarah Chelli brings a little heft to the almost paper-thin role of Jill. Even if you’ve never seen it before, here’s your chance to see it again.

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08.18-08.24.16 Full events listed online at www.pghcitypaper.com When Pittsburgh Center for the Arts named Richard Pell its 2016 Artist of the Year, it could hardly have expected Pell’s AOY exhibit to involve traditional art objects. After all, the Carnegie Mellon University art professor and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow founded the Center for PostNatural History, a unique storefront museum in Garfield dedicated to living organisms bred or engineered by humans. His The Myth of the Great Outright Extraordinary! is similarly novel.

The installation, opening Aug. 19, is anchored by an “old-style cabinet of curiosities,” showcasing Pell’s personal collection — items like the Lord’s Prayer written in a space the size of a dime by Martha Honeywell, an American artist who, born without hands in 1787, worked with three toes and her mouth. Other items include a titanium shard from an early-1960s experimental aircraft that flew out of New Mexico’s fabled Area 51, and is tied to UFO lore. The Myth … also includes audio from Pell’s old record label, Specific Recordings, and his trove of large-scale 3D photographs of skull specimens. Each display includes a handset playing an interpretative message. Pell was inspired by studying early museums — pioneering venues like Pittsburgh-born James Lambdin’s Pittsburgh Museum of Natural History and Gallery of Fine Art, which showcased paintings alongside fossils, taxidermy and human oddities starting in 1829. Much of The Myth … involves the framing and interpretation of Pell’s objects. “Almost everything in the show has two different meanings — maybe more than two,” says Pell. “What art has always been to me is storytelling. … These are all just different ways of telling stories” Also opening Aug. 19 at PCA are a show by 2016 Emerging Artist of the Year Sarika Goulatia; Surface / material, a group exhibition in partnership with the upcoming Re:NEW Festival; and an exhibit of glass sculptures by Barrie Kaufman.

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FASHION Style Week Pittsburgh returns for its fourth year of showcasing the latest trends and the creatives who bring fashion to life. The women’s-rights movement receives the spotlight in opening show Freestyle, tonight at the Carnegie Museum of Art, highlighting fashion from the 1920s to the ’60s. A dance party hosted by the museum and techno club Hot Mass follow. The Style Awards (at Downtown’s Culture restaurant); local makers and bands at East Liberty’s Ace Hotel; and a brunch discussion of the impact of the arts, at Revel + Roost, round out the four-day program’s festivities. Tyler Dague 7 p.m. Continues through Sun., Aug. 21. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $15-60. 412-294-9892 or www.styleweekpittsburgh.com

STAGE Joe Orton’s satiric dark comedy Loot almost didn’t make it, famously surviving a disastrous first run, in 1965, before rewrites turned it into a contemporary classic. The fiery young British playwright’s story about buddies Hal and Dennis, who hide the spoils of a bank robbery in the coffin of Hal’s newly deceased mother, takes on religion, the police and more with crackling wit. A new

Little Lake Theatre production, directed by Art DeConciliis, gets its first performance tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Continues through Sept. 3. 500 Lakeside Dr., Canonsburg. $12-20. 724-745-6300 or www.littlelake.org

friday 08.19 CYCLING Like a downhill racer, cycling keeps picking up speed in Pittsburgh. Prime time to celebrate is advocacy group Bike Pittsburgh’s annual Bike Fest, some 60 themed rides and bike-related events spread over 10 days. Highlights include: Aug. 20’s 72-mile Every Pittsburgh Neighborhood Ride (covering all 90 communities); a historical tour of the Allegheny Cemetery graves of Pittsburgh mayors (Aug. 21); a trails tour of Settlers Cabin Park (Aug. 23); a 30-minute Lunch Loop ride Downtown (Aug. 23); and — of course! — a midnight Pokémon Go! Ride (Aug. 24). While the fest culminates Aug. 28 with Pedal Pittsburgh, it all starts with tonight’s big fundraiser at East Liberty’s Ace Hotel, featuring food and drink, top local DJs and ^ Fri., Aug. 19: Bike Fest {PHOTO COURTESY OF BIKE PITTSBURGH}

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even bike-powered lighting (as provided by volunteer pedalers). BO Festival continues through Aug. 28. Various venues. Most events free; Aug. 19 party is $10-35. www.bikepgh.org

saturday 08.20 FESTIVAL If Cinderella’s castle didn’t give you that medieval ambiance (or offer roasted turkey legs), Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival is back starting today. With hundreds of costumed performers and artisans dotting the village thoroughfares of rural West Newton, the festival is highlighted by fire-eating, sword-fighting, live music and three jousting competitions. Opening weekend also celebrates the king and queen’s arrival to the castle in song and dance. In addition, comedy duo the Washing Well Wenches will ensure the funniest time you ever had watching someone do laundry. TD 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Continues weekends through Sept. 25. 112 Renaissance Lane, West Newton. $8-18.45 (free for children under 5). 724-872-1670 or pittsburghrenfest.com

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“Upcycling” is a term flea-market fans and antique-store bargain-hunters love to throw around. Can parts of this old bike add character to a wall? Can fabric from this ripped armchair be salvaged? At Sweetwater Center for the Arts, tonight’s

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artist reception kicks off ReMIX: X: The Art of Reuse. In a step beyond DIY décor, artists from across the country present works created from all sorts of discarded materials repurposed in unexpected ways. ys. The exhibit is part of Pittsburgh’s multi-organization festival, Re:NEW, which focuses on sustainability and creative eative reuse. TD Reception: 7-9 p.m. (free). Exhibit bit continues through Sept. 16. 200 Broad St., Sewickley. ey. 412-741-4405 or www.sweetwaterartcenter.org org

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ART In the heyday of print journalism, m, but before photographs were easily reproduced, institutions tions like the Draw Me! School thrived. These cartooning correspondence espondence schools advertised everywhere (“Draw Winky!”) and lured famous instructors (Al Capp, Rube Goldberg), soon-to-be-famous o-be-famous students (Charles Schultz) — and thousands who never got ot anywhere. Tonight, the ToonSeum

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From King Friday to those giantt Cheryl Capezutti puppets in every civicc parade, Pittsburgh loves puppets. And thanks to the brand-new Puppetry Guild of Pittsburgh, we can show how much at tonight’s ight’s Pierogi Power Puppet Slam, at the Union on Project. The noncompetitive slam features ures acts of 10 minutes or less by each off 12 local troupes. Expect comedy, singing, inging, dancing and audience participation. ation. The performers range from pros to hobbyists, wielding everything from hand d puppets and marionettes to ventriloquist dummies ummies and animatronics. Names include Capezutti apezutti and Kelle Van Aken’s Fuzzy Boundary Productions; oductions; Pittsburgh Puppetworks’ Gwen Bowman (pictured ((pictured); d); and Bonnie Bogovich, of Bwak Choir and Super uper Smash Opera. Tom Sarver and Scott KuechenmeisterHall erHall host. Your ticket includes pierogis and beer. Bonus: us: Arrive at 6:30 p.m. and you can greet the crowd ass a giant puppet yourself. BO 7-10 p.m. 801 N. Negley Ave., e., Highland Park. $5-10. 412-363-4550

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I loved it. I love EPMD. It’s my first time seeing them. I think they’re the greatest rap duo, right behind Run-DMC. That’s me. We’re the same age. That’s what I used to listen to. I had a whole wall dedicated to them. I had five posters of EPMD. I always wanted to see them. I bought every CD of theirs that ever came out, every tape. I love them to death. I don’t even know why. Everything went well — the venue, the concert, the crowd, the sound system. This is what you want. Some of the bigger venues might be too big. This is nice and personal. [EPMD member] Erick Sermon came out and shook my hand. I’m thrilled. You don’t get that in a big venue like Consol [Energy Center]. BY TYLER DAGUE

opens what might the be first show ever of its kind: Draw Me!, exploring a century of the art of cartooning schools and how-to-draw culture in America. Curated by the ToonSeum’s John Kelly, it includes art from the schools, rare how-to-draw books (“instructions for putting life and pep into your drawing”) and more. The opening reception is Aug. 26. BO Exhibit continues through Oct. 23. 945 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $4-8 (free for kids under 5). 412-232-0199 or www.toonseum.org

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sunday 08.21 COMEDY When an event description includes “funny talking, heavy ribaldry, light petting and an astonishing final act,” you know this variety show isn’t quite like any other. It’s probably because Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are starring. The award-winning mainstays of TV’s Parks and Recreation and Will and Grace, respectively, arrive at the Benedum Center tonight on their comedy tour Summer of 69: No Apostrophe. Expect humorous anecdotes, songs and surprising details from their showbiz marriage of 13 years and counting. TD 8 p.m. 237 Seventh St., Downtown. $40-60. 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

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WORDS Contrary to many a Hollywood film ending, sometimes couples simply don’t work out. However, that doesn’t mean the premise can’t be mined for humor. Suzanne Heagy’s first novel, Love Lets Us Down (All Nations Press), gives a multi-layered look at doomed romance through the guests and staff at an aging Indianapolis hotel — and a pair of newlywed ghosts. The West Virginia-based author visits City Books this evening for a reading and signing. TD 7 p.m. 908 Galveston Ave., North Side. Free. 412-321-7323 or www.citybookspgh.com

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FRESH CHEESE {BY REBECCA ADDISON} More than one year ago, New York City restaurateur Brian Keyser got a call from City of Asylum, the North Side arts-andcommunity space and writers’ sanctuary. It wanted him to open a version of his Casellula Cheese and Wine Bar in its new Alphabet City development. “At the time, I had no real connection to Pittsburgh,” says Keyser. “But I came and saw the space, and looked around the town, and decided it was a good fit.” The restaurant, which will open next month, is built around cheese and will offer an ever-changing list of 30 to 40 artisanal cheeses, along with primarily Mediterranean-influenced small plates. Casellula’s other restaurant is located in Hell’s Kitchen, and Keyser says he sees similarities between his hometown and Pittsburgh. “It’s a cliché at this point, but Pittsburgh is a town that feels like Brooklyn did 15 years ago,” Keyser says. “There’s all this energy and excitement around food, restaurants and cocktail culture. There are a lot of young people who are moving here, or staying here rather than moving away.” Keyser launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to give the city a sense of buy-in with the new North Side location. The goal is set at $50,000. “I wanted there to be a connection between the restaurant and the people of Pittsburgh,” says Keyser. “I thought this would be a great way for us to raise a small portion of the money we need from locals — people who are actually going to come into the restaurant and be part of our community.”

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E’VE JUST returned from New Jersey, the land of diners. On one suburban drive, we passed no n fewer than seven, ranging from gleaming, stainless-steel palaces to modg est, strip-mall storefronts. What they e surely had in common was breakfast all s day d and extensive menus that range from fried eggs to fancy dinner entrees. Around fr here, diners often close after lunchtime, h and the word “fancy” doesn’t usually a apply. But the emphasis on breakfast and a hot, griddled lunches is universal. Shelly Moeller learned the local ways at the elbow of her mother, namesake of O’Leary’s on East Carson Street. Located well above the South Side, Breakfast at Shelly’s is part of the slow but steady revival of Pittsburgh’s southern Hilltop neighborhoods, having taken over from longtime Allen-

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town mainstay Michelle’s. There’s a deli case and open ﬂoor space at the front of the deep, narrow dining room, but Shelly hasn’t decided whether to branch out yet; for now, all the action takes place at the booths and L-shaped counter at the back.

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CP APPROVED Many diners employ a retro decor, reminiscent of the 1950s, and Shelly’s is no exception. The color scheme is strictly red, black and silver, well suited to the plethora of Coca-Cola memorabilia on dis-

play. On the menu, house specialties are denoted with either a miniature of Shelly’s red, gear-like logo or a box outline. Either way, we liked the local leanings (kielbasa and pierogi), the slight but significant upgrades to standard diner fare (e.g. cheddar, not American, cheese), and the sometimessnarky tone of Shelly’s menu (“Waffle: Do you need a description?”). We also liked the friendly, flexible attitude of a small, family-run place. Where other establishments cite “No substitutions,” our server here worked with our kids to enable them to sample pancakes and French toast without overwhelming their small appetites — and our table — with too much food. And not just any pancakes: peanut-butter and bacon cakes. The batter appeared to have been poured on the griddle over

sizzling strips of bacon, which then cooked into the bottoms of the cakes, while peanutbutter chips provided the nutty half. The bacon was excellent, salty and smoky and a little bit chewy, but we found the peanutbutter chips too sweet and artificial-tasting. Ideally, these cakes would have the earthy undertones of real peanut butter. French toast came the usual way — cut into triangles and sprinkled with powdered sugar — or rolled around sausage links. We forwent the roll-ups but were plenty pleased with the toast itself, which was light and fluffy, not soggy, and was crispy and browned at the crusts. Shelly’s home-fries were nicely seasoned, and in our opinion, came close to a perfect example of this style of breakfast potato. The spuds were chopped in a variety of sizes that allowed for uneven browning — a good thing, resulting in small, crispy bits alongside larger, tender chunks. Grilled onion added depth of flavor, and for an extra buck, you can get these home-fries loaded with green pepper and cheddar. A breakfast sandwich of kielbasa, fried egg, grilled onion and spicy mustard on Texas toast was very tasty, but unwieldy to eat due to the kielbasa skin’s resistance to being bitten into. Jason was won over by burgers served on Dutch crunch rolls, a San Francisco tradition that Shelly specialorders and that help her burgers stand out. A topping of rice flour and yeast contributed a crunchy layer that brought interest, heft and a hint of sweetness to the burger roll, which was itself on the hearty side. The burger within was fine, perhaps a bit underseasoned, bigger than a classic diner patty but not a showoff monster either. Shelly’s offers no predesigned burgers, just build-your-own with a pretty good set of options. These include: seven cheeses, condiments (among them, two mustards, spicy mayo and Buffalo sauce), and extras such as fried egg and pierogi. Jason went a spicy route with banana peppers, pepperjack cheese and spicy mayo. Buffalo fries — a poutine-like innovation consisting of classic golden shoestring fries tossed with wing sauce, covered with melted provolone, and served with ranch sauce for dipping — were outstanding. The sauce and gooey cheese were exactly enough to flavor each fry without drowning any, and the fries retained some crisp all the way to the end. The perfect finish would have been a milkshake, made on one of those classic, seafoam-colored devices that somehow use just a tiny spindle to do the job. Alas, Shelly’s milkshake-maker was on the fritz when we visited. But we’ll be back to the Hilltop before long, and we’ll make sure it’s during open hours for Breakfast at Shelly’s. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

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BBQ PULLEDJACKFRUIT SLIDERS {BY BARBIE CLINE, SWISSVALE} I’ve been meat-free for 15 years (seven as a vegetarian and eight years as a vegan), but I still love Southern-style comfort food. When I was 23, I discovered jackfruit at Bombay Food Market on Centre Avenue. I lived near the market and went frequently. During a trip with my roommate Lauren, we saw a spiky, peculiar fruit. I had never seen anything like it. Lauren looked it up and told me that it was a jackfruit and is used as a poultry substitute in other countries. I went back to the store, purchased my first jackfruit and spent the afternoon digging out the meat and seeds. I learned (the hard way) that canned jackfruit will yield more fruit with way less work and that many people eat it sweet, not savory. Thanks to Hilary Zozula’s jackfruit carnitas at Eden, I discovered that Lotus Food Company sells both fresh and canned jackfruit. Since then, this is one of my go-to dishes for meat eaters and non-meat eaters. INGREDIENTS • 30 oz. green jackfruit in water. Note: Sometimes times it’s canned in syrup. rup. Keep an eye out for this since this recipe is meant to be savory. avory • ½ bell pepper, diced • 1 clove garlic, minced • ½ onion, dice • 2 tbsp. oil of choice t • salt s and pepper, to taste • ½ - 1 cup Sweet Baby Ray’s Barbeque Sauce R or o any other you like, to t taste • 24 slider buns • 3 avocados, sliced • 1 head lettuce INSTRUCTIONS Use a knife to cut and shred the jackfruit with your fingers. Some parts will shred, while others will need to be sliced thinly. Heat oil in a pan and add onions, garlic, peppers and jackfruit. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Sauté the mixture until golden brown, about 15-20 minutes. Add a generous amount of barbeque sauce and simmer for about 10 minutes so all the flavors are incorporated. Alternatively: Add onions, garlic, peppers, jackfruit, barbeque sauce, salt and pepper to a slow cooker and cook on low for 7 to 8 hours. Serve on a regular (or toasted) bun with avocado and lettuce. Makes about 24 sliders. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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LOVE SPARKLING WATER? NOW ADD ALCOHOL {BY CELINE ROBERTS} IN APRIL, a six-pack of Truly Spiked &

Sparkling, a new brand of alcoholic sparkling water launched by the Boston Beer Co., arrived on my desk. I eyed it suspiciously before ﬁnally succumbing to curiosity. I gathered some friends for what I thought would be a saccharine experience similar to drinking Smirnoff Ice, a clear, fruity, sickly-sweet alternative to light beer. Cracking open a Colima Lime, one of the three ﬂavors (the others are Grapefruit & Pomelo and Pomegranate), I prepared myself and took a sip. To my surprise, it was delightful. In the new market of alcoholic sparkling water, there are a few brands, like SpikedSeltzer, Nauti Seltzer and Spindrift, aiming to be lighter alternatives to beer or wine. “It’s a really exciting category, says Casey O’Neill, a member of the innovation team at Truly Spiked & Sparkling, in a phone interview. “We’ve seen some trends growing over the last two years that are attracting people to something like Truly.” A Harris Poll commissioned by Truly backs up the trend, showing that half the participants thought there weren’t enough light-alcohol alternatives on the market. O’Neill, who has a background in biology, intended to study medicine but became fascinated with fermentation science and its application to alcoholic beverages. One day after a trip to the gym, O’Neill and her friends were discussing the need for lower-

calorie alcohol alternatives, and the idea for Truly was born. One trend that inspired O’Neill was watching her friends and family switch from soda to sparkling water. With sparkling water brands like La Croix gaining cultural steam over the past two years, O’Neill decided to start working on recipes and Truly became her pet project. In a quick turnaround, the brand launched in April and went national in June. Truly Spiked & Sparkling is 5 percent ABV and 100 calories. Its carbonation and low sugar content (1 gram) make it easily drinkable on a hot day. Each flavor was drawn from O’Neill’s favorite seltzer flavors. The Colima Lime flavor is named for Colima, Mexico, which lies south of Jalisco and is one of the country’s biggest lime-producing states. While the flavors might expand, O’Neill says that Truly will focus on its three flagship flavors for the foreseeable future. While O’Neill is confident that the drink can stand alone, she says that Truly has gotten good feedback from bartenders who use it as a cocktail ingredient. A popular recipe is a riff on a Moscow Mule, in which Colima Lime replaces the lime in the standard combination of vodka, ginger beer and lime juice. Beyond being versatile, tasty and a good summer sipper, it’s also reasonably priced. Six-packs of bottles and cans, which are widely available in Pittsburgh, go for a suggested retail price of $9.99-10.99, but vary by distributor and location.

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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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VS. Maggie’s Farm Rum Distillery 3212A Smallman St., The Strip Maggie’s Farm had too many tasty daiquiris to choose just one, so this week they face off against themselves. DRINK: Fassionola Daiquiri INGREDIENTS: Maggie’s Farm White Rum, Queen’s Share Unaged Rum, lime juice, house-made fassionola syrup OUR TAKE: Fassionola syrup is back from the annals of tiki cocktailing history with all the red fruit flavors preserved and bright. Floral notes from the hibiscus balance the sweetness of the syrup and the whole drink tastes like a sip of strawberry pie. The texture is almost buttery and the cocktail lacks the astringency of a classic daiquiri.

DRINK: Queen’s Share Daiquiri INGREDIENTS: Queen’s Share Unaged Rum, lime juice, simple syrup OUR TAKE: This classic daiquiri requires nothing extra to make it a deliciously drinkable summer cocktail. As my companion said, “I could have about 10 of these.” The rum and simple syrup lends a sweetness that is cut delicately by the acidity of the lime. The freshness of the freshly squeezed lime is strong on the nose, with the rum lingering mellowly at the finish.

This week on Five Minutes in Food History: Enjoy 300 seconds on the delights of amari with Casbah wine and beverage director Alyssa McGrath. www.pghcitypaper.com

One Bordeaux, One Scotch, One Beer Templeton Rye Small Batch Whiskey Retail Price: $39.99/ bottle I lov love to make these into old fashioneds. I need something fancy, not just straight or on the rocks. It’s a beginning-of-the-night kind of drink while you’re waiting for dinner, but it is strong, so maybe just keep it whil one and done. to o RECOMMENDED BY BECKY RUNCO, BARTENDER AT PARK BRUGES

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MUSICAL MATTERS {BY AL HOFF} “Music is and has been my life,” avers Florence Foster Jenkins, a seventysomething New York City socialite. The real-life Jenkins, portrayed here with gusto by a padded and wrinkled-up Meryl Streep, dreams of singing. And so she does, for one memorable night at the Carnegie Hall in 1944.

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The joke — which we already know — is that she is a catastrophically bad singer. In Florence Foster Jenkins, director Stephen Frears spins nearly two hours of light comedy out of Jenkins securing the Carnegie gig in spite of her lack of talent. Chiefly, her “husband,” a failed British actor named St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), keeps her in a protective bubble of praise, while paying off patrons, vocal coaches and press. Frears builds slowly to the film’s first big laugh, when we hear Jenkins sing. We’re joined by Jenkins’ eager new piano accompanist, Cosme McMoon (Simon Helberg), who about has a nervous breakdown when the caterwauling begins. His bug-eyed reactions are expected, but not half as funny as Grant’s as he cycles through facial expressions bestowing warm praise on Florence and yes-I-know-but-keep-playing warnings to McMoon. Terrible singing is billed as this film’s entertainment, but it’s mugging among the leads that matters. It’s a tragicomedy played quite broadly, with a darker angle that gets turned into heartwarming fluff: Is it really a kindness to perpetrate a falsehood upon a loved one? Florence makes the elaborate subterfuge seem like an act of true love, but left unchallenged is the cruelty of it (and the financial benefits, particularly for Bayfield). We can adore this vintage Florence while conveniently forgetting how much of today’s entertainment involves openly mocking the deluded and talentless (TV talent shows, viral videos, Trump’s campaign). But Florence doesn’t demand deep thought — it’s a fine August diversion, if you don’t mind comedies on the slower, fustier side. And like all people blissfully convinced of their own greatness, Florence gets the last word: “People may say I can’t sing, but no one can ever say I didn’t sing.” AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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Herzog admits to barely using a cell phone, yet his new documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World promises an examination of the internet. His many documentaries have covered subjects as diverse as auctioneers and Antarctica, so why not match a curious director with one of today’s biggest topics: technology and how it has been, is and will continue affecting humans. The engaging and sometimes provocative material is dispatched in 10 chapters, beginning with “The Early Days” and ending with “The Future.” The topic of the internet is as vast as the internet, so Herzog focuses on a few points of interest, some of which dovetail, like robots and artificial intelligence, or life without the internet, whether by choice or by some unforeseen catastrophe like a solar flare. But first, the beginning: On the UCLA campus, we enter the room where the very first internet message was sent, on Oct. 29, 1969. It was: “lo,” all that was left

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of “login” when the system crashed after two keystrokes. Marvel at the refrigeratorsized “Interface Message Processor” — though, alas, viewers cannot appreciate its “delicious old odor.”

LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD DIRECTED BY: Werner Herzog Starts Fri., Aug. 12. Regent Square

CP APPROVED Herzog spends some time in Pittsburgh, checking with various scientists at Carnegie Mellon. There, Adrien Treville is harnessing the collective power of the internet to solve molecule-folding puzzles, while Raj Rajkumar is training autonomous cars (“To not hit anybody is the highest priority”). Other locals are toiling at the Robotics Institute in Lawrenceville, where robots, equipped with artiﬁcial intelligence, are being built to potentially tackle hazardous jobs.

The film also examines some problem areas of the internet: the rise of hacking (an old head points out that the original internet was designed for people who trusted each other; there was even a directory of all internet users); the ease of cyber-abuse, which magnifies human being’s innate cruelty; and our 24/7 dependence on internet access. We’ve all made robots-grow-sentient jokes, but Herzog’s primary cautionary query is larger: He wonders whether the entire internet — not simply a metal man or robocar — can gain self-awareness and make its own decisions. Still, we plow blindly ahead, trusting huge facets of our lives to a rapidly growing technology most of us don’t understand. It’s been great and it’s been bad, often at the same time. The beginning was a finite point — that humble “lo” — but who knows what lies ahead for humans, robots or some yet-to-be-known life-consuming technology? After all, among all the futurists’ robust predictions about 21st-century life, nobody predicted the internet. A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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ROMAN HOLIDAY. A sheltered princess runs away from her handlers in Rome and finds amore with an American newspaperman. Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck star in William Wyler’s 1953 lightly comic romance. 11 a.m. Sun., Aug. 21. Hollywood

NEW BEN-HUR. Timur Bekmambetov directs another version of this tale of politics, treachery and chariot-racing in ancient Rome. Jack Huston stars as Judah Ben-Hur. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Fri., Aug. 19

NORTH BY NORTHWEST. This 1959 thriller is the source for not one but two of director Alfred Hitchcock’s most memorable scenes: Cary Grant running from a crop-duster, and the gravity-defying climax on the face of Mount Rushmore. Employing a popular Hitchcock theme — wrongly accused — an ad man (Grant) is mistaken for a spy and chased across the country. And then there’s that delicious banter between Grant and his co-star, Eva Marie Saint. Continues a month-long, Sunday-night series of Cold War films. 8 p.m. Sun., Aug. 21. Regent Square (AH)

DON’T THINK TWICE. Standup comedian Mike Birbiglia writes and directs this comedy about a New York City improv troupe, and what happens when only some of them find success. Birbiglia, Gillian Jacobs and Keegan-Michael Key head an ensemble cast. Starts Fri., Aug. 19 HELL OR HIGH WATER. Dale Dickey, Ben Foster and Chris Pine star in this gritty drama from Davis Mackenzie, about two Texas brothers who undertake an ill-advised scheme to save the family farm. Starts Fri., Aug. 19 THE INNOCENTS. Anne Fontaine’s historical drama focuses on a brutal consequence of war (even in these modern days) that is rarely explored in any emotional detail: the rape of civilian women by conquering soldiers. This film, inspired by real events, takes place in Poland in December 1945. There, a young French female doctor, Mathilde (Lou de Laâge), is working with the French Red Cross, patching up and repatriating French soldiers after the war. Late one night, she is begged by a Polish nun named Maria (Agata Buzek) to come to the rural convent, where another nun is giving birth. Mathilde learns that upon “liberating” Poland nine months ago, Russian soldiers repeatedly raped the nuns; six others are due to deliver. So begins a period of charitable transgression by both women: Mathilde is to work only with the French, and the convent forbids all visitors. Additionally, the nuns live in a highly spiritual cloistered state, and there is a real challenge in breaking through their shame, guilt and collective horror: The world has intruded, and in the ugliest manner possible. Maria, who is modern and non-religious, finds her own philosophies about spirituality challenged. The subject matter is tough, though never unwatchable. Ultimately, the take-away from this beautifully filmed and well-acted work is a quietly inspirational story of resilience, forgiveness and forged sisterhood that underscores the shared humanity between these unlikely parties. In French and Polish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Aug. 19. Manor (Al Hoff)

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS. Travis Knight directs this animated adventure set in long-ago Japan about a boy who must find a suit of armor in order to defeat an evil spirit from the past. Starts Fri., Aug. 19 OUR LITTLE SISTER. This Japanese dramedy unfolds over several months in the lives of three twentysomething sisters who live together in the old family home. One is studious, and a nurse; another is flighty and boy-crazy; and the youngest is sweetly offbeat. While attending the funeral of an estranged relative, they discover they have a younger stepsister, 15-year-old Suzu. Impulsively, they invite her to come live with them, and so she does. Her presence proves to be the gentle catalyst toward the four sisters coming to various reckonings about themselves, their respective goals and their relationships with other family members. The film is lightly plotted, with scenes unfolding around trips to a local diner, walks in the park, and the preparation of food. Even for these modern women, certain

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Sausage Party rituals are adhered to: family funerals, celebrating the spring cherry blossoms, and making summer plum wine. Director Hirokazu Koreeda (Like Father, Like Son) is clearly influenced by classic Japanese domestic dramas, like those of Ozu, while still making this tale feel contemporary and unforced. A film that unfolds slowly, but a worthwhile saunter with an affirming payoff. In Japanese, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Aug. 19. Harris (AH) SAUSAGE PARTY. If you’ve seen a trailer for this animated film directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon, you likely know what you’re in for. The raunchy comedy starring and co-written by Seth Rogen includes the kind of humor we’ve come to anticipate from Rogen and co-stars Jonah Hill, Bill Hader and Michael Cera, of Superbad acclaim. Most of the film is set in a supermarket, where Rogen plays a sausage (technically, a hot dog) desperate to find its way into a bun (Kristen Wiig). The two believe they can finally be together when they make it to “the great beyond” after being chosen by “the gods” (grocery shoppers). The sexual innuendos are anything but subtle, and it’s amazing how much the creators get away with simply because their subjects are food items. But there’s more than just sex jokes, including musings on religion and war depicted through the relationship between a Jewish bagel and Muslim flatbread. (Rebecca Addison)

Phipps Conservatory, Schenley Park, Oakland. phipps.conservatory.org. Free with regular admission THE STING. George Roy Hill’s popular 1973 buddy comedy, about 1930s Chicago con men, finds smalltime grifter Robert Redford hooking up with a seasoned pro (Paul Newman). Fri., Aug. 19, through Thu., Aug. 25. Row House Cinema THE GODFATHER. Francis Ford Coppola’s enduring 1972 drama is a multi-generational mafia tale that casts a jaundiced eye on the American Dream. Fri., Aug. 19, through Thu., Aug. 25. Row House Cinema GREY GARDENS. Albert and David Maysles’ 1975 documentary takes viewers inside the dilapidated East Hampton mansion — and the eccentric and troubling

GONE WITH THE WIND. Sure, you know the story: Those damn Yankees burn the South; Ashley can’t man up; Scarlett pouts all over Tara; and Rhett Butler doesn’t give a damn. But sure as some Southern belles will never go hungry again, Victor Fleming’s epic 1939 historical melodrama holds up to repeated viewings. See it on a big screen. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 24. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 GASWORK: THE FIGHT FOR C.J.’S LAW. This 45-minute 2015 documentary from environmental filmmaker Josh Fox (Gasland) looks at unsafe working conditions in the oil and natural-gas industries, including the unknown effects of being exposed to various chemicals. Patricia DeMarco, who has a background in energy, economic development and environmental policy analysis, will provide additional commentary. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 25. Pump House, 880 E. Waterfront St., Munhall. Free. www.battleofhomestead.org

WAR DOGS. Jonah Hill and Miles Teller star in this comedy, based on true events, in which two twentysomething layabouts become international arms merchants. Todd Phillips directs. Starts Fri., Aug. 19

REPERTORY DOLLAR BANK CINEMA IN THE PARK. Abduction, Wed., Aug. 17 (Schenley), and Sat., Aug. 20 (Riverview). Heavyweights, Thu., Aug. 18 (Brookline); Fri., Aug. 19 (Arsenal); and Sat., Aug. 20 (Grandview). The Peanuts Movie, Sun., Aug. 21 (Schenley); Tue., Aug. 23 (West End/Elliott Overlook); and Thu., Aug. 25 (Brookline). Pitch Perfect 2, Wed., Aug. 24 (Schenley). Films begin at dusk. 412-255-2493 or www.citiparks.net. Free MAVERICK. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner star in Richard Donner’s light-hearted 1994 Western adapted from the 1950s TV series. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 17. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 DON’T JUST SIT THERE — DO SOMETHING! A program of short, funny videos made by Communitopia president Joylette Portlock that breaks down various environmental issues in amusing and easy-to-understand chunks. Titles include: “Solar Powers,” “Water You Talking About?” and “Silence of the Clams.” The film screens as part of Phipps Conservatory’s monthly environmental film series. 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 19.

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You know when the Pirates and Steelers play. Here’s our sports to-do list for Aug. 25-31.

The Washington Wild Things play a four-game series starting with a doubleheader at 6:05 p.m. on Aug. 25 against the Joliet Slammers with fireworks to follow. Aug. 26 is Yoga Night along with a knit-hat giveaway at 7:05 p.m., followed by kids day on Sunday at 5:05 p.m. All games are at Consol Energy Park, 1 Washington Federal Way, Washington. www.washingtonwildthings.com

The University of Pittsburgh’s real football programs are in action this week. The Pitt women’s soccer team plays Colorado College on Thu., Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. and Xavier on Sun., Aug. 28, at 1 p.m. The men’s soccer team hosts Detroit on Fri., Aug. 26, at 7 p.m. and Howard University Sun., Aug. 28, at 7 p.m. All games at the Petersen Sports Complex, 365 Robinson St. Ext., Oakland. www.pittsburghpanthers.com m

Track champions will be crowned d Fri., Aug. 26, at Lernerville Speedway. It’s the final night for the “Fab4 Fueled by Turner’s” racing series, and d champs will be decided in four separate rate race series. For those who know racing, cing, the four classes of cars are 410 Sprints, Super Lates, Big Block Mods & Sportsman/ o Stocks. For the rest of us, that means cars are going to go really fast around a track while we spend an awesome evening outdoors. Races start at 7:30 p.m. 313 N. Pike Road, Sarver. www.lernervilletickets.com

The Pittsburgh Harlequins professional Rugby Team will kick off its 2016 fall season at 7 p.m., Sat. Aug. 27, against the Brooklyn Rugby Club. The Harlequins play one of the most physical sports in the world at a high level. Games are played at Founders Field, 101 Eisele Road, Cheswick. www.pittsburghharlequins.org

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airy steel ramp to the grandstand, Ross Sindler and his 10-year-old son, Jacob, are enjoying another summer afternoon at PNC Park. “It’s a different way to see the game,” Sindler said at the Aug. 11 Pittsburgh Pirates game, from a view that includes all of Downtown. Next to Jacob is the trusty companion of just about every little kid at every game — a baseball glove to catch any serendipitously hit ball. But is it just dumb luck that lets you catch a ball? Or can savvy superfans actually stack the odds in their favor to make sure they leave the ballpark with more than a farmer’s tan, a stomach full of pretzels, hot dogs and an empty wallet? Opinions differ. Fan Andy Schenkemeyer said there isn’t much of a system to it. “I’ve never caught one, but I’ve been close,” Schenkemeyer said. “If it happens, it happens.” However, if placed in the path of a wayward foul — or a big bomb — with his

hands full of treats from the concession stand, Schenkemeyer already knows what he’d sacriﬁce. “I would never sacriﬁce a beer for a ball,” he said. “But maybe nachos.” Pirates fan Korey Hineman made national news on Aug. 10 when he doused himself in nachos and beer trying to catch a foul ball. Ryan Platt, who was at the game with his friend Jamie Deane on Aug. 11, is a season-ticket-holder and vehemently disagrees with Schenkemeyer. “If [Gregory] Polanco hits [a ball] and it’s coming for you, you have to drop [your beer],” Platt said. Another foul-ball etiquette question is whether anyone, especially adults, should use a glove to catch foul balls and home runs. Even with a recently dropped home run by Pirates utility man Sean Rodriguez fresh on his mind, Platt said he’s “never brought one.” Schenkemeyer agreed: “If you can’t catch it with your bare hands, you’re not a man.” But for some, catching balls or hoping

to catch them isn’t just a hobby. Zack Hample has caught more than 9,000 baseballs in his life, including the 3,000th hit of recently retired Yankee Alex Rodriquez. The ﬁrst piece of advice the expert ballhawk offered is to be mobile. “Hang out near a cross-aisle, tunnel, staircase or standing-room area,” Hample told City Paper via email. “Having lateral mobility is key because the odds of a ball being hit directly to you are pretty slim.” If you’re past the point of wanting a ball, most agree you should give the ball away to a little kid or, as Schenkemeyer suggested, “a good-looking woman.” Even if the ball was hit by an opposing player, like the Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo, 10-year-old Jacob said he would hold onto it as a fan of baseball, not just of the Pirates. “One day I could get an autograph from them,” Jacob said. Schenkemeyer had a different suggestion, especially if the ball is from the much-hated Cubs: “I’d throw it back, or at Jake Arrieta.” I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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HISTORY LESSON {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} IN MORE THAN 1.5 million rounds of golf in PGA history, only one person has ever shot a 58. That person was Jim Furyk, who shot that score and made golf history at the recent Travelers Championship. It was the best round of golf ever. And to think, he learned the game at the Uniontown Country Club in Fayette County, where his dad was the pro for many years. But that’s not the county’s only brush with the sports world. Former Pirates and Phillies pitcher Terry Muhlholland practiced his renowned pick-off move as a student at Laurel Highlands High School. Mulholland cashed a check in the majors for 20 years and even threw a no-hitter. He racked up 124 wins while changing uniforms 13 times. And let’s not forget football. Chuck Muncie, a three-time NFL Pro Bowler with the Saints and Chargers, was also a native of Fayette County. Despite these successful native sons, the county has an inferiority complex and a lot of troubles. It’s referred to on occasion as “Fayette-nam” because of its crime and drug problem. If the county is on the news, it’s usually for a drug bust, an altercation at a Walmart or a bomb scare at a Walmart. Still, the county is not without its positives. It has Ohiopyle State Park, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, and Nemacolin Resort, all nestled within its conﬁnes. It’s also the birthplace of the Big Mac, and that alone should command respect. But its proudest export is George C. Marshall. Besides winning the Nobel Peace Prize and being named Secretary of Defense, president of the American Red Cross, Secretary of State and a general of the U.S. Army, Marshall really didn’t do much. As for other contributions to the sports world: Ernie Davis, also known as the “Elmira Express,” called Fayette County home until age 12, which tragically was half his life. Davis became the ﬁrst African American to win the Heisman Trophy. The Syracuse running back also won an NCAA title with his team as a sophomore, and took home the award for best college football player in the nation as a senior, in 1961. Davis never played in the pros; he was drafted by Washington in 1962 but, surprisingly, the owner of that team was a legendary racist. His name was George Preston Marshall (different than the George Marshall above), and he refused to draft anyone who wasn’t lilywhite even years after the league had been

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desegregated. He drafted Davis only after being threatened with the loss of a stadium lease. Davis then refused to play for the bigot and was traded to the Cleveland Browns — making him the last player to be happy about a trade to Cleveland. Sadly, Davis would never play a down in the NFL. He was diagnosed with leukemia and died in 1963. His life is highlighted in the 2008 film The Express. Johnny Lujack is another Heisman winner. Connellsville’s Lujack started the trend of Western Pennsylvania quarterbacks going to the NFL. He went from Notre Dame to the Chicago Bears. C. Vivian Stringer, the current head coach of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, has won nearly 1,000 games in her coaching career. The Slippery Rock grad is in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the latter in 2009 along with Michael Jordan. Stringer also has an Olympic gold medal that she earned as an assistant coach at the 2004 Athens games. She is also the only coach in women’s basketball history to lead three teams to the NCAA Final Four — Cheyney State, Iowa and Rutgers. In fact, in all of women’s college basketball, only three coaches have won more games. Runner John Woodruff, a freshman at Pitt in 1936, won the gold medal in Berlin right in front of You Know Who. Another Connellsville native, he struck gold in the 800-meter run. So a county of about 130,000 people has given a lot to sports and history. Pick any random county in any state with a similar population and I bet you won’t find a Nobel Peace Prize, the greatest example of singlehome architecture, two Heisman trophies, a no-hitter, a golf round of 58, a top-four college coach, a five-star resort, two gold medals, and the world’s most famous cheeseburger.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my opinion, you need to bask in the glorious fury of at least one brainstorm — preferably multiple brainstorms over the course of the next two weeks. What can you do to ensure that happens? How might you generate a flood of new ideas about how to live your life and understand the nature of reality? Here are some suggestions: Read books about creativity. Hang around with original thinkers and sly provocateurs. Insert yourself into situations that will strip you of your boring certainties. And take this vow: “I hereby unleash the primal power of my liberated imagination.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When you were a child, did you play with imaginary friends? During your adolescence, did you nurture a fantasy relationship with a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend? Since you reached adulthood, have you ever enjoyed consorting with muses or guardian angels or ancestral spirits? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a good position to take full advantage of the subtle opportunities and cryptic invitations that are coming your way. Unexpected sources are poised to provide unlikely inspirations in unprecedented ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When you were born, you already carried the seeds of gifts you would someday be able to provide — specific influences or teachings or blessings that only you, of all the people who have ever lived, could offer the world. How are you doing in your quest to fulfill this potential? Heres what I suspect: Your seeds have been ripening slowly and surely. But in the coming months, they could ripen at a more rapid pace.

Whether they actually do or not may depend on your willingness to take on more responsibilities — interesting responsibilities, to be sure — but bigger than you’re used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect that you will soon be culminating a labor of love you’ve been nurturing and refining for many moons. How should you celebrate? Maybe with some champagne and caviar? If you’d like to include bubbly in your revels, a good choice might be 2004 Belle Epoque Rose. Its floral aroma and crispy mouth-feel rouse a sense of jubilation as they synergize the flavors of blood orange, pomegranate and strawberry. As for caviar: Consider the smooth, aromatic and elegant roe of the albino beluga sturgeon from the unpolluted areas of the Caspian Sea near Iran. But before I finish this oracle, let me also add that a better way to honor your accomplishment might be to take the money you’d spend on champagne and caviar, and instead use it as seed money for your next big project.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to the pesticides that are designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse — especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. I invite you to consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable. Just make sure you choose a strategy that actually works. Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to compose an essay on at least one of the following themes: (1) “How I Fed and Fed My Demons Until They Gorged Themselves to Death.” (2) “How I Exploited My Nightmares in Ways That Made Me Smarter and Cuter.” (3) “How I Quietly and Heroically Transformed a Sticky Problem into a Sleek Opportunity.” (4) “How I Helped Myself by Helping Other People.” For extra credit, Capricorn — and to earn the right to trade an unholy duty for a holy one — write about all four subjects.

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I suspect that in the coming months you will be drawn to wandering through the frontiers and exploring the unknown. Experimentation will come naturally. Places and situations you have previously considered off-limits might be downright comfortable. In fact, it’s possible that you will have to escape your safety zones in order to fully be yourself. Got all that? Now here’s the kicker. In the coming weeks, everything I just described will be especially apropos for your closest relationships. Are you interested in redefining and reconfiguring the ways that togetherness works for you?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Can you imagine feeling at home in the world no matter where you are? If you eventually master this art, outer circumstances won’t distort your relationship with yourself. No matter how crazy or chaotic the people around you might be, you will remain rooted in your unshakable sense of purpose; you will respond to any given situation in ways that make you both calm and

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I tried to meditate on your horoscope, my next-door neighbor was wielding a weed-whacker to trim her lawn, and the voices in my head were shouting extra loud. So I decided to drive down to the marsh to get some high-quality silence. When I arrived at the trail head, I found an older man in ragged clothes leaning against the fence. Nearby was a grocery cart full of what I assumed were all his earthly belongings. “Doing nothing is a very difficult art,” he croaked as I slipped by him, “because you’re never really sure when you are done.” I immediately recognized that his wisdom might be useful to you. You are, after all, in the last few days of your recharging process. It’s still a good idea for you to lie low and be extra calm and vegetate luxuriously. But when should you rise up and leap into action again? Here’s my guess: Get one more dose of intense stillness and silence.

If you’re playing the card game known as bridge, you’re lucky if you are dealt a hand that has no cards of a particular suit. This enables you, right from the beginning, to capture tricks using the trump suit. In other words, the lack of a certain resource gives you a distinct advantage. Let’s apply this metaphor to your immediate future, Pisces. I’m guessing that you will benefit from what might seem to be an inadequacy or deficit. An absence will be a useful asset.

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alert, amused and curious, compassionate for the suffering of others and determined to do what’s best for you. If you think these are goals worth seeking, you can make dramatic progress toward them in the coming weeks.

My readers have a range of approaches for working with the counsel I offer. Some study the horoscopes for both their sun signs and rising signs, then create do-it-yourself blends of the two. Others prefer to wait until the week is over before consulting what I’ve written. They don’t want my oracles to influence their future behavior, but enjoy evaluating their recent past in light of my analysis. Then there are the folks who read all 12 of my horoscopes. They refuse to be hemmed in by just one forecast, and want to be free to explore multiple options. I encourage you to try experiments like these in the coming days. The moment is ripe to cultivate more of your own unique strategies for using and interpreting the information you absorb — both from me and from everyone else you listen to.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Have you been drinking a lot of liquids? Are you spending extra time soaking in hot baths and swimming in bodies of water that rejuvenate you? Have you been opening your soul to raw truths that dissolve your fixations and to beauty that makes you cry and to love that moves you to sing? I hope you’re reverently attending to these fluidic needs. I hope you’re giving your deepest yearnings free play and your freshest emotions lots of room to unfold. Smart, well-lubricated intimacy is a luxurious necessity, my dear. Stay very, very wet. What’s the situation in your life where it’s hardest for you to be loving? Practice being a master of compassion there in the coming week.

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DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for three weeks — but you won’t be reading old columns in my absence, and you won’t be reading columns by anyone who isn’t Dan Savage. You’ll be reading new columns, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Our second guest Dan Savage is 32 years old, single and living in London. Dan Savage got his professional start working in promotions at the legendary London nightclub G-AY. He’s now 10 years into a career in theater -arts marketing, and currently works for some of the West End’s biggest hit musicals. Dan has never written a sex-advice column before, but he occasionally gets angry tweets that were meant for me. Take it away, Dan! I’m an early-30s bi woman. As I have more relationships, I have started to see a pattern in that I find sex much hotter when there is some degree of confusion or forbidden-ness. So relationship sex can get boring quickly. I know there’s not necessarily a good answer for why, but any suggestions on what to do about this? I want to have great sex with a partner for life! PASSION FADES FROM THIS

now. I talked to a clinic over the phone about getting the HPV vaccine, and they thought it was funny and would not do it. I will be seeing young guys who are sexually active, so I think I should be able to get this vaccine. I do not want cold sores or warts or whatever at my age. THIS OLD POP

As long as you are safe and wear a condom, you shouldn’t put too much stress on yourself regarding STIs. Maybe just don’t go around picking up boys off street corners who look like they need a good wash. My personal opinion is this guy may not be being as honest with you as you’d have hoped. A 23-year-old straight guy, in his first homosexual encounter, being “very oral” and “only a bottom” and putting “his tongue everywhere” — that sounds to me like someone who knows what they’re doing. My experience of first times is generally a quick fumble and an even quicker ejaculation. Regardless, he is soon to leave, TOP, and you will find a new sexual partner. Advice from a YoungTOP to an OldTOP: Go with the flow and be safe, but most of all enjoy it!

“THE SECRET TO A GOOD RELATIONSHIP IS KEEPING IT DOWNRIGHT DIRTY!”

A problem you and I share! The fun is in the chase, the excitement of someone new, and that first time. You may return for a second or maybe a third time — but then what or who is next? Often regardless of whatever feelings may have started to develop. For those who don’t understand, just imagine we’re talking about food. You like food. You like lots of different types of food. Right now, your favorite food is hot dogs. But you don’t want to eat that every day. Occasionally, you might want an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet. I believe the secret to a good relationship is keeping it downright dirty! It’s about keeping that spark alive. If the fun starts to fade, spice it up with toys, games, risky locations, additional people, rubber dog masks — you can’t know what will excite you both until you give it a try! But that’s the key, that you both like it. There are millions of people all over the world in long-term relationships that on the face of it maintain a fun and healthy sex life — can it really be that hard? Or maybe longterm relationships aren’t for you, PFFT! I am a 65-year-old male new to gay relationships. I placed a listing on SilverDaddies and have had a LOT of responses from great young guys. I have met only one guy so far. He is 23 and says he has had only a few girlfriends and has not had any gay experiences. He is so passionate. Very oral. Long kissing sessions, and he puts his tongue EVERYWHERE. Very submissive and insatiable. Of course I use condoms. In any case, he will be back at grad school soon, and I will no doubt have another partner. I have never had an STD. I don’t want to get one

I am 39 years old and my husband is 51; we have been together nine years and married four. This morning, he was jacking off on my arse during foreplay and watching porn on his phone, which is not unusual. The problem is when I looked to see what he was watching (we often watch porn together), he got a little mad. I let it go, but when he got in the shower, I looked at his phone and saw that he was watching gay porn. MEN. I don’t think I have a problem with that, but it kind of threw me. Should I be worried that he is secretly on the down low? Or does he just like to look at gay porn occasionally? When I’m giving him a blowjob, he also enjoys me licking his arse. I don’t know how to confront him with what I have seen on his phone?

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People look at all sorts of things online and are turned on by others. Man-on-man porn clearly does it for your man, or maybe this was the first time that he’d looked. Either way, the fact that he was doing this secretly while humped over your naked body and jacking off onto your arse is wrong. And he knows that: He hid the phone! Rather than confronting him and creating a massive issue, why not suggest that you watch gay porn together. See what happens? Perhaps he wanted you to catch him? Although it’s rarely spoken about, a lot of straight men like the odd finger or tongue in the bum. It’s not a sign of homosexuality! Maybe this could be taken further? You could go all out and strap one on and dominate him like a bitch! On the Lovecast, Dan yaps with Madison Young about DIY porn: savagelovecast.com.

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