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Pittsburgh’s annual Labor Day parade brought out Vice President Joe Biden and the man who hopes to be the next vice president, Tim Kaine. View our slideshow of their visit and photos from the parade online at www.pghcitypaper.com.
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EVENTS 9.14 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: YO LA TENGO WITH SPECIAL GUEST LAMBCHOP Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) Co-presented with WYEP 91.3. Tickets $20/$15 Members & students; visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300
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 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; visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300
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The Andy Warhol Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fine Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and Christopher Tsai and André Stockamp. Additional support was provided by the Quentin and Evelyn T. Cunningham, the Hollen Bolmgren, and the W. Paul Spencer Funds of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
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Although he served less than eight months, Bob O’Connor may have been the most popular mayor in Pittsburgh history. His family, friends and colleagues gathered last week on the 10th anniversary of his death. Photos and story online at www.pghcitypaper.com.
Pittsburgh’s annual Labor Day parade brought out Vice President Joe Biden and the man who hopes to be the next vice president, Tim Kaine. View our photo slideshow online at www.pghcitypaper.com.
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Alex Austin is just one volunteer who has answered Bernie Sanders’ call for a “political revolution.”
On our podcast this week, we chat about marijuana in the NFL with attorney Patrick Nightingale of Pittsburgh NORML. On Soundcloud, or at www.pghcitypaper.com.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty stood in the marbled hallway of the Allegheny County Courthouse on Aug. 31, flanked by popular Western Pennsylvania elected officials including U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, state Sen. Jay Costa and Braddock Mayor John Fetterman. “Pat Toomey and Wall Street, that’s the greatest love story since The Notebook,” Fetterman said of the incumbent U.S. senator from the podium, bolstering McGinty’s case against Toomey’s record on the economy. “We need a senator that’s going to stand up for Pennsylvania, going to stand up for the Mon Valley, and stand up for jobs and protect our workers. And that’s why I’m proud to endorse Katie McGinty.”
McGinty, Fetterman and the others rallied around an economic plan her campaign released that day and railed against Toomey’s work in China, and his “flip-flop” on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
While Bernie Sanders’ supporters still disagree about Hillary Clinton, they’re uniting behind down-ballot candidates {BY ASHLEY MURRAY} Fetterman, a favorite among progressive voters, ran against McGinty in the Democratic primary and endorsed Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary. But now he’s thrown his “fullthroated support” behind both Clinton and
McGinty and says he hopes progressives in this part of the state will do the same. And one group that previously supported the Braddock mayor is doing just that. While agreement on the top of this year’s ticket is all but out of reach for locals who supported Sanders in the primary, they’ve decided to put their weight behind down-ballot Democratic candidates, including McGinty, attorney-general candidate Josh Shapiro, and Erin McClelland, who is challenging Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus for his gerrymandered congressional seat that stretches from Beaver County to Johnstown. “There’s a lot of division between former Bernie Sanders supporters,” says Alex Austin, who was a pledged delegate for Sanders at the Democratic National Convention. Austin is a veteran, a graduate student and the father of a 12-year-old, whom he CONTINUES ON PG. 08
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doesn’t want to see buried in student debt when she gets older. He’s also concerned about the shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act. “But this movement is working toward a progressive goal in the bottom-up revolution Bernie’s talking about,” he says. As August waned, members of the former Burghers for Bernie group gathered in their now-defunct East Liberty campaign office to hear a livestream from Sanders himself, who was kicking off his Our Revolution organization — a nonprofit formed to “harness the transformative energy” that Sanders stirred up with his talk of a “political revolution.” “For me, the biggest thing is to not let this movement die out,” Austin says. “I’d like to see Our Revolution live on through these down-ballot movements taking place right now and hopefully throughout the next four to eight years.” The “Burghers,” who’ve changed their group’s name to Bridges Not Walls, are not officially tied to Our Revolution, but they’re taking its cues. (Our Revolution did not respond to a request for comment. Last week, the Friends of Bernie Sanders PAC sent out fundraising emails, asking for $2.70 contributions to four Democratic U.S. Senate candidates’ campaigns, including McGinty’s.) Meanwhile, another progressive favorite, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, is slated to campaign for McGinty this week, including a stop in Philadelphia Sept. 9. The Bridges group has about 30 core volunteers, but through an email list it reaches more than 1,000 people. Members have concerns on a variety of issues — singlepayer health care, criminal-justice reform, student debt and the Trans-Pacific Partnership — and from now until November, they’re doubling down on who they think will best align with them: McGinty, Shapiro and McClelland. “Building excitement for Clinton isn’t going to happen. No one is excited for Hillary Clinton,” says Beth Ussery, one of the original Burghers and another Sanders delegate. “But we need to look at what’s going on with all of the other important races. We have to get Toomey out. If Katie McGinty is my best chance, I’m going to take it.” One of the first things the group will do is canvass for McGinty. Also, details are being worked out for a presidential-debate watch-party on Sept. 26, where there will be a voter-registration drive and information on how to volunteer for the downballot campaigns. While Ussery feels hopeful about McGinty’s stance against the TPP — labor is the issue Ussery is most heavily involved
in — she’s concerned about McGinty’s support of fracking and her past board positions with energy companies. McGinty ran the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Gov. Ed Rendell when the fracking boom began, and, in her own run for governor, supported a severance tax on drillers but not a moratorium. Ussery’s worried whether McGinty can satisfy progressive voters who rank the environment as a top priority. “You can’t serve two masters,” she says. So why are she and her fellow group members heading out to canvass for McGinty? “If you don’t vote, they don’t have to listen to you at all,” she says. When asked about progressives’ criticisms of her, McGinty told City Paper, “Look, nobody is going to insist on a stronger environmental cop on the beat than I am.” She also said that she will be working on another issue near and dear to the progressive heart: getting money out of politics. “One of my priorities as United States senator will be to overturn Citizens United, and certainly there couldn’t be a bigger difference between myself and Sen. Toomey on all of these issues,” she says. McGinty highlighted her endorsement from the group End Citizens United, which favors a constitutional amendment to reverse the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively ended restrictions on political spending. She added that after Sanders endorsed her, she had “the honor” of receiving a personal phone call from him. “And here’s where I want to give him such a high five,” she says. “He wanted to make sure that I had as much energy as he has, and I assured him that I did. God bless him.” Austin of Bridges Not Walls is certainly on board with McGinty when it comes to the goal of ending Citizens United, which he says is “basically what has corrupted democracy.” Western Pennsylvania progressives will have more chances to vet McGinty when she campaigns here later this week. Less controversial are Shapiro and McClelland, whom local progressives have described using terms like “amazing,” “impressive” and “strong progressive voice.” “Clearly Erin McClelland is the type of person who’s going to represent our people,” Ussery says, citing her positions on labor and education. “Shapiro, he’s really shown he has an interest in reforming the criminal-justice system in Pennsylvania. We want to know specifically how he plans to do that. I heard him speak at the
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[Democratic National Convention]; he was wonderful, very engaging.” Fetterman and his wife, Gisele — who also traveled to the DNC as a pledged Sanders delegate — have come out strong for both Shapiro and McClelland. Gisele Fetterman will be joining McClelland for an event later this month; John Fetterman says that Shapiro is going to “re-imagine what this [AG] office can accomplish.” Shapiro says that while “people who are violent and pose a threat to society should be locked up … we need to make sure our prisons are no longer clogged with people who have mental illness, are suffering from drug addiction and are nonviolent.” He says once in office, he would work to implement the recommendations from the bipartisan Justice Reform Initiative (JRI) working group that he chairs. The group formed to address Pennsylvania’s incarceration rate — the highest among Northeastern states — and the $2 billion spent annually on Pennsylvania’s corrections system. “Special interests have enough lawyers in Harrisburg. It’s time for the people to have a tough attorney general on their side,” he says. Despite their compromise, enthusiasm
and work on down-ballot candidates, Fetterman still has words for the Bridges group who are avoiding talking about Clinton. “They’re entitled to their positions, and I have nothing but good things to say about them, but I would respectfully disagree [about] the top of the ticket,” Fetterman says. “This really is a crossroads of this country.” While Ussery is not excited, she’ll cast her vote for Clinton. Meanwhile, Austin sat on a panel to discuss national security and veterans’ issues with Clinton’s foreignpolicy adviser. Some Bridges members say they’ll vote for the Green Party’s Jill Stein. But Austin and Ussery say that working for the current ticket top-down is worth it, to use the candidates they have to lay the groundwork for ensuring their issues will be front-andcenter in upcoming Democratic contests. “We’re already looking ahead to how many people are going to be up for election,” says Austin. “Who’s going to be running against bad politicians?” Ussery adds: “The reason we’re building this movement is because I want this to be the last time that I have to vote against somebody instead of for somebody.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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ROAD BLOCKED PennDOT urged to provide safer passage for cyclists in road projects {BY RYAN DETO} MEETINGS ABOUT proposed bike infrastructure in Pittsburgh are usually tense. Advocates tend to get riled up quickly, public officials defend themselves, and residents usually make unsubstantiated claims about cyclists. Normally, this tension hurts the productivity of a meeting. But at a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation meeting last week, Scott Bricker, head of cyclingadvocacy group Bike Pittsburgh, encouraged the drama to make a point. “It was us saying, ‘You have to consider us,’” says Bricker. “We are citizens, taxpayers; these are our roads and we need to be provided for.” The meeting, which was held to reveal preliminary plans for redesigns of Forbes Avenue near Carnegie Mellon University, took place just one day after cyclist Dennis Flanagan was struck and killed by an SUV on West Carson Street in the West End. Some in the crowd of more than 250 expressed gratitude for the inclusion of bike lanes in the Forbes Avenue plan, but many questioned what they called design flaws, and argued that the plan fell short on safety measures. “I think I speak for many when I say we are looking for more safety,” said Pittsburgh Bike Share director David White, addressing PennDOT officials. “Pedestrians and cyclists do not feel safe presently. You are coming off as tone-deaf. We are looking for sepa-
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Bike advocates take part in a protest ride to demand safer bike infrastructure in Oakland.
rated bike lanes and connectivity.” The plan includes adding several pianokey crosswalks at intersections and about a half-mile of bike lanes between Craig and Beeler streets. Critics noted that the lanes won’t be separated by plastic buffers and that they don’t extend south of Craig Street into the heart of Oakland and beyond. (This past October, Susan Hicks was fatally struck by cars one block south of Craig Street on Forbes.) Dan Cessna, of PennDOT District 11, which includes Allegheny, Beaver and Lawrence counties, says bike infrastructure wasn’t included south of Craig because the details of the proposed Bus Rapid Transit line along Forbes from Downtown to Oakland have yet to be finalized. Officials at the
meeting told the crowd that plastic barriers were not written in due to issues like snow plowing and bus drop-offs. Cessna says it wasn’t fair for PennDOT to be called “tone-deaf” because, he says, they were at the meeting to receive input, not just to present their plans. “We are willing to go back to the project and make changes,” says Cessna. But the fiery nature of the meeting could have been due to the relationship between PennDOT and the bike community, which Bricker says hasn’t been very positive. Bricker says in the past PennDOT has created bike- and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure (like a sidewalk from the 40th Street bridge down to Millvale), but most of those projects are completed only when
it is convenient for the agency. “We are not saying [PennDOT] never [does] things for bikers, it is just a fairly rare occurrence.” For example, for PennDOT projects in Pittsburgh for the next three years, bike/ ped projects make up less than 1 percent of the budget. Census figures show city bike commuters make up 2 percent of the population. Bricker is also critical of PennDOT because of Flanagan’s death, which happened just one week after West Carson Street reopened following reconstruction but without bike lanes, which officials and advocates have sought since 2011. “Our infrastructure gets built for what we measure, and the only thing that PennDOT measures is for throughput of vehicles,” says White, of Pittsburgh Bike Share. “They do not measure for ped safety or bike counts. The cycling community feels like there is disconnect because those are things that are important for people who don’t want to drive.” But White is hopeful things will improve. Statewide bike/ped coordinator Roy Gothie says PennDOT has initiated a bike/ ped training course for district employees, and updates to the bike/ped master plan should provide additional guidance over the next 18 months. “The intent of this course is to provide PennDOT, local agencies and consultants an up-to-date perspective on integrating bicycle and pedestrian facilities. ... It encourages consideration of more friendly bicycle and pedestrian facilities,” writes Gothie in an email to City Paper. Cessna says PennDOT will work closely with Pittsburgh city officials and the Port Authority and should hold another meeting on the Forbes plans by the end of the year. RYA N D E TO@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Beaver police officer Jeffery Wijnen-riems pulled over James Edward Cicco and charged him with a string of offenses related to allegedly carrying medication not in its original container, driving under the influence with a suspended license and violently resisting arrest. During the encounter, Wijnen-riems turned his police dog on Cicco, according to the report, sending the suspect to the hospital with puncture wounds. A witness told news website the Beaver Countian that the officer grabbed Cicco by the arm and screamed profanity at him as soon as he stopped his car. The witness also said that after Cicco yelled, “I surrender” repeatedly, Wijnen-riems retrieved the dog to attack him. Wijnen-riems was the subject of a lawsuit, settled out of court in 2005, claiming he brutalized and/ or harassed five people he arrested. The Beaver Countian found what appears to be Wijnen-riems’ Facebook page, and it seems he has a thing for disturbing animal pics and bad free-verse poetry: The patrolman apparently posted a meme of a lion with a bloodied face matched with the sentence, “Everyone wants to be a beast until it’s time to do what real beasts do.” The cover photo is a wolf with bloodied teeth and the profile pic is a dog’s face framed by the words “And when I get there, I will arrive violently.” After its discovery, the page was deleted.
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Suburbanites expect, at the very least, to be able to walk through their yards without fear of attack by two kinds of animals at once. That was not the case for one Penn Hills family, which found a 4-foot-long alligator on the loose in its backyard. Firefighters responding to the scene told KDKA they managed to safely corral the animal into a garbage can and tape its mouth shut. During the incident, they disturbed a nest of bees, and several firefighters were stung multiple times. Officials from the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium arrived to take custody of the alligator, likely an escaped or abandoned pet. (Keeping an alligator is not illegal in Pennsylvania, but is probably a bad idea.)
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The newest additions to Westmoreland County’s “Trump House” are a 14-foot-tall cutout of the carrot-colored candidate and a video camera and security guard to protect it from vandals. Before the April Pennsylvania primary, Leslie Rossi painted the entire exterior of her two-story Youngstown, Pa., rental property in a red, white and blue flag motif and surrounded it with Donald Trump signs. Many people stop to take photos, especially since Rossi added the towering cutout of Trump, printed onto specially cut metal. After teenagers stole and defaced yard signs, Rossi hired an evening guard and put the Route 982 oddity under
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Are you a bad-ass computer hacker? Do you like ice cream? Then a Shadyside business has an offer for you! Millie’s Ice Cream is facing a barrage of prank phone calls. So far, the perp has eluded investigators. “[W]e believe that the prankster is using fairly sophisticated prankcall software,” wrote a shop owner on its Facebook page. So Millie’s is calling on “computer-science whizzes from Carnegie Mellon University and Google and wherever else really smart people work and/or study” and offering “a FREE ICE CREAM FOR LIFE card to the hacker that can crack the case.”
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Tracey Lee Giffen, of Fayette County, awoke to find that her husband had imbibed one of her beers, so the 45-yearold woman attacked him with a pair of
scissors, police told KDKA. He apparently suffered minor injuries. Neighbors in North Union Township report that the two fight loudly and frequently. Said one: “It’s like a soap opera. You sit on the porch and you get reality TV.” Giffen allegedly assaulted a different man on Christmas Eve 2013 in a dispute over her failure to pick up barbeque sauce. In 2008, she was convicted of charges of repeatedly kicking a pregnant woman in the abdomen.
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A witness spotted a suspicious man emerge from a barn in Ephrata, Lancaster County, and reported his licenseplate number to police. Once confronted by officers, 21-year-old Travis L. Wagner allegedly admitted that, yes, he had been having sex with the miniature horse in the barn, according to PennLive.com. He was arrested on charges of burglary and intercourse with an animal.
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Startups love to tout their humble roots, all those day jobs, garages and ramen. You’d think the abundance of rags-toriches stories would make new businessowners less self-conscious about their rags, but that’s not what Caroline Moore found when she started her photography business in 2007. “People were telling me, ‘You can’t do this with a laptop. You need to have this much office space, you need to spend this much capital to get started up,’” says Moore of Fayette County. “For a lot of small businesses, that’s not the case.” Her weddingphotography business took off, and she brought the lessons from that process to Punk Rock Entrepreneur: Running a Business Without Losing Your Values, an illustrated advice book available Sept. 13 from Microcosm. “Are you tired of clichéd platitudes being presented as business advice?” a back-cover cartoon asks in a graphic titled, “Is this book for you?” Entrepreneur stresses heeding good advice as much as avoiding the bad, usually in the form of: You don’t need the fanciest, most expensive materials to get started. Moore’s background is primarily in visual and graphic arts, but she spent most of her adult life surrounded by musicians in punk scenes (including her husband). She’d lend a hand photographing her friends’ bands, or provide illustrations for album art, and she found herself inspired. “Watching friends involved in the punk scene, [if] they wanted to make a zine or something, they went out and did it. They wanted to tour — they found a way to make that happen,” says Moore. Besides the frugality, Moore also wanted to borrow the scene’s sense of idealism, hence the subtitle “without losing your values,” designed to calm potentially wary readers. “People feel like if you’re making money off of a thing, then now you’re The Man, you’re corporate,” says Moore. “I feel like you can run a business without being a soulless corporate drone, or whatever the punk kids would go at you for.” ALEXGORDON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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would be a funny title,” she recalls. “But what ends up happening is everyone is like, ‘She’s making a feminist statement!’ And though I’m not ashamed of being a feminist, it’s not like everything I’ve ever done or ever write is ‘feminist’ in that way.”
Olsen released videos for “Intern” and “Shut Up Kiss Me” — the first singles from her new record, MY WOMAN — fans and critics alike rushed to praise the songs … and to remark on the sparkly tinsel wig Olsen wears in both. Olsen was amused by the attention the wig garnered. It was, in part, a tribute to David Bowie, but mostly it was pragmatic. “I was the producer and the actor and the director [of the video], so I didn’t have time to do my hair … and it ended up being the statement everyone thinks I’m making.” For Olsen, who spoke to City Paper from her home in Asheville, N.C., it’s a perfect example of the way unintended meaning is often ascribed to art once it’s witnessed by an audience. The title MY WOMAN is another example. “When I finished the material and looked back on it … I was kind of like, ‘Oh, it looks like a soul record, and oh, My Woman
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All that is explained in a press bio, which notes that “it would be easy to read a gender-specific message into MY WOMAN, but Olsen has never played her lyrical content straight.” Olsen doesn’t expect to control every perception, but, she says, “I want to be clear. If I have to repeat the exact same statement in an interview, I will. Because that’s the only way to have it eventually published.”
Olsen, who grew up in St. Louis, started drawing serious attention with her 2012 record, Half Way Home. She had the exquisite warble of ’40s torch singer, a flair for drama and some truly heartbreaking lyrics which made it easy to relegate her to the category of sad singer-songwriter. The 2014 follow-up, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, had its share of devastating lyrics, but was grungier and poppier than Half Way Home. With tracks like “High Five” — an upbeat song about battling loneliness with convenient romance — Olsen offered plenty of proof of her musical and thematic range. MY WOMAN, Olsen’s most dynamic work yet, has the feel of a uniquely talented artist fully embracing her power. On her own time, Olsen listens to lots of classic soul and mostly avoids modern stuff, and her own sound is still retro in a not-totally-pinpoint-able way. And yet, in the minds of some listeners and journalists, she’s still a weepy folk singer. “I think [that’s part of] why I wanted CONTINUES ON PG. 18
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to create a music video where I’m being cheeky as fuck,” she says. In the video for the aggressively catchy “Shut Up Kiss Me,” Olsen sets her sass level to high as she lounges around an old Mercedes and skates around a roller rink. “It’s me saying to my fans, and myself, ‘Look, I know that I write sad music. But if you just said [those sad lines] a different way … what might seem on the surface pretty dark and emo, or something, when you’re saying it with a smile on your face … it could be hilarious in a second.” This record has marked Olsen’s first foray into making her own music videos, which has become a powerful way of maintaining a fluid aesthetic and vision. “I wanted to be able to … create my own image that I signed off on,” she says. “I didn’t really know or value that until I started to see that people really pay attention to videos and [give] them a lot of credit as far as how they identified the [musician’s] vision. … I don’t have any control over what people think of the videos I make, but at least I can create my own character in my own image, and I can create an even stronger statement by doing so.” In late August, Olsen released the video for her Laurel Canyon-folk-meets-Fleetwood Mac epic, “Sister.” Shot at Joshua Tree National Park, there are no wigs and no obvious story line. Olsen wanders the gorgeous landscape, goes swimming, cries a few cleansing tears. It’s more than seven minutes, and by the time the triumphant guitar freak-out finally hits, you may be shedding some cleansing tears of your own. “I don’t expect people to watch it as much [as the other videos],” says Olsen, adding that, though she’s often seen as ultra-serious, she feels that it’s easier to latch on to the cheekiness than to the sincerity. “It’s harder to be genuine with what you do; it’s easier to be a comedian.” But Olsen has a knack for balancing those extremes. When she’s onstage, she spends a lot of time joking and having fun. And afterward, fans will share stories with her. “Which,” she says, “I think are really beautiful and wonderful. And I don’t want to disregard them. But the stories are always so heavy. And it’s just a reflection of how heavy they think I’ve been.” She gets it: “I’m pretty good at describing pain,” she says with a laugh. “But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t just watching Louis CK before the set, and having a beer and a laugh with my friends.” She likes writing about sad subjects, but she also likes to have fun, and wants the same for listeners. “The thing is to realize that’s not a full-spectrum human,” she says. “A full-spectrum human doesn’t sit around all day and just listen to depressing songs.” MWE L SH @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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IAN SWEET began as the solo project of Jillian Medford, a singer who took inspiration from Boston’s noiserock scene. As time went on and her ambitions increased, Medford brought on two additional members, Tim Cheney and Damien Scalise. The trio brings Medford’s thoughts on displacement and depression to life on Shapeshifter, out Sept. 9 through Hardly Art. Medford chatted with City Paper in advance of IAN SWEET’s stop at Black Forge Coffee House on Sept. 11. MUCH OF THE ALBUM IS ABOUT LONELINESS. DO YOU THINK THAT NOW, IN AN AGE WHERE SO MUCH COMMUNICATION IS DONE DIGITALLY, THAT LONELINESS IS EVEN MORE PREVALENT? Definitely. I have always been prone to spending a solid amount of time alone and knowing when I need to be alone, but now with so much social media, we are able to feel surrounded, encouraged and supported Read at all times, and it can t a re o m be hard to separate the hcity www.pg m physical from the online. paper.co IS THERE ONE PARTICULAR TRACK ON THE ALBUM THAT THE BAND IS REALLY FOND OF, OR THAT REALLY DEMONSTRATES THE TRUE MEANING BEHIND THE ALBUM? Collectively, our favorite song is “#23.” It represents the themes of darkness and playfulness from the record throughout the song. IS IT EVER DAUNTING TO SHARE THAT DARKNESS ON STAGE? It’s the most perfect way to share my experience. On stage with my boys, who understand and support me more than anyone I know, is the most comfortable place for me to do it. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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Television and the Talking Heads. And it was something I liked. It just seemed like the kind of bands I liked going to see was the kind of band we wanted to be.” Yo La Tengo is clearly not content to make album after album in the same style. But Kaplan isn’t comfortable with characterizing the group as musically restless. “I don’t think it’s something we’ve really examined that much. We like doing different things.” That means that someone who sees them onstage on one tour might have a completely different experience at the next show. Kaplan recalls something that happened in 1990, when the group was touring in support of Fakebook while opening for the Sundays. “We did quite a few shows that year with upright bass, doing songs in Fakebook style.” A couple weeks after one of those shows, Yo La Tengo played a much more rocking, electric set at CBGB. “Somebody came up to me, and he was staring at me kind of borderline rudely,” Kaplan recalls. “I didn’t know who the person was; I didn’t know what was going on. And this person just said really slowly, ‘Did you open for the Sundays?’ I told him, ‘Yeah, that was us.’ And it seemed almost unimaginable to him that it could be the same people! It even relates back to the thing I said about humor: it’s just a reflection that most people’s personalities aren’t one thing all the time. And we just like being ourselves.” While some things have changed in the 30-plus years since Yo La Tengo released its debut LP Ride the Tiger, Kaplan believes that many things remain the same. “If you could go back 20 years and take a picture of yourself, you’ll think, ‘Oh my god! I was so young!’ You live day by day, and I think it’s startling to be thrust back into that time the way photos can do. But I don’t think I’m that in touch with how certain things felt. I think time has wiped those memories, or even changed those memories.” He sums up by saying, “In a broad sense, we are just trying to make the best records we can.” The current run of concert dates isn’t really in support of Stuff Like That There, which was released in August 2015. In fact for its Pittsburgh date, the band won’t even be doing a “quiet” set, and guitarist Dave Schramm won’t be with them. So the core trio — Kaplan, McNew and drummer Georgia Hubley (who’s also Kaplan’s wife) — will be characteristically unpredictable. “We’ll do some of the songs from Stuff Like That There,” Kaplan promises, “but there will be other songs that we’ll be pulling out.”
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Classic tracks: Yo La Tengo (Ira Kaplan, right)
OLD STUFF MADE NEW {BY BILL KOPP} HOBOKEN, N.J.-BASED indie-rock band Yo La Tengo has long been recognized as much for its selection of cover songs as for its original material. The band’s sonic approach can recall anything from the dark psychedelia of the Velvet Underground to sweet, chiming pop. But on its latest album, 2015’s Stuff Like That There, the group chose to showcase songs by other artists in a manner that sometimes approaches folk, or even what used to be called “easy listening.” Guitarist Ira Kaplan describes Stuff Like That There as “a sequel of sorts” to Yo La Tengo’s 1990 album Fakebook. “The format of Fakebook was essentially a mix of cover songs and a couple of new songs, with a couple of revisions of some of our older songs.” With Stuff Like That There, the group “put some of the same ideas to work [to] see how it was similar and how it was different.” The original Fakebook project “is why [electric bassist] James [McNew] learned how to play upright bass, because [The Schramms’] Al Greller played it on that record.” Stuff Like That There gives the Yo La Tengo treatment to classics like Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” as well as relative obscurities like “Butchie’s Tune,” a deep album cut from the Lovin’ Spoonful’s 1966 LP Daydream. Even when the members are reinventing the songs of others — and despite album titles like 2006’s Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Clas-
sics — Kaplan insists they’re never making fun of the songs. “I don’t think there’s anything irreverent about the stuff on Murdering the Classics,” he says. “There are a lot of ways to enjoy something,” Kaplan explains, citing the example of the band’s 2006 cover of Yes’ “Roundabout.” “While we might not enjoy the song in the sense of wanting to listen to it today, we still enjoy the idea of the song that you don’t even particularly like having wormed its way into your brain.” For Murdering the Classics, a compilation of songs the band performed on a call-in request program on New Jersey-based WFMU radio, the members had to create impromptu versions of songs they hardly knew how to play. “In some pretentious way,” he chuckles, “there’s something really serious about those WFMU shows which — hopefully — is expressed in a funny way.”
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Agent Orange has been around for almost four decades, carving an important niche as one of the first bands to marry punk music with surf rock. The group took a raw punk sound and carefully adapted it, adding the stylings of 1960s-era surf rock. Songs like “Bloodstains” and a cover of Dick Dale’s “Miserlou” feel as innovative and fun now, as they did when they were released by Agent Orange decades ago. Also playing is Chicago’s Counterpunch, a riffy, anthemic band to circle pit to. The Filthy Lowdown and A Lovely Crisis open this gig at Cattivo. Megan Fair 7:30 p.m. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $15. 412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com
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Bruce Springsteen has long been more than just a rock musician. He’s created the musical embodiment of bluecollar America by spinning narratives about the little people, and reminds us that, yeah, New Jersey’s a little rough around the edges, but it’s just as lovable as the other 49 states. Springsteen’s The River Tour at Consol Energy Center comes at an important time, since everything about the country right now kind of makes you feel like you’re stuck in a car that’s on fire. In our time of uncertainty, Springsteen reminds us that we hardworking folk are America. MF 8 pm. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. $55-105. 412-642-1800 or www.consolenergycenter.com
[POP] + SUN., SEPT. 11 Delicately produced, crisp and clean pop will dominate the Untouchable Tour tonight at the Petersen Events Center. Opening the show is Common Kings, a smart pop band that fuses squeaky-clean melody with groovy touches and reggae energy. Hailee Steinfield also appears, and her radio-ready anthems and near-Disneyprincess-level vocal control makes her a fun
addition to the tour. Headlining the evening is everyone’s problematic fave, Meghan Trainor. Her new record, Thank You, has more than a few earworms that will burrow into your brain like “All About that Bass” did. “Me Too” is the best song to roller-skate to. MF 7 p.m. 3719 Terrace St., Oakland. $27-282. 412-648-3054 or www.peterseneventscenter.com
[ACOUSTIC] + TUE., SEPT. 13 Rocky Votolato is a singer/songwriter whose voice overflows with expression, especially when he throws some grit behind it. You could call it alt-country, indie or folk, and you wouldn’t be wrong on any front, which is evidence of Votolato’s crossover appeal. He’ll be performing at Club Café with Chris Staples, Rocky another singer/songwriter Votolato whose music is intensely honest and personal. Where Votolato puts forth rawness and power, Staples quietly lets you in with his gentle timbre and lilt. They make perfect foils for an evening of thoughtprovoking, intimate acoustic art. MF 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $13-15. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com
[ROCK ’N’ ROLL] + WED., SEPT. 14 Would you like some jet rock ’n’ roll with your hamburger and onion rings? Japanese punk veterans Guitar Wolf are a colorful blend of rock-star attitude and classic punk sensibility. They take over the Hard Rock Café, with Expires and Thunder Vest, in what is sure to be a memorable night of high-energy punk rock and style. Shake your shaggy hair to the Guitar Wolf staple “UFO Romantics,” and push around your friends to “Fire Ball Red.” Local act Expires brings the psych and noise edge to the lineup, while Thunder Vest dives in with its booze-drenched Pittsburgh street punk. MF 7:30 p.m. 230 W. Station Square Drive, South Side. $13-15. www.ticketfly.com
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SAT 10 BALTIMORE HOUSE. Hourglass. Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800. CATTIVO. The Rowdy Bovines, Nox Boys, Band of Angels, Saints & Sinners. Geoff Jones memorial show. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Daniels & McClain. Robinson. 412-489-5631. IRON CREEK BAR & GRILLE. Dave & Andrea Iglar Duo. Bridgeville. 412-564-5292. THE LAMP THEATRE. The Spaniels. Irwin. 724-367-4000. THE LOOSE MOOSE. Gone South. Baldwin. 412-655-3553. STEEL CITY STEAKHOUSE. The Watts Brothers Band. Monroeville. 412-646-4695.
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MURTHA AMPHITHEATER. Livingston Taylor. Kittaning. www.artsontheallegheny.org.
Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.
COUNTRY FRI 09 FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Rascal Flatts, Kelsea Ballerini & Chris Lane. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400.
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CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PITTSBURGH. The concert, “In Memoriam,” will serve as a time of reflection for the 15th anniversary of the Sept.11 HAMBONE’S. Ukulele attacks. Featured on the Jam. Lawrenceville. program will be pieces 412-681-4318. by Charles Ives, Haydn PITTSBURGH & Pittsburgh composer WINERY. Paper w. w w Chris Massa. The Bird. Strip District. per ghcitypa p Requiem will feature 412-566-1000. .com Voces Solis under the direction of Ryan Keeling & includes English text from modern ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE poems, songs & selections from #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. the Old & New Testament. First Wednesdays. North Side. Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-321-1834. 412-477-9842. FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. WE REMEMBER THEM. Anna & Elizabeth. Shadyside. Honoring all Veterans who served 412.621.8008. to preserve our freedoms, the PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Pittsburgh Compline Choir presents Band. North Side. 412-224-2273. an interdenominational service of music and poetry. Part of this year’s Britsburgh Festival, the service celebrates the special bond between British and American CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. soldiers who fought tighter in two Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine
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world wars. Music for choir, organ, brass and bagpipe. Names of deceased Veterans will be chanted by the choir. To submit the names of Veterans, visit pghcompline.com or call 412-269-3431. Heinz Chapel, Oakland. 412-269-3431.
OTHER MUSIC THU 08 LINDEN GROVE. Chippendales. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.
FRI 09 CLUB CAFE. Simone Davis Live Listening Party. South Side. 412-431-4950. RIVERS CASINO. Tres Lads. North Side. 412-566-4663.
SAT 10 BENEDUM CENTER. Ginkgoa. A French/American Pop Electro Swing Band. Downtown. 412-456-6666. PALACE THEATRE. River City Brass. Performing South Pacific. Greensburg. 724-836-8000. RIVERS CASINO. Steve Rusolph & Martin Ashby Quartet. Terrance Vaughn Duo. North Side. 412-566-4663.
SUN 11 CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Ben & Ariel. Oakland. 412-622-3114.
MON 12 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
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Sept 7 - 13 WEDNESDAY 7 Blues Traveler & the Wallflowers
com or 412-392-8000. Through Sept. 25.
11-877-4-FLY-TIX. 877 4 FLY TIX 88p.m.
The Felice Brothers
Young the Giant: Home of the Strange Tour
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Whiskey Shivers CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.
Celtic Thunder LEGACY BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.
Sick Of It All REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
THURSDAY 8 Wig Out
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Late Night Laser Parties: Laser Floyd CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side. For more info visit carnegiesciencecenter.org.
Rascal Flatts: Rhythm & Roots Tour FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com or 1-800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.
Pittsburgh Irish Festival RIVERPLEX AT SANDCASTLE Homestead. Tickets: pghirishfest.org. Through Sept. 11.
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“THAT LOOKS LIKE AN IMPRESSIONIST OR A VAN GOGH SKY.”
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BOTH YOU AND LEWIS BLACK SATIRIZE POLITICS, BUT YOU SEEM TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IT FUNNY EVEN TO THE UNINFORMED. Lew just goes on stage with the presumption that his crowd has a basic knowledge, and I don’t. … Also, I’m just pointing out the absurd. So even if you don’t know the background behind it, you get the absurdity of it. And that’s the point — [politics] is all absurd. Lewis feels it’s still fixable. I don’t. Lew’s a hippie. I say to him, “Yeah, but Lewis, your political memories are from when political protests were actually effective. My first political memory is Nixon quitting. ‘Why is the president crying? This can’t be good!’” YOUR RECENT SPECIAL MADIGAN AGAIN IS NOW ON NETFLIX. HOW IS IT WORKING WITH NETFLIX? They’re great. I just filmed another Netflix special that should probably be out in September or October. I assume it’s a bunch of millennials working there. They don’t want to have a lot of meetings or a lot of phone calls. They pay well. They leave you alone. There’s no back-and-forth bullshit. They’re wonderful. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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Joyce Dallal’s wire sculpture “The Other Toy Story” (it’s filled with discarded toys), in Two Gateway Center
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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CAME TO PITTSBURGH? I used to work the Funny Bone a lot. I think I worked the Improv once. As a matter of fact, I know I did because that’s where one of the servers had “Cowher Power” and a Steelers helmet tattooed on her ass. I asked her, “What if Bill Cowher gets fired?” She said, “I don’t care. I love Bill Cowher.” So that’s still tattooed on that lady’s ass today.
Kathleen Madigan {PHOTO COURTESY OF LUZENA ADAMS}
Kathleen Madigan is that rare comic with no real aspirations to appear on television, unless it’s to do standup. In that capacity, she has appeared repeatedly on Conan, Letterman, Leno and most other late-night shows that you’ve heard of. Madigan was a finalist on Last Comic Standing before returning as a judge, and was recently featured on Jerry Seinfeld’s web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Despite Madigan’s appeal on screen, her act is best enjoyed live. She has spent 25 years working more than 300 nights annually in clubs and theaters. On Sept. 16, she visits Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall with her polished brand of straightup funny. She spoke with CP by phone.
RE:NEWED INTEREST {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}
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nothing new. In Pittsburgh, the practice had a heyday in the 1990s, not least due to the Industrial Arts Co-op, which repurposed the copious tailings of vanished local industry and commerce — from scrap steel to old billboards — into public, often guerrilla-style, artworks. Direct legacies of the IAC include “The Workers,” the large-scale 2012 commissioned sculpture in South Side Riverfront Park, and the giant deer head at Rankin’s historic Carrie Furnaces (completed surreptitiously with materials found on site, now embraced as iconic). Indirect legacies include the work of Bill Miller, an IAC associate who back around 1994 was out scavenging for materials when he ran across some old linoleum. Its pattern impressed him. “That looks like an impressionist or a Van Gogh sky,” Miller remembers thinking. Eventually, he began using the material for
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collages, employing differently colored and patterned scraps to create portraits, landscapes, re-imagined historical events and more — including two of Frank Zappa’s posthumous album covers. Working with industrial scissors and utility knives, he’s made more than 1,000 pieces and shown them nationally and internationally.
RE:NEW FESTIVAL Sept. 9-Oct. 9. Various venues. Most events are free. Full schedule at www.renewfestival.com
Some of the latter exposure came courtesy of Drap-Art, The International Festival of Recycling Art. Miller, in fact, became Drap-Art’s connection to Pittsburgh: The Barcelona, Spain-based festival makes its North American debut here Sept. 9-Oct. 9 as part of Pittsburgh’s own inaugural Re:NEW Festival, celebrating creative reuse,
sustainability and transformation. Re:NEW started with the idea to bring Drap-Art to town: The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership proposed the idea to the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council a couple years ago. (Another connection: Russell Howard, the PDP’s vice president for special events and development, is Miller’s partner.) GPAC is an advocacy group, not a presenter, but spokesperson Jen Saffron says the group wanted to assert arts and culture’s place alongside eds, meds and high tech as part of Pittsburgh’s ongoing evolution. With help from partners including the Pennsylvania Resources Council, Sustainable Pittsburgh, Visit Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museums and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Re:NEW grew to a month-long festival with more than 80 events all over town. Highlights include a juried art exhibit for 31 regional artists, to be held at in the large, currently unoccupied storefront at
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623 Smithfield St., Downtown. (The jurors are the Carnegie’s Eric Crosby, BOOM Concepts’ Darrell Kinsel and independent curator Kilolo Luckett.) Another 30 artists will present art installations, films, performances and more throughout the month, including California-based Joyce Dallal and New York-based Matthias Neumann. Dallal’s “The Other Toy Story,” installed in the lobby of Two Gateway Center, dramatically highlights the nonrecyclability of toys (which are full of mixed plastics and electronics) with an oversized wire sculpture of a baby that’s packed with them. Neumann is creating a sculptural bench for the North Side’s Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center as part of the group’s Fallow Grounds initiative for vacant lots. Also look for speakers; the latest installment of the Art Olympics (with teams of artists competing to make art from donated Goodwill items); and thematically linked exhibits at a host of venues, including Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Sweetwater Center for the Arts and 709 Penn Gallery. Still, Drap-Art commands special focus. The 20-year-old festival’s exhibit in the PPG Wintergarden features 60 artists, about half from Spain and the rest from 16 other nations. (Opening weekend includes a VIP reception, live music and workshops.) Reached in Barcelona via Skype, Drap-Art president and founder Tanja Grass said artists who work with trash are usually either younger people who can’t afford new materials or artists who develop an eco-consciousness. In Barcelona, she says, Drap-Art takes place annually in December, as “an alternative to all this crazy consumerism over Christmas.” Drap-Art Pittsburgh highlights recycled materials turned into everything from jewelry and furniture to ironing-board madonnas, and even one of German artist HA Schult’s world-famous, full-sized “trash people.” Grass adds that due to factors ranging from the city’s status as Andy Warhol’s birthplace to the region’s industrial past and ongoing recovery, Pittsburgh is “so so interesting as a place [for Drap-Art] to start in the States.” Of course, plenty of artists living here do this kind of work as a matter of course. Some who began years ago are still at it for Re:NEW. The Industrial Arts Co-op, for instance, will be at Gateway Center, creating a sculpture of re-used steel and objects reclaimed from Duquesne Light’s field operations. Then there’s linoleum artist Miller, the only local artist with a piece in the Pittsburgh Dap-Art exhibit, his heavyindustry-inspired “Steal Mill.” Miller likes working with linoleum because it’s relatively inexpensive, and he appreciates the benefits of creative reuse. But ask him why he started using it, and he says, simply, “I loved it, I saw something in it.”
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Roland Barthes wrote, “We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds.” If so, perhaps we view photographs in order to knock the knowledge we once had back in. It’s something to consider while viewing Teenie Harris: Elections, a new exhibition of work by the esteemed Pittsburgh native. Shooting for the Pittsburgh Courier, the legendary African-American newspaper, Harris captured black urban life for 40 years. The Carnegie Museum of Art, which owns the 80,000 photographs comprising Harris’ collection, worked with three guest curators: former KDKA anchor Harold Hayes, Pittsburgh City Councilor Daniel Lavelle and actor and activist Michael Keaton. Together they chose about two dozen of Harris’ most engaging political images. There’s Harry Truman stumping in the Hill District in the ’40s, elevated above a racially diverse crowd. Other famous figures include Orson Welles, and Hill District civilrights pioneer Thelma Lovette, radiant at the height of her youth and activism. The exhibition’s centerpiece, however, is a not a famous figure. It depicts a billboard urging, “Vote Republican” as a towheaded girl, in bobby socks and clutching a golliwog, narrowly evades the grasp of dark and monstrous claws. The additional billboard text reads “Make Our Homes and Streets SAFE.” The 1949 photo isn’t just shocking evidence that mainstream political fearmongering has been going on for 70 years. It’s a showcase for Harris’ astounding visual storytelling. The amount of information being conveyed is masterful. There’s the grim ad on the billboard itself, then the charming scene beyond, with fluffy clouds, nice homes and clean streets. Providing a little history is a flatscreen running a video essay featuring Harris’ nearest and dearest describing his life and work. But I don’t suspect a small iPad bolted to the wall will get much use, and it’s a shame: It houses the Teenie Harris essay series, written for the museum’s blog, and featuring voices from Pittsburgh’s black artist community. If nothing else, go to admire the art of film photography. The large, gleaming inkjet prints testify to the power of film, displaying depth and dimension that seemingly emanate from the very character of their subjects. There’s no wonder why some artists refuse to abandon the medium. Maybe they’re right. Harris, however incidentally, seemed to prove that everything old will be new again.
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{BY TED HOOVER} BIG NEWS: PICT Classic Theatre has left
its long-time residence at the University of Pittsburgh and headed northeast — specifically, to Highland Park and the Union Project. A beautifully refurbished one-time church, the Project’s Great Hall is now home to PICT’s new season. First up is Willy Russell’s 1986 onewoman comedy, Shirley Valentine. After playing London and New York, the show was adapted into a largely disappointing film, welcomed only for preserving the legendary performance of original star Pauline Collins.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE continues through Sept. 17. PICT Classic at the Union Project, 801 N. Negley Ave. Highland Park. $15-50. 412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org
Shirley is a middle-aged Liverpudlian homemaker who, over the years, has been ground down by the nothingness of her existence. House, husband, children, shopping … rinse and repeat. It’s not a horrible life, but to Shirley, it’s not really a life at all. We meet her in the kitchen, cooking dinner for her husband as she remembers the past and tries to understand how she got where she is. Outside forces intrude when her best friend, Jane, buys her a vacation in Greece. It’s on a Grecian island in Act II that Shirley comes back to life and makes a few huge decisions.
Russell’s play is about as wispy as can be without actually evaporating. Its great truths aren’t much more than bumpersticker wisdom, and there’s an unreality to Russell’s set-up. But at the same time, it’s an incredibly charming evening of theater and you can’t help loving Shirley from start to finish. As director, PICT artistic and executive director Alan Stanford nimbly guides Karen Baum through the play with great feeling and restraint. It would be impossible for Baum to be any more endearing in the role, and she and Stanford have no difficulty getting us squarely in Shirley’s corner. I could wish they hadn’t chosen to emphasize so heavily the play’s “serious” moments, and Baum is hampered by being seemingly years too young for the role. Whatever her actual age, Baum’s innately bright and fresh presence is in direct opposition to Shirley’s weathered ruefulness, and she works hard to bridge the gap. Still, there’s something to be said for a play, and production, that’s only looking to cheer you up … and PICT has certainly done just that. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
OLD HANDS {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} SOUTH PARK THEATRE mines its strengths and hits its demographic with the quirky Better Late, positing a romantic triangle of interesting people in what we once called “their golden years.” Co-written by Larry Gelbart with grittier playwright
Craig Wright for a 2007 world premiere, Better Late (pun intended?) probes questions of old age and death. Gelbart, the comic genius best known for Broadway’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), TV’s M*A*S*H (1972-83) and Hollywood’s Tootsie (1982), died two years later. The premise presents two sequential couples: the first and second marriages of an erstwhile actress and babe. The former relationship produced a son, now grown. The latter, still long-running, is strained when the wife insists upon providing transitional care to Hubby No. 1 after his stroke. Of course, the “temporary” arrangement stretches into months, allowing the resentments of both husbands to fester and burst. Meanwhile, the son wants attention and guidance for his own marital difficulties.
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Ken Lutz and Cindy Swanson in Better Late, at South Park Theatre
continues through Sept. 17. South Park Theatre, Brownsville Road and Corrigan Drive, South Park Township. $12. 412- 831-8552 or www.southparktheatre.com
Nominally, all the characters are equal, but it’s really Hubby No. 2 at the center. Bob Scott as Lee Baer, a successful film composer (i.e. a creative type), is not only the most sympathetic of this self-centered lot, but also the one who grows the most. Opposite him, the pert Cindy Swanson packs power and sex appeal into the most dominant character, wife Nora (no Doll’s House here). Ken Lutz hits the perfect whine in the first act as the ex, Julian, but it grows a bit thin at the story proceeds. Elliott O’Brien does what he can with the hapless role of the hapless son.
Director Melissa Hill Grande paces Late’s bittersweet with humor, abetted by a great tech team. Set designer Jill Ekis scores well with a few minimal pieces suggesting Southern California, changing with the days, seasons and moods courtesy of Jason Hopkins’ light design (do note the monochromatic final scene) and tech director Kevin Kocher. Sound designer Michael Zandhuis also composed original music. The problems of wealthy divorcees might not be the most accessible of themes, but the insights into marriage and mortality, leavened with touches of merriment, make Better Late worthwhile. I N F O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, but only after years of struggle against government repression, first in the Soviet Union and then in Belarus. Once, she was tried on charges that Boys in Zinc, her portrait of soldiers during the Soviet-Afghan war, defamed the Soviet Army. In 2000, Alexievich — who turns her interviews about Soviet and post-Soviet life into collage-like literature — fled Belarus, and later lived for two years in Gothenburg, Sweden, one of 50 cities in the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN).
Alexievich, 68, has since returned to Belarus, but it’s fitting that she’s inaugurating City of Asylum @ Alphabet City; Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, after all, is ICORN’s U.S. headquarters. After years of holding literary readings in tents, on Sept. 10 the group opens its permanent home, a $12.5 million renovation of a former North Side Masonic Hall including event space, bookstore and wine-andcheese café. The inaugural weekend includes a talk by Alexievich and a public conversation featuring her and acclaimed journalist and author Philip Gourevitch. Alexievich was unavailable for interview. But Gourevitch, reached by phone in New York City, says that her Nobel, awarded for work about the emotional legacy of events like the Chernobyl disaster, was long-overdue recognition for nonfiction literature. Recently, Alexievich was criticized in The New Republic, which charged that her methods — including heavy re-editing of books after publication — misrepresents her subjects to suit her own agenda. Gourevitch, however, notes that Alexievich doesn’t consider herself a conventional reporter, but more a novelist writing “a literature based on documentary work.” He praises her “incredibly powerful material” and calls her work a hybrid: “Alexievich is saying, ‘I’m trying to do something new here.’” At City of Asylum, he’ll ask Alexievich about her methods: “What’s interesting to me is, what’s she up to? Does it ring broadly true?” BY BILL O’DRISCOLL
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^ Fri., Sept. 9: Art Advocacy Speaks — Art for Social Change
thursday 09.08 STAGE The REP launches its season with a bang — and copious glitter — with the Pittsburgh premiere of Wig Out!, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s 2008 play about voguing ball culture in Harlem. McCraney (Choir Boy, The Brothers Size) is one of America’s most accomplished young playwrights, and Wig Out!’s Off-Broadway premiere was a critical hit; the New York Times called it a “gutsy, pulsing portrait of uptown drag queens and the men who love them.” The play, set early in the HIV/AIDS era, is full of music, dance and fabulousness, as members of the House of Light family prepare for a drag-ball challenge against their archrivals. Broadway veteran Tomé Cousin directs; the first performance at Pittsburgh Playhouse is tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Show continues through Sept. 25. 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $10-29. 412-392-8000 or www.pittsburghplayhouse.com
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ART Advocacy for social causes is everywhere you look lately — why not in your neighborhood art gallery?
Spinning Plate Gallery hosts Art Advocacy Speaks — Art for Social Change. Art Advocacy Speaks, a Pittsburghbased group that promotes artists who use their medium to encourage social change, put out a national call for submissions. Jurors Christina Roberts and Lonnie Graham whittled the submissions down to 39 works, from paintings to installations. The opening reception is tonight. BO 5-8 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Sept. 25. 5821 Baum Blvd., Friendship. artadvocacyspeaks.wordpress.com < Fri., Sept. 9: Edward Eberle Retrospective {ART BY EDWARD EBERLE}
ART An important locally based ceramics artists gets his first career retrospective. Edward Eberle Retrospective showcases 45 works spanning three decades by the Tarentum native, whose influences range from classical Japanese pottery and the Native American Mimbres tradition to Ukrainian pysanky and deconstructed works. Eberle, who formerly taught at Carnegie Mellon University, now works out of his studio in Homestead. An opening reception at the Society for Contemporary Craft is tonight. BO Reception: 5:30-8 p.m.
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(free). Exhibit continues through March 11. 2100 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-261-7003 or www.contemporarycraft.org
ART D.S. Kinsel calls himself “a black creative entrepreneur and cultural agitator”; he’s also increasingly known as co-founder of arts group BOOM Concepts. And this month, Kinsel rolls out A Black Man Made This Art as one multimedia exhibit in three different locations. In addition to the component at Garfield’s Imagebox, and the part opening Sept. 28 at the Braddock Carnegie Library, there’s tonight’s opening at Future Tenant. The goal of the text-based show, curated by Alecia Young, is “to reclaim ownership of offensive language used toward Black Americans.” BO 6-9 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Oct. 23. 819 Penn Ave., Downtown. www.futuretenant.org
SCREEN Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Star Trek’s television debut. Local recognition of this popcultural milestone continues tonight with A Steel City Celebration of Star Trek at the Hollywood Theater, sponsored by Geek Pittsburgh. First is a fan fest featuring 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; the film stars the series’ original cast and Ricardo Montalban. Also ^ Fri., Sept. 9: Nighttime look for local fan groups and a sneak preview of To Boldly Go, an exhibit of original Trek-themed comics art opening Oct. 28 at the ToonSeum. At the Hollywood, die-hards can stick around for the local premiere of For the Love of Spock, Adam Nimoy’s documentary about his late father, Leonard. BO Steel City Celebration: 6 p.m. (Khan screening at 7:30); $10. Spock: 10 p.m. ($6-8; Khan attendees get $2 off). 1449 Potomac Ave., Dormont. 412-563-0368 or www.thehollywooddormont.com
PARTY If Nighttime isn’t the biggest party in years at the Carnegie Museum of Art, it’s certainly the longest. Tonight, at 7 p.m., the Carnegie launches back-to-back shindigs that last until 4 a.m. First, there’s the unveiling of a new public art installation that the museum calls “a camera for seeing time”; there are also new works from the Hillman Photography Initiative’s Lighttime program, with pieces by Andrea Polli, Alisha Wormsley, DIS, and Bradford Young. Also early, there’s a family dance party, live music from acts including Colonel Eagleburger’s Highstepping Goodtime Band and Britsburgh’s British Invasion showcase, a teen CONTINUES ON PG. 30
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lounge, food trucks and more. The museum’s galleries stay open till 10 p.m.; what follows (with help from VIA and Hot Mass) is an all-night dance party in the Music Hall’s grand foyer, with DJs Metacara (pictured), Eye Jay, Naeem b2b Jwan Allen, Shawn Rudiman and Tony Fairchild. BO 7 p.m.-4 a.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10-25. 412-622-3212 or www.cmoa.org
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One of Pittsburgh’s resident peace-and-justice heroes is Molly Rush. In 1980, protesting nuclear proliferation as a member of the Plowshares Eight, this lifelong activist and Pittsburgh native broke into a General Electric facility in King of Prussia, Pa., and banged on a nuclear missile with a hammer. That famous episode was documented in Liane Ellison Norman’s Hammer of Justice. Now local playwright Tammy Ryan has adapted the book for the stage. Molly’s Hammer (which world-premiered this year at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis) gets a staged reading tonight in Chatham University’s Eddy Theatre. The reading (featuring top local actors Jason McCune, Don DiGiulio and Kimberly Parker Green) benefits the Thomas Merton Center, which Rush co-founded. Rush will attend the reading. BO 7:30 p.m. Chatham campus, Shadyside. $20 (low-income tickets: $5 at the door). www.chatham.edu/events
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ART In public life these days, optimism seems scarce. But it’s the organizing principle of Building Optimism: Public Space in South America. {PHOTO COURTESY OF ED BARNAS} With video, photography, ^ Sun., Sept. 11: Golden Legends Champion Challenge drawings and models, this new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center highlights architects and designers seeking to use planning to improve urban life. The exhibit includes concepts for Braddock’s in-progress Recycle Park by famed Ecuador-based architect Al Borde, who specializes in low-budget projects. BO 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Exhibit continues through Feb. 13. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $11.95-19.95. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org
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sunday 09.11 OUTDOORS After a successful debut last year, the Walkatop urban hike returns for an expanded, any-fitness-level trek through Emerald View Park, in Mount Washington. Urban hiking is increasingly popular among city folk looking to get outdoorsy without leaving town, and Walkatop really earns the name. The skyline’s never out of sight, but you’re submerged in green. The hike benefits The Thomas Brown Alton Foundation, dedicated to suicide prevention and improved mental health. Alex Gordon 8 a.m.-noon, Sun., Sept. 11. Parking lot on Grandview Avenue, across from Duquesne Incline, Mount Washington. $20-25. www.walkatop.com
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Following its debut last year, in Los Angeles, burlesque’s Golden Legends Champion Challenge hits Pittsburgh. The annual event, founded by performer Gabriella Maze, celebrates burlesque’s history and connects up-and-comers with veterans whose careers span decades. The Sat., Sept. 10, master classes are open to the public; so, of course, is this afternoon’s concluding showcase at James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy. A competition features protégés of such Legends as Maze, Madame E, Tiffany Carter and guest mentor Matt Finish (Mr. Exotic World 2015). Host Dixie Crystal also welcomes such showcasing headliners as Camille 2000; Poison Ivory (Miss Exotic World 2016 and a top name in contemporary burlesque, pictured); Egypt Blaque Knyle, May Hemmer, Tas DeVille, Viva Valezz!, and last year’s GLCC first runner-up, Vivi Noir. BO 1 p.m. 422 Foreland St., North Side. $25. www.goldenlegends.org
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thursday 09.15 SCREEN Robert Frank looms almost impossibly large over the world of modern American photography, whether you know him or not. His seminal 1958 photography book The Americans, which chronicled the Swiss-born photographer’s year-long trip through the U.S., introduced artful, unfussy photojournalism to the masses — where it’s stayed since. In Don’t Blink – Robert Frank, the critically acclaimed, excellently soundtracked 2015 documentary directed by Laura Israel, we’re treated to an in-depth, inside look at Frank’s work and often reticent personality. (“I hate these fucking interviews, I’d like to walk out of the fucking frame.”) There’s a free screening tonight at Point Park University. AG 6 p.m. GRW Theater, 414 Wood St., Downtown. Free with RSVP. www.silvereye.org
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ROLL ON {BY AL HOFF} NatuRoll Creamery has been open less than a week, and already there’s a steady stream of customers. It could be that the Butler Street corridor finally has an ice-cream shop, and it’s near 90 degrees outside. Or maybe it’s the undeniable novelty of checking out Pittsburgh’s first and only purveyor of rolled ice cream. Rolled ice cream, which is popular in Thailand, combines the made-to-order freshness of mix-ins, performance theater (with a side of science) and the aesthetic delight of an artful presentation.
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At NatuRoll, customers choose from six regular selections, representing popular flavors such as berry, banana, Nutella, cookies, salted caramel and chocolate. There are also rotating specials, which include s’mores, mint chocolate chip ur Watch o and coffee. video at Customers are called hcity www.pg m to one of four rolling paper.co stations to watch their frozen confections take shape. The ice-cream technician pours a cup of vanilla ice-cream mixture onto a round metal tray chilled to minus-10 degrees. The mix-in ingredients are chopped and swirled in with metal spatulas, while the technician makes several passes at scooping up, then spreading flat again the increasingly solidifying mixture. At the final flattening, the spatula is used to cut and roll the ice cream into five tubes which are placed in a cup; they resemble European rolled-wafer cookies. A single serving is $7, but there’s no denying the vigorous manual labor that goes into each order. The resulting ice cream is extraordinarily dense and filling, plus each flavor gets its own selection of toppings and decorations. For example, s’mores ice cream is topped with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, animal crackers and a chocolate Pocki stick holding a freshly toasted marshmallow. That’s how ice cream rolls here. AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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menus on chalkboards, and patrons order from one or more as the spirit moves them, receiving a text alert when their food is ready for pick-up. Galley workers clear plates and bring water. Industrial-
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CP APPROVED chic decor seems more at home in the Strip than elsewhere, but all those hard surfaces translate to an atmosphere between convivial and downright loud. The Galley’s current four concepts share enough of an approach to complement one
another, while varying enough to challenge a diner’s decisiveness. Carota Cafe is veg-forward and Provision is meat-forward. Josephine’s Toast is where “refined flavors meet the whimsy of toast!,” while Aubergine Bistro takes a somewhat more formal approach to small plates, entrees and sides. All of them tend toward fresh and local, offering among them plenty of house-made pickles, condiments and the like. And all of them produced some truly excellent food. A sous vide pork chop from Provision was relatively lightly browned, perhaps reflecting the limits of the small kitchen. But the quality of the meat came through, thanks in part to the reliable water-bath technique (although part of this chop was considerably rosier than the rest). The star of the dish was actually the confit beans:
firm, rich and creamy, without any heaviness or distracting extraneous flavors. The flavors of Provision’s tostada were also superb. Green chile suffused a haystack of shredded chicken; lemon aioli was a distinctive replacement for crema; and the whole was topped with an unmistakable yet subtle house kimchi. The small, fried tortillas were light and crisp yet substantial enough; the texture of the chicken was soft and reminiscent of chicken salad. We also loved the octopus from Carota Cafe. A single tentacle was charred along with quartered peewee potatoes and dressed with a chimichurri of grilled scallion and briny olives. Only at the skinny tip of the tentacle did the texture become a little rubbery, as if overcooked. A summer string-bean salad from Carota Cafe was our only really flawed dish, but not bad. The issue was that each of the four beans had a different texture, and not all of them were equally well suited: While many were fresh and crisp, the largest were flatout tough, making it hard to appreciate the smooth but zesty shallot vinaigrette and juicy, peak-season tomatoes. Aubergine’s ricotta tart was like American summer on a plate: corn and diced green beans within the subtly sweet cheese, with heirloom tomatoes and dill pickles on top. The corn was sweet, the beans vegetal, the tomatoes almost fruity and the pickles subtly tangy. Aubergine used Anson Mills grits in a number of guises, including beneath meatballs and tomato sauce. The coarsely ground grits, with the pleasingly chewy germ intact, stood in rustically for polenta, creamy and with solid corn flavor. The meatballs were well above average, tender with a mild, meaty taste; the bright tomato sauce added a welcome acidic note. Not everything at Josephine’s was served on toast, but the concept did unify the menu. In the case of BBQ chicken, the smoky-sweet sauce on the combined chicken and baked beans was just shy of cloying, but smothered any noticeable contribution from the thick bed of grilled bread. Baby mustard greens, brightly dressed, offered an effective peppery contrast on top of it all. A dish of locally homemade yogurt, honey, fruit and granola renewed our faith in breakfast for dinner. Such limited sampling prevents us from saying anything definitive about any one concept or chef, but we can happily recommend Smallman Galley. It is a sort of co-working space for restaurateurs, allowing diners to try a variety of ideas and approaches. We look forward to fully experiencing the singular restaurants each of these concepts will — with luck — become. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M
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SPICED-PEAR PRESERVES {BY TOMASZ SKOWRONSKI AND KATE LASKY}
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We’re proudest of ourselves when it’s a cold morning in the dead of winter, and we find a jar of preserves that we were smart enough to make earlier in the year. It’s a true test of the lessons about the grasshopper and the ant. We are usually short-term-planning grasshoppers, but those moments when we can be the responsible and well-planned ant make well-made preserves even sweeter. Pears are a beautiful fruit, and they are best at the end of summer and early fall. During the rest of the year, pears are rarely a thing to write home about. So take the time and do yourself a favor for that snowy day when you inevitably forget to put out your parking chair. You’ll need a little pick-me-up when you finally get back in the house. Blankets are great, but some spiced-pear preserves are what really warm you up.
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INSTRUCTIONS Peel, core and slice the pears into ¼-inch strips. Layer with sugar, agave and lemon peel in bowl; cover and let it sit overnight. The following day, pour the contents of the bowl into a large saucepan. Add the Calvados, cardamom and lemon juice, to taste. Bring the mixture to a simmer, and cover over mediumlow heat, gently stirring occasionally. Cook for one-and-half hours until the liquid is a thick syrup and the pears are translucent. Remove from heat, and stir in the black pepper. Follow approved canning techniques to save the preserves for the winter. For reference and helpful tips on canning, visit PennState Extension’s website at extension.psu.edu/ food/preservation. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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BEYOND THE PUMPKIN Exploring the Wide World of Fall Beer {BY DREW CRANISKY} I LIKE pumpkin beer. As I set down those words, I imagine droves of beer nerds preparing their torches and sharpening their pitchforks, ready to drive me into the hills. Deriding pumpkin ales has become a favorite pastime of craft-beer snobs and internet trolls, who will gleefully tell you why you’re a fool for cracking open another orangelabeled bottle. And sure: Those beers are often too sweet, rarely contain actual pumpkin, and shouldn’t hit shelves in July. But forget the haters — a well-balanced, richly spiced pumpkin ale is a delightful autumnal treat. Nevertheless, fall beer offers far more than nutmeg and allspice. Historically, autumn was an important time for brewers. Before refrigeration and climate control, fermentation in warmer months was unpredictable, and brewing in the summer was more likely to yield an impure beer. And in 1553, a Bavarian law was passed that banned summer beer production altogether. The result? Brewers ramped up in March, brewing a strong, malty lager that could last through the beerless summer months. That style became known as Märzen, from the German word for March. Stored in cool caves and allowed to slowly ferment, the crisp yet robust beer became a perfect transition into the chillier fall months, eventually fueling raucous Oktoberfest celebrations around the world. These days, a true Märzen is hard to find. But plenty of brewers take a crack at similar styles, including festbiers, mai-
bocks and dunkels. Whatever the name, a pint of malty, dark lager is the perfect accompaniment for the changing seasons. Here in Pittsburgh, Penn Brewery and Church Brew Works ensure that the city is awash in classic German-style beer when Oktoberfest rolls around. Fresh hops are another great gift of fall. Most of the year, brewers coax flavor and aroma out of dried and pelleted hops. But in late summer and early fall, when the precious hop cones are plump and fragrant, many brewers experiment with fresh- (or “wet”-) hopped IPAs and pale ales. Straight from the fields, fresh hops lend juicy, earthy notes that are often compared to newly mown grass. Each year, East End Brewing releases Big Hop Harvest, a freshly hopped version of its flagship IPA. Other area breweries have brewed their own wethopped beers in past years and, with the growing availability of local hops, more are sure to come. Once they’re out, grab a pint immediately. Unlike Oktoberfest styles, wet-hopped beer should be consumed as quickly as possible after brewing, as all of those delicate nuances dissipate quite quickly. The list of fall possibilities goes beyond dark German lagers and wet-hopped IPAs, of course. I like a nutty brown ale or a malty red, and it’s around this time that I begin to crave strong Belgian ales again. But whether it’s light, dark, or — gasp! — pumpkin-spiced, the best seasonal beer is the one you want to drink.
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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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INGREDIENTS: Bluebird rye, aromatic bitters, organic simple syrup, Wigle Absent Minded absinthe rinse, orange peel OUR TAKE: This cocktail puts a Pennsylvania twist on a New Orleans drink by using all Pennsylvania-made liquors and bitters. A sip gives strong vanilla notes with a good dose of menthol to balance it, lingering on the finish. Unlike its Creole cousin, this rendition doesn’t pack quite such a boozy punch, leading to a softer, sweeter flavor. The oils from the orange peel add a bit of needed bitterness.
INGREDIENTS: Bulleit rye, Herbsaint liqueur, Peychaud’s bitters, essential lemon oil, lemon peel OUR TAKE: For a truly New Orleans cocktail, it only makes sense to go to NOLA to try the classic recipe. The cocktail is very rye-forward, bringing a lot of heat to the palate. The Herbsaint and bitter make the drink pleasantly medicinal, while the sweetness of the rye and tartness of the lemon oil create balance.
This week on Sound Bite: Author Andy Moore takes us on a pawpaw hunt. www.pghcitypaper.com
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NEVER MIND WHAT THE RULES SAY, A MAN ACTS FROM HIS GUT
LIVE LONG {BY AL HOFF} Sure, Kirk was the captain of the Enterprise, but in many ways Spock was the enduringly iconic member of the original 1960s Star Trek TV series. After all, there are thousands of fight-happy dudes running things on Earth, but how many cerebral halfVulcans do we encounter?
Star Trek’s George Takei shows off his Vulcan.
The new documentary For the Love of Spock examines how Spock came to be, what influence actor Leonard Nimoy had on the character (and vice versa) and what embracing Spock says about us. The film is directed by Adam Nimoy, Leonard’s son, who obviously has great access. Before his death, in 2015, Leonard sat for interviews, and Adam adds a lot of personal insight, including the highs and lows of living with such a well-known father. (For years, the two had a rocky relationship.) Other colleagues and fans weigh in on Nimoy and Spock, and there is a loose history of the TV show, its film spin-offs and even the ensuing culture of ever-replicating fandom, such as conventions. There are compelling arguments made for Spock’s appeal — how his status as an outsider on the Enterprise endeared him to fans looking for role models beyond the obvious alpha-male archetypes; likewise, Spock’s deliberate nature and his intellect, and how Nimoy’s sly skills made being smart look cool. Starts Fri., Sept. 9. Hollywood AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
MISS SHARON JONES The latest film from award-wining documentarian Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA) catches up with Sharon Jones, the former prison guard turned soul singer, who recently has been juggling ing performing and treatments for pancreatic creatic cancer. ncer. Starts Fri., Sept. t. 9. Parkway, way, McKees Rocks
Tom Hanks as Capt. Sullenberger: “This is the captain. Prepare for impact.”
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Clint Eastwood’s new film, Sully, suggests an intriguing question: How do you construct a compelling film about a recent news story that everybody already knows? In this case, the event is 2009’s “Miracle on the Hudson,” when Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed a disabled plane on New York City’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 people on board. The entire drama — from take-off at LaGuardia to rescue by ferry boats — took less than 30 minutes in real time. For one, you parcel out the high drama. Eastwood begins his film with a harrowing flight scene that is revealed to be a nightmare. Then we catch up with Sully (Tom Hanks) in the immediate days after the crash … er … forced water landing. Sully and his co-pilot, Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart), who are understandably rattled, are now the subjects of a federal investigation: Could the plane have landed at a nearby airport?
Eastwood uses the investigation into Sully’s possible culpability and its assorted administrative and aeronautical minutiae to gin up some suspense, and act as a counter to what we do know: This guy is a hero who saved 155 people! You can feel Eastwood quietly doubling down on a preferred archetype: Never mind what the rules say, a man acts from his gut.
SULLY DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood STARS: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney Starts Fri., Sept. 9
There is also plenty of padding, whether it’s a couple of passengers, a round-robin of media interviews or calls home to Sully’s family in California. (Laura Linney has the thankless role of “supportive wife on the phone.”) We also get two brief flashbacks to Sully’s past that mostly show: Hey, the guy loved to fly and was good at it.
But in the middle of film is an expert reconstruction of the compromised flight — from the very professional not-quitepanic in the cockpit after losing both engines to flight attendants screaming “Brace! Brace!” at passengers only a minute or two into their flight. Then the evacuation as water pours in, life vests floating away … it is all surprisingly nervewracking despite the known outcome. Ultimately, the film works because this is a role — a decent, resourceful guy — tailor-made for Hanks, who without complaint, shoulders Sully through its less-interesting parts. And it works because even a simulated plane crash that we vicariously survive always touches wherever we bury that fear in our own souls. And it works because a million Hollywood scriptwriters couldn’t have come up with a better, more uplifting story than what actually happened. “Been a while since New York had news this good,” says somebody as the rescued clamber onto the docks. An amazing real-life story simply sells itself. A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Ricardo Montalban. The film screens as part of the “50 Years of Star Trek” celebration, and the event includes Trek fan groups, DJ Zombo spinning tunes, a costume contest and a pop-up art gallery. Khan ticketholders also get $2 off the 10 p.m. premiere screening of the new doc For the Love of Spock. Doors at 6 p.m.; screening at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Sept. 9. Hollywood. $10
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NEW THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK — THE TOURING YEARS. Ron Howard’s new documentary compiles footage depicting the Fab Four over the mere three years the band toured the world, from 1963-66. The doc is followed by a 30-minute film of The Beatles’ Aug. 15, 1965, concert at New York’s Shea Stadium. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Starts Thu., Sept. 15. Hollywood COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Ever get tired or bored of your life as it is and wish you could just disappear and re-emerge somewhere else with a new identity? Some people apparently manage it, and one of them is at the heart of Joshua Marston’s slim drama. After a confusing beginning, we center in on a dinner party. The married hosts — Tom (Michael Shannon) and Ramina (Azita Ghanizada) —are sparring over a life change, and welcome the distraction of a friend’s (Michael Chernus) beautiful and lively date, Alice (Rachel Weisz). Alice studies noises made by frogs, and shares many intriguing tales from her globe-hopping life. But something doesn’t seem quite right, and her arrival is the catalyst that sends a couple of characters off on a night of self-discovery. There are some interesting ideas at play about the philosophical ease (or not) of switching identities. (Alas, not so much about the mechanics and paperwork, which I wondered about.) And whether it really is so wrong to be the person somebody wants you to be — say, pretending to be a doctor when helping a fallen pedestrian. There’s also some interstitial material about one’s obligations to the past. It’s all mildly interesting, and helped tremendously by a good cast. (Kathy Bates and Danny Glover also turn up.) But even at only 90 minutes, it felt like a short story stretched out twice as long as necessary. Starts Fri., Sept. 9. Regent Square (Al Hoff) DON’T THINK TWICE. In Mike Birbiglia’s new dramedy, a group of six friends are in a New York City improv group known as The Commune. It’s a struggle, but they have each others’ backs and a small but steady following. If any of them has a big dream, it’s to get picked as a cast member and/or writer for a late-nighttelevision comedy-sketch show called Weekend Live (read: Saturday Night Live). But just one of them, Jack (Keegan-Michael Key), makes the cut, and the repercussions ripple through the tight-knit group immediately. Most directly affected is Jack’s girlfriend, Samantha (Gillian Jacobs), who counters the new imbalance in their relationship by doubling down on the purity of improv (it’s all about the group, don’t think). This is a low-key, gently funny film that examines some established human truths about loyalty, jealousy, creativity and how even people in their 30s who seek a shambolic career have to eventually get focused. Starts Fri., Sept. 9. Manor (AH)
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THE PRODUCERS. Mel Brooks’ 1968 film is one of the funniest backstage comedies of all time. A pair of failing producers — played by the old master Zero Mostel and the then up-and-coming Gene Wilder — scheme to intentionally put on a flop, a demented musical about Hitler. Things don’t go quite as they planned. 8 p.m. Sun., Sept. 11. Regent Square
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THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. In 1994, Frank Darabont adapted Stephen King’s novella about a group of prisoners at Maine’s Shawshank State Prison. It fared poorly in theaters, but the inspirational drama about men who struggle to preserve their hopes and dignity found new life on video. Shawshank trades in plenty of prison clichés, but the film wins us over with its careful presentation of the day-to-day, stretched over 20 years and supported by top-notch performances from Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as inmates and pals. As such, we willingly surrender to the wildly improbable but sentimental conclusion. See it on the big screen and let yourself feel good. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 7. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 (AH) BLAZING SADDLES. OK, so cowboys and beans don’t mix, but Mel Brooks’ riotous send-up of Westerns, riddled with gleefully offensive jokes, holds together just fine. This Brooks’ 1974 laugh-fest stars Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little and the incomparable Madeline Kahn. 7 p.m. Wed., Sept. 7. Hollywood ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING. Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) directs this new concert film, featuring new material from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in performance, as well as interviews and other footage. It is shot in black-and-white, and
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“IT’S SO POWERFUL AND EMOTIONAL WHEN THE GUYS BRING IT HOME.”
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weeks in Toronto, but on Wed., Sept. 14, at the Consol Energy Center, there will be two exhibition games starting at 3:30 p.m. The main event features Sidney Crosby and Team Canada taking on Evgeni Malkin and Team Russia at 7:30 p.m. More information: penguins.nhl.com
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words that came out of his mouth. “Did you realize you said ’n’ ’at?” this reporter asked. He did not. Pritchard, best known as the “Keeper of the Cup,” broke out in a little Yinzer while discussing his summer in Pittsburgh with the Stanley Cup and the world-champion Penguins accompanying it. So while the 28-year veteran of one of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s more popular, if not prestigious, positions is quite likable to begin with, he’ll toss around the vernacular a bit too. Pritchard says seeing a man surrounded by his family shows who the player is “because his mom and dad are those that raised him, and his coaches ’n’ ’at.” Pittsburgh knows what you mean, Phil. Right now, the Cup resides in the city and the Penguins’ have pseudo-ownership of it until the new season kicks off Oct. 12. So far it’s been to six countries on this global victory lap, including coast-to-coast travel in the U.S. and Canada.
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Tom Kuhnhackl even shared a sip of beer from the Cup with his dad in Germany. “Tom’s dad was a German hockey player, one of the most well-known ever,” says Pritchard. “It’s so powerful and emotional when the guys bring it home. For Tom to thank his dad for everything he did, the emotions are all over the place.” Erich Kuhnhackl played for more than two decades and was named Germany’s best ice-hockey player of the 20th century. He stopped drinking after he quit hockey, but when his son brought the Cup home, he had a drink. “He thought it was time to drink again since his son reached the ultimate,” Pritchard says. “It was pretty special — a father-son bonding moment.” Pritchard also enjoyed his time with Phil Kessel, who took the Cup back to a children’s hospital in Toronto, the hometown of the team that traded him to the Pens. “He always told the kids that if he ever won it, he would bring it to them,” Pritchard says. “He kept his word and came back. It means a ton to the kids and to him.”
There have been plenty of special and fun moments during the team’s 100 days of celebrations. Twitter is a great place to watch through Pritchard’s eyes (@Keeper oftheCup). There, you’ll catch Bryan Rust napping with the Cup, and Marc Andre Fleury having the traditional family bowl of cereal out of it. What wasn’t traditional? A whole Stanley Cup full of McDonald’s fries for Rust and friends. “I can’t remember that going in before,” Pritchard says. This is the fourth time Pritchard’s’s been a part of the Penguins’ Stanley Cup celebration, and he’s gotten to know the city a bit and even speak the language. “I always think it’s amazing,” he says. “Pittsburgh seems to blow away every other city in America when it comes to their sports. They love their city and they love their sports.” “And it’s a great city to hang out in.” Hopefully, he can spend more time here next summer. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
Stacy Kauffman is an on-air personality with sports-talk station The Fan 93.7 FM.
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FOOTBALL FACTORY{BY MIKE WYSOCKI} THE UNIVERSITY of Pittsburgh’s Lafayette Pitts is on the cusp of making the Miami Dolphins roster this year. He wasn’t drafted this past April, but has two things going for him — he went to Pitt and he went to Woodland Hills High School. Pitt has a rich history of supplying the NFL with top-notch players; much better than its old/new rival Penn State (at least in the past 40 years). Not counting Tony Dorsett, whose last season was 1976, Pitt has put Dan Marino, Curtis Martin, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson and Chris Doleman in the NFL Hall of Fame. Plus, the busts of Larry Fitzgerald and Darrelle Revis are pretty much done deals at this point. In that same time, Penn State has put only Mike Munchak in the Hall. Now consider that once Jason Taylor gets inducted, Woodland Hills will have produced as many Hall of Famers as Penn State. So what is it about old Woody High that makes it special? Munhall grad George Novak has a lot to do with it. As coach, Novak can be credited with six WPIAL titles, almost 300 wins and more than a dozen players who went on to the NFL. In addition, more than 90 of his former players have played at Division I schools. Woodland Hills churns out pro-football players like the city of Boston churns out great comedians — Bill Burr, Louie CK, Jen Kirkman and Patrice O’Neal, to name a few. Here are just some of the guys Novak has guided to the big time.
Jason Taylor. Only five players in NFL history have more sacks than the former Wolverine. Nobody has returned more fumbles (six) for touchdowns in the history of the league, either. You kids might remember him from Dancing With the Stars (he finished second to Kristi Yamaguchi). He’s also a six-time Pro Bowler and the 2006 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Taylor is eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2017.
Rob Gronkowski. Yes, we hate him so much. But he’s almost unstoppable in the pros, so imagine what high school defenses had to try. Gronk has a Super Bowl, four Pro Bowls and 65 touchdowns. Only Antonio Gates and Tony Gonzalez have caught more touchdowns as a tight end, and Gronk is only 27 years old. He is the ultimate bro in every way, but he’s still more likable than Tom Brady.
Darrin Walls. Walls just signed a contract with the Detroit Lions, but that’s still
better than playing for his old team, the New York Jets. He got his start replacing an injured Darrelle Revis and has played well in the pros. He helped the Wolverines to a WPIAL title as a freshman and was a standout track athlete. Before Woody High, he played Pop Warner football for the Garfield Gators.
Ryan Mundy. He set a record at Woodland with 54 receiving touchdowns under Novak. The former Michigan Wolverine and West Virginia Mountaineer was drafted by the Steelers in 2008 and got a ring his first year. Granted, he was on the practice squad, but to show you how fair life is, Mundy has more Super Bowl rings than Dan Marino, Barry Sanders and Terrell Owens combined. Mundy played 96 games in the NFL and had six picks. He finished his career with the Giants and Bears.
Steve Breaston. Mundy’s teammate at Woodland, Breaston spent his career being overshadowed by Larry Fitzgerald. He dominated in high school, accounting for more than 5,000 yards in total offense his junior and senior years. In college, he became Michigan’s all-time leader in punt and kick returns. Breaston had a mysteriously short pro career, but still managed 255 catches and nine touchdowns.
Lousaka Polite
. He’s the classic fullback, a football job that’s on its way out. From North Braddock, Polite was a threeyear captain at Pitt. Nobody else has ever had that honor in Pitt’s history. Polite put together a respectable pro career, although mostly as a blocker.
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Woodland Hills lost 32 players to graduation after last season, including every offensive starter. Despite that, they won their 2016 season opener 37-21, over Gateway. Check out the Wolverines at the Wolvarena, on Sept. 23 against Chartiers Valley. On Sept. 30, they host Hampton. Go see George Novak’s team. Who knows — you might just see the next Gronk.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Is “Big Bang” the best term we can come up with to reference the beginning of the universe? It sounds violent and messy — like a random, accidental splatter. I would much prefer a term that suggests sublime elegance and playful power — language that would capture the awe and reverence I feel as I contemplate the sacred mystery we are privileged to inhabit. What if we used a different name for the birth of creation, like the “Primal Billow” or the “Blooming Ha Ha” or the “Majestic Bouquet”? By the way, I recommend that you consider those last three terms as being suitable titles for your own personal life story in the coming weeks. A great awakening and activation are imminent.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The last few weeks have been fraught with rich plot twists, naked dates with destiny and fertile turning points. I expect there will be further intrigue in the near future. A fierce and tender decision at a crossroads? The unexpected arrival of a hot link to the future? A karmic debt that’s canceled or forgiven? In light of the likelihood that the sweet-and-sour, confusing-andrevelatory drama will continue, I encourage you to keep your levels of relaxed intensity turned up high. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the magic and the opportunity to transform what needs to be transformed.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming days, you will have more than your usual access to help and guidance. Divine interventions are possible. Special dispensations and charmed coincidences, too. If you don’t believe in fairy dust, magic beans and lucky potions, maybe you should set that prejudice aside for a while. Subtle miracles are more likely to bestow their gifts if your reasonable theories
don’t get in the way. Here’s an additional tip: Don’t get greedy. Use the openings you’re offered with humility and gratitude.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When my daughter Zoe was growing up, I wanted her to be familiar with the origins of ordinary stuff that she benefited from. That’s why I took her to small farms where she could observe the growth and harvest of organic food crops. We visited manufacturing facilities where cars, furniture, toys, and kitchen sinks were built. She saw bootmakers creating boots and professional musicians producing songs in recording studios. And much more. I would love it if you would give yourself comparable experiences in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time to commune with the sources of things that nurture you and make your life better.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
These days, my dear, your eccentric beauty is even more unkempt than usual. I like it. It entertains and charms me. And as for your idiosyncratic intelligence: That, too, is messier and cuter and even more interesting than ever before. I’m inclined to encourage you to milk this unruly streak for all its potential. Maybe it will provoke you to experiment in situations where you’ve been too accepting of the stagnant status quo. And perhaps it will embolden you to look for love and money in more of the right places.
Unless you were brought up by a herd of feral donkeys, the coming weeks will be an excellent
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
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time to embark on your second childhood. Unless you’re allergic to new ideas, the foreseeable future will bring you strokes of curious luck that inspire you to change and change and change your mind. And unless you are addicted to your same old stale comforts, life will offer you chances to explore frontiers that could expose you to thrilling new comforts.
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I’m giving you an ultimatum, Pisces: Within the next 144 hours, I demand that you become at least 33 percent happier. Fifty percent would be even better. Somehow you’ve got to figure out what you can do to enhance your sense of well-being and increase your enjoyment of life. I’m sort of joking, but on the other hand I’m completely serious. From my perspective, it’s essential that you feel really good in the coming days. Abundant pleasure is not merely a luxury, but rather a necessity. Do you have any ideas about how to make this happen? Start here: 1. Identify your four most delightful memories, and re-enact them in your imagination. 2. Go see the people whose influences most thoroughly animate your self-love.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two 7-year-old girls showed me three tricks I could use to avoid taking myself too seriously and getting too attached to my dignity. I’m offering these tricks to you just in time for the letting-go phase of your astrological cycle. Trick No. 1: Speak in a made-up language for at least 10 minutes. Example: “Groftyp hulbnu wivgeeri proot xud amasterulius. Quoshibojor frovid zemplissit.” Trick No. 2: Put a different kind of shoe and sock on each foot and pretend you’re two people stuck in a single body. Give each side of you a unique nickname. Trick No. 3: Place an unopened bag of barbecue-flavored potato chips on a table, then bash your fist down on it, detonating a loud popping sound and unleashing a spray of crumbs out the ends of the bag. Don’t clean up the mess for at least an hour.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest you spend less energy dwelling in
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profane time so you expand your relationship with sacred time. If that’s of interest to you, consider the following definitions. PROFANE TIME happens when you’re engulfed in the daily grind. Swarmed by a relentless flurry of immediate concerns, you are held hostage by the chatter of your monkey mind. Being in SACRED TIME attunes you to the relaxing hum of eternity. It enables you to be in intimate contact with your soul’s deeper agenda, and affords you extra power to transform yourself in harmony with your noble desires and beautiful intentions.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): About 1.7 million years ago, our human ancestors began using primitive hand axes made from rocks. This technology remained in use for over 60,000 generations before anyone invented more sophisticated tools and implements. Science writer Marcus Chown refers to this period as “the million years of boredom.” Its slow pace contrasts sharply with technology’s brisk evolution in the last 140 years. In 1880, there were no cars, planes, electric lights, telephones, TVs or internet. I surmise that you’re leaving your own phase of relatively slow progress, Gemini. In the coming months, I expect your transformations will progress with increasing speed — starting soon.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Prediction No. 1: You will attract truckloads of good luck by working to upgrade and refine the way you communicate. Prediction No. 2: You will tickle the attention of interesting people who could ultimately provide you with clues you will need to thrive in 2017. No. 3: You will discover secrets of how to articulate complicated feelings and subtle ideas that have been locked inside you. Prediction No. 4: You’ll begin a vibrant conversation that will continue to evolve for a long time.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You know you have a second brain in your gut, right? (If not, read this: http://bit.ly/ secondbrain.) During the past three weeks, I have been beaming telepathic instructions toward this smart part of you. Here’s an edited version of the message I’ve been sending: “Cultivate your tenacity, darling. Build up your stamina, sweetheart. Feed your ability to follow through on what you’ve started, beautiful. Be persistent and spunky and gritty, my dear.” Alas, I’m not sure my psychic broadcasts have been as effective as I’d hoped. I think you need further encouragement. So please summon more fortitude and staying power, you gutsy stalwart. Be staunch and dogged and resolute, you stouthearted powerhouse. Look in the mirror and tell yourself an edgy but fun truth you’ve never spoken. If you care to share, write Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}
My husband left the picture recently, and I’m now a single mom supporting an infant in Toronto. I work a retail job and am drowning financially. I hooked up with a guy I met on Tinder, and I didn’t warn him that I’m still nursing because I didn’t even think of it. Luckily, he really got off on it — so I was spared the awkwardness of “Eww, what is coming out of your tits?!” Afterward, he joked about there being a market for lactating women in the kink world. My questions: If I find someone who will pay me to suckle my milk, is that prostitution? And if I advertise that I’m willing to be paid, can I get into trouble for that? The possibility of making some money this way is more appealing every day.
school. We have sex four to five times a week, sometimes daily. Before we married, it never occurred to me to check what he was looking at online. Now I can’t stop. I know he looks at porn and masturbates. I never check his phone or his Facebook or anything like that, just what he has Googled. How can I let go and be more confident and believe that, regardless of his personal habits, he still wants me? He says it’s not personal, it’s when I’m not available, and it’s a good way to take a nap. I trust him and don’t think he’s doing anything wrong, but how do I feel OK with it?
TRULY IN TROUBLE
You don’t have a good sex life, you have a great sex life. You two are raising three kids, you’re getting sex on an almost daily basis, and at least one of you is getting naps? You’re the envy of all parents everywhere. It’ll put your mind at ease if you remind yourself now and then that no one person can be all things to another person — sexually or in any other way — and that the evidence your husband still wants you is running down your leg four to five times per week. Now please pass the paper/tablet/phone to your husband, SPOUSE, I have something to say to him. Hey, Mr. SPOUSE, here’s a handy life hack for you: CLEAR YOUR FUCKING BROWSER HISTORY. Use the “private browsing” or “incognito” setting in your web browser, and spare your wife — and yourself — future scrutiny and smut-shaming.
“Allowing clients to suckle her breasts is, of course, sex work,” said Angela Chaisson, a partner at Toronto’s Paradigm Law Group. “But sex work is legal for everyone in Canada, new moms included. The new sex-work laws here — the 2014 ‘Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act,’ an Orwellian title for a draconian piece of legislation — prohibit sex work close to where minors might be. So if she’s engaging in sex work close to kids, she is risking criminal charges.” No one wants sex work going on around minors, of course — on or around minors — so that’s not what makes the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act an Orwellian piece of bullshit. Laws regulating sex work in Canada were rewritten after Terri-Jean Bedford, a retired dominatrix and madame, took her case to the courts. The Supreme Court of Canada ultimately ruled that criminalizing sex work made it more dangerous, not less, and consequently the laws on the books against sex work violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But instead of decriminalizing sex work, Parliament made it legal to sell sex in Canada but illegal to buy it. “By making a sex worker’s body the scene of a crime,” writes sex worker and sexworkers’-rights activist Mike Crawford, “the ‘end demand’ approach gives cops full license to investigate sex workers, leaving sex workers vulnerable to abuse, extortion and even rape at the hands of the police.” Chaisson, who helped bring down Canada’s laws against sex work, doesn’t think selling suckling will get you in trouble, TIT. “But Children’s Aid Society (CAS) would investigate if they felt there was a child in need of protection,” said Chaisson. To avoid having to worry about CAS or exactly where every kid in Canada is when you see a client while still making some money off your current superpower, TIT, you could look into the emerging online market for human breast milk. There are more ads from breast-milk fetishists (204) at OnlyTheBreast.com (“Buy, sell or donate breast milk with our discreet classifieds system”) than there are from new parents seeking breast milk for their infants (159). Good luck!
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“YOU DON’T HAVE A GOOD SEX LIFE, YOU HAVE A GREAT SEX LIFE.”
My husband and I have a pretty good sex life considering we are raising three kids, we both work full time, and I’m going to
Via text I asked my (gay) husband of 10 years if he had any sexual fantasies he hadn’t shared with me. He replied, “I want to cheat on you.” I was out of town when we had this text exchange. He wrote the next morning to apologize. He said he was tipsy when I texted him and didn’t mean what he said. I explained that I wasn’t upset but turned on. If he wanted to sleep with other people, he could, provided it was someone safe and not someone in our social circle. The idea of being cheated on, frankly, appeals to me. (That makes me a gay cuckold, correct?) I even told him I jerked off about it already. He did not react the way I expected. He got upset and said he thinks about cheating on me only when he’s drunk, and he would never want to do it in real life and he’s angry that I would want him to. Advice? CHUMP UNDER CLOUD KEEPING SILENT
Years ago, my then-boyfriend cheated on me while I was out of town. He didn’t like my reaction when he confessed (“Was he cute? Can we have a three-way?”) and got angry at me for not being angry with him. We wound up having a fun threesome with the other guy shortly before we broke up for other reasons, and I suspect the day will come when your husband fucks someone else — if he hasn’t already — with your permission, which means it’ll be cuckolding, not cheating. Just apologize for now, roll your eyes when he’s not looking, and bide your time. Listen to my podcast, Savage Lovecast, every week at savagelovecast.com.
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PITTSBURGH FASHION STORY With 12 years of success, Partners For Quality has found a winning formula {BY REBECCA ADDISON}
NONPROFITS ARE CONSTANTLY coming up with new ways to raise money: nights at the races, golf tournaments, auctions and theme dinners. But one tried-and-true formula that never fails is a fashion show. Just ask the Partners for Quality Foundation. Its annual Pittsburgh Fashion Story event has drawn in $400,000 over the past 12 years. Benefitting Partners for Quality’s subsidiary, the Allegheny Health Initiative, this year’s event on Sept. 16 will feature clothes from seven local boutiques carrying women’s and men’s fashions. Among them will be Juju, a vintage boutique that opened this past March. “I’m really pleased to be included with these amazing boutiques and designers,” says Juju owner Leslie McAllister. “As I’ve gotten to understand a little more about Partners for Quality, it’s really an honor to be part of such a wonderful nonprofit organization.” Past Pittsburgh Fashion Story themes have included a masked ball where guests wore intricate and outlandish creations; a jazz-inspired show where guests were decked out in Art Deco togs; and then there was the year that Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre dancers were part of the show. “I think fashion is relatable to so many people. I think it’s a nice way of bringing communities together. There’s something exciting about [fashion shows]. I think people love to see the ways things are put together — what do I wear, how do I wear it,” says McAllister, who has helped organize the event in the past. “When that kind of thing partners with something that’s important in the community, it becomes a good way to do something fun and give back to the community at the same time.”
{CP PHOTO BY STEPHEN CARUSO}
Juju owner Leslie McAllister describes her store’s style as “gypsy witch.”
agency in Allegheny County that provides services to children, adolescents and their families. The clients it works with encounter a wide range of issues including autism, bullying, depression, self-harm, learning disorders and anxiety. “The goal of ACI is to keep the family unit together. Often times when a child is having problems, they can be placed outside the home, making it very difficult for the family unit to run smoothly,” PFQ Foundation development director Jodie Tabono wrote in an email to City Paper. “By working with the child either in the home, school or after-school program, the families can be engaged in the process and
“I THINK FASHION IS RELATABLE TO SO MANY PEOPLE.” The fashion show will feature fall clothing and accessories, and McAllister says she plans to showcase items like maxi dresses, turbans and ’70s pieces like bell-bottoms. Referring to the store’s style as “gypsy witch,” she says Juju carries a lot of velvet and brocade fabrics.
13TH ANNUAL PITTSBURGH FASHION STORY 7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 16. J Verno Studios, 3030 Jane St., South Side. $75. www.pfq.org/events/pittsburgh-fashion-story
“It’s very eclectic. The fabrics I have are very lush,” McAllister says. “The stuff I offer has a very hippie bohemian sophisticated vibe to it.” “Lush, lush lush,” she adds for emphasis, and you can almost feel the fabrics. The other featured boutiques will be The Garage at Charles Spiegel, Kristi Boutique, MODA, Roberta Weissburg Leathers, Boutique La Passerelle and Dina Ellen. The Allegheny Children’s Initiative is a behavioral mental-health
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assist with supporting the needs of the child.” Approximately 500 children are served by ACI annually. “Everyone wants to see children succeed in life, and by helping support our agency, we can help these children who are struggling at a point in their life, and really help them succeed,” says Bobbi Reidenbach, ACI executive director. Funds raised from this year’s Pittsburgh Fashion Story will go toward paying for things ACI families are unable to afford. “The funds help to pay for things like a school uniform that a kid has to wear,” says Reidenbach. “Or a child might participate in an afterschool activity like football, basketball or soccer, and the parents just don’t have the funds to pay for their sporting equipment. A lot of the kids need that social interaction. Or it might be for school supplies to go back to school. They need their crayons and backpacks.” RN U T TA L L @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
Pittsburgh City Paper will be launching regular fashion coverage on our Blogh, in print and on our social media. Stay tuned for street-style snaps and Q&A’s with local fashion photographers, tastemakers and local icons.
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