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The Warhol is pleased to partner with Calliope to welcome Louisville, Kentucky-based singer/ songwriter Joan Shelley for the first time to its intimate theater. Her latest release, Over and Even, a collaboration with guitarist Nathan Salsburg, was declared by NPR’s Bob Boilen to be “one of the most beautiful records of the year.” Influenced by both American and British folk revivals with artists such as Sandy Deny and Vashti Bunyan, Shelley has been charting her own unique course with striking lyrics and warm and genuine vocal delivery, coming off recent performances with Michael Hurley, and being joined on stage by fellow Kentuckian Bonnie Prince Billy.

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

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

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Last week, rivals Pitt and Penn State faced off at Heinz Field. Outside, tailgaters partied in the parking lots.

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Bruce Springsteen commemorated the Sept. 11 anniversary during his recent visit to Pittsburgh at the Consol Energy Center.

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We take our AlcoMate Breathalyzer out for a spin in Oakland to find out how much local college students are drinking.

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IRST THERE was Animal House, the

1978 film comedy following a group of college fraternity members.

It’s the movie that made toga parties popular and made college synonymous with drinking.

But Animal House was only the beginning. What followed were a slew of alcohol-infused party movies, including American Pie (1999) and Superbad (2007) — coming-of-age films that follow graduating high school students poised to enter a world of hedonistic exploits.

“We’re in the American Pie era,” says Antonio Blundo, a University of Pittsburgh senior. “All these movies have come out that constantly portray college as a place to drink. It’s what the mainstream media really pushes college as.”

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A recent study found that college students are more likely to drink than are 18- to 22-year-olds who aren’t in college.

The study, released this past summer by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental

City Paper heads to local bars with a notebook and a breathalyzer to talk to college students about binge-drinking and the ways that schools are dealing with the issue {BY REBECCA ADDISON} Health Services Administration, used data from a federal survey of about 10,000 young adults.

Sixty percent of full-time college students said they are current drinkers, compared to 50 percent of those who weren’t in college. And 38 percent of college students surveyed said they engaged in binge-drinking, compared to 33 percent for non-college students.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, binge-drinking is “a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above.” (That’s about five drinks in two hours for men, and four for women.) The makers of the AlcoMate Revo digital personal breathalyzer recently offered Pittsburgh City Paper one of their devices to test and use. (We’re not experts in adminstering breathalyzer tests.)

For this story, we interviewed local college

students to find out why they think their classmates are more likely to drink than are peers who are not matriculating. After each interview, we administered an unofficial BAC test. (We also talked to some students who weren’t intoxicated.)

Based on our anecdotal evidence, the spirit of college drinking appears alive and well, and the usual “just say no” approach isn’t hitting home for many.

In an effort to protect students, several Pittsburgh-area colleges and universities are developing new and engaging education programs to make the alcohol-abuse discussion livelier.

“I don’t think it’s helpful to just tell people to just say no to alcohol,” says Blundo, who spoke to CP by phone and was not breathalyzed. “I think it’s OK to stop lying to ourselves. I think it’s OK to say realistically, ‘I’m going to drink tonight.’ I think people should learn to do it responsibly.”

AT 10 P.M. on Sept. 9, the night before the big Pitt-Penn State football game, we found ourselves at Peter’s Pub, the popular Oakland watering hole. The bar was crowded and noisy, and the floor was sticky and strewn with popcorn.

Breathalyzer in hand, this reporter spoke to students and recent grads about why they think college students are more prone to binge-drinking than their peers.

While all were willing to take the test to see if they were above or below the legal limit of .08, few were willing to provide their full names.

“We’re reckless,” said Dan K. (whose BAC was .41 — and yes, that’s five times the binge-drinking level). “I think social media has a big effect because we’re trying to live up to the standards we see. I go onto Instagram and I see pictures about being this fucked up and this fucked up.

We’re looking for acceptance. Everyone wants to be like the next person. It’s like trying to bring movies and TV shows to life. It’s all bullshit.”

“I think there’s a culture of drinking in college no matter where you go,” said Carlos Sierra (BAC .32) “Nine times out of 10 you make friends that want to drink.”

“If you’re in college, everyone drinks,” said Michael K. (BAC .37). “There’s more stress because of doing school work.

College is the best time of your life and you’re supposed to do that. I drank before college. Everyone basically did.”

Several of the students interviewed said the alcohol education that colleges provide isn’t engaging. Michael K. said freshmen students had to take a “stupid six-hour thing that took forever.”

“They taught us unrealistic stuff like have one drink every hour,” said Peter

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O’Donnell (BAC .15). “If I gave you a drink, how long would it really take you?”

“To be honest, I don’t think I’ve gotten that much education about drinking,” said Sierra. “I was taught you go to college to study, but you also drink. It’s part of college.”

While those interviewed said alcohol education programs didn’t really influence them, they said getting caught for underage drinking can be a real wake-up call. Cole Z. (BAC .16) who turned 21 last week, said that if you get caught drinking underage, you have to take a class, and it ends up costing $1,000 for the ticket and other fines.

“A lot of people turn 21 in college and they’re like, ‘I’m finally going to do it.’ But even before that, the younger kids see it and they say, ‘I want to do it too,’” Cole Z. said. “Plus it’s a stereotype because of the media.

College has always been like this because the media stereotypes it.”

But once you graduate, the party’s over, say recent college graduates. “I have more things to do now, more responsibility,” said Nina S. (BAC .07), who graduated this past spring.

Lisa P. (BAC .01), another recent grad, said binge-drinking derives from peer pressure. “It’s just like there’s nothing else to do. Everyone is doing it. We’re so stressed. It’s just a release.”

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tion CampuSpeak to talk to students about the dangers of alcohol and drug use,” writes Wilson. “The resident assistants in the residence halls address the topic of alcohol and drug use and abuse [and other topics] during their monthly meetings with the students under their supervision.”

But Carlow and other universities are trying to educate students further by providing programs that are more engaging than sitting in a lecture hall, learning alarming statistics about drug and alcohol abuse that don’t appear to actually frighten anyone.

“In October each year — in conjunction with the university’s police department — students attend a seminar where there is a go-kart and course set up,” Wilson wrote. “The students are allowed to ride the go-kart with and without goggles that simulate how it feels to be impaired by drugs and alcohol. This gives them a firsthand appreciation for how drugs and alcohol may impair their senses and motor skills.”

And Keith Paylo, vice president of student affairs for Point Park University, says his university has also developed new and fun ways to engage students.

“Our first big event of the year — we’ve had 400 students at it — called Pioneer Pub, is meant to start the year off with alcohol education. It’s about making sure students, especially new freshmen, understand how much you can drink — how many beers or shots does it take to get drunk — because they’ve never been exposed to that.”

Paylo says it’s important for students to receive a well-rounded education that includes developing social skills and understanding the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse.

“Our younger generation seems to be exposed to a lot of things in high school, but the freedom’s not there — mom and dad are still around,” says Paylo. “So like any other college or university when the parental guidance is away, we feel an obligation to explain to students there’s a responsible way to do this and an irresponsible way. Education is also outside of the classroom, and that’s key to us.”

Even for those under the legal drinking age, Paylo says a “just say no” approach isn’t realistic because it leaves students at risk.

“They don’t understand the dangers of binge-drinking,” Paylo says. “We can’t just say we know students are going to drink underage. So our goal is, if it’s

several barriers to alcohol abuse from the time a freshman sets foot on a local college campus or university. Firstly, most of Pittsburgh’s universities have dry campuses.

“Carlow University is a dry campus,” Drew Wilson, director of media relations for Carlow, wrote in an email to CP. “Students and their guests are not to have drugs or alcohol on their person or in the residence hall. Students found in violation of this policy will face immediate disciplinary action from the university, as well as possible sanctions consistent with any federal, state or local laws for a drug or alcohol violation.”

And at Carlow, first-year students are required to complete the My Student Body alcohol-awareness survey online before they arrive on campus. The survey gives college administrators data to target, evaluate and strengthen prevention initiatives related to drug and alcohol abuse and sexual violence.

“During first-year orientation (held before the first week of classes), Carlow enlists speakers from the organiza-

going to happen, at least we should educate students on the best way to do it. It’s not that we say they should. We do remind them that it’s illegal to do that.

But it’s irresponsible to believe that’s going to stop students.”

At the University of Pittsburgh, college administrators are using technology to ensure that students drink responsibly. A team at Pitt, lead

by Dr. Brian Suffoletto, recently developed PantherTRAC, a text-messagebased intervention system.

“This is the second year that we are using the text-messaging service to try to reduce binge-drinking,” Joe Miksch, Pitt’s interim director of university news, wrote in an email to CP. “Our ‘PantherTRAC’ program is an evidence-based, text-messaging program intended to [bolster] other methods of alcohol intervention. … It is a computer program that periodically sends queries and support messages through mobile-phone texts to the user (our students).”

These messages include not just education about the dangers of drinking, but also motivational statements and behavioral tools to promote low-

risk drinking and help students handle peer pressure.

“PantherTRAC helps students selfmonitor their drinking intentions and behaviors, assists in goal-setting that strives for lower risk drinking and increases achievement of better drinking choices,” Miksch wrote. “It is completely confidential, which contributes to the 89 percent completion rate by our students. Initial trials were very convincing; reports of binge-drinking decreased to less than 10 percent of sanctioned participants.”

Miksch says that because of the success of initial trials, the program was introduced to all incoming freshmen this fall.

And while the programs are a good start, making a dent in the number of students drinking heavily will continue to be an uphill battle. On the night CP was at Peter’s Pub, for instance, there were as many parents and alumni drinking as students. The scene the next day, during tailgate parties at Heinz Field, was similar. And the reason is obvious, according to Michael K., the student who blew the .37 on the AlcoMate: “People drink because it’s a drug and it makes you feel good.”

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INCREASING ACCESS Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force hires new medical director {BY RYAN DETO} HEALTH-CARE ACCESS for people living

with HIV can be daunting. Regional medical providers have recently made efforts to connect directly with these patients, particularly those in the LGBT and black communities, but stigmas associated with HIV still exist. In order to break down those barriers, the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force hired Dr. Sarah McBeth, who will provide health-care services at PATF’s office in East Liberty. McBeth, who also works part time at UMPC, started at PATF in August. City Paper sat down with her to discuss her new position and healthcare access in the HIV community.

WHAT DREW YOU TO THIS POSITION? I worked in Mozambique as part of my residency; the HIV epidemic is incredibly pressing there. It really had a huge affect on me. I also saw people there who were near death from AIDS, start medication, and get much better and have normal lives again.

It’s both a really rewarding field for me, and something that I feel strong about.

WHAT WAS MOZAMBIQUE LIKE? I was there right around the time medications were becoming available, but it was overwhelming the number of people that needed treatment. Especially at that time, because it wasn’t widely available. And people would come in with really advanced diseases. There were some that we couldn’t help. It just drove me to do a better job screening and catching the infection early and getting people on treatment.

HEALTH-CARE ACCESS FOR THOSE LIVING WITH HIV HAS BEEN DIFFICULT. NOW THAT THE TASK FORCE HAS A MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DO YOU SEE ACCESS IMPROVING? We are hoping so. A lot of Pittsburgh’s HIV epidemic is among people who are hard to reach. If people are accessing the facilities here at PATF, whether they’re seeing their case manager or using the food bank, and if we know that person isn’t in care, then we want to grab that person and say, “Let’s get your numbers checked. Have you talked to the doctor?” … In addition to having infectious-disease training, I’m trained in internal medicine, so I can function as a primary-care physician for adults. People who may

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WHAT WOULD BE YOUR MESSAGE TO THOSE IN THE PITTSBURGH REGION LIVING WITH HIV? Everyone living with HIV should be an advocate for themselves in terms of finding a place where they feel comfortable getting medical care and finding a medication to prevent the long-term consequences of HIV. All over this city we have lots of great HIV [care] providers. Sometimes I feel like patients don’t connect with someone, and they need to find someone that works for them. … I think people should know medications for HIV now are well tolerated, [have] simple regiments and are extremely effective. That hasn’t always been the case in HIV care.

CONSIDERING THE HIGH PERCENTAGES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS LIVING WITH HIV, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY? I think there is a lot of stigma in the black community. I know it’s especially hard for gay young men, who face stigma just for their sexuality. In fact, I have a patient who felt anxious about coming out to his friend, because she has a young son he baby-sits. There is absolutely no risk there, to the child [for contracting HIV], but he’s afraid at how she might react because there is so much stigma. He is doing everything he’s supposed to be doing … but I can’t correct what other people think.

However, for those that need STD testing, if they are unfortunate to discover they are HIV-positive, we can connect them to the services they need right here.

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Sometimes it seems cats are the only thing universally liked on the internet.

However, a former New York City couple opening a “cat café” in Pittsburgh has become the subject of spite and vitriol online. According to the website NEXTpittsburgh, Sue and Erik Hendrickson plan to open Colony Café in Shadyside. Like similar cafés across the world, the spot will allow visitors to have a coffee or alcoholic beverage and interact with felines.

At Colony Café, the cats will be provided by the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society and up for adoption. Some local cat-lovers are taking issue with the Hendricksons’ timing: Two current Pittsburghers crowd-sourced this summer with their own hopes of opening the city’s first cat café. Olivia Ciotoli and Indigo Baloch, both in their 20s, raised $20,000 on Kickstarter for their Black Cat Market (which would host adoptable cats from Animal Friends). The two make for underdogs when compared to Sue and Erik Hendrickson, former corporate-communications professionals who relocated to Pittsburgh to pursue their business. Commenters on NEXTpittsburgh called the Hendricksons a “bourgie fucking rich couple” and “yuppie turds.” Another wrote: “MAYBE YINZ SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN NYC AND STARTED A STUPID BUTT CAFE, IT WOULD HAVE MADE A LOT MORE SENSE.” The Facebook page of Colony Café has gotten several one-star reviews, since balanced out by five-star ratings by the Hendricksons’ friends and supporters. Of course none of the reviewers have patronized the business, as it has not yet opened.

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In denying a claim for flood damage, an insurance company found itself in the awkward position of telling a church its wrecking was an “act of God.” Though it seemed safe from floods atop a hill, the Connellsville Church of God was engulfed in a recent storm. Flooding collapsed a wall and sent water rushing in, causing extensive damage. The nondenominational church has a policy with Church Mutual Insurance, which specializes in covering religious institutions.

Rev. Nelson Confer told WTAE the company, arguing the damage was an “act of God,” is refusing to pay the claim. The term is insurance jargon for a natural event that could not have been foreseen or prevented, and therefore couldn’t have been factored into a risk assessment, though it sounds particularly odd and theologically judgmental when applied to a house of worship. The church is depending on volunteers and its own resources for repairs.

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Zumba, yoga and water aerobics are no longer on offer at many of Westmoreland County’s 13 senior centers due to a federalgovernment mandate. Come October, the U.S. Administration for Community Living will fund only “evidence-based” programs, specifically shown in peer-reviewed journals to improve health, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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kind of regular moderate exercise has health benefits, this means Westmoreland County’s Area Agency on Aging, which is largely subsidized by the feds, can no longer offer popular fitness classes like Zumba and SilverSneakers, which haven’t made it into the annals of scientific research. Some senior centers might start charging for these classes or use scant state money for a class or two. The government will still fund two classes: Healthy Steps for Older Adults and Chronic Disease Self-Management.

An Area Agency on Aging official said that neither class is very popular.

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Zelienople police received reports of activity at a construction site late at night.

As two accomplices ran, officers found an “intoxicated” Alex R. Meza behind the wheel of a bulldozer, according to an arrest report.

Meza, 25, allegedly admitted to taking the machine on a “joyride,” reports the Cranberry Eagle. (The article did not specify how he

entered or started the vehicle.) Contractors later said they found a concrete basin knocked over, and damage to road signs and copper water lines, putting the cost of the alleged drunken debauchery at $5,446.

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The music released by Bleepsequence, the online-only label founded by Pittsburghbased Kevin Lind, ranges from glitch and IDM to found-sound and genres that don’t quite have names yet. One release from 2012 is built from an audio-book of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The albums cover a lot of ground, but they’re all products rooted deeply in online collaboration — and they’re all free (with a donation option).

Bleepsequence grew out of Lind’s interest in nonprofit online-only labels (“netlabels”) in the early 2000s. After years as a DJ working primarily with vinyl, Lind started to recognize the breadth of material available online via Creative Commons licensing, in which an artist allows his or her copyrighted content to be shared, manipulated and distributed for free. There was a lot to root through, some of it pretty rough, but it changed things for Lind.

“It opened up all this fresh and experimental sound to me,” says Lind, who releases music as Revy. “Without the restraints of trying to break even on a physical release, artists could take more risks, resulting in an uncompromising sound.”

Since debuting in 2010, Bleepsequence has released 51 albums from more than 100 electronic musicians and visual artists around the world, ranging from Argentina to Iceland (fewer than 10 are local). Lind’s process for putting together a release is fairly straightforward: He finds music he likes, reaches out to the people who make it, and always listens to what people send.

“My main goal with the label was to foster as much creativity and collaboration as I could,” says Lind. “And also contribute back to the netlabel scene which had been such a big influence on my work.”

The latest from Bleepsequence is Cryostasis, by Untethered, a project from Lind and Pittsburgh-based artist Vasculator, released earlier this month. The EP is culled from over two years of improvised collaboration and serves pretty well as an intro to the label’s uninhibited personality.

“We never plan anything out ahead of time. It’s a purely reactive and experimental environment during every session,” says Lind.

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Still flying: Sun Ra Arkestra

SPACE TRAVELER {BY MIKE SHANLEY}

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AYBE SUN RA, the illustrious pianist, composer and band leader, did actually come to Earth from Saturn. Or maybe he was born Herman “Sonny” Blount and took on the new persona to forget his rough childhood in Birmingham, Ala. No matter which way he’s viewed, the musical philosophy of the man known as Sun Ra encompassed a perspective that was galactic in its scope. His Arkestra was well versed in the earliest, hottest version of swing, and its expertise continued into the realm of free jazz, while also touching on everything in between. Song titles like “Space Is the Place” and “Interplanetary Music” saw beyond this planet as well.

The iconoclast passed away in 1993, but the Sun Ra Arkestra continues, with the forward momentum that he expected

from his group during his lifetime. Since he was looking, as early as the 1950s, toward outer space and life in the 21st century, it should come as no surprise that Ra’s status has only grown in the ensuing years. And it seems natural that one of his longstanding band members continues to carry the mantle. Still, one has to marvel that the keeper of the flame is 92 years old.

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Alto saxophonist Marshall Allen answers the phone of his Philadelphia home enthusiastically, talking about the Arkestra’s show the night before in a park by the

city’s harbor. A member of the Arkestra since 1957, this nonagenarian became its de facto leader in 1995, following the passing of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore. It’s a big responsibility, but judging by his animated tone, Allen wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. “I’m still hanging, trying to use this music to keep my body and mind cool, you know. They said it’s working pretty good,” he says, with a raspy laugh.

When Allen met Ra, the saxophonist’s biggest inspiration was Johnny Hodges, whose smooth, rich tone played a major role in Duke Ellington’s Orchestra. While Allen can still evoke Hodges, he is just as likely to produce some frenzied sounds more aligned with the free exploits of Anthony Braxton or the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Allen doesn’t see it as a radical departure, though. He developed that wild CONTINUES ON PG. 14

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sound to fit his boss’ vision.

“Sun Ra came along with a different style and different meaning and different phrasing. So that’s what I had to learn,” he says. “Not that I couldn’t play — I couldn’t interpret the music like he wanted. So that took a little time to interpret how to play a tune, or his music. Any band is like that.

If you go and sit in with Duke Ellington’s band, if you ain’t never heard it before, you couldn’t interpret it. When you rehearse with them, you get all these details — how to phrase the music.”

Rehearsals continue to be a big priority with the Arkestra. Allen holds them three times a week, frequently bringing in new members who will be ready for the times when the band can expand beyond its usual dozen members. (When playing near Philadelphia, the group can include as many as 15 to 20 musicians, including two pianists and several dancers.) Sun Ra left behind a large book of compositions, so it’s crucial that the band be ready for any surprises that wind up in the set on any given night.

Allen laughs as he recalls how Ra taught him a lesson in being prepared onstage. “Boy, he used to have us scrambling,” he says. “[Sometimes] Sun Ra was playing something, and I’d say, ‘What’s that?’ I had to thumb through the music [book] and try to find it. And he’d look over, and everybody’s bent over trying to find the music.

By the time we’d find the music, he’d go into another tune! So I tell them guys to rehearse it and learn it by heart, because you ain’t got time to bend over for the music!”

Even though Ra’s music was actually more comprehensive in its scope than that of most jazz groups, he was viewed largely as an eccentric during his lifetime. But Allen believes that appreciation has grown for him and his music. “In the ’50s and ’60s, we did a lot of things, and he said, ‘With this music, they’ll understand what I’m talking about in the 21st century,’” Allen says. “I thought, ‘Damn, I gotta wait a long time … before they get to understand.’

Now they do. It’s like anything else: [For] everybody who’s a little ahead of time, it takes time for the people to catch up and to appreciate and know what’s going on.”

The Arkestra’s performances generally run through the previous century, paying tribute to band leaders like Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, and digging into Ra’s own space music; all of it is accessible, says the saxophonist.

“All you got to do is listen,” Allen explains. “Everybody finds something in the music that they really like. But they also get what they need, too. So you’re happy when you get something you like, and something you don’t quite understand, but you need.”

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FANTASTIC FOUR {BY MIKE SHANLEY}

The World Saxophone Quartet

The World Saxophone Quartet’s upcoming Pittsburgh appearance serves as a bit of a reunion.

“We haven’t done a performance in about two and a half years,” says alto saxophonist Oliver Lake. “We’ve been taking a break.” Considering the group has been together for four decades, the time off represents just a small blip on the radar.

Along with Lake, the WSQ includes Hamiet Bluiett (baritone), David Murray (tenor) and Bruce Williams (alto), the latter occupying the “floating” seat held by the late Julius Hemphill at the band’s inception. The four horns have played with and without accompaniment, on material that ranges from freewheeling original pieces to thoughtful interpretations of Duke Ellington and Jimi Hendrix.

Time has done nothing to diminish the rapport between the four musicians.

“That’s the thing that’s been exciting about the group. When we come together, there’s been a magic that’s happened [from] the first concert that we did in New Orleans — I’m guessing it was in 1978,” Lake says. “That magic that happened onstage and the response that we got was what kept us together. And that energy has sustained throughout the years. So when we hit the stage, it’s pure energy and pure magic as far as I’m concerned.”

The WSQ performs as part of an annual event staged by City of Asylum.

Lake has been part of the presentation for 11 years, in which poets collaborate with jazz musicians. (Poets Adriana E. Ramirez and Osama Alomar perform with them.) To mark the opening of City of Asylum’s Alphabet City performance space, Lake also performs a solo set on Thu., September 15, while Bluiett performs with Pittsburgh’s Roger Humphries the following night. “It was really great watching it grow,” Lake says of the event. “And now there’s a building and it’s going on for a month!”

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Kinda Blue: John Mayall

BREAKING BLUE {BY BILL KOPP} THOUGH HE doesn’t actively encourage

the label, John Mayall has for many years been known as “the godfather of the British blues boom.” He’s revered in blues and rock circles both for his impressive body of work and for his prescient ability to surround himself with some of the best musicians.

Now approaching his 83rd birthday, Mayall is as vital a performer as ever; he and his current band will play Jergel’s Rhythm Grille on Wed., Sept. 21.

Mayall is quick to credit the true originators of the British blues scene: Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, the two men who started England’s love affair with American blues in the early 1960s. For his part, Mayall was a bit of a late bloomer. For him, “music was always a hobby, from the age of about 10 or 12 years old,” and he didn’t approach it seriously until he was 30. “Alexis and Cyril pioneered the whole movement,” he says, “and musi-

cians came from all around the country to put their versions in, too.”

John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers released their first album — Mayall Plays Mayall — in 1965. His bass player at that time was John McVie, who would stay on for several years while guitarists and drummers came and went. The most famous guitarist who was once a Bluesbreaker is Eric Clapton. He’s featured on the group’s second LP, 1966’s Blues Breakers With Eric C l a p t o n . B u t eve n h e didn’t stay around long.

In fact, he had joined, quit and joined again before that second album was even recorded.

Mayall recalls how Peter Green “came to audition for the job of lead guitar player when Eric Clapton left on his ‘Greek expedition.’” Clapton had put together a touring group of his own called the Glands, but that effort fell apart in a matter of weeks. “I had promised Eric the job if things fell through,” Mayall recalls, and so when Clapton returned, Green was out.

Not long after, Clapton left again

“I NEVER FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO FIND EXCELLENT MUSICIANS.”

— this time for good, going on to form Cream with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce — and Peter Green returned. While the lineup continued to shift, there was a three-month period when the group featured Mayall on keyboards, Green on guitar, bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood. Those last three would eventually leave, one at a time, and put together a new group, originally called Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. Mayall has recently released two CDs’ worth of recently discovered live tapes of that iteration of the band.

Live in 1967 Volumes One and Two capture the group onstage in a variety of London clubs, among them the Marquee Club (one of The Who’s favorite haunts), Manor House and Klook’s Kleek. The Bluesbreakers of that period were a tight band, road-tested by constant playing.

“We were working steadily like always in those days,” Mayall says. “We did at least 300 shows a year.” The CDs — recorded by a fan using the best mobile equipment available at the time — may sound a bit rough but the energy is undeniable.

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724-799-8333 or tickets.jergels.com

The short-lived lineup’s repertoire featured classics like “Stormy Monday” and Willie Dixon’s “I Can’t Quit You Baby,” and original compositions written

by Mayall or Green. Some of those tunes remain on Mayall’s set list to this day.

The constant shifting of personnel might have discouraged some bandleaders, but not Mayall. “Nobody left en masse,” he explains. “It was just the way things were. Things [were] just rotating … business as usual, really.” And there were no hard feelings; he wished Fleetwood Mac the best. “I was just very happy that they had got it together,” he says. He notes that, in particular, guitarist Peter Green “was always a joy to listen to.”

While Mayall retired the Bluesbreakers name several years ago, he hasn’t retired from playing, and his current band — newly pared down to a trio featuring longtime musical associates Greg Rzab (bass) and drummer Jay Davenport — performs with all the fire, energy and passion blues fans have come to expect from Mayall. He’s as proud of his current band as any that he’s led in the more than 50 years he’s been at it.

“I never found it difficult to find excellent musicians,” he says.

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Wednesday, September 14 8:00 PM

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The Dirty Nil

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Against Me!’s latest singles “Crash” and “333” express the band’s perennial naturally likable tendency. After releasing the personalis-political-charged record, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me! has been hard at work recording its forthcoming release, Shape Shift With Me. Since Thursday’s gig is the eve of the full record release, hopefully show-goers at Mr. Small’s will be treated to new songs.

Joining the lineup is the tragically underrated and unbelievably catchy rock band Pottymouth, writers of such earworms as “Cherry Picking” and “The Spins.”

The ever-driving and aggressive punk rock of Frameworks completes the lineup. Meg Fair 7 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $22. All ages.

412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

Long. Live. Rock. Canada’s gritty guitar lords are The Dirty Nil, a punk-rock band with venomous attitude and brilliant riffs. Its album, Higher Power, is front-to-back bangers, especially “No Weaknesses” and “Wrestle Yü to Husker Dü.” Two A-F Records open the gig: edhochuli and A Lovely Crisis. The grandiose punk of edhochuli brings a different sound to the gig — one that is darker and has touches of hardcore sensibilities. This genre-bending will provide a nice foil to a A Lovely Crisis’ poppier punk sound.

Catch it all at Spirit.

MF 8 p.m. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $10. 412-586-4441 or www.spiritpgh.com

[THRASH] + THU., SEPT. 15 Tonight, one half of Slayer thrash metal’s Big Four makes a stop at Stage AE. Slayer and Anthrax don’t need much of an introduction. The question, when such legendary bands hit the road, is: What are they gonna play? With roughly 70 years of heavy-metal output between them, fans can likely expect to hear a mix of old and new — let’s just hope they don’t save all the classics for the encore. Death Angel opens the show. Margaret Welsh 6:30 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $39.50-42. All ages. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com

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Bandana? Check.

These accessories can only mean one thing: 90sFest is upon us. The fest invades the Strip District with a fleet of Pittsburgh’s finest food trucks, a pop-up market of vintage ’90s clothes, and ’90s themed activities.

It’s basically the ultimate Throwback Thursday party, but on a Saturday. Just a few artists rocking this fest are Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (“The Crossroads”), Spin Doctors (“Two Princes”), SisQó (“The Thong Song”) and DJ Jazzy Jeff (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air).

The festivities are hosted by MTV’s Totally Pauly “star” Pauly Shore. MF 3 p.m. 2200 Smallman St., Strip District. $52-300. 800-350-8850 or www.eventbrite.com

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BEER HEAD BAR. Right SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. TurnClyde. North Side.

Roots of Creation. Lawrenceville.

412-322-2337.

412-586-4441.

DIESEL. TeraChain Sky, STAGE AE. Brian Fallon.

Spinning Jenny, A Little Less North Side. 412-229-5483.

Human, Alter The Design.

Diesel Rock Off Finals. South Side.

412-431-8800.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Mum’s MR. SMALLS THEATER. Guns. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

Centrifuge Thursdays.

GOOSKI’S. Murder For Girls, At the Funhouse. Millvale.

Holy Rivals, Chupacabra.

603-321-0277.

Polish Hill. 412-681-1658.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Bobby D Bachata. Downtown. & SPEAKEASY. Joe Grushecky 412-471-2058. and the House Rockers.

Ballroom. Ladies Night.

Speakeasy. North Side.

ANDYS WINE BAR. 412-904-3335.

DJ Malls Spins JERGEL’S RHYTHM Vinyl. Downtown.

GRILLE. Totally 80s.

412-773-8884.

Warrendale.

THE FLATS ON 724-799-8333. www. per CARSON. Pete LOUGHLIN’S PUB. pa pghcitym .co Butta. South Side.

King’s Ransom.

412-586-7644.

Cheswick. 724-266-9528.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ MOONDOG’S. 8th Street Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown.

Rox. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

412-874-4582.

OAKS THEATER. Beatlemania: THE R BAR. KAR-E-O-KEE. The Invasion Beatles Tribute Dormont. 412-942-0882.

Show. Oakmont. 412.828.6322.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ Digital Dave.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. North Side. 412-566-4663.

Chris Trapper w/ Bea. Strip District.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

412-566-1000.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

TWIN OAKS LOUNGE. Lenny RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night Smith & The Instant Gators. w/ DJ Connor. South Side.

White Oaks. 412-678-3321.

412-381-1330.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party.

HOWLERS. Angelspit with Die Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s Sektor and The Dead Room. feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

Lawrenceville. 412-621-4900.

NEW HAZLETT THEATER. Sun Ra Arkestra. North Side. www.newhazletttheater.org.

BRILLOBOX. Pandemic: PITTSBURGH WINERY. Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Jon McLaughlin. Strip District.

Bhangra, Balkan Bass. Bloomfield.

412-566-1000.

412-621-4900.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. Super DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

Fun Time Awesome Party Band.

412-431-8800.

Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441.

REMEDY. Push It! DJ Huck Finn, DJ Kelly Fasterchild. Lawrenceville.

412-781-6771.

STAGE AE. Ghost w/ Zombi.

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Stasko.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

North Side. 412-566-4663.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

BRILLOBOX. The Magic Beans.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

REX THEATER. Wishbone Ash. South Side. 412-381-6811.

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

2200 SMALLMAN ST. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Sisqo, Sister Hazel & Spin Doctors. 90s Fest. Strip District. http://90sfest.com.

ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Employees of Funk. Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. Smokin Gun. Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800.

BRILLOBOX. Home Blitz, CHILLER, Radon Chong.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

DIESEL. Ma Di. South Side.

412-431-8800.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Anna Rose w/ Morgan Erina & Andre Costello. Strip District.

412-566-1000.

ROCK/POP THU 15 ATRIA’S. Lenny & Larry.

Monroeville. 724-733-4453.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Against Me! w/ Potty Mouth, Frameworks.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

REX THEATER. The Lucky Chops.

South Side. 412-381-6811.

SONNY’S TAVERN. Manic Pixi, OUAIS, Middle Children, Rain Parade. Bloomfield.

412-683-5844.

STAGE AE. Slayer. North Side.

412-229-5483.

FRI 16 565 LIVE. Hedonism Bots, Goonland & Horus Maze.

Bellevue. 412-522-7556.

ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Midnight Rooster. Lawrenceville.

412-260-6968.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Lenny Smith & The Instant Gators. North Side.

412-322-1850.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. Dr. Zook Band. Pleasant Hills.

412-653-3800.

BENEDUM CENTER. Weird Al Yankovic. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

CATTIVO. The Absolute Key w/ The Sound of Urchin & Bad Custer.

Album release. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

CLUB CAFE. Porter Block, Tim Easton. South Side. 412-431-4950.

DOROTHY SIX BLAST FURNACE CAFE. Right TurnClyde.

Homestead. 412-464-9023.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. O’hara w/ Ferdinand the Bull. O’hara album release.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

LINDEN GROVE. Totally 80s.

Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Nothing More w/ Twelve Foot Ninja, Dinosaur Pile-Up, To Whom It May. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

OAKS THEATER. Chet Vincent & The Big Bend w/ The Shiners & Noble Hops. Oakmont.

412.828.6322.

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TUE 20 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta.

Reggae & dancehall. Lawrenceville.

412-688-8820.

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WED 21 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side. 412-431-4668.

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SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

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FRI 16 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

SAT 17 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE. Sintax, Demo Demon, Prospectz Nation, and MORBID SIKOSIS. Knoxville.

412-291-8994.

SUN 18 STAGE AE. Mac Miller.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

BLUES THU 15 MOONDOG’S. Indigenous. B lawnox. 412-828-2040.

FRI 16 MOONDOG’S. Ron Yarosz & the Vehicle. CD Release Party.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

SAT 17 NIED’S HOTEL. Bill Toms and Hard Rain. Lawrenceville.

412-781-9853.

THE R BAR. Jason Born.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

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

Fox Chapel. 412-967-1900.

CITY OF ASYLUM @ ALPHABET CITY. Jazz Poetry: Hamiet Bluiett & Roger Humphries.

Collaboration w/ writers Israel Centeno & Joy Katz. North Side.

412-323-0278.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tom Wendt Quartet.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

Ricky Eat Acid

“Crawl Space Kid”

Deerhoof

“The Devil and His Anarchic Surrealist Retinue”

SAT 17 BISTRO 9101. Aaron Lewinter.

McCandless. 412-318-4871.

CITY OF ASYLUM @ ALPHABET CITY. Jazz Poetry: World Saxophone Quartet.

Collaboration w/ writers Adriana E. Ramírez & Osama Alomar.

North Side. 412-323-0278.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tony Campbell Jam Session. North Side.

412-904-3335.

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

412-431-3100.

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

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

THU 15 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Acoustic with John Y. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

FRI 16 BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. Paul Luc, Andre Costello & The Cool Minors. Strip District.

WED 21 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side.

412-224-2273.

REGGAE FRI 16 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

COUNTRY FRI 16 PALACE THEATRE. Vince Gill. Greensburg. 724836-8000.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. w Dan Bubien w/ Clinton paper pghcitym Clegg. CD Release. .co Strip District. 412-5661000.

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SAT 17 BENEDUM CENTER. Peter Yarrow & Noel Paul Stookey. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. The Skipper Johnson Band.

Mars. 724-553-5212.

SUN 18 HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

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CITY OF ASYLUM @ ALPHABET CITY. Jazz Poetry: Oliver Lake.

W/ the poetry of Oliver Lake.

North Side. 412-323-0278.

HYEHOLDE. Ron Wilson, guitar and Paul Thompson, bass.

Moon. 412-264-3116.

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

412-904-3335.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

CLASSICAL SAT 17 PIERRE FRACALANZA, THEATRE ORGANIST. Keystone Oaks High School, Dormont.

412-571-6000.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA W/ VIOLINIST GIL SHAHAM. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

OTHER MUSIC THU 15 RIVERS CASINO. V&R Classic Duo. North Side.

412-566-4663.

FRI 16 RIVERS CASINO. Kenny Blake Trio. North Side.

412-566-4663.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. Steel Town Horns & Anjroy.

Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441.

SAT 17 BYHAM THEATER. Giada Valenti. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

HILLMAN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS. Ben Vereen. Fox Chapel.

412-968-3045.

REX THEATER. The Everyone Orchestra. South Side.

412-381-6811.

RIVERS CASINO. Mark Ferrari.

North Side. 412-566-4663.

SUN 18 HEINZ CHAPEL. Pittsburgh Mandolin Orchestra. Oakland.

412-624-4157.

MON 19 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane.

Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

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Sept 14 - 20 WEDNESDAY 14 Heart Strums Concert of Persian Classical Music

KRESGE THEATRE Oakland.

Tickets: centerforiranianmusic. org or eventbrite.com. 8p.m.

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Through Oct. 9.

SILK SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL SEPT 16-25

MCKEEES MCKEESPORT ESPORT LITTLE THEATER McKeesport. Tickets: mckeesportlittletheater.com.

Through Sept. 25.

Slayer STAGE AE North Side.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000.

Doors open at 6:30p.m.

Sun Ra Arkestra

The Dirty Nil

Mac Miller

NEW HAZLETT THEATER North Side. All ages show.

Tickets: showclix.com. 7p.m.

Enter The Imaginarium 32 ALPHA DRIVE Harmar.

Tickets: entertheimaginarium pgh.com. Through Oct. 30.

SOUND SERIES: Yo La Tengo with special guest Lambchop CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL Oakland.

Tickets: warhol.org. 8p.m.

Guitar Wolf HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

THURSDAY 15 Re:NEW Festival

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS.

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SPIRIT HALL Lawrenceville.

412-586-4441. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8:30p.m.

STAGE AE North Side.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000.

Doors open at 7p.m.

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CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side. Tickets: carnegiesciencecenter.org.

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Silk Screen Film Festival

Kathleen Madigan “The Mermaid Lady Tour”

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

SATURDAY 17 rec2techpgh Demo Party

SCHENLEY PLAZA Oakland.

Free event. 11a.m.

Jim Norton: “Mouthful MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. For more info & film schedules of Shame” Tour visit silkscreenfestival.org.

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“YOU CAN DIG INTO THIS.”

{BY MARGARET WELSH}

THE MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE BOOKS HAVE SUCH A STRONG LEGACY; WAS IT INTIMIDATING TO TAKE ON? Yes, it really was. ... Partly because I had enjoyed the books so much [as a child]. … I’ve never tried to write in another author’s style, and bringing back the characters that I hoped Betty MacDonald herself would have approved of was intimidating. But she had created such a wonderful and funny world of characters that it was actually a pleasure to step into.

MISSY WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT MEMBER OF THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB. WERE YOU DRAWING ON YOUR EXPERIENCE OF WRITING ABOUT CHILD CARE? I hadn’t thought about it at all. … I’m wondering … if when I was writing the Baby-Sitters Club books if I was actually thinking a little bit about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. … In rereading the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, I was struck by how she is sort of a baby-sitter for the kids in the town, and they do all congregate over at her house.

I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE NOSTALGIC ABOUT SWEET VALLEY HIGH, THERE’S NOT THE SAME FERVOR PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB. One thing I did try to do was to create a group of friends who were very different from each other but who were close nevertheless. Kristy and Mary Ann were more immature than Stacy and Claudia; they came from different kinds of families, different backgrounds, and as the group grew there were kids from different races, different cultural backgrounds, certainly kids with different interests. The adults remained in the background — the kids would turn to [parents] if they were in trouble, but mostly they relied on each other. And I think that that really resonated with kids, the fact that they could be independent.

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The first book in The Baby-Sitters’ Club series, Kristy’s Great Idea, was released 30 years ago. Creator Ann M. Martin still holds a place in the hearts of the millions of readers who followed the adventures of Stoneybrook, Conn.’s most entrepreneurial eighth-graders. This week, Martin visits Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, promoting Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure, her update of Betty MacDonald’s beloved Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series. She spoke to City Paper by phone from her home in Ulster County, N.Y. A longer version of this interview is at www.pghcitypaper.com.

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immersive theatrical experiences.

For 13 years, he and his wife, Donna, have hosted a big annual Halloween mystery party where the guests stay in costume, and in assigned character, while competing to solve riddles and puzzles. In 2012, the Morningside resident was “blown away” by Bricolage Productions’ STRATA, an immersive and interactive theater piece that occupied a whole building Downtown. (He attended STRATA multiple times and now serves on Bricolage’s board.) Schwartz is also a longtime fan of ScareHouse, the Etna-based haunted house known internationally for its realistic sets and special effects. And when the escaperoom boom hit, few were happier than

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Schwartz, who has tried all of the realtime puzzle-solving challenges he can manage, in Pittsburgh and elsewhere.

ENTER THE IMAGINARIUM 32 Alpha Drive West, Harmarville. $29.99. www.bricolagepgh.org

Now Schwartz is taking his enthusiasm to the next level: His company Black Brick is launching what might be Pittsburgh’s most ambitious escape-room complex yet, and he’s doing it in partnership with Bricolage and in consultation with ScareHouse. Enter the Imaginarium opens Wed., Sept. 14, in a cavernous former nightclub in Harmarville. It’s an at-

traction Schwartz plans both to expand and to run indefinitely — for as long as visitors resonate with what its creators promise is a uniquely theatrical, even emotionally moving, take on the escaperoom phenomenon.

ESCAPE ROOMS offer teams of visitors a dramatic scenario — bank heist, entrapment in ancient tomb — and a time limit to gather clues leading to freedom, lest everyone be “trapped.” The games started in Japan, in 2007; there are now hundreds of escape-room companies in the U.S. Pittsburgh alone hosts several.

Schwartz — who in August visited New York City to do eight escape rooms in four days — speaks positively of all his escape-room experiences. But he thinks

the genre can grow artistically. For instance, instead of a single scenario, why not a series of interrelated experiences, all under one roof? The idea of an “imaginarium,” with visitors working their way through a fictional character’s mind and memories, was appealing, especially if the character is a magician, artificer and shape-shifter with affinities to Daedalus, the maze-maker of Greek legend. “You never know what experience of his you’re going to go through next,” says Schwartz, who by day runs ticket broker All American Events. “You can dig into this.”

Schwartz developed Imaginarium with Bricolage artistic director Jeffrey Carpenter. Since STRATA, Bricolage has produced or co-produced immersive works including 2014’s OJO (which imagined a “travel agency” that blindfolds its customers) and Saints’ Tour, a magical-realist trip through Braddock. Imaginarium will have games to play and puzzles to solve, but also a deeper current. “The challenge in creating this kind of work is to really integrate the narrative with the participant and their experience so they can really transpose and project onto it their own memories and experiences,” says Carpenter.

Schwartz later approached ScareHouse, which he admires for its artful approach to horror. ScareHouse creative director Scott Simmons, in turn, says he’s been inspired by Sleep No More, the pioneering immersive adaptation of Macbeth, originated by British troupe Punchdrunk, that let audiences wander through an elaborate building-sized set. Simmons had also consulted with Bricolage in developing its own immersive attraction, The Basement (where

the ghouls can touch and restrain you).

Other key personnel include scenic designer Tony Ferrieri and ScareHouse art director Macabre Noir.

Guests of Enter the Imaginarium will approach a windowless, one-story cinderblock rectangle situated behind a Dunkin Donuts on a commercial stretch of Freeport Road. Inside, teams of four to 10 visitors will enter various environments, including a gas-lit alley, that lead into the series of distinct chambers, each with its clues to find and escape-puzzles to solve. The atmosphere is broadly Victorian. Visitors won’t see the main character (other than being inside his mind), but will be intermittently guided by costumed “acolytes.” Otherwise, they’re on their own for the 80-minute experience (only 60 minutes of which is timed).

“You are entering the mind of the master,” says Carpenter. “You are encountering a mystery that will be revealed to you that you are then solving to get out.”

The rented building’s 9,000 square feet allows room to grow. And indeed, Imaginarium’s first “track,” Chamber of Illusions, will be joined on Oct. 12 by The Inventor’s Paradox, with a third track planned for spring, and a fourth later.

Each track can stand alone, but is bound by a master narrative.

As escape rooms proliferate, it’s worth noting that gamers will try each one only once. The Imaginarium’s creators say the more the merrier.

“The escape rooms that are going to be popular are going to be the ones that offer more than a room with a bunch of puzzles,” says Simmons. “People need to be transported.”

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OLMSTED AND AMERICA’S URBAN PARKS Join us for a screening of Olmstead and America’s Urban Parks, about Frederick Law Olmstead, an American landscape architect, and a pioneer among his peers, who was among the first to acknowledge that landscape architecture ought to be considered as a fine art.

One of the most successful landscape architects of his time, his influence on the sense of American urban life and design can still be seen in some of his work portfolio which includes the designing of great green spaces like New York City’s Central Park, the U.S. Capitol Grounds, and the National Register-listed parkway system in Buffalo, New York, among other places.

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In a church basement in a little town in Texas, something evil is afoot. Or, well — at hand. The youth group has a monster in its ranks: a rogue puppet named Tyrone. He’s hijacked the hand of timid teen Jason and there’s nothing his classmates, his mother, or the pastor can do to exorcise this foulmouthed demon. Hand to God is a thrill ride of a comedy about good and evil, sex and sin, faith, and the filthy mind of one twisted sock puppet. Don’t miss the Pittsburgh premiere of the uproarious Tony Award® Nominated Broadway hit The New York Times calls “flat out hilarious.”

Award-winning stage and screen actress Sharon Washington (String of Pearls) returns to City Theatre for her playwriting debut in this heartfelt comingof-age story. Deep in the bowels of a New York Public Library lies a dragon: the monstrous coal furnace that Sharon’s father, the live-in custodian, must feed every night. A moving examination of family secrets, forgiveness, and the power of language, Feeding the Dragon explores Sharon’s life growing up in the library and the fire she never allowed to fade.

Jay “The Sport” Jackson is a legend in the making. He has his eyes set on becoming the heavyweight champion of the world, but the Jim Crow reality of 1905 America might just be his fiercest opponent yet. This thrilling drama by Marco Ramirez (Netflix’s Daredevil, Orange is the New Black) goes ringside for the fight of the century. Inspired by the true story of trail-blazing boxer Jack Johnson, The Royale follows one man’s quest for victory against all odds.

HAND TO GOD by Robert Askins

FEEDING THE DRAGON by Sharon Washington

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RADical Days, the Allegheny Regional Asset District’s annual they stay the same. at the August Wilson program of free performances Sweetwater Center for Center (opening Sept. 23). and admissions to local the Arts hosts Patterns This exhibition, being attractions all over town, Sun., Sept. 18-Oct. 9. of Injustice (Sept. 23), an billed as a world premiere, www.radworkshere.org exhibition organized and features the work of Tonypresented by Women of Viwinning costume designer sion, Inc. as part of the MAVUPaul Tazewell.

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Dissolution – Jason Forck and Seth Clark, Oct. 7 at Pittsburgh Glass Center

Art by Shaun Slifer in Checks & Balances, Oct. 17 at SPACE Gallery

two events related to March, a trilogy of graphic novels about civil-rights leader John Lewis (Oct. 8). The talks include discussions with U.S. Congressman Lewis, and his co-author Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell. Also focusing on change agents, the American Jewish Museum hosts Being Good (through Dec. 26), a show organized by photographer Brian Cohen that highlights how three Pittsburgh artists and thinkers use their artistic practices and ideas to improve the lives of people living in distressed neighborhoods.

Other forms of change, such as recycling and upcycling, will be celebrated during the Re:New {IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM} Festival, which continues FALL ARTS Andy Warhol’s “Physiological Diagram” (1985), in through Oct. 9 at various Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body, Oct. 21 at The Andy Warhol Museum venues around town.

OPERA While not exactly Arguably the world’s most popular personal history and solution – Jason Forck and Seth Clark, at recycling, two local opera, La Traviata, returns.

Pittsburgh Opera stages the treatment of the the Pittsburgh Glass Center (Oct. 7). These institutions bring new Verdi’s classic about a Parisian body as a subject in artists, one working in glass and the other scholarship to what courtesan, featuring soprano in collage, will collaborate by creating his work. already exists within Danielle Pastin, Oct. 8-16 at the Benedum Center. Downtown.

Other comprehen- an exhibition of both individually made their own permanent 412-281-0912 or www. sive exhibitions in- and collaborative pieces based on each collections. The Frick pittsburghopera.org clude an Edward Eberle other’s ideas that have been broken down Collects (Oct. 29) will “take Retrospective at the So- and reformulated. a look at the Frick in a new The second part of Factory Installed ciety for Contemporary Craft way” by telling the story of at the Mattress Factory (Sept. 30) in(through March 11) with work the museum’s collections from Henry cludes work by four artists, two Clay Frick’s earliest purchases through from the 1980s to the present, and international and two from the his daughter Helen Clay Frick’s, and the much anticipated Hélio Oiticica: U.S. Wood Street Galleries will up to more recent acquisitions. And To Organize Delirium, at the Carnshow Data.matrix by Japanese The Andy Warhol Museum will show egie Museum of Art (Oct. 1), the sound artist and composer Ryoji Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body (Oct. 21), first U.S. retrospective of work by one an exhibition comprised of works from of the most significant Brazilian artists of Ikeda (Sept. 23). And closer to home, SPACE Gallery will show work by the permanent collection, as well as the 20th century. some rarely travelled loans, that will exAlso exploring architectural systems, six Pittsburgh sculptors in Checks & plore the parallels between Warhol’s but focusing on decay and collapse is Dis- Balances (Oct. 17).

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Lynn Nottage’s acclaimed, widely staged Intimate Apparel, about a black seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, hits University of Pittsburgh Stages Oct. 6.

PICT heralds winter, and recalls the British monarchy circa 1183, with James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter (Dec. 1).

To Kill A Mockingbird (Nov. 4) perches at Prime Stage Theater. And what favorite is more perennial than the world’s longestrunning musical? The Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical The Fantasticks opens at the Public on Sept. 29.

Nationally touring hit musicals, at the Benedum Center courtesy of the PNC Broadway series, include Kinky Boots (Sept. 20) and the local premiere of Finding Neverland (Oct. 18), based on the film about J.M. Barrie’s creation of Peter Pan.

Jamen Nanthakumar stars in The at Pittsburgh Public Theater, Fantasticks, Sept. 29.

Meanwhile, two locally produced musicals summon the counterculture: The Who’s Tommy (Oct. 20), at Point Park’s Conservatory Theatre Co., and Hair (Nov. 10), at Pitt. And brand-new Westmoreland County-based troupe Split Stage Productions goes decidedly post-Aquarian with Carrie: The Musical (Oct. 20), staged at Apple Hill Playhouse.

Also on the Halloween tip, Bricolage Productions offers Night of the Living Dead N’at (Oct. 27), a zombie spoof adapted Midnight Radio-style. Also in live-radio fashion, Bricolage bestows its Super Secret Holiday Show (Dec. 1).

As a special treat, the Public closes the calendar year with its own world premiere: The Play (Dec. 20), by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sportswriter Gene Collier. The production stars none other than Super Steelers hero Rocky Bleier in his own one-man show about …

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Dancer/choreographer Anthony season as the longest-running multiculWilliams will be one of several perform- tural song-and-dance company in the U.S., ers at The Andy Warhol Museum theater with performances Oct. 1 (at the Pittsburgh for Trans-Q Live! (Fri., Sept. 16), a queer Masonic Center) and Nov. 19 (at West even in g of dan c e, Mifflin Middle School). poetry, comedy and Pittsburgh Dance Council music. Then the opens its season Oct. 1 at FALL ARTS museum welcomes the Byham Theater, with experimental theater the Martha Graham STAGE The New Hazlett’s Community artist/dancer Takao Dance Company Supported Art series’ new season Kawaguchi (Oct. 13) performing Graham begins with fresh work by Cole with his tribute to favorites; then on Hoyer-Winfield, whose Midnight in a legendary Japanese Oct. 21-22 at the Molina incorporates hand-drawn projections, shadow puppetry butoh icon, entitled August Wilson Center, and live music, Oct. 20. North About Kazuo Ohno. Alba Bill T. Jones/Arnie Side. 412-3220-4610 or www.

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With and Without Le Corbusier. On Dec. At the New Hazlett Theater, Texture 1-3, at Pittsburgh Opera’s George R. White Contemporary Ballet’s second offering of Studio, Attack explores “theatrical landthe season, Impulse (Sept. 30-Oct. 1), ex- scapes and captivating episodes” in a new plores humanity’s strongest emotions in work, Unbolted.

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You’ll find quite a few of them in Oak- Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley, land’s Carnegie Music Hall and envi- and Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty rons. Authors visiting Pittsburgh Arts Law Center (Nov. 16).

For years, City of Asylum has been & Lectures, including its Monday Night Lectures, include The Emperor of All Mala- one of the busiest presenters of writers in town; this fall, with the opendies author Siddhartha Mukherjee ing of its new Alphabet City (Sept. 26); novelist Ann Patchett venue, on the North Side, (Oct. 7); rocker and memoirFALL ARTS it’s breaking its signature ist Patti Smith (Oct. 10); annual Jazz Poetry event poet and young-adult into a month of smaller author Kwame AlexOUTDOORS shows (Sept. 15-Oct. 9). ander (Oct. 16); and Hell on Hills is a brand-new 5K footrace in Beechview, Highlights include jazzColson Whitehead (Oct. incorporating four of poetry collaborations 24), whose The UnderPittsburgh’s biggest featuring poet Kwame ground Railroad is a novel hills, Oct. 15.

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Pittsburgh’s indie-bookstore scene is Just across Schenley Plaza, still going strong, not least in hosting readin the Frick Fine Arts Building, the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers ings. East End Book Exchange hosts the Series kicks off strong with acclaimed monthly Versify poetry series; a Pittsburgh poet Ada Limon (Sept. 22), and follows Poetry Review release (Sept. 30); and more, with Lucky Us novelist Amy Bloom including, on Oct. 14, its own store re(Oct. 18). (Admission is free.) And on Oct. 6, launch party (following its recent sale). The the University of Pittsburgh campus hosts reborn City Books (formerly on the South the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize Side, now on the North Side), welcomes reading, with this year’s winner, Melissa writers including local author Leah Pileggi (Sept. 22), and her new children’s book, Yancy, and judge Richard Russo.

Downtown, Heinz Hall welcomes some Prisoner 88. And Penguin Bookshop hosts of Pittsburgh’s most distinguished visiting guests including Paula Reed Ward (Oct. 5), talkers thanks to the Pittsburgh Speakers the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter who Series. The series is subscription-only, but if just published Death by Cyanide: The you pony up you can see the likes of stage Murder of Dr. Autumn Klein, an account of and screen legend Rita Moreno (Oct. 5); that notorious 2013 Pittsburgh homicide.

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Funnyman Christopher Guest is case that decriminalized interracial marriage. Hometown favorite Michael Keaton back in the director’s chair with Mascots stars in The Founder, portraying Ray Kroc, (Oct. 13), presiding over an ensemble cast of comic actors who portray the man who gave us McDonald’s various team mascots.

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The first of Pittsburgh’s two longin an adaptation of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (Oct. 21), about a father and running festivals to return is the 31st anhis radicalized daughter. On Dec. 25, look nual Pittsburgh International Lesbian and for Fences, Denzel Washington’s adapta- Gay Film Festival, now called Reel Q (www. tion of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize- reelQ.org); the fest runs Oct. 6-15. Soon afwinning play. ter, the 35th annual Three Rivers Film December looks to be quite Festival (www.3rff.com) kicks entertaining, with many off. Filmmakers is running a FALL ARTS popular stars lighting much shorter schedule this up the screen. Emma year — Nov. 16-20 — with STAGE Stone and Ryan Gosprogramming assistance Stage, screen and TV star ling fall in love, and from JFilm.

Alan Cumming brings his do some singing and The Hollywood internationally touring cabaret dancing, in La La Land continues its mix of show, Sings Sappy Songs, to the Byham, Oct. 14.

(Dec. 12). Rogue One: A new films, repertory Downtown. 412-456-6666 Star Wars Story, about programming and or www.trustarts.org the Rebel spies who steal special events. Upcoming: the Death Star blueprints, Three silent horror classics opens Dec. 16. Speaking of will be screened with live origispaceships, Chris Pratt and Jennifer nal scores (The Phantom on the Opera, Lawrence share one in Passengers (Dec. Oct. 14; Vampyr, Oct. 15 and Nosferatu, 21). Michael Fassbender stars in Assas- Oct. 16) and a Halloween party on Oct. 15, sin’s Creed (Dec. 21), an action-adventure with a restored version of 1961 spooker film based on the video-game series, and The Innocents. And look for ongoing reperChristmas Day finds a bald and bloated tory and indie-film programming at Row Matthew McConaughey playing a mod- House Cinema, in Lawrenceville, and at ern-day prospector in Gold.

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FALL ARTS technically be a festival, it This year’s headliners is an autumnal equinox include: EDM duo The STAGE t r a d i t i o n : t h e 2 5 th Chainsmokers, electroBianca del Rio is a costume designer, an insult comic and pop group Chvrches, Annual Celtic Harvest a season-winner on RuPaul’s and elder statesmen — featuring, among Drag Race; see the nationally of electronica Thievothers, Chuck Owsten touring performer Oct. 16 at the Carnegie Music Hall ery Corporation. Other and the Gypsy Ribbon of Homestead. 412-462big names include MetBand — happens Sept. 23 3444 or www.library ric, Ty Dolla $ign, Sir the at Hambones. musichall.org Baptist and a bunch o’ your Singer-songwriter Joan favorite local acts.

Shelley appears at The Andy This year’s VIA Festival (Oct. 6Warhol Museum Sept. 30 as part of 9) happens a little later than it did last the Warhol Sound Series; also for that seyear, but the lineup is worth waiting ries, Henry Rollins stops by the Carnegie for. Headliners include ESG (this will be Lecture Hall Nov. 10 for a spoken-word the first ever Pennsylvania show for the performance (or “talking show” as he influential post-punk group), legendary calls it).

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There aren’t too many major hip-hop tours scheduled to hit the city so far, but count on appearances by Post Malone (Oct. 15 at Diesel) and Futuristic (Oct. 17 at Cattivo).

Fans of indie rock of all eras will be plenty busy for the next few months.

Philadelphia’s high-energy, heartrending indie-folk outfit Hop Along opens for Built to Spill at Mr. Smalls Theatre Sept. 28; Animal Collective plays at Mr. Smalls Oct. 7; and Dinosaur Jr. stops there a couple days later on Oct. 9 (bring earplugs). Also on Oct. 9, Tim Kinsella’s indie/post-rock institution Joan of Arc plays Brillobox.

Grungy power-chord-lovers Beach Slang hit Cattivo Oct. 22.

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FALL ARTS er ... legendary) LondonJuliana Huxtable, VIA Festival based experimental rock ART group the Legendary The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Pink Dots appears at anniversary show at autumn Gallery Crawl takes Brillobox on Oct. 1. the Rex Sept. 30. After over the Cultural District, with And speaking of artists finally playing its first free exhibits and performances in a couple dozen venues, from that side of the show in the 412 earlier Sept. 23. 412-456-6666 or pond, Essex-born noirthis year, Joyce Manor is www.trustarts.org pop singer-songwriter and back Oct. 24. (That one is at film composer Gemma Ray the Rex, too.) And on Nov. 3, plays Hambones on Nov. 11.

Osaka-based trio Shonen Knife, Multi-instrumentalist (and which has been spreading its poppy, skilled whistler) Andrew Bird comes to grungy influence across the world since the Byham Theater Oct. 8 (coincidentally, the early ’80s, stops by Cattivo. his old band, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Pittsburghers tend to like their music plays the Rex Theater a few days later, on heavy, and this fall there is no shortOct. 12). And on the topic of songwriter-y age of chances to headbang. With dudes who have been at this for awhile, her project Miserable, Kristina Dan Bejar’s project Destroyer comes to E s fan diar i b r in gs b l ac ken ed Club Café Oct. 10, and Okkervil River shoegaze to The Shop on Sept. 24. On plays Mr. Smalls Oct. 16.

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Listeners of the jammier persuasion need look no further than the Rex: That venue hosts funk-fusion band TAUK on Oct. 5; Pink Talking Fish (a melding of Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and Phish) on Oct. 7; and reggae-influenced rock band Dirty Heads on Oct. 29.

And speaking of heads, there are plenty of old ones coming to town. Graham Nash plays Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall on Sept. 24. Then, in a dad-friendly trifecta, Tom Jones appears at the Benedum Center Sept. 29, Kansas plays that venue Sept. 30, and Styx shows up Oct. 1. Gordon Lightfoot sings about the Edmund Fitzgerald (probably) at the Palace Theater on Oct. 7.

And on Nov. 1, Elvis Costello brings his sardonic, bespectacled self to Heinz Hall.

Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild always offers quality jazz performances: Among the highlights this season are TIZER on Oct. 7, The Summit: The Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6 on Oct. 22, and Ramsey Lewis and Ann Hampton Callaway on Nov. 19.

Soul singer Lalah Hathaway (daughter of Donny) appears at the August Wilson Center Nov. 9. On the bluesier tip, Tedeschi Trucks Band plays the Benedum on Nov. 19. Calliope brings the Taj Mahal Trio to the Carnegie Lecture Hall for a fall fundraiser on Oct. 9.

Other rootsy stuff happening: Folky Brit Jake Bugg comes to Mr. Smalls Sept. 23; spooky husband/wife duo The Handsome Family plays Club Café on Sept. 27; and roots rockers Bronze Radio Return play Diesel Oct. 16.

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When dedicated museum guard Henry dares to truly connect with the paintings he proudly protects, he sets into motion a time-bending journey where art intersects with life. Drawing inspiration from Rembrandt’s “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer,” this poignantly funny play embraces the idea of carpe diem in (and at) any age, and takes audiences on a spellbinding theatrical exploration of the power of human connection.

When struggling actor Gil returns home to bury his mother, he learns what a funny thing grief can be. Gil searches for a way to send her off in style, while his outrageous (and overbearing) Aunt Glo, hilarious best friend Mo, and an intriguing new-age funeral director do their best to derail his plans.

Overflowing with love and laughter, this bright new comedy by Fear the Walking Dead star Colman Domingo will transport audiences from the church to the Magic Kingdom, with a whole lotta fabulous in between.

So much of Darja’s life has been spent waiting: for love, for her break in life, and for the bus she relies on to get to and from cleaning jobs in blue-collar New Jersey. Hailed as “vivid, perceptive and quietly gripping” by The New York Times, Ironbound is a riveting portrait of an independent Polish immigrant searching for the American Dream. This gritty new play by rising star Martyna Majok depicts life on the economic margins and the hope that sustains us all.

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WORLD OF HURT {BY VERONICA CORPUZ} THE CORNER OF Shady and Fifth avenues

is missing its annual banner announcing the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Emerging Artist of the Year. But travelers who pass this notable East End intersection should not miss Dressed With D.R.E.S.S., a solo exhibition by the 2016 winner, Sarika Goulatia.

A series of five room-sized installations and sculptures, Dressed explores the artist’s near-fatal allergic reaction and subsequent journey through physical pain and personal reflection.

In 2012, Goulatia suffered from severe tendonitis aggravated by her obsessive and repetitive work methods and was prescribed sulfasalazine. The anaphylaxis and trauma she endured led to hospitalization and several weeks of recovery at home, her face and body transfigured beyond recognition. The acronym in the show’s title points to her diagnosis: Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms, a cellular disruption of white blood cells within the immune system.

Allowing the painful experience to gestate over four years, Goulatia has

“The flowing of pain side by side sometimes tingling sometimes mingling then separating on its own journey” (detail), by Sarika Goulatia

transformed her suffering and heightened awareness of her own body’s fragility into the works in Dressed. As observed in her recent solo exhibitions, much of Goulatia’s oeuvre is rooted directly in personal experience, but extrapolated

and rendered to abstraction in elegant and alluring designs — designs created with painstaking precision and rigorous repetition.

Meticulous. Dangerous. Precarious.

These are words that come to mind when entering the first-floor space encompassing “The flowing of pain side by side sometimes mingling sometime tingling then separating on its own journey.”

Using a combination of nails, gesso and latex paint, Goulatia has laboriously created a dichromatic latticework of silver nails across seven white panels and four walls, creating a topographic map of pain and neural patterns. Wielding a nail gun as if it were an assault weapon, Goulatia draws a kinetic energy with each trail, each absence of the nail, fissuring the skin of the gallery, punctuating the space toward the viewer with each sharp point. The nails scatter and dissipate into the next room.

takes place from the first veil to the fourth — a discernible pattern of a rose disperses and dissolves into glistening patches of pinheads. The curtains are bookended by the piece “The courage to fall and fall in the face of calamity”; a wooden pew and small desk stand at opposite corners. Each is drilled at varying depths and circumferences; the effect is an organic lace resembling disturbed cells — a pattern echoed again in spherical form in the second floor installation “Against one’s own skin — a lesson in humility.” In this installation, the room is frozen in time to capture the movement of 72 multi-sized spheres that seem to roll and tumble from edge to edge, knocking a small bed off-kilter. The bed is no longer a place of rest or convalescence, but a punctured and raw emblem of suffering.

Although the scale and execution of the fourth room falls shy of the artist’s original vision, the pieces “Navigating the maze to get to the ‘Finish’” and “Juxtaposed” further underscore the narrative and illuminate Goulatia’s fastidious, process-oriented methodology. One sees a maze of 15,500 pins applied to a single 8-foot-long panel facing a low platform, lit from below and covered in 30 pounds of fake ice, and 166 pounds of pins cast in resin. The room resonates with the chill of neuropathy.

One of the most beautiful aspects of Goulatia’s work is the interplay between two- and three-dimensional forms, the way she contours movement with light and shadow.

This playfulness is best exhibited in the last room, entitled “Life is a great tapestry of pins drawn together in immense and miraculous patterns.”

One enters a darkened room where 17 sheets of black Stonehenge paper seem to float in midair. Upon entering the rectangle, one sees only blackness, but as the viewer moves to read the sheets from left to right, pinheads radiate a tapestry of circular and organic forms, grids and constellations. If you move a cell phone or flashlight to the surface, the forms begin to morph and dance upon its own shadows. Life within this universe is shifting, beguiling and elusive.

Although the PCA’s omission of any outdoor signage pointing to the stellar exhibition within might lead one to pass over or dismiss Dressed, the venue hosts a contemplative and extraordinary view of an artist on the rise. Certainly one not to overlook.

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Artist talk: 6 p.m. Thu., Sept. 22. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 or www.pfpca.org

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NEW BALL GAME {BY TED HOOVER} HOLY HELL! A theatrical explosion is happening at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and I’ve got to find a way to describe it.

Tarrell A. McCraney’s 2008 play Wig Out! looks at the African-American ball community — a near-indescribable mix of transgender, cisgender, gay, bi, straight, queer and every other stop on the gender and sexuality continuums.

The only thing ball members have in common is (sometimes brutal) rejection from the “real” world. So they create families, called houses, for love and support. Occasionally these houses face off in balls where members “walk” for recognition.

McCraney’s somewhat slender plot centers on the House of Light which, like any family, overflows with dysfunction. When the rival House of Diabolique challenges it to a ball, all the buried feelings erupt.

Tomé Cousin, who directs this production for The REP, takes this script and detonates it. Using music, light, dance, technology and just plain great talent, he creates an evening of theater that is, quite simply, unlike anything I have ever seen on a Pittsburgh stage. I could go on about the genius work that he and his extraordinary creative team (Jane Howell, Britton Mauk, Robert C.T. Steele, Steve Shapiro and Andrew Ostrowski) have done. But that wouldn’t leave me room to mention this scorching cast and their mind-bending work: Jerreme Rodriquez, Jordan Phillips, Freddy Miyares, LaTrea Rembert, Krista Antonacci, Arica Jackson, Amber Jones, Connor McCanlus, Jared Smith and, especially, Justin Lonesome and Jordon Bolden … each and every one is glorious.

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share their thoughts.

Dena Stanley, mother of the House of Mizrahi and founding director of Trans YOUniting: “In one word — amazing!

Bravo to McCraney for writing a script depicting the family values of the ballroom community and showing the good and the bad. I thought the cast was dead on and brought so much life. The role of Lucian (House of Light father) didn’t sit well because in my experience house fathers aren’t that evil, but the actor was great. It was amazing to see so much diversity on stage in conservative Pittsburgh. Wig Out! really shows the love, pain and humor of my life — it was like sitting in the living room at one of my house meetings.”

Ciora Thomas, founder of sisTers United: “Wig Out! captures the world of the ballroom, and the writer conveys the struggle, realness and reality. McCraney looks at how love can battle with control in the houses and, as he shows with Lucian’s character, sometimes love and lust are used to maintain control.

“I saw myself in the mother of the house who walked for years and made sacrifices to keep her children fed, safe and educated … only to be challenged by one of her own, then knocked down and written off.

“Everyone needs to check out Wig Out! The reality is eye-opening.”

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IT’S AN EVENING OF THEATER UNLIKE ANYTHING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON A PITTSBURGH STAGE.

WIG OUT! continues through Sept. 25.

Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $10-29. 412-392-8000 or www.pittsburghplayhouse.com

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For this U.S. premiere, Little Lake veteran director (and current artistic director) Jena Oberg is at the helm, and she directs her three-person cast with confidence and ease. Zagorski imbues the role of Milton with an aw-shucks charm that contrasts perfectly with Fuchel’s Margaret and her steely resolve. Rounding out the trio as Rebecca, Margaret’s only child, Danette Marie Levers shines, rebuffing and challenging her mother’s difficult nature as only a loving child can.

Playwright Philip Goulding has big aspirations with his story of misfits finding their place in the world. In addition to the core romance, multiple scenes open with offbeat anecdotes about fictional artist Franklin Bowden Broome, who serves as Milton’s inspiration and reason for visiting Rebecca’s town. Goulding also takes on weightier issues, including the crass commercialization and generational poverty that plague overfished seaside communities in England, as well as abroad. But while the actors deliver their monologues on these topics with conviction, the play never allows the germs of these ideas to fully flourish, leaving a slight gap where something deeper could have been.

A FINE Bright Day Today, now playing at

Little Lake Theatre, argues that it’s never too late to start again. At the behest of her daughter, set-in-her-ways widow Margaret (Patricia Cena Fuchel) takes in lodger Milton Farnsworth (Keith Zagorski), an itinerant and seemingly carefree American who spends his days sketching and photographing the ocean. During his month-long stay in her British coastal town, the two middle-aged opposites clash, drink, and bond

A FINE BRIGHT DAY TODAY continues through Sept. 24.

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However, as a tale of second chances, A Fine Bright Day Today succeeds with style.

With a superbly talented cast and deft direction, the message is clear: No matter how old you are, it’s never too late to spread your wings and fly.

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Each year for the past 15, the Allegheny Regional Asset District says “thanks” for the sales-tax dollars it’s used to support things like parks, libraries, arts groups and the paying off of debt on sports stadiums. The thank-you is RADical Days, several weeks of free admissions and performances to ARAD-funded attractions.

This year’s offerings run this week through Oct. 9, and they begin with Pittsburgh Opera: Rising Stars, a special Sept. 18 concert by the young singers of the troupe’s Resident Artists performing their favorite arias (registration required at 412-281-0912 or www.pittsburghopera. org). On Sept. 19, free admissions include Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens; behind-the-scenes tours at PNC Park; and an evening of theatrical scenes (by Saltworks Theatre) and stage and film music (by The Aeolian Winds) at KellyStrayhorn Theatre. Rounding out the first week of RADical Days is Sept. 22’s free, naturalist-led evening walk at the Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, courtesy of the Audobon Society of Western Pennsylvania (registration required at 412-963-6100 or www.aswp.org).

But there’s lots more where all that came from (even if, it should be said, the offerings include some stuff that’s usually free anyway). Other highlights: The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (free admission Sept. 25); the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History (Sept. 25); an hour-long Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert, at Heinz Hall (Sept. 28); and Prime Stage Theatre’s preview performance of To Kill a Mockingbird (Oct.1). On Oct. 2, all three of these North Side attractions are free: The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Science Center and National Aviary. On Oct. 4 come free behind-the-scenes tours of Heinz Field. And Oct. 5 brings a performance of Quantum Theatre’s Pittsburgh-premiere production of Jez Butterworth’s The River, in Aspinwall Riverfront Park. RADical Days wraps Oct. 9 with free admission to the Pittsburgh Zoo and the Mattress Factory, and a free Attack Theatre performance at Carnegie Mellon University.

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EXHIBIT The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is a hands-on type of place. Today, the museum marks 10 years of its artistresidency program Tough Art, which challenges artists to create interactive experiences for kids. Debuting are: Nicholas Hanna’s giant bubble-making machine “Bubble Device #4”; Anne Lily’s peoplepowered “To Conjugate”; Stephen Malinwoski “Musical Animation Machine,” which lets visitors visualize music composition; and Nobuho “Nobi” Nagasawa’s “FistSized Survival,” in which visitors work with clay to honor the lone pine tree to survive the 2011 Fukushima tsunami. Bill O’Driscoll 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 10 Children’s Way, North Side. $14-16 (free for kids under 2). 412-322-5058 or www.pittsburghkids.org

WORDS Author and journalist Sebastien Junger (pictured), known for books like War and The Perfect Storm, has a new one. In an age when “tribalism” has a bad name, a provocative thesis of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging is that not only soldiers returning from combat but also the rest of us must recognize “the innate human

preference to live in small groups defined by clear purpose.”

Junger speaks tonight at Carnegie Lecture Hall as part of the Re:NEW Festival. BO 6 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10 ($30 includes signed book). www.pittsburghartscouncil.org

ART No punning titles here: Concept Art Gallery’s new exhibit is called, simply, Contemporary Glass, and that’s all you need to know when the work is by three internationally known artists. Dante Marioni, Nick Mount and, in a rare public appearance, Richard Marquis, will all attend tonight’s opening reception at one of Pittsburgh’s most venerable galleries. Marioni is known for his tall, iconic forms, while Mount draws from Venetian traditions; Marquis’ recent work includes colorful, whimsical sculptures. BO 6-8 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Oct. 15. 1031 S. Braddock Ave., Edgewood. 412-242-9200 or www.conceptgallery.com

WORDS AND MUSIC That big Jazz Poetry concert you’re expecting this time of year from City of Asylum? Well, it’s taken ^ Thu., Sept. 15: Sebastien Junger

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a new form. Instead of a single big event, it’s now Jazz Poetry Month — a series of smaller free shows, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday through Oct. 9, with different performers nightly. It starts tonight, with renowned saxophonist Oliver Lake, as the Jazz Poetry co-founder presents a solo show of his original music and poetry. The series continues tomorrow with live music by visiting famed saxophonist Hamiet Blue and legendary Pittsburgh-based drummer Roger Humphries, accompanying Venezuelan-born poet Israel Centeno. And Saturday, Lake’s pioneering World Saxophone Quartet is joined by Pittsburgh’s Adriana E. Ramirez and Syrian-born Osama Alomar. A note on the venue: At press time, it was uncertain whether City of Asylum’s new > Thu., Sept. 15: Alphabet City building would Jazz Poetry Month be ready to host. If it isn’t, an alternate location will be announced. BO 8 p.m.

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a long-running project based at Carnegie Mellon University. The third annual Trans-Q Live!, at The Andy Warhol Museum, features Ginger Brooks Takahashi + Nica Ross, Joy KMT, Smokin’ McQueen, Sarah Elaine Smith, Angela Washko and Anthony Williams, plus Trans-Q Television videos. Joseph Hall hosts. BO 8 p.m. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $8-10. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

COMEDY He might be better known for co-hosting The Opie and Anthony Show, but Jim Norton’s irreverent sense of humor is just as unfiltered in his standup. Norton has a knack for tackling taboos and arriving at uncomfortable truths, just like friend and Louie creator Louis C.K.; Norton has had many appearances on that peculiar sitcom. With his previous hour-long standup special released only last year, Norton returns with Mouthful of Shame; the international tour stops at the Rex Theater tonight. Ian Flanagan 9 p.m.

Rex Theater, 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $40. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com

saturday 09.17 FESTIVAL “Wastewater treatment” and “festival” might sound like concepts at odds, but don’t tell that to the 2,013 folks who visited last year’s {ART BY DANTE MARIONI} ALCOSAN Open House. In fact, this free, ^ Thu., Sept. 15: Contemporary Glass day-long watershed and environmental festival is popular enough that you should register online. Tours of the 59-acre plant are complemented by displays from more than 40 exhibitors, demos by ALCOSAN’s Mad Scientist, games, and attractions like a huge aquarium full of fish pulled from the Ohio River hours earlier. Parking is free, and so is a cookout-style lunch. BO 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 3300 Preble Ave., Marshall-Shadeland. www.alcosan.org

WORDS It’s never too late to speculate on history. Jennifer Chiaverini — known for her

EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Opening reception for Mary Dorfner Hay’s Dislocation, The Mine Factory, Point Breeze CRITIC: Dafna Rehavia, “50-ish,” an artist and art psychotherapist from Squirrel Hill WHEN: Sat.,

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It is works that deal with relocation, with movement, with changes — I think it’s also challenging the artist’s cohesive identity. It is a conceptual exhibit — mainly collage works that incorporate pieces of maps put together in a new way. And you really have to go systematically from one work to another to understand what is going on. Some people might not really like it visually on first view, but this exhibition is much more thought-provoking and challenging — it’s more than just the visual expression of it. I think the visual expression works really well with the point that the artist wants to convey, and the curator did a wonderful job as well. I am an artist, so I am interested in good art. I’m also an art psychotherapist, so I’m interested in how art speaks to me in different ways. I can tell from her works what she’s been through.

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Elm Creek Quilt series — has lately turned to historical fiction. Her newest work is Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth, a novel that explores U.S. history’s most famous assassin by way of a narrative mostly from the viewpoint of the women in Booth’s life. The author returns to her hometown of Sewickley for an event at the Penguin Bookshop tonight. IF 7 p.m. 417 Beaver St., Sewickley.

Free. www.jenniferchiaverini.com

COMEDY Film history meets comedy tonight as Brian Edward tackles classics of camp cinema. The performer and playwright (who hosts online culture magazine ’Burgh Vivant) will give a standup-comedy lecture, complete with clips from such touchstones as Auntie Mame, Sunset Boulevard and Mommie Dearest (“No wire hangers ever!”). Brian Edward: In Person & On Film takes place at Bricolage Productions’ Downtown venue. The show opens with a performance by improv troupe LGBTQBert, and there’s a post-show cocktail party and silent auction of Hollywood memorabilia. Proceeds from this 21-and-over event benefit the ReelQ film festival. BO 7:30 p.m. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20. www.reelq.org

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WORDS “It was, for a time, a loud twittering flight / of psychedelic-colored canaries: a cloud / of startle and get-out in the ornamental / irons of the rib cage. Nights when the moon / was wide like the great eye of a universal / beast coming close for a kill, it was a cave / of bitten bones and snake skins, eggshell dust, / and charred scraps of a frozen-over flame.” Ada Limón’s 2015 collection Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, among other honors. Limón, who splits time between Kentucky and California, opens the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers season with tonight’s free reading in the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health Auditorium. BO 8:30 p.m. 130 DeSoto St., Oakland. Free. 412-6246508 or www.pghwriter series.wordpress.com

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ROLLING THROUGH APPALACHIA {BY RYAN DETO} Pittsburgh sits in the heart of Appalachia and right next to West Virginia, but the traditional comfort foods of the Mountain State are barely present here.

Most Pittsburghers are unaware of dishes like leather britches (string beans dried on rope until leathery).

But one local bakery is spreading the word about West Virginian cuisine through its most famous and accessible food: pepperoni rolls.

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“I want to share the West Virginia Appalachia with the rest of Appalachia,” says Katt Schuler, owner of Rolling Pepperoni, which operates out of Holy Spirit Parish’s kitchen, in Millvale.

Schuler hails from Randolph County, W.Va., and says she wanted to emulate the pepperoni rolls of her youth, but do so with high-quality ingredients. Parma Sausage makes the pepperoni for her rolls, and she uses local honey from Hannah’s Honey to sweeten the dough.

The rolls are light, with the chewiness a good pepperoni roll needs. The spiciness from the dried sausage is balanced out by the subtle sweetness of the dough.

If you’re lucky, Schuler and her partners might bake in peppers or onions from Millvale’s community garden.

Rolls can be eaten cold or, better still, warmed up. Schuler recommends heating them for three to four minutes in a 375-degree oven. “That way,” she says, “the pepperoni grease can soak into the bread. When you smell them, they’re done.”

Rolling Pepperoni rolls can be purchased at the Bloomfield and Fox Chapel farmers’ markets, the 52nd Street Market, in Lawrenceville, and the Double L Bar, in Millvale.

Over its first year, Schuler says, the company succeeded thanks to the Millvale community, and she hopes to pay that back through sharing a bit of her roots. “I started this to say, ‘What can I do to share my culture and what home means to me,’ and share that with rest of the world.”

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ASHA IS A throwback term, the Ottoman title for governors and generals. It is also the name of a Turkish restaurant in a former residence on Ivy Street, in Shadyside. Its dining rooms evoke Victorian parlors more than the palaces of Istanbul, but there’s a pleasing elegance to the combination of marble fireplaces and the colorful, glass-mosaic light fixtures that provide the primary decor. Double garage doors open onto the raised deck that’s one of our favorite platforms for outdoor dining, being both along the sidewalk and separate enough to maintain a distinct atmosphere.

The deck was crowded on the hot, late-summer evening of our visit, but we snagged a table just inside the open doors, allowing us to partake of the ambience within and the stirring air without.

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Late summer might be the best time for Mediterranean food, with ripe tomatoes, fresh herbs and grilled meats in abundance. We ordered with abandon, and soon plate after plate began crowding the table, hinting at an imperial feast.

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four skinny phyllo rolls, fried crisp and filled with feta turned creamy from the heat, flavored with dill. Zucchini fritters were thin and herbal but, despite the frying, not especially crisp. It can be hard to coax all the water out of late-summer zucchini, as these fritters could attest.

Our cold (soguk) meze were nearly flawless. Piyaz, a salad of white beans, red pepper and tomatoes, was by turns creamy, crispy and juicy, with a lively array of flavors punctuated by red onion and parsley. Parsley was perhaps too forward a flavor, however, in the shepherd salad, made with an abundance of peakseason tomatoes, cucumber, onion and a dressing of sumac, lemon, vinegar and olive oil.

Sauced eggplant featured fried chunks of aubergine that looked, frankly,

like bits of brown leather, but had an extraordinarily silken texture, with just a bit of resistance on the exterior. Their intensely smoky flavor belied the firefree preparation. Tomatoes and onions provided contrast and brightness for a wonderfully balanced, standout dish.

Cacik — pronounced sha-sheek, and similar to Greek tzatziki — had an almost pudding-thick consistency, with subtle notes of garlic and mint, and diced cucumbers adding a bit of crunch. All good, but the star was unquestionably the rich, full-bodied yogurt. This was particularly delicious dolloped onto the thick, pillowy flatbread that came gratis to our table.

Entrees are almost exclusively grilled, mostly kebabs of various types. The mixed grill included no fewer than five distinct items. Lamb chops were too thin to retain any rosiness inside, but the char flavor was good, and the meat wasn’t dry in the least. Shish kebab — chunks of beef — was suitably tender yet hearty, while lamb kofte — ground and spiced — lacked succulence and tasted a bit gamey. Best on the plate were the chicken chops — boneless thighs pounded flat and grilled to create a distinctive texture and a flavor that hinted at spice while deferring to the lusciousness of the dark meat.

While the execution of the mixed grill was, well, mixed, our salmon entrée went for a high level of difficulty and nailed the landing: Two thin, boneless steaks were grilled on one side only, leaving char marks and a light smokiness without overcooking the flesh or inducing fishy flavors. Such impeccable results are especially hard to achieve with such thin steaks, so kudos to the chef.

The entrees came with a few sides.

Rice with vermicelli was a mild, satisfying accompaniment to the hearty meats of the mixed grill. Grilled tomatoes took on a glorious amount of char and a not insignificant kick from the jalapeños sharing their skewer. A house salad of shredded red cabbage and carrot made a pleasant counter to the heavier bites of meat, but a green salad was, unaccountably, just a pile of salted romaine leaves.

There are many pleasures to be had at Pasha, gustatory and otherwise. The atmosphere, akin to the welcoming, elegant home of a foreign neighbor or frequent traveler, was so pleasing that the good food was almost a bonus. We’d tell you to hurry while the deck is still open, but we have a feeling that a table by one of those marble mantles, under the twinkling of the glass-mosaic lamps, will be awfully cozy on a winter’s night.

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CHICKEN PAPRIKASH {BY DAN DERIGHT, FINEVIEW} Chicken paprikash has been my favorite home-cooked meal since I was little. I thought the recipe had some great family history, but my mom actually adapted it from a recipe she found in The New York Times — go figure. This iteration of the recipe, however, is the result of a hundred family dinners; her handing the recipe down to me; and all the changes I have made over the years. I have served this dish with the chicken removed from the bone and carefully garnished, in restaurants. I have used it family-style for home dinner parties, and I’ve made it just because I love it. It can be made in a slow-cooker (takes about 6 hours on low heat).

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INSTRUCTIONS Heat the oil or butter in a Dutch oven on medium-high heat. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Sear until browned.

Remove the chicken and reserve. Sauté the onion and pepper in chicken drippings until browned. Add paprika and cook until fragrant (about 30 seconds while stirring constantly). Add the chicken stock and then return chicken to pot. Bring to a boil and then reduce to soft simmer. Cook about an hour, until the chicken is very tender. Adjust the seasoning to taste.

Whisk the flour into sour cream. Add some liquid from the pan to the sour cream to temper. Slowly mix the sour cream into the pot — do not boil! Simmer briefly to allow sauce to thicken and serve over egg noodles. Serves four to six.

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Well-known Pittsburgh breweries like East End Brewing Company and The Church Brew Works were reliable presences that heralded the boom of brewery openings in Pittsburgh today.

One such brewery, Petrucci Brothers Brewing, was simultaneously celebrating its one-year anniversary and slinging brews at the Big Pour. Petrucci’s Heaven’s Gate Belgian Dubbel was lightly toasty, with hints of caramel and a lingering grassiness that calls for a fall trip out to New Brighton. Based still further north, in Butler, Reclamation Brewing Company captured the joy of a campfire and fall leaves with its Oak on the Water, an oak-smoked wheat IPA, with a unusual combination of hoppiness and deep smoky notes.

Turn around and go south of the city for Fury Brewing Company, which is hoping to open in North Huntington in the near future. Fury’s Captain Rumkin, a rum-aged pumpkin ale, was on the less robust side of spiced beers and would be excellent to sip in early October. Further south, in West Newton, try Bloom Brew, a brewery that shares a space with the West Newton Volunteer Fire Department. Bloom’s selection of fruit beers corners a unique niche in the market.

Shake and Stutter, a red-wine-barrel-aged cherry sour, tasted like tart cherry pie and, at 6.3 percent ABV, still packed a punch not normally associated with fruit beers.

There are dozens more that deserve mention, but to find them you’ll have to get in your car and cross some bridges.

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THIS PAST WEEKEND was the 10th annual (and my first) Steel City Big Pour at Construction Junction, in Point Breeze. I went to taste beers from lesser-known local, new-ish breweries, and to find a few that would be worth crossing rivers for.

Before I get to that list, however, I have to gush about the event. Beer festivals are usually sloppy, uncomfortable and overly intoxicated. Big Pour, by contrast, is an extremely well-organized craft-beer festival that over 10 years has finetuned its approach. The day is split into morning and evening sessions, with a week of events sponsored by local businesses leading up to the main event. The day of the Big Pour also featured art, live music, plenty of food vendors (included in the price of your ticket) and bathroom facilities with hand-washing stations. A free app was available for download, providing ticketholders an interactive map, list of restaurants and breweries, and a platform to rate their favorite beers.

The event space is large, which combats crowding and long lines. Finally, as befits a festival benefiting used-building-material emporium Construction Junction, Steel City Big Pour is a zero-waste event, with plenty of staff on hand to help get recyclables sorted and where they need to be. In short, it is a crunchy beer-lover’s dream.

This year, there were 48 breweries on site. Most of the beer was Pennsylvaniamade, with a few out-of-state craft breweries like Dogfish Head (Delaware), Otter Creek (Vermont) and Deschutes (Oregon).

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{BY AL HOFF} Is there anything left to say about The Beatles? And yet, Ron Howard’s new documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years proves surprisingly revelatory and engaging. Howard compiles an impressive array of footage depicting the Fab Four over the mere three years the band toured.

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It begins in 1963, during the embryonic days banging away in England’s small clubs (with some gorgeous color footage of the lads singing “She Loves You”) and on through the giddy, triumphant U.S. “invasion” in 1964. 1965 brings stadium shows, as much for security reasons as to accommodate the number of fans. The film wraps up with the drudge of the 1966 world tour, where, after its last show ever, the world’s biggest band is shoved unceremoniously into the back of an armored van.

All the archival footage is supplemented by explanatory interviews, some of them archival and others, including from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, contemporary.

Viewing the footage in the 21st century is a gas: How impossibly young the Beatles look, and how utterly and delightfully mad their crazed fans are. (“Their hair!” shriek several girls.) Our more seasoned eyes also take in how the media scrambles to cover a cultural phenomenon that is exploding faster than they can process.

But what’s paramount: how cheeky, fun and talented the Beatles were.

These years are well worth a revisit.

The doc is followed by a 30-minute film of The Beatles’ Aug. 15, 1965, concert at New York’s Shea Stadium.

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American Film Festival, newly moved to September, returns for its 11th year, beginning Fri., Sept. 16, and running for 10 days. The festival will present more than two dozen films, recent features from Asia, the Middle East and the U.S., at several area venues. Below are some highlights of the festival’s offerings.

The opening night film, Halkawt Mustafa’s road comedy El Clasico, tells of two Kurdish little people who undertake a journey from Iraq to Spain to hopefully meet their idol, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. The film is Iraq’s entry for Best Foreign Film for the 2017 Academy Awards.

It screens at 7 p.m., Fri., Sept. 16, at Regent Square, and the $20 ticket includes a reception with light refreshments.

Other films focused on the Middle East include: Nawara, an Egyptian domestic drama set against the recent political upheaval; Wednesday, May 9th, from Iran, and set in Tehran; and Radio Dreams, a comedy about a radio producer working to team up Metallica and an Afghan rock band.

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With its own large film industry, India is well represented with nine films in the lineup. Choose from Island City, a comedic anthology of ordinary people in Mumbai; the white-collar crime thriller Moh Maya Money; or the 1978 Bollywood classic, Gaman. The closing-night film is Parched, a drama focused on ongoing sexism in rural India, and featuring the stories of four contemporary women.

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The festival also includes features from Philippines, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Turkey and South Korea. From Kazakhstan comes Toll Bar, made for only $15,000, and adhering to the “Partisan Movement,” in which filmmakers strive for social realism while rejecting the trappings of conven-

tional cinema. Zaaulan Poshanov’s drama contrasts two men, one wealthy, the other working class, whose lives intersect at a parking lot.

Two of the films offer LGBT perspectives. The drama Spa Night follows a closeted Korean-American teenager who gets a job at a traditional Korean spa and discovers a secret sexual subculture there; the film was shot in Los Angeles’ Koreantown. In Front Cover, an out ChineseAmerican stylist gets a work assignment with a visiting homophobic Chinese actor.

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Films screen at Regent Square Theater, in Edgewood; Frick Fine Arts, Pitt campus, Oakland; McConomy Auditorium, CMU campus, Oakland; Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland; Waterworks Cinema, Aspinwall; Cranberry Cinemas; and Melwood Screening Room, Oakland. Tickets for most screenings are $10, and there are discount passes for multiple screenings. For more information and the complete schedule, see www.silkscreenfestival.org.

as a robotic super-cop. But really it’s about urban fear. Cities — in this case, Detroit — are industrial wastelands, its citizens plagued by crime and barely pacified by inane, vulgar entertainment.

The police can’t contain it, and the lucky few are moving into fortress communities. Hopefully, Robocop’s bleak vision of the future isn’t too prescient. Sept. 16-22. Row House Cinema (AH)

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NEW BLAIR WITCH. After discovering a videotape that depicts his sister getting attacked by something in the woods (a.k.a. 1999’s The Blair Witch Project), a man ventures into the very same spooky forest. Adam Wingard directs. Starts Fri., Sept. 16

LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD. Werner Herzog’s new documentary looks at how humans are working with the internet and other new technologies. The film also examines some problem areas of the internet: the rise of hacking, the ease of cyber-abuse and our 24/7 dependence on internet access. On a brighter note, he stops

by Pittsburgh to check in with scientists who are creating robots and robot cars. Sept. 16-22. Row House Cinema (AH)

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BRIDGET JONES’S BABY. More than a decade after the previous Bridget Jones film comes this third installment, featuring the titular character (Renee Zellweger) meeting a major milestone: motherhood.

Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey play the leading men competing for Bridget’s affections in a “who’s the daddy” battle straight out of an episode of the Maury Show. Unlike its predecessors, this update, directed by Sharon Maguire, doesn’t follow the plot of the books; it seems to have all the hallmarks of a film trying to milk a franchise for every penny. But that’s not actually how it turns out: This sequel, written in part by the series’ novelist, Helen Fielding, features both witty and outrageous humor that extends beyond the usual rom-com. Bridget’s tribulations as an aging woman forced to adapt to new technology and a workplace overrun by millennials add a relatable contemporary element without feeling gimmicky.

And the main and supporting characters — essentially Bridget’s friends and family — remind us why we fell in love with the series in the first place. Starts Fri., Sept. 16.

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DON’T BLINK — ROBERT FRANK. Laura Israel’s documentary profiles Robert Frank, the Swiss-born photographer whose work has spanned more than half a century. Even today, in his 90s, he’s clicking away with a digital camera and issuing instructions to the film crew. The film sketches Frank’s career — his groundbreaking 1958 photography book The Americans, which focused on ordinary folks, often captured unaware in public; his technique of scratching text and lines into his prints; and his assorted motion-picture projects, including the infamous 1972 Rolling Stones documentary, Cocksucker Blues.

Israel checks in with some colleagues and collaborators, but Frank proves to be a useful guide, sorting through papers, objects and whatnot at his two cheerfully cluttered homes (an old-school loft space in Lower Manhattan and an isolated cottage in Nova Scotia). The doc also touches on the personal — his life story, with its attendant tragedies, and what inspires and irritates him. It can be a bit of a jumble for those unfamiliar with Frank’s work and his milieus, but there’s plenty of interesting material. Certainly it will motivate viewers to seek out (or revisit) Frank’s oeuvre — his work, even decades old, is still sharp and affecting. Fri., Sept. 16, through Tue., Sept. 20. Melwood (Al Hoff) SNOWDEN. Oliver Stone directs this bio-pic about Edward Snowden (Joseph GordonLevitt), who while working at the NSA leaked a massive amount of classified documents, before going on the run. Starts Fri., Sept. 16

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(Mel Gibson) helping a group of survivors in an apocalyptic wasteland to protect their gasoline from marauders. Concludes the monthly series of Rooftop Shindigs. Live music from The Commonheart at 7 p.m.; film at sundown. Wed., Sept. 14. Theater Square Garage roof, 667 Penn Ave., Downtown. Bring your own chair (or buy one on site). Food and beverage vendors on site (no outside food/drink allowed). www.downtown pittsburgh.com. Free

city planners, ecologists and residents about the connections between cities and the natural environment, and how to highlight and preserve such amenities. Beatley — who is also the founder of The Biophilic Cities Project — will lead a panel discussion after the screening. The film screens as part of Phipps Conservatory’s monthly environmental film series. 7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 16. Phipps Conservatory, Schenley Park, Oakland. phipps. conservatory.org. Free with regular admission

SUPERMAN. Now would be a good time for Superman to show up and execute his patented move — turning back time by spinning around the Earth really fast. (You go, Superman! So many things need a do-over!) But alas, Richard Donner’s big-budget actioner dates from 1978, when the reporter-turned-caped crusader’s attentions were focused on thwarting Lex Luthor’s evil plans. Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder star. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 14.

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FORBIDDEN PLANET. This 1956 sci-fi adventure from Fred Wilcox has a classy pedigree: It’s a re-work of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. You’ll thrill to Anne Francis’ cute space dresses (likewise admired by space hero Leslie Nielsen) and groove to the inventive sound effects. But in this surprisingly intelligent tale of marooned scientists, you’ll also ponder the malevolent force that has wiped out the colony.

Sept. 16-22. Row House Cinema (AH)

THE NATURE OF CITIES. Join University of Virginia sustainability-studies professor Timothy Beatley and filmmaker Chuck Davis in this hourlong documentary as they travel to various urban areas around the globe. There are stops in Austin and San Diego stateside, plus the much older European cities of Paris, Copenhagen and Stockholm. The film interviews landscape architects,

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THE SEEDS: PUSHIN’ TOO HARD. It’s a night to get your garage-rock vibe on with this new documentary profiling the rise and fall of The Seeds, a Los Angeles band that achieved some fame in the late 1960s. The band had a hit single in 1966 with “Pushin’ Too Hard” and its groovy stage presence, highlighted by charismatic lead singer Sky Saxon. Plus, they might (or might not) have been the originators of “flower power.” Regardless, as with so many bands, things fell apart, and in Neil Norman’s film, surviving members recount the group’s travails. (Among them: Saxon joining a religious cult known as The Source.) Also interviewed are such contemporaries of the band as Kim Fowley, Johnny Echols (of Love), the Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston, and Gene Norman, whose GNP Crescendo Records recorded The Seeds. A must for fans of 1960s garage rock, psychedelia and kooky pop; wear your best striped pants!

Director Norman, Gene’s son and the current head of GNP Crescendo Records, will attend the screening and do a Q&A; Seeds records and assorted merchandise from GNP and Get Hip will be for sale, as well. Local bands The Nox Boys and The Flower Lady and Her Assistants will play before and after the film. Doors at 7 p.m., film at 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 17. Hollywood. $12 (AH) THE WIZARD OF OZ. If your viewings of Victor Fleming’s 1939 musical film have been via TV only, you owe it to yourself (and any young ’uns) to see this beloved family classic on the big screen. Join Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her little dog, too, on their unforgettable Technicolor journey to the Land of Oz — a wondrous place that, ultimately, isn’t quite as wonderful as Kansas. 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sun., Sept. 18. Hollywood THE SHINING. It seemed like a great opportunity for writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) and his family: a care-taking gig at an isolated mountain hotel. But the place is wicked haunted, and soon the little family, including wife (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd), are in grave peril of losing their minds — and lives. Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel drops some of King’s supernatural elements in favor of omnipresent dread and a meditation about the collapsing family unit, but it’s still a freaky, hair-raising ride. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 21. AMC Loews Waterfront (AH)

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FIX-IT: HEALTH CARE AT THE TIPPING POINT. Vincent Mondillo’s recent hour-long documentary examines America’s beleaguered health-care system, particularly how its financial costs continue to be problematic for many, even in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. The film continues a monthly series of films about economic, labor and social-justice issues. To be followed by a discussion led by Dr. Scott Tyson, Bob Mason and Mike Stout, members of Health Care for All. 7:30 p.m.

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The Duquesne Women’s soccer team hosts a pair of games this week at Rooney Field. The Akron Zips come to town at 7 p.m. on Sept. 16, followed by the Princeton Tigers, who take the field at noon Sept. 18.

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T WAS A surreal experience. Atop her Specialized Dolce comfort road bike, Monica Garrison surveyed the scene at the first national meet-up of the organization she founded, Black Girls Do Bike. More than 300 women convened in Atlanta this past June to ride together during three days of cycling events. They also raised more than $21,000 for diabetes research.

“Meeting the ladies was inspiring,” says Garrison. “It was spectacular.”

In the summer of 2013, Garrison was searching for something. She was looking for a way to get outdoors, spend quality time with her kids and find mental solace. She bought a bike, familiarized herself with Pittsburgh’s biking trails, and even commuted on two wheels to work from her home in the West End. “I had found my Zen,” she says.

But she rarely encountered riders who looked like her. Inspired by the desire to connect ladies who enjoy biking and to encourage others to consider it, especially women of color, Black Girls Do Bike (BGDB) was born.

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“Our mission is to grow and support a community of women who share a passion for cycling,” Garrison says. “We are establishing a comfortable place where female cyclists can organize rides.”

The Pittsburgh chapter was founded in May 2015, with Garrison as the “Shero,” the leader who organizes rides and events to keep members excited about cycling in the city. With recently built bike lanes, more women cycling, and a greater focus on self-care and health by women of color, the growth of BGDB has been fast and furious. From Pittsburgh to Alaska to Dallas to Boston, there are more than 60 chapters.

“It’s a bit of a perfect storm,” says Garrison. Across the country, women are experiencing the benefits of communal cycling: from weight loss to support in emotional times and reconnecting with old friends.

“Ladies send pictures and testimonials explaining how BGDB has helped motivate them,” Garrison adds.

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is Black Girls Do Bike, Garrison says it is inclusive for ladies of every ethnicity. “BGDB operates under the belief that it is possible to value yourself without diminishing the value of another,” Garrison says. “Our focus is black women because they are underrepresented in the larger cycling community.”

Garrison says that BGDB is perfect for women looking for fellowship or a way to get off the couch. The group is judgmentfree and rides with a “no woman left behind” mindset. It welcomes all bikes and skill levels.

If you would like to get in gear, upcoming Thursday rides are scheduled for Sept. 22 and 29. The rides start at 6 p.m. and depart from 885 Progress St., on the North Side. The updated schedule can be found by joining the group’s Facebook page at www.bit.ly/2ca3g9d.

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I HATE YOU SO MUCH {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} BOOING AN ATHLETE can be very therapeutic. Releasing hostility toward a perceived pampered adult who is not playing up to expectations is only natural. Fans pay hard-earned money and want to see at least competency in return. Enemies of Pittsburgh sports like Claude Giroux, Jake Arrieta and Joe Flacco always hear boos and hisses from the crowd. (Side note: Why don’t people hiss anymore?)

But sometimes we turn that frustration toward our own, so this week we review the Pittsburgh athletes that we hate so much.

Jaromir Jagr tops the list because unlike everyone else on it, he won the big one. Winning cures almost everything.

He’s the second greatest player to ever play for the franchise, and we hate him.

Two Stanley Cups isn’t enough to forgive Jags. The turning point was asking to be traded because he was unhappy. Then he cemented that distrust by donning a Dallas Cowboys jersey in the Pens locker room just a few months after the Steelers lost their first Super Bowl to Dallas.

He’s still booed vociferously every time he touches the puck at Consol. His actions even led to the decline of mullets in the area; you just don’t see them like you used to.

Barry Bonds was never really loved during his tenure as a Pirate. Between snarly interviews, butting heads with manager Jim Leyland and a poor postseason performance, we had reasons not to like him. In 68 at-bats in the playoffs for the Pirates, Bonds hit .191 with a single home run and three RBI. His teammate Andy Van Slyke hit .198 in that same span, but wasn’t as roundly criticized, mostly because he wasn’t a jerk. When he returned to Pittsburgh as a Giant, a Pittsburgh fan even rented an airplane with a banner that said, “Nice throw Barry.”

The banner, of course, was in reference to Bonds’ limp-wristed throw in Atlanta that was beaten by Sid Bream and crushed our spirits. Bonds happily skipped town a month later and was booed during every single at-bat for the next decade.

Next on the list: every Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who has not won a Super Bowl. Every single one of them.

Starting with Cliff Stoudt and going all

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the way up to throwing sacks of garbage on Tommy Maddox’s lawn. Kordell Stewart was a phenomenon for a few years until he lost a playoff game and, subsequently, his confidence. Neil O’Donnell’s name is still a swear word around here.

Three picks in a Super Bowl loss will get you a permanent spot on the list.

Wham, bam, thank you, Todd Graham makes this list and he did it in less than one season; it’s almost admirable, in a perverse kind of way. After a lackluster 6-6 year as Pitt’s head football coach, Graham started talking to other schools about a head-coaching position.

He recruited players to play for him and quickly left. When the University of Pittsburgh’s athletic director told him he couldn’t spend time looking for a new job, he resigned. Not only that, he resigned via text — a low-class move even by scumbag standards. Yes, Graham wasn’t an athlete, but if we ever get a chance to boo him, it’ll be good.

The 1993-2012 Pittsburgh Pirates earned a constant 20-year boo that went from Three Rivers Stadium to PNC Park.

The boos weren’t really out of hatred.

You’d have to be a special kind of mean to hate something that pathetic. The losing streak was almost old enough to drink when it was mercifully snapped, in 2013. We are back to booing again this year, but they clearly deserve it because, unlike the 20-year losers, this team has good players.

As you can imagine, most booing emanates from the cheap seats of a stadium or arena. These seats usually contain riffraff, much like myself, and since our lives haven’t turned out the way we thought, we’re more inclined to show frustration.

So go boo the next multimillion-dollar jerk who takes for granted that he plays a game for a living; you’ll feel much better.

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Free Will Astrology

09.14-09.21

{BY ROB BREZSNY}

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Caution: You may soon be exposed to outbreaks of peace, intelligence and mutual admiration. Sweet satisfactions might erupt unexpectedly. Rousing connections could become almost routine, and useful revelations may proliferate. Are you prepared to fully accept this surge of grace? Or will you be suspicious of the chance to feel soulfully successful? I hope you can find a way to at least temporarily adopt an almost comically expansive optimism.

That might be a good way to ensure you’re not blindsided by delight.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Brainwashing” is a word with negative connotations. It refers to an intensive indoctrination that scours away a person’s convictions and replaces them with a new set of rigid beliefs. But I’d like to propose an alternative definition for your use in the coming days. According to my astrological analysis, you now have an extraordinary power to thoroughly wash your own brain — thereby flushing away toxic thoughts and trashy attitudes that might have collected there.

I invite you to have maximum fun as you make your inner landscape clean and sparkly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My astrological divinations suggest that a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you much — unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumbling out into the wasteland and screaming curses toward heaven. (I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider this advice: Take shelter from the storm, preferably in your favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than you usually do. Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. Got all that? Now here’s the best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling Her about all the situations you want Her to help you transform during the next 12 months.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Tom Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.” Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column. I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.”

Are you fed up with my boasts yet, Sagittarius? I will spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You have to brag about yourself a lot in the coming days — and not just with understated little chirps and peeps. Your expressions of self-appreciation must be lush, flamboyant, exultant, witty and sincere.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): By normal standards, your progress should be vigorous in the coming weeks. You may score a new privilege, increase your influence or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract desirable resources. But accomplishments like those will be secondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of your strengths and weaknesses, your needs and your duties? Will you get clear about what you have to learn and what you have to jettison?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m confident that you would never try to sneak through customs with cocaine-laced goat meat or a hundred live tarantulas or some equally prohibited contraband. Please use similar caution as you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border crossing. Your intentions should be pure and your conscience clear. Any baggage you take with you should be free of nonsense and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, arm yourself with the highest version of brave love that you can imagine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you be worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel or superhero? Will it be weird if some night soon you dream of an erotic rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr or centaur?

I say no. In fact, I’d regard events like these as healthy signs. They would suggest that you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings that have been buried deep in your psyche. They might mean your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences that will energize the smart animal within you. And this would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies. Try saying this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): What should you do if your allies get bogged down by excess caution or lazy procrastination?

Here’s what I advise: Don’t confront them or berate them. Instead, cheerfully do what must be done without their help. And what action should you take if mediocrity begins to creep into collaborative projects? Try this: Figure out how to restore excellence, and cheerfully make it happen. And how should you proceed if the world around you seems to have fallen prey to fearinduced apathy or courage-shrinking numbness?

My suggestion: Cheerfully kick the world’s butt — with gentle but firm good humor.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Soul Doctor: I have been trying my best to body-surf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned!

That’s good news, right? But I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much concentration. The power and volume of the surge doesn’t seem to be abating. Are there any signs that I won’t have to do this forever? Will I eventually reach dry land? — Careening Crab.” Dear Careening: Five or six more days, at the most: You won’t have to hold out longer than that. During this last stretch,

see if you can enjoy the ride more. Re-imagine your journey as a rambunctious adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And remember to feel grateful: Not many people have your capacity to feel so deeply.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If there can be such a thing as a triumphant loss, you will achieve it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door but make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I am in awe of your potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinitions. Plain old simple justice may not be available, but I bet you’ll be able to conjure up some unruly justice that’s just as valuable. To assist you in your cagey maneuvers, I offer this advice: Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and always look for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For the foreseeable future, your main duty is to be in love. Rowdily and innocently in love.

Meticulously and shrewdly in love. In love with whom or what? Everyone and everything — or at least with as much of everyone and everything as you can manage. I realize this is a breathtaking assignment that will require you to push beyond some of your limitations and conjure up almost superhuman levels of generosity. But that’s exactly what the cosmic omens suggest is necessary if you want to break through to the next major chapter of your life story.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What do you hope to be when you are all grown up, Gemini? An irresistible charmer who is beloved by many and owned by none? A master

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multi-tasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored? A versatile virtuoso who is skilled at brokering truces and making matches and tinkering with unique blends? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to entertain fantasies like these — to dream about your future success and happiness. You are likely to generate good fortune for yourself as you brainstorm and play with the pleasurable possibilities. I invite you to be as creative as you dare.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I’m a woman who watches porn — we do exist — and I have a mad crush on a male porn star named Small Hands. Unfortunately, his videos focus less on his handsome face and more on some girl’s ass. Do! Not! Want! Is there a way to ask a porn star to please make a few movies in a certain way? I would like to see some movies that feature less of her and more of him!

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“I work with anyone I get hired to work with.

I don’t have just one costar,” says Small Hands, porn star, filmmaker and composer. But the ass you’re referring to, SAMPLE, the ass Small Hands has been seen with most, is the one that belongs to his fiancée, Joanna Angel, the porn star/director/producer who pioneered the “alt-porn” genre.

“I got into porn because I started dating her,” Small Hands told me after I read him your question. “I’ve been performing for three years, and my GF has been in the game for 12 years. She really put alt-porn on the map — she was the first girl with tattoos to appear on the cover of Hustler magazine.” (Please note: “Alt-porn” has nothing to do with “alt-right.” The alt-right is about racism, anti-Semitism and orange fascists — and alt-porn is about tattoos, piercings and sexy fuckers.)

Regardless of whose ass it is, SAMPLE, you want to see less girl ass and more Small Hands face. Could he make that happen for you?

“Plenty of performers have clips-for-sale stores on their websites, and some make custom video clips for fans,” Small Hands says. “But I can’t provide special clips for this fan — as much as I would love to — because running our company and editing the films and composing music for them doesn’t leave us much time for anything else.”

If you want to watch porn that focuses more on guys, Small Hands recommends “porn for women” or “porn for couples.”

“I strongly dislike these terms,” says Small Hands, “as I feel they are outdated, sexist and stereotypical. No one — man or woman — should tell a woman which kind of porn is for her and which kind isn’t. Any pornographic film that a woman finds arousing or entertaining is ‘porn for women.’ But these films do tend to give the guys a little more screen time. Also, there’s always gay porn, which focuses 100 percent on men, so no worry about seeing a lady butt in those movies.”

While we’re on the subject of porn: If you look at Small Hands’ Twitter account — or the Twitter account of any porn performer working today — you’ll notice that most have “NO ON 60” as their avatar. Proposition 60 is a ballot measure in California that is ostensibly about protecting porn performers by requiring them to use condoms and mandates penalties for companies and performers that don’t. “It’s really meant to drive the porn industry out of California under the guise of performer safety,” says Small Hands.

Before I let Small Hands get off the phone, I had to ask him about his nom de porn. How did “Small Hands” become his porn name?

“I have tiny hands for a grown-ass man,” said Small Hands, “and Joanna makes fun of me for it. I wrote it down on the forms when I made my first films. It’s kind of a dumb name, but you won’t forget it.”

Any advice for any, say, orange fascists out there who might be insecure about having tiny hands?

“Never be ashamed about having smallerthan-average hands,” said Small Hands. “He should own it. And perspective is your friend, Donald. Put those tiny hands down next to your dick, and your dick is going to look bigger!”

A woman I follow on Instagram — whose account is open for all to follow — shares highly sexualized images of herself daily, e.g., pictures of her at the beach, pictures of her when she’s just waking up, pictures of her in a towel after a shower. Via direct message, I politely inquired about purchasing a pair of her used panties. She sent me a very rude note in response and then blocked me. I find this hypocritical, considering the highly sexualized nature of the photos she posts. She reads your column, something I know because she posted a photo of one, and I am writing to you in hopes that you will scold this woman for being so hypocritically prudish and also ask her to unblock me.

“NEVER BE ASHAMED ABOUT HAVING SMALLERTHAN-AVERAGE HANDS.”

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She may be a reader, PHOTO, but you’re clearly not. Because I’m on her side, not yours, which any regular reader could have predicted.

Someone sharing photos of themselves at the beach, in bed, out of the shower, etc., doesn’t entitle you to their panties any more than someone sharing photos from their colonoscopy entitles you to their turds. There’s no shortage of women online selling their panties, PHOTO; direct your inquiries to them.

I think you got things wrong with CUCKS, the man whose husband got upset when he reacted with excitement when his husband shared a fantasy about sleeping with another man. I think CUCKS’ husband got upset because he only wanted more attention from his husband. Maybe CUCKS’ husband fantasizes about cheating because he wants someone to want him intensely and he doesn’t feel his partner wants him intensely enough. Telling his partner about his fantasy may have just been an attempt to get his partner to show some emotional intensity.

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If you’re correct, TMAC, I would advise CUCKS to dump his husband — because who wants to be with someone who plays those kinds of mind games? A person who lies about having a particular fantasy and then shames or guilts their partner for having the wrong reaction isn’t a person worth sharing fantasies with, much less a life.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with his brother, professor Bill Savage, about our nation’s historical fear of immigrants: savagelovecast.com.

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ALTERNATIVE HISTORY {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}

EVERY SO OFTEN, Jim Lavrinc, City Paper’s circulation director, pops by my desk with a random issue or piece of stationery or, as was the case the day I sat down to write this, a roll of old address labels from the long-defunct In Pittsburgh Newsweekly.

I’ve been a little nostalgic for the old paper recently. Partly because of the artifacts and partly because I knew that this month would mark 15 years since the city’s dominant alt weekly was bought out by City Paper’s former owners, Steel City Media. Since this is CP’s 25th anniversary, I knew I wanted to take some time and remember IP and my time there. Why? For the sake of history I guess. The paper was as important a part of my life then as this paper is now; plus, it’s hard to talk about the history of one of these papers without discussing the other. Also, given the state of our industry locally and nationwide, it’s sometimes hard not to look back at your failures and wonder whether things could have turned out differently.

write curse words in my stories. I was trying to infuse “fucks” and “shits” into everything I wrote, from city-council stories to dining reviews. I even used the word “dildo” once in a sports column about double-headers.

Admittedly, I was out of control early on, but I found a nice rhythm and before long, we were really doing great work. Unfortunately, we would be the last staff of In Pittsburgh.

By early 2001, there were whispers that things at IP were not great.

Readers were disenchanted by the out-of-town owners and they were now following the writers they knew at CP. In May, myself and the other staff writer were told that our jobs were nearly axed, but saved at the last minute. It was strongly suggested that if we had other opportunities, we should take them. By the end of July, I had moved on to a dreadful job as the managing editor of my hometown paper, getting screamed at by locals for my use of giant headlines and photos. Six months earlier, I had written the word “dildo” in a story, and by Thanksgiving 2001 I had a

I WAS TRYING TO INFUSE FUCKS AND SHITS INTO EVERYTHING I WROTE. In Pittsburgh was well past its prime when I joined the staff in spring 2000. I was a straight-news daily reporter att the time, covering state and federal courts in south Louisiana and dabbling abbling in the occasional long-term investigative piece. I remember the day I started, city editor Marty Levine showed me to my desk: an old, heavy, metal desk sitting in a third-floor hallway at the top of the stairs, jammed against an emergency exit. We were on East Carson Street, treet, across from Smokin’ Joe’s Saloon.

Now, to be fair, the offices were probably shitty long before the end-times came.

I was just excited and nervous to be entering the world of alt media at Pittsburgh’s premier er news and arts weekly. Well, that’s what they ey told me at the interview, anyway. There was a time, of course, when IP was the king off the hill. The paper opened its doors in 1985 and nd by the time CP came along, in Novemberr 1991, it was a force in local media. But, like a lot of things, that changed and in the late 1990s, City Paper was the dominant force — thanks to the influx of many In Pittsburgh-ers who either left or were fired once nce IP was purchased by Review Publishing out of Philadelphia.

I learned about all of this history, of course, after coming to Pittsburgh.

But even though we were No. 2 in a two-person race, I still loved it there.

And to be sure, I loved the world of alt weeklies. Like many youngsters breaking into the medium, I got a little carried away with the freedom to

letter placed into my personnel file warning me about my careless and gratuitous use of the word “fart.”

And, as I mentioned at the top of this story, IP was sold to City Paper in September 2001. Several of those staffers came to work here, and I would S p find my way in the door in 2005 before becoming editor two years ago.

Maybe I’ve been feeling nostalgic about In Pittsburgh recently partially because of the state Pittsb newspaper industry in this town. The of the n Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh TribunePittsbur Review are offering buyouts to employees; rumors rumo swirl daily about newsrooms shutting down; and daily there’s a new competitor trying dow to cut into what you’re doing, only this time, they’re coming via the internet instead of th tthe newspaper box beside yours. But I don’t have that feeling of dread today like I did back then. Looking back honestly, IP had relied too heavily on its reputation, rather than on moving forward and getting better.

I loved working at In Pittsburgh and am very proud of my time realize that alt weeklies were the place for me. But, in a there; it made me real way, I’m glad to have been there at the time of its demise. The landscape way for media companies has been changing for years now, and we’ve done a lot, especially in the past two years, to not only keep up, but also move ahead of the competition. After all, those who don’t learn from history are doomed to be written up for using the word “fart.”

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