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EVENTS 9.29 – 11am POP GENERATION: ANDY’S ANTIQUITIES For the generation that inspired Warhol, Pop Generation features educational tours exclusively for older adults, age 65 and over. Email popgeneration@warhol.org or call Leah Morelli at 412.237.8389. Tickets $10/FREE Members
9.30 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: AN EVENING WITH JOAN SHELLEY The Warhol theater This performance is co-presented with Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society. FREE parking in The Warhol lot Tickets $15/$12 Members & students; visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300
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SMALL GARDEN near rows of non-
descript apartment buildings in Northview Heights serves as a small reminder of the ancestral farming traditions of Pittsburgh’s Somali Bantu community. With its plots of rainbow chard, tomatoes and cabbage, the garden offers an opportunity for Bantus to farm like they did in Somalia, before they were violently forced from their land during that country’s civil war. But the garden is only a small token of familiarity in what has been a difficult transition in the Steel City. Northview Heights is a public-housing complex, set behind locked gates with security guards, in the midst of concentrated poverty. It begs comparisons to the Bantus’
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years in refugee camps in Kenya. “When it comes to living in Northview Heights, it’s been difficult, but not a strange place,” says Aweys Mwaliya, a former refu-
A number of Somali Bantu refugees have resettled in Pittsburgh, but how are they adjusting? {BY RYAN DETO} gee and head of the Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh. “Many people don’t feel unsafe there, given their past, but it does not give the community hope.”
Only a few Bantus have contributed to the Northview Heights green space; the garden hasn’t yet rekindled fervor for farming among the entire community. Instead, many of Pittsburgh’s Bantus occupy a middle ground between reaching toward American assimilation and failing to grasp exactly how to succeed in the U.S. But the garden, like the Bantus, has the potential to succeed. New Bantu community groups are forming, and Allegheny County recently created plans to better connect immigrant groups to new services. Welcoming Week (Sept. 16-26) is currently being celebrated throughout the county. The week-long celebration highlights the city’s success in attracting and re-
settling immigrants to Pittsburgh — more than 18,000 since 2000 — and the diversity they bring to the region. But for refugee groups like the Somali Bantu, there is little to celebrate. The community, comprising 200 to 300 people, has been living in Pittsburgh since 2004, but hasn’t achieved many markers of immigrant success. Few of their children are attending college, few families have purchased homes, and discrimination is still very much a part of their lives. “There are not a lot of Bantu in Pittsburgh,” says Mwaliya. “We cannot live the same life we lived back home. If you don’t have enough people to open [Americans’] eyes and to advocate, our struggles will continue.” So what is holding Bantus back? The answer may be as complex as the journeys many of them took to arrive on U.S. soil. Mwaliya is a Somali Bantu who originally resettled in Salt Lake City in the early 2000s, and came to Pittsburgh in 2011. “Most people I knew lived here,” he says. “The community here needed help. We were missing an organization so we could help ourselves.” Mwaliya says when he arrived, only five elders in the community had received citizenship, and there were problems obtaining interpreters in the county courts and area hospitals. He started the Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh in 2012. Since, he says, most Bantus have gained citizenship and interpreters have been provided in schools, courts and medical centers. But these improvements haven’t propelled Bantus into great educational attainment. According to Mwaliya, only three collegeage Bantus are enrolled in four-year universities, and few Pittsburgh Bantus have obtained degrees. “Wherever we go, we are educationally behind,” says Mwaliya. The Bantus, while living in Somalia, were banned from going to school, and many are illiterate as a result. When they were sent to refugee camps in Kenya, schooling was available, but girls didn’t attend and the classes were taught in English and Swahili, not the Bantus’ native language, Kizigawa. To understand the Bantus’ struggles is to understand their history. Originally brought to Somalia as slaves from west and southeast Africa during the 1800s, Bantus were freed during the Italian colonization of Somalia in the early 1900s. Many converted to Islam to avoid persecution by ethnic Somalis during the slave-trade era and continue to practice the religion today.
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Bantus eventually settled in the Jubba Valley of southwestern Somalia. However, they were denied access to modern amenities due to their minority status. The Somali civil war broke out in 1988, and military groups invaded the Jubba Valley, bringing violence, rape, starvation and death. A few years later, many Bantus walked to refugee camps in Kenya, and while they were safe from Somalis, the camps still had a litany of problems. Mwaliya says that both he and many other Bantus he knew spent more than 12 years in the camps, where they were brutalized by Kenyan authorities, and no real jobs were offered. Farmland was not provided, and many Bantus abandoned their farming traditions. Mwaliya recognizes the problems of the camps, but says nothing was as bad as their lives in Somalia during the civil war. “You can’t even compare the camps to Somalia,” says Mwaliya. “You can see a kid dying there, just asking for something to eat or drink.” Mwaliya says without work or farming access, and with little education, the camps put many Bantus into a cycle of dependency, something he wants to see his community break out of. “You can advocate when your rights are violated, and you can advocate to move forward,” says Mwaliya. “You don’t get people to move you forward without moving yourself forward.” In order to help refugees transition more easily, resettlement agencies offer
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language, housing, and job-placement services as well as a few months, cash for rent and food. But agencies often have limited resources. After about a year, many refugees must provide for themselves. Local groups like Northern Area MultiService Center and the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council offer free English classes and other cultural-assimilation programs, and have helped thousands of refugees and immigrants adjust to life in Pittsburgh. These services have proven useful to many. For instance, when Russian Jews were resettled in Squirrel Hill in the early 1980s, they were embraced by the neighborhood’s Jewish community, and many have since bought homes throughout the county. Other groups from the Middle East, Africa and Europe have arrived and assimilated into Pittsburgh life so well, they’ve gone mostly unnoticed. Pittsburgh has resettled about 1,000 Bhutanese refugees since 2008; that group has flourished enough that thousands more Bhutanese from across the U.S. have relocated here to be part of Pittsburgh’s Bhutanese community. But Ervin Dyer, of Pitt Magazine, who wrote a graduate research paper on Pittsburgh’s Bantus in 2012, says Bantus have an insular nature that has kept them from accessing services that could help. When Bantus arrived in Pittsburgh, the community spent years moving from subpar housing to subpar housing: from Lawrenceville and Homewood to the Hill District and Manchester in the North Side, and finally to Northview Heights, where around 80 percent of them live today. “They were used to operating alone. They were excluded in Somalia, they were used to operating in their own world,” says Dyer. “... [Many] don’t even speak and write in their native language, let alone English. They were really up against it.” A 2007 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal article on Bantus argued that if they were not given adequate support, they would become vulnerable to “an intergenerational cycle of poverty, which is hardly a humanitarian act and could have dire consequences for both the African refugee and their American neighbors.” Despite such challenges, Dyer believes Pittsburgh’s Bantus are on the right track. He says many youth performed well in high school, an “extreme achievement considering their background,” and almost none of them have criminal records. Dyer adds that while living in Northview Heights presents problems, it has provided Bantus an opportunity to live close to one another, and has provided a safe place for them to practice their cultural traditions. “They found a challenge of concentrate[ed]
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poverty, but they also found a community that understood social challenges,” says Dyer. “Perhaps it wasn’t so broken to the Somali Bantu. It gave them this sort-of village. They could recreate the life they wanted.” Pittsburgh has resettled about 4,000 refugees from around the globe since 2003. Resettlement help applies to all refugees coming to the U.S., and strategies vary. But Dyer says agencies could cater each strategy to each refugee group’s separate needs by learning more about their culture. “[The refugees] need to know all about us,” says Dyer, “but I think we need to understand who they are first.” Betty Cruz, formerly of Mayor Peduto’s Welcoming Pittsburgh initiative, helped create a community blueprint with Allegheny County’s Department of Health Services to make it easier for immigrant communities to connect to services and funding. She says more can, and needs, to be done to help immigrant and refugee groups in the Pittsburgh region. “Cities and counties that are doing a better job engaging immigrants are addressing the fact that immigrants aren’t all coming here with the same skill levels,” says Cruz. “... There is absolutely more that we can do serve the community and the wide array of needs they have.” Cruz says while Pittsburgh groups do offer English as a Second Language classes, the region doesn’t offer professional English-language services to help immigrants obtain high-skilled jobs like engineering and health-care work. Mwaliya says many Bantu men work as janitors and dishwashers and the women work in laundry service. “It makes the difference from being
stuck in survival jobs, to moving along the pipeline into [high-skilled jobs],” says Cruz. “It is a big barrier right now.” Another Bantu group was recently created to take on these issues. Abdulkadir Chirambo came to Pittsburgh from Erie to study at Pitt eight years ago, where he earned a degree in criminal justice. Chirambo was recently tapped by community elders to start the United Somali Bantu of Greater Pittsburgh group. He has been integral in the Northview Heights garden project and has started providing family crisis counseling within the community. “We want to let people know we are alive and here,” said Chirambo, while weeding the community garden one Saturday. “[We were invisible] in Somalia, we don’t want that here.” Chirambo’s group has struggled to find connections and has yet to receive any grants. But, he plans to try to find some rural land outside the city to start a large farm for the Bantu community. Despite the Bantus’ decade-long struggles in Pittsburgh, both Mwaliya and Chirambo say the garden shows the community is starting to hit its stride. And Chirambo says the youth are starting
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to contribute too. (On a recent Saturday, many young Bantus were eager to help at the garden.) “In our religion, there is a goal, no matter what you do, you have to teach your kids the cultural way. Our Quran teaches us we have to help people,” says Chirambo. And a poem from Chirambo’s 19-yearold relative Siraji Hassan further points toward a positive future for Bantus in Pittsburgh: “I am a Bantu, but I do not talk in clicks. I am Somali-Bantu, but that does not mean that I am not also American. I live in a world where my skin color, my income, my religion, and my style dictates what my life will become, but I am more than all of that. I once lived in a refugee camp, Kakuma. Now I live in the United States, Pittsburgh. “When I return someday to visit, I will return as a citizen of the United States of America. … I am proud of who I am. I am different.”
The RAND Corporation, in Pittsburgh, is conducting a research study to learn about what children, ages 11–17, purchase at convenience stores. Participation requires one 20 minute phone/internet survey and one 90 minute visit to the RAND study center. Children who complete the study will be compensated for their time and effort with $50 in gift certificates. Parking and travel compensation is provided.
Editor’s Notes: A longer version of this story can be found at www.pghcitypaper.com. Support for this story was provided by the Institute for Justice and Journalism. Ryan Deto was a 2016 fellow in the IJJ Fellowship on immigrant children and their families.
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MORE THAN TWO decades ago, as a member of the Citizen Advisory Panel of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission, local activist David Tessitor says he uncovered some serious issues involving the allocation of federal transportation funds. “There was a lot of transparency. We had such a handle on what was going on,” Tessitor says of the advisory panel, which was granted access to monitor the unelected SPC responsible for directing billions in state and federal transportationand economic-development funds. “[The SPC] never listened to us, but we were able to find out about a huge amount of improprieties that were going on.” Now, he’s hoping a similar advisory group will have the power to uncover misdeeds at the city level. Over the summer, Tessitor’s group, Open Pittsburgh, secured the necessary signatures to put a referendum on the ballot that would amend the city’s home-rule charter to set up a citizens’ advisory panel and implement other policies to increase transparency. But after a challenge by the city, the ballot measure now sits in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court awaiting a ruling by Judge Joseph James. Both parties believe the case is “cut-and-dried.” But with the November election quickly approaching, the battle over the referendum has proven anything but. “It’s about as cut-and-dried as World War II,” Judge James said during an Aug. 31 hearing. The Open Pittsburgh referendum has a long history. Tessitor and other supporters first tried and failed to get it on the ballot in 2005. “This time we had some funding, and we ended up hiring out-of-state petitioners because they were professionals who could go out,” says Tessitor. (The use of outof-state petitioners has been contested by the city.) And Tessitor says the high-profile nature of the upcoming presidential election could help the ballot measure succeed. “This seemed the perfect time to do it. The large turnout of having it in the general election would help,” says Tessitor.
“We’re also going to tell people this is a reason to vote if they’re thinking about not voting. The presidential race, while important, is top-down.” City officials and Pittsburgh City Council representatives say they support the spirit of the referendum, but not the multi-page amendment that accompanies it. And they worry voters will be misled. “The substance of the referendum sort of sounds fine. It basically says, ‘Do you support open government?’” says Kevin Acklin, Mayor Bill Peduto’s chief of staff. “The problem is it is companioned with a fairly large document that would fundamentally undermine the basic structure of city government, creating an unelected group of overseers.” The amendment includes 35 pages of provisions for making open records and government meetings more accessible. Under election law, the amendment must be condensed to a 75-word referendum question on the ballot. “I don’t mind being open with the public. I don’t think anyone’s opposed to being transparent with where money’s spent and why we’re doing certain things,” says Councilor Corey O’Connor. “All of our legislation is on the clerk’s website. Budgets are online as well. All of that is good government, and people should know where some of these things stand. There’s a lot more open government going on in Pittsburgh right now.” But the city is especially concerned with the sections of the amendment related to the creation and operation of a citizens’ advisory panel. The amendment would give the panel a voice at city council meetings and require all new legislation or amendments to be presented to the panel before introduction in council, among other requirements. “I don’t know all the details of it,” says O’Connor. “I have no problem with open government. But what I’m gathering from this is it would basically summon the mayor and council members at any time of the day or night on any subject.” But the advisory-panel component of the referendum is key, says Tessitor. “People often think of transparency as being open government, but you also need notification and public participation,” Tessitor says. “If you don’t have any way to interact with the government, that’s ineffective too.” Judge James asked both parties to file briefs on the matter by Sept. 6, but another hearing on the ballot measure has yet to be scheduled.
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PIPING UP {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} THE DAKOTA ACCESS pipeline might seem far away. But Vanessa German knows it’s only two days’ drive. And if you’re concerned about issues like fracking, water quality and climate change, it’s closer still. German, the nationally known, Pittsburgh-based artist, recently spent nine days in the activist camp near where Energy Transfer Partners is building the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile pipeline, meant to carry 500,000 barrels of fracked crude oil daily from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale fields to ports in Illinois. The route traverses traditional lands of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and along with fearing threats to water quality, the tribe says that the pipeline damages sacred burial grounds. Not to mention that its cargo would constitute yet another carbon bomb for earth’s atmosphere.
the way the government interacts with tribes on big projects like this one. It was a big victory for the tribe. (Last week, a federal court issued an injunction on pipeline work near Lake Oahe, making the halt mandatory, if short-term.) German says she is deeply moved by the tribes’ commitment to protecting their environment. “I didn’t know [people] lived so close to the earth … who recognized your hands and body as part of the earth,” she says. Street protests against Dakota Access continued last week, in Pittsburgh, around the U.S. and even internationally. German, who left Camp Sacred Stone on Sept. 12, admires the water protectors’ resolve: The camp plans to remain. “It’s not going anywhere,” she says. IN OTHER fossil-fuel news, while its profile
has shrunk in our energy portfolio, coal still generates one-third of U.S. electricity; mining it remains a dirty, dangerous business, as does burning it. Critics see reducing dependence on coal as bad for the economy, but a new documentary screening here argues that the same companies who are devastating the planet are also endangering miners and slashing jobs. Blood on the Mountain, from the producers of acclaimed 2009 PBS series The Appalachians, looks at coal’s long history in West Virginia.It’s a story of company towns, violence against miners, and busted unions; flouted safety Coal miners in Blood on the Mountain regs and deadly disasters; politiIn April, calling themselves “water cal corruption; poisoned water and stripprotectors,” members of dozens of tribes mined land; and communities left empty founded Camp Sacred Stone. In August, and impoverished when companies autoGerman saw video of activists — includmate, or turn from underground mining ing two young African-American men to strip-mining. “The war is the one coal — getting arrested trying to halt pipeline has waged on West Virginia for the last construction. “I believe in that,” she says. “I believe that you put your body on the 150 years,” says Pittsburgh-based attorney Bruce Stanley, one of a list of interview line for things that you believe in.” At the camp, which during her stay subjects ranging from history experts to grew to 1,000 people from 100 or more former miners. The film will receive theatrical distritribes, German was awed by the beauty of the Great Plains, moved by the welcome bution this fall. “It’s really about labor. she received from Native Americans … and It’s really about corporate responsibility,” shocked by the police drones buzzing over says co-director Mari-Lynn Evans, speakthe camp. She brought supplies for doing ing by phone. Labor and environmentalart projects with children, and helped in ists need to unite, she says: “We haven’t the kitchen; she knew activists who, dur- begun the discussion about how we move ing clashes with pipeline security person- forward as workers.” nel, were injured by dogs and pepper spray. German was there on Sept. 9, when the Blood on the Mountain screens at 7 p.m. Obama administration called for a volun- Fri., Sept. 23 (a $50 benefit screening, tary halt to construction near Lake Oahe with reception), and 8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 24 (the reservoir that supplies much of the ($5). Both screenings are at the Melwood Standing Rock Sioux’s water) and said it Screening Room, 477 Melwood St., Oakland would review the entire project, and even (www.bloodonthemountain.org). D RI SCO L L @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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Westmoreland County’s angriest bicyclist is back behind bars, accused of again violating a judge’s orders to stay off his bike. David Smith, 57, is notorious in the area for cycling in the center of lanes on major roads and for his profanity-filled outbursts at motorists who try to pass him. One resident told WTAE that Smith is easy to spot: “You see a biker and then you see 10 or 15 [cars] behind him.” Smith inspired a Facebook page, The Greensburg Bicyclist Spotting Page, on which people recount nasty encounters and share video footage. (“Tonight had a run in with him!” wrote one poster. “Called me a fuckhead and thr[ew] water at me and then the bottle.”) Much to the interest of this online community, Smith is awaiting trial on eight criminal charges, stemming from bikerelated incidents dating back to 2012. He has insisted in court that all charges are the result of police and motorists’ misunderstanding of cyclists’ rights. At a June 2015 hearing, a judge admonished him for appearing in court in his full cyclist outfit and clutching a rock, recounts the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. As a condition of his bond, Smith was ordered not to bicycle on public roads. He has been arrested twice this year — in March and August — after police reportedly spotted him pedaling.
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After San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s bruising of America’s fragile ego by sitting during the national anthem, the Manheim Township School District apparently reworded its pre-game announcement to threaten to kick out anyone who doesn’t stand for the song. An announcer told attendees at a girls’ soccer match in the Lancaster County town, “During our national anthem, we ask that everyone display dignity and respect for our flag, the symbol of the freedom that was won by the millions of men and women who have defended and continue to defend our great
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nation. Anyone not honoring this request to be respectful will be removed from the stadium.” “I was like, ‘What, did they actually just say that?’” parent Jennifer Stallings Seabolt told LancasterOnline.com. The next day, Superintendent Robin Felty said the script was meant to evict anyone not “respectful” of the singer of the anthem, though she understands how it “can be construed as an attempt to make attendees stand.” She said the announcement will be changed.
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Thousands of people say they will drive off Mount Washington to honor Harambe the gorilla. In its first week, the Nov. 9 Facebook event “Drive your car off of Mt. Washington for Harambe” got commitments from more than 8,500 attendees. (“Does anyone want to drive my other car so I can contribute twice?” asked Ian Dorto.) Nonsensical mentions of the gorilla, killed by Cincinnati Zoo officials in a much-
criticized precaution when a child wandered into its enclosure, have become an online fad. “Harambe memes have spanned the gamut from darkly humorous to poignant, from logical to surreal,” wrote a tech blogger for The Atlantic. “There is, it appears, no limit to [the] range of non-sequiturs that can ride the Harambe meme.” Alexander Blair, organizer of the Mount Washington “event,” told PennLive.com that it’s a “social experiment.” “I’ll probably get banned from Facebook for this one,” Blair says. “Oh well. It’s like, for Harambe.”
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Allegra Eidinger’s solo debut has been a lifetime in the making. Eidinger recalls birthday parties where family members sang “Happy Birthday” in four-part harmony, and her dad encouraging her toward music through his own love for drumming. “I was raised with rhythm in my blood,” Eidinger says. “I played the baritone horn in school and grew up deeply rooted in rhythm. I knew that I would get into music.” Later teaching herself bass, the Philly native says a natural curiosity led her toward music when she arrived in Pittsburgh for college. Joining a student a cappella group, she found herself wanting to do more. It was a chance meeting that would lead her toward the next step. Two years ago, Dan Hagendorf, guitarist in the Pittsburgh indie band Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes, was busking when Eidinger asked if she could join in. The two became friends, and earlier this year, Hagendorf and bandmate Dylan Chieffalo asked Eidinger to play bass for YYATTY. Through her work with that band, Eidinger gained a better understanding of the recording and touring process. She continued to write songs, hoping to one day find the time to release something on her own. That dream comes true on Sept. 25 when, under the name AllegrA, she’ll release her EP My Legs Are Growing on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. “For this release I did the actual recording of the music, the tracking and the mixing,” she says. “I don’t consider myself just a songwriter, I’m a producer.” For Eidinger, who draws musical inspiration from artists like Chastity Belt and Beach House, the EP reflects who she is as a solo musician. “My voice is low, and this recording, with my vocal sound and the arrangements I chose, is a really good reflection of who I am,” she says. Between studying at Pitt and staying active in the DIY scene, Eidinger has limited time to record and write as much as she’d like, but she hopes to record a full-length in the future. For now, she’s excited for people to hear what she’s been so eager to share. “My Legs Are Growing is short and sweet, an introduction [to] some stuff I made,” she says. “It’s just enough to get people’s attention and keep their ears waiting for more.” For more information, visit allegraband.com.
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members. It operates out of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, in Shadyside. But its mission has satellites around the city, with a venue on the PCA’s lower floor, music classes taught at a nearby college, and concerts produced in collaboration with other arts organizations.
CALLIOPE CONCERTS WITH JOHN HAMMOND
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Calliope have both evolved, the vision has remained largely the same. It focuses on artists who have become institutions in folk and traditional music, while supporting newer acts that have a reverence for their predecessors. “In the ’60s, you had the folk revival, and 40 years ago when the organization was founded, everybody was familiar with the word ‘folk,’ because it really related to that [music],” she says. “But over the years, it has evolved so much. I’m thrilled that young groups now that we definitely consider part of [the music] we’re trying to present and preserve — like the Avett Brothers, the Lumineers, and Mumford and Sons — are very much [like] the young artists that we’re presenting, and who we hope that someday will get to that level.” CONTINUES ON PG. 16
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There were some speed bumps along the way, including a period when Calliope seemed close to shuttering its doors. But Calliope has been able to adapt during the tougher times. “We’ve always operated on a shoestring budget, so we constantly reassess our budget and cut back whenever we need to,” Tanner says. “We’ve seen a lot of growth over the past 15 or so years. Back in ’99, it was really just starting up again as an all-volunteer organization when I came on board. I think they tried to grow too quickly. And [we] just had to stop and reassess. So we’ve been growing but in a much slower way.” The slow growth has paid off and helped organizers realize what works and what needs to be revisited. For example, benefit concerts, wh i c h h ave f e at u r e d legends like Arlo Guthrie, Odetta and Richie Havens, seemed like a sure-fire way to help Calliope grow. It only took one concert to set them back, Tanner says, recalling a performance with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart in 2002. “We had it on the books for months and months and months,” Tanner says. “Then, all of a sudden, it was announced that the Farm Aid concert was coming to Pittsburgh on the same night. With Willie Nelson and Neil Young. That really hurt our ticket sales. So we really pulled back after that.”
This year, the Calliope Concerts feature eight performances in the season, which begins this week and lasts through May. Held at the Carnegie Lecture Hall in Oakland, behind the library, it kicks off on Saturday with acoustic blues artist John Hammond, whom Tom Waits once compared to “a big train coming. He chops them all down.” Along with an appearance next spring by Loudon Wainwright III, Tom Rush offers another high point of the series. A driving force in the folk revival of the ’60s, with a career that continued in the ensuing years, Rush has announced that this will be his final tour. In addition to these concerts, there will be two fundraisers — with blues legend Taj Mahal (Oct. 9) and Rita Coolidge (March 18). VIP ticket-holders can also attend a post-concert reception with both acts at The Porch, in Schenley Plaza. But Calliope also continues to be active with local musicians in a number of ways. When the organization moved into the PCA in 2005, it set up the Roots Cellar there, as a venue for local musicians with seating for up to 175 people. “We always dreamed of having what we called ‘Calliope’s Front Porch,’ to have musicians sit on the front porch and jam. Inside, we’d roll away the rugs and have concerts,” Tanner says. “Not long after settling in
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up here, we started talking about the possibility of us renovating their dance studio in the basement. [Now] it’s all acoustically sound. We mainly program [performances] on Thursday nights.” Among its regular events, the Roots Cellar hosts the annual CD-release show for the Pittsburgh Songwriters Circle, a group that came out of a weekly openstage night. It isn’t always adult songwriters who participated in the Circle either. The 2013 compilation CD featured Sarah Plowman, a then-12-year-old girl from Cranberry who was just learning about performing and writing songs. Calliope maintains its mission to nurture musicians by continuing to offer classes and lessons. At Chatham University, Calliope offers 10 to 12 classes in an eight-week semester, but the structure is being adapted to engage more students. “We’re finding a lot of people are more interested in committing less time to taking a class,” says Lisa Alexander, Calliope’s marketing director. “We’re still going to have our traditional eight-week courses, but we’re adding some workshops. The one that we’re pretty excited about is songwriting with Greg Joseph from The Clarks. We haven’t had a songwriting course in a few years now.” Calliope has often hosted songwriting workshops with performers like Patty Larkin, if touring schedules allow it. More than just another meet-and-greet, it offers an opportunity to gain insight into the writing process. The workshops are most beneficial to “[local] songwriters who are very, very interested in the subject matter,” Tanner says. “I’ve attended some of these workshops. The questions and the interaction are really educational for me. The local artists tend get a lot out of it.” After four decades, it seems inevitable that Calliope is known across the country. Members of the organization helped to develop Kansas City’s Folk Alliance International Conference, a 29-year-old annual event that draws 2,000 performers and industry people from 17 countries. While Tanner mentions her group’s affiliation with that event, she seems equally proud, if not more, of things Calliope has developed back home. “When I started working with Calliope, I was meeting people that were in bands,” she says. “They told me they met in the Calliope School, where they started jamming, and practicing. Next thing you know, they’re off doing their own band. I always thought that was great. You don’t get that with private lessons.” For an entire schedule of concerts and classes, go to calliopehouse.org. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M
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At first blush, Ryley Walker’s fourth album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, may overwhelm. The album’s opening track, “The Halfwit In Me,” starts simply enough: a pensive exchange between woodwind and guitar, seemingly out of sync. In just a few seconds, though, with minimal segue, the song is in full tilt. That clarinet disappears amid blooms and cascades of clean guitar. Although these layers may initially blanket the ear, a little focus reveals the strictness of their measure. They obfuscate and complicate, even as they underscore and complement. Throughout the album, Walker arranges every element expertly. From instrumentation to vocalization, Walker seeks to demonstrate full control of his faculties at all times. He largely succeeds. Walker’s unique approach to composition helps him to warp, stretch, skew and elevate material above standard singer-songwriter fare. Without these sonic embellishments, Walker’s lyrics would read as simply unforthcoming or willfully obtuse. With them, they become wholly cryptic and happily unresolved. “Praise in one ear and out the other / You curse your own name, you curse your brother / how can a man see, with a choir apart? / The lips are moving, no soul or heart,” he sings on “A Choir Apart.” It feels as though the song’s buoyant, skittering drum beat is leading the listener around corners and through crawlspaces to a revelation that is ultimately withheld. Not all of the album’s eight songs are so ornate, nor do they all stretch the boundaries of traditional song structure and subject matter. “I Will Ask You Twice,” for example, a simple juxtaposition of a bright finger-picked guitar part against a moody one, clocks in at just over two minutes. All the songs do feel tightly managed, though. And while that may yield aesthetically pleasing results, it mutes the album’s emotional impact. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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Thrival Innovation + Music Festival returns for a fourth year to meld start-up culture with danceparty vibes. Following three days of program[SHOEGAZE] + SAT., SEPT. 24 ming dealing with city policy, entrepreneurship Fans of the Bay Area heavy-shoegaze band and technology (workshops run through Sept. King Woman already know singer Kristina 22), two days of musical performances are Esfandiari’s dark, ethereal croon. With the band guaranteed to get you on your feet. There’s Miserable — which performs tonight at The something for everyone, so take a break from Shop — she takes an even starker turn: While brainstorming the next big app, and start King Woman could hardly be called upbeat, limbering up so you can get the heck down. If Miserable goes further inward, and you’re looking to get faded and drop it low, Ty Uncontrollable, a record inspired by a painful Dolla $ign is your best bet. If St. Patrick’s Day is relationship, packs a slow-motion emotional your favorite holiday and you really like whiskey, check out Pittsburgh’s own Bastard Bearded punch. Esfandiari’s sadness surrounds like a foggy mist without veering into melodrama. Irishmen. Electropop outfit Rubblebucket Forever Grey, Doors in the Labyrinth and walks the line between moody and happy, and Bring Her also perform. Margaret Welsh seven-piece indie rock band Wild Child offers a 7 p.m. 4314 Main St., Bloomfield. $10. dose of catharsis with its spirited and emotional anthems. Metric is criminally underrated, IMHO, winterforgepgh@gmail.com and tracks like “Monster Hospital” and “Help [ALT AMERICANA] + TUE., SEPT 27 I’m Alive” feel as exciting and dynamic as they If you only know The Handsome Family from did in 2005 and 2009, respectively. One could watching season one of True Detective — the argue that Metric helped create a sound that song “Far From Any Road” was used as the subtly bleeds into the style of modern acts like show’s main title theme — you’ve got some headliner CHVRCHES, who have mastered a homework to do. saccharine synth energy Fortunately, explorwith bite and attitude. ing the husband/ While Top 40 DJs The wife duo’s extensive Chainsmokers kick up the catalog of gothic folk party factor with hits like tunes is a rewarding “Don’t Let Me Down” task. This month, the (featuring Daya, who two released their 11th will also be performing), studio record, Unseen: Thievery Corporation As always, singer — the influential DJ CHVRCHES Brett Sparks’ haunting duo who incorporates baritone gives life to elements of dub, Indian Rennie Sparks’ lyrical classical, bossa nova and {PHOTO COURTESY OF DANNY CLINCH} short stories of ghosts, more — holds down the animals, ominous good luck and tragicomic loss. finale of the festival. The coolest part of this entire fest is the fact it takes place at the historic Hear for yourself when the Family stops by Club Café tonight. Locals Arlo Aldo open. MW 8 p.m. Carrie Furnace, a retired blast furnace that was 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $15. 412-431-4950 or built in 1907 to fuel Homestead Work’s ironwww.clubcafelive.com making. Meg Fair 4:30 p.m. Fri., Sept 23, and
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THU 22 CATTIVO. Step Rockets, Kid Runner, Flip That Delver. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. HOWLERS. Destroyer of Light, CANT & Six Speed Kill. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. REX THEATER. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles. South Side. 412-381-6811. TIKI BAR. Right TurnClyde. Washington. 724-348-7022.
FRI 23 BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. Mathew Tembo. Strip District. www.bayardstown.com. GOOSKI’S. Bloated Sluts, Gahara, Squatchkill. Polish Hill. 412-681-1658. LINDEN GROVE. Good Guys. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. MARIO’S DOCKSIDE GRILLE. Right TurnClyde. Beaver. 878-313-3144. MOONDOG’S. Squeezin the Shaman. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.
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TUE 27 DIESEL. The Suffers, Jakubi. South Side. 412-431-8800. HOWLERS. Jorge Arana Trio, Come Holy Spirit, Aelism, The Van Allen Belt. Bloomfield. 412-414-4213. REX THEATER. Ballyhoo & Zach Deputy. South Side. 412-381-6811. ROCK ROOM. The Slowmotions, Pollen, Sadist, CHILLER, Decapitators. Polish Hill. 412-683-4418.
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WED 28 HOWLERS. Get Dead, Playoff Beard, Corusco, Danvers. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Built to Spill, Hop Along, Alex G. Millvale. 412-821-4447. STAGE AE. James Bay w/ Joseph. North Side. 412-229-5483.
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THU 22 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse. Millvale. 603-321-0277. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown. 412-471-2058.
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JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. High Road Easy. North Side. 412-904-3335. THE LAMP THEATRE. 28 North. Irwin. 724-367-4000. LOCK WALL ONE MARINA. The Bloody Seaman. Strip District. 412-965-3014. THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Rock The Bot!!! Bloomfield. 412-345-1059. THE R BAR. Jimmy Adler. Dormont. 412-942-0882. REX THEATER. Chris Robinson Brotherhood. South Side. 412-381-6811. ALL SAINT’S ww. r w SMILING MOOSE. BREWING COMPANY. pape pghcitym Aaron Gillespie, Ace Lenny Smith & .co Enders & Vinnie Caruana The Instant Gators. Pop Punk Night. South Side. Greensburg. 724-396-4968. 412-439-5706. BALTIMORE HOUSE. Artistree. THE SHOP. Miserable, Forever Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800. Grey, Doors in the Labyrinth, and CLUB 206. EZ Action. Braddock. Bring Her. Bloomfield. 412-951-0622. 412-646-1203. DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Last Fall. North Huntingdon. SHOOTIN’ BULL TAVERN. King’s 724-863-8181. Ransom. Monroeville. 724-339-7299. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Kings Ransom. Robinson. 412-489-5631.
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SAT 24 BELVEDERE’S. Down N Derby. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. MIXTAPE. DJ Antithesis. ‘The 1990s (& a bag of chips)’ dance party. Garfield. 412-661-1727. REMEDY. Dance Crush. Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771. RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Stasko. North Side. 412-566-4663. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.
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WED 28 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side. 412-431-4668. SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.
HIP HOP/R&B FRI 23 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254.
SAT 24 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412424-9254.
JAZZ THU 22 CITY OF ASYLUM @ ALPHABET CITY. Jazz Poetry: Kwame Dawes & Tuhin Das. North Side. 412-323-0278. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom. North Side. 412-904-3335. VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown. 412-394-3400.
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1810 TAVERN. RML Jazz. Beaver. 412-370-9621. ANDORA RESTAURANT - FOX w CHAPEL. Pianist Harry paper pghcitym Cardillo & vocalist ELWOOD’S PUB. Jack .co Charlie Sanders. Fox of Diamonds. Rural Ridge. Chapel. 412-967-1900. 724-265-1181. CITY OF ASYLUM @ ALPHABET CITY. Jazz Poetry: Richard Blanco. North Side. 412-323-0278. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony SPEAKEASY. Sweaty Betty Band. Campbell & Howie Alexander. Speakeasy. North Side. 412-904-3335. Downtown. 412-391-1004. SHELBY’S STATION. AndersonMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S Vosel. Bridgeville. 412-319-7938. GUILD. Michael Feinstein & his Trio. North Side. 412-322-1773. SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin MOONDOG’S. Soul Survivors. Burkett & Virgil Walters with Eric Blawnox. 412-828-2040. Susoeff. Greensburg. 724-691-0536. THE R BAR. Jimmi Adler. Dormont. 412-942-0882. SEWICKLEY SONS OF ITALY. BISTRO 9101. Aaron Lewinter. Sweaty Betty. Sewickley. 412-741-3722. McCandless. 412-318-4871.
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TUE 27 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta. Reggae & dancehall. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.
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CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Jazz performance. Strip District. 412-281-6593. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tony Campbell Jam Session. North Side. 412-904-3335. LEMONT. Groove Doctors. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Michael Feinstein & his Trio. North Side. 412-322-1773. THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every Saturday, a different band. Monroeville. 412-728-4155.
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ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Well Strung. Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968. BALTIMORE HOUSE. Doug Carnahan from “After The Fall”. Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800. BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Larry Groce, host of Mountain Stage Radio & The Carpenter Ants. Harmony. 724.452.0539. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Grant Street Grifters, Dave and Pappy from theCAUSE. CD release. Millvale. 412-821-4447. SMOKIN’ TOADS. Jack of Diamonds. Saxonburg. 724-353-1111.
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ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Lonesome, Lost & Foggy. Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968. CARNEGIE LECTURE HALL. John Hammond. Oakland. DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Skinny Tie Club. Mars. 724-553-5212. DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Last Fall. North Huntingdon. 724-863-8181. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Songwriters in the Cellar. Morgan Erina, Max Somerville, and Clinton Clegg. featuring members of Trio Plus Jason Rafalak on bass and Ryan Socrates on drums. Strip District. 412-566-1000.
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THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. THE R BAR. KAR-E-O-KEE. Dormont. 412-942-0882. RIVERS CASINO. DJ Nugget. North Side. 412-566-4663. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330. SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. Lawrenceville. 412-621-4900.
REGGAE FRI 23 565 LIVE. The Flo Band. Bellevue. 412-301-8158 or 412-522-7556. CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Funkle Aaron Project: A night of Bob Marley. North Side. 412-904-3335.
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JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Gizelxantha & the Afro Yaqui Music Collective. North Side. 412-904-3335. RIVERS CASINO. Jeff Jimerson Duo. North Side. 412-566-4663.
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RE: REDISCOVER/RENEW/ REINVENT. A collaboration with Cello Fury, Baroque flutist Stephen Schultz, Pittsburgh composer Nancy Galbraith, pianist Uliana Kozhevnikova & our Resonance Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Artistic Director Maria Sensi Sellner. Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland. 412-501-3330.
SUN 25 RE: REDISCOVER/RENEW/ REINVENT. A collaboration with Cello Fury, Baroque flutist Stephen Schultz, Pittsburgh composer Nancy Galbraith, pianist Uliana Kozhevnikova & our Resonance Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Artistic Director Maria Sensi Sellner. Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland. 412-501-3330. WE REMEMBER: A CONCERT TO CELEBRATE THE INNER LIFE OF ANNE FRANK. Pittsburgh contralto Daphne Alderson and Philadelphia pianist Norma Meyer. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-276-3456.
SAT 24 BALTIMORE HOUSE. Artistree Live. Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800. RIVERS CASINO. Right Turn Clyde. North Side. 412-566-4663.
SUN 25 CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Mathew Tembo. Oakland. 412-622-3114. OLD ST. LUKE’S. Chamber Music at Old St. Luke’s presents Cuarteto Bravo. A tango quartet. Scott. 412-969-7072. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Alba Flamenca. Strip District. 412-566-1000.
MON 26 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
WED 28 PITTSBURGH WINERY. The Ballroom Thieves. Strip District. 412-566-1000.
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RAUH THEATRE Oakland Tickets: pittsburghplayhouse. com or 412-392-8000. 2p.m.
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Jam on Walnut
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Jason Aldean: Six String Circus Tour 2016
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WE WOULD DO WELL BY CONTINUING TO ASK THE QUESTIONS THAT IT RAISES
WHY’S GUY Hannibal Buress would make a hell of a journalist. “I’ve interviewed people before. I’ve gotten interviewed a bunch,” the comedian, actor and writer told CP earlier this month. “So I know the different techniques and angles that people use.” Example: In 2014, Buress did one game of courtside NBA coverage for ESPN. The results were hard-hitting: “Is Anthony Davis as good as they say?… He’s really good. This is a dumb piece.” In his 2012 special, Animal Furnace, Buress took a college newspaper to task for an article he perceived as alternately poorly written (“[Buress] stands out like an exclamation point”) and untrue (“Sometimes when I do phone interviews and the journalist is boring, I just start saying crazy stuff to make it fun for me”). Hmmm … In a nutshell, Buress’ comedy asks why. Why don’t we eat penguins? Why do off-duty military officers wear full regalia to Applebee’s? Why do people act like olives taste good? Probably best known is a bit from 2014 where Buress asked why Bill Cosby’s rape allegations had gone unnoticed for so long. The fact that he asked that one might be the reason you know of him in the first place. He’s also a regular on Broad City and The Eric Andre Show, has appeared in films like The Nice Guys and Daddy’s Home, and released two Netflix specials since 2014. Buress also asked why in his oneseason Comedy Central series, Why?, which provided an open-ended outlet for his questions, mixing standup, sketch comedy and man-on-the-street interviews. All good channels for asking “why?” but not necessarily the best career plan for a personality like his. “The most challenging thing was just trying to figure out how to get my voice across in a natural way,” said Buress. “And we did that some of the time, I don’t think we did that as a whole with the series.” Among his many projects in the works are a podcast recorded on his current tour and a new Netflix show, Easy, where he plays, fittingly, a journalist. “I think I’d make a really good journalist,” said Buress. “I would ask really tough questions, I would ask weird stuff to kinda get people off balance, so I’d be all over the place. I think I’d be good at it.” ALEXGORDON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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The new Frick Environmental Center, off Beechwood Avenue in Squirrel Hill
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S YOU APPROACH the new Frick Environmental Center from its historic entry gatehouses on Beechwood Boulevard, in Squirrel Hill, three paths lead to the fountain about 100 yards away that is part of that original landscape. One curves to your left, past the parking lots, where solar arrays generate power for the building and guide rainwater into catchment basins for reuse. Another path goes straight to the historic fountain, which is re-engineered to use just a mist of water rather than the traditional but wasteful vertical spout. The third path curves to the right, past the outdoor amphitheater and into the building itself, a 15,500-square-foot structure, designed by BCJ Architects and built by contractors P.J. Dick.
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The $19 million building and landscape project is owned by the city and operated by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, primarily as educational and support space for school groups and the public. Having three linked but different paths, each with its own lessons, is emblematic of the building as a whole, which can be considered highly successful from a number of seemingly separate but ultimately unified perspectives. You could simply praise this as a handsome building. Pittsburgh’s apartment and condo markets have had some real clunkers of late. Likewise, when it comes to environmentally conscientious design, some architects are satisfied with blandness or worse, with only green virtues as a prevailing goal. But this structure sits on its sloping site that opens visually downhill to the south, and
a roof that tilts up and out ever so slightly, covering projecting balconies. It’s less a derivation of Frank Lloyd Wright and more an embodiment of some similar commonsense priorities of passive solar orientation. The brand identity of (firm-leading) architect Peter Bohlin’s elegantly detailed design sensibility, with origins in American Northwestern woodlands, is recognizable and very suitable here. The slightly syncopated rhythm of the columns and windows, as well as the exterior walls enclosed with unfinished black locust, are just enough to create a poetic relationship with the surrounding woods while feeling tasteful rather than hokey. Meanwhile, the outdoor amphitheater and water sculpture, by artist Stacy Levy, connect to the greater park, as does its articulation of the building as a CONTINUES ON PG. 24
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part of the continuous path, rather than just an object on its own. “The building is really just an entrance to the park,” says Matt Plecity, who was an architect at BCJ on the building’s early design. The building is independently significant as an achievement in sustainable architecture. The claim that it’s “the greenest public building in the world” could seem numbing. Didn’t we just do something like this at the Phipps Conservatory? We did, but both structures are remarkable. The Living Building Challenge is an independently operated certification program that documents a structure’s ability to produce all the energy it uses, and to use rainwater captured onsite (although the drinking water comes from the municipal system). So for the Frick Environmental Center, five groundsource heat pumps, drilled 525 feet into the ground, provide heating and cooling for the building, with 152 kilowatts of power supplied by solar arrays over the parking lot. It will take several months of testing to certify the building’s performance. Certification is not automatic. But this would be only the 11th building globally to meet the Living Building standard. The building is also anticipated to achieve LEED Platinum status — though LEED certification is notably less rigorous
than the Living Building Challenge, according to P.J. Dick’s Noah Shaltes. You could likewise simply praise this building for its function as an outreach to school students and programs. The From Slavery to Freedom garden, at the entry to the park, makes traditional cultivation practices of African Americans an intrinsic part of the park experience, diversifying the appeal of a public facility named for its wealthy white donor. Features such as the rain veil, where water falls like a curtain from the building eaves, emphasize the rain-or-shine appeal. Education Director Camilla Rivera Tinsley explains that more schools are participating in programs, and more are making repeat visits for more involved programs. From a building that encourages connections to the adjacent park and to principles of nature more broadly, we would do well by continuing to ask the questions that it raises. Are forthcoming buildings making net-zero energy use part of their goals? Why or why not? What about other enterprises, such as maybe driverless cars? The paths to better environmental stewardship begin very effectively at Frick Park. We should follow the example of this new building (and landscape) and continue such priorities beyond the gates, not just within them. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Olga Kifyak and Evgeniy Svetlitsa in Russian Grand Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty {PHOTO COURTESY OF RUSSIAN GRAND BALLET}
{BY STEVE SUCATO} One of several Russian ballet troupes that grace U.S. stages each year, Russian Grand Ballet, as part of a 36-city U.S. tour, stops at the Byham Theater on Sept. 28 to perform its production of Marius Petipa’s Sleeping Beauty. Founded in 1996, the classical ballet troupe, led by ballet master and Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir Troshchenko, has performed around the globe, including in China, Spain, Mexico, Italy and Germany. For its two-and-a-half-hour full-length production of Sleeping Beauty, set to music by Tchaikovsky, the company brings some 50 dancers from ballet academies and troupes in Russia and Ukraine. The familiar, family-friendly ballet tells the story of the beautiful princess Aurora, cursed to wait in a slumber for true love’s kiss to awaken her from an evil spell. Dancing the role of Aurora is Olga Kifyak, a National Opera House of Ukraine star and Honored Artist of Ukraine. In an email interview, Kifyak says of the role: “Your technique has to be very strong, and your acting skills have to be immaculate. You have to make the audience believe that Aurora is a very young girl, and that she is shy and modest as well as a princess. The dancing has to look light and effortless ... and the lighter it looks, the more power it takes to perform.” Kifyak, who boasts 11 international dance awards including a bronze medal at the 2002 Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition, will partner with fellow Honored Artist of Ukraine and Lviv National Opera dancer Evgeny Svetlitsa, as Prince Désiré. Kifyak describes Svetlitsa as a dance partner in whom she has total confidence. “We understand each other, often with no words … needed,” writes Kifyak. “In ballet circles it is called ‘dancetogetherness’ (stancovannost).” Like many touring-only troupes, RGB performs almost every day in a different city. That can be challenging physically. “Of course, the tension is there, since you have to dance each show and do it at 100 percent [even though] the body doesn’t have enough time to rest fully,” writes Kifyak. “But most important is to have the audience leave the theater at the end of the show in a great mood.” INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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METROPOLIS THEATER PRESENTS
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CMU DRAMA ALUMNUS
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DAWN OF THE DEAD STAR
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Diaryof a POE’S Madman LAST NIGHT
Don’t miss this Suzi Bass Award-Nominated performance of Gogol’s mad masterpiece. “THE ENERGY THAT HAYDEN PROJECTS TO THE AUDIENCE IS BEYOND ALL LIMITS AS HE DRAWS YOU IN....”
Edgar Allan Poe shares his feverish dying hours and some of his most beloved works.
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AS PART OF its “Can You Trust the Government?” season, Throughline Theatre Company presents the world premiere of locally based playwright David L. Williams’ very creepy The Censor, in which the answer to that seasonal question is a resounding no. The play is set in a parallel-reality America called The Commonwealth, presided over by a royal family and administered by lots of officials. The Commonwealth has, up until now, avoided an area known as The Islands but is now beginning take an interest. Charlotte Coates, from the Ministry of Art, comes to The Islands tasked with reining in artists whose work challenges the tenets of the state.
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Williams nicely subverts our notion of a censor in an authoritarian regime, and both the character of Charlotte and the first act of his play are shadowy and highly compelling; a lot of the fun is guessing where he’s going to take us in the second act. The answer, unfortunately, turns out to be nowhere particular. I don’t want to reveal secrets, but the tone and focus is all over the place; motivations change
by whim, and where the play had been chugging along nicely, Williams suddenly throws up a number of nonsensical obstacles. Characters you were enjoying for their smarts and savvy are suddenly thick and emotionally paralyzed. Williams has also written in a curious transgender subplot. It’s not offensive or exploitive; he obviously cares about the community and its issues. It’s just that the character feels grafted in from a different story. Maura Underwood plays the hell out of Charlotte; she’s mesmerizing in the role and — until she’s overwhelmed by the script — her acting choices are surprising and convincing. Christopher Collier and Jessie Wray Goodman do strong work in nebulously defined roles, and Liam Ezra Dickinson puts great effort into humanizing a role that the playwright has written more as an idea than a person. It’s hardly news that the second act of a brand-new script needs work. There’s a lot of great stuff happening in The Censor, and Williams just needs extend it to both acts. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
THREE IN ONE {BY STUART SHEPPARD} FOR A CITY already rich with many great theater companies, how lucky are we to also have the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, which has been staged here for 26 years? I was fortunate to catch one of its four programs, each comprising three oneact plays during the course of an evening.
I had almost forgotten how enjoyable a variety of one-acts can be. It’s like getting several different flavors on one cone at the ice-cream parlor. In the festival’s Program D, the intense “Brotherhood” was directed by D Paylo for The Theatre Factory. It was written by Garry Kluger, who has done a lot of TV work, which is obvious without even reading his bio. We have seen this archetypal story about two brothers who turn out good and bad, respectively, in countless small-screen dramas. Terry Westwood and Tom Kolos offer insightful portrayals of these rival siblings. Unfortunately, after a sprinkling of Freudian dialogue, their past issues are resolved rather predictably.
DOG BITES {BY FRED SHAW}
The highlight of the program is Stephen Engel’s “Once Upon a Mattress Store,” produced by Stage Right Pittsburgh. While its plot smacks of Hollywood — as does the Howard Hawks-esque direction by Joe Eberle — the performance of George Saulnier (Larry), who is a Pittsburgh treasure, will leave you glowing. The dialogue is sharp and witty and delivered with great timing. When Larry asks a customer what type of mattress he prefers, and is told, “For the last three years I’ve been sleeping on a prison bed,” he replies, “So I’m guessing firm?” Connor McNelis shows powerful range as the unnamed thief, and is lucky enough to come away, as we do, with a life lesson that questions more than it teaches.
When poet Charles Bukowski, whom Time called a “laureate of American lowlife,” died, in 1994, fans filled the day by drinking to their literary hero. And the prolific writer of collections like Love Is a Dog From Hell still holds sway over many with his gritty, confessional style that never pulls punches. One longtime acolyte is Pittsburgh’s Jimmy Cvetic. In his new collection, the selfpublished Beware of the Dog, Cvetic brandishes an over-the-top sense of honesty that dovetails with his speaker’s sometimes bighearted yet extremely forthright personality. Cvetic, a retired Allegheny County detective and co-organizer (with Joan Bauer) of the esteemed Hemingway’s Poetry Series, is perhaps better known for teaching boxing to at-risk kids. It’s those boxing poems that stand out in an uneven collection that’s sure to thrill devotees of hard-boiled yet often comic realism in poetry that cuts across the academic grain. In “Amonti Is Told The Secret, But He Just Forgot,” readers meet a boy, described as “No bigger than a minute / All wide-eyed sunshine.” Cvetic’s speaker reminisces about a trip to an Indianapolis boxing tournament hosted by the late Muhammad Ali. The Pittsburgh team presents “The Greatest” with a bicycle, and when given the duty, Amonti, the youngest, “started to cry. / Ali picked Amonti up / And held him close to his chest … / Whispered in his ear … / back on the canvas, / I swear Amonti floated.” It’s a pleasant moment that lingers until the poem ends as a cautionary tale. As a cop, Vietnam vet and son of a mother whom he recalls “reading poetry / And drinking Iron City Beer from a quart bottle,” Cvetic comes by his cynicism honestly. However, he’s at his best when he allows the image to speak for itself, as in “Becoming a Man,” where he recounts the boredom of guard duty overlooking a Buddhist temple and rice paddy where a young woman labors. He describes it as “[a]lmost like a postcard / except for the barbwire … / I would watch the girl for hours … / Sometimes during the day / She would pull down her black silk pants / And pee right into the green water. / It was beautiful.” While tender scenes are few, and titles like “Cunty Things” and “Fabs Shits His Pants” push the envelope of taste, Beware of the Dog is less shaggy than it might first seem.
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I HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN HOW ENJOYABLE A VARIETY OF ONE-ACTS CAN BE. Jennifer Tromble’s “Influence,” directed subtly by Nicole Zalak for The Heritage Players, offers a much more original dilemma, with wonderful character evolution, especially by Linda Anschuetz, who plays the foul-mouthed grandmother Marie. Her son Michael, gently played by Greg Bromfield, must confront her when it becomes clear that Marie’s unsavory vocabulary is rubbing off on the granddaughter she babysits, raising alarms at school. This play touchingly explores the deeper issues of generational influence, and questions the dynamic between political correctness and morality in today’s society.
PITTSBURGH NEW WORKS FESTIVAL continues through Sun., Sept. 25. Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $15-40. 412-944-2639 or www.pittsburghnewworks.org
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09.22-09.29.16 Full events listed online at www.pghcitypaper.com “I don’t want to be bad,” says Jason. “Yes you do,” replies Tyrone. The fact that Tyrone is teen-age Jason’s very own orange hand puppet, with button eyes and a shock of maroon hair, only gooses this brief but pivotal exchange in Robert Askins’ dark comedy Hand to God. The uproarious 2011 play, which became an unlikely and critically acclaimed Broadway hit, makes its Pittsburgh premiere at City Theatre this week. It’s set in a puppet ministry in a Lutheran church in suburban Texas. Jason’s mom, recent widow Margery, is losing control of the class when Tyrone, who talks as saltily as an inmate on the yard, takes over timid Jason’s right hand, with sex and subverting authority on his cotton-batting mind.
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Nick LaMedica, the boyish New York-based actor who plays Jason/Tyrone, has been working overtime to master what’s effectively two roles in one body, a simultaneous Jekyll and Hyde. “I usually play all these sweet nice guys. So it’s fun to be rude, and brash, and aggressive,” says LaMedica. Margery is played by Pittsburgh-based actor Lisa Velten Smith, who’s known for dramatic roles but says she’s drawn to characters who are “a little off balance.” (Still-grieving Margery gets hit on by Pastor Greg, and come on to by another teenager in her charge.) The production, directed by Tracy Brigden, also stars Maggie Carr, Michael Green and Tim McGreever. Yet for all its manic energy and undeniable laughs, Hand to God is no farce: Playwright Askins grew up in Texas, where his mother ran a Christian puppet ministry, and his father died when he was a teenager. Smith notes how the play emphasizes that both Margery and Jason are still processing the death of her husband. “I think it’s this really beautiful exploration of grief” and of what happens when you try to ignore it, she says.
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FILM Hosted by Pennsylvania Resources Council and Allegheny CleanWays, the nation’s biggest environmental film festival brings its national tour to Pittsburgh. Attempting to save the earth one short film at a time by showcasing films with an eco-friendly worldview, the second annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival takes place tonight at the Harris Theater, in partnership with the Re:NEW Festival. There’s a second screening on Sept. 24, at Dormont’s Hollywood Theater. Ian Flanagan 6:30 p.m. (809 Liberty Ave., Downtown). Also 6 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24 (1449 Potomac Ave., Dormont). $15. 412-488-7490 x105 or www.prc.org
STAGE There have been other rock musicals about superheroes, of course, but The Toxic Avenger is the only comedic rock musical about a mutant superhero born of New Jersey’s troubles with hazardous waste. The eponymous 1984 cult-favorite film was adapted for the stage in 2009; the show, by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, ended up with strong reviews and
an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. CLO Cabaret has the Pittsburgh-premiere production, with Evan Ruggiero (pictured) in the title role as nerd turned heromonster. The first performance is tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 7:30 p.m. Continues through Dec. 18. 237 Seventh St., Downtown. $42-59.75. www.pittsburghclo.org
JAZZ AND POETRY City of Asylum’s month of free evenings blending jazz and poetry continue with some especially notable guests. Tonight, readers include Kwame Dawes, the prolific poet, novelist and writer who grew up in Jamaica, and Tuhin Das, the Bangladeshi poet and activist who’s now a City of Asylum writer-in-residence; they’re joined by Pittsburgh’s Tony Campbell Quartet, for performances separately and together. Tomorrow, sets of jazz by local icons Roger Humphries and RH Factor alternate with jazz-poetry collaborations featuring Richard Blanco — whom you’ll recall as the 2012 presidentialinaugural poet — and Finnish poet Henriikka Tavi. ^ Thu., Sept. 22: The Toxic Avenger {PHOTO COURTESY OF ARCHIE CARPENTER}
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friday 09.23 EXHIBIT Before being donned for Broadway shows in 2017, Costumes of The Wiz Live! – from last year’s popular NBC adaptation of the 1975 musical The Wiz! – offers an exclusive opportunity to see the design work of Tony Award winner Paul Tazewell. Coordinated by FashionAFRICANA and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, this multimedia exhibition also features set pieces and drawings reinterpreting the soul/R&B-inspired version of Frank Baum’s tale. Starting today, the exhibit at the August Wilson Center opens to the public as part of the Trust’s fall Gallery Crawl. IF 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Exhibit continues through Nov. 30. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Free. 412-471-6070 or www.trustarts.org
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to March: Civil Rights in Comics and Cartoons, a ToonSeum-organized exhibit spotlighting comics and editorial cartoons from the Civil Rights era, as well as a new graphic novel about famed activist and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Elsewhere, the free Crawl’s lineup of performances and exhibits in some two dozen Downtown venues includes data.matrix, a new show at Wood Street Galleries by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda; the start of weekend-long pop-up artist market CSA PGH Small Mall, at SPACE Gallery; and several exhibits from the ongoing Re:NEW Festival for art incorporating creative reuse and transformation. Post-Crawl, ticketed CrawlAfterDark happenings include a live audiovisual performance by Ikeda; a screening of John Waters’ 1970 cult classic Multiple Maniacs; and improv at Arcade Comedy Theater. BO 5:30-10 p.m. Free. (CrawlAfterDark begins at 10 p.m.) Downtown. 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org
MUSIC Resonance Works begins its first season with a program entitled RE: Rediscover, ^ Thu., Sept. 22: Wild & Scenic Film Festival Renew, Reinvent. The program blends the talents of the Resonance Chamber Orchestra with those of baroque flutist Stephen Schultz, pianist Uliana Kozhevnikova and the “rock-star cellists” of the group Cello Fury. Works include compositions by Vivaldi, Stravinsky and Pittsburgh-native composer Nancy Galbraith, whose two pieces were written especially for Schultz’s renowned abilities. There are two performances, tonight and tomorrow, both at Shadyside’s Third Presbyterian Church. IF 8 p.m. Also 3 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24. 5701 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. $15-35. 412-501-3330 or www.resworks.org
saturday 09.24 ART Grassroots arts festival Penn Ave Arts in Motion celebrates its fifth year. This free community day, organized by Most Wanted Fine Art gallery, includes live music and dance, a puppet show, arts and crafts activities, food and more. The “more” is highlighted by the Pittsburgh Art Car Festival, with proud owners gathering on the corner of Winebiddle and Penn to show off their tricked-out,
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I think it [Art Olympics] is a good example of creativity. The event was fun — it was very energetic. There’s this contact energy because the three groups were working so hard and moving really fast. To see from when they started out to the finished project two-and-a-half hours later was astonishing. One thing it does is it makes someone think about what art is. What really struck me about watching this process was how an artist will take whatever materials are at hand and figure out a way to make something that expresses an idea or a feeling. And it reminds me of things you can see in a lot of other areas. An example would be if you do a filmmaking workshop, you may have people make a short film in a matter of a few days — it concentrates the mind. It’s amazing what you can do in that short period of time with limited resources.
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Before the season’s slowly growing chill intervenes, Kayak Pittsburgh has one last opportunity this year to learn how to paddle on Pittsburgh’s rivers. The Beginner Paddle program — for those 12 and older, no experience required — is easy to participate in. All equipment and instructions are provided. Taking place tonight at its North Side location, beneath the Clemente Bridge, the program is perfect for anyone looking to extend the summer fun a little longer and get a picturesque perspective of the Pittsburgh skyline. IF 6 p.m. North Side. $22-29. 412-255-0564 or www. ventureoutdoors.org
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thursday 09.29 STAGE Lesbian desire, transgender experience and more are all fair game in Drama Queens!, a two-day feminist performance-art event at Carnegie Mellon University. The program, organized through CMU’s Center for the Arts in Society, features ^ Thu., Sept. 29: Drama Queens! six visiting artists whose disciplines range from writing to theater and comedy. Tonight’s stage showcase includes three artists with connections to the lively 1980s New York scene — Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin and Carmelita Tropicana — alongside three contemporary artists: comedian Erin Markey, internationally known comic and performer Desiree Burch (pictured), and Becca Blackwell, a trans actor and performer. Tonight’s show, at the Rauh Studio Theater, is followed tomorrow by a panel discussion. BO 6:30 pm. Purnell Center, CMU campus, Oakland. Panel discussion: noon, Fri., Sept. 30. Free with ticket, available at Purnell Center box office starting Sept. 26. www.cmu.edu/cas
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FROM THE TREE {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Nobody knows how many fruit and nut trees Pittsburgh has, less still how much of that nutritious produce falls to the ground, uneaten. A new 412 Food Rescue program aims to get as much of that food to hungry people as possible. The nonprofit’s Hidden Harvest — which expands a project launched in 2014 by Rose Tileston and Carolyn Barber — enlists volunteers to pluck the produce growing on public and private property (all with permission, of course).
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Volunteer Lataya Johnson, of McKees Rocks, uses a fruit-picking tool to harvest crabapples for Hidden Harvest in Mellon Park.
On Hidden Harvest’s inaugural weekend, Sept. 9 and 11, working in just a handful of East End neighborhoods, 100 volunteers (including some from BNY Mellon and Repair the World Pittsburgh) gathered 1,500 pounds of apples and crabapples, says 412 program manager Hana Uman. Two teams of six volunteers, for instance, pulled marble-sized, maroon crabapples from 15 trees in Mellon Park, along Fifth Avenue. The weekend’s table apples were donated to Lawrenceville United, to aid refugee communities the group serves. Crabapples — which as-is are mostly inedible — and bug-ridden apples went to cider collective A Few Bad Apples and Wigle Whiskey — proceeds from whose value-added ciders will help 412 keep redirecting good food from retailers to nonprofits serving the hungry. “It went really well for our pilot,” says Uman. Next year, she says, “the goal is to harvest all the time” — including pears, peaches, mulberries, walnuts and more. Interested in volunteering for Hidden Harvest’s October event? Email hana@412foodrescue.org.
RETURN TRIP TO ITALY {BY ANGELIQUE BAMBERG + JASON ROTH}
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that we first visited Cibo, an intimate Italian place in Regent Square that offered mildly updated dishes in a mildly upscale atmosphere. Cibo 1.0 had a good run, then shut down for awhile. Now it has reopened with a new chef at the helm, Jennifer Burfield, whose résumé includes having worked under Justin Severino at Cure and whose philosophy — flavorful food doesn’t have to be complicated — is one we can get behind. We caught a hint of that background in our first appetizer, elk carpaccio. This was an ultra-simple platter of rounds of raw, deeply-colored meat studded with capers and baby arugula, sprinkled with fennel pollen, and drizzled with lemon oil. In its beef form, carpaccio is usually sliced pa-
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per-thin, but Burfield went a little thicker, sacrificing no tenderness while adding a pleasing element of chew. The texture was buttery, the flavor extraordinarily mild with no hint of gaminess.
CIBO 1103 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square. 412-371-7829 HOURS: Tue.-Thu. 5-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 5-10 p.m. PRICES: Starters and salads $6-14; pasta and entrees $10-29 LIQUOR: BYOB
CP APPROVED Surfing the Mediterranean menu, we tried the crab beignets. The mixture of fluffy batter and shredded crab on the interior could have used a touch more seasoning, but the deep-fried crust was sim-
ply fantastic, deep brown and crunchy without heaviness or greasiness. The accompanying stone-ground mustard remoulade amply compensated for any deficit of seasoning. Frito misto was a completely different form of fried seafood: whole prawns, calamari and white anchovies lightly coated in a tempura-like batter and fried to an ultra-light, airy crisp. Strips of fennel prepared the same way offered a pleasing contrast to the brininess of the fish and shellfish. The textures fell short of perfect, with the prawns more firm than juicy-tender, and the salt that was missing from the beignets seemed to turn up here. But again, the ethereal coating was addictive. At first bite, Jason’s butter-lettuce salad also seemed oversalted, but once his
palate adjusted, he relished the deceptively simple plate. This was also the dish that confirmed that Burfield is kind of a genius with texture. Large, whole leaves were folded over and laid out across the plate, with nothing but thin slices of radish and brown-butter croutons scattered over and among them, and the salad was drizzled with musky white truffle oil. The crispy croutons and crunchy radishes complemented the tender, juicy lettuce, and the simple dressing was in line with the rich simplicity of the flavors. The three flatbreads on the menu — classic margherita, prosciutto with date, and finocchio (fennel) salami with oilcured olives — have a rectangular crust that straddles a couple styles: the edges light and puffy edges like a Neapolitan, but the distinct layering between the crisp bottom and soft, chewy top more reminiscent of a classic New York pie. Our flatbread wasn’t too deeply browned, which was fine for the subtly yeasty dough. We chose the salami topping, which was meaty and only subtly fennel-ly, with enough backbone to balance the intense olives. A half-dozen pastas were offered in large or small portions. These were sophisticated versions of classics, like eggplant parmesan with guanciale (cured pork jowl) and ricotta ravioli in a lemoncream sauce with leek and chard. Delectable as these sounded, we were driven by the urge to consume tomatoes in season and ordered bucatini all’Amatriciana. A frankly hearty sauce of crushed San Marzano tomatoes, red pepper, pecorino Romano cheese and guanciale clung to the sturdy, slender tubes of pasta for a complex dish that was salty, savory and sweet all at once. Three entrees, plus a fish of the day, comprised the rest of the menu. We were impressed to see rabbit among them. Perhaps combining it with beans and greens was a good way to make it accessible, although it turned out that the exotic component of the dish was the greens: Swiss chard, another bold choice. It was more pliable than the traditional escarole, but with a more vegetal flavor. A light, garlicky sauce and tarragon kept the dish this side of its stew-like tendencies and the rabbit, rightly, at the fore. With some of the rich mouthfeel of pork shoulder, but a milder flavor, it would be hard to find another meat that would interplay so well with the chard and creamy cannellini beans. The reborn Cibo has taken a dauntless step forward in ambition and execution. It still has the feeling of a neighborhood trattoria, but its newly confident ingredients, combined with an extraordinary focus on textures, make Cibo destination dining. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M
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Fashioned at the bar where I work. I prepared one according to our house recipe — bonded bourbon, demerara sugar syrup and a healthy dose of bitters. I slid the cocktail across the bar and watched her take a sip. “Ah, that’s a wonderful boff,” she declared. Catching wind of my puzzlement, she explained: “A Bourbon Old Fashioned. BOF. That’s what my father always called them!” The Old Fashioned seems to demand this sort of nostalgia. Whether wincing at the watery version at your college dive or fondly recalling your father hollering for a fresh “boff,” the Old Fashioned is a drink with tangled roots and deep personal ties. To some generations, an Old Fashioned is a drink served over heaps of muddled fruit and topped with club soda. If you hail from Wisconsin, your Old Fashioned might contain Korbel brandy and Squirt soda (a peculiar but beloved regional variation). And if you frequent modern cocktail bars, you’ve seen all manner of cheeky spins on the classic drink. As the name suggests, the Old Fashioned has been around for an awfully long time. It wasn’t always called that, however. Most cocktail historians agree that the name was born of a backlash against the “improved” cocktails that flooded America in the late 19th century. In his recent book on the Old Fashioned, Robert Simonson shares an 1886 article by Leander Richardson, who writes, “The modern cocktail has come to be so complex a beverage that people are beginning to desert it.” When enough barflies become fed
up with fancy offerings and bark for a cocktail made “the old-fashioned way,” you have a catchy new name for a classic drink. More than a century later, the Old Fashioned still serves the same purpose: Amidst a landscape of elaborate and unfamiliar cocktails, the Old Fashioned is like an old friend. When I managed a bar, I learned a trick that’s hardly an industry secret: Put a drink with “old fashioned” in the name on your menu. It will sell. Old Fashioneds are Long Island Ice Teas for millennials: a familiar fallback that’s all but guaranteed to go down easy. The Old Fashioned is more of a template than a specific recipe, simply calling for a spirit, a sweetener, bitters and ice. Switch out any part of that equation (make aged rum the base, or use honey instead of sugar) for a delightful variation. Cecil Usher, of Butcher and the Rye, shares one such tweak on the classic, perfect for the changing seasons.
Fall Old Fashioned by Cecil Usher • 2 oz. Maker’s Mark • Half-an-ounce maple simple syrup • Quarter-of-an-ounce St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram • 2 drops Urban Moonshine Maple Bitters • 1 dash Angostura Orange Bitters
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Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste them both and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and use #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to food-and-beverage writer Celine Roberts, at celine@pghcitypaper.com.
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HEAVEN, HELL, LIMBO {BY HARRY KLOMAN} Besides having the coolest name in art, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) had a most peculiar talent. His elaborate paintings depict good and evil with fanciful figures and a startlingly rich tableau of colors. (Rarely do we see such vivid blue testicles on a wild boar.)
Detail from Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” circa 1494-1516 (Madrid Museo Nacional del Prado)
In his documentary Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil, Pieter van Huystee investigates the painter’s unique imagery. Using infrared cameras, he examines the original drawings beneath the paint, probing for insights. He opens by observing that Bosch used lots of owls, and that owls represent darkness and danger, so “linking it to the devil is not a stretch.” Noted. Van Huystee works terribly hard to make his film a mystery, but in the end, there’s merely information, not revelation: We mostly watch how art historians use science, technology and guesswork to determine authorship and provenance. There’s also lots of walking into and out of rooms. But discovering that there were drawings under the images we see leaves us with a big “so what?” These inquisitors are as dry as the paint they study, and looking at Bosch’s work, or even at pictures of it, offers much more pleasure than van Huystee’s plodding film. In English, and Dutch Spanish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Sept. 23. Regent Square INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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These birds used to deliver babies, but now they just bring packages. In this animated family comedy from Nicolas Stoller, feathers get ruffled when a stork is tasked with dropping off an actual baby. Starts Fri., Sept. 23
Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is tested for patriotism.
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tory of cinematic button-pushing, conspiracy-sharing and assorted anti-hero mythmaking, seems like a good fit for the story of why and how one civilian took extra-legal steps to expose the government’s extra-legal surveillance program. But Snowden, about National Security Administration contractor and subsequent leaker/ whistleblower Edward Snowden, never catches any of the energy that illuminated some of Stone’s earlier works. It’s billed as a “dramatization of real events that occurred between 2004-2013,” and indeed, it is a competent and mildly interesting bio-pic. Stone opens in Hong Kong in June 2013, where Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is holed up in a hotel and coordinating a data release with filmmaker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo), journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Guardian correspondent Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson). Their querying of Snowden establishes a series of flashbacks depicting how Snowden spent nine years in the world
of government surveillance, growing increasingly troubled by what he saw. There’s also a fair amount of material on the collateral damage incurred in his relationship with girlfriend, Lindsay (Shailene Woodley). Despite the film’s perfunctory nature, Stone bites off a lot with Snowden: It’s a character study, a romance, an espionage thriller, a docudrama and a policy paper.
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There are some big themes in play: how war on terror created both a need for increased surveillance and the latitude to abuse the system; what access the government should have to digital data, with or without our knowledge and consent; and what obligations do concerned citizens have to speak up, and at what costs? As such, the film does a lot of swiveling, and cuts corners with a jumble of drone-strike footage, news clips,
a PowerPoint chart or two and some clunky on-the-nose dialogue. It’s admittedly a tough hill to climb. Three years ago, most people met these revelations with a collectively shrug, even when they were fresh. And consumer convenience continues to trump concerns about privacy and who might be invading it. The film begins with prologue in which Stone himself holds up a smartphone and warns how using such a device can compromise our privacy, and will be “our undoing.” Then, he asks us to turn it off during the film so we don’t annoy other patrons, which is obviously the No. 1 problem with phone use. The PSA wraps up with another voice assuring us that “you’re welcome to turn your phone back on after the movie” … because you have been away from your phone for two hours! So, good luck Mr. Stone and Ed Snowden and everybody else trying to educate viewers about the enormous and grave risks inherent in using modern technology. The battle appears lost before the film even starts. A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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NEW THE HOLLARS. Nothing like a life-threatening illness to pull a family together and get folks back on track! This new dramedy, directed by John Krasinski, rumbles over the same playing field, making the same easy goals. John (Krasinski), a struggling artist in New York City who is avoiding committing to his very pregnant girlfriend (Anna Kendrick), gets summoned back to his small Ohio town when his mom (Margo Martindale) is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Waiting for him there: his weepy dad (Richard Jenkins), his loser brother (Sharlto Copley) and his high school buddy turned nurse (Charlie Day).
depressed self-pitying soul; they discover other commonalities, like their desire to stay home and do nothing. (Rose’s dream job is “to watch TV on behalf of the poor.”) Then Rose signs up to be Robbie’s helpmate; she doesn’t know Robbie is Bill’s brother, nor does Robbie know Bill knows Rose. Soon, both brothers are vying for Rose’s affections, and not one of these three emotionally stunted folks is managing it well. Brother frequently hits the sweet spots of festivalfriendly indie comedies, balancing frustration and sweetness. And it challenges our notion to assign “hero” status to the physically disabled: Robbie gets to be as flawed as anybody else, without being vilified or pitied. The film doesn’t land all the jokes — though the cast is game — and too many not-so-believable plot twists eventual drain some the energy from the film’s offbeat premise. Starts Fri., Sept. 23. Hollywood (AH) OTHER PEOPLE. Jesse Plemons (Fargo) plays a struggling comedy writer who returns home to care for his
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My Blind Brother Everybody plays familiar beats of their usual characters: Krasinski is befuddled nice guy, Day is jerky, RJ is older befuddled nice guy, Kendrick is sensible, and Martindale is the no-bullshit matriarch holding the dysfunctional clan together. It plays out like a mildly amusing extended sit-com, and never digs to explore any suggested deeper storylines, like why are all the men so ineffectual in their lives. Wholly predictable, right up to the ending pairing mom’s life-threatening illness with girlfriend’s impending baby-delivery. Starts Fri., Sept. 23. AMC Loews Waterfront (Al Hoff)
dying mother (Molly Shannon). Chris Kelly directs this autobiographical feature. Starts Fri., Sept. 23. Parkway, McKees Rocks
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. Antoine Fuqua directs this re-imagining of the classic 1960 Western of the same name, itself a remake of the 1954 Japanese film The Seven Samurai. Seven men band together to protect a village from marauders. Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke head the cast. Starts Fri., Sept. 23
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 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)
MY BLIND BROTHER. Sophie Goodhart’s comedy finds a new twist on sibling rivalry. Robbie (Adam Scott) is the family’s golden boy, his accomplishments doubly underscored because he is blind. His brother Bill (Nick Kroll) is Robbie’s disgruntled caretaker, doubly annoyed that his efforts merit no larger consideration. Plus, Bill sees that Robbie uses his disability to make himself the center of attention and manipulate others, constantly organizing and “starring in” various charity events designed to feed his ego. Fed up, Bill takes his sorrows to a local bar, where he meets Rose (Jenny Slate), another
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The Hollars 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. Thu., Sept. 22. Pump House, 880 E. Waterfront St., Munhall. Free. www.battleofhomestead.org BLOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN. This new featurelength documentary examines the history of coalmining in West Virginia from a labor perspective, and the picture isn’t pretty. Co-directors Mari-Lynn Evans and Jordan Freeman recount the days of coal camps and functional serfdom for miners; the bloody battles of miners against companies often allied with state or federal government; and the greedy corporations and corrupt officials who oversaw various mining-related disasters and got away with slaps on the wrist (if that). Interview subjects range from social commentator Chris Hedges and Pittsburgh-based lawyer Bruce Stanley (“The war is the one coal has waged on West Virginia for the last 150 years”) to federal safety inspectors and former miners. Despite industry efforts to play environmentalists and labor advocates against each another, the filmmakers ultimately suggest the two groups have more common cause than not. 7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 23 ($50; includes private reception), and 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24 ($5). Melwood (Bill O’Driscoll) MULTIPLE MANIACS. John Waters’ 1970 spectacle of filth and depravity, a.k.a. his low-budget and hilarious dark comedy about a bunch of Baltimore no-gooders who travel under the sideshow banner of “Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of Perversions,” gets a rare screening. Starring Divine, and featuring other Waters regulars such as Mink Stole, David Lochary and Edith Massey. Fri., Sept. 23, through Wed., Sept. 28. Harris DRAGON INN. King Hu’s classic 1967 wuxia martialarts film set in the Ming Dynasty, and featuring plenty of swordplay. Screens in a restored 4K version. Sept. 23-29. Row House Cinema
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A TOUCH OF ZEN. A noblewoman on the run is aided by a painter and a group of Buddhist monks who know how to fight. This is a 4K restoration of King Hu’s 1971 martial-arts film. Sept. 23-25 and Sept. 2629. Row House Cinema A TOWN CALLED PANIC: THE SPECIALS. From Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, who brought you quirky, herky-jerky 2009 stop-motion animation feature A Town Called Panic, come two new 30-minute shorts featuring the same little plastic toys, such as Horse, Cowboy, Indian and Pig. In “Back to School,” Cowboy and Indian shrink themselves and roam around in Pig’s brain, a place quite reasonably filled with pork products such as bacon cars and sausage motorcycles. In “The Christmas Log,” Horse calls Santa to cancel Christmas, spurring the other toys to try and bring it back — by stealing a neighbor’s Yule log.1 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24. Hollywood DANNY SAYS. Brendan Toller directs this new documentary profile about music-industry stalwart and “mover and shaker” Danny Fields, who worked for The Doors, Lou Reed and Judy Collins, and managed groundbreaking acts like the Stooges, MC5 and the Ramones. The film screens in honor of Art House Theater Day. 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24. Harris TIME BANDITS. It’s time-jumping, looting and other hijinks in Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy adventure that finds a young lad joining up with a band of little people. Screens in honor of Art House Theater Day. 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24. Regent Square PHANTASM. How to stop the “Tall Man” who is scooping up dead bodies, shrinking them and turning them into slaves? Don Coscarelli directs this 1979 horror thriller. The cult fave screens in honor of Art House Theater Day. 10 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24. Hollywood BLAZING SADDLES. OK, so cowboys and beans don’t mix, but Mel Brooks’ riotous send-up of Westerns, riddled with gleefully offensive jokes, holds together just fine. This 1974 laugh-fest stars Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little and the incomparable Madeline Kahn. 8 p.m. Sun., Sept. 25. Regent Square
SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW. Jackie Chan kicked off his successful career as a comedic kung-fu movie star in this 1978 Hong Kong film about a mistreated janitor who fights back. Sept. 23-25 and Sept. 27-29. Row House Cinema
THE LOST BOYS. This 1987 MTV-style twist on vampires — it’s as if an ’80s hair-metal band turned to blood-sucking and remade Rebel Without a Cause — holds up as a decent goof and even has a few creepy moments. Directed by Joel Schumacher, it all ends in a bloodbath of unholy proportions — as it should. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 28. AMC Loews Waterfront (AH)
THE WAY OF THE DRAGON. It’s Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris in this classic 1972 kung-fu movie, set in Rome, where a man defends his family’s restaurant from a mob takeover. Sept. 23-25 and Sept 27-28. Row House Cinema
FOOD SYSTEMS PART 4: THE SYTEM. The conclusion of Pittsburgher David Bernabo’s wide-ranging documentary series on food (from production to cultural aspects) focuses on home cooking and issues of food insecurity. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Sept. 29. Harris
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Coming off two days of outdoor shows last weekend during the Millvale Days community festival, the stars of the Keystone State Wrestling Association host a show at 7 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24, at St. Rafael Elementary School, at 1154 Chislett St., Morningside. The legendary Lord Zoltan is scheduled to appear, and the main event is a tag-team match featuring Kris Kash and Shane Starr against Jay Flash and KSWA owner Tommy Faime. Tickets are $10. www. kswa.net
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The Pittsburgh Harlequins take on the Baltimore-Chesapeake Brumbies in a match Sept. 17 at Founders Field in Cheswick.
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“It’s more about technique and less about ies. (A brumby is a feral Australian horse.) With nothing but about 15 feet and a force.” But despite that, the game is still physithin yellow rope separating the wooden bleachers from the field, the crowd can feel cally impressive. With no blocking and as much as see the action. When a burly near constant action, big runs usually have Brumbie charges full steam toward the try to be earned with stiff arms and churnzone (an end zone in American football), ing through tackles. When one Harlequin the Harlequin defender’s incredulous “Oh player received a pass to the outside and shit” resonates through the entire crowd. twisted and turned his way through the Brumbies for a try, the crowd erupted. A collective gasp is raised, and the dull Stein’s celebratory chortle could be slap of flesh on flesh — rugby is a heard echoing across the field. game without pads — signaled re o m View nline o The Harlequins went on to the players’ collision. photos w. at ww er win 32-19, leaving the field to a Cheers soon followed, beap p ty pghci .com tunnel of alums offering highcause despite being run over, the fives and cheers. Standing nearby Harlequin still managed to trip up is Colby Bass, of the vanquished his opponent and prevent the score, Brumbies. Despite a dirty uniform and a called a try in rugby. Following the game from the bleachers still-oozing, hastily stitched cut on his foreis Isaac Cason, a recent Wittenberg Univer- head, Bass is happily sipping a beer while chatting with friend and foe alike. sity graduate and rugby player. “I’ve wanted to get that scar,” he says, “You’re cautious of how you hit [in rugby],” Cason says, noting that leading with smiling. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM the head is rare in the absence of helmets.
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BASEBALL PIONEERS {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} POINT PARK UNIVERSITY is taking over the city. It’s the biggest new investor in Downtown, and its urban growth includes new offices, dorms and a journalism center. Its contributions to the performing arts have been felt on Broadway and in Hollywood, from former Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” anchor Dennis Miller to Tony- and Emmy-winning choreographer Rob Ashford. Actress Tammy Felice (Jack Reacher), director Jim Martin (an Emmywinner for Sesame Street) and dancer Neil Haskell (Altar Boyz) all have roamed the halls of Point Park with many other actors and actresses who perform on Broadway. And while basketball coach Bob Rager, is closing in on 400 career wins, it’s baseball that dominates Point Park’s well-known sports alumni. Here are four of note.
body has been more versatile than Don Kelly. He has played all nine positions, including pitcher, in the majors. No other active player can make that claim. Kelly, now with the Miami Marlins, is in his ninth big-league season. He’s hit .265 in the postseason and played in the World Series with Detroit in 2012.
Greg Brown.
John Stuper.
The Pirates’ play-by-play announcer since 1994, Brown started at the bottom with the team — he was the backup Pirate Parrot. Being the understudy to a sports mascot doesn’t usually put you on the fast track to the top of any organization, but Brown persevered. He announced Buffalo Bisons games when they were the Pirates’ AAA affiliate, and he was also the Pirates’ public-address announcer. His trademark catchphrase is “Raise the Jolly Roger,” although for the first 19 years of his job, he never said it more than 79 times in a season. Brown was hired in 1994, which is akin to getting a stockbroker job in 1930: Both happened the year after the crash. But his suffering ceased in 2013, and nobody could’ve been happier. There are a lot of diehard Bucs fans, but Brown was there for every excruciating inning. Brown’s sometimes overly enthusiastic calls are a reason why baseball is so great on the radio.
He went from Point Park to Yale. Stuper is the manager of the Yale baseball team and has been there for 22 years. The former Pioneer spent four years in the majors and made the most of it. As a rookie, he threw a complete-game win over the Milwaukee Brewers in game six of the 1982 World Series. (St. Louis won the next game, and the Brewers haven’t been back to the World Series since.) Stuper compiled a respectable 32-28 record in three years with the Cards and a year in Cincinnati.
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Bobby Madritsch. A N at ive A m e r i ca n f ro m I l l i no i s , Madritsch’s path to the majors somehow went through Pittsburgh and Point Park. He played parts of two seasons as a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners, in 2004 and 2005. He had 10 big-league decisions and won six of them. Four years’ worth of injuries took him on a path out of baseball, but at least he made it to The Show. Point Park is hot right now: Crosscountry, soccer, volleyball and golf are all going on in September. The upstart city underdog’s games are still cheaper than the bigger colleges in town. For that alone, they receive our endorsement.
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FOR THE WEEK OF
Free Will Astrology
09.21-09.28
{BY ROB BREZSNY}
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m confident that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills. My gig as a horoscope columnist provides me with enough money to eat well, so it’s no longer necessary to shoplift bread or scavenge for dented cans of beets in grocery-store Dumpsters. What accounts for my growing financial luck? I mean besides the fact that I have been steadily improving my skills as an oracle and writer? I suspect it may in part have to do with my determination to cultivate generosity. As I’ve become better at expressing compassion and bestowing blessings, money has flowed to me in greater abundance. Would this strategy work for you? The coming weeks and months will be a good time to experiment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s my translation of a passage from the ancient Gospel of Thomas, a gnostic text about the teachings of Jesus: “If you do not awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will damage you. If you do awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will heal you.” Whether you actually awaken and develop those talents or not depends on two things: your ability to identify them clearly and your determination to bring them to life with the graceful force of your willpower. I call this to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a highly favorable time to expedite the ripening of your talents. And it all starts NOW.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can’t completely eliminate unhelpful influences and trivial saboteurs and debilitating distractions from your life. But you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to diminish their effects. To get started in this gritty yet lofty endeavor,
try this: Decrease your connection with anything that tends to demean your spirit, shrink your lust for life, limit your freedom, ignore your soul, compromise your integrity, dishonor your reverence, inhibit your self-expressiveness or alienate you from what you love.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Work too much and push yourself too hard, Sagittarius. Eat corn chips for breakfast, ice cream for lunch, and French fries for dinner — every day, if possible. And please please please get no more than four hours’ sleep per night. If you have any extra time, do arduous favors for friends and intensify your workout routine. JUST KIDDING! Don’t you dare heed any of that ridiculous advice. In fact, I suggest you do just the opposite. Dream up brilliant excuses not to work too much or push too hard. Treat yourself to the finest meals and best sleep ever. Take your mastery of the art of relaxation to new heights. Right now, the most effective way to serve your long-term dreams is by having as much fun, joy and release as possible.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I propose that you and I make a deal. Here’s how it would work: For the next three weeks, I will say three prayers for you every day. I will ask God, Fate and Life to send you more of the recognition and appreciation you deserve. I will coax and convince them to give you rich experiences of being seen for who you really are. Now here’s what I ask of you in return: You will rigorously resolve to act on your core beliefs, express your noblest desires and say only what you truly mean. You will be alert for those times when you start to stray from the path with heart, and you will immediately get yourself back on that path. You will be yourself three times stronger and clearer than you have ever been before.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you loosen yourself up by drinking an alcoholic beverage, don’t drive a forklift or ride a unicycle. If you have a hunch that your luck at gambling is peaking, don’t buy lottery tickets or play the slot machines. If you’re drawn to explore the frontiers of intimacy, be armed with the ancient Latin maxim, Primum non nocere, or “First, do no harm.” And if you really do believe it would be fun to play with fire, bring a fire extinguisher with you. In presenting this cautionary advice, I’m not saying that you should never push the limits or bend the rules. But I want to be sure that as you dare to experiment, you remain savvy and ethical and responsible.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I invite you to explore the healing power of sex. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do so. You are also likely to generate good fortune for yourself if you try to fix any aspect of your erotic life that feels wounded or awkward. For best results, suspend all your theories about the way physical intimacy should work in your life. Adopting a beginner’s mind could lead you to subtly spectacular breakthroughs. (P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner to take full advantage of this big opening.)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even if you are a wild-eyed adventure-seeker with extremist views and melodramatic yearnings, you’ll benefit from taking a moderate approach to life in the coming weeks. In fact, you’re most likely to attract the help and inspiration you need if you adopt the strategy used by Goldilocks in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: neither excessive nor underdone, neither extravagant nor restrained, neither bawdy, loud and in-your-face nor demure, quiet and passive — but rather just right.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some of my readers love me but also hate
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me. They are drawn to my horoscopes in the hope that I will help relieve them of their habitual pain, but then get mad at me when I do just that. In retrospect, they feel lost without the familiar companionship of their habitual pain. It had been a centerpiece of their identity, a source of stability, and when it’s gone, they don’t know who they are any more. Are you like these people, Taurus? If so, you might want to avoid my horoscopes for a while. I will be engaged in a subtle crusade to dissolve your angst and agitation. And it all starts now with this magic spell: Your wound is a blessing. Discover why.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my dream last night, bad guys wearing white hats constrained you in a canvas straitjacket, then further wrapped you up with heavy steel chain secured by three padlocks. They drove you to a weedy field behind an abandoned warehouse and left you there in the pitch dark. But you were indomitable. By dawn, you had miraculously wriggled your way out of your confinement. Then you walked back home, free and undaunted. Here’s my interpretation of the dream: You now have special skills as an escape artist. No cage can hold you. No riddle can stump you. No tangle can confuse you. (P.S.: For best results, trust yourself even more than you usually do.)
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next four weeks will be a favorable time to come all the way home. Here are nine prompts for how to accomplish that: 1. Nourish your roots. 2. Strengthen your foundations. 3. Meditate about where you truly belong. 4. Upgrade the way you attend to your self-care. 5. Honor your living traditions. 6. Make a pilgrimage to the land where your ancestors lived. 7. Deepen your intimacy with the earth. 8. Be ingenious about expressing your tenderness. 9. Reinvigorate your commitment to the influences that nurture and support you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What tools will work best for the tasks you’ll be invited to perform in the coming weeks? A sledgehammer or tweezers? Pruning shears or a sewing machine? A monkey wrench or a screwdriver? Here’s my guess: Always have your entire toolbox on hand. You may need to change tools in mid-task — or even use several tools for the same task. I can envision at least one situation that would benefit from you alternating between a sledgehammer and tweezers. Name the one thing you could change about yourself that would improve your love life. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}
I’m a 27-year-old straight male and a high school teacher held to a strict code. I left my fiancée in June and haven’t had sex since. Needless to say, I’m really horny. I’m also in that weird in-between age where I’m not comfortable hanging out at college bars but I’m also a bit younger than most of the women in other bars. But when I scour dating apps, I see profiles of women ages 18 to 22 — women who, for all I know, could have been students at my school. I would never fuck a former student, of course, but I’m worried that I could get my license revoked if my supervisors discovered I was online trolling for sex. So what am I supposed to do? My cock is making sad faces at me right now. TEACHER EVIDENTLY NEEDS SEXUAL ENCOUNTER
If you live in a college town, TENSE, there’s at least one bar where grad students hang out — look for the bar where women are grading papers, not pounding shots, and hang out there. And with more than 1 in 3 new marriages beginning with an online meeting these days, and with Pew Research telling us that 60 percent of Americans approve of online dating, I don’t see how your supervisors could possibly object to staffers scouring dating apps and the interwebs for ageappropriate partners. Unless we’re talking about a Catholic school staffed entirely by nuns, which isn’t what we’re talking about.
having orgasms. People can be judgey when it comes to antidepressants, and it’s not something that’s easy to share. It’s frustrating because this medication allows me to be in a place mentally where I can pursue healthy adult relationships, but it affects sex, which for me is something that is key for a healthy relationship. How do I have a conversation about this with a potential partner? HOPEFUL ABOUT POTENTIAL PARTNERS, YAY
You can put off the convo about your meds with a white lie, HAPPY, by telling your potential partner you never come the first few times you’re with someone new — no pressure on you to come (or come clean just yet), no pressure on them to make you come. Then level with them about the real reason you’re having difficultly coming — new to antidepressants, still adjusting, but grateful for the other benefits — after you’ve gotten to know them better. It’s a harmless, understandable white lie, not a major betrayal. If they react like it is one, HAPPY, then you’ll have to DTMFA.
LOOK FOR THE BAR WHERE WOMEN ARE GRADING PAPERS, NOT POUNDING SHOTS.
I’m female, 26, and in an open marriage with a wonderful man. I am having a recurring fear that he’ll get some other woman pregnant and she will refuse to abort. I trust him, but condoms break (or get holes poked in them). He inherited serious money from his father, and his father got “oops’d” into having three kids. I would immediately divorce my husband if this happened. (Yes, I’m an asshole, but my life plans have NEVER included children, step or otherwise.) My solution is for him to get a vasectomy. He says he’s for it, but it’s been a YEAR and he hasn’t made an appointment. I’m seriously considering yanking “open” until he’s sterile. Maybe he really wants children and he’s not telling me, but I keep asking and he keeps saying no. Am I being unreasonable asking for the snip? SERIOUSLY NOT INTO PREGNANCY
Maybe your husband wants children, SNIP, maybe he doesn’t. Or maybe he’s one of those guys invested in/aroused by the power of spunk to make babies they don’t want; these guys would rather see their shots intercepted than go unattempted. So while a vasectomy is an eminently reasonable way for a married man who wishes to remain childless to prevent himself from impregnating someone who isn’t his wife, SNIP, arousal often defies reason. And ultimately this is his decision to make — his body, his choice. Mid-20s female here, ready to date after a period of difficulty in my personal life. I have started taking an antidepressant, which has allowed me to regain control over my life, but one side effect is difficulty
I’m male, 30, and newly single. I’ve been using my newfound freedom to sleep around, and last week I had sex with a married woman. Yes, she was cheating. Yes, I was aware. There won’t be any future sexual encounters with this woman, but here’s the thing I was wondering about: I don’t feel guilty, not one bit. This fuck was a strong contender for best fuck of my life. Does that make me a bad person? And if so, do I just accept the fact that I’m a bad person? BASICALLY A DASTARDLY DICK, YES?
Fucking someone you know to be cheating implicates you in an infidelity, of course, and that’s usually bad — but not always. In some cases, cheating is the least worst option for all involved (the cheater, the cheated, their dependents); in others, cheating saves marriages that needed saving; in still others, cheating ends marriages that needed ending. Absent more info about this woman’s particular circumstances, BADDY, I can’t make a definite ruling about her badness for cheating or your badness for aiding and abetting. Straight 64-year-old man wanting to try the gay side of life!!! Don’t have the bodybuilder’s body anymore!!! Average size!!! Would anyone get turned on to old-timer’s body!!! Need some advice where and how to meet other gay men!!! Also HIV is a concern!!! Any other advice would be appreciated!!! WHEN I’M SIXTY-FOUR
Check out daddyhunt.com, WISF, the “largest gay personals site for daddies, bears and guys that love them”!!! Don’t be paralyzed by fear!!! Of HIV or anything else!!! But consider getting on PrEP!!! And use condoms!!! And remember::: Sex with a guy who thinks he’s negative but isn’t is way riskier than sex with a guy who knows he’s positive and takes his meds!!! And stop calling yourself straight!!! On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Mistress Matisse about the Sex Workers Outreach Project: savagelovecast.com.
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