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N 2007, Millvale was hit by a disastrous flood. Girty’s Run, the creek that runs through the borough, swelled to mammoth proportions and engulfed the town’s main drag, Grant Avenue, and most of the business district. Millvale, like many small towns along one of Pittsburgh’s three rivers, had been declining for decades and the flooding harshly punctuated the town’s struggles.

“After the flood, residents had two choices,” says Scott Wolovich of New Sun Rising, a social-enterprise incubator that has been working in Millvale for years. “You either fold up your tent and go home, or you roll up your sleeves and see what you are made of. Folks here were not going to fold up the tent and go home.”

Dozens of community members volunteered to clean up after the flood, and Wolovich says that during the clean-up, resi-

dents realized their borough could use some more community spaces. Residents started setting goals to start a library, a small park and a community garden.

This small old mill town turned tragedy into economic opportunity {BY RYAN DETO} All of those goals have come to fruition in the past few years. And now, small businesses and millennials are flocking to Millvale, revitalizing the old mill town in an organic, community-led way uncommon among the region’s old industrial boroughs.

Millvale is set to extend its bike trail, get a new coffeeshop/farm stand, open a tea shop, and even launch a hotel in the near future. Additional proposals keep flowing in.

Community stakeholders hope that the new jobs that small business brings to the town will help reduce Millvale’s unemployment rate, which is above the Allegheny County average. But Wolovich is confident that the momentum that started when the community came together to clean up after the flood will push Millvale above the troubled waters of the past.

“At that point, it was like a ball rolling down hill,” he says.

And while Millvale started recovering after the flood in 2007, Tina Walker, president of Millvale Community Development Corp., says the borough really started to take off economically over the past two years. She references explosive growth of the Business Association of Millvale, which formed a few years ago with about 10 businesses; now it has 47 members. She also says that young people have not only CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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moved to Millvale in recent years, but are also getting involved in the community.

“We have all these amenities here; it is what everyone wants,” says Walker. “Now, the youth want in, and they want to participate in the growth. They realize this is a part of life that roots them in the community.”

Millvale has a post office, two diners, a music venue, a record shop, a bowling alley, a bakery, pharmacies, a deli, and multiple bars and breweries all located within a square mile. The borough will add a coffee shop, Tazza D’Oro, and a farm stand when the near-complete Bennett Station building is finished at the town’s main intersection of Grant Avenue and North Street.

Census figures show the town’s demographics are shifting, too. Millvale has increased its percentage of millennial residents over the past few years, and has added hundreds of residents with college degrees since 2000. Walker says these new residents are attracted to the borough’s throwback, small-town lifestyle, where they can walk to everything and they know business owners by name.

Walker says this explosion of smallbusiness interest was only possible thanks to the community getting involved in the borough’s future. In 2012, when Walker took over at the MCDC, members held c o m mu n i t y m e e t i n g s , formed focus groups and met with residents for a year before drafting a plan for Millvale’s future.

MCDC also established four-year term limits for board members, so no one can completely control Millvale’s development, says Walker.

“It has to come from the inside out,” says Walker. “We need community cooperation from the ground up to do anything. We are very fortunate it is set up that way.”

The MCDC has only one part-time employee and is primarily run by volunteers, like Walker. She says this creates a commitment to the organization that runs deep.

“To do this is not just a job, you have to feel it in your heart,” Walker says.

With this mindset and community involvement, Millvale became one of the few communities in Allegheny County to draft an EcoDistrict plan. This plan focuses on sustainable growth and environmentally friendly practices. Walker says it has not only attracted small businesses focused on participating in the community, it also helped Millvale get a grant for a community garden and solar panels on the roof of the community library.

Millvale’s borough manager, Amy Rockwell, concurs that businesses interested in Millvale are also interested in the sustain-

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able practices preached by the community.

“Businesses seem to be focusing on sustainable practices which focus on long-term commitment to address community challenges,” writes Rockwell in an email. “Being a community-minded business allows for the business owners to shape and grow our communities. Millvale is at the forefront of the sustainable community practices.”

Rockwell says this focus on sustainability has garnered the borough a Certified Gold Community award from Sustainable Pennsylvania, an organization that encourages municipalities to make goals to save money, conserve resources, and encourage innovation.

But it wasn’t always smooth sailing in Millvale.

Walker says it took a couple years for the MCDC, the community and the borough government to get on the same page.

Zaheen Hussain, Millvale’s sustainability coordinator, says that even after the groups came together to create the EcoDistrict plan, it didn’t take off right away, even though it has now gained widespread support. “Early on in 2012, the room of active participants had maybe 10 or so people,” Hussain wrote in an email. “Last year, as we kicked off our second round of EcoDistrict planning, we had nearly 100 people fill up our community center, with a majority of those folks being residents and business owners, and the rest being regional professionals interested in partnering with Millvale.

“There is a genuine desire from community leaders to learn from residents so that programming can be developed to fit the needs of the community. This means not only making participation an option, but actually increasing ease of participation by having multiple platforms of involvement to fit into people’s busy schedules.”

One of those new businesses actively participating in the community is Tupelo

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Honey Teas, which is set to open this month, right next to the Millvale Community Library. Tupelo owner Danielle Spinola grew up in Millvale and is actually a descendent of Simon Girty, the namesake of the creek that runs through town. She participated in New Sun Rising’s Millvale business incubator and was convinced to open up shop in Millvale after attending an EcoDistrict meeting.

“There was this collective idea to raise the community up without gentrifying it,” says Spinola. “This is definitely the right time to come in. I feel back at home again.”

Spinola says that so far the borough has experienced manageable, controlled growth. Walker says this is intentional, because MCDC doesn’t want to see multinational chains move into the borough.

Spinola says this commitment to small business builds a loyalty between residents and business owners that is common in small towns.

“When you come in and are loyal to the town, they are loyal back,” says Spinola.

Either way, the town might need to continue this growth to tackle some of its long-term problems. According to data compiled by Applied Graphic Solutions,

at 6 percent, Millvale’s unemployment rate is higher than the county average of about 4.5 percent.

A surge in economic growth has some people in the town worried that new wealthier residents will move in, drive up housing prices and rents, and push out longtime residents, as some say has happened in East Liberty and Lawrenceville.

“Gentrification is a very real fear, and it should be, as there are countless examples of it happening all over the country,” wrote Hussain. But he believes that Millvale is ready to take on any gentrification challenge and cites Millvale’s community garden as proof.

“The Gardens of Millvale had high interest from businesses who wanted to develop it into something else,” wrote Hussain. “Understanding the importance of green space, residents not only banded together in support of the gardens, but also raised grant funds to formally purchase the property to protect it while also preserving good relationships with the businesses that are interested in growing in Millvale. I’m not sure that would have happened 10 years ago.”

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“I would bring back waterboarding and I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,” Trump said.

Many chalk up Trump’s comments as just one of many outrageous statements he’s made during the campaign. But Trump’s opinion isn’t so different from that of many Americans, according to a Pew Research Center study released this year. The study found that 58 percent of Americans believe the use of torture can be justified against people suspected of terrorism.

This month, researcher Annette Förster will give a lecture at Robert Morris University on the use of torture in democracies like the United States. Förster teaches at RMU, where she is the Rooney International Scholar.

City Paper talked to Förster about what she’s learned from her research about torture.

WHY DO YOU THINK WE CONTINUE TO TURN TO TORTURE WHEN WE’VE CONTINUOUSLY BEEN TOLD IT’S INEFFECTIVE? In some cases or scenarios you want to do whatever it takes to — for example in the German case — save the child. Usually the people who get tortured are dehumanized. You don’t really consider the person you want to torture as a human being whose dignity should be honored.

You want to do whatever it takes to get the information to save lives. This question of whether it works or not, may not be as important. Also, torture can be very effective as a means of repression, or to punish people or to threaten people, to make an example to stop others from following those people.

“USUALLY THE PEOPLE WHO GET TORTURED ARE DEHUMANIZED.”

HOW DID YOU FIRST BECOME INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT OF TORTURE? I was doing my master’s degree when 9/11 happened, in 2001. And then in 2002, there was a discussion on torture in Germany which started with a kidnapping case. A boy was kidnapped, and the police threatened the kidnapper with inflicting pain so that he would tell where they could find the child. There was a big discussion of whether or not the police were justified in threatening the guy, and 60 percent of the German public said they were in favor of what the police did. There was a big discussion in the scientific community about that. I was shocked that this case could make people question the very fundamental principles of the German constitution: that you should not touch human dignity.

IS THERE A CONSENSUS ON WHETHER TORTURE IS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR INTERROGATION? There are cases where it is effective but I think for most of the cases you can say no, it’s not effective. That’s what the Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture by the CIA found, that it’s not effective. They couldn’t find cases where it was really effective. But basically Aristotle in ancient

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I found that shocking that a candidate for president would actually use something like that in a campaign because up till that point the [consensus] was clear that no state representative would say, “Yes we torture people and we’re OK with it,” even regimes that we know use torture. So this was really surprising.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE WAY TORTURE IS PORTRAYED IN THE MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT? I think the problem is usually you sympathize with — in those portrayals — the people inflicting torture. There might be exceptions to that rule, but I think the fact you see it quite often on TV might give people the impression that it’s a normal thing, that it’s not as bad, and if they do it, they do it to the bad guys.

When you read reports of people who have actually been involved with torture, you get a really different impression than you get from watching it in movies. I think it’s harmful to depict this as something that is normal and that happens only to the bad guys and never to innocent victims.

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CLOUDED JUDGMENT {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} BEFORE I CAN write this week’s column, I

have to get something off my chest.

If Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick in 1978, then he deserves the harshest penalty available under the law. Quite frankly, that goes for any of the allegations against him. It’s also important for me to say that I believe Broaddrick and the other women, too. In a world quick to give the benefit of the doubt to alleged attackers (especially famous ones), I’ve always believed that the victim deserves every benefit of the doubt.

That’s it. I’m not even going to remind people that these allegations shouldn’t be held against Hillary Clinton, the actual candidate for president. That’s what I believe, but I think each person needs to take this information and weigh it as they see fit when deciding whom to vote for.

Candidates who stand for public office do so while carrying all the baggage they’ve accumulated over the course of their lives, as it pertains to the office they are seeking. And people must own their mistakes, and not try to deflect attention elsewhere.

The most recent revival of the claims against Bill Clinton comes from Donald Trump, in an attempt to steer attention away from last week’s release of the recorded statements captured on a “hot mic” 10 years ago on an Access Hollywood taping. On the tape, Trump boasts of doing things that would amount to some level of a sexual-assault charge in any state in this country.

Let’s review: “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I

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don’t even wait,” Trump told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump continues. “You can do anything. … Grab them by the pussy.

You can do anything.”

I’m not the first to point this out, but that’s describing nonconsensual, unwanted sexual conduct.

And it’s not an allegation from a victim who’s available for Trump’s supporters to rip apart. These are words from Trump’s own mouth; it’s a confession.

Unsurprisingly, Trump and his followers are trying to write this off as only words, as just “locker-room talk.” In fact, Trump used that phrase so many times during the Oct. 9 debate that it spurred a number of pro athletes to take to social media to dispute his flippant phrasing.

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somehow acceptable. They aren’t,” tweeted Dahntay Jones, of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Former Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill said: “I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms, and what Trump said is not locker-room banter. Don’t let this pass.” Hill also included a link urging people to register to vote.

But these recent revelations didn’t even seem to slow Trump down. He laid out a half-assed apology before deflecting the spotlight onto Bill Clinton. Hours before the debate, he held an event with the women who have accused Clinton of sexual misconduct. Trump presented these women publicly for his own benefit, not for theirs. And by the time the debate started, apologetic Trump (if he ever existed) was gone, and he doubled down on his arrogance and refused to own up to his behavior. Take this exchange from the debate: “You described kissing women without their consent, grabbing their genitals. That is sexual assault,” debate moderator Anderson Cooper said. “You bragged that you

have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?”

“No, I didn’t say that at all,” Trump answered. “I don’t think you understood what was said. This was locker-room talk. I’m not proud of it. I apologized to my family, I apologized to the American people.”

The real problem for Trump is that a lot of us do understand what he said, Democrats and Republicans alike. Now members of his party and former supporters are abandoning him, whether it’s because they are sickened by what he said, or because they’re jumping off a sinking ship.

Despite all of that, Donald Trump is still running for president and, sadly, still has his supporters. Last Thursday, at a congressional debate at Penn State Beaver, U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus (District 12) said he supported Trump because Trump would sign Republican-led legislation. On Saturday, Rothfus condemned Trump’s comments: “I am sickened by Mr. Trump’s offensive comments. They are vile and wholly unacceptable, and I strongly condemn them.” On Monday morning, he issued comments about Sunday’s presidential debate, but didn’t menton Trump anywhere in the release.

On Monday, I asked Rothfus’ campaign for clarification about whether Rothfus still stood with Trump. I received no answer, but later that day, I saw Rothfus on the stage with Trump, smiling and yelling how a Trump victory means he can finally repeal Obamacare, an obsession of Rothfus’ for four years.

I wish I could say that continued support of Trump surprised me, but it doesn’t.

Trump says all the things that the zealots and conspiracy theorists on the right have been waiting years to hear: Repeal the Affordable Care Act, stop the war on coal, put Hillary Clinton in prison. If Trump’s elected, he’ll take care of all of the “atrocities” in this country.

Well, except the ones he confessed to.

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Witness Amanda Grew told WPXI she saw “someone dressed in a jumpsuit and a clown face” chase a group of girls in Russellton. A cadre of police cars arrived and Grew armed herself with a knife. WPXI also reports that Beaver Falls residents spotted a passenger in a clown mask banging on a car window and an Ellwood City man out for a walk said he heard a “jingling noise” and turned around to face a clown. The costumed jester reportedly followed him until a car arrived to pick up the clown. Shippensburg University police said in a news release that they investigated two clown sightings in a week. News of a clown on campus spread across Penn State.

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“I love him,” said Dallas Duffy, who was identified on WTAE’s newscast with the words “Likes the Rooster” beneath her name. “I feed him all the time, and the little kids from the day care feed him. They love him.”

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We all know how that turned out.

Will that history work against the Penguins as they enter the franchise’s 50th season in the NHL? It’s time to find out. Four months and a day after Sidney Crosby hoisted that 34-and-a-half-pound chalice for the second time in his career, his team begins its defense. He’s been here before.

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Seven years ago, after becoming the youngest player to captain a team to a Stanley Cup, Crosby said he wasn’t worried about a championship hangover. A month into the 2009-2010 season, the Penguins had the best record in the Eastern Conference. With the league gunning for them, the team finished with 101 points, good for second place behind the New Jer-

sey Devils in what was the Atlantic Division. The Pens advanced past the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the playoffs but were eliminated in seven games by head-standing goalie Carey Price and the Montreal Canadiens.

Was this a Stanley Cup “hangover” per se? Not necessarily. The team wasn’t puking all over itself, giving fans headaches and

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Seven years ago, the Penguins brought home the Stanley Cup, helped along by the momentum of a midseason head-coaching change. The next season, amid big expectations for a team stocked with some of the league’s biggest stars, they faltered in the playoffs, victims of a red-hot Jaroslav Halak in goal for the Canadiens. It began a seemingly interminable series of good-but-not-great seasons in which the team couldn’t quite seal the deal.

So how does the team keep from falling into that trap again?

There are obvious answers — like Sidney Crosby-caliber play from Sidney Crosby — but beyond that, here are five things that need to happen if the Penguins hope to hoist the Cup again.

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making people swear off hockey. It had notched its third 100-point season in four years, and the arrow was pointing up.

The Pens simply ran into a hot goalie and, quite possibly, just ran out of gas. Making consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup finals can take a toll on players mentally and physically. A combined 208 games were played in those seasons. Add in the 2010 Winter Olympics and you have a whole lot of ice time without much chance to rest and recover.

Thanks to the New York Rangers, a quick exit in the 2015 postseason has kept the combined game count much lower this time around, 15 games less, to be exact. But there are plenty of other factors that determine success in the shadow of a Stanley Cup. “There’s a reason why it hasn’t been done for a long time,” Crosby says when asked about repeating as champion. “Everybody wants to beat you. Everyone is measuring themselves against you. You have to be ready every night and expect everyone’s best.

“To win you have to be lucky, too. You do a lot of things right, but you have to be lucky. So you need to play as well as you did in the year previous, and when you get some bounces you have to put your-

self in the position to kind of create your own luck.”

Stability plays a role in sustained success, as well. When you can say that Ben Lovejoy was your biggest loss in the offseason (he signed with New Jersey as a free agent), your returning roster is in a pretty good place. Sure, the veteran defenseman logged 20-plus minutes in three Cup final games and stepped up when Trevor Daley went down with a broken ankle. But Daley himself is back.

CHECK OUT MORE PHOTOS FROM THE PENGUINS PRESEASON IN OUR SLIDESHOWS ONLINE AT WWW.PGHCITYPAPER.COM A key cog in the shift to an aggressive, puck-moving defensive scheme, the 32year old blueliner is in a contract year and says that he is all healed and ready to go. “I feel great. I don’t feel like I’ve lost a step at all,” Daley says, adding that to repeat, “we have to be better.”

With a full 82-game slate under head coach Mike Sullivan’s supercharged system, it’s hard to imagine the Pens regress-

ing. Last season there were a bunch of moving parts due to injuries, trades and coaching changes. Once the ice chips settled, the Penguins cruised through the second half of the season, posting a 30-114 record in the final 45 games. In addition to Daley, defenseman Justin Schultz and speedy forward Carl Hagelin were also acquired via trade, with the latter becoming the “H” in the Pens’ top-scoring trio in the playoffs, the HBK line. The Swedish winger is excited to be back with the group.

“A lot of familiar faces,” Hagelin says.

“It’s the same focus as last year, so it’s an easy transition.”

Sullivan agrees: “We have a lot of returning players that have shown a history of success together.” But as last season attests, anything can happen. Especially when it comes to injuries. The Penguins showed off their organizational depth, relying on a number of players from their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

Affectionately known as the Baby Pens, the young guys grew up fast in the NHL and made names for themselves in the postseason. Forwards Bryan Rust, Conor Sheary and Tom Kuhnhackl each scored a gamewinning goal, and goalie Matt Murray played his way into the NHL record books.

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1. Nick Bonino continues to produce, with or without HBK. During last year’s dramatic midseason turnaround, one of the biggest surprises was the hot streak that the Pens’ third line of Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Phil Kessel found. The HBK line became a fan favorite, but it might or might not return in the same form this season.

Regardless of whether Mike Sullivan keeps the trio together — he’s said during preseason that it’s not yet decided — Bonino, the line’s center, will be a key to the team’s success.

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With 15 wins, the 22-year-old net-minder tied Ron Hextall, Patrick Roy and Cam Ward for most playoff wins as a rookie. That’s not good; that’s elite.

Now that this group has graduated to the next level, the question becomes “who’s next?” Does general manager Jim Rutherford have more talent in the system?

It appears so. Scott Wilson, probably the best shot of the young crop, ended his season in March when he broke his foot. He’s had a strong camp, with a goal and an assist through four preseason games, and will be out to prove his talent. Sullivan likes what he sees.

“I think he’s a strong kid who’s brave and goes to the net,” Sullivan says. “But what I really like about Scott’s game is his overall game. He’s kind of like a young Chris Kunitz.” That’s a good place to be at 24, and even better since Kunitz just turned 37 and is in the last year of his contract.

On a team that is so strong up the middle with Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Nick Bonino and Matt Cullen, ice time for a center will be hard to come by. But if the Penguins happen to need reinforcements, they have three to choose from. Oskar Sundqvist played 18 games with the Pens last season with four points, and has the most experience at the NHL level. Two others have intrigued the coaches this preseason. Carter Rowney, an undrafted free agent, turned pro at 24 (he’s now 27) and led the Baby Pens in scoring last season,

the beginning of which was under Mike Sullivan’s watch.

“I was very familiar with his game last year, and I’ve seen his game evolve from a year ago at this point until now,” says Sullivan. “He’s a real solid, two-way center-ice man. He can play at both ends of the rink.

He has good size. He’s strong down low.

And he can win faceoffs. So I think he’s only going to get better.” The other is Jake Guentzel. He scored 14 points in 10 Calder Cup games last year for Wilkes-Barre. Either could be ready to skate right up if needed.

There’s not much need to discuss the goalie situation, as it has been argued ad nauseam. And at least for the start of the season, the situation has worked itself out. Matt Murray will miss the first few weeks with a broken hand suffered in the World Cup of Hockey.

Veteran Marc-Andre Fleury will start for the foreseeable future, with rookie Tristan Jarry as backup. The Notre Dame product pitched shutouts in each of his first two preseason starts and is turning heads.

“He has the ability to be a real good goalie. Handles the puck extremely well,” Sullivan says. “I think we’re all excited about Tristan’s potential.”

In the arduous NHL season, depth is the key to success. The Penguins have it in droves. With the best player in hockey leading the way, Crosby and his mates have a legitimate chance to celebrate the franchise’s 50th season with another championship.

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2. Olli Maatta gets his groove back — and stays healthy.

Maatta was a first-round pick in 2012 and had a great rookie season in 2013-14, finishing fifth in Calder Trophy voting that year. But injuries and a bout with thyroid cancer the following year kept him from reaching his full potential in subsequent seasons. He put up decent numbers last year, but was benched for a portion of the playoffs, thanks in part to a nasty hit from Brooks Orpik during the Washington series, but also as a healthy scratch when Mike Sullivan felt he wasn’t performing up to snuff.

Maatta just turned 22, an age when plenty of very good players are just entering the league, if not still playing in the farm system. And he’s locked down with a sizable contract through 2022. If he can avoid the poor luck he’s had with his health — and duck next time he sees Orpik coming — he’s primed to join, or even overtake, Kris Letang as the team’s star defenseman in the next season or two. An Olli Maatta who dresses for 80 or 82 games and keeps his plus/minus elevated is a good omen for a deep playoff run next spring.

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3. Marc-Andre Fleury proves that he’s (still) a top-tier goalie.

The story of last year’s Cup run was Matt Murray, often at the expense of Marc-Andre Fleury, the team’s veteran, effective (but not always consistent) net-minder. If you kept the TV on after the game-six win over San Jose in June, you probably remember Alby Oxenreiter’s painful on-ice interview with the Flower, in which the sportscaster all but bought Fleury’s ticket to whatever city he was going to be headed to before September.

But the Pens held on to both goalies over the summer, and then fate intervened in the form of a hand injury to Murray during September’s World Cup of Hockey. While Murray recovers, Fleury is back in the crease most nights, without the distraction of a goalie controversy. If he takes advantage of the moment and shows the league he’s still a top-tier goalie, the Pens will be better for it. No, there’s no need — and no room under the salary cap — for two star goalies on the roster, and the team’s hand might be forced next off-season, if not before. But Murray, hot as he was last season, still has only one NHL season under his belt, and we’ve seen many goalies flame out quickly after a hot streak, so it behooves the team to hold onto Fleury at least a little longer. A peak-performing Fleury-Murray platoon will give the rest of the league pause.

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Wilson adds scoring depth to an already loaded offense. With five goals in his last 12 games with the Penguins, and the longest goal-scoring streak by a rookie since Jordan Staal in 2007, Wilson has provided a glimpse of the play he’s capable of.

The Penguins drafted Wilson in the seventh round of the 2011 draft. He went on to play at the collegiate level for the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, where he earned recognition and several awards. Named the 2012 Hockey East Rookie of the Year after averaging 1.5 points per game as a freshman, Wilson, as a sophomore, was instrumental in getting his team to the Frozen Four — the first appearance ever of U-Mass Lowell in college hockey’s national title tournament. That tournament, coincidentally, was played here in Pittsburgh.

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Now Wilson has his sights set on playing NHL playoff hockey on that same ice. We caught up with the 24year-old left winger before the Pens’ final preseason game.

HOW IS THE ANKLE? It feels good. I think I used the extra time to my advantage this summer. It’s 100 percent healthy now.

BESIDES REHABBING, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH YOUR TIME AWAY FROM THE ICE? I like to go up north to cottage country — it’s pretty relaxing up there. You try and get away from the game a little bit.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE WATCHING YOUR AHL TEAMMATES PLAY IN THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS? It’s pretty cool. We’re pretty close, us five guys. Anytime you see guys have success that you played with and you’re right there, it’s pretty special.

“YOU DREAM ABOUT DOING THIS STUFF WHEN YOU’RE A KID.”

DID THAT LIGHT A FIRE UNDER YOU? I think a little bit. It obviously sucks watching. If somebody said it didn’t bother them, they’d be lying to you. So I think I used that extra time to my advantage just to be ready for this year.

WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP LIKE WITH BRYAN RUST, CONOR SHEARY AND TOM KUHNHACKL? Really good. We just had dinner together last night. We normally swap dinner spots at our different houses, so we’re pretty close.

WHAT DO YOU BRING TO THE ICE AND WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU FIT ON THE TEAM? Speed, shoot the puck and be physical. I’m playing with G [Geno] right now; nice to play with a guy like that, that’s so good.

Just need to prove myself there.

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU NEED TO WORK ON THE MOST? This summer I did a good job of getting faster. I think you can always get faster and that really helps anybody’s game. So I think anytime you can add a little bit more speed, it will help out.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SEASON? Just being around the guys for the whole experience of being in the NHL. I think it’s pretty special. You dream about doing this stuff when you’re a kid, so just being around the guys all the time and hopefully having another good year.

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4. Mike Sullivan avoids a sophomore slump.

Sullivan arrived from Wilkes-Barre and took the head coaching job with the Penguins midseason last year. He drove the team, which had struggled early on, all the way to the Cup, mirroring Dan Bylsma’s ascent in 2008-09. Sullivan has more NHL experience, and more years on the planet, than Bylsma did at the time, but he still faces the same challenge Bylsma did after that championship season: executing his approach successfully over an entire season, when ups and downs are inevitable.

Sullivan is, by all accounts, well respected by his team, and showed a knack last year for putting together player combinations that got results. But keeping the momentum alive will be doubly challenging for Sullivan, as he faces not only the sophomore slump, but the Cup hangover. During his first stint as an NHL head coach, in Boston, he took his team to the playoffs and a first-place division finish his first year, only to fail to make the postseason in his second. The lessons he learned a decade ago with the Bruins could help him keep the Penguins in contention this season.

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Malkin played well last year, especially early on, but was injury-plagued late in the season and missed a significant number of games. That’s nothing new; the last time he played 70 or more games in a season was 2011-12 (when, coincidentally, he led the team in both shots on goal and points). But let’s be optimistic: So far, Malkin seems to be healthy this year, he played OK (if not outstandingly) for Russia in the World Cup, and there’s no reason to think he can’t show the front office why he’s pulling more than $9 million this year. If he can find the net — especially on the power play — he’ll help keep the Cup in town another year.

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SULLY’S SUCCESS Can Penguins coach Mike Sullivan avoid a Stanley Cup hangover in his second season? {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} LIFE’S FORTUNES can change in an instant.

Coach Mike Johnston currently has his Portland Winterhawks off to a 4-2 start. They’re closing in on the Everett Silvertips for first place in the U.S. division of the Western Hockey League (an odd division with only three teams). Ten months ago, Johnston had his Pittsburgh Penguins at 15-10-3 as the Pens looked up in the standings at the Washington Capitals, and the Pens’ power play was connecting only 15 percent of the time (26th in the league). Six months later, the Pens were Stanley Cup champions, having gone 33-16-5 since December, and the power play was now 16th in the league.

The difference between the December Penguins and the June Penguins? Mike Johnston was no longer the head coach.

It’s not always easy to pinpoint where a team turns its entire season around, but it’s easy for the Penguins. It was Dec. 12, 2015. That day, GM Jim Rutherford decided to fire one Mike and hire another. The new Mike, Mike Sullivan, hadn’t been a head coach in the NHL for more than nine years, but he was tasked with turning an underperforming roster of high-salaried players into contenders. Not only did he make them contenders, Sullivan won the Stanley Cup with the same players that Mike Johnston couldn’t, although no one ever says it out loud. But a constant criticism of Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was that he won only because he had Bill

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Cowher’s players, which isn’t completely true. But Sullivan actually had almost the exact roster Johnston did.

Being a guy named Sully in Boston is roughly the equivalent of being a guy named Donnie in Pittsburgh. They are almost ubiquitous monikers in a sea of rabid sports fans.

But our Sully is the best. He brought Lord Stanley home to us this summer and then to his own hometown, including trips to his alma maters. He visited his oddly named Boston College High School, and

then Boston University. Sully later took the Cup to a cancer center and a church; just in case you didn’t know, he’s a good guy as well. Boston is known for winning a lot of championships, but not in hockey. Sully’s hometown Boston Bruins have brought the Cup to Beantown only once in the past 44 seasons. Sully brought it home in six months.

Sully’s second chance as an NHL head coach came after living for years in John Tortorella’s maniacal shadow in Tampa, New York and Vancouver.

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Sullivan occasionally was the interim head coach in games when Torts was suspended.

One time, Tortorella threw a water bottle at a Capitals fan and then tried to spear him with a hockey stick. It was a Capitals fan, so the coach gets a pass from us. Another time, Sullivan coached the Vancouver Canucks after Tortorella was suspended six games for going into the Calgary Flames’ locker room and threatening to beat up their coach. Finally, last December, Sullivan got a team of his own.

Sully was formerly head coach of the Bruins, leading the 2003-04 team to 104 points, but he lost to Montreal in the first round of the playoffs. The next year was the lockout, and then in 2005-06 he had a down season, which was enough to get him fired. Now he’s one of only six coaches to win the Stanley Cup after being a midseason replacement. He is, however, the third Penguins coach to do it, after Scotty Bowman in 1992 and Dan Bylsma in 2009.

The Penguins stars bought into Sully’s system that stressed faster skating, more shots and tighter defense. They immediately played with a newfound fervor and were hot for four months. They were like a talented band that just needed a good producer to get the best out of them.

Now Mike Sullivan has his Penguins ready to defend their place as champions. He is getting ready to prepare for his first three games, against the Washington Capitals, Anaheim Ducks and Colorado Avalanche. Meanwhile, Mike Johnston is studying game film of the Regina Pats, Spokane Chiefs and Tri-City Americans.

But good luck to Mike Johnston as well.

Here’s hoping he can win with Jamie Kompons’ players.

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MATT CULLEN is headed into his 19th season in the NHL. He’ll turn 40 in November.

He’s seen a lot of hockey. In the midst of the team’s Stanley Cup run a few months ago, after bouncing the New York Rangers from the playoffs in the first round, the Penguins’ elder statesman was asked about the impact of four rookies.

“We wouldn’t be here without them,” he said.

Forwards Bryan Rust, Conor Sheary, Tom Kuhnhackl and goalie Matt Murray were instrumental in bringing home the franchise’s fourth championship. Cullen explained that when the team was banged up during the regular season with injuries (Evgeni Malkin, Nick Bonino and MarcAndre Fleury), the young group stepped up. “They essentially saved our season,” he said.

The trio of 24-year-old wingers have a half-season of NHL experience under their belts each and produced in the playoffs, as did 22-year-old goalie Murray.

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By all accounts, Matt Murray is the goalie of the future for the Penguins. He appeared in 34 games between the regular season and the playoffs, allowing two goals or less in 22 of those contests. In the finals, San Jose found a soft spot or two in his game; he was vulnerable to top-shelf shots.

But improvement in that area is expected this season. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a month or so to see Murray in action as he recovers from a broken hand suffered in the World Cup of Hockey.

When is the last time a Stanley Cupwinning goalie was named Rookie of the Year the following season? The Montreal Canadiens’ Ken Dryden, who as a rookie won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1971, was awarded the Calder Trophy for the 1971-72 NHL season.

With just 13 regular-season games played last year, Murray could join him.

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The right winger is a speedy forechecking machine who isn’t afraid to mix it up with older, more experienced, and much bigger players on the ice. Rust nearly matched his 41-game regular-season point total (11) in the postseason with six goals and nine points in 23 playoff games. The Penguins might

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not have made it to the Stanley Cup finals if it weren’t for Rust and his two goals in game seven of the conference finals against Tampa Bay. Skating on his own, but not practicing with the team just yet, this preseason he is dealing with a finger injury. But once he is ready to go, he’ll knock off the rust, and most likely play beside Evgeni Malkin.

CONOR SHEARY From undrafted free agent to winning a Stanley Cup on Sidney Crosby’s wing, life is good for Conor Sheary. Speed and skill is the name of this little guy’s game. At 5’8” and 175 pounds, Sheary slices through the neutral zone and provides the creative Crosby with plenty of scoring options. Sheary also picked it up in the postseason, scoring a game-winner against San Jose, one of his 10 playoff points.

He’s a smart player who stays out of the penalty box, and a full season of Sid feeding him the puck will be fun to watch.

TOM KUHNHACKL The son of one of the most decorated hockey players in Germany, Erich Kuhnhackl, Tom Kuhnhackl became the first NHL player to bring the Stanley Cup to his home country. Known for his defensive prowess, the fourth-liner has become an asset on the penalty kill and has a strong puck-protection game, possessing the puck with a low turnover rate. Kuhnhackl tallied two goals — including the game-winner to kick off the first round against New York — and three assists in the postseason. Head coach Mike Sullivan likes his offensive upside and his potential to become a very good two-way player.

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For the Pittsburgh-based band Rue, it’s time to break out of the bedroom.

Beginning as the bedroom-recording project of Laura Lee Burkhardt in 2013, Rue is now a four-piece with big plans for the future, including a new single, a split 7-inch with the band Weller and a debut full-length.

Burkhardt is a self-taught musician, who uses an electric ukulele, journal entries and her soft soprano to create moving indie punk.

After bringing on a drummer shortly after launching her project, Burkhardt immersed herself in the Pittsburgh DIY music scene, playing shows throughout the city and releasing short EPs. It wasn’t until a show with folk-punk singer-songwriters Kimya Dawson and Paul Baribeau last year that she felt Rue needed to be something more.

As she watched Dawson and Baribeau perform, Burkhardt was struck by the idea of bringing on more members to form a full band. Tapping the friends she had made in the local music scene, Burkhardt added Laura Cramer, Anna Lowe and Jonathan Lightfoot to form a band.

Together the four work to bring Burkhardt’s diary entries to life.

“We’ve experienced such growth since they came on,” Burkhardt says. “Our sound really changed for the best, and we’ve become much more harmonious. I’m able to write songs about my feelings that are personal, but accessible, and then present them to the band to flesh out with full instrumentals.”

The band’s single “Reversed” is set to debut on its Bandcamp this week. (You can also find it on FFW>>, the music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.) The song is the first to reflect what the band describes as a bigger and more technical sound.

“Reversed” is expected to appear on a debut full-length due out this winter. The yet-to-be-titled record is what Burkhardt calls a cohesive narrative of themes, unlimited in creative potential.

“Sometimes I feel insecure that I’m a self-taught musician, but it enables me to break creative rules that you don’t know exist,” she says. “It’s why my bandmates are saints, because they’ll often tell me whether something sounds right.”

Releasing the album is the first of many “pipe dreams” the band has written down in a large binder. Beyond the album release, Burkhardt says they’re going to make many more of those dreams come true.

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“I really love metered poetry and formal verse,” she says, as her band, The Seratones, drive from Niagara Falls to that night’s gig at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland. “I … really … like to pay attention to the cadences of the worlds. I mean the words, sorry.

“They keep talking about donuts. We’re riding in the van and they keep talking about donuts and now I want a donut. I’m going to write a song about a donut.”

Good journalists know how to identify topics that are important to their interview subjects: What’s your favorite donut?

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bandmates. Soon, we’re all laughing, but she eventually answers the question. “My favorite donut is Southern Maid from home in Shreveport, Louisiana. It’s the only donut I’ll eat; everything else just ain’t it.

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“That’s what we have in Shreveport: donuts, gambling and really awesome creative talent. You know, that’s not a bad lineup.”

It was in that creative, talent-filled music scene where Haynes — who worked as a high school teacher until the Seratones

released their debut album, Get Gone, earlier this year — met guitarist Connor Davis, bassist Adam Davis and drummer Jesse Gabriel. She grew up with a love of music and began singing at age 6 in the Brownsville Baptist Church in Columbia, La. As a teen, she got into jazz vocals and, since she also wanted to play guitar, her then-boss recommended she go see Shreveport blues legend Buddy Flett. Flett, a Grammy nominee who wrote songs for artists like Percy Sledge, gave Haynes guitar lessons as well as insights on the music business.

“Buddy’s advice was to take your vitamins, don’t let money come between you and your friendships, and just be nice to people,” she says. “So far, so good — although there’s not really a shit-ton of money so far, but I don’t ever see that as an issue. We’ve got a pretty good crew.” Some

may see that as naiveté, but for Haynes, feeling safe and trusting those around her is a high priority. And that’s something she learned from spending years in Shreveport’s DIY punk scene.

Thanks to some friends who were into punk, Haynes found herself getting into bands like the Sex Pistols. She started going to shows alone and quickly found a place where she felt welcome.

“I didn’t know anyone when I first showed up at these punk shows,” Haynes says. “It was loud, sweaty, brash and stinky, and I didn’t look like anyone else in there and I never felt more comfortable. I felt taken care of. I know in a lot of different punk scenes, there’s this big machismo, anti-feminine, anti-woman pussy-fear, and we didn’t have that. We had this inviting, welcoming space, and it definitely left a lasting impression on me.

We have friends all over the world now.

We formed our own tribe. We’d lose ourselves, find ourselves and do all the shit we weren’t supposed to be doing.

“We weren’t straight-edge kids, that’s for damn sure. I love Minor Threat, but we’re fucking from Louisiana and we drank, but so be it.”

Listening to the Seratones, it’s easy to hear all of those influences mixing together, both in the instrumentation and in Haynes’ powerful voice. Jazz vocals, punk, soul and Southern rock meld into a unique sound.

And one of the more glorious examples of this is on “Kingdom Come.” The song has a steady but building beat paced by a combination of Gabriel’s drums, Davis’ driving bass lines and Haynes’ vibrato which creates a sound that dances a fine line between controlled and frenzied. It’s the kind of song that hits the ear and makes the heart beat faster with every note.

It’s also the kind of sound that will compel music writers and audiophiles to try and slap a new name on it. And while it may stretch the limits of what many of us are used to hearing, at its core, it’s rock ’n’ roll.

“Rock ’n’ roll is elastic,” Haynes says, pausing to order a large black coffee during a roadside stop. “Go back and listen to Some Girls [by the Rolling Stones] and you hear all kinds of influences in there, but still, it’s a rock album.”

“People try to lump us into other categories because … you know, I don’t know why the hell people do that. I’ve never given a shit about that; it’s all about marketing and that’s fine,” she says. “As long as I know what it is, I don’t give a goddamn what they call it. I just want people to hear it, so I can keep on doing what I love for a really long time.”

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But that seems a little misleading. Love and Violence is wacky, smart, fun music and far from square.

VOCALIST REUBEN SAIRS HAS A COOL PASSION TO HIS VOICE. The weirdness on Love and Violence — and it is weird — isn’t pronounced in any instrumentation or production style.

In fact, the sound is overwhelmingly clean and inoffensive, reminiscent of their “contemporaries� The Feelies.

Vocalist Reuben Sairs has a cool passion to his voice, like a drastically toned-down Fred Schneider or a less bratty Tom Verlaine. Like Schneider, there’s a bounce to Sairs’ singing. It’s the same sort of jangly vocal energy that gave such power to ’80s vocalists like Verlaine and Schneider, the sort of voice that makes you unsure whether they’re making a joke you don’t understand or making none at all. “Finally Returning Home� or “Raise a Voice� are good places to start with The Hipsters. The guitar lines in those tunes, like everything on Love and Violence, are simple and un-showy; everything is mixed and produced without flamboyance, and there’s very little rebellion to the thing on the whole. But altogether, Love and Violence succeeds in its off-kilter charm because there’s nothing in it as simple and obvious as rebellion.

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Jayle time: Evan Patterson

DARK BLUES {BY MARGARET WELSH} A FEW YEARS AGO, Evan Patterson found himself spending a lot of time in New Mexico. His then-partner was in grad school in Santa Fe, and on frequent visits to see her, without a car or much to do, he wrote songs.

Patterson, who spoke to City Paper over the phone from his home in Louisville, Ky., has been playing in bands since he was a young teen, and is probably best known as the frontman for long-running post-punk band Young Widows. He’s no stranger to songwriting. But this felt different. “I was just … writing songs on a guitar that could barely play,” he says with a slow, subtle drawl. “I was writing songs with no direction or purpose.”

Those songs, haphazardly born from Southwestern landscapes and boredom, spawned a new musical project, Jaye Jayle, whose haunting debut full-length, House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out, was released in February.

A name like that may inspire some speculation — who is Jaye Jayle? A band or a man? And it’s both, sort of. What started out as a solo project with a name inspired by the often-amusing pseudonyms adopted by old blues artists is now a full band. It’s a shift which came about as organically as the songs: Once Patterson’s friends heard what he’d been working on, they were eager to help him flesh it out. The lineup has undergone changes since then, but more recently has settled into something steadier, and “more productive,” Patterson says.

Young Widows fans will likely listen for musical overlap, but while both projects showcase Patterson’s rich vocals (Leonard Cohen and Captain Beefheart have become major influences in recent years), Jaye Jayle

swaps Young Widow’s noisy, melodic aggression for menacing, slow-burning minimalism. House Cricks brings to mind The Firstborn Is Dead-era Nick Cave, or dark alt-country band 16 Horsepower, and a cursory listen suggests connections to ’80s goth and Americana. “With Young Widows there was a lot of teen angst, and the punkrock [idea of] going against anything and everything,” he says. “And I still feel like that’s there with any music I make because I’m never trying to fit into any pop-culture world … that’s never been inspiring to me.”

JAYE JAYLE, THE WORKING POOR, LANDMARK TONGUES 9 p.m. Wed., Oct. 19. Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $8.

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There’s a lot buried under Jaye Jayle’s deceptively simple songs, and much to be revealed through close listening. “I’ve been obsessed with blues music for a long time, and also ambient music like Tangerine Dream,” Patterson says. And he’s not afraid of experimentation: A couple of weeks ago, he organized the first and only performance of a project he called TRAMALANDA, which featured 10 people playing hi-hats, while Patterson played a tremolo-effected synthesizer. “In a lot of old country, or even jazz, there’s that subtle tremolo effect … whenever I hear that, I really cling to a song.” And though that was a one-off, it exemplifies a deep love and curiosity for all kinds of sounds, as well as resistance to categorization. “I’ve never had the desire to be pegged down, because that’s not what kind of fan I am of music,” he explains. “A genre of music is not my identity as an artist or as a fan.”

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Bring extra bones (dollars, of course, not real bones) for a craft sale and 50/50 raffles. The festivities benefit Kopy Kat Sanctuary and Proper Pit Bull, local organizations that find homes for homeless furry friends. Meg Fair 9 p.m. Fri., Oct. 14, and 8 p.m. Sat., Oct. 15. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $7-10,or $13 for both nights. 412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com

tonight. His music has a hip-hop backbone, but while he cites UGK and Notorious B.I.G. as early influences, his sensitive, melancholy tracks will likely draw more comparisons to Drake.

Check out his single “Déjà Vu” (on which Bieber appears), which hits all the same pleasure centers as “Hotline Bling.” Jazz Cartier and Larry June open the show. Margaret Welsh 8 p.m.

1601 E. Carson St., South Side. $35. All ages.

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Austin folk-rockers Okkervil River know how to build on a good tale.

Whether the band’s quiet acoustic sound soothes or its electric guitar rock rules, the root of every song and album is a longspinning yarn. Joining the evening of musical storytelling at Mr. Smalls Theater is New York-based Landlady, [FUTURE FUNK] a raspy lo-fi endeavor + SAT., OCT. 14 dripping with clever Tonight, New Orleanssynth melodies. Lip Talk based Naughty (also from New York) Professor brings its diversifies the night’s Will Sheff of futuristic funk to the sound with psych-driven, James Street Gastropub.

Okkervil River rhythmically clever pop The music of Naughty and airy vocal work. MF P is a genre-bending 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., blend of soul and jazz Millvale. $18-20. All ages. 412-821-4447 or with progressive tendencies, and the result www.mrsmalls.com is a tantalizing, barely replicable style of improvisation, carefully crafted rhythm and [AFRO-PERUVIAN] + MON., OCT. 16 the catchiest saxophone hooks of your life.

If you geek out on Latin jazz and masterful If this NOLA goodness isn’t cool enough on musicianship, then find your comfiest dancing its own, Jurassic 5 frontman Chali 2na will be shoes and catch the Gabriel Alegría Afroon hand to provide vocals along with jazz Peruvian Sextet tonight at Club Café. The group vocalist Sasha Masakowski. Groovy hip-hop embodies the heart and soul of Afro-Peruvian outfit Uptowne Buddha opens. MF 8 p.m. music. And if you’re into percussion, you have 422 Foreland St., North Side. $15. 412-904-3335 to see both the auxiliary percussionist and or jamesstreetgastropub.com drum-set player tear it up and hold it down, easily navigating challenging and beautiful [R&B] + SAT., OCT. 15 rhythms. MF 7 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side.

Fresh off a tour with Justin Bieber, young $20. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com up-and-comer Post Malone drops by Diesel

TO SUBMIT A LISTING: HTTP://PGHCITYPAPER.COM/HAPPENINGS 412.316.3388 (FAX) + 412.316.3342 X165 (PHONE) {ALL LISTINGS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 9 A.M. FRIDAY PRIOR TO PUBLICATION} PALACE THEATRE. Delbert McClinton. Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

ROCK/POP THU 13 ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Lenny & Larry.

Monroeville. 724-733-4453.

HOWLERS. Sean K. Preston & The Loaded Pistols, Devil’s Holler, Douglas & the Iron Lung.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

FRI 14 CATTIVO. Tartarus, Mud City Manglers, Bloated Sluts, Love Dumpster, Submachine, Crooked Cobras, Getaway Car, Horehound, Broughton’s Rules, Del Rios, Dredeath, Ladybeast, Derketa, Motorpsychos, Molasses Barge, Night Vapor.

CATtivo HOWLoween Bash: Day 1. 412-687-2157.

GOOSKI’S. Shadow Age, The Gotobeds, Silence, Unmaker.

Polish Hill. 412-681-1658.

HOWLERS. The Zambonis & Col. Eagleburgers High Stepping Good Time Band. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. CHALI 2NA & Naughty Professor w/ Uptowne Buddha. North Side.

412-904-3335.

Air Traffic Controller & All Ages.

South Side. 412-431-8800.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. My Cardboard Spaceship Adventure, Mike Frazier, Swiss Army & Reward. North Side.

412-904-3335.

STAGE AE. Set it Off. North Side.

412-229-5483.

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CATTIVO. Members of Brazilian Wax, Dirty Charms, Neverweres, Jackals of Botswana, The Park Plan, Za Dharsh, Seige 15, Action Camp, Dreadeth, Love Dumpster, ThunderVest, LoFi Delphi, Jim Dandies & The Gothees. CATtivo HOWLERS. HOWLoween Bash: Lee Harvey Osmond, Day 2. 412-687-2157.

Lone Wolf Club, DIESEL. Posy Malone, The Jack of Spades. www. per pa Jazz Cartier & Larry Bloomfield. pghcitym .co June. South Side.

412-682-0320.

412-431-8800.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Mr. Clean. Robinson.

HOWLERS. Dex 412-489-5631.

Romweber, Victory at HOWLERS. The Clock Reads the Crossroads, The Spectres. & Humandala. Bloomfield.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

412-682-0320.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB PALACE THEATRE. The Clarks, Jim & SPEAKEASY. Mark Dignam, Donovan & the Sun King Warriors.

Nick Africano & Brewer’s Row. Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

THE R BAR. Norm Nardini.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

THE SUB ALPINE. EZ Action.

Turtle Creek. 412-823-6661.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays.

DIESEL. Bronze Radio Return, At the Funhouse. Millvale.

603-321-0277.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

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FRI 14 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-586-7644.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Downtempo & Ambient PLAY. North Side.

412-904-3335.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

Downtown. 412-874-4582.

THE R BAR. KAR-E-O-KEE. Dormont. 412-942-0882.

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Stasko. North Side.

412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side.

412-431-2825.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side.

412-381-1330.

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.

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RUE

Each week we bring you a new song from a local artist. This week’s track comes from Rue; read about the indie-punk band in this week’s Local Beat column, then stream or download the song “Reversed” for free at FFW>>, our music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.

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

412-621-4900.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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

412-781-6771.

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Rambo.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

412-424-9254.

SUN 16

CRAFTHOUSE STAGE & GRILL. Shot O’ Soul.

Baldwin. 412-653-2695.

MOONDOG’S. Bobby Rush. Blawnox.

412-828-2040.

WOOLEY BULLY’S. Jill West & Blues Attack. New Brighton.

724-494-1578.

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

THE FUNHOUSE @ MR. SMALS. Day Drops. A brunch of solid DJs. Millvale. 603-433-7465.

TUE 18 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta. Reggae & dancehall.

Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.

BLUES FRI 14 MOONDOG’S. Jason Ricci.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

NIED’S HOTEL. Jack of Diamonds. Lawrenceville.

412-781-9853.

SAT 15

JAZZ THU 13

HIP HOP/R&B

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Piano/Keys Summit.

Speakeasy. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

FRI 14 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

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RIVERS CLUB. Jerry Lucarelli, Peg Wilson. Downtown.

412-391-5227.

TABLE 86 BY HINES WARD. RML Jazz. Mars. 412-370-9621.

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

Fox Chapel. 412-967-1900.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. The Eric Johnson Trio.

North Side. 412 963 1514.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander. Downtown.

412-391-1004.

JAMES STREET www. per GASTROPUB & pa pghcitym SPEAKEASY. Natalie .co Cressman & Mike Bono.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

SAT 15

WALNUT GRILL-ROBINSON. Roger Barbour Blues Band w/ Barbara Ray. Robinson.

412-747-2100.

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

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

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RILEY’S POUR HOUSE. Jerry Lucarelli. Carnegie.

412-279-0770.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tony Campbell Jam Session. Early. Sam Brooks.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. RML Jazz.

Strip District. 412-370-9621.

TUE 18 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Kevin Howard.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

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SAT 15 DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. The Skipper Johnson Band. Mars.

724-553-5212.

DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Mark & Laurie. North Huntingdon.

724-863-8181.

SUN 16 HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

WED 19 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

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

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ELWOOD’S PUB. Martin The Troubadour. Rural Ridge.

724-265-1181.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Tattletale Saints w/ Guy Russo & Zoob.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

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

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SAT 15 OAKS THEATER. The New Silver Eagle Band w/ Blonde Elvis.

Oakmont. 412.828.6322.

CLASSICAL SUN 16 ORGANIST DAVID HIGGS. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-242-2787.

PETER KLIMO PIANO RECITAL. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland.

412-371-7447.

OTHER MUSIC THU 13 RIVERS CASINO. Rebecca Kaufman & the Groove Doctors.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

FRI 14 RIVERS CASINO. Darryl & Kim. North Side. 412-231-7777.

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Don McLean Jergel’s, 285 Northgate Drive, Warrendale {FRI., NOV. 18}

Ted Leo

Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South Side {TUE., DEC. 06}

Psychic Twin Brillobox, 84104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield

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FRICK FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM. Sonya Belaya.

Electronics by Pittsburgh composers Lu-Han Li, Ryan McMasters & Brian Riordan.

Oakland. 412-624-4125.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Joe Marcinek Band w/ Marty Sammon (of Buddy Guy’s Band).

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

RIVERS CASINO. Stevee Wellons Band Trio. North Side.

412-231-7777.

ROCK ROOM. HOGG, A Ortmann, Treading Bloom, Autumn Pool & Deterge.

Polish Hill. 412-683-4418.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Bring Your Own Vinyl Night. Bring some records to play & enjoy a selection from other’s home collections.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

PALACE THEATRE. Natalie Grant, Danny Gokey & Tauren Wells. Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

SONNY’S TAVERN. Karaoke.

Bloomfield. 412-683-5844.

MON 17 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

OPEN STAGE THU 13 CLUB CAFE. Monthly Open Stage. Signup begins at 7 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4950.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Bluegrass Open Jam. Rural Ridge.

724-265-1181.

MOONDOG’S. Electric Open Stage. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

OAKS THEATER. Open Jam. Oakmont. 412-828-6322.

SOUTH PAW. Open Mic with Jay C & G. South Side.

412-235-7086.

MON 17 MR. SMALLS THEATER. AcoustiCafe Open Stage. Rotating hosts. Millvale. 412-323-1919.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Open Stage. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

TUE 18 BROWN HOTEL. Open Mic at the Brown. Indiana. 724-463-0881.

HAMBONE’S. Acoustic Open Mic. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

WED 19 OBEY HOUSE. All Acoustic Open Stage. Crafton. 412-922-3883.

THE R BAR. Open Mic w/ Craig King Hoump Day Band. Dormont.

412-942-0882.

UNCLE BILL’S LOWRIE ST. INN. The Worst Open Mic in Pittsburgh.

Weekly acoustic open mic: no drums, no pets. Troy Hill.

412-667-9616.

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SMILING MOOSE South Side.

412-431-4668. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

Squirrel Nut Zippers REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. All ages show.

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

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BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 7p.m.

FForever Motown M THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org.

7p.m.

FRIDAY 14 145 Donnie Iris and the Cruisers

Bianca Del Rio “Not Today Satan Tour”

THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org.

8p.m.

CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall.

All ages show.

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

The Whigs Switchfoot & Relient K - Looking for America Tour STAGE AE North Side Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000.

Doors open at 6p.m.

THURSDAY 13 Takao Kawaguchi: About Kazuo Ohno

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. 412-237-8300.

Tickets: warhol.org. 8p.m.

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412-687-2157. All ages show.

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

21+ Night: Rocky Horror CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side. Over 21 event.

Tickets: carnegiesciencecenter. org. 6p.m.

Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

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North Side. Tickets: makerfairepittsburgh.com.

Through Oct. 16.

Tig Notaro CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall.

All ages show.

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

“A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall.

All ages show.

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

Masquerade Ball CAVO Strip District.

Over 21 event. For more info visit cavopgh.com. 9p.m.

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CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

All ages show.

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“THERE’S A WONDERFUL FREEDOM IN NOT HAVING TO PROVE ANYTHING.”

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IN THE MOMENT {BY SAM LEONARD}

ARE FANS OFTEN ANXIOUS TO TELL YOU OF THEIR OWN PERSONAL TRAGEDIES AND EXPLAIN HOW HEARING YOUR STORY HELPED? I don’t always want to talk about tragic experiences, but every now and then people share stories that really blow my mind. It’s a kind of cycle of giving to each other and healing each other.

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Tig Notaro’s stock in standup has risen steadily from the time she began frequenting open mics until the turbulent day in 2012 when she forged her magnum opus — a dark, heartfelt and hilarious performance delivered just weeks after the death of her mother and hours after she herself was diagnosed with breast cancer.

This emotionally stirring story has since been told as a documentary, the memoir I’m Just a Person and, most recently, the Amazon Prime series One Mississippi.

Notaro spoke with City Paper by phone prior to her Oct. 14 performance here.

ARE YOU CONTINUING TO EXERCISE YOUR ON-STAGE ABILITY TO TACKLE DARK TOPICS WHILE STILL MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH? I feel like my standup is always going to be about what feels right in the moment.

Sharing my personal woes and tragedies in 2012 was what felt right in the moment. It didn’t open this door where all I do on stage is share horrific details. …

This new hour that I’m touring with has a chunk of material that is easily the silliest thing I’ve ever done on stage. It’s so much fun to do, and there’s nothing tragic about it. The only thing tragic about it would be if someone didn’t find it funny.

But even then, those people feed into the fun of the bit.

MANY COMICS COMPLAIN THAT AUDIENCES THESE DAYS ARE TOO EASILY OFFENDED. DO YOU AGREE? It’s about approaching topics from the proper angle. If you bring up a topic to joke about and someone says, “Oh, I wouldn’t do that,” well, they don’t know what you have in mind. They may have the most obvious or hacky idea in their head, and they might not know what great angle you’ve come up with. I always feel like if you’re offended, leave. It’s not for you.

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TIG NOTARO 8 p.m. Fri., Oct. 14.

Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead, 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall. $30-35. www.librarymusichall.com

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Style Magazine, was a piece profiling “a very small sampling of the female artists now in their 70s, 80s and 90s we should have known about decades ago.” One of the 11 artists was Michelle Stuart, who explained that while she had recognition throughout her career, “you reach a certain point and there’s a glass ceiling,” but at her age “there’s a wonderful freedom in not having to prove anything.”

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what’s new and what’s next, it’s nice to be reminded of women artists who have been producing amazing work year after year but who might no longer be on our radars.

ALISON KNOWLES continues through Oct. 24.

Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org

Although she is not included on the magazine’s list, Alison Knowles is one such artist and is lately having a bit of resurgence. As one the first members of the

seminal, cross-disciplinary experimental art movement Fluxus, and the only woman in the original group, her career as an artist and a poet has spanned five decades.

Those decades are covered in Alison Knowles, a mini survey in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum Gallery. In a small space often given over to more au courant installations by younger artists, this exhibition feels rather curt and antiseptic. The ephemeral and interactive sociality of many of Knowles’ works, and the importance of such works to more recent developments in art history, warrant a more in-depth investigation.

with several tiny paper scrolls, each containing bean-related texts taken from diverse sources such as songs, recipes, stories, ads and science. “Bean Rolls” is a key piece here, as it unites a number of recurrent themes in Knowles’ work. As part of a Fluxkit, it is an example of the diverse output of Fluxus artists, which included event scores, performances, publications and multiples of works. When shaken, the tin becomes an instrument, or beanturner; the scrolls make it a book; and the found phrases are experimental poems. Knowles also used “Bean Rolls” in participatory performances.

Other works integrate beans within handmade flax or cotton paper sculptures. These can make noise when turned, shaken or rubbed; however, while you can’t do this yourself at the Carnegie, you can ask a gallery facilitator to demonstrate.

“Celebration Red,” one of Knowles’ favorite event scores, was also interactive, but took place only on opening night at the Carnegie, back in May. Participants were invited to bring a red object, place

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Organized by Eric Crosby, the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, the intimate exhibition is intended as the first to cast “equal light” on Knowles’ full breadth of work across media. But while it does offer some key pieces, it provides very little opportunity for interaction or participation.

The only piece you are allowed to really interact with is “Bean Garden,” which is particularly popular with the toddler set, so if you want to try it you’ll have some stiff competition. Described as “an interactive sculpture and an experimental sound composition,” the piece is a large, shallow box filled with dried beans, with an amplifier beneath it.

Knowles was originally interested in beans because of the sound they made when hitting a hard surface.

But beans became a distinctive and continuous feature in her work, not least because they are a basic yet important staple worldwide.

In an innovative early work on display here, called “Bean Rolls,” Knowles placed some beans inside a square tin along

it in a square of a temporary grid on the floor, and to take away an object if they liked it as a way to “celebrate every red thing.” The end result is now on display on a wall outside the entrance to the exhibition, a beautiful if static remnant.

The piece you’ll really want to touch, but can’t, is “The Boat Book,” an immersive 8-foot-tall sculpture with proportionate, movable wood-framed pages.

Just as “Bean Rolls” is a book in a non-traditional form, so is this one. Inspired by her older brother, a fisherman on Long Island, this book, similar to earlier versions called “Big Book” and “The Book of Bean,” is intended to be physically and mentally navigated. As an assemblage that includes a bean turner, poetry, books, a soundtrack of Knowles reading nauticalrelated material, and (the potential) for interaction, it has all the non-hierarchical density of experience one would expect of Knowles.

While a traditional retrospective would have seemed more appropriate for Knowles’ seminal oeuvre, it’s possible that “The Boat Book” and key items compiled from Knowles’ own studio create just enough of a survey. After all, at this stage in her career, this pioneering artist certainly has nothing to prove.

THE PIECE YOU’LL REALLY WANT TO TOUCH, BUT CAN’T, IS “THE BOAT BOOK.”

Alison Knowles’ “Book in a Shirt”

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Design a Bike Rack The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust invites Pittsburgh area artists (residents of Allegheny County) to design and develop functional bicycle racks to be located along the Penn Avenue corridor from the Convention Center (11th Street) to Stanwix Street. This third phase of the project will produce ten more racks with the potential for more to follow.

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“Yellow Barge” (ca. 1950s), by Esther Phillips

{BY AMANI NEWTON} There are probably a million ways to describe what’s known as The American Dream, but it usually goes something like this: Dream big, work hard and anything is possible. It’s beautiful, and a ridiculous lie, because it completely ignores something we all know but hate to admit. Some of us will dream big and work hard and still end up with nothing, because life is not always fair. Sometimes, life sucks, and then you die.

Esther Phillips was born in Russia and emigrated as a toddler; her family settled in what’s now Pittsburgh’s Uptown. Her parents either did not understand or would not tolerate a daughter who fancied herself an artist, and without support Phillips was unable to complete a formal arts education. She left home and Pittsburgh for good in 1936, decamping alone for New York’s Greenwich Village as a woman in her mid-30s (an unfashionable age for a new arrival). She spent years trying to make it on nothing but the meager profits from selling her paintings, and refused to work at anything but art. She languished in poverty until suffering a nervous breakdown, and landed in an upstate New York asylum in 1942. Phillips spent six years there, generating a prolific body of work with the help of a sympathetic staff. Despite never achieving mainstream success, Phillips continued to paint until 1969, when her eyesight failed. She died in 1983.

The retrospective now on display at Borelli-Edwards gallery (organized by local collector Pat McArdle) traces Phillip’s artistic evolution. The earliest of these three dozen works are bird’s-eye watercolor landscapes, and they exude a childish fascination with all the forms and shapes that make up life. Her later gouache period is the most formally interesting and heavily imitative.

Here she explores more complex landscapes and reduces them to simple geometric forms, in the fashion of the Cubists. During her years in the institution, she begins to take on the female figure as a subject, completely detaching her figures from depth and perspective and arranging them ornamentally, like a design on the canvas.

None of this matters, by the way.

This art isn’t actually about form or line or color. This art is about resistance. Here is the labor of a woman who came face to face with the myth of hard work, and worked hard anyway.

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QUANTUM THEATRE’S production of Jez Butterworth’s The River is funny, romantic, poetic — and almost entirely unreviewable without spoilers. Yes, there’s a plot (of sorts), interactions between interesting characters, and allegorical discussions of fly-fishing as life.

The 2012 British hit’s dialogue has been Americanized, but the feel is still of an English countryside, with references to villages and equally dependable train service and rain. The characters, though finely drawn, remain nameless and ultimately unknowable — as we all are.

THE RIVER continues through Oct. 30. Quantum Theatre at Aspinwall Riverfront Park, 285 River Ave., Aspinwall. $18-51. 412-362-1713 or www.quantumtheatre.com

Set in a remote cottage, The River sets up an intimacy that is by turns cozy and scary. As the central character, Andrew William Smith easily moves from dominating to charming to vaguely threatening.

The Man is concealing something, but it’s not his vulnerability. Opposite him, the bubbly Daina Michelle Griffith and urbane Siovhan Christensen follow eerily similar paths in their respective relationships (games? rituals?) with the Man. Director Adil Mansoor enthralls and thrills us as the fast-moving River changes dramatic course: deep channels here, treacherous rocks over there and beauty beckoning everywhere just beyond reach.

For many of us Pittsburghers, rivers are

more than water: They are the city’s lifeblood, and our own. An evening of watching and listening to the rivers can be soothing or contemplative. Quantum’s decision to stage The River beside a real river (the Allegheny) is inspired — yet also what we’ve come to expect from Karla Boos’ innovative company over the past quarter-century.

Where do the real environmental sounds of trains and wildlife end, and the stagecraft sounds designed by Steve Shapiro begin?

The rustic fishing-cabin set, totally realistic above the floor (which is surreal), is built indoors (and heated) onto the dry dock at Aspinwall Riverfront Park. A big hand for production director and resident scenic designer Britton Mauk and crew. And another for technical director Todd Nunn; costume designer Rachel Vallozzi; lighting designer K. Jenna Ferree; and stage manager Cory F. Goddard and assistant Katy Click.

There are so many layers and word plays in this fish tale: the pursuit, rejection, loss and triumph of fly-fishing mirror the course of romance. The River makes for a compleat stimulating evening.

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SEAMLESS {BY TED HOOVER} PLAYS DON’T come any more beautiful than

Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, now at University of Pittsburgh Stages. What an exquisite piece of playwriting this 2003 drama is; by turns heartbreaking and heartlifting, Nottage has created a touching testament to the power of women.

Nottage introduces us to New York City in 1905 and to Esther, an African-American woman who, at 35, has built a small business

as a lingerie seamstress and lives an intensely quiet and private life in Mrs. Dickson’s boarding house for “colored ladies.”

We watch Esther meet with two clients: Mayme, a black prostitute whose abrupt talk and salty attitude entertain and inspire Esther, and Mrs. Van Buren, a society lady whose blasé mien hides the loneliness just underneath.

The male characters are Mr. Marks, an Orthodox Jew who supplies Esther with fabrics, and George Armstrong, a worker helping to build the Panama Canal who writes to Esther seeking a pen pal. Trouble comes, as trouble usually does, when love shows up, threatening Esther’s hard-won equilibrium.

Nottage covers an enormous swath of ground, but her writing is so delicate and fiercely personal you never notice her huge themes — most especially her depiction of the severely limited choices available to women in the early 20th century, each of whom, one way or another, is forced to serve somebody else.

Tyler T. Cruz plays Esther and gives a deeply moving performance as a woman who fears her own dreams. Kimberly Parker Green, Chidera Mgbudem and Alexa Renee Moore are her three female satellites, each providing texture and color to the fabric of the play. Nick Bernstein couldn’t be more adorable as surprise love interest Mr. Marks, and Dionysius Westbrook bursts into the play like a gale force and fuels the narrative thrust of the piece.

INTIMATE APPAREL continues through Sun., Oct. 16. Henry Heymann Theatre, 4301 Fifth Ave., Oakland. $12-25. 412-624-7529 or www.play.pitt.edu

Congratulations to Gianni Downs and KJ Gilmer for the lovely set and costumes.

Gilmer also functions as the show’s director. Judging from her program bio, directing seems a new string for her theatrical bow; in the future, Gilmer might think more about consistently logical scene transitions, keeping the subtext “sub” rather than on top, and mastering the near-unmasterable: pace, pace, pace.

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Theater. Madman, which adapts the famous Gogol story, stars Jon Hayden, an Atlanta-based Carnegie Mellon graduate with a long career in theater, film and TV; “Poe” is written by and stars Pittsburgh-based stage actor David Crawford.

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“POE’S LAST NIGHT” continues through Sun., Oct. 16.

Metropolis Theater at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $15-30. www.madman2016.com

The program begins with “Poe,” a 50-minute monologue set hours before the author was found dead, in Baltimore, in 1849. Tormented by real or imagined pursuers, slugging from a pint bottle of whiskey, Poe shares his tragic life story, which includes the death of both his birth mother and stepmother and forcible separation from the love of his life. And he links his sad biography to his brilliant writings: The showpieces are riveting fulltext performances of “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Raven.” It’s easy to see why Crawford’s tour through Poe’s morbid imagination has been successfully staged at venues including Scotland’s famous Edinburgh Fringe.

In the tragicomic Madman, Hayden acts out the diary of Poprishchin, a lowly clerk in czarist Russia. Middle-aged but impecunious, over several months he is driven mad by his unrequited need for recognition and dignity, and by his impossible love for a beautiful aristocratic girl. Comic highlights, including Poprishchin’s dramatic reading of letters written by a dog, emphasize Gogol’s satire of the banality of aristocracy; Hayden reads them in falsetto, then critiques their style!

Madman seems challenging to adapt for the stage: Gogol’s original works because, as text, the humor is wonderfully ironic; Poprischin is both an unreliable narrator and our window into the absurdity of the world. The comedy turns tragic, but in a theater, confronted with the poor mad soul himself, it is much harder to laugh.

Still, Madman, directed by Prodan Dimov, ultimately works, with Hayden’s considerable energy putting across the humor on a stage over which loom four scrolls bearing the show’s complete text, hung four stories high.

actors — at least since Brando debuted on Broadway in the late 1940s — it’s been their ability to convey accents, as well as non-native language, in a convincing manner. Just listen to the desultory attempts to speak like a South Bostoner in the 2006 film The Departed.

So we might approach Carnegie Mellon University Drama’s production of Irish playwright John Millington Synge’s Playboy of the Western World (1907) with trepidation. But the director, Don Wadsworth, is also one of the top dialect coaches in the country, and his cast not only captures the western Irish language of this drama, but makes it sing.

Joe Essig is stunning as Christy Mahon, the eponymous “playboy” who stumbles into a rustic tavern and charms the local villagers, especially the women. Essig is that rarest kind of actor who looks so comfortable in his role that he can make you forget you’re watching a play.

McKenna Slone’s character, Pegeen, falls in love with Mahon, and she has the difficult job of convincing us that like some anti-Ophelia, Pegeen can also fall out of love with him if she has to. And she does.

The entire cast merits praise. Kennedy McMann, Diyar Eyuboglu and Eleanor Pearson, as the village girls, offer a mirthful

vibrancy that keeps the action warm and flowing. Timiki Salinas (Jimmy) and Dylan Bright (Old Mahon) also stand out.

There is no intermission, which amplifies the intensity of the experience, and allows lighting designer Andrew DG Hunt to let night crawl into day and back again with its own mystical speed, as if colored by Synge’s poetry. Cellist Harry Thornton’s live accompaniment issues from the balcony like a spirit floating above the stage.

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD continues through Sat., Oct. 15.

Philip Chosky Theatre, 5000 Forbes Ave., CMU campus, Oakland. $10-33. 412-268-2407 or www.drama.cmu.edu

Sam Stark’s scenic design is evocative and earthy: You hear the soft dirt under the feet of the characters instead of the distracting thump of plywood. And the costumes, designed by Carolyn Mazuca, complement both the period authenticity and the irony of the work.

The wonder of this performance is that you can watch it, or listen to it like music. What a rare treat for the American theater.

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On Oct. 14, Alan Cumming hits town for not one but two appearances. That afternoon, at Carnegie Lecture Hall, Cumming joins City Theatre’s Tracy Brigden on stage to discuss You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams (Rizzoli), the acclaimed Scottish actor’s new book of photos and stories from life backstage, on the road and more. The Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures New & Noted event is followed that evening at the Byham Theater by Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, his internationally touring cabaret show.

Reached by phone, in New York, Cumming says Sappy Songs’ eclecticism is partly meant to make audiences hear anew songs ranging from Sondheim to Adele.

“A lot of the really contemporary songs that I do — Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne — I think it’s shocking to people to actually hear me singing them,” says Cumming.

“Because a lot of these songs, they can have really great lyrics but they’re so overproduced that you don’t hear them very often, or you can miss them.”

As a performer, Cumming has done everything from Shakespeare to the Smurfs, and from the MC in Cabaret to Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, though he might be best known as political operative Eric Gold on TV’s The Good Wife.

But like his sometimes-harrowing 2014 memoir Not My Father’s Son, his new book Bigger Dreams reveals a personal side — though many of these 45 anecdotes, alternately amusing and poignant, involve such famous friends and acquaintances as Liz Taylor, Gore Vidal, Oprah and Iman.

Cumming says that as a photographer, he’s just a “snapper,” capturing moments.

But writing Bigger Dreams gave him some insights. “I realized in the writing of it that I’m an outsider,” he says. “I’m an outsider in America, I’m an outsider in Scotland.

And because I’m an outsider … I’m able to stand back from my own life and look at it and relate to it with other people. At the same time, I’m also standing inside it.”

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New & Noted: 1 p.m. Fri., Oct. 14 (4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland; $35 ticket includes copy of Bigger Dreams; www.pittsburgh lectures.org). Sappy Songs: 8 p.m. Fri., Oct. 14 (101 Sixth St., Downtown; $56.2586.25; www.trustarts.org)

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2010 drama An Accident focuses Fans of Black Angels on the aftermath Over Tuskegee, Layon of a car accident Gray’s play about the through the Tuskegee Airmen; relationship sports enthusiasts; between the driver history buffs; and and the injured. aficionados of the An Accident, Harlem Renaissance, directed by Linda take note: Gray’s Haston and starring Kings of Harlem Amy Landis and puts onstage the Ken Bolden, true but little-recalled premieres tonight {PHOTO COURTESY OF SUE COFLIN/MAX PHOTOS} story of the Harlem ^ Fri., Oct. 14: Kings of Harlem at Carnegie Stages.

Rens, the first all-black Ian Flanagan 8 p.m. professional basketball Continues through Oct. 29. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $25-40. team. The seven-man squad formed in 1923 and, in the 724-873-3576 or www.insideoffthewall.com 1930s, barnstormed through segregated America on its way to 2,000 wins. The touring Off-Broadway show’s run of four performances at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater begins tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 7:30 p.m. Continues through Sun., SPORT Oct. 16. 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. $34-40. 412-431-0773 Not one but two new foot races get born this weekend. or www.brownpapertickets.com Today, Beechview debuts Hell on Hills, an officially sanctioned 5K that claims to be the world’s steepest.

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a community party follows. And on Sun., Oct. 16, Allegheny County Parks and the Allegheny County Parks Foundation launch The Allegheny 9 Race Series, a variety of 5K and 10K road and trail races in each of the nine county parks. A 5K in White Oak Park kicks things off; on Nov. 12, it’s on to Settlers Cabin, with the series resuming in February. Proceeds benefit park-improvement projects. BO Hell on Hills: 9 a.m. (Beechview; $40; www.hellonhills.com). Allegheny Race Series: 9 a.m. Sun., Oct. 16 (White Oak Park; register at www.theallegheny9.com).

EXHIBIT To celebrate Pittsburgh’s bicentennial, the annual Fall Flower Show at Phipps Conservatory coincides with today’s unveiling of the reinvented Garden Railroad, in the South Conservatory. Five interactive stations chronicle Pittsburgh’s history all in miniature, from the Duquesne Incline to Three Rivers Stadium. Meanwhile, this year’s Flower Show, entitled Bask in Nature’s Bounty, will feature typically ornate decorations. IF 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Fall Flower Show continues through Nov. 6. 1 Schenley Drive, Oakland. $11-15 (free for kids under 2). 412-622-6915 or phipps.conservatory.org

EXHIBIT The Carnegie Science Center today opens a new permanent exhibit that “explores the wonders of the human body.” Presented

by Allegheny Health Network, BodyWorks incorporates interactive displays that communicate the biology in memorable ways. The program explores five areas: muscles and bones, heart and lungs, the digestive system, brain and nerves, and “body basics.” Ever wonder how your brain can “see” a word? Use a finger-slide to rotate a brain and visualize how we process information. IF 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 1 Allegheny Ave., North Side. $11.95-19.95. 412-237-3400 or www.carnegiesciencecenter.org

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FESTIVAL Meet your Maker Faire Pittsburgh: The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh describes its annual festival as part science fair, part county fair and more. This all-ages festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness gathers more than 200 exhibits, performances and presentations onto the grounds of the museum, Buhl Community Park and Nova Place to sample the new, the interactive and the DIY, from high-tech to low-tech, robotics and 3-D printing to handmade crafts. The two-day festival of stuff to play with, build and wonder at starts this morning. BO 10 a.m.-6 p.m. North Side. $8-12 in advance through 5 p.m. Fri., Oct. 14; $10-15 at the door. www.makerfairepittsburgh.com CONTINUES ON PG. 44

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ART The International Sculpture Conference is in town, and what better time to show off homegrown talent? Tonight at SPACE gallery, the Conference itself presents Checks & Balances, a group show of works that “investigate notions of dualities inherent within contemporary sculptural practice.” Curator Murray Horne gathers six local artists including Jasen Bernthisel, Brandon Boan, Paul Bowden, Jill Larson, Shaun Slifer and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Emerging Artist of the Year Sarika Goulatia. The opening reception is tonight. BO 5:30-10 p.m. (free).

Exhibit continues through Nov. 27. 812 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-325-7723 or www.spacepittsburgh.org

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Boys, girls, a stilt-walking drag queen, a metal-grinder, a puppeteer, even Scotty the Blue Bunny — burlesque artists of every stripe are gathering from around the country, and overseas, for Steel City Kitty Burlesque & Variety Show’s fifthanniversary extravaganza. Steel City regulars Kat de Lac and Smokin’ McQueen are joined tonight at the Rex Theater by the likes of Amsterdam’s Xarah von den Vielenregen; the aforementioned “professional bunny”; towering Caribbean Burlesque Festival queen Isaiah Esquire; California-based Red Herring (pictured); Cleveland’s Rae of Discordia; Rasputin’s Marionettes; and Charlotte, N.C. stilt-walker and drag and boylesque performer Bethann Phetamine.

Also: go-go dancers. And cake.

BO 8 p.m. 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $20-30. www.facebook.com (search “Steel City Kitty Burlesque”)

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I was impressed with the [Salon] and the technology. It was some pretty cutting-edge stuff — I think it’s really an emerging market that’s going to blow up. One virtual-reality set I tried was set up to act as if you were looking at someone else’s headset, or desktop, where you could look around and choose different apps. Obviously you could imagine the possibilities with using these virtual-reality worlds as your own little personal homepage. Another headset put me in a few different open areas, such as a desert or a beach. You can control where you want to go with your vision — you just stare in the direction you want to go and it takes you there. In one part I had to look away from these gorillas, or they would attack if you stared. I just think overall it’s pretty awesome — there’s so much potential with gaming and such.

youth fiction, from picture books to young-adult novels. His The Crossover was awarded the 2015 John Newbery Medal for “the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.” Alexander also started the Page-to-Stage Writing and Publishing Program through Scholastic, and co-founded the literacy program LEAP for Ghana. This afternoon, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Alexander’s talk Words and Pictures at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, followed by a book signing. IF 2:30 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $8-11. 412-622-8866 or pittsburghlectures.org

monday 10.17 WORDS Author Amy Bloom visits Pitt’s Frick Fine Arts Building for a craft talk as part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writer Series, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program. Bloom has been nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent novel, Lucky Us, was released in 2014.

Tonight’s talk, The Writer’s Life: Where the God of Love Hangs Out, is followed by a reading tomorrow at Chatham University’s James Laughlin Music Hall. IF 8:30 p.m.

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There will be eight performances courtesy of PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh, beginning with tonight’s Pittsburgh premiere. IF 7:30 p.m. Continues through Sun., Oct. 23. 237 Seventh St., Downtown $26-80. 412-456-4800 or www.trustarts.org

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A BETTER ’BOX {BY MARGARET WELSH} For longtime bartenders Lou Ickes and Janessa Walter, buying the Brillobox wasn’t exactly the long-term plan.

But when Ickes told owner Eric Stern (who is also his brother-in-law) that the two were thinking of moving on, Stern said, “If you leave, I’ll sell it.”

A lot of soul-searching later, Ickes and Walter decided to take over.

Regular patrons of the 11-year-old bar will notice a few changes since the official re-opening in early September: new booths, new art and a giant shark are some of the most obvious updates.

The food menu has been pared down to some of the more popular items, like the Brillo Burger, but it’s supplemented by a rotating Special Selections menu. Current offerings include an open-faced meatloaf sandwich and a French dip; veg and meat versions of both are available.

They’ve also re-introduced Sunday brunch, something they’d tried briefly in the past. Back then, “it just wasn’t the right equation,” Ickes says. This time, they’re keeping it simple: Options include an omelet of the day, pancakes, eggs or tofu scramble. “We want to keep it very easy, very diner,” Walter says. And Ickes adds that he loves the vibe: “If I was just hanging out, my day would be Sunday brunch. It’s no-B.S.” But despite these changes, the bar still feels the same in all the best ways. As Walter puts it, “Something that was important to us was to maintain what we’ve always been, which is a neighborhood bar.”

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HILE THE The Vandal’s transgressive nomenclature may suggest a self-consciously edgy bar, don’t go looking for graffiti, urban decay or rebellion of any sort. Its menu — a brief card, chockfull of locally sourced and pickled ingredients — is of the moment; it turns out the name was just something that evoked timeless cool for owner Joey Hilty. And he liked the way the letters go together.

The Vandal has not one, not two, but four menus — breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner — all of which overlap, though none, of course, are the same. The kitchen serves everything from ham and egg on a biscuit and a pretty straightforward cheeseburger, to spaghetti with shiitake and caviar. While the offerings grow somewhat in sophistication as the day progresses, there’s no hard line of demarcation

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Whenever you dine, you’ll be able to try The Vandal at its simplest or most complex.

THE VANDAL 4306 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-251-0465 HOURS: Wed.-Fri. breakfast 8-11 a.m.; lunch 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; dinner 5-9 p.m.; Sat. brunch 8 a.m.-2 p.m., dinner 5-9 p.m.; Sun. brunch 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

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CP APPROVED The kitchen is run by Bar Marco alumna Csilla Thackray, a young North Hills native who proclaims her Hungarian roots both on the website and in some of the dishes,

such as chicken with spaetzle and a fruit chutney. No, chutney is not particularly Hungarian, but cooked berries with meat and dumplings surely is, and that brings us to another point: Thackray is comfortable in a number of cuisines, and like most postfusion chefs, she doesn’t make a big deal about mixing cultural influences.

The dining room is small and intimate, a warm blend of herringbone hardwood floors, gleaming subway tile and a raw concrete wall, but we snagged a sidewalk two-top on a late summer evening ideal for people-watching. Here, our first starter was a glorious baked ramekin of ricotta served with perfectly toasted slices of sourdough, and for once the bread portion was sufficient to the rest of the plate. This was filled with tasty things to augment the bread-and-cheese: slices of ripe Roma

tomato, zesty pickled carrots and pickled black radish that was both funky and strangely (in a good way) redolent of Brussels sprouts. The ricotta was lush, with a bit of browning on top and a creamy richness that was somewhere between really good butter and molten brie.

Alas, everything that was successful about that dish was missing from the next.

We ordered it on the basis of its intriguing ingredient list — eggplant, heirloom beans in the pod, long shavings of Old Gold cheese, hazelnut and parsley — unsure if it would be a cooked dish or a cold salad. As it turned out, every element was egregiously undercooked and underseasoned. Fresh beans, plucked from the vine at the peak of ripeness, may need little or no cooking, but these were tough and starchy, while the eggplant supplied a rubbery reason this vegetable is typically fried, grilled or roasted into submission. It was hard to reconcile this near-inedible dish with what came before and after.

In an era of high-concept megaburgers, The Vandal keeps it (relatively) simple: burger, cheddar, thin crisp pickles and butter lettuce on a brioche bun.

The menu mentioned marrow and tomato mayo, but the former was apparent only as a savory bottom note, the latter as something akin to Thousand Island-esque “special sauce.” Still, it was a great burger, tender and meaty and with condiments that complemented the excellent patty.

Accompanying fries had an ideal balance of fluffy interior and crispy exterior. In a town full of good burgers, The Vandal’s ranks among the best.

A dinner entrée, prawns were served head-on, a dramatic presentation that can compromise texture since the head can release digestive juices after harvesting.

Indeed, a couple of the shellfish were soft, even as the rest were plump and briny.

Roast corn, cut from the cob, was suitably summery, especially with lightly cooked, petite, sweet banana peppers and tiny tomatoes. A cognac sauce tried to pull the elements together, but didn’t add all that much of its own.

Chicken over spaetzle with crispy confit, chard purée and huckleberry-andground-cherry chutney hit a nice note between heavy pasta and light summer fare.

The spaetzle were wonderfully lumpy and tender, the chicken moist and flavorful.

There was too much sweet, jammy chutney for our tastes, but since this was served on the edge of the plate, it was easy to customize the amount in each bite.

The Vandal is an undeniably ambitious little restaurant. If not every experiment worked, the rest showed that even the seemingly simple is intricately special.

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CORN PUDDING CULTURE {BY EMERAN IRBY} My grandpa was raised in The Southern Hotel, a notorious resting place for the political elite of Kentucky who were in town for business at the state capitol in Frankfort. I like to imagine him like a small-town Eloise, running through the halls, causing chaos, and dining with mayors and governors, with plates piled high with fried chicken, biscuits, greens and glorious corn pudding.

Corn pudding is sacred in my family.

Follow the recipe right and you’ll be faced with a steaming, sticky, eggy casserole with a sweet crust and a savory filling — an experience that I can only equate to what it must be like to feel God’s touch. Mess it up and you’ll be mocked and banished from all future family reunions, a sad fate if you love Southern food as much as I do.

My mother used to love to tell me about “the Aunts” and their undeclared corn-pudding competitions, masked as church picnics or summer barbecues. These chattering, gossipy ladies would come together and challenge one another. Aunt Tish would whisper to my mother, “The secret’s vanilla,” before rushing away to her casserole dish to watch as the other “Aunts” silently judged it. These women, chained to their kitchens, soft-spoken but intensely nosy, came alive with the prospect of culinary glory. This recipe is simple and best shared with those you love.

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DANCING GNOME, MAKING BEER New brewery opens in Sharpsburg {BY CELINE ROBERTS} AFTER TWO YEARS in development, Dancing

Gnome Brewery opened on Oct. 1, in Sharpsburg. “Main Street has kept a lot of its cool main-street appeal. I think there’s so much potential,” says owner and brewer Andrew Witchey. Until recently, Witchey was the sole brewer, but as Dancing Gnome moved steadily toward opening day, he brought on Zach Colton, formerly of Trillium Brewing Company, in Boston, to help. “He came out and brewed with me for a week, and we mutually thought it was a great fit,” says Witchey.

Witchey began as a home brewer and enjoyed the science of it. “I feel like anyone who’s into beer, it’s one of those things in the back of your head, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to open a brewery?’” he says. When Brew Gentleman, in Braddock, opened, he volunteered and loved it. So much so that he went to Vermont to attend the American Brewers Guild to become certified in commercial brewing. When he returned, he decided to open Dancing Gnome. “I come from a family of entrepreneurs, so I wanted to open a business someday. It made sense to do it,” he says.

Dancing Gnome’s taproom is warm, with lots of gold accents and white subway tile. A glass wall provides a look into the 10-barrel brew house. A canning line is already in place and he hopes to use it in a few months, once the brewery gets rolling.

All of Witchey’s beers (like the brewery itself) have whimsical names. “The dancing gnome is how I envision passion and hard

work in an entity. Working the gardens and tending the gardens when the human isn’t there to do it, but then being mischievous and having a great time, despite working hard,” he says.

The four beers that Witchey feels showcase his brewing style best all have Latin names: Lustra, Aevum, Agricolis, Caligo.

It’s an homage to his five years as a Latin student and to a favorite teacher. “He was a fantastic guy that was really supportive of me,” says Witchey.

Witchey describes his beers as hopforward and ranging from 2.5 percent to 10 percent ABV. “I don’t love stouts but I definitely enjoy brewing them,” he says. “There will always be a dark option on tap.” Wonka, a dry stout, is a beauty of a dark beer with a hazelnut nose and strong chocolate and coffee notes. The chocolate notes are its namesake, reminding Witchey of Willy Wonka’s chocolate river. (RIP Gene Wilder.)

Expect a smoked coffee stout on tap soon, as well. For lighter offerings, try Lustra, a grassy American pale ale, with hints of citrus. When asked what he hopes for as the brewery opens, Witchey simply says, “I hope people come down to the tap room, drink beers and hang out.”

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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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TRAIN IN VAIN {BY AL HOFF} “I’m not the girl I used to be — I think people can see that on my face,” bemoans Rachel, whose daily routine is to ride the Metro North, sucking vodka from a water bottle, and peering into the lives of those who live near the tracks. She’s particularly obsessed with one young couple, who seem to epitomize Sexy Suburban Living, and with her former home nearby, where her ex-husband snuggles with his new wife and baby.

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Rachel (Emily Blunt) rides the Melodrama Express.

Tate Taylor’s adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ best-seller The Girl on the Train leaves the station OK, but in time goes off the tracks. Much of the Rachel’s history and state of mind — is she even a reliable narrator? — doesn’t make the jump from book to screen. This renders Girl a 1990sstyle potboiler thriller that collapses under its own silly plot twists and contrivances.

Like suddenly, the female half (Haley Bennett) of the sexy couple goes missing — after quitting her job as a nanny for Rachel’s ex (Justin Theroux) and the new missus (Rebecca Ferguson). Somehow this relates to Rachel’s alcoholic black-outs, and now she’s a suspect and an amateur detective and macking on the disappeared woman’s grumpy husband (Luke Evans) … and there goes the train.

The story skips around over a sixmonth period trying to flesh out the mystery, but it unfolds rather languidly.

(We watch Blunt cry a lot, and maybe she knows this film is beneath her.) Honestly, there are so few characters in this story that simple math will lead folks to the obvious conclusion.

It doesn’t pay to think too deeply about this sort of ready-for-cable fare, but it’s fair to say the film triples-down on its portrayal of women who are made mad by motherhood (or lack thereof) and/or are consumed by unmet sexual desires; this leads to lives of crippling deception and self-medicating with booze. This could have been a critique, but it plays out like the laziest trope in an overheated, retrograde melodrama. Leave it to the ex-husband to helpfully sum it up: “What is it with you crazy women?” I dunno — maybe getting stereotyped as hysterical nutjobs in crappy movies?

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That casual invitation from a cute guy with tattoos, funny pants and a rat tail is enough to convince teenage Star to leave her dysfunctional family and join a caravan of other disaffected young people. They’re selling magazine subscriptions door to door, and it’s got to be better than the dumpster-diving Star’s been doing to make ends meet.

Andrea Arnold’s indie feature American Honey jumps in the van with Star (Sasha Lane), and we’re off for a somewhat shambolic tour of the Heartland, from the desultory cheap motels and truck stops to the leafy suburbs and the Dakota oil fields. Star fits in easily enough with the mag crew, an ad hoc family of runaways and drifters. She falls in love (at least a little bit) with the crew wrangler (Shia LaBeouf), and bristles at the team’s hardas-nails boss (Riley Keough).

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the actors, most of whom, including breakout star Lane, are nonprofessionals. She has a keen sense for exploring the inner and outer lives of working-class girls struggling to find their place in a confusing world that doesn’t seem to offer much opportunity; it’s an affinity evident in her 2003 Oscarwinning short “Wasp,” as well as her 2009 feature Fish Tank.

AMERICAN HONEY DIRECTED BY: Andrea Arnold STARS: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough Starts Fri., Oct. 14. AMC Loews Waterfront

CP APPROVED Some viewers might despair of the film’s nearly three-hour running time, as well its haphazard pacing, lack of plot and ambiguous ending. Others, as I did, will settle into its groove; American Honey has an immersive quality, bolstered by its naturalism and long “pointless” scenes that nonetheless keep us always within Star’s experience.

It’s Star’s coming-of-age via a road trip, but it’s also a portrait of America, still struggling from the recession and larger institutional failures. The kids are aimless, cynical and on drugs, because why not. But they also possess spirit: They harness their assorted natural skills to sell magazines, even knowing it’s a scam and not advancing their futures in the least.

Thus, there is sadness in this film, even as we root for Star to make it through and beyond — she’s strong and has smarts, but life is a real beat-down. The hijinks and the braying laughter of the crew just barely conceal how anxious and lonely these kids are. But then there are exhilarating moments: Hell yes, it’s great to be out here doing whatever! Among the film’s strengths is a thoughtfully chosen soundtrack of country, hip hop, alternative and more. No one is more emotionally affected by sing-along pop music than teens, and a couple of scenes set to the perfect song made me a little weepy for how that works.

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and wins the admiration of understudy Christine (Mary Philbin). Concealed by cloak and a face mask, one evening he takes her away to his underground lair — where nearly simultaneously are revealed his love, his madness and his horribly disfigured face.

Chaney, who was a marvelously physical actor beneath all his make-up and grotesquerie, specialized in playing freaks within whom beat a broken heart; his films always have one glorious, riveting moment when the creature’s excruciating pain is revealed in the purest of pantomime.

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NEW THE ACCOUNTANT. Ben Affleck stars in Gavin O’Connor’s thriller about a man with special skills who does numbers-fudging for bad guys. Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons also star. Starts Fri., Oct. 14 EXTREME WEATHER. This new Omnimax documentary profiles three sets of people either studying or battling the consequences of extreme weather. In Alaska, scientists take stock of glaciers that a warming planet is causing to disintegrate, contributing to rising sea levels. On the Great Plains, stormchasers track the destructive paths of tornados. And in California, firefighters cope with the consequences of a decade of drought: terrifying wildfires fueled by dead trees and dry brush. Director Sean Casey’s images are impressive on the big domed screen, and the sight of tons of crashing ice, frenetic funnel clouds and raging forest fires suggests the film crews were nearly as intrepid as the people they documented. Nonetheless, Extreme Weather misses a huge opportunity: Nowhere in its 40 minutes does this National Geographic production address the causes of climate change, which the vast majority of scientists agree are mostly human-induced emissions of greenhouse gasses. Viewers who are ill-informed (or outright climate-deniers) are likely to leave the theater with the impression that extreme weather is simply happening due to “natural forces,” and that scientists and first responders have things under control — all of which defies the scientific consensus that the problem is both man-made and a mortal threat to civilization. Starts Sat., Oct. 15. Carnegie Science Center (Bill O’Driscoll)

Shin Godzilla movie than a larger critique of real-life problems.

Just as the first Godzilla film used the uncontrollablemonster plot to reflect on the birth of nuclear warfare, Anno’s film taps a recent national disaster: Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and the resulting crisis at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant. Here, the destructive creature is a problem, but so is hierarchal government bureaucracy, whose layers of red tape and self-preservation render it virtually ineffective. (Official response is so ineffectual that Japan must accede to the unthinkable: requesting that American nuclear weapons be deployed.)

The many scenes of lab-coated folks arguing might disappoint fans of non-stop-action monster films, but American viewers should note that a lumbering government response to a crisis isn’t a worry only for the Japanese. Plenty here for everybody to think about.

In Japanese, with subtitles. Opens Fri., Oct. 14. SouthSide Works (Al Hoff)

REELABILITIES. This festival of five recent films and one shorts program that celebrate the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with disabilities runs from Thu., Oct. 20, through Wed., Nov. 2. The opening-night film is Michael Barnett’s documentary Becoming Bulletproof, about a group of artists who get together annually to make a movie. For the complete schedule, see Pittsburgh.reelabilities.org. 7 p.m. Thu., Oct. 20. Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Ave., Oakland. $1215 ($8 student)

SHIN GODZILLA. Few monsters are as tough to put down as Godzilla, and this latest cinematic depiction of the sometime oceandweller, sometime city-stomper is simply more proof. Need further evidence? There are more than 30 Godzilla movies.

Hideaki Anno’s contemporary recounting revisits the premise of 1954 original: A huge, mysterious lizard-like monster emerges from the sea and begins battering Japan’s harbors and cities. The usual defenses do not work — in fact, the monster, nicknamed “Godzilla,” appears to mutate and grow bigger — so an ad hoc group of marginalized scientists and weirdoes convenes to figure out how to kill, or at least immobilize, Godzilla.

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VAMPYR. Carl Dreyer’s 1932 atmospheric spooker is inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, and recounts the experiences of a traveler who encounters a female vampire. The Andrew Alden Ensemble will provide live musical accompaniment. 2 p.m. Sat., Oct. 15. Hollywood

GRAVE OF FIREFLIES. Two Japanese children struggle to survive at toward the end of World War II in Isao Takahata’s gorgeous and devastating 1988 anti-war anime. Oct. 14-20. Row House Cinema BELLADONNA OF SADNESS. Eiichi Yamamoto’s 1973 animated hand-drawn tale of a peasant girl who makes a pact with the devil is chock-full of trippy art, features freaky flower sex and has a soundtrack that veers from upbeat lounge to psych-rock. 18 and over.

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SMOKE SIGNALS. Adam Beach stars in Chris Eyre’s 1998 coming-of-age feature, adapted from Sherman Alexie’s stories, about two young men on an Indian reservation coming to terms with their family histories.

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COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE. Shinichiro Watanabe’s 2001 anime, based on the Japanese TV series, finds futuristic bounty hunters on the trail of a bioterrorist. Oct. 14-19. Row House Cinema

SHAUN OF THE DEAD. London slackers defend themselves from zombies in writer/star Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright’s remarkable debut feature: This is an original zombie movie, an original zombie parody, and an original romantic comedy, all in one film. But at its heart, Shaun succeeds because it is very much its own film: Its romance is romantic, its comedy hilarious, and its horror, if not actually frightening, at least lovingly and effectively executed.

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PAPRIKA. Satoshi Kon’s 2006 anime is a glorious visual headtrip about a device that allows psychologists to enter patients’ dreams. When it’s stolen, craziness literally breaks loose: Dreams merge, individuals are transformed, and even viewers might feel unsure of what is real. Oct. 14-18 and Oct. 20.

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KEVIN HART: WHAT NOW? The comedian stars in his own standup show at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field. Leslie Small and Tim Story direct this concert film. Starts Fri., Oct. 14

REEL Q. The 31st annual festival of LGBT films continues through Sat., Oct. 15. See www.reelQ. org for complete schedule. Harris

MILLENNIUM ACTRESS. In this lovely, reflective animé feature, a documentary filmmaker travels to the mountain retreat of legendary but now elderly film actress Chiyoko for an interview. He presents her with a key she once lost, thus prompting her to muse over her life and films. Her life story intertwines with her cinema roles, and Millennium Actress seamlessly shows Chiyoko shifting from past to present, from reality to film state. Satoshi Kon directs this 2001 film.

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Kevin Hart: What Now? UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS. This war between the Lycans and the vampires is seemingly never-ending, but it’s keeping star Kate Beckinsale in fetching leather outfits. Anna Foerster directs the fifth iteration of this horror franchise. Starts Fri., Oct. 14

REPERTORY HER TIME TO SHYNE. Local hip-hop artist and activist Blak Rapp Madusa hosts a preview of her new documentary which examines the impact of hip hop on black women, and how it relates to art, social justice and education. Pittsburghers including I Medina, Anqwenique Wingfield, Vanessa German and others are featured in the film. To be followed by a panel discussion featuring Blak Rapp Madusa, Celeste X and artists from the film. 7 p.m. Wed., Oct. 12. Row House Cinema. $10 suggested donation POLTERGEIST. In Tobe Hoper’s 1982 thriller, a family is initially amused by the presence of ghosts in the

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Vampyr face and unwieldy talons, Schreck’s Orlock evokes both pity and horror, and combined with Murnau’s stylish direction, this landmark film offers unforgettable tableaux, such as Orlock’s ascension from the ship’s hold. The Andrew Alden Ensemble will provide live musical accompaniment. 7 p.m. Sun., Oct. 16. Hollywood (AH)

in which we’re primed for Part 2, complete with footage from Part 1. But two splendid scenes salvage all: the taming of the monster (Boris Karloff), under the kind tutelage of the blind woodsman; and the alltoo-brief life of Dr. Frankenstein’s second creation, a female mate, portrayed indelibly by Elsa Lanchester.

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BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. James Whale’s 1935 sequel to his Frankenstein might have started the now-tiresome trend of discovering that the monster didn’t die after all, but we can forgive it. The film admittedly has some filler, including shrill comic relief from Una O’Connor and a prologue with Percy Shelley, Lord Bryon and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (author of Frankenstein, but never a sequel),

PSYCHO. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 film is a thriller and treatise on troubled mother-son relationships. Embezzler-on-the-run Janet Leigh picks the wrong motel to catch some rest at, though the proprietor seems friendly enough … Psycho remains a textbook of masterful editing, and Bernard Hermann’s score is as creepy as ever. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 19. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 (AH)

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FANTASY BARGAINS

“EVERY GAME CAN BE ITS OWN UNIVERSE.”

{BY CHARLIE DEITCH} Those who play fantasy football will be the first to tell you that playing the game helps you stay interested while watching every football game on the schedule in a particular week. And that’s true. When I started playing more than 20 years ago, I realized that I had to sit like a bump on a log and track all of the games. In a pre-internet world, that was pretty tough.

Having all that info these days online, instead of digging through the trash at a convenience store to find Monday’s USA Today, makes it too easy.

So these days, I put a spin on my fantasy teams by making sure to draft at least one or two players who are Pittsburgh Steelers or have Pittsburgh ties. Now, that doesn’t seem like a sacrifice if you take Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell or Antonio Brown. But those players are often targeted early. So here are three Pittsburgh-related players that I’ve picked up this year. One is a proven commodity and the other two will hopefully pay off big.

BIRD GAMES

Doug Baldwin, WR, Seattle Seahawks I’ve always been a fan of Baldwin since his Pitt days. Since he entered the league in 2011, I’ve drafted him in late rounds because I knew he would have a breakout year. Well, up until last year, that is, when he had 78 catches for more than 1,000 yards and 14 touchdowns. So far this year he has 24 catches and three touchdowns, and is on pace for another big season.

Tyler Boyd, WR, Cincinnati Bengals

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Boyd, who hails from down the river in Clairton, skipped his senior season at Pitt to turn pro. He’s Pitt’s all-time leading pass-catcher and also holds the school’s record for receiving yards. And while he hasn’t broken out yet in the pros (15 catches, 163 yards and no touchdowns), I expect him to have a pro career that posts impressive numbers.

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Terrelle Pryor, WR/QB, Cleveland Browns Hype surrounding where the Jeannette native would go to college made him a household name before he even started; later, he was kicked out of Ohio State after his junior year for trading memorabilia for tattoos. He’s been in the NFL since 2011, but languished until he found a place with the horrible Browns. He’s thrown the ball, caught the ball and even scored his first pro touchdown. With as bad as Cleveland is, he could be playing five or six positions in one game by season’s end.

AMES LOMUSCIO, of Highland Park, was bored with standard tailgate games like cornhole. Even though they were easy and everyone knew how to play them, they didn’t leave a lot of room for creativity, he says. Either they were too simple or too boring. So he came up with a new game that, while easy to learn and entirely portable, has a little more strategy involved.

“I wanted something that would be able to fit in a small backyard, a Pittsburgh backyard,” Lomuscio says.

7 Birds is a bocce-like game consisting of wooden dowels that are painted red and blue at each end (the Birds). The object of the game is to knock over more of your opponent’s Birds with the stone, which is another wooden dowel. When all the Birds have been knocked down for the first time, whoever has the most points is the winner.

But it’s the nuances of the game that

the 27-year-old Lomuscio likes; the distance between dowels can determine the game’s length, for instance. Kids have an advantage over parents, since the starting point is determined as only a step away from the nearest Bird. Shorter legs obviously have an edge.

Each one of the Birds is hand-painted and constructed either at Lomuscio’s own workshop, HackPittsburgh, in Uptown, or at Tech Shop, in Larimer. The Birds come in a carrying case designed by mechanical engineer and designer Thorin Tobiassen.

Lomuscio, a Connecticut native, moved to the city in 2007 to attend Pitt. He’s the CEO of Hability, a company that makes software to help patients follow up with their physical therapists. But he says he’s always been into game design. “I like how every game can be its own universe, it’s like exploring a new city,” he says.

7 Birds (www.squareup.com/store/ 7-birds) is also part of an experiment in cooperative entrepreneurship that employs a method Lomuscio calls “laborizing” (as opposed to capitalizing). Everyone who’s worked on the game and contributed to its design with their labor can be a part owner.

Citiparks and City of Play’s first-ever Game Day on Flagstaff Hill will feature a 7 Birds tournament, with the winner receiving a one-of-a-kind game set. The free Game Day is Sat., Oct. 15, from noon to 3 p.m. Lomuscio also plans to show off 7 Birds at the Maker Faire at Nova Place this weekend.

The game can be found at toy stores around the city including Learning Express, in Bakery Square; S.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes; Phantom of the Attic, in Oakland; and Games Unlimited, in Squirrel Hill.

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TIE FIGHTER {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} THE ULTIMATE indignity of the Pirates’

frustrating 2016 season was getting swept at home by the hated St. Louis Cardinals.

It was an inglorious ending to a forgettable campaign. Maybe worse was the penultimate indignity of tying the Cubs in the series before that. Yes, the Pirates finished the season 0-3-1 down the stretch.

The only positive footnote was that the Cubs won 103 games instead of 104.

The last MLB game to end in a tie happened in 2005. The tie is the gray area of competition where congratulations are in order for nobody. But the Pirates and Cubs draw wasn’t the best tie in Pirates history; that happened in 1998.

Who can forget Aug. 24, 1998, when the Cardinals took a 5-2 lead with Kent Bottenfield on in relief of Todd Van Poppel.

Fortunes changed in the sixth inning, and when Freddy Garcia came to bat down 5-3, his weak groundball was mishandled by second baseman Pat Kelly, allowing Doug Strange and Al Martin to cross the plate and tie it at 5-5. However, the rains came to Three Rivers Stadium, washed away the mediocrity and never relented. Both teams finished the game with identical 62-68-1 records.

The greatest tie in Pirates history, as 28,435 fans left shrugging their shoulders.

But what about other sports? Which of their no-contests was the greatest?

The Penguins don’t have ties anymore thanks to the shootout rule. Since their inception in the 1967-68 season until the 2003-04 season, the Penguins had 390 ties. That’s almost five entire seasons of no handshakes after spirited competition. So the greatest tie in Pens history is their final one. On March 27, 2004, the Penguins and Sabres were playing the second game of a home-and-home series. After losing in Buffalo in the first contest, the Penguins got semi-revenge. Rico Fata and Konstantin Koltsov each put the puck past Marty Biron as the Mellon Arena faithful went home unsatisfied. Sebastian Caron of the Pens let in an equal number of goals, and it helped the Penguins be just a little worse than the Blackhawks that season. They got the No. 2 pick that year and chose Evgeni Malkin with it. So something pretty good came out of that deadlock.

Football has had only seven ties in the past 27 years. The Steelers and Falcons’ 2002 tie was a good one, but not the most

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memorable. That one came in 1974. The then Super Bowl-less Steelers played the first-ever overtime game in NFL history, against the Denver Broncos. Terry Bradshaw had been benched in favor of Joe Gilliam. Gilliam led the team to a non-decisive 35-35 draw after three hours and 49 minutes of football. Bradshaw eventually won his job back, went on to win four Super Bowls and was the MVP in half of them. This started Pittsburgh’s love for the backup quarterback.

College football has tried to eliminate ties like hockey has done. But in 1983, Pitt played its most memorable tie against Penn State. The Nittany Lions were the defending National Champions as they came to Pitt Stadium. More than 60,000 jubilant fans stormed the field after the game clock wound down to zero to celebrate a huge Pitt victory. But the referees put six seconds back on the clock, and Penn State opted to go for a game-tying field goal as time expired. It didn’t turn out to be the worst decision Joe Paterno ever made, but it was wildly unpopular at the time.

Boxing is easily the most corruptible sport because to fix it you have to convince only one person. Yet the sweet science can also be inconclusive. Pittsburgh’s Paul Spadafora fought 51 professional bouts, winning 49. He lost only one and, yes, tied one. Romanian pugilist Leonard Dorin battled the Pittsburgh Kid to a draw, putting the first non-win on his record.

So what have we learned here today?

Mainly that ties suck. Nobody wants to see a contest with no winner and no loser. Bragging rights and trash talk become irrelevant when nobody wins. Fans spend a lot of money taking their families to games and no one wants to come home and just say “meh.”

Thanks to the Pirates and Cubs for bringing back so many unfulfilling memories.

SO WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED HERE TODAY? MAINLY THAT TIES SUCK.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most of us can’t tickle ourselves. Since we have conscious control of our fingers, we know we can stop any time. Without the element of uncertainty, our squirm reflex doesn’t kick in. But I’m wondering if you might get a temporary exemption from this rule in the coming weeks. I say this because the astrological omens suggest you will have an extraordinary capacity to surprise yourself. Novel impulses will be rising up in you on a regular basis.

Unpredictability and spontaneity will be your specialties. Have fun doing what you don’t usually do!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the final 10 weeks of 2016, your physical and mental health will flourish in direct proportion to how much outworn and unnecessary stuff you flush out of your life between now and Oct. 25. Here are some suggested tasks: 1. Perform a homemade ritual that will enable you to magically shed at least half of your guilt, remorse and regret. 2. Put on a festive party hat, gather up all the clutter and junk from your home, and drop it off at a thrift store or the dump. 3. Take a vow that you will do everything in your power to kick your attachment to an influence that’s no damn good for you.

4. Scream nonsense curses at the night sky for as long as it takes to purge your sadness and anger about pain that no longer matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A Buddhist monk named Matthieu Ricard had his brain scanned while he meditated. The experiment revealed that the positive emotions whirling around in his gray matter were super-abundant. Various publications there-

after dubbed him “the happiest person in the world.” Since he’s neither egotistical nor fond of the media’s simplistic sound bites, he’s not happy about that title. I hope you won’t have a similar reaction when I predict that you Sagittarians will be the happiest tribe of the zodiac during the next two weeks. For best results, I suggest you cultivate Ricard’s definitions of happiness: “altruism and compassion, inner freedom (so that you are not the slave of your own thoughts), senses of serenity and fulfillment, resilience, as well as a clear and stable mind that does not distort reality too much.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a perfect moment to launch or refine a project that will generate truth, beauty and justice. Amazingly enough, now is also an excellent time to launch or refine a long-term master plan that will make you healthy, wealthy and wise. Is this a coincidence? Not at all. The astrological omens suggest that your drive to be of noble service dovetails well with your drive for personal success. For the foreseeable

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self. Be alert, too, for the secret meanings of coughs, burps, grunts, mumbles and yawns.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Has your world become at least 20 percent larger since Sept. 1? Has your generosity grown to near-heroic proportions? Have your eyes beheld healing sights that were previously invisible to you? Have you lost at least two of your excuses for tolerating scrawny expectations?

Are you awash in the desire to grant forgiveness and amnesty? If you can’t answer yes to at least two of those questions, Aquarius, it means you’re not fully in harmony with your best possible destiny. So get to work! Attune yourself to the cosmic tendencies! And if you are indeed reaping the benefits I mentioned, congratulations — and prepare for even further expansions and liberations.

The Helper Experiment, Part One: Close your eyes and imagine that you are in the company of a kind, attentive helper — a person, animal, ancestral spirit or angel that you either know well or haven’t met yet. Spend at least five minutes visualizing a scene in which this ally aids you in fulfilling a particular goal. The Helper Experiment, Part Two: Repeat this exercise every day for the next seven days. Each time, visualize your helper making your life better in some specific way. Now here’s my prediction: Carrying out The Helper Experiment will attract actual support into your real life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

New rules: 1. It’s unimaginable and impossible for you to be obsessed with anything or anyone that’s no good for you. 2. It’s unimaginable and impossible for you to sabotage your stability by indulging in unwarranted fear. 3. It’s imaginable and possible for you to remember the most crucial thing you have forgotten.

4. It’s imaginable and possible for you to replace debilitating self-pity with invigorating self-love and healthy self-care. 5. It’s imaginable and possible for you to discover a new mother lode of emotional strength.

Some astrologers dwell on your tribe’s phobias.

They assume that you Pisceans are perversely drawn to fear; that you are addicted to the strong feelings it generates. In an effort to correct this distorted view, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I hereby declare the coming weeks to be a Golden Age for Your Trust in Life. It will be prime time to exult in everything that evokes your joy and excitement. I suggest you make a list of these glories, and keep adding new items to the list every day. Here’s another way to celebrate the Golden Age: Discover and explore previously unknown sources of joy and excitement.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A study published in the peer-reviewed Communications Research suggests that only 28 percent of us realize when someone is flirting with us. I hope that figure won’t apply to you Aries in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological situation, you will be on the receiving end of more invitations, inquiries and allurements than usual. The percentage of these that might be worth responding to will also be higher than normal. Not all of them will be obvious, however. So be extra vigilant.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The ancient Greek sage Socrates was a founder of Western philosophy and a seminal champion of critical thinking. And yet he relied on his dreams for crucial information. He was initiated into the esoteric mysteries of love by the prophetess Diotima, and had an intimate relationship with a daimonion, a divine spirit. I propose that we make Socrates your patron saint for the next three weeks. Without abandoning your reliance on logic, make a playful effort to draw helpful clues from non-rational sources, too. (P.S. Socrates drew oracular revelations from sneezes.

Please consider that outlandish possibility your-

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s swing-swirl-spiral time, Leo. It’s ripple-swayflutter time and flow-gush-gyrate time and jivejiggle-juggle time. So I trust you will not indulge in fruitless yearnings for unswerving progress and rock-solid evidence. If your path is not twisty and tricky, it’s probably the wrong path. If your heart isn’t teased and tickled into shedding its dependable formulas, it might be an overly hard heart. Be an improvisational curiosity-seeker. Be a principled player of unpredictable games.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some English-speaking astronomers use the humorous slang term “meteor-wrong.” It refers to a rock that is at first thought to have fallen from the heavens as a meteorite (“meteorright”), but that is ultimately proved to be of terrestrial origin. I suspect there may currently be the metaphorical equivalent of a meteorwrong in your life. The source of some new arrival or fresh influence is not what it had initially seemed. But that doesn’t have to be a problem. On the contrary. Once you have identified the true nature of the new arrival or fresh influence, it’s likely to be useful and interesting.

Happiness, that elusive beast, may need to be tracked through the bushes before capture. What’s your game plan for hunting down happiness? Truthrooster@gmail.com

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I’m 64 years young, a musician, chubby, full head of hair, no Viagra needed, no alcohol, I don’t mind if you drink, smoker, yes I am. I am also faithful, loyal and single for five years. No health issues, nada, zero, zilch. Not gay, not prejudiced against gays, pro-woman, Democrat, MASCULINE. Except I only like the younger women and women without tattoos. And I like them FEMININE. Ladies my age are a shopping bag of issues with children and ex-hubbies.

NO THANK YOU. So what’s my problem?

Young women see me as an old gizzard.

I am not ugly, and I look younger than 64. But I see what younger women go for. These girls are missing out on me because they would rather be abused, cheated on and kicked around by some young prince. Be my guest, dear! Another problem is that I don’t go to bars or really go out at all, so how the hell am I going to meet a girl? But I long for a girl I can cherish. I’m even willing to marry the right girl if she wishes, no problema. Who cares about age? I sure don’t, but they sure do. Of course, I will die first; she can keep the car and everything else for that matter. I can’t take it with me. So I have about 24 more years of life and I don’t want to wait. Dreaming is free, of course, but I want it right here, right now. Am I asking for too much?

fatally of all, you harbor resentment for the objects of your desire (“Be my guest, dear!”), something objects of desire always pick up on and are almost always repulsed by. (Let’s all light a little candle for the ones who aren’t.) So unless you’re a billionaire or an A-list actor, the young woman of your dreams is unlikely to break into your apartment. (There’s not a lot of overlap between the young gerontophile community and the burglar community.) Not even the prospect of inheriting a used car 24 years from now is going to land you a young woman.

My advice: Keep dreaming. And if you want to be with a young woman once in a while, consider renting. But please don’t misconstrue anything I’ve written here as encouragement to date women your own age: They deserve better.

MY ADVICE: KEEP DREAMING.

OBLIVIOUS LADIES DISREGARD ELDER ROMEO

I’m a 56-year-old widow.

My husband died suddenly eight years ago.

We had no children.

I’ve learned how to get along on my own, and until recently, living alone didn’t bother me. Lately, though, I’ve become lonely. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life alone. The problem is that, since menopause hit, I no longer desire sex. I only miss cuddling and holding hands. My body shut the door on sex, and for the most part, I’m fine with it. (Sex with my late husband was truly terrible.) Should I just accept that I’m destined to spend the rest of my life alone?

READY TO GIVE UP

Who cares about age? You, OLDER, you care about age.

You rule out dating women your own age and then toss out two and possibly three stupid rationalizations for not staying in your actuarial lane: Women your age have children, ex-husbands, and tattoos(?).

All bullshit. Women your own age might be likelier to have children and ex-husbands, but there are plenty of childless women out there in their 50s and 60s, OLDER; younger women are likelier to have tattoos; and everyone (yourself included) has exes.

And excuse me, but women your own age are a shopping bag of issues? You’re a shopping mall’s worth of issues yourself, OLDER. Issue No. 1: You can’t be honest, even in an anonymous forum, about why you wanna date younger women — they make your grizzled old dick hard — so you take a dump on all older women. Issue No. 2: male entitlement syndrome. (The universe doesn’t owe you a younger woman; the universe doesn’t actually owe you shit.)

Issues three, four, and five: an inability to spot your own hypocrisy (I mean, come on), a clear preference for nursing a fantasy (the young woman of your nicotine-stained dreams) over accepting reality (there’s no settling down without settling for), and the probability that you’ve watched way too many movies with actresses in their 20s playing the romantic interests of actors in their 60s and 70s.

If I may be blunt(er): You’re an older man, you’re a smoker, you’re out of shape, you don’t leave the house much, and, most

Don’t suppose you’d be interested in a 64-year-old who doesn’t leave the house much and feels entitled to a child- and tattoo-free twentysomething but might be willing to settle? There could be used car in it for you. No? Then here’s another option: There are men out there — some around your age, some older, some significantly older — who aren’t interested in and/or capable of having sex anymore. Many of these men want companionship, too, and they lurk on dating websites, afraid to respond because they wrongly assume all the women on OurTime.com or SeniorMatch.com are looking for older guys who can get it up and get it in. Create a profile and be honest about what you want (companionship, intimacy) and don’t want (sex), RTGU, and you’ll hear from men who want a life partner and a cuddle buddy, not a sex partner or a fuck buddy.

Finally, if you’re content without sex, I’m content. But I can’t help wondering if your terrible-at-sex husband didn’t create a negative association that a more considerate, attentive partner might be able to break. If you spoke to your doctor about treatment options and then landed in bed with a man who was kind, considerate and capable, but content just to cuddle — so no pressure — you might find yourself wanting to reopen that door.

On the Lovecast, porn questions with Dr. Marty Klein: savagelovecast.com.

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