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EVENTS 11.4 – 8pm NARCISSISTER The Warhol theater Co-presented with Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art Tickets $15/$12 Members & students Andy Warhol, Back of Seated Male, 1950s, The Andy Warhol Museum, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

MY PERFECT BODY: 21+ SIP AND SKETCH Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6pm. The Warhol entrance space Join us for a nude drawing class lead by artist educators. Sip a cocktail and sketch nude models in The Warhol’s entrance space after a curator-lead tour of the exhibition. A cash bar is available.

FREE parking in The Warhol lot, Tickets $15/$12 Members

MY PERFECT BODY: JOHN GIORNO AND FLAMING CREATURES SCREENING – Saturday, November 19, 2016, 7pm.

Carnegie Museum of Art Theater (Oakland) Poet John Giorno speaks with Jessica Beck, The Warhol’s associate curator of art, and Eric Crosby, Carnegie Museum of Art’s Richard Armstrong curator of modern and contemporary art, about his relationship to Andy Warhol and New York’s 1960s underground film culture. Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963, 45 minutes) will be screened before the discussion.

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11.18 – 8pm DARKMATTER: #ITGETSBITTER Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland) Co-presented with Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Arts & Society and School of Art Tickets $15/$12 Members & students

12.16 – 8pm MY PERFECT BODY: BODY BEATS DANCE PARTY FEATURING PRINCE RAMA The Warhol entrance space Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body.

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1.20 – 7pm MY PERFECT BODY: JAMES ELKINS LECTURE The Warhol theater Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body.

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MY PERFECT BODY: DOUGLAS CRIMP AND BEFORE PICTURES READING – Thursday, December 8, 2016, 7pm. The Warhol theater Douglas Crimp reads from his 2016 memoir Before Pictures, which tells the story of Crimp’s life as a young gay man and art critic in New York City during the late 1960s through the turbulent 1970s. Following the reading Jessica Beck, The Warhol’s associate curator of art, leads a Q&A session.

A book signing in The Warhol Store follows the event.

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MY PERFECT BODY: TEEN SKETCH PARTY Friday, December 9, 2016, 6pm. The Factory A sketch and pizza party for teens! Teens create figure drawings layered with stamps, stenciled patterns, and Dr. Martin’s dye, similar to Andy Warhol’s drawing technique in the 1950s. A tour of the exhibition and discussion on the pressures of body imagery is also included. Registration is required by contacting Sarica Feng at fengs@warhol.org or 412.237.8356.

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RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL

Looking for refreshing discourse on topics like Donald Trump’s latest snafu? Check out our weekday talk show with Lynn Cullen.

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine made a stop in Pittsburgh at Taylor Allderdice High School Oct. 22.

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View our photo slideshow from their visit at www.pghcitypaper.com.

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Point Park University’s Conservatory Theater Company production of The Who’s Tommy continues at the Rockwell Theatre through Sun., Oct. 30.

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Combine all of these other reasons together and one trait emerges over the rest: divisiveness. I’ve found that the finest internet scholars believe the devil’s goal is to divide us to make us easier to control.

Trump’s entire campaign has been about divisiveness. He has spent the past year teaching that if you’re not with him, you’re against him. He has blamed the media for being outwardly biased against him in this campaign. (Full disclosure: He’s right about me.) He has had his supporters shout down the media at campaign events. Many journalists (me included) have received threats from those who oppose Trump.

He’s often gone as far as to suggest that if he doesn’t win, the entire election is rigged.

He says people will be “voting 10 times,” and urged people in Pennsylvania to “go down to certain areas and watch and study” the people voting to make sure it’s all on the level.

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MUD SLINGING Discourse in the Pennsylvania Senate race has suffered under the weight of the presidential election {BY RYAN DETO} ON OCT. 12 AT the Fraternal Order of Police

Lodge One in Beechview, a campaign spokesperson for Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey addressed the waiting group of reporters. “OK, the senator is going to talk about police issues for about 30 minutes, and then you can all ask him questions that have nothing to do with that,” said Steve Kelly.

He was right. After Toomey talked with police-union reps, he spoke to reporters who asked one quick question about his police-friendly legislation and then proceeded to press the senator about whether he endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (This press conference was held a few days after Access Hollywood released a videotape of Trump saying he kisses and gropes women without consent.)

“As soon as the tapes came out, I said, ‘This is completely unacceptable, and I

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Katie McGinty meeting with labor union members in Pittsburgh

don’t think this is ordinary conversation that can be easily overlooked,’” Toomey said. “I am simply observing that this is not a referendum on one person.”

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tie McGinty, Toomey’s Democratic opponent, was quick to jump on the senator’s non-committal.

“More and more women are coming forward with proof that Donald Trump sexually assaulted them,” said McGinty on Oct. 13, “and Sen. Pat Toomey, even in the face of all this, still refuses to denounce Donald Trump.”

Since late June, McGinty has sent dozens of campaign emails attempting to link Toomey to Trump and has asked him to denounce Trump. Toomey has never committed to an endorsement of the Republican nominee.

And McGinty isn’t alone in repeatedly pushing issues onto her opponent. At the October press conference, Toomey reiterated his opposition to sanctuary-city policies that prevent local law enforcement from communicating with federal immigration officials. Toomey has repeatedly requested that McGinty join him in denouncing sanctuary cities; McGinty doesn’t fully support sanctuary cities and thinks the policies need altering.

But this has been the tenor of the race, with both candidates trying to tie their opponent to controversial stances on hotbutton issues. The campaigns are using malicious attacks while avoiding deeppolicy discussions — a mirror image of the presidential race that has loomed like a specter over Pennsylvania’s main contest.

Outside organizations are attempting to focus on important issues, but their messages might be missed, thanks to a race

that’s filled with nonstop noise.

Candidates have even resorted to namecalling: To McGinty, Toomey is “Fraidy-Pat” and Toomey calls McGinty “Shady Katie.”

According to an estimate from media consulting company, Kantar Media, television stations in Pennsylvania have aired more than 22,000 ads for the Senate race, the most Senate-race TV ads of any state.

These ads are mostly negative and include broad attacks, such as stating that McGinty supports “welfare for illegals” or that Toomey is “in love with Wall Street.”

Stephanie Ann Martin, a communication professor at Southern Methodist University, says it may be Trump’s early success in using offensive rhetoric that has led other campaigns to follow suit. “I don’t think this is normal,” says Martin, referencing the name-calling in the Senate race.

During an Oct. 17 debate on KDKA, even the candidates cited the enormous amount of advertisements when asked a question about campaign financing. “I am staggered by all these negative ads. It is getting hard to watch TV,” said Toomey.

Minutes later at a commercial break, four straight Senate-race ads (two for Toomey, two for McGinty) played in a row. In fact, during the debate’s two commercial breaks, the only commercials broadcast were for the Senate race.

(According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Pennsylvania’s senate race is the most expensive country. To date more than $ 90 million in outside money has been spent on advertising.)

Many of the ads for McGinty have attempted to illustrate similarities between Toomey and Trump. Martin, an expert on political messaging, says voters have really started to question Trump’s fitness as a leader, which may be why it has been difficult for Toomey to shake Trump.

Trump has had new controversies emerge almost weekly, causing Republican politicians to either stand by him or jump ship.

Toomey is choosing neither. As Trump’s campaign continues to take on water, Toomey is Kate Winslet in Titanic, waiting for the perfect moment to spring off the railing, so the momentum of the boat doesn’t pull him deep into the icy waters and down into the abyss.

Martin thinks Toomey’s strategy is an attempt to cater to both sides of a divided Republican electorate. She says many conservatives in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh don’t approve of Trump and have indicated support for Clinton.

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more gung-ho for Trump. If Toomey were to disavow Trump, Martin says he risks upsetting rural voters. But if Toomey gives a full-throated endorsement of Trump, he risks nudging those suburban Clintonsupporting Republicans to vote for McGinty, too.

Ultimately, Martin believes Toomey’s moment to separate from Trump has passed.

“He has painted himself into a corner now … there is no way for him to take a position,” says Martin. “I would guess that this is not what he wants to be talking about right now.”

Martin says it’s fair for McGinty to criticize Toomey and link him to Trump, considering that Trump could be the leader of his party and many high-ranking Republicans, like Arizona Sen. John McCain, have taken a position on Trump.

(McCain originally endorsed Trump, then pulled that endorsement after the Access Hollywood tapes were released.)

“Toomey wants to neither confirm nor deny his support for Trump, and McGinty wants that to look as suspicious as it can,” says Martin. “Toomey doesn’t want to be part of Trump [losing] because that is bad for him, but also he wants not to be tied to those voters who refuse to vote for [Trump]. And McGinty is crying foul. If I were in her camp, I would do the same thing.”

To fight back, Toomey has attempted to paint McGinty as a supporter of sanctuary cities and an ally of criminal undocumented immigrants. Martin questions this strategy’s effectiveness, given that most voters aren’t even aware what sanctuary cities are. (G. Terry Madonna, a professor and pollster at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, says there hasn’t been a poll asking voters about sanctuary cities.)

Also, McGinty’s spokesperson, Sean Coit, says that McGinty’s position on sanctuary cities has been consistent. “Sanctuary cities are not the answer, and [McGinty] has urged law enforcement at all levels — federal, state and local — to work together to keep criminals off the street,” Coit wrote in an email to City Paper.

Martin thinks Toomey’s sanctuary-city attack serves as a wink to Pennsylvania’s Trump supporters.

“Sanctuary cities is a counterpunch that keeps the base on Toomey’s side,” says Martin. “The same voters in Pennsylvania that want Toomey to support Trump are also agitated about immigration and possible crime by undocumented immigrants.”

But so far, all the noise seems to be favoring McGinty. After being 10 points behind this summer, most polls conducted in the fall have shown her tied or ahead. The latest Emerson College Poll has Toomey slightly ahead of McGinty by three points. Toomey has a new attack that he hopes will sway the numbers further in his favor.

Last week, a WikiLeaks hack revealed that McGinty emailed a friend in the Democratic Party last summer, asking for advice on whether she should run for senator. At the time, she was serving as Gov. Tom Wolf’s chief of staff; such communication could be an ethics violation. Since the leak, Toomey has gone on the offensive, sending out several campaign emails about the issue.

McGinty, at an editorial meeting with PennLive.com that was posted on YouTube, defended her email. She said it was from a personal account, as a note to friend, and said Toomey “is grasping at anything, instead of talking about his personal record.”

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issue yet, but there are still two weeks until the election.

Meanwhile, outside groups, both conservative and progressive, are trying to focus on issues beyond the presidential contest, spending tens of millions of dollars to do so.

Americans for Prosperity, a politicaladvocacy group backed by the Koch brothers, has identified 650,000 undecided Pennsylvania voters and has been going door-to-door, trying to persuade voters that McGinty’s economic policies are against their interests. Beth Ann Mumford, Pennsylvania director for AFP, says the campaign is informing voters about McGinty’s record on tax regulations and green-energy mandates, and claiming McGinty will increase taxes on middleclass families and destroy jobs.

“We have been working for the last couple months for her defeat,” says Mumford. “We have been talking on phones and knocking on doors, making sure that citizens know that she’s not a good choice for U.S. Senate.”

On the other side, Planned Parenthood has identified 400,000 undecided Pennsylvania voters and is also going door-to-door

to convince them Toomey would be bad for women’s health issues. Deirdre Schifeling, of Planned Parenthood, says it’s important to inform voters about Toomey’s voting record.

“Pennsylvania is one of most important states this cycle,” says Schifeling. “[Toomey] has voted to defund Planned Parenthood … and the vast majority of voters in Pennsylvania don’t support that.” However, both AFP and Planned Parenthood have also put out negative ads.

Regardless of the noise from ads, the race is an important one. Earlier this year in an interview with CP, Madonna called Pennsylvania’s Senate race one of the top five U.S. Senate elections in the country.

If Clinton wins the presidency, Democrats need to switch four Senate seats from red to blue to regain the Senate. According to The New York Times, three Republican seats have a greater than 75 percent chance of switching. Pennsylvania is rated as a toss-up, and could be that final linchpin in determining who controls the Senate for the next two years.

Says Madonna: “It is inconceivable to think Democrats could win control of Senate without winning this seat.

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HE SAID, SHE SAID Both candidates are millionaires, but took different paths: Toomey, a Republican, as a Wall Street financier and McGinty, a Democrat, as a board member of energy companies. Their race is the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the country and could decide which party controls the Senate. A flurry of ads has made it almost as omnipresent here as the presidential contest.

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BIOGRAPHY

Grew up in Providence, R.I., worked as a derivatives trader on Wall Street, and then settled in Allentown, Pa. Served six years in the U.S. Congress before serving as president of conservative economic group Club for Growth.

Elected U.S. Senator in 2010.

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Since the start of her campaign, she has been critical of trade agreements like NAFTA and TPP, claiming that they have and will take good-paying manufacturing jobs away from Pennsylvania. Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and maintaining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Originally supported fast-tracking approval of TPP trade agreement, then denounced TPP in August, but says he still supports free trade.

Supports eliminating regulations, and says this will create more jobs and higher wages. Opposes raising the minimum wage.

Believes protecting the environment can create jobs; supports tax incentives for companies that manufacture materials for green energy plants.

Supports fracking, but with increased regulations and a severance tax.

Also supports burning waste coal for energy.

Agrees human activity has caused Earth’s temperature to rise, but isn’t convinced to what extent humans have caused the increase.

Has an almost unanimous record of environmentally unfriendly votes; voted against establishing reserve funds to address climate-change damage. Is pro-coal and pro-fracking and wants to limit their regulation.

Believes the Senate should hold hearings on Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland now, explaining “the people did speak: They elected Barack Obama as their president.” Wants to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allows unlimited campaign spending by outside groups.

As current Senate member, has refused to hold a hearing on Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Said court was balanced before Justice Antonin Scalia died, and believes voters should decide who the next president should be, and that president should nominate a justice.

President Barack Obama, multiple labor unions and Democratic politicians, such as Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle. Support from environmental, LGBT-rights, and gun-control coalitions. The Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times have endorsed her. Has received substantial financial support from Democraticaffiliated PACs.

Endorsed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Has received support of many police unions, as well as former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords’ gun-control PAC (for his support for universal background checks). Has also received substantial financial backing from the billionaire Koch brothers.

ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Former secretary of the state Department of Environmental Protection and Gov. Tom Wolf’s former chief of staff, McGinty is a Philadelphia native with working-class roots. She has worked under President Bill Clinton and Al Gore in environmental capacities, as well as served on boards of energy companies. Has never held elected office.

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After the scandals surrounding former AG Kathleen Kane and other state officials (specifically in the mass dissemination of pornographic and misogynistic emails by state officials and employees), ethics are a key talking point in this race. Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro has pledged to implement mandatory ethics training and increase spending transparency. Republican John Rafferty says he would remove politics from the office and implement an email-ethics policy. {COMPILED BY REBECCA NUTTALL}

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Has represented Pennsylvania’s 44th senatorial district, including parts of Berks, Chester and Montgomery counties, since 2003. Has sponsored legislation to strengthen Pennsylvania’s arson laws and to crack down on those who recruit members into criminal street gangs. Served as a deputy attorney general from1988 to 1991.

Has served as Montgomery County Commissioner since 2012. Served the 153rd legislative district in the state house from 2005 to 2012. Received law degree from Georgetown and worked in private practice for 10 years.

Currently serves as chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

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Championed the Brad Fox Bill to increase penalties for straw purchasers of guns. Would expand Philadelphia’s Gun Violence Task Force to other cities.

Would work with municipal district attorney’s offices to target and prosecute those illegally providing firearms used in crimes throughout the state.

Would pursue universal background checks to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.

Would review concealed-carry permit reciprocity agreements with other states.

And would implement procedures to prevent illegal gun sales in Pennsylvania gun-show parking lots.

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Would create a Heroin Strike Force to target mid-to-upper-level drug dealers; provide training for law enforcement for improved intelligence collection and prosecution of cases; and improve coordination between federal, state and local agencies. Would launch a statewide campaign emphasizing the “deadly dangers of heroin abuse.”

Plans to set up a database for the medical community to prevent doctor-shopping by prescription-drug users and dealers. Supports supplying first-responders with naloxone to treat overdoses. Would partner with law enforcement in other states to stop flow of opioids across borders.

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Plans to audit contact information provided by sexual predators to ensure addresses provided are accurate.

Supported strengthening Megan’s Law, and helped pass Jessica’s Law, which increases penalties for those who sexually abuse children. Supports eliminating the statute of limitations for offenses involving sexual assault of minors.

Pledged to release emails from statewide pornographic email ring.

Plans to tackle sexual assault on college campuses by promoting a culture of consent and holding college administrators accountable for covering up incidents of sexual assault. Would work to eliminate evidence backlog in sexual-assault cases.

The National Rifle Association, PA Professional Firefighters, PA State Corrections Officers, PA Chamber of Commerce, PA Manufacturers Associations, Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Fraternal Order of Police chapters. Received an A- rating from NRA.

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ROUND TWO Incumbent Republican Keith Rothfus faces off for the second time against Democrat Erin McClelland. Rothfus has a fundraising edge, with nearly $1.5 million compared to McClelland’s $196,739. Polling has McClelland as a long shot to win, and Rothfus calls her a “symbol of [the] failed liberal status quo.” McClelland has criticized Rothfus for a number of votes, including voting against Hurricane Sandy relief and the Violence Against Women Act.

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After practicing business law, Rothfus ran and lost a tight race challenging Jason Altmire in Pennsylvania’s 4th District before the 2010 redistricting.

Has focused on reforming government, pushing for pay-forperformance for members of Congress and for term limits.

Supports the RECLAIM act, a bipartisan bill that funds clean-up and revitalization of former industrial sites, including $340 million for Western Pennsylvania. Has said she would help out-of-work coal miners by getting them into new trades.

Introduced legislation to reduce environmental regulations on burning coal refuse, to produce cheap energy, more jobs and remove pollution. “The coal-refuse industry has produced incredible environmental and economic benefits in Pennsylvania,” Rothfus says on his website. “Unfortunately, Washington’s one-size-fits-all environmental policies endanger families and threaten Pennsylvania jobs.”

Wants to invest in expanding Beaver County’s airport, as well as modernizing Westmoreland County’s sewage system. “It’s really hard to do economic development if you don’t have a public sewage and water system,” McClelland has said. Supports expanding public transportation and Amtrak service in Western Pennsylvania.

Worked to fund expansion of Route 219. Supported a bill to expand local government’s access to private money for water projects. Voted against Energy and Water Infrastructure Funding Bill, after the attachment of amendment to prevent funding to contractors that discriminate against LGBT individuals.

Thinks health care should be expanded to cover mental health, addiction and disabilities, which she calls the “unwanted stepchild of health care.”

Believes current policies on the opioid crisis are only “band-aids” and don’t address the complexity of the drug epidemic. Supports Affordable Care Act, but wants to use health resources more efficiently.

Supported the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which expands access by law enforcement to overdose-fighting drugs, increases preventive outreach to at-risk groups and provides addiction care to imprisoned individuals. Supports repealing the Affordable Care Act because he says it increased costs for citizens and businesses.

Endorsements include Steel City Stonewall Democrats, Pittsburgh Building Trades & Construction Council, Beaver County Building Trades & Construction Council, Service Employees International Union State Council, Pennsylvania House Democratic Leader Frank Dermody and Braddock Mayor John Fetterman.

This year, Rothfus has been endorsed by the Eagle Forum, Firearms Owners Against Crime, the National Rifle Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business.

Has long been supported by Tea Party Republicans.

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TAKING THE NORTH? {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} THERE’S A PHRASE to describe public servants like Butler County Republican state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe.

No, not jackass, although that’s a good guess; I was thinking of “unfortunately unbeatable.” He’s a far-right, uber-conservative Republican from Cranberry, and he’s been in the same seat since 1999. He’s also one of the most divisive legislators in Harrisburg, often putting his personal agenda above the needs of his constituents.

He’s known for pushing tired Tea Party wedge issues like voter-suppression acts, anti-LGBT measures and some of the most hateful anti-immigrant legislation in this country. He thinks climate change is a whole lot of hooey, and he holds a powerful committee chair that has kept a lot of good laws — like the Pa. Fairness Act, which prevents discrimination based on a person’s gender identification or sexual orientation — from ever getting a hearing.

Despite all of that, he has been re-elected nine times, and many think the 10th time is just two weeks away. But Christian Rieger, the Cranberry Township Democrat taking on Metcalfe Nov. 8, says not so fast.

“Daryl Metcalfe has burned a lot of bridges,” Rieger told City Paper during an Oct. 21 meeting at the office of Paul M. Daniels and Associates, where he practices bankruptcy and family law. “It started years ago as a spark, and he’s spent his career throwing a lot of gasoline on it. He’s neglected school funding for years and has ignored a lot of local issues in favor of these other issues that he spends his time on.”

One issue is the severe congestion on Route 228 through Mars and Seven Fields.

Population has exploded in those areas and the road — a crucial connector between the turnpike and state Route 8 — can’t handle the traffic. Moreover, in 2011, when a group of citizens from Middlesex Township wanted to help restore Glade Run Lake, which was drained due to an unsafe dam, Metcalfe refused to lobby for funds for the project. The major infrastructure project that was estimated to bring in more than $ 1 million a year in tourism dollars didn’t rate his attention. The lake will open in 2017 in spite of Metcalfe.

Rieger says the district needs a legislator who will work for projects like this, and who recognizes what the district needs to handle its continued growth. For example, Rieger says a public-transit system

for Southwest Butler County and its more than 30,000 residents should be examined.

Rieger, whose wife is a teacher, also says Metcalfe is an enemy of proper funding for education.

While the idea of Metcalfe being replaced by a legislator who identifies himself as “left of center” in a predominantly Republican county seems too good to be true, Rieger says he sees a path to victory.

The first part of his plan starts with those 30,000 or so residents in Cranberry, Mars and Seven Fields. The area is filling with young professionals, white-collar voters who work in the city, and businesses that have sprouted up in the past decade.

These voters care about social issues, and Rieger seems pretty progressive on social issues. He’s in favor of the fairness act; he supports LGBT rights; he’s pro-choice; and while he believes the right to own firearms for personal protection is guaranteed, he says it’s “not absolute.”

Rieger, a 32-year-old Allentown native, received an undergrad degree in political science from Pitt and his law degree from Duquesne University in 2009. In March, he decided to seek the Democratic spot on the ballot and take on Metcalfe, who once seemed unbeatable. But two years ago, Metcalfe nearly lost re-election to Republican Gordon Marburger, who was running as a write-in.

Marburger lost by about 550 votes.

Rieger says Metcalfe’s lack of action on district matters and his narrow victory over Marburger is a sign that a realistic challenge can be mounted. For the past several months, Rieger has been on a “listening tour,” visiting township boards of supervisors across the district.

“I wanted to go out and meet the local policy-makers and see what their communities need,” Rieger says. “What I’ve discovered is they don’t feel like they have a partner in Harrisburg.”

The Democrat has also spent time knocking on doors, especially the doors of GOP voters who would be key to any victory. In 2014, Marburger got more than 5,300 write-in votes against Metcalfe running on a platform that Metcalfe wasn’t properly serving the district. Those votes, combined with a larger voter turnout in a presidential election year, could mean a win for Rieger.

“I’m out there every night knocking on doors and meeting constituents,” he says.

“It’s not the most efficient strategy, but I think it’s the most effective.”

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THIS JUST IN {BY FRANCIS RUPP}

A look at local news online and on the tube

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KDKA anchors Susan Koeppen and Ken Rice flex their acting muscles in a skit to promote a story about online “ad trackers.”

Rice: “OK, so I’m scrolling through Facebook, right? And it’s giving me all of these ads. For products that I’m already interested in. Like, IT KNOWS WHAT WEED WHACKER I’m already thinkin’ about this fall. I don’t like it …”

Koeppen: “Ken. Those are called ad trackers. Marketers, they’re looking at all kindsa stuff that you’re doing online …”

Rice: “No thanks, makes me uncomfortable.”

Koeppen: “Don’t worry about it.”

Rice: “How can I not worry about it? I’ve got Big Brother watching me. Is your computer watching us right now?” [Covers Koeppen’s screen with paper.]

Koeppen: “Easy, fella. Consumer Reports just did a whooole thing on online privacy. And they have information on how to stop being tracked online, how to turn off those ad trackers, and we have a special report coming up …”

Rice: “OK, that’s great, but I wish you wouldn’t have said it in front of your computer. [In a hushed tone] It’s listening.”

[End Scene] Ken Rice, you may be the last person on earth to know about ad trackers, but I admire your acting chops. Is this news or a promotion for Consumer Reports? If you pick the latter, you win! We’ve known about ad trackers for years.

WHO’S THE BOSS?

In a recent edition of Pittsburgh Catholic (also located at www.PittsburghCatholic.org), Bishop David Zubik recounts a conversation he had with the new diocesan director of communications in his column, “Beyond ‘The Boss.’”

“I must be honest,” he writes. “Even though Bruce and I are the same age, born the same year, I’m not one of his groupies. No offense to those of you who are. I’m more of a Motown kind of guy.”

There are several definitions of “groupie,” and none have a particularly flattering connotation. There is a word for people who go to Springsteen concerts, and it’s “fan.” Also, when anyone has to preface a statement with “no offense,” it’s basically a mea culpa for the offensive thing they’re about to say.

Zubik, who, as I think we’ve established, is living in another era, strings together more vagaries and platitudes in his latest column, “A Love Without Limits,” waxing euphorically about “World Mission Sunday.” He mentions the geographically far-reaching mission of the church: Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, for example.

He writes: “Way back when, like most kids growing up in the days of the Eisenhower and Kennedy presidencies, I wondered what I would look like when I grew up, what I would be doing and where I might be. In Ambridge, my childhood home? In Pittsburgh? In the USA? Or in another part of the world?”

Instead of wondering how things are going down in Ambridge lately, why not just pay a visit? First, though, he might want to watch raw footage of an Oct. 10 Trump rally in Ambridge, from www.hearyourselfthink.org, a nonprofit that aims to enlighten people about how right-wing media has normalized a culture of rage, hate and conspiracy, a culture that he decries in his column.

The video shows Dave Ninehouser, an advocate who works to reveal how

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people are being manipulated by right-wing media, attending the rally to talk to supporters about media misinformation. When he said he supported Hillary Clinton, he was attacked, mob-style by Trump barkers, some of whom got in his face and demanded, in repeated, rapid-fire fashion, “Do you have a job?,” “Are you a virgin?,” “How small is it?,” “Are you a secular Jew?,” and finally, “Are you a winner or a loser?,” prompting the crowd to chant “loser.”

Bishop Zubik, Ambridge awaits your mission.

DEAR CAROLYN

If you thought advice columns were passé, think again. A harried 19-year-old reader contacts the syndicated “Dear Carolyn” column published at triblive.com.

She writes: “My problem is that my sister despises me for my brains. I started school a year early, putting me a grade behind her, although there is more than two years’ difference in age between us. I got better grades and more awards, and the attention paid to my successes made her feel horrible.”

Carolyn Hax responds, “If there’s a grain of truth to any of this, then wouldn’t it be your parents who ultimately poisoned your sibling relationship, and not your giant brain? Not to make them the villains; they could have had the best of intentions to give each of you the right encouragement for what they perceived to be each of your strengths.”

You, too, can send your burning questions to tellme@washpost.com.

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The Downtown Business Council of Chambersburg is under fire for its decision to disinvite a loud, black, patriotically themed semi-trailer truck to its Christmas parade. The vehicle, owned by Chuck Timbrook of Williamsport, Md., is named Black Out and is decorated with POW/MIA symbols and modified black-and-white American flags. It apparently got a lot of attention at last year’s parade, blowing its horn and blaring the National Anthem through the town, according to the local newspaper, Public Opinion. Distracted by the truck, crowds barely paid attention to the float on which Santa Claus sat, which is usually the centerpiece of the parade. Timbrook says the Downtown Business Council planned to resolve this issue in 2016 by moving Santa to the front of the parade, a few vehicles ahead of Black Out. However, the council denied his application on the grounds that the truck was too loud and not Christmas-themed. Timbrook says he offered to not blow the horn and to put a wreath on the front bumper of the obsidian behemoth. The council still declined. Timbrook now accuses it of giving into anti-military sentiment, saying, “It’s making me feel like, well, we don’t want [the truck] there because it might offend somebody.” In protest, other participants are pulling out. Brandy Strickland, of Chambersburg, said she won’t drive her Jeep in the parade unless Black Out is there. She explained that, because military personnel are sometimes overseas during the holidays, “To me, he is Christmas-related.”

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“This is typical politics,” complained Aaron Bernstine, a Republican running for a state House seat in the 10th legislative district. The latest move by his Democratic opponent, state Rep. Jaret Gibbons, shows how incumbents “play to protect themselves and keep themselves in power,” said Bernstine.

Gibbons’ dastardly dirty trick? He invited seniors to a constituent breakfast meeting at a New Brighton church using an official state-house letterhead. Bernstine insisted to the Beaver County Times this is a violation of the “blackout rule,” which forbids Pennsylvania public officials from sending mass mailers from their offices 60 days before an election, which would effectively be using their office’s resources to campaign.

Gibbons shot back that the rule allows for 50 pieces of mail a day during the “blackout” period. Bernstine conceded the point, but said Gibbons “violated the intention of the rule” by reaching out to a population that always votes, calling seniors not just “super voters,” but “super, super voters.”

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A month ago, this column noted that a teacher at the Cumberland Valley Christian School, where staff had been allowed to carry firearms, accidentally left her loaded gun in a bathroom also used by students. An armed security guard at Ringgold High School, in Washington County, apparently made the same mistake after disarming to relieve himself.

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Superintendent Karen Polkabla refused to say whether the guard had been suspended or fired, but assured a WTAE reporter, “We will continue to work diligently to protect our students.”

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Two housemates at the University of Pittsburgh’s Johnstown campus say they caught Jacob Wade Hall sneaking into their townhouse and attempting to steal three cans of beer and a bottle of vodka. Police told the Tribune-Democrat that, once spotted, Hall, 22, dropped the alcohol and ran. Reportedly, he was later identified and confessed to the booze raid.

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Since Geri Allen became director of Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, in 2013, the school’s annual Jazz Seminar and Concert has included a few wild cards in the lineup. Last year, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders made an appearance. This year’s diverse bill includes local bassist Dwayne Dolphin, trombonist Fred Wesley (who worked with James Brown), vocalist Cassandra Wilson and drummer Jamison Ross (a winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition) and — serving as emcee — actress S. Epatha Merkerson (Law and Order). However, it’s trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, who has released two ambitious albums on Blue Note Records, who could be considered this season’s wild card. “I am very impressed by his sense of form and structure within an expanse of free expression,” Allen says, in an email. “His sonic choices, both with his personal tone on the instrument and also with the palette he creates with his ensemble, make for a wonderful journey.”

California-based Akinmusire (ah-kinMOO-sir-ee) released When the Heart Emerges Glistening, his debut for Blue Note, in 2011. The narrative quality ran deep, as did his astounding technique, marked by fast runs and wide leaps in register on his horn. Two years ago, he followed it with an equally vivid album, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint. This set added vocals to a few tracks and even included a piece for a string quintet and flute. Like its predecessor, the album didn’t explain anything in the liner notes, preferring to let listeners make their own interpretations. “The average listener is attuned to emotion, and he or she gets that from this approach, even without words,” he said in a 2011 JazzTimes interview. “Sometimes I’ll watch a French film on DVD and turn the subtitles off to see if I can track the emotions without knowing the language. That’s what’s happening in my music.”

Akinmusire is one of the musicians scheduled to conduct a free seminar at the Frick Fine Arts Building prior to the concert. (He speaks on Sat., Nov. 5, at 10 a.m.) Free movies will also be screened during the week, including Round Midnight, starring saxophonist Dexter Gordon. His widow, Maxine Gordon, will introduce it on Wed., Nov. 2, and lead a seminar the following evening.

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IKE MILLS IS best known as

the bassist in R.E.M.; he was a founding member and remained with the band until its 2011 breakup. Since then, he’s been a key player in the series of “Big Star’s Third” tribute concerts. But behind the scenes, Mills has been involved in an even more ambitious project: Working closely with his lifelong friend, virtuoso violinist Robert McDuffie, he’s created a musical work that bridges rock music and classical orchestration. Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra was released on CD on Oct. 14, and Mills — joined

by McDuffie, a rock band and Chicago’s 15-piece Fifth House Ensemble — is taking to the road to perform the new work in concert halls across the country. The tour comes to the Byham Theater Nov. 4.

The idea of combining rock and classical themes isn’t new. Producer George Martin devised classical string arrangements for the Beatles’ “Yesterday” in 1965 and “Eleanor Rigby” in 1966. Brian Wilson’s large ensemble arrangements on the Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds have

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an orchestral feel to them. And in the early 1970s, Electric Light Orchestra began as an attempt to pick up where the Beatles left off, incorporating cello, violin and orchestra into a rock idiom.

From the opposite direction, minimalist composer Philip Glass has often directed his classically based work toward a rock audience, and the Kronos Quartet plays in a classical style but with the power and sensibility of a rock band.

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Yet what Mills is doing with Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra is subtly different. The work — a roughly 30-minute piece in six movements — is built around melodic pop themes, but presented by a hybrid ensemble that takes the

best from both rock and orchestral styles.

“I thought of it as five or six separate songs,” Mills explains over the phone. “I figured they would hang together, because the instrumentation would be pretty consistent throughout.”

Mills — a primary composer of many of R.E.M.’s best-known songs — places a high value on melody. “To me it’s the most beautiful part of music, period,” he says. “And it’s something that I’ve always striven for, whether it was R.E.M., or this Concerto, or anything else I’ve ever done.”

The Concerto isn’t Mike Mills’ first foray into orchestration, though he downplays his earlier efforts. “I did a tiny amount of work with some classical instruments with R.E.M.,” he says, “like a string quartet on “Feeling Gravity’s Pull” [from 1985’s Fables of the Reconstruction] and the odd cello here and there.” It’s likely, too, that he paid close attention when Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones arranged a string section for “Nightswimming,” a track Mills wrote for R.E.M.’s 1992 album Automatic for the People.

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More recently, Mills’ experience helping to create live performances of the songs from Big Star’s Third opened his eyes to the power and versatility of classical instruments. Though he says that Carl Marsh’s string arrangements on Third didn’t influence him “on a conscious level,” Mills allows that “it’s possible that we share sort of the same sensibilities. Authors or composers will, even if they have never heard each other, have often come from a similar beginning.”

In creating the Concerto, Mills combined modern and traditional methods of composition. “I used ProTools to put down ideas,” he says. “For the ‘rough tracks,’ I put down guitars and drums, and then wrote melodies over that.” He exchanged files created on a computer synthesizer with arranger David Mallamud, but stresses that writing the Concerto “wasn’t an overly softwaretype event.”

Live onstage, Mills leads the rockband portion of the ensemble, switching between bass and keyboard, sometimes within a single movement. The Fifth House Ensemble plays the classical motifs, and Robert McDuffie’s violin serves as the lead instrument of the instrumental work. “I thought of Bobby’s violin as the vocalist,” Mills explains. He says that Mallamud encouraged him to “take advantage of Bobby’s virtuosity; he helped me to take my melodies to places that I might not have thought to go. I had never written for violin before, and I didn’t know, exactly, what the violin was capable of, so David certainly helped me to stretch both my imagination and Bobby’s abilities. There are a lot of very difficult passages in this thing, and it was really fun to see those come to light.”

Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra premiered in Toronto in June, where it received an enthusiastic reception. That was followed by performances in Rome, Italy, and at the Aspen Music Festival.

The studio version was recorded over Labor Day Weekend, and the 14-date North American tour kicked off Oct. 20 in Miami. In addition to Mills’ Concerto, the live program also includes performances of John Adams’ Road Movies and Philip Glass’ 1995 Symphony No. 3. All three works feature McDuffie on violin with the Fifth House Ensemble.

The Concerto is remarkably successful at bridging the gap — or perhaps finding and exploring the commonalities — between classical and rock. And while Mills’ profile will draw R.E.M. fans to his new work, he wants others to listen, too. “It’s very important to me that classical fans like it,” he says. Mills believes that the walls between the two musical forms “are not as tall as people think they are … or as high as they want them to be.”

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GWAR stalk the stage amid sprays of goo and gore, adorned in ghastly regalia, it’s easy to get the impression that utter chaos holds sway. In reality, it’s more like carefully managed chaos. In the band’s 30-plus years of performance, GWAR has honed its unwieldy, singular stage show — a cartoonish marriage of heavy metal and pro-wrestling theatrics often labeled “shock rock”— through a combination of clever engineering, practical effects and good old-fashioned showmanship.

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“For us, it’s always been about the art and the production and the show. I think that everybody has an understanding that all these small but important parts make an even greater whole,” says guitarist Brent Purgason, who has performed as Pustulus Maximus since 2012, when he formally took the place of the late Corey Smoot, a.k.a. Flattus Maximus.

Having grown close to the band in its home scene of Richmond, Va., Purgason knew that membership included duties that went beyond those associated with more traditional bands. “For us it’s like, you know, cases upon cases and monsters and costume changes and lots of guitars and, of course, you’ve got the wet factor, everything is going to be

covered in liquid at some point in time, so we’ve got to always be prepared for that,” says Purgason.

Preparatory methods have been developed through decades of trial and error. “Like in any other trade, you’re going to learn something new every day, even if you’ve been doing it for 10, 20, 30 years.

So, we’re always coming up with new solutions to try to streamline. If a costume piece repeatedly breaks, we try to reengineer it,” he says.

The band members take a similar approach to their equipment. “We’re trying to make things super redundant, so, if something breaks, it’s not a huge involved process to swap it out with something that works,” Purgason says. “There’s actually no signal-carrying cables that go on the floor, period. Everything is wireless.

Everything is remotely controlled.”

With so many moving parts, though, things inevitably go wrong. When this happens, cooler heads must prevail. “We are our own crew,” he says. “If an amp goes down or a spew-hose busts in the middle of the show, you know, we’re the ones fixing it. I’ve actually gone behind the scenes and taken my costume apart or off and reached my hand in a piece of equipment to get something fixed.”

The rotating collective of artists and musicians who build and create GWAR’s unique costumes, write the songs and scripts, and block and perform in the stage show, call themselves Slave Pit Inc. It’s hard work, but the band’s longevity speaks to the rewards. “Even though it’s a rock band, it’s still, at its core, an art collective, an artist community. I think that keeps us more normalized and more humble than anything else. We’re not rich,” he says. “It’s just about the art.”

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[HIP HOP] + FRI., OCT. 28 Local hip-hop collective #PirateGang is taking over The Smiling Moose for the Overboard Halloween Party. PirateGang is an acronym for “People Inspiring Real Aspirations To Experience Greatness Approaching Newer Generations,” and its mission is to celebrate and create art in the 412. In addition to vendors and raffles, the party will showcase some of Pittsburgh’s up-and-coming hip-hop artists. SpaceJam Jiff, of Braddock, brings backpack trap to the table with tracks like “Oh It’s Lit,” while Sosa412 takes a soulful approach to rap. Grimey Click inspires with a big style and smooth flow, and the pop hooks shine through with alternative rapper Jesse Ricketts of Common Wealth Family. GENO & the Scholars round out the lineup. Meg Fair 10 p.m.

1306 E. Carson St., South Side. $10-12, $8 with costume, $5 if you’re dressed as a pirate. 412-431-4668 or www.smiling-moose.com

pop punk. Unique vocals and warm guitar tone join forces to create an emotive powerhouse, especially on newer tracks like “Get My Cut.” Joining All Get Out tonight at Cattivo is Gates, from New Brunswick — a mathy and atmospheric rock outfit — and Atlanta’s Microwave, a grungy, darker alt-rock endeavor.

Locals Instead of Sleeping’s radio-ready pop rock lightens the tone of the gig. MF 5:30 p.m.

146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $12. All ages.

412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com

[HIP HOP] + WED., NOV. 02 Danny Brown is one of the most innovative, honest and wild artists in the rap sphere right now. His latest album, Atrocity Exhibition, is {PHOTO COURTESY OF CAMERON FLAISCH}

[PUNK COVERS] + SAT., OCT. 29 Halloween cover shows are one of the best parts of the Microwave holiday. When local bands get to emulate their personal heroes, and audiences get to squint and pretend to watch their favorite long-disbanded acts, everybody wins.

Tonight, take in an evening of re-animated a blend of brilliantly sparse beats that punk, with Choir as the Stooges, the Bloated emphasize clever and thoughtful lyricism, as Sluts as Siouxsie and The Banshees, and well as collaborations with Ab-Soul, Kendrick Submachine as the Deformed. DJ Erica Scary Lamar and Earl Sweatshirt. Atrocity Exhibition provides additional spooky tunes, and all is a more quietly manic version of the work proceeds go to the Women’s Center & Shelter Brown showcased on past records, but his of Greater Pittsburgh. Margaret Welsh unique timbre and flow remain as addictive as the bad habits he explores in his work.

7 p.m. The Shop. 4314 Main St., Bloomfield. $5.

It should be no surprise that Brown has a 412-951-0622 reputation for being quite the entertainer, so don’t miss your chance to witness the spec[ROCK] + TUE., NOV. 01 tacle tonight at Mr. Smalls. Maxo Kream and North Carolina-based All Get Out is a band that ZelooperZ also appear. MF 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln perfectly blends the intensity of Brand New with the melodic sensibility of Bad Books, walkAve., Millvale. $22. All ages. 412-821-4447 or ing a tightrope between alternative rock and www.mrsmalls.com

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Lust. Obsession.

And the most shocking moment in opera history.

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Your enjoyment of this record will depend almost completely on your tolerance for pop punk, but if you’ve ever had affection for bands like Saves the Day, Jazz Standards should stir something in your heart.

Fast-paced, aggressively melodic tunes paired with unabashedly heart-felt lyrics (sung here with urgency and clever pacing by frontman Lee Yarnell) are well-mined hallmarks of the genre, but Danvers manages to pull off a nostalgia trip without sounding like a nostalgia act.

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This EP takes a minute to find its footing — some cheesy lines and unsubtle midi instrumentation overshadows some of the better moments of opener “The Zone” — but keep listening because Boonie offers some seriously solid tracks. On the title track/lead single, Boonie nimbly raps with a golden-age-of-hip-hop-style swaggering buoyancy; harder cuts like “Off Top” and “We Trappin” reflect the influence of rappers like Scarface or Kool G Rap. Worth checking out.

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Track by track, duo Tanning Machine moves from buttoned-down minimalist punk to frenetic, grinding chaos to the kind of abrasive electronic dance that makes me very wistful for 2003. binding problems is mercifully free of dull noise-rock tropes and posturing. It may take a couple listens to latch on to the hooks, but they’re there (in a manner of speaking). Madeleine Campbell’s chilly production makes this record sound like a lone lightbulb in an empty room, in a good way.

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ROCK/POP THU 27 BRILLOBOX. Jojo Stella w/ Spacefish. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

HOWLERS. Delta Bombers, Bessemers. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

FRI 28

SQUIRREL HILL SPORTS BAR. theCAUSE. Squirrel Hill.

412-422-1001.

MON 31 PITTSBURGH WINERY. Ruby Rose Fox. Strip District.

412.566.1000.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. The YeahTones, Andre Costello and the Cool Miners, Misaligned Minds, Wreck Loose.

Lawrenceville.

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ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-586-7644.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

Downtown. 412-874-4582.

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

RIVERS CASINO. Lee Alverson, DJ Digital Dave. 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. Strangeways vs. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Lawrenceville.

412-586-4441.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. Ray Lanich Band.

Pleasant Hills. www. per 412-653-3800. pa pghcitym CATTIVO. Bottle Rat, .co KEYSTONE BAR. Latecomer, cumplete The Bo’Hog Brothers.

Basturds & Thanks Dad. Sewickley. 724-758-4217. record release. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

GOOSKI’S. Horehound, Enhailer, Horseburner. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

BELVEDERE’S. DJ hates you 2.0 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & DJ killjoy. NeoN 80s Night. & SPEAKEASY. Deaf Scene, Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

Solarburn & You Bred Raptors?

BELVEDERE’S. Down N Derby.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. North Side. 412-904-3335.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

Centrifuge Thursdays.

THE FUNHOUSE @ MR. SMALLS. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

At the Funhouse. Millvale.

Those Gorgeous Bastards, 412-431-8800.

603-321-0277.

The Devilishly Undead Duo & MIXTAPE. DJ Antithesis. ‘The 1990s PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Andrew the Impaled. Millvale. (& a bag of chips)’ dance party.

Bobby D Bachata. Downtown.

412-821-4447.

Garfield. 412-661-1727.

412-471-2058.

WYNDHAM GRAND RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Stasko.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. DJ PITTSBURGH. Right TurnClyde.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

CLARK PRICE (Honcho). Pittsburgh Downtown. 412-391-4600.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

Underwear Bike Ride After Party.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441.

BEER HEAD BAR. Right TurnClyde The Trio. North Side.

412-322-2337.

BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE. Danvers, One if by Land, Automatic 253, A Lovely Crisis & Rebuilding Year. record release.

Knoxville. 412-291-8994.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. The Full Counts, Gorilla Chief, Love Letters.

Bloomfield. 412-682-8611.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. RPG’s Halloween Party. Robinson.

412-489-5631.

EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Ray Lanich Band. South Side.

412-431-4090.

HOWLERS. Ego Likeness, Adoration Destroyed, Spider Lilies.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Fungus. Grateful Dead Cover Band. North Side.

412-904-3335.

THE R BAR. The ROCKIT Band.

Each week we bring you a new song from Dormont. 412-942-0882. a local artist. This week’s track comes from ROYAL PLACE. Threatpoint, Prime 8, Skratch, God Hates Unicorns & pop-punk band Danvers; stream or download Decay on Display. Castle Shannon.

“Oakland at 11,” from the new record 412-882-8000.

SMILING MOOSE. Jazz Standards, for free at FFW>>, the music Pop Punk Night. South Side. blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.

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

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

THE SUPPER CLUB. Frank Cunimondo/Patricia Skala.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

SHALER AREA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Barrage 8. Glenshaw.

FRI 28 PALACE THEATRE. The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.

Three complete ghostly films will be featured – Buster Keaton’s The Haunted House, Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer, and Harold Lloyd’s Haunted Spooks, all accompanied live with their original orchestral scores and sound effects by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

RIVERS CASINO. Tony Janflone Jr. North Side.

412-231-7777.

SUN 30 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Lucarelli Bros. w/ Peg Wilson. North Side.

412-904-3335.

TUE 01 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. DK Cypher. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

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Benedum Center, 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown

LOOKING FOR GROUP. Amy Mmhmm & Rowan Erikson.

Brookline Halloween Show w/ costume contest. Brookline.

774-482-1264.

THE SOUTH SIDE BBQ RESTAURANT. Tony Germaine, singer/guitarist. South Side.

412-381-4566.

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Prince Rama Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St, North Side

SAT 29

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-586-7644.

CLUB CAFE. Bill Toms & Hard Rain ft. The Soulville Horns.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Sweaty Betty Band. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

OAKMONT YACHT CLUB. The Witchdoctors. Oakmont.

OAKS THEATER. Tina & High Road Easy w/ Cosmic Blues Attack. Oakmont.

412-828-6322.

WED 02 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 28 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

SAT 29 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

BOOM CONCEPTS. Kiera Zee: Moonchild Listening Party.

Garfield. www.boomconcepts.com.

BLUES FRI 28 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Olga Watkins Band. Caring for Kids fundraiser.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Jason Born. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

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

412-904-3335.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

FRI 28 ANDORA RESTAURANT FOX CHAPEL. Pianist Harry Cardillo & vocalist Charlie Sanders. Fox Chapel.

412-967-1900.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

THE SUPPER CLUB. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters with Max Leake.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

SAT 29 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tony Campbell Jam Session. North Side. 412-904-3335.

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Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Hallowhoosh. Mars. 724-553-5212.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Sean McConnell. Strip District.

412-566-1000.

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WED 02 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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THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta.

Reggae & dancehall. Lawrenceville.

412-688-8820.

RIVERS CASINO. Terrance Vaughn Duo. North Side.

412-231-7777.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. Roulette Waves, Cruces, Shaky Shrines, Dazzletine, Cutups, Pandemic Pete & Keebs. Spirit’s Psychedelic Creep Show Vault & 3D Lazer Lodge Extravaganza. Lawrenceville.

412-586-4441.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Aaron from The Lava Game. Robinson.

412-489-5631.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Bill Deasy w/ Walter Salas-Humara (of The Silos). Strip District. 412-566-1000.

Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South Side

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CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

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SAT 29 THE CLUB BAR & GRILL. The Flow Band. Monroeville. 413-728-4155.

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FRI 28 OAKS THEATER. Cash Unchained: The Music of Johnny Cash.

Oakmont. 412.828.6322.

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MON 31 THE ZORÁ STRING QUARTET. Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland. 412-621-6566.

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THU 27 RIVERS CASINO. BeLove Trio.

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Millvale. 412-821-4447.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

Odd Squad Live!

THURSDAY 27

FRIDAY 28 285

CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157. All ages show.

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

SMILING MOOSE South Side.

412-431-4668. All ages show.

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

Rooney The Groundswell Tour

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra’s Haunted Hollywood

Liquid Stranger’s Weird & Wonderful Tour

Knocked Loose

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 21 show.

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

AARON CARTER RTER HARD ROCK CAFE OCT 28

BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 7p.m.

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MONDAY 31 opusone. 8p.m.

THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org.

7:30p.m.

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9:30p.m.

SATURDAY 29

Red - 10th Anniversary of End of Silence

GWAR with guests: Darkest Hour and Mutoid Man

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PPG PAINTS ARENA Downtown.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 4p.m.

BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.com. 7p.m.

Aaron Carter

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. All ages show.

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

Sau e FFamily Sauce Sauc ami mily ly Skatin Skating Tribute featuring Dan & Shay

An evening of YES music & more featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman

Carol Burnett HEINZ HALL Downtown.

412-392-4900.

Tickets: heinzhall.org. 8p.m.

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Gino Vannelli

BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

Elise’s Playground A Halloween Ball Animal Benefit 3101 PENN AVENUE

Strip District. Over 21 event. $10 at the door. 8p.m.

Halloween Horrors at Cavo

The 1975

STAGE AE North Side.

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

Through Nov. 1.

CAVO Strip District.

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

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SUNDAY 30

CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157. All ages show.

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

Musselman’s Apple

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ROMANTICS

“I’M REALLY FASCINATED WITH JOBS, PERIOD.”

It is perhaps fitting that the first ballet that Christopher Budzynski and Alexandra Kochis danced together — over a decade ago, at Boston Ballet — will also be the last that retiring Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre principal dancer Budzynski will perform with Kochis. The married couple will dance the lead roles in the beloved romantic classic Giselle, with four performances Oct. 28-30 at the Benedum Center.

Restaged by PBT artistic director Terrence Orr after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot’s 1841 original, the tragic tale of betrayal, innocence lost and everlasting love tells of young nobleman Albrecht, who is in love with peasant girl Giselle but betrothed to another. A perennial favorite, PBT’s traditional version has been redone with brandnew costumes and scenic designs conceived by renowned designer Peter Farmer, and by reviving French composer Adolphe Adam’s original score to be performed live by the PBT Orchestra.

“One of the nice things about this version is that both Terry [Orr] and Marianna [PBT ballet mistress Tcherkassky] are big on making it real to you,” says Kochis. “They are totally open to an individual partnership working out their own ways of conveying feelings and emotions.”

For Budzynski and Kochis, that mutual desire for verisimilitude and perfecting their performances has been a hallmark of their careers. It extends even to how Budzynski lets fall a bouquet of lilies at Giselle’s grave in a poignant scene in the second act. There are both practical and symbolic aspects to how the flowers are dropped. “We got together and went through each [plastic] flower and took out all the ones we didn’t like and that would stick together,” says Budzynski.

And while as dance partners they share similar desires for honing their artistry, Kochis says that initially finding that work-life balance was hard. “He was more experienced than I was when we first began dancing together,” says Kochis. “Now I feel there is more parity and we can work through what we are passionate about.”

As one of three casts to dance the lead roles, the pair performs at 8 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 29.

“Although I have seen it [Giselle] a thousand times, the confrontations within the characters are so true and real,” says Kochis.

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of Pittsburgh, explores two sides of this same coin in parallel but intersecting stories. (How they intersect is cleverly maneuvered and a bit of a spoiler.) The book’s power is in the specificity of her portrayals of these two protagonists.

When we meet Tanya Kagan Vandermotter, a specialist in Russian art at a highend New York auction house, she is juggling her ambition, a strained marriage and the biggest career opportunity of her life. As a Russianborn immigrant in the contemporary United States, she struggles with what a successful American marriage should be and how to navigate the sometimes dodgy world in which she works. As an

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by The Imperial Wife (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press), the second novel from Irina Reyn.

More precisely, Reyn — who was herself born in Moscow — fleshes out the essence of the immigrant experience, specifically the female immigrant experience, through her masterfully crafted fiction.

Reyn, an associate professor of writing at the University

art authenticator, she is also a “handler,” a person who deals with and sometimes manipulates potential buyers of Russian art, generally Russian men who made oodles of money after the fall of communism.

Tanya refers to these men simply as “the oligarchs.” All of it brings her into contact with Russia as it was in the distant past, the Russia of her own childhood, and Russia as it is now.

“It makes my heart constrict for Russia, for the brilliant minds that have lived and been destroyed by it, for all that suppressed risk and innovation, the lines, the colors, the earthly and the sublime,” says Tanya. “Each year, I feel Russia slipping away, growing more dangerous and foreign. Once, as a Russian, I was the enemy in this country too.”

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KEEPING SCORE {BY NATALIE SPANNER}

“Satisfaction,” a painting by Scott Hunter

Soulful Sounds of Christmas

Prussia, promised to marry Petr, the grandson of Petr the Great and next in line for the Russian throne. These were the years during which Catherine honed her skills as a strategist and as a ruler; this was also the period in which her own ambition revealed itself, clearly and sharply. Reyn renders Catherine’s interior life beautifully, fleshing out Russia’s longest-ruling Empress as a young woman grappling with her own drive, while learning new customs and swimming with the political sharks in the Russian court.

It all serves Catherine well, as she moves her callow, ineffectual husband out of the way and takes the throne herself. There is some disagreement among historians about how this all shook out, but the result was that someone not descended from the royal line, an immigrant no less, became empress and ruled over Russia for 34 years (1762-1796.)

Reyn shifts seamlessly between the two narratives. Though she immersed herself in the story of Catherine to prepare for writing the novel, she believes the book is appealing even to readers who are not history buffs.

“What I love about fiction is the ability to make history both accessible and relevant,” says Reyn in a phone interview. “That was what my aim was here — for even readers who are completely unfamiliar with the Catherine the Great story.”

Reyn’s first novel was 2008’s critically acclaimed What Happened to Anna K, and Imperial Wife is pulling plaudits even more widely, from The Washington Post to Vogue. Reyn fleshes out Tanya Kagan’s work life in easy prose, written with precision, not surprising considering Reyn’s view of work. “I’m really fascinated with jobs, period. I really wanted to talk about work, for both Tanya and Catherine. I’m just fascinated with what people do for a living and how their daily lives are shaped by their jobs.”

Reyn finds many discussions about immigration to be binary and reductive: “Some of it is cliché — like ‘the successful immigrant,’ ‘the immigrant narrative.’

There are these two complete opposites.

One is, ‘Oh my god, [immigration] is so horrible, it’s going to ruin everything.’ The other one is, ‘Look at the prototype of the successful immigrant, they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.’ It’s a very positive, very American narrative. The rising through the ranks from immigrant to success. And both of these stereotypes are two conflicted, opposing clichés. I’ve always been very interested in trying to unpack them, trying to knit what a successful immigrant is. And all the complexity that goes into the immigrant experience, if you’re the immigrant.”

Following his spring show of abstracts, Kinesics, Scott Hunter’s exhibit of figurative paintings I Love You This Much, at The Artsmiths of Pittsburgh, examines the varied metrics of love. Hunter’s statement, at the entryway to this basement gallery, observes that “we seek to quantify love and find its limit in order to better understand it, so as to improve our chances of making it last.” Time is just one of the parameters employed in interpreting these paintings and measuring how much the subjects love.

The impact of time can be felt in his smaller paintings through the faded, photographic quality of the people, surroundings and (inexplicably) ever-present mustard hue of the late 1960s and ’70s.

These subjects are full of warmth and complete memories. They have a genuine connection to the world of the painting.

The tiny canvas “Tijuana” features an old woman who, having reached the end of a parking lot, looks back at the viewer and smiles, knowingly, happy at her surprise inclusion in the shot. The presence of the huge bouquet of flowers, hanging above the heads of the ignorant crowd in the background, also fittingly indicates Tijuana’s vibrant personality. But for the overall cohesion of the composition, the subject herself is barely described. Yet the viewer gets the nostalgic feeling she knows Tijuana already.

The subjects in Hunter’s surreal large-scale works, meanwhile, are deeply saturated with color, full of emotion, and unaware of the scope of the moment.

Each is interrupted by anachronistic elements you might find in a Magritte painting. The title work depicts a fur-clad young woman with a bland look on her face; a bug-eyed sculpture wearing a sign reading “I Love You This Much,” though with one of his demonstrative hands missing; and servants busily cleaning up, suggesting unseen actions from a few moments earlier. Meanwhile, the gargantuan colon suspended in a corner of the room implies that the young woman is gutless, and perhaps doesn’t love any of the others that much at all.

With his words and his art, Hunter proposes that biology isn’t enough: that time often displaces our sense of belonging. Humans seek to measure love spiritually somehow, with our heads, hearts and guts, and “with tongue in cheek.”

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I LOVE YOU THIS MUCH continues through Nov. 12. The Artsmiths of Pittsburgh, 1635 McFarland Road, Mount Lebanon. 412-341-2299 or www.artsmithspgh.com

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SPELL-BOUND IN ALICE HOFFMAN books, magic is a given.

Angels walk amongst us, desires dictate weather, and love is so life-altering it literally breaks hearts. The everyday is imbued with an otherworldly weight, and even the smallest, most intimate story takes on the power of allegory. “I write at a very emotional, almost subconscious level,” says the author by phone from Boston, where she’s recovering from a recent whirlwind trip to Iceland — which she describes, unsurprisingly, as “magical.”

Coming off a run of three deeply researched historical novels — 2011’s The Dovekeepers, which Toni Morrison called “a major contribution to 21st-century literature”; 2014’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things; and 2015’s The Marriage of Opposites — Hoffman returns this November with Faithful, the kind of quiet, fantastical tale of trauma and resilience that put her on the map some 40 years ago.

ALICE HOFFMAN 7 p.m. Tue., Nov. 1. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10.

412-622-8866 or www.pittsburghlectures.org

“As time goes on, you realize that nobody gets out alive, and everyone winds up losing everyone they love, and that’s part of being human,” says Hoffman, whose Faithful characters are as human and lost and dead and alive as any from her deep catalogue of more than 30 works of fiction. (“You know how you just can’t stop reading? I feel the same way about writing,” says Hoffman of her productivity.)

Perhaps best known for Practical Magic and Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, Hoffman writes often of the ties between sisters, mothers and daughters.

In Faithful, she brings animals into the familiar mix. “A relationship with a dog can change everything for a person, especially a damaged person,” says Hoffman, whose sheepdog Shelby just so happens to share the name of Faithful’s protagonist, a young woman marked by the tragedy of an accident that forever alters the lives of both her and her best friend, Helene. Through the course of the story, which makes impressive use of rescue dogs as salvation, Shelby grows from a girl who views herself as a broken thing to a woman strong enough to see beyond the pain.

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Hoffman, who thinks that “books are therapy, in some ways,” loves that her books get shared among women in particular, whom she sees as especially drawn to stories of survival. “My mother and I shared books and it was a really intense sharing.

We shared them even when we weren’t talking to each other, when we were mad at each other,” says Hoffman. “There’s just something about sharing a book with someone that you’re close to, and talking about it, and talking about your life and your reaction to it.”

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FAIRY DUST {BY MICHELLE PILECKI}

ON A COOL autumn evening it can be fun to luxuriate in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Little Lake Theatre Co. Artistic director Jena Oberg directs an ambitious production of Shakespeare’s frothy fantasy that often, but not always, hits the heights she aims for.

The Dream cast of 20-plus allows the company to showcase its range of actors, from children to seniors. The most glorious is Kaitlin Kerr as Titania, truly the queen of the show as well as the fairies. From her entrance on a beflowered bower to the cooing over her unlikely and literally asinine lover to her ultimate reconciliation with her king, Kerr sparks and sparkles.

The acrobatic James Curry makes a perfect Puck, animating the plot and tweaking the foolish mortals. His freshfaced satyr bounces, tumbles and seemingly flies when he says he will, his energy unbounded. Oh, and he’s still a senior at Peters Township High School.

But for most amazing, we have Madeline Dalesio as a loquacious and perky fairy totally in tune with the Bard’s rhythms. Not yet into her teens, this established actress also composed the songs she sings (beautifully), and learned how to play the lap harp to accompany herself. I sigh at her résumé.

Also notable are Amanda DeConciliis Weber and Jeff Johnston, double-cast but underused as the noble (yet insignificant) bride and bridegroom and as part of Titania’s band of fairies; Warren Ashburn as the saturnine Peter Quince; and 4-year-old Seth Englesberg, in his theatrical debut, as the Changeling.

So much is right, but a wrong detail can throw a scene awry. For example, Jessica Kavanagh’s costumes are beyond

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James Curry and Eric Leslie in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Little Lake

fabulous — staid black-and-white for the court, earthtones (natch) for the woods, glittery and floaty for the fairies — except for the ones that don’t fit. Of course, that suits the mechanicals, those rustic objects of ridicule, but not the lovers and the forest spirits. Still, I admire the range of design, drawing from late Victorian and beyond, and the laces and sumptuous fabrics and much of the workmanship.

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continues through Nov. 5. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South, Canonsburg. $13.75-21.75. 724-745-6300 or www.littlelake.org

While not a totally dream Dream, there’s briskly paced amusement, a lovely minimalist set and a cascade of happy endings.

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CARRIE ON {BY TED HOOVER}

SPLIT STAGE Productions is a newish

Greensburg-based theater group, and while that’s geographically outside of my usual beat, I wasn’t going to miss its production of Carrie: The Musical. Based on Stephen King’s novel, this show is a musical-theater legend I knew wouldn’t ever be performed in town again.

How could a show be both legendary and mothballed? Because Carrie: The Musical is the most famous flop in musicaltheater history. The original 1988 production closed after five performances, with reviews so awful that the creators — book-writer Lawrence D. Cohen, composer Michel Gore and lyricist Dean Pitchford — forbid the show’s being performed anywhere thereafter.

Split Stage is to be commended for bringing nontraditional theater to a very traditional area — shows like Rent, The Full Monty, Assassins, Hair … not your usual Rogers & Hammerstein stuff. So the troupe gets a big hand for what it’s attempting in Westmoreland County.

Carrie is, of course, about a teenage girl ridiculed by her classmates and tortured by her religious nutjob of a mother. When confronted with unspeakable humiliation she snaps … and her latent telekinetic powers come into full, horrible bloom. (Referring to an incident in the show, the Village Voice’s Michael Feingold called it “the ultimate period musical.”)

The Split Stage production, directed by Laura Wurzell, features a large cast of performers, most of whom have lovely, angelic voices — which is a problem in a show that screams for growling belters. Lindsay Pignor Fitzpatrick and Meighan Lloyd, playing Carrie and her mother, bring huge drama, continually undercut by unfocused staging. Jim Scriven and Josh Reardon give strong performances, but the whole cast commits to a show that is ill-conceived and, on a fundamental level, unplayable.

CARRIE: THE MUSICAL continues through Sat., Oct. 29. Split Stage at Apple Hill Playhouse, 275 Manor Road, Delmont. $15-19.99. www.splitstage.com

Ultimately, the events of the novel can never be recreated on stage, even with a huge budget (which Split Stage certainly doesn’t have). And the generic score doesn’t come close to vocalizing the story’s manic passion.

Hoping to rescue the work, in 2012 Cohen, Gore and Pitchford presented a retooled Off-Broadway revival (the version Split Stage is producing) — which closed after 46 performances proving, to borrow a line from another Stephen King work, “sometimes dead is better.”

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{STAGE} Lamont Walker II stars as Tommy in the Point Park University’s Conservatory Theatre Company production of The Who’s Tommy. The show continues at the Rockwell Theatre through Sun., Oct. 30. 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $ 10-24.

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The global refugee crisis, which affects more than 65 million people, can seem outside the realm of local concern or understanding. The Forced From Home tour seeks to correct that. Presented

by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this interactive 10,000-square-foot exhibition will set up in Schenley Plaza, in Oakland, to be experienced daily from Oct. 27 through Oct. 31. Tours are free to the public.

Forced From Home opened in September in New York and had stops in Washington, D.C., and Boston before coming to Pittsburgh. It is a planned multi-year, national campaign. MSF, an international humanitarian group that treats people in conflict zones, also plans to tour the exhibit overseas.

On arrival, visitors enter a 30-footdiameter dome to be transported to displacement settings in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere via a 360-degree projected video. Following the tour, visitors can don virtual-reality headsets to view one of three documentaries, each focusing on the stories of individual refugees. “Through the exhibit, MSF seeks to put a human face on the staggering global refugee statistics and headlines,” writes MSF spokesperson Rachel Milkovich via email.

During the guided tour, visitors will navigate the exhibit as a refugee, asylum-seeker or internally displaced person from Afghanistan, Burundi, Honduras, South Sudan or Syria. Visitors must choose the personal possessions they would take if they were forced to flee, and can explore refugee shelters and learn what humanitarian agencies do to help.

MSF workers leading the tours will bring extensive knowledge about the challenges faced by refugees and migrants. Milkovich feels this is one of the most valuable things about the exhibit: “I cannot emphasize enough the truly unique opportunity to spend time with an experienced aid worker and listen to their firsthand accounts of the people they’ve encountered in their field missions all over the world.”

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STAGE While Carol Burnett first became a star on television and Broadway in the 1950s, the actress and comedian remains best known for The Carol Burnett Show, that reliable ’70s-TV bright spot of sketch comedy. At 83, Burnett is still making the rounds on screen and even on stage: Tonight, the beloved and much honored performer visits Heinz Hall for An Evening of Laughter and Reflection.

The show features her patented unscripted answers to questions from the audience — just like during the weekly opening of The Carol Burnett Show. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $63.75-181.25. 412-392-4900 or www.pittsburghsymphony.org

STAGE Everything old is new (and undead) again: Bricolage Production Company blends a 1968 movie with 1940s radio techniques to spoof local zombie culture. Night of the Living Dead N’at, part of the popular Midnight Radio Series, updates the troupe’s 2011 show in which actors live-dubbed Tami Dixon’s comedic, Pittsburghese-inflected

script over a screening of excerpts from George Romero’s cult classic Night of the Living Dead, including live sound effects (like flesh-munching) and live original music by Cello Fury. At each performance, actors Sheila McKenna, Wali Jamal, Jason McCune and Sean Sears will be joined by six audience members making up a specially ticketed Zombie Chorus. On Oct. 31, enjoy the pre- and post-show Brains N’at Ball, with games and costume contest.

BO 8 p.m. Continues through Nov. 12.

937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $25-35 (17 and older). 412-471-0999 or www.bricolagepgh.org

friday 10.28 ART While the original Star Trek TV series was, famously, not a hit, it was only 13 months after its debut that the first Star Trek comic book appeared.

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and fan fiction created in Pittsburgh, with a nod to Pittsburgh’s landmark Star Trektacular convention, held in 1975. BO 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Exhibit continues through Jan. 15. 945 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $8 ($4 for kids ages 6-12). 412-232-0199 or www.toonseum.org

STAGE Acclaimed New York-based performance artist Jaimie Warren is the special guest at POP Cabaret: Nightmare, A Halloween Variety Show, tonight at The Andy Warhol Museum. Warren specializes in campy pop-culture mashups, like her series of self-portraits as celebrities as food. (She’s pictured here as Tuna Turner.)

The free evening of performance, music, dance, storytelling and more is a collabo between The Warhol and Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art; the other acts include short solo and group efforts by CMU students under the tutelage of Suzie Silver. BO 7-10 p.m. 117 Sandusky St., North Side.

Free; register at www.warhol.org

STAGE Throughline Theatre Company, which has spent its season asking “Can you trust the government?,” gets especially topical with ^ Fri., Oct. 28: POP Cabaret: Nightmare, Yankee Tavern. The A Halloween Variety Show 2009 work by Steven Dietz, one of America’s most produced playwrights, is set in a post-9/11 Manhattan where conspiracy theories spun in a neighborhood bar get out of hand. The production, staged at Grey Box Theatre, makes its Pittsburgh premiere tonight. Opening night includes a reception for a $10 surcharge on your ticket; the Sat., Oct. 29, matinee is pay-what-you-can. Ian Flanagan 8 p.m. Show continues through Nov. 5. 3595 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $15-20. 888-718-4253 or www.throughlinetheatre.org

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Pittsburgh — East Liberty, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom screens the documentary Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible.

The film features white men and women who discuss how to overcome racism and white supremacy in the U.S. The film is directed by Shakti Butler, founder and president of the nonprofit social-justice organization World Trust Educational Services. IF 2 p.m. 130 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty.

Free. 412-661-7149

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by Rochelle Sherman & Samir Elsabee opens with a reception tonight at Wilkinsburg’s Percolate gallery. In some of her latest works, Sherman starts with photographs of local abandoned houses (shot by her husband), paints over them in a folky pointillist style, and then prints onto canvas. Egyptianborn, Pittsburgh-based painter Elsabee offers a different take on local landscapes with his richly colored impressionistic images of Pittsburgh. BO 6-9 p.m.

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Literary foundation Creative Nonfiction is now hosting public events in its new headquarters, in Bloomfield.

Tonight, the group, which publishes books and an internationally known quarterly magazine, hosts a Halloween Reading with local writers Brian Broome (pictured) and Jeff Oaks. Broome is a spoken-word standout and The Moth favorite, while poet and essayist Oaks is assistant director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Writing Program. The reading, part of a national online simulcast, is co-hosted by nonfiction publications elsewhere whose own guests will broadcast stories to the audience in Creative Nonfiction’s intimate courtyard space. There’s also a costume contest and refreshments. BO 8 p.m. 5119 Coral St., Bloomfield.

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There was a skit about his daughter asking him about Achilles and how it was so irrational that his mother didn’t just flip him over and just dip him in [the River Styx] the other way — I just thought that was very relatable and hilarious. I thought he was going to talk a little bit more about the election. He did bring up the candidates a little bit but I thought it was going to be more part of the show. Also, because we’re on Pitt’s campus, I thought it was going to be a geared more toward college students and I don’t think it was.

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PARTY Joyce Byers? Chief Hopper? Or why not just go all the way to Eleven? Down & Derby Roller Disco happens monthly, but it’s only Halloween once a year, and there’s only one first time ever for Skater Things: Halloween Edition.

The roller-skating, dancing and drinking party celebrates the season with a costume contest themed for ’80s-inspired cult-fave Netflix series Stranger Things.

JX4 and New York’s DJ Rok One Spin tunes ranging from disco and party to “strange.” Skates are available for rental, or bring your own. BO 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 21 and over. $6 with RSVP on Facebook (“Down & Derby Skater Things”)

sunday 10.30 MUSIC The fifth annual Pittsburgh Sings: The Pittsburgh Concert Chorale Festival of Choirs marks the start of the community-based ensemble’s 32nd season. The collaborative concert features individual performances by the Moon Area High School Honors Choir, the Pittsburgh CAPA Chamber Choir and the Woodland Hills High School Chamber Choir. For the finale, the student singers will join the 100-member Pittsburgh Concert Chorale for a performance of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” The program takes place this afternoon at Carnegie Music Hall. IF 4 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $5 (free for children under 12).

412-635-7654 or www.PCCsing.org

wednesday 11.02 COMEDY Earlier this year, Scottish-born Craig Ferguson told Stephen Colbert that the U.S. citizenship test was a lot easier back when he took it: “Do you like gum? Do you hate Al Qaeda? You’re in!” The comedian, screenwriter, memoirist and former host of CBS’ The Late Late Show, also recently hosted the History Channel series Join or Die. Ferguson brings his The New Deal Tour to the Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead tonight, his first visit here in two years. BO 8 p.m. 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall. $45-75. www.librarymusichall.com

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ON A KOREAN BARBECUE PULLED-PORK SANDWICH, THE SAUCE STOOD OUT FOR ITS LIGHTNESS

LUNCH DELIVERY {BY RYAN DETO} We’ve all had busy days at work where leaving the office for lunch is out of the question. You can get deli sandwiches delivered, or scrounge a meal from vending-machine snacks. Alex Blinn believes it doesn’t have to be that way.

Blinn’s new company, Gourmade, delivers fresh, chef-created meals to office buildings in the Pittsburgh area. He says prepared food doesn’t have to be synonymous with the frozen-meal dinner trays we are accustomed to.

“Those meals are probably being cooked in a factory by robots. They don’t care about the quality of the food,” says Blinn. Gourmade’s offerings are freshly cooked, and simply need to be heated up.

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Beef-braised beef, with vegetables and cauliflower purée

For $30, Gourmade will deliver three meals a week. Blinn cooks all meals himself in the kitchen of the old Crested Duck site, in Beechview. (Blinn is a classically trained chef who worked at Poros and other area restaurants.) He uses local ingredients whenever he can and creates dishes around seasonal tastes; fall offerings include apple-cider pork with butternut-squash hash, and chicken piccata with fettuccine.

While $10 seems steep for what is essentially, a microwavable meal, Blinn says restaurant food ordered from apps like GrubHub will cost well over $10 when fee and tip are included. Also, the portions are quite substantial. I tried the beer-braised beef with cauliflower purée.

The meat was substantial and tender, and the purée had the comforting consistency of lumpy mashed potatoes; it easily filled up this hungry reporter.

Critics of delivered meals often cite the waste created by their excessive packaging. Gourmade’s boxes have plenty of packaging, but Blinn includes recycling instructions that detail how to dispose of gel ice-packs and recycledcotton insulators.

For those who enjoy a meat-free diet, Blinn says vegan and vegetarian options will be available soon. www.gourmade.info

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Blackened thick-cut ahi tuna, with a light caramel drizzle, served with rice and stir-fried vegetables

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HESE DAYS, it’s not enough to be a celebrity; people famous for their prowess on the silver screen or athletic field wish to broaden their appeal, showing that they have other interests.

Hines Ward’s Table 86 is the second restaurant from a former Steeler that we’ve been to. Both have used their uniform numbers in their names, but there the resemblance stops. Where Jerome Bettis went all in with the football ties, and focused on creating an upscale sports bar, Hines Ward has taken a different route.

His are actually two distinct establishments located in an upscale mini-plaza along Route 228 in Seven Fields. Vines Wine Bar is a relatively intimate space tucked next to a charming outdoor terrace. Table 86 Kitchen & Cocktails is an expansive restaurant that is centered around a TV-laden

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bar, but also features smaller dining rooms and seating around a fireplace-in-theround beneath a massive copper hood. The overlay of football memorabilia upon Old World-style decor, largely inherited from Table 86’s predecessor, makes for an odd

HINES WARD’S TABLE 86 530 Northpointe Circle, Seven Fields. 724-741-0860 HOURS: Mon.-Sun. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

PRICES: Soups, salads, appetizers, burger and sandwiches $5-12; pastas and entrees $12-35 LIQUOR: Full bar

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The same goals are evident in the menu,

one of the broadest we’ve seen in our recent era of super-specialized kitchens. There’s everything from nachos and burgers to blackened tuna and Korean barbecue ribs.

This last reflects the personal interest of Ward, whose mother is Korean, in the cuisine of her homeland.

The breadth of the menu is rendered manageable by its lack of depth. Under each category are just a few options, making it fairly easy to figure out if you’re going to find a flatbread, burger or pasta you’ll like. Items whose prices end in 86 cents are specialties of the house.

The first of these, the appetizer Mae Oon shrimp, made a great impression.

Though the menu said “tempura batter,” the coating didn’t have the ethereal fluffiness we associate with that preparation.

Nonetheless, it was light and crispy even

after absorbing the mildly sweet Korean barbecue sauce, flecked with sesame seeds.

An accompanying creamy dip with lime and cilantro was tasty but almost superfluous, while a bed of “Asian slaw” appeared to be just shredded cole slaw, with no apparent dressing tying it together. Still, Mae Oon merits its status as a signature dish, one we would definitely order again.

Sicilian flatbread is named after its topping, not its crust, which was paper-thin, almost crackery. Amazingly, it held up beneath a remarkably heavy load of melted fontina, big chunks of roasted peppers and onions, and slices of hot Italian sausage. In whole, it was zesty and satisfying. But chicken farfalle pasta with plum tomatoes, garlic and Romano cheese in a pink cream sauce was disappointingly under-seasoned except for quite a bit of finely snipped parsley.

Of a dozen burgers and sandwiches, most were served on big, buttery brioche buns. The MVP burger topped a massive half-pound of beef with pulled pork, cheddar, bacon and Asian slaw. Here the slaw, mildly vinegary, was a welcome bright note amidst all that heavy meat. The burger was oddly soft, as if made from tenderloin (the menu says “ground steak”), but it combined well with slightly chewy bacon and slightly sweet pork. On a Korean barbecue pulledpork sandwich, the sauce stood out for its lightness, which seemed to impart the flavor of bulgogi without hiding the pork.

Both sandwiches came with fries, which were standouts. The days of greasy, thickcut fries are largely gone in Pittsburgh, but it’s still rare to get ones that are this fluffy and barely-there inside, yet heartily crisp outside. We’d love to see the kitchen use them for poutine or some other dish that would put them front and center.

All of the signature entrees — Korean barbecue ribs, crab mac-and-cheese, stuffed pork chop and Asian skirt steak — looked appealing, but we chose the pork to test Table 86’s chophouse chops. It was extraordinary, slow-roasted until it took on a texture so tender and luscious that it was almost like king salmon, flaking beneath the fork. The stuffing, an ordinary bread-and-celery combo, added a bit of flavor, but the meat stood on its own.

The pan gravy was thick and well balanced, and Yukon smashed potatoes were pleasingly rustic.

At a restaurant whose fundamental appeal is its celebrity association, it was impressive that the food reached such heights while hitting so few lows. It would have been nice for the Korean cuisine to have been a more assertive presence, but that’s a quibble. As he did so often in his Steelers career, at Table 86, Hines Ward has come through.

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Each year, we hold an annual event called the Food Pantry Brunch Challenge to raise awareness about limited food choices and access. Ten chefs make appetizer-sized portions using an item from the food pantry that we have in surplus. Last year, it was canned beets, and this bread pudding with beets was the winning recipe. It was made by Bidwell Training Center, a culinary-arts program in Manchester that teaches adults cooking skills so they can go into the culinary field. The winners are selected by the attendees and this was a crowd-pleaser. “ p INGREDIENTS Bread Pudding • 3 eggs • 3 12 oz. cans evaporated milk • 1¼ cup sugar • ¼ cup melted butter er • 2 tsp. vanilla • 1 tsp. p. cinnamon • ½ tsp. salt • 1 loaf unsliced raisin bread, cubed n bread

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Grandma’s Harvard Beets • 2 15 oz. cans sliced beets, drained, juice reserved • ¾ cup white sugar • 4 tsp. cornstarch • 1/3 cup reserved beet juice • ¼ cup apple juice • 3 tbsp. butter • ¼ tsp. salt • ¼ tsp. pepper • ½ tbsp. orange zest INSTRUCTIONS Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add the milk, sugar, butter, vanilla, cinnamon and salt. Mix well. Gently stir in bread cubes. Pour into a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Bake in a water bath for 50-60 minutes. Serve warm or cold. Makes 12-16 servings.

In a saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, vinegar, apple juice and beet juice. Bring to a boil and cook for five minutes. Add beets to the liquid and simmer until it is a syrupy consistency, about 30 minutes over low heat, stirring occasionally. Stir in butter, salt, pepper and remove from heat. Serve atop the bread pudding.

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FUN WITH FALERNUM Locally sourced ingredients lead to deep flavor {BY CELINE ROBERTS} NEVER ONE TO rest on its laurels, the

award-winning Maggie’s Farm Rum Distillery has a new product or two in the works.

Will Groves, brand ambassador and selfdescribed lime-squeezer, says that by the end of the year, the distillery plans to release its new falernum. Falernum is a lime, ginger and clove liqueur that originated on Barbados. “It’s an immediate punch of complexity and tropicality with the clove, all-spice, lime and ginger. It’s a secret weapon,” says Groves. The largest commercial brand, John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum, is still made on Barbados, but Groves isn’t shy about his feelings toward using it. “It’s awful,” he says grinning. “Ours is punchier, spicier and it’s a little bit boozier. The ABV is 24.5 percent.

It sticks out more in cocktails.”

Falernum is a common companion for rum, especially in classic drinks like Jet Pilot (three kinds of rum, falernum, Cointreau, citrus, cinnamon, Pernod and bitters) and the Corn and Oil (dark rum, falerum and lime), among other Caribbean-derived cocktails. “I think the Corn and Oil is the emblematic drink of Barbados. Falernum has a big history of being co-produced with rum.

So it’s very much in our wheelhouse,” says Groves, “There are not a lot of distilleries producing things like falernum, so there’s a big market for it, especially locally. There’s a lot of interest and it fits what we do. We use a lot of falernum in our drinks.” Groves

has also observed that most bars in Pittsburgh use house-made falernum, whereas other cities use Taylor’s. “Even in good tiki bars, they’re still using Taylor’s, which is so strange,” he says, shaking his head.

The process of making falernum can be a little labor-intensive for Maggie’s Farm, a company with only three full-time employees, because it involves a lot of lime zest.

“We’re the zestiest place.

We should buy microplane stock,” Groves say laughingly. The recipe requires toasting a mixture of clove and allspice and grinding it with a mortar and pestle. Every liter of falernum needs the zest of nine fresh limes.

Freshly chopped ginger, turbinado sugar, lime juice and overproof white rum finish it off. In the commercial release, they’ll replace the lime juice with citric and malic acid, so it will keep on a shelf and not go rancid. “We use citric and malic acids that are organic, non-GMO and derived from lemons and apples, so I don’t have qualms with using it,” says Groves.

The winter-release timing makes it a spot of sunshine to look forward to. “You’ll get a different take on holiday flavors, and we’ll be ready to run right into spring,” says Groves. He’s particularly excited to make Royal Bermuda Yacht Club cocktails, consisting of rum, falernum, orange curaçao and lime juice. “It’s the best drink in the world,” he says grinning, “It’s like drinking a spicy orange push-pop.”

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BOOZE BATTLES {BY CELINE ROBERTS}

Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle.

Go to the bars, taste them both and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and use #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to food-and-beverage writer Celine Roberts, at celine@pghcitypaper.com.

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Harris Grill 5747 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside INGREDIENTS: Vodka, house-made Bloody Mary mix, green olive, pepper, celery, lime and lemon garnishes OUR TAKE: Featuring a hefty dose of citrus and salt, this cocktail is an excellent way to drink part of a meal and get in some vegetables. The heat isn’t for the faint of heart or for someone who prefers a more mild rendition of this classic. Deliciously tart and spicy, this cocktail is a pick-me-up on a slow Sunday morning.

1908 E. Carson St., South Side INGREDIENTS: Vodka, house-made Bloody Mary mix, green olives, lemon and lime garnishes OUR TAKE: Smoky barbeque flavors imbue this cocktail with tang and subtle heat. By keeping the spiciness subtle, the complexities of the other flavors have a little more room to shine, and this drink might be easier on sensitive stomachs pre-brunch. During Sunday brunch, garnishes abound, including shrimp, celery and a mozzarella ball.

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One B Bordeaux, Scotch, One Beer One S Paul Dolan Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 Sauv Price: $18/glass; $72/bottle “I love super tannic wines. This one is new to the bar. Most of our regulars who like cabernet have switched over to it. It’s a little fuller and rounder than some cabs, and fruit-forward.”

— RECOMME RECOMMENDED BY OLIVIA APPLEGATE, BARTENDER ANDYS WINE BAR

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SNAKE-BIT {BY AL HOFF}

IT’S A LACKLUSTER SLOG THROUGH QUIPS, CHASES AND FISTFIGHTS, PLUS TOM CRUISE

Justin Kelly’s docudramedy King Cobra has been ripped from the headlines — albeit some yellowing ones from 2007 — and offers quite the buffet of titillating subjects: gay porn, underage porn actors, assorted sex workers, money, betrayal, murder and arson. Plus, it all happened in cozy small-town America, a.k.a. Luzerne County, in northeast Pennsylvania.

The lonely pornographer: Christian Slater

Sean Paul Lockhart (Garrett Clayton) leaves his California home and heads east to move in with Stephen (Christian Slater), who runs a gay-porn operation known as Cobra Films out of his home. Stephen casts, directs and shoots the films, which are available online for a price. Sean takes the nom de porn Brent Corrigan, and his boyish good looks and enthusiasm quickly make him a star.

Meanwhile, a pair of male escorts — Joe (James Franco) and Harlow (Keegan Allen) — are noting the success of online porn and ramping up their own production company. The relationship to the Cobra storyline is not immediately clear, but there are scenes of sunbathing, foot-licking and a troubled co-dependent relationship to process.

Kelly’s film has the lightly plotted slack and low production values of a porno, and I’m not sure whether that’s an intentional meta comment. Similarly, King Cobra can’t decide whether it wants to be a true-crime shlocker, a campy riff or a serious film.

Franco appears to be slumming for his own amusement, but Slater is reaching for the quiet pathos of Stephen’s closeted life as an exploitive albeit lonely pornographer.

Consdier it a heartland Boogie Nights wannabe. Starts Fri., Oct. 28. Harris AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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New on Netflix, this timely documentary from Ava DuVernay (Selma) looks at the criminalization of African Americans and the rise in incarceration. The provocative work takes its title from the 13th Amendement to the Constitution, which outlawed slavery “except as a punishment for crime.”

Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise), always followed by danger

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ACK REACHER: Never Go Back is a case study for scrapping the formulaic actioner whose chief attraction is a big star portraying some extra-awesome asskicker. This genre dates back three decades now, and while it once offered entertaining popcorn-munching, it is now predictable tedium. Edward Zwick’s film, adapted from Lee Child’s novels, is Exhibit A: a lackluster slog through quips, chases and fistfights, plus Tom Cruise.

Cruise returns as Jack Reacher — dude, never go back! — the former Army military-police major who roams the country sorting out criminal situations in a highly efficient but extra-legal manner. He turns up in Washington, D.C., to visit another take-charge MPer, Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders). There, he learns she’s been arrested … for something that happened to some military police in Afghanistan.

Reacher also discovers that he might be daddy to Sam (Danika Yarosh), a 15-yearold currently moping in the foster-care system. (Reacher is perfect at everything, except maybe family planning.)

Coherent and compelling plot is not this film’s strong suit. A roundelay of surveillance ensues: Sketchy dudes are following Reacher, who kinda follows them; Reacher stalks Sam, who catches him following her; everybody complains about being followed.

In short order, Reacher also busts Turner out of prison; collects Sam; visits a private girls’

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school; and foils the TSA, getting everybody on a plane to New Orleans. People continue to chase him, including the main villain, who is so generic that he is simply listed in the credits as “The Hunter.” It seems that The Hunter (Patrick Heusinger) and Reacher share a loner ethos prevalent among the action-oriented. “People like us,” notes The Hunter, “can never go back to the world.”

2012’s Jack Reacher was a dumb but still snappy affair, and I’m not just saying that

because it set its thrills on Pittsburgh’s hills.

In contrast, Never Go Back, despite Cruise’s enthusiastic participation, feels low-budget. There’s the five-cent plot (escape bad guys, fight bad guys, repeat); the fake D.C. locations; the lack of other stars; and the wretched dialogue (“Who the hell are you?”

“The guy you didn’t count on.”) Saddling our lone-wolf hero with a woman, a kid and a mini-van often threatens to turn this into Jack Reacher: Family on the Run. At least the ladies are not in for the romance, and think nothing of snapping a neck or two.

Nor are the action scenes worth the ticket price. Reacher sets two of its chases in laughably worn-out settings: the restaurant kitchen (death by colander!) and costumed street parade. The film builds to the inevitable showdown between The Hunter and The Reacher: “Let’s finish this — just you and me.” It’s a particularly uninspired ending: two lumbering alpha males slugging it out, like a pair of over-the-hill wrestlers just dutifully pacing through the phony headlocks and head bashes. The age of the action man is over.

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NEW INFERNO. The world’s greatest symbologist, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), is back on the job, tracking clues from Dante and trying to stop a deadly virus. Ron Howard’s film is adapted from the Dan Brown novel. Starts Fri., Oct. 28

ONGOING MISS HOKUSAI. As expected in Keiichi Hara’s anime about 19th-century Japanese artists, the visuals are quite lovely. The story, inspired by real people, centers on a young woman named O-Ei who lives with her well-known artist father, Katsushika Hokusa (you know his “Great Wave” woodblock). O-Ei is herself an accomplished artist, and occasionally collaborates with her father. Besides erotica, they work on paintings designed to thwart various supernatural figures. There isn’t much of a plot — the film adopts a slice-of-life vibe, showing O-Ei putting up with her dad’s boorish friends, or taking her blind younger sister out on picnics. Implicit, but never stated, is how impossible it would be in 1814 Edo (now Tokyo) for a young, independently minded single woman to have a career as an artist. Though she does paint in secret, O-Ei’s reward for her artistic soul is more existential — drawing pleasure from the world’s beauty, which doesn’t escape her sensitive eye. Screens in both Japanese, with subtitles, and English-dubbed versions.

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YEMANJA: WISDOM FROM THE AFRICAN HEART OF BRAZIL. This new documentary from Pittsburgh filmmaker Donna Roberts and Donna Read examines the Candomblé spiritual culture in Bahia, Brazil, a vibrant African-derived tradition which evolved from the ways of enslaved Africans in the New World. To be followed by a panel discussion featuring co-director Roberts, author Alice Walker (who narrates the film) and professor of indigenous spiritual traditions Rachel Elizabeth Harding. 6:45 p.m. Thu., Oct. 27.

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PRIDE. Based on real events, Matthew Warchus’ 2014 feel-good film tells of an unusual alliance born in 1984 Britain between striking coal miners in Wales and a group of gay-rights activists in London. The film concludes a monthly series of films about economic, labor and social-justice issues. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 27. Pump House, 880 E. Waterfront St., Munhall.

Free. www.battleofhomestead.org NOSFERATU. F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic screens as part of the Hollywood’s Halloween party.

(Costumes encouraged.) In this Dracula retelling, the vampire Orlock (Max Schreck) travels to England in search of new victims. With his anguished 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. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 27 (event with Full Pint Brewery). Row House Cinema THE THING. A bunch of feckless pot-smokers holed up in some Antarctic “research” facility are visited by a bad alien. John Carpenter’s 1982 remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic lacks much of the earlier film’s subtlety; here, gross-out effects mute any horror.

This Thing is like a multi-headed demented slug.

The scenes where the men — unsure which of them has morphed into the Thing — freak out on each other are better. Fri., Oct. 28-Mon., Oct. 31. Parkway, McKees Rocks (AH) ALIEN. Giger’s monster and set designs are still the most impressive aspect of Ridley Scott’s 1979 outerspace horror show. With only the barest of ’70s-style conspiracy subplots, the film is as lean and mean as its titular critter (though not nearly as slimy): Spaceship has monster on board; kill monster before it kills you. Scott engineers a series of differently calibrated scares, culminating in a cunningly contrived final confrontation with hero-by-default Sigourney Weaver. Still, the thin characterizations and thinner story wouldn’t amount to much without the dazzling design work. Fri., Oct. 28-Mon., Oct. 31. Parkway, McKees Rocks (Bill O’Driscoll) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Arguably, George Romero’s locally produced, lowbudget 1968 nail-biter started American filmmakers’ late-20th-century fascination with zombies.

Romero’s depiction of flesh-munching was groundbreaking for its time, but what really makes this horror flick resonate still is its nihilism and sense

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Miss Hokusai of futility: No heroes, no easy resolutions — something terrible is just outside the door, and it’s gonna get us. 9:45 Fri., Oct. 28 (Live Riff version, with Well Known Strangers); also Oct. 29-31 (Row House Cinema). Also, screens as part of “Chilly Billy” Cardille tribute night, 9 p.m. Sat., Oct. 29 (Hollywood). (AH) SONG OF LAHORE. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken’s recent documentary checks in with jazz musicians in the capital of Pakistan, a place now riven with cultural, religious and political divisions.

7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 29. Melwood

face-to-gill with a fish-man who’s still trapped on a lower rung of the evolutionary ladder. He’s advanced enough to know that woman-in-bathingsuit will make a good underwater bride, thus spurring one of the better 1950s monster-takes-girl films. Jack Arnold’s 1954 shocker was noted at the time for its extended underwater cinematography.

8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 30. Regent Square (AH) ROGER CORMAN DRIVE-IN MOVIE NIGHT. It’s three movies from the king of low-budget fare.

The night kicks off with 1961’s Creature From the Haunted Sea (6 p.m.) that combines a googlyeyed monster with the Cuban revolution. Then at 7:35 p.m., it’s the Depression-era profile of gangster Ma Barker, Bloody Mama (1970), starring Shelley Winters. And lastly, Ray Milland stars in 1962’s Premature Burial (9:30 p.m.), about an artist obsessed with being buried alive. Tue., Nov. 1.

Row House Cinema. $6.50 for single film; $9 for all three.

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. In Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ satiric novel, we follow the exploits of young Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a troubled youth of the near future with a penchant for ultra-violence, who is ordered by the authorities to undergo “reconditioning.” 7:30 p.m. Wed., Nov. 2. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA. Dziga Vertov’s influential documentary essay remains visually stunning after 80 years. The 1929 silent film is a kinetic essay of life and industrialization in the Soviet Union. 9:15 p.m. Wed., Nov. 2. Row House Cinema

Night of the Living Dead THE EVIL DEAD. Among the best of the early 1980s’ “video nasties,” this 1981 man vs. demons horror flick kickstarted a mega-career for director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man series) and long-running cult status for its star, Bruce Campbell. Shot on a shoestring budget, Raimi’s film proved to a generation of young filmmakers that skill leavened with humor could draw audiences. Midnight, Sat., Oct. 29. Manor THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. There’s no time for trendy intelligent-design theories when a group of scientists in the Amazon come

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The enduring songs — “Somewhere,” “Jet Song,” “I Feel Pretty” — are by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein, and the energetic cast includes Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn and Rita Moreno. 7 p.m. Thu., Nov. 3. Melwood LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. The classic 1962 epic about British adventurer T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole), who joined the Arabs to fight the Turks in the World War I era. Directed by David Lean. With Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif. There will be a 30-minute intermission with tea break.

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A Steel City Roller Derby match at Romp n’ Roll in August {CP PHOTO BY STEPHEN CARUSO}

In the wake of the announcement that the Romp n’ Roll in Glenshaw is closing its doors at the end of November, the women of Steel City Roller Derby are scrambling to find a new home.

The league, and their flagship team, the Steel Hurtin’, have called the roller rink their home for the past 10 years. The league sent City Paper a press release Monday night when CP asked about the group’s plans.

“The league is now scrambling to find a practice space from January onwards,” according to the press release.

“The league also puts on its monthly double-header bouts, open to the public, in the same space. That means games scheduled for early in the year are in danger of being canceled. Those include the bouts that make up the championship tournament among the league’s home teams: the Mon Monsters, Penn Bruisers and Allegheny Avengers.

“In the spring, the nationally ranked travel teams the Steel Hurtin’ and Steel Beamers normally make their season debut. But without a venue for bouts, the future of the teams’ season is in doubt.”

A release last week from Romp n’ Roll on its Facebook page and website read: “Our time is coming to a close. We have had an absolute fantastic time providing you all with a safe, family-friendly entertainment venue for the past 30 years, but Romp n’ Roll will be closing its doors November 30th. … We will sorely miss hosting all of our local athletes and their faithful fans, from hockey to women’s roller derby. …We will remain open with our normal skating schedule through November of this year and hold a ‘Final Farewell Skate’ on Monday, November 28.”

The team has particular needs when it comes to finding an event space. SCRD needs a “75-by-108-foot open space, plus room for audience seating, the ability to lay down rope and tape for track markings, a location that is easy to get to, and [that] has ample parking.”

And while finding a new space will help soften the blow, SCRD members say they will miss the Romp n’ Roll and are “devastated” by its closing.

“I loved Romp n’ Roll because it felt like home for the past 10 years,” says Jennifer “Bonecrusher” Berardinelli, who has been with the league since it began.

Anyone with information on a new space can email CRD at bod@steelcity rollerderby.org.

Western Pennsylvania to have heard about Aliquippa football. Author S.L. Price isn’t from here, but as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated he knew about the small, decaying former milltown that was churning out football stars like prep schools churn out future congressional aides.

In 2010, Price went to Aliquippa on assignment for SI. The result was a 10,000word story, the longest he’d ever written.

It also drove him to return to the town over the course of the next five years, conduct scores of interviews, and experience life and death in Aliquippa. The result is a 550-page book called Playing Through the Whistle (Atlantic Monthly Press), which looks at the town’s past, present and future through the eyes of its residents and its football team.

“The story in Sports Illustrated was based on the fact that Aliquippa had so many incredible football players,” Price says.

Those players include Mike Ditka, Ty Law, Jonathan Baldwin, Darrelle Revis, Sean Gilbert and Tommie Campbell. And although he played in Hopewell, Tony Dorsett also grew up in Aliquippa. Aliquippa also boasts composer Henry Mancini, basketball player Pete Maravich and Jesse Steinfeld, a former Surgeon General of the United States under Richard Nixon.

“Everything that happened in Aliquippa happened to the extreme,” Price says. “A lot of places had racial problems in the 1970s; Aliquippa had riots. It boasted one of the largest steel mills in the country. Aliquippa was ground zero for a lot of labor/ management battles and it marked the rise of unionization in this country.

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Price’s book is a tale that can swing from triumph to heartbreak in almost the blink of an eye. Nowhere is this more obvious than when he tells the story of Aliquippa’s football players. When the mills closed, Price says, “crime rushed in to fill the vacuum, along with football.”

Those two activities became the town’s biggest pastimes, and in most instances the same players were involved.

Law, for example, would go on to win three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, but he almost never made it out of the Quip. His mother an addict, Law turned to slinging crack while he played football. It lasted only a month for two reasons: finding himself selling drugs to

people just like his mother, and a gunfight that almost cost him his life.

Getting out of Aliquippa requires walking a fine line. For every kid like Law or Revis, Price says, there are “four or five more just as talented who never make it out.” On the day that Price’s book came out, for example, two Aliquippa football players were arrested on murder charges stemming from a $ 140 marijuana deal that went bad.

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“In a way, these guys didn’t get out of Aliquippa as much as they were able to escape.”

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COACHES’ CLUB {BY MIKE WYSOCKI}

RECENTLY, THE University of Pittsburgh re-

vealed that it had found a cure for the Zika virus in mice, which might lead to a cure for humans in the near future. Does Pitt have to cure everything? It’d be nice to see someone else step up and help out. I’m looking at you, Eastern Kentucky.

But I guess Western Pennsylvania does have to do everything. If it weren’t for us, we would live in a world void of Big Macs, Jeeps, Mr. Yuk stickers, Ferris wheels, banana splits and Arnold Palmers. We would live in a less happy world where people drank their iced tea and lemonade separately. From Erie to Johnstown, Western Pennsylvania is made up of four million inhabitants. And while one out of 80 Americans lives here, we also provide the NFL with almost 10 percent of its head coaches.

If you want to be an NFL head coach, the road goes through Pittsburgh. Mike Tomlin started his career here in 2007. Tennessee’s Mike Mularkey and Arizona’s Bruce Arians were both Steelers offensive coordinators.

Denver’s John Fox and Baltimore’s Jim Harbaugh both worked at Pitt. (Fox was with the Steelers as well.) Even New Orleans head coach Sean Payton played football at the Civic Arena as a member of the Pittsburgh Gladiators arena-football team. In all, six head coaches have Pittsburgh connections and another three are from here.

Mike McCarthy brought his Green Bay Packers to town to show them how good Aiello’s Pizza in Squirrel Hill really is. We should love him for that, but he also beat the Steelers in a Super Bowl, so we have mixed feelings. McCarthy, a Greenfield native, also spent some time at Pitt as a coach.

He was named head coach of the Green Bay Packers in 2005, and since then has won five division titles and a Super Bowl. McCarthy has also groomed another young Western Pa. coach, Ben McAdoo.

McAdoo is head coach of the New York Giants. The Homer City native was a Pitt graduate assistant under Walt Harris and McCarthy’s quarterback coach in Green Bay. The Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate is in his first season after replacing Tom Coughlin. What is most Western Pennsylvanian about McAdoo is his legendary mustache. It even has its own Twitter account (@McAdoosStache). We love mustaches so much we have a Mustache Hall of Fame. We’ll see if McAdoo can get into the NFL Hall of Fame, but there’s plenty of time, since he’s only 39 years old. If not, he’s got a good chance to be enshrined in the Mustache HOF. Lanny McDonald, Goose Gos-

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sage and Rollie Fingers are all in that shrine, but no football players have made it yet.

Mike McCarthy and Ben McAdoo are very fortunate to lead great football organizations. The Giants and Packers are two of only six NFL franchises with four or more Super Bowls; Pittsburgh, Dallas, New England, and San Francisco round out the Elite six. However, the last coach on this list doesn’t exactly have that luxury: McDonald, Pa.’s Marvin Lewis coaches the Bengals.

In his defense, Lewis does the best he can. At the very least, he’s the winningest and longest-tenured coach in the Bengals’ sad history. Cincinnati would build a statue to this man if he would only do one thing — win a playoff game. Bengals fans haven’t seen that happen since January 1991. Lewis has gotten them to the postseason seven times, and all seven were one-and-done.

That’s seven walks of shame in 13 years for the Bengals under Lewis, but at least Marvin gets them some action. McDonald, Pa., has a population of about 2,000 people, and they gave us two head coaches. While he doesn’t coach anymore, Marty Schottenheimer is from the same town. That’s the guy who led the Cleveland Browns to two, yes, two playoff wins. You’re welcome, Browns and Bengals fans; McDonald gave you the best coaches your teams have had in the Super Bowl era.

So check out the NFL sidelines for coaches with Western Pennsylvania ties. And if you’re watching the World Series this week you’ll notice that the Cleveland Indians are in it. They haven’t won a World Series since 1948, when Truman was president. The man who might break that curse is Cleveland manager Terry Francona. Francona managed the Boston Red Sox to two World Series titles, and ended Beantown’s 86-year championship drought. He looks to reverse a 68-year-old curse this week. Oh, by the way, Terry Francona is from New Brighton.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During this Halloween season, you have cosmic permission to be a bigger, bolder and extra beguiling version of yourself. I trust you will express your deep beauty with precise brilliance and imagine your future with superb panache and wander wherever the hell you feel like wandering. It’s time to be stronger than your fears and wilder than your trivial sins. Halloween costume suggestion: the superhero version of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I won’t offer you the cliché “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Instead, I’ll provide alternatives. How about this, from the video game Portal 2: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! Say, ‘I don’t want your damn lemons!’” Or you could try this version, from my friend Barney: “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on them like Tom Hanks did on his volleyball in the movie Cast Away, and engage them in sexy philosophical conversation.” Or consider this Brazilian proverb: “When life gives you lemons, make caipirinhas.” (Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail.)

Suggestion: Play around with these themes to create your Halloween costume.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All of us are creators and destroyers. It’s fun and healthy to add fresh elements to our lives, but it’s also crucial to dispose of things that hurt and distort us. Even your body is a hotbed of both activities, constantly killing off old cells and generating

new ones. But in my understanding, you are now in a phase when there’s far more creation than destruction. Enjoy the exalted buzz! Halloween costume suggestions: a creator god or goddess, like the Greeks’ Gaia or Prometheus; Rainbow-Snake from the Australian Aborigines; Unkulunkulu from the Zulus; or Coyote, Raven or Spider Grandmother from indigenous North American tribes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1938, a chef named Ruth Wakefield dreamed up a brilliant invention: chocolate-chip cookies.

She sold her recipe to the Nestlé company in return for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Maybe she was happy with that arrangement, but I think she cheated herself.

And so I offer her action as an example of what you should NOT do. During the next 10 months, I expect you will come up with many useful innovations and intriguing departures from the way things have always been done. Make sure you get full value in return for your gifts! Halloween costume ideas: Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Hedy

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Lamarr, Leonardo da Vinci, Temple Grandin, George Washington Carver, Mark Zuckerberg.

Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers, I authorize you to escape dull realities and go rambling through the frontier. Feel free to fantasize twice as hard and wild as you normally do. Avoid literalists and realists who think you should be more like them. This is not a time to fuss over exacting details, but rather to soar above the sober nonsense and see as far as you can. You have permission to exult in the joys of wise innocence. Halloween costume suggestions: bohemian poet, mad scientist, carefree genius, brazen explorer.

Some Brazilians eat the heads of piranhas in the belief they’re aphrodisiacs. In Zimbabwe, women may make strategic use of baboon urine to enhance their allure. The scientific name for Colombia’s leaf-cutter ant is hormiga culona, translated as “fat-assed ant.” Ingesting the roasted bodies of these critters is thought to boost sexual desire.

Since you’re in a phase when tapping in to your deepest erotic longings will be healthy and educational, you may want to adopt elements of the aforementioned love drugs to create your Halloween costume. Here are other exotic aphrodisiacs from around the world that you might be inspired by: asparagus, green M&Ms, raw oysters, wild orchids, horny goat weed.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

I invite you to fantasize about what your four great-grandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on Nov. 1, 1930. What?

You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to create the future you want requires you to learn more about where and whom you came from. Halloween costume suggestion: your most interesting ancestor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At any one time, over two million frozen human embryos are stored in tissue banks throughout Europe and North America. When the time is right, their owners retrieve them and bring them to term. That’s the first scenario I invite you to use as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks. Here’s a second scenario: Scotch whisky is a potent mindaltering substance. Any particular batch must mature for at least three years, and may be distilled numerous times. There are currently 20 million barrels of the stuff mellowing in Scottish warehouses. And what do these two scenarios have to do with you? It’s time to tap into resources that you’ve been saving in reserve — that haven’t been ripe or ready until now. Halloween costume suggestions: a woman who’s nine months pregnant; a blooming rose or sunflower; ripe fruit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To create a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, a winemaker needs about 700 grapes. Compare this process with rain-making. When water vapor that’s high in the sky becomes dense enough, it condenses into tiny pearls of liquid called cloud droplets. If the humidity rises even further, a million of these babies might band together to form a single raindrop that falls to earth. And what does this have to do with your life? I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have both an affinity and a skill for processes that resemble wine-making and rain-making. You’ll need a lot of raw material and energetic effort to produce a relatively small marvel — but that’s exactly as it should be. Halloween costume suggestion: a raindrop or bottle of wine.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Do you know how to repair a broken zipper or patch a hole in your bicycle tire? Are you familiar with the art of caulking a bathtub or creating a successful budget? Can you compose a graceful thank-you note, cook a hearty soup from scratch, or overcome your pride so as to reconcile with an ally after an argument? These are the kinds of tasks I trust you will focus on in the coming weeks. It’s time to be very practical and concrete. Halloween costume suggestion: Mr. or Ms. Fix-It.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the film Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger played a benevolent android who traveled here from the future. As a strong, silent action hero, he didn’t need to say much. In fact, he earned $30,000 for every word he uttered. I’m hoping your speech will pack a comparable punch in the coming days.

My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your persuasiveness should be at a peak. You’ll have an exceptional ability to say what you mean and mean what you say. Use this superpower with flair and precision! Halloween costume suggestion: ancient Greek orator Demosthenes; Martin Luther King Jr.; Virginia Woolf; Sojourner Truth; rapper MC Lyte, Winston Churchill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the prosperity-building phase of your cycle.

Let’s celebrate! Let’s brainstorm! Are there rituals you can create to stimulate the financial lobes of your imagination, thereby expediting your cash flow? Here are a few ideas: 1. Glue a photo of yourself on a $20 bill. 2. Make a wealth shrine in your home. Stock it with symbols of specific thrills you can buy for yourself when you have more money. 3. Halloween costume suggestions: a giant bar of gold, a banker carrying a briefcase full of big bills, Tony Stark, Lady Mary Crawley, Jay Gatsby, Lara Croft, the Yoruban wealth goddess Ajé.

Scare yourself with your exquisite beauty. Freak yourself out by realizing how amazing you are.

Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I love my wife, but I have a lot of resentment, disappointment and insecurity over our sex life. After four years of marriage, huge angst remains that I have yet to get a handle on. Right now, with kids and our busy lives, she’s content with sex once a week or so, and I need relief pretty much every night to help with my insomnia. What’s more, I really don’t enjoy porn at all, but if we aren’t having intercourse, there’s pretty much no other way for me to get off. Blame it on my fundamentalist evangelical upbringing, but I fear my porn use becoming an addiction. It makes me feel dirty.

I would love a solution to this problem that doesn’t involve me jerking off in a dark room by a computer screen after my wife falls asleep every night. All I want to do is feel close to my wife, orgasm, and sleep. I think she does sincerely care and wants to help me, but is just so tired and busy with her career and our kids.

And yes, I have talked and fought with her countless times. In weaker moments, I’ll admit I have also guilted her for her more “active” sexual past (with prior boyfriends) and for her current “neglect,” which I know is unfair and unhelpful. I just don’t know what to do.

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a week. Because if your definition of sex included oral (his and hers), mutual masturbation and frottage, your wife might say yes to sex more often.

Still, you’re never going to get it seven nights a week. So make the most of the PIV you’re getting, broaden your definition of sex and get another night or two of sex in per week, and enjoy porn without guilt the rest of the week. And if you’re concerned about the amount of porn you’re watching, try this trick: Lie on the couch or the floor or the guest bed, stroke your cock (even if it’s soft) and think dirty thoughts. Your cock will get hard, I promise, and you’ll get off. It’s how most people masturbated before the internet came and ruined everything, and it still works.

When I met my partner of three years, I thought I’d hit the jackpot: a Dom who packs a wallop but knows how to listen and loves group sex (which is kinda my jam). It’s hard to let go of my memories of the early days. We have had some rough patches, especially since he has had increasing financial trouble/underemployment, whereas I am back in school and have too many jobs. The biggest issue as I see it is he always makes me explain at length why I am busy — not just what I am doing (e.g., midterms) but whether that is “normal” (yes, every semester).

I am tired. I care about my partner a lot and feel very close to him in some ways, but I also see him taking advantage of me financially and demanding endless reassurance on top of this. So my desire is to DTMFA. But when I talk about my feelings in the relationship, he argues with me — about what my feelings are or should rationally be. The prospect of breaking up feels like it will be an ordeal. I feel trapped.

I don’t think I can stay with him, but I also don’t want to have a conversation about leaving.

IF YOU’RE DEMANDING PIV FROM YOUR WIFE AS A SLEEP AID, IT’S A MIRACLE YOU’RE GETTING ANY SEX AT ALL.

You’ve been married four years, you have more than one child, you both work — and if you divide household labor like most couples, your wife is doing more/most of the cooking, cleaning and child care. But even if you were childless, living in a hotel suite with daily maid service, eating only room service and throwing your underpants out the window after one wearing, it would still be unreasonable to expect PIV [penis in vagina] intercourse every night of the week.

Frankly, once-a-week PIV is more sex than most young straight dads are getting. And if you’re demanding PIV from your wife as a sleep aid, it’s a miracle you’re getting any sex at all.

And the limited options you cite — it’s either PIV with the wife or masturbation in front of the computer — aren’t doing you any favors.

Consider PIV from your wife’s perspective: Her husband fucks, comes and falls asleep.

She lies there for a while afterward, tingling, and may have to go to the bathroom once or twice. The PIV that puts her husband to sleep after a long day? It puts her sleep off. And if she wanted to get it over with quickly — because she was exhausted — there wasn’t much foreplay, which means she probably wasn’t fully lubricated (uncomfortable) and most likely didn’t come (unfair). That’s a recipe for resentment, and resentment kills desire. (Or maybe you should think of it this way: If you got fucked every time you said yes to sex, you wouldn’t say yes seven nights a week.)

If your options weren’t PIV or nothing, you might not have to masturbate six nights

SINCERELY TROUBLED UNDER CONSTANT KRITICISM

We need someone’s consent before we kiss them, suck them, fuck them, spank them, spoon them, marry them, collar them, etc. But we do not need someone’s consent to leave them. Breakups are the only aspect of our romantic and/or sexual lives where the other person’s consent is irrelevant. The other person’s pain is relevant, of course, and we should be as compassionate and considerate as possible when ending a relationship. But we don’t need someone’s consent to dump them.

That means you don’t have to win an argument to break up with your boyfriend, nor do you have to convince him your reasons are rational. You don’t even have to discuss your reasons for ending the relationship. You just have to say, “It’s over; we’re done.” It’s a declaration, not a conversation.

Parents have sex, too! Or so say the hosts of One Bad Mother on the Lovecast: savagelovecast.com.

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