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VERYONE HAS STORIES about where

they were at key moments in our nation’s history. Maybe your grandfather has told you where he was when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Your aunts and uncles have shared where they were when they learned Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. And most Americans can tell you where they were when they found out a plane had been flown into the World Trade Center.

The night Donald Trump was elected president of the United States will hold a similar place in the memories of many Americans. For James Greene, an African-American gay man, the event will be marked by the memory of sitting with his mother as the two cried.

“I remember when President Obama and John Lewis walked across the bridge to remember the civil-rights march in Selma,”

says Greene, recalling when the president and congressman crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March 2015 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the marches in Selma, Ala. “I remember thinking how far we’ve come as a country. But with the election of Donald Trump, it feels like we’re moving back.”

Pittsburghers are choosing different paths in their fight against Trump’s presidency {BY REBECCA ADDISON} On Nov. 13, Greene helped organize a peaceful rally in Downtown Pittsburgh in response to Trump’s election. Speakers at the event represented the range of reactions emerging in the days since the election

of people who oppose Trump.

Many disagree on how Americans unhappy with the looming Trump presidency should proceed. Challenge the results of the election; keep protesting; create safe spaces for marginalized populations; or all of the above? But whether you’re liberal or moderate, voted for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton or a third-party candidate, most agree the left underestimated the fervor of Trump supporters and didn’t do a good enough job of communicating with the opposition.

In addition to protesting, activists like Greene plan to focus on dialoging with people on both sides of the political aisle.

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his policies on issues like women’s reproductive health, law enforcement and the LGBT community.

“A lot of people just voted for Trump based on ‘Oh, I like him, he makes me laugh,’” says Greene. “But they don’t know his policies.”

Trump was a polarizing figure throughout his campaign, and every one of his soundbites has been well publicized, sometimes to the detriment of meaningful discourse on the Republican’s polices. But according to Trump’s opponents, his high-profile gaffes are a testament to where he stands on issues like immigration, freedom of religion and sexual assault.

At Trump’s campaign launch last year, he drew the ire of immigrants and allies when he said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with [them]. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Last year, he called for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

And the president-elect has long been known for his sexist comments. But one of the comments that has drawn the most ire from opponents came from a recorded 2005 conversation, when he said, “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.

And when you’re a star, they let you do it.

You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

Over the next few years, Greene will be working with the recently formed group Be The Change Pittsburgh to educate the public about Trump statements like these and how they illustrate where he stands on issues important to the electorate.

“It’s important not to just sit idly by,” says Greene. “Right now we’re seeing the normalization of hate.”

But Greene says it’s also important to move beyond Trump’s rhetoric to talk to the public about his policies and campaign promises.

For example, the president-elect has pledged to sign the First Amendment Defense Act, which LGBT activists say will increase anti-LGBT discrimination in the workplace, at businesses, by landlords and by health-care providers.

Another area where activists say Trump can do damage is women’s reproductive health. Trump was quoted as saying, “The primary responsibility of the federal government is to protect the rights of its citizens. Life is the most fundamental right. The federal government should not diminish this right by denying its protection. I am opposed to abortion except for rape, incest and life of the mother. I oppose the use of government funds to pay for abortions.”

And it’s campaign promises like these that have drawn thousands to recent protests in cities around the country, including the 300 college students who took to the streets of Pittsburgh on election night.

“We kind of had this sobering moment when we realized Trump could actually win,” says Zoe Hannah, a student at the University of Pittsburgh who organized the protest last Tuesday. “All of us kind of broke down and were just really sad, and one of my friends said, ‘We have to protest.’

That’s all we could really do. This is mostly an act of solidarity and a way to tell people that minorities are not giving up and we won’t accept the racism and sexism that’s floating around right now.”

Unlike many of her comrades, Hannah doesn’t believe Americans should oppose the outcome of the election.

“I think most people are still happy to be living in a democracy,” says Hannah.

“But there’s just this intense fear for people’s safety, and a big part of the protest on Tuesday night was just people who were so angry and needed a place to scream and yell and get out their frustrations.”

Hannah says protests can serve as an outlet for those who feel like their voices are being drowned out by the Islamophobic, xenophobic, homophobic and other hateful rhetoric she sees coming from Trump and his supporters. And she says it’s important to keep paying attention to these kinds of acts because they disprove Trump supporters who say the presidentelect isn’t promoting hate.

“But I also think this is a time we really need to stand together and start protesting as much as we can, tell people we’re not OK with this,” says Hannah. “Keep publicizing these horrible attacks that have been happening around the country against people who are not white men. I think we all need to stand in solidarity right now.”

And like Greene, Hannah says it’s important to delve into the motivations behind those who voted for Trump because

“I THINK WE ALL NEED TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY RIGHT NOW.”

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a better understanding of this population can help unify the country.

“We need to start to accept that this is happening and there’s nothing we can do about it,” Hannah says. “Donald Trump is our president and clearly enough people wanted that. So from here on out, we just need to work on informing people and getting better at gauging the needs of people in this country.”

For those looking for other ways to take action in the face of Trump’s presidency, there are plenty of ways to get involved.

Many have urged the public to petition the Electoral College to cast its votes for Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, because the Democratic presidential nominee won the popular vote. Others are pushing for the abolishment of the Electoral College altogether. And citing low voter turnout, some are calling for the implementation of early voting nationwide before the next presidential election.

Others are focusing on how to protect marginalized populations they feel have been and will be victimized by Trump and his supporters. Some are contacting

local elected officials for aid in the wake of rampant instances of discrimination

by Trump supporters. There’s been talk of creating “safe spaces” where immigrants, Muslims, LGBT individuals, women and minorities can feel welcome. And there’s bystander-intervention training for people who want to step in when they see discrimination.

“We have to band together to make sure these kinds of hateful acts don’t continue to happen,” protester A.J. Wilson told Pittsburgh City Paper at the Sunday rally Downtown. “Our senators and local officials need to understand that our vulnerable communities need protecting.

We need to make sure our elected officials hear us and constantly hear us.”

And many activists are focusing their efforts on planning protests over the next few months. Nationwide, thousands are planning to protest Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C.; more than 160,000 have sent RSVPs on Facebook for a women’s march there the following day.

Says Car Williams, another who attended Sunday’s Pittsburgh rally: “If we just keep protesting and keep making our voices heard, we can have an impact.”

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Pittsburgh immigrants fearful in wake of presidential election {BY RYAN DETO} IN JUST THE few days following Donald

Trump’s victory in the presidential election, stories of abuse by Trump supporters across the country have been spreading like wildfire. The hate is directed at Latinos, Muslims, Asian Americans, LGBTQ individuals and other marginalized populations.

A Twitter feed from New York Daily News writer Shaun King showcases hundreds of such stories. Hijabs have been ripped off women’s heads, “build that wall” chants have broken out in school cafeterias, and U.S. citizens of Asian descent have been told to “go back to Asia.”

As a result, the Pittsburgh immigrant and refugee communities are on edge.

Early in Trump’s campaign, he promised radical ideas like a “deportation force” and banning Muslims from entering the U.S. (He has since walked back on some of those proposals). But it’s still unclear exactly what President-elect Trump will do, and with some of Trump’s most radical supporters reportedly abusing immigrants regardless of Trump’s policies, the anxiety

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for immigrants is sure to continue.

Last week, following the election, Latino advocacy group Casa San Jose participated in a meeting with 20 Latino parents; many questions were asked. Is the government going to go after undocumented immigrants who tried but failed to qualify for legal status? Who is going to be prioritized

for deportation? Should people be afraid to drive their cars?

“There is a lot sadness and a lot of disbelief in the [Latino] community, but mostly they are scared,” says Monica Ruiz of Casa San Jose. “Many people don’t understand our judicial system, and we are just letting them know that [Trump] doesn’t take office tomorrow, but also sharing the realities of what he does have the immediate power to do.”

Ruiz says young Latinos who are U.S. citizens have even raised concerns that they’re going to be deported because their parents are undocumented.

“They’re very afraid. I feel so heartbroken for the youth,” says Ruiz.

And other refugee communities in Pittsburgh aren’t feeling much better than Latinos. Upendra Dahal, of the Bhutanese Community of Pittsburgh, says most of the Bhutanese voted for Hillary Clinton (their first time voting ever). He says the community isn’t outright scared of a Trump presidency, but was “definitely not feeling good about Trump’s rhetoric all year long.”

The Bhutanese are Pittsburgh’s largest refugee group, and many have secured steady employment and bought houses in the region. But Dahal says many Bhutanese and other refugees are still dependent on services when they first arrive, and he worries those could be stripped.

“Everyone is shocked with his win,” wrote Dahal in an email to Pittsburgh City Paper. “So we are kind of trying to come to terms with the reality now. The community in general may not feel the immedi-

ate impact of Trump’s win, but we in the nonprofit organizations serving refugees and immigrants are deeply concerned … [we are worried] about new policies that would definitely impact refugee programs in the United States.”

Pittsburgh’s Somali Bantu refugees could also be affected, and they’re terrified.

“The community feels unsafe, we don’t know what will happen when we go outside,” says Abdulkadir Chirambo, of the United Somali Bantu of Greater Pittsburgh.

With Trump’s victory, “we don’t even know how the authorities will treat us.”

When Trump was campaigning in Minnesota earlier this year, he said Somali refugees have brought problems to Minneapolis. “Here in Minnesota you have seen firsthand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state, without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” said Trump at a Nov. 6 rally in Minneapolis, according to cbsnews.com. “You’ve suffered enough in Minnesota.”

“Since he targeted the Somali community, the community feels stress from that,” says Chirambo. “If everybody looks at us like that, it isn’t fair to us. We are U.S. citizens.”

Chirambo says Trump-inspired bullying has already occurred in Pittsburgh. On Nov. 10, he says a group of Bantu youth, including Chirambo’s son, were bullied by other youth, some shouting, “You are going back to your country; Trump is gonna put you in the garbage.” Chirambo didn’t share more details on where this occurred.

On the CBS news program 60 Minutes, filmed on Nov. 11, Trump said he hasn’t heard any stories of abuse of minorities by his supporters, and then looked at the camera and told his supporters to “stop it” if harassment was occurring. His son, Donald Trump Jr., said later in the show that most of the harassment stories were fabricated.

At the local level, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto says he’ll continue ensuring Pittsburgh remains welcoming to immigrants, regardless of what the Trump administration does or says.

“There are no federal laws and there are no state laws that prohibit cities from being welcoming cities,” says Peduto.

“From creating programs in multiple languages, from working with immigrant groups to help them assimilate and [find] opportunities for jobs. There is nothing that you could legislate that would take away a city’s right to be compassionate.”

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TOON’D TO CLIMATE {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} FOR A GUY who knows more about the

subject than almost anyone, Michael E. Mann sounds surprisingly upbeat about climate change. The widely quoted atmospheric scientist based at Penn State University just released a new book with cartoonist Tom Toles, but its title — The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (Columbia University Press) — belies what he calls his “cautious optimism” about humankind’s biggest challenge (albeit with a discouraging post-election footnote).

Madhouse is Mann’s follow-up to his 2012 book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, which detailed how his research got him attacked by fossil-fuel interests and other segments of the wellfunded climate-denial machine. The 150-page Madhouse is built around more than 40 original and reprinted cartoons

by Toles, the veteran, Pulitzer-winning Washington Post cartoonist who’s long raised alarms about climate change.

Along with chapters on the basics —

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why climate change is happening and why we should care — the book serves as a kind of bullshit-detector for those confronting denialism. You’ll learn why

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“skepticism” about climate science usually isn’t; how climate-deniers copy the playbook of the tobacco-industry flacks who fought the science that told us smoking kills; why climate change doesn’t have to “cause” storms to worsen disasters; and how to dismantle denier rhetoric, like assertions that climate change might actually be helpful.

Mann is an increasingly prominent voice. Along with the likes of Barack Obama and Pope Francis, for instance, he is featured in Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climatechange doc Before the Flood, telling DiCaprio about the death threats h is r es ear c h b r ou g ht against him and his family. (The film just aired on the National Geographic Channel.) Madhouse is a more accessible sequel to Hockey Stick (whose title referenced Mann’s graph depicting the recent rise in global temperatures). One Toles cartoon depicts a melting sheet of ice balanced on a rock, while the guy standing beneath it asks his companion, “What’s a tipping point?”

“The hardest-hitting commentary is in fact in the cartoons, and then we try to somewhat soberly deconstruct and unpack what the cartoons are saying in the text,” says Mann.

Unchecked climate change promises a future of heat waves, droughts, bigger

and more frequent storms, and rising and acidifying oceans. Given that some of its effects, like the melting of Greenland’s huge ice sheet, are happening much faster than scientists predicted, why Mann’s cautious optimism?

He cites last year’s landmark global climate deal at the Paris Summit, and the fact that in 2015, global carbon emissions dropped even as the world’s economy grew. He also notes Obama initiatives like the Clean Power Plan (requiring states to cut emissions from power plants) and requiring higher mileage in new vehicles. As for public opinion, Mann adds that 2016 polling by Yale University and George Mason University found that 70 percent of Americans agree that global warming is happening, up 7 percent from a year earlier (though crucially, just 53 percent acknowledge that it is caused by human activity). Overall, he adds, “I think that we’ve reached a point where the public has decided that we need to move on … out of this sort of outmoded fossil-fuel world into a 21st-century clean global economy.”

Nonetheless, Americans still have a problem discussing climate change: It was barely a topic in the presidential race, for instance, something Mann blames largely on the media being worked over by industry front groups and other climate-deniers, and partly on the influence of Big Oil ad money. “I think to some extent our discourse has been poisoned,” he says.

And of course, even the small progress we’ve made on climate is likely to stall (or worse) with a climate-denier as president. Donald Trump has vowed to void the Paris agreement and revoke the Clean Power Plan; he’s also bent on (somehow) reviving coal, whose role in the nation’s energy profile has shrunk in recent years, largely due to cheap natural gas.

Many scientists say that to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we must lower emissions enough to keep global temperatures from rising to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That was going to be difficult in any case. But the notion of President Trump is enough to puncture even the most cautious optimism. “A Trump presidency … certainly represents a significant challenge to stabilizing warming below dangerous levels,” wrote Mann in a Nov. 9 email. “I fear it could be game over as far as that goal is concerned.”

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The Pennsylvania Turnpike is $13 million in debt and has doubled the cost of tolls since 2008, but it isn’t cutting corners for a certain commissioner perk. The five members of the turnpike commission — the state secretary of transportation and four citizens appointed by the governor — are each entitled to a car funded by taxpayers.

The state also pays for maintenance, even though the commission meets only once a month in Harrisburg. A WTAE crew caught commissioner Sean Logan in his state-funded Jeep Grand Cherokee (costing $43,205) on a lunch break from his job as director of the nonprofit Visit Monroeville. (That’s right; this job that includes a free car is part-time.)

They asked him to explain. “I defend the policy because it’s 24-7, the commissioner’s job,” said Logan (even though he was on break from his other job). Two members of the commission opted not to take a car. (One of them, Secretary of Transportation Leslie

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The Allegheny County Sheriff’s office posted and then deleted a photo on Facebook showing a firearms license issued to the Pirate Parrot. The baseball mascot is a 36-year-old, 6-foot-7, 340-pound white man with green hair who’s carrying for “selfdefense,” according to the license, which included a headshot of the bird. The mascot apparently made a paid appearance at Sherriff William P. Mullen’s birthday party — which also included a real penguin from the National Aviary — and the performer played along when officers photographed him, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Mullen said he didn’t know about the photo until it was posted, adding, “Gun licenses are not something to joke about.” Side note: Why is the county sheriff celebrating his birthday like a 9-year-old with rich parents?

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One-time dental-office assistant Gina L. Stahlnecker has been charged with embezzlement for allegedly stealing the payment her office received from a scrapmetal dealer for gold and silver left over from fillings and bridges. Stahlnecker, 48, worked at Fields Family Dentistry in Cumberland. Dr. Charles Fields used the side income from selling leftover precious metals for gifts and dinners for employees.

Reportedly, Stahlnecker told Fields she’d dispersed the money to other employees, but kept $2,400 of it, according to PennLive.com.

During their divorce, her husband apparently threatened to out her, leading Stahlnecker to reportedly confess to her boss, who fired her and called police.

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A 35-year-old woman crashed her car into a median divider in Moon Township. She then entered a stranger’s car and demanded he drive her somewhere.

When he refused and police showed up, she reportedly ran and jumped into the Ohio River. She swam for 40 minutes before the crew of a tugboat rescued her. Deckhand Jonathon Murphy told KDKA, “I was in that bad boy” — presumably meaning the river.

“She fought me like no other.” To further add to the calamity, a police SUV got stuck on train tracks during the incident, halting rail traffic for two hours. The woman was hospitalized.

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A fan who just wanted a ride home from the Penn State-Iowa game, in State College, wound up in an Uber ride from hell, with her driver dragging a cop 20 feet, according to an arrest report. Frederick Becker, a driver for the ride-sharing service, reportedly ignored traffic police’s instructions, winding up against the flow of traffic with a passenger in the back. When an officer reached in to turn off his ignition, Becker, 41, allegedly floored it, dragging the cop as two others darted out of his way, reports the Centre Daily Times. He faces charges that include aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

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After the buy, investigators say, they found the substance was the common roaddeicing agent.

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City Paper: Fighting the good fight for 25 years and counting {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}

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HEN THE IDEA of doing a cover story to celebrate Pittsburgh City Paper’s 25th birthday came up, I was pretty reluctant.

In fact, even as I write this, I’m not sure it’s something that we should be doing. The whole goal of a newspaper/multimedia outlet is to cover the stories that happen, not become the story. So this whole process, and deciding what to put on the following pages, has been difficult.

But then Tuesday happened: Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, and the reaction from the public was swift. Protests broke out all over the country and here, as well. I jokingly thought to myself, “Well, our agenda is set for the next four years.” But I quickly realized it wasn’t a joke.

Pittsburgh City Paper has been an independent voice in this city for a long time. Sometimes people love us for it and sometimes ... well, let’s just say, sometimes they don’t.

In the past 12 months — and the past 25 years, for that matter — we’ve been called commies, fascists, socialists, relevant, irrelevant, independent and sellouts, among other things. I’ve been thanked for the paper’s work and I’ve been told to “fuck my fucking self,” which I assume is the opposite of “thank you.”

This list was originally going to be 25 of our greatest hits from the past 25 years. But last week changed my plan. There will be some of that in here, for sure. But since this country is moving forward into uncharted waters, I don’t see what good looking back will do unless it has some connection to what we’re going to do in the future. I’ve been connected to CP since 2005, longer than most, but not as long as others. It’s the longest I’ve stayed at any one job in this business, and it’s nearly half of this paper’s lifetime.

And as I sit here now, I can tell you that neither I, nor this paper, are going anywhere, especially now. “Fighting the good fight” is a cliché that I’d probably remove from most of our writers’ stories, but it seems appropriate here. Here are 25 ways we’ve tried to fight the good fight and keep you informed.

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The Right to Protest

Given the post-election climate, this one seems more relevant now. Protests have already broken out nationwide and in Pittsburgh in response to a Donald Trump presidency that scares many people. We’ve been covering these and are prepared to report on them in the coming weeks. Giving a voice to those who protest has been a big part of our identity over the years. During the G20 Summit here in Pittsburgh, City Paper had almost its entire staff covering the Sept. 24, 2009, protest that activists have long since dubbed the Battle of Lawrenceville. During the height of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh’s antiwar protesters were constantly active — and active enough to be put under surveillance by federal officials. More recently, we brought you coverage of the Occupy Pittsburgh movement, and along with the now-shuttered Philadelphia City Paper, were the only outlets to report on the close relationship between state police and the fracking industry.

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Standing Up to Bigotry and Racism

One of the biggest issues in the Trump campaign was the way he spoke about people of other races and religions, and his proposals for treating them differently.

From support for stop-and-frisk racial profiling by police to the planned surveillance of Muslim mosques, there is real concern that strides toward equality, no matter how slight, are in danger of backsliding.

Racism, open or veiled, is nothing new to this region. In 2010 2008, for example, CP reported on racial tensions growing in the Allegheny River town of Verona. We also furthered the discussion about whether dress codes at local bars and clubs were just another tool for racial profiling. We told the story of a disabled Iraq War vet who was stopped by police for “driving while black,” and a Muslim grocery-store employee who was denied management training because of her religion.

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As we enter an era with a president who will continue to parrot the clueless retort “All Lives Matter” to the very real problem of police brutality and the improper use of deadly force, covering these issues is more important than ever. For years, we covered the case of Jordan Miles, a black teen beaten by three police officers; his two civil trials; and the fact that the officers in question made a fortune for being on suspension.

We have written about victims of police violence like Leon Ford, Deron Grimmett, Jerry Jackson and Jonny Gammage. We have covered the outrage of our community during the multitude of shooting deaths across the country in the past several years, and it’s a job we don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

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It’s even more important to keep reporting on the triumphs and the struggles of the LGBT community. Before marriage was legal nationwide, our own reporter Lauren Daley documented her efforts to get legally married in New York, only to have the union unrecognized in Pennsylvania. And when Pittsburgh Pride became fractured two years ago, we talked to the groups who felt left out of the main Pride celebration. The community faces many issues and probably deserves to have more coverage than it gets, but I pledge to keep trying.

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Affordable Housing

Pittsburgh is growing and, in many ways, improving. More people want to live here now than in past decades. Thus, developers want to give them newer, higher-priced places to live, and bigger and more expensive stores and restaurants.

But that hasn’t come without a price, especially in the city’s eastern neighborhoods. In the past two years, we have focused on covering affordable-housing issues, from the evictions in East Liberty’s Penn Plaza Apartments to the migration of African-American residents from the city to communities like Wilkinsburg and Penn Hills. But this isn’t a new problem: City Paper has been covering development and housing issues for more than two decades — from Downtown’s ill-fated Fifth-Forbes project to the loss of small artists’ communities that had sprung up in housing developments across Squirrel Hill.

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Women’s Reproductive Health

While Trump has said he will appoint Supreme Court nominees who would work to overturn Roe v. Wade, CP has long covered issues regarding control over a woman’s body, such as attempted legislation to force a woman who wants an abortion to have an ultrasound.

We also covered the enactment of legislation that forced the closure of several clinics across the state, and a city ordinance that designated a buffer zone to separate women going into a clinic from protesters.

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Donald Trump is a misogynist, and his behavior and comments about forcing himself on women is a major issue, but these kinds of behaviors aren’t new.

There seemed to be a time in the late 2000s when the Pittsburgh Police Department promoted 2012 several officers despite those men having a history of domestic violence. We have also examined the issue of sexual assault against women in the military, and looked at laws seeking to criminalize revenge porn.

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City Paper has long covered the efforts by workers to better their working condition through unionization or protest. From unionization efforts at large employers like UPMC and Rivers Casino to the “Fight for $15,” these movements have been a part of our coverage from our earliest days, when we reported on the strike at the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INTERN The position is focused on reporting and writing about local people, performances, artworks and events, in fields including but not limited to theater, visual art, literature, dance and comedy. Send a cover letter, résumé and three writing samples to arts editor Bill O’Driscoll, driscoll@pghcitypaper.com.

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More Pittsburgh government data is online than ever before, but there are still gaps in what the public has a right to see and what officials say we have a right to access. We have covered the lack of daylight on records concerning police-discipline matters, and we’ve written about the fundamental unfairness that some people enjoy the luxury of having their normally public records sealed. We’re also in the middle of a now year-long request to get recovered-firearm data from the Pittsburgh Police.

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The multimedia intern will produce content for our digital platform at pghcitypaper.com.

The right candidate must be capable of working in the field as well as in the office. Necessary skills include: recording and editing audio and video, writing and copy-editing, as well as a working knowledge of social media. Apply to editor Charlie Deitch, cdeitch@pghcitypaper.com.

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MUSIC INTERN The music intern will have a working knowledge of the local music scene and assist the music editor by writing new-release reviews and previews of upcoming shows, as well as artist features.

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Since common-sense gun control at the federal level isn’t happening anytime soon, change will have to come at the local level. We’ve covered the city’s attempt to enact legislation requiring the reporting of all lost or stolen firearms; the expected refusal of the previous mayoral administration to enforce it; and the confounding refusal of the current mayor’s administration to enforce it.

NEWS INTERN The news intern will pitch and write stories for both the print and online editions, as well as assist news reporters with research and fact-checking. Basic writing and reporting experience required. Please send résumé, cover letter and samples to news editor Rebecca Addison, rnuttall@pghcitypaper.com.

PHOTO INTERN We are looking for a photography intern with an artistic eye who can tell a story through images.

Editorial work will include shooting assignments to supplement the paper’s news and arts coverage, both in print and online. Weekend availability is required. Send a résumé and a link to an online portfolio to art director Lisa Cunningham, lcunning@pghcitypaper.com.

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Free Speech

The right of free speech is something that we’ve always wholeheartedly supported. Like the time when the Pittsburgh Police raided a video store to find the person who sent a hoax email, reportedly from the police union, apologizing for the Jordan Miles incident. Or the time when the city tried to bill the nonprofit Thomas Merton Center $20,000 for its G-20 rally.

Education

Covering matters facing students has always been a priority for Pittsburgh City Paper writers.

We’ve been there for searches for new public-school superintendents, parental concerns over student treatment, and holding the district accountable for failed educational experiments like UPREP High School and Clayton Academy. In 2002, a CP investigation uncovered the resegregation of Pittsburgh middle schools. We’ve also gone beyond high schools and delved into the seedy world of for-profit education a full year before the industry faced plummeting stock prices and legal scrutiny.

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Before Donald Trump started yelling about walls and deportation, CP was covering attempts by state legislators to enact discriminatory laws against undocumented immigrants, most of them sponsored by Butler County Republican Daryl Metcalfe. We also highlighted the stories of immigrants fighting to stay in this country, like Martin Esquivel-Hernandez, of Mexico, and those trying get their families back in, like former Pitt student Tawfiq Ali, of Saudi Arabia. But we’ve also shown you the culture, depth and diversity immigrants have brought to our community.

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In 2002, staffer Rich Lord wrote one of the first in-depth pieces in the country about predatory lending. In 2007, we featured a blind, streetcorner blues singer who made his own way in life. Also in 2007, we spent time on the streets with members of the city’s homeless population as they were beginning to feel the effects of a new city law that restricted panhandling.

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With the Affordable Care Act facing an uncertain future, continued coverage of our ever-changing health-care system will continue. Sure, we’ve tried to make sense of the deal between Highmark and UPMC, but we’ve also been on the ground floor of other issues, like medical marijuana. And not just the legislative battle for legalization, but highlighting the families and sick children who were being put in jeopardy by continued delays. We’ve also reported on the dangers of head injuries in sports, on needle exchanges, and on the difficulty trans individuals have in finding the right doctor.

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Environment

Among the things a Trump presidency threatens most is the environment.

Not only is City Paper’s Bill O’Driscoll a knowledgeable arts editor, but he has been the paper’s go-to writer for environmental reporting, featured in his monthly Green Light column.

Beyond that, we have covered a plethora of environmental issues, from the dangers of fracking and mountaintop-mining removal to lead in our water and pollutants in our air.

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We’ve always prided ourselves in hearing from a wealth of sources providing insight on a variety of topics. During a spate of police shootings nationwide, we asked activist Jasiri X to pen an op-ed, and he encapsulated the situation more clearly and beautifully than we ever could. Our staff and freelance writers come from all walks of life and backgrounds.

And we’re proud to be the outlet for one of the area’s only progressive talk-show host, Lynn Cullen, airing at 10 a.m. weekdays.

Our position as an alt weekly has given us the latitude over the years to dive into a story and tell it right. Earlier this year, we committed to bringing back these long-form stories so we can give you all angles on an issue without restrictions. Without that freedom, we never would have been able to tell you the complete story on topics like expanded gambling, Taser usage, the risks to rare synchronous fireflies in Allegheny National Forest, or hundreds 2005 of other topics over the years.

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On the city’s dining scene, we have covered the proliferation of food trucks and attempts to get restrictive operating laws about them lessened. We’ve told you about funding problems on the local art scene, from troubles at Pittsburgh Filmmakers to a strike at the Pittsburgh Symphony.

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It’s true that Donald Trump has not promised to close down local theaters or outlaw Wiz Khalifa. However, Pittsburgh artists have done great things and made grand political statements using art. People like Vanessa German, Jasiri X and Anti-Flag are about more than music and art. They’re politically active and relevant, and we look forward to continuing to cover their work.

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Daily Is the New Weekly

While most people know to pick us up every Wednesday, changing times have forced us over the past several years to alter the way we work. While we still print only one issue a week, our news cycle has pretty much become a daily routine, with updates online at www.pghcitypaper.com. It allows us to keep our content fresher and our readers more informed.

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I know we won’t always be able to please everyone. In fact, based on the number of emails I’ve received recently, sometimes I feel like we’re not pleasing anyone. But what you have received from us over the past 25 years, and will continue to get for the next 25 years, are honest stories that deserve to be told, from a collection of people who I believe are some of the best in their craft in the city. We try to push the boundaries every week, and that won’t stop just because we’re getting older.

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Claye Greene can’t remember the name of the song that launched his music career.

It might have been “Instrumental 1” or something equally vague. It was among a batch he sent to a production house on spec in 2009, all instrumental, all within his wheelhouse of smooth jazz and R&B (though “smooth” is a bit of an understatement there; this stuff is hardcore relaxing).

He envisioned the songs being used in film, in transitions between scenes, for characters driving down highways at night, stuff like that. The production house was interested in one track (the unnamed), asked to shop it around, and Greene forgot about it. Six months later, the royalty checks started arriving and a full-time career in music seemed doable. He dove in.

This fall, Greene released his second album of originals, The Fearless Warrior, under his moniker Blue Soul Ten. While he enjoyed the success of writing for others, after a few years, he wanted more out of his career and started writing songs for himself, songs that didn’t need to be pitched or sold to meet other people’s needs. Those songs became the first album in a trilogy: 2015’s The Unspoken Warrior, September’s The Fearless Warrior, and The Beautiful Warrior (which he’s writing now).

It’s a little tough to classify the meaning of the trilogy within the music. The laid-back, keyboard-driven compositions are consistent throughout his catalogue, but Fearless is certainly more polished than Unspoken. (Greene says he didn’t consider his first album radioworthy, more “lounge-worthy.”) The tracks are clean, concise and expertly produced, almost sounding like something prepackaged for Talib Kweli or A Tribe Called Quest to sample. Greene is a keys man, and the compositions show it, building expansive instrumental atmospheres from a foundation of jazzy funk chords.

So what’s the meaning behind all these warriors? For Greene, these titles represent the three values he lives by: humility, courage and love. Or to put it another way, as in the mantra he recites daily: “To embody the strength honor, balance and disposition of a warrior, and live life as if no life or no moment is ordinary.”

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Man of the people: Ted Leo

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“I’m never not thinking about politics,” he says over the phone, the day before the presidential election. “It always finds its way into what I’m writing, even if it’s not as explicit as some of the stuff from the 2003-2004 era.”

Leo — who started Ted Leo and the Pharmacists in Washington, D.C., in 1999, and before that played in punk bands like Citizens Arrest and Chisel — has never been a preacher or one-note moralizer. But in terms of full-throated anger and frustration, he’d be hard-pressed to be as explicit as he was in the early days of the Iraq war.

“I want to take it to the president, him and all this cabinet, with a broom / I want to sweep the halls of arrogance, sweep the walls of the excrement of these baboons,” Leo declared on the title track of 2004’s Shake the Sheets. “But I respect and prize the covenant, I respect the process, I respect the rules / when will we find a chord as

every night, he started losing his voice.

You don’t necessarily have to agree with Leo to enjoy his music, which trades heavily in high-energy major chords and driving, fist-pumping beats. But if you are on the same page (and maybe even if you aren’t), it’s likely to get you riled up.

As the Bush administration came to an end (and the Iraq war continued), Leo persevered, though more subtly. He considers 2010’s The Brutalist Bricks “under-thoughtof” as an election-cycle record — “There are songs on The Brutalist Bricks that kind of presage even Occupy ideas,” he says.

“People were like ‘You should write something for Occupy!’ And I was like, ‘I did!’”

But lately, addressing the political climate in his writing has been more challenging. He’s currently putting together the first Pharmacists record since The Brutalist Bricks, which he’ll release next year. But “as far as this particular election cycle goes,” he says, then pauses and laughs. “I mean … since the primary season began, people

resonant as to shake the sheets and make us move?”

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have been asking me, ‘Why are you not weighing in on this?’ And I really have had very little to say.”

That’s not for lack of concern. “By the time 2015 got underway, there was very little that I felt I had to offer, to be honest with you. And I was, and remain, sort of baffled that we are where we’re at, in a way that I find actually hard to address in song.”

His most direct attempt came when Kickstarter asked him to contribute a song to its Election Issues project, a collection of political art intended to “spark conversation and action.”

“I thought I might challenge myself and do a deep dive on an actual issue, like a civics lesson in song,” he says. “But what I wound up writing about was the GOP exploitation of the fabled economic anxiety of the white working-class voter, the exploitation of racial animus under the guise of economic anxiety.”

Writing that song, which he called “In the Mean Times,” was a challenge. While he’s ultimately happy to have done it, initially, “the idea of writing that song even seemed dumb to me. It seemed so obvious and so frustrating and so ridiculous that it almost felt cheap to consider writing a song about it.”

He’s never minced words about what a Trump presidency would mean. As he wrote on the Kickstarter Election Issues page, “Donald Trump told us who he is. He is a racist. He has always been a racist.” But, Leo also admitted, “The amount of noise in this campaign has been ratcheted up to a level that makes it hard to even understand what’s at stake anymore.”

The stakes are, of course, clearer now.

But those feelings are nonetheless easy to relate to. As the last months of the campaign dragged on, it was hard to carve out the mental space to process, let alone create. “When everybody, including myself, is chattering and expressing themselves in their pithy ways all day every day on the internet,” Leo says, “there is a little bit of that, ‘Oh, hey, maybe you should hold something back, so you can actually write about it, you know?’”

Just a week after the election, the noise of the internet still feels deafening, but those pre-election thoughts feel like part of another world. And, because Ted Leo is Ted Leo, he won’t shrink from speaking out against the new administration.

Before midnight on Nov. 8, Leo tweeted a reminder that the next day he’d be heading out on a “mostly ‘red-state’” solo tour.

“Bring your emotions, bring requests if you have them, and tell me what local organizations I should direct some of whatever scant dollars these shows generate … because this isn’t where this ends.”

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BROWN ANGEL SHUTOUT (SLEEPING GIANT GLOSSOLALIA) BROWNANGEL.BANDCAMP.COM

In an exceptionally shitty year, this pessimistic record might not do much to cheer you up. But, like iodine on a cut, it might do you some good. The doom/experimental metal three-piece has always had a knack for grotesque melody, drawing oddly catchy riffs out of unforgiving industrial sludge. But while Shutout is hardly easy listening, it feels bigger, heavier and warmer than the band’s past output (the b-side covers of tracks

by Chrome and Hüsker Dü are at least partly responsible for this).

“Accessible” might sound like dubious praise for a band known for harshing mellows. But at a time where we could all use a little catharsis, Shutout feels as cozy as a lead blanket.

WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING (SELF-RELEASED) WISC.BANDCAMP.COM

The band name suggests something sinister under its sweetness. But while singer/guitarist Jason Gamble doesn’t shy away from lyrical angst, positivity rules this record. Full arrangements and skilled musicianship carry the album, which will likely appeal to fans of John Mayer-style polished guitar pop. Horns, strings, keys and other unexpected instrumentation add some nice texture, but in general the songs are unwieldy and over-long, like practice jams that were never fully fleshed out. There are plenty of good-sounding elements, and a lot of earnest emotion, but ultimately things never fully gel.

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BEFORE SETH WALKER started working on his latest release, he had to step back.

Releasing eight albums in 14 years is no small feat, and all that recording and touring can wear on a guy. “If you do something long enough, you kind of lose track of why you started doing it in the first place,” he says, on the phone from Kansas City. “I was getting kind of calculated with my songwriting. I [needed to remember], what made me drop out of college in the first place to do this?

What was that fire that got me buzzin’ at the beginning?”

These questions were answered with Gotta Get Back, album No. 9, released in September. A resident of New Orleans for the last three years, Walker harnessed the syncopation of that city to his own brand of bluesy Americana, adding some hints of gospel along the way. While the title represents a return to his initial inspiration, it also acknowledges a literal homecoming in the studio, where his sister and parents joined him on a few songs.

Growing up, Walker’s family lived on a North Carolina commune with another family for 13 years. “It definitely shaped my creativity,” he says of the early days.

“We would get home from school and we would go runnin’ around in the woods.

And I remember my mind and spirit being able to …” — he stops here to find the right word— “imagine. I think that really is important. It’s stayed with me through the years.”

Music loomed large in the family. Both parents were classical musicians, and

young Seth played cello before moving to guitar. So when he laid the groundwork for Gotta Get Back, he wanted his family to add strings to it — although his parents had been divorced for more than 20 years.

First, he contacted his father to score the string section. “I had sent him work tapes of some of the songs,” Walker says. “I remember him saying, ‘I got ideas for you, son.’ And he sent me these beautiful arrangements.”

Time had done nothing to diminish the rapport between them. “The first rehearsal we did at my sister’s house in Asheville, North Carolina, I remember sitting in there with the four of us.

That room was just vibratin’,” he recalls.

“It was definitely some electricity and it was peaceful. You put everything aside, and music and love prevail.”

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In the studio, the family recorded live with everyone in the same room. The pure approach means the wood of the instruments can be heard, adding to the yearning quality of “The Sound of Your Voice” and “Home Again.” Walker says it wasn’t intentional, but the album begins in a more electrified mood and proceeds to a more laidback, back-porch feeling.

In a sense it signifies the journey home, with closer “Blow Wind Blow” showing that it’s time to move on again. “I didn’t realize that so many of these songs were all connected thematically,” says Walker, “until I put them together.”

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Brother Ali (left) Slug, Dem Atlas

[DOOMGAZE] + THU., NOV. 17 True Widow has mastered the art of blending shoegaze, doom and drone into a palatable and infectious rapture of rock. It’s the kind of sound that surrounds you, softly consumes you and whisks you away from the real world.

The Austin-based trio brings its carefully crafted new-gaze to Cattivo with support from Mary Lattimore, an engaging and mystifying harpist with a gift for carefully crafting universes within the sounds of her harp.

Stoner-metal act Old Man Rob will hold it down for the 412 with its grooving and noisy rock. Meg Fair 7 p.m. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $10-12. 412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com

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band manages to play with emotion in a way that pulls at the heart and makes you involuntary bang your dang head. Joining in on the fun is YRS, Same, The Umbrella Corporation and Curse Words. MF 7 p.m. 600 Constitution Blvd., New Kensington. $6. 724-339-0808

[JAZZ] + SAT., NOV. 19 The Manchester Craftstmens’ Guild is in the business of preserving and promoting the legacy of jazz, and what better way to do it than with Ramsey Lewis and Ann Hampton Callaway? Lewis is a three-time Grammy winner who has released a mere 80 albums as a jazz composer and pianist, and is known for chart-toppers like “Hang on, Sloopy” and “The ‘In’ Crowd.”

Tony-nominated composer, pianist, lyricist and singer Ann Hampton Callaway will bring her swinging jazz feel, soothing the soul with her husky, warm vocals. MF 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

1815 Metropolitan St., North Side. Sold out. 412-322-0800 or www.mcgjazz.org

Atmosphere is a Minneapolis-based hip-hop duo formed in the early ’90s.

Rapper Slug and DJ/producer Ant work together to create bright music, and positivity and warmth radiate from each beat. Joining the pair is fellow Minnesotan Brother [PUNK] + Ali, a rapper WED., NOV. 23 True Widow committed to social Tonight, Cattivo justice whose {PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHANIE HAGEMAN} hosts two punk track “Uncle Sam outfits with decades Goddamn” attracted of history. The Dickies the not-so-admiring and The Queers have been road-doggin’ attention of the Department of Homeland Security. Dem Atlas, Plain Ole Bill and Last Word since the late ’70s and early ’80s, respectively.

The Dickies’ goofy spirit, niche sense of humor also appear. MF 7 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, and love for bad horror films has helped North Side. $24.99-30. All ages. 412-229-5483 or them live on in the punk canon. The members www.stageae.com crafted a catchy sound that didn’t rely on offensive gags and instead leaned on silly [ROCK] + SAT., NOV. 19 hooks. The Queers, on the other hand, Tonight, the Michigan rockers of Outside still ruffle feathers without apology (thank bring that hard-but-dreamy guitar rock to the God). Joining the lineup are locals the Polish Literary Music Society (PLMS). Outside Scratch n Sniffs and Weapons of Choice. blends the heaviness of Cloakroom with the MF 8 p.m. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $18-20. catchy crafting of melody of Hum. Switching 412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com between gentle cooing and gritty vocals, the

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412-687-2157.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & DIESEL. Bilal. South Side.

TAVERN. Johnny Angel’s Jam 412-431-8800.

Band. North Side. 412-322-1850.

FAIRWAYS LOUNGE. E Action.

DIESEL. Flotsam & Jetsam, Helstar, Braddock. 412-271-0506.

Hatchet & Sound Servent.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Bill Toms & South Side. 412-431-8800.

Hard Rain, Soulville Horns w/ RIVERS CASINO. The Lava Helene Milan & The Aces, Game Duo. North Side.

Bill Deasy, Miss Freddye 1-877-558-0777.

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Witkowski, Jimmy www per BACKDRAFT BAR & a p ty ci Adler, Jill Simmons, pgh m GRILLE. King’s Ransom. .co Andrea Pearl, Marc Baldwin. 412-885-1239.

Reisman, John Decola & HAMBONE’S. Standing Jeff Bober. Benefits the Society With Standing Rock, A Benefit to of St. Vincent DePaul Society.

Show Solidarity. Lawrenceville.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

412-681-4318.

KEYSTONE BAR. The Bo’Hog JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & Brothers. Sewickley. 724-758-4217.

SPEAKEASY. The Buckle Downs, MOONDOG’S. The SPUDS. Anjroy, The Telephone Line.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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SAT 19 DIESEL. Our Last Night & Hands Like Houses. South Side.

412-431-8800.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Trainwreck.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

HOWLERS. The Silver Thread w/ The Me Toos & Benefits. album release show. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Formula 5 w/ Earphorik. North Side.

412-904-3335.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Deluded Youth. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

OBEY HOUSE. Ray Lanich Band.

Crafton. 412-922-3883.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, The Speedbumps.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

THE R BAR. Kings Ransom.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

SPEAL’S TAVERN. The Bo’Hog Brothers. New Alexandria.

724-433-1322.

SUN 20 HOWLERS. Ayria, Inertia, Abbey Death. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

THE R BAR. Billy The Kid and the Regulators. Dormont. 412-942-0882.

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FRI 18 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

BELVEDERE’S. DJ JX4 & ADMC. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

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.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. Lawrenceville.

412-621-4900.

THU 17

SAT 19

BELVEDERE’S. DJ hates you 2.0 & DJ killjoy. NeoN 80s Night.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

BELVEDERE’S. Sean MC & Thermos. 90s night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

MP 3 MONDAY PEABO MILES

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MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse. Millvale. 603-321-0277.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

TUE 22 CITY GROWS. The Afterglows, Rue, Donny. Lawrenceville.

412-706-1643.

HOWLERS. Moldover, Johnny Jitters, Ephen Ager, Spednar, Keebs. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

WED 23 BELVEDERE’S. Wild Kindness Records Showcase. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

Each week we bring you a new song from a local artist. This week’s offering comes from hip-hop artist Peabo Miles; stream or download his slow-jam-y track “No Strings Attached” for free at FFW>>, the music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.

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

412-621-4900.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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

412-781-6771.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

a vast and varied musical terrain.

Shifting from transcriptions of J.S. Bach to chamber music at the court of Versailles, and from the florid, Italianate craft of Corelli to the Englishman Playford, this annual trio concert also includes a newly composed work written especially for Chatham Baroque that recently premiered in Vermont.

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Upper St. Clair. 412-687-1788.

ORGANIST CHELSEA CHEN. Performing original works, as well as pieces by Ola Gjeilo, Edvard Grieg, Jean Langlais, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ad Wammes & Camille Saint-Saëns. Heinz Chapel, Oakland. 412.242.2787.

These are the songs music editor Margaret Welsh can’t stop listening to: Swampwalk

“Smoke (It’s a Trap)”

SUN 20 THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644.

TUE 22

Blak Rapp Madusa

THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta.

Reggae & dancehall. Lawrenceville.

412-688-8820.

“Angela Davis”

SAT 19

WED 23 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

Angel Olsen

“Sweet Dreams”

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 18

Leonard Cohen

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

412-424-9254.

HOWLERS. WOLM, PROWESS the Testament, Drop Lockers, LAZYBLACKMAN, Shad Ali & West.

Bloomfield. 412-758-6724.

SAT 19 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

FUTURE TENANT. B.White, Franchise Of The Come Up, Norman Dean, Cron412, JKJ, Shawn K, SFO Lennon, Tyler Hammel, Primavera Vills, Deem Trill, Litty Ritts & $A The Martian.

Downtown. 412-325-7037.

BLUES FRI 18 MOONDOG’S. Billy Price.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

“You Want It Darker”

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

RIVERS CASINO. Jason Kendall Duo. North Side. 1-877-558-0777.

DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Ryan Fennell. Mars. 724-553-5212.

DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Angel Blue & Joe the Mailman. North Huntingdon. 724-863-8181.

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SUN 20

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tony Campbell Saturday Afternoon Jazz Session.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

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

412-681-4318.

WED 23 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339.

Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays.

North Side. 412-321-1834.

DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. The Skipper Johnson Band. Mars. 724-553-5212.

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

SUN 20

SAT 19 565 LIVE. The Monday Blues Revue. Bellevue. 412-301-8623.

BEE’Z BISTRO & PUB. Sweaty Betty Band. Bridgeville.

412-257-9877.

MOONDOG’S. The Jimmy Adler Band. Road to Memphis Fundraiser.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell & the Jazz Surgery. McKees Rocks.

412- 857- 5809.

REGGAE

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THU 17

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Dr. Nelson Harrison.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

PIRATA. The Flow Band.

Downtown. 412-323-3000.

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JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Lee Robinson & ISKA. Speakeasy. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom. North Side.

412-904-3335.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Brooke Annibale. Strip District.

412-566-1000.

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

412-381-4566.

FRI 18

BYS YOGA. No Shoes Sound Series with City Dwelling Nature Seekers.

South Side. 412-481-9642.

CRAFTY JACKALOPE. Eclectic Acoustics. Bridgeville. 412-220-9785.

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

Fox Chapel. 412-967-1900.

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

COUNTRY WED 23 JUNE BUG’S. The Lonely Drifters.

Sutersville. 724-872-4757.

RIVERS CASINO. The Hobbs Sisters. North Side. 1-877-558-0777.

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Shifting from transcriptions of J.S. Bach to chamber music at the court of Versailles, and from the florid, Italianate craft of Corelli to the Englishman Playford, this annual trio concert also includes a newly composed work written especially for Chatham Baroque that recently premiered in Vermont. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Highland Park. 412-687-1788.

A REQUIEM IN SONG: SCHUBERT’S WINTER JOURNEY. A Requiem in Song is a eulogy concert for composer Franz Schubert, who died on November 19, 1828 at the age of 31. Baritone Joel Goodloe and pianist Brian Gilling will perform Schubert’s Winterreise, or Winter’s Journey, in honor of the anniversary of the composer’s death. This 24-song cycle is one of the darkest and most spine-chilling works Schubert ever created. The piece will be sung in English using Jeremy Sams’ groundbreaking new translation.

This will mark the North American premiere of the text. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 804-338-0527.

composer Jacob Clemens non Papa, as well as the Pittsburgh premiere of a commissioned work, Songs from Lost Civilizations, w/ music by Douglas Levine & lyrics by Kellee Van Aken. Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland. 412-926-2488.

Shoes, Johnny and the Razorblades & Standard Broadcast. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

TUE 22

WED 23

MON 21 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

PITTSBURGH PERFORMS: KASSIA ENSEMBLE. Pittsburgh Winery, Strip District.

412-566-1000.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Darling Nikki: A Prince Tribute. Ft. Jason Walker, Gene Walker of Sho’Nuff, Ford Thurston, Lou Ross, Joe Munroe & Eric Choucroun of Vibro Kings. Strip District.

412-566-1000.

OTHER MUSIC THU 17

HOLIDAY MUSIC

HOWLERS. Clouds Taste Satanic, Foghound, CANT. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Seth Walker “Frenchmen on Penn”.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

THU 17 CROSSROADS CHURCH. Dan Hanczar Orchestra. Fundraiser concert for Julie Hanczar at Crossroads Church. North Fayette.

724-693-8241.

FRI 18 THE FUNHOUSE @ MR. SMALLS. LoFi Delphi, Meeting of Important People, The Dark Lines and Zoob.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

FRI 18

SAT 19

FIFTH AVENUE PLACE. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet. Downtown.

412-456-7800.

EAST LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Hope Academy Teaching Artists in Concert. East Liberty.

412-441-3800.

GRIND WARE CENTER. Rená Alexis. BGM EP Release Party.

Wilkinsburg. 412-759-3556.

THE FUNHOUSE @ MR. SMALLS. TWENTYSOMETHING, The Velcro

MON 21 MOUNT LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Susan Ortner & John Marcinizyn: Klezmer, Django & The Big Easy. Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

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SUN 20 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PITTSBURGH. Concertino for Horn by Carl Maria von Weber, the energetic Scaramouche by Darius Milhaud, one of the few Saxophone Concertos in the standard repertoire & Schubert’s Fifth Symphony will conclude the program. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-477-9842.

CHATHAM BAROQUE: THE ART OF THE TRIO. An armchair tour of a vast and varied musical terrain.

Shifting from transcriptions of J.S. Bach to chamber music at the court of Versailles, and from the florid, Italianate craft of Corelli to the Englishman Playford, this annual trio concert also includes a newly composed work written especially for Chatham Baroque that recently premiered in Vermont. Campbell Memorial Chapel, Squirrel Hill.

412-687-1788.

THE JUNIOR MENDELSSOHN CHOIR. Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder: Gypsy Songs & a set of motets

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Allegheny County Courthouse Tree Lighting

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U.S. Steel Tower Dedication of the Créche

5:30 p.m.

PPG Plaza Tree Lighting

5:45 p.m.

One Oxford Centre Tree Lighting

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Holiday Window Unveiling

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Ryoji Ikeda’s DATA MATRIX

Ryoji Ikeda’s DATA MATRIX, at Wood Street Galleries, is by turns stimulating, calming, absorbing and challenging. While brief in duration and seemingly visually simple, it carries a heavyweight punch its bantam stature belies.

A series of 10 projections, evenly spaced and sized, generates layer upon layer of information — grids, graphs, routes and charts, predominantly in flat black and white, infrequently relieved with a slash of red or burst of blue. Most of what we’re looking at, head on a swivel, eyes darting from one screen to the next, appears to be code, ripe with data that we’re unable to decipher. As the images pulse and bolt, they also whir, hum and click. The ambient electronic score counters their racing motion with a soundtrack rhythmic and pulsating, softening the edge of the breakneck motion in gentle, rolling waves and the murmuring sway of a heartbeat or the rush of blood, bringing an element of the organic to something otherwise fully technological.

Eventually, words appear on one of the frenetically scrolling squares. These are discernible only if one nears the segment to almost arm’s length, traveling too deep into the heart of the beast to register its scope; the intimacy necessary for comprehension mandates isolation, and proximity paradoxically results in distance, as we can’t acquire acquaintance with the devil in the details without losing sight of the bigger picture. But once up close, we can clarify the text as the names of stars. Then, taking a few steps back, we can appraise the outpouring with the knowledge, at least, that a universe is being mapped.

This is from the snippet that we can comprehend thanks to the bit of kindness offered by words in a language we speak. But ultimately, we’re left to realize that this small mercy was exactly that: a miniscule fraction. So much more comes out, chattering and babbling at a rate with which we could not keep pace even if we could comprehend.

Conspiracy theorists, those who watch too many dystopian science-fiction movies, and people who are high (this writer pleads the fifth as to which corner of that triangle she occupies) might be forgiven for imagining that they are receptive but receiving something that they themselves cannot identify.

Roosevelt was the biggest conservationist and most would say “Teddy.” But as historian Douglas Brinkley demonstrates in his book Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America, a better answer might well be FDR, who added so dramatically to his famous older cousin’s legacy.

The book, released this past spring, introduces an FDR few know: not just the wheelchair-using master politician, the fireside-chatter who guided the nation through the Great Depression and World War II, but also a life-long tree farmer whose passion for forestry and soil conservation informed his entire career. “His alternate occupation was forestry,” says Brinkley in a phone interview.

TR, it’s true, almost single-handedly launched the modern era of conservation by creating numerous national parks, national monuments and national forests, most of them out West, from 19011909. (Accounts include 2009’s The Wilderness Warrior, one of Brinkley’s 22 works of nonfiction.) FDR, who took office in 1933, created more than 800 state parks — including, Brinkley notes, essentially the entire state-park system in Texas, where he teaches at Rice

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year life span, this quintessential New Deal entity was more than just an employment program: “Roosevelt’s Tree Army” planted up to 3 billion trees, reclaimed millions of acres from deforestation, overfarming, erosion and drought, and built the roads and facilities that made countless natural areas accessible to ordinary Americans, with a focus on the more densely populated East Coast.

FDR grew up in upstate New York, son of an affluent gentleman farmer, and early learned the importance of healthy soil and the multiple benefits that trees provide: remediating stormwater, preventing erosion, providing wildlife habitat, even reclaiming depleted land. “They were the symbol of life, trees, for FDR,” says Brinkley. After contracting polio at age 39, Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down for life, but remained an avid fisherman and automobile road-tripper. And his plans to preserve and restore nature grew, rather presciently, to include “submarginal” (i.e., unfarmable)

University — as well as an all-star line-up of national parks. “FDR’s responsible for saving the Great Smokies, the Everglades, Big Bend, Joshua Tree, Channel Islands, the Olympics, Jackson Hole, Mammoth Cave, Isle Royale, on and on,” says Brinkley, who visits Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ Monday Night Lectures on Nov. 21. The 32nd president also expanded many more national parks, created hundreds of national forests and wildlife refuges, and launched the modern U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Still, Brinkley argues that perhaps FDR’s signal environmental achievement as president was the Civilian Conservation Corps. While it provided wages, job skills, hot meals and hope to more than 3 million workers over its nine-

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Or maybe, in a way, that’s not so surprising. We’re used to hearing environmental protection criticized as bad for the economy. But Roosevelt, as Brinkley shows, had a genius for framing conservation as economic development.

Partly, this was a matter of providing work, as through the CCC, partly it involved improving the lot of farmers, whose language FDR spoke. “It wasn’t just that Wall Street was exhausted, and the banks had foreclosed, but our agricultural sector was in dire straits,” says Brinkley. But it was also about recreational development. “In states like Pennsylvania, Vermont or Idaho, FDR would dispatch government workers to build ski resorts, to create picnic sites, to stock streams and lakes with fish,” says Brinkley. “He was really trying to bring conservation close to home.” The CCC alone developed 52,000 acres of public campgrounds. Even new wildlife refuges meant that hunters enjoyed revived populations of ducks and geese.

FDR acknowledged that greed could ravage nature; one reason he liked hydropower so much, after all, was the damage he’d seen done by coal mining. But ultimately, to him, environmental protection and economic growth weren’t mutually exclusive. They were complementary.

“He put conservation at the top of his list and national-revitalization efforts. He didn’t downplay it,” says Brinkley. “He upgraded it.”

There is little in School House: Lessons on Love and Landscape (Ice Cube Press) that could be taken for lessons on writing.

This is surprising, considering that the author, Marc Nieson, is a creative-writing professor at Chatham University. But School House reads like the first draft of an unedited book. Like it was spoken into a Dictaphone by a busy executive, then sent directly to the typesetter.

Nieson does something else extremely well, however. He opens himself to the reader, inviting a level of personal examination rarely offered in memoirs.

Whether he is describing his morbid dead animals, or his fear fascination with dea of comforting a friend dying of AIDS, Nieson is courageous in his willingness to share the darkest elements of his soul.

And for this he should be commended.

But the story itself, about the aftermath of a love affair with a woman named Sybil, w hardly touches the h reader. Primarily because Nieson fails to establish the passion of their relationship, which is briefly described, rather than shown. Thus we can’t become invested in his emotional pain, as he doesn’t build the limbic resonance necessary to justify it.

Instead, the storyline rushes forward inexplicably, then flashes back, then forward again, repeatedly — like a cat playing with the DVR remote.

Nieson leaves Manhattan to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and for the next 250 pages indulges in such relentless whining and self-recrimination about Sybil that he eventually asks himself, “Isn’t there a point where you finally grow disgusted with your own wallowing?” But it takes him 194 pages to do this. If only he had done it on page 10.

Perhaps most disconcerting is Nieson’s use of language. From the first sentence, “Sometimes it is like a dream,” the book is riddled with so many clichés and hackneyed phrases that we have to wonder: Where is his own voice?

Other problems abound. Words are often carelessly repeated in consecutive sentences or the same paragraph. The contorted syntax feels like the result of a beginner yoga class, not an advanced writing workshop. And Peter Piper would be jealous of the myriad gratuitous alliterations, like “panorama of my precious pond and pasture. …”

School House does provide some insightful lessons, however, which the author gleans from meditations on his grandfather’s suicide, and the eternal predator-prey life cycle that he observes in the Iowa woods. But the art of writing, unfortunately, is not one of them.

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land that most people — including past presidents — had written off. “Nobody in American history has done more for wetlands and marshes and seashores than Franklin Roosevelt,” Brinkley says.

Such initiatives inspired, trained and gave opportunities to a generation of environmental advocates, including a young federal aquatic biologist named Rachel Carson.

In the eyes of today’s environmentalists, and even some in his day, FDR’s record is indelibly marred by his fondness for large-scale hydroelectric dams: Projects like the Grand Coulee Dam, in Washington, decimated salmon runs and flooded huge stretches of river-valley ecosystems with artificial lakes.

Still, the scope of his conservation achievements is astounding, especially given that most of them were accomplished during the nation’s worst-ever economic crisis.

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SIGNS, WAVES {BY STUART SHEPPARD}

POINT PARK Conservatory Theatre Company’s production of The Sea, a 1973 work by Edward Bond, is a study in strange dichotomies. It’s neither comedy nor tragedy, realistic nor surreal, modern nor Edwardian, but rather, a transposition of each such duality, just when you think it’s nailing itself down.

This is often the case with Bond, the radical British playwright.

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The action is based in a 1907 English coastal village and, as with many plays that start with a tremendous storm, never coalesces into a tidy plot. Director David Cabot does an admirable job of trying to take us into the lives of this small, dysfunctional community, but we get the impression he has to constantly fight Bond for control of the stage. Fortunately he has help from Johnmichael Bohach’s artful set, which is a leviathan stuffed into the tiny Studio Theatre, and feels like your first dorm room after you put in the bed and desk. There isn’t much space for the audience, so expect to get a little wet and sandy if you sit up front.

In keeping with the motif of synchronicity, Bohach builds two sets into one, so we have the sense of being both inside various locations, and outside on the beach at the

same time. Steve Shapiro’s sound and Carrie Yacono’s lighting mystically evoke the sea air in an almost olfactory way.

Gabe DeRose stumbles into the drama looking like a young Richard Dreyfus from the set of Jaws. As the town drunk, Evens, he maintains a persuasive, near-cockney accent, and delivers his lines with a smirking vibrancy.

Emma Mercier, as the manipulative Mrs. Rafi, has the heaviest role, and embodies this powerful form of Edwardian femininity with a dash of the great Margaret Dumont. Nikky Robinson has one of the toughest challenges as Hatch the shopkeeper, who convincingly goes insane from a weird — and anachronistic — fear of alien invasions.

Perhaps stranger, Evens’ “rats on stars” speech is eerily similar to the poem “Rats Live on No Evil Star,” published by Anne Sexton in 1974. For the uninitiated, here’s a wonderful chance to experience the trippy theater of the 1970s.

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I SAW HAIR at University of Pittsburgh Stages on Nov. 10 — a day when, the show’s joyous opening number notwithstanding, the world actually did not seem to be experiencing “the dawning of the age of Aquarius.” Indeed, for many, two days after the elevation of an ignorant demagogue to the presidency, something other than unbridled optimism loomed.

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certainly grapples with its own darkness — still resonates, and Pitt’s spirited production does help to call us back to hope.

Hair (book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, music by Galt McDermot) is an anti-war musical from the perspective of some New York City hippies. Scantily plotted, often scantily clad, it broke Broadway taboos on drugs, casual sex, race relations and more, all while spoofing parents, other authority figures and consumer culture. Pitt’s production, directed by Cindy Croot, features a massive cast of 30 (plus a five-piece rock band) on a stage dominated by scaffolding and tapestry projections.

HAIR continues through Sun., Nov. 20.

University of Pittsburgh Stages at the Charity Randall Theatre, 4301 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $12-25. 412-624-7529 or www.play.pitt.edu

Sheila and proud Claude, whose torment over whether to heed the draft provides the show’s central drama. Other standouts include Harry Hawkins IV (as Hud), Reilly Galvin (Crissy) and Davis Weaver (Woof).

And special mention to Ben McClymont, who nearly steals the show enacting an hilarious cameo by anthropologist Margaret Mead.

The singing ranges from solid to terrific (musical direction: Robert Frankenberry), with lively choreography by Amanda Olmstead. And all the vibrancy redoubles the power of the lyrics’ anti-war refrain, “how dare they try to end this beauty.”

Hair’s characters seek to build a society based on love and free expression in a world that seems violently opposed to such concepts. Pitt Stage’s production is almost enough to make you forget the election it’s making you remember.

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With songs like “Dead End,” “I Believe in Love,” “Freedom” and the exultant title number, the show explores the Vietnamera counterculture with varying degrees of incisive irony and charming earnestness.

Among the hard-working student cast, Matt Keefer is fine as the preening George, while Sarah Fling and Dan Mayhak impress, respectively, as righteous activist

TRAINSPOTTING {BY TED HOOVER}

PLAYWRIGHT ARLENE Hutton sets herself

a near-impossible task with her 1999 play Last Train to Nibroc, making its Pittsburgh debut at Little Lake Theatre.

In 1940, two strangers meet on a train.

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May is a young lady returning from Los Angeles to Kentucky. She’d traveled west to see her fiancé but something happened, and she’s going home to nurse some emotional bruises. Raleigh is a young man who has just been discharged from the service for reasons not made entirely clear, and he’s heading to New York to become a writer. The train is packed and what do you know, the only available seat just happens to be next to May. The two strike up awkward conversation … and if you can’t guess what comes next, you haven’t read a book, seen a play, TV show or movie in the last 5,000 years.

And that’s Hutton’s problem — there’s not a dramatic moment she’s written which we haven’t run across many, many times before. Which isn’t to say that Hutton, or any playwright, shouldn’t make the attempt. But if you’re going to trod such well-worn ground, you’d better bring something new to the party.

I can’t say that Hutton does. This is a very soft, meditative two-character exercise which, by design, is as unadorned as you can get. Additionally, Hutton indulges in some eye-rolling “coincidences” to kick the plot into gear, and then invents an assortment of emotional obstacles to keep her lovebirds from winding up in a clinch too soon.

IT’S IMPRESSIVE AND ENJOYABLE.

LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC continues through Nov. 26. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South, Canonsburg. $13.75-21.75. 724-745-6300 or www.littlelaketheatre.org

This is a free and family-friendly event! Celebrate the season with cookies and pick up unique holiday gifts along the way. Hours for Cookie Stops vary by location. Get all the info about this year’s tour including the map at lvpgh.com/cookietour or call 412.621.1616, ext. 102.

But even though I don’t think Hutton has cracked it, there is something to be said for the several moments of quiet beauty in the script. Director Jim Critchfield and his cast — Leighann Calamera and Connor McNelis — work hand-in-glove with Hutton’s vision. All three together do summon up Hutton’s hushed, still theatricality. Calamera does a remarkable job growing the character right in front of us, from observer to motivated force. McNelis compellingly portrays Raleigh’s intense yearning imprisoned by circumstance.

It’s by no means a bad play. Last Train to Nibroc’s chief misfortune is showing up late at a 5,000-year-old party.

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elections in modern American history, there’s something truly charming in Stage 62’s production of The Music Man. Some impressive singing and choreography — with a host of talented children — blend with a live band and thrust stage that electrifies the setting. The audience can’t help being pulled into the innocent playfulness of this classic American musical, happily taken away from the grimy game of politics into the world of 1912’s traveling salesmen and steam locomotives. To a place where credential-less professor Harold Hill (Andy Folmer) affably tries to charm his way into small-town librarian Marian’s (Becca Chenette) heart — a romance that disrupts his own hidden plans of swindling the Iowa town of cash through musical deception.

MELODIC BALM {BY GERARD STANLEY HORNBY}

AFTER ONE of the most bruising and bitter

THE MUSIC MAN continues through Sat., Nov. 19. Stage 62 Productions at The Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave, Carnegie. $15-20.

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Meredith Wilson’s romance is best known from the 1962 film, which followed its 1957 Broadway debut. But this production, directed by Rob James, reengages with the hearty fun of musical theater, bouncing the audience along in its jollity and running gags (and recurring “Ye gods!”). There’s plenty to recognize throughout, such as the classic “Till There Was You” — enjoyably done by Folmer and Chenette — and “The Wells Fargo Wagon,” stolen by an adorable Elliot Bruno, as Winthrop.

Community theater has never been so important nor so threatened with extinction. This production goes above and beyond in terms of ambition: Devyn Brown’s choreography, Michelle Nowakowski’s costuming, and Lynetta Miller and James’ set design create a spectacle rarely found in local theatrics. It’s impressive and enjoyable. Clearly a lot of work has gone into this show.

But nor does it take itself too seriously: The cast are obviously having fun, the young ones swelling with pride (while retaining composure throughout), and the show nods to its roots in that its set design for the library scenes look awfully similar to the venue’s Andrew Carnegie Free Library (fireplace portrait and all).

It’s a warm reference to the cherished localism of the production and its place as a classic in many of the cast, crew and audience’s hearts.

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11.17-11.24.16 Full events listed online at www.pghcitypaper.com A decade since he had last written a play, Patrick Marber, the British playwright noted for works including Closer, was commissioned to adapt Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. The 150-year-old work depicts how a love affair between a rich woman and her son’s tutor disrupts life on a Russian country estate. Marber himself had been living in the country for several years, writing screenplays and gentleman-farming; in an email interview from London with City Paper, he says he was intrigued by the play’s setting and its “liveliness and variety of tone.” Full of characters like, in Marber’s words, “the inept depressed doctor, the idiotic old suitor, the foolish husband, the cynical love, the sophisticated woman broken by desire,” A Month is thought to have influenced Chekhov.

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While Marber’s version kept the basic plot, it halved the running time, to two hours, and “added more jokes,” he writes.

“My intention was to take Turgenev’s plot for a brisk walk. It’s roughly the same story but told differently.” The adaptation, titled Three Days in the Country, premiered last year, at London’s Royal National Theatre; this week, it gets its Pittsburgh premiere from Kinetic Theatre Company at the New Hazlett Theater. The ensemble cast of 13 is a Who’s Who of local stage favorites, including David Whalen, Nike Doukas, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Helena Ruoti and Larry John Meyers.

Kinetic bills Three Days as a tragicomedy about the vagaries of love. I asked Marber about the new ending he added to Turgenev’s original. “Turgenev’s ending is sudden and strange, as if he ran out of ink,” Marber writes. “It’s rather good. But I wanted to end with the forgotten child who has witnessed the adult world without understanding it. … I was very moved by this boy (Kolya). He was my entry point into the play and he became my exit.”

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Tonight, attend a nude drawing class led by artist educators, with cocktails and nude models, in the entrance space of The Andy Warhol Museum; Sip and Sketch includes a curator-led exhibit tour. And on Saturday, at the Carnegie Museum of Art theater, a free screening of Jack Smith’s 1964 avantgarde classic “Flaming Creatures” is followed by a discussion with poet and artist John Giorno, a Warhol contemporary and innovator on New York’s 1960s art scene. “Flaming Creatures” is a carnivalesque, 45-minute drag fantasia in black-and-white, once controversial for its graphic sexuality.

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(117 Sandusky St., North Side; $12-15).

John Giorno and “Flaming Creatures”: 7 p.m. (4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland; free). 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

in Lawrenceville. Ian Flanagan 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18.

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friday 11.18 ART Internationally exhibited Pittsburgh-based artist Sarah Keeling’s multidisciplinary exhibit Off-Road opens tonight.

The works, which range from images to hand-made objects, explore the subtext of landscape scenes and question our relationship to our built environment. By blending artistic formats, the Carnegie Mellon graduate seeks to “combine familiarity and humor to make comedic yet contemplative works.” The opening reception is tonight at 707 Penn Gallery. IF 5:30 p.m. Continues through Jan. 22. 707 Penn Ave., Downtown. Free.

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Committee. The evening also includes the opening of a new solo show by painter Phiris Kathryn Sickels and the kickoff of the PCA’s annual Holiday Shop, offering work by local crafters, designers and artists. BO 5:30-9 p.m. ($5 suggested donation).

Exhibit continues through Feb. 26. 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. www.center.pfpca.org

MUSIC Chatham Baroque’s season continues this weekend with The Art of the Trio: Music From Across Baroque Europe. Guest artists joining the trip to explore the sounds of Germany, Italy, France and England include oboist Geoffrey Burgess and flutist Stephen Schultz. Tonight’s performance, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, is followed by concerts tomorrow, at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, and Sunday, at Campbell Memorial Chapel, at Chatham University. IF 7:30 p.m.

(2040 Washington Road, Upper St. Clair). Also 8 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 19 (5801 Hampton St., Highland Park), and 2:30 p.m.

Sun., Nov. 20 (Chatham campus, Shadyside). $10-30.

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STAGE Working as DarkMatter, spoken-word artists Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian “share stories of navigating the world in all of its ordinariness and {PHOTO COURTESY OF ALAN ADAMS} “peculiarity as trans South ^ Fri., Nov. 18: The Art of the Trio: Music From Across Baroque Europe Asians.” Some of it comes across as politically aware storytelling and standup comedy, done in tandem. The pair, based in New York, has performed internationally. Tonight, they bring their show #ItGetsBitter to the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Arts & Society. BO 8 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $12-15. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

DANCING Starting tonight, swing dancers from across North America descend on Pittsburgh for the 16th annual PittStop Lindy Hop. It’s a full weekend of live music

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EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Drinking Partners’ 100th Episode EPIC Extravaganza at Pittsburgh Playwrights, Downtown CRITIC: James Logbo, 34, a DJ from Bloomfield WHEN: Sat.,

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It was like an open-bar type of craft-beer experience; there was some standup comedy, there was some state-of-society commentary. I think the podcast is hilarious and does a really good job of pulling whatever is going on into the comedic realm, and I think tonight was a great representation of the podcast in that it was funny but it still hit upon currents events.

I came across the podcast being new to Pittsburgh, and I came [tonight] because I’m a fan and I knew the 100th episode was a big deal. T. Robe was hilarious — I love Day Bracey, I love Ed [Bailey]. All of the guests across the board were great, but the standup was probably my favorite part of the entire night. I was surprised by the demographic of the audience; as a listener, I figured that they would pull much more of a minority audience. But the event was amazing and the space was great.

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for dancers of all experience levels, at a variety of venues including Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall. Performers include regional fave Miss Freddye’s Blues Band; Philly’s Chelsea Reed & the Fair Weather Five; and local eminence Paul Cosentino’s new, 14-piece Hot Metal Swing Orchestra. Dance straight through Sunday night, if you like. BO Tonight through Sun., Nov. 19. Various venues. $10-20 (weekend pass: $80). 412-242-4562 or www.pittstoplindyhop.com

saturday 11.19 FAIR PGH Vintage Mixer is back, and the city’s vintage-specific vendor fair is big.

More than 30 regional, authentic vintage sellers of men’s and women’s fashion, accessories, housewares, vinyl, décor, art and furniture take over both floors of Spirit all day today. Feed your nostalgic and aesthetic preferences, and also enjoy music by local DJs, vintage camper photos with Pittsburgh Camper Booth, and food and beverages.

BO 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 252 51st St., Lawrenceville. $5. www.pghvintagemixer.com

DANCE Maria Caruso’s 2015 ballet The Messiah was inspired by her own Lux Aeterna and “her investigation of movement through a requiem Mass.”

Caruso, who chairs the Performing Arts Department at La Roche College, is artistic director of Bodiography Contemporary Ballet. The two institutions co-present this work scored {PHOTO COURTESY OF RALF BROWN}

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of viewers themselves are splashed across a site-specific “Doom-Pop” landscape exploring toxicity, destruction, addiction and nostalgia with, respectively, materials including Styrofoam, salvage rebar, neon and objects cast in resin.

The artists are internationally exhibited, California-based Tre Bouscaren and award-winning, nationally exhibited photographer-turned-sculptor John Schlesinger, of Philadelphia. BO 6-10 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues by appointment only through February. 1137 Braddock Ave., Braddock. www.unsmokeartspace.com m

COMEDY Chicago-based comedian Charlie harlie Vergos visits the Technically Sunday y Comedy Show, hosted by John Dick Winters, at Arcade Comedy Theater.

Vergos has worked at The Onion and performed at various festivals, estivals, most recently, Atlanta’s Laughing ghing Skull Comedy Festival and the he Blue Whale Comedy Festival, l, in Oklahoma. His style makes use of his relaxed Memphis drawl and “scatterbrained mannerisms,” and also includes musical elements.

Vergos comes to Pittsburgh tonight as part of his Going Solo Tour. IF 11:45 p.m. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $5. 412-339-0608 or www. arcadecomedytheater.com

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MUSIC Rising talents offer classic arias rias and ^ Sat., Nov. 19: The Messiah more at a free Pittsburgh Youth Symphony th S h Orchestra performance at Carnegie Music Hall The Color of Sound features Pittsburgh Opera resident artists Leah De Gruyl and Brian Vu as soloists in the “Habanera,” “Seguidilla” and “The Toreador’s Song,” from Bizet’s Carmen.

Francesco Lecce-Chong conducts the program, which also includes RimskyKorsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol; De Falla’s Finale from The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2; and Brahm’s Symphony No. 2. BO 7 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free, but tickets required at 412-392-4872 or www.pyso.org.

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One of the first things you’ll notice about DiAnoia’s Eatery is the décor.

From the stylized bar cart by one of the entrances, to the blue- and green-bottle chandeliers, the colorful details in this Strip District space pop against a mostly white backdrop.

“Our influence came from Murano Venetian glass,” says owner Dave Anoia.

“It’s very colorful.”

And those Italian influences aren’t just in the interior stylings. DiAnoia’s marries three dining concepts: a café serving breakfast and coffee; a deli with sandwiches, cold salads and more; and fine dining Italian for dinner. There’s also a full bar program for morning, noon and night.

“My wife’s from Long Island, so we wanted to bring a little New York-style deli to the equation,” says Anoia. “I think it’s a cool little niche that could be filled.”

For breakfast, Anoia recommends an egg sandwich on a kaiser roll, a staple of most New York City delis. For lunch, his favorites are the veal scallopini (with pork-neck gravy and pecorino) and the porchetta panini (with rapini, provolone cheese and cherry pepper relish). For vegetarians, he suggests the fried polenta (mixed with mushrooms, cherry pepper relish and pecorino).

“There’s something for everyone,” says Anoia, the former chef de cuisine at Spoon. “We have a diverse clientele.”

The coffee and tea selection at DiAnoia’s is a draw as well. Specialties include the Calabrian Mocha — a double shot of espresso and local Brunton chocolate milk, infused with Calabrian chili pepper. And if you’re looking for a more adult beverage, DiAnoia’s also offers alcohol-infused coffee drinks.

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imagined dining in the laundromat behind the Shady Avenue Starbucks in Squirrel Hill. But now that it has become a Taiwanese restaurant, Café 33, we had just that opportunity.

It sure cleaned up nice. The building, a one-story postwar box, doesn’t have much inherent character to play up, but it’s set back from the sidewalk to create a pleasant forecourt permitting that holy grail of Pittsburgh dining, outdoor seating.

Indoors, the ambience is stylish without straining at hipster clichés (no barn wood, no Edison bulbs). There’s some elbow room, and it’s not especially loud.

While the decor seemed non-specific in its cultural references, the menu offered an extensive selection of distinctively Taiwanese cuisine. We love this

stead, we found a dozen or more options to tempt or challenge the palate, from marinated turnips to jellyfish with celery.

Our table quickly filled with platters and bowls. Potstickers were bite-sized, clearly housemade and well balanced between lightly crisped wrapper and lightly spiced filling. “Mini” soup dumplings were in fact only slightly smaller than most we’ve tried. They contained probably a bit less soup than was ideal, but still delivered that marvelously rich, savory soup-dumpling experience as the pork broth burst into our mouths at first chew. The dipping sauce, with filaments of fresh ginger, provided countering notes of brightness and zing.

A scallion pancake rolled around a thick, tender slice of beef was fantastic. It had a hint of crisp on the outside,

recent (and long-overdue) trend to move beyond generic Chinese-American stir-fries and acknowledge the exciting regional diversity of true Chinese cuisine.

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a fresh cucumber nestled alongside the beef within, and a sauce akin to mu shu sweetly tying all these flavors together.

Squid in sa cha flavored soup caught Angelique’s attention, and although our server struggled to explain sa cha (“salty and … yellow”), we tried it anyway. Good call: The broth was reminiscent of hotand-sour soup — clear yet deep brown in color, with a texture far from thin and some of those same sour notes. There was virtually no spicy heat to overpower the good flavors of mildly chewy squid, crunchy batons of bamboo shoot and wilted-yet-crisp shreds of cabbage. It was served in a large bowl with small cups for sharing, and we kept refilling small portions between our other courses.

We ordered “Smelly Crispy Bean Curd” despite the name. Essentially, this was a fermented version of fried tofu served with a kimchi-like pickle and spicy sauce drizzled on top, rather than dousing the curd.

Our daughter the tofu enthusiast found it too funky — the title was not a misnomer — but Angelique enjoyed the flavor, even as she thought it was a touch too dry.

Cucumbers with garlic were milder than variations we’ve had at Squirrel Hill’s Sichuan restaurants. Café 33 added some sweet red pepper to the mix, and the whole dish was bright and crispy and cool.

Pork with chives consisted of tiny crumbles of ground pork, stir-fried so as to create both charred and tender bits, mixed nearly equally with snippets of Chinese chive, which was treated as a vegetable rather than an herb. Spicy fermented-black-bean sauce wasn’t fiery hot, but added plenty of zest and dimension to this addictive dish, which was served with a modest portion of white rice alongside.

Pan-fried noodles were the closest thing we tried to a Chinese-American classic. The noodles themselves were ultrathin, crisp-fried into a sturdy bird’s-nest, and served beneath stir-fried vegetables with chicken and baby shrimp in a light brown sauce. Even with such a familiar preparation, Café 33 stood out for a broad array of perfectly cooked vegetables, clearly not dumped from a freezer bag; for the extraordinary texture of the velveted shrimp (a technique somewhat akin to battering, but with a lighter coating); and for the restraint of the simple sauce.

It’s an amazing time to be a fan of Chinese food in Pittsburgh. Café 33 joins our list of places we are eager to revisit for another taste of dishes we loved at first bite, as well as for further exploration of the delicacies of, in this case, authentic Taiwanese cuisine.

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BURGER FOR THE BROKENHEARTED {BY KELLY ANDREWS, GREENFIELD}

I highly recommend electric grills for anyone with an irrational fear of house fires. There’s no open flame, it warms and cools quickly, and it’s perfect for this dish to get you through your next breakup. Also, with all the money you’ll save not eating out with that “someone special,” it’s wise to invest in something that will outlast your next relationship. hip.

INGREDIENTS • 1 lb. lean ground d hamburger • pineapple slices • cottage cheese • sliced raw onion ((you’re single now, live it up) • pickles • 1 tsp. mayo and 1 tsp. barbecue sauce, mixed together BUN OPTIONS • <1 month after breakup: Eat this on a fresh bun. Cook two burgers, so you can eat the second cold out of the fridge later while you stare out your window questioning all your life decisions.

• >1 month after breakup: Cut carbs.

While you tell your friends that you’re never having sex again and working on body positivity, you will inevitably try some diet while comparing yourself to recently added friends on your ex’s Facebook.

Time for a sad, breadless existence.

INSTRUCTIONS Halve package of burger and lightly season, folding edges in to create a plump, round burger just like you from months of slothing on the couch with someone who never even said he loved you. Press your thumb into the center of the burger; the Internet recommends this. Spray the shit out of the grill grate with olive oil; throw the burger on the back and cook down, flipping over about every 7 minutes.

Possessing a toddler-like attention span, I use a meat thermometer to make sure the meat is an Internet-approved 160 degrees.

At some point, I add pineapple slices on a skewer to the mix, flipping them often.

Once the burger is finished and the pineapple looks softer, spoon some cottage cheese onto a plate, along with your preferred burger toppings. Slide the pineapple onto the cottage cheese, mixing it around a little. Now you’re ready to stare at the empty chair across the table, or change it up and watch videos of cats that act like spies.

Kelly Andrews is a poet who plans to stick around Pittsburgh indefinitely.

You can find more sad, healthy (and funny) meals on her blog sadhealthymeals. wordpress.com.

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Scaled-up drinks means happier holiday parties {BY DREW CRANISKY} HALLOWEEN CANDY supplies are dimin-

ishing, the clocks are rolled back and we’ve elected a new president. That can mean only one thing: It’s officially time to start freaking out about the holidays.

Though some people already have their gifts wrapped and party invitations in the mail, just typing those words gives me anxiety. I have done one important thing, however.

A few weeks ago, I whipped up a big batch of egg nog.

When it comes to holiday gatherings, batched cocktails are the way to go. Though the notion of mixing bespoke drinks at your next holiday bash might sound romantic, you don’t want to be stuck behind a bar all night instead of necking under the mistletoe. Batched cocktails allow you to offer a better booze selection while letting you actually enjoy your party. Here are a few tips for successfully scaling up your favorite cocktail.

To start, figure out the ratio of the drink you’d like to serve. For instance, many cocktails (like daiquiris and margaritas) are sours, which are 2:1:1—two parts spirit and one part each of sugar and citrus. Knowing that makes it easy to assemble a party-sized helping of whiskey sours. Four cups of bourbon, two cups of lemon juice and two cups of simple syrup, for example, will give you about 20 servings.

Don’t forget that cocktails are generally about 25 percent water. Shaking or

stirring with ice dilutes the cocktail as well as chilling it, smoothing the drink’s sharp edges. Though you could measure out the batched drink and then shake it to order, it’s simpler to just add the water in advance. In the aforementioned example, you’d want about two cups of water in your mix. I like to add the water slowly and taste frequently to get the dilution exactly where I want it.

All-booze cocktails like negronis and old-fashioneds work well for batching, as they can be made far in advance and even improve with age (for a truly memorable party, buy a small barrel and barrel-age your cocktail for a month). For drinks with citrus, do the juicing and mixing on the day of the event to avoid any off flavors. And if your drink has a sparkling component like Champagne or ginger beer, leave that for guests to add, as it will quickly go flat in a mix.

For serving, make sure the batched mix stays super-cold, since you won’t be mixing to order. Fill swing-top glass bottles (or reuse the liquor bottles you emptied when making the mix) and keep them in ice water. Leave a sign that clearly explains how to drink the cocktail — instruct guests about ice, garnishes and so on. And make sure you have appropriate cups. Though it might forge some memories, you probably don’t want your uncle filling his 16-ounce Solo cup with your handcrafted Manhattan.

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If you’re looking for the action found in Denis Villeneuve’s prior two works, Prisoners and Sicario, you won’t find it in his latest, the alien-contact think-piece Arrival. It’s a quieter sci-fi thriller, more akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which the nature of humans, not space men, is explored.

After alien vessels land at 12 spots around the globe, the U.S. Army conscripts renowned linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and transports her to rural Montana, where one of the vessels is parked. There, she is tasked with finding a way to communicate with the aliens to determine why they are here.

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The aliens — giant squid-like creatures who make noise — are open to a dialogue, allowing Banks and others to enter the spaceship and begin the slow, unsexy work of developing a method of communication. Meanwhile, a clock ticks as American, Chinese and Russian militaries edge closer to acting with force.

It all rests on the creation of a shared language: You can’t just ask a seemingly simply question like “what is your purpose on Earth?” if the other party doesn’t even comprehend the concept of an interrogative.

(China uses mah jongg to communicate with the aliens, but Banks is dismayed: A game encourages winners and losers, not cooperation.) Banks discovers that the aliens have a written language, albeit one whose structure differs significantly — and intriguingly — from our own.

Villeneuve employs a measured and sober style, slowly revealing the stories of the aliens and Banks. Adams quietly carries the film; Banks is our conduit to the intrigue, anxiety and wonder of communicating with aliens. And yet beneath her steady competence is vulnerability, which we see only in flashbacks to time spent with her young daughter.

Arrival’s timing is fortuitous, landing the very week we got schooled in how folks across the U.S. (and by extension, the world) aren’t communicating with one another very well. The film doesn’t offer any easy solution — and we can’t wait for actual aliens to give us a nudge — but it reminds us that we are capable of at least trying to bridge seemingly insurmountable chasms. But it takes thoughtfulness and persistence, and can’t be as immediately satisfying as blowing something up.

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HIS YEAR, the long-running Three Rivers Film Festival occupies fewer days, but still offers two dozen narrative and documentary features (all new to Pittsburgh), as well as events and guest speakers. The 35th annual festival, a partnership between Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Film Pittsburgh, runs from Wed., Nov. 16, through Sun., Nov. 20. Except for the opening-night film, the gay-marriage doc The Freedom to Marry, films screen at Filmmakers’ three theaters: Harris, Downtown; Melwood Screening Room, Oakland; and Regent Square, Edgewood. See www. filmpittsburgh.org for complete schedule and ticket information. Below are some reviews of scheduled films:

debut drama is a bit shaggy, but Fassbender and Gleeson deliver the stellar performances we expect from them. 9:15 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18.

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TRESPASS AGAINST US. Chad (Michael Fassbender) lives with his shambolic extended family in a trailer encampment in the English countryside. The gypsy-like group is headed by his domineering and manipulative father (Brendan Gleeson), who directs the men to undertake various petty crimes. But Chad has had enough, and is secretly plotting to break the family cycle and move his wife and kids out.

Best-laid plans and all that … Adam Smith’s

HUNTER GATHERER. After getting out of prison, Ashley (Andre Royo, from The Wire) scrambles to get his life — and maybe his old girlfriend — back. He befriends a young man named Jeremy (George Sample III), and the two trade help on their not-very-well-conceived schemes. Josh Locy’s dramedy appears to aim for a whimsical vibe, in which all these (very real) troubles around poverty, illiteracy and immature men are simply trappings for a woefully

under-developed character study. It’s a miss.

3:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 20. Harris TOWER. Keith Maitland’s affecting documentaryish drama recounts the fraught two hours before, during and after America’s first significant mass shooting, the August 1966 sniper attack from the clock tower at the University of Texas in Austin; one gunman shot 46 people, killing 14. The story is re-told by witnesses — students, cops, newsmen, bystanders. Maitland reconstructs the past with actors (rotoscoped into animation), intercutting archival footage. The first-person accounts, many untold until now, retain the event’s shock, even 50 years later, and a coda reinforces how such “unthinkable” acts of random gun violence on campuses have become all too commonplace.

6 p.m. Sun., Nov. 20. Harris

JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT. Tower was a “poor little rich boy” whose family’s affluent lifestyle exposed him to both fine and global cuisine. He broke onto the culinary scene in the 1970s after hiring on at Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse, and helped to create “California cuisine” (the antecedent of today’s seasonal and local).

Later, he opened the see-and-be-seen Stars restaurant in the 1980s. Then he dropped off the map. Lydia Tenaglia’s documentary recounts what happened, Tower’s influence, and whether there are second acts in the celebrity-chef realm.

Interesting stuff for foodies, despite the film’s occasional and confusing scrambling of the timeline. 1 p.m. Sun., Nov. 20. Harris

Other films playing include: the psychological thriller Always Shine; Contemporary Color, a doc about David Byrne’s embrace of school color guards; Kate Plays Christine, a exploration of an actress’ research into portraying newscaster Christine Chubbuck; a bio-pic about poet Emily Dickinson, A Quiet Passion; three Polish films; a shorts program; a Steeltown Entertainment Project event about local independent filmmaking; and the restored German silent circus drama, Variete, which will be accompanied by live music from Alloy Orchestra.

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Ivan Dixon’s controversial 1973 film The Spook Who Sat By the Door from troubles overcoming its tiny budget to its suppression by the FBI after its release.

There will be a Q&A with co-director Acham after the screening. 6 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18. Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $5 suggested donation. www.sembenefilmfestival.org

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THE INTERROGATION. In Vetrimaaran’s new thriller based on real events, four Tamil laborers are taken into police custody on questionable charges. The director is expected to attend. In Tamil and Telugu, with subtitles. 6 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18. McConomy Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon campus, Oakland. $10 ($5 students). www.cmu.edu/faces

ALLIED. In Robert Zemeckis’ World War II drama, an intelligence agent (Brad Pitt) in North Africa falls in love with a French resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard). Starts Wed., Nov. 23 BAD SANTA 2. Nasty Santa (Billy Bob Thornton) and his helper Marcus (Tony Cox) are back and looking to rob a charity on Christmas Eve. Mark Waters directs this comedy. Starts Wed., Nov. 23

FRIDA. Julie Taymor’s 2002 drama profiles Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), which follows Kahlo from adolescence through her tumultuous romance, marriage and divorce from womanizing artist Diego Rivera. Nov. 18-21 and Nov. 23-24. Row House Cinema

BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK. Ang Lee’s drama is adapted from Ben Fountain’s novel, about a soldier serving in the Iraq war who reflects on his experiences while participating in a patriotic salute to the troops during an NFL game. Starts Fri., Nov. 18

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BLEED FOR THIS. Miles Teller stars as Vinny Pazienza in Ben Younger’s bio-pic about the world-champion boxer who makes a comeback after being gravely injured in an automobile crash. Starts Fri., Nov. 18

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP. This highly entertaining 2010 loop-de-loop documentary about street art offers a straightforward history of the guerrilla public-art movement and the elusive British artist Banksy, along with plenty of pranking and disinformation. Nov. 18-22 and Nov. 24. Row House Cinema

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN. Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) is a bit of an oddball, but her adolescence is survivable because she has her awesome best friend. But when her BFF suddenly starts dating her older brother, Nadine has a series of social (and social-media) crises, and melts down.

Humorously, of course, because writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig’s coming-of-age tale is a lively comedy. It’s contrived from start to finish — and sure, it’s hard to truly feel sorry for such a bright, smart, attractive young woman with a huge slate of life’s advantages, but such is our story. (And that’s how real-life self-absorbed teens can roll.)

Steinfeld gets great assists from Hayden Szeto, who plays the stammering (but secretly cool) polite nerd who is crushing on her, and Woody Harrelson, who portrays the exasperated teacher in whom Nadine confides. It all resolves in a positive fashion without being mean, which isn’t a bad thing these days. Starts Fri., Nov. 18 (Al Hoff) ELLE. Paul Verhoeven directs this drama in which a businesswoman (Isabelle Huppert) tracks down the man who sexually assaulted her. Starts Wed., Nov. 23 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM. In David Yates’ fantasy tale, penned by J.K. Rowling, an English writer (Eddie Redmayne) travels to New York City in the 1920s and discovers its hidden world of witches and wizards. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Fri., Nov. 18 THE LOVE WITCH. It’s an age-old story: Heartbroken beautiful woman becomes a witch and uses her newfound skills to entice and ultimately destroy other men. In writer-director Anna Biller’s film, the newly widowed Elaine (Samantha Robinson) moves to a coastal Northern California town, and sets herself to bewitching some of the men. Fortuitously, the town already has a witch community, an herbal shop and a ladies-only tea room. Witch tales have long been a standin for narratives about female empowerment and sexuality, and Biller fills her film with many nods to this conceit, from explicit sermonizing to winking jokes.

The plot is a bit thin, though Robinson is a captivating enough screen presence to string it along. What is most compelling is Biller’s deep commitment to the look and vibe of witch-anddevil-worship B-films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It’s all there — from the saturated, garish color photography (Biller shot on 35 mm) and

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DOWNTOWN 81. Edo Bertoglio’s 1981 documentary spends a day with then-struggling artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; it’s a look at both the artist and the grubby but vibrant art scene in lower Manhattan. Nov. 18-20 and Nov. 22-24. Row House Cinema

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING. Peter Webber’s 2003 drama recounts the Dutch Master Vermeer’s fascination with a peasant girl, resulting in the well-known titular painting. Nov. 18-23. Row House Cinema THE LAST CROP. Chuck Schultz’s new documentary profiles a California couple as they spend 10 years trying to ensure the survival of their family farm. The film concludes a series of environmental films, and will be followed by a discussion led by Schultz. 7 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18. Phipps Conservatory, Schenley Park, Oakland. Free with regular admission. phipps.conservatory.org

The Edge of Seventeen stylized, hokey acting to old-fashioned costumes and sets. Biller even includes a musical interlude and mimics the older films’ oddball eroticism that straddles sexy and laughable. At two hours, The Love Witch is too long, but if you’re a fan of the genre, your interest will be sustained simply admiring this gorgeous homage.

Starts Fri., Nov. 18. Hollywood (AH) LOVING. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial Virginia couple whose then-illegal 1958 marriage landed them in jail, before fueling a court case that changed the law; Jeff Nichols directs this docudrama. Starts Wed., Nov. 23 MOANA. A young Pacific Islander woman and the demi-god Maui head off on a sailing journey in Disney’s animated adventure comedy, co-directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson provide voices. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Wed., Nov. 23 RULES DON’T APPLY. Warren Beatty writes and directs this period romance in which two employees of the reclusive Howard Hughes essay a romance despite company orders forbidding it. Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich star. Starts Wed., Nov. 23

REPERTORY FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Norman Jewison directs this 1971 musical favorite about a Jewish farmer (portrayed by Topol) in pre-revolutionary Russia who must

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marry off his daughters. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Nov. 16. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR. In Ivan Dixon’s somewhat thinky 1973 blaxploitation feature, a black man trains at the CIA, uncomplainingly putting up with a steady stream of racially motivated mistreatment. Then he secretly takes the skills he learned to the streets, seeking to foment a violent overthrow of the government. The provocation starts with the title’s wordplay on “spook” — slang for spy and a derogatory term for an African American. To be followed by a discussion led by filmmaker Christine Acham. 6 p.m. Thu., Nov. 17. Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $5 suggested donation. www.sembenefilmfestival.org THE STRANGER. In 1946, Orson Welles directed this taut drama about the search for a Nazi fugitive in Connecticut, starring himself, Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. To underscore the seriousness of the film’s plot, Welles incorporated documentary footage of Nazi concentration camps. Paul Guggenheimer, of WESA 90.5 FM, will introduce the film, and following the screening, he and Bob Hoover, retired book editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will lead a discussion.

7 p.m. Thu., Nov. 17. Hollywood INFILTRATING HOLLYWOOD: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR. This 2011 documentary from Christine Acham and Clifford Ward looks at African-American filmmaker

THREE STOOGES FESTIVAL. Laugh yourself back to a good place with the antics of Moe, Curly, Larry and Shemp, all featured in this collection of Three Stooges short films. 7 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18, and 6 p.m. Sun., Nov. 20. Parkway, McKees Rocks. $3 suggested donation FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM. Marc Levin directs this recent documentary which looks at the roots of the crack-cocaine epidemic in the inner cities in the late 1980s. Examined are: “Freeway” Rick Ross, Los Angeles’ “King of Crack,” and journalist Gary Webb’s investigation linking the drug trade to the CIA. To be followed by a Q&A, including Pittsburghers Chris Moore and Khalid Raheem. 2:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 19.

Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $5 suggested donation. www.sembenefilmfestival.org MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET. In George Seaton’s 1947 charmer, a Macy’s store Santa, Kris Kringle, claims to be the real deal. This being modern America, lawyers are called in, but what counts most is winning hearts, not court cases. Look for the red-and-white guy to triumph. 11 a.m. Sun., Nov. 20. Hollywood ICE GUARDIANS. Brett Harvey’s new documentary explores one of the more controversial aspects of professional ice hockey, the role of enforcer. These tough guys were once celebrated, but now such on-ice violence is criticized. Former NHL player and enforcer Eric “The Hand of God” Godard will introduce the film and host a Q&A after the screening. 7 p.m. Sun., Nov. 20. Hollywood IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. In Frank Capra’s beloved 1946 holiday classic, a harried man (Jimmy Stewart) rediscovers the simple joys of life. 7 p.m. Tue., Nov. 22, and 7 p.m. Wed., Nov. 23. Hollywood

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{BY CHARLIE DEITCH} This month marks the 25th Anniversary of City Paper and elsewhere in this issue I wrote about some of the news stories we’ve written over the years. And while CP’s sports page is a new creation, you can’t have a paper in Pittsburgh without doing some sports coverage. Here’s a list of some of my favorite sports stories from over the years.

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This is actually one of my favorite CP stories ever, mainly because it was written by Myron Cope three months before his death. Cope was a Steelers guy, but he called us because he wanted to write an opus detailing his frustration with the then-hopeless Pittsburgh Pirates. The brilliant piece begins with a nearly 4,000-word “conversation” between Pirates General Manager Dave Littlefield and then-manager Jim Tracy. That’s followed up by another 2,400 words by Myron breaking it all down: “Baseball has been offered at intervals between Jumbotron scoreboard showings of the pierogies tumbling through our burgh.” For any Pittsburgh Sports fan, it’s pure heaven.

Before I was a co-worker of Bill O’Driscoll’s, I was a fan of this story even though I worked for the competition at the time.

Also, I paid close attention to it because we both wrote on the same topic in the same year. It took me years to admit it, but Bill’s was better than mine (although I think highly of mine, as well).

MMA was illegal in a lot of states, but a group of local dedicated fighters were training and driving to places like West Virginia and Indiana for fights. It was a brutally elegant piece.

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“Hometown Hero: For Neil Walker, Pirates Success is Extra Special,” 2013: This is a

solid piece of sports storytelling, but the story behind the story makes it even better.

In 2013, the Pirates were preparing to head to the playoffs for the first time in 20 years. We decided to do a special issue. In recent years, I have done most of the sports coverage, but a torn Achilles tendon kept me on the shelf, so I sent Lauren Daley, a casual fan but top-notch journalist, to do the story. I told her everyone was friendly and if she needed help to just ask. So, at a press conference honoring Bill Mazeroski before the game, Daley turned to the young man next to her and asked, “Do you know where I can find Neil Walker?” And if you haven’t guessed already, she was talking to Neil Walker.

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Antonio Reddic, of the Steel City Yellow Jackets, moves the ball down court during the team’s win over the York Buccaneers, on Nov. 12.

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think about professional basketball, they’re likely to think about the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Philadelphia 76ers (that is, if they think about it at all). But since 2014, local hardcourt fans have had a semi-pro team of their own to follow.

The Steel City Yellow Jackets were founded in 2014 by Averill Pippens and Antjuan Washington as an expansion team of the historic American Basketball Association. (The league is officially licensed by the NBA.) The team is in its third season, and after a 132-102 win over the York Buccaneers Nov. 12, has improved to 2-1.

Antonio Reddic, a former standout and state champion with Aliquippa, has been with the team since the beginning. The team has improved in its first two seasons, he says, and a successful

season can end only one way — with an ABA championship.

“It seems like this team is more hungry,” Reddic says. “I love this team and I loved all three [seasons’] teams, but … this team wants to do something ... instead of just taking it game by game and [waiting to] see what happens.”

Pippens — now the team’s solo owner, who has led the Yellow Jackets to the playoffs in his first two seasons — compares his coaching style to the highflying, action-packed days of the Los Angeles Lakers that featured stars like Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

“I like my guys to get up and down the court,” says Pippens. “I like to make some jump shots; I like to see some dunks. We also like to play tough, physical defense and not give up 100 points.”

There are high expectations for this team as it looks for a third trip to the

playoffs. Pippens knows it will be a process, but believes this can be a championship team.

“We are competing for a championship,” says Pippens. “We understand that it’s going to be a building process, but we have the team to compete and make it to the playoffs, and contend in the playoffs for the championship.”

The run continues for the Yellow Jackets Sat. Nov. 19 when they take on the Trenton Cagers at 7 p.m. at the Barack Obama Academy gymnasium in East Liberty. Pippens encourages fans to come out and see the excitement that is Steel City Yellow Jackets Basketball.

“We have spectacular basketball here professionally in Pittsburgh,” Pippens says. “Fans need to come out and see some high-flying basketball. It’s going to be a highlight reel, so they need to come catch the buzz.”

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MAKING SCHENLEY GREAT AGAIN {BY MIKE WYSOCKI}

SINCE POLITICIANS are known for dutifully keeping campaign promises, we the people of Pittsburgh await the return of yesteryear. According to president-elect Trump, the steel mills are coming back. “We’re bringing them back, we’re bringing them back,” was the extent of Trump’s brilliant, specific one-point plan. Good-paying steel jobs are just around the corner, and maybe the Pittsburgh Maulers and the USFL will also return. But if we are going back to the future, let’s start with bringing back Schenley High School. Our region has numerous institutions with lists of impressive former students; Schenley’s roster is bigly.

DeJuan Blair played basketball at Schenley in one of its last classes before it was shut down a few years ago for rampant asbestos.

Blair played during the Jamie Dixon glory years at Pitt. He went on to play in the NBA for nine seasons with Dallas, San Antonio and Washington, D.C. Now he plays in the CBA — the Chinese Basketball Association.

Like Trump says, the jobs are going to China, and Blair is a member of the Jiangsu Monkey Kings. Blair isn’t even the most successful basketball player from the school; that would be Maurice Lucas. Lucas played in the ABA and NBA, and was an All-Star in both leagues.

His number is retired by the Portland TrailBlazers, the team he won an NBA championship with in 1977.

Darnell Dinkins won a Super Bowl with the Saints in the 2009 season; he played football at Schenley. So did Larry Brown.

No, not the one who ruined the Steelers’ trip to Super Bowl XXX by catching Neil O’Donnell’s perfect throw right at him for an interception. This Larry Brown played football for the politically incorrect Washington Redskins. Brown was a great running back who even won the NFL’s MVP award in the election year of 1972.

On the baseball side of things, Schenley’s contribution was the beloved Bob Prince. In his day, you could drink and smoke while you broadcast a game. Let’s bring that back, too. Prince rooted for his Pirates openly and didn’t care what people thought. That’s right; he told it like it was.

Bruno Sammartino, one of the giants of professional wrestling, is also a Schenley alum. Bruno, the immigrant, got bullied enough during his time there that he took

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There’s also Derrick Bell, but not the one from the Pittsburgh Pirates’ famed Operation Shutdown. This Derrick Bell was the first African-American professor at Harvard Law School. Clifford Schull, who won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1994, is also a notable Schenley graduates.

Moreover, the school is a veritable Jazz Hall of Fame. Jazz musicians are like offensive lineman: I don’t know a lot of their names, but if I have heard of them, they’re pretty good. Walt Harper, Ray Brown and George Benson are all names that sound pretty familiar.

Bill Nunn, who died recently, is also from Schenley. Like our new commander-in-chief, Nunn was in some movies; his included New Jack City, the Spider-Man movies and Do the Right Thing. Yes, Radio Raheem went to Schenley. Trump was in classic films like Ghosts Can’t Do It, Eddie and Playboy Video Centerfold. That’s right — in 2000, the soonto-be-leader of the free world had a cameo in a soft-core porn video.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Does the word “revolution” have any useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with such melodramatic agendas that it has lost its value? In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest we give it another chance. I think it deserves a cozy spot in your life during the next few months. As for what exactly that entails, let’s call on author Rebecca Solnit for inspiration. She says, “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

“We all have ghosts inside us, and it’s better when they speak than when they don’t,” wrote author Siri Hustvedt. The good news, Sagittarius, is that in recent weeks your personal ghosts have been discoursing at length. They have offered their interpretation of your life’s central mysteries and have provided twists on old stories you thought you had all figured out.

The bad news is that they don’t seem to want to shut up. Also, less than 25 percent of what they have been asserting is actually true or useful. But here’s the fantastic news: Those ghosts have delivered everything you need to know for now, and will obey if you tell them to take an extended vacation.

There is a 97 percent chance that you will NOT engage in the following activities within the next 30 days: naked skydiving, tight-rope walking between two skyscrapers, getting drunk on a mountaintop, taking ayahuasca with Peruvian shamans in a remote rural hut, or dancing ecstatically in a muddy pit of snakes. However, I suspect that you will be involved in almost equally exotic exploits — although less risky ones — that will require you to summon more pluck and improvisational skill than you knew you had.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the film Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman plays the role of God, and Capricorn actor Jim Carrey is a frustrated reporter named Bruce Nolan. After Nolan bemoans his rocky fate and blames it on God’s ineptitude, the Supreme Being reaches out by phone. (His number is 716-776-2323.) A series of conversations and negotiations ensues, leading Nolan on roller-coaster adventures that ultimately result in a mostly happy ending. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Capricorns will have an unusually high chance of making fruitful contact with a Higher Power or Illuminating Source in the coming weeks. I doubt that 716-776-2323 is the right contact information. But if you trust your intuition, I bet you’ll make the connection.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some spiders are both construction workers and artists. The webs they spin are not just strong and functional, but also feature decorative elements called “stabilimenta.” These may be as simple as zigzags or as complex as spiral whorls. Biologists say the stabilimenta draw prey to specific locations, help the spider hide and render the overall stability of the web more robust. As you enter the webbuilding phase of your cycle, Aquarius, I suggest that you include your own version of attractive stabilimenta. Your purpose, of course, is not to catch prey, but to bolster your network and invigorate your support system. Be artful as well as practical. (Thanks to Mother Nature Network’s Jaymi Heimbuch for info on stabilimenta.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Aren’t there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?” asked Piscean author David Foster Wallace. I propose that we make that one of your two keynotes during the next four weeks. Here’s a second keynote: As you become more and more skilled at not fueling the parts of yourself that are better left unfed, you will have a growing knack for identifying the parts of yourself that should be well fed. Feed them with care and artistry!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Onion, my favorite news source, reported that “It’s perfectly natural for people to fantasize about sandwiches other than the one currently in their hands.” You shouldn’t feel shame, the article said, if you’re enjoying a hoagie but suddenly feel an inexplicable yearning for a BLT or pastrami on rye. While I appreciate this reassuring counsel, I don’t think it applies to you in the coming weeks. In my opinion, you have a sacred duty to be unwaveringly faithful, both in your imagination and your actual behavior — as much for your own sake as for others’. I advise you to cultivate an up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have, and not indulge in obsessive fantasies about “what ifs.”

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By the time he died at the age of 87 in 1983, free-thinker Buckminster Fuller had licensed his inventions to more than 100 companies. But along the way, he often had to be patient as he waited for the world to be ready for his visionary creations. He was ahead of his time, dreaming up things that would be needed before anyone knew they’d be needed. I encourage you to be like him in the coming weeks, Libra. Try to anticipate the future. Generate possibilities that people are not yet ripe to accept, but will eventually be ready to embrace.

Here’s an experiment worth trying: Reach back into the past to find a remedy for what’s bugging you now. In other words, seek out on an old, perhaps even partially forgotten influence to resolve a current dilemma that has resisted

Though sometimes it’s impossible to do the right thing, doing the half-right thing may be a viable option. Give an example from your life: FreeWillAstrology.com

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I hesitate to deliver the contents of this horoscope without a disclaimer. Unless you are an extremely ethical person with a vivid streak of empathy, you might be prone to abuse the information I’m about to present. So please ignore it unless you can responsibly employ the concepts of benevolent mischief and tricky blessings and cathartic shenanigans. Ready? Here’s your oracle: Now is a favorable time for grayer truths, wilder leaps of the imagination, more useful bullshit, funnier enigmas and more outlandish stories seasoned with crazy wisdom.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Kavachi is an underwater volcano in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. It erupts periodically, and in general makes the surrounding water so hot and acidic that human divers must avoid it. And yet some hardy species live there, including crabs, jellyfish, stingrays and sharks. What adaptations and strategies enable them to thrive in such an extreme environment? Scientists don’t know. I’m going to draw a comparison between you and the resourceful creatures living near Kavachi.

In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll flourish in circumstances that normal people might find daunting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Seventeenth-century British people used the now-obsolete word “firktytoodle.” It meant “cud-

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dling and snuggling accompanied by leisurely experiments in smooching, fondling, licking, and sweet dirty talk.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to carry out extensive experiments in this activity. But here’s an interesting question: Will the near future also be a favorable phase for record levels of orgasmic release?

The answer: maybe, but IF AND ONLY IF you pursue firkytoodle as an end in itself; IF AND ONLY IF you relish the teasing and playing as if they were ultimate rewards, and don’t relegate them to being merely preliminary acts for pleasures that are supposedly bigger and better. P.S. These same principles apply not just to your intimate connections, but to everything else in your life, as well. Enjoying the journey is as important as reaching a destination.

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I’m a longtime fan — reader and listener — and part of the 47 percent of white women who did NOT vote for Donald Trump. To say I’m disappointed, horrified, scared and mad about the election is woefully insufficient.

I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood this morning because I honestly felt like there was nothing else I could do. That being said, I wanted to share that I had one of the most weirdly charged, hottest and sexiest orgasms. A little buzzed (dealing with those election results) and sad, my boyfriend and I turned to each other for consolation. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, we were fucking as Trump came on the TV to give his acceptance speech.

As that orange blowhard spewed more bullshit about being our president, I rode my boyfriend’s big, beautiful dick until I came. It was the perfect way to say, “Fuck this. Now fuck me.” I encourage all your readers to fuck out the stress from this election.

Yes, we should donate and volunteer and speak up and protest and vote and not give up hope, but we should also keep doing it and taking care of each other. Because love trumps hate, and fucking trumps … well, I’m not sure what fucking trumps. But it sure makes life better.

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our friends, neighbors and coworkers who are immigrants (documented or not), Muslims (American-born, immigrants or refugees), people of color, women seeking reproductive health care, trans men and women seeking safety, lesbian and gay men seeking to protect their families, and everyone and everything else Trump has threatened to harm, up to and including the planet we all live on.

But we must make time for joy and pleasure and laughter and friends and food and art and music and sex. During the darkest days of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic, when Republicans and religious conservatives controlled the federal government and were doing everything in their power to harm the sick and dying, queers organized and protested and volunteered and mourned. We also made music and theater and art. We took care of each other, and we danced and loved and fucked. Embracing joy and art and sex in the face of fear and uncertainty made us feel better — it kept us sane — and it had the added benefit of driving our enemies crazy. They couldn’t understand how we could be anything but miserable, given the challenges we faced — their greed, their indifference, their bigotry — but we created and experienced joy despite their hatred and despite this awful disease. We turned to each other — we turned to our lovers and friends and sometimes strangers — and said, “Fuck them. Now fuck me.”

We didn’t eradicate HIV/ AIDS, the disease that was sickening us then, but we fought it to a standstill and we may defeat it yet. The disease that now sickens our nation is different. We may never eradicate racism and sexism and hatred. But fight it we will. And don’t listen to anyone who tells you that music and dance and art and sex and joy are a distraction from the fight. They are a part of the fight.

SEX MAKES LIFE BETTER AND PEOPLE SHOULDN’T FEEL GUILTY AT THIS UNCERTAIN AND FEARFUL MOMENT IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY.

It’s important to practice good self-care in the wake of a traumatic event — the election qualifies as a traumatic event — and going by the definition of self-care at GoodTherapy.org, fucking the living shit out of someone qualifies as selfcare: “Actions that an individual might take in order to reach optimal physical and mental health … Self-care [includes] activities that an individual engages in to relax or attain emotional well-being, such as meditating, journaling or visiting a counselor.”

They’re too polite over at GoodTherapy.org to include “fucking the shit out of someone” on their list of examples, JULIE, but what you did on election night — which just so happens to be the exact same thing I did on election night — certainly meets all the criteria.

And if anyone out there who did the same on election night — fucked the shit out of someone — is feeling the least bit guilty, please know that millions of Americans did the exact same thing after 9/11. We used a different term to describe all that post-9/11 fucking: “terror-sex,” which New York magazine defined as “urgent, unguarded, end-of-the-world coitus inspired by that day’s sudden jolt of uncertainty and fear.”

I want to thank you for writing, JULIE, and I want to second your recommendation: Sex, partnered or solo, makes life better — and people shouldn’t feel guilty about fucking someone else and/or fucking/jacking/dildo-ing themselves at this uncertain and fearful moment in our nation’s history. Yes, we must donate and volunteer and protest and vote, all while reminding ourselves daily that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. And we must commit to defending

I’m heartsick about the election. Today I made a donation to Planned Parenthood.

PP asked me if I wanted my donation to be in honor of anyone and noted they’ll send a card to that person to let them know I’ve donated in their name. Why yes, I thought, I’d like to make my donation in honor of Mike Pence, vice president-elect. Until Jan. 20, his address is 4600 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46208. After Jan. 20, his address will sadly be 1 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, D.C. 20008. If any of your readers are inclined to join me in honoring our VP-elect, they can donate at plannedparenthood.org.

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In addition to donating to Planned Parenthood — which everyone should do — please donate to the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org).

Better yet, become a card-carrying member of the ACLU today. With Trump in the White House, and Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, freedom and decency need to lawyer the fuck up.

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