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EVENTS 4.20 – 6-10pm SENSORY-FRIENDLY AUTISM ACCEPTANCE DISCO Open to teens and their families and 21+ after 8pm. Free parking in The Warhol lot. Tickets $15/$10 students & seniors, $5 Access/EBT card holder

4.21 – 8pm GAB BONESSO WITH SPECIAL GUEST GENE COLLIER The Warhol theater Tickets $10/$8 members & students

4.22 – 8pm FILM SCREENING: ANDY WARHOL’S VINYL (1965) AT ACE HOTEL Ace Hotel – Gym (East Liberty) Ace Hotel Pittsburgh is The Warhol’s official hotel sponsor. FREE; Register at warhol.org

4.28 – 5-10pm YOUTH INVASION Teens’ take over the entire museum. Tickets $10/$5 students

5.11 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: SAN FERMIN WITH SPECIAL GUESTS LOW ROAR The Warhol entrance space Co-presented with WYEP 91.3FM Tickets $15/$12 members & students; VIP $65

4.21, 5.19, 6.16, 7.28 – 5-9:30pm The Factory, Free with Good Friday museum admission

Visit our hands-on underground studio to make art after dark during Factory Swing Shift. Visitors can drop in to experiment with a range of materials and techniques in a relaxed creative environment with skilled artist educators, special guests, and music. NEWS

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ANY PEOPLE have seen those

old pictures of Pittsburgh: The air pollution is so thick you can barely make out the skyscrapers Downtown. Smoke billows from old factories, blotting out the sun. Usually juxtaposed with gleaming current photos of the city, these pictures testify both to the city’s gritty past and how far we’ve come. Over the past decade, Pittsburgh has seen a lot of growth in environmental friendliness. New developments have been nationally recognized for reducing energy use, water consumption and transportation emissions. There are energy-efﬁcient

light bulbs in our streetlights. Formerly vacant lots are being converted into urban gardens. An eco-district planned for Uptown will further reduce the city’s environ-

Pittsburgh has been going green, but the city’s air quality is still pretty gray {BY REBECCA ADDISON} mental footprint. And earlier this month, Pittsburgh was awarded platinum status by Sustainable Pennsylvania, due in part to its environmental initiatives.

But despite these improvements, Pittsburgh is still very much gritty, and not in the complimentary way that might speak to our edginess, resolve and work ethic. The air we breathe is literally gritty. According to a report released this month by environmental group PennEnvironment, Pittsburgh is still the sootiest city on the East Coast. “Pittsburgh had the highest number of elevated soot-pollution days in 2015 on the East Coast,” says Adam Garber, deputy director of PennEnvironment. “Soot contributes to asthma attacks, cardiac disease, heart attacks and other respiratory problems. So, on those days, CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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when you go outside, it’s very dangerous to your health to breathe in the air.” At the federal level, efforts to improve air quality have recently been under attack thanks to President Donald Trump’s administration. In addition to rolling back environmental standards and policies, the administration has proposed a 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget. But environmental activists say there are things local government can do to improve air quality without the assistance of the federal government. Local activists are calling on the Allegheny County Health Department, which is responsible for regulating air pollutants, to do a better job overseeing industrial sources of air pollution, and enforcing the federal pollution standards currently on the books. “Allegheny County needs to really start enforcing and ratcheting down soot pollution from all the major industries within the county to make sure we’re putting public health ﬁrst,” says Garber. According to the report Our Health At Risk, by PennEnvironment’s Research and Policy Center, in 2015 (the most recent year data was available), people in Pittsburgh experienced 220 days with elevated levels of ﬁne-particulate matter.

The current state of our air quality increases the risk of premature death, asthma attacks, lung disease, heart disease, cancer and other adverse health effects. Additionally, a study published in January by Translational Psychiatry, an Australiabased medical journal, found that for older women, breathing polluted air nearly doubles the likelihood of developing dementia. PennEnvironment’s report also found that Pittsburgh experienced 93 days with elevated smog pollution, ranking third among cities in the northeastern U.S. “Physicians like myself have observed ﬁrst-hand the adverse effects of poor air quality on the health of our patients,” wrote Dr. Ned Ketyer, a local pediatrician and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health, in a statement. “Especially the ones among us who are most vulnerable — infants and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the poor.” PennEnvironment was one of four groups who last month provided notice that they intend to sue owners of the Allegheny Ludlum steel plant for violating the federal Clean Air Act by releasing pollution greater than the plant’s permit allows. Another source of contention for local environmental advocates is U.S. Steel’s

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Clairton Coke Works. According to PennEnvironment, the plant violated its emissions permits 6,700 times between Jan. 1, 2012, and May 31, 2015. The Allegheny County Health Department is responsible for issuing and enforcing emission limits for industrial air-polluters like Allegheny Ludlum and Clairton Coke Works. As a result of Clairton Coke Works’ violations, the health department reached a consent agreement with U.S. Steel to require operational changes and a $25,000 ﬁne. But PennEnvironment says the health department’s actions don’t go far enough. “A lot of this pollution comes from coke plants, chemical and metal manufacturing plants, and it’s contributing directly to the poor air quality,” Garber says. “The health department has the ability to both provide stronger enforcement of existing permits and set new permits, especially for those that are operating with outdated permits, to make sure we are reducing this pollution.” Additionally, according to PennEnvironment, “fourteen major pollution sources in the county are operating without proper Clean Air Act permits or under permits that expired at least 18 months ago.” “There are facilities that are operating

with an outdated or nonexistent cleanair permits, which is a huge problem when it comes to reducing this pollution,” says Garber. “The health department can and should establish strong clean-air permits that will start reducing these unhealthy clean-air days and protecting people’s health.” County health officials dispute PennEnvironment’s claims; Jim Kelly, deputy director of the county’s bureau for environmental health, calls them “disingenuous.” While permits must be renewed every five years, he says, companies are still held to those emissions levels even after the renewal date. “Any facility that exists has a permit. All requirements are always in full effect,” says Kelly. “I appreciate [PennEnvironment’s] stance, but we have to operate within a legal framework. When you make a statement like that [about enforcement being lax], it might demonstrate that you don’t know the legal frame.” According to Kelly, permits don’t really change when they’re renewed because his office is bound by the air-quality laws currently in place. He says his office does everything under its purview to hold companies that affect air quality accountable. But he says that real action to reduce air

EARTH DAY Environmental regulations are under attack, but you can raise your spirits with these events ECOLUTION FASHION SHOW 6-10 p.m. Thu., April 20. Fairmont Hotel, Downtown. www.showclix.com/event/ earth-day-ecolution-fashion-show

With the theme “Planets — Preserving the Wonders of the Universe,” this year’s show is curated by Richard Parsakian, owner of Eons Fashion Antique, a vintage clothing and accessories store. The show will highlight recycled and reused materials designed exclusively for Pittsburgh Earth Day by local designers.

PAINT THE SQUARE GREEN 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri., April 21, and Sat., April 22. Market Square, Downtown. www.pittsburghearthday.org

Market Square will feature an international market with a mix of local vendors specializing in earth-friendly products and services, along with organic and educational vendors and live music. Performers will include Rachel B, Nina Sainato and Nox Boys.

PITTSBURGH EARTH DAY SOLAR-POWERED FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Fri., April 21, and Sat., April 22. Fourth Avenue, Downtown. www.pittsburghearthday.org

Fourth Avenue, adjacent to Market Square and PPG Place, will be filled with food trucks from more than a dozen vendors running on solar-powered electricity.

PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY Fri., April 21, and Sat., April 22. Frick Park. www.pittsburghparks.org/earth-day

This community celebration sponsored by Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy at the recently opened Frick Environmental Center will feature hikes, live animal exhibitions and the opportunity to volunteer by planting trees and removing invasive plants, in Frick Park. There will also be a tree giveaway and a solar concert.

MARCH FOR SCIENCE Noon-2 p.m. Sat., April 22, Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland

The march will begin on Bigelow Boulevard between Fifth and Forbes avenues. Marchers will proceed up Forbes, turn left onto South Bellefield Avenue, turn left onto Fifth Avenue, and return to Bigelow Boulevard. There will be several speakers before and after the march.

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Engineer a night of science fun WITHOUT THE KIDS!

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pollution can happen only with change at the federal and state levels. “The people you elect to federal and state office, they are the ones who set the federal and local air-quality rules,” Kelly says. The Group Against Smog and Pollution, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, is also part of the coalition that filed a notice of intent against Allegheny Ludlum. John Baillie, staff attorney for GASP, says the county can do more to combat air pollution, but he says that’s only part of the problem. “If [the U.S.] were less reliant on coal for our electricity and more reliant on renewable sources, that would be a tremendous improvement,” Baillie says. “One of the problems for Pittsburgh is that it’s downwind from all the coal-fired power plants in the Midwest and Kentucky, so our air quality suffers as a result of that. Our own sources do their damage, but the air coming into the region is not as clean as it should be either.” Environmental regulations are currently under attack at the federal level, making it difficult to regulate air pollution in other states. The Trump administration recently instructed the Department of In-

terior to rewrite air-pollution regulations for oil and gas drilling. Similarly, Trump’s administration has instructed the EPA to rewrite the Clean Power Plan aimed at targeting emissions of the greenhouse gasses that drive climate change. And last month, the administration agreed to look at rolling back automobile fuel-efﬁciency standards that were ﬁnalized only this past January and which, according to PennEnvironment, were supposed to prevent 6 billion metric tons of global-warming pollution. PennEnvironment says the recent actions by the Trump administration will only exacerbate health risks associated with poor air quality. The group estimates that changes to the Clean Power Plan alone could lead to 3,600 additional premature deaths, 90,000 more asthma attacks in children, and 300,000 more missed work and school days by 2030. “As we’ve learned more about the effects of air pollution on human health, we’ve learned that the pollution levels of 100 years ago were absolutely intolerable,” Baillie says. “Although we’re better, we’re still not attaining the national air-quality standards we should.” RA D D I S ON @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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TRANSIT SHIFTS With the coming improvements of the BRT, some bus riders will have to transfer to get all the way Downtown {BY RYAN DETO} AFTER YEARS of waiting, plans to bring a

Bus Rapid Transit system to Pittsburgh are moving forward. The BRT, which some have called light rail on rubber wheels, will make substantial changes to infrastructure and design in the Fifth-Forbes corridor between Downtown and Oakland, including the installation of bus-only lanes, stations with large, modern shelters, and bike lanes. The BRT’s goal is to improve multi-modal transit between Pittsburgh’s two largest business centers, and decrease congestion. But if Pittsburgh’s Bus Rapid Transit line is installed between Downtown and Oakland, a minimum of 1,500 riders a day will be forced to transfer buses to make it Downtown. Riders coming from Braddock, Regent Square and Homestead will be most affected. Regular Port Authority buses, like the eight routes on the 61 and 71 lines, will not travel on the new BRT route, so riders of those routes will take their regular buses to Oakland and then hop on a BRT bus to continue Downtown. Transit advocates are pushing to make sure this issue is fully vetted, asking the Port Authority of Allegheny County to ensure Mon Valley and East End riders’ experiences aren’t worsened in exchange for BRT improvements to Oakland, Uptown and Downtown. “I think if we can’t [maintain] the current route structure with all the planning for the BRT, then I don’t believe it is worth it,” says Paul O’Hanlon of the Committee for Accessible Transportation. “I will oppose it.” Port Authority ofﬁcials are aware added transfers will make changes, and are prepared to mitigate the problem before the

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Bus stops like this one Downtown will be replaced by BRT stops, forcing some riders to transfer in Oakland.

BRT is finalized. But funding concerns and a push for a more futuristic public-transit vision suggest that compromises will have to be made. According to Port Authority’s assessment, the most comprehensive BRT design (with bus-only lanes between Downtown and Oakland, and two branches that ride in traffic, to Highland Park and Greenfield), could add 3,100 transfers a day. The number of people affected would be about half that, says Port Authority spokesperson Adam Brandolph, because most people will get two transfers a day — one inbound, one outbound. Still, 1,500 people will transfer in Oakland just to travel the same route they always have. O’Hanlon is currently opposed to the BRT for this reason. He says Port Authority hasn’t done an adequate job of communicating the potential downsides of the BRT. O’Hanlon says the BRT will lead to decreases in frequency for routes on the 61 line, and that riders coming to and from

the Mon Valley will have to wait longer for buses. “Imagine going home [from Downtown], how do you time that if your transfer bus is only coming every 30 minutes?” asks O’Hanlon. “What if you miss it?” Port Authority analyst Amy Silberman recognizes transfers will increase, but says the potential upside could make those rides shorter, even with a transfer. “The benefit overall, even if you are transferring, is that you still have a traveltime savings,” says Silberman. “We are projecting a seven-plus-minute travel-time reduction, and with about a five-minute transfer time, overall, the travel-time savings should be seen across the board.” But O’Hanlon wonders why transfers are necessary in the first place. He says current routes, like the 61s and 71s, could just as easily travel on new bus-only lanes. Silberman says this option is viable, but has issues. She says grant-funding for less comprehensive changes, like des-

ignating a lane as bus-only without installing modern stations and using new, electric vehicles, is limited and might not facilitate ridership growth. “What you don’t get if you don’t really do the full-scale infrastructure upgrade for a rapid-transit line, is you don’t get the new riders,” says Silberman. “So we are really hoping that [the BRT] is going to stimulate our ridership in this corridor and grow it significantly over time.” Molly Nichols, of transit-advocacy group Pittsburghers for Public Transit, sees potential upsides too, like congestion reduction. She points to Port Authority statistics showing that buses make up only 4 percent of vehicle traffic on the Fifth-Forbes corridor, even though 51 percent of people arriving in or moving through Oakland get there via bus. But Nichols also worries about Mon Valley riders who will lose route frequency. She points out that if these riders, who are majority black and low-income, are negatively affected, Port Authority could face charges of violating civil rights. “They have to prove that a project like this doesn’t have disproportionate impact on minorities or vulnerable populations,” says Nichols. She also wants Port Authority to ensure these added BRT transfers are free, since riders currently aren’t paying for them. Silberman says Port Authority will account for senior, low-income and minority riders, when moving forward with planning. And Brandolph says Port Authority is considering ensuring BRT transfers are free for some riders. Brandolph adds that many of these issues related to transfers will get more consideration, and a public vetting process, once the BRT route is finalized at the end of April. The City of Pittsburgh will apply for a federal grant at the end of September and, according to Silberman, the Port Authority will discuss and try to solve these transfer issues before then. RYA N D E TO@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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Join us at the Landmarks Preservation Resource Center for ongoing workshops as we continue programming on architecture, history, design, urban planning, and other topics related to how cities function and historic preservation as a tool of community development.

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care deeply about the environment. They’re especially interested in how much energy buildings consume — about 40 percent of total U.S. energy use, a key driver of climate change. The married couple spent years studying how to reduce the environmental impact of houses. A buildable lot in Squirrel Hill let them put their knowledge into practice. “When I had this chance, I had to do all the things I believe are necessary,” says de Barbaro. In February, the couple moved into one half of the sleek duplex they built: the first new-construction single-family passive house within city limits. A passive house is a high-performance building that minimizes energy use — to the point where it can be heated mostly by sunlight, and the warmth of the bodies and appliances inside — while maximizing comfort and air quality. The couple is marketing the second duplex unit on their quiet street just off Beechwood Boulevard. The four-bedroom, 2,350-square-foot house, with 9-foot ceilings, hardwood floors and an integral garage, lists for $599,000. That’s costlier than average in the neighborhood, but energy usage could be one-fourth or less of the usual for a house that size. (Open houses for 2885 Fernwald Road are scheduled Sun., April 23, April 30 and May 14; the house is on the Green Building Alliance’s May 18 Passive House tour.) The new house is the latest in a regional wave of buildings built to passive-house standards. Affordable-housing nonprofit ACTION-Housing built the first, a singlefamily dwelling in Heidelberg, in 2012. Others have included ACTION-Housing’s retrofit of a former YMCA as McKeesport Downtown Housing; ACTION’s newly built, multi-unit Uptown Lofts on Fifth; and a single-family retrofit in Shadyside by architect and local passive-house pioneer Laura Nettleton. One big boost was a decision two years ago by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Authority, which administers federal tax credits for low-income housing projects. PHFA began giving preference to projects built to passive-house standards. “It benefits the residents and it benefits us” because it keeps buildings affordable to occupy, says PHFA spokesman Scott Elliott. Of the 10 Pittsburgh-area projects PHFA approved last summer, three are passive, including multi-

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Lucyna de Barbaro on the front step of her new passive house, in Squirrel Hill

unit developments in Morningside, Mount Lebanon and Glassport. “Pittsburgh is probably one of the five hotspots in the country” for passive buildings, says Brandon Nicholson, a founding principal of NK Architects, based in Pittsburgh and Seattle and the architect on the Morningside and Glassport projects. NK claims 21 certified passive-house designers and consultants, the most of any firm in the country. The passive-house concept was born in the U.S. and perfected in Europe, re-emerging here in the 2000s. Buildings are highly insulated (with triple-paned windows) and tightly sealed. Heat-recovery-ventilation systems regulate temperature, humidity and air freshness. Sunlight is hoarded in winter and deflected in summer. Buildings built to passive standards need not pass the rigorous passive-house certification test to generate major energy savings. Passive houses typically cost more to build than “tocode” houses, but sometimes by only a few percent; the price of insulation and airtight sealing is largely offset by the scaled-down mechanicals (no furnace needed). Companies like Pittsburghbased Eco-Craft are even offering competitively priced modular passive houses. Lucyna de Barbaro and Ayres Freitas worked with passive-house certified architect Erik Fritzberg, but over four years faced challenges including finding contractors familiar with passive techniques. De Barbaro ended up her own general contractor. The couple (both trained physicists) did a lot of the painstaking sealing work themselves, stained the long-lasting acetylatedpine siding, and cut and installed the exterior fiber-cement panels. “It was a tremendous amount of work,” she says. The two units cost about $1.1 million to build. When the second unit, priced roughly at cost, sells, they’ll add solar panels. But even as is, de Barbaro says, she is very happy with the first home the couple, formerly renters, have owned in Pittsburgh. “It feels very luxurious,” she says, adding, “Truly all homes should be built this way.”

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Samuel West announced in April that his Museum of Failure will open in Helsingborg, Sweden, in June, to commemorate innovation missteps that might serve as inspiration for future successes. Among the initial exhibits: coffee-infused Coca-Cola; the Bic “For Her” pen (because women’s handwriting needs are surely unique); the Twitter Peek (a 2009 device that does nothing except send and receive tweets — and with a screen only 25 characters wide); and Harley-Davidson’s 1990s line of colognes (in retrospect as appealing, said West, as “oil and gas fumes”). (West’s is only the latest attempt to immortalize failure with a “museum.” Previous attempts, such as those in 2007 and 2014, apparently failed.)

In March, Harvard Medical School technicians announced a smartphone app to give fertility-conscious men an accurate semen analysis, including sperm concentration, motility and total count — costing probably less than $10. Included is a magnification attachment and a “microfluidic” chip. The insertable app magnifies and photographs the “loaded” chip, instantly reporting the results. (To answer the most frequent question: No, semen never touches your phone.) The device still needs Food and Drug Administration approval.

be just as effective as regular “exercise.” (The Fine Print: Vibration was shown only to aid “global bone formation,” which is not as useful for some people as “weight loss,” which was not studied; and anyway, the study was conducted on mice. Nonetheless, even for a mouse immobile on a vibrating machine, muscles contracted and relaxed multiple times per second. This “Fine Print” will soon be useful when hucksters learn of the study and try to sell gullible humans a “miracle” weightloss machine.)

Lancet. (Keys for having “the healthiest hearts in the world”: walk a lot and eat monkey, wild pig and piranha.)

Awesome: (1) University of Basel biologists writing in the journal Science of Nature in March calculated that the global population of spiders consumes at least 400 million tons of prey yearly — about as much, by weight, as the total of meat and fish consumed by all humans. (2) University of Utah researchers trained surveillance cameras on dead animals in a local desert to study scavenger behavior and were apparently astonished to witness the disappearances of two bait cows. Over the course of five days, according to the biologists’ recent journal article, two different badgers, working around the clock for days, had dug adjacent holes and completely buried the cows (for storage and/or to keep the carcasses from competitors).

A tanker truck overturned on a Los Angeles freeway on April 4, spilling its contents, injuring seven and inconveniencing hundreds (with at least a few surely tearful, since the tanker was hauling milk). And, at a Parks Canada station restroom in Banff, Alberta, on April 1, visitors found, inexplicably, three black bear cubs inside (although they were not reported to have “used” the facilities, it is still safe to assume that bears relieve themselves “in the woods”).

News You Can Use: A study published in the journal Endocrinology in March suggested that “whole-body” vibration might

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LIFE INSPIRED Dane, Jeff and Cassie make up the Pittsburgh alt-rock trio that is SOFT GIRL. The three combine their talents to create music that tells stories through splashes of art punk, indie and alternative rock. City Paper chatted with the trio via email to uncover its inner workings. A longer version of this interview is online at www.pghcitypaper.com. WHAT MUSIC/BOOKS/EXTERIOR THINGS INFLUENCE YOUR WRITING PROCESS? Jeff: Growing up around a lot of rust and machines and old factories really colors the things that you write about and the way you make art. Our music isn’t expressly political, but we are, so I think a big part of our vibe is being unapologetically who we are. Even if it’s not explicit in the lyrics, we try to come off that way and have a message behind our stuff. Our music isn’t expressly antifascist or pro-queer in the lyrics, but we are, so those themes and attitudes come across in the music. Art’s not created in a vacuum, so you can’t really separate our politics from the music we’re making, and we hope people going through the things we’re going through can connect with us through the music.

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WHAT INSPIRED THE “HOME/YOU” MUSIC VIDEO? WHERE DID YOU SHOOT THAT? Dane [who directed the video]: I’m notoriously terrible at making art directly about how I’m feeling. But I can take those feelings and sneak them in Trojanhorse style through a story; the song’s themes of isolation, listlessness and missing home immediately made me think of someone dying out in space, coming to terms with the fact that they can’t get back home, but still finding beauty in that. It was shot on a 24-hour road trip, primarily in Cooper’s Rock State Forest in West Virginia, Summerfield, Pa. — which is a town that’s now underwater — and Bairdford Park in West Deer Township.

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and Anna Thompson’s dance class are spent lying down, breathing, but otherwise silent. They debuted the class about two years ago, with a weekly Sunday appearance at the Space Upstairs, in Point Breeze. They do it less frequently now, but still, it starts with breathing. The duo, who dance, teach and make music as slowdanger, are classically trained dancers, so they know how important it is to feel comfortable in your body before it can become a vessel for expression. One of their first dance collaborations consisted simply of standing still at opposite sides of a room, staring at each other. Sometimes you gotta have stillness and silence to move and make noise. “We need to stand still until the urge to move comes through us,” says Thompson. Now, five years into a prolific artistic partnership, slowdanger is no longer standing still. In December of last year, with support from The Heinz Endowments, the pair

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wrote, performed and directed an ensemble dance piece called memory 4, staged at the New Hazlett Theater. In addition to releasing a number of tracks online last year, they contributed an EP to local netlabel La Squadra’s year of monthly releases. (The label is run by their manager Dario Miceli.)

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And ﬁnally, on April 20, they’re releasing their full-length debut called body (they’re not big on capital letters). They’ll celebrate the album’s release at a show at the Glitter Box Theater on April 21. Like their dance compositions, the 10 tracks on body are sensual, adventurous

and abstract. Reverb dominates nearly every corner of the production. Every song contains a few familiar elements of dance music, but the overall effect is surreal and disorienting and mesmerizing. “real fear, real lies” opens the album with a slow, threatening build, colored by menacing synths, syncopated hi-hats and Thompson’s eerie distant vocals. That description ﬁts most of body, actually, aside from a few outliers like the beautiful “honey please,” which consists only of ethereal vocal loops and a hypnotic lyrical melody from Thompson. Knight and Thompson’s partnership dates to their days in the dance program at Point Park University. They had what they call a “Facebook-messenger pen pal” friendship, exchanging pieces of dance and music they found inspiring over social media. Knight had a background in tap, while Thompson was trained in classical and musical theater, but both felt somewhat constrained by the rigidness of more traditional dance.

“I don’t even like Broadway, what am I doing?” Thompson remembers thinking. The summer after graduation, in 2012, the duo started making short films together and composing the scores themselves. It was ambient stuff, often built on field recordings captured on their phones. But as they got more experience, they recognized that the music could stand on its own. Around the same time, they started to become involved romantically. Their first date was a show at Garfield Artworks featuring locals Host Skull. Guitarist David Bernabo had asked Knight if he’d be interested in contributing improvised dance to the performance, which Knight failed to inform Thompson of beforehand. Nevertheless, they showed up and danced together on stage for 25-30 minutes, an experience Thompson calls “mysterious and scary.” That innate, off-the-cuff chemistry, often unspoken and difficult to describe, is what makes slowdanger’s work so surefooted. Another distinct quality of slowdanger’s work is the interest, or rather disinterest, in the idea of “completed work.” Samples from earlier releases are littered throughout body; Knight and Thompson consistently recycle and revisit past metaphors in their music and their dance; nothing they do is ever decidedly final. “Whenever we hear, ‘Oh, it’s a workin-progress showing’ or, ‘It’s a preview,’ we always think, everything is a work in progress,” says Knight. “We’re not reaching the precipice of a mountain,” says Thompson. “We’re constantly climbing a forever mountain.” Hitting the nail on the head for their Sisyphean imagery, one of their dance pieces involves the perpetual rolling of a car tire around the stage. If you’ve never seen them perform, start with their recently released video for “interaction,” from body. The video, directed by Bailey Donovan, leads off with the duo cast in a variety of lights and projected images, their faces superimposed into an amorphous being. But things really kick off when the beat drops: An ensemble of bodies, many former students of their dance class, begin sensual, pelvic movements in a variety of complexity and clothedness. One particularly enticing visual finds many of the bodies partially dismembered. Think Venus de Milo, dancing in slow motion. The overall effect is haunting and sexy, which also works as the three-word version of this story. In the coming months, slowdanger has a number of performances planned and dance classes scheduled, as well as plans to incorporate new technology like motioncapture into their performances. As always, it’s a work in progress. A L E X GOR DON@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

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From his days locally with the Steel Miners, and nationally with Gumball, Eric Vermillion has proven himself to be a wailer. He can come up with a sharp garage-rock groove, give it a solid bass line and belt out lyrics like his life depends on it. His band The Full Counts has been performing as a four-piece. Prior to bringing it to the stage, however, Vermillion and drummer Mike Quinlan recorded the basic tracks for First Out at Electric Eye Recorders, with Vermillion handling rhythm guitar and bass duties. Then they invited friends over to flesh out the songs. Former Gumball guitarist Don Fleming contributes screaming leads to “(No You) Don’t Let Me Down” and “The One,” threatening to take things over the edge with his wild delivery. While these cuts are the highlights of the album, other contributors help Vermillion create more than his usual chaos in the garage. On “Be With Me,” Ethan Winograd’s guitar leads are further emphasized by producer Michael Hickman’s 12-string guitar, which chimes in the background. Hickman also contributes mandolin, harmonica and lead guitar to the acoustic “Try Me On.” The other acoustic song, “On My Own,” finds a more subdued Vermillion backed by cello and piano, without losing any of its edge. A few of the songs could have been a tad shorter, but First Out (an eight-track record or 10-track CD) comes off like a strong debut, recorded with clarity. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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PUNK REUNION {BY MIKE SHANLEY} IF ONE THING can be deduced from the

Non-Punk Pittsburgh exhibition at SPACE Gallery, it’s the idea that once, anything was possible in the local music-and-arts community. The band Carsickness is proof positive. It came to life around 1979 and stayed together in various forms for roughly nine years, eventually morphing into the band Ploughman’s Lunch. The group was proliﬁc, launching the independent record label T.M.I. (short for “towards musical independence”) and releasing three singles and two albums, along with work by other bands. This weekend, Carsickness reunites for two performances to coincide with the exhibition (which Carsickness drummer Dennis Childers curated with Larry Rippel) and the release of 1979-1982, a compilation drawing on the band’s catalog, released by Pittsburgh’s Get Hip Records. Despite the times, guitarist/vocalist Karl Mullen (credited as “Joe Soap” on those early records) says the band’s music was not musically aligned with the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. “We knew, of course, that there was something going on in England and New York, something going on everywhere,” he says. “But this was us, doing our thing right where we lived.” Mullen’s angry rasp sounded like a distant cousin of The Clash’s Joe Strummer, especially when telling off the leader of the Ku Klux Klan in “Bill Wilkinson.” But in addition to guitar, bass and drums, the lineup included two keyboardists and a saxophonist. Mullen, who came to Pittsburgh from Ireland and now lives in western Massachusetts, says the musicians used their instruments in non-traditional ways. “Listening to that [compilation], the drums were like the lead melody. It was

like an orchestra,” he says. Carsickness was known for tense stops and starts during its songs, powered by Childers’ machine-gun drum rolls and bassist Chris Koenigsberg’s ﬂuid lines. The band’s earliest work actually has the fury of punk rock, but the group also had the potential to sound like a sped-up version of Peter Gabrielera Genesis. Childers got a kick out of novelist (and former Pitt student) Michael Chabon’s liner notes to the compilation, which refer to his intricate rhythms and patterns. “I was pretty much just following Chris, as far as I can remember. It took a while to keep up with him,” he says.

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Mullen and Childers both recall the fun of being in a band, but they promoted themselves extensively in those pre-internet days. This included piling into a van with no seatbelts and touring the East Coast and Canada. “We were playing every day for hours and hours,” says Childers. “We were in the studio. We were playing live gigs. We were really crazy-busy all the time.” The reunion brings Mullen and Childers together with original keyboardist Steve Sciulli. Paul Michael Ferraro, who remastered 1979-1982, will handle bass duties. Mullen’s daughter Maura will join the group on guitar and vocals. Mullen, who tends to look forward rather than backward, sounds excited by the event. “If I’d been asked 15 or 20 years ago, I probably would’ve said no,” he says. “Now that [the album] has been remastered, to me it sounds great. It’s better than I thought it was.”

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Tonight, the Glitter Box Theater hosts artists ranging from avant-garde cello and piano to bizarro folk. On the Water creates folk that mesmerizes in arrangement, and completely consumes your attention with delicate harp, cello, upright bass and acoustic guitar. With a powerful control of dynamics, On the Water lulls you into peace before yanking you back with a sharp forte shift. The spooky street-folk locals Cousin Boneless bring a distinctly dramatic flair to playing music you’d hear bursting out of a divey, smoke-filled bar where everyone drinks whiskey straight and could hex you in a second. Serpentine brings its sigil-esque rock and emotive exorcism to the gig, while Valerie Kuehne and Dubravka Bencic provide the avantgarde piano and cello sounds. MF 8 p.m. 460 Melwood Ave., Oakland. $5-10. All ages. www.theglitter boxtheater.com

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From his time with the legendary Guided Gucci Mane By Voices to lesser [HIP HOP] + APRIL 26 known side-projects like eyesinweasel and Let’s all give a Airport 5, to his latest solo release The Universe round of applause to the guy who made it and Me, Tobin Sprout has always been a reliable all worth it in 2016! Seeing Gucci Mane source for smart, unfancy lo-fi songwriting. return — after more than two years in prison But if you’re expecting all fuzz and feedback, — was nothing short of a blessing. Mr. Guwop check out the new album’s title track for a has been home for almost a year now, and surprisingly passive piano-driven pop song. has collaborated with Young Thug, Kodak, Not only is Sprout a talented musician, he is Quavo, Kanye, Travis Scott, Drake and many also a children’s-book author and visual artist. more. I know we’ve all been missing the Come check out whatever else he can do East Atlanta Santa. He’ll be sharing his gifts, tonight at Brillobox. I’m sure he’ll keep along with Dreezy and Playboi Carti, tonight surprising us. Alona Williams 9 p.m. at Stage AE. AW 6:30 p.m. 400 North Shore 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $14. 21-and-over. Drive, North Side. $42. 412-299-5483 or 412-692-4900 or www.brillobox.com www.promowestlive.com

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CLUB CAFE. Vita & the Woolf. 7 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOWLERS. Mindscar, Victims of Contagion & Manipulated Calamity. 7-11 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

BELVEDERE’S. Drake Night w/ DJ ADMC. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. DJ Tenova. ladies night. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Downtown. 412-471-2058. RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Rambo. 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.

DJS THU 20 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse. 9 p.m. Millvale. 412-821-4447. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. 10 p.m. Downtown. 412-471-2058.

TUE 25 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta. Reggae & dancehall. 10 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.

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FRI 21 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. 5 p.m. Downtown. 412-773-8884. THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. South Side. 412-586-7644. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Electro Funk Disco Party. 8 p.m.-midnight. North Side. 412-904-3335. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. 9 p.m. Downtown. 412-874-4582. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. Saturdays. South Side. 412-381-1330.

THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta & Preslav. Top Dollar Dancehall. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820. SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. 9:30 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4668. SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B WED 26 STAGE AE. Gucci Mane. 6:30 p.m. North Side. 412-229-5483.

BLUES FRI 21 565 LIVE. Ms Freddye’s Blues

Band. 8-11:30 p.m. Bellevue. 412-301-8158. MIKE’S NEW MOON SALOON. Jack of Diamonds. 9 p.m.-midnight. Gibsonia. 724-265-8188. ROASTED BARRELHOUSE & EATERY. Olga Watkins Band. 8-11 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-904-3470.

MON 24 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane, Ronnie Weiss & Tom Boyce. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Mon, 6:30 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Balcony Big Band. 7 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

ZANDERS SPORTS BAR & NIGHT CLUB. Strange Brew. 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Monroeville. 724-387-2444.

RIVERS CLUB. Jessica Lee & Friends. Last Wed of every month, 5:30 p.m. Downtown. 412-391-5227.

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THU 20 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. DK Anderson & the 420 All Stars. 9 p.m.-midnight. speakeasy. Roger Humphries Jam Session. ballroom. Thu, 8 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Thu, 5:30 p.m. Downtown. 412-394-3400.

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DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Michael Lindner. 9:30 p.m.12:30 a.m. Robinson. 412-489-5631. HOP FARM BREWING. The Shameless Hex. 8-11 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-726-7912. MJ’S STEEL CITY. Eclectic Aoustics. 6-9 p.m. Robinson. 724-227-3051.

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FRI 21 ANDORA RESTAURANT FOX CHAPEL. Pianist Harry Cardillo & vocalist Charlie Sanders. Fri, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fox Chapel. 412-967-1900. CITY OF ASYLUM @ ALPHABET CITY. Thomas Wendt Trio. 8-10 p.m. North Side. 412-435-1110. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Antoinette Manganas Trio. 7-10 p.m. speakeasy. Reggie Watkins Quintet presents “The Jimmy Knepper Project” feat. Sam Blakeslee. ballroom. 8-11 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335.

DOROTHY SIX BLAST FURNACE CAFE. The Probables. 7-10 p.m. Homestead. 412-464-9023. DOUBLETREE BY HILTON HOTEL. Ease. 5-8 p.m. Mars. 724-778-4177. PARK HOUSE. Morgan Erina. 9:30 p.m.-midnight. North Side. 412-224-2273.

565 LIVE. The Power Of Two. 8-11:30 p.m. Bellevue. 412-301-8158. BYS YOGA. No Shoes Sound Series feat. Arlo Aldo. 7:30-9 p.m. South Side. 412-481-YOGA. DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Right TurnClyde. 9 p.m. North Huntingdon. 724-863-8181. SIEB’S PUB & RESTAURANT. Eclectic Acoustics. 8-11 p.m. Ross. 412-364-8511.

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SUN 23 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Mark Strickland & Thomas Wendt Quartet. 7-10 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell & the Jazz Surgery. Sun, 7-10 p.m. McKees Rocks. 412-857-5809.

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BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Jeremy Fisher Jr & Peter Ahn. 5-7:30 p.m. Downtown. 412-325-6769. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD THE FUNHOUSE CHOPHOUSE BAR. @ MR. SMALLS. Roger Barbour Band. David Jacobs-Strain 7-11 p.m. Strip District. & Bob Beach. 7-10 p.m. www. per 412-281-6593. pa Millvale. 412-821-4447. pghcitym JAMES STREET .co GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. New World ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE Trio. album release. 9 p.m.#339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. midnight Tony Campbell Jam Wednesdays. Wed. North Side. Session. Sat, 5-8 p.m. North Side. 412-321-1834. 412-904-3335. PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET Band. Wed, 9 p.m. North Side. CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every 412-224-2273. Saturday, a different band. Sat, PENN HEBRON 7 p.m. Monroeville. 412-728-4155. GARDEN CLUB. Penn Hills PALANZO’S BUILDING. Avram Coffeehouse. Singer songwriter Fefer & Michael Bisio w/ Caleb showcase featuring a rotating Gamble & Joel Kennedy. 8-11 p.m. lineup of jazz, acoustic, bluegrass Bloomfield. 412-682-0591. & world music. 7-9 p.m. Penn Hills.

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412-204-7147. WHEELFISH. Jason Born. 7-10 p.m. Thru Dec. 27. Ross. 412-487-8909.

REGGAE THU 20 PIRATA. The Flow Band. 9 p.m.-midnight. Downtown. 412-323-3000.

FRI 21 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. HOLLYWOOD LANES. The Flow Band. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Dormont. 412-563-7655.

COUNTRY THU 20 CLUB CAFE. Hackensaw Boys & The Tillers. 7 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4950.

FRI 21 MEADOWS CASINO. Frank Vieira. 8 p.m.-midnight. Washington. 724-503-1200.

SAT 22 JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Justin Fabus. 8 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

CLASSICAL FRI 21 MOZART: THE LAST THREE SYMPHONIES. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

SAT 22 MOZART: THE LAST THREE SYMPHONIES. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

SUN 23 ALEXANDER KOBRIN: PIANO

RECITAL. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland. 412-371-7447. MOZART: THE LAST THREE SYMPHONIES. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

OTHER MUSIC THU 20 RIVERS CASINO. Ezra & John Acoustic Duo. 7-10 p.m. North Side. 412-231-7777.

FRI 21 LINDEN GROVE. Good Guys. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. RIVERS CASINO. Juan and Erika. 9 p.m.-midnight. Walk of Shame. 9 p.m.-midnight. North Side. 412-231-7777.

SAT 22 METTA. Vox Lumina Musical Medicine Show w/ Spiral Rhythms Ensemble & Octeel on Didgeridoo. A TranceDance/ TranceChant Experience. Earth Day edition: Heal Yourself/ Heal the Earth. Crystal bowls, didgeridoo, drums, trance dancing, trance chanting & healing bodies of water w/ sound. Come early for Chakra Activation Yoga class at 6:30 p.m. 7:30-11 p.m. Garfield. 412-258-93510. RIVERS CASINO. Nina Sainato Duo. 9 p.m.-midnight. North Side. 412-231-7777.

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April 19-25 WEDNESDAY 19 Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles

BYHAM THEATER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

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MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-421-4447. With special guests Marty Grimes, Swaghollywood, New Hippys & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticket web.com/opusone. 8p.m.

Sensory-Friendly Autism Acceptance Disco ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. Over 18 event after 8pm. For tickets and more info visit warhol.org. 6p.m.

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

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Tough Night On Carson, Saybrook, Escaping Destiny, Kaelber & Vacancy

MONDAY 24 The Maine

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. With special guests Jordan York & ALBVS. Over 21 show.

STAGE AE North Side. With special guests The Mowgli’s & Beach Weather. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-421-4447. All ages show. Tickets: ticket web.com/opusone. 7p.m.

Gab Bonesso ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. With special guest Gene Collier. For tickets and more info visit warhol.org. 8p.m.

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BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: pbt.org. 4:30p.m.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. Over 21 event. For events and more info visit pittsburghcraftbeerweek.com. Through Apr. 30.

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UNION PROJECT Highland Park. Free. Fore more info visit unionproject.org/events. 10a.m.

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PPG PAINTS ARENA Downtown. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. 8p.m.

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Average White Band Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.

East End Food Co-Op & 412 Food Rescue Present: Springfest

Gallery Crawl MULTIPLE LOCATIONS Cultural District. Free. For more info visit trustarts.org. 5:30p.m.

HOSANNA HOUSE Wilkinsburg. For tickets and more info visit springfest17. eventbrite.com. 1p.m.

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STAGE AE North Side. With special guest Stanaj.

PPG PAINTS ARENA Downtown. With special

guests Kiiara & Emily Warren. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.

SUNDAY 23

Mozart: The Last Three Symphonies HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org. 2:30p.m.

AUGUST WILSON CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

of Montreal MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-421-4447. With special guest Christina Schneider’s Jepeto Solutions. All age show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

Cashmere Cat REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-1681. Over 18 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

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JULIET REPRISED Easily the most world’s popular love story, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has inspired countless plays, movies and dance productions, not to mention recordings of Sergei Prokofiev’s iconic score for the ballet. In its 48-year history, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has performed several versions, including Daniel Pelzig’s, in 2001, and Jean-Christophe Maillot’s contemporary masterpiece, in 2009. The company adds another to the list April 2123, when it presents the North American premiere of British choreographer Derek Deane’s Romeo & Juliet with the PBT Orchestra, for five performances at the Benedum Center. Deane, a former principal dancer with England’s Royal Ballet, created the work for the English National Ballet in 1999. He says it was a challenge to step from the shadow of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s legendary 1965 Romeo and Juliet production for The Royal Ballet. “I was brought up on that,” says Deane, interviewed here in January, during PBT’s rehearsals for the show. “I danced it a hundred times, I did [the roles of] Tybalt, Benvolio and Romeo, and to try and get away from it was so hard because it is sort of in your blood.” Deane says he did so by making Juliet a very dominant character. “I tried to unbalance things a bit and make Juliet the strength, and not Romeo,” says Deane. “She is a very determined young girl who will not be moved.” Deane says he also made Tybalt a younger character, instead of what he calls “a nasty-uncle type.” From YouTube clips of Deane’s ballet, and in watching rehearsals of it this past January at PBT’s studios, I got a sense of the production’s expansiveness and of Deane’s faithfulness to Shakespeare’s universally known story as well as the classicality of Deane’s choreography for it. Unlike some ballet versions that alter the score or switch up the ending, Deane says he uses Prokofiev’s “exquisite music as is,” and that Juliet gets “the big stab” at the end. Romeo & Juliet is the second of Deane’s ballets that PBT will perform this season, after his Alice in Wonderland. And while Deane strived to set his work apart from his mentor MacMillan’s, that same pedigree for creating memorable ballet magic remains. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE performs ROMEO & JULIET Fri., April 21-Sun., April 23. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $28-108. 412-456-6666 or www.pbt.org

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Alexandra Kochis and Alejandro Diaz in Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet {PHOTO COURTESY OF RICH SOFRANKO}

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Firelei Baez’s “Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to Fan Test for the Month of June” (detail)

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F YOU ADMIRE visual art, do not

miss your chance to see Firelei Baez: Bloodlines, now at The Andy Warhol Museum. The work that went into these 17 paintings! Some are 6 feet tall, ink and acrylic labors of love, ranging from figurative to abstract, painted, washed out, scraped and carved, ornamented with hair’s-breadth details. The first pieces to greet you (if you turn right upon entering, and I insist you should) are medium-sized abstractions that look like scorched and blistered film. One title, “The last one who remembers it,” encourages its reading as a degraded image, or lost memory. Degraded images and lost memories are the show’s guiding concepts. Yes, the exhibit deals with race. Recurring motifs include Afro-picks, panthers and chains.

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But this isn’t a lecture. The secret of the Dominican-born, New York-based Baez’s work is the intimacy she assumes with us. One large-scale painting features a red-skinned woman wearing an elaborate tignon, the head-covering that women of color were

FIRELEI BAEZ: BLOODLINES continues through May 21. The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

mandated to wear by an old, shamefully obscured Louisiana law so their curls did not tempt white men. The show is an attempt to engage with the immorality inseparable from the

African diaspora, by a working artist whose life is indivisible from it. This is why you should walk right upon entering, so the ﬁnal work you’re left with is “Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to the Fan Test for the Month of June,” the embodiment of all the internalized history in the work you’ve seen before it. This piece consists of 28 silhouette self-portraits, featuring only eyes and arranged like a calendar, depicting the artist posing with different hairstyles. Sometimes her hair clouds around her in ringlets; sometimes her hair is ﬂat-ironed. Is the artist a temptress today, or is she wearing her electric tignon? Baez is most confrontational with the ugly, internalized yet obfuscated race and gender dynamics of the Americas in “Man without a country (a.k.a. anthropophagist

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Fans of Bricolage Production Company’s epic immersive, interactive theater work STRATA, and smaller-scale immersions like OjO, will look forward to the latest in the company’s Immersive Encounters series. They also won’t mind that Bricolage is providing even fewer details about IE: The Ascendants than it offered about previous offerings. Basically, you sign up for your 20-minute Ascendants time slot, and 24 hours in advance you’ll be told where to report in Downtown’s Cultural District. Beyond that, says Bricolage artistic director Jeffrey Carpenter: You’ll have two “dream hosts,” played by Andrea Kozia and Michael Brewer; the experience is about memory; and “It will hit all of the senses,” with an emphasis on the sound design by District 5. The show was developed by the core STRATA and OjO team, including Carpenter, Tami Dixon, Sam Turich and lead writer Gab Cody. It’s recommended for ages 16 and up (no children, please). And while you can buy tickets in groups of up to four per time slot, each participant gets her own “show.” “Mainly,” says Carpenter, “it’s a super-personalized experience.” April 21-May 14. Downtown. $15. www.bricolagepgh.org

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In the 1980s, playwright Frank Gagliano and Broadway composer Claibe Richardson created a musicaltheater work about the inhabitants of a mythical American town. To this blend of Our Town, Spoon River Anthology and Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris they gave the title From the Bodoni County Songbook Anthology: A Musical Revue (of sorts). With such politically and socially resonant tunes as “I Don’t Give a Shit About Anyone Else But Me” and “Culde-sac,” the work is timely once again. On April 24, Gagliano and Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh offer a free staged reading at Carnegie Stage. Melissa Martin directs a cast of seven including such local stalwarts as Jeffrey Howell, Christine Laitta and Connor McCanlus. 7:30 p.m. Mon., April 24. Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. Free. www.insideoffthewall.com

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wading in the Artibonite River),” a largescale collage featuring 144 small paintings on the pages of discarded old library books. The books contain, as wisdom, the outdated and discredited theory of Social Darwinism, the idea that social groups are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals. The concept was used to justify imperialism and racism; once, the prominent intellectual institutes of whole nations were sustained on the premise that if you could take it and rape it, it was meant to be yours. This knowledge enhances the viewing of the work, but it isn’t necessary. A woman’s detached, outstretched arm, brown and furry and tattooed in Caribbean florals, painted on the title page of the book The Decline of Competition: A Study of the Evolution of American Industry, speaks powerfully, and for itself. Not only is each piece in this exhibit technically impressive and thoughtfully stimulating, each is truly beautiful. Forget that “eye of the beholder” nonsense; the beauty emanates as though it were a physical property of the work, as though the accompanying placards should read “acrylic, ink, beauty on paper,” or as though it should perhaps be included in the dimensions. “Those who would douse it” is encased in its own alcove, wallpapered with Baez’s signature design, the eponymous “Bloodlines,” a coat of arms whose elements include black revolutionary symbols (those picks and panthers) married to Latin American azabache, charms to protect against evil spirits. (It’s a powerful declaration that Black and Latinx are not separate identities, and also a design pattern you aren’t soon to forget, as identifiable in my mind now as Keith Haring’s “Radiant Baby.”) “douse it” is enormous, and stunning, a magmatic silhouette of a woman with missionaries in her eyes and the colonial architecture of New Orleans and Haiti smoldering in the flames of her burning body. Kant argued that part of the experience of a beautiful object is that it should affect us as though it had a purpose in our lives. I notice most of the pieces in the show are on loan from private collectors. Baez’s work has been exhibited nationally, and it’s been written about in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Art in America. Firelei Baez: Bloodlines was arranged in 2015 by Pérez Art Museum Miami assistant curator María Elena Ortiz. The Pittsburgh presentation, coordinated by The Warhol’s associate curator of art, Jessica Beck, features three pieces unique to this show. The catalog, sold out at the time of my visit, features an original short story written by Haitian-American author Roxane Gay. It is Baez’s first solo show.

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MAKING SCENES {BY TED HOOVER} PEOPLE ARE hot messes!

If you don’t believe me, catch Coleman Domingo’s Wild With Happy, making its local debut at City Theatre, directed by Reginald L. Douglas. Gil is an African-American gay man nearing middle age, living in New York and chasing dreams of show-biz stardom. It’s impossible not to like, and root for, the incredibly down-to-earth and decent Gil — but at the same time, it’s impossible not to notice he’s nuttier than a squirrel’s intestine. He might have reasons to be whackedout, but, really girlfriend, get a grip! Unfortunately, that won’t happen because at the play’s beginning, his mother dies, sending Gil and a raft of wacky secondary characters into a tailspin of emotional indulgence. Domingo is a Broadway and TV star (you might remember his joint appearances with Kate McKinnon on The Big Gay Sketch Show) whose ventures into playwriting have been less well known but highly lauded. Wild With Happy has followed the usual new-play development path from readings to full produc-

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Corey Jones and C. Kelly Wright in Wild With Happy, at City Theatre

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tion; it is unclear, however, whether this production is the ﬁrst full-out production. It doesn’t matter, though, since no version is going to feature a four-person cast as fully committed as the one City Theatre has assembled: Corey Jones, as Gil, gives a deeply moving portrait of a man emotionally paralyzed by his mother’s death. C. Kelly Wright is captivating as both the recently deceased (and dreamy-eyed) mother and the hard-bitten aunt. Monteze Freeland plays a number of highly amusing supporting roles, including a morally expedient preacher and an outrageously funny best friend hiding pain under calculated shock. And Jason Shavers couldn’t be more adorable as a yearning, hopeful love interest. As with most plays written by actors, Wild With Happy works best as a collection of individual scenes allowing actors to shine … as opposed to featuring the solid dramaturgical spine a more seasoned playwright would have provided. Domingo’s play is really a showcase for great character actors to show off, which Wright, Freeland and Shavers do. And if it all collapses in on itself with an ending of unsupported magical lyricism — that’s more than OK, because Domingo has spent all that time giving his characters such enormous, palpable (and messy) humanity. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

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especially when the fights involve swordplay. If you do, too, you’ll love Carnegie Mellon School of Drama’s The Three Musketeers, adapted by Megan Monaghan Rivas from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. This is the final production of CMU’s main-stage season, and it feels like the graduating seniors throw everything they have into it. If you’re gonna go out big, this is the show to do it with. One of the most widely adapted works from its time (as the exceptionally enlightening essay by dramaturg Dani Joseph attests), this interpretation, according to the program, “reimagines 17th century France as a place where men and women are equally entitled,” and offers some exciting gender-switching in key roles. The 14 actors play 39 parts. Victoria Pedretti is superb as Captain Tréville, as is Spenser Pollard’s Cardinal Richelieu (he could pass for Charlton Heston’s son in the 1973 film version). Siddiq Saunderson (D’Artagnan) and Mckenna Slone (Milady) are excellent, and John Way (Bonacieux) echoes Spike Milligan’s comedic portrayal of this role in the 1973 film. The action is thrilling, the swordplay dazzling (thanks to fight director Michael Rossmy), and Marla Parker’s costumes are sumptuous. A few dropped swords and wigs led to witty ad-libs, which only enhanced the show’s exuberance.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS continues through April 29. Philip Chosky Theatre, CMU campus, 5000 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $28.75-33. 412-268-2407 or www.drama.cmu.edu

Andrew William Smith’s direction is sophisticated and daring, but during Act II, I started to feel like an overwhelmed tourist on a sightseeing bus when too many landmarks are pointed out. The onslaught of smash-cut scenes inserted to explain a multitude of plot points from the 550-page novel makes the action drag. Sarah Keller’s sets manage to be simultaneously grandiose and coarse, beﬁtting a 1625 milieu, when someone might walk into a royal palace covered with road dust and manure. Ben Vigman’s lighting effects produce moments of visual ecstasy, and the way he can slice up the stage is masterful. There is not enough room to list all the talented contributors to this scintillating production, but as the musketeers would say, “One for all, and all for one!” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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{BY STEVE SUCATO} In a 2015 review of Montreal-based BJM Danse, I referred to the troupe as â&#x20AC;&#x153;danceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool kids from up north with hairstyles to match.â&#x20AC;? Add that they might also be Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most plugged-in company when it comes to working with contemporary balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rising-star choreographers, and you have something pretty unheard of for a troupe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been around for 45 years. BJMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s April 22 Pittsburgh Dance Council program at the Byham Theater â&#x20AC;&#x201D; its first stop here since 2010 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; features a trio of just such up-and-coming choreographers. Created on BJM in 2012, AmericanIsraeli Barak Marshallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harryâ&#x20AC;? was inspired by the inner conflicts we all experience with regard to culture, gender and species. The energetic, sometimes humorous 40-minute dance-theater piece for 13 performers is set to an eclectic soundtrack ranging from Wayne Newton and Maria Callas to jazz and Israeli folk songs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harryâ&#x20AC;? revolves around a character who struggles to overcome forces both physical and existential. Says BJM artistic director Louis Robitaille by phone from Montreal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It relates to how troubled the world is today. There is a lot of theatricality, and the dancers speak, which brings the work to a human scale.â&#x20AC;? Another work about conflict is Amsterdam-based Israeli choreographer Itzik Galiliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight-minute pas de deux â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mono Lisa.â&#x20AC;? Set to Galili and Tomas Hofsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; industrial soundscape of atmospheric music, typewriter sounds, and clanking iron and steel, the technically challenging, tension-filled battle of the sexes will be performed by principal dancer Alexander Hille and BJMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poster diva, the international star CĂŠline Cassone. Rounding out the stylistically diverse ballet offerings will be Greek choreographer Adonis Foniadakisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kosmosâ&#x20AC;? (2014). The 35-minute work for a dozen dancers set to rumbling drum music by Julien Tarride was inspired by the frenetic bustle of everyday life. In that aforementioned 2015 review of BJM, I called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kosmosâ&#x20AC;? a tour de force of staminachallenging movement for BJMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dancers and a wild ride for the audience. Its final section offers a respite as it settles into quiet images of the beauty of the cosmos. More than just a killer showcase for the talents of cool kids from up north, says Robitaille, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This program will expose the audience to three completely different [choreographic] voices and show how rich dance can be.â&#x20AC;?

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04.20-04.27.17 Full events listed online at www.pghcitypaper.com If you care about the environment, these are daunting days: With missionary zeal, the Trump administration is reversing protections against things like dangerous pesticides and air and water pollution, and undoing even the modest advances we’ve made on climate change. So this Earth Day, April 22, make your first stop the PGH People’s Climate March Art Build. The event, at Oakland’s Blumcraft, is to create posters and other visuals for the April 29 People’s Climate March, in Oakland, which will echo locally the big climate protest planned that day in Washington, D.C. The event is hosted by the Education Rights Network and One Pennsylvania.

More purely festive ways to mark the holiday include Pittsburgh Earth Day, a three-day series of events Downtown. The annual festival begins with the Thu., April 20, Ecolution Fashion Show ($25), at the Farimount Hotel; this Richard Parsakian-organized event highlights designers using recycled and reused materials. Free events include a SolarPowered Food and Fashion Truck Festival at midday Friday and Saturday, on Fourth Avenue near Market Square. And all day Friday and Saturday, Paint the Square Green offers an outdoor Market Square venue for vendors with earth-friendly products and services, plus a new live musical act every hour. There’s also an April 21 Sustainability Business Breakfast, featuring a panel discussion (free; reservations required); April 21’s ticketed Lunch + Learn event; and April 22’s Great Lakes Brewing Sustainable Sips Pub Crawl (you drink, the brewery plants trees). The Pittsburgh Earth Day finale is La Vie en Vert ($42-75), a dinner at Coterie Company with a focus on locally sourced produce, with signature cocktails and live entertainment. BY BILL O’DRISCOLL

Climate March Art Build: 10:30 a.m.1 p.m. Sat., April 22 (460 Melwood Ave., Oakland; www.facebook.com, “pgh climate art build”). Pittsburgh Earth Day: Thu., April 20-Sun., April 22 (www.pittsburghearthday.org)

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friday 04.21 EXHIBIT Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens goes all-out for Earth Day, with four days of events. Today through Sunday, write a pledge to care for nature and place it on the “upcycled tree,” or help your kids pot a plant to take home. Today only, watch Inhabit, a feature-length documentary about permaculture. Saturday, enjoy the grand opening of the annual Butterfly Forest, where more than 20 species of our favorite pollinators flutter. And all four days, learn how to switch to 100 percent green electricity. Amani Newton 9:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Earth Day activities continue through Mon., April 24. 1 Schenley Park, Oakland. $11.95-17.95 (kids under 2 free.) 412-622-6914 or www.phipps.conservatory.org

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of the U.S. flag in braided black hair. Nationally exhibited, Virginia-based artist Sonya Clark explores history and politics through materials like human hair, thread and gold. Oaths and Epithets: Works by Sonya Clark, an exhibit at Contemporary Craft, opens tonight with a reception. Bill O’Driscoll Reception: 5:30-8 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Aug. 19. 2100 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-261-7003 or www.contemporarycraft.org

ART Tonight, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s spring Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District features new shows at Wood Street Galleries — bios [bible] and the big picture, highlighting robots that draw, and transcribe the Bible — and 707/709 Penn Galleries (Steve Prince’s Communal Resurrection, about the history of African-American music). Ongoing shows hold the floors at SPACE (with an album-release concert by Pittsburgh legends Carsickness), the August Wilson Center and ToonSeum. Also enjoy the ^ Fri., April 21: Butterfly Forest {PHOTO COURTESY OF JULIA PETRUSKA}

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Love Without Labels PGH Photo Booth; a performance of “Supernatural Shakespeare” scenes; live music and more. Ticketed Crawl After Dark attractions include improv at Arcade Comedy Theater and a post-crawl party at Future Tenant. BO 5:30-10 p.m. Downtown. Free. www.trustarts.org

MUSIC The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra offers the opportunity to “choose your own Mozart” this week. Music director Manfred Honeck combines the music of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart into three distinct concerts, each featuring one of Mozart’s final three symphonies. Choose among Symphony No. 39 on Friday, Symphony No. 40 on Saturday, and Symphony No. 41 for Sunday’s matinee. Fellow Austrian Till Fellner performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 during all three performances. AN 8 p.m. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $20-94. 412-392-4900 or pittsburghsymphony.org

STAGE Playwright Sarah Kane was a rising star before her death in 1999, at the age of 28. Her final play, 4.48 Psychosis, about a character waking in the early morning and grappling with a psychiatric crisis, debuted 16 months after her {ART BY SONYA CLARK} death, at London’s Royal Court Theatre. ^ Fri., April 21: The Guardian called it “haunting,” Oaths and Epithets: “uncompromising” and a “poetic Works by Sonya Clark meditation on suicide.” Starting tonight, Off the Wall Productions stages a production starring Siovhan Christensen, Erika Cuenca and Tammy Tsai, and directed by Robyne Parrish. AN 8 p.m. Continues through May 6. Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $25-40. 724-873-3576 or www.insideofthewall.com

COMEDY Over its 23 years, The Andy Warhol Museum has hosted anything and everything — everything but standup comedy. That changes tonight when local fave Gab Bonesso headlines the release party for her first album. Everyone’s Dead (recorded live a week after her brother’s funeral) highlights Bonesso’s eccentric, high-energy, aburdist takes on everything from politics to mental illness. Comic and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports columnist Gene Collier opens. BO 8 p.m. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $8-10. www.warhol.org CONTINUES ON PG. 32

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sunday 04.23 OUTDOORS Allegheny Cemetery is among the oldest incorporated cemeteries in the U.S. Ever been there — for a stroll? Venture Outdoors leads today’s easy two-mile Allegheny Cemetery Walk, which includes a talk about the cemetery’s history and such famous residents as Stephen Foster and Lillian Russell. BO 1-4 p.m. Lawrenceville. $12. www.ventureoutdoors.org

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Valerie Sweeney Prince, the Allegheny College English professor and author of Burnin’ Down the House: Home in African American Literature, headlines a special night at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. The Seminary’s Metro-Urban Institute joins local arts, advocacy and education organizations to present a lecture and dramatic reading of Prince’s Waterbearer, historical fiction contemplating laundry in the lives of African-American women. A presentation follows by Living Waters of Larimer, a group working to integrate green infrastructure into urban spaces. AN 6:30 p.m. 616 N. Highland Ave., East Liberty. Free. 412-924-1449 or www.pts.edu

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It was a wonderful opportunity to listen to the voice, and to see in person, someone that you spend a lot of time reading. Just to be in the presence of someone who spends a lot of time by herself writing, there’s something wonderful about her talking about her process, sharing that. I’ve taught her [work]. The Farming of Bones, I’ve taught Create Dangerously. I write about her as well. I wrote a chapter in a forthcoming book about the relationship between fiction and nonfiction, and the process of how she writes it. You know, this is a very literary city, it’s a very arts-driven city. Next week, Annie Proulx is coming, [and] I was at an event at the Music Hall in February with Michael Chabon. Keep on the lookout, keep your eyes and ears open, because there’s a lot of literary events [in Pittsburgh].

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wednesday 04.26 FUNDRAISER Break those piggy banks for a good cause: The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, Southwestern Pennsylvania’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS service organization, is holding its 31st Annual Benefit evening. Tickets start at $150, and proceeds support PATF’s free HIV, STI and hepatitis C testing, treatment and prevention outreach services. The evening’s highlights include Broadway performers Constantine Rousouli and Ginifer King, contortionist Topher Bousquet, and painted live models by Caleb Green. Drag queen Miss Thea Trix will emcee and host the Parisian-themed evening, titled “A Moulin Twist.” AN 6-10 p.m. Jay Verno Studios, 3030 Jane St., South Side. www.patf.org

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At the Bridge Series, monthly literary Last fall, indie-comics star Dash Shaw readings by local talent raise money (New School, Cosplayers), premiered for local causes. Tonight, at Brillobox, his animated feature film My Entire readers include Veronica Corpuz, a High School Sinking Into the Sea at poet and artist working on a memoir the Toronto International Film Festival. of prose poems about her late The epic dark comedy follows a group husband’s battle with brain cancer. of high school kids trying to survive {PHOTO COURTESY OF BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS} Also reading are Deesha Philyaw, the titular disaster. Shaw wrote and ^ Wed., April 26: The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force a nationally published writer on directed, with some background art by parenting, race, gender and pop Pittsburgh’s own Frank Santoro; the allculture who’s working on a novel, and novelist and playwright star voice cast includes Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Sarah Shotland, who’s writing an essay collection about her Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph and Susan Sarandon. Shaw himself experiences teaching writing in jails and prisons. Tonight’s visits Row House Cinema tonight for the Pittsburgh premiere; beneficiary is World Without Walls, the nonprofit that a regular run at Row House begins April 28. BO 7:15 p.m. Shotland co-founded to teach creative writing to prisoners 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $12-20. www.rowhouse.com and women in residential treatment facilities. BO 8 p.m. COMEDY 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $5. www.facebook.com If you didn’t get acquainted with Sarah Silverman in 2005, (“bridge series corpuz”)

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SIMPLY THE BEST {BY REBECCA ADDISON} Z-Best Barbeque Chicken and Ribs has been serving Pittsburgh’s Uptown community for nearly a decade. Originally located on Herron Avenue, it recently moved to Fifth Avenue near Duquesne University, Mercy Hospital and the PPG Paints Arena, and business has never been better. Z-Best offers the usual barbecue staples, and like many of the best barbecue joints, it’s a family business. It’s owned by Darwin Copeland and managed by his sister, Darla Copeland, and the recipes made here have been passed down from the Copelands’ grandmother. Darla says her grandmother taught Darwin to cook at an early age. “It’s a food we identify with in our heritage,” Darla says. “It’s something we always typically make on Sundays and at holiday dinners, and it’s comforting to us.” The menu features a number of meal options where customers can choose from meats such as chicken wings and ribs, and from a long list of sides including macand-cheese and greens, two of Z-Best’s customers’ favorites. The eatery also offers fish and pulled pork. And every meal comes with a piece of cornbread. Z-Best is committed to serving the local community. It regularly donates food to local organizations, including the YMCA in the Hill District and the Jubilee Soup Kitchen. And at the end of the day, any leftover food is donated to the homeless. “Everything we do is for the community,” Darla says. The restaurant also offers a catering service, and this side of the business has been growing steadily. “We’re looking to get more help because we’re getting larger and larger,” says catering manager Lisa Cunningham. “We’re excited about that.” RADDISON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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ORGIVE US if the opening of a restaurant called Pirata inspires a moment of musing about our beloved, underachieving Pittsburgh Pirates. The demands of synergy would seem to dictate that Pirata would, at the very least, have its crow’s nest on the North Shore, but instead it is located in a shiny new skyscraper just outside of Market Square. And while the piratical decor is overt, with treasure-map murals and thatched-roofed gestures toward island architecture, it managed to just sidestep the realm of kitsch. The front room is dominated by a big, four-sided bar (where, yes, the ballgame was on), but the back dining room, designed to be closed off for private events, was cozier and more intimate, with warm lighting and upholstered chairs.

We picked out a corner spot at the bar, the better to let the tender guide us through the extensive rum menu. Reviewing cocktails is outside our lane, so we’ll just say

PIRATA 274 Forbes Ave., Downtown. 412-323-3000 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-midnight; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sun. noon-9 p.m. Late night menu: Mon.-Sat. 10 p.m.-midnight PRICES: Appetizers, tacos, soups, sandwiches and salads $8-16; empanadas and sides $4-6; entrees $15-28 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED that Pirata offers a starkly different selection from the whiskey bars that dominate the city’s cocktail scene these days. The food, on the other hand, was right up our alley. Spanning from Cuba

to South America, with plenty of island stops along the way, this was a thoroughly modern selection that didn’t take any of its inspirations too literally. Or perhaps it did; our wallet doesn’t cover a sojourn to St. Bart’s to compare tuna tartare on a taco shell made from a crisp-fried slice of taro. Authentic or not, this was a brilliant combination, creating a delicate, but not bland, envelope for luscious tuna, while avocado built further richness and jalapeño brought suitable heat. There were five additional tacos served on corn tortillas: two Mexican, two Jamaican and one original with pork belly and smoked sweet-potato puree. We chose arrachera, marinated skirt steak with grilled sweet onions and a sundried-tomato chimichurri. It was a lot of flavor in a small package: The meat was CONTINUES ON PG. 34

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chewy but not tough; the chimi intense; and the onion provided a bit of sweetness and, if not brightness, then contrast. Trinidad salt-cod fritters were a bit too salty for our tastes, but our more saltfriendly dining companion scarfed them down. We all enjoyed the meaty texture, more substantial than fresh fish but not chewy or tough. We also believe you can’t go wrong with cilantro-garlic-cream sauce, and Pirata didn’t. The kitchen did take a wrong turn with a side of tostones, double-fried green plantains with mojo de ajo, a slowcooked garlic and oil sauce. The sauce was flavorful, but where great tostones pair a semi-firm, vegetal interior with a crispy exterior roughed up from smashing, these large, flat disks were tough inside, despite being thin, and had very little crunch. On the other hand, black bean soup with sofrito salsa and sour cream was superb: supple, savory, and deeply aromatic with sautéed onions, garlic and seasonings. Depending where you go in Latin America, the empanadas vary widely, from crunchy dumplings akin to deepfried pierogi to flaky, turnover-like pastries. Pirata’s were somewhere in between, with a wrapper that was a bit breadier than pie dough. It was certainly different from what typically surrounds Jamaican beef patty, which was the filling we tried. The beef was distinctly less fiery than typical Jamaican as well, but also had a better texture, crumbly and meaty, not smooth and pasty. After all this, there was still more to explore, including half-a-dozen enticing entrees. Barbados fish fry, made with the fish of the day and served with fries and slaw, won out. That sounds like a churchbasement menu, but not at any of the churches around here. The fish, a thick slab of red snapper in a dark, crunchy crust that we swore had hints of coconut, was superb — flaky and moist and more than substantial enough not to be overshadowed by that crust. Fries were simple shoestrings that ranged from crisp to slightly tender; they were delicious dipped in papaya-ginger tartar sauce that offered more zip than most friesfriendly condiments. The island slaw also stood out with cabbage, peppers, carrots, mango, seeds and berries. It was lightly dressed so that these myriad flavors and texture mingled to the fore, just held together by the hints of citrus. Pirata’s pan-Caribbean concept might not be unique, but the recipes were impressively confident and the execution excellent, especially for such a new kitchen. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

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CURRY THAT’LL MAKE YOU HOT FOR YOURSELF {BY KELLY ANDREWS, GREENFIELD} I don’t normally associate the word “cauliflower” with self-gratification, but this curry is so delicious, it’ll make you want to strip down and go to town on yourself after eating it. You won’t even think about your ex this time. Hell, you might even pull out a mirror and watch yourself, this cauliflower curry is that good. INGREDIENTS • 1 head of cauliflower (see, vegetables can sound sexy) xy) • 1 small potato • 4 tbsp. vegetable oil • 1 tsp. ground turmeric • ½ tsp. ground cumin • ½ tsp. ground corianderr • ½ tsp. cayenne pepper • 1 clove garlic, minced • ½ onion, chopped thin • 1 tsp. salt • 1¼ cups water • 1 medium-sized tomato, chopped • 2 tbsp. lemon juice • 2 cups rice (boxed or bagged) INSTRUCTIONS Think about making this dish as going on an elaborate date with yourself. For the prep part, cleaning up is always a good start. Scrub potato and boil until almost tender, about 5 minutes. Wash cauliflower and chop into small florets. Prepare rice according to directions on package and set aside. Heat oil in a large skillet; add turmeric, cumin, coriander, cayenne, garlic and onions. Sauté over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for 3 or 4 minutes. Turn on some music that gets you in the mood. I recommend Glass Animals’ “Gooey” to get your body limber. Add cauliflower and sauté, stirring often, for about 4 or 5 minutes. Then add salt and water, and cover the pan tightly. Allow curry to simmer while covered for about 5 minutes. Cube potato and add to pan. Cover again and simmer for 10 minutes. Put on some lipstick, and dance in whatever outfit makes you feel like the hottest piece of ass in Pittsburgh. Add the tomato and lemon juice, and stir uncovered over medium heat for another few minutes. Serve immediately over rice. Optional: a few drops of yogurt or sour cream mixed in with extra lemon juice on top. And remember, there are plenty of ways to satiate one’s appetite. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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. WE WANT YOUR PERSONAL RECIPES AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM. EMAIL THEM TO CELINE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM.

BOOZE BATTLES {BY CELINE ROBERTS}

Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste both drinks and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and use #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to food-and-beverage writer Celine Roberts, at celine@pghcitypaper.com.

THE DRINK: SPARKLING RUM

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Pisco sour, a tart, silky-smooth summertime drink

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SUMMERTIME SIPS For seasonal variety, try South American spirits {BY DREW CRANISKY}

Poros 2 PPG Place, Downtown DRINK: Visinada INGREDIENTS: Maggie’s Farm white rum, Rothman & Winter Orchard Cherry liqueur, lemon, brut sparkling wine, orange twist OUR TAKE: The roundness of the rum complements the sharp tart flavors of the sour-cherry liqueur. Mineral tones from the sparkling wine provide dryness, while the citrus lifts and lightens the flavor profile without increasing the tartness.

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DON’T GET ME wrong: I like whiskey all year long. But there’s something about the colder months that makes barrel-aged spirits, like scotch and cognac, particularly appealing. And though I won’t abandon my bottle of bourbon this summer, I do start to crave lighter, brighter liquor when the weather warms. This year, spice up your summer tippling with a few traditional spirits from South America. South Americans argue over Peruvian and Chilean pisco the way Squirrel Hill residents quibble about Mineo’s and Aiello’s. For centuries, the two countries have fought over who can truly claim pisco as its national spirit. Though there are

time drink (see recipe below). Cachaça, a Brazilian spirit made from fermented sugar-cane juice, is another worthy South American addition to your liquor cabinet. The spirit’s use of sugarcane juice differentiates it from most rums, which are generally distilled from molasses. This method gives cachaça a fresh, bright ﬂavor that sometimes veers toward grassy and vegetal notes. Cachaça connoisseurs will tell you that the best versions, including those aged in indigenous Brazilian wood, should be enjoyed neat. But even a less-than-stellar cachaça can work in a caipirinha, the national cocktail of Brazil. The drink, whose named roughly translates to “hillbilly,” is dead simple to prepare. Just muddle a small handful of lime quarters with a spoonful of sugar, then add a healthy glug of cachaça and some crushed ice. It doesn’t get much easier — or more refreshing. As the weather warms, it makes sense that we turn to spirits made in warm places. Like rum and tequila, pisco and cachaça burst with sunshine. Next time you need a back-porch sipper, skip the light beer and hit the liquor store instead.

some important differences in production, pisco is a brandy made from a handful of varieties of South American wine grapes. Unlike many other brandies, piscos are rarely aged in barrels (though Chile produces the occasional aged version). The clear brandy, therefore, has more in common with tequila and grappa than cognac. Throughout South America and beyond, well-made piscos are prized for their complex, delicate ﬂavors and rich mouthfeel. Though pisco can certainly be enjoyed on its own, the spirit shines brightest in a classic pisco sour. The mixture of pisco, sugar, citrus and egg white makes for a tart, silky-smooth summer-

Pisco Sour RECIPE COURTESY OF ROB MCCAUGHEY, OF PALATE PARTNERS

• 2 oz. pisco (I prefer a Peruvian, nonaromatic style such as Macchu Pisco) • ½ oz. simple syrup • ¾ oz. lemon juice • 1 egg white Shake all ingredients vigorously with ice until your arm hurts. Then strain into a shaker without ice and shake some more. (The aim is to create a silky texture without too much dilution.) Strain into a cocktail glass and add a few dashes of aromatic bitters. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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Space Dust IPA, Elysian Brewing Company

DRINK: The Old Cuban INGREDIENTS: Cruzan aged rum, lime juice, brut champagne, mint OUR TAKE: More proof that rum and champagne should be together more often, this slant on a mojito is herbal, effervescent and refreshing. Served straight and topped with bubbly, the mint is the star of the cocktail.

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$7.50/pint “It’s a hoppy beer, but it’s not over the top on bitterness. As IPAs go, it’s very smooth, while not being low on alcohol. It’s 8.2 percent ABV.” RECOMMENDED BY ANGELICA NAVISH, BARTENDER AT CITY WORKS EATERY AND POUR HOUSE

Space Dust IPA is available at City Works Eatery and Pour House, Downtown.

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IS IT EVER OK TO MAKE JOKES ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST?

{BY AL HOFF} Somewhere in this franchise, there’s a story about how a low-ball streetracer from Los Angeles and his crew can build up a résumé to become super-secret agents who save the planet from total destruction. Like most everything in The Fate of the Furious (a.k.a. Fast and Furious 8), it’s best just to accept this without question.

Michelle Rodriguez is ready to hit the road.

F. Gary Gray’s actioner finds the gang re-assembling and taking on the cyber-villain Cipher (Charlize Theron), who operates in an undetectable plane (that apparently never needs to land anywhere). Also, steady leader Dom (Vin Diesel) has flipped to the dark side, leaving the racers in the hands of the second-banana big-armed baldie (Dwayne Johnson).

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JEWISH FILM FEST {BY AL HOFF}

IT’S MORE CARS, MORE WRECKS AND SAVING THE WHOLE WORLD.

HE 24TH annual JFilm, formerly

After an amuse-bouche of oldschool street-racing in Havana, everybody moves onto spectacular CGI-heavy wreck-o-ramas. One, in Manhattan, involves fleets of driverless cars going bonkers and driving off buildings into writhing metal piles. After the New York bang-up, our heroes get word something villainous is afoot in the Russian Arctic, and — whoosh — they’re there, fully kitted out in parkas and each with his or her own souped-up ride. Roadrunner cartoons have more commitment to plot, and surer adherence to the inviolable laws of time and space. Fate tries to make up for the previous film’s emotional punch (over which the ghost of recently deceased star Paul Walker hung) with a lot of fan service and winking self-awareness. Eight films in, this is a smart enough play, but doubling down on the familiar — and stretching it out over two hours — puts this film on a continuum between silly fun and tiresome.

known as the Pittsburgh JewishIsraeli Film Festival, opens its 11-day run on Thu., April 20. The festival offers 20 recent films from Israel and around the world representing Jewish experiences from the comic to the dramatic, in narrative features and documentaries. Films screen at the following venues: Manor, in Squirrel Hill; Carmike 10, at South Hills Village; Hollywood Theater, in Dormont; and Seton Hill University, in Greensburg. Tickets for most films are $12 for adults and $6 for under 18. For tickets and more information, visit www.JfilmPgh.org. Below are reviews for four films screening the first week: PAST LIFE. Set in the 1970s, Avi Nesher’s Israeli drama focuses on two families coming to terms with events that occurred in Europe during World War II. The adult daughters of Dr. Milch — now comfortably relocated to Israel — undertake some detective work to determine why, when one sister was visiting Germany,

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an elderly Polish woman accused her of being the “daughter of a murderer.” It’s a difficult journey, but facilitated by the younger generation working through the collateral damage imposed by their scarred parents, and perhaps, the healing power of music. In various languages, with subtitles. 5:30 p.m. Fri., April 21 FAMILY COMMITMENTS. Hanno Olderdissen’s German comedy sets up a slew of at-odds players and lets the silliness unfold. There’s one gay Jewish man, his overbearing mother, and an artist in the attic. The boyfriend is Arab, and not out to his father, who rents from the Jewish mom. Add a pregnant student who claims one of the gay men is the daddy. It’s a cheerful mess of culture clashes and misunderstandings, albeit with a predictable outcome — but such is the manner of situation comedies. And it’s nice to have everything wrap up happily. In German and Arabic, with subtitles. 5:15 p.m. Mon., April 24, and 4:30 p.m. Sat., April 29 AKA NADIA. In Tova Ascher’s Israeli drama, the story begins in the late 1980s, when a young Palestinian woman named Nadia moves to London with her boyfriend. But things go

wrong in an unexpected fashion. The film then jumps ahead 20 years to catch up with Nadia living with her husband and kids in Jerusalem — seemingly happily, until a figure from her past causes her new life to unravel. A quietly acted melodrama that probes deeper into issues such as national identity, family, loyalty and whether some acts are unforgiveable. In Hebrew and Arabic, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Mon., April 24 THE LAST LAUGH. “Comedy puts light onto darkness, and darkness can’t live where there is light,” explains comedian Sarah Silverman, in Ferne Pearlstein’s documentary essay. The film asks a fascinating question: Is it ever OK to make jokes about the Holocaust? Several notable funny people, most of them Jewish, weigh in, including Gilbert Gottfried, Larry Charles, Rob and Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks (who gave us “Springtime for Hitler”). There are lots of clips, provocative musings (why The Producers works, and Life Is Beautiful doesn’t) and explanations for humor’s power as a survival mechanism. Laughter is also a form of protest: A Holocaust survivor, whom we follow through the film, knows her greatest revenge is to enjoy the life the Nazis weren’t able to take from her. 7 p.m. Wed., April 26 A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

for laughs as Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu, of Mystery Science Theater 3000, screen terrible films (it’s a surprise) and mock them live. The Friday and Saturday shows feature different content. 8 p.m. Fri., April 21, and 8 p.m. Sat., April 22. Hollywood

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POLICE ACADEMY. A load of misfits make an effort to be cops in Hugh Wilson’s 1984 comedy starring Steve Guttenberg. April 21-24 and April 26-27. Row House Cinema

NEW FREE FIRE. One night in 1978, at an abandoned warehouse in an isolated part of Boston. Two gangs meet to complete a standard business deal — a suitcase of cash for a van full of guns. What could possibly go wrong? Seasoned viewers of crime thrillers know the answer is: Everything. Spectacularly. In this iteration, directed and co-written by Ben Wheatley (High-Rise, Kill List), the squabbling starts in the first moment, and escalates quickly. From the greasy dudes there for muscle and the local deal-makers (Armie Hammer, Brie Larson) to some international parties, including two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley), it’s a group of folks given to paranoia, profanity and hairtrigger responses. Larson mostly holds her own in this room full of scenery-chewers, though her character lacks much color for her to play with. Unlike Sharlto Copley, who steals the show as armsmerchant Vernon, a preening South African (or “Austrian,” per some of the dumber folks on site), who drops his catch phrase “Live and Vern,” to little effect. Unsurprisingly, this one-room action movie is a non-stop parade of insults, snappy comebacks, and lots and lots of shooting. It’s actually more fun when the bullets run out, and weapons must be scavenged from the assorted debris. (Free Fire certainly nods to Tarantino, including one snarkily used soft-rock song.) It’s a tidy 90 minutes, and perfect if you need nothing more than a silly non-stop shoot-out. Starts Fri., April 21 (Al Hoff)

THE LOST CITY OF Z. Charlie Hunnam stars in James Gray’s adaptation of the David Grann nonfiction book about a real-life British explorer who journeys to the Amazon in the early 20th century looking for a mysterious city. Starts Fri., April 21 THE PROMISE. This historical melodrama, set in Turkey at the end of the Ottoman Empire and the start of the Great War, sets a love triangle against the horrors of civilians caught up in armed conflict as the Turks turn against the Armenians. Our players, who meet in Istanbul, are the sensitive young Armenian medical student Mikael (Oscar Isaac), a lively Armenian teacher named Ana (Charlotte Le Bon) and her sort-of boyfriend, the American journalist Chris Myers (Christian Bale). This is a similar plot to the recently released The Ottoman Lieutenant, though The Promise is the better film all around, with superior actors, story and production values, and a clearer historical perspective on the Armenian genocide. The Promise is directed by Terry George, who also helmed Hotel Rwanda, and it’s a solid effort. There is something perfunctory and old-fashioned about the love-triangle element, which creates artificial emotional tension, right up through the last reel. But fans of the tragic war-romance genre should find this engaging, despite its predictability, and Isaac delivers another soulful performance. Starts Fri., April 21 (AH) THE TICKET. Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Legion) stars in Ido Fluk’s drama about a blind man who regains his sight and finds it to be a catalyst for rejecting the building blocks of his happy life, such as his marriage and his job. Harris

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THE JERK. “The new phone book’s here!” That’s just one of the many keeper lines from Carl Reiner’s off-kilter 1979 comedy about a simple-minded man (Steve Martin) who gets rich from a lucky invention. April 21-27. Row House Cinema SHORT CIRCUIT. It’s nothing but fun times when a robot develops feelings and heads out on an adventure. Steve Guttenberg stars in John Badham’s 1986 comedy. April 21-27. Row House Cinema

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THREE AMIGOS. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short are three actors playing Mexican bandits … who wind up in a real shooting match. John Landis directs this 1986 comedy. April 21-27. Row House Cinema VINYL. Catch a screening of Andy Warhol’s 1965 film, a loose adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, starring Gerard Malanga as a juvenile delinquent. 8 p.m. Sat., April 22. Ace Hotel (in the gym), 120 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty. www. warhol.org. Free HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE. The saga of the young wizard continues in this 2005 outing, the fourth in the series, and directed by Peter Yates. Among its highlights: Harry is forced to enter the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Noon, Sun., April 23. Tull Family Theater, 418 Walnut St., Sewickley. www.thetullfamilytheater.org

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UNFORGETTABLE. Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl star in this melodrama about a former wife who makes things very difficult for her ex-husband’s current spouse. Denise Di Novi directs. Starts Fri., April 24

but the players decide to win out of spite. Tom Berenger, Corbin Benson and Charlie Sheen star in David S. Ward’s 1989 comedy. 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 19. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5

REPERTORY WESTWORLD. Seen the recent HBO series? Now scope out the original tale of the pretend Westernthemed amusement park, populated by robots, and what happens when they revolt. Yul Brenner stars in writer-director Michael Crichton’s 1973 scifi thriller. 2:45 p.m. Wed., April 19, and 6:05 p.m. Thu., April 20. Row House Cinema STARSHIP TROOPERS. Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 actioner finds a group of soldiers, in some troubled future, fighting giant alien bugs. Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards star. 4:45 p.m. Wed., April 19, and 1:45 p.m. Thu., April 20. Row House Cinema BARD SONGS. Sander Francken’s 2010 film presents three stories from around the globe that combine modern life with traditional folk tales and songs. Presented by Silk Screen. In various languages, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Wed., April 19. Waterworks Cinema TOTAL RECALL. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 adaptation of the Philip K. Dick sci-fi tale about the trouble with implanted memories. 7:20 p.m. Wed., April 19, and 9:45 p.m. Thu., April 20. Row House Cinema MAJOR LEAGUE. For business reasons, a team owner puts together a terrible baseball team,

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DISTRICT 9. A South African man winds up on the side of imprisoned alien creatures, who are fighting to break free of their encampment, in Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 geopolitical-ish sci-fi thriller. 9:40 p.m. Wed., April 19. Row House Cinema HALF-BAKED. It’s 4/20, and thus time to kick back with Tamra Davis’ 1998 stoner comedy, in which some dudes figure they can sell weed to help get their pal out of jail. Dave Chappelle heads up a cast that is best noted for the many celebrity cameos. 4:20 and 8 p.m. Thu., April 20. Row House Cinema EQUAL MEANS EQUAL. Kamala Lopez’s recent documentary looks at the ongoing unequal treatment of women in the United States, using real-life cases that reveal inequities in the workplace, justice system, health care and more. The screening continues an ongoing series of social-justice films. 6:30 p.m. Thu., April 20. Eddy Theater, Chatham campus, Shadyside. Free. www.justfilmspgh.org HERMITAGE REVEALED. Margy Kinmonth’s 2004 documentary examines the history of Russia’s famed Hermitage art collection, among the world’s largest, on its 250th anniversary. Beautiful art in a beautiful building, once an imperial palace. 7:15 p.m. Thu., April 20, and 1 p.m. Sun., April 23. Tull Family Theater, 418 Walnut St., Sewickley. www.thetullfamilytheater.org THE MADS: LIVE MOVIE RIFFING. Settle back

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THE STING. George Roy Hill’s popular 1973 buddy comedy about 1930s Chicago con men finds small-time grifter Robert Redford hooking up with a seasoned pro (Paul Newman); together they assemble a veritable thieves’ den of tricksters to fleece a big-money man. The Sting netted seven Academy Awards, including one for Marvin Hamlisch’s rework of Scott Joplin’s rag tunes, and another for Edith Head’s marvelous costumes, a triumph in pin-stripes. 11 a.m. Sun., April 23. Hollywood DELI MAN. Erik Greenberg Anjou’s entertaining 2014 documentary recounts the history and current state of Jewish delis in the United States. As immigrants assimilated into a new country, the “traditional” deli was born of melting-pot cities, exposure to new cuisines and changing lifestyles. In the 1930s, there were more than 1,500 Jewish delis in New York City alone; today, there are approximately 150 nationwide. Anjou checks in with a handful, from well-known eateries in New York to new venues in San Francisco and Toronto. 6:45 p.m. Sun., April 23. Hollywood. $15 (includes food). Must register by 9 p.m. Thu., April 20, at 412-668-0737 or denisreeltoreel@gmail.com. MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA. Dash Shaw writes and directs this animated dark comedy about a high school, which after an earthquake, floats out to sea. Lena Dunham, Alex Karpovsky, Maya Rudolph and Jason Schwartzman are among those who supply voices. The Pittsburgh premiere is tonight (the film returns April 28), and Shaw is expected to attend. 7:15 p.m. Tue., April 25. Row House Cinema. $12-20 THE SOUND OF MUSIC. These hills are alive … with the sound of music. Julie Andrews stars in Robert Wise’s 1965 musical dramedy about the singing Von Trapp family. 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 26. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5

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REMEMBERING DAN ROONEY I didn’t know Dan Rooney, but like many Pittsburghers, I felt like I did. Rooney died April 13 at the age of 84, and this city is mourning his loss. The Steelers owner spent his life in this town. His family and the Steelers are such an important part of this city’s identity and heritage; I think a lot of us felt like we lost a member of our family. I would occasionally see Rooney when I covered Steelers games and training camp. The thing I will always remember is the respect that he garnered from the people he met. Several years ago, at training camp in Latrobe, I saw a man in his 50s stop dead in his tracks as Rooney approached him, then remove his cap and step to the side. They exchanged pleasantries, and as Rooney walked away, the man just stood there smiling. That was the kind of reverence that most people in this town had for Dan Rooney. Rooney used his position as one of the longest-running owners in the NFL to influence the game of football. Rooney’s biggest accomplishment was the push toward racial equality in the NFL’s hiring process. You’ve undoubtedly heard many times about the “Rooney Rule.” This league-wide policy, enacted in 2003, requires that minority candidates be interviewed for all head-coaching positions and senior football-operations jobs. Minorities were specifically being overlooked in the league for these positions. As head of the league’s diversity committee, Rooney got the necessary support from other owners, a lot of whom were initially reluctant to back the change. Before the rule, minorities held just 6 percent of these positions; it’s now 22 percent. In addition to his work in football, Rooney was also a supporter of President Barack Obama and served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland from 2009-2012. Obama released a statement last week and it pretty much sums up the feelings of a lot of folks. “I know the people of Pittsburgh who loved him not only for the Super Bowl championships he brought as the owner of the Steelers, but for his generosity of spirit, mourn his passing today,” Obama wrote. “Michelle and I offer our condolences to the Rooney family, some of the most gracious and thoughtful people we know — even as we celebrate the life of Dan Rooney: a championship-caliber good man.”

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Big game: Hannah Daman

PLAYING WITH PASSION {BY KIM LYONS}

HEN SHE SIGNED up for the boys’ football team at Central Valley High School, Hannah Daman, of Monaca, told her mother, Val, “Dad said I could be a walk-on.” Her parents weren’t too enthusiastic about their daughter playing tackle football. But Mark Daman said he ﬁgured maybe she wouldn’t make the cut, so he gave her the green light to at least try out for the boys’ team. She made the team. Then, after gradu-

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ating high school, she tried out and won a roster spot with the Pittsburgh Passion (but couldn’t ofﬁcially play until she turned 18). Now a sophomore at Robert Morris University, Daman is in her third season with the Passion and has no intention of slowing down. “I’m planning to play until my bones can’t take it anymore,” she says. On the ﬁeld, she’s a force to be reckoned with. During the Passion’s April 8 home game — a 65-17 blowout of the Baltimore Night-

hawks — linebacker Daman led the defense with eight tackles, two for losses. It takes that kind of intensity and devotion to play women’s professional tackle football. Unlike their male counterparts, female pro-football players aren’t paid seven-ﬁgure salaries. It can actually cost thousands of dollars a year to play, from uniforms to travel to insurance to rental fees for ﬁelds. Some players have sponsors to cover their costs, and ticket prices help defray some expenses. But most of the

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David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA Lisa Horton stretches for the goal line during the Pittsburgh Passion’s April 8 game against Baltimore.

players have day jobs, and for a student like times have to shovel snow off the field. Horton, now in her 15th season, says Daman, juggling practice and classes is just part of her routine. the sport has definitely evolved. “It’s The Passion have been around since grown tremendously, but it took a lot of 2002, and each season things have gotten groundwork and a lot of word of mouth,” a little easier thanks to more recognition, she says. “Women’s football and women’s says team co-owner Teresa Conn. athletics aren’t going away.” “We’re all about supporting opportuniPlaying with female teammates is a lot ties for women,” Conn says. She pointed out different than being the only girl on a boys’ that the Passion’s longtime quarterback, team, Daman says, and not just because Lisa Horton, has been playing football in she needed a separate dressing room. “The Pittsburgh longer than Ben Roethlisberger. girls were more accepting, and were so “We know the men [pay] many years of willing to help you and work with you,” dues too,” Conn says, “and we believe that she says. eventually, all this hard work will pay off.” At Saturday’s game, Horton alternated Pittsburgh’s other professional teams between quarterback and receiver. She have been supportive of the Passion, says that practice is partly about getting Conn adds. But deciding how to another player some time at QB, and spend the team’s limited funds partly about creating a succession has often meant that marketing plan for the position, another MORES and publicity took a back seat sign that women’s football in PHOTOE IN Lw to building a team. “We have to Pittsburgh is here to stay. OaN . w t w per pa prioritize things in our budget, In June, Horton will play pghcitym .co and trying to make sure the girls on the U.S. National Team in have what they need has always the International Federation of been the most important thing,” American Football Women’s World she says. While she doesn’t consider the Championship. The Americans are the men’s sports teams in town to be rivals, defending IFAF champions, looking for on the night the Passion thrashed their third-straight gold medal. Baltimore, the rest of sports-watching For his part, Mark Daman says he is Pittsburgh seemed to be focused on proud to be the only one of his friends who men’s playoff hockey and the nascent can boast about having a daughter playing men’s baseball season. pro football. If they weren’t too keen on her Women’s tackle football might not be playing football at first, Daman’s parents getting the spotlight that women’s soccer are fully on board now. At Saturday’s game, and women’s ice hockey have the past they were by far the loudest family in few years, but players say things have im- the stands, and were even equipped with proved since the early days, albeit slowly. cowbells to show their support for Hannah The Passion are now one of 65 teams and the rest of the team. in the Women’s Football Alliance. And Daman says a love of the game is for the Passion, the playing field at West instilled early for kids in Monaca, and Allegheny High School is a far cry from its Hannah’s been hooked since she was about former digs; the team used to practice out- 10. “She loves it, and we love watching her,” side in January, and players would some- he says. “We’re so proud.”

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EVERYONE FOLLOWS WILLIE {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} THE QUEST TO find the greatest Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman of the past 50 years is a lot like an episode of Perry Mason or a Harlem Globetrotters game: You already know who is going to win. Willie Stargell crushed 475 home runs in a pitching-dominated era. More on the obvious No. 1 later. For now, let’s see who is competing for the second-best first baseman to wear a Pirates uniform in the past half-century. 10. Gary Redus edged out John Milner for the 10th spot. That’s what Milner gets for snitching on Stargell in the infamous Pittsburgh drug trials. If we made a list of biggest Pirates snitches, Milner would come in second, behind Dale Berra. Redus was a solid but unspectacular player. A good guy to have on a good team (1988-1992), Redus finished second in stolen bases among his peers and was fourth best defensively. 9. The Pirates did everything they could to make Adam LaRoche feel comfortable, including bringing his even less-talented brother on board. Adam was one of those players who was good everywhere he played except for Pittsburgh. His numbers

added up eventually, but he started off every year in a three-month slump. Once the Bucs were a comfortable 36 games out of first, he started compiling some solid numbers. He seemed like a good idea at the time. 8. Sid Bream’s name is an instant buzzkill. Sure, we hate him for “The Slide,” but he loves this town so much that he actually lives in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The lumbering first bagger was the best fielder on the list and we’ll just leave it at that. 7. “Bob Robertson can hit a ball out of any park, including Yellowstone,”

is how Pirates announcer Bob Prince characterized the “Mount Savage Strong Boy.” Robertson started his career on fire, hitting in a lineup of megastars. His star quickly faded after the 1971 World Series, but his good years were still better overall than Bream’s or LaRoche’s. 6. Garrett Jones had the non-difficult task of taking over first base from Eric Hinske. G.I. Jones responded by hitting exactly 100 home runs as a Pirate. The first four years he was here, his team was 107 games below .500 (270-377). “Consistently serviceable” might have been the best way to describe him; in those days, that was certainly good enough. Jones is still making that yen, though, as a member of the Yomiuri Giants, in Japan. Instead of hating the Cardinals, Garrett now probably hates the Nippon Ham Fighters. 5. Craig Wilson wasn’t even the most popular guy named Wilson when he played here. An ultimate team player, Craig led the league in getting hit by pitches twice. In 2004, he took 30 major-league fastballs to his body just to get somebody on base. Somehow, he wound up spending a lot of time on the disabled list, but still put up some solid numbers. He had 94 round-trippers for the Bucs that went virtually unnoticed. He even tied a major-league record by hitting seven pinch home runs in a season. 4. Jason Thompson had the underutilized nickname of “Roof Top,” a reference to his early days of knocking pitches onto the roof of old Tiger Stadium. While Garrett Jones replaced Eric Hinske, Thompson had to replace Rod Carew on the California Angels. The Angels then traded him to the Pirates, where he was asked to replace Willie Stargell. In 1982, Thompson hit .284

with 101 RBI and 100 walks, becoming only the third Pirates player to hit triple digits in those two categories in a season. His career was spent in the wrong place at the wrong time. Late in his career he went to Montreal, but lost his starting job to an emerging star named Andres Galarraga. Still, a very respectable major-league run. 3. Orlando Merced had the highest batting average of all Pirates first baseman and the second highest wins above replacement level (WAR). In seven years at Three Rivers, Merced twice hit .300 or better. He also contributed above-average defense and knocked in almost 400 runners during his time here. Merced played for six other teams in his career, but was the anti-Adam LaRoche in that his best years were with the Pirates. 2. Kevin Young is the real winner here, since it’s unfair for anyone to be compared to Willie Stargell. Young was one of those guys who you didn’t realize how good they were until they were gone. KY was the swiftest of the first basemen, compiling 80 stolen bases with the Buccos. His best season was 1999, when he hit .298 with 26 homers and drove in 106 runs. The Pirates haven’t had a first baseman that good since. 1. Hall of Fame, a retired number and a statue still aren’t enough of a tribute to the great Willie Stargell. Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, Olympic Stadium in Montreal and Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia all had seats marked where Stargell hit a mammoth home run. Testaments to his slugging prowess dotted the North American baseball landscape. In the on-deck circle, some players would swing two or three bats to make the real bat seem lighter; other players preferred adding the weighted “donut.” Willie used a freakin’ sledgehammer. Willie gripped the knob of the bat for more leverage before going into that familiar batting stance. That windmill bat motion was copied on every baseball, softball and Wiffle Ball field in Western Pennsylvania. There just aren’t enough superlatives to describe how good he was. Plus, these accolades are just as a first baseman when his career was winding down. In a future article, Willie will also make an appearance on the list of the greatest Pirates outfielders. The best quote about Willie comes from a fellow HOFer named Don Sutton. After giving up a colossal homer to Stargell, Sutton once said, “He doesn’t just hit pitchers, he takes away their dignity.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): After George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States, he had to move from his home in Virginia to New York City, which at the time was the center of the American government. But there was a problem: He didn’t have enough cash on hand to pay for his long-distance relocation, so he was forced to scrape up a loan. Fortunately, he was resourceful and persistent in doing so. The money arrived in time for him to attend his own inauguration. I urge you to be like Washington in the coming weeks, Aries. Do whatever’s necessary to get the funds you need to finance your life’s next chapter.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Fantasize about sipping pear nectar and listening to cello music and inhaling the aroma of musky amber and caressing velvet, cashmere and silk. Imagine how it would feel to be healed by inspiring memories and sweet awakenings and shimmering delights and delicious epiphanies. I expect experiences like these to be extra available in the coming weeks. But they won’t necessarily come to you freely and easily. You will have to expend effort to ensure they actually occur. So be alert for them. Seek them out. Track them down.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Contagion may work in your favor, but it could also undermine you. On the one hand, your enthusiasm is likely to ripple out and inspire people whose help you could use. On the other hand, you might be more sensitive than usual to the obnoxious vibes of manipulators. But now that I’ve revealed this useful tip, let’s hope you will be able to maximize the positive kind of contagion and neutralize the negative. Here’s

one suggestion that may help: Visualize yourself surrounded by a golden force field that projects your good ideas far and wide even as it prevents the disagreeable stuff from leaking in.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A reader named Kris X sent me a rebuke. “You’re not a guru or a shaman,” he sneered. “Your horoscopes are too filled with the slippery stench of poetry to be useful for spiritual seekers.” Here’s my response: “Thank you, sir! I don’t consider myself a guru or shaman, either. It’s not my mission to be an all-knowing authority who hands down foolproof advice. Rather, I’m an apprentice to the Muse of Curiosity. I like to wrestle with useful, beautiful paradoxes. My goal is to be a joyful rebel stirring up benevolent trouble, to be a cheerleader for the creative imagination.” So now I ask you, my fellow Cancerian: How do you avoid getting trapped in molds that people pressure you to fit inside? Are you skilled at being yourself even if that’s different from what’s expected of you? What are the

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, there will be helpers whose actions will nudge you — sometimes inadvertently — toward a higher level of professionalism. You will find it natural to wield more power and you will be more effective in offering your unique gifts. Now maybe you imagine you have already been performing at the peak of your ability, but I bet you will discover — with a mix of alarm and excitement — that you can become even more excellent. Be greater, Leo! Do better! Live stronger! (P.S. As you ascend to this new level of competence, I advise you to be humbly aware of your weaknesses and immaturities. As your clout rises, you can’t afford to indulge in self-delusions.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I love to see you Virgos flirt with the uncharted and the uncanny and the indescribable. I get thrills and chills whenever I watch your fine mind trying to make sense of the fabulous and the foreign and the unfathomable. What other sign can cozy up to exotic wonders and explore forbidden zones with as much no-nonsense pragmatism as you? If anyone can capture greased lightning in a bottle or get a hold of magic beans that actually work, you can.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A friend told me about a trick used by his grandmother, a farmer. When her brooding hens stopped laying eggs, she would put them in pillowcases that she then hung from a clothesline in a stiff breeze. After the hens got blown around for a while, she returned them to their cozy digs. The experience didn’t hurt them, and she swore it put them back on track with their egg-laying. I’m not comfortable with this strategy. It’s too extreme for an animal-lover like myself. (And I’m glad I don’t have to deal with recalcitrant hens.) But maybe it’s an apt metaphor or poetic prod for your use right now. What could you do to stimulate your own creative production?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now would be an excellent time to add deft new nuances to the ways you kiss, lick, hug, snuggle, caress and fondle. Is there a worthy adventurer who will help you experiment with these activities? If not, use your pillow, your own body, a realistic life-sized robot or your imagination. This exercise will be a good warm-up for your other assignment, which is to upgrade your intimacy skills. How might you do that? Hone and refine your abilities to get close to people. Listen deeper, collaborate stronger, compromise smarter and give more. Do you have any other ideas?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my ax,” said Abraham Lincoln, one of America’s most productive presidents. I know you Sagittarians are more renowned for your bold, improvisational actions than your careful planning and strategic preparation, but I think the coming weeks will be a time when you can and should adopt Lincoln’s approach. The readier you are, the freer you’ll be to apply your skills effectively and wield your power precisely.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Zoologists say that cannibalizing offspring is common in the animal kingdom, even among species that care tenderly for their young. So when critters eat their kids, it’s definitely “natural.” But I trust that in the coming weeks, you won’t devour your own children. Nor, I hope, will you engage in any behavior that metaphorically resembles such an act. I suspect that you might be at a low ebb in your relationship with some creation or handiwork or influence that you generated out of love. But please don’t abolish it, dissolve it or abandon it. Just the opposite, in fact: Intensify your efforts to nurture it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your astrological house of communication will be the scene of substantial clamor and ruckus in the coming weeks. A bit of the hubbub will be flashy but empty. But much of it should be pretty interesting, and some of it will even be useful. To get the best possible results, be patient and objective rather than jumpy and reactive. Try to find the deep codes buried inside the mixed messages. Discern the hidden meanings lurking within the tall tales and reckless gossip. If you can deal calmly with the turbulent flow, you will give your social circle a valuable gift.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The best oracular advice you’ll get in the coming days probably won’t arise from your dreams or an astrological reading or a session with a psychic, but rather by way of seemingly random signals, like an overheard conversation or a sign on the side of a bus or a scrap of paper you find lying on the ground. And I bet the most useful relationship guidance you receive won’t be from an expert, but maybe from a blog you stumble upon or a barista at a café or one of your old journal entries. Be alert for other ways this theme is operating, as well. The usual sources might not have useful info about their specialties. Your assignment is to gather up accidental inspiration and unlikely teachings. At least 30 percent of everything you and I know is more than half-wrong. Are you brave enough to admit it? Describe your ignorance. FreeWillastrology.com.

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I’m a queer girl living with a male partner. This weekend, we found ourselves in an after-hours club, made some new friends, and ended up at a house with two other guys and a girl. Things were pretty playful with everyone except for one of the guys. We wanted him gone, but he wouldn’t take the hint. He bought the booze for the afterparty, so we were a little unsure of the etiquette of asking him to leave. Neither I nor the other girl was interested. I made it clear that penetration was off the menu for me, and everyone respected this — except the one guy. He asked if I would do anal, and I refused. He shoved his fingers in my ass, and I stopped him. I positioned myself away from him, but he somehow got behind me again and put his bare dick in my ass — though barely. The host pulled him off me. We were admittedly all a bit fucked up from partying. I had a stern talk with him about respecting consent — but when I felt his dick enter me from behind a second time, I got upset. My boyfriend threatened him, and the guy punched my boyfriend and broke my sweetheart’s nose. The host threw the guy out with no pants, so he had a well-deserved walk of shame. We don’t know the guy’s last name, so we can’t charge him. My question is this: As a couple, we enjoy threesomes/moresomes/swingers clubs, etc., and this wasn’t the first time a fun night was ruined by a persistent dick monster. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with pricks like these? Sober and not horny me has all the answers, but when I’m feeling violated and vulnerable, and distracted by whatever dick/pussy is in my face, I’m not the loudmouthed feminist bitch I usually am. We all agree he should have been kicked out before the offenses added up. Maybe he should have been kicked out when we all agreed we weren’t comfortable with him playing with us. What’s the etiquette of telling someone they can’t join in?

Getting shitfaced/shtoned/shwasted might not be the best plan. It’s often the worst plan — getting fucked up rarely results in good sex, even between people who fuck on the regular. Plus, it’s easier to ignore red flags/gut feelings when you can barely shee shtraight. Having to remind someone about consent is a major red flag, QUEEN, and one we’re likelier to overlook when we’re shwasted. In a situation where you’re receiving unwanted touches, your polite dismissal of them should be enough. If this reminder has to be repeated twice, such participants should have their pass to moresome mountain revoked immediately. Two final takeaways: Even kind and decent people can be terrible about taking hints — especially when it means getting cut out of a drunken fuckfest. So don’t hint, tell. There’s no rule of etiquette that can paper over the discomfort and awkwardness of that moment, so your group’s designated speaker-upper will just have to power through it. And if you’re going to drink and group, QUEEN, hew to a strict BYOB policy. You don’t ever want to be in a position where you hesitate to show someone the door because that someone brought the booze.

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“Persistent dick monster” (PDM) is putting it mildly, QUEEN. This guy sexually assaulted you and physically assaulted your boyfriend — he is a VSP (violent sexual predator), not a PDM. And even if you don’t know his last name, report the night’s events to the police. It’s possible this asshole is known to the cops — hell, it’s possible he assaulted someone else on his pantsless way home and they’re already holding him and they’d be happy to add more charges to the ones he is already facing. I’m not saying you have to report him, of course. It’s estimated that only 15 to 35 percent of all sexual assaults are reported to the police, and only 9 percent of all accused rapists are prosecuted. While recognizing some folks have legitimate reasons for not going to the cops, we need to get those numbers up — because unreported rapes and sexual assaults can’t be prosecuted. As for preventing a PDM/VSP from ruining your future threesomes/moresomes, etc., advance planning — and familiarity among participants — is the best way to ensure a good experience. Spontaneous can be fun, but it’s difficult to pull off safely with groups — spontaneous fun can be difficult to pull off safely in pairs. Another lesson to be learned from this encounter:

My husband and I have been together for six years and are quite happy, much to the chagrin of his family. They are Islamophobic, antichoice, Fox News–watching, conservative Catholics. They began writing us letters about how they disapproved of us when we moved in together before marriage. One launched a campaign to break us up because they figured my then-boyfriend didn’t know I was bisexual. (He did, and I’m out very publicly.) They boycotted our wedding because it was not in a Catholic church. They would not come to a party we had because a Muslim friend would be there. They’ve realized that in order for us to even rarely see them, they need to cool it, but they don’t think they have anything to apologize for. After Trump’s election (#ITMFA), I’ve found it difficult to stomach them even in small doses. I grew up Catholic myself and was sent through gay-conversion therapy, so I have a visceral reaction to bigotry, especially when it is directed toward my family of choice. My husband is also appalled by them and always puts us first, but the idea of not retaining a connection to his family of origin hurts him. Do I suffer the occasional visit? Help! SHOULDN’T HUBBY UNLOAD THESE OUTRAGEOUSLY UNENLIGHTENED TURDS

For the sake of your marriage, SHUTOUT, you should suffer the occasional visit — whether your husband sees his family on his own or you’re along for the ride — without punishing your husband for it. Remember: You’re in this together, and private jokes, surreptitious eye-rolls, and pot lozenges can go a long way toward making these events not just bearable but (mischievously) pleasurable. And seeing as you’ve already trained his family to cool it by cutting back on your time with them — a strategy I recommend — you can train them to keep things civil, hate-free and non-biphobic by warning them in advance that you will get up and leave if they say anything shitty or unkind to you, about you, or in front of you. Then follow through.

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