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Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer must be remembered by continuing her fight against hate {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}
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’D NEVER MET Heather Heyer, but in some ways, it still feels like I knew her. A lot of Americans probably feel the same way. Heyer was killed when a vehicle driven by an Ohio man with a fondness for Hitler plowed into a group of counter-protesters who were standing up to the putrid, hatefilled bile spewing from white-supremacy groups during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. Why Charlottesville? Because that town had realized that it wasn’t sending the right message to its citizens by prominently displaying a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Charlottesville decided to take the statue down, and that angered alt-right hate groups ranging from the KKK and white nationalists/supremacists to NeoNazis and other assorted Hitlerphiles. The groups descended on the progressive college town on Fri., Aug. 11, and immediately got into violent altercations
with counter-protesters. Violence continued the next day, culminating in Heyer’s death and the arrest of suspect James Alex Fields. Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal from Charlottesville, has been described as a passionate and compassionate fighter against discrimination. She was there that day to stand against the hatred brought by packs of bullies into her hometown. Heyer didn’t have to be there. She could have sat this one out. But these people are wrong and their ideology is evil; she intended to be there to tell them that. That’s probably why a lot of people are feeling today like they knew her. She was the type of person who had to do the right thing, and she did. Doing the right thing shouldn’t cost you your life; sometimes it does. This time it did and, let’s be honest, it will happen again in the future. But that doesn’t mean we stop fighting. We can’t stop fighting. If a heinous, un-
necessary act of violence like this keeps people from taking to the streets to beat back hate, things like this will continue to happen. The only choice we have is to stand up and fight for each other like Heyer did. The last thing Heyer posted to her Facebook page was the quote featured on the cover of this very issue: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Heather Heyer didn’t want to die that day; I’m sure of that. But that quote tells me that she also knew she couldn’t live in a world that allowed this kind of malevolent behavior to go unchallenged. That’s why she was out there that day, and why we have to be out there tomorrow. The outcry over the rallies and the violence has been immediate. There were vigils held in dozens of cities on Sun., Aug. 13, including one here in Oakland’s Schenley Plaza. More are being scheduled, and that’s a good thing. C D E I T C H @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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POINTING FINGERS While PWSA and Veolia squabble over who’s to blame, some call for quicker action to address Pittsburgh’s lead crisis {BY REBECCA ADDISON} ON OCT. 12 of last year, the Pittsburgh
Water and Sewer Authority ďŹ led a lawsuit against Veolia Water North America, a private water-utility management company that had been contracted to improve PWSA’s operations. “PWSA placed its trust and conďŹ dence in Veolia to properly manage and improve the Authority,â€? PWSA Chairman Alex Thomson said in a statement. “Despite receiving significant sums from PWSA, Veolia failed to perform as required. This failure has resulted in signiďŹ cant damages to PWSA and left the Authority in a worse position than when Veolia was engaged. The Board is committed to PWSA aggressively pursuing its claims against Veolia.â€? One of PWSA’s claims is that Veolia was responsible for a switch in the corrosion-control chemicals used to minimize the amount of lead that leaches into the water supply. Many believe that this switch has contributed to the high lead levels in Pittsburgh’s drinking water. But in an email sent on Oct. 16, 2015, almost exactly one year before PWSA ďŹ led its lawsuit, and recently obtained
by City Paper through a right-to-know request, PWSA maintenance superintendent Glenn Lijewski appears to take credit for the chemical switch. “I also wanted to bring up the fact that, we here at the treatment plant accomplished tremendous savings, via in-house treatment changes,â€? Lijewski wrote. “We are now using caustic soda for ďŹ nal pH adjustment versus soda ash.â€? The email continues, “Traditionally soda ash was the preferred method because of cost. Caustic soda was always more expensive. But we noticed that while soda ash prices were rising the cost of Caustic [sic] was dropping. So, we internally started to use Caustic in place of Soda Ash [sic] whenever possible, and to obtain a base line in usage versus cost. We found that we can signiďŹ cantly save money using Caustic ‌ The bottom line, does not lie.â€? This email is just the latest shoe to drop in the ongoing circus that has become the city’s water system. While it would seem to place the blame for the switch on PWSA’s shoulders, many aren’t quick to let Veolia off the hook. Local CONTINUES ON PG. 10
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activists want to see the state attorney general file suit against the corporation, and the city isn’t backing down from its suit either. “Veolia was in control of the management and operations of PWSA under a contract formed under the prior administration,” says Kevin Acklin, Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto’s chief of staff. “We believe that Veolia made and approved all critical decisions for the authority, including with respect to anti-corrosive chemicals, and further took actions to enrich themselves to the detriment of the residents of Pittsburgh. PWSA terminated [Veolia’s] contract and filed a lawsuit to recover … the damages they caused to the city’s water system. We intend to hold them accountable in pending litigation.” But some believe the battle between the city and Veolia is simply a distraction from the very real threat that lead presents to city residents. These critics say it’s time for the city to get to work to actually address the problem. “It seems to me that there’s so much we don’t know, but from everything I’ve reviewed, it seems there’s culpability to be shared,” says Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner. “All areas throughout the country that have lead lines, if they don’t have this problem already, they will. The corrosion-control change at a minimum accelerated that problem. But this is a fixable problem.”
caustic soda was not initiated by (or at the direction of) Veolia’s team nor was it part of Veolia’s and PWSA’s contract metrics. Veolia did not and would not prioritize cost savings ahead of effective corrosion-control methods or water quality. Veolia in no way received any financial payment related to PWSA’s decision to change corrosion control,” Veolia said in a statement. The current situation is a clear example of why private corporations shouldn’t be involved in public utilities, says Gabriel McMorland, a co-founder of Pittsburgh’s Our Water campaign. He says that’s the lesson the city should take away from this. “If I had been on PWSA’s board at the time that the board was considering bringing in Veolia, I would’ve voted against it,” McMorland says. “The way to hold the city accountable for what has happened here is to make sure we don’t privatize any part of PWSA in the future.” But McMorland still believes Veolia should be held responsible for any issues that arose during its three-and-a-half-year contract with the city. “It’s still true that while they were managing this authority, a potentially dangerous chemical switch was made. Either they horribly mismanaged the authority while they were being paid to do so, or they didn’t know about the switch and simply let it happen.” For that reason, the Our Water campaign is calling on the state attorney general to file a lawsuit against Veolia. While Our Water supports the city’s lawsuit, it doesn’t believe it goes far enough. “It’s kind of like if you went to a restaurant and you got food poisoning, and they offered to give you back $12 for your dinner instead of paying your hospital bills,” says McMorland. “We would like to see Attorney General Josh Shapiro bring a lawsuit against Veolia for the real damage they caused real people in Pittsburgh.” In an audit released by City Controller Michael Lamb in June, he too was critical of Veolia. But he also placed blame on the authority for its handling of the lead crisis. “I don’t think anyone has any confidence in PWSA and I don’t think the current administration has done enough to correct the problem,” Lamb says. “It seems like every time a problem like this comes along the response is, ‘Well, let’s appoint another task force to look
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against Veolia were set in motion in April 2016, when PWSA was cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for not notifying DEP of the corrosion-control chemical switch. At the time, PWSA and the city quickly released statements saying Veolia was responsible. “This order is being issued related to a procedural violation that was made by PWSA’s former management firm, Veolia Inc.,” Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said in a statement at the time in response to DEP’s action. “It has been reported to us that Veolia Inc. did not inform DEP of a change in corrosion control methods in 2014. In addition, the board of PWSA was not notified of the change, neither was the City of Pittsburgh.” Veolia maintained then, and continues to maintain, that it was not responsible. And this year, the company filed a countersuit against the city for defamation. “The 2014 change from soda ash to
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at the problem.’” Scientists stress that no level of lead is safe, and in the most recent round of testing done by PWSA, water pouring out of some faucets in Pittsburgh homes tested above the federal threshold for lead of 15 parts per billion. That’s why Lamb says he wants actual action by the city to address the problem. “We need to commit to a long-term plan of infrastructure investment and improvement at the PWSA,” Lamb says. “We just keep stalling and kicking the can down the road. What we really need is actual work to get done.” For Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner, that infrastructure investment starts with replacing the service lines that are leaching lead into the city’s water. An estimated 25 percent of Pittsburgh’s homes — some 20,000 — have lead service lines. The city estimates that replacing the lines would cost $410 million, but Wagner maintains it would cost far less. And a RAND Corporation report seems to agree. According to the research group’s analysis, complete replacement could cost anywhere between $50 million and
the $410 million the city has estimated. Wagner estimates it would cost $60 million, and could be completed in five years. Her estimate is based on the cost being paid by Pennsylvania American Water, which provides water to homes in Pittsburgh and surrounding suburbs. Penn American is replacing its lead lines for approximately $3,500 each, and Wagner believes PWSA could do it for less. “My emphasis has continued to be on trying to bring truth and transparency to the actual cost of replacement,” Wagner says. Wagner has also been vocal about the importance of PWSA fully replacing lead service lines. In the past, PWSA has done only partial line replacements because both it and the city say state law prohibits replacement of the portion of any service line on private property. But last month, Pittsburgh City Council approved legislation directing PWSA to do full replacements. Wagner is concerned that progress replacing the lines been slow. But she says that at least it’s a step in the right direction. RA D D I S ON @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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PAVING THE WAY Etna and Sharpsburg believe a trail can bring economic revitalization to their riverfront towns {BY RYAN DETO} BY CAR, it only takes a few minutes to get from Millvale to Sharpsburg. But try getting there without a car, and you’re in trouble. Buses are infrequent (one an hour), walking takes more than an hour through sidewalk-less streets, and biking means traversing up and down 300-foot slopes on roads without bike lanes. Even if you’re driving, it’s easy to miss Sharpsburg and its neighbor, Etna, because Route 28 doesn’t actually funnel cars to the towns, it passes over them. But Sharpsburg and Etna want to change that. The towns, along with nearby Shaler and Millvale, have joined forces to champion a riverfront trail extension from Millvale. Town leaders have already received grants to extend the trail, and they believe by creating bike and pedestrian access, the towns will attract weekend recreationists as well as potential residents looking for walkable, bikeable and affordable towns. “‘River town’ used to be a derogative, negative comment,” says Etna borough manager Mary Ellen Ramage. “But to be here now and recognize what a blessing the river is, it’s different. I can see people in our business district all the time now. A trail can only enhance all of that.” On Aug. 10, the river towns got some good news at a Pennsylvania Utilities Commission meeting. The trail-extension project had been held up because of a dispute over who has access to a small railroad bridge over Pine Creek. Norfolk-Southern Railway claimed the access was controlled by it, meaning the boroughs were going to have to spend about $3 million constructing a bridge over the tracks. But according to Ramage, after some digging by Etna and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, including discovering deeds from the 1800s, it was determined the railroad bridge is actually a public-access point; Norfolk-Southern confirmed this at the PUC meeting. This means the trail can cross the tracks without a bridge. “It’s not just fabulous news, it’s savings
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Town leaders hope a trail extension will bring shoppers and businesses into downtown Sharpsburg.
in perpetuity. We are just thrilled,” says Ramage, who adds that avoiding building a bridge likely took five years off the trail’s completion time. With the path clear, literally and figuratively, Ramage says Etna is very close to starting the trail project, which will include a riverfront park and access to Etna’s business district via Bridge Street. Ramage says grant money is already allocated for the trail, although the borough needs to check how the funds can be spent, since part of the grant was meant for the nowunnecessary bridge. Regardless, Ramage sees the trail as a huge boost to Etna. She cites all the small businesses (breweries, coffee shops, bars, etc.) moving into Millvale — where the trail from Pittsburgh’s North Side currently ends — as evidence that trails can bring in economic development. “The success here moves development all the way up the river,” says Ramage. “It changes the outlook of the entire region.” And just up river from Etna, Sharpsburg borough councilor Matt Rudzki agrees. “I think economically, it will help Sharpsburg. If you look at Millvale, the trail was the first economical thing attracting small businesses,” says Rudzki. He adds that Sharpsburg is already preparing for changes the trail might bring. Sharpsburg has waterfront access at James Sharp Landing park, where the trail will extend to. Rudzki says the borough is creating plans that will provide bike/pedestrian-friendly infrastructure up from the park into Sharpsburg’s business district, which already includes popular craft-brewery Dancing Gnome.
“Our parents sort of went into the suburban lifestyle,” says the 31-year-old Rudzki. “But you see people returning because they like to walk to businesses and restaurants, and to have access to the river.” Advocates, like Chris Chirdon of Walk Bike Shaler, realize this strategy is antithetical to Pittsburgh’s past, when the riverfronts were used for heavy industry
and closed off to the public, but reclaiming the riverfronts is increasingly popular. Chirdon says two recent posts on Walk Bike Shaler’s Facebook page asking for support for the trail reached more than 16,000 people, with 261 likes and 168 shares combined. They were some of Walk Bike Shaler’s most shared and liked posts, says Chirdon. Over the last 20 years, Pittsburgh and other communities have had success redeveloping riverfronts for shopping malls and sports stadiums, as well as recreational use. But Chirdon sees this trail extension as a new opportunity: one that keeps the trail natural and owned by the public, while enhancing small local businesses in towns that could use an economic boost. (Both Etna and Sharpsburg have average household median incomes well below the Pittsburgh region average of $52,500.) “I have been trying to capture the sentiment of this trail, and what I tell people is, ‘Pittsburgh has been burdened by having its waterfront captured by industry,’” says Chirdon. “It’s a tragedy that [that industry] collapsed, but we now have an opportunity to recapture [the land]. Waterfront property is premium; this is our chance. If we don’t reclaim this for the public use, private development will scoop it up.” RYA N D E TO@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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last month when Pennsylvania’s state senate approved a budget bill that would outsource Department of Environmental Protection permitting to private third parties, and create a politically appointed committee that could overrule DEP officials on matters like limiting methane emission from fracking wells. Such provisions were meant to speed up the permitting process — and, apparently, in exchange for a new severance tax on natural gas. But critics say the rules merely sabotage the permitting process. And they say that if the problem is slow permit-approval, the main cause is years of underfunding DEP — something the new budget does nothing to fix. The provisions were quietly tucked into a bill to balance the state’s $32 billion budget. One would require DEP to contract with “third-party licensed professionals” to process any kind of permit; applicants could actually pick their own permit-reviewer from a list of DEP-approved parties. Another new rule would create an “Air Quality Permit Advisory Committee” with veto power over DEP decisions on air emissions at fracking sites, with six of its seven members appointed by state legislators, the seventh by the governor. A third provision would deem as “approved” permit applications for unconventional oil-and-gas development which DEP had not denied within a given time frame. There’s more, including looser limits on water discharges of the neurotoxin manganese, but you get the picture. State Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) has called the bill “the worst collection of anti-environmental legislation I have seen in a long time.” David Hess, a former DEP secretary under Republican governors Tom Ridge and Mark Schweiker, says the changes would “totally devastate DEP’s permitting program.” Hess notes that because the bill’s third-party rule has no conflict-of-interest provisions, the same person who wrote an application could review it. He adds that permitting decisions are often slow because the applications themselves are incomplete, requiring back-and-forth between DEP and the applicant. DEP has acknowledged that its permitting can be slow, and says it is working to speed things up. But an underlying prob-
lem is budgetary. Since 2003, the annual allocation of state tax dollars for DEP has dropped nearly 40 percent, to $152 million, and increases in fines and permitting fees haven’t bridged the gap. In May, DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell testified that in the past decade, his agency’s staffing had dropped by 754 positions, or 25 percent, with accompanying risks to public health and safety. For instance, said McDonnell, DEP is already struggling to inspect the state’s 3,400 dams. “The agency that I left in 2003 bears no resemblance to the agency we have now,” says Hess. Others have also taken notice of DEP’s incredibly shrinking resources. Last December, the U.S. EPA announced that DEP’s inadequate staffing could have “serious public health implications,” and even risk revocation of the state’s ability to enforce the Safe Water Drinking Act. And in May, the state’s Citizens Advisory Council warned legislators that DEP funding has reached “an unsustainable level.” Though the budget bill’s environmental provisions echo various Republican proposals from over the years, it passed the Senate with bipartisan support and went to the House. And while he has not addressed these rule changes specifically, Gov. Tom Wolf — a champion of the gas severance tax — is expected to support the budget bill, meaning it might well become law. (Ironically, say observers, obstacles to passage include House conservatives dead set against a severance tax.) If Wolf ultimately signs the bill, expect court battles. For example, because state law requires DEP to approve all permits, the politically appointed air-quality panel constitutes a “clearly unconstitutional” violation of separation of powers, says Hess. Adam Garber, deputy director of the nonprofit PennEnvironment, says that all the budget bill’s environmental provisions violate the state constitution’s “single-issue clause,” because they are not about balancing the budget. Meantime, says Garber, concerned citizens can contact their state House representatives. And long term, say advocates, funding DEP so it can do the permitting and inspections it’s supposed to is crucial. As Garber puts it, “Really they need more money to meet their basic mission.”
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Patrick Haley Coyle’s EP Change Rose is, in a word, pretty. Its five songs are soft, spacious tracks dotted with drum machines, synth, thoughtful guitar work and distinct vocals. Coyle’s delicate falsetto and gentle voice may be recognizable from work with his other bands IT IT and Blød Maud, but Change Rose sounds like neither project. “Ancient Shiver” kicks off the release with a sparse soundscape, with echoes of distant conversation samples. A subtle synth riff weaves between the lyrics and swims around the airy harmonies. “Torn Awake” is a bright, spacey voyage that guides the listener to “Cool,” a hazy, dreamy number with reverbdrenched vocals and precise pacing that keeps the downtempo song feeling relaxed without becoming boring. “Empty Nest” is a gloomy, emotive number in which Coyle uses his voice PATRICK HALEY as the guiding COYLE, GILING, instrumentation ROSEHIPS, on an incredibly ANTHONY quiet, strippedHEUBEL down effort. 8 p.m. Wed., The EP’s closer, Aug. 23. Brillobox, “Hi, There,” is the 4104 Penn Ave., most driving of all Bloomfield. $5. the tracks, with an 412-621-4900 or entrancing falsetto www.brillobox hook, along pgh.com with a chorus of Coyle’s vocals. It’s a summery track with tinges of banjo among the electronic sounds, making it the perfect soundtrack for a bike ride on an empty, breezy trail, or a long, sunny bus ride with your head resting on your lover’s shoulder.
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preparation. My advice? If you’re planning to make it out to a show a night or more, absolutely buy a weekend pass, as it’s the best bargain. Drink lots of water, be sure to sleep at least five hours every night, and bring a bunch of earplugs for you and your forgetful friends. Punks don’t let punks get tinnitus!
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guerilla promotion methods peek through the windows of punk coffee shops and record stores. The kind of festival big enough to celebrate its ninth year of existence with four days of shows featuring 60 bands across six venues, but still insular and community-driven enough to offer events that require you to “ask a punk” for the address. The festival is assembled by a collective of punks whose musical tastes range across the spectrum of metal and punk, offering a lineup that appeals to all of those who harbor a taste for music with an aggressive edge. It began in 2009 with a joint birthday celebration show for founders Dusty Hanna and Jimmy Rose. Since then it’s gotten a whole lot larger. A weekend this chock-full of good music to see and a loving community to be a part of requires planning and
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show of the evening, at Brillobox. Crossover punk with thrashy undertones comes by way of Richmond, Va.’s Occultist and Philadelphia’s Incisor. You also get to hear some crushing d-beat from Philadelphia’s Dronez and Pittsburgh’s own Möwer. All of these bands sound like the kind that deliver short sets packed with aggression that make 20 minutes really count, so don’t worry about being up too late on a school/work night.
>> 9 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $12
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Kicking off the first night of Skull Fest at Rock Room is a riotous collection of political punk and black metal, featuring the likes of Cleveland punk supergroup MAGIC CITY and the high energy Oi!-afropunk ensemble Black on Black Crimes (BBC). Scalpel brings a grinding black-metal sound, while Baltimore’s Syringe burns the system down with its blistering punk sound. Cleveland also represents, with noise and punk blenders Rubber Mate, and Germany, with Kollision.
>> 5 p.m. 1054 Herron Ave., Polish Hill. $12 Zip across the Bloomfield Bridge for the second
Spirit’s upstairs hall will be taken over by Doom, a crusty d-beat band formed in the U.K. in 1987, but armed with anti-capitalist and anti-consumer lyrics that you can apply to your own U.S. life. Joining Doom is Siege, an Italian extreme-death-metal band. Cleveland’s Fuck You Pay Me oozes thrashy hardcore vibes, while my personal favorite Appalachian Terror Unit crushes with its anarcho-d-beat from the heart of Huntington, W. Va. Oh, and Pittsburgh crust legends Behind Enemy Lines reunite at this one, no biggie.
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This show is for the Oi! enthusiast in your life. The recently reformed mid-’90s street-punk band The Sussed will be on the prowl at the Rock Room for the earlier evening show, joined by Oi! heroes Rixe of Paris, France; The Brass, of Brooklyn; Concrete Elite, of Austin; Rogue Trooper, of Amherst, Mass.; and Pittsburgh’s own No Time.
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August 20 Pittsburgh Ballet Theater (Ballet)
Texas’ Secret Prostitutes comes out of semiretirement to bring its garage-laden punk sung mostly in Indonesian to Belvedere’s Ultra-Dive. Halifax, Nova Scotia, shows up with Booji Boys’ hard-rock sound, complemented by the noisy punk rock of New York’s Urochromes. This gig truly thrives with the presence of Pittsburgh punk favorite Peace Talks The Electric Word Life Band.
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Food trucks and Hop Farm Brewing Company craft beer at all concerts beginning at 6:00 p.m.
This all-ages matinee gig is an absolute must for your Skull Fest adventure. It’s never too early to start the little ones on punk. Here’s the run-down for this gig at Artists Image Resource: Midnight (insanely loud, hardcore punk), Sourvein (North Carolina doom rock), Secret Prostitutes (round two), O.D.D. (doom-driven sludgy noise from Germany), Los Huaycos (Peruvian-American psych-tinged skate-thrash punk from Oakland), Chiller and D.O.G. (both HxC punk from Pittsburgh.)
>> 1 p.m. 518 Foreland St., North Side. $20. All ages.
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Start your Saturday-night festivities at Cattivo with another stacked lineup. Enjoy some pizza as you consume the anarcho-punk cabaret of the U.K.’s Omega Tribe; punk from Proletariat, of Massachusetts; and the goth-driven postpunk of The Bellicose Minds, from Portland. The darkwave, post-punk goth train continues with RVA’s Shadow Age and Unmaker, Pgh’s Silence, Philly’s Somninum Mori and Seattle’s
Arcane. Philly’s Alement and California’s Life Once Flourished Here crust up the gig.
>> 8 p.m. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $20. If you’re feeling like the goth and darkwave presence isn’t your thing, the Rock Room will be running a simultaneous show that is far more focused on hardcore. S.H.I.T., of Toronto, surely will elicit some headbanging, while Nova Scotia’s Alienation consumes you until you find yourself circle-pitting with the best of ’em. Jump around to Cleveland’s Roobydocks and its bouncy punk sound. The hardcore punk of Concealed Blade remains some of my favorite in Pittsburgh because, come on, riffs for days! Digital Octopus takes over post-gig to keep the party going.
>> 9 p.m. 1054 Herron Ave., Polish Hill. $12
SUN., AUG. 20 Limber up for the final day of debauchery at Rock Room, with Savageheads (catchy-
as-hell U.K. punk), Urchin (Portland stoner metal), Blood Pressure (HxC punk from Pgh), Extended Hell (Brooklyn HxC punk) and Scavenger O.D. (Pgh trash).
>> 4 p.m. 1054 Herron Ave., Polish Hill. $12 Eat some pierogies in the pit at Gooski’s while you watch Die Choking (grind from Philly), Mister Lizard (spastic U.K. grind), Bathe (doom-y metal) and Slaves B.C. (HxC with tinges of black metal and doom).
>> 7 p.m. 3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill. $10. Closing out the fest at Belvedere’s is another performance from the Bellicose Minds, this time with Submachine (hardcore punk), Vastation (death-meetspunk-meets-crust from Portland), Abraxas (Cincinnati HxC punk) and a record-release celebration for Killer of Sheep (Pittsburgh hardcore protest band).
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{BY ELI ENIS} RIGHT NOW, the band Soccer Mommy has
just reached a point where its members can actually now call it a career. Like many of her contemporaries, what began in 2015 as a Bandcamp barrage of songwriter Sophie Allison’s home recordings has now morphed into a four-piece band — one that’s signed to Fat Possum Records, just played shows in Europe and gets coverage in Pitchfork, Stereogum and The Fader. The latest release, Collection — a set of re-worked old songs mixed in with a couple of new ones — dropped earlier this month and is the most fully realized Soccer Mommy release yet. It’s also the record Allison was most nervous about, as she’s become aware of her music’s reach now. “I definitely get very nervous whenever something’s coming out in the future,” she tells City Paper. “I think that makes it more fun, just knowing it’s a bigger scale. If it’s scary, it usually turns out pretty good.” However, Allison says that her vulnerable songwriting style — that she describes as “chill but kinda sad” — won’t take a hit
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Allison says that the next batch of songs will take a grander, more powerful form, which is something the band hinted it could do successfully with Collection’s standout cuts, “Out Worn” and “Inside Out.” In addition to being the longest tracks on the record, these two contain the deepest grooves, the most gratifying builds, and the strongest riffs and keyboard hooks. “That’s definitely how I expect myself sounding,” she says, referring to how the band has been performing most of the songs live recently. “Big and full, and sometimes it’s hard to capture that fullness and intensity in my bedroom or a home studio. It’s definitely much more fun to play them live and hear that largeness that I imagine.”
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“It’s much harder to be vulnerable to people who know you than to people who don’t know you,” she says. “It’s easier [now] then when I was posting it on my Tumblr, and it was mostly people who knew me … hearing it.”
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EASY GOING {BY MARGARET WELSH} OVER A mid-afternoon spread of pizza, coffee and beer in a South Philadelphia bar, Blød Maud’s Emily Crossen considers the future of the Pittsburgh-based band. “I think we’ll always be able to get together and play … even if I did write new material,” says the singer/guitarist, who relocated to Philly earlier this summer. But, she adds with a laugh, “that would mean we would have to work, and work wasn’t always our strong point.” There’s a certain credibility associated with a laissez-fair approach to rock music (as long as it’s balanced by skill), and the members of Blød Maud struck that necessary equilibrium, making music so good that it seemed at odds with their relative nonchalance. The members played shows sporadically, but if you did get a chance to see them, you were likely to be impressed enough to tell your friends. And right before Crossen left town, the band released the haunting, hook-filled four-song EP — Mädel — which was the best kind of bummer: that is, practically perfect aside from the fact that you wish it was three times longer. Blød Maud was, from the beginning, a project of convenience. After moving to Pittsburgh from State College five years ago, Crossen was spending a lot of time writing songs on her guitar and messing around with GarageBand. Playing everything herself — “I would make drums out of notebooks or use an acoustic guitar and lower the pitch for bass” — she soon amassed recordings of more than 20 songs. After her secret Soundcloud page was discovered by a friend, Crossen was asked to fill an opening spot for a Colleen Green show.
“I didn’t want to play by myself,” she says. “So I was like, ‘I gotta get some dudes.’” Enter some friends from high school — drummer Pat Coyle, guitarist Calvin Morooney and bassist Rob Daubenspeck. (Eli Kochersperger took over for Daubenspeck after the band released its first recording in 2014.) The goal was to develop Crossen’s songs for a full band, just for that one show. But “it was really easy,” she recalls. “So we were like, ‘Let’s keep going!’” Crossen’s songwriting has a hypnotic, melancholic quality, which the rest of the band bolsters with memorable, often unexpected instrumentation. There are moments on Mädel that strongly recall early Cat Power, but there’s little fragility in Crossen’s vocals, which are austere and direct. “Westhafen” — arguably the EP’s strongest track — includes a spokenword interlude about an encounter with a stranger in Berlin. Spoken word is notoriously difficult to pull off, but here — framed by an impossibly catchy riff — it works, stirring emotion without demanding it.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT BLDMD.BANDCAMP.COM. As Crossen establishes herself in a new city, she hopes to keep making music: At the height of her productivity in Pittsburgh, she was writing as many as five songs a day. If she does start writing again, she says, she’ll happily send her songs to her bandmates, but it’s not something that can be forced. With Blød Maud, she says, “It’s almost like when you go on a school field trip to learn. You end up just hanging out and having fun, because you’re on a field trip.” And really, when it comes down to it, is there any better way to be in a band? I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Joe Louis Walker
[BLUES] + THU., AUG. 17 Joe Louis Walker has been playing the blues for more than 50 years, with 25 albums under his belt. The pedigree is apparent in his music. He’s played with everyone from Buddy Guy to Bonnie Raitt. It’s the kind of music you listen to knowing the artist has more life experience than you ever will. His sound has plenty of traditional blues elements — wailing harmonica, slide guitar, melancholy lyrics — but it’s modern too, with {PHOTO COURTESY OF notable heavierROB LARSON} rock influences. Local bluesmen Dan Bubien and the Delta Struts will also play Club Café tonight. Hannah Lynn 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $20. 412-431-4950 or www. clubcafelive.com
yet-poppy indie rock to Brillobox tonight. There’s a little Jimmy Eat World, a little Arctic Monkeys, and hyper-specific lyrics like “I could only love you / If you had 11 tattoos / If your dog is not a purebred.” It’s not wrong — I mean, honestly, why would you have a purebred unless you’re Kate Middleton. Be sure to also catch local sounds from the psychedelic rock of Slugss and the mellow Soft Gondola. HL 8:30 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412621-4900 or www. brilloboxpgh.com
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ROCK/POP THU 17 BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE. God Root, Sunrot & Pummeled. 7 p.m. Knoxville. 412-291-8994. CLUB CAFE. Joe Louis Walker. 7 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOWLERS. Sheavy, Beelzefuzz, Spillage & Argus. 8 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Merrow. 8 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Billy the Kid & the Regulators. 8 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.
FRI 18 BAJA BAR AND GRILL. No Bad JuJu. 8 p.m. Fox Chapel. 412-963-0640. CASEY’S DRAFT HOUSE. Under Indictment, Lunatics & MaxXouT. 9 p.m. South Side. 412-651-6262. CATTIVO. Thieves & Lovers w/ Jet Black Alley Cat & The Vics. 7 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. DIESEL. Kid Quill. 7 p.m. South Side. 412-431-8800. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Dancing Queen. 9 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Telephone Line, Nightly Standard, The Buckle Downs & Blue Clutch. 8 p.m. Millvale. 724-787-7362. OAKS THEATER. Totally 80s. 7:30 p.m. Oakmont. 412-828-6322.
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BAJA BAR AND GRILL. In Transit Band. 8 p.m. Fox Chapel. 412-963-0640. CLUB CAFE. Cold Roses: The Music of Ryan Adams & the Cardinals w/ Caleb Pogyor. 6 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4950. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. King’s Ransom. 8:30 p.m. Robinson. 412-489-5631. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Totally 80s. 9 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. LA CASA NARCISI. Austin Drive. 2 p.m. Gibsonia. 724-444-4744. THE R BAR. The Nicole Belli Band. 9:30 p.m. Dormont. 412-942-0882. SMILING MOOSE. Crooked Cobras, Skum CIty, Tommy Gutless & Latecomer. 10 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4668. VINOSKI WINERY. Jane West. 1 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333. WALNUT STREET. Jam On Walnut. A benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 7 p.m. Shadyside. 412-321-4422.
SUN 20 BAJA BAR AND GRILL. Nied’s Hotel Band. 2 p.m. Fox Chapel. 412-963-0640.
HOWLERS. Best Behavior, The Spectres & Spellcaster. 8 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Vincentian Rocks! w/ Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers w/ Donnie Iris & Vanessa Campagna. 5 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Neal Morse Band. 7 p.m. Millvale. 412-821-4447. THE R BAR. Billy the Kid’s Steel Town All-Stars. 7 p.m. Dormont. 412-942-0882. VINOSKI WINERY. Jason Kendall. 1 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.
WED 23 HOWLERS. The Undead, The Cheats & The Homisides. 9 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. MEM3. 8 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. REX THEATER. He Is We & The Icarus Account. 8 p.m. South Side. 412-381-6811.
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BELVEDERE’S. Sean MC & Thermos. 90s night. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. BRILLOBOX. Pandemic : Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Bhangra, Balkan Bass. 9:30 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. DIESEL. DJ CK. 10 p.m. South Side. 412-431-8800. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. DJ Tenova. ladies night. 9 p.m. Downtown. 412-471-2058. REMEDY. Push It! DJ Huck Finn, DJ Kelly Fasterchild. 10 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. 10 p.m. South Side. 412-431-2825.
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JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. The Delaney’s. 7:30 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.
ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. 5 p.m. Downtown. 412-773-8884.
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THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. 10 p.m. South Side. 412-586-7644. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. 9 p.m. Downtown. 412-874-4582. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. 10 p.m. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. 9 p.m. South Side. 412-381-1330.
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SUN 20 THE PARK HOUSE. SoulfulFella & The Bike Funx. 6 p.m. North Side. 412-224-2273.
TUE 22 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta. Reggae & dancehall. 10 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.
WED 23 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta & Preslav. Top Dollar Dancehall. 10 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820. SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. 9:30 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4668.
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Farm Aid with Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews Keybank Pavilion, 665 Rt. 18, Burgettstown [SAT., SEPT. 23]
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Andrew W.K. Mr. Smalls Theater, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale
ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Jack of Diamonds. 5 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-682-7699. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Stevee Wellons Band. 7 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. MOONDOG’S. Soul Survivors w/ Mojo Hand. 8 p.m. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. WHEELFISH. The Blues Orphans. 8 p.m. Ross. 412-487-8909.
SAT 19 ZANDERS SPORTS BAR & NIGHT CLUB. Strange Brew. 8:30 p.m. Monroeville. 412-387-2444.
SUN 20 NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Strange Brew. 1 p.m. Downtown. 412-471-9100.
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FRI 18 ARSENAL CIDER HOUSEWEXFORD. Angie DeRose. 5 p.m. Wexford. 724-777-2404. CLUB CAFE. Via DeBacco, Jeremy Caywood, Kevin Finn & Spencer Allan Patrick. 6 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4950. CRANBERRY SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Eclectic Acoustics. 8 p.m. Cranberry. 724-776-5500. DOUBLETREE BY HILTON HOTEL PITTSBURGH CRANBERRY. Ease. 6 p.m. Cranberry. 724-766-6900.
SAT 19 THE SHARP EDGE CREEKHOUSE. Tracy Lee Simmen. 7 p.m. Crafton. 412-922-8118.
SUN 20 HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. 5 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. VINOSKI WINERY. Aaron Lefebvre. 6 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.
Each week, we post a song from a local artist online for free. This week’s track is “Smooth,” the latest from relatively new R&B artist/singer/ songwriter Sierra Sellers. The track, produced by Gambi and Sellers, follows an equally fresh and impressive self-titled EP released earlier this year, so hopefully there’s a full-length on the way. Stream or download “Smooth” at FFW>>, the music blog at pghcitypaper.com.
JAZZ THU 17 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom. 8 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. RILEY’S POUR HOUSE. Jazz Happy Hour w/ Martin Rosenberg. 5:30 p.m. Carnegie. 412-279-0770. VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. 5:30 p.m. Downtown. 412-394-3400.
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WED 23 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. 8 p.m. North Side. 412-321-1834. PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. 9 p.m. North Side. 412-224-2273. WHEELFISH. Jason Born. 7 p.m. Ross. 412-487-8909.
TALL TREES AMPHITHEATER. 2017 Monroeville Jazz Festival. w/ Funky Fly Project, Etta Cox & Tony DeSare & Quartet. 4:30 p.m. Monroeville. 412-551-7315.
SUN 20 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Joshua Breakstone & Tom Wendt. 7 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell, John Hall, Howie Alexander & Dennis Garner. 7 p.m. McKees Rocks. 412- 875- 5809.
ANDORA RESTAURANT - FOX CHAPEL. Pianist Harry Cardillo & vocalist Charlie Sanders. 6:30 p.m. Fox Chapel. 412-967-1900. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Rick DiMuzio, Jeff Grubbs & Tony Martucci. speakeasy. 8 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. VINOSKI WINERY. Erin Burkett & Virgil Waters. 6 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.
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COMMUNITY OF GRACE A.M.E. ZION CHURCH. Roger Barbour Band. 7 p.m. Sheraden. 412- 928-0676. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Tony Campbell Jam Session. Speakeasy. 5 p.m. North Side. 412-904-3335. THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. 7 p.m. Monroeville. 412-728-4155.
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HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane, Ronnie Weiss & Tom Boyce. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. 6:30 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
TUE 22 RILEY’S POUR HOUSE. Jazz Happy Hour w/ Martin Rosenberg. 5:30 p.m. Carnegie. 412-279-0770.
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ACOUSTIC THU 17 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Mike Lindner. 9:30 p.m. Robinson. 412-489-5631. HOP FARM BREWING. The Shameless Hex. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-726-7912.
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WORLD TUE 22 SEVICHE. Hot Salsa & Bachata Nights. 10 p.m. Downtown. 843-670-8465.
REGGAE THU 17 PIRATA. The Flow Band. 9 p.m. Downtown. 412-323-3000.
OTHER MUSIC THU 17 LINDEN GROVE. Karaoke. 8 p.m. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. RIVERS CASINO. Hewlett Anderson Duo. 7 p.m. North Side. 412-231-7777.
FRI 18 LINDEN GROVE. Artistree. 9 p.m. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. RIVERS CASINO. Alton Merrell Quartet. 9 p.m. Rick Purcell & Shari Richards. 9 p.m. North Side. 412-231-7777. ST. JOHN FISHER CHURCH. Cathal Dunne. 7 p.m. Churchhill. 412-241-4722.
SAT 19 OAKS THEATER. Kardaz. 7:30 p.m. Oakmont. 412-828-6322. RIVERS CASINO. Tony Janflone Jr. 9 p.m. North Side. 412-231-7777.
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August 16-22 WEDNESDAY 16 Yes, Todd Rundgren & Carl Palmer
THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000. All ages show. Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org. 7p.m.
Sabrina Carpenter BYHAM THEATER Downtown. 412-456-6666. With special guests Alex Aiono & New Hope Club. Tickets: livenation.com. 7p.m.
Bike Night DOROTHY 6 BLAST FURNACE CAFE Homestead. With special guest Three Sides. For more info visit dorothy6.com. 4p.m.
GAVIN DEGRAW CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL AUGUST 17
STAGE AE North Side. With special guests Every Time I Die & All Get Out. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.
THURSDAY 17 Gavin DeGraw
CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall. 412-462-3444. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.
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Edwardian Social + Vintage Car Show
The Districts
FRIDAY 18 185 The Stickers
BESSEMER COURT Station Square. With special guest Bridgewater Station. All ages show. Free show. 7:30p.m.
MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-421-4447. With special guests Sam Evian & Soccer Mommy. All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.
COMMUNITY PARK Avonworth. Free event. For more info visit edwardian social.com. 1p.m.
Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival
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West Newton. For tickets and more info visit pittsburghrenfest.com or 724-872-1670. Through Sept. 24.
Red Hills Taking Back Sunday
The Night Sweats. Tickets: livenation.com. 7p.m.
THE RECYCLING BUILDING Strip District. 412-362-1713. Tickets: quantumtheatre.com. Through Sept. 10.
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Health & Wellness Weekend
Ted Nugent
THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000. With special guest Derek Day. All ages show. Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org. 7:30p.m.
VARIOUS LOCATIONS Pittsburgh. For more info visit hww19th.com. Through Aug. 19.
Kings of Leon KEYBANK PAVILION Burgettstown. With special guests Deerhunter and Nathaniel Rateliff &
Shawn Mendes PPG PAINTS ARENA owntown. Downtown.
MONDAY 21 CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. With special guests Joe Firstman & Paul Luc. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.
TUESDAY 22 Jevon Rushton
AGNES KATZ PLAZA Downtown. 412-456-6666. Free show. 5p.m.
Bruno Mars PPG PAINTS ARENA Downtown. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 11-800-745-3000. 800 745 3000. 8p.m.
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The Pittsburgh Comedy Festival returns for its fourth annual event, hosting dozens of comedy acts, and headlined by standup comic and CNN host W. Kamau Bell and improv group North Coast, with its “hip-hopera” Anybody. “This is the most diverse line-up we’ve ever offered,” says festival marketing co-director Kat Caringola. The five-day festival, Aug. 23-27, features some 45 acts. There are special shows for children and comedy workshops too. It all takes place at the University of Pittsburgh’s Henry Heymann Theatre. Admission runs from free (for Aug. 26’s live podcast recording) to $20 for headliner shows and $50 for an all-festival pass. The 21 standup acts come from Pittsburgh and as far away as California. Bell hosts CNN docu-series United Shades of America, which tackles race and racial politics. (Bell replaces the original standup headliner, former Saturday Night Live cast member Sasheer Zamata, who is “unable to attend due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict,” according to the festival.) The 18 participating improv acts hail from Maryland and Illinois, among other places. New York City’s North Coast normally performs weekly at The People’s Improv Theater there. Here, the troupe will present a year-old show called Anybody. “It’s more of a narrative than our regular shows,” says North Coast member RJ Williams, by phone. Anybody is inspired by the smash-hit Broadway hip-hop musical Hamilton. The group asks the audience to name an historical figure, and then proceeds to tell a full-fledged story about him or her, sticking to the facts while keeping to a hip-hop aesthetic. To prepare, the group milks the audience for as much information about the show’s subject as possible. “People always ask us, ‘How do you know so much about every historic figure?’” says troupe member Rachel Rosenthal. “Obviously, we don’t.” This isn’t the group’s first appearance at the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival — it performed at the first one, too. “Ultimately, we hoped we were making a deposit for a future appearance,” quips North Coast’s Douglas Widick. The festival’s closing-night show, the #PGHisFunny Spectacular, is a showcase of standup and improv talent drawn from the whole festival.
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recordings on her iPhone. She’s learning a lot. During the residency’s first year, artists shadow their respective organizations and form relationships with clients. The second year is spent actually creating the artworks. Until then, there won’t be a clear indication what the art will look like. Participating artists have backgrounds in playwriting (Rice), quilting and installation art (Christine Bethea), photography (Lindsey Scherloum) and printmaking (Mary Tremonte). “There’s something incredibly valuable about inserting artists into com-
OLLY RICE IS one of four artists
spending time with Pittsburghbased organizations that assist immigrant and refugee communities as part of the Office of Public Art Residencies project. Matched with the Northern Area Multi-Service Center, Rice, a playwright, has been keeping busy. Since April, she’s spent three days a week interacting with clients originally from countries including Somalia, Bhutan, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. By early July, she had already written about 70 pages of notes on her MacBook, on top of more notes, calendar entries and hours of audio
munities in an in-depth way,” says Renee Piechocki, director of the city’s Office of Public Art, which is producing the residencies in conjunction with the city’s Welcoming Pittsburgh initiative and the Department of City Planning. Funding comes from from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Our Town program, the Fine Foundation, and the city. On a sunny afternoon in July, Rice found herself at Allegheny Center Alliance Church, on the North Side. While NAMSC’s Nigel Naumann met with a family from Syria to provide resettlement services, Rice tagged along and made conversation. CONTINUES ON PG. 26
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Later that day, she learned about an upcoming community day, so she added the information into her calendar app. She spends a lot of time reflecting, too. “I try to write every day at the end of the day,” she says. Artist Christine Bethea, matched with the Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh, sat in on a civics class one day, and was surprised by gaps in her own knowledge. “They’re learning stuff that we should probably know,” she says. “As citizens we’re allowed to be lax.” Khara Timsina is BCAP’s civic-education and outreach manager and a cofounder of the organization. He was born in Bhutan in 1969 and lived in a Nepali refugee camp starting in the early ’90s. He became a teacher at the camp and taught a variety of subjects to children of a wide age range; eventually, he received a bachelor’s degree in education from Tribhuvan University, in Nepal. After 1997, he spent most of his time outside of the camp, but would often visit family there, he says. In 2009, he came to the United States, living first in New York City, and moving at the end of that year to Pittsburgh. Timsina embraces the artist-residencies project. He believes it could provide an essential service for the community that BCAP serves. “We were very much interested because art was something our community members did not enjoy, appreciate and even have the opportunity to learn,” Timsina says. “It was BCAP’s thought to bring the opportunity to the community, so we applied and were called for an interview.” Piechocki acknowledges that the groups are taking a risk by giving the Office of Public Art so much access. “Their openness to welcoming an artist into their community is awesome,” she says. A shadow over the public-art residen-
Artist Christine Bethea and Sumiran Rai at the NAMSC’s potluck dinner
“THERE’S SOMETHING INCREDIBLY VALUABLE ABOUT INSERTING ARTISTS INTO COMMUNITIES IN AN IN-DEPTH WAY.” cies involves divisive American attitudes over immigrants and refugees, thrown into sharp focus during last year’s presidential campaign and the early days of the Trump administration. But Piechocki
notes that the project wasn’t a response to Trump: The Office of Public Art applied for the grant back in 2015. “It just so happened that the climate changed,” she says. While the artists are approaching their projects with excited curiosity, there are challenges, especially language barriers. A moment that stuck out for Lindsey Scherloum, matched with the United Somali Bantu of Greater Pittsburgh, was when someone within the group told her, “It’s going to be very challenging for you.” To her, that was “his permission to struggle and mess up.”
It’s not just different languages that distinguish immigrants and refugees from people born in the U.S. “People in the U.S. are living in different realities because of different experiences and privileges,” says Mary Tremonte, the artist assigned to the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, which works with immigrants from all over the world. Looking ahead, it’s difficult to say what’s to come for the artists. The nature of the project is such that next week’s schedule is just as nebulous as next year’s. “You just don’t know what you’ll be doing on a day-to-day basis,” says Bethea. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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CHOREO STRENGTHS {BY STEVE SUCATO} OVER HIS 20 years as artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Terrence Orr has sporadically given company dancers opportunities to choreograph on the company or the PBT school’s students. Orr, who just signed a three-year extension, continues upping those opportunities. In May, at Seton Hill University, PBT presented a program of ballets by company members that repeats at the annual Ballet Under the Stars program at Hartwood Acres Park, on Sun., Aug. 20.
to original music by her mother, Barbara, which looks at the collective emotions of a group of people. Principal dancer Julia Erickson’s 15-minute quartet “Demon Hostess,” she says, “explores gender archetypes and the balance of power, real or perceived, within relationships.” Set to music by Balanescu Quartet, the neoclassical ballet “looks for the beauty in the struggle … people face when finding their voice and reclaiming control.” Corps de ballet dancer William Moore’s 12-minute “Response” is an all-male quartet that the London native says seeks to show the strength and power of movement through explosive jumps and dance phrases. By contrast, fellow corps de ballet dancer Cooper Verona’s 13-minute “gravitational embrace” takes its inspiration from the measured ebb and flow of the universe. Rounding out the offerings is principal dancer Yoshiaki Nakano’s 15-minute quintet “Exit,” set to music by Philip Glass, Jóhann Jóhannsson and others. Nakano says that this classically-based ballet explores “the paths people wander and the direction they intend their lives to take.” In addition, the company will perform excerpts from Swan Lake and Paquita, and dance-goers (for a fee) can enjoy meals from six area food trucks and wine from PBT’s new Wine Tasting Tent. Finally, for the first time in a long time, the Hartwood program won’t introduce us to any new company dancers: Other than Diana Yohe’s promotion to soloist, the company remains intact from last season.
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THE BEST WAY to make sense of Throughline Theatre Company’s Cloud 9, the 1979 play by the controversial British playwright Caryl Churchill, is to remember Aristotle’s famous admonition regarding dramatic characters: Be consistent, or if inconsistent, be so consistently. This is meant to be provocative theater, or at least it was in its 1970s milieu. It has men playing women, whites playing blacks, the enjambment of space and time, and the often gratuitous employment of obscene language. Not to mention that every actor plays at least two parts. But somehow, all of this comes together and, because of its consistent unpredictability, works. It’s like looking at a Hieronymus Bosch painting — if you focus in on one section too closely, you’ll lose the impact of the overall effect. Director Edwin Lee Gibson holds the pieces together throughout what could easily become a mess of a production. He instills the characters with a blasé style that mitigates the script’s constant potential for hyperbole. For example, when Harry, played adroitly by George Saulnier, says, “I’m writing a novel about women from the woman’s point of view,” it’s delivered with such insouciance that the audience erupts in laughter. Gibson does the same with sexual dialogue, making it sound contemptuous of its own lewdness. Don’t ask why Act I is set in Victorian colonial Africa, while Act II jumps ahead a century, to a London park in 1979 — yet the characters age only 25 years. Such matters are better left to undergraduate seminars, or coffeehouse hookah debates. Perhaps it’s
just another case of “postmodern-theater syndrome” — where forms are violated simply for the sake of violating forms. Besides the smart direction, this Cloud 9 succeeds with the help of Paige Borak’s astute lighting, especially in the contrapuntal scenes of Act II, and Shannon Knapp’s atmospheric sound designs, which help bridge the dimensional shifts in time and place. Also, Knapp’s pre- and post-show soundtracks offer some delicious selections from the prog-rock era. Vance Weatherly’s scenery is simple and effective, which is what you want with a crazy play like this. The costumes, designed by Madrid Vinarski, are evocative rather than ornate, and allow the actors — especially in the cross-gender roles — to amplify their personas, instead of being overwhelmed by them.
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The strong cast makes intelligent choices with characters that could easily appear cartoonish. In one of the most demanding dual parts, Liam Ezra Dickinson doesn’t overplay the female role of Betty in Act I, nor embellish the gay Gerry in Act II. Tracy D. Turner is compelling as Maud/ Lin. Victor Aponite jumps from the staid, adult Joshua to the 5-year-old Cathy with impish joy, while Jalina K. McClarin, Malic Williams and Maeve Harten are vibrant in their multiple roles. Cloud 9 is like a strange collision between Gilbert and Sullivan and Eugene Ionesco. It may not make logical sense, but it does make for entertaining and comic theatre. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Quantum Theatre’s new production, Red Hills, revisits the 1994 Rwandan genocide. But audience members won’t all see precisely the same play. As the evening begins, half the audience will be oriented by David, a white American author, the other half by God’s Blessing, a Rwandan man who met David in his home country 20 years earlier, as the killing played out.
After the separate orientations, the audience unites in the vast, airy space of a former recycling facility, with its 40-foot-tall roof, open at the sides to the Strip District. But a key theme of this world-premiere play by Sean Christopher Lewis is established. “Everyone gets the points they need to know to enter the story,” says director Katie Pearl. “It’s just a totally different perspective.” The production is a collaboration between Quantum and long-running New York City-based En Garde Arts — an early inspiration for Quantum founder Karla Boos, whose company is now in its 27th season. En Garde founder Anne Hamburger developed the script with playwright and performer Lewis, acclaimed for one-man shows like Killadelphia and I Will Make You Orphans. (Lewis’ Dogs of Rwanda, an earlier version of Red Hills, still tours nationally.) Red Hills is set in motion by a note from God’s Blessing to David, informing him that his book about the genocide contains “untruths.” David is played by Scott Parkinson, who has Broadway and off-Broadway credits, and God’s Blessing by Ugandan-born Patrick J. Ssenjovu. The actors, mic’d, will traverse an extra-large space (lent by Uber Advanced Technologies), with a big concrete platform serving as a natural stage, dressed with three junked cars and 23 tons of red dirt. Pearl says that the play asks, “What is authentic storytelling? How do you achieve that when you’re not telling the story of yourself, you’re telling the story of another?” Red Hills (with all performances beginning at 8:30 p.m.), opens Aug. 18; a 2018 staging is planned in New York City. BY BILL O’DRISCOLL
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thursday 08.17 FASHION Style Week Pittsburgh returns for its fifth year, with the theme Style Meets Innovation. Four days of stylin’ events highlighting local designers and businesses begin with tonight’s Designer Fashion Show and after-party, at Coterie. On Fri., Aug. 18, it’s the Style Awards, at Alloy 26, on the North Side. On Saturday, the Ace Hotel hosts a pop-up market and the big Fashion’s Night Out party. The festivities wrap on Sunday with an Industry Brunch at the Frick Art & Historical Center. Bill O’Driscoll Fashion show: 6:30 p.m. (437 Grant St., Downtown; $20 or $50 VIP). Style Week continues through Aug. 20. Various locations and ticket prices. Schedule at www.styleweekpittsburgh.com
friday 08.18 ART Last week, the multi-media group exhibition Cyclopean Stonewares and the Coming of Night opened with a reception at Unsmoke Systems Artspace. Tonight, a second chance to see the show is accompanied by a one-time, site-specific performance by the artists. Working as the 181, Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes and Jason Rhodes (based in Delaware, Oregon and Pittsburgh),
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ART Back in the day, family photos from vacations, weddings and even senior bus tours were precious commodities, each print treasured. Such was Pittsburgh-based artist Scott Hunter’s inspiration for The Nonie Series. This collection of 50 oil paintings drew its imagery from a “small stack of faded, poorly developed Kodak prints.” The show at Artists Image Resource, curated by Jeffrey Jarzynka, opens with a reception tonight. BO 6:30-9:30 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Sept. 17. 518 Foreland St., North Side. 412-321-8664 or www.artistsimageresource.org
STAGE Being a fan of Big Fish, the classic story of a tall-taletelling father and his son, could mean that you love Daniel Wallace’s original novel. Or it could mean you love the 2003 ^ Fri., Aug. 18: Cyclopean Stonewares and the Coming of Night
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saturday 08.19 SPORT “The game of ball is glorious,” wrote Walt Whitman in 1846. He was talking baseball, but the sport was rather different then: no gloves, for one thing. Today, at Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, take in a game played as it would have been in roughly that era. Vintage Base Ball Day features two vintage-style (and vintage-uniformed) clubs, the Addison Mountain Stars and the Somerset Frosty Sons of Thunder, play a doubleheader under 1860s rules. KQV radio’s Paul Guggenheimer emcees; traditional ball-park snacks will be for sale. BO Games at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. 401 Meadowcroft Road, Avella, Pa. Free with regular admission ($7-15; free for kids under 6). 724-587-3412 or www. heinzhistorycenter.org
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ART The focus of the new art exhibit at Percolate: Art Space, Gallery, Creative Laboratory is clear enough: The four artists have stories to tell. Story Tellers has its opening reception tonight, with contributors Jessica Heberle, Heather Heitzenrater, Karly Takach and Melissa Reed. A striking piece from Takach called “Conditioning” depicts a woman holding a stack of CRT monitors, all displaying advertising images of women posing with phallic imagery. MP 6-8:30 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Sept. 8. 317 S. Trenton Ave., Wilkinsburg. 412-477-4540 or www.purplepierotti.com
COMEDY Rob Asaro’s touring standup/ storytelling comedy show Made in America spins out of a 2006 confrontation with a psychic on Park Avenue in New York City — turns out, the woman’s account seems to be accurate. The show, which visits Steel City Improv Theater tonight, finds Asaro telling stories from his life. The comedian’s varied portfolio includes live and film work. He produced, acted in and wrote for two web series, Serious Business and Yellow Brick Hell. MP 8 p.m. 5950 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. $10. 412-404-2695 or www.steelcityimprov.com
monday 08.21 PHENOMENON Don’t worry — it’s not Kim Jong Un blotting out the sun with a North Korean superweapon! Early this afternoon, the regular old moon will do the job itself, in the first total solar eclipse to hit the contiguous United States in 38 years. Pittsburgh does not lie in the scary-sounding “path of totality”: We’ll get about an 80 percent eclipse, starting just after 1 p.m. and peaking around 2:30 p.m. Local institutions marking the occasion include the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (www.pittsburghkids.org), which starting at 1:30 p.m. hosts an Eclipse Viewing Celebration in front of the museum, with special viewing glasses, eclipse folk tales and more. And free with museum admission, the Carnegie Science Center (www.carnegiesciencecenter.org) offers solar-observation equipment, eclipse-themed demos, and (for an additional $5) live NASA video feeds in the Buhl Planetarium. BO 1:30-4 p.m. Everywhere. Safety info and more at eclipse2017.nasa.gov
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Dying on stage is one thing. But PICT Classic Theatre claims this The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra might really be curtains for Alan is preparing for the 2017 European Stanford. Favorite PICT actors join Festivals Tour, but it won’t leave the company’s executive and artistic ^ Wed., Aug. 23: Murder at the Craft House: without saying goodbye. At tonight’s director for a fundraiser titled Who Killed Alan Stanford? free send-off concert, at Heinz Hall, Murder at the Craft House: Who expect to hear works including Mahler’s Killed Alan Stanford? It’s a reception Symphony No. 1 in D major and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and murder-mystery event, set in the historic home built in in A major, Opus 92. The conductor is music director Manfred 1900 by the town of Crafton’s namesake. Audiences can Honeck, and violinist Jeremy Black is featured. While this event play detective for five performances starting tonight. is free, reservations are required. MP 8 p.m. 600 Penn Ave., BO 7:30 p.m. Continues through Sun., Aug. 27. 8 Alice St., Downtown. Free. 412-392-4900 or www.pittsburghsymphony.org Crafton. 412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org
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CHEESE CLASS {BY REBECCA ADDISON} On any given evening, dining at Casellula, on the North Side, is an educational experience. The wine-and-cheese café is a place where the uninitiated can feel comfortable learning about cheese pairings. “We know that a lot of our customers are not aware about a lot of what we do,” says owner Brian Keyser. “People who don’t know a lot about cheese, and people who don’t know a lot about wine, can be a little intimidated. But in the restaurant, we try to make it easier by choosing cheeses for people and telling them all about them.” This summer, Keyser decided to take the tutelage to another level with a series of monthly cheese classes. “We want to give people enough information so they are no longer intimidated by the idea of ordering a cheese plate. We give people a chance to try a bunch of different cheeses to figure out what they like,” Keyser says. “And the classes are really fun.” Beginner’s tip: Keyser says it generally makes sense to pair lighter cheeses with lighter drinks and stronger cheeses with stronger drinks. For example, prosecco or a light white wine pairs well with fresh goat cheese. To learn more, check out Casellula’s fall lineup, which includes the following classes: one pairing cheeses with spirits from local distillery Wigle Whiskey; another focused on American cheeses; a third comparing classic and new cheeses and wine; and a holiday-themed event. Classes are $75 per person. Visit www.casellulapgh.com to register. RADDISON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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for its rapid rate of turnover and change, but the interval between M&J Bistro on East Carson Street and its successor, Mad Noodles, was exceptionally brief. Such a quick transformation can be explained, not by any catastrophic failure, but rather by continuity: when the coowner and chef of M&J departed, the remaining partner stayed in business under a modified name, tweaking the concept but leaving the brand new — and, in our opinion, wonderful — interior in place. At Mad Noodles, the former sushi bar now serves as a bubble-tea station, and the full bar up front serves booze. As the new name suggests, the menu is noodle-centric, but this isn’t part of the hand-pulled noodle trend, nor an extensive tour of the noodles of the world or even
of a single cuisine. Instead, Mad Noodles’ pan-Asian menu is anchored by about a dozen noodle soups and plates, and rounded out with braised dishes over rice and just a couple of stir-fries.
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CP APPROVED The menu was all too brief in its descriptions, an approach which can raise more questions than answers when the cuisine spans half a continent. Take “noodles with minced pork sauce”: Were
they Chinese, or of a different cuisine? And if they were Chinese, should we expect a mild Cantonese dish, something fiery from Sichuan or non-committal Chinese-American? We could at least rule out the latter. While Mad Noodles wasn’t a daring exploration of obscure regions, neither was it merely gussied-up food-court fare. A clear indication of that came in the form of rolled pancakes with beef (duck is also available): thinly sliced beef, rolled up in a flaky pancake, sliced and served makistyle and drizzled with a bold, sweet-savory sauce. We’ve seen similar preparations before, but the texture and flavor of this roll were both so good, we hope this preparation catches on even more widely. Thai curry beef noodle soup appeared to be a bit of a misnomer. Even after asking CONTINUES ON PG. 34
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our server to describe it, we were surprised when, instead of a bowl of curried broth, we received a shallow dish of noodles ladled with a creamy-textured yellow curry sauce and arrayed with a pinwheel of thin beef slices. The attractive presentation made it easy to adjust the proportions of starch to sauce to protein in each bite. With the meat’s robust notes as a counterpoint to the curry’s assertively piquant ones, and the noodles threading and binding the tastes into a complex skein, this was a much more elegant dish than a soup — with its chance encounters of ingredients in each spoonful — could ever be. Soup dumplings may be approaching ubiquity, but perhaps with declining returns. Mad Noodles’ version was a little short on the actual soup part, with only a couple dumplings in our serving really delivering that characteristic burst of umami-packed broth. By contrast, pork buns — one of the few holdovers from the previous menu — remain superb examples of their type, with wrappers that were springy, not gummy, and filling that was meaty and bold enough to flavor all that dough. Any Asian noodle place will have pad Thai, but this version was unusual, first for having a bit more spice than typical, and second for lacking the tanginess that, paired with tamarind sweetness, is one of the hallmarks of the dish. Liberal squeezes of lime helped. Ramen came in two forms, one with beef broth and another with miso-derived broth and pork belly. The thinly sliced pork was pretty good, but the generous portion of greens was excellent, including both tender leaves and crunchy stalks. The broth wasn’t identical to a simple miso soup, but its warm, vegetal savoriness made a pleasing alternative to clear, protein-based broths. What Mad Noodles calls “flat rice noodles” was a dish reminiscent of pad see ew, but these noodles came in an assertive, umami-rich brown sauce that could be described as generic if it weren’t so delicious. All four in our party took tastes, then reached our chopsticks back eagerly for more. The exceptionally broad noodles were pleasingly chewy with a modest portion of beef and scallions to enhance them, rather like the Italian way of going easy on the sauce so the underlying pasta can shine. Mad Noodles’ attention to quality, preparation and presentation were evident in every dish we ordered, even the imperfect ones. Overall, as a streamlined collection of noodle dishes from a variety of cuisines, Mad Noodles serves far more than Asian-American cliches. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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BEET AND RAINBOW CARROT SLAW SALAD {BY LANDON DEPAULO, GARFIELD} Growing up, I had to eat my fruits and veggies. I can remember being convinced that lima beans were wondrous (I begged to differ). Nonetheless, I shoveled the odd-tasting legume into my mouth without question. Surprisingly enough, eating a raw lima bean can be toxic as they contain compounds that break down into cyanide. I wish I had known that when I was young. That would have been great fuel for any dinner-table disagreement. There are people who cannot get enough of their produce! I got to spend a summer working on an organic research farm, and there I witnessed the most overzealous produce-lover in the world. She came to the farm randomly to harvest beets. Not only would she let it be known that they were her favorite, she would d literally rip them out of the ground and eatt them right then and there. Dirt-covered, and nd red-stained teeth; I will ill never forget the sight. Years later, I joined the masses sses of produce-peddling converts, but the tables were turned. This time, I got to call the shots and torture people of all ages into eating their fruits and vegetables. Convincing people to try a raw beet was the ultimate challenge. The protesters would complain about the earthy taste, how it stained your hands … I didn’t let that stop me. I created a simple recipe that would change the tune of any opponent by using a key ingredient: honey. Anyone who is looking for something different, colorful and fun should check out this recipe. Enjoy within three days. INGREDIENTS • 1 large red beet • 1 large golden beet • 1 lb. rainbow carrots • 3 tbsp. raw honey • ¼ cup fresh mint INSTRUCTIONS Wash and shred the beets and carrots into a large mixing bowl. Add in the finely chopped mint. Drizzle the raw honey into the bowl. Mix the contents, and add honey if more sweetness is desired. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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2 oz. bourbon, 1 oz. simple syrup, quarter lemon, 3 sprigs mint, crushed ice
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In the bottom of a cocktail shaker, muddle lemon, mint and simple syrup together. Add whiskey and shake vigorously. Transfer to an Old Fashioned glass and top with crushed ice and a mint sprig. The beauty of the smash is that it can be adapted to the season. There isn’t a hard-and-fast recipe as long as a spirit, a sweetener and an herb are used. Throw in whatever fruit is in season as well as a bit of soda water if you’d like to dilute it a bit. Above is the classic recipe that appeared in Jerry Thomas’ 1887 Bar-tender’s Guide. Here are a few more simple cocktails to check out on a hot day: a daiquiri (2 oz. white rum, 1 oz. fresh lime juice, ½ oz. simple syrup); a paloma (2 oz. blanco tequila, grapefruit soda, juice of half a lime and a salt rim); and an Aperol spritz (3 parts prosecco, 2 parts Aperol, topped with soda water and an orange-slice garnish), as illustrated by a fun instructional video available at www.aperol.com.
Gin Rickey 2½ oz. gin, ¾ oz. fresh lime juice, soda water
Fill a highball glass with ice. Add gin and lime juice. Top with soda water, stir and garnish with a lime wedge or wheel. The roots of this drink lie in politics. According to Albert Crockett, author of 1931’s Old Waldorf Bar Days, Col. Joe Rickey was a
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Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste 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.
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Acacia 2108 E. Carson St., South Side DRINK: Rob Roy INGREDIENTS: Chivas Regal scotch, house vermouth blend, Luxardo cherry, orange peel OUR TAKE: Pleasantly softened by the blend of vermouths, the scotch is allowed to shine in this drink without overwhelming the more delicate orange and round wine flavors. A bit of smokiness still clings to the drink enhanced by the sweetness of the cherry.
Speakeasy at the S Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Place, Downtown DRINK: Rob Roy INGREDIENTS: Bruichladdich Rocks Islay scotch, Carpano Antica sweet vermouth, Luxardo cherry, William Penn bitters OUR TAKE: Strong notes of cherry on the nose. The cocktail starts with vermouth and full round wine flavors, and then rapidly rolls into a bold profile of slightly salty scotch. It finishes with sweet orange and a wisp of lingering smoke.
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LIFE DURING WARTIME {BY AL HOFF} Insomuch as there can be a sweet, affirming coming-of-age tale that ends with a nuclear blast, Sunao Katabuchi’s new Japanese anime In This Corner of the World fits the bill. We first meet the lively, imaginative Suzu as a girl in the 1930s. She lives in Hiroshima, and loves to draw. But at 18, she moves to the nearby port city of Kure, where she joins a new husband and family. There are understandable adjustments to her new domestic arrangement, but worse is the growing impact war is having on day-to-day life.
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Katabuchi’s depiction of the homefront keeps the film set on a small scale, with domestic crises including kimonos and family spats. Thus, the first half of the film unfolds rather slowly, but as the war ramps up, so do the consequences. Excitement over the Japanese fleet in the harbor and pride at foodrationing skills give way to sorrow and fear as deaths mount and bombs drop from the sky onto the otherwise peaceful town. The film’s on-screen rollout of specific dates throughout 1944 and 1945 primes us for the inevitable terrible one — Aug. 6, 1945, when an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. Suzu fights to keep her resourcefulness and hope, finding joy in the world around her, whether it be a kindness from a stranger or the beauty of the natural world. Parts of her struggle are basic growing pains and adjusting to a new family, but her positivity is challenged as the war’s horrors pile up and directly affect her. While In This Corner is specific to a time, place and culture, it offers the universality of the hardships endured by civilians during war, and the losses. The animation is lovely, often incorporating Suzu’s sketches, painting and visualizations, including a genrebreaking sequence toward the end that in its simplicity delivers both a visual and emotional shock. Despite some similar subject matter, In This Corner doesn’t pack quite the same gut-punch as 1988’s Grave of the Fireflies, but its wistfulness and depiction of quiet resilience is nonetheless affecting. In Japanese, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Aug. 18. SouthSide Works
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HESE FRAUGHT times call for boldly underlining new films that offer a counter-narrative to our anxieties or have uplifting qualities. And thus, I heartily recommend rounding up friends and family (bring those older kids) for the feel-good high school documentary Step. The engaging film documents the travails and triumphs of a step-dance team, the Lethal Ladies, from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, over the 2015-16 academic year. Filmmaker Amanda Lipitz has followed the team since its inception several years ago, but Step focuses on the senior year of three of its members. This is the last chance these girls have to prove something as a team (and hopefully do well at a regional step competition). And they’re committed to being accepted at colleges before year’s end. Many of the young African-American women enrolled in BLSYW come from Baltimore’s poorer neighborhoods, and they face multiple challenges, including troubled families, financial hardship and turbulent streets. (The city is still dealing
with the fall-out from the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, and the step team incorporates elements of the Black Lives Matter movement into their routines.) Working hard and dreaming big are the film’s three stars: Blessin, the troupe’s vivacious leader, wearer of many hair-dos, and most likely to sabotage her own opportunities; Cori, a self-described introvert
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whether dealing with family, money, academics, self-doubt or just the growing pains of adolescence. There are tears and set-backs, and you’ll fiercely root for their success. As do the supportive adults — the proverbial child-raising village — in the girls’ lives, which includes the step coach, teachers, a guidance counselor and family. (Cori explains, “My mom is like a magic wand in human form.”) And it’s a useful metaphor that for their final routine, the girls work on building a pyramid, literally supporting each other as they move upward. A final observation: Over the years, I’ve seen plenty of inspirational documentaries and docudramas about triumphant school athletes beating the odds. And while I respect the hard work that goes into such victories, I’ve long grumbled that I wish they made feel-good docs about academic achievements. Watching Step, my eyeballs sprang a leak when the screening audience erupted with spontaneous applause … not for a particularly impressive dance move, but for an award of free college tuition. Finally, cheers for more than touchdowns.
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NEW BRIGSBY BEAR. Kyle Mooney stars in this quirky dramedy about a young man who grew up obsessed with a kids’ TV show and now must learn to navigate the world without it. Dave McCary directs. Starts Fri., Aug. 18. Hollywood HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY. Daniel Raim’s new documentary profiles Harold and Lillian Michelson, an atypical but still influential showbiz couple. One, they were married for 60 years, and two, they toiled behind the scenes as a storyboard artist and film researcher, respectively. Starts Fri., Aug. 18. Tull Family Theater, Sewickley
THE WIZ. Sidney Lumet’s 1978 adaptation of the stage musical re-imagines The Wizard of Oz as a contemporary African-American tale. Starring Diana Ross as Dorothy, with Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. 2 p.m. Sat., Aug. 19. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. Pay-whatmakes-you-happy
THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD. Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson star in Patrick Hughes’ comedy about two competitive bodyguards who must work together to protect a hitman during his trial. Starts Fri., Aug. 18
THE CURIOUS WORLD OF HEIRONYMOUS BOSCH. David Bickerstaff’s 2016 documentary examines the still-quite-bizarre 16th-century paintings of the Dutch artist, using the comprehensive exhibition Jheronimus Bosch — Visions of Genius held recently in the Netherlands. 2 p.m. Sat., Aug. 19, and 4 p.m. Sun., Aug. 20. Hollywood
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JUST EAT IT. This recent documentary from Grant Baldwin looks at food waste. Folks throw as much as 50 percent of food in the trash, so surely there is a better way. The filmmaker tries living on “discarded” food, and explores other strategies for preventing or utilizing food waste. 8 p.m. nightly Aug. 1618; 5 and 8 p.m. nightly Aug. 19-20 (Harris). Also, 9 p.m. nightly Aug. 18-19, and 7 p.m. Sun., Aug. 20 (Melwood). $8. www.pghfilm makers.org
CHICAGO. Rob Marshall directs this 2000 adaptation of the Bob Fosse stage musical about gangsters, lawyers and lovely ladies, engaging in crime and entertainment in 1920s Chicago. 6 p.m. Sat., Aug. 19. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. Pay-what-makes-you-happy DIRTY DANCING. The much-loved 1987 romance from Emile Ardolino is back on the big screen, for this Ladies Night Out event (BYOB, plus raffles, dessert, vendors and more). Swoon anew as Baby (Jennifer Grey) learns about dance, love and heartbreak from local dirty-boogier Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) while vacationing in the Catskills. You just might have … the time of your life. 6 p.m. Sat., Aug. 19 (screening at 7:30 p.m.). Hollywood. $15
LADY MACBETH. William Oldroyd’s drama is an ice-cold domestic noir hidden within a period romantic potboiler. See www.pghcity paper.com for full review. Starts Fri., Aug. 18 LOGAN LUCKY. Steven Soderbergh directs this comedy about two brothers who try to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race. Starts Fri., Aug. 18 OBIT. This documentary from Vanessa Guild looks at the fabled process of New York Times obituaries, from choosing subjects to condensing a life to a few hundred words. Starts Fri., Aug. 18. Tull Family Theater, Sewickley
REPERTORY DOLLAR BANK CINEMA IN THE PARK. The Great Wall, Wed., Aug. 16 (Schenley Park: Flagstaff Hill), and Sat., Aug. 19 (Riverview). Moana, Thu., Aug. 17 (Brookline); Fri., Aug. 18 (Arsenal); and Sat., Aug. 19 (Grandview). Beauty and the Beast, Sun., Aug. 20 (Schenley Plaza); Mon., Aug. 21 (Reservoir Drive, Highland Park); Tue., Aug. 22 (West End/Elliott Overlook); and Thu., Aug. 24 (Brookline). On a Wing and a Prayer, Wed., Aug. 23 (Schenley Park: Flagstaff Hill). Films begin at dusk. Free. 412-255-2493 or www.citiparks.net DIE HARD. It’s pretty much the worst way to spend Christmas Eve: single-handedly defending a Los Angeles skyscraper from a dozen terrorists. But New York cop John McLane (Bruce Willis) makes it look fun. John McTiernan directs this 1988 actioner that made Willis a bigtime movie star. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 16. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 SKIPS STONES FOR FUDGE. Ryan Seitz’s new hour-long documentary explores the world
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of competitive rock-skipping. The current world record is 88 skips, held by Western Pennsylvania’s own Kurt “Mountain Man” Steiner. Steiner and two other locally based champs — state champ Dave “Spiderman” Ohmer and former worldrecord holder Russ “Rock Bottom” Byars — will be on hand for a Q&A and a subsequent off-site demonstration at the Allegheny River. 7 p.m. Thu., Aug. 19. Row House Cinema. $9
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THE FINAL INTERVIEW. Fred Vogel’s new drama finds a TV journalist struggling to keep it together while conducting a live broadcast interview with a condemned murderer on the night of his execution. 8 and 10:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 17. Hollywood STAR WARS. See where the wildly popular space saga of good vs. evil begins … at least on the big screen, with George Lucas’ 1977 actioner starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and then-fresh special effects. 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 18. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. Pay-what-makes-you-happy TO MAKE A FARM. Catch an outdoor screening of Steven Suderman’s 2011 documentary profiling five young Canadians who decide to start a farm. Sponsored by the Carnegie Library and Shadyside Worms; bring a blanket and a picnic dinner. 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 18. Rescue Street Farm, 1958
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AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER. Leo McCarey’s weepy 1957 romance has long been one of the classic, glossy Hollywood tearjerkers. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, each engaged to other people, fall in love during an ocean voyage. They agree: If they’re still madly in love in six months, they’ll leave their respective betrotheds and meet at the top of the Empire State Building. Seems simple enough, but the course of true love rarely runs smooth. Bring a hankie. Aug. 18-19 and Aug. 21-24. Row House Cinema (AH)
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TO CATCH A THIEF. Alfred Hitchcock’s lush 1955 Technicolor film is the sort of dreamily romantic caper that makes crime look like an amusing sideline of the rich and good-looking. Cary Grant stars as the presumably retired cat burglar who steps in to help solve a series of jewel heists among the elite of Monte Carlo. An American socialite (Grace Kelly) is the beneficiary of his detecting — and romancing — skills. Aug. 18-19 and Aug. 21-24. Row House Cinema (AH)
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ANTICHRIST. A grieving couple retreats to a remote cabin, hoping to repair a damaged relationship, but things don’t go very well, in Lars von Trier’s 2009 drama. Midnight, Sat., Aug. 19. Row House Cinema THE PRINCESS BRIDE. Rob Reiner’s 1987 film is that rare bird — a film to delight children and adults alike, an upbeat fairy tale with romance, comedy, swordplay and deliciously quotable lines. (“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) And what a cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Pantinkin, Billy Crystal, Peter Falk, Wallace Shawn, Christopher Guest and professional wrestler Andre the Giant. William Goldman wrote the clever script. 11 a.m. Sun., Aug. 20. Hollywood (AH)
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“EVERYONE HAS THEIR REASONS FOR PLAYING, AND I CAN’T WAIT TO SHARE THAT WITH PITTSBURGH.”
HISTORY LESSONS This week in Pittsburgh Sports History {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} AUG. 17, 1971 Pirates legend Bill Mazeroski gets his 2,000th hit during a 6-5 loss to Houston.
AUG. 18, 1922 Gene Sarazen wins the first of his three PGA Championships, this one at the Oakmont Country Club. He would win seven majors over the course of his career.
AUG. 18, 1966 The Pirates beat the New York Mets 9-3. But the real story is Pirates third baseman Jose Pagan tying an MLB record for the most errors — three — in one inning.
Pirates pitcher Preacher Roe gives up a home run to Brooklyn’s Tommy Brown. At age 17, Brown became and still is the youngest MLB player to hit the longball.
AUG. 20, 1999 Back in the day, when McKees Rocks’ Paul Spadafora did all of his fighting in the ring instead of in the streets, he defeats Israel Cardona to win the vacant IBF World Lightweight title.
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AUG. 20, 2010 Pittsburgh Steelers great Lynn Swann announces the formation of the Pittsburgh Power, a new Arena Football League franchise that he co-owns. The team would be gone by 2014.
AUG. 22, 1907 The Pirates put a 20-5 beatdown on the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds. Pirates pitcher Lefty Leifield gets the win behind multiple hits from Ed Abbaticchio, Alan Storke and Fred Clarke.
AUG. 22, 1912 Legendary Pirates slugger Honus Wagner hits for the cycle against the New York Giants at Forbes Field. It’s the only time he accomplished this feat.
AUG. 23, 1998 Although they’re now roundly criticized for their alleged steroid abuse, the home-run record chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa was the biggest sports story around. On this day, McGwire would hit dinger No. 53 off of Pirates pitcher Ricardo Rincon at Three Rivers Stadium.
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competitive, fast-paced game of strategy and superhero-level athletic ability. This weekend, local fans will get to see the best of it when the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s Division 2 Playoffs come to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. There will be three days of intense action, featuring derby teams from around the world, including France, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The WFTDA’s host for the weekend is Steel City Roller Derby. Hosting the Division 2 tournaments is a pretty big deal. Now-retired SCRD member The Kraken (roller-derby athletes have the best nicknames and some only identify publicly by them) worked tirelessly to secure
the successful hosting bid. All members of SCRD will be present at the event, performing tasks like taking tickets, working security, wrangling teams and managing the track.
WOMEN’S FLAT TRACK DERBY ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri., Aug. 18, through Sun., Aug. 20. David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd., Downtown. $15-65; kids under 8, free. www.tinyurl.com/WFTDA
SCRD’s Jamie Fargo (a.k.a. Ally McKill on the track) has been a long-time league representative for the WFTDA. “Hosting a WFTDA playoff event is a huge milestone for SCRD,” Fargo tells
City Paper by email. “Not only will we be hosting competing skaters from all over the world, but we expect to draw in spectators from all over, and increase roller derby’s visibility within the Pittsburgh sports community.” SCRD team member Alyssa Quintanilla (Slam Houston on the track) is also looking forward to the tournament and sharing what derby is all about to a bigger audience. “Roller derby means so many things to so many different people. It can be just a fun way to meet friends, and/or an incredibly feminist statement about female empowerment and athleticism,” Quintanilla says. “Everyone has their reasons for playing, and I can’t wait to share that with Pittsburgh.” The Division 2 playoffs are incredibly
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exciting atmosphere of a playoff tournament can cheer along with positive chants. “Signs and chants are absolutely welcome and encouraged, but they’re not quite at professional wrestling level yet,” says Mervis. “But I’m working on it.” As hosts, SCRD won’t be competing in this tournament, but they will be on hand at the tournament with recruitment information and flyers for upcoming events. “Though SCRD won’t be competing at this tournament, Pittsburghers curious about our hometown players can see us in action in September at the Pittsburgh Indoor Sports Arena,” says Fargo. “We debut our first class of 2017 rookies, along with a travel team ‘Black vs. Yellow’ bout on September 23.”
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CHANGE OF VENUE {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} FOR THE MOST part, the venues that played host to the greatest moments in our city’s sports history no longer exist. A wall and home plate from Forbes Field are still preserved, but nothing else of the famed baseball house. If you’re looking to see Three Rivers Stadium, Pitt Stadium, Duquesne Gardens or the Civic Arena, they can be seen only in pictures on the internet. All of them have been demolished for the sake of progress. However, two places still remain — Josh Gibson Field, in the Hill, and Motor Square Garden, in East Liberty. The former has been divided into two fields for youth-league baseball, and the latter is the home office for a popular road-side assistance company. The Cheap Seats does not give free advertising, so we won’t say the name of the company. But let’s just say it’s listed right above Alcoholics Anonymous in that unwanted phone book that’s probably still sitting at the end of your driveway. Josh Gibson Field (formerly Ammon Field) is the site of some of the best baseball ever played between the three rivers. It hosted the Pittsburgh Crawfords of the Negro Leagues. Located at 2217 Bedford Ave., this field is where the great Josh Gibson hit many of his more than 800 home runs as a professional ballplayer. The fabled Homestead Grays also used the field. Gibson was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, just the second player from the Negro Leagues to be inducted. Perhaps the greatest catcher of all time, the Black Babe Ruth, as he was nicknamed, spent many hours on this very field — as did stars like Satchel Paige, Judy Johnson and Cool Papa Bell, all of whom contributed to baseball history on Bedford Avenue. The teams moved here after the original stadium, Greenlee Field, was razed. That 7,500seat stadium also was on Bedford Avenue, but was replaced by the Bedford Dwellings. In East Liberty, the building with the odd blue dome at 5900 Baum Blvd. hosted many legendary boxing matches. In this historic building, Pittsburgh pugilists profusely punched people. Motor Square Garden — or as your grandparents or great grandparents probably called it, Motor Square Gardens — hosted prominent Pittsburgher fighters as well as nationally known practitio-
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ners of the sweet science. The big three in Pittsburgh boxing history, Harry Greb, Billy Conn and Fritzie Zivic, all fought under that blue dome. Greb fought all over the world against some of the best middleweight competition. He wasn’t one of those old-timey racists, either, who refused to fight someone without the same skin pigmentation. Greb fought hard and he fought often. According to records, Greb fought at our MSG nine times without a defeat. The “Pittsburgh Windmill” and “Smoke City Wildcat” fought a record 37 times in one year. Locally, he fought at Forbes Field; the West End Theater, in Uniontown; the Palisades Rink, in McKeesport; Duquesne Gardens; a skating rink in Charleroi; and the South Side Market House. Greb went to battle 298 times in his career and had his hands raised in victory 261 times. He lost only 17 fights and had 19 contests finish in draws. Some of those wins were called “newspaper decisions.” Judges were too easily influenced by nefarious outside forces, so the media would decide who won or lost a fight. Yes, the liberal media was controlling our boxing results. One of those wins was against Gene Tunney, who finished his Hall of Fame career at 65-1. Greb was his only blemish, although Tunney did beat him three times, and they fought to a draw once in subsequent rematches. Greb wasn’t above or below fighting dirty, but he was not as dirty as Lawrenceville’s Fritzie Zivic. “The Croat Comet” was the most successful of the five “Fighting Zivics.” Before you saw everyone in Lawrenceville smoking a cigarette in a beard, you saw
this family beating everyone up. Zivic was once the world welterweight champion after his stunning upset of Henry “Hammering Hank” Armstrong at Madison Square Garden. Zivic and his band of brutal brothers fought at Motor Square Garden numerous times. Fritzie was known to thumb an opponent in the eye as well as punch below the belt when he needed to. But he grew up in Lawrenceville in the 1920s, so he did what he had to do. One opponent he did lose to at Motor Square was the “Pittsburgh Kid,” Billy Conn. Conn grew up in East Liberty and came within a round or two of knocking off Joe Louis for the world heavyweight championship. Overall, he won 64 of 77 fights and has a street named after him in Oakland. Conn fought often at Motor Square Garden, and it was the training ground for one of Pittsburgh’s all-time great sports heroes. Motor Square Garden is a much better place to see part of boxing history than the gas station in McKees Rocks where Paul Spadafora shot his girlfriend. Josh Gibson Field is located near August Wilson’s house, if you’re ever in the mood for a tour of the Hill and its history. And Motor Square Garden doesn’t have a ring in it, but you can stop by and get a good rate on car insurance. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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{BY ROB BREZSNY}
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you love someone, set them free,” said new-age author Richard Bach. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1892, workers began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Here’s a definition of “fantasizing” as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’ — imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows? That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
In accordance with the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them — with gifts and heartfelt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.
In 43 cartoon stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly-complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
How many countries has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twentyfive, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You know about the Ten Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that’s central to Christianity and Judaism. You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.” Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?
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countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your education may take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom. What thing do you yearn for that would also benefit other people? Testify at Truthrooster@ gmail.com.
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You temporarily have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity, because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings. But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits,” said philosopher Gaston Bachelard. This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you’ll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion — never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul’s lust for deeper, wilder life. Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thought-out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”
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Congratulations! I expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that
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I’ve been wondering: Since there are lesbians out there who occasionally crave cock, does the reverse also happen? Are there gay men who occasionally crave pussy? THIS POSSIBLE?
There are gay men who watch football — hell, I have it on good authority that some gay men play football, TP. So anything is possible. (Also, there are lots of lesbian-identified bisexual women out there, a smaller number of gay-identified bisexual men, and a tiny handful of bisexual-identified football fans.) I’ve been seeing a lot of articles in the media about men “dropping out of the dating-andmarriage game,” and the conclusions always point to porn as the culprit. This seems like a simplistic explanation. Do you have an opinion on the effect of porn on men? PONDERING PORN
I’m having an extremely difficult time getting intimate with my boyfriend of four years. I’m in recovery for an eating disorder, and part of my treatment is Prozac. It’s working great and helping me make healthier choices. However, the Prozac is severely affecting my sex drive. I have little to no desire to have sex. And when we do have sex, I rarely orgasm. This is frustrating and, frankly, harmful to my recovery process. I’m already dealing with my shitty eating disorder telling me that I’m fat, ugly, and not good enough for anyone, anything or even a decent meal. Now it’s taking sex away from me, too? I also feel terrible for my boyfriend, who is endlessly patient and understanding but wants to have sex. I’ve suggested opening up the relationship for his sake, but he doesn’t want to do that. I feel guilty and sad and frustrated. Any thoughts? PROZAC LOVER/HEALER
I dropped out of the forming-opinions-aboutporn game — far too busy consuming porn these days, PP. It’s the only way to keep myself sane here in Trumpsylvania. I’m a 26-year-old woman. I started dating a fantastic guy a month ago, blah blah blah, we’ve already talked about marriage. The problem is that his dick isn’t up to par sizewise or staying-hard-wise. He was aware of this before I came along, and it made him an enthusiastic and skilled oral performer to make up for it. So for now everything’s great, plenty of orgasms, and we’re loveydovey. But eventually I’ll need that filled-up feeling, and I’ll have to ask for some dildo/ extender/strap-on action. The question is when to ask. He’s a secure guy, and we’ve both been honest about our flaws. If I wait too long to ask, it might make him think I’ve been faking the whole time. And if I ask too soon, I could scare him off or make his performance anxiety worse! How do I know when the right time is? HALF FULL
If the benefits of Prozac (helping you make better choices and aiding your recovery process) are canceled out by the side effects (leaving you so sexually frustrated, it’s harming your recovery process), PLH, you should talk to your doctor about other options — other drugs you could try or a lower dose of Prozac. If your doctor dismisses your concerns about the sexual side effects of the drug they’ve got you on, get a new doctor. I have only one concern about Donald Trump getting impeached: Do we get Mike Pence? Is he not just as bad? Or worse? On a more personal note: I don’t think I’ve gotten a good night’s sleep since Trump got elected. I wake up every morning next to an avid, Fox News–watching Trump supporter. I’m married long-term (35 years!) to a man who pulled a political 180. This is about to make me crazy. Really. I’m not kidding. Do you have any suggestions for me? I don’t want to DTMFA. Although after a most nauseating discussion over dinner, I did actually give it some thought. LIBERAL GRANDMA
If you were talking about marriage after a month, HF, odds are good this relationship is doomed anyway. So go ahead and ask for dildo/extender/ strap-on action now. Don’t say, “Circling back to your subpar dick, darling, I’m gonna need some compensatory dildo action soon.” Instead say, “I’m into penetration toys, and I’m looking forward to getting into them with you — getting them into me, getting them into you. Anything you want to put on the menu, darling?” Two friends can hook up with a girl or two girls from a bar and have a threesome or a foursome. But can two brothers — with opposite sexual preferences — hook up with a girl and a guy from a bar? Would this be considered wrong? No touching between siblings would occur.
Mike Pence, as awful as he is, oscillates within a predictable band of Republican awfulness. The reason no one is getting any sleep these days — not even folks who don’t wake up next to Trump supporters — is because no one can predict what Trump will do next. Not even Trump. That’s what makes his presidency such an existential nightmare. As for your husband, LG, your choices are binary and rather stark: Either you divorce his ass and spare yourself the grief of listening to his bullshit, or you stay put, learn to tune out his bullshit, and cancel out his vote in 2018 and 2020. What’s the best dating site for a slightly cynical, tattooed, fortysomething woman looking for a guy? TATTOOED LADY
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It would be considered wrong by some — but those people aren’t you, your brother, or the girl and guy you hope to pick up together. Personally, BB, I can barely get an erection if one of my siblings is in the same ZIP code; I can’t imagine getting one with a sibling in the same room. But if you’re comfortable doing opposite-sexual-preferencey things in close proximity to your brother, go for it.
It depends on the kind of guy you want. Closet case? ChristianMingle. Fuck boy? Tinder. Trump voter? Farmers Only. Compulsive masturbator? Craigslist. Unfuckable loser who is now and will always be a socially maladapted virgin? Return of Kings. On the Lovecast, Dr. Samantha Joel on the psychology of ending relationships: savagelovecast.com.
SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET AND FIND THE SAVAGE LOVECAST (DAN’S WEEKLY PODCAST) AT SAVAGELOVECAST.COM
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