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intimidating. Many streets have small road signs, or none at all, and some intersections resemble deformed starﬁsh, instead of modern infrastructure. (And the hills, the never-ending hills.) This can lead college students to avoid venturing beyond their college neighborhoods. Pittsburgh City Paper says, “Screw that”; break out of the bro bars and corporate coffee shops that cater to you. Explore our wonderful city, with its scores of distinct neighborhoods, pleasant public parks and cultural institutions. To take in all these attractions, CP offers you a

handy guide on all the different ways to get around Pittsburgh, with tips, secrets and advice. Onward and up those hills!

PUBLIC TRANSIT If you are a student at University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University or Chatham University, and you aren’t taking the bus or the T (what we call our light-rail system), you’re literally throwing money down the drain. Students and faculty at those universities merely need to tap their school IDs on buses and light-rail cars for free rides. Students at Carlow University, Point Park University and Robert Morris University can

ride for $1 after 7 p.m. on the weekdays, and all day on weekends, as long as they present their IDs and pay in cash. To ride the bus, wait at a designated stop (look for a small blue sign). If there are cars parked near your stop or you are waiting in a shelter, it’s wise to step out to the curb as your bus arrives, so the driver can see you. Track the progress of your route using the TrueTime feature on the Port Authority of Allegheny County website (truetime.portauthority.org). Enter your bus-stop information in the “estimated arrival time” feature and remember to CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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check whether you are heading inbound or outbound. You can also enter your bus route into the “vehicle location map” feature to track the bus’ progress. If you live in Oakland, you might ride the 54, which travels from the North Side to the South Side through Oakland. If you’re on the 54 heading to the North Side, you’re inbound. You’re heading outbound on the 54 if you’re going toward the South Side. For most other routes, inbound is toward Downtown and outbound is away from Downtown. When your bus arrives, enter through the front door and pay by tapping your student ID or ConnectCard (visit www. connectcard.org to find where to purchase a ConnectCard), or pay cash. It’s $2.50 for a one-way trip using a ConnectCard and $2.75 if you’re paying in cash. When your stop is near, pull the cord near the windows or hit the small red button near a rear exit to request a stop. Exit through any door.

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Riding the light rail in Downtown or to the North Side is free. If you continue riding across the Monongahela River and into the South Hills, you have to pay ($2.50 using ConnectCard or $2.75 cash) at the front of the car. Currently, riders from the South Hills heading inbound pay as they enter, and outbound riders pay as they exit. Starting sometime in the fall, light-rail riders will observe an honor system, and will pay by either tapping their cards on receptacles located on the platform or stop, or as they enter the car. Port Authority spokesperson Adam Brandolph says Port Authority will have a booth set up at Pitt’s Arrival Survival, or welcome week, to offer advice to students on how to ride the bus and the T. More information can be found at www.portauthority.org.

BIKING Rejoice Oakland students: Biking just got a lot safer in the heavily trafficked neighborhood. Pittsburgh recently installed more bike lanes in Oakland, on Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard (and more are on the way for Forbes near CMU). When cycling, remember to follow Pennsylvania state driving rules and learn to use your hand signals when turning and stopping. It’s recommended that you ride in bike lanes and in the righthand section of roads, but this is NOT a requirement. Any time cyclists feel the need (especially if they feel unsafe on the road), they are entitled to take the entire driving lane. Local bike-advocacy organization Bike Pittsburgh recently updated its Biking 101

guide with expert tips; you can pick up a guide for free from your local public library or at the Bike Pittsburgh offices, in Lawrenceville. Bike Pittsburgh also has a list of how-to videos available at www.bikepgh.org. Its website also has a map of the city that provides all the best and safest cycling routes; paper copies of the map are widely available at bike stores. If you don’t own a bike, Healthy Ride, Pittsburgh’s bike share, has you covered. The bike share has 50 stations located throughout the city, and most are in neighborhoods familiar to students (Downtown, Oakland, Shadyside and South Side); a station map and instructions on how to ride are available at www.healthyridepgh.com. Healthy Ride costs $2 for 30 minutes, and bikes can now be returned to any station, regardless of whether docks are available (just insert the bike lock into the front-wheel base and hit the “OK” button on the bike’s keypad). Membership costs $12 a month and includes unlimited 30-minute rides. Riders can try out a Healthy Ride for free; just follow the instructions at change.healthyridepgh.org.

WALKING Pittsburgh is a walking town. According to U.S. Census figures, about 11 percent of residents commute via two feet, one of the highest percentages in the country. Ironically, however, the neighborhoods with high percentages of pedestrians, like Oakland and the South Side, don’t always feel safe for walkers. CP advises walkers to always look both ways, even when given a walk signal, and keep your eyes on cars as much as you can. Intersections on Fifth Avenue in Oakland should be crossed with caution since there’s a counter-flow, bus-only lane, and speeding among drivers is common. This also holds true for intersections on Baum Boulevard in North Oakland, and Boulevard of the Allies, Downtown. Regardless, CP also wants to empower students to walk. Walking is an effective way to get around Pittsburgh, since the city is relatively compact, and driving or taking public transit can sometimes be confusing. Also, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota says regular, brisk walking comes with many health benefits, including preventing heart disease and high blood pressure, as well as strengthening muscles and improving your mood. And if you live in Oakland and want to walk to South Side, CP suggests taking the trail through Panther Hollow. From Oakland, CONTINUES ON PG. 10

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We’ve made it simple! We’ve now made it even easier to purchase or reload your ConnectCard. Riders can now buy a card, purchase a pass or stored cash value and check their balance at over 150 ConnectCard sites throughout Allegheny County including: Port Authority’s Downtown Service Center, most area Giant Eagle stores, Goodwill stores, independent retailers, dozens of ConnectCard Vending Machines and online. For more information, go to connectcard.org.

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walk down Joncaire Street from Bouquet Street (or take the secret staircase behind Mazerowski Field and the Henry Clay Frick Library Building). Follow Boundary Street until the trailhead appears on your left. Then, just follow trail markers all the way to the Hot Metal Bridge, which crosses the Monongahela River to South Side. This route is about 90 percent car-free and very pleasant.

Uber statement sent to CP reads: “Uber is asking students to doublecheck two important details the app provides — the driver and the vehicle — to make sure the information matches up before starting a trip.” Pittsburgh also has a local, taxi-run ride-hailing app called zTrip. This service allows riders to request a ride in the moment or book ahead, and riders have the option to pay with cash or a credit card. Drivers at zTrip are also required to pass background checks, and rides never have surge pricing. The app can be downloaded at www.ztrip.com. Promo codes are available on each ride-hailing company’s website.

RIDE-HAILING Since college students live in a time of smartphone ubiquity, many are aware of how to use ride-hailing apps, which are pretty self-explanatory. Both Uber and Lyft service Pittsburgh, and apps can be downloaded from each company’s website. Andrew Woolf, general manager of Lyft Pennsylvania, reminds students that Lyft now offers a Round Up and Donate option, where riders can give to charitable causes like the World Wildlife Fund, the USO and the Human Rights Campaign.

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HIGHERPRICED ED According to a new report, Pennsylvanians graduate with country’s highest studentloan debt {BY REBECCA ADDISON} LAST WEEK, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced a proposed settlement that would provide $6.7 million in debt relief for 1,200 Pennsylvanians who attended for-profit colleges. The proposal is part of a broader settlement worth $192 million in debt relief for former Corinthian Colleges students across the country. The now-defunct Corinthian Colleges operated Everest Institute in Pittsburgh, along with 30 other schools nationwide, before going bankrupt in 2015. According to Shapiro, Corinthian Colleges misrepresented their job-placement rates and career-support services to persuade students to enroll. Corinthian also worked with Aequitas Capital Management, a now-defunct investment firm, to avert federal guidelines that limit the access for-profit schools have to federal education funds.

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tinue to protect Pennsylvania college students and their families by holding these for-profit institutions and lenders accountable for their deceptive practices.” Since he took office, Shapiro has taken several actions to protect students. Last month he signed onto a lawsuit filed against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the U.S. Department of Education, which had decided to abandon federal rules protecting students from predatory lending practices. But fighting against predatory lending is only a small part of the fight to reduce student-loan debt. Increasing tuition at higher-education institutions around the country are a large part of the problem. This month, national student-loan debt surpassed the $1.3 trillion mark, and more than 25 percent of student-loan borrowers are currently in default. According to a report released this month by LendEdu, a debt-refinancing company, Pennsylvania is the state with the highest average student debt per borrower. And the report found that on average, students graduating from Pittsburgharea institutions have more debt than the $35,185 state average. This data comes from the research group Peterson’s annual financial-aid survey that collected responses from 1,161 institutions. The survey is voluntary, so some schools are not included in LendEdu’s report. According to the report, of the 59 percent of Duquesne University students who leave school with debt, that debt averages $41,272. At Point Park University, 80 percent of students graduate with

debt averaging $26,729. Eighty-two percent of Robert Morris University students graduate with debt averaging $39,431. Chatham University has similar statistics: 83 percent of students average $37,734 in debt. Of all local colleges, fewer students graduate from the University of Pittsburgh with debt, at 65 percent, but their debt averages $38,612. Despite such statistics, in July, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education board of governors voted to increase tuition at 14 state universities by 3.5 percent. “It’s deeply disappointing that the leadership of Pennsylvania’s public higher-education institutions would place a heavier anchor around the necks of students trying to prepare for tomorrow’s jobs,” Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella said in a statement. “Pennsylvania’s higher-education system is in desperate need of reform and reinvestment, not further tuition increases.” The increase came in response to a $71.7 million budget gap facing the 14 state universities this fiscal year. But critics say it’s unfair to place the burden of filling that gap onto students. “I see the impacts that the Commonwealth’s higher-education policy has on our state’s families,” Torsella said. “With 95 percent of newly created jobs requiring post-secondary education, we need to have a much bolder conversation about how we are assisting our students to get the education they need. Forcing overburdened families to pay more is not the right path forward.” While at the federal level, Education Secretary DeVos seem to be moving away from protections for students, Pennsylvania legislators are continuing the fight to make higher education more affordable. This year, state Sen. Daylin Leach reintroduced legislation to create a public fund that would allow students to attend a state university “with no money down.” The “loan” would be interest-free and, after graduation, students would pay back a percentage of their monthly salary (4 percent) into the fund. “According to the Institute for College Access & Success, 70 percent of Pennsylvanians who graduated from college in 2011 did so with student debt, the average amount of which was $30,000,” Leach said in a statement. “Both of these numbers are higher than the national average, and I believe it is time for the legislature to act meaningfully to ensure young Pennsylvanians are not overburdened by debt as they begin their professional careers.” RA D D I S ON @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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gettable moments in contemporary American history is the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. If you go to Dealey Plaza, where the crime occurred, there are a lot of memorials marking that horrible occasion. You can even visit the Sixth Floor Museum in the former Texas School Book Depository. That’s the spot from which JFK’s killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, fired his rifle at the president, seated in an open-top convertible driving through the plaza. Go to this museum and you can look at the exhibits — photos, films and other collections that detail the tragedy. You’ll even find information about Kennedy’s killer. In the blocks surrounding the museum, there are other memorials to Kennedy, including a bronze statue located outside of the Hilton Hotel where Kennedy had stayed the night before he died. But one thing that you may be surprised isn’t located anywhere in the city is a statue of Lee Harvey Oswald. Not one. Let’s be honest: This moment in U.S. history wouldn’t have been possible without Oswald, yet no one saw fit to erect a statue to commemorate his role. Perhaps a statue of Oswald kneeling, rifle in hand, lining up the shot. Sound ridiculous? Of course, it’s ridiculous. It’s as ridiculous as having a statue of Martin Luther King’s assassin, James Earl Ray, outside the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis (now the National Civil Rights Museum), where King was gunned down. It’s as crazy as putting up a statue of Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City. It’s a thought so absurd that it’s not even worth talking about, even as a hypothetical, right? Apparently, though, it is — because when you defend keeping the statues of Confederate “dignitaries” like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, you’re making that argument. Lee was a domestic terrorist. So were Davis, Jackson, P.G.T. Beauregard, Joseph Johnston, Alfred Mouton and the rest of the Confederacy. They weren’t fighting for some now-romanticized Southern way of life, which involved sitting in a rocking chair on the front porches of their plantations, sipping mint juleps and watching the sunset with an old hound dog at their feet. They were fighting to keep the right to continue owning and brutalizing the black slaves working in their fields, so they could maintain their actual way of life and, more importantly, the South’s economy. At this point, we know the reasons why

The Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va.

the statues were erected decades after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. They were built so the Southern terrorists could save face after their jihad was put down. They were also erected to make sure free black Americans were reminded that they weren’t really free, thanks to Jim Crow. Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis has countless statues in his image. But let’s put him in context: He led a Southern secession from the United States, then launched an attack on this country. He led an uprising so he could keep slavery legal — and he lost. He was charged with treason, but never stood trial; he was pardoned in 1868. A man who once said that blacks were “inferior, ﬁtted expressly for servitude” has his name on many high schools throughout the South, including one in Montgomery, Ala. That school has a student population that is 92 percent African American and they have to sit daily in a building named after a man who believed they were “inferior.” Before secession, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee did serve the United States faithfully. But I will never be able to put them on a higher plane than terrorists like McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Dylann Roof or even Osama bin Laden. These men are remembered only for their attacks on this country. But, really, the same holds true for Confederate soldiers. Benedict Arnold was one of the greatest soldiers in this nation’s history but we don’t honor him for that, we rightfully revile him as a traitor. Confederate history shouldn’t be erased, but it certainly shouldn’t be honored. The defense of these statues is often tied to the white supremacists, KKK members and neo-Nazis that we saw in Charlottesville. But our president tells us that there were “very ﬁne people” out there in favor of keeping these statues. And while those people may not have been yelling racial slurs and committing vehicular homicide on innocent counter-protesters, their inability and unwillingness to see why these statues are vile are as big a part of the problem as the people who were. C D E I T C H @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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David Blackmon identified himself as a drug dealer when he called the Okaloosa (Fla.) County Sheriff’s Office on July 16 to report that $50 in cash and a quarterounce of cocaine had been stolen from his car. When officers investigated, they found a baggie with “suspected cocaine,” a crack pipe and a crack rock in the car. Blackmon was charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia.

Everett Lee Compton Jr., 49, told Siloam Springs, Ark., police that marijuana “makes him do sick things” after they apprehended him for abusing female donkeys. The donkeys’ owners, Emert and Joyce Whitaker, had set up a surveillance camera and recorded Compton on three occasions putting a bag over a donkey’s head and placing his pelvis against its rear end. “It just made me sick to my stomach,” said Joyce Whitaker. “To know that she couldn’t tell nobody and that she was having to go through this.”

Alana Nicole Donahue, 27, of Springfield, Ore., just wanted to entertain her children and nephew with a joy ride around the neighborhood. But on July 12, as she pulled the kids (ages 2, 4 and 8) behind her Ford Taurus in a plastic red wagon, she was arrested for reckless endangerment. Donahue told police she was just “showing the kids a good time.” However, horrified witnesses saw the car going about 30 mph as the wagon went up on two wheels going around a busy traffic circle at rush hour.

A security robot named Steve suffered a soggy fatal error on July 17 when it tumbled down several steps and into a fountain in Washington, D.C. New to the job, the robot had been patrolling the Washington Harbour area of Georgetown, mapping out its features in an effort to prevent just such an accident. “He looked so happy and healthy,” an area mourner tweeted after the incident. Another observer was less sympathetic. “Robots: 0; humans: 1,” he tweeted.

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COLLEGE GUIDE Here at Pittsburgh City Paper we wanted to give you something different, which is why our College Guide is written by students, for students. Together, as sophomores, juniors and seniors from Point Park, Robert Morris, Duquesne and Pitt, we know a little bit about what it means to be a college student today, and a lot about what it’s like to be a college student in Pittsburgh. College is both a time and a place. It’s a time when you’re learning how to exist independently from your parents and your friends from high school, and a place where there are new people to meet in every class, club and elevator. It’s a time when you’ll make more and bigger decisions than you’ve ever made in your life, and a place where you’ll learn what you want and how to get it. We want to help you make the best of this time and the most of this place. In this guide, you’ll find information about living on and off campus, making money while you’re a student and learning to do things on your own. We’ll show you how to buy your textbooks, what apps you should download, and where to hang out when you’re too young for the bars. We’ll clue you in to how trigger-warnings function on campus, and what it’s like to be a professor right now. Like pretty much everything else in life, you get out of college what you put into it. And we’re here to help, because at the end of the day we’re all under this giant mountain of student-loan debt together, right? BY HALEY FREDERICK

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shows that when I was an incoming freshman at Point Park University, in 2014, my family and I spent $254.84 on textbooks. I distinctly remember how proud I was, at the time, of how low I was able to get the price. Not long into my first semester, a variety of factors made me realize I didn’t need to spend even half of that. The rising cost of textbooks and the staggering amounts of money students and their families spend on them every year remains a pertinent issue, but there are ways of reducing that burden. According to the 2016 report Covering the Cost, between 2006 and 2016, textbook costs rose 73 percent, or about four times the rate of inflation. The report, released by the nonprofit Student Public Interest Research Groups, was filled with data

concerning the cost of college textbooks, how students pay for them, and the best solutions to pursue. “The college-textbook industry is a multibillion-dollar market every year,” report co-author Ethan Senack said in a phone interview. “And when you place it in the context of broader education-funding challenges, [it] can be a real barrier to students who are already struggling to pay for college.” A core issue, Senack argues, is the “disassociation between the person who actually pays for the book and who chooses the product.” What he means is that the textbook publishers convince college faculty to assign a book, but then it’s students who must fork over the cash for something they never chose in the ﬁrst place. “I think that’s why you see so many students choose to not purchase textbooks, or share with a friend, or rent from the library

— to opt out of that system.” said Senack, currently the outreach and policy manager for Creative Commons USA, and formerly a higher-education advocate at US PIRG, an advocacy group focusing on issues like money in politics and health care. Robert Bertha, Point Park University’s United Student Government president, attended both the Community College of Allegheny County and the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown before coming to Point Park. One thing he’s learned since he was an incoming freshman is that sometimes you really don’t need to purchase the textbook the professor assigns. “After the ﬁrst week, you can get a feel,” he said in a phone interview, adding he’s usually been able to spend under $100 each semester on textbooks. But while Bertha’s expenditure is substantially below average, shopping around for lower prices is a growing trend. Students on average spent $579 on required course materials during the 201617 academic year, which is actually down $23 from the year before, and down $122 from 2007-’08, according to a report from the National Association of College Stores. “They’re not buying less, they’re shopping smarter,” the report says. University book stores do not always offer the lowest prices, but Point Park, Carlow University, Robert Morris University and La Roche College’s bookstores all offer price-matching. The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University do not, but do display competing prices from other retailers, like Amazon. There are also more ambitious and macro ideas on cutting costs, like open textbooks, something Senack advocates. Open textbooks have an open copyright and can therefore be distributed with little to no costs associated, bypassing the issue of inﬂated textbook prices. “[Publishers] can raise prices as much as they want, for as long as they want,” Senack says. “And they’ve done so.” INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

FIVE USEFUL APPS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS {BY CARLEY BONK}

EasyBib Generate citations in multiple styles by scanning the barcode of a book. This app cuts down on the time it takes to type out full citations.

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Top Hat This is an interactive learning tool for students and professors on the go. Instructors can easily use it to create interactive textbooks, quizzes and homework.

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College can be overwhelming. Recognize this, but don’t let it bring you down. Take a deep breath and get ready to tackle all of your tasks. Try meditating.

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Address what tasks are most important and need to be handled ASAP. But don’t let this give you an excuse to procrastinate on other projects; work on them little by little every day.

Take a break Often you will get caught up in exams and assignments, but don’t forget to have fun. As cliché as it sounds, college really is one of the best times of your life, so go grab lunch with your friends.

Work out Exercise has been proven to reduce stress. It will get your body moving and your mind off your work for a little while. Take a walk around campus, or try yoga.

Plan Planners and agendas are your best friends. They will help you keep up with your priorities, appointments, work schedules and social functions.

Sleep Take a nap. Sometimes your brain needs a break. When you wake up, you’ll be able to focus better. Studying before sleeping helps you retain more information.

Switch it up Not everyone can focus in a dorm room when studying. Find out in which environment you are most productive. Change locations, clean your room, plug in your headphones, or turn off the TV.

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tuition continues to increase locally and across the nation. But are those dollars actually making their way into the classroom? Between the years 2001 and 2011, the cost of tuition at public four-year colleges increased by 73 percent, while the compensation of faculty increased by only 6 percent, according to the nonprofit organization College Board. During this time, and since, the growing practice of giving part-time and shortterm contracts to instructors at universities has decreased their job security and wages. This has left many professors feeling inadequately supported to provide students with the kind of education they deserve. “[Students] have a very reasonable expectation, which is that if they’re paying a lot of money for their education, that that money is going to provide a quality education,” says Paul Johnson, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. “It’s going to be paying for people who have the time and the resources and the institutional support to be able to get together and work with and teach students with some expectation of consistency, professionalism and certainty.” Part-time instructors, commonly called “adjuncts” — which indicates how often their positions are treated as supplementary rather than essential — are struggling not only to be the kind of teachers they want to be in the classroom, but also to find financial stability. Many instructors are forced

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to take on extra work, either by teaching at multiple universities at once, or by ﬁnding other jobs altogether. Sarah Leavens, a lecturer at Pitt, used to work late nights at a bakery even though she had to teach in the morning because her income as an adjunct wasn’t enough. “As an adjunct, you don’t know if you’re going to have a job in three months,” Leavens says. “You probably can’t make car payments. You can’t buy a house. So you’re living semester to semester — everything is insecure. You’re housing-insecure; you’re maybe transportation-insecure. So there are all of these life things that you have to worry about regularly, in addition to just not being able to pay your bills or maybe afford food, that take up a lot of time and energy.” Josh Zelesnick, another adjunct professor, says that adjuncts are right to worry. Once, just three weeks before the start of the semester, Zelesnick had both of his classes at Pitt canceled, and another canceled at Duquesne. So while he expecting the income from teaching four classes, he was left with just one. “This happens to [adjunct] professors all the time,” Zelesnick says. Issues like these are why many universities’ faculties, adjuncts and graduate students are seeking to unionize. Adjuncts in the McAnulty College at Duquesne elected to unionize in 2012, but

the university is currently challenging that election in court. Point Park’s faculty elected to unionize over a year ago and is negotiating its first contract. The school’s adjuncts also unionized and signed their first contract in 2015. The adjuncts at Robert Morris University unionized and reached their first contract agreement just this summer. Pitt’s faculty is now attempting to follow suit, organizing across ranks to include all faculty — from adjunct to tenured — in one union. Pitt graduate students are also hoping to form their own union. While this may sound only abstractly related to students, instructors insist that at the core of their unionizing efforts is a desire to bring the focus of their universities back to the classroom. “The faculty working conditions are the student learning conditions,” says Tyler Bickford, an assistant professor at Pitt. “If faculty aren’t being paid enough, and they have to take extra jobs, in a very direct way they don’t have the same amount of time to focus on individual students. But it’s not just salaries, it’s working conditions. As classes are larger, or there are more students in each class, as faculty workloads increase, then teachers don’t have as much time to spend on students, so education becomes more automated and less personal.” Point Park graduates Samey Jay and Ren Finkel advocated for Point Park faculty through the Student Solidarity Organization by handing out pins, circulating petitions and holding protests. “Our money is going to more administrative costs rather than to the professors who are doing the actual work of educating the students,” Jay says. “So many of [our professors] go so above and beyond the basics, and they should be rewarded for that,” Finkel says. “When you’re in a higher-education setting, it’s so much more than having information thrown at you and taking tests. It’s about developing yourself as a person, developing yourself in the field you want to go into, and the professors are the ones that provide that.” If students at other universities feel the same, Jay and Finkel encourage them to stand up in support of their instructors and in support of their own education. “You have to be active and involved in your community, and your community is your campus,” Jay says. “If you want to get the best education that you can for the investment that you’re making, then you need to be invested in that community.”

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for the first time can be an overwhelming experience for many college students. During freshmen year, many consider living on campus; some are required to do so by the university. But your first residential environment will likely influence where you decide to live for the rest of your college experience. Take Jonathon Wishnow. Now a University of Pittsburgh senior, Wishnow lived in Litchfield Tower B during his freshmen year. But due to his experience there, he was eager to find his own place afterward. “My roommate was a self-proclaimed anarchist who showered about once a week. We ended up having cockroaches because of his side of the room,” Wishnow says. Students must weigh all residential options in and around a college campus to determine what will work best for them.

Will it be the dorms, on-campus apartments or a house off-campus? Wishnow moved into Bouquet Gardens his sophomore year. Though still a part of campus, Wishnow found more freedom and comfort in the four-bedroom house with a kitchen that rented for $4,800 a semester. “I found the meal plan on campus kind of restrictive. Many of the restaurants are owned and operated by the campus, so they have the ability to mark up prices,” Wishnow says. “Having a kitchen can really help cut costs.” Wishnow is not alone in his desire to be able to cook his own meals. Faith Thaler, a Pitt senior, lived on campus her first two years, but eventually made the move away as well. “It’s cheaper if you can find a deal, and you definitely have more freedom,” Thaler says. “Grocery shopping and cooking can really help you save money.”

The cost of campus housing for freshmen at Pitt, Duquesne University, Point Park University and Carnegie Mellon University varies. Per-semester rates for standard dorms range from $2,610 at Point Park to $4,030 for the most affordable option at CMU. Though this price may seem cheaper than renting off campus, students must consider the cost of meal plans that can easily add more than $1,000 in expenses per semester. Garrett Mateljan, a Duquesne junior, recognized the benefits of living on campus during his time as a freshman at St. Martin’s residence hall. “There are definitely pros of living on campus: You’re close to classes, there is easy access to food with meal swipes or flex [plans], and it’s easy to stay involved on campus,” Mateljan says. “Now I live in the South Side because it’s cheaper and I have more responsibility. It helps with life lessons like money management.” Wishnow, who currently lives in a two-bedroom house on the South Side Slopes for $350 a month on a subletting agreement, says that because of his type-A personality, off-campus living ultimately suited him best. “It was nice as a freshman not to have as many responsibilities, but it’s so liberating to have your own house,” Wishnow says. “I was able to explore common interests on campus through clubs and mutual friends, which makes finding a good roommate a lot easier later on.” And Pitt’s Thaler says less can be more when it comes to choosing a place and people to share it with. She currently lives in a two-bedroom house in South Oakland for $550 a month plus utilities. “Living g with a lot of other people can be difficult — sharing a small bathroom or one fridge,” Thaler haler says. “If you can find something affordable for two or three people, ople, it is definitely y worth checking out.”

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university faculty members around the country, 51 percent responded that they had used trigger warnings, while 49 percent responded that they had not. And many say trigger warnings have been unfairly demonized by those critical of political correctness and of the censorship of offensive material. Goodhart believes comparing material that might simply offend someone to material that might traumatize is a false equivalency. “It seems to be the worst kind of denial about the reality of trauma in post-traumatic stress around things like sexual assault, to take one example,” he says. For a university to dismiss trigger warnings can also seem like a dismissal of mental-health issues. “We cannot claim to take mental health seriously, and then use disparaging or dismissive language when talking about the need for care or reasonable accommodation,” says Beaulieu. And contrary to popular belief, trigger warnings did not originate in college classrooms, but on micro-blogging platforms like Tumblr, around 2011. The site functions largely without regulations, and users learned to look out for themselves and each other. Posts with traumatizing content, like a picture of self-inﬂicted cuts, would be tagged (for example, “TW self-harm”), so users could block the posts. When teens who grew up in this environment started going to college, they brought trigger warnings into academia. “From the opponents, we frequently hear that the young are being coddled, or that certain individuals are restricting rights,” says Beaulieu. “That response seems to misconstrue what people need, which is to be heard, respected and validated when a boundary needs to be set.”

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ICTURE YOURSELF in a college classroom. While laying out assignments for the week ahead, the professor mentions that an assigned reading contains descriptions of sexual assault. Then a student who has experienced sexual assault expresses gratitude for the heads-up. This is an example of a trigger warning, and while it might seem simple enough, this kind of practice is at the center of a heated debate about college campuses. Professors and students have been widely criticized for embracing the practice, and it’s been added to the growing list of what critics say is wrong with millennials. But some say the controversy has been exaggerated. “As soon as we say ‘trigger warnings,’ we’ve invoked like this whole thing about free speech and academic freedom and coddled students, and all these sort

of tropes that come to mind. It’s become like a meme,” says Michael Goodhart, a professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. A slew of panicked think-pieces and op-eds about trigger warnings have been produced in the past few years. In 2014, an article in Inside Higher Ed claimed the spread of trigger warnings was having a

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“chilling effect” in classrooms. In 2015, The Atlantic ran a cover story on the topic titled “The Coddling of the American Mind.” And in the fall of 2016, the University of Chicago’s dean of students sent a letter to the entire incoming freshmen class disparaging the use of triggers warnings on campus. One case frequently cited in articles criticizing the practice involves students at Rutgers University who requested trigger warnings on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway because of the suicidal themes. But just how common are trigger warnings on college campuses? “I think that both the controversy and the assumed prevalence are wildly exaggerated,” says Julie Beaulieu, a gender, sexuality and women’s-studies professor at the University of Pittsburgh. However, in a survey released in 2016 by NPR, of 829 public- and private-

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Whelmed is a near half-hour of dreamy, reverb-drenched indie pop. The entire project was written, arranged and recorded by John Lora, whose airy tenor vocals join with catchy synths and danceable grooves to make for a unique sound. The EP is an introspective journey through places and people in Lora’s life. Each song scoops you up and places you into the mind and memories of Lora. While there are sparks of joy in certain sounds and movements, Whelmed is a gently sad effort with a wistful sheen to it. Whelmed comes to life with opener “Competitive Nature,” with its lone drum machines steering a bar before the clean guitar riff and layered vocals get to work. The lightness of “Competitive Nature” gives way to the almost-psychedelic grooves of “Fall Down,” a beachy, bass-driven voyage through memory. “Celestia Neglecta” anchors the middle of the EP with the driving, distorted guitars playing with minor keys and twinkling synths, all to espouse nostalgic longing. It’s the kind of song that would drift through your mind as you lay in the yard of your childhood home and stared up at the stars. Spacey triplets push “St. Argo” in a dizzying wave, the simplicity of the piano melody softening the edges. Grizzly Bear vibes abound on this track, its melancholy ambience mirroring that of that band’s 2006 album Yellow House. “Motivation” shuts the door on Whelmed with a floating feeling. The harmonies on this track are mesmerizing, soaring among the shining ambient synth soundscape gently pushing underneath them. It finishes the EP with the final declarative hit of a drum-machine beat left on its own, like the drum-machine beat that began it all. BY MEG FAIR

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OWNTOWN BOYS make music that is

fully alive. Each chorus of gang vocals, each bright saxophone melody, each catchy bass riff has its own heartbeat. It forms an army of sound that encourages resistance and unapologetic living. The band is based in Providence, R.I. It came out of the What Cheer? Brigade side of the punk scene, but vocalist Victoria Ruiz explains on the phone that the band has never quite been a part of either the punk or indie scene. “We’ve never been part of a scene fully in Providence, but one thing we were able to do was support a lot of upcoming artists, young people, people of color from Providence,” says Ruiz. “We were always intentional of being part of that change, and we got the pressure and the pushback from the men who have been holding on to the industrial-noise and warehouse scene for over a decade. They are afraid to give up space, especially to women and people of color.” The band’s latest effort, Cost of Living,

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is an honest, vulnerable record. It’s one that leans into the battle for self-love in a systemically hateful world, a work that pushes back against misogyny, bigotry, racism and rampant nationalism. Cost of Living is a rallying cry into battle against the system and the way that system makes you feel.

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It feels especially pertinent right now, as the KKK and neo-Nazis march in the streets, as Donald Trump continues his reign of terror and ignorance, and as immigrants feel less secure. “The songs were all written before the inauguration, before the election. They took about two years to write,” explains Ruiz. In the current political climate, the songs on Cost of Living, which contains

tracks in both English and Spanish, feel even more raw. “The temperature and climate right now, people are in the midst of a storm of everything going on with white supremacy, capitalism and racism,” says Ruiz. “The songs were written throughout the buildup, so it’s very intense to be coming out with this record, and all of the [negative] ways of the world are coming out too.” Downtown Boys is a political band, obviously. But to leave it at that would do a great disservice to a band whose politics are very important in the volatile period we’re living through. “The thing that ends up happening is writers act like we’re obsessed with politics, but they ignore the nuance and don’t dig deep,” explains Ruiz on the phone with CP. “They try to box you in, especially if you’re a person of color or woman.” There are many political bands. When one gets a lot of attention, some major publications have a tendency to push a hero narrative about a particular political

act, or an artist who exists and succeeds outside of the white-males-making-rock sphere. But singling out a particular artist as a leader in a movement, especially without that artist’s consult or approval, has a tendency to erase the larger message and activism an artist stands for. “I’m part of a history,” says Ruiz. “There are always people working on the same political goals in different ways.” Ruiz and guitarist Joey DeFrancesco co-run a website called Spark Mag, an online publication in partnership with Demand Progress. Demand Progress ﬁghts for civil liberties, runs anti-surveillance campaigns and advocates for net neutrality. It was started by Aaron Swartz, an activist who ended up taking his own life after he was sentenced to decades in prison for planning to make thousands of academic documents available to the public online for free. Spark Mag’s purpose is simple. It’s an alternate platform for artists whose art is political from the get-go. “It’s not so baseline. It’s not, ‘Are you a political band?’ Spark Mag is actually asking about the politics,” says Ruiz. “Asking if a band is political is such a tired question, and so many artists don’t get asked about their connection to the status quo. It’s a higher baseline and a place to showcase artists who maybe don’t have a platform elsewhere.” On Cost of Living, Ruiz’s lyrics dig deep into complex personal feelings alongside the political. “Instead of picking one emotion to write about, I try holding all the feelings about my personal world and public self, having to be a leader but also be directly affected by the systemic problems while being in the back doing the grunt work,” she says. “It’s a really cathartic process, and a way to process being part of the spectrum of emotions and experiences that don’t always make sense together.” This shines on “Somos Chulas,” a song that radiates intelligence and elegance, a song the band explains is about decolonizing your mind from the effects of white supremacy. “I Am Enough (I Want More)” is about loving yourself at your best and worst, working with what you’ve got, and never being afraid to demand a better world. Although the band is currently signed to Sub Pop, Downtown Boys continues to hustle with the fervor and intensity it did when the acts were signed to Sister Polygon and Don Giovanni. “Anyone who thinks we’re not still constantly grinding? It’s still a constant hustle, and we love it,” says Ruiz. “When we’re in front of a room of people we don’t know, I try subconsciously harder because it’s still about building a meaningful relationship.” ME GFA IR @ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

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IT STARTS with the muted, chikka-chikka strum of a Fender Telecaster electric guitar and the clacking metronome of drumsticks, while riffing on a slight, but healthy case of secret identity. “I show up to your Halloween party / without a costume on,” singer/guitarist Shay Park coos, her voice caressing the syllables of each word. “Everyone keeps asking me / who I am supposed to be.” This is the introduction to “Halloween Party,” and it’s the first song Pittsburgh’s Soda Club laid down last week when the band started recording its debut EP, Enjoy, at Broadcast Lane Studios in Homestead. “I think pop is such a misunderstood sound — people associate it with the Top 40 and there’s nothing wrong with that. But I want to reclaim pop,” Park says. “We’ve haven’t pinned [how to label our sound] down. ‘Hard twee’ was my favorite genre, but maybe that’s just because that’s the kind of music I envision making myself.” On this August afternoon, as producer Chris “Lurch” Rudyk set up microphones at his studio overlooking East Eighth Avenue, the members of Soda Club debated just what sound they were trying to capture on the four-song debut the quartet hopes to release this fall. “Lo-fi dream pop? Bedroom pop? Add ‘pop’ to all these words and you’ll get close,” singer/saxophonist Jarrett Krause says with a laugh. “It’s so nice when someone says to us, ‘It doesn’t fit into a niche,’” Park adds.

The music is certainly original. Park eschews distortion on her guitar, lending Soda Club a lot of straight lines and shimmer. Drummer Mason Jaynes provides a funky kind of groove, and Krause and bassist Tosh Chambers give the music, which showcases an inviting naiveté and innocence, its texture and color. “They’re their own thing,” Rudyk says between takes. “These guys are like Talking Heads meets I don’t know what. And Shay’s got this polite, almost British thing. ” The group was listening to playback near an enormous, digital tracking board channeled through vintage analog effects. Park mouthed the words to “Halloween Party,” Jaynes mimicked the drum patter by tapping his legs, and Rudyk offered commentary. “Can it swing?” Rudyk asks. “Really get into the ride [cymbal] there. We can overdub that. I really want to hear you get into a groove.” This was not everyone’s ﬁrst trip to a studio. Jaynes and Chambers recorded a demo with their previous band, Pawn Scum, in Squirrel Hill in February 2016. That record, unfortunately, never saw the light of day. But it informed their selection of tracks to record. “Inevitably, we just went to the ﬁrst four songs we wrote and changed a few things to make them feel new,” Krause says. It also informed the members’ sense of determination, which peppered conversation as they prepared to record with Rudyk. “We can’t turn this into the white whale,” says Park, referencing Moby-Dick. “We’ll nail it.” And then, they did.

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NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF {BY MEG FAIR} If you haven’t been living under the great rock of privilege, you are well aware of the fact that the KKK and neo-Nazis are in the streets, inflicting violence on people of color, Jews, queer folks and pretty much anyone they can get their mayonnaise-coated hands on, all in the name of defending “white culture,” or whatever. Taking to the streets to combat that kind of disgusting, reprehensible behavior requires a good pump-up playlist. Here is just a small playlist of songs that can be your soundtrack to crushing fascism and the whitesupremacist capitalist patriarchy that gives those fascists power. To quote local artist The Childlike Empress, “Fuck a pacifist. Pass a fist!”

+ “Kersed” by Ceremony + “The City” by the Chariot + “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron + “Violent Complicity” by Downtown Boys + “My Turn” by SLOUCH + “The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist” by Propaghandi + “Chrome Exposed” by Show Me The Body + “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!” by X-Ray Spex + “Testify” by Rage Against the Machine + “Prison Song” by System of a Down + “I Will Spite Survive” by Deerhoof + “Not Sorry” by PUNCH + “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” by Run the Jewels + “Blue Wall” by Issues + “Give Violence A Chance” by G.L.O.S.S. + “Colombia” by Anti-Diktatur + “We Will Continue to Break the Law and Destroy Property Until We Win” by Appalachian Terror Unit

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[INSTRUMENTAL] + FRI., AUG. 25 It would be unfair to call Kaki King simply a musician or a guitarist. Her current project, The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body, is a sonic and visual performance, as well suited for an art museum as it is a concert venue. King’s custom white guitar, which also serves as a projection screen, is hooked up to software that analyzes her sound as she’s playing and projects corresponding visuals on King, her guitar and her backdrop. I could keep describing it, but you might as well head over to the August Wilson Center tonight and see for yourself. Hannah Lynn 8 p.m. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $25. All ages. 412-4566666 or www. trustarts.org

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[BROADWAY/ R&B] + SUN., AUG. 27 Hometown hero Billy Porter, star of Kinky Boots on Broadway, will return to his Pittsburgh roots with a free show tonight at Hartwood Acres as part of Allegheny County’s Summer Concert Series. Porter’s love of musicals extends to his solo work. His latest album, The Soul of Richard Rodgers, honors the Broadway songwriting legend by infusing classics like “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” and “The Lady Is a Tramp” with R&B beats, while also conveying a post-inauguration sense of resistance. For example, his version of The Sound of Music classic “Edelweiss” includes a contemporary interlude about flourishing despite the dark

times. HL 7:30 p.m. 4070 Middle Road, Allison Park. Free. All ages. www.alleghenycounty.us

[COUNTRY ROCK] + MON., AUG. 28 The music video for “The Night David Bowie Died” features Lilly Hiatt at a laundromat, driving and browsing the aisles of a dollar store, all while sporting Bowie’s signature lightning bolt across her face. It’s a reminder of how weird it feels to learn of a hero’s death while doing everyday activities. On her new album, Trinity Lane, the Nashville singer covers heartbreak and sobriety with her modern country-tinged rock. She plays Club Café tonight, along with Brooklyn singer-songwriter Brian Dunne. HL 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $10. 21 and older. 412-431-4950 or www.club cafelive.com [FOLK] + TUE., AUG. 29 New York-based Wilsen comes to Billy Porter Mr. Smalls today with its dreamy songs that are basically lullabies for adults. This is not music for dancing, or even for walking down the street. This is music for pensively looking out your window at dawn when it’s just you and the birds. The latest album, I Go Missing in My Sleep, is a soft and slow one about heartbreak and hope, with plenty of melancholy guitar and nostalgic whistling. HL 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $10-12. 18 and older. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

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ROCK/POP THU 24 JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Grunge Bob. 8 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

FRI 25 DIESEL. Rachel B. 7 p.m. South Side. 412-431-8800. GOOD TIME BAR. Fool’s Errand & Forever and a Day. 9 p.m. Millvale. 412-821-9968. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Puddle of Mudd. 8 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. MR. SMALLS THEATER. After 87, Wait For It, Shin Guard, Horus Maze & Vantage Blue. 6 p.m. Millvale. 412-821-4447. REX THEATER. Terrapin Flyer & The Clock Reads. 8 p.m. South Side. 412-381-6811.

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VINOSKI WINERY. Millgroves BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Crossing. 6 p.m. Greensburg. The Weird Paul Rock Band. 10 p.m. 724-872-3333. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. WILKINS COMMUNITY DOWNEY’S HOUSE. CENTER COMPLEX. Uptown Good Guys. 8:30 p.m. Robinson. Rhythm & Brass. 7 p.m. 412-489-5631. Turtle Creek. 412-824-6650. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Velveeta. 9 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB THE LAMP THEATRE. & SPEAKEASY. Daryl Hard Days Night: Beatles Strodes. 8 p.m. North Side. Tribute Band. 7:30 p.m. 412-904-3335. Irwin. 724-367-4000. THE R BAR. Billy MOONDOG’S. Bill Toms the Kid’s Steel & Hard Rain w/ the Town All-Stars. Soulville Horns. 8 p.m. 7 p.m. Dormont. www. per 8th Street Rox. 9 p.m. a p 412-942-0882. pghcitym Blawnox. 412-828-2040. .co SHADYSIDE THE MR. ROBOTO NURSERY. Radio PROJECT. Radon Chong, Jarocho, Afro Yaqui Night Vapor, Nonzoo & Lake Lake. Collective & Gena y Pena. 7 p.m. Bloomfield. 5 p.m. Shadyside. REX THEATER. Billy Strings 412-251-6058. w/ The Hills and the Rivers. 8 p.m. South Side. 412-381-6811. SMILING MOOSE. Pop Punk JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Night. 10 p.m. South Side. & SPEAKEASY. Wild Adriatic. 412-439-5706. Ballroom. 8 p.m. North Side. 412-381-6811.

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DJS THU 24 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse. 9 p.m. Millvale. 412-821-4447. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. 10 p.m. Downtown. 412-471-2058.

FRI 25 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. 5 p.m. Downtown. 412-773-8884. BELVEDERE’S. Down N Derby. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. 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.

Each week, we post a song from a local artist online for free. This week, it’s “C.I.D.C.,” from local hip-hop producer and artist Omar-Abdul R. Lawrence. (He’s also a community advocate for arts, social innovation and education.) You can find more of his old-school production and positive lyricism on his latest mixtape, Tilt the Axis. But first, stream or download “C.I.D.C.” on FFW>>, the music blog at pghcitypaper.com.

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MIXTAPE. DJ Antithesis. ‘The 1990s (& a bag of chips)’ dance party. 9 p.m. Garfield. 412-661-1727. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. DJ Tenova. Ladies night. 9 p.m. Downtown. 412-471-2058. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. 10 p.m. South Side. 412-431-2825. SMILING MOOSE. Pop Punk Night - Four Year Anniversary! 10 p.m. South Side. 412-600-2328.

MOONDOG’S. Miss Freddye’s Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

VINOSKI WINERY. Mike Tomaro & Friends. 6 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.

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ANDYS WINE BAR. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Eric Susoeff. 5:30 p.m. Downtown. 412-773-8800. ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Etta Cox. 6:30 p.m. Gibsonia. 724-444-7333. 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. TABLE 86 BY HINES WARD. RML Jazz. 6 p.m. Mars. 412-370-9621. VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. 5:30 p.m. Downtown. 412-394-3400.

EDDIE V’S. Roger Barbour Band. 6 p.m. Downtown. 412-391-1714. FRESCO’S. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Eric Susoeff. 6 p.m. Wexford. 724-935-7550. 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.

THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta. Reggae & dancehall. 10 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820. SEVICHE. Hot Salsa & Bachata Nights. 10 p.m. Downtown. 843-670-8465.

WED 30 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. 9:30 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4668.

BLUES THU 24 NEW AMSTERDAM. Jack of Diamonds w/ Angry Johnny. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-682-6414. RODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION. Rodef Shalom Garden Party. 6:30 p.m. Oakland. 412-621-6566.

FRI 25 ELWOOD’S PUB. Jack of Diamonds. 8:30 p.m. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

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SUN 27 ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell, John Hall, Howie Alexander & Dennis Garner. 7 p.m. McKees Rocks. 412-875-5809.

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THU 24 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Jay Wiley. 9:30 p.m. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

FRI 25 MARKET SQUARE. Music in The Square. Artist include The Sparks House Family Band, Mark Williams, Eddan Sparks and the Fellowship. 5 p.m. Downtown. 412-726-42217.

SAT 26 THE SHARP EDGE CREEKHOUSE. Tracy Lee Simmen. 7 p.m. Crafton. 412-922-8118. VINOSKI WINERY. Tom Panei. 1 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.

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THU 24 PIRATA. The Flow Band. 9 p.m. Downtown. 412-323-3000.

SAT 26 THE R BAR. The Flow Band. 9:30 p.m. Dormont. 412-942-0882.

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TUE 29 CLUB CAFE. Adam Torres. 7 p.m. South Side. 412-431-4950.

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O’DONNA’S. The Bo’Hog Brothers. 8 p.m. Beaver. 878-313-3418. RIVERS CASINO. Darryl & Kim. 7 p.m. North Side. 412-231-7777.

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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.

BAJA BAR AND GRILL. Ras Prophet. 2 p.m. Fox Chapel. 412-963-0640.

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RIVERS CLUB. Jessica Lee & Friends. 5:30 p.m. Downtown. 412-391-5227.

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CHATHAM UNIVERSITY EDEN HALL CAMPUS. The Jakob’s Ferry Stragglers & Lost, Lonesome & Foggly. 6:30 p.m. Gibsonia. 412-365-1335.

TUE 29 JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Township Road. 7:30 p.m. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

OTHER MUSIC THU 24 LINDEN GROVE. Karaoke. 8 p.m. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

LINDEN GROVE. Dancing Queen. 9 p.m. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. RIVERS CASINO. Etta Cox Trio. 9 p.m.-midnight. Levels. The Lava Game. 9 p.m.-midnight. Drum Bar. North Side. 412-231-7777.

SAT 26 RIVERS CASINO. Donna Groom Duo. 9 p.m. Levels. Justin Fabus Band. 9 p.m. Drum Bar. North Side. 412-231-7777.

SUN 27 BRUSHTON SOCIAL CLUB 30/30. Jazz Returns to the Hood. 5:30 p.m. Homewood. 412 244 6788. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Alpen Schuhplattler. Founded by a group of German immigrants in 1964 to represent German culture at the Pittsburgh Folk Festival. They continue to perform authentic Bavarian Folk dances to the tunes of their live accordionists. Presented by World Kaleidoscope. 2 p.m. Oakland. 412-622-3175.

WED 30 BRILLOBOX. Group Doueh. 9 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

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Station Square. With special guest Totally 80’s. Free show. 7:30p.m.

BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE Allentown. 412-291-8994. With special guests Chase and the Barons & Jack Stauber. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

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Green Market PHIPPS CONSERVATORY Oakland. For more info visit phipps.conservatory.org. 2:30p.m.

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CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART Oakland. Free event. For more info visit cmoa.org. 6p.m.

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SCHENLEY PLAZA Oakland. With special guest Wreck Loose. Free show. For more info visit wyep.org. 7p.m.

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CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. With special guest Brian Dunne. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

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

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AGNES KATZ PLAZA Downtown. 412-456-6666. Free show. 5p.m.

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RIVERS CASINO North Side. Over 21 event. For tickets and more info visit partyatthe pier.com. 7:30p.m.

2017 Wine Festival SEVEN SPRINGS RESORT. 866-437-1300. Over 21 event. Tickets: 7springs.com. Through Aug. 27.

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Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History Tour ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. Free with museum admission. For more info visit warhol.org. 3p.m.

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Adam Torres CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. With special guests Emily Rodgers & Wayne Beck. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

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If you are even mildly familiar with Pittsburgh’s professional dance scene, you’ve heard of established companies like Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Attack Theatre. But as in most good-sized American cities, there are troupes that largely fly under the radar. Exhalations Dance Theatre is one such troupe. The project-based contemporarydance company was founded in 2009 by Duquesne University graduate Katherine Alexander Mann, who has a background in ballet and folk dance, and who has performed with folk-dance troupes Kyiv Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Otets Paissii Ensemble. Mann, a long-termcare pharmacist by day, says she wasn’t ready to give up dancing and choreographing in order to have a career. She started Exhalations to provide herself, and others who have day jobs, whether in or outside of dance, with opportunities to perform and choreograph. Led by Mann and artistic director Lea Fosbenner Kasic, who trained at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and is a digital-product manager at PNC Bank, the company typically stages two productions a year, rotating dancers with each production. In the latest incarnation of its annual Choreography Project, Aug. 26-27 at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, the nearly two-hour production will feature a dozen short works by a host of choreographers including Mann and Kasic, performed by 25 dancers. Many of the dancers are graduates of area schools, including Point Park University, La Roche College and Slippery Rock University. Works on the program include: Kasic’s “Slip Away,” set to the song of the same name by Seattle-based indie artist Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius, about the desire to break free from the people or things holding you back; Mann’s solo for Kasic “This Bitter Earth,” to the music of jazz great Dinah Washington; Alyssa McIntyre’s high-energy “Cats Like us,” mixing 1950s-era music with swing dancing; and Ebony Cunningham’s “Ebb & Flow,” about coping with your anxieties, set to music by Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson. “Until We Bleed,” choreographed by Kasic and sister hip-hop duo Brianna Pato and Meghan Greenwood, of Pittsburgh’s BaM Choreography, begins with a dance battle between hip-hop and contemporary dancers and ends with the rival camps unifying.

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CCLAIMED Pakistan-born author Kamila Shamsie has lived in England for a decade, and in 2013 became a British citizen. But when she started researching her new novel, Home Fire, she got nervous. She needed to search topics like “ISIS recruitment techniques” online and — well, you know. “It’s actually quite disturbing to think there’s a part of you that’s second-guessing. And you don’t want the Secret Service knocking on your door,” she says. Shamsie’s personal concerns echo key themes in the engrossing Home Fire, published Aug. 15 by Riverhead Books. The plot centers on the relationship between three young-adult siblings — the British-born children of Pakistani immigrants — and the family of a rising British politician also of Pakistani ancestry. In this modern retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone, sisters Aneeka and Isma are horriﬁed when their brother, Parvaiz, attempts to honor their late father’s jihadist legacy. The sisters ultimately clash with Karamat Lone, a political hard-liner who’s the new British Home

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Secretary, through their association with his privileged son, Eamonn. The timely novel — critically hailed on both sides of the Atlantic, and long-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize — engages questions of bigotry, nationalism and national identity.

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Shamsie says Home Fire was informed by her own lengthy route to British citizenship. “Part of being a newly minted British citizen is you look very closely at what people are saying about British citizenship, and what the laws around British citizenship are,” she says from her home in London, via Skype. People who hold two passports, as she does, are subject to revocation of British citizenship if they are deemed a threat. “[T]he injustice of that two-tiered system,”

she says, helped drive the novel: It’s the same system, for instance, that during an airport interrogation scene makes hijabwearing Isma wonder “how British she really is.” And it’s the system that makes Parvaiz feel so much an outsider that he’s susceptible to the manipulations of an ISIS recruiter. Shamed all his young life by the story of his jihadist father, Parvaiz is ripe for a slick recruiter who tells him, instead, that it would honor him to live up to the old man’s heroic example of fighting oppression. As Shamsie makes clear in the novel, many ISIS recruits are young and extremely impressionable, and not all are lured by the promise of doing violence. Targeting doctors, engineers and even media-makers, jihadists offer paradaisical visions of a unified Muslim community — even though the reality of ISIS, Shamsie says, is “purely horrific.” Shamsie, 44, studied in the 1990s at New York’s Hamilton College and the University of Amherst, in Massachusetts. (Her Aug. 26 reading at Alphabet City is her first public appearance in Pittsburgh.)

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These days, she feels more “British” — in part, ironically, because of last year’s Brexit vote. “Oh, God, what have we done?” she remembers thinking. As she quips, “It has to be the idea of national calamity to make me feel part of nation.” And these days, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and another couple of prominent British political figures are Muslim, she notes, something unthinkable a decade ago. Still, the first of Shamsie’s seven novels to be set in contemporary London emphasizes that to be a Muslim Brit is still to be suspect. Home Fire is structured in five parts, each told from the perspective of a different main character. Particularly provocative is the story of Karamat, who built his career within the Muslim community, only to broaden his base by criticizing Muslims who, as he puts it, “set themselves apart” with traditionally non-British behaviors like wearing the hijab. Born into a Muslim family but determined to defend so-called “British values” as staunchly as any reactionary native Anglo, Karamat seems the ultimate in assimilation. Shamsie, however, likes to paraphrase novelist Hanif Kureishi: “When people talk about assimilating, you never hear of the queen being asked to assimilate.” Some differences, in other words, are more different than others. Karamat himself might seem the novel’s heavy, but he too operates in a culture where Muslims are viewed as either secular or fundamentalists. In fact, Shamsie says, there is a whole spectrum of belief and cultural practice, including culturally Muslim atheists and devout but nonfundamentalist believers. And, Shamsie notes, Karamat genuinely wants to improve the way Muslims are perceived — but to Muslims themselves, his approach can seem to pander to racism and Islamophobia. “He does represent the sort of strange position of being a Muslim in Britain,” she says.

Pamela Thompson and Loreen Williamson have examined their collections of more than 300 items connected to cartoons presenting positive depictions of black people and selected several dozen for Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution. This touring exhibition was originally seen online under the auspices of Thompson’s Museum of Uncut Funk. Now, after a 2012 stint at the ToonSeum, it returns to Pittsburgh courtesy of the August Wilson Center. On view are sketches, cels and videos from the animation that finally depicted black people as people, beginning with the Peter Jones character from The Hardy Boys TV series (1969), and Josie and the Pussycats’ Valerie Baum (1970). The Jackson Five (role models whose behavior could not be faulted, at the time) are here as real-life celebrities reinvented as cartoons, as are The Harlem Globetrotters (unsurprisingly), Flip Wilson (same) and Muhammad Ali (maybe not unsurprisingly). Fictional characters in the room include those found in Fang Face, Star Trek and Hong Kong Phooey, as well as black-oriented cartoons like Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids (what up, Mushmouth). The swag that these programs inspired shows up in board games and lunch boxes, and there’s even a comfy couch in a spare recreation of a living room where you can park yourself and watch a cartoon or two. If we look at just what’s shown from the 1970s, it’s a lovefest celebrating Black America through vivid animation, accompanied by a killer soundtrack. But the exhibition also includes a video demonstrating, quite painfully, that this was not always the case. From the earliest days of animated film, just up to when the works in this collection were created, black people were, in some instances, depicted as something barely human; in others, as less than. From identified clowns like the Depression era’s “Bosko” to identical mammies big, brash and belittled, animation was not kind to black Americans. Recently, Jay-Z took us back to this time with “The Story of O.J.,” thoroughly owning that traditional animation style in the most thrillingly incendiary music video since, well, Beyoncé’s “Formation.” But although we can join the shout for glory in the 1970s while considering the earlier racism, figuring out exactly where we are now is not so easy.

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vid anti-monarchist like me, such sentiments might mean that our idiot president has once again said something so hateful it makes democracy seem like a ridiculous way to name a leader. But maybe it’s because I’ve just seen The Audience, at Little Lake Theatre, and this 2013 play by Peter Morgan, dramatizing Queen Elizabeth’s weekly meetings with her prime ministers, makes having a queen seem inﬁnitely superior. I don’t know whether Morgan’s a monarchist, but he’s certainly pro-Elizabeth Windsor; he renders her an impeccably intelligent woman, slyly amusing, politically savvy and dedicating her entire life to “her people.”

with an opposing objective, and everything must be played as subtext (one does not contradict a queen, at least if one doesn’t wish to lose one’s head). Allison Cahill plays Her Maj and does outstanding work intimating the passion just below the surface. She charts the Queen’s maturation (aging 60 years) from frightened, determined, young woman to the steely, if sad, longestreigning monarch in English history. The Audience, in a surprising way, is also about an unrequited, intangible love between Elizabeth and Harold Wilson (Labor Prime Minister beginning in 1964). Morgan suggests that this brash, liberal “working man” was the Queen’s favorite; Joe Eberle plays the role, and his scenes with Cahill are entertaining and moving. Patricia Cena Fuchel is the evening’s other notable minister, the redoubtable Margaret Thatcher. Morgan has written her as a hard-eyed opportunist, easily calling to mind Glenda Jackson’s famous quote that Thatcher was just “Reagan in a frock.” Fuchel attacks the role guns ablazing, providing plenty of ﬁreworks in the second act. Director Ponny Conomos Jahn could have worked a bit more on the whole “subtext” thing, and I’ll refrain from making cracks about the woeful dialects. But this very large cast — with Madeline

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THE AUDIENCE continues through Sat., Aug. 26. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South, Canonsburg. $13.75-21.75. 724-745-6300 or www.littlelaketheatre.org

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TO SCALE {BY DREW PRASKOVICH} BIG FISH, based on the eponymous book and film, is a musical about the power folklore can have over a family. Will Bloom (Matt Calvert) is desperate to understand the truth about his ailing father, Edward Bloom, after a childhood spent only being told about the man’s fantastical adventures. The show is rife with nostalgia and optimism as it flows through Edward Bloom’s inconceivable life and prophesized death. He encounters witches, giants and even mermaids, and Big Fish finds the humanity in it all. John August, who also penned the screenplay, knows the real soul of the show lies between father and son.

Despite strained vocals in ensemble numbers, they remain buoyant. Andrew Lippa’s music and lyrics are charming but forgettable. Music director and Ringling Brothers vet Melissa Yanchak leads a string-ﬁlled orchestra with experience through the show’s circus numbers. Though spirited, Spencer Whale’s direction misses opportunities to create true moments of discovery and awe. The skeletal attic scenic design, by Gianni Downs, provides transparency; props and actors are constantly visible. This effect sometimes dims the strength of Whale’s vision. He needs to trust in the audience’s own imagination. More elements like his romantic reveal at the end of Act I would’ve provided a sense of transformation to bolster the themes of the show. Billy Hartung fully embodies the spirit of Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman. Like Bloom, locally based Broadway veteran Hartung carries a mythical quality that makes his character even more fascinating. After his 12-year stage hiatus, the audience welcomes him with open arms. It’s fulﬁlling to watch an actor give so much vigor and heart to a role. Kristiann Menotiades is radiant and says it all with her eyes. She loves, she hurts, she hopes. Jason Swauger is distinctive in his roles as lycanthropic ringmaster Amos and concerned Dr. Bennett. The real magic of Front Porch’s Big Fish doesn’t lie within the fantasy, but rather the reality of Hartung’s return to the stage.

IT’S FULFILLING TO WATCH AN ACTOR GIVE SO MUCH VIGOR AND HEART TO A ROLE.

BIG FISH continues through Sun., Aug. 27. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $24-30. www.frontporchpgh.com

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08.24-08.31.17 Full events listed online at www.pghcitypaper.com Even in late August, Pittsburgh these days is full of arts happenings. But few this summer will be as cutting-edge as the annual Performance Art Festival. For its fourth season, PAF moves to Oakland’s Melwood Avenue, where it takes over three venues — Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Glitter Box and Babyland — and nearby outdoor spaces with some two dozen acts, plus continuous video screenings, on Aug. 26 and 27.

Performances range in length from a few minutes to hours-long “roaming” outdoors shows. The performers hail from around the U.S. and from as far away as Austria and Japan. Highlights include Calling All Divas, Los Angeles-based, internationally touring Tyler Matthew Oyer’s “exploration of actual and imagined queer ancestries.” (Expect fabulous costumes.) In “The Struggle,” British performer Riikka Enne addresses labor struggles while wrapped in clear plastic, trying to scale a wall similarly wrapped. Alex D’Agostino (pictured), of Baltimore, employs a tutu, clothespins and audience participation to manifest “an invisible queer rage” in “The Swan.” Japan’s Fumi Amano creates an installation-based performance to examine women’s role in society. Berivian Sayici, of Austria, does a piece “where she is waterboarded by milk,” says PAF founder and organizer Abagail Beddall. Pittsburgh-based performers include Princess Jafar, exploring her identity as a mixed-race trans woman of Arab descent. Other local contributors include Leavitt Summer, slowdanger, Sofia Sandoval, Anna Azizzy, Dave English and Middle Children, Valerie Kuehne, Tara Fay, and Ru Emmons. New this year are screenings of performance films and documentations. But the focus, says Beddall, remains on the corporeal presence of a performer in a given space. “People are really impacted by body,” says Beddall. There’s nothing like it for exploring topics like racism, she says — or for sheer intimacy. The PAF is presented by Bunker Projects. Admission is by donation. BY BILL O’DRISCOLL

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thursday 08.25 WORDS Autumn House Press wraps this season’s Pittsburgh Parks Summer Reading Series tonight in Highland Park with readings by four notable local writers. Poet and educator Jan Beatty has been a keystone of the scene for years. University of Pittsburgh professor Dawn Lundy Martin (pictured) is an acclaimed poet, and co-founder of the Pitt-based Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Marc Nieson is an educator, fiction writer and memoirist. And Deesha Philyaw is an author, blogger and freelance writer with credits including The New York Times and Essence. The reading is free; bring ring a blanket. Bill O’Driscoll 6 p.m. 1024 N. Highland hland Ave., Highland Park. Free. www.facebook.com ok.com (“pittsburgh parks summer”)

saturday 08.26 ART Probably Pittsburgh’s biggest neighborhood art-and-craft festival returns with the 21st Annual Shadyside ... the Art Festival on Walnut Street. Today and tomorrow, tomorro for several blocks along Walnut, some 150 regional and national artists will personally display their jewelry, hand-crafted apparel hand-c and décor, and artworks, ranging from paintings, p sculpture and photography to ceramics, ceramics glass and mixed-media. The long-running festival festiva is produced by Florida-based Howard Alan Events. BO 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Also 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun., Aug. 27. 730 73 Bellefonte St., Shadyside. Free. www.artfestival.com

COMEDY You’ve heard of Bill Murray, John Candy and Stephen Colbert, but maybe you ou didn’t know that early in their careers they ey worked with The Second City. This weekend, nd, the venerable improv-comedy troupe’ss touring show makes its annual summer visit, it, as The Second City’s Summer Blockbusterr comes to Pittsburgh Public Theater for three ree shows tonight and tomorrow. Visiting performers rformers

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include Adam Archer and Alison Gates. Who knows — maybe the folks you’re watching this weekend will be tomorrow’s movie stars or late-night hosts. Matt Petras 8 p.m. Also 5:30 and 9 p.m. Sat., Aug. 26. 621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $35-60. 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org

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TALK You know his work, especially publi public sculptures like “Joy of Life,” on the East Liberty ffountain, and “The Man,” on the University Univers of Pittsburgh Graduate School of P Public Health building. But odds odd are you know little about Virgil Cantini. The Vi late artist worked in many w

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We have a friend from out of town, and we always like getting out to see the city. [We] came down to Little Italy Days. [It’s] everything Italian that Pittsburgh has to offer. That’s how I feel about it. Awesome food, amazing food. It’s good to see Bloomfield, that’s my favorite neighborhood. Got to see all the happenings, all the shops, but the food has got to be the main draw. And all the bocce, and all the other cultural things, but to me, it’s the food. There’s everything fried — we’re looking for the rice balls. The stuffed rice balls are down there somewhere, the pizza, the pasta, Italian sausage, stuffed meatballs. For the middle of the day, and a muggy day, it’s really festive and there’s a lot of people out. A lot of people gonna have meat sweats really early on, I suppose. Italian music, good breeze, a lot of red, white and green. B Y M ATT P ETRAS

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BoxHeart Gallery offers another duo of art exhibits, this time William DeBernardi and Dale Huffman and Andrew Ooi: IOI OOI New Primitives. The former show features the work of two artists who are both art professors at Carlow University; DeBernardi is primarily known as an oil painter and Huffman works with ceramics. The latter show features painted and folded paper pieces from Ooi, who is from Toronto. An opening reception with the artists is this evening. MP 5-8 p.m. (free). Exhibits continue through Sept. 22. 4523 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412687-8858 or www.boxheartgallery.com

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hard days at work and catastrophic political news. Turns out, however, that people liked cute cats even before the days of internet memes. Frank and the Wonder Cat, a documentary about the Oakmont-based performing cat Pudgie Wudgie, from the 1990s, screens tonight at The Oaks Theater. At 7 p.m., Humane Animal Rescue will have cats available for adoption. After the screening, meet Frank Furko, the late Pudgie Wudgie’s owner. MP 8 p.m. 310 Allegheny River Blvd., Oakmont. $8-10. 412-828-6322 or theoakstheater.com

PARTY Nothing beats the warmth of nostalgia, whether it be eating your favorite childhood snack or rewatching the cartoons you obsessed over. PGH Rewind hopes to kindle those nostalgic feelings of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s at Downtown’s Trust Arts Education Center. The event, on three floors, includes drag performers dressed as stars like Tina Turner, nostalgic treats, live music, a makeup station and more. Retro outfits and hairstyles are encouraged. Your ticket also nets you a one-year Cultural Trust Partners membership, which gets you access to exclusive events and more. MP 9 p.m.-midnight (VIP 7:30-9 p.m.). 805-807 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $35. (VIP: $75-85). 412-471-6070 or www.trustarts.org

Vickie Shaw, a loud, often exasperated comedian from Texas, brings her comedy tonight to COMEDY Cruze Bar. Shaw draws much of her ^ Mon., Aug. 21: Frank and the Wonder Cat “I don’t like people who wear material from her family, whether community-college sweatshirts,” it’s her partner or her parents. In one says Quincy Jones. “They’re a little too cocky in life, and I bit, seen during a standup routine at the Triple Door in Seattle, don’t know why. Get your bachelor’s and then rock the she is frustrated by her mother’s reluctance to eat unhealthy apparel.” The Los Angeles-based comic with the laid-back foods. “You’re 90!” she screams. “You’re 90 years old! Eat the manner (and publicized for his battle with cancer) headlines cobbler!” Opening for Shaw are local comics Whitley Baker and tonight’s Lexfest II, at Club Café, the latest in former Michael Buzzelli. MP 7 p.m. 1600 Smallman St., Strip District. Pittsburgher Norlex Belma’s quarterly comedy show pairing $20-30. 412-471-1400 or www.cruzebar.com local and national talent. Belma, now based in New York, also hosts local comics Ed Bailey and Phil Forrence and visitors SCREEN Eman El Husseini and Jess Salomon. BO 10:30 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., It’s impossible to consider online culture without also considering cute cats, many internet-dwellers’ refuge from South Side. $10. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com

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OF ALL THE BARBECUE WE ORDERED, SMOKED EGGPLANT WAS THE BEST

POP-UP VEGAN On a Sunday, a small crowd gathers around a tent set up outside Cafè d’Amore, in Lawrenceville. The smell of waffles and chocolate, alongside the savory smell of freshly toasted “everything” bagels, wafts down the block. It’s a magnet for hungry passersby. This is a typical pop-up for Relish Co., an all-vegan enterprise owned and operated by Abbigail Hansel. Today there are cinnamon-sugar knots, chocolatechip waffles with melted chocolate and bananas on top, and everything bagels with a delicious creamy herbed spread. By the time I arrive, at 11:30 a.m., just a halfhour after the pop-up began, the doughnuts are gone. “I try to do a pop-up almost every weekend, sometimes even two in a weekend,” says Hansel. “We do wholesale to shops around the city every day, and it gives me an opportunity to test out new things, meet new people and expand our following.” These pop-ups show the range of Relish Co.’s repertoire, which changes each weekend. “We always have doughnuts, bagels, et cetera, but I love to throw in other options, ranging from French toast, waffles, ‘chicken’-and-waffle sandwiches, and even burgers,” explains Hansel. “I switch it up a lot.” Hansel often doesn’t decide the flavors of the doughnuts until the morning of the event. These choices are influenced by seasonal ingredients, customer requests and whatever inspiration strikes. “I could throw entire menu plans out the window, if I find some beautiful produce in the Strip and decide to change things up the night before. It’s all about what feels right,” she says. Hansel plans to open a storefront, but the timeline is still a secret. In the meantime, these pop-ups serve as a fun opportunity to guess what might be on the menu. If you can’t wait for a pop-up, Relish Co. currently delivers its donuts on various days of the week all over Pittsburgh, including to: Black Forge Coffeehouse, in Allentown; Constellation Coffee, in Lawrenceville; Zeke’s, in East Liberty; ADDA Coffee and Tea House, in Shadyside; Artisan Café, in Garfield; and Cafè d’Amore and 52nd St. Market, both in Lawrenceville.

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LUES. Bourbon. BBQ.” is the motto of Wheelfish in Ross Township. Many have pursued the smoky pleasures of this alliterative trio in locales far more hardscrabble than Pittsburgh’s near North Hills, but we’re open to finding magic in unexpected places. So it was with big appetites and open minds that we drove past tidy suburban houses on rolling green lawns to pull into the gravel parking lot of Wheelfish’s rustic building. Wagon wheels leaned against the unpainted board-and-batten walls, as if a hard day of eking a living off the land was just giving way to the tub-thumping pleasures of a country evening. Inside, a stage was set up at one end of the dining room, with sound equipment ready to go, but on a Tuesday, a leftbehind playlist provided the only blues in

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evidence. The stage and rough-hewn ambience of Wheelﬁsh’s barn-wood interior actually date to its predecessor, Frank N Stein’s, but suit the current concept to a T. The rusticity felt more like an identity than a pose; it didn’t need to be propped up with blues posters on the wall or clever names on the menu.

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The menu hit a sweet spot: The barbecue framework was classic, the details fresh. Alongside pulled-pork nachos and

wings, for instance, were brisket quesadilla and roasted-beet salad. Standard smoked meats were augmented by salmon and smoked eggplant options. Sides included mac-and-cheese and pork and beans, but also napa cabbage slaw. The quesadilla was fantastic. It started with a perfectly flaky-crisp tortilla and incorporated a filling that had a lot going on — meat, peppers sweet and hot, onion, cheddar and BBQ sauce — but still let that excellent tortilla share the spotlight. The sauce flavored the fillings without drowning them, and the meat, while in bite-size pieces, was substantial enough to make its quality clear, complete with luscious fat cap. The best part of the beet salad was the citrus vinaigrette, bright and lightly acidic to balance the sweet components of beets, golden raisins and candied pecans, without

tipping over into puckery sourness. Meanwhile, the greens were spicy enough, and sheep’s-milk feta briny enough, to offset the cumulative effect of three sweet ingredients. Our only complaint was a surprisingly scant portion of actual beets. We really liked Wheelfish’s approach to chicken. Flash-frying the smoked bird created a light, crispy shell that didn’t distract from the meat’s flavor with a heavily seasoned coating. The leg was, for the most part, succulent, but a few bites were dried out, a surprising feat with dark meat. Sadly, this was a harbinger of things to come. We started in on the small end of our half-rack of ribs, pulling off the last bone to reveal plenty of gorgeous, pink flesh. But a mouthful quickly revealed that looks were deceiving: The meat was tough, dry and over-seasoned. A second, smaller bite was more manageable, but still not right. A sample from the other end, the center of the original rack, nailed the texture — moist, tender, still with some chew — but the saltiness remained a problem. Salmon, in sandwich form, suffered from a different kind of overcooking: While the meat was flaky and juicy throughout, there was an undeniable fishiness to it, reminiscent of canned tuna or reheated fish. It was a shame, especially because the other sandwich components — ciabatta roll, arugula, feta and aioli — came together wonderfully to create a combination that could have been a standout. Of all the barbecue we ordered, smoked eggplant was the best: toothsome and meaty, not at all rubbery as poorly cooked eggplant can be; deeply infused with smoky flavor; and sauced with an astringent tomato ragout. Most of our sides were great, too. Pork and beans were close to perfect, with plenty of good meat and scarcely a hint of sugar among the mixed beans, while mac-and-cheese, topped with toasted breadcrumbs, was creamy and simple. Wheelfish switches up its cornbread seasonally, and blueberry was the perfect accent for high summer, the sweet-tart berries popping juicily in the bread’s pleasantly gritty crumb. But fries were disappointing: A heap of what looked like beautiful, deepbrown russets proved dry and tough, again as if reheated or held under heat too long. Lots of places offer regional barbecue sauces these days, but Wheelfish sticks to variations on a classic theme: Blue Collar (regular), Gentleman (sweet), and Cowboy (spicy) sauces. All were well balanced between tomato and vinegar, smoke and pepper. Like the sauces themselves, many of Wheelfish’s preparations were solid. But for a restaurant that puts barbecue front and center, its smoked-meat game was surprisingly uneven. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

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POOR, MISUNDERSTOOD tequila. To many, it’s the stuff of late nights and bad decisions, with little use outside the shot glass or the slushie machine. From rumors of hallucinogenic properties (untrue) to that damn worm in the bottle (a marketing gimmick), myths and misconceptions swirl around Mexico’s best-known spirit. In truth, tequila is actually quite straightforward. Just as champagne is a speciﬁc variety of sparkling wine, tequila is a speciﬁc type of mezcal, a broader and older category of Mexican agave spirits. In order to be called tequila, it must be produced in designated regions of Mexico (mostly in the state of Jalisco) and made from blue agave. Contrary to popular belief, agave is not a cactus but rather a succulent related to asparagus. Tequila producers cook and mash the hearts of the plants to extract the agave juice, then ferment and distill that liquid to create tequila. The best tequilas (some would say the only ones that can rightfully be called tequila) are made entirely from agave. Look for the “100 percent agave” designation on the label, and don’t buy any bottle without it. Those other tequilas are known as mixtos, meaning they use just 51 percent agave, and make up the difference with corn or sugar cane. Though these tequilas are cheaper, they inevitably leave a bad taste and an even worse hangover. Once you move past Cuervo Gold, a whole world of agave-based possibilities awaits. Unlike Cognac or bourbon, which rely on barrels to develop much of their

flavor, tequila can be enjoyed in its white, unaged state. Many connoisseurs, in fact, prefer this blanco tequila to the aged reposado or añejo versions. Blanco tequilas allow the agricultural nuances of the agave plant to shine, showcasing the distinctive vegetal, mineral and floral notes that set tequila apart. A bright, funky blanco tequila can be every bit as interesting as a 20-year-old scotch. Good tequila should be sipped, not shot, preferably from a snifter or wine glass that helps concentrate its aroma. Chilling the spirit or taking a lick of salt and a bite of lime are tricks to mask off-flavors of lowquality tequila, and will only detract from a well-made spirit. Of course, tequila can also star in some great cocktails. Though the margarita is the best-known tequila cocktail in America, it’s not the only one. The paloma, a simple mixture of tequila and grapefruit soda, is more popular than the margarita in Mexico. Check out my updated version below, which adds some spice and bitterness to the mix.

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{BY AL HOFF} Being a firefighter is tough. Being a trans firefighter seems tougher still, unless you’re Brooke Guinan and are undaunted by the challenge of becoming a pioneer for equal rights and respect. Guinan is the subject of Woman on Fire, the engaging new feature-length documentary from Pittsburgh-based filmmaker Julie Sokolow (Aspie Seeks Love). It makes its Pittsburgh premiere this weekend at a special event at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

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Guinan grew up George William Guinan VI in a family of New York City firefighters. Both granddad and dad were committed to FDNY, describing the job as a brotherhood and “a home away from home.” But young George felt different growing up; he came out as gay as a teen, but that wasn’t quite it. “The person looking at me [from the mirror] was never the person in my head.” So began a journey: joining the FDNY as a gay man and having a rocky time of it, before transitioning to Brooke, a female. “I was always performing who I thought people wanted me to be,” she explains. Sokolow’s film spends a lot of time with the likable Brooke, as well as her family, who undergo their own journey of acceptance; Brooke’s parents stress how traditional firefighter families are, and how male-dominated the field is. And the film is big-hearted, acknowledging that everybody has struggles, whether it’s Brooke’s dad’s PTSD after Sept. 11; Brooke’s partner, Jim, negotiating with his elderly parents about his new relationship; or the sexism that other female firefighters face. (Even today, of the 10,000 who make up the NYFD, fewer than 50 are women.) But understanding and openness is key. As Sokolow documents Brooke’s commitment to fully be who she is, it’s an affirming go-girl story, with Brooke confronting and overcoming obstacles and prejudices. It’s a fight that culminates in some high-profile public victories, though for Brooke, the cessation of struggle within herself is surely the sweetest battle won. AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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one of the more remarkable and transfixing films I’ve seen in a while. Bill Morrison’s documentary is ostensibly about the discovery of some long-lost silent films. But it is easily a dozen films in one, effortlessly shifting between history lessons about early film, labor and gold-mining; experiential art film; and meditations on time, progress, decay and rebirth. It’s also about a long-forgotten, faraway time and town that nonetheless has links to well-known things as disparate as Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater, the 1919 White Sox baseball scandal, Ken Burn’s filmmaking style, and Donald Trump. It all starts in a First Nations fishing encampment at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers, just 173 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Then came the Gold Rush of 1896, and the new boomtown of Dawson City filled up with hopeful miners. After the boom, the town shrunk considerably but remained viable enough to support three establishments that screened the latest entertainment — moving pictures. In time, the

Guggenheims consolidated the mines, a Carnegie Library opened, and families took to normal life in the far north. Few knew of tiny Dawson City. Until 1978, when a routine demolition of Dawson’s former athletic hall uncovered 533 reels of highly combustible silvernitrate ﬁlms, buried in the permafrost. Shipped to archives in Ottawa, the “Dawson Find” turned out to be an astounding cache of studio ﬁlms and newsreels, most from

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story of the town, its boom and bust, and the curious journey of these films. (The random circumstances that led to these films being preserved is a great story I’ll leave viewers to discover.) He uses archival photography (including gorgeous photographs taken of the Yukon Gold Rush by Eric Hegg) and footage. But in a move that serves both the historical narrative and the exposition of these extremely rare films, Morrison stitches together the tale of Dawson City using excerpts from 124 of the once-buried films. Some are newsreels, filling in world events, while others are comedies, historical dramas and melodramas, standing in. (For instance, in establishing Dawson’s lively gambling scene, Morrison compiles a reel of gambling scenes.) Thus, films such as The Girl of the Northern Woods (1910) and If My Country Should Call (1916) transcend their original function as entertainment, both to illustrate actual history and to stand as a reflection on fragile “permanence.” Boom towns, film stock, people and even history itself are there, and then gone — until an overturned shovel of dirt brings it all back into light. A HOF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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guise of “making poor decisions to further one’s art” or something. (Let us pause to remember how much of what we see on screen is written, as is this, by men.) Marc Webb’s film trundles along in this familiar vein, with awkward dinner parties, a wedding and assorted pining. Then, unfortunately, it takes the soapopera turn that it looked like it was going to take but you hoped it wouldn’t. It’s a groaner of a plot device, and even less satisfying since we all saw it coming. Starts Fri., Aug. 25 (AH)

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WIND RIVER. In writer-director Taylor Sheridan’s terse crime drama, a government animaltracker — he shoots predators — teams with an outof-her-element FBI agent to learn who killed a young Native woman on a reservation out West. Corey Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is half insider, half outsider on the rez, while Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) didn’t even bring an overcoat — no small thing in a story where the deadly cold is practically a character in itself. The film is beautifully shot against a stark backdrop of sky, snow and pine trees, but its emotional core lies in a series of encounters between the white protagonists and the Native Americans, who include Cory’s ex-wife and young son; the victim’s family; local law enforcement; and trailer-dwelling drug dealers. That the nominal heroes are white might have undercut the subtext about the resilience of Native people. (The story was “inspired by actual events.”) But while the drama plays out satisfyingly, it’s the sense of tenuous connections between characters that sticks with you, along with the isolation and lack of agency often experienced by Native communities. (Bill O’Driscoll)

GOOD TIME. Benny and Josh Safdie direct this gritty drama about a bank robber (Robert Pattinson) who spends the night trying to evade those looking for him and getting his brother out of jail. Starts Fri., Aug. 25 THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD. Nothing says summer like a fun and stupid action movie with beautiful people and even more beautiful explosions. Patrick Hughes’ comedic actioner is not that movie, though it wants to be. It stars Ryan Reynolds, who has the charisma of a peanut-butter sandwich, as a bodyguard trying to restore his career, and Samuel L. Jackson, with the maniacal energy of a scary uncle, as a hitman embroiled in the trial of a genocidal Eastern European dictator (Gary Oldman). The two Americans traipse their way through London, Denmark and Sweden, firing and dodging storms of bullets. It’s clearly meant to feel like a skewed buddy comedy, but using loosely accurate geopolitics as a subplot vehicle for Jackson to say “motherfucker” proves unsettling. At some point in the movie, the dictator deploys Plan B, which is to send a truck full of bombs into the crowd protesting outside his trial. In the context of recent news, it was one of the most jarring scenes I’ve ever watched on the big screen. Then again, what else can be expected from a movie with the tagline “Get triggered.” (Hannah Lynn)

Menashe boy: Should he compromise, and accept the dictates of the community over his cautious toe-dips into individuality? There is not much more plot than that, but the nonactors Weinstein employs are warm and engaging. They inhabit a world that is in many ways quite different from modern secular life in New York City, but the issues of loneliness and family strife are all too universal. In Yiddish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Aug. 25. Manor (AH)

Wind River INGRID GOES WEST. Aubrey Plaza stars in this dark comedy about a woman who becomes obsessed with an Instagram star (Elizabeth Olsen) and moves to Los Angeles to stalk her and maybe become her friend. Matt Spicer directs. Starts Fri., Aug. 25 LADY MACBETH. William Oldroyd’s drama is a chilling domestic noir hidden within a period romantic potboiler. Note: This film’s opening date has been postponed repeatedly; here’s hoping. See www.pghcitypaper.com for full review. Starts Fri., Aug. 25 LEAP! In this animated feature, a young French girl leaves her country home for Paris, hoping to fulfill her dream of becoming a ballerina. Eric Summer and Eric Warin direct. Starts Fri., Aug. 25 LOGAN LUCKY. Steven Soderbergh directs this heist comedy about three West Virginia siblings who try to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race. Ever-hopeful Jimmie (Channing Tatum) wants something more, and an unceremonious lay-off from a job at the Charlotte Motor Speedway pushes him toward Plan B: liberating some of the cash that speedway takes in on big race days. So he ropes in his bartender brother, Clyde (Adam Driver), and his sassy sister, Mellie (Riley Keough), plus noted bomber Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) and his crew — and it’s on. The film has a comfortable shaggy feel, even as it unspools a fairly tight heist. There are detours into kiddie pageants, John Denver songs, prison life, and the odious sorts of celebrities who hawk energy drinks. Honestly, it’s hard to lose with a cast this

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THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK. As we know from countless other films, novels and even memoirs, meaningful life for sensitive young men who yearn for creative fulfillment is truly difficult, especially if they come from New York City’s affluent corners. There’s so much to fret about: Is my girlfriend arty enough? Is she even my girlfriend? Will anyone get my novel? Is the Lower East Side too trendy now to slum in? Thomas (Callum Turner) has all these problems and more. He’s just discovered that his father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a colleague named Johanna (Kate Beckinsale). Thomas decides to resolve this emotional crisis … by pursuing Johanna as well. His tenement neighbor, a salty, boozy author played with gusto in his sleep by Jeff Bridges, encourages this skeevy set-up, under the

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM. It’s whip-crackin’ adventure in India as the be-hatted Jones (Harrison Ford) searches for a mystical stone. Steven Spielberg directs this 1984 hit, the sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 23. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 CONTINUES ON PG. 46

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MARJORIE PRIME. Jon Hamm and Tim Robbins star in this sci-fi dramedy, set in the near future, in which people interact with holograms of deceased loved ones. Michael Almereyda directs. Starts Fri., Aug. 25. Harris MENASHE. Joshua Weinstein directs this gentle dramedy set in Borough Park, Brooklyn, within an insular Hasidic community. Menashe (Menashe Lustig), whose wife died a year ago, plods through his life, somewhat unsatisfied. He has a tiresome job as a supermarket cashier, suffers the contempt of his in-laws, and is resisting various matchmaking efforts. Worst of all, he no longer has custody of his sweet teenage son, Rieven (Ruben Niborski), who, under religious law, cannot live in a single-parent household; Rieven is under the care of Menashe’s brother-in-law. Menashe is torn — though an observant Jew, he balks at some of the strictures; why can’t his boy live with him, or get ice cream? It also doesn’t help that Menashe is a bit of a mess, prone to clumsiness and not as neatly dressed as he should be. But he misses his

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THE BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB. Wim Wenders’ lovingly made 1999 documentary profiles a group of elderly, near-forgotten practitioners of traditional Cuban music, both in their homeland and in concert abroad. In English and Spanish, with subtitles. Aug. 25-30. Row House Cinema WINGS OF DESIRE. Wim Wenders’ 1987 drama depicts two angels who watch over Berlin, one of whom (Bruno Ganz) has fallen in love with a trapeze artist. In German, with subtitles. Aug. 25-30. Row House Cinema PARIS, TEXAS. Harry Dean Stanton stars in Wim Wenders’ 1984 drama about a man who once ran away, but now is back and trying to reconnect. Aug. 25-30. Row House Cinema THE TERMINATOR. James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi actioner put some real kick into time travel, when a cyborg from the future is sent back to now to essentially save himself. 6:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 25. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 TERMINATOR 2. James Cameron’s 1991 sequel — in which one cyborg from the future is after another — is back as a digitally remastered 3-D version. Screens all day, Fri., Aug. 25 only. AMC Loews Waterfront THE CHOP. When times grow lean at an auto-body shop owned by a former cop and his daughter, each turns to risky activities to keep the business afloat. She starts street racing, and he offers to “chop” a car for a dangerous man. The locally produced and shot drama is directed by Jack Davis. 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 26. Hollywood. $5 CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. It’s a classic flesh-eating video nasty: Ruggero Deodato’s 1980 cult-horror film in which “found footage” depicts the fate of an unlucky film crew lost in the Amazon. Midnight, Sat., Aug. 26. Row House Cinema

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MURDER MY SWEET. Edward Dmytryk’s 1944 adaption of Raymond Chandler’s novel is a decent dark noir in which the cynical detective Marlowe is portrayed to surprising effect by the former freshfaced star of frothy musical comedies, Dick Powell. Captured by a nefarious doctor, Marlowe has a druginduced nightmare, one of the great early cinematic surrealistic freak-outs. To be screened in 35 mm. 7 p.m. Sun., Aug. 27. Hollywood. $15 (includes chili, hot dogs, sides and beer or soda)

LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY. The city slums are the setting for this 1925 silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by William Beaudine, in which the actress plays a tenement kid who is forced to grow up when her policeman father is shot. This restored version includes a newly composed and recorded musical score. 2 p.m. Sun., Aug. 27. Hollywood

The Hitman’s Bodyguard MATA HARI. George Fitzmaurice directs this 1931 love story, loosely adapted from real life, about the titular exotic dancer who was a World War I spy. Greta Garbo and Roman Navarro star. The film, a favorite of Andy Warhol’s, screens in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum. There will also be live music and dance, and a vintage market, plus food, beer and cocktails for sale. Event opens at 5:30 p.m.; film screens at dusk. Tue., Aug. 29. Rooftop of Theater Square garage, Downtown. www.DowntownPittsburgh.com. Bring your own chair. Free RISKY BUSINESS. Paul Brickman directs this 1983 comedy about a teen (Tom Cruise, in Ray-Bans) who throws a big party when his parents are away. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 30. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 A LIFE IN WAVES. Brett Whitcomb’s new documentary profiles the life and innovations of composer and electronic-music pioneer Suzanne Ciani. In the lobby before the film, check out vendors of electronic music, as well as synthesizer demos. Doors at 6:30 p.m.; screening at 7:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 31. Hollywood

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{BY RYAN DETO} Jo Yong Jo and Ha Joo Young are students from South Korea on a mission: to bike across the U.S. and spread awareness about victims of sexual enslavement. During World War II, the Japanese army abducted women in Korea and throughout the Far East, and forced them into sex work with Japanese soldiers. In 2015, the Japanese government started a fund for the victims, referred to by their captors as “comfort women,” and the Korean government agreed to stop publicly criticizing Japan for those actions.

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However, many Koreans weren’t satisfied with that agreement and are asking Japan to more fully acknowledge its wrongdoing. Jo and Young are working to put the pressure on the Japanese government by spreading the story of comfort women across the U.S. The students started in Los Angeles on June 23 and biked along historic Route 66 to Chicago. From there, the friends biked to Pittsburgh; some days they traveled as many as 100 miles. They met with Pittsburgh City Paper on Aug. 15. “We want to raise this issue in the U.S. because the U.S. is the center of the media world,” said Young. “We don’t want to see this tragedy in any other [country].” Last year, Jo learned more about the details of comfort women and the campaign to get Japan to more fully acknowledge its role. “This news shocked me,” Jo said. “I decided to do something before [all of the comfort women] pass away.” Jo says that only 37 victims in South Korea are still alive, and most are in their 80s and 90s. The two young Koreans only trained for two months before starting their trek. They have enjoyed the ride so far, but Young says that biking in the Mojave Desert in California was difficult, and that Pennsylvania has been “hilly and hot.” On Aug. 16, a day after grabbing sandwiches at Primanti Brothers in the Strip District, the two students hopped on the Great Allegheny Passage trail toward Washington, D.C. They will end their trip at the end of August in New York City. RYANDETO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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F YOU’VE LOOKED out onto Pittsburgh’s three rivers lately, you might’ve noticed something a little different. In addition to the barges, tailgating boaters and jet skis, a new community of paddleboarders has emerged on the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers. Pittsburgh native Matthew Rumbaugh, 48, is one of them. He got his start with the adventure sport in 1997, in Hawaii. “I spent some time working over there for a few months and was able to learn how to catch some waves and surf a little bit,” says Rumbaugh, co-owner of SUP 3 Rivers, one of Pittsburgh’s paddleboarding tour and equipment-rental companies. “Then when I came back to the states, there were some people who were starting to stand up on long boards. And it

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started to take off.” His father built him a 14-foot kalua paddleboard, and he started going out on Pittsburgh’s waterways. From there, Rumbaugh bought a few more boards, and he and his SUP 3 Rivers partner Connie Bradley began taking people out for tours.

Standup paddleboarding is growing more popular on Pittsburgh’s rivers {BY REBECCA ADDISON} “I always believed the three rivers were a great place for urban adventure,” Rumbaugh says. “Paddleboarding gives you an opportunity to stand up, take a look at our

city, and take it in.” Standup paddleboarding is essentially a mix of surﬁng and kayaking. A certain level of balance is required, but Rumbaugh says it’s one of the more relaxing sports. “It can be a chill sport or a big sport for somebody who wants to really go at it,” Rumbaugh says. “I can take a novice and give them that exhilaration of being on the river in an urban setting. Or there are people who want to paddle super hard and keep their head down.” City Paper went out on the Allegheny River with Rumbaugh on a day when the waters were particularly rough. But he never let on. He exudes conﬁdence and never lets newcomers believe they’re facing something they can’t handle. “Attack it. Own it,” he says after directing

you to angle your board into the wake created by a passing boat. “Paddle through it.” RUMBAUGH SAYS paddleboarding really

took off in Pittsburgh after the city hosted that giant yellow rubber duck, in 2013. People who came into town to see the duck also saw Rumbaugh and his fellow paddlers out on the river, and they talked to spectators about the emerging watersport. “You can always throw a board on top of your car and ﬁnd a body of water somewhere and just go out and chill,” Rumbaugh says. “You can be on an ocean one day and a river the next.” Since then, both the local paddleboarding community and SUP 3 Rivers has grown. A few years ago, they reached an agreement with Citiparks to provide paddleboarding from Allegheny Landing, on the North Side, and South Side’s Riverfront Park. The rivers provide a unique experience for paddlers who have done excursions in different bodies of water around the city. While perhaps not as intense as paddleboarding on the ocean, Pittsburgh’s rivers make for a challenging experience. “I get a lot of people who say, ‘Oh, I’ve paddleboarded before,’ but not here, not on these rivers,” Rumbaugh says. “We’ve got wind, we’ve got current, we’ve got recreational boaters, we have kayakers, we have commercial boaters going by, and it changes your perspective.” And the rivers can be unkind. In July, SUP 3 Rivers took a hit when its boat was

damaged. The boat ferries boards and passengers onto the rivers, but it also provides a relaxing atmosphere for nervous newbies, complete with swinging hammocks. “Our boat took a dink this summer in these storms at the marina, but we dealt with it and it should be back in the water in September,” Rumbaugh says. “We didn’t stop doing what we do. We took a beating but we’re recovering.” And next month, SUP 3 Rivers will host its third annual South Side OutSide Paddle and Music Fest. As part of the event, on Sept. 2, paddlers will do a 10K from South Side’s Riverfront Park to the Roberto Clemente Bridge. This year’s 10k is dedicated to Rumbaugh’s friend Ronald “R.C.” Carik, who passed away three months ago.

WWW.SUP3RIVERS.COM “We always keep his life jacket on our boat,” Rumbaugh says. “We’re going to do a Hawaiian tribute to him out on the water for his family and his friends.” For ﬁrst-timers looking to try out the experience, SUP 3 Rivers offers a “friendly ﬁrst-timer” tour for $35 that includes a life jacket, board, leash and paddle. Rumbaugh or another instructor will help you learn the ropes, before pulling back a little to let you experience it on your own. “We’ll break off from that mini-tour with about a half-hour left so people can take it in themselves,” Rumbaugh says. “From there, it’s about their adventure.”

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{BY MIKE WYSOCKI} PITTSBURGH FOOTBALL fans have always loved the local players who made it to the big time. But we’ve also had our share of good coaches. Granted, the list isn’t as spectacular as the player list, but it does include two head coaches who are in the top 10 of all time in wins, and three who have won a Super Bowl. So let’s take a look at the local top 10.

Marty Schottenheimer He is one of them. Marty’s 200 wins rank him seventh on the all-time list. The reason he’s not higher on this list is the postseason. Maybe it’s fair, maybe it’s not, but winning hardware is usually what counts. Schottenheimer almost took the Browns and the Chiefs to the Super Bowl, so he should get credit for just getting close. He went to the same Fort Cherry High School that Marvin Lewis attended. Those two guys from a tiny little town accumulated 318 regular-season wins, but have gone 5-20 combined in the playoffs.

Bud Carson If the category were best defensive coordinator, the Brackenridge native and designer of the “Steel Curtain” would’ve been at the top. After one winning season in Cleveland, his “Dawgs” stumbled out of the gate the next season at 2-7, so the Browns ﬁred the legend. This was just a few years before the geniuses that run the operation found a reason to ﬁre Bill Belichick, too.

Joe Walton The father of Robert Morris University football was also an underrated athlete. Walton coached for the New York Jets during the ’80s, and had a 53-57-1 record. The perennially losing Jets even appeared in the postseason twice during Walton’s reign. The Beaver Falls native is also beloved at Pitt, where he played in two major bowl games for the Panthers, in 1955 and 1956. He also caught 28 touchdowns in the NFL. That’s a pretty good football life.

Joe Schmidt Maybe the greatest Detroit Lion this side of Barry Sanders or Bobby Layne. Schmidt has his number retired at Pitt and with the Lions. The Brentwood native also is

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in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall. Plus, he did a little coaching. He took over as the leader of the Lions at the age of 34 and from 1967-72 compiled a 43-34-7 record. That wasn’t good enough for the Lions, who really haven’t had a better coach since.

Dave Wannstedt The Baldwin Highlander had the very unenviable task of replacing Mike Ditka in Chicago. He was like Ronnie James Dio taking over for Sabbath after Ozzy was gone. That’s a tough crowd to win over. He then took over for Jimmy Johnson in Miami and along the way went 85-89, including a 1-2 record in the postseason. He then went back to Pitt as head coach, but couldn’t live up to Pitt’s unrealistic expectations either.

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Chuck Knox The former Quaker Valley star was the son of a steel-driving man. Players affectionately called the generous Knox “Dolemite,” in the 1970s for his ability to relate to minority players. After working under Joe Schmidt in Detroit, Knox went to Los Angeles and led the Rams to ﬁve straight division titles. His teams never made the Super Bowl, as the Minnesota Vikings knocked them out twice. He went on to coach Buffalo and Seattle before returning for one more year in L.A. to coach a young running back named

The only reason he’s higher than Marty is because Coach Ditka once did the Super Bowl Shufﬂe. He also led the legendary 1985 Chicago Bears team to the franchise’s only Super Bowl win. The Aliquippa tough guy went 121-95 in the NFL, including a less successful stint with the Saints.

Mike McCarthy At this rate, McCarthy will be No. 1 in a few years. He’s already won a Super Bowl, much to the dismay of the Steelers faithful in 2010. In 11 years at Lambeau, McCarthy has had only one losing season and has won the NFC North six times.

Bill Cowher Bill Cowher is so good that some Mike Tomlin detractors give him credit for winning two Super Bowls — one on his own and Tomlin’s ﬁrst Super Bowl, won with “Cowher’s players” two years after Cowher left. But, until that ﬂimsy conspiracy is proven, it’s only one world-title win. The Crafton Chin accumulated 161 wins in the NFL, including the Big One. In 2005, Cowher mercifully ended the Steelers 26-year Lombardi drought.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What I wish for you is a toasty coolness. I pray that you will claim a messy gift. I want you to experience an empowering surrender and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that you will finally see an obvious secret and capitalize on some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate turning point. I trust that you’ll find a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. These wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they’re quite possible and exactly what you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychologist James Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “He was wrong about so many things. But he was wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.” That description should provide good raw material for you to consider as you play with your approach to life in the coming weeks, Libra. Being right won’t be half as important as being willing to gaze at the world from upside-down, inside-out perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on formulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving definitive theories. Be willing to ask naive questions and make educated guesses and escape your own certainties.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be likely to receive gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, complex and catalytic, though others may be subtle, cryptic or even covert. While some may be useful, others could be problematic. So I want to make sure you

know how important it is to be discerning about these offerings. You probably shouldn’t blindly accept all of them. For instance, don’t rashly accept a “blessing” that would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that feel uncomfortable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are currently under the influence of astrological conditions that have led to dramatic boosts of self-esteem in laboratory rats. To test the theory that this experimental evidence can be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a charismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDNG! I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the authorization to act like an egomaniac. But here are the true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swashbuckler.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to eliminate all of the following activities from your repertoire in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding,

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confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring and brawling. Why is this my main message to you? Because the astrological omens tell me that everything important you need to accomplish will come from waging an intense crusade of peace, love and understanding. The bickering and grappling stuff won’t help you achieve success even a little — and would probably undermine it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stockbrokers in Pakistan grew desperate when the Karachi Stock Exchange went into a tailspin. In an effort to reverse the negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of 10 goats in a parking lot. But their “magic” failed. Stocks continued to fade. Much later they recovered, but not in a timely manner that would suggest the sacrifice worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing problems, especially now. Reliance on superstition and wishful thinking is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the other hand, I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to use disciplined research and rigorous logic to solve dilemmas.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming days, maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical “Song of Solomon” into your intimate exchanges. The moment is ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine saying things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur, “May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets. How about this one: “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” Here’s another: “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

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Welcome to Swami Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint No. 1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay wine, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn. Hint No. 2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, polish your erogenous zones with pomegranate juice while you visualize the goddess kissing your cheek. No. 3: To get rid of splotches on your halo, place angel-food cake on your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy ground while chanting, “It’s not my fault! My evil twin’s a jerk!” No. 4: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the monkey runs away. No. 5: To purge negative money karma, burn a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A reader named Kameel Hawa writes that he “prefers pleasure to leisure and leisure to luxury.” That list of priorities would be excellent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, approval and ease. I won’t be surprised if you come into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card. In my opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such precious blessings. You’ll get more health-giving benefits that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments and restorative tranquility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cruise past the houses where you grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots where you and your old friends hung out, and the places where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recommend a grand tour of your past. If you can’t literally visit the locations where you came of age, simply visualize them in detail. In your imagination, take a leisurely excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this exercise? Because you can help activate your future potentials by reconnecting with your roots.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of my favorite Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York performance artist, actress and playwright. In this horoscope, I offer a testimonial in which she articulates the spirit you’d be wise to cultivate in the coming weeks. She says, “I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who best understands my motivations, my struggles, my triumphs. Despite occasionally betraying my best interests to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of beloved friendships, I astound myself by my appetite for life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, my distrust of the status quo, my poetic soul and abiding love of beauty, my strength of character in the face of unfairness, and my optimism despite defeats and loss.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Witwatersrand is a series of cliffs in South Africa. It encompasses 217 square miles. From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the Earth’s total land surface, humans have extracted 50 percent of all the gold ever mined. I regard this fact as an apt metaphor for you to meditate on in the next 12 months, Leo. If you’re alert, you will find your soul’s equivalent of Witwatersrand. What I mean is that you’ll have a golden opportunity to discover emotional and spiritual riches that will nurture your soul as it has rarely been nurtured. Each of us has a secret ignorance. What’s yours? What will you do about it? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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A few years ago, my dad was busted by the cops for using an online forum to solicit escorts. The arrest and infidelity destroyed his marriage to my mom. My brother and I were in our mid-teens at the time and were angry enough with him that we asked him to not seek custody. He obliged, and neither of us has seen him since. I miss my dad — or the man I thought he was. I know part of my anger comes from how badly he hurt my mom. As I mature, I’m wondering if I was unfair to my dad by cutting off all contact. I don’t think sex work is immoral. I don’t think people who see sex workers are bad. But because my dad was involved in this bust, and because I had to become aware of the double life he led, I felt uncomfortable around him. It doesn’t help that some of the girls were not much older than I was at the time. I think I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. He was a wonderful father — and on some level, I recognize I cut him off when he showed me he was human. How do I reach out to him? PLEASE HELP

Each of us is a writhing mass of contradictions, PH. We all have public personas and private personas, and there are always gaps between the two. And while those gaps, when exposed, can be mutually negating, that’s not always the case. It is possible for someone to be a good dad and a shitty husband. The good dad you knew your dad to be? That wasn’t a lie. It was one of your father’s truths. That he failed as a husband and hurt your mom — with an assist from laws criminalizing sex work — is another of your father’s truths. You don’t say why your dad was seeking sex outside the marriage, PH, and I can’t imagine that was a conversation you wanted to have with your dad in your mid-teens — and it may not be one you ever want to have. But it’s possible your parents’ marriage was more complicated than you know. (“The victim of an affair is not always the victim of the marriage,” as Esther Perel says.) But you’re not an awful daughter for refusing to see your dad during a contentious, confusing and most likely humiliating time. (I imagine there was press.) As for how to reach out, I think email is the best way to re-establish contact after an estrangement. You can take your time crafting what you want to say, and your dad can take his time crafting a response. And you’ve already written a good opening line for your first email to your dad: “I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. But I’d like to start talking — via email, for now.” Give your mother a heads up, PH, so she doesn’t feel blindsided. Good luck.

is more than casual, and we really care about each other. My concern is this guy has some alt-right sympathies that reveal themselves in our political discussions. He’s a Trump guy, but hesitates to admit it because he knows I’m antiTrump. He shares memes created by Mike Cernovich and Milo Yiannopoulos; he gets his news from hard-right publications; and his sister and brother-in-law are Holocaust deniers. This concerns and confuses me because he’s such a sweet guy and, honestly, so goddamn good in bed. He might be the best lay I’ve ever had. I can’t reconcile these two sides of him, but I also can’t help trying to enlighten him a little bit. One of his best features is his open-mindedness. He’s read books and watched documentaries I’ve recommended. I feel a responsibility to this young, confused and frankly nottoo-bright person who’s surrounded by bad influences. I want to be understanding and gently guide him in a better direction, but sometimes his ignorance is aggravating. I can also sense that he’s beginning to feel a little judged, which can only make things worse. I keep thinking of your Campsite Rule, and I wonder at what point does one give up throwing logic and articles at someone who thought Hillary Clinton ran a child-sex ring out of a pizza parlor? Can I continue to have sex with someone who thinks the left is conspiring to turn everyone communist? CONFLICTED LOVER

Don’t fuck Nazis. If someone you just met tells you they’re a Nazi, don’t fuck that Nazi. If you’re already fucking someone and they reveal themselves to be a Nazi, stop fucking that Nazi. If someone tells you they’re a Nazi and you fuck that Nazi anyway and keep fucking that Nazi because they’re good at sex (for a Nazi), your effort to “gently guide” that Nazi away from being a Nazi doesn’t make it OK for you to fuck that Nazi. OK, OK: This guy might not be a Nazi at all — although it sure as fuck sounds like his family is, and they probably have more influence over him than you do. It’s possible this young, confused and not-too-bright boy is merely a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist, and maybe I’m still too upset about Charlottesville to be impartial. Or, hey, maybe this guy is already a Nazi and hasn’t revealed the full extent of his odious political beliefs to you, CL, because the sex is good and he’s hoping to fuck the Nazi into you before you can fuck the Nazi out of him. Finally, good people don’t worry about making Nazis “feel judged.” Nazis should be judged — à la Judgment at Nuremberg, an old film with a feel-good ending that’s worth watching right about now. Another thing good people don’t do? They don’t fuck Nazis.

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EVEN FOR A SCULPTURE that has been the subject of scorn and accusations

of racism for decades, Giuseppe Moretti’s statue of Stephen Foster, on Forbes Avenue in Schenley Plaza next to Dippy the Dinosaur, has had a busy and controversial couple of weeks. The Pittsburgh-native 19th-century composer is consistently praised in the United States and abroad, often viewed as the inventor of American popular music. His songs such as “Oh Susanna,” “Camptown Races” and “Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair” remain widely recognized classics. However, many of his songs sentimentalize or spoof the lives of enslaved African Americans in imagined dialect that is roundly offensive today. Historians argue that Foster was sympathetic to enslaved African Americans, and even African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass praised his songs. “They awaken sympathies for the slave, in which antislavery principles take root, grow, and flourish,” Douglass wrote. But today’s context of equal rights sets profoundly different standards than did the Abolition era. Changing sensibilities also apply to the larger-than-life bronze, which was created in 1900 by Moretti, with creative guidance from a committee that included newspaper publisher Thomas Keenan and political boss Christopher Lyman Magee, as well as Foster’s brother. The statue depicts not just Foster, but also Uncle Ned, the fictional, enslaved African-American subject of a song by the same name. In the sculpture, banjo-strumming Uncle Ned embodies a number of negative racial stereotypes — ragged clothing, bare feet and a frivolous grin, as well as his position at the feet of the serious and well-dressed Foster. There could hardly be a more vivid representation of a white man keeping a black man down. Unlike Foster’s music, there are no period comments from African Americans praising the sculpture. Kirk Savage, a professor of art history at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in representations of race in art, says the monument, influenced by Foster’s brother, “is really a product of Jim Crow … making a statement about [the perceived] proper relation of the races.”

monuments to the Confederacy before outside groups chose those artworks as a focus for a local protest turned fatal riot and national headline. The City of Baltimore responded by removing its Confederate statues literally overnight. Locally based, nationally known blogger Damon Young, of Very Smart Brothas, published a post titled, “The Most Racist Statue in America Is In … Pittsburgh, and It’s the Most Ridiculous Magical Negro You Will Ever See,” as an intensifying ﬂurry of inquiries emerged on social media, and in new outlets. “It’s becoming a much more public conversation,” says Savage.

THERE COULD HARDLY BE A MORE VIVID REPRESENTATION OF A WHITE MAN KEEPING A BLACK MAN DOWN. Pittsburgh activist Florence Bridges advocated for the removal of the statue during the civil-rights movement in the 1960s. In 1997, Mayor Tom Murphy responded to complaints about it by forming a committee. “But nothing happened,” said local pop-culture historian and cartoonist Joe Wos. In 2010, when local playwright Martin Giles directed a play celebrating Foster’s music at the Stephen Foster Memorial, located just across Forbes, he criticized the statue in comments to CP: “I don’t know why it is still there.” Even last year, as Pitt celebrated its Year of Diversity, the university ﬁelded numerous complaints from students about the monument. Pitt Vice Chancellor for Diversity Pam Connelly formed an advisory committee including students, faculty and other interested community members. But now comes August 2017, and violence erupted in Charlottesville, Va., over the call to remove a public statue of Robert E. Lee. In fact, Charlottesville had conducted a series of deliberative discussions with numerous of its own community groups to consider the fate of its Lee statue and other

Pittsburgh’s mechanism for reviewing the work, which is city-owned and located on city property, is actually in place. “The way our system works, the Art Commission is the body to review it,” explains City Planning Director Ray Gastil. “The issues that have been raised are very serious ones.” Art historian and events producer Kilolo Luckett, who sits on the Art Commission, has advocated for removal of the monument since her days as a student in the 1990s: “No words of context could ever resolve the racist imagery that that statue reinforces.” A recent statement from the National Trust for Historic Preservation argues for precisely the kind of case-by-case deliberation that the Art Commission is scheduled to undertake in the fall, though Gastil, who oversees the Art Commission, says a date has not been set. Such a process will address the problems of the Foster monument, which include imagining African-American voices as subservient, instead of engaging them as equals. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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