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EVENTS 4.28 – 2pm ANDY WARHOL’S BUSINESS ART WITH ANTHONY E. GRUDIN, ALEX J. TAYLOR, AND BLAKE GOPNIK The Warhol theater Co-presented with the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh Free; Registration is suggested
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thing I know, I have 20 pigs out there,” chuckles Debbie Bowers, of Angel Eyes Farm, a small rescue operation for pets that’s been operating for about four years. At the moment, Angel Eyes has 20 pigs, two Belgian horses, a mini donkey, three goats, 11 turkeys, three peacocks, 11 guinea hens, four ducks and about 100 chickens and roosters combined. Plus three dogs, and two cats. But before all these furry and feathery creatures came along, there was Simon, a pot-bellied house pig. “We would take him for a walk, and people were so freaked out by the idea of that! People think they’re dirty, but our pigs are cleaner than our dogs,” says Bowers. Bowers’ son was diagnosed with leukemia, and the doctors
recommended that the pig be kept out of the house, despite veterinarians’ assurances that the pigs were clean. So, they bought Simon a little Amish house for the backyard and the pig spent the summer there. Unfortunately, Bowers’ son succumbed to his illness. “In order to not go crazy, I started rescuing animals,” she says. First, the family adopted a donkey, then a Belgian horse and another pig to keep Simon company. “The first pig we rescued was from Beaver Falls, and he was someone’s pet. He had been sold as a ‘teacup pig,’ and they charge like $2,000 for them,” says Bowers. “But they don’t exist! There’s no such thing. If you feed a pig, it’s going to get big.” Rather than try to rehome him, the family set him CONTINUES ON PG. 8
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loose. He was running around for four months, being chased by dogs and animal control. Eventually the escaped pig started showing up under the porch of Bowers’ friend in Beaver Falls, who fed him and gave him the name, Winston. Eventually, Winston trusted Bowers enough to be transported to her farm, where he stayed in a barn stall for three weeks. Now, he’s so comfortable at Angel Eyes that Bowers can take him with her into the yard and he stays with her. Once the Bowers family made a Facebook page for their farm, people began reaching out. The farm has since acquired pigs from Ohio and other parts of Pennsylvania. The pigs are named Simon, Winston, Mamma, Elliot (nicknamed “Chuck”), Rodney, Dixie, Lilly, Daisy, Pepper, Emerald, Ruby, Gavin, MJ, Nelson, Squeak, Homer and Moe. The Bowers family has all the MORES pigs spayed and neutered before PHOTOE they are adopted out, and they IN ONwLw w. make sure the owners’ homes at aper p ty ci h g p are properly zoned, even doing a .com site inspection to make sure the pigs (just enough to cover the pig is going to a good home. neuter), and the Bowers family “If there’s a right connection bewill trim the pigs’ hooves and tusks tween an animal and person, it’s so good. for the rest of their lives. “Day and But I cry every time an animal leaves night, anyone can call me if they have here, and it’s not just because I’m sad bequestions. The pig comes with me!” ascause I’m attached. It’s because I’m happy sures Bowers. that they get a good home,” says Bowers. Additionally, Angel Eyes runs a pro“Any animal that comes here, we take gram called Chickens to the Rescue, in in knowing they may live here forever,” which people who donate money to Anadds Bowers. gel Eyes are given a dozen eggs as thanks. It is not cheap to run an animal “Please support small rescues,” ensanctuary and rescue, and the Bowers courages Bowers. “Even if it’s not our family does it all themselves. They only rescue. The food, vet care and housing is charge an adoption fee of $150 for the taken care of by us.”
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escaped from Monkey’s Island at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Two were quickly apprehended, but the third proved more slippery. His name was Alfie. His great escape lasted six months and spanned three states. Alfie survived in the wild by dumpster-diving and relying on the kindness of (human) strangers. If you’re having trouble picturing a Japanese macaque and why folks would feed one, they’re furry, red-faced monkeys known for schvitzing together in hot springs. They’re pretty cute. In January 1988, Alfie was traced to the small town of Bridgeport, Ohio, 70 miles from Pittsburgh. He was lured by his pursuers using “fresh fruit scented with fecal matter from other macaques,” a Pittsburgh Zoo official said at the time. Pittsburghers and zoo employees were thrilled; Bridgeporters were bummed to see him go. According to a contemporaneous article from United Press International, T-shirts were made in his honor. Alfie then returned to Pittsburgh, where it was discovered he had contracted a form of herpes, and was sent to Florida to receive medical treatment. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune, he was still alive as of 2005. Unkillable. No tale of rogue animals will ever rival Alfie’s. It has everything: elusive primates, fecal-scented fruit, Ohio. However, there are a few decent ones that took place in Southwestern Pennsylvania recently. On April 3, two goats were spotted on
the outside platform of a bridge in Lawrence County, perched more than 50 feet above the Mahoning River. They had escaped from a nearby farm, and through a collaborative effort from PennDOT, the state police, turnpike employees and a big crane, the goats were rescued and returned home. Officials were baffled as to how they got on the ledge, but what matters is they’re safe now. Then there was the wild bobcat who made his way onto the Gateway Clipper in March. According to my minimal research, bobcats are decent swimmers, but apparently this one went the “work smarter, not harder” route. He was safely contained, given a clean bill of health and returned to the wild by the Humane Animal Rescue staff. “Stu” the turkey took up residence on Washington Road in Mount Lebanon sometime last summer. He had a habit of fearlessly walking through traffic, which is either cute or terrifying depending on your perspective. (I lean terrifying; listen to the This American Life about “Tom the Turkey” for a primer on how evil these things can be.) Predictably (sadly?) Stu died in late March after getting hit by a car, to mixed reviews from his Mount Lebo neighbors. There are a number of other stories about rogue animals that have made impressions around town, but frankly they’re either boring or disturbing. A good rogue-animal story requires both weirdness and a relatively happy ending, like being rescued, or getting herpes and getting sent to Florida. I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
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right because you’ll have a real massage junkie on your hands.” Therapeutic massage, Tontala says, should only be done by a trained massage therapist. This is used to treat cats who have medical conditions like feline arthritis or geriatric cats that have a hard time getting around in their old age. Tontala often fosters older cats and provides hospice care for cats in their final days. “Cats have a pretty high tolerance for pain and you might not always know they’re in pain,” Tontala says. “But if you observe them, you can tell. They’re probably not moving as fast or jumping up
on things like they used to. “I get in there and work the muscles, loosening them up very gently. It really does help their quality of life. That’s why I foster so many geriatric cats. I want to make them comfortable and, besides, no animal should ever die in a shelter.” Tontala is also a believer in both wellness and therapeutic massages for all types of animals, not just cats. “It’s the same premise and process,” she says. “I’ve done this for dogs, bunnies and even gerbils. I think I’ve massaged just about every kind of animal there is. Well, I’ve never massaged a fish.”
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of an especially garbage-fire year. Later, the Cincinnati Zoo found a more positive star with a baby hippo named Fiona. After surviving a dangerously premature birth, she became an international sensation, with her own show on Facebook, fawning GIF listicles on Buzzfeed and a New York Times profile. While the public’s love for this hippo is genuine, it is also a very successful PR stunt on behalf of the zoo. The facility had deleted its Twitter account after the Harambe incident, but its revived account now boasts over 214,000 followers. (Comparatively, the Pittsburgh Zoo has 48,000 followers.) One of Fiona’s caretakers told the New York Times, “She absolutely knows she is a star” and “She loves the camera.” Of course, this is a projection of what we think; Fiona surely has no concept of what a camera is. It’s debatable whether it’s ethical to profit from the celebrity of animals in captivity, just as it’s questionable whether zoos themselves are even ethical. But until we settle just how “human” animals are, I will continue to shed a tear at a clip of Vivien Leigh napping to a lullaby, or Fiona’s destroying a pineapple at her first birthday celebration.
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wondering why minimum wage is only $7.25 an hour? So, when I ended my campaign, I didn’t just give up. I co-founded “Fight the Power” not only to call out hypocritical politicians who don’t care about our issues, but to help usher in a new generation of leadership that will give us a voice. People may have thought they were going to quiet my voice by forcing me out. What they didn’t know is that trying
to silence a young black woman who grew up in poverty made me stronger. My parents may have thought they didn’t have the means to fight a system that was set up to silence them. But damned if they didn’t show me that I do.
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RUNO SAMMARTINO was one of the biggest stars that professional
wrestling has ever seen. But regardless of his fame, he never stopped being a Pittsburgher, living most of his life in the Steel City. On April 18, the icon known as “Italian Superman” died at age 82. Sammartino was a second-generation Italian-American immigrant who began his wrestling career at 24 with the local TV program, Studio Wrestling, before going on to compete in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, which became the WWF, now WWE). He sold out Madison Square Garden 187 times and captured the hearts of fans as one of the longest-reigning world champions for WWF, holding the belt for nearly eight consecutive years (that’s 2,803 days). He racked up many accolades, including several “Match of the Year” honors from Pro Wrestling Illustrated, the magazine for wrestling fans for decades. Sammartino was respected and loved by his fans and his peers in the locker room. Sammartino’s life began in Pizzoferrato, Italy. During WWII, his family was forced into hiding during the Nazi occupation, and he nearly died from rheumatic fever. He survived thanks to the dedication and care of his mother, who he swore to make proud. When the entire family finally moved to the United States to be with Sammartino’s father in Pittsburgh, Sammartino suffered health ailments from those tumultuous war years spent in hiding, which led to bullying and teasing. He transferred that energy into bulking up physically. He lifted weights professionally, and in 1959 Sammartino set the world record in the bench press with a lift of 565 pounds (a fete completed without wrist or elbow straps). His strength as an amateur wrestler and his strongman stunts gained him the attention of local wrestling promoters, thus launching his career. As a personification of the American dream and an incredibly charismatic performer, Sammartino charmed and won the adoration of many wrestling fans. His persona was that of the eternal good guy, a superhero with morals of steel and muscles to match. He never once turned heel in his lengthy career. He was so serious about the integrity of pro-wrestling that he declined being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame for years because of his opposition to the company’s use of steroids and what he viewed to be vulgar storylines beginning in the 1980s. He finally accepted in 2013. Sammartino is a legendary figure in the world of pro wrestling and in this city. His death is a reminder that neither wrestling nor the city of Pittsburgh would be where it is today without Bruno, “the Italian Superman.”
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rounds through U.S. culinary circles over the last few years. What is it? Well, it’s literal translation from Latin is “bean water.” More specifically, it’s .the viscous liquid from canned chickpeas. In a perfect twist of fate, this gag-inducing by-product (for some people, including myself) can be transformed into the airy, tasty delight with a fancy name that vegan dreams are made of. It just takes a little bit of elbow grease. Aquafaba arrived on the culinary scene in 2015 when Goose Wohlt, a vegan software engineer from Indiana, was trying to make vegan meringues for a seder dinner. His wife mentioned seeing a video of two French chefs using chickpea liquid to achieve fluffiness in a chocolate mousse. He ran with the idea and posted his success on a vegan Facebook group. That’s when aquafaba started to take off. Now, it’s found a
place on several menus here in Pittsburgh. Michael Smalis, owner of The Greek Gourmet, has been practically drowning in aquafaba from doing a brisk hummus business for the past 12 years. He makes hummus for his shop as well as 10 different independent grocery stores, with Whole Foods as his biggest customer. When he found out that he could use aquafaba instead of throwing it out, he got to work developing a recipe for ice cream. “In the last three or four weeks, I’ve really nailed down the recipe,” says Smalis. Because when it’s whipped, aquafaba mimics the consistency of an egg in the way it can function as a binder and aerator, Smalis was able to closely match the creaminess of ice cream without adding any dairy, nuts, soy or eggs. It comes in chocolate and mint chocolate chip; the flavor is excellent but doesn’t coat your palate the way dairy-based ice
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creams can. If someone had handed it to this writer without telling her it was aquafaba, I’m not sure if I would have picked out the differences immediately. Now, Smalis is ready to sell his ice cream, named Peppi’s Plant Powered GreekFreez, to the East End Co-op and soon to Whole Foods. He named it for his mother, who started the Greek Gourmet and brought Smalis in to help. GreekFreez clocks in at 372 calories a pint. Compared to Häagen-Dazs’ chocolate pints (910 calories), or Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy (1,000 calories), that’s very low. About a quarter of GreekFreez’s calories come from fat as opposed to the around half in other traditional ice creams. Fat is not necessarily an enemy but if you’re specifically cutting calories, this an advantage. “Everybody is trying to trend toward lower-calorie products and lower fat and they are using additives and stabilizers to achieve that,” says Smalis. GreekFreez has six ingredients and uses natural vegan stabilizers like arrowroot, xanthan gum and guar gum. “I’ve tested it not only on vegan customers but on children, who are the harshest critics. And they look at it and say, ‘this is great ice cream.’ If kids can eat it and they like it, then it’s a good market,” says Smalis. Katie Molchan and Elaina Holko, coowners of the bar Mixtape in Garfield, learned about aquafaba from a customer comment on one of their social media platforms. “We use it in any drink we would traditionally use egg white in,” says Molchan. Mixtape keeps a menu of speciality drinks as well as classic cocktails. Many of those drinks, like ramos gin fizzes and whiskey sours, utilize egg white to get a foam. Molchan and Holko
have discovered that one ounce of aquafaba equals the equivalent of one egg white and that aquafaba actually makes stiffer, longer-lasting foam. They like the texture that even a small amount can bring to a cocktail and the flavor of the drink is unaffected. “The smell and flavor very quickly dissipate with whatever you add to it,” says Molchan.
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“I’VE TESTED IT NOT ONLY ON VEGAN CUSTOMERS BUT ON CHILDREN, WHO ARE THE HARSHEST CRITICS.” Molchan and Holko also like that using aquafaba in place of egg whites for all off their drinks means that they don’t have to worry about possible contaminants from using raw eggs for customers that have dairy sensitivities or preferences. “This just works out so much better for us [keeping things clean] since we have a really small bar,” says Molchan. Chef Scott Walton of Acorn also likes the utility of aquafaba. “I started playing with it about three years ago in desserts. Then I started toward going towards savory with it,” says Walton. He particularly likes it for fish preparations because it holds up while not drowning the delicate flavors that meats like trout can have. “Egg whites go flat on you, especially when you add heat to them. Aquafaba gives you time to work with it,” says Walton.
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RAPPY JOBS can yield unexpected rewards. You might become a trivia whiz thanks to idle hours on Wikipedia or turn into an accomplished artist after perfecting unflattering doodles of your boss. Or, like Greg Kamerdze, you might get serious about beer. Kamerdze, co-owner and head brewer of Spring Hill Brewing, keenly remembers his nightmare job. “It kind of [crushes] your soul, so you try to find something you really enjoy doing and want to do for yourself,” he says. So, he decided to take a longtime home-brewing hobby to the next level. He drafted a business plan, researched other breweries, and, along with partner Mike Seamans, searched for a home for his fledgling operation. In 2015, a friend approached Kamerdze with an idea. “He was like, ‘have you talked to Bill about this crazy building he bought up in Spring Hill?’” says Kamerdze. Bill Brittain, owner of Shadyside Nursery, was renovating the Workingmen’s Beneficial Union, a historic German social hall in Spring Hill. Though he had never even set foot in the North Side neighborhood, Kamerdze saw the potential right away. He struck a deal with Brittain and began to build his dream. “So here we are, three years later … seems like yesterday,” laughs Kamerdze. Though the process of renovating the aging building took longer than expected, an end is in sight. Spring Hill Brewing held their soft opening in early-April, and they plan to be open for regular hours sometime in May. A small taproom features a bar made from an old bowling alley Kamerdze found in the building, and a large yard and deck offer plenty of space to sip and admire the cityscape.
As for the beer, expect an approach that differs from many American craft breweries. “I like the kind of beers you can sit around and drink all afternoon,” explains Kamerdze. Rather than pursuing extreme IBUs and ABVs, Kamerdze aims to brew lowalcohol, easy-drinking beers inspired by traditional European ales. Spring Hill Brewing will offer four flagships, including a Belgian-style Witbier and a golden mild ale, alongside a handful of seasonal and experimental brews. Spring Hill Brewing’s unique location offers plenty of opportunities for collaboration. The building houses ample event space, meaning Kamerdze will be able to provide beer for concerts and private events. And he plans to work with Rescue Street Farms, a small urban farm on the property, to grow hops and indigenous herbs and provide honey for making mead and honey-spiked beer. Though Kamerdze may not have been aiming specifically for Spring Hill, his pride in his adopted neighborhood is evident. “When I came up here, it reminded me of all the reasons I love Pittsburgh,” he says. “You’ll live here for almost twenty years, and one day you’ll make a left turn and end up in a great neighborhood you didn’t even know was there.”
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ss to farmland with great access ome locally grown food. But some omeurbanites want a taste of homethout grown, home-rasied food without sh eggs leaving the city. If cooking fresh from your own backyard or making nal goat cheese with milk from a personal herd sounds idyllic to you, the City of u from Pittsburgh won’t prevent you living your country dreams. b In 2015, the city updated its urban agriculture zoning ordinance, making it easier for residents to obtain permits to keep goats, chickens and bees. It still takes a little internet digging (helped along by GrowPittsburgh) to find the specifics so here’s a breakdown of how, where and what animals can be kept in Pittsburgh. The first rule? Absolutely no roosters (the d, but roosters’ reason for this isn’t clarified, noisiness and aggression are a safe bet). mit Residents with a permit and 2,000 square feet or more of land can keep up to five chickens or ducks. Each additional 1,000 square feet athered earns you one more feathered d up friend. If bees are more your speed, to two hives are allowed per 2,000 square feet of land as long as they are 10 feet from any property lines. After all, not all neighbors appreciate the dull buzz of bee colonies or the possibility of honeycomb straight from the hive. In addition to winged creatures, our four-legged friends also get their own set of rules. Each 2,000 square feet
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of land can be home to two miniature goats, while 10,000 square feet earns you the right to two adult goats. Add 5,000 square feet and make it a herd of three. There is a catch though, each goat must be dehorned. While this code may still seem strict to some, the city of Pittsburgh is actually leading th the way compared to areas W like Wilkinsburg and Penn Hills, w where only chickens are allo lowed. With the hyperlocal m food movement progressing and more pe people interested in having community gardens, the Urban Redevelopment Authority is piloting a FFarm-a-Lot L t program to turn vacant lots into productive spaces. The recent URA approval of the new urban agricultural policy, drafted with the Food Policy Council, gives residents a better shot at longer-term leases and lease-to-purchase agreements that will allow them to stay on the land. Add a few chickens or goats to the situation and dinner is just a growing season away.
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the artists whose work is included in the exhibit. “It was an opportunity to create a work around these ideas.” The exhibit, presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Carnegie Mellon University’s Humanities Center, opened April 6. It was curated by CMU professors Kathy Newman and Susanne Slavick. La Follette’s mixed-media installation at SPACE centers around cigarettes baring words from Marx’s Das Kapital, a theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics. “I wanted something that was sort of more of a rumination on Marx and society,” says La Follette, a former smoker. La Follette made a stamp with quotes from Das Kapital and stamped rolling papers with the text. She then CONTINUES ON PG. 34
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hand-rolled the cigarettes and sent them to people she knew who still smoke. “My greatest thinking was done while smoking. Just rolling the cigarette itself was a meditative process,” says La Follette. “So I sent these tins around the world and people ruminated on Marx. I asked them to go to a site where they could smoke. We had people smoking from Siberia to San Francisco, people smoking Marx.” The people who received La Follette’s cigarettes — Peter Stokkebye Premium Turkish tobacco wrapped in pure hemp rolling papers — were asked to film themselves smoking and send the recordings to her. “I was thinking about burning and how it has all these positive connotations but also negative connotations and how it’s a very ritualistic process, much like smoking is a very ritualistic process,” says La Follette. “Ash too is very important and symbolic in all sorts of different cultures.” Other works in the exhibit include Ukranian-born artist Nataliya Slinko’s gigantic version of Marx’s beard made of steel wool; artist Kathryn Clark’s “Foreclosure Quilt,” a stitched urban map of foreclosed homes, block by block; and a tiny embroidered barcode by artist Rayna Fahey that says, “Don’t just buy it/Make Revolution.” Many of the pieces in the exhibit are blunt in the way they seem to support Marx’s ideas on wealth redistribution and elevating the working class, while others are subtler, inspiring viewers to contemplate Marx’s theories
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without telling them how they should feel. But overall the exhibit carries an overwhelming feeling that exploring Marx’s life and work can help us better understand the current state of social inequality and figure out how to change it. “It’s an important time for us to be thinking about our disposable culture,” says La Follette. “I have faith. I had faith in the Occupy movement. I have faith in the Black Lives Matter movement. There’s all these little fires being lit up all the time. If we can rage that fire a little more, there’s hope for us.
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“We have to change. We can’t keep going on the way we’re going on. I think it’s an important point in time in human history to reflect on Marx.” And if La Follette’s installation is any indication, people are doing just that. After just a few weeks, all of the cigarettes on display as part of her work are gone. “I was amazed at how quickly all the cigarettes disappeared,” La Follette says. “I’m going to have to send more to SPACE.” SPACE will host a Marx bicentennial program and reception on Saturday, May 5 from 7-9 p.m. Normal gallery hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m.– 6 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m.– 8 p.m.; and Sundays 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
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called Swiss Army, his first foray into songwriting. “I had things to get off my chest that had been an element of my life,” says Lehman. “The first EP was terrifying to put out, but it got a semi-good response, so I wanted to keep doing it.” Not long after, collaborators started coming along to form the full Swiss Army band. Dave Yarkovsky joined on guitar, Chris Hawthorne on the drums and Jeff Morgan on bass. “We didn’t have anything in mind yet because the band was still new, and we didn’t write together yet,” says Lehman. “We were like, ‘Let’s just write and see what happens,’ and it started happening quickly.” All of the members knew each other for years through school and playing shows with each others’ bands, and it’s evident in the band’s chemistry. Morgan, Lehman and Yarkovsky gathered around at a table at a coffee shop trading jokes as they talked to City Paper about Paris Mountain, the project’s first full-length record, out on A-F Records.
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Between Yarkovsky, Lehman and Morgan’s riffs, each succinct song on Paris Mountain features harmonized solos and clever guitar licks in a wave of shredding instrumentation anchored by the smart drumming of Hawthorne. And Hawthorne’s roots are important to balancing out the big Boston-esque riffs that pop up on tracks like “1,000 Pardons.” “He’s a self-professed big rock drummer,” explains Yarkovsky. “He doesn’t overplay, and he knows how to let us do our thing and not make it sound like a mess. We can be a little self-indulgent, but he reins us in.” From a lyrical perspective, the album is full of relatable anxieties about everything from your life’s purpose, to the political climate, to facing personal challenges head on. “It is strange because there are stories about people who have heard these songs and they know it’s about them, and you have to have those discussions with people and understand that [these songs] are written at moments when relationships and your mind are in a certain place, and that changes all the time, but it’s in a song now, so the moment is set in stone, or vinyl, I guess, at this point,” says Lehman. “And while they are personal to me, I think they’re universal themes. Our personal experiences make up our listening experiences.”
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26 • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM FILM SCREENING: THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY CHAD FREIDRICHS The Experimental City is a documentary about the Minnesota Experimental City project, a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota. At the heart of the story is renowned scientist, inventor and comic-strip author Athelstan Spilhaus, who dreams of a new kind of planned city, a truly experimental city that continuously changes to find workable urban solutions. This new city would employ the newest technologies in communications, transport, pollution control, energy supply – even large-scale domed enclosure – in an attempt to create more livable cities for the 21st century. Following the screening will be a short Question-and-Answer session by the filmmaker, Chad Freidrichs.
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SUPERHERO series that tackles the subject of gentrification? It might .sound weird but in a new episode of Heroineburgh, being released this month, superhero Savanna must defeat Serpentena, a mercenary working for a greedy real estate developer. “She goes around and starts to scare citizens out of their homes in Homewood,” says Pittsburgh artist Janeka Johnson, who plays Savanna. “But I intervene and prevent her from gentrifying the neighborhood.” Johnson is featured in episode 9 of the ongoing live-action series produced in Pittsburgh. The series features all original female superhero characters from various neighborhoods, ethnicities, professions and sexual orientations.
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“There aren’t a lot of female superheroes that have the platform that most male superheroes do,” says Johnson. “When you think of superheroes you automatically think of Superman, Batman, not necessarily these empowering female figures. To have this and be a part of this is a really enriching experience. “I thought it was a really interesting opportunity. I used to be a really big comic book nerd and my dad has always been a comic book nerd.”
The new batch of shows pick up with episode eight, “The Liquid Engineers,” featuring Stephanie Wallace as Dysphoria. (Almost all the episode titles are direct references to 1980s post-punk and new-wave songs.) Dysphoria works with Carnegie Mellon University scientist Kimberly Chiang as a lab assistant. But due to a mix-up in the lab, she becomes cursed with the power to turn anything she touches into dust. Dysphoria blames Kimberly for her problem — as villains are wont to do — and a battle ensues. “It’s fun, there’s a lot of humor, drama and really cool costumes,” says Wallace. “All of the characters are really unique and cool, there’s such a wide spectrum of characters and storylines and it’s all local, too.” Wallace plays guitar in the local female-fronted alternative/punk band Murder for Girls, so taking on a role in an all-female series was a natural fit for her. She hopes Heroineburgh will send a positive message to women and girls. “Little girls can be the strong, powerful, smart ones that can solve problems. But that’s not traditionally, unfortunately, the way women have always been depicted and raised in our culture,” Wallace says. “It’s a great and important thing, especially in this culture, to teach women that they are powerful and that they can overcome anything they want if they put their minds to it.” The first season of Heroineburgh will consist of 13 episodes. Episodes 8, 9 and 10 will debut at Pittsburgh Filmmakers on April 29.
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Jack Stauber has a knack for pulling unrelated sounds and influences into its music, throwing them into a bowl and tossing them into a strange salad that challenges your musical taste buds. On tracks like “Leopard,” Stauber goes from Frank Sinatra, to Depeche Mode, to of Montreal, to Connan Mockasin, all under the span of five minutes. It’s absurd and theatrical, and yet it works for Stauber. HiLo features pop melodies and synth sounds intertwined with strange, sinister effects and off-kilter lyrics. Many numbers feature incongruous contrasts, like the combination of dancy instrumentation and dark lyrics on “John & Nancy.” Stauber does step away from that formula at times, however, like on “Alright.” It’s a sad, down-tempo indie rock number with lyrics that sound like someone talking themself out of a fit of sadness, marked by choruses with synth bursts like screeching fireworks outside your window. On HiLo, Stauber is beginning to show a little theatrical restraint. But if you turn to Stauber for the ludicrous lyrics and wild mouth sounds, just turn on “Gettin’ My Mom On,” a 1980s-styled pop song about pursuing day sales at J. C. Penney and drinking mimosas.
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RANKIE ROSE is a patient songwriter, the kind of artist who will tweak a song for a year until it feels right. It took her that long to write Cage Tropical, her 2017 release written during a time in which she was working for a catering company and living in her hometown of Los Angeles. And due to her process and the time she takes to craft music, performing the songs that are derived from personal hardship and alienation doesn’t reopen any wounds for Rose. “It’s weird, because even though these songs are personal to me and have a personal theme, by the time I’m done making the song, I usually have very little feeling,” says Rose on the phone with City Paper. “It’s almost this abstract thing — when you perform it, it’s almost like I could be performing a cover at that point. It gets worked and worked so I stop having a personal feeling about it anymore.” The songs on Cage Tropical reflect a new wave, goth-pop sound that leans into distinct synth textures to create feeling. It’s the kind of music that defies easy labelling but still, there are recognizable influences like The Cure, Cocteau Twins or Bauhaus.
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“It’s pretty hard to define my music, which maybe makes it more difficult for me in the end,” says Rose, “But I’m influenced by a lot and draw upon the best of each thing. There are sounds I really like that I want to be present in my music, and a lot of them are from the ‘80s.” Those sounds include cold drums and synthesizers, drawing from goth bands from that era. “I really like things a little dark,” says Rose. What isn’t dark, however, is the musical growth and personal changes Rose has made as of late. She’s opened herself up to letting the universe take the reins. “What I’ve noticed is the more I let go of the wheel and stop forcing my will onto everything, [the more] everything works out,” explains Rose. “Not only is it more gentle on me because I’m not as attached to results, but it seems like doors fly open better.” When the door flew open for Rose to tour with Alvvays, it presented a surprise opportunity for her to update her lineup and sound before hitting the road. “There’s even a visual element I made myself,” says Rose. “The record is being presented in a different way than I’ve ever done it before, and that’s really inspiring to me.” “It’s exactly the way I want it to be, maybe for the first time ever,” adds Rose with a chuckle, “It’s really cool.”
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at off the WALL’s Carnegie Stage, a number of audience members remarked how similar the stage looked to the set of the TV show Roseanne. It’s an interior of a small, one-story house: couch at center, TV on the floor, tables cluttered with magazines, a compact kitchen and a fridge seemingly stocked entirely with light beer and a single Brita filter. The play’s program tells us that the house’s inhabitants are “loud,” “broke” “proud white trash,” so maybe that label helped usher the comparison. Without wading into the mud of Roseanne’s controversial return to television this year, I’ll just say that the issues addressed on that show — economic stress, race, “real America” — are also confronted here, but it’s way funnier and not so ham-fisted. No one wears a pink pussy hat and the president is not mentioned, but that world still hangs over Byhalia. The “proud white trash” couple at the center of Byhalia are Jim and Laurel Parker. When we first meet these characters, a very pregnant Laurel is bickering with her mother about the way she eats bananas (too fellatious, says Laurel); Jim is sneaking onto their shed outside to smoke a bowl until Mama leaves. Life is not perfect. Money’s been tight since Jim left his lucrative construction job and there are hints of darkness buried in the family dynamic. But hey, there’s a baby on the way and that’s always an occasion to bury hatchets. OK, needless to say, that does not happen. The betrayals don’t stay buried for long and shit eventually hits fans. However, the production handles the heaviness
with an impressively light hand. Like all good dramas, there’s subtle humor in all the “serious” parts, and underlying tension in all the big laughs. Mama (off the WALL’s artistic director Virginia Wall) is straight-up electrifying to watch; the one-liner she delivers in response to the banana-fellatio accusation nearly killed me. Brandon Meeks and Erika Cuenca nail it as Jim and Laurel. Laurel’s pronunciation of “Mama” conveys a lifelong, complicated, interdependent relationship; Jim reduces “Laurel” to a single syllable. Lamar Cheston plays Jim’s supportive and hilarious best friend, which may sound a little icky in terms of one-dimensional black best friends, but that dynamic plays out with brutal honesty and no kid gloves. Hope Anthony, as Ayesha, doesn’t show up until the second act and was so good I was hoping for a third act just to let her shine.
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There’s a lot to love about Byhalia, but up top is the way the script navigates racial, class and economic tensions without sacrificing the substance of the characters or the story. It’s not about those things, but the story recognizes how those “big ideas” wiggle their way into the lives of Americans in both subtle and explosive ways. It’s a fine line to walk, but this production and these five magnetic actors handle the challenge brilliantly. Go see it.
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August Wilson’s Seven Guitars staged at his childhood home in 2016, rest easy. King Hedley II, another entry in Wilson’s iconic Pittsburgh Cycle, returns to 1727 Bedford Ave. this week. Hedley is the penultimate act in the Pittsburgh Cycle, a ten-part series chronicling the lives of African Americans living in Pittsburgh in each decade of the 20th century. Hedley is set in the 1980s in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. At the center of the story is King, a man in his mid-thirties, returning home to his old neighborhood after a stint in prison. King’s father (Hedley I) and his mother Ruby were first featured in Seven Guitars, but it’s not an outright sequel. Like all the chapters in the Pittsburgh Cycle,
the struggles of each family and each decade are unique but painfully universal and consistent. While not as famous as other Wilson works like Jitney or Fences, Hedley II is a unique part of Wilson’s legacy. The themes are notably darker overall, which might be chalked up to the close proximity between the time it was written and when it takes place. The early 1900s entries in the Pittsburgh Cycle have the padding of nostalgia and fable; the mid-century works like Fences and Guitars convey the ache of Wilson’s childhood; but Hedley II takes place only a decade or so before it was staged. There’s something about the scars in this one that feel particularly raw.
KING HEDLEY II Runs April 27 to June 3. August Wilson House, 1727 Bedford Ave, Hill District. $37.50 in advance. pghplaywrights.org
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Co-directed by Mark Clayton Southers (who directed Seven Guitars at the August Wilson House in 2016), Monteze Freeland and Dennis Robinson Jr. and presented by Pittsburgh Playwrights, King Hedley II will kick off on Wilson’s 73rd birthday on April 27 and run through June 3. City Paper spoke with Southers eight days before the premiere to learn about the challenges of on-site staging, overcoming anachronisms and what makes King Hedley II unique. YOU STAGED SEVEN GUITARS AT THIS LOCATION BEFORE. WHY CHOOSE KING HEDLEY II TO FOLLOW IT UP HERE ON AUGUST WILSON’S BIRTHDAY? Well, initially we were gonna do Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, but the rights weren’t available. So we had to change it, choose something else to take advantage of the setting back there. King Hedley II takes place at the same setting [as Seven Guitars but] 40 years later. It takes place
in the 1980s whereas Seven Guitars takes place in the ‘40s. SINCE THERE ARE 40 YEARS SEPARATING THE TWO, WHAT CHANGES DID YOU MAKE TO THE PERFORMANCE SPACE TO SHOW THAT PROGRESSION OF TIME? Costumes and the music, for one. But it’s pretty much the same. Just have to make it look more ‘70s/’80s. It’s the same house. It’s Pittsburgh, a lot of the houses were built in the 1900s. We’ll probably paint the wood trim on the windows, change the curtains. Won’t be no chickens running around. But pretty much just the costumes and music. Of course August took care of the dialogue.
week before we started rehearsals, I had an infection in my knee, I got really sick … I was in bad shape. I talked to Monteze and he was able to take over the first week of the rehearsal while I was at the hospital. So I brought him on board, and then [actor] Sala Udin had his knee replaced and I thought it’d be a lot easier for Dennis to go work with Sala at his home, oneon-one, so I just decided to do something that hasn’t been done before and make us all directors. At different phases of the play we’ve all been directors. I blocked the first act, Monteze blocked the second act except for the final scene, and Dennis blocked the final scene. So we’ve all been working with it.
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TELL ME ABOUT THE CAST YOU’RE WORKING WITH. I think we got some really epic actors in this one. We got Sala Udin; this will be his third production with us. He was one of August’s childhood friends. And Etta Cox, one of Pittsburgh’s iconic jazz singers, playing a role that’s really fitting for her, as Ruby, who was a former jazz singer. I think it will be a great opportunity for Pittsburghers to see two iconic actors sharing the stage, along with Wali Jamal, who will be completing his cycle with this play. YOU’RE CO-DIRECTING THIS ONE WITH MONTEZE FREELAND AND DENNIS ROBINSON JR. WHAT WAS BEHIND THAT DECISION? Right! Monteze was supposed to direct this play initially. But he got cast in Hamlet at the Public [Theater]. I was supposed to direct In The Heat of the Night. About a
“IT’S JUST ONE OF THOSE PIECES THAT HAD TO BE WRITTEN.” IN THE PITTSBURGH CYCLE, WHAT MAKES KING HEDLEY II UNIQUE? There’s some really great monologues. This is the play where Viola Davis won her first Tony Award, playing Tonya on Broadway. It has some great arias. People always say, “what’s your favorite August Wilson play?” Well, this one ranks at the top for me. However, whatever August Wilson play you’re working on usually is your favorite. [King Hedley II] is a rough piece. It’s a very dangerous play. It’s nothing you walk away from feeling proud of, as far as what’s in the play. It’s just one of those pieces that had to be written.
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Each week we post a song from a local artist online for free, and this week it’s “Windup” by Kahone Concept. “Windup” is a shiny pop number with layers of synthesizers to float beneath the tenor vocals. Stream or download “Windup” for free on FFW>>>, the music blog at pghcitypaper.com.
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In her soon to be published poetry chapbook, Pittsburgh writer Morgan Boyer explores her experiences growing up with autism. In this debut work, the Rust Belt native takes on sobering topics ranging from opioid addiction to World War II. It’s in the pieces where Boyer’s humor emerges that the author really shines. In “Upon visiting my father’s trailer park” she writes, “a crumbling cardboard sign reads:/“BEWARE OF dog BITCHES”/as if the man with his Sharpie/realized halfway through the various/ways it could be interpreted.” But more serious pieces, especially when Boyer turns introspection, are also compelling. In “Facebook Politics” Boyer writes, “I feel like a tiger, but not a free one like the one Nakajima writes about in/Moon Over the Mountain. I’m one with a collar, watching as donkeys and/elephants perform for the spectators tossing virtual peanuts at me.” While Boyer often appears as an observer on the outside looking in, her keen observations often reveal universal truths about human nature.
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S YOU’VE no doubt realized by now, this is our annual Animal .Issue. We’ve had nothing but animals on our brains for the past week. So naturally, I started thinking about my favorite animal-related songs. There’s a full playlist online at pghcitypaper.com, but here are my five favorites.
“Elephant,” Jason Isbell I don’t want to start off on a sad song, but I also don’t want to listen to Isbell’s classic song of pain after coming off something peppy like “Dominic the Donkey” (spoiler alert: it’s not on this list.) This tune is about a woman’s last days fighting cancer and trying not to talk about the inevitable elephant in the room. The song is gut-wrenchingly beautiful, painful and worth every single tear you shed while listening to it.
“Leave My Monkey Alone,” Warren Zevon Zevon is easily one of my five favorite recording artists of all time and Sentimental Hygiene is easily my favorite Zevon record. “Leave my Monkey Alone” is a sweet surprise, a dance song on the same record as my favorite Zevon tune, the dark and brooding “Boom Boom Mancini.” Despite its poppy sound, the theme is still very Zevon — the fight for decolonization in Africa.
“Barracuda,” Heart The Wilson sisters play the crap out of this hard-rock tune that’s recognizable
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as soon as you hear those opening guitar riffs. There are so many reasons to love this song — the music, the lyrics, the theme (a takedown of record company “promotion” techniques). And in the 2008 election, it was used as a theme song for Republican candidate for vice president Sarah Palin. The band got pissed, called out the GOP publicly and got fat royalties from the song’s illegitimate use.
“Typical American,” The Goats This song and the album it appeared on, Tricks of the Shade, is, the greatest political hip-hop record in history. The Goats were a socially conscious trio out of Philadelphia and this album was a 29-cut concept record/ takedown of policies from the Reagan-Bush era that led the country into war and made the poor poorer. The message is strong and the rhymes are stronger.
“Glorified G,” Pearl Jam Yes, this is a song about the absurdity of our nation’s gun culture, but here me out while I explain the animal ties. First, this tune is on Pearl Jam’s Vs. album, which of course has a ticked-off sheep on the cover. And secondly, when I first heard this song and Eddie Vedder sang the line, “Glorified version of a pellet gun,” I thought he said, “Glorified version of a pelican.” In fact, I still sing that line on occasion today.
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T 21 YEARS old and all grown up, Art All Night is leaving home. This year, Lawrenceville’s free, uncensored, non-juried art show moves to South Side’s Highline. “We worked really hard to find a place in Lawrenceville,” says Art All Night’s self-defined “publicity poobah” Kate Bechak, who explains that the event requires a minimum of 50,000 square feet. When the all-volunteer Art All Night began in 1998 with 101 pieces of art and 200 attendees, part of the motivation was to focus attention on one of Pittsburgh’s best kept secrets: Lawrenceville. Moving from one empty warehouse to another for 20 years, Art All Night has steadily grown with hundreds of volunteers and participating artists, and thousands of visitors of all ages and artistic abilities. The event’s philosophy is “everyone is an artist.” This year, two stages will accommodate musicians (already confirmed are Timbeleza and Col. Eagleburger’s High-
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piece, explains Art All Night art captain Jennifer Bechak. Outside, glassblowers from the Pittsburgh Glass Center will demonstrate their talents. Additionally, master woodworker Joshua Craig will recycle industrial pallets into art. Inside, the Video Lounge returns to showcase short original films and animation. Children’s activities (4-8 p.m. Saturday
and 10 a.m.-noon Sunday) include both collaborative art and individual projects that can be taken home, says coordinator Wendy Coester. Part of this entails three large installation pieces: two walls — one solid and one of snow fencing — on which children can weave colored yarn or other materials that strike their fancy; and a mosaic by number, pasting bits of colored paper on predesignated areas. Old favorites like button-making and silk-screening return. The Cardboard Village comes pre-constructed this year, awaiting decoration with stickers, markers and the like. There’s also a new emphasis on art, not just crafts, and kids will be able to learn about artists and their techniques. There’s also a “claydough” table that lets participants try out sculpting. Dress appropriately. “Part of art is getting messy,” Coester says. To participate, artists, videographers and musicians can register at www. artallnight.org. Drop off ready-to-hang art from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sat., April 28. As for how to get to the new location, the entrance is at the northeast corner of the Terminal Building, near the railroad tracks and the bike trail. Park on the street or between the railroad and the river.
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^ Sat., April 28: Great Shadyside Yard Sale & BARK Shadyside Pup Walk
THURSDAY APRIL 26 FILM 412 Food Rescue is capping off its celebration of Earth Week with a screening of WASTED! The Story of Food Waste. Over 40 percent of food in America is wasted. Anthony Bourdain’s 2017 documentary looks at the way people buy, cook, recycle and eat food and what we can do to reduce our footprint on the planet. Get there at
6:30 to grab a refreshment and listen to a panel discussion before the film starts. Celine Roberts 6 p.m. Rodef Shalom Congregation, 4905 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Free. 412foodrescue.org
FILM Tonight marks the start of Film Pittsburgh’s 25th Annual JFilm Festival, an event celebrating Jewish culture in film. The festival is 11 days long and will feature a variety of guests discussing topics to expand the audience’s understanding of Jewish themes. Opening the festival is the Pittsburgh
premiere of Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel, a story about Israel’s national baseball team. With a makeshift squad of Jewish-American MLB players, some of whom never set foot in Israel, they go on to do what seemed impossible. Lauren Ortego 7:30 p.m. SouthSide Works Cinema, 425 Cinema Drive, South Side. $70 ($25 if you’re 26 or under). filmpittsburgh.org
MUSIC ‘Twas a dark and stormy night full of pitch black, riotous post-punk music.
Chi-town’s Ganser, whose album Odd Talk is so full of crunchy and moody vocals and riff patterns, you’ll swear it’s moving, possibly underwater, sinking to the bottom of an inky black ocean. Death Instinct is set to headline — the epitome of what a good post-punk act should resemble. The band is just not quite simplified enough to be punk, and just avant garde and lo-fi enough to be a roaring good post-punk time. Bloody Knives and Silver Car Crash finish out the bill for this show. Emily Bennett 9 p.m. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $7. howlerspittsburgh.com CONTINUES ON PG. 46
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^ Fri., April 27: New Works at Wood Street Galleries at the Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District
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APRIL 27 ART Looking for a gallery crawl that has everything from comedy to live music to film? Join the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the spring Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District. Scattered down Liberty Avenue, the crawl features everything from an interactive installation that disseminates information and combats mental health, to an improvised comedy based on audience suggestions at the Arcade Comedy Theater. Late options are available for night owls, including Salsa Friday (the dance, not the dip) from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The next crawl won’t be until July, so why wait? LO 5:30 p.m. Downtown. Free (after-dark cover charges may apply). crawl.trustarts.org
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of dancing, especially when plenty of places don’t really get bumping until 11 p.m. or later. But In Bed By Ten is here to help. The monthly event lets party-goers get their groove on and get home long before the clock strikes midnight. This month features guests DJ Diana Boss and DJ Queen Yas Queen of Divas Nite. All profits will go to Ladyfest, benefiting Girls Rock! Pittsburgh and the Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh. RA 6 p.m. Spirit Hall, 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $5. inbedbytenpgh.com ^ Fri., April 27: Poltergeist at April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama
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For the sixth year in a row, the Riverside Drive-In Theatre is hosting two nights of classic horror and monster movies. The 2018 April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama will include Poltergeist, Lifeforce, The Funhouse and Invaders from Mars on Friday; Alligator, The Boogens, Critters and The Deadly Spawn on Saturday. Each night will also include a variety of vintage monster and exploitation movies trailers. The event starts at dusk and promises to go late into the night, so grab plenty of snacks from the Riverside concession stand and get comfortable; it’s going to be scary night. Rebecca Addison 7 p.m. Route 66 N., Vandergrift. $10 per night. riversidedrivein.com
Presented by your pals at WYEP, one of Nashville’s newest and biggest stars is headed to Pittsburgh. Margo Price made her way onto the scene in 2016 with the compelling, autobiographical Midwest Farmer’s Daughter; her most recent, All American Made, features a guest spot from Willie Nelson and showcases a mature sense of storytelling. The record could be confused for a blistering Cormac McCarthy novel set to song. Price is a country songstress signed to Jack White’s Third Man Records, and like White, Price has a reputation for telling the truth and ripping your heart out with tender tone. EB 7 p.m. The Club @ Stage AE, 400 N. Shore Drive, North Shore. $20. All ages. promowestlive.com
LECTURE A woman of many job titles — actress, professor and playwright — Anna Deavere Smith is coming to the August Wilson Center tonight as part of the TRUTHSayers series. The talks focus on black female activists who are on top of their respective fields. Smith has an extensive portfolio
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MUSIC Local label Library Collaborative is gonna show you a good time. aRT&B is an audiovisual experience, a medley of live music and live painting, the latter of which is brought to you by Hollywood Here We Come. The name is a slick pun, and if you don’t like slick puns then I don’t like you. Hip hop, R&B, and soul jams are headed to you from Cam Chambers, Clara Kent, 412 Juice, MYFAVORITECOLOR, NVSV and Sierra Sellers. Bring a friend and allow yourself to retreat into the healing goodness of rhythm and blues. No standing still, just dancing. EB 8 p.m. Karma, 1713 E. Carson St., South Side. $10. libco.co
SATURDAY APRIL 28 PET What could mark the beginning of spring better than a huge yard sale and a bunch of pups walking for a good cause? Today is the 8th Annual Great Shadyside Yard Sale & BARK Shadyside Pup Walk, whose proceeds will benefit the Humane Animal Rescue. All dogs involved will even get their own goodie bag at the end. In addition to the yard
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5K run or walk, or a shorter 1k walk; you don’t have to be the Flash. Families with children are encouraged to take part. Runners and walkers start at the North Park Swimming Pool, then follow the paved path through the park. Ryan Deto 9:30 a.m. S. Ridge Drive, McCandless. $20-$30. pittsburghsuperherorun.org
BOOK For the fourth year in a row, City of Asylum will join more than 500 bookstores around the country to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. Activities will include a family-friendly story hour, raffles and “blind dates” with a book where participants might just find a new favorite. The store will also be offering exclusive merchandise created especially for the occasion including a special edition of Ungrateful Mammals with unique original pieces of art by Dave Eggers slipped into each edition. Last year, stores participating in the national event saw an average increase of 200 percent in sales. RA 11 a.m. 40 W. North Ave., North Side. Free. alphabetcity.org
SUNDAY APRIL 29 FASHION To honor Fashion Revolution Week, Flux Bene, Valley Vintage and Third Hand Vintage are hosting a clothing swap at Ace Hotel, today. If you’re tired of your current wardrobe, all you have to do is come with clothes you’re willing to part with, look around at clothes other people have dropped off and find your new look. Clothing swaps are a new trend that replaces shopping with a much cheaper option. All proceeds collected will benefit the Sew Forward
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Pittsburgh nonprofit organization Persad Center has been serving the LGBTQ community for more than four decades. Tonight is their annual benefit Art For Change, an art auction now celebrating its 30th anniversary. This fundraising event will feature more than 200 donated works of art for guests to bid on. These works will include paintings, photography, jewelry, and 3-D works in porcelain, bronze, wood, and more. There will also be travel, luxury and cultural event gift baskets for guests to bid on. The event is sponsored by UPMC. RA 6 p.m. Westin Convention Center, 1000 Penn Ave., Downtown. $80-225. persadcenter.org/ art-for-change
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THURSDAY Pittsburgh Public Schools City League Tennis Doubles Championships 1 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. pghschools.org
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MUSIC Calling all true freaks! Not all Mondays have to be boring, quiet endeavors. In fact, you could assemble your change and walk on up to the Rock Room for an evening of strange, tantalizing and abrasive sounds (and whole wings that only cost 40 cents). Hailing from Denton, Texas, Flesh Narc brings disorienting experimental noise rock, while Athens, Ohio, noise artist Shane Riley delivers a unique brand of audio wizardry and experimentation. Pittsburgh’s old-tyme praying and noise ensemble In Arthur’s Court and rambunctious, noise punk band CHOIR hold it down for us locals n’at. Meg Fair 8 p.m. 1054 Herron Ave., Polish Hill. $7. 412-683-4418
MUSIC More than once, I’ve found myself walking the relatively tranquil streets of Polish Hill. It could be a Monday at 9 p.m.,
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MONDAY High School Baseball: Obama Academy vs. Hampton 3:45 p.m. Hampton High School, Allison Park. pghschools.org
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TUESDAY Softball: Kent State vs. University of Pittsburgh 4 p.m. Vartabedian Field, Oakland. pittsburghpanthers.com
WEDNESDAY Baseball: Maryland Eastern Shore vs. University of Pittsburgh 6 p.m. Charles L. Cost Field, Oakland. pittsburghpanthers.com
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but opening that graffitied door at the threshold of Gooski’s opens a portal to ping pong, sloshed beer and droves of crust punks. Dumplings are playing their first show of 2018 at that very beloved old vintage watering hole, and you shouldn’t miss it. I hope you hear “Wash Clothes!” which is, well, a song about getting fired for not washing your clothes. This show’s got you surrounded with talent including Greenfield doo-woppers The Spectres and jangly alt-rockers Jollys. EB 9 p.m. Gooski’s, 3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill. $7. Facebook.com (“Gooskis”)
TUESDAY MAY 1 STAGE Honoring one of the most revered baseball players in history, the Clemente Museum is hosting the Pittsburgh CLO’s Gallery of Heroes program, Arriba Arriba, The Roberto Clemente Story. Clemente was an objectively amazing baseball player on the field and an influential humanitarian off it. He was picked up by the Pirates in 1954 and went on to make history in more than one way, and this musical covers as much of that story as can fit into less than an hour. The show is appropriate for baseball fans of all ages and walks of life. LO 6 p.m. 3339 Penn Ave., Lawrenceville. $25. pittsburghclo.org
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WEDNESDAY MAY 2 MUSIC There is little else in the world that offers as much cathartic release as bouncing around, earnestly belting out Jeff Rosenstock’s lyrics in a sea of equally anxious, sweaty lost souls just trying to survive this insane world. Tonight you can do just that at Spirit Hall as Rosenstock tours on his latest release, POST-. Also performing is the pop-punk band Martha from across the pond (specifically Durham, U.K.) and Bad Moves, a power-pop band from Washington D.C. All three of these bands are bound to get you moving and shaking off the existential dread. MF 7 p.m. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $15. spiritpgh.com •
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I’m a straight male in my 30s. I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. I have had several affairs. Not one-night-stand scenarios, but longer-term connections. I didn’t pursue any of these relationships. Instead, women who knew I was in an “exclusive” relationship have approached me. These have included what turned into a one-year affair with a single woman, a three-year affair with a close friend of my wife, a seven-month affair with a married coworker, and now a fairly serious four-months-and-counting relationship with a woman who approached me on Instagram. On the one hand, I do not regret my time with any of these women. On the other hand, I have been deceitful and manipulative for almost my entire adult life. I am a terrible husband in this respect. Also, I’m going to get busted eventually, right? Finding out about this would crush my wife. I love her, we get along great, and the sex is good — if I wasn’t such a lying piece of shit, you could even say we make a pretty good team. I don’t want to leave, but I suspect I should. And if so, I need help considering an exit strategy. Part of my motivation for writing is that I am particularly attached to the woman I’m having an affair with now, and both of us fantasize about being together openly. I’m a liar, a cheat, a user, and a manipulator — and it just keeps happening. A SERIOUSLY SHITTY HUSBAND ON LOSING EVERYTHING
P.S. I’m expecting you to rip me to shreds. It doesn’t “just keep happening,” you keep doing it. And these women didn’t “turn into” one-year, three-year, seven-month, and four-months-andcounting affairs on their own. You turned them into affairs by continuing to show up. The first step toward holding yourself accountable for your appalling actions — a close friend of your wife? really? — is doing away with the passive voice. Don’t ask yourself, “How’d that happen?!?” as if the universe were conspiring against you somehow. You did these things. You had these affairs. You. Zooming out: If all it takes for some rando to get her hands on your otherwise committed
ass is to DM you on Instagram, you have no business making monogamous commitments. If you’d sought out a partner who wanted an open relationship you could have had concurrent, committed, non-exclusive relationships and avoided being “a liar, a cheat, a user,” etc. Seeing as you’re a reader, I suspect you knew an honest open relationship was an option but you didn’t pursue that. And why not? Maybe because you don’t want to be with a woman who is free to be with other men. Or maybe the wrongness and the self-loathing turn you on. Or maybe you’re the wrong kind of sadist: the un-self-aware emotional sadist. You say you love your wife, but you also say she’d be crushed if she discovered what you’ve been doing. Be honest, just this once: Is the destruction of your wife a bug or is it a feature? I suspect the latter. Because cheating on this scale isn’t about succumbing to temptation or reacting to neglect. It’s about the annihilation of your partner. So, what do you do now? It seems like you want out, and your wife definitely deserves better, so cop to one affair, since copping to all of them would crush her. People are often way more resilient than we give them credit for, and convincing ourselves that our partners can’t handle the truth is often a convenient justification for lying to them. But on the off chance it would crush your wife to be told everything, just tell her about Ms. Instagram. That should be enough. P.S. Get your ass into therapy.
ation. He told our therapist that every time I hooked up with someone, he was retraumatized because it reminded him of the time I broke up with him for six months 20 years ago. I agreed to a monogamous relationship, and I’ve gone a year without hooking up with anyone else. He seemed genuinely relieved and said he felt more secure. But almost immediately, he began talking about how he wanted to hook up with others. I’m at a loss. I feel tremendous guilt for even thinking about splitting up, so I keep hoping we’ll stumble on the thing that will work for us. I don’t know what to say when he says I should be monogamous to him while he gets to hook up with others. He says this would be best, since my hooking up triggers him. GAY MARRIAGE HAVING CRISIS
I’ve written about a few gay couples where one half gets to hook up with others while the other half doesn’t. But they were cuckold couples, and the half who didn’t “get to” hook up with others didn’t want to hook up with others. The cuck half of a cuckold couple gets off on their partner “cheating” on them. While people outside the relationship might perceive that as unfair, what’s more ideal than both halves of a couple getting just what they want? But if an eroticized power imbalance doesn’t turn you on, the creepily manipulative arrangement your husband is proposing certainly isn’t going to work. Which means it’s both ultimatum and bluffcalling time. So long as your husband thinks he can dictate terms by pointing to his triggers and his trauma, he has every incentive to continue being triggered and traumatized. So with your couples therapist there to mediate, tell him your marriage is either open or closed. You’re not interested in being his cuckold and he can’t point to his trauma to force you into that role. P.S. If your therapist is taking your husband’s side in this, get a new therapist.
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I’m a 42-year-old gay man. I’ve been with my husband for 21 years. We met in college and, except for a six-month break, we’ve been together ever since. I made an open relationship a requirement at the start. While my husband had jealousy and trust issues, he hooked up with others regularly. After a few tense years, we started couples therapy. During therapy, my husband revealed that he was never in favor of the openness. After trying some new arrangements — only together, only at sex parties, DADT — he realized he wasn’t comfortable with any situ-
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