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7.20 – 10am TEACHER WORKSHOP: ADMAN: WARHOL BEFORE POP Tickets $30 (includes museum admission, materials, private tour of exhibition) Registration required

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8.4 – 10am -5pm ANDY’S 90TH BIRTHDAY PARTY Celebrate the 90th anniversary of Andy Warhol’s birth with family-friendly activities throughout the museum.

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NEWS +VIEWS .ANTHROCON.

FEEDING FURRIES

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Pittsburgh furry Rika in Pizza Parma’s Furryland CP PHOTO BY JOHN COLOMBO

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LL IT TOOK was sidewalk chalk, a hopeful

restaurateur and thousands of people in anthropomorphic suits to create an unlikely relationship between a restaurant and the furries who saved it.

Fernando’s Cafe sits on Liberty Avenue, or should we say, it “sat” on Liberty Avenue.

Started by Brazilian immigrant Fernando DeCarvalho in 1998, this little restaurant found itself in the middle of Pittsburgh’s first Anthrocon back in 2006, when the convention moved from Philadelphia. DeCarvalho decided to make it a welcoming place for con-goers.

“THIS IS LIKE OUR CHRISTMAS IN THE SUMMER … WE GET READY FOR THEM [ALL YEAR] AND TRY TO SURPRISE THEM ANY WAY WE CAN.” “[Fernando] is a very friendly fellow,” says Sam Conway, chairman of Anthrocon. “He reached out to our group, I think, just about before anyone else did.”

In the wee hours on the eve of Anthrocon, Fernando took sidewalk chalk and drew large paw prints from the Westin Hotel, primary lodging spot for furries attending the convention, all the way into his restaurant. Fernando’s Furryland Cafe was born.

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About three months before Anthrocon 2012, Fernando’s Cafe was hit by a recession. Its existence was threatened. Upon hearing this, furries from all over came together and raised about $22,000 for Fernando, enough to keep him open for the next convention.

“There’s a unique feature to the furry community,” says Conway, known to con-goers as “Uncle Kage.”

“They’re generous, sometimes to a fault. But in a matter of five days, we had gathered $22,000 in donations [for the cafe].”

Fernando remained a friend of the convention. Even now, after Fernando has long since left and the cafe is be-

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coming a Pizza Parma, the restaurant continues his legacy by providing furries with everything they need to have a pleasant dining experience.

Baris Budak, the new owner and a friend of Fernando, spends months before Anthrocon meeting with his team about what they’re going to do to keep the furries happy and coming back for more.

“The Monday and Tuesday [before Anthrocon], we start our ‘Bowl Special,’” says Budak. “So what happens is, when they order the food … we serve them in dog bowls that come with lasagna wraps, chips and a drink.”

The bowls act similarly to when one

goes to Kennywood and purchases a souvenir cup — you can take it, rinse it and put food in it the whole week of the convention.

Engraved dog bowls aren’t the only thing Fernando’s brings in for Anthrocon. This restaurant has even found a supplier that will sell 36-inch straws, so that fursuited con-goers can have a drink through their suits.

“This is like our big holiday,” says Budak. “This is like our Christmas in the summer … we get ready for them [all year] and try to surprise them any way we can, and give them a ‘wow’ when they come in.”

Fernando’s may have been the first restaurant to connect with our yearly visitors, but others have followed. Some restaurants in the area make small adjustments to menus, such as changing names their drinks or posting friendly signs. And the furries have noticed.

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IT’S UNLIKE ANYWHERE ELSE I’VE BEEN.” “When [restaurants] even offer just interesting takes on the menu, they don’t even change anything, but they accommodate us just by renaming something or making a light-hearted joke … [it] says ‘Hey, we like you here,’” says Manick, a furry from Pittsburgh.

“And I’m sure that’s a good business tactic, but it’s unlike anywhere else I’ve been.”

Restaurants surrounding the convention center on Penn and Liberty (such as Condado or Ten Penny) not only welcome furries, but encourage them to walk in just to say hi or greet people eating lunch or dinner.

This friendliness and warm welcoming from surrounding restaurants and businesses keeps furries coming back in increasing numbers.

To us, these places may just be a place to eat, but for furries they represent an evolving acceptance in mainstream society.

“It’s not just [Anthrocon] itself at this point,” says Manick. “The restaurants, the businesses, the EMTs, the city has made it so welcoming, and almost a staple of [Pittsburgh], rather than just a convention at the convention center. And it’s very unique in that fashion.”

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ANTHROCON TIMELINE

BY ROB ROSSI // ROBROSSI@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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VER WONDERED when Pittsburgh

— a football town with a drinking problem, a steel town-turnedmedical/tech hub, a city of bridges and champions— became the furry-friendliest spot in this American Land?

We did, too. So, let’s look back upon Anthrocon becoming as big a part of our summer routine as fireworks.

FIRST DATE After seven years in and around Philadelphia, the furries figured out what everybody else in Pennsylvania had long known: southwest is where it’s at. David L. Lawrence Convention Center staged Anthrocon for the first time in 2006, drawing 2,489 attendees from June 15-18. We weren’t sure what to make of these “human-like animal characters,” but they seemed cool.

THEY’RE BACK A year after taking to our streets, the furries brought back their Anthrocon convention in 2007.

Attendance increased by 360, so something must have gone well the previous summer. This con occurred from July 5-8, giving our furry friends a chance to see a Fourth of July Pittsburgh party proper.

BIG BANG Year three of Anthrocon-in-Pittsburgh set a then-record with 3,390 attendees. And while the number dipped by a couple of hundred the next year, 2010 brought over 4,000 furries to an Anthrocon for the first time. Attendance has grown each year since, nearing 7,000 for recent cons. Either the furries have unlocked the inner-anthropomorphic in most Pittsburghers, or they just really dig all these bike lanes.

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Anthrocon’s annual Fursuit Parade

FURRY AT THE BAT Baseball was a thematic focus at Anthrocon last summer. We’re guessing that in Year 12 of their relationship with Pittsburgh, the furries sensed Pittsburghers needed some sort of national pastime pick-me-up. (Look, we’re not saying the furries would take a series from the Pirates, but we wouldn’t be shocked if they did win a game.)

LUCKY NO. 13 This week’s Anthrocon at the convention center is the 13th consecutive held in Pittsburgh.

That’s one Anthrocon for every season Sidney Crosby has spent with the Penguins. And at this point, we’re pretty sure only Sid is more beloved than the furries. Or maybe it’s vice versa? The party runs Thursday-Sunday.

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REFORMING POLICE

BY RYAN DETO // RYANDETO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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ROTESTORS ARE calling for increased police accountability, but actual reform is complicated.

In Pennsylvania, state House Speaker Mike Turzai (R-Bradford Woods) decides the fate of most legislation. In the past, he has supported bills protecting police when they are involved in policeshootings, and police-accountability bills haven’t seen much progress under his speakership.

While the high-profile nature of a recent police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old boy has reignited a public push for police reform, there remains a mountain to climb to pass police reforms into state law.

The energy is there, though.

The shooting death of Antwon Rose Jr. by an East Pittsburgh Police officer has led to hundreds of protesters taking Pittsburgh streets for several days over the past two weeks. They’re calling for policy changes to local police departments. Public officials have echoed those calls, and legislation in Harrisburg has already been introduced.

“As a parent, none of us want to ever bury a child,” said state Rep. Jake Wheatley (D-Hill District) in a statement following the introduction of legislation to improve community-police relations.

“We want to find ways on how we can prevent and possibly eliminate police shootings of unarmed men and women, particularly those of color.”

But police reform, specifically measures to hold police officers more accountable, takes time and includes challenges. Legislation introduced by local state representatives Austin Davis (D-McKeesport), Ed Gainey (D-East Liberty) and Wheatley would tackle police reform on three fronts.

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Protesters calling for police reform

“AS A PARENT, NONE OF US WANT TO EVER BURY A CHILD.” First, it would create a licensing board to ensure police officers are regularly evaluated on their ability to serve. Second, a bipartisan caucus would form to pitch policies related to police reform.

Third, legislation would allow police officers’ previous employment incidents to be shared with all potential employers.

This legislation introduced by Davis,

Gainey, and Wheatley isn’t a panacea to stop police killings of innocent victims.

But it could help. And any other state legislation, like funding for improved training, would likely follow in its path.

Still, any police-reform legislation would have to pass through the state house and senate before reaching Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk. Republicans control those chambers, and most haven’t shown strong support for police reforms. Republicans also typically receive endorsements from the Fraternal Order of Police, the union representing police officers.

Only after Turzai assigns any legislation to a committee and if the bills are successfully voted out of committee

would they see full vote in the House.

Turzai’s office didn’t respond to questions about where this legislation would be assigned, but it would likely go into the Local Government, Urban Affairs or Judiciary committee.

The power really lies with Turzai, who can assign these bills to a committee chaired by someone supporting or opposing police reform. In 2017, he voted for House Bill 27, which would withhold the name of an officer involved in a police-shooting for 30 days.

If police-reform bills have a chance of clearing the state house, and reaching Gov. Wolf, they’ll likely need support from Turzai, or enough public pressure to bypass his authority.

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FOOD+DRINK

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Vikki Ayanna Jones of Sankofa Village Community Garden

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GROWING COMMUNITY “We need to protect gardens that do exist long term so they’re not just seen as a temporary solution to beautifying a lot.””

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EEDS START SMALL but can have a big impact

when they sprout. Community gardens take the potential of seeds, whether for a tomato plant or for neighborhood change, and give them care needed to bloom.

“There’s a lot of different reasons people do this,” says Rayden Sorock, director of community projects with Grow Pittsburgh. “People want to learn to grow food and connect with their neighbors. They share resources and have social events at the garden.”

There are nearly 90 community gardens in Allegheny County, Sorock says. Grow Pittsburgh has helped start more than 30 community gardens since 2010. Its goal is to bring food directly to communities.

Sorock sees community gardens as a focal point for

people to learn what is happening in their neighborhoods. Connecting with ancestral memory and continuing family gardening and food traditions is also a reason people frequently cite for participating in these projects.

“People say ‘I remember learning to garden with my grandmother or father and I really want to get back to that,’” says Sorock.

FOR PEGGI HABETS, a two-year member of the Olde Allegheny Community Garden on the North Side, participating in her garden is the continuation of the gardening she’s always done.

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one,” she says.

Habets helps an elderly neighbor weed. She trades produce with other gardeners. She takes extra food to people who live in subsidized housing.

“It’s for the whole community, not just the gardeners,” she says. “You want visitors to enjoy the garden.”

Jana Thompson, who has run Olde Allegheny for the past decade, views this community garden as a work of public beauty and art. Her predecessor was Randy Gilson, the artist behind Randyland; he installed much of his art throughout. Thompson picked up the torch.

Olde Allegheny is a garden that requires dues, and Thompson uses the $30 annual membership fee to fund art purchases and maintenance costs.

“We’ve bought art, a sculpture and put in a rock garden island. Every couple years we can do something,” she says.

Thompson also oversees the food pantry at North Side Common Ministries. Extra food from Olde Allegheny is donated to support the needs of between 500-800 families that are supplied monthly by the food pantry.

FOR VIKKI AYANNA JONES, founder of Sankofa Village Community Garden in Homewood, community gardening is a way to radically and positively impact her community.

Walking around Sankofa Village with chef Jackie Page-Heidelberg, these two women check on plants and sample strawberries in a garden that Jones considers this garden her second home.

“This is a university. This is our urban agricultural university,” she says gesturing to the large lot full of beds.

Sankofa Village Community Garden was founded in 2015 in a former drug corridor. Now the corner is home to groups of children learning how to

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Raquee Bey, founder of Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh co-op

farm. Run by and for the community and not requiring dues, Sankofa Village exists to eradicate food apartheid in the community, which has gone years without a grocery store. At Sankofa Village, food apartheid is defined as “the relentless social construct that devalues human beings and assumes that people are unworthy of having access to nutritious food.”

A possibility for any community

impacted by systemic racism, food apartheid disproportionately affects people of color. Sankofa Village focuses on children and youth programming as a building block of the community.

“There is such a big difference between just seeing [the food grow] and actually planting it, growing it, harvesting it and being able to cook and eat it,” says Page-Heidelberg.

Jones says she sees children con-

nect with gardening and the origin of their food. Sankofa Village is also home to a Learn and Earn Program for which kids become eligible at 15. Each worker makes minimum wage and is encouraged to give a portion of earnings to their families — a lesson of financial responsibility and growth.

A small portion of Sankofa Village’s food is sold to fund teaching of entrepreneurial skills, but most the food

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Jana Thompson in Olde Allegheny Community Garden

grown is given away to the community.

Volunteers line a fence with bags of food for people to take, and they make sure their senior corner neighbors get a share of the produce.

“They’ve been here over 60 years,” says Jones of the Shields. “They were the first black family to move into this community. When they moved in here they couldn’t go to the bar that was right here. They had to buy a six pack and take it out.”

New programs and additional lots are planned at Sankofa Village.

Members are at work on adapting a vacant house for hydroponics, a teaching kitchen and a community store.

The George Washington Carver Peanut Butter House will support existing programs and function as another gathering place for neighbors.

DOWN THE STREET, Raqueeb Bey is start-

ing another community garden constellation in Homewood.

Founder of Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh co-op, Bey and 20 fellow members are starting Phase One of a three-phase plan to build hoop houses, a healing garden, food and pollinator gardens and, eventually, a small grocery store. The current focus is on organizing a first plot with a pollinator garden and flattening ground for hoop houses. Bey says she

is also partnering with Harambe Black Arts Festival and Homewood Food Access on a new farmer’s market.

“Right now, we’re starting small, but we dream massive. Our mission here is to grow fresh food and provide nutritious food to community,” she says. “It’s very important to us that this is a community-driven project.”

“PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN TO GROW FOOD AND CONNECT WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS.” All of this community work, whether for small reasons or big dreams, demands resources and time. Grow Pittsburgh is dedicated to maintaining all community gardens.

“We need to protect gardens that do exist long term, so they’re not just seen as a temporary solution to beautifying a lot,” says Sorock.

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WHAT WE ATE: Sushi burrito

COST: $11.76

HOT TAKE: I imagine this thing might look like a regular sushi roll to, say, John Fetterman, but it took two hands for me to eat. I got double spicy tuna, spicy mayo and added wasabi because that’s the way I roll. The fish was fresh — and besides having to open my mouth a lot wider to consume it, this burrito was really just a standard, good spicy tuna roll.

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N 1962, Pittsburgh Brewing Company introduced the pull-tab beer can, forever changing the way Americans drink beer. Instead of using a church key to punch a hole in the top, drinkers could simply pull a ring and instantly enjoy their Iron City. The innovation caught on quickly, and it didn’t take long for brewers across the country to start packaging their suds in pop-top cans.

As cans grew in popularity, they became associated with cheap, massproduced beer. For years, cans were the domain of watery American lagers, while fancier imported options were packaged in bottles. When the craft beer movement took off in the 1980s, brewers nearly always packaged in bottles — enhancing the idea that high-quality beers don’t come in cans.

Colorado’s Oskar Blues is largely credited with changing that mindset. In 2002, it released the hugely popular Dale’s Pale Ale, and Oskar Blues continues to package all of its beer exclusively in cans. Other brewers caught Oskar Blues’ aluminum fever, and canning is now the preferred method of packaging for many of the country’s trendiest breweries. Craft beer fanatics flock to can releases and swap cans of hazy IPAs like baseball cards.

So, why all the love for cans?

“Modern cans are superior in nearly every way,” explains Andrew Witchey, owner of Dancing Gnome. “They are significantly better for the overall quality of the beer.”

Many brewers echo Witchey’s sentiment, arguing cans better protect beer.

Cans let in less light and oxygen (two major causes of off-flavors) than bottles, allowing beer to stay fresh for longer.

Though beer quality is the primary reason for the shift towards cans, they offer other benefits as well.

“Cans are much lighter and stack more densely than bottles, so they are easier to ship,” explains Scott Smith of East End Brewing, which recently began distributing a number of their year-round beers in cans.

He points out a few less obvious advantages as well: cans cool down faster, don’t break as readily, and are more easily recycled than glass bottles. And you can’t beat the convenience of cans.

“Everyone here at Grist House lives an active lifestyle and we like to take beer with us on our adventures,” owner Brian Eaton explains. “Cans make that much easier and safer than bottles.”

Whether as less weight in a hiking pack or for a decreased chance of broken glass by the pool, cans are ideal for summer.

And though modern brewers favor cans, bottles still have their place in the craft beer scene. As Witchey notes about bottles: “they feel more regal or elevated in their quality.”

Many brewers still package certain beers, such as barley wines and Belgian styles, in bottles. And while I love a can, I can’t imagine drinking a bourbon barrelaged imperial stout from one.

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FULL PINT WILD SIDE TAP ROOM 5310 BUTLER ST., LAWRENCEVILLE 412-408-3083 / FULLPINTBREWING.COM Full Pint Wild Side Taproom is Full Pint Brewing company’s Lawrenceville location and features a full service bar, huge sandwiches and half-priced happy hour.

Open 4 p.m.-midnight, Mon.-Fri., and noon–midnight on Saturday.

Check us out on Facebook for upcoming shows and events.

412-709-5275 LEONASPGH.COM Small batch ice cream sandwiches and pints made with local dairy and ingredients whenever possible. Available at 60 retail, restaurant and brewery locations.

MERCURIO’S ARTISAN GELATO AND NEAPOLITAN PIZZA

5523 WALNUT ST., SHADYSIDE 412-621-6220 / MERCURIOSGELATOPIZZA.COM Authentic Neapolitan pizza, artisan gelato, and an inviting atmosphere are just a small part of what helps create your experience at Mercurio’s Gelato and Pizza in Pittsburgh, PA. It’s not your standard pizza shop; in fact, this isn’t a “pizza shop” at all.

MINEO’S PIZZA HOUSE

2128 MURRAY AVE., SQUIRREL HILL 412-521-2053 / MINEOSPIZZA.COM Mineo’s Pizza House is celebrating 60 years! Since 1958 when John Mineo opened in Squirrel Hill, we continue the family tradition of hand-grating cheese, slow simmering our sauce and making everything fresh daily.

NINE ON NINE

900 PENN AVE., DOWNTOWN 412-338-6463 / NINEONNINEPGH.COM Nine on Nine has been a popular dining venue known for serving some of the finest culinary dishes in the city since opening in 2006.

SAGA HIBACHI

201 SOUTH HILLS VILLAGE MALL, BETHEL PARK 412-835-8888 / SAGAHIBACHI.COM Saga in the South Hills is now under new management. Stop in for exciting table-side preparations and the famous shrimp sauce.

Or sit in the sushi-bar area for the freshest

sushi experience, with both traditional preparations and contemporary variations.

SENTI RESTAURANT & WINE BAR 3473 BUTLER ST, LAWRENCEVILLE 412-586-4347 / SENTIRESTAURANT.COM Senti is a modern Italian Restaurant combining the tradition of Italian home cooking with European fine-dining.

Taste different fine wines from the selfserve wine dispenser.

SPIRIT

242 51ST ST., LAWRENCEVILLE 412-586-4111 / SPIRITPGH.COM Two-level pizzeria, bar and event hall in Upper Lawrenceville located in a converted moose lodge.

SUPERIOR MOTORS

1211 BRADDOCK AVE., BRADDOCK 412-271-1022 / SUPERIORMOTORS15104.COM Thoughtfully prepared food, drawing inspiration from Braddock, its people, its history and its perseverance. The cuisine best represents the eclectic style which has become a trademark of Chef Kevin Sousa. Fine dining in an old Chevy dealership with an eclectic, farm-to-table menu and a community focus.

SUSHI FUKU

120 OAKLAND AVE., OAKLAND 412-687-3858 / SUSHIFUKU.COM Sushi should be fun and personal! Come customize your own sushi roll, burrito or bowl with our great selection of fresh ingredients!

TOTOPO MEXICAN KITCHEN AND BAR

660 WASHINGTON ROAD, MT. LEBANON 412-668-0773 / TOTOPOMEX.COM Totopo is a vibrant celebration of the culture and cuisine of Mexico, with a focus on the diverse foods served in the country. From Oaxacan tamales enveloped in banana leaves to the savory fish tacos of Baja California, you will experience the authentic flavor and freshness in every bite. We also feature a cocktail menu of tequila-based drinks to pair the perfect margarita with your meal.

Look for this symbol for Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurants, committed to building vibrant communities and supporting environmentally responsible practices. Love Pittsburgh. Eat Sustainably. www.EatSustainably.org

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Duolingo posted screenshots on socia social media of sentences LGBTQ userss might be asked to tr translate during their lesson. They include “her wife iis rreading a book” and “the dress fits him very well.”

They’re subtle enough that if you’re not reading closely, you might miss it, but it’s enough of a statement that if you do notice, it could really matter. It was posted during Pride Month, but inclusivity has been a part of the app’s mission for a while.

“We’ve heard from many learners over the years that they appreciate and value this type of inclusivity in our lessons, and we believe it’s important to uphold this,” says Myra Awodey, Lead Community Specialist at Duolingo. There are corners of the web, on Duolingo’s own user-run forums or reddit, where people will post a screenshot of a similarly inclusive sentence saying “Duolingo is the best” or “this small thing made me happy.”

Pittsburgh-based Duolingo is a relatively new language-

learning platform, but with over 200 million global users, it’s one of the most popular ways to learn a language in the world.

The app touts that more Americans are learning a foreign language on Duolingo than in the U.S public school system (which is also a fair dig at the U.S public school system). The company’s offices are in East Liberty and the app was created by a Carnegie Mellon University professor and grad student.

For better or for worse, apps are now important teachers in our lives, and virtual classrooms, just like our brick-andmortar ones, function best for the students when they feel they’re respected and understood.

“Because language is so core to one’s identity, inclusivity truly matters,” Awodey says. “More broadly, knowledge of foreign languages has been known to increase empathy and understanding, and we believe this goes hand in hand

with more inclusive learning content.”

It makes a clear stand on teaching language in an era where that can be contentious.

Millennials didn’t invent discourse on gender and sexuality in the classroom, but it’s fair to say in the past few years, discussions on how to handle these topics have reached a boiling point in millennial classrooms, with some professors openly refusing to use students’ correct pronouns.

Unsurprisingly, it’s not a given in the rocky landscape of 2018 that teachers and learning environments are always welcoming of inclusive language. In some cases, teachers actively fight against it.

Rejection of “they” as a singular pronoun based on grammatical principles is still fairly common, just as there are those who refuse to acknowledge gay marriage based on the principle that it’s an institution between a man and a woman.

Much like gender and sexuality, language is fluid. It cannot be put into a rigid box no matter how much some people would like it to be. And if language is fluid, then the institutions that teach it have to be as well, evolving with each generation of learners. The way English was spoken in 1718 is not the same as it was spoken in 1918 or 2018, because the way people talk is always evolving, including what words are and are not deemed acceptable.

There’s a reason the Oxford English Dictionary announces new additions every year, and there’s a reason Urban Dictionary exists to define words quicker than a language institution can.

Duolingo still faces broader linguis-

tic challenges, like how to handle gender within gendered languages, like French or Spanish. Awodey also notes that the app is still figuring out how it might change to include more gender-neutral pronouns in the future.

A cynic (or realist) would see Duolingo’s Pride social media display as another corporate marketing ploy. By now, brands have learned to capitalize on and profit off of LGBTQ inclusion. It’s become a commodity, something brands slap a rainbow flag on and sell, without actually giving back to the community off of which they profit. Think Oreos, McDonald’s, Nike.

Believing that these companies are participating in Pride because they actually want to support the livelihood of the LGBTQ population is easier and more comfortable than seeing it as a marketing tactic. After all, Duolingo is a free app (with a paid premium option) and gives back in other ways. The company recently released a short documentary, Something Like Home, which tells the story of Syrian refugees (who use Duolingo).

It is heartening to look at the comments on the Duolingo Pride post and notice that almost everyone is supportive.

The few dissenters have dozens of replies criticizing them. Language inclusion like this doesn’t solve all LGBTQ problems in the world.

If bigots taking an Italian lesson have to translate the phrase “his husband is reading a book,” it probably won’t suddenly change their minds. But there is something to be said for being seen by your teacher.

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USING DUOLINGO

BY HANNAH LYNN // HLYNN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

When assigned a story on Duolingo, I thought I should download and use the app because I am a real professional journalist who does her research. Also, I’d never used it before.

I chose French for my language course. This might be a mild cop out, since I took French in elementary, middle and high school, and college. But you know what they say: an unused bike gets rusty. (Someone probably says this.)

I mostly breezed through the placement test. But it didn’t immediately pass me through all levels, so I diligently went back to Level 1 of plurals, food, animals, adjectives. Like I said, this started on the pretense of research. But Duolingo is designed like a game (learning is fun!), so I found myself pretending to research while actually getting increasingly determined to beat this French robot.

At one point, I realized there was a shortcut — you could test out of 21 skill levels at once! I didn’t pass the quiz the first two times but did on the third. Victory!

But joke’s on me, because my grammar sucks and I should probably go practice my basics.

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ITTSBURGH EXISTS because of its rivers. They knit the city together and separate its contents. The city’s metaphorically rich landscape is one reason for “River Separates Water,” a new exhibition at Wood Street Galleries.

Running from July 6-Aug. 26, this show’s curator is a former City Paper staffer. Based now in England, Justin Hopper has brought several shows to Pittsburgh that showcase an incredibly vibrant scene of new landscape artists in the United Kingdom.

“There are only three pieces in the show, and it barely fits on two floors,” says Hopper. “It’s about one thing, the river. Obviously, that’s because Pittsburgh is as good an example as any of these ideas — that the river is a space we use, metaphorically and literally, to represent this space of transformation.”

“Waterbourne,” by London-based artists Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead, is an audio artwork that narrates the afterlife of a body underwater as it gradually dissolves and flows out to the sea.

“It sounds grisly, almost disturbing,” says Hopper. “It’s actually incredibly comforting. Parts are graphic and a bit difficult, but the message of it is this incredible sort of coming-together of humanity and the rest of nature, as the world uses each part of the human body.”

On July 7, there will be a special, hourlong riverboat tour of the Ohio River, featuring “Waterbourne.” Another part of the exhibition at Wood Street Galleries is “SOURCEMOUTH — LIQUIDBODY,” from Scotland-based artist Hanna Tuulikki.

“She learned this Sanskrit gestural sequence — like, a dance that you do with

your eyes and hands,” says Hopper.

“It’s about the life cycle of a river, and also about the mentor/mentee relationship. Just like how you never find the point where a river starts, where 10 drops of water become a river — there isn’t this moment where you suddenly know more. It’s a beautiful artwork, and fills an entire floor with three video screens, a dozen speakers, that you walk through from room to room.”

“It’s a video installation based on a documentary he made about the village he lived in on the Yalu River, which acts as the border between China and North Korea,” says Hopper.

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“This river that has been a lifeblood for thousands of years, is now dividing people. He talks to people who make their living going back and forth across the river, including those who smuggle little bits of copper across the river. While it is an Iron Curtain-style border — there are soldiers there, and they will shoot you — there are also people who do it all the time.”

“The thing that really draws me into it is the absolute sublime beauty of this riverscape. It smacks you in the face with how big and beautiful and sort of terrifying that landscape is — how daunting it has become as a natural feature, and now as a political border.”

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WOMEN IN SOUND >> EDITED BY MADELEINE CAMPBELL

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ROFESSIONAL wrestling is no stranger to eccentric characters. In fact, they’re part of what makes it so fun. Imagine wrestling without John Cena and his memorable theme song, Stone Cold Steve Austin’s beer smash, or Hulk Hogan’s handlebar mustache (and goofy tweets).

The characters of Kaiju Big Battel are just as over-the-top as most pro wrestlers.

The only difference is that they’re not exactly human.

There’s a meat cleaver-wielding, anthropomorphic soup can. Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle’s bio lists enemies as “everyone.” His tagline reads: “Mmm Mmm Bad!” On any given night, he might battle French Toast, a walking waffle whose stereotypical accent is the only French thing about him. And don’t forget malicious Dr. Cube, a Minecraft-esque humanoid created by Nazi bio-engineers, who “sleeps, breathes, and eats evil”because of a failed attempt at self-plastic surgery.

Kaiju Big Battel — the misspelling of “battle” is now intentional, though it was initially a typo on a T-shirt — parodies pro wrestling and those cheesy Japanese monster movies that air weekends on Turner Classic Movies at, like, 3 a.m. It’s one-part wrestling, one-part cinematic experience.

“I wish I had a punchy thing to say, but, essentially, it’s monster fighting,” says Randal Miller, director of dance programming and special projects for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

“Imagine professional wrestling, but with the added aspect of destroying a city, a cardboard city, in the ring.”

The creation of Studio Kaiju, an independent performance group based in Boston, it’s billed as “the world’s only live monster mayhem spectacle.” Rand Borden, the architect of what he calls “fightos,” created Kaiju Big Battel in college, and the production has since garnered itself a pretty fair cult following.

It’s not quite WWE, but it doesn’t need to be.

After the wrestling, there will be a Fur Ball party outdoors in Katz Plaza for wrestling-loving furries and humans alike. Anthrocon is this weekend, after all.

Masks and face paint are not permitted inside for security reasons, but those in full fursuits are welcome at the party.

We’re in the heart of summer, which might seem a little late to review the winter issue of Women in Sound — but, you know, time is a construct and so are seasons.

This Pittsburgh-based zine, edited by Madeleine Campbell, features interviews with an array of sound engineers, recording artists, mixers and producers, all of whom happen to be women. The winter issue, which is fifth in the series, includes engineer and producer Susan Rogers, who has worked with Prince and David Byrne, sound and visual artist TRNSGNDR/VHS, and drummer Felix Walworth of Told Slant.

Discussions about “women in music” often devolve into fluffy and vague conversations about empowerment. Women in Sound steers clear of that and dives into discussions about specifics of the industry: how they got started, what equipment is used, the challenges of production costs. At no point is someone asked with a light tone of condescension Women In Sound, $20 subscription, “what’s it like to be a woman in music.” Instead, womeninsound.com they are asked about live sound mixing of arenasized shows, what kind of samplers are used and how studios are built. This project is what happens when women who know what they’re talking about talk to other women who also know what they’re talking about.

It’s easy to tell that everyone involved in WIS cares deeply about the publication and the industry. If not well-versed in sound engineering lingo, some of it will go over your head, but there is still plenty to gleam about the world of music-making from the women who do it. •

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“If we have a good mix of ‘normal humans’ and fursuiters at this party, I’ll be pretty pleased with that,” Miller says.

When Kaiju Big Battel came to Pittsburgh in 2017, it oversold the August Wilson Center — the Cultural Trust crammed 660 fans into the 492-seat theater. This time, it’ll be at the Byham Theater, which usually plays host to refined productions such as A Music Christmas Carol.

Kaiju Big Battel is quite the opposite.

“It’s kinda just raw fun,” Miller says.

“One of the best things about it … is you just forget how much fun it is to just scream at something like it’s real, even though it’s so clearly not real.”

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ARLIER THIS MONTH, Third Eye Blind announced a new EP of covers called Thanks

For Everything, featuring tunes by artists such as Queens of the Stone Age, Bon Iver, Santigold and Tim Buckley. Proceeds from the EP benefit the Andy Warhol Museum. Considering the band is from San Francisco (and sounds like it), City Paper wondered, “Why the Warhol Museum?”

TEB lead singer Stephan Jenkins was kind enough to clear things up via email this week. Keep an eye out for Thanks For Everything on Aug. 24.

WERE THERE COVERS THAT WERE CONSIDERED FOR THE EP THAT WERE SCRAPPED? IF SO, WHY? We tried to do a song from the indie band the Upwelling’s song “Wonderlust.”

I love Ari Ingber. But we couldn’t get it to work.

WHAT LED TO THE DECISION TO DONATE THE PROFITS? It is about wanting to pay it forward. These songs gave something to us and we wanted to use them to give something as well.

WHY ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM? The Warhol Museum is one of many that we would stop in and vibe on while we are touring. There are so many great galleries we everywhere have been to. We chose the Warhol in Pittsburgh first because we loved our visit there, we love Warhol and so much of his sensibility has influenced us. I think we always wanted to be a Factory band, but the thing that really did it was when we were there we saw a group of kids rolling through being exposed to art in a way that the public education system has completely abandoned. What we were seeing were these kids’ minds getting blown by the Warhol Museum outreach program. Those kids are my heart. It was an easy choice.

DO ANY OF THE MEMBERS HAVE CONNECTION TO PITTSBURGH, OR IS IT SIMPLY ABOUT WARHOL? We have all played Pittsburgh (so) many times that we all have this rock and roll connection to it. People in Pittsburgh keep a higher tempo of keeping it real. You don’t meet a lot of cowards in Pittsburgh. So, I resonate with something tough and authentic about this city. But it also beautiful perfectly set up between the slopes and its’s so clearly on the rise that it is inspiring to be around. Plus, Wiz Khalifa is from there …

ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS ALBUM? It was nice to not hem and haw over my own lyrics for once. That meant that we could all just get in a room together and have at it. The main impulse for this record was fun. And I think it shows up on the tracks.

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T’S CLICHÉ TO say pop stars have a hard life. But then again, it’s cliché to say that their hard life is still easier than most because they have wealth and fame. Despite the hardship tempered by money and adoration, being a pop star still sometimes seems like one of the most exhausting jobs in the world, especially when you’re someone like Whitney Houston.

As we see in Whitney, a documentary by director Kevin Macdonald, being a star of Houston’s caliber bears incredible weight. Her lucrative career not only provides for herself but gives money and jobs to nearly everyone in her family; if she fails, they do too. It means holding herself back so her less successful husband doesn’t feel emasculated. It means enduring television parodies of her drug addiction as she suffered through it.

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The movie spans from Houston’s birth to her death — a jarringly short 48 years for how much she lived.

Unlike last year’s Whitney: Can I be me?, this movie has the approval of Houston’s estate, including interviews with her mother Cissy Houston, her brothers, Clive Davis, agents, Kevin Costner briefly, and Bobby Brown. While it does cover her life and music, the movie is less focused on the qualities that made her songs so magnetic. It tells you that her voice was special, but not exactly why; it tells you

she broke records with her music, but not exactly how.

Instead, Whitney takes a more macabre approach, zooming in and out of her life’s tragedies.

It’s an emotional rollercoaster that breaks your heart repeatedly. When Whitney’s dad sues her for $100 million, when she gets booed at the Soul Train awards for being “too white,” drug addiction, the tragedy of her daughter Bobbi Kristina’s life, and the revelation that Houston was molested as a child. The movie opens and closes with eerie a cappella vocals from “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” twisting one of the greatest songs of all time into something darker. As Houston’s assistant tells the story of her death, the camera slowly pans through the hotel room where her body was found, like a crime show reenactment.

Though much of the movie is spent in darkness, there are priceless moments too. What is more valuable than footage of teenage Whitney leading her church choir?

A family member in the movie mentions that when her life was falling apart, Houston would sometimes go to Michael Jackson’s house to hang out.

They wouldn’t even talk, just sit and enjoy being in the company of someone who understood their unique and lonely troubles.

Houston’s career was legendary, and her family, life, and death are an American epic. It wouldn’t hurt to lock Whitney in a vault for aliens to find and watch in a post-human apocalypse, giving them a complex picture of one of our finest.

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‘STEAGLES’ SAVE PA PRO FOOTBALL Hurting for players as World War II raged, the Steelers and Eagles merged for the NFL’s 1943 season.

A 5-4-1 record was impressive considering the circumstances.

COMMONWEALTH COLD WAR The best NHL rivalry not featuring an Original Six club, the Penguins and Flyers are sort of like the Batman and Joker in that each would be lost without the other in its life.

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The Steelers are 0-9 in Philadelphia dating to 1965. Awful, huh?

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BUZZER-BEATEN INTO THE PIT(T) If not for Villanova’s Scottie Reynolds, Pitt goes to the Final Four in 2009 … and Jamie Dixon probably has his name on the court at Petersen Events Center.

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F ALL THE surprising things about my life at 31 years old – having a cat, being in a healthy relationship, the unexpected pleasure of growing man boobs – taking my driver’s test again was the least expected.

My New York driver’s license expired on my 28th birthday and with it went the last remaining ties to my hometown and the delight of showing off my mean mug in the picture and hearing people say, “You look just like Eminem in 8 Mile!”

Due to a lack of urgency and an Olympic-tier knack for procrastination, I didn’t go to renew it for almost a year.

When I finally made the trek to the DMV, they informed me that I needed to pass a vision test. I leaned into the machine and was told to read line four.

“Trick question,” I laughed. “There is no line four.”

There was.

I had never worn glasses and assumed my eyesight would age like wine, but it did not. I guessed a few letters, “F. K. M. E.” — and the woman behind the desk interrupted, “Oh, sweetie ...,” and recommended I see an optometrist.

Six months later, I had a fresh pair of specs that led a cousin to start calling me “professor.” But in my next DMV visit, I was informed that too much time had passed, and I would have to start from scratch with a permit. I believe I called the man a “wiener.”

At this point, my story had become a favorite topic of friends and family.

Getting carded at the bar, I’d whip out my passport and, instead of telling me I looked like Eminem in 8 Mile, my friends would laugh and say, “You still didn’t deal with that?”

My parents were less amused. On the surface, it was just logistical. No license made it harder to visit them and more expensive when I did. But there were also more subtle implications in the ordeal: I was lazy; I was immature; I was approaching man-child territory, which is not nearly as funny in real life as it is in the movies (and it’s not particularly funny in movies).

With no license, what adult responsibilities would be next to go? Paying my bills? Bathing?

Rock bottom came when my passport expired, and I was without any form of ID, just a collection of invalid

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documents and pictures of a slim, grimacing 18-year-old New Yorker with a bright future and excellent cheekbones. And now who was I? Some guy with shapely cheeks and a weird beard who wore glasses and smiled in pictures but couldn’t drive. It was a dark time.

“WHEN YOU HIT ROCK BOTTOM, THERE’S ONLY ONE PLACE TO GO: THE DMV.” But when you hit rock bottom, there’s only one place to go: the DMV. The first step was getting a Pennsylvania ID. There’s not much to it except a great deal of waiting, and I passed the time by being angry and thinking about how angry I was. At one point, the security guard asked the crowd, “Does anybody have number B461?”

A lady raised her hand and said, “I’m C122.” Everyone turned around and stared daggers at Her Highness C122.

Next came the driver’s permit, for which I studied a great deal. Most of the answers were common sense, but still, I feared failing the permit test would do irreparable damage to my ego. I arrived at the DMV and was told that I needed a note from my doctor,

so I rode over to MedExpress, where a young nurse asked me questions assessing my physical ability to drive, one of which was, “Do you have both of your legs?”

I returned the next day and answered all 15 questions correctly. You have to get 15 out of 18 correct, so after I answered the 15th correctly, the test was over and, to be honest, I was kinda bummed. It’s wicked fun taking tests as an adult, which I’m pretty sure is why people go to graduate school.

Finally, I had reached the driver’s test. The driving portion was fairly simple, but afterward, the tester said I drove “too much like a driver, not like someone taking a test,” which prompted me to scream internally, “That’s because I am a driver; did you not see those sick turn signals?” She said I went a little too fast and that I didn’t brake hard enough at stop signs.

“But I’m going to pass you,” she said.

I’ve been bragging a lot in the week since the test. I’ve texted friends I hadn’t spoken to in years and toasted insistently at dinner like I’d won an award, as if this wasn’t something that teenagers routinely achieve on a first try. I don’t care, though.

Tomorrow, I’ll leave for a road trip with my girlfriend, and in a few days, I’ll pull into my parents’ driveway, put the car in park, pull the hand brake and emerge, confident and sophisticated, bespectacled and licensed.

“Who is that?” they’ll say.

It’s me. Your adult son.

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Even on a gray afternoon, his guitar, harmonica and reggae-inspired percussion transport listeners to a warm Key West sunset.

Buffett’s best-known song, and perhaps the one that best sums up that signature energy, is JIMMY BUFFET “Margaritaville.” It’s got everything Buffett: a 8 p.m. Fri., July 6. Keybank tropical feel, semi-autobiographical lyrics and, of Pavilion, Burgettstown. $35+. www.margaritaville.com course, alcohol.

If binge-listening to Buffett ahead of his show at KeyBank Pavilion on Saturday has you craving a frozen concoction that helps you hang on, grab a margarita — and a bite to go with it — at one of these local joints before joining the flock of Parrotheads in Burgettstown.

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A margarita and a cheeseburger An ode to an American classic, “Cheeseburger in Paradise” is pro probably the second Buffett song that comes to mind. It details Bu Buffett’s desire to be rid of the healthy food — sunflower seeds, ca carrot juice and zucchini — he’s been stuck with. Instead, he wants not nothing more than “a big warm bun and a huge hunk of meat” with “ “lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and French-fried potatoes.” st H The burgers at August Henry’s Burger Bar (946 Penn Ave., Downtown) are a little more complex than the one Buffett’s singing about. The meat lover’s burger adds sliced capicola, bacon and smoked brisket to the standard patty; the Italian features a wheel of fried provolone cheese, hot sausage and a generous dollop of marinara sauce.

Wash one of those monsters down with a cranberry pomegranate margarita, m made with woody Hornitos Reposado tequila.

A margarita and chicken wings Mad Mex tops lots of best-of lists (including City Paper’s Best of Pittsburgh 2017)) for its margaritas. The standard recipe, which comes frozen or on the rocks, is available at Mad Mex’s eight area locations in three sizes: 12, 16 and “Big Azz” 22 ounces. For 50 cents more, mix in a fruit flavor, like mango or black cherry. Things get wild with some of Mad Mex’s more eccentric varieties, like the Ruby Red (made with grapefruit juice and Pamplemousse liqueur) or the pineapple habanero (three types of fruit juice with a kick).

True to its Tex-Mex roots, Mad Mex blends American eats with Mexican classics. g in Korean ean BBQ or classic Buffalo sauce or get them rolled up in a Grab some chicken wings Wing-o-Rito or inside a Wing-o Taco.

A margarita and tacos If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Nothing pairs better w tequila than tacos. Bakersfield (940 Penn Ave., with D Downtown) offers nearly a dozen types of taco, p traditional Mexican tortas and tostadas. Try plus th the Al Pastor taco, which pairs chili-marinated pork with p pineapples.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

The ghost orchid is a rare white wildflower that disappeared from the British countryside around 1986. The nation’s botanists declared it officially extinct in 2005. But four years later, a tenacious amateur located a specimen growing in the West Midlands area. The species wasn’t gone forever, after all. I foresee a comparable revival for you in the coming weeks, Leo. An interesting influence or sweet thing that you imagined to be permanently defunct may return to your life. Be alert!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

The ancient Greek poet Sappho described “a sweet-apple turning red high on the tip of the topmost branch.” The apple pickers left it there, she suggested, but not because they missed seeing it. It was just too high. “They couldn’t reach it,” wrote Sappho. Let’s use this scenario as a handy metaphor for your current situation, Virgo. I am assigning you the task of doing whatever is necessary to fetch that glorious, seemingly unobtainable sweet-apple. It may not be easy. You’ll probably need to summon extra ingenuity to reach it, as well as some as-yet unguessed form of help. (The Sappho translation is by Julia Dubnoff.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Is there any prize more precious than knowing your calling? Can any other satisfaction compare with the joy of understanding why you’re here on earth? In my view, it’s the supreme blessing: to have discovered the tasks that can ceaselessly educate and impassion you; to do the work or play that enables you to offer your best gifts; to be intimately engaged with an activity that consistently asks you to overcome your limitations and grow into a more complete version of yourself. For some people, their calling is a job: marine biologist, kindergarten teacher, advocate for the homeless. For others, it’s a hobby, like longdistance-running, bird-watching, or mountainclimbing. St. Therese of Lisieux said, “My calling is love!” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva said her calling was “To listen to my soul.” Do you know yours, Libra?

Now is an excellent time to either discover yours or home in further on its precise nature.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Have you entertained any high-quality fantasies about faraway treasures lately? Have

CANCER (June 21-July 22): An open letter to Cancerians from Rob Brezsny’s mother, Felice: “I want you to know that I played a big role in helping my Cancerian son become the empathetic, creative, thoughtful, crazy character he is today. I nurtured his idiosyncrasies. I made him feel secure and well-loved. My care freed him to develop his unusual ideas and life. So as you read Rob’s horoscopes, remember that there’s part of me inside him. And that part of me is nurturing you just as I once nurtured him. I and he are giving you love for the quirky, distinctive person you actually are, not some fantasy version of you. I and he are helping you feel more secure and well-appreciated. Now I encourage you to cash in on all that support. As Rob has told me, it’s time for you Cancerians to reach new heights in your drive to express your unique self.”

you delivered inquiring communiqués to any promising beauties who may ultimately offer you treats? Have you made long-distance inquiries about speculative possibilities that could be inclined to travel in your direction from their frontier sanctuaries? Would you consider making some subtle change in yourself so that you’re no longer forcing the call of the wild to wait and wait and wait?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

If a down-to-earth spiritual teacher advised you to go on a five-day meditation retreat in a sacred sanctuary, would you instead spend five days carousing with meth addicts in a cheap hotel? If a close friend confessed a secret she had concealed from everyone for years, would you unleash a nervous laugh and change the subject? If you read a horoscope that told you now is a favorable time to cultivate massive amounts of reverence, devotion, respect, gratitude, innocence, and awe, would you quickly blank it out of your mind and check your Instagram and Twitter accounts on your phone?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

A typical working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day to focused conversation with each other. And it’s common for a child and parent to engage in meaningful communication for just 20 minutes per week. I bring

these sad facts to your attention, Capricorn, because I want to make sure you don’t embody them in the coming weeks. If you hope to attract the best of life’s blessings, you will need to give extra time and energy to the fine art of communing with those you care about.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Allergies, irritants, stings, hypersensitivities: sometimes you can make these annoyances work on your behalf. For example, my allergy to freshly-cut grass meant that when I was a teenager, I never had to waste my Saturday afternoons mowing the lawn in front of my family’s suburban home. And the weird itching that plagued me whenever I got into the vicinity of my first sister’s fiancé: If I had paid attention to it, I wouldn’t have lent him the $350 that he never repaid. So my advice, my itchy friend, is to be thankful for the twitch and the prickle and the pinch. In the coming days, they may offer you tips and clues that could prove valuable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Are you somehow growing younger? Your stride seems bouncier and your voice sounds more buoyant. Your thoughts seem fresher and your eyes brighter. I won’t be surprised if you buy yourself new toys or jump in mud puddles.

What’s going on? Here’s my guess: you’re no longer willing to sleepwalk your way through

the most boring things about being an adult. You may also be ready to wean yourself from certain responsibilities unless you can render them pleasurable at least some of the time. I hope so. It’s time to bring more fun and games into your life.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to an “electric generator” from which flows a “powerful current always ready to shock not only our morality but our very sense of humanity.”

In the coming weeks, I encourage you to find a middle ground between Flaubert and Proust.

See if you can be moderately exciting, gently provocative, and amiably enchanting. My analysis of the cosmic rhythms suggests that such an approach is likely to produce the best long-term results.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You remind me of Jack, the nine-year-old Taurus kid next door, who took up skateboarding on the huge trampoline his two moms put in their backyard. Like him, you seem eager to travel in two different modes at the same time. (And I’m glad to see you’re being safe; you’re not doing the equivalent of, say, having sex in a car or breakdancing on an escalator.) When Jack first began, he had difficulty in coordinating the bouncing with the rolling. But after a while he got good at it. I expect that you, too, will master your complex task.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

From the day you were born, you have been cultivating a knack for mixing and blending.

Along the way, you have accomplished mergers that would have been impossible for a lot of other people. Some of your experiments in amalgamation are legendary. If my astrological assessments are accurate, the year 2019 will bring forth some of your all-time most marvelous combinations and unifications. I expect you are even now setting the stage for those future fusions; you are building the foundations that will make them natural and inevitable. What can you do in the coming weeks to further that preparation?

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THURSDAY JULY 5 FESTIVAL

If you missed the Pittsburgh Arts Festival, don’t fret, the Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival is here to provide you with all your live music, food and art needs. You can indulge in this long-lasting tradition that features food vendors serving everything from gluten free pizza, pepperoni and cinnamon rolls to chicken & cornbread waffles, local talent like the Penn Trafford community band and an adult poetry and short story contest. And

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it’s not just the arts: take a walk along the heritage trail, rife with area historians and authors there to teach you something new. Lauren Ortego 11 a.m. Continues through Sun., July 8. Twin Lakes Park, 252 Twin Lakes Rd., Latrobe. Free. artsandheritage.com

FRIDAY JULY 6

CARNIVAL

Not many events based around whiskey — or any alcoholic beverages, for that matter — are family-friendly, but the

2nd Annual Summer Carnival + Wigle Bantam Night is an exception. This carnival will feature games, activities, food and drink, and music from veteran folk rock group Jenkins & Crum. Hosted at the Wigle Whiskey Barrelhouse & Whiskey Garden, 12 percent of cocktail, beer and merchandise sales will go to nonprofit organization Grounded. Alex McCann 5:30 p.m. 1055 Spring Garden Ave., North Side. Free. wiglewhiskey.com

ART

From Groucho Marx’s furry eyebrows and specs, to the scream face thing from Scream, to the Mexican Day of the Dead skulls, masks are an underappreciated

component of cultures all over the world. They’re used for holidays, religious ceremonies, theater, film and bank robberies. Local artist Danielle Robinson taps into this fascination with her aptly named show Masks, at Botanica & Occult Shop in Garfield. The masks, handmade and painted by Robinson, meld influences from assorted cultures and while they tend to be a little creepy, it’s hard to look away from them. The exhibit will be up through July. Alex Gordon Opening reception at 6 p.m. 4901 Penn Ave., Garfield. daniellerobinsonart.com

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artists without breaking the bank? 50 under $50 is the art sale for you. The artists are plentiful with a range of Pittsburghers on the bill, such as Max “GEMS” Gonzales, an artist who was once fined and arrested for his artwork throughout the city, and Laura Rosner, an experimental student artist from Seton Hill University. Everything is under $50 and supports the artists living in your own backyard.

LO 6:30 p.m. The Mr. Roboto Project, 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. Free. pennavenue.org/ unblurred

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Everyone remembers Magic School Bus, the book series-turned-TV show about a kooky elementary school teacher who takes her students on journeys through the human body and into the solar system, teaching facts about science along the way. It’s also the focus of this month’s Books Come Alive series at the Lamp I’ve always wanted Theatre. The series to go to a psychic brings well-known because it seems like children’s books to a cool, fun way to life on stage with avoid confronting mini-musicals for my problems. I could the whole family. go to a normal You’ve seen the landlocked psychic, classroom on page or better yet, I could and on screen, so take my problems why not round it “FLACCID COWBOY GUN” BY JACK TAYLOR to the river on the out with a stage ^ Fri., July 6: 50 under $50 Mystical Cruise, production? Bonus hosted by Pittsburgh points to anyone Luxury cruises. The cruise through who shows up in a theme-specific dress Pittsburgh’s rivers will feature psychics, à la Ms. Frizzle. HL 10 a.m. 222 Main St., tarot readers, astrologers, and palm Irwin. $5-8. lamptheatre.org readers aboard to help forge your life’s path or connect with dead people or whatever else floats your (literal) Prepare your stomach for mountains of boat. This all sounds like a killer setting pasta as the second edition of Highmark’s for an X-Files episode, but it also sounds Italian StrEAT Festival takes over Penn like a great time. Hannah Lynn 7 p.m.

Avenue between Sixth and Ninth streets 2 23rd St., South Side. $39.95. 21 and older. today and Sunday. In true Italian fashion, a pittsburghwaterlimo.com meatball eating competition and a creative

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pizza making contest are on the bill. Rock trio Right Turn Clyde will perform. And it wouldn’t be an Italian fair without the country’s greatest sporting export, bocce — a tournament will be held during the festival. AM Noon. Penn Avenue between Sixth and Ninth streets.

Free. highmarkstreatfestpgh.com

cuisine, making your own prints and listening to traditional music. Don’t forget to add your wish to the Wish Trees. AG 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free with admission. cmoa.org

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HOLIDAY

The origin story behind Tanabata (a.k.a. the Japanese Star Festival) is a little complex. It involves the young lovers with terrible luck, helpful magpies and the stars in the Milky Way. Celebrating, however, is a little simpler: attendees write wishes on a piece of paper called tanzaku, then hang them on bamboo trees before setting them on fire or sending them floating down a river. Partake in Tanabata at Carnegie Museum of Art and check out the Japanese print exhibit Hiroshige’s Tōkaidō Road while sampling Japanese

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^ Sat., July 7: Brew Kombucha!

In the age of detox teas and health drinks, the word on everyone’s lips is “kombucha” (fermented black or green tea in glass bottles with things floating in it and a price tag that makes your jaw drop). The Millvale Community Library is hosting a demonstration on how kombucha works, what exactly it is and how to make it in your own home at their Brew Kombucha! event. Participants will even be given the opportunity to buy their own SCOBY, the symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast necessary to make the drink and taste locally brewed tea from Red Star Kombucha. LO 3 p.m. Millvale Community Library, 213 Grant Ave., Millvale. Free. millvalelibrary.org

GLASS

Let the Pittsburgh Glass Center spice up your regular ol’ date night with their Make-It-A-Date glassblowing classes.

Test your relationship, new or old, with the teamwork-oriented skill of glassblowing an ornament for your Christmas tree. After crafting your new ornament to add to the collection your grandma gave you 10 years ago, wine and beer will be served alongside hors d’oeuvres and live entertainment.

Throughout the night there will additionally be professional glassblowers and flameworkers demonstrating their skills for your viewing. LO 6 p.m., 6:20 p.m., 6:40 p.m., 7 p.m., 7:20 p.m. 5472 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $75. pittsburghglasscenter.org

FILM & DANCE

Few film soundtracks can claim to be as famous as the movies they accompany: Star Wars and Saturday Night Fever are up there, as are the more recent

Guardians of the Galaxy films. Prince’s Purple Rain is in the same category.

Dance with “The Beautiful Ones” or your “Darling Nikki” at the 9th Annual Purple Rain Dance & Movie Party at Spirit.

There will be a screening of the movie, music and dancing, and themed food and drinks.

AM 7 p.m. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $10, $8 for members. spiritpgh.com

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Are you ou tired going to the same old brunch h every week? Does the basic atmosphere sphere of a brunch restaurant bore you? Well look no further than Owl Brunch at Threadbare Cider and Mead in conjunction with Human al Rescue Wildlife Center. That’s Animal right folks, you can enjoy your morning meal mid-morning with a real actuall e rescue owl ng hanging nd around (well, g hanging oom in the room he next to the ause food because es). health codes).

This avian brunch guest comes ve with interactive aterials for both educational materials adults and kids, and all drink and bottle sales from the event will benefit the Wi Wildlife Center, so feel free to pound those mimosas!

HL 11 a.m. 1291 Spring Garden Ave., Troy Hill. threadbarecider.com

DRAG

A coffee shop doesn’t exactly top the list of places most people would expect to see a drag show, but these queens don’t give a damn about that.

Sip a cappuccino while checking out DIVAS Soul Sundays Drag Show. And though a coffee shop seems an unusual place for drag, Black Forge Coffee House is not exactly Central Perk. This punkthemed café with the motto “Darkness Brewing Eternal” stirred a touch of controversy with its loyalty punch cards that feature conservative political figures like President Donald Trump, commentator Ann Coulter and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). AM 5 p.m. 1206 Arlington Ave., Allentown.

Free. blackforgecoffee.com

MUSIC

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Banditos

THURSDAY Garbage Greek, Bat Zuppel, Derider 10 p.m. Gooski’s, Polish Hill.

FRIDAY The Ok-Ok’s, Sun Not Yellow, Horror Movie Soundtrack 7:30 p.m. Mr. Roboto Project, Bloomfield. therobotoproject.com

SATURDAY Blue Oyster Cult 8 p.m. The Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Washington. meadowsgaming.com

SUNDAY Meeting of Important People, Nox Boys 5 p.m. Weather Permitting, Shadyside. weatherpermittingpgh.com

MONDAY Sleeping with Sirens 7:30 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side. rextheater.net

TUESDAY Weezer, Pixies, the Wombats 7:30 p.m. KeyBank Pavilion, Burgettstown. burgettstownpavilion.net

WEDNESDAY Banditos 8 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side. clubcafelive.com

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dancing shoes. This folk-rock band got its start performing in New York subway stations, so it knows a thing or two about working a crowd. We predict Club Cafe will be full of folks unable to stop bobbing their heads, drunkenly singing along to lively hits like “Whiskey in my Whiskey.” OK, yes, its popular sad crooner songs are lovely too, but it’s a party on stage when the fiddle and accordion come out. Celebrate the band’s 10th anniversary — and new album, Life in the Dark, with opener Twain.

Lisa Cunningham 8 p.m. Club Cafe, 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $20. 21 and over. clubcafelive.com

MONDAY JULY 9

OUTDOORS

It’s summer vacation, and chances are that by now, you’re sick of your kids being home all day on their phones playing Fortnite or whatever it is kids do nowadays. Send them on over to Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh for Nature Camp, starting this week. Kids can study bugs, gardening and explore their connection with Mother Nature through art and crafts using natural materials and more. They’ll

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also get to view exhibits throughout the museum. On the final day, participants will come together to create a large garden feast after learning how to harvest crops.

It’ll be a fun way to enjoy nature without the fear of ticks. Or bears. LO 9 a.m.

10 Children’s Way, Northside. $250. pittsburghkids.org

TUESDAY JULY 10 MUSIC

In 2011, Arcade Fire took home the

Grammy for Album of the Year for The Suburbs and Twitter was subsequently flooded with tweets from disappointed Eminem fans asking “who the fuck is Arcade Fire?” Seven years and two albums later, and it’s likely a few more people know the answer now (the @whoisarcadefire Twitter account has been dormant since 2012, so ostensibly the matter has been put to bed). The band has grown dancier and poppier since that Grammy win, but the smart, moody songwriting is as strong as ever.

If you have your doubts, check out the band’s latest album, Everything Now

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and get a taste of the grown-up Arcade Fire at Stage AE tonight. AG 5:30 p.m.

400 N. Shore Drive, North Side. $46-138. promowestlive.com

ANIMALS

Odds are, you love animals. If you don’t, do some deep thinking about making some life changes. And when you want to take your animal love to the next level, Animal Lifeline Pittsburgh has some opportunities available at their monthly new volunteer meeting. New volunteers can learn about participating in many of Animal Lifelines programs, including their Ride To Rescue transport team, volunteering at their thrift story and working their pet food bank.

Outreach opportunities are also available. The Homesteadbased organization is dedicated to serving at-risk pets and volunteers are integral to achieving that goal. Ryan Deto 6:30-8 p.m.

139 E. 8th Ave., Homestead. Free. animallifelinepgh.org

EVENT

No, that’s not a typo: Stitch-n-Butch Crafters’ Social Night – not Stitch-nBitch – is a monthly craft night for LGBTQ folks and allies. Work on your sewing, knitting, artwork or whatever ^ Tue., July 10: Animal Lifeline Pitsburgh

else you might be working on, all while socializing with fellow crafters at Rickert & Beagle Books. If you’re in between crafts or just want to mingle, coloring books will be available (you’re never too old for coloring). Bring some snacks to munch on and, if you’re of age and feeling thirsty, BYOB as well. AM 7 p.m.

3233 W. Liberty Ave., Dormont. Free. rickertandbeaglebooks.com

WEDNESDAY JULY 11

STAGE

Bricolage Production Company is the furthest thing from a standard theater company.

Don’t head to 937 Liberty Ave. Downtown expecting a sit-down show with Shakespearean acting. The company’s current interactive theater experience is The Clearing.

Bricolage makes it a practice not to reveal much about its immersive events. That’s continued with this performance, which is billed with the tagline “Make way for what is yours.” A deeply personal experience, The Clearing is an introspective dip into the pool of your own thoughts.

Spots are still open for the final week, but space is limited. AM Continues through July 15. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $40. bricolagepgh.org PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER JULY 4-11, 2018

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NOTICE If you wish to defend, you must enter a written appearance personally or by attorney and file your defenses or objections in writing with the court. You are warned that if you fail to do so the case may proceed without you and a judgment may be entered against you without further notice for the relief requested by the plaintiff. You may lose money or property or other rights important to you.

YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PAPER TO YOUR LAWYER AT ONCE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LAWYER, GO TO OR TELEPHONE THE OFFICE SET FORTH BELOW. THIS OFFICE CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT HIRING A LAWYER. IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE A LAWYER, THIS OFFICE MAY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT AGENCIES THAT MAY OFFER LEGAL SERVICES TO ELIGIBLE PERSONS AT A REDUCED FEE OR NO FEE. ACBA Lawyer Referral Service 400 Koppers Building - 436 Seventh Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 412-261-5555

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ACROSS

1. With no markup 7. Track regular 13. Bit of math homework 15. Breathing tube part 16. Break from the schedule 17. Female grouse 18. Time to act 19. Party without many women 21. End of the party 22. Pick things out 23. Talk back?

25. It might be a lot to split up 27. Smartphone feature 29. Future Basketball Hall of Famer Steve 31. Academic basics, briefly 32. Want something very much 33. Still want it 35. Hammett hound 37. Carpet’s coverage 39. Composer who said “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time” 41. Prop for Winston Churchill 43. Holding company’s offering?

45. Rest of the offering 49. Mad scientist

who is the archenemy of Action Man 50. Some 52. Jump for joy 54. Sherry classification 56. “That’s my cue!”

58. Mountain stats 59. Justify events?

60. Further events 62. “That was close” 64. Sot’s order 66. Guatemala president Jimmy 69. Moves to a better table, say 70. Autocracy adherent 71. Primps 72. Computer download ... and a hint to this puzzle’s theme

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12. Trulia user 14. Blend together 15. Tempe inst.

20. Simply the best 22. 15- or 67-Down: Abbr.

24. Free wifi provider 26. Catch some fly balls 28. “Manhattan Beach” author Jennifer 30. Played with a bow 34. Zap with gun 36. Medical fluid 38. Backside 40. Soccer commentator White 41. Frank Sinatra, notably 42. “You Could

Be Mine” singer 44. Fred to George Weasley 46. Shakespeare character who drowns 47. Stagecoach’s setting 48. G.I. cops 49. It’s just below E 51. Aspects 53. Surround 55. Makeup first name 57. “Little Dark Age” indie band 61. Form W-7 issuer 63. Challenging 65. Alden played him 67. Columbus inst.

68. Office park address abbr.

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2. Canada’s prime minister 3. Denounce 4. Nonsense words in a “White Album” song 5. “Seasons in the Abyss” thrash band 6. Hanoi holiday 7. Judicial obstacles 8. Bit of energy 9. Taking things the wrong way?

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

In a recent column, you said you never hear from married couples whose sex life got better and more frequent over the years.

Well, now you have. My wife and I were married 24 years ago, and we are currently having more sex and better sex than we did in the first years of our marriage. There are many reasons why, including therapy, antidepressants, and weight loss and subsequent surgery — but I would have to say that the big reason is communication. If you had known us 25 years ago, Dan, you would not have given us good odds. We’d been dating only a year and a half when we got engaged, and we’d known each other less than two years. I was a virgin, my wife was not, together we hadn’t gotten much past second base, and neither of us had laid our kink cards on the table.

We were (and still are) introverts with poor communication skills and anxiety/ depression/mental health issues. I won’t say it’s been fairy-tale perfect — the kind of perfect that makes you barf and roll your eyes — but it’s been pretty damn close. My wife has been incredibly GGG, and I hope I have been, too. So, there you go, Dan! Now you know there’s at least one couple out there whose sex life has only gotten better over the years.

BETTER EROTIC TIES TOTALLY ENHANCED RELATIONSHIP

Last week, I responded to IMDONE, a woman who married a man despite the sex being “infrequent and impersonal” during their courtship. To the surprise of no one who has ever given sex advice for a living, the sex didn’t get better after IMDONE and her boyfriend got married. “Here’s something I’ve never seen in my inbox: a letter from someone explaining how sex with their partner was infrequent, impersonal, uninspired, unimaginative, etc. at first but — holy moly — the sex got … a lot better after the wedding,” I wrote in my response to IMDONE. I did allow for the possibility that my sample was skewed; people

with good sex lives don’t write to tell me everything’s fine. So, I invited people whose so-so sex lives improved after the wedding to write in. And did they ever: My inbox is packed with e-mails from couples whose sex lives got better after the wedding.

I was a very experienced woman (five years as a swinger and partners numbering in the high double digits) when I first met the man who would become my husband. My husband-to-be was a virgin.

Sex was barely okay and very infrequent. But we were both in our early 40s and ready to settle down.

We also had an amazing friendship, and we were never as happy apart as we were together. It helped that we shared some kinks and were both up for what we agreed would be a nice and mostly companionate marriage. So, we got married.

And, wow, did everything change! We went from once a month to a couple times a week.

Turns out he needed that emotional attachment to feel safe and secure enough to open up and relax and enjoy himself.

We’ve been married for years now. The sex is still good. It’s not as frequent as it once was, but it’s really good when we have it. So, yes, sometimes it does get better!

and solving problems. I strongly suspect that perseverance and a bit of luck were also major factors.

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

My sex life improved after marriage. I am a straight male with a highly stigmatized kink. I was deeply ashamed of my sexual interest even before my mother discovered my porn when I was 14 and told me I was a pervert that no decent woman would ever want. When I met my wife, our sex life was okay — but I was never fully present, because I would have to concentrate on my fantasies in order to sustain an erection. I eventually retreated into masturbation. My wife knew I was masturbating in the middle of the night instead of having sex with her, and that led to some enormous fights. So, I told her about my kink, fully expecting that it would result in the collapse of my marriage. We didn’t speak about it for a week, and then she calmly asked me if I wanted to do this with her instead of just watching porn about it.

MY INBOX IS PACKED WITH E-MAILS FROM COUPLES WHOSE SEX LIVES GOT BETTER AFTER THE WEDDING.

WOMAN IN F*CKING ECSTASY

Am I the first or the hundredth person to write in? Yes, sex for us got better after marriage. I suspect you don’t see it in your inbox very often because this isn’t what most people would consider a problem and we don’t want to waste your time! All it took for the sex to get better was practice and paying attention to cues

PARTNERSHIP IMPROVED SEXUAL SITUATION

First, I want to thank BETTER, WIFE, PPP, PISS, and everyone else who wrote in. I do feel obligated to point out, however, that these are anecdotes, not data. And while there isn’t data to back up my position — that sex doesn’t generally get better after marriage — my pile of anecdotes is a whole lot bigger. So, I’m going to continue to urge people to establish basic sexual compatibility before marriage rather than hoping a so-so sexual connection — or a nonexistent one — will somehow get better after marriage. But it can be done.

SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET AND FIND THE SAVAGE LOVECAST (DAN’S WEEKLY PODCAST) AT SAVAGELOVECAST.COM

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