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Polyamorous Pittsburghers discuss being out in “the most nebby town in the universe”

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NE THING NO ONE EVER tells you about ethical non-monogamy (or ENM) is how much you end up valuing your alone time. This may seem strange — or totally understandable — when considering that every iteration of ENM, from the polycule to swinging, means you’re making time for multiple people.

After days of scheduling around dates and sleepovers, the prospect of a solo night with a movie and takeout seems positively blissful.

Celine Roberts, a Pittsburgh wine professional who, along with her husband, also maintains relationships with two other partners, says that, more than anything, practicing non-monogamy requires a ton of time management.

“By no means am I like a master of it,” says Roberts, who first started exploring relationship structures outside traditional monogamy 15 years ago. “I definitely have Google

Calendar’d myself into a corner.”

Roberts says that, while she has always been a person that “needs recharge time,” she believes practicing non-monogamy has reinforced how important it is to keeping her life, and mood, in order.

“I have a large group of friends who I love dearly and I want to maintain my relationships with them,” she adds. “They are just as important as my relationships with my romantic partners. I have my family, I have my hobbies, I have my work. My life is, happily, very full. But there have been times that I’ve lost sight of needing my own time in that busyness, and when I do that, I am a markedly worse person.”

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polyamory and consensual nonmonogamy). These people espouse different views, definitions, and approaches to the practice, while also agreeing that their chosen paths have given them a freedom not inherent to traditional monogamy.

They also speak to the challenges of being non-monogamous, especially in a city as semi-conservative, and small, as Pittsburgh.

Like Roberts, Melissa Rogers agrees that juggling time with her two partners has made her recognize

her own capacity, and that she needs “social recovery time.”

“At the time that I started identifying as polyamorous, I really was just overloaded with everything,” she says. “Not just my relationships, but in my work, my school, just doing everything all the time and being overbooked.”

(Rogers and another source use she/her-they/them pronouns, but given the relationship dynamics in this piece, she/her will be used to avoid any confusion).

Rogers, a local arts educator, says she first started looking into nonmonogamy in 2014 while pursuing her Ph.D. in Maryland.

“I was with a partner at the time, both of us were bisexual, both of us wanted experience with other genders than the ones that we were,” she says. “And we kind of were like, okay, it seems like we’re not going to get everything that we want out of just our relationship. And so, we were like, what if we wanted to explore this? And it was really rocky for a long

time. And then, at the time that I met my current partners, I also had a third long-distance partner who had been with me for a long time before that.

So, it’s kind of an overlapping saga.”

Ro ge rs n ow h a s a “ n e s t i n g partner,” a term used to describe someone with whom you live. Her other partner lives nearby, which she adds is “awesome.” She met them both five years ago.

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conversation about, like, what is our relationship to each other? They have their own kind of process, and I try as much as possible to let them organize that on their own.”

Rogers explains that, beyond the romantic aspect, practicing nonmonogamy has added a level of security to her and her partners’ lives. This ranges from supporting each other financially to sharing household duties like preparing meals. It even extends to pet care.

“My one partner just got a dog, which has been their lifelong dream,” she says. “But it was just a lot of change really fast of, okay, we’re going to pick this little guy up and we got to get all this stuff. And they were just like, wow, really glad to have an extra set of hands.”

This ultra-domestic scene stands in stark contrast to portrayals of

non-monogamy in the media , many of which involve hyper-sexual images of orgies and illicit underground sex clubs.

“I would say it’s 99% not sex,” Roberts says with a laugh, adding, “It is not glamorous.”

Both Rogers and Roberts believe that practicing non-monogamy has also allowed them to explore aspects of themselves that would not be possible in a more rigid monogamous relationship structure. Roberts, who identifies as queer, believes nonmonogamy naturally appeals to those already outside of what society considers “normal.” Rogers, who currently identifies as non-binary, says she and her partners (both of whom, she says, use he/him-they/them pronouns) are “all kind of figuring out” their genders.

“We’re all a bunch of ‘they gays,’”

she laughs, explaining that she has openly questioned whether or not she is trans. “We don’t know how our lives are gonna change if one of us, or all of us, transition. But we’re still here for it. And there’s an open line of communication that that stuff isn’t gonna get pushed under the rug … and I think just having people that you can talk about that stuff with without fear and without judgment, that’s a lifesaver.”

Rogers and Roberts agree that, as information has become more available via the internet and people have become aware of non-monogamy as a practice, the scene has become more prominent, even in Pittsburgh.

This provides a more accessible path compared to how Roberts first discovered non-monogamy in her early 20s while working on a farm in Idaho, where she found a copy of The

Ethical Slut, a non-fiction exploration of polyamory, in the trailer she was staying in.

“I feel like I’d always maybe gravitated toward this but didn’t have a word for it, and just kind of thought I was a bad person,” she adds. “And it was like, okay, there is a word for some of these feelings and maybe you’re not such a bad person. And maybe there’s a way to pursue this that isn’t harmful and hurtful to yourself and others. And that’s kind of what tipped things off.”

From there, she says she attended regional Burning Man events and “met a bunch of people [in] their 50s who have been doing this for the better part of 30 years and seemed very happy, and young folks, and everyone in between, and that got me just sort of more familiarized and more comfortable."

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“It seemed like this wild thing then, and now it just sort of seems like a choice you can make if you want to, and as long as you’re being a decent human being, it’s just the same as any other choice,” she says.

Still, Roberts admits that stigma still very much exists around nonmonogamy, especially in Pittsburgh, which she calls “the smallest town and the most nebby town in the universe.” While she has come out to and been accepted by her family and friends about being ENM, “there have been instances when people know and their behavior toward me changes or they mistrust my friendship all of a sudden,” she says.

“And that really bums me out,” she adds. “Like, if I wanted to date you, you’d know it.”

Still, she believes talking openly about it benefits not only her, but the

local non-monogamous community.

“I feel like because I’m a white middle-class lady who has a lot of privileges, that I can try to talk about this kind of stuff and try to bring some light to it,” she says. “And if that helps someone else that has a higher risk for being treated poorly or discriminated against, then that’s a good thing. It’s nothing to be ashamed of and I think there’s still a part of me that occasionally struggles with that.”

One person working to eliminate the stigma around non-monogamy is Trisha Swindell, a local graphic designer, event planner, and selfdescribed community organizer.

Swindell, who grew up in South Park, first became polyamorous eight years ago and now has three longdistance partners.

While living in San Diego, Calif.

and working for a major nonprofit, Swindell started organizing queer meetups and events on the Bloom app. She says that Bloom then hired her to host events all over the country, including in California, Oregon, Texas, and Florida.

After moving back to Pittsburgh, she used her experience to launch the CNM (formerly ENM) Social Club at Belvedere’s Ultra-Dive in Lawrenceville. The monthly meetup first started in November 2022, and, since then, they have, by Swindell’s estimate, attracted anywhere from 20 to 35 attendees per night.

“I would say it is definitely a mix,” Swindell tells CP.

like going and having your grandma see you or something, unless your grandma is poly and she shows up.”

Swindell now runs the CNM Pittsburgh Instagram account, where followers will find times and dates for the CNM Social Club and other polyfriendly events in Pittsburgh.

Beyond attending events like the CNM Social Club, Roberts and Rogers believe those interested in exploring non-monogamy should do their research , tr y making friends in the community, and seek out ENM-friendly therapists. They emphasize that, above all else, nonmonogamy requires a lot of communication and self-reflection, as

"ABOVE ALL ELSE, NON-MONOGAMY REQUIRES A LOT OF COMMUNICATION AND SELF-REFLECTION, AS WELL AS MAKING SURE TO CREATE FUN, QUALITY TIME WITH PARTNERS." Swindell, who prefers the term consensual non-monogamy (something now reflected in the Social Club event name), says she wants to create spaces where all types of people feel able to safely and comfortably explore not only non-monogamy, but also the kink scene. This, she says, would mean making them as accessible as possible, including making events free or, at the very least, not cost prohibitive.

She believes events like CNM Social Club provide opportunities for attendees, especially newcomers who are nervous about being outed, to meet others in the non-monogamy community.

“What’s nice about being outed in that space is you’re not the only one being outed, you’re both being outed together for the same thing to each other,” says Swindell. “And so, it’s not

well as making sure to create fun, quality time with partners.

Roberts also points out that anyone pursuing non-monogamy should realize that everyone is “not going to act perfectly” all the time and that even when negative feelings or actions happen, you should “approach things with the idea that your partner does not wish you harm.”

“And I think that there’s a lot of pros and a lot of cons. And obviously, I’ve decided that the pros outweigh the cons,” says Roberts. “I think part of the beauty of this is that I’m leaving it open, like, it’s the flexibility, right?

It’s all coming back to checking in with yourself, checking in with other people, keeping in mind that people are human beings and not objects.

And that things are going to change over the course of your life.” • PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER NOVEMBER 1 - 8, 2023

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IKE RUBINO, ONE O F TH E ARCAD E COMEDY THEATER’S CO-FOUNDERS, recalls that, soon after the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust gave him and his team their original space at 811 Liberty Ave., they scrappily got the theater ready for business.

“We built a little stage, and we hung lights, and we got curtains donated and got some chairs from, like, a barn in Beaver County,” Rubino tells Pittsburgh City Paper. “The space was put together in this homemade way.”

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Arcade Comedy Theater’s 10-Year Anniversary Celebration.

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“And then literally, the next weekend, we had, like, three people buy tickets for our first show after grand opening weekend,” Rubino says.

“And it was a sobering reminder that, oh, we are going to be open for every weekend now forever, and we have to figure out how to both program in this space and tell people that we’re here.”

Cut to 10 years later and Arcade, now located at 943 Liberty Ave., will celebrate this milestone anniversary with nine shows embracing the theater’s signature focus on variety, with improv, stand-up, family-friendly comedy, and more.

Arcade will, from Thu., Nov. 2-Sun., Nov. 5, present an improv show from

Irony City, a Stand-Up Laboratory with new materials from Pittsburgh comedians, and a unique, nostalgic late show on Friday night. Comedian Sean Collier and magician Lee Terbosic — both of whom performed at the grand opening a decade ago — will appear as part of Unlocking 811, the only show located at the venue’s original building, now in operation as Liberty Magic.

A press release also promises drag, live music, game shows, and “even some undefinable weird stuff.”

The weekend of anniversary shows comes after a year of planning, according to Rubino.

“We’ve got a lot going on,” Rubino says. “It’s really gonna be something

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awesome that highlights so much of our community. That’s the big throughline for this weekend … is that we have this giant community.”

Rubino, a comedic performer himself, describes the early 2010s comedy scene in Pittsburgh as “decentralized.” Performers scattered their work around the city, and the Arcade founders saw an opportunity to host a variety of different types of comedy in the thriving cultural district in Downtown Pittsburgh.

B r i a n G r a y, o n e o f Arcade’s early performers and producers, co-founded Irony City and says his improv group will do a show built around audience engagement with an “Am I the Jagoff?” theme (a riff on the viral Reddit page “Am I the Asshole?”).

KDKA weatherman Ron Smiley will also join them.

“I think people in the broader comedy community are excited about what’s going on in Pittsburgh,” Gray tells City Paper. “And I think more and more,

audiences understand that and love it, but it’s still pretty niche here. I’m amazed to be at this milestone. I’m super excited to be able to celebrate with Arcade.”

The theater’s 10-year anniversary follows a tough time for comedy venues around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though Arcade operates as a nonprofit, it still heavily relies on ticket sales, similar to standard, for-profit comedy venues, according to Rubino. While traffic into the theater has improved a lot since the worst of the COVID era, Rubino says Arcade still feels its effects.

“The theater-going public’s habits changed during the pandemic, and Downtown kind of changed a little bit during the pandemic.

And we are definitely trying to build back in a smart way and

get folks to come back Downtown,” Rubino says. “It’s very easy nowadays to just opt for all of the awesome stuff that’s on streaming.”

Rubino describes the struggle as “getting people back in the habit” — leaving the house for a trip Downtown can seem like a big ask nowadays, but Arcade and similar venues are trying to remind people that they used to do it all the time.

“When you come and you gather together in a room, and you see something funny, and you’re sharing a laugh together, it feels like something completely different than if you were just watching a comedy on your couch,” Rubino says.

Still, the show must go on — there will be more shows the next weekend, the weekend after that, and the weekend after that. For 2024, the Arcade team plans to create new types of shows to keep things fresh and keep audiences coming back for more.

“It’s really about building our organization, our staff, and our capabilities back in the smartest way possible so that we can be here for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years,” Rubino says. •

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rowing up in Milwaukee, Adam W. McKinney performed in musicals and choreographed dance routines on the playground, including in the third grade for the hit song “Rock Steady” by The Whispers. When he took his first formal ballet class at 16, McKinney discovered his passion for the art form.

“I felt most at home in my body. I knew in an embodied way that this is what I wanted to do,” McKinney tells Pittsburgh City Paper.

In March, McKinney took over as the artistic director for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, the first person of color to do so in the company’s history. The 46-year-old looks forward to growing and redefining PBT by creating work that is representative of who we are, not just as individuals, but as a city.

McKinney, who previously served as Associate Professor of Dance in Ballet at Texas Christian University, plans to bring new stories that speak to the diversity of Pittsburgh and the art of ballet.

“I bring my cultures with me, and that means in my teaching, in my curation, in my relationships, in my pedagogies, in my understandings of space and time and their uses, and for creating the worlds through performance,” he says.

His career has led to stints with some of the world’s most prominent dance companies — including

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet Company — and has taken him all over the world. He also worked as the inaugural Dance Department Chair at the New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe and served as a U.S. Embassy Culture Connect Envoy to South Africa through the U.S. State Department.

McKinney retired from dancing professionally in 2008 but will occasionally dust off those ballet shoes for smaller projects “as long as there is an urge to communicate through [his] physicality.” Students will get to learn from him directly next year when he teaches a class as part of the PBT’s new Master Class Series.

But since his playground days, McKinney knew his performances weren’t just about gracefully stepping to music; he felt something bigger happening. He saw dance as a form of community engagement.

“What I was doing on the playground was creating circles of opportunity for us and choreographing the possibility of community care and

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Adam W. McKinney

community change. In some ways, that’s what I feel like I’m doing here,” says McKinney.

His parents, both artists, instilled in him the impact art can have on people, and McKinney grew up with a strong desire to better serve his community through the arts. In 2006, McKinney and his husband, Daniel Banks, founded DNAWORKS. Described on its website as being “dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts, focusing on identity, heritage, culture, and liberation,” now Pittsburgh-based arts and service organization has led award-winning performances and programming in 39 states and 18 countries.

Through DNAWORKS, McKinney created what PBT calls “community social justice and awareness projects,” including Fort Worth Lynching Tour: Honoring the Memory of Mr. Fred Rouse, an interactive show that tackles a horrific hate crime committed in 1921, and The Borders Project at the Mexico/U.S. and Palestine/Israel borders. He was also honored with the NYU President’s Service Award for his dance work with populations who struggle with heroin addiction.

McKinney has since stepped d o w n f r o m h i s D N AW O R K S

leadership role in order to fully commit to his responsibilities at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater.

The Texas transplant is still learning the topography of Pittsburgh’s land and people, but he is already very familiar with what it has to offer.

McKinney’s father, an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, lived in Pittsburgh from 1996 to 2009.

McKinney also previously visited the city and became acquainted with PBT, including teaching a few classes.

“I already love Pittsburgh, and when I saw the position opening, it felt like a good fit,” he says, adding, “When the position was announced, I felt like there was no better time than now to pursue the possibility.”

When recognizing that there are very few people who look like him holding leadership positions in ballet companies, McKinney says, “I don’t feel alone. I feel supported. I understand my responsibility in my role.”

He goes on to explain, “This moment of being the first person of color to hold this position at this particular institution demonstrates opportunity, not only for representation but also for the possibility of a new vision and a new era of leadership.” •

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Rearranging the deck chairs The Science Center’s Titanic exhibit reflects the morbid allure of history’s most famous shipwreck

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t the preview for Titanic: The Artifact Ex h i b i t i o n , m e d i a sit on wooden, park bench-type seats, similar to those that appeared on the ship’s upper decks. They’re not quite the rearrangeable deck chairs of the nowfamous idiom, but they’re close. This is the kind of sweeping realism, or arguably, morbidity, you can expect from the new Titanic exhibition that “sail[ed] into” the Carnegie Science Center last week and runs through Mon., April 15 — the anniversary of the fateful sinking.

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green-screen yourself onto the ship’s bow at the entrance should you want your own “I’m king of the world!” moment, the exhibition unfolds as a “chronological journey,” according to a press release, through the Titanic’s all-too-brief life above water. After receiving a replica of a real Titanic passenger’s boarding pass, visitors move among full-scale recreations of cabins, bright white hallways, the ship’s boiler room, and 154 “authentic” artifacts salvaged from the deep-sea wreck site.

Standing in front of a display listing names of the 2,228 passengers and crew, Titanic historian James

Penca opens the small press conference by anticipating what’s on everyone’s minds.

all time (which you can also catch at the Science Center starting Dec. 26).

“What are we doing here still?”

“[IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS] THE THREE MOST COMMON SEARCHES WERE: JESUS CHRIST, THE CIVIL WAR, AND TITANIC.” “Every time we have one of these, we get to ask ourselves a question,” he says. “Which is: why Titanic, still, after all this time?” It’s been, he points out, 111 years since the shipwreck and more than 25 years since the James Cameron movie — still the fourth highest-grossing film of

he asks.

For Penca, the answer is that “human beings are storytellers at heart.” Titanic, he ventures, is “the greatest story of all time,” America’s own Greek tragedy in which hubris and Edwardian excess doom the ship and its passengers.

But this still undersells the grip

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A recreation of a third-class cabin.

Titanic has on the American psyche.

By way of example, Penca shares the story of how he first became fixated with the liner: through a 1996 video game called Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. In what might be an apocryphal (though no less revealing) story, in deciding on the setting for their game, its creators went to the Library of Congress to look up the most popularly searched subjects. The three most common searches were: Jesus Christ, the Civil War, and Titanic.

The events leading to a touring artifacts exhibition are even more idiosyncratic. The American obsession with Titanic has come in waves, the first being the moment news broke of its loss in 1912. Titanic is credited in part with popularizing the newsreel after movie mogul Jules Brulatour, cofounder of Universal Pictures, spliced together footage and released it to packed movie theaters only a week after the sinking. A second wave of Titanic fever hit in 1955 with the publication of A Night to Remember, a book including more than 60 survivor

accounts (later adapted into a movie).

Public fascination could’ve permanently waned after that but for the discovery of the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic in 1985.

The wreck is where our exhibit’s purveyor, RMS Titanic Incorporated, enters. A for-profit venture created to capitalize on Titanic remains, the company was founded in the late 1980s by a bizarre group of businessmen, including a BMW dealer and former People’s Court producer. After a legal battle — in which a federal judge criticized the deep-sea excavation as grave robbing — RMS Titanic Inc. was granted exclusive salvage rights to the Titanic wreck site in 1994, which it holds to this day. The company (which also put on the controversial Bodies: The Exhibition) can’t profit from Titanic artifacts except when shown as a public collection. Thus, after being viewed by 30 million people worldwide, the artifact exhibit returns to Pittsburgh. (It previously showed at the Center in 2008.)

Adding to the eerie quality of

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A recreation of a first class cabin aboard the Titanic.

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A Fleur-de-lis ornament from the first class suite.

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touching all things Titanic, another early investor and longtime employee of RMS Titanic Inc. was the late PaulHenri Nargeolet. A French Navy man and deep sea explorer, Nargeolet earned the nickname “Mr. Titanic” after undertaking so many dives to the wreck site that he’d spent more time aboard the ship than any Titanic passenger. Nargeolet, along with four others, was killed in the Titan submersible implosion in June. He personally retrieved the majority of the artifacts on display. (Though there’s no memorial in Pittsburgh, Penca says the Parisian exhibit and other locations have projected displays.)

Another story goes that when Nargeolet, who didn’t start out as a Titanic enthusiast, first saw the 16-story ship emerge from darkness on the ocean floor, he was awed into silence. Despite the crass profitseeking, or the Jack and Rose of it all, the artifacts still retain some residue of that awe — some of them dredged up from 2.5 miles below after 90

years. On display are a still-gleaming chandelier, an inkwell, legible calling cards, a 17-year-old’s shoes, menus, unused dishes sitting perfectly aligned as if still in the box that deteriorated around them, and a vial of perfume that — though you can’t smell it — is apparently still redolent of orange blossoms and lavender after a century underwater.

attractions, I previously sought out one of RMS Titanic Inc.’s permanent exhibitions in Orlando, and their iceberg was towering. Ultimately, I’m in no position to judge perusing questionably obtained artifacts. I think it’s safe to say it’s a phenomenon not unique to Titanic — that all our tragedies will return to us as entertainment products. (Pecna notes there are

“I TRIED NOT TO LAUGH AS SOMEONE HAD APPARENTLY SCRATCHED A SMILEY FACE INTO THE ICEBERG.” The infamous iceberg also makes an appearance — “TOUCH THE ICEBERG,” a sign beckons — though it’s flat, unassuming, more like a prop from a school play than the antagonist in history’s most famous shipwreck. When I visited, I tried not to laugh as someone had apparently scratched a smiley face into the iceberg right before its big debut, causing some consternation.

I confess, as a lover of roadside

no living Titanic survivors; the last, aboard the ship as a three-month-old baby, died in 2009, aged 97.)

At the end of the exhibit is a banner reading “We are all passengers of the Titanic,” attributed to Irish philosopher Jack Foster, though I could find no context for the ominous quote existing outside the exhibition — maybe just planted to contribute to the mythic quality. I’m sticking with my commemorative mug. •

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Au gratin dishes recovered from the wreckage.

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The Miracle Worker. 7:30 p.m. Continues through Sun., Nov. 12. New Hazlett Theater. Six Allegheny Square East, North Side. $19-39. primestage.com

MUSIC • DOWNTOWN

August Wilson African American Cultural Center plays host to trailblazing musicians during the latest Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival. The two-day event features live performances by Grammy-award-winning blues artist Bobby Rush, guitarist Eric Gales, Afro-Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, and Latin percussionist Pete Escovedo. The festival also includes a free family day open to guests of all ages. 8 p.m. Continues through Sat., Nov. 4. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $60. blues.awaacc.org

SAT., NOV. 4 LIT • OAKLAND

Local History Day, Bridges of Belonging: Connecting Communities through History, Culture, and Stories. 12-4 p.m. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Main. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. carnegielibrary.org

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Punk Rock Flea Market. 12-5 p.m. The Mr. Roboto Project. 5106 Penn Ave., Garfield. Free.

Face masks required. instagram.com/ mr_roboto_project

ART • SHARPSBURG

Michael Lotenero: Other Ghosts Artist Reception. 5-8 p.m. Show continues through Dec. 21. ZYNKA Gallery. 904 Main St., Sharpsburg. Free. zynkagallery.com

MUSIC • STRIP DISTRICT

Calliope House presents Lucy Wainwright Roche and Suzzy Roche. 6:30 p.m. Doors at 5 p.m. City Winery. 1627 Smallman St., Strip District. $45. calliopehouse.org

SUN., NOV. 5

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Art & Soul: Of The African American Woman with Tempo Noir. 2-5 p.m. Edgewood Country Club. 100 Churchill Road, Edgewood. $65-100. thawinc.org PHOTO: COURTESY OF PITTSBURGH MUSICAL THEATER

Pittsburgh Musical Theater presents Les Miserables: School Edition

THU., NOV. 2 LIT • OAKLAND

Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Rachel Renee Russell. 6 p.m. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free.

Registration required. All ages. pittsburghlectures.org

TRIVIA • SPRING GARDEN

Quiz for a Cause: Reality TV Trivia benefiting Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Threadbare Ciderhouse. 1291 Spring Garden Ave., Spring Garden. $10. threadbarecider.com

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Radial Survey Vol.3 Opening Gala. 7-9 p.m.

Silver Eye Center for Photography. 4808 Penn Ave., Garfield. $50-500. silvereye.org

THEATER • DOWNTOWN

Aspiring local talent will take the stage when Pittsburgh Musical Theater presents Les Miserables: School Edition at the Byham Theater. See 70 young artists from the PMT Conservatory bring to life the hit awardwinning musical adaptation of author Victor Hugo’s sprawling 19th-century novel. Hear some of the show’s iconic songs, including “I Dreamed A Dream,” “On My Own,” and “Bring Him Home,” accompanied by 65 CAPA students

performing live in the orchestra pit. 7:30 p.m.

Continues through Sun., Nov. 5. 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $11-56.50. pittsburghmusicals.com/ lesmistickets

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Grocer. 7:30 p.m. The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls.

400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $15. livenation.com

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FRI., NOV. 3

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Unseen: Permanent Collection Works. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Continues through March 4, 2024.

The Andy Warhol Museum. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. Included with regular admission. warhol.org

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THEATER • NORTH SIDE Prime Stage Theatre presents

FILM • MCKEES ROCKS

The Stones and Brian Jones. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

The Parkway Theater & Film Lounge. 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. $10.50. filmlounge.square.sit

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The Holdovers, part of the Three Rivers Film Festival

WED., NOV. 8 FILM • MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

Two major Pittsburgh film festivals return with nearly two weeks of feature-length and short works from around the globe. The Three Rivers Film Festival kicks off with the world premiere of the Pittsburgh-produced Titanic epic Unsinkable, followed by over 20 independent features from across multiple genres and countries. The Pittsburgh Shorts and Script Competition includes 119 short films and a three-day Filmmaker Conference featuring executive producer Steve Stark (The Handmaid’s Tale, Wednesday) and a keynote by television and film actor Justine Bateman.

Continues through Sun., Nov. 19. Multiple locations. Ticket prices vary. filmpittsburgh.org

MUSIC • MOON TOWNSHIP

NEEDTOBREATHE with Judah & The Lion. 7 p.m. UPMC Event Center. 6001 University Blvd., Moon Township. $28.95-68.95. upmceventscenter.com

MUSIC • NORTH SIDE

Crystal Canyon, Weird Era, and Memory Front. 7:30 p.m. The Government Center. 715 East St., North Side. $10 in advance, $12 at the door. thegovernmentcenter.com

MUSIC • LAWRENCEVILLE

S.G. Goodman with Why Bonnie. 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Thunderbird Music Hall. 4053 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $20. thunderbirdmusichall.com

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