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INCOMING Letter to the Editor I am writing in response to the review that was published [Nov. 13] in the Pittsburgh City Paper about Stage 62’s production of The Wedding Singer. This review was focusing on all the wrong aspects of the show. It was written as if it was reviewing the production when it first opened on Broadway. That’s fine if the person reviewing it does not think too much of the script- and song-writing, but the people involved in Stage 62’s production have nothing to do with those aspects (and by the way, the audience’s reaction every night has showed that they all love the show, including the music and comedic scenes). All the people at Stage 62 can control is how they execute the show that was already created, and it was executed very well! So if the writer wants to review the creation of The Wedding Singer [musical], that’s fine, but don’t do it in a review of a community theater’s production of the show. In a review of a community theater’s production, the writer should only talk about how that theater executed the show. If you want a true review of the performance, you should include quotes from randomly selected audience members. In addition to that, there was no need for the review to blatantly insult people who were fans of the movie or the ’80s in general. These reviews should be about the performers. Personally, I think there were a lot more positive things to say about the cast than the fact that they “made a valiant effort” with a dud of a script. — Nathan Gray Springfield, Pa.
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paid a prevailing wage — a pay rate that essentially reflects the wages and benefits offered to the majority of workers in a given region. The exact wage is calculated by the state Department of Labor and Industry and meant to ensure that publicly funded construction projects aren’t putting downward pressure on wages.
A minor wage rule ends up threatening a transportation bill — and the state’s economic future {BY ALEX ZIMMERMAN} Some House Republicans have demanded that the wage requirement be eased as part of any new transit bill. Proposals have focused on lifting the exemption from prevailing-wage laws for projects from $25,000 to $100,000 — a move that would lower the wages of some workers on smallerscale projects. Negotiations in Harrisburg were ongoing
as this issue went to press; it’s not clear whether transportation funding will pass, or whether the prevailing-wage measure will be part of it. But Steve Miskin, spokesman for the House Republican caucus, says that prevailing-wage laws represent “an artificial wage barrier” that burdens taxpayers and that loosening them should “absolutely” be a requirement for passing a transit bill. “It’s a way to stretch local tax dollars,” Miskin says. “It shouldn’t be a partisan issue.” Democrats and many unions hate the proposal, calling it an effort to appease hard-line conservatives upset about plans to finance transportation with a gas-tax increase. “[House Republicans] acknowledged that this transportation package is a tax increase — they believe it’s necessary to tie it to something else,” says Bill Patton, spokesman for House Democrats. “Any effort to tear down the wages of working people is a non-starter.” Corbett has been standing in the middle, hoping to cajole lawmakers to act before next year’s election cycle dims the chances of its passage. “The governor has CONTINUES ON PG. 08
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said he wants a transportation bill on his desk,” says spokesman Steve Chizmar, “and if prevailing wage is part of that, he’ll sign it. We’ve been under-investing in our roads and bridges for decades; the risk is just too great to not do anything.” The risk isn’t just to the state’s economy; Corbett’s own 2014 re-election bid is also at stake, says Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics & Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College. “When you go to the voters in a second term, they want to ask: ‘What have you done for me?’” Madonna says. “Is it enough to say, ‘I got budgets done on time, we spent less, and there weren’t higher taxes?’ The governor needs a victory.” The prevailing-wage proposal puts unions in a tough spot, too. They’re wary of conceding lower wages on any project, but if a transportation-funding bill fails to pass, their members could be out of work entirely. But putting the heated rhetoric aside, how much difference would changing the prevailing-wage law really make? And how did it become a bargaining chip that has threatened to derail a much larger transit bill? Experts on both sides of the issue agree that raising the threshold to $100,000 wouldn’t affect that many projects. At the
state level, the change would have only affected 17 PennDOT projects last year that cost roughly $1.1 million, according to spokeswoman Erin Waters-Trasatt. That’s about .06 percent of the agency’s construction spending. “There’s no question [the impact] would be relatively minor,” Miskin says. “It’s probably not going to impact very much,” agrees Frank Gamrat, a researcher for the conservative Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “But when you get down to the municipal level” — where small-bore projects are more common — “this is where it’s going to help.” Raising the exemption to $100,000 is not a “huge concession” for Democrats, Gamrat adds. “This is how dealing is done.” Mark Price, a labor economist at the union-friendly Keystone Research Center, agrees that the projects affected would be a “tiny subset” of projects. Still, he says, while the measure would not involve “giving away the farm … you’re giving away something you technically shouldn’t have to give away.” In any case, he says, municipal governments will see little savings even if the wage requirement is eased. Price says that in states where prevailing-wage laws are eliminated, “average wages do come down. CONTINUES ON PG. 10
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But we’re not finding differences in cost” to taxpayers. Rather than swelling government coffers, he says, the money saved in wages is “probably going to profitability for individual contractors.” It’s tricky to test claims about the fiscal impact on local governments, because there is little data on the number of projects or workers that would be affected. “There are 2,500 municipalities in the state — [they] aren’t thinking, ‘I need to keep track of this data,’” says Amy Sturges, governmental affairs director for the Pennsylvania Municipal League. Still, the organization supports an increase in the prevailing-wage threshold as a separate issue from the transit bill. But even though the Republican-proposed change may not be a big policy victory, it is precisely because there is so much political pressure to pass a transit bill that Republicans may feel it’s the perfect time to chip away at the entire prevailing-wage law, says Madonna, the Franklin & Marshall political science professor. “The business and labor community want the [transportation-funding] bill — they’re united on that,” Madonna says. But, he adds, “The unions fear the slippery slope. Rarely do people want to give up what they consider to be hard-earned [wages] for their members.” “It’s not a good bill from the perspective of most people in organized labor,” says Marty Marks, a communications consultant for labor groups, adding that it’s a way for House Republicans to score points
against unions in exchange for passing the transit bill. “Labor is such a small portion” of construction costs, agrees Frank Sirianni, president of the Pennsylvania State Building and Construction Trades Council. “They want to cut workers’ wages to subsidize [materials].” But not all union advocates think the prevailing-wage proposal should be a deal-breaker. Philip Ameris, president and business manager for the Laborers’ District Council of Western Pennsylvania, is a union leader who has reluctantly supported changing the prevailing-wage law if it means his members won’t lose their jobs. “When you’re negotiating you have to give and take,” Ameris says. “If that’s the way we get the bill passed, and that’s the way we fix bridges, and they don’t go after us again, I’m fine with that.” And although he says he understands why many other unions vehemently oppose a change, “The last thing I want to do is to have a bridge fall or someone not be able to get to work … and for that to be the responsibility of the union.” But while the impact of a prevailingwage provision would be small, the transportation bill itself is another matter. For once, political rhetoric about the apocalyptic consequences of doing nothing might be justified: “This is one of those pivotal moments that could be crucial to the future economic development in the state,” Madonna says. A Z I M M E RM A N @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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new highs. A whopping 82 percent of respondents favored legalizing pot for medical use. Opposition to full legalization is waning. In 2006, 72 percent opposed legalization. In May, opposition had dwindled to 54 percent. Is it realistic to think the issue can have an effect on the governor’s race? Hanger is “likely to be the test case when it comes to running on this issue,” May says. While support for loosening marijuana laws is growing, he notes, “the question not being asked is how important is this issue to you as a voter. Our experience with wedge issues is that there are a limited number of people who vote solely on that issue.” But this is no ordinary primary. Six Democrats have lined up for the chance to try to prevent Tom Corbett from seeing a second term; former auditor general and Pittsburgh mayoral candidate Jack Wagner is also said to be weighing a run. In a crowded field, Hanger’s pro-pot stance could help distinguish him. “From John’s perspective, the more candidates who stay in, the better,” says May. “I think there will be something to be said about a candidate who’s willing to be open-minded.” Attorney Patrick Nightingale, executive director of Pittsburgh NORML, agrees Hanger has set himself apart from the field by “making the legalization of cannabis an essential part of his platform.” “The majority of our politicians here in Pennsylvania, including our governor and attorney general, still live in a 1930s Reefer Madness kind of world and perpetuate the ridiculous ‘gateway drug’ myth while ignoring all of the studies that show the exact opposite,” Nightingale says. “No other candidate is touching this issue, let alone embracing it like John Hanger. “I know all the jokes about pothead voters, but we have the opportunity to tell cannabis reformers that because of the climate, and because of the crowded field for governor, your vote can count. And if we can get 5 to 10 percent of that vote out, I believe Mr. Hanger will win that nomination.”
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SAME-SEX, DIFFERENT DAY Legal battles continue over same-sex benefits {BY CHRIS POTTER} BRAD ANKNEY is a man of few words. Ask
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the 48-year-old Brighton Heights resident why he’s suing his employer, and his answer is, “I got tired of being treated as ‘less than.’” But ask Ankney about the man whom he has shared his life with for the past 15 years, and he opens up: “He’s the rock of my life, the most important person in it. But because we’re two men, we’re treated as less than second-class citizens.” For 12 years, Ankney has taught math to troubled kids for Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3, which provides support services to suburban schools throughout Allegheny County. Like most educational institutions, the AIU offers benefits only to married partners — a policy Ankney says violates a 2009 county ordinance barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The American Civil Liberties Union has taken up the case, and attorney Sara Rose says that if Ankney wins, every school district and municipal employer in Allegheny County could be required to offer domestic-partner benefits. (Private employers, whose benefit policies are governed by federal law, would not be affected.) The ACLU launched a similar challenge to the benefits policy at the University of Pittsburgh more than a decade ago, but the case was tossed out on jurisdictional grounds. (Pitt later offered domestic-partner benefits.) Otherwise, Ankney’s case is “almost unprecedented — literally,” says Levana Layndecker, a spokesperson for LGBT advocacy group Equality PA. Until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act earlier this year, “We haven’t really seen people suing for partner benefits … although we’ve gotten a decent number of inquiries since” the court ruling. The AIU’s legal response is much like the one Pitt offered: It doesn’t discriminate because it doesn’t offer benefits “to unmarried domestic partners, whether such partner is of the same sex or opposite sex.” And while marriage laws may be discriminatory, those laws are written by the state: “[T]his is neither the case nor the forum to challenge Pennsylvania’s marriage statute,” the AIU argues. That reasoning has carried the day so far. When Ankney filed a complaint with the county’s Human Relations Commission in late 2012, it was quickly dismissed.
“Mr. Ankney is in kind of a catch-22 situation,” says Assistant County Solicitor Robert Bogoyn. “The AIU provide benefits for married persons, but unfortunately, Pennsylvania does not recognize gay marriage.” Some say districts are caught in a catch-22 of their own. Stuart Knade, chief counsel for the Pennsylvania School Board Association, says that while some districts offer benefits, others plead, “‘Please, don’t make us your battlefield. It’s tough enough to educate kids without having to tiptoe through minefields.’ … Schools ought to be able to rely on statutes as they’re written, not as clever lawyers might read into them.” The ACLU maintains that Ankney is not challenging Pennsylvania’s marriage law. (The ACLU has filed a whole other case doing that.) Instead, it opposes using marriage as the basis for allocating benefits. The ACLU’s filings liken the situation to an employer who offered benefits only to workers who registered for the military draft. Since women can’t be drafted under the Selective Service Act, the requirement would be discriminatory … and challenging it “would not bring into question the constitutionality of the Selective Service Act” itself. Oral arguments before Common Pleas Court Judge Christine Ward are slated for January. But however Ankney’s case turns out, his cause will almost certainly succeed. Some local districts already offer domestic-partner benefits … including that workers’ paradise known as Upper St. Clair. The same community that helped give the world Rick Santorum now gives benefits to gay and lesbian teachers. Ankney has seen similar shifts: “I grew up in Somerset County, and there’s a lot less hostility today.” And though he’s a private person, “I’m getting outside of my shell, and I’ve found an incredible amount of support.” Still, attitudes are changing faster than institutions — especially institutions in Harrisburg. School districts and other local entities will be battlegrounds, until anti-equality politicians admit they’ve lost the fight. So as the ACLU and the AIU slug it out, there’s really only one question here: After 12 years on the job, how much longer will Brad Ankney have to work for benefits his co-workers take for granted?
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LEFT BEHIND {BY AL HOFF} Somehow, Thanksgiving — a day we set aside to celebrate how much we already have and/or how some of our ancestors didn’t starve to death when they hit the New World — is typically marked by an excess of food. Since every year supermarket turkeys get freakishly bigger, it helps to think of them, not as a one-night poultry overload, but as a starter kit for a week’s worth of meals: TACOS. Pair turkey with plenty of black beans and shredded cabbage in corn tortillas. After the T-day starch-fest, you’ll welcome the fiber. HASH. Also a good way to use up leftover (or unused) spuds, vegetables and stuffing. Dice everything up and heat in skillet. SHEPHERD’S PIE. Place turkey and other leftovers, including gravy, at bottom of oven dish. Cover with mashed potatoes and bake until hot. PASTA SALAD. Toss shredded turkey and cooked pasta, with bell peppers, onions and any other raw vegetables, in a vinaigrette. That’s a bunch of lunch that doesn’t taste like warmed-over Thanksgiving. OTHER SOUPS. Forgo turkey-andnoodles, and use the meat for Mexican tortilla, Polish cabbage, Italian minestrone, Indian mulligatawny or Moroccan bean. MIDNIGHT SNACK. Pick meat off the carcass while standing with the fridge door open. It’s wrong, but it always tastes so right. DOWN TO THE BONE? Simmer that skeleton to make a stock. Confidential to smaller households: Try roasting a turkey breast instead of a whole bird. AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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SYRIAN DELIGHT {PHOTOS BY HEATHER MULL}
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Typically at international restaurants, we try to balance our order between the most familiar, assimilated classics and whatever novelties the menu may offer. Ultimately, while there are still some Middle Eastern standards on Naya’s menu, we were most tempted by the many interesting specialties of the lesser-known Syrian cuisine.
NAYA 2018 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-421-1920 HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers, soups and salads $5-15; entrees $9-20 LIQUOR: BYOB
CP APPROVED The complimentary starter was warmed pita with a za’atar dip. Za’atar is a simple spice mixture heavy on thyme and sesame; drizzled liberally with olive oil, it was pretty addictive. From the ap-
petizer menu, we also ordered a “chunky” baba ganoush, which, if not superior to many we’ve had, was at least their equal. Keftades, Greek meatballs, were one of the few menu items to venture outside the realm of Syrian cuisine. These were tasty in their olive-y tomato sauce and studded with briny feta, but their texture was a bit spongy, neither quite meaty nor quite tender. Moskhan, however, were superlative. Pastry-wrapped cigars similar to eggrolls, these were perfectly browned and crispy outside, and stuffed with wonderfully spiced, tender chicken inside. A drizzle of tahini added a perfect touch of nuttiness. With the delivery of our entrees, our meal got even better. Samaka harrah, “spicy Syrian fish,” was a perfectly cooked filet of snapper in a red-pepper-paste sauce spiced with coriander and garlic, and fortified with the crunchy, slightly bitter meat of crushed walnuts. Rice pilaf with slivered almonds was terrific for
sopping up excess of this sauce, and the side salad was bright and crisp, accentuated with a bold sliver of green bell pepper and a simple lemon vinaigrette. Shawarma, available as beef or chicken, could have aspired no further than the ho-hum sandwich staple, but in Naya’s preparation, it was a tender, spicy entrée alongside pilaf. When Ibrahim stopped by our table to inquire if we’d enjoyed our meal, we could not help asking about the recipe; of course, she demurred, but did acknowledge red-pepper paste as a component. Whatever else she’s doing, she’s doing right.
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We had two lamb dishes, and two responses to them. A dining companion ordered “lamb chops tamer,” served in a gravy sweetened with dates and raisins, the fruit balanced against the charred chops in a successful interaction. But Jason’s Persian lamb shank, braised in a similar sauce, seemed underseasoned beneath all that fruit. The smokiness of the sauce kept it from being unctuous, but we still thought it overwhelmed the extraordinarily tender lamb. More ardent fans of meat in fruit sauces might feel differently, however. It’s worth noting that the accompanying mashed potatoes, studded with crisp morsels of caramelized onion, were an excellent side to both lamb dishes, whether this side dish was traditionally Syrian or not. Naya was an excellent guide in our exploration of Syrian cuisine. Ms. Ibrahim’s previous restaurant suggested that niche’s delicious potential; her new venture realizes it.
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MIX AND MATCH Documentary filmmaker praises city’s diverse bar scene “Until very recently, bartending was something people looked at as something they did between other jobs. What you see here is people doing it as a profession,” says Douglas Tirola, director of the film Hey Bartender, which screens this week at the Three Rivers Film Festival. The film follows the story of two bartenders — an ex-Marine who dreams of working at a top Manhattan cocktail bar, and a former bank executive struggling to keep his neighborhood bar in business — while weaving a narrative about the origins of the contemporary craft-cocktail trend. “Fifteen years ago, nobody thought that much of bartenders or cocktails,” Tirola says. Now, handcrafted cocktails — and the bartenders who make them — are an important part of a city’s nightlife. In that sense, he says, “While you might not see Pittsburgh in the movie, you’ll still see what’s happening in Pittsburgh in the movie. You’ll be able to relate to it.” Tirola thinks that Pittsburgh’s bars are beginning to get the attention they deserve, with the number of bars with focused cocktails programs having exploded in recent years. Tender, Acacia, Spoon, Bar Marco and others boast talented bartenders, and the city’s chapter of the United States Bartender’s Guild is growing. But Tirola says that Pittsburgh also has a complementary old-school neighborhood bar culture — one that might offer some lessons to craft-cocktail bars. “The audience is also going to see … a great tradition of neighborhood bars and taverns, and regain an appreciation for places like that.” And that, he says, is an important message of the film: “The hospitality side [of bartending] got lost a little bit in pursuit of the art of the cocktails,” Tirola says. But mixing with people is a skill just like mixing drinks — and it’s one that neighborhood bars can teach. The films screens at 7 p.m. Thu., Nov 21, at the Harris Theater; a Q&A with Tirola follows. It’s also available for purchase on iTunes.
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Village Tavern & Trattoria HOT METAL DINER. 1025 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin. 412-462-4900. This new-oldfashioned diner with a Harley theme offers a traditional menu with super-size portions. The thick, fluffy “mancakes” hang off the platter, and the huge breakfast burrito is like a Spanish omelet wrapped in a tortilla.
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An Iconic Tradition, Redefined The Wooden Nickel, a hidden gem located in Monroeville, PA, combines the elegance and sophis ca on of the downtown Pi sburgh restaurants with the comfort and familiarity of ea ng at your small family-owned restaurants. Established in 1952, the Wooden Nickel has remained a community favorite amongst the people in the area. Three years ago brought a change in ownership and with that brought on board Execu ve Chef and General Manager Joe Bello. Mr. Bello brought experience from mul ple fine dining establishments including the Capital Grille to the Wooden Nickel and he helped breath a new life into everything from design to the menu. Offering favorites for everyone including the filets, crab cakes, pastas and more, the Wooden Nickel has brought fine dining back to Monroeville. This achievement was highlighted in 2012, when Mr. Bello and the Wooden Nickel were inducted into the Chaîne des Rô sseurs™, the oldest and largest food and wine society in the world.
Q What services do you offer? In addi on to great food, the Wooden Nickel also offers a beau ful lounge A area for that perfect a er work drink. They showcase many of the best
alcohols and drinks during their happy hours and also offerr fantas c daily drink specials. Saturdays offer 40% off any wine bo le and each week there are different infused vodka flavors using Clique Vodka. In the past, they have done everything from pineapple, to blood orange and even bacon infused Clique Vodka. One tradi on that the restaurant has held on to is being the place for live music every Friday night from 7:30 – 10:30pm.
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back to various chari es. Each year they kick off a huge campaign for Toys for Tots in mid-November. As a way of increasing dona ons for this charity, they sell a $100 Mar ni that includes a crystal bracelet and this year will have a $100 Manha an with cufflinks. All the proceeds are used to purchase toys for the children. This past year, they also worked with Charlie Batch’s, Best of the Batch Founda on and the Community Liver Alliance, to help raise money for these two groups by offering one of their famous five course wine dinners.
Q What is your vision for The Wooden e Nickel? N c el? If you’re looking for a restaurant that showcases delicious s A food, great drinks, and strives to provide you with a unique dining experience each me you visit, then try the Wooden Nickel. Whether it is for a business dinner, a date night, or a banquet, you can be sure that your me here will be unforge able.
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TRAM’S KITCHEN. 4050 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-682-2688. This tiny familyrun storefront café packs in the regulars. Most begin their meal with an order of fresh spring rolls, before moving on to authentic preparations of pho, noodle bowls and friedrice dishes. The menu is small, but the atmosphere is lively and inviting. JF TRUTH LOUNGE. 51 S. 12th St., South Side. 412-381-9600. A Mediterranean-inspired menu spans cocktail-hour noshes and light meals to full entrees. Pleasing appetizers include saganaki (Greek flaming cheese) and the novelty “lambsicles.” Flatbreads fill the spot for upscale pizza, with hearty meat and pasta dishes, such as short-rib ragu, rounding out the entrees. LE
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YOU COULDN’T exactly call the turkeys at Blackberry Meadows Farm “free-range” birds: “We tried that once and they all escaped,” says Jen Montgomery, who co-owns the Natrona Heights farm with Greg Boulos. But the farm’s 13 turkeys do enjoy access to fresh air and light. In fact, they got a first — and last — taste of winter weather on Nov. 12. The next morning brought “processing day,” when Montgomery and Boulos, along with dedicated volunteers, turned their brown-feathered flock into packaged, cleaned birds. The National Turkey Federation estimates that 45 million birds are killed each year for Thanksgiving. Most are raised “conventionally” in large operations, where they are typically debeaked, kept in cramped quarters, and bred with breasts so large they prohibit natural reproduction. Operations like Blackberry Meadows offer a different approach. These birds arrived in June, as one-day-old “poults” in a “peeping box” at the post office, then remained in the farm’s brooder hut for their first six weeks. But rather than ending up in a windowless barn with hundreds or thousands of other birds, as is the industry standard, the Blackberry Meadows turkeys moved into a mobile hut on skids. The openbottom wire structure was pulled around the farm to ensure the birds access to fresh grass, along with air, light and (rather expensive) GMO-free feed. Blackberry Meadows operates a Community Supported Agriculture program, in which customers sign up for year-long subscriptions to its produce. All 13 of this year’s birds have been claimed by subscribers, many of whom “have met their Thanksgiving dinner already” during farm visits, says Boulos. And instead of the Broad Breasted White turkeys that are the industry standard, Blackberry Meadows offers a “heritage breed” known as the Broad Breasted Bronze. “The quality is better,” says Montgomery, “it’s juicy and flavorful.” As the year’s first snow melted, the turkeys were handled with care. Intense physical labor was poured into the long, non-mechanized process that includes hand-plucking each bird. The turkeys do cost around $4 per pound, as compared to the $1.80 per pound a frozen turkey costs at Giant Eagle. But arguably, you get what you pay for. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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If you assume based on The Blues Orphans’ name that the band is a standard blues outfit, you’re missing out. “It’s transformed over the years from us playing blues and country, to jazz, blues and country, and it’s really just mixed down,” says harmonica player Andy Gabig, who’s been with the band since it got its start in 1979. “Like America started out with Polish, German, black, white — it’s all mixed down. I’ve always called what we play ‘Americana’ because of that.” Gabig’s brother, Bob, the band’s singer and main songwriter, decided to call The Blues Orphans’ latest album Hystericana — because it’s a mix of all-American stuff and, well, comedy. “It’s always kind of a little sarcastic,” says Andy, in an understatement. Bob, something of a technophobe, fit no less than three songs that are critical of technology onto the new full-length (“Smart Phones, Dumb People”; “Text Myself”; “Shoot My Radio” — though the latter two might be more critical of the users than of the machines). “He’s never been that tech-savvy,” Andy says with a laugh. Bob writes in the style of an observational comic; he’ll pick an idea or a trend that’s relatable, and go to town. In one song, the narrator is jealous of Anderson Cooper’s sex appeal; in another, he’s complaining about his woman spending all her time (and money) at the River Casino. (It’s funny both in its subversion of traditional blues gender roles and its namedropping of the gem of the North Shore.) The honky-tonk sound is ratcheted up by the fact that the band, learning that its bass player couldn’t take part in this recording project, took on a tuba player, Roger Day, as a replacement. The sloppy, down-home feel of a tuba holding down what’s usually the province of a cleanstringed bass does wonders. The rest of the horn section — led by longtime trombonist and local jazz legend Nelson Harrison — fills out the tunes as well. Harrison, says Andy, helps on a number of levels. For one, he’s a well-known name around town. But beyond that, Andy says, “He adds a lot of flair into the show — visual effect.”
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a shape-shifting indie-pop outfit centered on Michael Savisky and Josh Moyer — burst onto the local music scene, releasing its debut album and getting the nod as WYEP’s local artist of the year. The band played unconventional shows, like a circus-style event organized at the West End Overlook. Then … it got quiet again. “We were working on the second album during that year,” recalls Savisky, “but we realized there was a lot more we needed to put into it. Out of necessity, we had to balance out — if we put all our effort into these elaborate live performances, we might not get the next album done for five more years.” They weren’t just working on an album: The band’s new full-length, The House of War Is a House of Peace, comes with an accompanying novel, co-written by Savisky and Moyer. It’s quite an undertaking. “I think we began to realize that it was going to take much more time than we
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Hitting the books: Josh Moyer (left) and Michael Savisky, of Colonizing the Cosmos
originally intended,” says Moyer. The album has seen the band both expand and pare down. While live shows used to involve a full choir sometimes, and strings and horns, it’s a more conventional lineup now. (Though some members of the Oakland Girls’ Choir do appear on a
COLONIZING THE COSMOS CD/BOOK RELEASE. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 23. Carnegie Library of Homewood, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $7. All ages. (Kids 10 and under free.) www.colonizingthecosmos.com
track.) Colonizing used more experimental techniques, and a space-travel theme, on its upbeat, poppy debut, The First Frontier, which called to mind acts like Sufjan Stevens and Danielson. “These songs started to take on the theme of space,” says Savisky. “Everything from outer space, to people giving each
other space in a relationship, to the way that we occupy land — space on a very large scale and small scale.” For the second album, they kept it conceptual, but changed things up a bit. The book component of House of War is a 300page novel, a fantasy written whimsically and featuring some anthropomorphic elephants, butterflies, storks and the like. The music goes along, though not always in a literal, linear fashion. “We wrote them side-by-side,” says Savisky, “so sometimes a song would influence the direction of the story, and sometimes the story would dictate what songs we still needed to add to the album. The whole time, we kept reminding ourselves that we wanted people to be able to find the album on its own and be able to enjoy it on its own, and we thought the same thing about the novel. “A character, a personality, the setting of a scene — we’d start writing a song like we were writing a score to a scene. The album starts out with this cold, eerie synth-piano CONTINUES ON PG. 26
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thing happening, and the novel starts out with a cold, sort of wintery feel. There are elephants in the novel, and I think some of the songs on the album have this stompingaround feel, and those songs have something to do with those characters. There are some darker songs, and there are some dark magician characters in the novel.” The resulting album sounds slightly less poppy, slightly more arty than the first. The concept seems tighter, and each story seems to represent a different scene or idea more concretely. The band itself seems more grounded, too, which might be because Moyer and Savisky are more confident in what they’re doing with the group. “We kind of moved through this collection of musicians [who played with the band early on], and we began thinking about what Colonizing the Cosmos is, and I think at its core, you see Michael and I,” says Moyer. “Because we’re writing and recording all of the music — though we have brought in some different people to record with us. Then there’s this collective of musicians, people we just run into and say, ‘Hey! Would you be interested in playing with us?’” (The band’s live show, he says, will still include eight people, give or take.) The pair is benefiting from sharing a space — they and their wives live in apart-
ments in the same Shadyside house, which makes collaborating easier than it was early on, when they lived across town from one another. Savisky and Moyer chose to set the House of War release show in an unconventional spot, in keeping with the band’s general style. The show will take place in the performance hall at the Carnegie Library in Homewood — fitting, since it’s also a book release. “We pretty quickly narrowed down the possibilities to two or three, and where we settled was probably our numberone choice,” says Moyer. “We thought a library was a good fit since the novel is involved with this project. We’d both been to the Homewood library before, and it’s pretty spectacular.” “And [it goes] back to how we’ve always liked doing performances,” says Savisky. “We want people to come to a new space and experience something a little bit different.” “I think there’s been a common thread throughout with this band,” adds Moyer, “a pretty strong theme of community. Having this release at the public library — it’s kind of the cornerstone of community and access and free speech in the United States. It fit for all of those reasons.” A M UL K E RI N @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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and vocalist Isabel Almeida talk about their band Hunters, you’d think the whole thing — the widespread acclaim of their first EP, their growing notoriety as one of the most visceral, driving live acts to come out of the Brooklyn indie scene, and their success in making a scuzzy band from Brooklyn cool again — all came about completely naturally. No serious thinking required. “If I start thinking too much, then I’m gonna fuck up,” Watson says with a laugh In a sense, that’s part of the band’s brilliance. In spite of their growing success and acclaim, the pair — joined by Thomas Martin on bass and Gregg Giuffre on drums — remain as dedicated as ever to shutting out the nonsense and delivering the type of straightforward fuzzrock that tears through pretense with ease. While some bands toil for months on their first full-lengths, Hunters came into Chicago right off the road and ripped through the recording process for their self-titled LP in just under a week. “I think it was rushed,” Almeida says of the genesis of the band’s newest project. “But we wanted rushed.” For a band as precocious and rapidly emerging as Hunters, the impatience isn’t shocking. The band formed in 2009 when Watson and Almeida, after running into each other while working in various odd jobs around New York City, bonded over their mutual musical interests, including Melvins, Sonic Youth, Pixies and lesser-known acts like Slant 6 and Carb. Early on, the two realized that their particular style — often characterized by rapid shifts between even-keel verses and choruses that burst up like unexpected landmines — made perfect fodder for performances.
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Hunters), the band began to draw attention the old-fashioned way: shaking rickety venues to their foundations when they took the stage. In 2010, these havoc-wreaking shows drew the attention of Smashing Pumpkins founder James Iha, who saw real musical chops peeking out from beneath the powerful performance. With the help of Iha, Hunters compiled the 2011 EP Hands on Fire, a collection of five tracks over which the band wore its early-’90s influences on its sleeve, in the best way possible. Even for those who hadn’t seen the band’s often reckless live performances, the vitality is palpable. Watson and Almeida’s vocal back-and-forth — equal parts abstract and melodic, sometimes ferocious but always measured — meshes seamlessly (and sometimes darkly) with relentless, sludgy guitars. Their self-titled LP bares elements of this early-’90s style, but the album’s content is more varied and a touch less predictable. “It’s a continuation [of] Hands on Fire,” Almeid says. The songs are longer, which allows them to develop and shift — a slow-going beginning might give way to a frenzied finish, or vice versa. On a number of tracks, the band’s approach is less forceful, and at times — such as on “She’s So,” the album’s second track — even downright relaxed. It might indicate a band on the verge of outgrowing its influences and stepping into its own a little. “I feel like the mellow songs are the last songs we wrote for the record. It could be a new direction.” Almeida says.
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Start your holiday shopping early or just treat yourself tonight at Pittsburgh Record Fest No. 10. The event marks the 10th time Belvedere’s Ultra-Dive has hosted the fair, where record-lovers can buy and sell their collections. All are welcome to sell their stock at the festival, but you must reserve table space in advance. The event will have a huge selection of 45s, LPs, 12-inches, and 78s, and will feature live DJs and drink specials. Allison Cosby 7 p.m. 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $3. 412-687-2555 or www.belvederesultradive.com
Known for her smoky voice and straightforward lyrics, Lissie has a style you won’t forget. A little country and a lot rock ’n’ roll, her music is sweet, sincere and somehow still totally badass. Many critics have compared her to Stevie Nicks, and while there is a clear influence there, Lissie has a style all her own. She released her second full-length album, titled Back to Forever, in October, and her stop at Mr. Small’s tonight is one of the early dates on her international tour. Indie-pop group Purple Apple e and local indie-rock band The Artlesss will open. AC 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $18-20. All ages. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com
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The basic idea behind Matuto: Take goodtime music from all over and put it together. The New York band — touring as a five-piece, e, though it sometimes adds an additional member — mixes bluegrass with Brazilian music, jazz and other party music with plenty y of percussion. The band is on the heels of releasing its latest full-length, The Devil and the Diamond, which came out in May; it playss tonight at Thunderbird Café with Machete Kisumontao. Andy Mulkerin 9 p.m. 4023 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $10-12. 412-682-0177 7 or www.thunderbirdcafe.net
Ali Spagnola is a firm believer in the mediumis-the-message thing — take, for example, the USB drive her Power Hour Drinking Game e album comes on, which doubles as a shot glass. The Pittsburghergone-global, whose persona bridges the gap between frat parties and tech conventions, plays Club Café é tonight, on the drinkingest night of the year. Arrange for a cab, fortify yourself with some food beforehand, and enjoy! AM M 7 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $8. 412431-4950 or www.club cafelive.com
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TO SUBMIT A LISTING: HTTP://HAPPENINGS.PGHCITYPAPER.COM 412.316.3388 (FAX) + 412.316.3342 X194 (PHONE) {ALL LISTINGS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 9 A.M. FRIDAY PRIOR TO PUBLICATION} Pastries, The Harlan Twins. SILKS LOUNGE AT THE Triggers EP Release. Bloomfield. MEADOWS. In Transit Band. 412-621-4900. Washington. CLUB CAFE. Broken Fences, Andre SMILING MOOSE. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD Costello (Early) Wine & Spirit, Mephiskapheles. South Side. CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance Trigger Happy (Late). South Side. 412-431-4668. Vaughn Trio. Strip District. 412-431-4950. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. 412-281-6593. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. 9th Ward, Pet Clinic. CLUB CAFE. Elsinore, Act Matt Smith & Epilogues, Lawrenceville. Of Pardon, Wicked Chief. Distractions, Small 412-682-0177. South Side. 412-431-4950. Victories, Fledglings. WHEELHOUSE HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Garfield. 412-361-2262. AT THE RIVERS Architects, Thundervest, THE HANDLE BAR CASINO. Rudy & the www. per Crooked Cobras, Dead Batteries. pa & GRILLE. Billy & Professionals. North Side. pghcitym .co Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. Jon of Billy the Kid 412-231-7777. OAKDALE INN. Dave Iglar. & The Regulators. Oakdale. Canonsburg. 724-746-4227. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Slim HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. The ALTAR BAR. Emilie Autumn, Forsythe’s Rockin’ Gospel Hour, Tins, Aircraft, Coranado, The Me The Birthday Massacre. Pete’s Radio, Shannon & Toos. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. Strip District. 412-263-2877. The Merger. Lawrenceville. LINDEN GROVE. Dancing Queen. ASSEMBLE. Happy Jawbone 412-682-0177. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. Family Band, General Fantasy, WYEP COMMUNITY MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Working Poor, Dean Cercone. BROADCAST CENTER. Pentagram, Carousel, Doctor Garfield. The Red Western. South Side. Smoke, Brimstone Doven. Millvale. THE BRONZE HOOD. Lenny 866-468-3401. 412-381-9131. Smith & The Ramblers. Robinson. OLIVER’S POURHOUSE. 412-787-7240. Hamilton Ave. Greensburg. BROTHERS GRIMM. KardaZ. 724-836-7687. BRILLOBOX. Triggers, Delicious Coraopolis. 412-788-0890. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, HOMEWOOD. Colonizing the Cosmos. Homewood. 412-731-3080. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Smallpools. Oakland. 412-268-2000. THE CENTER OF HARMONY. Brendan Kelley. Harmony. 570-294-6450. CLUB CAFE. Southside American, Great Ancient Trees (Early). South Side. 412-431-4950. FRANK’S PUB & GRILL. The Tony Janflone Jr. Duo. Bethel Park. 412-833-4606. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Storm King, Vulture, Complete Failure, Lycosa. Garfield. 412-361-2262. HAMBONE’S. Gil Snyder & The Mystic Knight. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. HARD ROCK CAFE. Mercury. Station Square. 412-481-7625. HARVEY WILNER’S. FastBack. West Mifflin. 412-466-1331. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Spooky Sounds of Zeros. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MEADOWS CASINO. The Tony Janflone Jr. Duo. Washington. 724-503-1200. THE R BAR. The Dave Iglar Band. Dormont. 412-942-0882. RACER’S TAVERN. Lucky Me. Each week, we bring you a Latrobe. 724-539-7413. from a local band. This week’s offering comes ROOSTERS ROADHOUSE. The Messengers. Bridgeville. from ; stream or download 412-221-1543. SILKS LOUNGE AT on our music blog, THE MEADOWS. The Elliotts. Washington. FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com.
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SMILING MOOSE. Until We Have Faces, Axios, The End Here On. South Side. 412-431-4668. SONNY’S TAVERN. ATS, The Countrivabilly Orchestra. Bloomfield. 412-683-5844. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Matuto, Machete Kisumontao. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. WHEELHOUSE AT THE RIVERS CASINO. Joe Grushecky & The HouseRockers. North Side. 412-231-7777.
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ALTAR BAR. The Dan Band. Strip District. 412-263-2877. CARSON CITY SALOON. The Tony Janflone Jr. Duo. South Side. 412-481-3203. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Agrimonia, T.O.A.D., Wrathcobra, Wrought Iron. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. LOWER LAWRENCEVILLE. The Sunday Gravy Show Feat. Frank Orrall. Lawrenceville. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The End of America, Gypsy & His Band of Ghosts. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
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THE HOP HOUSE. Yoho’s Yinzide Out. Green Tree. 412-922-9560. SLOPPY JOE’S. Wil E. Tri & the Bluescasters. Mt. Washington. 412-381-4300.
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TUE 26 KOLLAR CLUB. Marah. South Side. LAVA LOUNGE. Evil Empire (Rage Against the Machine Tribute Band), The I Drive. South Side. 412-431-5282. LOUGHLIN’S PUB. Mercedez. Cheswick. MOONDOG’S. theCAUSE. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Lissie, Purple Apple, The Artless. Millvale. 866-468-3401. REX THEATER. MiM0SA. South Side. 412-381-6811. THE SHOP. Toxic Holocaust. Ramming Speed, In Defence, Oh www. per Shit They’re Going to pa 31 SPORTS BAR & pghcitym Kill Us. Bloomfield. .co GRILLE. Zero Fame. Brid412-951-0622. geville. 412-221-7808. SMILING MOOSE. 99 BOTTLES. Light. The Company We Keep Hunters, Carnegie. 412-279-1299. Audacity Native. South Side. ALTAR BAR. The Mahones, 412-431-4668. Bastard Bearded Irishmen, The THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Beagle Brothers, The Even Three. Bombino, Batamba. Lawrenceville. Strip District. 412-263-2877. BUCKHEAD SALOON. Lava Game. 412-682-0177. Station Square. 412-232-3101. CLUB CAFE. Ali Spagnolo’s Power Hour Concert & Drinking Game. South Side. 412-431-4950. BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ DRAVOSBURG V.F.D. #1. hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville. Shotgun Jack. Dravosburg. 412-687-2555. 412-628-9832. CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. & Gangsta Shak. Homewood. Sputzy Sparacino. Canonsburg. 412-969-0260. 724-746-4227. PARK HOUSE. Jx4. North Side. HARVEY WILNER’S. Lucky Me. 412-224-2273. West Mifflin. 412-466-1331. PERLE CHAMPAGNE HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. BAR. Bobby D. Downtown. Bessemers. Bloomfield. 412-471-2058. 412-682-0320.
BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Ritmo Wednesdays. DJ Juan Diego, DJ Carla. Downtown. 412-325-6769. SPOON. Spoon Fed. Hump day chill. House music. aDesusParty. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.
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FRI 22 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell. Downtown. 412-456-6666. CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat Friday’s Reggae. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. DJ Brun. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. DRUM BAR. DJ Kingfish. North Side. 412-231-7777. LAVA LOUNGE. 80’s Alternative. DJ Electric. South Side. 412-431-5282. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Digital Dave. Downtown. 412-471-2058. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.
SAT 23 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip Hop, Club, R&B, Funk & Soul. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. DRUM BAR. VDJ Craig McClintock. North Side. 412-231-7777. PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. DJ Pat. Downtown. 412-471-2058. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.
JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Blues Orphans. North Side. 412-904-3335. JW HALL’S STEAK & SEAFOOD. Jimmy Adler Band. Aliquippa. MOONDOG’S. Jill West & Blues Attack. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.
SAT 23 THE BLIND PIG SALOON. The Blue Bombers w/ Pat Scanga. New Kensington. 724-337-7008. CIP’S. Miss Freddye. Dormont. 412-668-2335. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. .32-20 Fully Loaded Blues. Robinson. 412-489-5631. EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. The Rhythm Aces. South Side. 412-431-4090. MOONDOG’S. Li’l Ed & the Blues Imperials. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. NIED’S HOTEL. Jimmy Adler, Charlie Barath. Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853. NOLA ON THE SQUARE. The Olga Watkins Band. Downtown. 412-471-9100. PAPA ROCKS PIZZA. Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues. Monroeville. 412-856-6441.
SUN 24 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Vince Agwada Blues Band. North Side. 412-904-3335.
WED 27 HARD ROCK CAFE. Bill Toms & Hard Rain, Jill West & Blues Attack. Benefits the Children’s Institute Of Pittsburgh. Station Square. 412-481-7625. CONTINUES ON PG. 41
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This year promises to be an exceptionally festive time with downtown dressed in its holiday best. New this year is a dance party on Smithfield, a total of four musical stages and eight different tree lighting ceremonies. Of course the classics are back again this year with the lighting of the Unity Tree, ice-skating at PPG Place and the BNY Mellon Fireworks Finale.
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Rivers of Steel Holiday Craft Market Saturday and Sunday December 14th & 15th The Pump House 880 Waterfront Drive 10am - 2pm • Handmade Jewelry • Assorted Baked Goods • Unique Gift Ideas Free Admission For more information: marketlady@riversofsteel.com A D V E R T I S I N G
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Fifth Avenue Place 5 – 9 P.M. Fifth Avenue FREEZE on Liberty Avenue Visit the North Pole and snap photos with Ice Penguins,
Snowman, Doves and more. 5 – 9 P.M. Family Fun & Festivities Create your own luminary with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, play Arctic games and get commemorative airbrush tattoos. Live musical performances include: 4:30 – 6:30 P.M. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet 7 -9 P.M. Max Leak Trio 7 – 7:15 P.M. Unity Tree Lighting on the corner of Penn Avenue & Stanwix Avenue Join one of Pittsburgh’s best known neighbors, Mr. McFeely, thousands of Pittsburghers, majestic bagpipers and a splash of fireworks to kick off the official lighting of the historic Unity Tree - presented by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Holiday Gift Card Sale: Buy a $25 Rock Bottom gift card and get a $5 bonus card Beer-to-go for your holiday party: 64 oz. growlers, sixtel kegs (5.15 gal), half barrel kegs (15.5 gal) * keg orders must be placed a minimum of 2 business days in advance Host your holiday party here: Reserve the RB Lounge, Hi-Level Room, or Sing Sing and let us make your holiday event unforgettable
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Santa will make the skyline sparkle as he turns on the bright BNY Mellon Season of Lights with more than 150,000 lights and a 30’ high electronic tree! Enjoy the lights with musical entertainment. 5 P.M. Jeff Jimerson and Airborne Holiday Songfest 5:45 P.M. Countdown to 2013 Season of Lights with Santa 6:00 - 9:30 P.M. Season of Lights Show & Jeff Jimerson mini-concert (every half hour)
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EQT Jazzmasters Stage at EQT Pla za Kick-off your holiday season with the Jazz Legend Jam! 5-9:15 P.M. Roger Humphries and RH Factor 5 P.M. Etta Cox and Al Dowe 6:30 P.M. Michele Bensen and Kenny Blake 8 P.M. Spanky Wilson
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Smithfield Street is closed for a dance party stretching through the decades! 7 P.M. The Elliotts (60s) 8 P.M. Sputzy (70s) 9 P.M. Totally (80s)
4:00 P.M. Light Up Night Pre-Party on the 5th Floor in the Juniors Department 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. Holiday window
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Celebrate the holidays at Sewickley’s annual Light Up Night, with entertainment by Dancing Queen, No Bad JuJu and local children’s groups. Free Horse Drawn Carriage Rides Ȉ Fireworks Ȉ Food Ȉ Ȉ Ȉ Fun for All Ages For details visit www.YuletideInSewickley.com. S U P P L E M E N T
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NIED’S HOTEL. Shot O’ Soul. Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853. THE R BAR. Jimmy Adler w/ Yoho’s Yinzside Out. Dormont. 412-942-8842.
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TEMPLE SINAI. Susanne OrtnerRoberts, Vladimir Mollov, & John Marcinizyn. Gypsy Jazz & Klezmer. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-9715.
MON 25 SAVOY RESTAURANT. Savoy Jazz. Strip District. 412-281-0660.
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Cheswick. 724-265-1181.
WED 27 WINTZELL’S OYSTER HOUSE. Todd Jones Band. West Mifflin. 412-650-9090.
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ANDYS. Tania Grubbs. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CJ’S. Rodger Humphries & The RH Factor. Strip District. 412-642-2377. LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends. Entrepreneurial Thursdays. Downtown. 412-392-2217. MARY PAPPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC. Duquesne Jazz Ensemble. TV Music. Uptown. 412-396-4632.
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ANDYS. Eric Susoeff. Downtown. 412-773-8884. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Mark Strickland. Downtown. 412-456-6666. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series w/ Chris Parker, Matt Booth & David Throckmorton. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
ROY SONNE, VIOLIN & YEEHA CHIU, PIANO. James Laughlin Music Center. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-365-1100.
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ANDYS. Kathy Connor & Daniel May. Downtown. 412-773-8884.
ANDYS. Maureen Budway. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CLUB CAFE. John Sarkis. South Side. 412-431-4950. DOUBLETREE MEADOWLANDS. Jessica Lee. Washington. 724-222-6200. FIFTH AVENUE PLACE. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet. Downtown. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Bumper Jacksons. North Side. 412-904-3335. LEMONT. Dave Crisci & Judi Figel. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. LITTLE E’S. The Just Ahead Trio. Downtown. 412-392-2217. OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo, Pat Crossley. Downtown. 412-553-5235. THE WOODEN NICKEL. Jazz Express. Monroeville. 412-372-9750.
SAT 23 ANDYS. Judi Figel. Downtown. 412-773-8884. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. The Flying Dutchman. Downtown. 412-456-6666. CJ’S. The New Show Band, The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session. Strip District. 412-642-2377. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Reggie Watkins Band. North Side. 412-904-3335. KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER. Suite Life: A Billy Strayhorn Birthday Bash. Feat. Sean Jones & the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra. East Liberty. 412-363-3000. LEMONT. Groove Doctors. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. LITTLE E’S. The Eddie Brookshire Quartet. Downtown. 412-392-2217. MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Joshua Redman Quartet. North Side. 412-322-1773. SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Stranger Convention. Friendship. 412-441-0194. SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Frank Cunimondo & Patricia Skala. Greensburg. 724-850-7245.
SUN 24 OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo. Downtown. 412-553-5235. RANGOS BALLROOM UNIVERSITY CENTER. The Boilermaker Jazz Band. Oakland.
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FRI 22 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RAD CONCERT. Free hour-long concert. Call to reserve a ticket. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.
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ACADEMY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg. ENSEMBLE RIPIENO. BILLY’S ROADHOUSE Performing Mozart BAR & GRILL. & Rodrigo. Charity ww. r w Mark Pipas. Wexford. Randall Theatre, pe ghcitypa p 724-934-1177. Oakland. 412-624-PLAY. .com DOWNEY’S HOUSE. FREYA STRING Jay Wiley. Robinson. QUARTET. Bricolage, 412-489-5631. Downtown. 412-223-7873. JAVA HOUSE. Jack McLaughlin, PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY Scott Albert. Brighton Heights. ORCHESTRA. The music of Danny 412-415-0734. Elfman. Heinz Hall, Downtown. LEVELS. Joe Materkowski. 412-392-4900. North Side. 412-231-7777. MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & FREYA STRING QUARTET. GRILLE. Acoustic Night. West Bricolage, Downtown. Mifflin. 412-461-8000. 412-223-7873. PERRYTOWNE DRAFT HOUSE. THE PITTSBURGH YOUTH Ashley & Garret. McCandless. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & 412-367-9610. THE JUNIOR MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Mozart’s ELWOOD’S PUB. Acoustical Bruce. Requiem Shadyside Presbyterian Cheswick. 724-265-1181. Church, Shadyside. 412-682-4300. LEVELS. Gina Rendina. North Side. 412-231-7777.
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ELWOOD’S PUB. Marshall Street Rents. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. LEVELS. Matt Barranti & Bill Ali. North Side. 412-231-7777. OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants. Downtown. 412-255-0525.
DEL’S RESTAURANT. Marco Fiorante. Bloomfield. 412-683-1448.
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HAMBONE’S. Monday Night Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Gene Stovall. Carnegie. 412-429-7272.
CLUB COLONY. Take Two. Scott. 412-668-0903. EAST LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Ysaye M. Barnwell. A former member of Sweet Honey in the Rock leads a Community Sing. East Liberty. 412-441-3800.
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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Weds. North Side. 412-321-1834. LEVELS. Juan & Erica. North Side. 412-231-7777. PARK HOUSE. Bluegrass Jam w/ The Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.
HAMBONE’S. Cabaret. Jazz Standards & Showtunes singalong. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
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WED 27 CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Hello Donny: A Showtunes Sing-Along. http://trustarts. culturaldistrict.org/event/3941/ hello-donny-a-showtunes-singalong. Downtown. 412-325-6769. SILKS LOUNGE AT THE MEADOWS. No Bad JuJu. Washington.
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What to do November 20 - 26 WEDNESDAY 20 Potted Potter
BYHAM THEATER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. Through Nov. 24.
Sol Cat CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. Over 21 show. With special guests There You Are & Puzzle Pieces. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.
Slayer STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. With special guests Gojira & 4ARM. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.
THURSDAY 21 Jake Miller
ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. With special guests Action Item & Air Dubai. Tickets: ticketfly.com or
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ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
I Made it! Market For the Holidays WATERFRONT Homestead. Free event. For more info visit imadeitmarket.com. Through Nov. 23.
Huey Mack ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. With special guest Kurt Rockmore & more. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.
Drew Carey CARNEGIE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL Munhall. 412-368-5225. All ages show. Tickets: carengieconcerts.com. 8p.m.
SHREK The Musical THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000. Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org. Through Nov. 24.
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Lamb of God & Killswitch Engage
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SATURDAY 23 The Thin Man Comes to Pittsburgh
OMNI WILLIAM PENN HOTEL Downtown. Tickets: 412-553-5000 or jkaiser@ omnihotels.com. 6p.m.
Mercury HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10:30p.m.
Danny Elfman’s Music form the Films of Tim Burton HEINZ HALL Downtown.
412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org/ nightmare. 8p.m.
Emilie Autumn / The Birthday Massacre ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: Two Man Group CARNEGIE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL Munhall. 412-368-5225. All ages show. Tickets: carnegieconcerts.com.
STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. With special guests Testament & Huntress. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-7453000. Doors open at 6p.m.
5:30p.m. & 8:30p.m.
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CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. Over 21 show. With special guests Great Ancient Trees. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 7p.m.
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TUESDAY 26 Elf
BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-4800. Tickets: trustarts.org. Through Dec. 1.
This Century / Nick Santino and the Northern
The End of America / Gypsy & His Band of Ghosts THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. Over 21 show. With special guest Brighton Boys & more. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.
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LAST CALL {BY AL HOFF} The Three Rivers Film Festival wraps up Sat., Nov. 23. Here are reviews of two films playing during the final days. Hey Bartender. Douglas Tirola’s documentary focuses on the rise of the craft-cocktail scene by filling in the history of mixed drinks in the U.S and interviewing its forbearers and current stars. The expected roster of tattoo-ed and mustachioed Young Turks are profiled, but it’s two older gentlemen who are the most fascinating: Dale Degrodd, who has mixed drinks for decades; and a bar-owner from Westport, Conn., who wonders whether his struggling Cheerstype bar needs fancy cocktails. Director Tirola is scheduled to attend; see an interview with him in CP’s On The Rocks column, page 19. 7 p.m. (6 p.m. cocktail tasting), Thu., Nov. 21. Harris
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Zero Charisma. If you — or a loved one — have ever been sucked into table-top role-play gaming, there is much to amuse you about Andrew Matthews and Katie Graham’s comedy. Its protagonist is Scott, a pasty lump of a man whose life is being the game-master of a longrunning fantasy RPG -- until a “cooler” player joins the group and Scott’s patheticbut-satisfying life begins to fall apart. Scott is pretty emotionally stunted, and it’s gonna take more than a high roll of the dice to see him out of this dark journey. 9:15 p.m. Fri., Nov. 22, and 2 p.m. Sat., Nov. 23. Harris AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
HOMEFRONT. FRONT. Jason Statham stars ars as a former e DEA er agentt who moves ves his family y to a quiet town. wn. Or so he thinks, until he e runs afoul of a meth dealer. r. James Franco anco and Winona Ryder also star. Gary Fleder directs. ects. Starts Wed., ., Nov. 27.
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killed teens in last year’s The Hunger Games, the twosome from District 12 — Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) — had outsmarted the rulers of Capital City. For the first time ever, there would be two winners of the e annual death battle, designed to suba jjugate the impoverished 12 districts of Panem (a.k.a. America in the future). P It seemed like a positive ending, but as the next chapter opens — The Hunger a Games: Catching Fire, directed by Francis G LLawrence — nobody is happy. Katniss and Peeta are understandably suffering a ffrom PTSD. And President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is still put out by Katniss’ S ttrickery and her general lack of cooperation. The winning couple is sent on e a “victory tour,” but it’s a PR disaster: Rebellion is starting to foment in the R outlying districts, with Katniss held up o as inspiration. (Some obvious graffiti a out in the sticks: “The odds are never in o our favor.”) o
Back at Capital City — which is taking on a decidedly fascist look — Snow and his new game designer (Philip Seymour Hoffman) concoct a perfect solution, one designed to show the dissenters who’s in charge and neutralize Katniss. Surely, you’ve thought of it, too — another round of killing games! The 75th Hunger Games are announced, and it’s an allstar season, with 24 previous victors, including Katniss and Peeta.
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE DIRECTED BY: Francis Lawrence STARRING: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson Starts Fri., Nov. 22
CP APPROVED Catching Fire is a solid and entertaining two-and-a-half hours, and about half of it is this prologue to, and preparation for, the new battle. (There are also two reprises of Katniss’ flaming dress; enjoy
them, as the story suggests there won’t be many fiery ballgowns in the future.) In many ways, the narrative mirrors the first film, but with new combatants (now adults, including the always welcome Jeffrey Wright) and a more broadly defined victory. It’s not simply enough for Katniss to survive — the stage has been set for a country-wide revolt. The battle scenes are more focused this time out — alliances are formed early and some strategies are long-range. But the game arena is still a perilous place, with new and baroque dangers. If you enjoyed Hunger Games, you’ll like Catching Fire well enough, even if it feels like a bigger, better retread, intercut with scene-setting for the next chapter. (Mockingjay is the final novel of Suzanne Collins’ trilogy, but it will unfold over two more movies.) The stakes have been raised — the personal has become political — and I’m curious to see how this part-teen-pulp/part-dystopian-polemic tale plays out, especially with Lawrence’s increasingly troubled heroine at the fore. A HOF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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THE GENERAL. In this silent comedy masterpiece, the hapless, expressionless Buster Keaton portrays a Civil War-era train engineer whose locomotive, The General, is hijacked by Yankees. Keaton co-directed and co-wrote this 1927 film with Clyde Bruckman, as well as performing all his own stunts. Boston’s Alloy Orchestra will provide live musical accompaniment. 4 p.m. Sat., Nov. 23. Regent Square HE WHO GETS SLAPPED. Lon Chaney stars in this twisted 1924 melodrama about a professional man humiliated by his wife and her lover, causing him to take up a new, bizarre career: He plays a circus clown who is repeatedly slapped. Boston’s Alloy Orchestra will provide live musical accompaniment. 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 23. Regent Square. $15 (includes reception)
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of his progeny sue to find out his identity. Vince Vaughn and Chris Pratt star in Ken Scott’s comedy. Starts Fri., Nov. 22.
BLACK NATIVITY. Kasi Lemmons directs this contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes’ play about an African-American teenage boy who journeys from Baltimore to New York City to spend the holidays with estranged family members. Jacob Latimore, Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker star. Starts Wed., Nov. 27.
FROZEN. It’s up to a plucky young woman to save her princess sister and their hometown, currently paralyzed under a spell of permanent winter, in this new animated Disney film from Christopher Buck and Jennifer Lee. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Wed., Nov. 27.
THE BOOK THIEF. During World War II, in Germany, a young girl tries to make her world a better place by reading, and sharing books with those around her. Among her “neighbors” is a Jewish refugee, hidden beneath the stairs. Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson; Brian Percival directs. Starts Wed., Nov. 27. DALLAS BUYERS CLUB. Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto star in this bio-pic about a group of Texas men in the early days of the AIDS epidemic who organized to acquire potentially life-saving new medicines. Jean-Marc Vallée directs. Starts Fri., Nov. 22. DELIVERY MAN. A sperm donor is forced to look at his “success” when more than a hundred
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OLDBOY. Spike Lee directs this American remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 Korean crime thriller, in which a recently freed man (Josh Brolin) tries to discover why he was imprisoned. Starts Wed., Nov. 27. PHILOMENA. Judi Dench stars in Stephen Frears’ drama about an Irish woman who, with the help of a journalist (Steve Coogan), attempts to track down the child she gave up nearly 50 years earlier. Starts Wed.,, Nov. 27.
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Dead Life 2: Necrodevils 6:15 p.m. Fri., Nov. 22. Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. Free. www.sembenefilmfestival.org PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES. Getting home for the holidays is a nightmare in John Hughes’ 1987 comedy. John Candy owns this movie; all his scenes are great — from the slapstick of the awkward sleeping arrangements with his unhappy travel companion (Steve Martin) to the slow reveal of his loneliness. It’s almost enough for you to forgive the padded nonsense about family and sleeping wives in Chicago, and the belabored off-tone ending. 7 and 9:15 p.m. Fri., Nov. 22; 2 p.m. Sat., Nov. 23; and 4 and 7 p.m. Sun., Nov. 24. Hollywood A CHRISTMAS STORY. Guess what Ralphie wants for Christmas? An official Red Ryder Carbine Action 200 shot-range model air rifle. Will he get it? Discover this and other small wonders of holidays past in Bob Clark’s 1983 holiday film, presented on the big screen. 10 p.m. Fri., Nov. 22, and Sat., Nov. 23. Oaks HOUSE OF ODDITIES: THE STORY OF THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION. A new documentary film from Brian Cottington highlights Morose &
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KELCEY PARKER reads from Liliane’s Balcony 7 p.m. Thu., Nov. 21 (ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Ave., Garfield; $5 or free with potluck contribution; www.tnypresents.blogspot.com) and 7 p.m. Sat., Nov. 23 (East End Book Exchange, 4754 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield; free; www.eastendbookexchange.com).
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For writer Kelcey Parker, a 2009 stop at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater was incidental — something to see while visiting Ohiopyle with family. But Fallingwater took hold. Four years of research and writing later, plus some long-distance volunteering — Parker traveled seven hours each way from Indiana to be a Fallingwater guide for several weekends — she has published a novella set there, Liliane’s Balcony (Rose Metal Press). Parker always knew her project would be “a domestic tragedy.” Through her research, Parker discovered one had already happened at Fallingwater — that of the philandering Edgar Kaufmann and broken-hearted Liliane Kaufmann, who in 1952 overdosed on sleeping pills at the home on top of a waterfall that Wright designed for them. Parker’s narrative became a collage of fictional stories juxtaposing Liliane and a handful of modernday visitors. One is a woman who planned a road trip to Fallingwater with a new boyfriend but was stood up, left sitting outside his place and leaving a string of voicemails, the coffee she brought for him cooling in her car’s cup-holder. “It’s almost obnoxiously technical to think this way, but I see Liliane Kaufmann as the vertical core of the book, much like the stone vertical core built up from the rock where the Kaufmanns used to sunbathe by the waterfall. And the other characters extend forth like all those cantilevered balconies,” says Parker, who grew up partly in Pittsburgh and now directs the creative-writing program at Indiana University South Bend. As a volunteer, Parker gathered stories from the visitors who shuffled through the iconic house — roughly a thousand daily. “One woman was celebrating her 50th birthday by taking a solo trip to Fallingwater. An Argentinian architecture student was about to bust out of her skin because she was so excited to finally see Fallingwater in person,” says Parker, also author of the 2011 short-story collection For Sale By Owner. Despite her tragic death, Liliane Kaufman is in many ways a supporting character in the story of Fallingwater, which primarily swirls around Frank Lloyd Wright and Edgar Kaufmann. Parker aimed to change that: “Ultimately, I wanted to write a story for her and about her.”
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Artists from past RAW events (clockwise from upper left): visual artist Natiqu Jalil;; makeup artist Autumn Cook (center, with friends); performance artist Serotonin; and visual artist Ziggy Sawdust
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RAW is held at Cavo, a Strip District club. The event calls for fashionable attire, and attendees definitely dress to kill: From edgy fashionistas to streetwear stars, the typical 500-plus crowd looks like something out of a Brooklyn loft party.
AW N AT U R A L B o r n A r t is t s , a monthly showcase with iterations in some 60 cities, holds its first annual Pittsburgh awards show this week. The series is a platform for underground visual and performing artists who might not have shown their work to a larger audience. “We’re here to guide them through the process and give them a real experience with having their own (and sometimes first ever) show,” writes RAW founder Heidi Luerra, who’s based in Los Angeles. “We’re here to help because there is a gaping hole between just starting out in your career and getting signed to a record label or making it into a gallery.” Most RAW events are in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Nationally, RAW has drawn attention from culture outlets like Flavorpill and 303 Magazine, and even Lifetime’s Project Runway. In Pittsburgh,
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RAWARDS PITTSBURGH SEMI-FINALIST SHOW 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 22. Cavo, 1916 Smallman St., Strip District. $17-20 (21 and over). www.rawartists.org
The multi-genre showcases feature visual artists, musicians, fashion designers, dancers and filmmakers, as well as hair and makeup artists. The idea is to bring artists into a supportive community across the network of cities. “The arts scene in Pittsburgh is nothing like, say, New York,” says RAW’s Pitts-
burgh showcase director, Leigh Yock (also co-founder of locally based promotional company Nakturnal). “But there are a lot of avenues in Pittsburgh for artists. I just think that this is another avenue and it’s doing it in a more unique way. … The ability to have all these artists in one place at one time really creates a strength.” Since launching, in February, RAW has showcased 222 local artists. For the Nov. 22 RAWards, 27 semi-finalists — three artists from each of nine categories — have been selected via online voting and local judges’ picks. The judges choosing winners Nov. 22 include: Veronica Corpuz, who directs the Three Rivers Arts Festival; Renee Piechocki, director of the city’s Office of Public Art; and Adam Welch, curator at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Winners from all RAW cities will be entered into an online database for final judging by industry professionals. The
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top contestant in each category goes to Los Angeles for the national RAWards ceremony, in December. Some controversy attends the RAW format. Artists are either recruited by organizers like Yock, or apply online. But to actually participate, artists must either sell 20 tickets at $10 a piece or else pay $200. Critics call this aspect â&#x20AC;&#x153;pay-toplay,â&#x20AC;? and it disturbs some in the local music scene. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re selling art, then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to make your money back. But if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a band, then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to make $200 selling CDs at a show of that scale,â&#x20AC;? says Alexis Icon, a local musician. After the ďŹ rst few RAW shows, Icon complained on Facebook about the format. Joining the thread were several promoters, musicians and even festival organizers. But Icon eventually attended a RAW event and now says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a great time, saw a lot of people I know. And then I performed once and did sound for a band. â&#x20AC;Ś I think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing a really good job.â&#x20AC;? She adds that she no longer considers RAW pay-to-play: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like a battle of the bands.â&#x20AC;? In an email Yock shared with City Paper, Luerra rejected the pay-to-play label. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Events are just one single part of what we encompass. We use the ticket method because we know that artists donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a lot of disposable income. If they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to participate by paying a fee â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which most cannot (all that we do does cost money at the end of the day) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they can work for it instead, hence crowdfunding their cost to participate. â&#x20AC;Ś We do this to make it easy.â&#x20AC;? Aside from hosting the event, RAW organizers invite gallery owners, industry professionals and the media. Artists also get professionally produced video content of themselves, an updatable proďŹ le page on the RAW website and contacts with RAW organizers elsewhere. RAW â&#x20AC;&#x153;also forces the artist to market themself,â&#x20AC;? says an artist who goes by the name Ms. Dingo, and who participated in Octoberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RAW event. She recently moved back to Pittsburgh after a stint in New York, where she had a few gallery shows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a lot of instances, the gallery youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re showing at is out there spreading the work for you, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like RAW is doing that,â&#x20AC;? she says. And RAW â&#x20AC;&#x153;allows you to connect with all the other artists who are involved.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the exposure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting,â&#x20AC;? says Yock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also about ďŹ nding them opportunities.â&#x20AC;?
One thing I have learned over a decade of reviewing Point Park Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conservatory Dance Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shows is that they rarely contain a dull moment. The 2013 version of CDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Contemporary Choreographers program, this past Saturday, was no different. Fate brought former Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre soloist Terence Marling back to Pittsburgh â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or at least the subject did. Of his new work â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fatum Inflictum,â&#x20AC;? created for the CDC, Marling says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The basic image to start was a door with Fate on the other side.â&#x20AC;? Marling fittingly set the comedic contemporary dance work to the first movement of Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s familiar Symphony No. 5 in C minor (sometimes referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fateâ&#x20AC;?). Wearing T-shirts, shorts, striped knee socks and Marilyn Manson-style eye makeup, 20 dancers looking like a zombie gym class ran amok. Crouched like wrestlers and ready to foam at the mouth, the wild-eyed dancers stomped about, fell to the floor and, led by dancer Carlos Jimenez, grunted and shouted at each other in some unintelligible language. A raucous romp, Marlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderfully crafted work blended a frat-party spirit with fine acting and dancing. Pittsburgh native and recent MacArthur â&#x20AC;&#x153;genius awardâ&#x20AC;? recipient Kyle Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Continuous Relationâ&#x20AC;? set a different tone. Danced to static-infused electronic music by Finnish duo Pan Sonic, the abstract work for 15 dancers utilized Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature fusion of stylized modern dance and hip-hop movement. The latter style looked more comfortable for some CDC dancers than others, but Nile Ruff was one standout; sweeping head moves, the elongating of limbs, and sharp turns flowed nicely from her. Also notable was the intense dancing of Schuyler Whittemore and Kelly Ramis. The eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most technically polished and adroitly danced work was Brian Enosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whip.â&#x20AC;? Set to atmospheric world music, the work began with its six dancers piled atop each other like corpses. The dancers arose one by one to drift into beautifully spaced and sharply interwoven choreography laced with rapid turns, lifts and whipping dance moves. Led by the spitfire solo dancing of Vanessa Guinto, the cast performed exquisitely. The program closed with Randy Duncanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Journey.â&#x20AC;? The large group work fused traditional African dance movement with contemporary styles in a crowd-pleasing piece that, like Doug Brushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music for it, built in intensity to a climactic ending.
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OUR FATHERS {BY TED HOOVER} THERE ARE a lot of dead people in Jessica
Dickey’s Charles Ives Take Me Home, now getting its Pittsburgh premiere at City Theatre. Violinist John Starr talks to us about his dead dad, who couldn’t understand why his son liked music instead of sports. And Starr’s daughter, Laura, struggles through memories of John — when we first meet her she’s a grown-up and he’s dead — and how he can’t understand why she likes sports instead of music. As if to bridge the gap, American composer Charles Ives shows up — or rather, because he died in 1954, his ghost does — because: (a) John once took a class from him, and (b) Ives was an enthusiastic fan of both sports and music. Playwright Dickey zips us back and forth in time and intent, and there’s some high-falutin’ talk about art, sports, connection and a couple of other things I can’t remember right now. But most of that’s not important. At its core, Charles Ives Take Me Home is a “Daddy Why Don’t You Love Me?” play. And, to tell you the truth, those are just the sort of plays I can take or leave; doesn’t matter if they’re by Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Frank Gilroy or Jessica Dickey. But the audience with whom I saw the play probably felt differently. Certainly the performances by Drew McVety,
Tressa Glover and James FitzGerald go a long way toward breathing some life into this somewhat removed and polite play. Glover is a consistently fascinating actress to watch, and here turns in a frightfully intelligent performance. Besides giving vent to his character’s bruised and bruising love for his daughter, McVety also plays a very mean violin. The role of Ives seems to me to be unplayable — in tone and in texture, he’s in another play and feels superfluous to Dickey’s Daddy/ Daughter drama — but FitzGerald gives him heft and humor.
CHARLES IVES TAKE ME HOME continues through Dec. 15. City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $15-55. 412-431-2489 or www.citytheatrecompany.org
Matt M. Morrow directs with an appropriately light touch, giving the words and the actors the room they need to achieve what impact they can. There’s a treacly ending of easy sentimentality that even Morrow has trouble navigating, but until then he well serves this little curio of a play. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
BROTHER ACT {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} A SURE SIGN that you’re getting old is realizing that a play you saw when it was new CONTINUES ON PG. 50
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Zach Moore, sound; John Lasiter, lighting; and Michael Krass, costumes. All the stage crew should be congratulated as well as production stage manager Fred Noel and assistant Kelly Wood. Ken Barnett and David Mogentale get quite a workout as the cautious and the Cro-Magnon brothers, respectively. The former morphs neatly into his brother’s drunken free spirit. The credibly threatening Mogentale tiptoes around his brother’s genteel surface. Mary Rawson underplays a wonderful cameo as their mother, hinting how the brothers turned out this way. Dan Shor fulfills the jolly Hollywood producer at the heart of the fraternal strife.
TRUE WEST continues through Dec. 8. O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $15.75-55. 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org
Shepardistas will argue about the playwright’s continuing motif of conflicted brothers and conflicted selves, the pain of identity, the loss of truth and/or the West. Most people will just enjoy True West for how twisted familial relationships can be. Think Marx Brothers, not Father Knows Best. I N F O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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{BY DAVID BERGER} WHEN YOU CAN’T Take It With You opened
on Broadway in 1936, it took the theater world by storm, earning a Pulitzer for playwrights George S. Kaufman (a Pittsburgh native and Fifth Avenue High grad) and Moss Hart. It was timely, funny and edgy — just the sort of classic comedy the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama would select to celebrate its centennial. Alas, though YCTIWY provided the template for many sitcoms featuring a “normal” but wholesomely sexy daughter in a wacky family (long live The Munsters), it has not aged well. Many contemporary references fall flat: Perhaps the program should have included footnotes explaining such dated ephemera as Kay Francis. The play’s Vanderhof family, so charmingly eccentric by 1930s standards, today seems more like a Tea Party collective, if not quite so racist. Director Barbara MacKenzie-Wood decided to present YCTIWY as a theater artifact, a beautiful and polished museum piece that, although far removed from current cultural sensibilities, nevertheless portended many of them. The production is indeed gorgeous, no surprise given the design talent available to CMU: Pam Lee, set; Emily Chalmers, costume; Yingchao Teng, lighting; and Almeda Baynon, sound; plus stage manager Timothy S. Sutter and dramaturg Emily Anne Gibson.
A mystery adapted by Darian Lindle, from the Newbery Award-winning novel by Ellen Raskin.
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YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU continues through Nov. 23. Philip Chosky Theater, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. $10-29. 412-268-2407 or www.drama.cmu.edu
The large cast is a mixed bag. Many of the characters are obviously much older than the students playing them: I had a tough time sorting out which young man was playing the son-in-law of an equally young man. Some actors had trouble with the lightweight, unrealistic characters. The most successful were those who dove headfirst into the nonsense, chewing and spitting out bits of scenery from both sides of their mouths: e.g. Claire Saunders, doublecast as two extreme visitors, and Michael McGuire, as the overwrought but always hungry Russian émigré. And give a hand to Zanny Laird and Chris Douglass as the thanklessly earnest young lovers. Though not quite the chucklefest it once was, You Can’t Take It With You is an enjoyable cultural milestone, and you won’t see a better one than at CMU. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
Richard Claraval’s “Ignudo 17, Necromancer”
and edgy is now a mainstream chestnut. Pittsburgh Public Theater’s “Masterpiece Season” marches on with Sam Shepard’s True West. Directed by Pamela Berlin, it’s a lovely production with plenty of laughs and very little sting. Oddly, the genesis of True West’s success comes not from the 1980 world premiere, in San Francisco, and even less from the original Broadway version that year, which Shepard publicly deplored. No, the true True West was born in a 1982 revival by Chicago’s then-little-known Steppenwolf Theatre Co., directed by company cofounder and artistic director Gary Sinise. (Yes, that dour-Republican, Lt. Dan Band, CSI: NY Gary Sinise.) That interpretation moved to New York with Sinise opposite his buddy John Malkovich, and everyone lived happily ever after. Since there are newbies in the audience, I won’t supply spoilers. The story is about two grown brothers, seemingly opposites on the socio-cultural-economic scale, changing roles and regressing not only into childhood, but into primitive man. Berlin fills the senses with a richly physical True West on a lush mountainscape behind a cozy Southern California cottage. Thanks to fight director Randy Kovitz and the design team: Michael Schweikardt, set;
Richard Claraval is a romantic with a s cientific point of view. He believes everything in the universe results from understandable causes, and yet there is something metaphysical about Ignudi, his exhibit of drawings at the Spinning Plate Gallery. The 38 works in charcoal and graphite are a synthesis of representational drawings of Michelangelo’s ignudi from the Sistine Chapel and Claraval’s own type of gestural abstraction. Claraval’s copies of Michelangelo form the basis of his drawings. He meticulously transferred 19 different ignudis (nude youths) to sheets of paper both large and small. Then he drew over and sometimes effaced the drawings with faster gestural lines, distributing the energy of the originals. The drawings are somewhat experimental. In the smaller ones, Claraval drew three rectangles over parts of each ignudo, then elaborated the shading within the blocked-off areas. Finally, he connected the rectangles with a dark, bold gestural line. Claraval is not slavishly beholden to Michelangelo. Often, he varies the placing of the figures on the page, and adds or subtracts pieces according to his interpretation. The quality of the lines is essential to the work. There are lines that writhe like snakes choking off the figure, lines that look like wisps of smoke, dusty swath-like swipes, dancing lines and hatched lines. Sometimes the lines are fine like hair; others seem to torment the bodies like vines with prickly thorns. Claraval is an able draftsman, enamored of chiaroscuro and bulging musculature, but equally attracted by the effects of motion and by abstract expressionism. In a couple of the drawings, one might identify a Daliesque world of illusion that borders on the erotic. This is achieved by judicial shading and heightened contrasts. As in the Doors song, Claraval tries to “break on through to the other side.” We witness figures battling a whirlwind of forces that threaten to extinguish them. Sometimes the subject is overcome and turned into a devil of sorts. Other times, he finds his confidence, magically controlling the “evil” gestural lines which face him. There is nobility of vision in this art. It speaks of suffering, transformation and cosmic order. My only misgiving is that often the two styles do not unite convincingly so as to create more visual depth. Perhaps recognizing these virtues, and their imperfections, is the best we can realize from this transcendent exhibit. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
IGNUDI continues through Nov. 25. Spinning Plate Gallery, 5720 Friendship Ave.,Friendship. 412-441-0194
Culture Club: Film Screening with Yael Bartana Thursday, November 21, 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. Cost: $10; Includes admission and one drink ticket. Join us for a one-time screening of Bartana's recent film trilogy ...And Europe Will Be Stunned (2007â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11). Bartana and co-curator Daniel Baumann will discuss the films following the screening. Yael Bartana, still from Zamach (Assassination), 2011, from the ...And Europe Will Be Stunned trilogy (2007â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11); Image courtesy of the artist; Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam; Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; and Petzel Gallery, New York.
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{COMEDY} Lynne Koplitz isn’t so sure how she’d be with kids. “I have this horrible image of a little kid being like, ‘Mommy, I need milk money.’ And I’m like, ‘Mommy needs lipstick. Now we have a situation. ... Sorry, Selfish.’” The nationally touring comedian stars in IFC’s comedy Z Rock and has numerous other TV credits, including her own Comedy Central special. Starting tonight, she does six shows at the Pittsburgh Improv. BO 7 p.m. Shows
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NOV. 25 Amy Tan
Pittsburgh’s Light Up Night is back for its 53rd holiday season. No matter where you are Downtown, something will be happening: Several blocks of Smithfield Street will be closed for a “dancing through the decades” street party; at 5:45 p.m., the Oxford Centre tree and “Santa’s Lights BNY Mellon Season of Lights” will be lit; at 7:30 p.m., there’s a free Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert at Heinz Hall; and at 9:38 p.m., the BNY Mellon fireworks finale will be launched from the Andy Warhol Bridge. And if you like horse-and carriagerides, then this is just getting started … Brett Wilson Some events start as early as noon. Downtown. Free. 412-566-4190 or www. downtownpittsburgh.com
{CRAFTS} The I Made! Market indiecrafts marketplace operates year-round, moving from venue to venue. But the group’s big show is its annual Holiday Market, which attracts thousands with handmade,
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In its Broadway premiere, in 2011 — even with an all-star cast led by Chris Rock — acclaimed playwright Stephen Adley Guirgis’ The Motherfucker With the Hat struggled to fill seats. Guess why? Couldn’t have helped that most newspapers couldn’t print the show’s full title, or that Rock couldn’t say it on broadcast TV. And if you think Pittsburgh’s barebones productions has it any fuckin’ easier … “Getting the word out about this show has been harder” than with any of barebones’ prior 11 shows, says founder and artistic director Patrick Jordan. So barebones is marking its 10th anniversary with posters that — even with “fucker” blacked out — were refused from store windows, and with airtime unbought, strategic bleeps notwithstanding. Too bad, because this dark romantic comedy’s premiere production drew strong reviews, and a bunch of best-play nominations. Barebones’ staging at the New Hazlett Theater features Jordan as Jackie, paroled and newly sober, who suspects that his smart, coke-sniffing lover (played by Ruth Gamble) is sneaking around. Jackie’s neighbor and AA sponsor, Ralph, is played by Obie winner Edwin Lee Gibson, who starred in barebones’ 2012 production of Guirgis’ Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train; the cast (pictured) is directed by Rich Keitel. “There’s no other name you could have called this show,” contends Jordan, adding, “The title is the disclaimer.” Bill O’Driscoll Thu., Nov. 21-Dec. 7. 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $25-35. 888-718-4253 or www.barebonesproductions.com
non-mallified consumer pleasures. Today and tomorrow, in two vacant storefronts at The Waterfront, you’ll find 100 local artisans selling everything from reclaimed-wood wall hangings, ceramics and jewelry to knitted goods, baby clothes, pet treats and housewares. Plus, while you browse, enjoy sounds from DJ JMalls and a DJ from Get Hip Recordings. BO 5-10 p.m. Also 11 a.m.6 p.m. Sat., Nov. 23. West Homestead. Free entry. www.imadeitmarket.com
musicians and one distinguished guest performing concertos by Mozart and the great Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. The Sinfonia Concertante for four winds and orchestra, attributed to Mozart, will be performed by locally based reed trio Reed III, joined by French-horn player Jaclyn Perez. And Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra features internationally touring guitarist Dieter Hennings. In this concert at the Charity Randall Theatre, the orchestra will be led by Federico Garcia, artistic director of Alia Musica Pittsburgh. BO 8 p.m. Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $20. www.ripienopittsburgh.org
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{VARIETY} If there are people out there who don’t dig Bob Marley … well, you won’t find them at Suite Bob, the first in a showcase-style series hosted by Reed Dance to honor legendary performing artists. Successor to the decommissioned August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, and still led by Greer Reed, the troupe welcomes a variety of spokenword performers, dancers and musical acts for an informal evening set to a soundtrack by the reggae master and cultural icon. Guests at the Hill District’s Kaufmann Center include the reggae band Zapology. There’s also an open mic, and refreshments. BO 7-10 p.m. 1835 Centre Ave., Hill District. $8. Reed.dance@gmail.com
{COMEDY} Apparently, it’s the weekend for Whose Line Is It Anyway? alums at Munhall’s Carnegie Library Music Hall. Tonight, former WLIIA? host and sitcom star Drew Carey takes a break from The Price Is Right to revisit his standup roots. And then tomorrow, Colin Mouchrie and Brad Sherwood honor WLIIA?’s improv legacy with their Two Man Group show. The evening’s shenanigans are based entirely on audience
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The Solomon Douglas Sextet. Other DJ and live-band dances follow through Sunday night at those venues and Carnegie Mellon’s Rangos Ballroom. BO 8 p.m.-midnight and 1-5 a.m. Events continue through Sun., Nov. 24. Various venues. $10-20 (single events); $70 for whole
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+ MON., NOV. 25 {WORDS} Amy Tan remains best known for her 1989 debut story collection, The Joy Luck Club (later adapted as a feature film). But her fame has only grown, and the eight-year wait since her previous novel ended with publication of The Valley of Amazement. Set in early 20th-century Shanghai, it’s about a mother and daughter — an American running a high-class courtesan house and the abandoned, half-Chinese girl who herself becomes a celebrated courtesan. Glowing advance reviews in tow, Tan brings her national book tour to Carnegie Music Hall for Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ Monday Night Lectures tonight. BO 7:30 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10-25. 412-622-8866 or www.pittsburghlectures.org
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THE CHILD HAS FOUND HIS FATHER. A new take on the tale by William Shakespeare & William Rowley. Presented by the Pitt-Greensburg Theatre Company. Nov. 21-23, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 24, 2 p.m. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg. 724-837-7040. BLUE/ORANGE. A tale of race, madness & a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service. Presented by The Phoenix Theatre. Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Nov. 23. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown. 1-888-718-4253. CHARLES IVES TAKE ME HOME. A father’s love of music & a daughter’s passion for basketball are at odds in this play about competition, commitment, & craft. Sat, 5:30 & 9 p.m., Sun, 2 & 7 p.m., Tue, 7 p.m. and Wed, 1 & 7 p.m. Thru Dec. 11. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489. A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE MUSICAL. God bless us, every one!
Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Dec. 8. New Castle Playhouse, New Castle. 724-654-3437. A CHRISTMAS STORY. Presented by Mon River Arts. Nov. 21-22, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Nov. 23, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 24, 2 p.m. Grand Theatre, Elizabeth. 412-628-1032. THE CURIOUS SAVAGE. Affection & generosity of spirit triumph in this story of a very wealthy eccentric named Mrs. Savage, who has some surprises in store for her eager, fortune-hungry adult children. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Nov. 23. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. DEATHTRAP. The story of a writer who is struggling to write a murder mystery play, & the real life events that lead to the perfect deathtrap. Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. Thru Nov. 30. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727. ELF THE MUSICAL. Based on the 2003 movie. Nov. 26-28, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 29, 8 p.m., Sat., Nov. 30, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 1, 1 & 6:30 p.m. Benedum
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Center, Downtown. 412-456-4800. Nov. 21-23, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 24, 2:30 p.m. Geyer ELF’ED. Interactive murder Performing Arts Center, Scottdale. mystery dinner theater. Sat., 724-887-0887. Nov. 23, 7 p.m. Gaetano’s THE MOTHERFU**ER WITH Restaurant, Dormont. THE HAT. Things are starting to 412-343-6640. look up for recovering alcoholic GODSPELL. Musical telling Jackie & his girlfriend Veronica— of the Gospel. Fri, 8 p.m., Sat., until Jackie spots another man’s Nov. 23, 8 p.m., Sun., Nov. 24, hat in their apartment & embarks 2 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 7, 2 p.m. Thru on a quest for vengeance. Dec. 6. Kean Theatre, Gibsonia. Presented by barebones 724-444-5326. productions. Wed-Sat, HECUBA. A new take on 8 p.m. and Sun, 7 p.m. Euripides’ classic Greek Thru Dec. 1. New tragedy. Presented Hazlett Theater, North by the Conservatory www. per Side. 1-888-718-4253. Theatre Company. Thu, pa pghcitym NORMA. Bellini’s opera .co Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 presented by Undercroft p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Opera. Nov. 21-23, 7 p.m. Nov. 24. Pittsburgh Playhouse, and Sun., Nov. 24, 2 p.m. Seton Oakland. 412-392-8000. Center, Brookline. 412-422-7919. THE KENNEDY LEGACY. Feat. PARLOUR SONG. A suburban excerpts from JFK’s powerful housing development is home to speeches read by local actors. two friendly couples. But beneath Presented by Prime Stage Theatre. the bland routine of affluence, Fri., Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m. Max’s illicit desires & painful memories Allegheny Tavern, North Side. prompt mysterious occurrences. 412-231-1899. 201 W. Waterfront Dr., Homestead. MAN OF LAMANCHA. Play Presented by Quantum Theatre. based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sat, Sun, 7 p.m. Thru Nov. 24. 412-362-1713. PLAID TIDINGS. Forever Plaid Christmas special, presented by Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret. Wed, Thu, 7:30 p.m., Sat, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Jan. 12. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-456-6666. POTTED POTTER, THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY EXPERIENCE: A PARODY BY DAN & JEFF. Presented by Daniel Clarkson & Jefferson Turner. Thru Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 22, 8 p.m., Sat., Nov. 23, 2, 5 & 8 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 24, 1 & 6:30 p.m. Byham Theater, Downtown. 412-456-6666. TRUE WEST. Play by Sam Shepard about two battling brothers at the edge of the desert. Presented by Pittsburgh Public Theater. Wed-Sat, 8 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 & 7 p.m. Thru Dec. 8. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600. THE WEDDING SINGER. An adaptation of the movie, presented by Stage 62. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Nov. 23. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-429-6262. THE WESTING GAME. Based on the novel by Ellen Raskin. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Nov. 24. McKeesport Little Theater, McKeesport. 412-673-1100. WORDPLAY: TRANSIT TALES. Blending hilarious true stories with a live music, actors, comedy writers, & everyday people read their own true stories with a live DJ
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BE GALLERIES. 35th Anniversary Exhibition. Work by ceramic artist Yoko SekinoBove & jewelry artist Jim Bove. Opening reception Nov. 23, 5-9 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2606. BOKSENBAUM FINE ARTS GALLERY. Diners: A Retrospective. Watercolors & oils by Steve Boksenbaum. Opens Nov. 23, 6-9 p.m. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-3212. INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. Venus, Eve, & Madonna. Presented by the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Work by Ruthanne Bauerle, Dorothy de Groat, Tazim Jaffer, Yelena Lamm, Tommy Mason, Daniel Mercer, Nathan Nissim, Rhoda Taylor, more. Opening reception: Nov. 22, 6-9 p.m. Sewickley. 412-741-3036. MENDELSON GALLERY. African Dreams, Cubists Visions Redux. Sculptures by David Lewis, paintings by Terry Shutko. Opening reception Nov. 23, 1-4 p.m. Shadyside. 412-361-8664. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. The New Collective. PCA all-guild exhibition of current work. Opening reception: Nov. 22, 5:30-9 p.m. Shadyside. 412-361-0873.
ONGOING 28 WEST SECOND GALLERY & STUDIO SPACE. Andrews & Miller: Non-Objective Forms. Photographs & paintings. Greensburg. 724-205-9033. 707 PENN GALLERY. threaded colors // drawing lines. Work by Nicole Czapinski. Downtown. 412-325-7017. AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUM. Finnish & Jewish. Photographs by Dina Kantor. Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8010.
ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Theater of the Self. Photographic reprisals by Yasumasa Morimura. I Just Want to Watch: Warholâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Film, Video and Television. Long-term exhibition of Warholâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film & video work. Permanent collection. Artwork and artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side. 412-237-8300. ARTISAN. Bonnie Gloris. An exhibit of Glorisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; newest body of work. Garfield. BARCO LAW LIBRARY. The Digital Imagers Group Show. www.digitalimagers.org. Oakland. BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. Pittsburgh Panoramas/Metals. Frazier. 724-275-7001. BOULEVARD GALLERY. Multi-Media Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sale. Verona. 412-828-1031. CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY. Paradisio. Multi-media exhibition presented by the Department of Art & Design. California. 724-938-4182. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. 2013 Carnegie International. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Allison Stewart. Paintings. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. COHEN & GRIGSBY GALLERY. CONNECTIONS: The Work of Fabrizio Gerbino. Downtown. ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined with some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most talented contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection. Watercolors by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003). Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago
Exhibition. Collectors Showcase. Emsworth. 412-734-2099. FATHER RYAN ARTS CENTER. Pittsburgh Society of Artists Annual Exhibit. McKees Rocks. 412-771-3052. FIELDWORK: CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY. On Paper. Group show. onpaper@inbox.com. Garfield. FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Gravitational Pull. Multimedia work by Megan Biddle. Oakland. 412-681-5449. FIREBORN @ THE WORKS. Ceramics & glass pop-up gallery. Feat. Line & Color, works by Donn Hedman. S. 27th St., South Side. South Side. 412-381-3181. FRAMEHOUSE. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Group Show. Work by more than 40 artists. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Clayton Holiday Tours - A Pittsburgh Christmas. Artifacts displayed in Clayton evoke the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s celebrations, archival & newspaper materials will give an idea of seasonal activity in & around the city. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. FRICK FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM. Martin Creed: More & Less. Curated by University of Pittsburgh Museum Studies Exhibition Seminar w/ Nicholas Chambers. uag@pitt.edu. Oakland. 412-624-4125. FUTURE TENANT. Arbor Aid 2013. Group show of art created from urban wood. Benefits Tree Pittsburgh. futuretenant.org. Downtown. 412-325-7037. GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Modern Moods: Paintings of Pittsburgh
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ANDREW RODGERS, DAY BRACEY, KRISH MOHAN, NORLEX BELMA, TIM ROSS, TOMMIE GRANT JR. & DEREK MINTO (LATE). 10:30 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950. CAGE MATCH IMPROV COMPETITION. 9 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. CAROL PENNINGTON, MATT WOHLFARTH, SHANNON NORMAN. 7 p.m. The Rose Bar and Grille, White Oak. 412-751-6960. COLIN MOCHRIE & BRAD SHERWOOD: TWO MAN GROUP. 5:30 & 8:30 p.m. Carnegie Library Of Homestead Music Hall, Munhall. 412-368-5225. DINNER W/ THE NOLENS. 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608. JOHN EVANS, JOHNNY DAM, DAVID KAYE. 5:30 p.m. Rostraver Ice Garden, Belle Vernon. 724-379-7100. THE LUPONES: MADE UP MUSICALS. Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Nov. 23 Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. TOMMIE GRANT JR., NORLEX BELMA, KRISH MOHAN, DEREK MINTO, DAY BRACEY, DREW
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Between the Wars. Work by Claire Hardy. Oakland. 412-716-1390. GALLERIE CHIZ. A Magical Mirror of International Cultures Combining Real & Imaginary Worlds. Work by Masha Archer, Salvador DiQuinzio, Mitzi Hall, & Manuela Holban. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. In Medias Res. New work by Marlana Adele Vassar. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Pieces Together. Mosaics by Stevo. Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. HUNT INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL DOCUMENTATION. 14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration. Oakland. 412-268-2434. JAMES GALLERY. Obscure/ Reveal. Hot wax paintings by Christine Aaron, Karen Freedman, Amber George, Lorraine Glessner, Catherine Nash, James Nesbitt, more. West End. 412-922-9800. LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy. Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy. Strip District. 412-281-1922. LAKEVUE ATHLETIC CLUB. Pop-Up Gallery. Work by a variety of artists. Valencia. 724-316-9326. MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Here & Now. Work by Sharif Bey. North Side. 412-322-1773. MATTRESS FACTORY. DETROIT: Artists in Residence. Work by Design 99, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Scott Hocking, Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller, Russ Orlando, Frank Pahl. Janine Antoni: Within. Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory. Site-specific installation focusing on the body w/ relation to place & space. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169.
RODGERS. Pride of Our Fathers Comedy Showcase. 10 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950. TONE BOCK, TOMMY KUPIEC, SHARON DALY, DAN JENNICHES, SHANE DOLAN, GIO ATTISANO. Blue Light Special Comedy Show. 10 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608. YEAH THOSE GUYS IMPROV SHOW. 10 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.
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MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Alien She. Work by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Tammy Rae Carland, Miranda July, Faythe Levine, Allyson Mitchell, L.J. Roberts, & Stephanie Syjuco. Oakland. 412-268-3618. MINE FACTORY. Framed: Independent & Experimental Animation. Work by Steven Subotnik, Pahl Hluchan, Lynn Tomlinson, Kristen Lauth Shaeffer, Karl Staven, James Duesing, Dennis Hlynsky, Andrew Halasz. Homewood. MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. The Sad & Sleepy Dreamers. Artwork by Christian Wolfgang Breitkreutz. Signs From the Times. An Exhibition of New Works by Ron Copeland. Garfield. 412-362-0274. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. common discourse. Group show feat. work by Jen Blazina, Ron Desmett, Michael Janis, Susan Longini, Carmen Lozar, Heather Joy Puskarich, Demetra Theofanous & Randy Walker. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. PANZA GALLERY. David A. Ludwig: Structures. Paintings, study sets, & drawings from a 40 year career. Millvale. 412-821-0959. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Photography of the Great Gatsby Era. See what cameras were popular in the Roaring 20’s. North Side. 412-231-7881. POINT PARK UNIVERSITY. DANCE. Work by Joyce Werwie Perry. The Lawrence Hall Gallery. Downtown. 412-391-4100. SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. Poptastic! The Art of Burton Morris. Retrospective feat. nearly 50 works. Strip District. 412-454-6000. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Pittsburgh Collects. 75 selected works contributed by 3 Pittsburgh photography collectors. South Side. 412-431-1810.
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WED 27 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Ronald Renwick. Wed, 9:30 p.m. Scarpaci’s Place, Mt. Washington. 412-431-9908. ED BAILEY, AMBER SCHIEFER, DAN JENNICHES, ERICK WILLIAMS, THE VERY SEXUAL ASEXUALS. Laughsgiving “Help Erick Make Rent” Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Corner Cafe, South Side. 412-488-4995.
SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Touch in Real Time. Work by Holly Hanessian. Downtown. 412-261-7003. THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. CRAFTED. Feat. 40+ American ceramic artists interpreting the way they see the drinking cup. ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out. Feat. over 40 works by US & European contemporary artists. Strip District. 412-261-7003. SPACE. Behind Our Scenes. Photographs by Nancy Andrews, Leo Hsu, Dennis Marsico, Annie O’Neill, & Barbara Weissberger. Downtown. 412-325-7723. SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Ignudi: Drawings Based on the Nude Youths of Michelangelo. Work by Richard Claraval. Friendship. 412-441-0194. THE TOONSEUM. Hagar the Horrible’s 40th Anniversary. All That and a Bag of Chips: The 90s Animation Renaissance. Feat. original production art, sketches, storyboards, more. Downtown. 412-232-0199. VOLUTO / COMMONPLACE COFFEE. Colorblind Pittsburgh. Paintings by Ryan Ian McCormick. Garfield. 517-862-1963. WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER. Tri-County Ceramics Invitational. Feat. ceramic artists from Washington, Greene & Fayette Counties. Washington. 724-222-1475. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Born of Fire: The Valley Work. Greensburg. 724-837-1500. WOOD STREET GALLERIES. Comfort Women Wanted. Work by Chang-Jin Lee. Hive. 3D-animated audiovisual installation where gallery visitors confront a swirling mass of amorphous figures, appearing as a collective of matter as opposed to individual beings in deep space. Downtown. 412-471-5605.
EXHIBITS AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE. Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix. Feat. imagery, film & oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, & innovations. Downtown. 412-258-2700. BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large collection of automatic roll-played musical instruments and music boxes in a mansion setting. Call for appointment. O’Hara. 412-782-4231.
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CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Tlingit Totem Pole. Carving & installation by Tommy Joseph. Opens Nov. 26. Ongoing: Earth Revealed, EVENT: Bodiography Dinosaurs In Their Time, more. Contemporary Oakland. 412-622-3131. Ballet’s 12th annual CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature at the Byham Railroad and Village, USS Requin Theater, Downtown submarine, and more. North Side. 412-237-3400. CRITIC: CARRIE FURNACE. Built in , 19, 1907, Carrie Furnaces 6 & 7 a student from are extremely rare examples State College, Pa. of pre World War II iron-making technology. Rankin. WHEN: 412-464-4020 x.21. CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh Jazz Exhibit: The show was a really diversified version of what Memorabilia & Awards from you see in ballet these days. Each of the different the International Hall of Fame. parts of the show put different emphasis on different Oakland. 412-648-7446. FALLINGWATER. Tour the aspects of using lights, music and other forms of art famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. to help create an interesting world for the audience. Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501. I came here originally because a good friend of mine FORT PITT MUSEUM. is a dancer in the show, but I have been exposed to Unconquered: History Meets Hollywood at Fort Pitt. ballet my whole life. I really appreciated the show Original movie props, being at the Byham, for some reason the two just photographs, & costumes complemented one another. Pittsburgh has a strong alongside 18th century artifacts history in the arts and this show was a great addition & documents, comparing & to that history. I especially enjoyed parts of the show contrasting historical events w/ Hollywood depictions. that used different and interesting props to help Reconstructed fort houses create a world that one would not normally see in museum of Pittsburgh history ballet. On the whole, I definitely think that this was a circa French & Indian War and really great piece of dance. American Revolution. Downtown. B Y B R E T T WIL SO N 412-281-9285. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, with RACHEL CARSON Vanka Murals. Mid-20th classes, car & carriage museum. HOMESTEAD. A Reverence century murals depicting war, Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. for Life. Photos and artifacts social justice and the immigrant KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the of her life & work. Springdale. experience in America. Millvale. other Frank Lloyd Wright house. 724-274-5459. 421-681-0905. Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501. RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL KERR MEMORIAL HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits MUSEUM. Tours of a on the Homestead Mill. Steel restored 19th-century, industry and community artifacts middle-class home. Oakmont. from 1881-1986. Homestead. IRWIN LIGHT UP NIGHT & 412-826-9295. 412-464-4020. PARADE. 5 p.m. Downtown NATIONAL AVIARY. SENATOR JOHN Irwin. 724-864-0560. Home to more than HEINZ HISTORY 600 birds from over CENTER. 200 species. With Pennsylvania’s Civil SNOWFLAKE SHOWCASE classes, lectures, demos www. per War. In-depth look MARKET. Paintings, prints, pa and more. North Side. pghcitym at Pennsylvania’s textiles, wood creations, jewelry, .co 412-323-7235. significant contributions ceramics, more. Tue, Thu, Fri, OLD ST. LUKE’S. during the Civil War feat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat, 1-4 p.m. Pioneer church features artifacts, military encampments, and Wed, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. 1823 pipe organ, life-like museum figures, more. Thru Dec. 18 Greensburg Revolutionary War graves. Scott. From Slavery to Freedom. Art Center, Greensburg. 412-851-9212. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the 724-837-6791. PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: MUSEUM. Trolley rides and Western PA Sports Museum, exhibits. Includes displays, walking Clash of Empires, and exhibits on CRAFTSMAN’S GUILD tours, gift shop, picnic area and local history, more. Strip District. OF PITTSBURGH HOLIDAY Trolley Theatre. Washington. 412-454-6000. ARTIST MARKET. Jewelry, 724-228-9256. SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & clay, glass, wood, sculpture, HISTORY CENTER. Museum BOTANICAL GARDEN. 14 indoor textiles, more. Wed-Sun. commemorates Pittsburgh rooms & 3 outdoor gardens Thru Jan. 5 709 Penn Gallery, industrialists, local history. feature exotic plants and floral Downtown. 412-456-6666. Sewickley. 412-741-4487. displays from around the world. THE PCA ANNUAL HOLIDAY ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Oakland. 412-622-6914. SHOP. Ceramics, jewelry, Features 5,000 relics of PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG fiber art, prints, more by 200+ Catholic saints. North Side. AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 regional artists. Thu-Sat, 412-323-9504. animals, including many 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sun, 12-5 p.m., endangered species. Highland ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN Tue, Wed, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Park. 412-665-3639. CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo and Mon, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Krissy Holley is a native of Swissvale and has been working at the Rowdy Buck for two and a half years. She began working as a cocktail waitress and quickly worked her way up to manning the bar. Her favorite kind of customer is someone who enjoys a custom cocktail. Her specialty is The Harrison,
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FRI 22 - SUN 24 CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS. Presented by Point Park Conservatory Dance Company. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Nov. 24 George Roland White Performance Studio, Point Park Univ., Downtown. 412-621-4445.
THU 21 - WED 27 SEASONAL INSPIRATIONS HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOW. Pottery, paper crafts, stained glass, paintings, more. Mon-Sat. Thru Dec. 23 North Hills Art Center, Ross. 412-364-3622.
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BHANGRA IN THE BURGH 7. South Asian dance competition feat. 8 national collegiate teams. 6:30 p.m. Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, Oakland. 860-839-2253. WIP CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT. Presented by Texture Contemporary Ballet. 6 & 9 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111.
LIGHT UP NIGHT AT FIFTH AVE. PLACE: FIFTH AVE PLACE FREEZE. Ice sculpting, musical performances, family & children’s activities, an appearance by Mr. McFeely, more. 5-9 p.m. Fifth Avenue Place, Downtown. MACY’S LIGHT UP NIGHT WINDOW UNVEILING. Performances by Gloria Gaynor, Alyssa Bernal, the Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 ensemble; family activities, Pittsburgh Ballet meet & greet, more. 6 p.m. Macy’s, Downtown. 412-232-2000.
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FRI 22 - SAT 23 I MADE IT! FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Nomatic indie craft market Fri 22 & Sat 23. www.imadeitmarket.com. Waterfront Town Center, Homestead. 412-476-8889.
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FUNDRAISERS Museums are filled with things created long ago, but the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is giving visitors a chance to see an artifact in the making. Starting Tue., Nov. 26, in the R.P. Simmons Family Gallery, artist Tommy Joseph — a native of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska — will be carving a 16-foot totem pole, featuring symbols of Tlingit culture. On Dec. 14, the totem pole will be permanently installed at the entrance of the Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life and Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians. Most days during museum hours; check website for times. Nov. 26 through Dec. 11. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.carnegiemnh.org
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FAIR TRADE MARKETPLACE. Holiday gift market. 10 a.m.3 p.m., Fri., Dec. 6, 4-7 p.m. and Dec. 7-8, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Environmental Charter School, Regent Square. 412-247-7970 x 014. FIFTH AVENUE PLACE HOLLY TROLLEY. Hosted by Santa’s little helpers, trolleys circle downtown each weekend picking up at stops approximately every 15 minutes. www.downtownpittsburgh.com Sat. Thru Dec. 21 Fifth Avenue Place, Downtown. HOLIDAY ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. St. Brendan’s Episcopal Church, Sewickley. 412-364-5974. THE PCA ANNUAL HOLIDAY HOLIDAY HAPPENING. SHOP. Ceramics, jewelry, fiber I Made It! marketplace, art, prints, more by 200+ regional photos w/ Santa, artists. Thu-Sat, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., holiday crafts, more. Sun, 12-5 p.m., Tue, Wed, www.waterfrontpgh.com 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 12-4 p.m. Waterfront Mon, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Town Center, Thru Dec. 23 Homestead. Pittsburgh Center for 412-476-8889. www. per the Arts, Shadyside. pa MARKET SQUARE pghcitym .co 412-361-0873. HOLIDAY MARKET SNOWFLAKE KICKOFF. Feat. SHOWCASE MARKET. performances by Calum Paintings, prints, textiles, wood Worthy, the Greater creations, jewelry, ceramics, Harmony Chorus, Pittsburgh more. Tue, Thu, Fri, 10 a.m.Irish Reelers, Autobahn, more. 4 p.m., Sat, 1-4 p.m. and Wed, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Market Square, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thru Dec. 18 Downtown. 412-471-1511. Greensburg Art Center, Greensburg. 724-837-6791. HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOW. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Castle Shannon Memorial Hall, PITTSTOP LINDY HOP 13. Swing Castle Shannon.
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DANCE FRI 22 POINSETTIAS & POINTE SHOES. Explore Phipps’ winter exhibits & see vignettes from Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s rendition of The Nutcracker. 6 & 7:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-454-9107.
FRI 22 - SAT 23 EXPRESS BURLESQUE. Presented by RED City Live Entertainment. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Nov. 30 Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. 724-873-3576.
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THU 21 FALL SOCIAL 2013: A BENEFIT FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS PITTSBURGH. Keynote speaker: Dr. Moni McIntyre. 6-9 p.m. The Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District. 412-471-7852. MUSTACHE BASH. Mustache & beard competition, beer tasting, more. Benefits Cancer Caring Center, Movember & a recently paralyzed Pitt Student. 10 p.m. Pizza Sola, Oakland. 412-681-7652.
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THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress. com Thu, 7-9 p.m. The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323. MARY ELLA GABLER. Trunk show & book signing w/ the author of Uncommon Thread. 4-6 p.m. Feathers, Shadyside. 412-621-4700. THE NEW YINZER PRESENTS.. Feat. Raiona Gaydos, Julie Ann Cook, Kelcey Parker, Paula Martinac. 8 p.m. ModernFormations Gallery, Garfield. 412-362-0274. STEELCITYSLAM. Writing workshop & poetry slam feat. Benjamin Barker. 8 p.m. Brillobox, Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY HOLIDAY. An interactive musical production. Sat, Sun, 1 & 3:30 p.m. Thru Dec. 22 Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-6464.
BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. BALL. 500 beach balls, larger inflatable balls, a disco ball & music. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. TAPESCAPE. Massive indoor landscape made of 22 miles of packing tape. Thru Jan. 19, 2014 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. TOUGH ART. Interactive artworks by Chris Beauregard, Katie Ford, Scott Garner, Isla Hansen & Luke Loeffler. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.
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PITTSBURGH JAMES DASHNER. POEMS READING Book signing & Q&A www. per a & BOOK LAUNCH. p w/ the author of pghcitym .co Collection of poems the Maze Runner about Pittsburgh by trilogy. Part of the PA&L people in Pittsburgh. Kids & Teens Series. 7 p.m. Presented by the Literary Arts Carnegie Lecture Hall, Oakland. Boom. 6:30 p.m. East End Book 412-622-8866. Exchange, Bloomfield. TIME FOR FUN. Puppetry 412-224-2847. & story telling presented by Handmade Theatre. 7 p.m. Moon High School, Moon. PATRICIA SMITH. Poetry 412-456-6666. reading. 7:30 p.m. Carlow University, Oakland. 412-578-8749. SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL. Presented by the Lincoln Park BLACK HOLES, BEAKERS, Performing Arts Center Student & BOOKS. Sex at Dawn: The Company. Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. and Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Nov. 24 Lincoln Sexuality by Christopher Ryan. Park Performing Arts Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Midland. 724-576-4644. Oakland. 412-622-3151. SHREK: THE MUSICAL. Presented by Stage Right. Nov. 22-23, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., 12 STEPS TO PEACE: Nov. 24, 2 p.m. Palace Theatre, USING CREATIVITY TO Greensburg. 724-832-7464. TRANSFORM ANXIETY. Writing & discussion group. Mon, 6-7 p.m. Thru Nov. 25 MAKE IT!: SCRATCH/ Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. SENSING/INPUT/OUTPUT. 412-337-4976. Ages 10-14. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. AMY TAN. Monday Night Assemble, Garfield. Lecture Series. 7:30 p.m. 724-462-4170. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. SATURDAY CRAFTERNOON: 412-622-8866. HANDMADE ADVENTURE PHOTO BOOTH W/ SARAH LAPONTE. Construct PITTSBURGH POETRY props, costumes & backdrops EXCHANGE. Discussing The to create a DIY, pop-up Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry photo booth. Ages 5-10. edited by Francisco Aragon. 1-4 p.m. Assemble, Garfield. 7:30 p.m. Coffee Tree Roasters, 412-540-5349. Shadyside. 412-481-7663. SKETCHBOOK: 2013 CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL. Teen drawing workshop. Sat, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thru Nov. 23 Carnegie Museum of Art, THE FRESH BEAT BAND. 6 p.m. Oakland. 412-622-3288. Benedum Center, Downtown. TIME FOR FUN. Puppetry 412-456-6666. & story telling presented by Handmade Theatre. 11 a.m. TIME FOR FUN. Puppetry & story & 2 p.m. Upper St. Clair telling presented by Handmade
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OUTSIDE SAT 23 BACKYARD CHICKENS CLASS. 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-225-9030.
OTHER STUFF THU 21 ART NIGHTS AT THE SPACE UPSTAIRS. Bring your own medium for a communal creation night w/ music by King Friday. Third Thu of every month, 8 p.m. The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze. 412-225-9269. CULTURE CLUB: FILM SCREENING W/ YAEL BARTANA. Part of the 2013 Carnegie International. 5:30 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland. 412-622-3131. CURATORS & COLLECTORS IN CONVERSATION. RSVP to eabeyta@silvereye.org 6 p.m. Silver Eye Center for Photography, South Side. 412-431-1810. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. MAGIC & THE REST OF THE FAMILY: THE CHARLEROI HISTORIC DISTRICT IN RELATION TO THE SURROUNDING TOWNS. Presented by the Monongahela Area Historical Society & the Charleroi Historical Society. 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church of Monongahela, Monongahela. 724-292-8247. MEDITATION & WHOLE LIFE TRANSFORMATION. Supreme Meditation & the Science of Transformation w/ Acharya Kedar. Free public program. Doors open at 7:15, seating ends at 8 p.m. 7:30-9 p.m. Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. 724-420-5826. RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall, Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-567-7512.
THU 21 - SAT 23 A COLLECTION OF MISFITS: TIME-BASED MEDIA & THE MUSEUM. Symposium addressing opportunities & challenges that working w/
time-based media presents. Nov. 21-23 Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland. 412-622-3131.
FRI 22 FOURTH FRIDAYS AT THE SPACE UPSTAIRS: IN THE INTEREST OF TIME. Interactive discussion & debate w/ Mike Cooper & Pearlann Porter about the abstract concept of time & our conceptual management of it. 8 p.m. The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze. 412-225-9269. RAWARDS PITTSBURGH SEMI-FINALS 2013. Competition in film, fashion design, performance art, music, visual art, more. Presented by RAW:natural born artists. 8 p.m. Cavo, Strip District. 412-977-7506.
REMEMBRANCE DAY PROGRAM. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address w/ tours of the Espy Post, presentation of Lincoln’s speech, more. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-276-3456. SHALE DRILLING & PUBLIC HEALTH: A DAY OF DISCOVERY. Feat. nationally known experts addressing worker health, impact of unconventional drilling on food production, health effects of industrial noise, more. Presented by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 1-800-617-4253.
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SAT 23 COFFEE & CHOCOLATE. Sample & learn about the role coffee & chocolate played in early America. 11:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. Historic Hanna’s Town, Greensburg. 724-532-1935 x 210. DANCE FOR PARKINSON’S PITTSBURGH. Dance classes designed for people w/ Parkinson’s Disease to explore the art of dance & live music. Sat, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Thru Nov. 23 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Strip District. 412-387-2542. IMPROV ACTING CLASS. 2:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141. IN DISCUSSION: THE WORK OF YASUMASA MORIMURA. Art talk w/ Eric Shiner, Nicholas Chambers, Cindy Lisica & Charles Exley. 4 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300. ITALIAN AMERICAN COLLECTION COOKING WORKSHOP. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 412-454-6426. PITTSBURGH RECORD FEST. Record swap. 7 p.m. Belvedere’s, Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.
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SUN 24 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland. 412-683-3727. ARGENTINE TANGO CLASSES. Sun, 5-6 p.m. Thru Dec. 1 Wilkins School Community Center, Swissvale. 412-661-2480. IS ENERGY MEDICINE THE MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE? w/ Dan Wagner. Theosophical Society of Pittsburgh. 1:30-3 p.m. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-462-4200.
MON 25 SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.
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SMALL BUSINESS BASICS WORKSHOP: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO START OR GROW A NEW BUSINESS. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. PNC YMCA, Downtown. 412-471-9622. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE CONFERENCE: DAY OF BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Highmark Stadium, Station Square. 412-260-0789.
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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}
I’m a heterosexual guy in my early 20s. I’ve been dating my girlfriend for about six months, and we’ve been having some fights. The problem: I have a high sex drive in comparison to hers. I want to be intimate on a weekly basis (at least!), and she’s told me that she’s more of a once-every-threeweeks-or-so person. I don’t want her to feel uncomfortable — she’s a virgin (no penetration), and the thought of that first time scares her a bit. That said, physical intimacy is important to me. I do my best to be understanding, but I’m not sure how to bridge this gap. LOVE IS BUILDING INTIMACY DURING OUTSET
While it’s great that you’re understanding of your girlfriend’s sensitivities, LIBIDO, and while it’s commendable that you view nonpenetrative sex as fulfilling, you’re at risk of “understanding” her into a relationship that makes you both unhappy. Someone who wants sex multiple times per week will eventually be made miserable by someone who wants sex far less than once a month (which is what the “or so” at the end of “onceevery-three-weeks-or-so” means), and vice versa — being with you will make your girlfriend miserable in the long run, too. I get emails daily from miserable people on both side of this divide. The high-libido partners are miserable because years of sexual rejection have shredded their sexual self-esteem, or they feel like monsters after years of being “indulged” with sex by barely willing partners. The lowlibido partners are miserable because going through the motions makes them miserable or they’re sick of being pestered for sex and made to feel inadequate when they pass. You’re young and straight, and the culture tells the young and the straight that they must be monogamous (because sex is so important) and that they shouldn’t take sexual compatibility into consideration when picking a partner (because sex is so unimportant). Other shit matters, too, of course — emotional compatibility, similar life goals, etc. But basic sexual compatibility matters, too, and its absence will eventually undermine everything else. You’ve been dating this girl long enough to know that you’re not sexually compatible — and that’s reason enough to end this relationship.
leather hood — or all three — and have sex the way the Lord intended us to, i.e., in the dark with our pitiful/regretful/hooded boyfriends. And no more flaming/stunt drinks! My boyfriend and I have been dating for a little over 10 months. We have a strong emotional bond and an adventurous sex life, and we have been fantasizing about cuckolding. We are both extremely turned on by the idea, but I have reservations about doing this in such a young relationship. Unlike married couples who have years to lay an emotional foundation, we have less to fall back on. I am scared I will end up feeling used, and that he will not be able to handle the reality of the humiliation. What happens if we are emotionally wrecked afterward? I love him and do not want to lose him, but this is something that excites us. What should we do? YOUNG AND RESTLESS DUO
Cuckolding realities are much more challenging than cuckolding fantasies — emotionally and logistically. So you’re right to be nervous. But relationship longevity doesn’t guarantee cuckolding success. Good communication, mutual desire (so fucking important with this fantasy!) and a commitment to take things slowly-bordering-onglacially are better predictors of success. And if you take it slow — if you limit your cuckolding play to dirty talk for 10 months at least — you’ll have more experience/trust/ security to fall back on when you find the right bull/stud/lover.
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I’m a 24-year-old lesbian, and I have been with my girlfriend for almost three years. I’m generally happy with our sex life. But she is bi and has always wanted to have a threesome with a guy and another girl. I am all for that in theory, but I have a hard time emotionally. I’m in therapy and on medication, and it’s really difficult for me to wrap my head around sex with new people. I would spend the entire time silently freaking out. I really want to do this for her, but I don’t want it to go poorly because of my issues. Do you have any advice for navigating something that your partner really wants but you don’t? For how to get game not just in letter but in spirit?
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Last month at a house party, my boyfriend accidentally burned my chin, neck and cleavage during a clumsily executed volcano shot. Some doctor appointments, burn creams, bandages and awkward scabbing later, I’m healing nicely. My problem is, before the accident, we were only having sex every week or so. But now he stares sadly at my neck wound every time he looks at me. It’s hard to feel sexy when you’re constantly looked at with pity, regret and concern, and the stress of being sexually frustrated is fueling other stresses. I just want a way out of this sad circle. BURNED
I’ll give you the same answer I gave YARD: Talk about it, fantasize about it, be open to it, but take it glacially. Guys who are interested in sexing two women aren’t that difficult to find, so trust that the right guy — one who makes you comfortable, one who is unthreatening — will come into your lives at some point. If you’re worried about how you might react to watching your girlfriend have sex with someone else, she shouldn’t have intercourse with that someone else the first time you get together. Make out, roll around, engage in a little mutual masturbation. If that feels good — if it doesn’t make you anxious or freak you out — plan to get together again.
Your boyfriend can’t stare at a neck wound he can’t see. So until you’ve fully recovered, turn off the lights or blindfold him or lace him into a
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11.20-11.27
{BY ROB BREZSNY}
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Paris Review interviewed Mexican poet Octavio Paz. “Just how much revising do you do?” the interviewer asked. “I revise incessantly,” Paz replied. “Some critics say too much, and they may be right. But if there’s a danger in revising, there is much more danger in not revising. I believe in inspiration, but I also believe that we’ve got to help inspiration, restrain it and even contradict it.” I bring this up, Scorpio, because I believe you are ripe for a phase of intense revision. Inspiration has visited you a lot lately, but now it will subside for a while so you can wrangle all your raw material into graceful, resilient, enduring shapes.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Costa Rica will be closing its zoos in 2014. What will happen to the 400 or so animals that are housed there? They will have to be rehabilitated at animal-rescue centers and then released into the wild. I suspect there will be a metaphorically similar process going on for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Parts of your instinctual nature will, in a sense, be freed from captivity. You will need to find ways to retrain your animal intelligence how to function outside of the tame conditions it got used to.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Will fate kick your sweet ass sometime soon? Quite possibly. You may be compelled to face up to the consequences of your unloving actions or unconscious decisions. I’m pleased to tell you, however, that you might be able to dramatically minimize or even neutralize the butt-thumping. How? Go over the events of the last 11 months, and identify times when you weren’t your very best self or didn’t live up to your highest ideals. Then perform rituals of atonement. Express your
desire to correct wrong turns. Give gifts that will heal damaged dynamics.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Bill Withers became a big star in the 1970s with hits like “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me.” But he hasn’t recorded a new album since 1985, nor has he toured. What happened? In Still Bill, the documentary film about his life, Withers says, “I watch other people show off and I say, ‘Man, I used to want to show off.’ If I could just get, you know, moved to. I need a little injection in my showin’-off gland.” I wish you could get an injection like that, too, Aquarius. I’d like to see you show off more. Not in a contrived, over-the-top, Lady Gaga-esque way. Rather, the purpose would be to get more aggressive in showing people who you are and what you can do. I want your talents and assets to be better known.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I have a feeling that your value will be rising in the coming weeks. An attractive person you thought was out of your league may express
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The poet Charles Baudelaire prayed for help, but not to God — rather he prayed to the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Novelist Malcolm Lowry sometimes pleaded with God to give him insight, but he also prayed to the writer Franz Kafka. I really like this approach to seeking guidance, and recommend it to you in the coming days. Which hero, dead or alive, could you call on to uplift you? What amazing character might bring you the inspiration you need? Be brazen and imaginative. The spirits could be of more help than you can imagine. Magic is afoot.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): U.S. Confederate Gen. Richard S. Ewell (18171872) sometimes experienced episodes in which he truly thought he was a bird. Princess Alexandria of Bavaria (1826-1875) believed that when she was young, she had eaten a glass piano. Then there was the Prussian military officer Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (1742-1819), who imagined he was pregnant with an elephant. Sad and funny and crazy, right? And yet it’s my understanding that all of us have fixed delusions. They are less bizarre than those I cited, but they can still be debilitating. What are yours, Taurus? Do you secretly believe that a certain turning point in your past scarred you forever? Are you incorrectly wracked with anger or guilt because of some event that may not have actually happened the way you remember it? Here’s the good news: Now is an excellent time to shed your fixed delusions.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Philosopher Eckhart Tolle suggests that “there may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others.” For some of us, this numinous reflection comes from a special animal. Whatever is the case for you, Gemini, I urge you to devote extra time to your relationship with this creature in the next 14 days. Meditate on how you could provide more nurturing and inspiration. Brainstorm about the possibility of deepening your connection. What practical actions could you take to boost your loved one’s fortunes?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Cancerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad was
regarded as one of the great operatic singers of the 20th century. Critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor said that “No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone.” She specialized in the operas of German composer Richard Wagner, whose master work, The Ring of the Nibelung, takes 15 hours to perform. Flagstad was asked to name the single most important thing she needed in order to perform Wagner’s music with the excellence it demanded. Her answer: comfortable shoes. Regard that as good advice for your own life and work, Cancerian — both literally and metaphorically. It’s time to get really well grounded.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever been in a social situation where you really didn’t care what anyone thought of you and therefore felt absolutely free to act on your inner promptings? When was the last time you lost all your inhibitions and self-consciousness while making love? Can you truly say that sometime recently you have been totally responsive to your festive impulses? If you have experienced any blockages in expressing this type of energy, now is a perfect moment to fix that. You have a date with robust, innocent self-expression.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian public television is experimenting with a phenomenon called Slow TV. In one reality show, the main character built a fire with logs and kept it burning for 12 hours. In another program, patient viewers watched for five days as a cruise ship made its way along the Norwegian coast. A third show featured a woman knitting a sweater from start to finish. I wish you would get hooked on slow-motion activities like those, Virgo. Maybe it would help you lower your thoughts-per-minute rate and influence you to take longer, deeper breaths and remember that relaxation is an art you can cultivate. And then you would be in righteous alignment with the cosmic rhythms.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re smarter than you think you are, and soon you will be even smarter. Previously inaccessible wisdom is seeping up from the depths of your subconscious mind, making its way to your conscious awareness. Your eyes are noticing more than they usually do. Your memory is working at peak levels. And your enhanced ability to entertain paradoxical ideas is giving you special insight into the nature of reality. What will you do with this influx of higher intelligence? I suggest you focus its full force on one of your knottiest problems. Forget all you know about gratitude. Act as if it’s a new emotion you’re tuning into for the first time. Then let it rip.
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(in Hillcrest Shopping Center)
412-595-8077
MIND & BODY
MIND & BODY
Judy’s Oriental Massage GRAND OPENING!
Therapeutic Massage
FULL BODY MASSAGE
Therapy Relief is just a call away. Our licensed professional staff can assist with Fibromyalgia, Circulation, Low Back Pain, Muscle Spasms.
$40/hr
$10 Coupon with this ad
4125 William Penn Hwy, Murrysville, PA 15668
Shadyside Location
Across the street from Howard Hanna’s
412-441-1185
724-519-2950
Xin Sui Bodyworks
TIGER SPA
Grand Opening
GRAND OPENING!!! Best of the Best in Town!
STAR Superior Chinese Massage
420 W. Market St., Warren, OH 44481
Free Table Shower w/60min Open 10-10 Daily
1310 E. Carson St. 412-488-3951
76 West, 11 North, 82 West to Market St. 6 lights and make a left. 1/4 mile on the left hand side.
$49.99/ hour Free Vichy Shower with 1HR or more body work (Body shower and Body Scrub) Essential Oil used at no extra charge
China Massage $50/HR Free Table Shower
Open 9am-12 midnight 7 days a week! Licensed Professionals Dry Sauna, Table Shower, Deep Tissue, Swedish
2539 Monroeville Blvd Ste 200 Monroeville, Pa 15146 Next to Twin Fountain Plaza 412-335-6111
1788 Golden Mile Hwy Monroeville, PA 15146 Call for more information
724-519-7896
330-373-0303 Credit Cards Accepted
NOW IN SQUIRREL HILL!
massage Therapy
BAD BACK OR NECK PAIN?
Trigger point Deep tissue Swedish Reflexology BLOOMFIELD 412.683.2328 Xie LiHong’s WELLNESS CENTER
Chinese Bodyworks Walk-Ins Welcome 412-561-1104
Specializing in hand blown water and glass pipes and incense.
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Water Pipes And Glass W lass For All Your Smoking Needs
THIS SPACE! call 412.316.3342
Pittsburgh’s Premier Smoke Shop 1918 Murray Ave 412-422-6361 or 561-665-0592 Student Discount w/valid ID Public Parking Located behind bldg FOR TOBACCO USE ONLY
3225 W. Liberty Ave. • Dormont
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WEIGHTLOSS TREATMENT Bariatric Weightloss, LLC No Long Term Contract No Start Up Fee
355 Fifth Ave Suite 1120 Pgh, PA 15222 412-680-2064
Flexible Hours Including Mornings
Health Services SUBOXONE We treat: ~ Opiate Addiction ~ Heroin Addiction ~ And Other Drug Addictions
LOCATIONS IN: Downtown Pgh, PA Bridgeville, PA ~ Butler, PA
IMMEDIATE OPENINGS
412.434.6700
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SUBOXONE TREATMENT Caring Help for Opiate Addiction
• Experienced, caring therapy and medical staff. • Private, professional setting. • Downtown office near public transportation and parking. • Medication by prescription coverage or self-pay.
Immediate openings including pregnant opiate-dependent women. We accept Highmark, Fayette & Westmoreland County Medicaid (VBH) and self-paying clients.
412.246.8965, ext. 9
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Problem with Opiates? Prescription Medication or Heroin?
Help is Available!
• SUBOXONE • VIVITROL - a new once a month injection for alcohol and opiate dependency
• Group and Individualized Therapy • NOW Treating Pregnant Women
NO WAIT LIST Accepts all major insurances and medical assistance
MONROEVILLE, PA
412-380-0100 www.myjadewellness.com
PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER 11.20/11.27.2013
Pittsburgh
Methadone - 412-255-8717 Suboxone - 412-281-1521 info@summitmedical.biz
Beaver County
Methadone - 724-857-9640 Suboxone - 724-448-9116 info@ptsa.biz
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777 CASINO DRIVE, PITTSBURGH NEXT TO HEINZ FIELD
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