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URING RUSH HOUR, the intersection of Green Tree Road and Woodville Avenue is a choke-point of trafﬁc for travelers in the West End. Over the years the city has added a stop sign to reduce congestion, but for commuters who live on that side of town, the intersection remains a source of frustration. That throughway has been a travel hub for longer than commuters might think. Those idling near the intersection have likely noticed a crumbling, red-brick building on the corner. It might be in bad shape now, but in the 1700s, the building known as the Old Stone Tavern was a tollhouse on the Washington and Pittsburgh Turnpike. The 18th-century structure is believed to be the city’s oldest commercial building. And historians say it likely played a role in the Whiskey Rebellion. Because of that, in 2009, the Old Stone Tavern was nominated for and received a designation as an historic structure. It’s one of nearly 100 buildings in the city to receive that designation. But historic status hasn’t really helped the building. Up until 2009, it was a functioning tavern, but it has since sat vacant. And it’s not alone. Several historic buildings across the city have sat dormant, including: John Woods House, in Hazelwood; Garrison Foundry-Mackintosh Hemphill Company Ofﬁces, in the South Side; and the Workingman’s Savings Bank and Trust and St. Mary’s Academy Building, both in

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Members of Pittsburgh’s Old Stone Tavern Friends Trust (from right): Paul Sentner, Norene Beatty, Cris Mooney, John McNulty, Rich Forster and Lorraine Forster

the North Side. It’s a problem that has led some members of Pittsburgh City Council to question whether the historic-designation process makes sense for a city trying to cut down on the number of empty, decaying structures. Currently, a building can be nominated for historic designation without the consent of the property’s owner. And once a building has been deemed historic, the city’s Historic Review Commission has jurisdiction over any new construction, demolition and exterior work to the building. In the case of the Old Stone Tavern, it was purchased to be demolished to make way for the expansion of a business

next door. Historic status blocked that plan. Critics say property owners faced with these new ﬁnancial and time-consuming restrictions often don’t have the funding or resources to maintain their buildings. And as a result, the structures often fall into disrepair, unused. As Pittsburgh City Councilor Theresa Kail-Smith, whose district includes the Old Stone Tavern, puts it: “When people come to the table to talk about historic preservation, or that they don’t want to demo properties because they want to preserve our history, well, here’s the second-oldest building in the city of Pittsburgh that people have allowed to sit for ﬁve years.”

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ignation must meet one or more of 10 criteria that demonstrate the historical significance of either the building itself or those who have lived in it, or else the structure’s relationship to an historically significant event. “The main thing I work with applicants on is that there is a thoughtful argument for designation,” says Sarah Quinn, of the Historic Review Commission. “How much of the original building or structure is there? Once we get an application form in, I notify the property owner that we’ve received it.” When making its recommendations, the commission does not take into account the financial barriers or restrictions that historic designation will place upon a property owner. “What the commissioners do is they take a look at the nomination and decide whether it’s valid or not,” says Quinn. “Commissioners are cognizant that there are financial restrictions on certain things, but that’s not something they’re necessarily allowed to consider.” But the financial cost of maintaining a historic structure is exactly why Councilor Kail-Smith says so many historic buildings, like the Old Stone Tavern, have remained vacant. “I see a lot of value in historic properties, but I do think sometimes you have to look at things with some common sense,” says Kail-Smith. The Old Stone Tavern was nominated for historic status after one West End resident discovered that the building’s owner, Lee Harris, was planning to demolish the structure. Harris did not respond to requests for comment, but Kail-Smith and members of the West End community say that he did not support the nomination. While the historic designation stopped the demolition, the building has remained vacant and untouched ever since. “Everyone assumed, wrongfully so, [that] because it was made this historic structure and was the oldest commercial building in Pittsburgh, that people who are more powerful and interested than us would do something with the tavern,” says Norene Beatty, a former West End resident who supports preservation of the tavern. “But it just sat and sat.” Beatty is a member of Pittsburgh’s Old Stone Tavern Friends Trust. The group formed in 2013 and has spent the past few years trying to raise funds to buy the building from the owner. However, Harris is willing to sell the building only as part of a package that includes four other parcels on his property. CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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“We haven’t been able to do anything with the building because we do not own it,” says Paul Setner, another group member. “We’ve sort of run into a roadblock, or some molasses, really.” However, the situation with the Old Stone Tavern hasn’t changed Setner or his group’s views on the value of historic designation. “It’s a piece of our history. Not just local history, but American history,” says Setner. “I don’t believe we should be tearing buildings down. I believe we should be reusing them. When you start tearing all of these buildings down you lose the character of the neighborhood.” MOST RECENTLY, concerns about historic

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designation and the fate of the Old Stone Tavern were raised by the nomination of two properties in Lawrenceville, the Walton House and the Turney House. Both homes were nominated by Carol Peterson, an officer with the city’s Historic Review Commission, who filed applications for the properties before joining the commission. “I was putting the Turney House up for sale and wanted to make sure it was protected after I no longer owned it,” says Peterson. “I owned it for 19 years and had put a lot of restoration work into it. There’s such a great amount of development going on in Lawrenceville, I was afraid that some subsequent owner would tear it down because they could fit more townhouses on the lot.” According to Peterson’s application, one historic occupant of the 19th-century Turney House, Margaret Turney, was one of the employees who was killed in a gunpowder explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal in Lawrenceville during the Civil War. The incident is considered the worst civilian disaster of that war. Peterson’s application for the Walton House claims it was used as a tavern and lodging space in the late 1800s, but it also focuses on the architectural integrity of the structure. “The Walton House looks a lot like the Turney House did before I restored it back in the ’90s,” says Peterson. “You can see that the original wood siding is intact. It’s got a lot of original stuff on the inside as well. I was doing this because we didn’t want to see the house demolished.” The Walton House’s owner, King Ng of Chan Real Estate, opposed historic designation and had plans to demolish the

building before Peterson’s application put his plans on hold. “The building is in very poor shape,” says David Brenenborg, who works with Ng and spoke on his behalf. “It’s got a foundation that’s rotting. The old kitchen, which was an add-on, is sort of leaning. That was his analysis and our analysis that there was not a good possibility of saving it.” As an architect, Brenenborg says that he and Ng are interested in preserving historic buildings when possible, but they don’t believe this property meets the criteria. “It’s a great thing when it can happen, but this one is not worth it,” says Brenenborg. “It just boiled down to the fact that this building is in very poor shape, and if there is something he would have to renovate under the requirement for a historic building, he would probably leave it go. And if he left it for a few years, it would probably fall down.” Peterson ﬁled the applications on behalf of Lawrenceville Stakeholders, a nonproﬁt advocacy organization that deals with neighborhood landuse, zoning and historic preservation. She says she doesn’t believe historic designation hinders property owners. “I don’t know that it really places financial burdens on the owner of the property,” Peterson says. “I think it’s important to be good stewards of our history. Lawrenceville is one of the most historic [neighborhoods] in the city, but we are losing our historic buildings due to the rapid pace of development.” The Turney House has been recommended for historic designation by the commission, but the Walton House was not recommended. Both applications are currently being considered by city councilors, who will make the ultimate decision.

“WHEN YOU START TEARING ALL OF THESE BUILDINGS DOWN, YOU LOSE THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.”

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Councilor Ricky Burgess has been a vocal opponent of historic designations throughout his time on city council. He says historic designation is often used to prevent the demolition of buildings, even though they are too far gone to be ﬁnancially viable. “Someone can nominate [a building] who doesn’t live anywhere in the community,” says Burgess. “It can then be designated historic without the owner’s permission and subject the owner to all these requirements because someone in CONTINUES ON PG. 10

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their wisdom believes they are smarter or know more about the property and its worth than the owner who pays the mortgage, the light and the gas, and has invested in the property.” Burgess’ interest in historic properties was originally piqued months after he ﬁrst took ofﬁce in 2008. At the time, the Salvation Army in the North Side had plans to tear down its building, the former Malta Temple, and build a new, multimillion-dollar facility. Under a 2003 city ordinance, religious institutions are exempt from having their properties designated historic against their wishes. However, the city’s law department argued that the Salvation Army did not meet the criteria for a religious institution. “In that case, they denied the religious exemption of the Salvation Army, even though the federal government recognizes it,” says Burgess. “It’s the prime example of why [historic designation is] wrong. It can be used unilaterally in ways that I believe are arbitrary and political.” Issues involving the historic-review process were raised again in 2012 when

Burgess spoke out against historic designation of St. Nicholas Church in the North Side. The building received a special designation in 2001, despite opposition from church officials, and remained vacant for more than a decade before church officials won a court battle to have it demolished in 2013. In 2012, when community groups were fighting to keep St. Nicholas from being demolished, Burgess proposed legislation that would’ve prevented people from nominating properties they do not own for historic status. But the bill was introduced near the end of the legislative session and was never reintroduced. Burgess plans to sponsor similar legislation after city council returns from recess. “There will be a lot of pushback because those people who believe they are smarter than everyone else, believe they should have the right to tell property owners what they can do with their property,” Burgess says. “They want to reserve the right to protect any building they see as historic regardless of its financial impact on the owners.” RN U T TA L L @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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AT AN EVENING happy hour at the Carrie Furnace in Rankin, a crowd gathered around an electric fence. The colossal, now-defunct blast furnaces loomed behind them, but their attention — and cell-phone cameras — were focused on nine small- to medium-sized goats and a miniature donkey. “That’s my favorite one, with the gray ears,” the tour guide, named Jim, told the crowd. “Guys, on the Fourth of July, this was all covered. Look how much they have done and how much they’ve eaten.” The organization that preserves the site hired Steel City Grazers, a goat-powered grazing company, to clean up an acre-anda-half of territory made uneven by concrete tunnels and steel beams. For the past month, the goats have been eating around the clock, even munching on poison ivy, which doesn’t irritate them. “They can go where people and machines can’t, such as steep slopes, which, {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} of course, in Pittsburgh, we have a ton of, Doug Placais and Carrie Pavlik, co-owners of Steel City Grazers, at the Carrie Furnace site in Rankin or tight spaces, or areas like this, where it’s really [difficult] to get machinery,” says which preserves historical industrial sites made Pittsburgh strong, but also wasn’t Carrie Pavlik, who co-owns Steel City in Western Pennsylvania including the the most environmentally friendly,” Pavlik Grazers with her husband, Doug Placais. Carrie Furnace, needed the “natural land- says. “But now the goats are here, [which Pavlik and Placais own the small herd scaping” at the “massively overgrown” is] a very environmentally friendly way to of goats, who have names like Wimpy, relic of the Pittsburgh steel industry. do the landscaping. It means less herbiDarlyn, Doaz, Reuben and Favorite. The “There are areas that are very difficult cides, less fossil fuels.” donkey is the herd “guardian” and will for us to get people to do the work,” says This fall, Steel City Grazers are hoping chase away predators, like coyotes or dogs. Ron Baraff of Rivers of Steel. “Ultimately, to head to West Penn Park, in Polish Hill, Since the company began operations [we want to] maybe build a herd our- for about a week to clear a quarter of earlier this year, the goats have selves. It’s the best way to deal with an acre. grazed a neighborhood lot and the vegetation issues we have. “The space we’re hoping to work in is eo the furnace site. Next, they’ll I prefer not to use chemicals very overgrown in vines and difficult vegSee a vid ts oa move to a couple of residenhere. There’s been enough of etation to manage,” says Jake Milofsky, of the g the at tial properties, then to a few that already.” tree-care and restoration manager for Tree grazing urnace Carrie F hcity jobs with municipalities and Baraff says he wants the Pittsburgh, which works with the city to g at www.p m neighborhood organizations. site to be an incubator for preserve the urban forest. “The goats are co r. e p a p The base rate is $300, with the green technology. For example, great at going in and eating all of the leaves price adjusted according to acrethe site already runs solely on so- and green stuff. So what we’re left with is age and number of goats. lar power. “We want to be an attrac- woody material that’s easier to work with. Pavlik got her start tending livestock tion to tell the story of industrial America, Once the goats are gone, we’ll be able to go and homesteading during her two-year and also be forward-looking and under- in with our staff and volunteers, and work Peace Corps service in Zambia. “At my hut, stand that ingenuity and innovation is a much more safely.” I had my own chickens, bees and goats,” continuum. Time doesn’t end in 1978.” Pavlik and Placais plan to expand their she says. Pavlik is pleased that the site is one of herd to 20 or so goats, and hopefully exWhen she moved back to the U.S., the company’s first jobs. pand their clientele. she and her husband bought a Nigerian “I think it is really interesting that the “It’s a great way to bring the communidwarf goat. They have been growing the goats are here at Carrie Furnace. I mean our ty together,” Pavlik says. “And, it’s great PR herd since. name is Steel City Grazers, which is kind of for businesses. Where the goats are, people Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation, a juxtaposition of the steel industry that want to come and see them.”

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world of grammar rules. While I’ll never ask if you “seen the Pirates game last night,” or to “pass me them chips,” I do have my struggles. I fight a daily battle with “affect” and “effect” and semicolons, quite frankly, throw me for a loop. But this week editors here at City Paper were confronted with an issue that comes up from time to time. In our music section, you’ll find a feature on Bean Kaloni Tupou’s band Try the Pie. Tupou is gender-fluid and prefers to use the pronoun “they.” Covering gender-identity issues is nothing new for this publication. We have a designated reporter who covers issues facing the LGBT community, and we assign such material an extremely high level of importance. Take the recent Caitlyn Jenner situation. Even though some journalists were appalled by her desire to be referred to by her chosen gender, it was a no-brainer for us. And we gladly took to task those who had a problem with it. In fact, we’ve been calling out this kind of gender insensitivity for years. But Toupou’s is a different situation. “They” is a plural pronoun and using it to refer to one person is, technically, grammatically incorrect. The Associated Press style — to which we subscribe (although we do have specific CP-only style rules) — doesn’t allow for this practice. Under its rules, editors are to use the person’s preferred pronoun, but the only acceptable choices are “he” or “she.” If no preference is given, AP says to “use the pronoun consistent with the way the individuals live publicly.” This brings us to the dilemma at hand. Toupou’s preferred pronoun flies in the face of that rule. When this has come up before, our solution had always been to write around it when possible, often by eliminating any pronoun use. But that is difficult to do and ignores the greater issue at hand: Who am I to write around someone’s identity just because it’s tough to write in a news story? That’s why I made the decision last week that going forward City Paper will use the pronoun they as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. We’re not the first paper to do this, and we’re not the only ones having

this discussion. The Baltimore Sun, for example, has been doing it for the past year. And according to an April Wall Street Journal column by Ben Zimmer, the issue was a hot topic of conversation at the annual convention of the American Copy Editors Society (which was, coincidentally, held in Pittsburgh). Zimmer writes, “I found growing acceptance of a usage that has long been disparaged as downright ungrammatical: treating ‘they’ as a singular pronoun.” Zimmer also writes that “they” was used as a singular pronoun up until the 19th century and that current gender issues were reigniting the conversation. So what’s holding the word back from wider use? Zimmer relates this reasoning from Emily Brewster, an associate editor at Merriam-Webster: “Copy editors who take it upon themselves to edit out the usage.” Translation: The ball is in our court. The change won’t happen until we actually step up and decide to make it. And the decision becomes easier when you stop and realize it isn’t about words, it’s about people. Earlier this year, New York Times writer Julie Scelfo told the story of Rocko Gieselman, a gender-neutral university student. The paper decided to eliminate all pronouns for the story. Scelfo shared this response from Gieselman: “Writing about genderqueer-identified people can seem grammatically challenging; it is much more challenging to live as a genderqueeridentified person and try to fit into a world that does not seem to make room for you.” In this business, pronouns aren’t just words; they represent an individual who has the right to represent their gender as they see fit. Is it grammatically incorrect? Yes. Is it a bit awkward to read initially? Absolutely. But there is something more important at stake here. As a professional journalist for nearly 25 years, I have a deep respect for words. But I have a deeper, greater respect for people. For people who struggle with gender identity and for people who have finally figured out who they are and are comfortable with it, forcing them into a he-or-she-only box robs them of their identity and strips them of their dignity. For me, if it comes down to that or breaking a rule of grammar, there really isn’t a choice at all.

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While it’s true that vegans and vegetarians will find a whole lot to do — especially eat — at the inaugural Pittsburgh VegFest, they’re only part of the audience organizers hope to attract. “VegFest is all about education,” says Leila Sleiman, a co-founder of McKees Rocks-based Justice for Animals, which is sponsoring the event. “I ate meat once. We all did. But to get people to think about moving toward a compassionate lifestyle, it’s important to do it one step at a time. “We want to show the thinking that being a vegan or a vegetarian isn’t convenient is out the window.” The free, six-hour event is happening after several similar VegFests have taken place across the country. It will feature cuisine from dozens of vendors, including a food truck from Randita’s restaurant, vegan comfort food from Onion Maiden, and grilled-potato tacos from El Burro on the North Side. Additionally, the owners of the Allegra Hearth Bakery will be debuting vegan fare from the menu of its yet-to-be-opened Lawrenceville vegan spot called B-52 Café. Expanding the concern for animal welfare, there will also be informational tables from many of the region’s animalrescue organizations. The hope is to inspire festival-goers to become involved by adopting animals, donating or volunteering some time. “This is going to be a great gathering,” Sleiman says. “Not just for vegans and vegetarians, but for everyone.” CDEITCH@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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pulling pints in the South Side. But when it came to opening her own watering hole, she decided to give food equal billing with libations, going so far as to hire a well-regarded executive chef from Austin. As these things go, the Texan has since been replaced with a local up-and-comer, Kevin Lintelman, whose most recent credit was sous chef at Butcher and the Rye. s Superficially, the flocked wallpaper and ttaxidermied trophies in the dining room of Carmella’s Plates and Pints have a certain C rresonance with the Downtown hipster haven of chef Lintelman’s previous employer. v But Carmella’s version of yesteryear chic is B more muscular, evoking less Wes Anderm ssonian twee and more German hunting lodge. Heavy timber beams and rafters lo lift the vaulted ceiling of the dining room li above that of the beautifully restored bar a in front, while stained-glass windows and skylights admit diffuse light and conceal views of neighboring buildings and parking. And in the middle of the floor, a freestanding gas fire pit with a table around

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it gave us a premonition of how cozy this place would be in winter. The typewritten menu, however, conveys the creations of a kitchen that is ﬁrmly of the 21st century. Instead of being divided into sections by food type or plate size, the entire menu is listed under a single, evocative title: “Embark.” Under this banner, even the most straightforward of dishes have been examined for opportunities to twist via modernist technique or contemporary ﬂavors.

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fit and cumin crema. On paper, the combinations looked promising, but from experience we know that this sort of cooking can be fraught with pitfalls, like textures more surprising than satisfying, ingredients out of proportion, or flavors that don’t harmonize in experimental preparations. Carmella’s laid our doubts to rest with every item we tried. “Devilish” eggs crossed Scotch eggs with deviled: deep-frying the panko-coated whites and then piping in the yolks, kicked up with thin slices of serrano pepper and mustard seeds, and garnished on the plate with a smear of thick Korean chili sauce and shaved radishes. Classic deviled-egg flavor — tangy, creamy, slightly sweet — was central, but the crispy panko texture added interest, the serrano and mustard were just kicky enough, and the chili sauce brought complex smoky notes. Pig wings, a finger-friendly cut from the shank, are a treat that is gaining popularity, and we loved Carmella’s take. Acknowledging some cross-cuisine relationships, the meat was cooked tandoori-style and served with Greek taztziki, tangy pickled red onion

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A New York strip steak was served in three large slices laid across steak-cut fries in a sort of architectural stack. The steak was good, albeit a touch gristly, but the fries were transcendent. The interior was perfectly light and fluffy, while the exterior crust was perfectly crisp, airy, yet deeply flavored from frying in duck fat. We’re not sure we’ve ever had better fried potatoes anywhere, in any form. Small, halved Brussels sprouts were deeply browned and tasty, and three dabs of “blue-cheese foam” offered a rich zing to the meat and potatoes without bringing heaviness, an excellent application of the technique. Like Carmella’s update of the bar and dining room themselves, the kitchen’s riffs on classic tavern foods are confident and stylish while remaining ever respectful of the originals’ charms. Carmella’s has it all: comfortable surroundings, premium spirits and old-fashioned foods that are delicious in new and exciting ways.

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and a few sweet kernels of corn to round out the flavors. The pork itself might have been less succulent than in other iterations we’ve tried, but it remained tender and matched well with the bold flavorings. Mac-and-cheese was an unusual, subtly witty pasta shape — wagon wheels — in a rich, intense cheddar sauce that was thin rather than thick and starchy. Bits of diced jalapeño and bacon did not transform the flavor of this comfort food but built sophisticated notes of smoke and the tiniest tremor of heat. Where many taverns serve a variety of burgers, Carmella’s focuses on one, its signature bison burger with aged cheddar and burgundy onions. The night we dined, there was also a special bison burger with Southwestern-style toppings of pepper jack and avocado. The avocado was grilled, a nice touch, but the real star of this show was the juicy, deeply flavorful bison patty. When one burger is this good, there is no reason to offer more.

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BELLA FRUTTETO. 2602 Brandt School Road, Wexford. 724-940-7777. Adjacent orchards are one of the attractions at this comfortable, clubby suburban restaurant. The Italian-inspired menu features the fruits of these orchards in several apple-based dishes, including apple ravioli and apple bruschetta. Bella Frutteto combines an innovative but unfussy menu with friendly service and congenial seating. KE BENJAMIN’S WESTERN AVENUE BURGER BAR. 900 Western Ave., North Side. 412-224-2163. A casual-chic burger-and-sandwich joint is a tasty addition to the North Side. The menu consists of a matrix of burgers (two sizes, nine topping combos, beef or veggie patty), four other sandwiches and eight beer-friendly “snacks” (from nuts to a charcuterie platter). Prices aren’t diner-cheap, but then some burgers come with red-wine-braised onion and truffle mustard. KE THE CAMBOD-ICAN KITCHEN. 1701 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-381-6199. Having made the jump from street truck to modest sit-down venue, the owners retained their menu, so popular with the late-night crowd, of fresh-cooked Cambodian cuisine. Kabobs, fried wontons, chicken, shrimp cakes, curried vegetable bowls and fried noodles are among the restaurant’s staples, as is its distinctive in-house “moon sauce” and fresh limeade. JF CHINA STAR. 100 McIntyre Square, 7900 McKnight Road, North Hills. 412-364-9933. Though a standard Chinese-American menu available, the real action is on the humbly Xeroxed Sichuan menu that’s all in Chinese. Fortunately, there is a translated version available, and the names read like a gourmand’s exotic fantasy: duck with devil’s tongue yam, rabbits in flaming pan. These authentic dishes may sound mysterious, but they’re delicious. KE IO. 300A Beverly Road, Mount Lebanon. 412-440-0414. The revamped Io’s (formerly Iovino’s) new simplified menu seems a near-perfect distillation of tasty, trendy and traditional. Some dishes are sophisticated classics, like pan-seared flounder with fresh tomato and asparagus. Others are ever-popular workhorses like the BLT and fish tacos, or reinventions such as a Thai empanada or

The Pines Tavern {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} Pittsburgh’s own “city chicken” (skewered pork). KE GREEN FOREST. 655 Rodi Road, Penn Hills. 412-371-5560. Tucked into a nondescript office plaza is this churrascaria — a Brazilian all-you-can-eat restaurant. Servers pull barbequed meats right off the rotisserie grill and present them at your table, ready to carve off as much freshly cooked meat as you like. There are hot and cold buffets as well, but savvy diners load up on the juicy meats. KE

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Tsuki Japanese Restaurant GREEN PEPPER. 2020 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill 412-422-2277. At this family-run restaurant, diners will find authentic Korean recipes refreshingly not reconstituted for timid Americans — no egg rolls or ChineseAmerican stir-fries. Dumplings contain kimchi, and the soup is pumpkin. Entrees include the more-familiar bulgogi (barbecued beef), as well as bibimbap, in which meat and veggies are mixed with rice. KE JOHNNY’S. 112 Westinghouse Ave., Wilmerding. 412-824-6642. This Wilmerding institution

offers well-prepared ItalianAmerican cuisine and a welcoming atmosphere around a horseshoe bar. The menu offers the expected standards in the pasta, veal, chicken, meat and seafood categories. But overall, the preparations are fairly up-todate: exceptionally bright and slightly chunky marinara, fluffily battered calamari and legitimately spicy arrabiatta. KE THE LIBRARY. 2304 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-381-0517. The entrée list at this bookishthemed bistro is short, usually a good sign that the chef is focusing on the strengths of his kitchen and the season’s freshest foods. Dishes revolve around the staples of meat, seafood and pasta, but in fearless and successful preparations that make the menu a worthwhile read. KE NICKY’S THAI KITCHEN. 856 Western Ave., North Side (412-321-8424) and 903 Penn Ave., Downtown (412-471-8424). This restaurant offers outstanding Thai cuisine — from familiar options to chef’s specials that are truly special, such as gaprow lad kao (a Thai stir-fry) and salmon mango curry. The flavors here are best described as intense, yet without overwhelming the fresh ingredients. KF OFF THE HOOK. 98 Warrendale Village Drive, Warrendale. 724-719-2877. This fine-dining fish restaurant features a menu almost exclusively from the sea; even the pastas are seafoodcentric. The fresh-fish section has a variety of suggested preparations, from classic (almondine) to modern (finished with chimichurri). Off the Hook also offers a fresh-oyster bar, expertly curated wine selection and impeccable service. LE

Tables on the Green {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} OSTERIA 2350. 2350 Railroad St., Strip District. 412-281-6595. You won’t get better casual Italian cooking for your money than here. The menu has been pared to the essentials of Italian cuisine: antipasti, pizza, panini and pasta — and their preparations represent a unique marriage of Old-World recipes and local ingredients. JE

quality preparation and a knack for well-selected ingredients to the burgers, sandwiches and appetizers. Options include: shrimp skewers with smoked peppers, cornand-black-bean fritters and a roster of inventive sliders. JE TABLES ON THE GREEN. 1299 Lane Ave., Natrona Heights. 724-226-0955. A golf course east of town may not be where one would expect to find refined Cajun and Creole cuisine, but that’s exactly what this clubhouse restaurant offers. The menu offers Louisiana bayou classics such as shrimp, grits, gumbo and blackened fish in an authentic and well-prepared manner. In a nod to Pittsburgh, steaks and Italian pasta dishes are also offered. LE

PALAZZO 1837 RISTORANTE. 1445 Washington Road, North Strabane. 724-223-1837. This restored mansion provides a charming setting for fine dining. The menu is primarily Italian, with traditional but thoughtfully considered dishes. The hearty, but refined, farfalle rustica pairs wild-boar sausage with wild mushrooms and a sherry sage cream sauce, while housemade TSUKI JAPANESE crepes substitute RESTAURANT. 11655 for noodles in the www. per pa Frankstown Road, Penn crepe lasagna. LE pghcitym .co Hills. 412-242-0188. Most of the myriad sushi rolls on THE PINES TAVERN. offer center on just a handful 5018 Bakerstown Road, of raw options, rounded out with Gibsonia. 724-625-3252. A longtime commitment to seasonal traditional cooked ingredients such as eel and shrimp. The menu and locally sourced food offers the full gamut of maki, (including on-site gardens and from classics like cucumber or tuna beehives) spans the menu here. to truly original creations, some of The restaurant’s casual elegance them just short of gimmickry. KF is suitable for drinks with friends or a celebration meal. And the URBAN TAP. 1209 E. Carson St., fare ranges from pub grub, like South Side. 412-586-7499. burgers and meatloaf, to complex Though it’s wallpapered in giant entrée plates, complete with TVs, the menu here is mostly wine and beer suggestions. KE devoid of sports-bar clichés. Instead, there is duck-confit SELMA’S TEXAS BARBECUE. poutine, mac-and-cheese with 9155 University Blvd., Moon. smoked Gouda, a burger topped 412-329-7003. The decor suggests with pork belly and even aged humble and down-home, but the rib-eye steak. With top-notch ingredients and preparation seem service and excellent food, Urban tailored to appeal to foodies, Tap elevates tavern dining. KE with everything from lemonade to tartar sauce and baked beans VERDE. 5491 Penn Ave., Garfield. made in-house. Best of all, each 412-404-8487. The menu here isn’t meat has its own custom rub and straight Mexican, but presents is dry-smoked for hours, then some traditional items, including served unsauced so that diners tableside-prepared guacamole can choose from the six different and grilled corn-on-the-cob, with styles on offer. KF reconceived classics, invented, fusion-y dishes like tacos with THE SMILING MOOSE. roasted sweet potatoes, fried 1306 E. Carson St., South Side. chickpeas and Mexican-style 412-431-4668. The Carson Street tzatziki. There is also an extensive bar and nightclub offers a tequila list and a patio for top-notch sandwich and salad warm-weather dining. KE menu, by bringing creativity,

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GOOD SPIRITS When Jeff Ryan and Tom Barr decided to leave Brooklyn — experiencing, Barr notes, the “boomerang effect back to Pittsburgh” — they knew they wanted to utilize their skills, which included making good food and gourmet cocktails, and creating musical experiences. All of which culminated in their decision to convert Lawrenceville’s former Moose Lodge 581 into Spirit. Since its opening in April, the venue has accumulated high praise for its menu and events. The space is large — two levels and 10,000 square feet — which allows for a broad array of musical happenings, from the typical band bill and DJs to festivals such as the upcoming RANT and VIA fests. And the artists coming through are pretty noteworthy. National acts like Surfer Blood and Rayland Baxter, along with local stalwarts the Rents and Pittsburgh-to-Brooklyn transplants Dazzletine, have all graced the stage at Spirit. While Leigh Yock, a high school friend of Barr’s, does most of the booking for Spirit, others suggest shows as well. “I would say something like 80 percent of our staff either plays in a band or is a musician,” says Ryan, “so there’s no shortage of ideas.” “We’re down to do anything as long as it’s quality,” adds Barr. “If someone wants to put together a salsa [dance] night, we’ll do that as long as we think it’s going to be entertaining.” The downstairs portion of the building has been slightly redesigned to accommodate a bar, kitchen, stage and sound system, the latter designed by co-owner Warren Pryde. “We’re so concerned with having a good sound here that one of our owners is the sound engineer,” Barr says with a smile. There is a lot of attention to detail, meant to encourage crowds to hang out after the band leaves the stage. “It’s not just ‘Come, see a show and leave,’” says Barr. “When the band is done, we’ll keep the lights down, turn on the disco ball and make it a dance party.” The objective for everyone at Spirit is to create a culture of collectivity. Whether it’s pairing visual artists with musical ones or hosting adult big-wheel races, anyone can suggest an event. “Really,” says Ryan, “the best idea wins.”

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N “FORGIVENESS,” Bean Kaloni Tupou — a.k.a. Try the Pie — sings, “I will be angry if I have to be / I will be angry if I want to be.” The song itself is deceptively gentle. But in a world where anger is not often well received from anyone who isn’t a white male, the lyrics are bold. “As far as anger, it’s something I’ve been uncomfortable with my entire life,” Tupou explains. “Being angry and showing anger, knowing how to do that.” Friends constantly admonish the San Jose-based artist for being “too nice,” a criticism Tupou answers with: “I literally don’t know how to be any other way.” But Tupou — who identifies on a shifting spectrum of gender fluidity and uses the neutral gender pronouns they/ them/their — learned to access difficult feelings through music. In other words, “I can’t really be these things in real life, so I’m just going to make up my own language, and it will reflect the world that I’m trying to cope with.”

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Tupou’s earliest musical experiences were in church. Their father moved from the Polynesian nation of Tonga to the United States with his family as a young man, and Tupou was raised going to a Tongan Methodist church which had been founded by the singer’s grandfather. “I speciﬁcally grew up going to functions

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and church events that were very heavily based on singing and harmonies,” Tupou says. “In Tongan churches one person will start singing, and everyone kind of builds on that. My grandpa would start singing, and my grandma would start singing over him in whatever octave she chose. Every-

one would choose their own voice and that would make the harmony.” This foundation of harmony is evident all over Domestication, Try the Pie’s ﬁrst full-length release, and the ﬁrst with a full band. Growing up in that kind of improvisational musical environment seemingly inspired a unique kind of rebellion: In high school choir, Tupou angered teachers by copying other students with similar range, rather than learning to read sheet music. But Tupou was always more interested in rock music than church music — “[My dad] played Tongan spiritual music, but I wanted to be Nirvana.” Domestication — released in March by Detroit’s Salinas Records — won’t be mistaken for a Nirvana record. Though, lyrically there is a shared spirit of visceral honesty, this is aggression of a subtler sort. Try the Pie is more likely to invite comparisons to artists like La Luz, Waxahachee or the patron saint of ethereal fuzz, Mazzy Star. From the title (and the family photo on

the cover), it’s not surprising that Domestication centers around family. But, Tupou explains, it’s broader than that. “I have conversations like this every day with coworkers and friends, talking about where we come from as far as family and [home] environment. The thoughts and visions I had when I was writing the songs were informed by that, and by every intimate relationship that came after.” Try the Pie has become a kind of umbrella for the entire timeline of Tupou’s solo musical efforts, though it took awhile for these efforts to find their place. “I remember this one girl saying that it was kind of Lilith fair music, which really hurt my feelings,” Tupou recalls with a laugh. “I was listening to stuff that I thought was punk.” Eventually, Tupou befriended a queer, all-female band called Miss Flo, which led to playing an open-mic showcase at San Jose, Calif.’s Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center. “I was kind of blown away like, ‘Oh, that kind of music exists in San Jose?’ I think that’s when I realized I could start writing songs and perform as a project.” Tupou became active in that scene as a member of bands like Sourpatch, Plume and Salt Flat. With Sourpatch, they helped found Think and Die Thinking, a DIY collective which puts together an annual festival focused on music made by women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community. “We kind of worship ’90s pop from the Pacific Northwest, like K Records, Kill Rock Stars, riot grrrl bands. We wanted to emulate [late-1990s Olympia, Wash.-based fest] YoYo a GoGo,” Tupou explains. “[It was also] an alternative to the grind and hardcore scene in San Jose, which is full of people of color, but is really machismo and male-centric.” The most recent fest was in July. And as Tupou embarks on their first truly solo tour — which began at Impose magazine’s #OFFBRAND fest in New York City, and stops in Pittsburgh on Friday — they’re still riding on the energy of that experience. “This year, the fourth year, we hit our stride. It’s like, every conversation [in that environment] is a meaningful conversation and everyone is in the same place.” Which spurs a question asked by members of DIY scenes around the country: How do you successfully create a safe space for marginalized populations? “My main advice would be to always find ways to regenerate things, and breathe new life into things,” Tupou says. “Remember that — even if things feel shitty or in a lull — there are always multiple options, and there’s always a possibility to thrive. Remember how resilient you can be, and how resilient we can be as groups of people.”

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was an underdog. When the Round Corner Cantina’s back patio was Sufak’s clay horseshoe pit, and when Arsenal Bowling Lanes was, for a New York Times travel piece, the height of neighborhood nightclub culture. A time when Lawrenceville was known as “Lawless-ville.” This was also the time when Michael Devine, better known as DJ Zombo, moved to Pittsburgh and set up shop in a small, now-shuttered art gallery across the street from Stinky’s Bar & Grill. Pittsburgh, with its ’80s DIY ethic still going strong, seemed like a city where anything was possible. Zombo quickly established himself as a go-to promoter for his adopted city. And over the past decade, he has been responsible for such self-proclaimed “oddball” events as Surﬁn’ Burgh, Rock and Roll DriveIn and the Steel City Pizza Fest. “I’m kind of like the Nikola Tesla of events,” says Zombo. “I always like to do something different.” This makes RANT — short for “Rock All Night Tour” — his most “normal” event. Which is really saying something. The fourth annual Lawrenceville music festival, co-organized with Howlers and Hambone’s booker Mary Jo Coll, stretches over more than 30 city blocks and features more than 150 bands. It lasts 14 hours, is volunteerrun and free to attend. It turns non-music venues (Arsenal Park, City Grows garden shop, Calligramme boutique) into concert stages, and dots Butler Street with “open busking zones.” It breaks out of its “rock” origin and showcases all sorts of sounds across 25 venues — including established spots like Thunderbird Café and newcom-

ers like Spirit. It brings upward of 7,000 attendees into a neighborhood once characterized by empty storefronts and second-, third- and fourth-generation residents, and now marked by $300,000 condos and BYOB painting classes. “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” says Zombo of the massive lineup. He remembers being the last one picked for the team as a kid, which inspired him to “start my own team, dammit, and let everyone in.” “That’s one of the perks of growing up a nerd. You really ﬁnd yourself a polar opposite of elitism,” he says. “Anybody who wants to come to the table has a place at the table.”

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With a large turnout anticipated, parking for RANT may be problematic. Zombo recommends Uber or the Busy Beaver lot (the store has given the OK for usage after 8 p.m.). Or ride a bike, says Zombo. Lawrenceville is already home to the BikePgh headquarters and two Healthy Ride bike-share stations. With all the neighborhood music festivals joining the scene established by RANT four years ago, what — if anything — makes RANT different from similar events in the North Side or the Strip District? Zombo believes it’s the neighborhood itself. “This festival has always been about being open to what anyone in the Lawrenceville community can bring to the table and ﬁguring out how to use it,” he says. “RANT is a big community effort. I just came up with the idea. Everyone is making it happen.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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It’s pretty common for the children of celebrities to go into the music business, and often these careers feel like the ill-advised vanity projects of entitled youngsters. Not so with Greta Klein, daughter of Kevin Klein and Phoebe Cates, and the force behind the band Frankie Cosmos. The K Records-loving singer-songwriter has a stunning musical drive: There are dozens of full collections of lo-fi bedroom recordings on her bandcamp page — a dizzying output from someone who is barely in her 20s. To narrow it down, listen to the sweet, smart and melancholy Zentropy. Then see Frankie Cosmos with buzz band Girlpool and Overly Polite locals Fun Home and Tornadoes CALYX tonight at The Mr. Roboto Project. Margaret Welsh 7 p.m. 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $10. All ages. www.the robotoproject.org

[DREAM POP] + FRI AUG 14 Kalamazoo, Mich., the hometown of Overly Polite Tornadoes, has a name as catchy as the band’s. Married couple Mark Andrew Morris and Holly Klutts-Morris make bedroom loop-pop with subtle vocals, full arrangements and double-helix-like harmonies. They’re also members of the band Glowfriends, who are in the same shoegazing genre. This year’s When You Wake Up follows the band’s seven-song EP, Almost, and those records have shown OPT to be a solid sonic wingman — this is music you can just hang out with, knowing it’s always up for a party. See for yourself when the duo plays Club Café along with The Velcro Shoes, Claire With the Turban and Street Pigeons. Caleb Murphy 10:15 p.m.

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[INDIE ROCK] + FRI., AUG. 14 After five years on synth-pop rumspringa as the side-project Medals, The Jaguar Club is back with the original moniker, an expanded lineup and a new EP, Close. The Boston/Brooklyn band got older in that time (we all did), but luckily didn’t age out of the cheeky, concise pop work that drove its early records. It’s just slightly dancier now (thank you, Medals). The songs on Close are easy on the ears, but feel implacably subversive — sort of like a cleaner Sunset Rubdown, or Chappo with a little more dirt in it. The Jaguar Club will be joined tonight at Howlers by Anello and Incredible Change. Alex Gordon 9 p.m. 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $5. 412-682-0320 or www. howlerspittsburgh.com

[PUNK] + SUN., AUG 16 Worriers get a lot of love for their social commentary and political edge, particularly titles like “Yes All Cops” and “They/Them/Theirs” from their debut LP, Imaginary Life (produced by Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!). But Lauren Denitzio’s frill-less punk band, playing The Mr. Roboto Project tonight, also thrives in less heady realms. Worriers can do more with four chords and three minutes than most of their pop-punk contemporaries, and credit there goes to Denitzio’s powerful voice and deceptively laid-back delivery. Locals The Lopez, Roulette Waves and Chattel Tail also perform. AG 7 p.m. 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $5. All ages. www.therobotoproject.org {PHOTO COURTESY OF APRIL ZIMONT}

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BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. Unknown String Band. Strip District. 412-251-6058. BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Vicki Genfan. Harmony. 724-452-0539. CLADDAGH IRISH PUB. Weekend at Blarneys. South Side. 412-381-4800. ELWOODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUB. Martin the Troubadour. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181. WICKED FOX. Tim & John. Fox Chapel. 412-794-8255.

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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays. North Side. 412-321-1834. CLUB CAFE. Rasputina w/ Eliza Rickman. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOP FARM BREWING. The Shameless Hex. Lawrenceville. 412-408-3248. PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

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PITTSBURGH CAPA. Ties Through Taiko. Taiko drum performance culminating a musical exchange between Pittsburgh high school students & students from Nihon Fukushi Daigaku High School in Aichi

VOCES SOLIS: SUMMER SINGERS. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, Carnegie. 412-708-4590.

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EAST WINDS SYMPHONIC BAND. Part of the Bach, Beethoven & Brunch series. Mellon Park, Shadyside. 412-255-2493. ORGANIST DON FELLOWS. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland. 412-621-6082. VOCES SOLIS: SUMMER SINGERS. St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, Mt. Lebanon. 412-708-4590.

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MOUNT LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Steel City Ukuleles. Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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SOUTH PARK AMPHITHEATER. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes w/ Joe Grushecky. South Park. 412-835-4810.

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ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Animeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BOP! Ensemble. A multimedia project feat. Animeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BOP!, which stands for bassoon, oboe & piano, performing a series of short compositions, accompanied by MAC dancers & inspired by Warhol images & quotes projected behind the performers on stage. North Side. 412-237-8300.

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

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Triple Header Comedy Show

Jimmy Buffett

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com, ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 8p.m.

MONROEVILLE CONVENTION CENTER Monroeville. Tickets: simoneventmanagement.com or 800-747-5599. Food tasting 5p.m., Show 8:30p.m.

The All Stars Tour 2015

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Heather Kropf

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

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com, ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.

Authority Zero

Michael Sweet (of Stryper)

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CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side. Visit carnegiesciencecenter.org to register. 6p.m.

Station Square Summer Jam: Quinn Sullivan & Jill West and Blues Attack

MAIN STREET STAGE Station Square. Free event. All ages show. 6:30p.m.

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Shag Dog Melon Head / Tori Plack / Skobo CLUB CAFE South Side.

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

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WARHOL THEATER, ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. 412-237-8300. Tickets: warhol.org. 2p.m. & 7p.m.

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8:30p.m.

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SOUND SERIES: Anime’BOP! Ensemble

Devil You Know (members of Killswitch Engage & more)

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STAGE AE North Side. With special guest Citizen Cope. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 6p.m.

Florida Georgia Line: Anything Goes Tour

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 1:30p.m.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 10:30p.m.

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

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TANGERINE IS ABOUT HOW THE FRIENDSHIP OF TWO WOMEN ENDURES

If you need a chill for the late summer heat, you could do worse than investigating The Gift. Written and directed by Joel Edgerton, it’s a domestic thriller, with a deliciously slow build that gradually reveals … well, see for yourself. Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robin (Rebecca Hall) move to Los Angeles, and while shopping, they run into Gordo (Edgerton), a high school acquaintance of Simon’s. Gordo drops by with a housewarming gift, and initiates a relationship. Robin feels sorry for the socially awkward Gordo, while alpha male Simon dismisses him by his old nickname, “Gordo the Weirdo.” Things grow strained, then ugly.

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The Gift dabbles in the tropes of domestic horror — disappearing pet, running faucet, huge windows that people suddenly pop up behind — but it’s more interested in the psychological. Specifically, those interpersonal and emotional issues that have been left unresolved, hidden away in people like a dormant virus that can suddenly erupt and spread infection. (“Let bygones be bygones,” one character suggests. As if.) The Gift is smart about what’s best left hidden and the fluid nature of privacy: Simon works in systems security but lives in a glass house; secrets, kept or revealed, are the currency of power; and some gifts are best left on the doorstep. AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

James Ponsoldt’s docudrama

End of the Tour recounts the five-day interview, in 1996, between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), who had just published Infinite Jest. Starts Fri., Aug. 14. Manor

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Talking over a donut: Alexandra (Mya Taylor) and Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez)

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ERRY CHRISTMAS EVE, bitch.”

Tangerine kicks off its funny, raucous, sweet-and-sour vibe from the first line. Two transgender sex workers are sitting in a donut shop, catching up: Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is just back from a 28-day stint in the can, and her best friend, Alexandra (Mya Taylor), is eager to fill her in on what’s been happening in their grubby corner of Los Angeles. Like how Sin-Dee’s pimp Chester has been seeing another woman. That sets Sin-Dee off on a furious daylong tear, searching for Chester and his new lady (“some fish whose name starts with a D”), while Alexandra trails after her, trying to quell the drama. (“It’s all about our hustle, and that’s it,” she pleads with Sin-Dee.) Their journey takes them through their community — taco stand, motel, food line, nightclub — interacting with pimps, prostitutes and johns. The film also follows another neighborhood fixture, a sympathetic cabbie, Razmik (Kar-

ren Karagulian), an Armenian immigrant whose Christmas Eve gets tangled up in the women’s quest. Director Sean Baker shot Tangerine on location in L.A.’s rundown Santa Monica and Highland area, using just three iPhones. He collaborated with residents of the trangender and street communities

TANGERINE

DIRECTED BY: Sean Baker STARRING: Mya Taylor, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Karren Karagulian Starts Fri., Aug. 14. Harris In English, and Armenian, with subtitles.

CP APPROVED depicted (some of whom play roles). As a result, the ﬁlm is remarkably non-judgmental toward its cast of typically marginalized characters (sex workers, petty criminals, street denizens), granting them the dignity of their experience. It’s an indie ﬁlm in technique, spirit and subject that thrums with that authenticity. Nominally, Tangerine is a shaggy-dog

comedy, as Sin-Dee looks for Chester, and the film is funny as hell, as Alexandra and Sin-Dee squabble, gossip and throw shade (and punches). But neither actress (both non-professionals) lets you forget that that fierceness and bravado covers up a lot of hurt and powerlessness. It’s a tough life in a brutal milieu, and prepare to be a bit heartbroken, too. But there’s beauty in the trash: Baker’s camera finds a dirty orange sunlight that gives L.A.’s ugly streets a warm glow, and Tangerine’s characters are brash in their resilient humanity. There’s even Christmas music, including a sweetly sad rendition of that classic ode to lost innocence, “Toyland” (“once you pass its borders, you can never return”). At its heart — and Tangerine has plenty of heart — it’s about how the friendship of two women endures through a lot of bullshit money and man trouble. Sin-Dee and Alexandra finish out the day as they started — under another fluorescent light, holding hands, and facing the holiday with their rough-and-tumble sisterhood intact. A HOF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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COP CAR. A stolen cop car leads to a mess o’ trouble, as one might expect. But in Jon Watts’ indie thriller, the circumstances aren’t wholly typical. The car is taken by two 10-year-old boys (James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford) after they find it seemingly abandoned in a ravine. Off they go on a joy ride across Colorado’s wide dusty plains. But the car belongs to the sheriff (Kevin Bacon), who’s not pleased to find it gone, and sets off on his own extracurricular mission to find it. (He steals a car to find his own stolen car, which turns out to be the least of his crimes.) The film is basically a fourhander (one other person has a significant connection to the cop car), and balances out the slow-build tension with a smattering of black humor. It never quite rises above the generic expectations of the familiar spare but quirky post-Coens crime-gone-awry thriller, but it’s a decent enough diversion. Starts Fri., Aug. 14. Hollywood (Al Hoff)

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America’s Actress, Meryl Streep — bless her heart and horrible side braids — has cheerfully donned this gaudy coat of a Lifetime movie, and through the sheer force of her on-screen skills, manages to make it look kinda fun to wear. Nothing you’d ever keep in FANTASTIC FOUR. Straight up: This re-boot of your closet, mind you, but maybe on somebody else the Marvel comics actioner, featuring four young … it kinda works. Streep is Ricki, a middle-aged woman who has superheroes of disparate abilities, is a dud. Its flaws run from substantial (emotionally unen- followed her dreams of rock stardom to a bar in Targaging, clunkily plotted, boring) to bizarrely zana, where she belts out classic rock for an appreciamesmerizing (in about a third of her scenes, star tive audience of a dozen or so. I liked these scenes, and would have watched a whole shaggy-dog Kate Mara is wearing the worst wig). movie about Ricki and her band of oldIt’s primarily an origin story timers (including Rick Springfield) about how four young people Shaun playing Tom Petty, Roxy Music work at a tech lab and, in the Sheep and — lol — Lady Gaga, while the course of a drunken assorted barflies and divorevening, get zapped by cees told their tales over some other-dimensional Miller Lites. energy and acquire But there’s Ricki’s weird new powers. other family, a well-to-do Reed (Miles Teller) crew she left back in Indigets super stretchy; ana, and a crisis with her Johnny (Michael B. daughter (real-life daughJordan) can turn into ter Mamie Gummer) that a flame; Ben (Jamie brings her back into their Bell) becomes a strongorbit. And you know it’s all man made of rocks; going to work out, and Ricki and Sue (Mara) can, in is gonna grow up a bit, and essence, go invisible. there will be a wedding where Sounds fun, but it takes everybody will sing along and, yes the film the better part of an this is all terribly familiar. But everybody hour to get to the transformation, works hard to sell it, to pretend that the work while we suffer through: inane dialogue; hokey characterizations (Johnny is a bad-boy is a bit deeper and sharper than it is, and Streep and street racer and can build inter-dimensional Gummer deserve props for hitting a few satisfying particle doo-dads); and a surprisingly dull trip tart notes. (AH) to another dimension, which just looks like a dirty planet. And even after the super-powers SHAUN THE SHEEP. Starting as a supporting charmanifest, viewers get only one hastily assembled acter on Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep is the scene of these ultra-fighters in action — and it’s latest Aardman stop-motion creation to get the a return to that grubby other dimension, where feature-length treatment, here co-directed by Mark Burton and Richard Starzak. Like much of the producconveniently a villain has been percolating. Director Josh Trank took to Twitter last week tion house’s work, Shaun’s world is a place of bucolic to denounce what’s currently playing in theaters, farms, doughy human forms and mild mischief. Cut claiming he had made a better version last year. together as a series of near-silent vignettes, the film So unless you have the fantastic ability to go back follows Shaun and his flock venturing into the big city to find their farmer/owner and bring him home, while in time, heed the warning. (AH) eluding a cranky animal-control worker. The film aims THE MAN FROM U.N .C.L.E. The 1960s spy for that kids’-movie-with-jokes-for-adults appeal and franchise gets a reboot from Guy Ritchie. Here, hits a few of those marks, but it feels like territory a Soviet agent and a CIA agent pair up to better covered by Aardman’s earlier work or any of prevent a mysterious group from getting a Pixar’s golden-era output. Save for the entertaining nuclear device. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and non-verbal communication of all characters both ovine and human, Shaun is a bit too mild for its own Alicia Vikander star. Starts Fri., Aug. 14 good. (Alex Gordon) RICKI AN D THE FLASH. In this light dramedy penned by Diablo Cody (Juno) and directed by STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON. F. Gary Gray’s bio-pic Jonathan Demme, a woman who chose her rock recounts the formation of the rap group NWA in the ’n’ roll career over family makes an effort to get 1980s, and its subsequent success, influence and controversies. Starts Fri., Aug. 14 to know her long-estranged adult children.

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(2001 comedy that tweaks fairy tales, and stars ogres), Aug. 12-13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (a mix of live action and animation illustrates trouble in Toon Town in this 1988 comedy), Aug. 12-13. The Lego Movie (in this 2014 comedy, everything is awesome — or is it?), Aug. 13. Summer Fun series. Animal House (John Belushi heads an ensemble cast in this 1978 comedy about a 1960s college frat), Aug. 14-18 and Aug. 20. Ghostbusters (1984 comedy about ridding the world of troublesome ectoplasm), Aug., 14-17 and Aug. 1920. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Indiana Jones searches for his lost dad, among other things, in this 1989 adventure), Aug. 14-16 and Aug. 18-20. The Fifth Element (1997 Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller in which a cab driver tries to save the galaxy), Aug. 14-20. (The 7 p.m. CONTINUES ON PG. 30

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of nature and the man-made environment to illustrate the changes wrought on the planet. The title comes from the Hopi Indian language and means “life out of balance.” 8 p.m. Sun., Aug. 16. Regent Square

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. A truck driver (Kurt Russell) gets drawn into a centuries-old war in San Francisco’s Chinatown in this 1986 actioner from John Carpenter. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 12, and 7:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 13. Hollywood

THE BOY. A 9-year-old boy, left more or less neglected at a motel, develops a fascination for death. Craig William Macneill directs this new horror thriller. 7:30 p.m. Tue., Aug. 18; 9:15 p.m. Wed., Aug. 19; and 7 p.m. Thu., Aug. 20. Hollywood

GHOSTBUSTERS. It’s been more than 30 years since this crisis broke, but it seems we’re still no safer from pesky ectoplasm. Well, you know who to call! This popular 1984 comedy from Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis, explains it all. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 12. AMC Waterfront. $5 A.I. ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE. This 2001 sci-fi drama, directed by Steven Speilberg tells the story of David, a childlike android who is also programmed to love. The film was originally developed by Stanley Kubrick, who spent a couple of decades working with various writers, before handing the project over to Speilberg in 1995. The film concludes a year-long retrospective of Kubrick’s work. 9:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 14; 7 p.m. Sat., Aug. 15; and 4 p.m. Sun., Aug. 16. Hollywood KOYAANIQATSI. Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 wordless film essay, with a score by Philip Glass, combines images

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8/12 @ 7:30pm, 8/13 @ 7:30pm John Carpenter’s classic trucker vs. ninjas ﬁlm starring Kurt Russell. ___________________________________________________

Cop Car (2015)

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A.I. (2001)

8/14 @ 9:30pm, 8/15 @ 7pm, 8/16 @ 4pm Underrated sci-ﬁ collaboration between Kubrick and Spielberg. ___________________________________________________

The Boy (2015)

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SOME LIKE IT HOT. On the run from the mob during Prohibition, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women to travel incognito with an all-girl band, in Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy. As if struggling with girdles and high heels weren’t enough, both men fall for the band’s sexy lead singer (Marilyn Monroe) and, oops — also discover they’ve got some man trouble of their own! Noon Wed., Aug. 19. Hollywood (AH) MY GIRL. Howard Zieff directs this 1991 dramedy about two kids (Anna Chlumsky, Macauley Culkin) who are best friends, even through tricky times. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 19. AMC Waterfront. $5 THE APPALOOSA. After his horse is stolen by bandits, a man tries to get it back. Sidney J. Furie directs this 1966 Western starring Marlon Brando. The film continues the monthly Spaghetti Western Dinner Series — patrons get a spaghetti Western and spaghetti. Dinner at 7 p.m.; screening at 7:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 20. Parkway, McKees Rocks. $9. Reservations required at 412-766-1668. AN DY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warhol’s Factory Diaries series (1971-75) and other shorts screen. Ongoing. Free with museum admission. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. www.warhol.org

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OPEN-AIR DANCE For Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s 27th annual Ballet Under the Stars program at Hartwood Acres, the company will revisit works from its milestone 45th-anniversary season, as well as premiere a new ballet by PBT principal dancer Yoshiaki Nakano. The free outdoor performance on Sun., Aug. 16, part of Allegheny County’s Summer Concert series, will feature the “Pas d’Action” and “Bronze Idol” sections from La Bayadère, and second-act pas de deux from both Swan Lake and Giselle. Nakano’s debut ballet for PBT, “A Fellow Feeling,” is a 15-minute neoclassical ballet for five couples set to music by Mozart. The title, says Nakano, refers to his desire to share a feeling of togetherness in dance with other company members. Nakano says he was driven by the music in creating the movement for and feel of the ballet, which keys off accents in Mozart’s music. The program will conclude with a reprise of Mark Morris’ clever masterwork “Sandpaper Ballet” (1999), set to the music of American composer Leroy Anderson. On Aug. 29, PBT will perform “Sandpaper Ballet” when it makes its debut at the prestigious Chicago Dancing Festival, in Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park. The company’s inclusion in this year’s Chicago Dancing Festival is one of the byproducts of artistic director Terrence Orr’s push to take PBT to the next level as one of the country’s leading ballet companies. Building on a foundation of the world-class repertory the company has performed the past few seasons, Ballet Under the Stars will herald another ambitious season of ballets befitting an elite company. They include: Mixed Repertory #1 (Oct. 23-25) featuring Balanchine’s “Western Symphony,” William Forsythe’s “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated” and Jiří Kylián’s “Sinfonietta”; The Nutcracker (Dec. 4-27); Peter Pan (Feb. 12-21); Mixed Repertory #2 (March 10-13) featuring James Kudelka’s “Man in Black,” Antony Tudor’s “Jardin Aux Lilas (Lilac Garden)” and Michael Smuin’s “Eternal Idol”; and the swashbuckling pirate ballet Le Corsaire (April 15-17). In roster changes, PBT said goodbye to principal dancer Nurlan Abougaliev, who will continue to dance as a freelance artist, and soloist Elysa Hotchkiss, who joined Kansas City Ballet. Dancer Hannah Carter was promoted to soloist and PBT added three new apprentice dancers: Jessica McCann, Emily Simpson and Kurtis Sprowls. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE presents BALLET UNDER THE STARS 7:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 16. Hartwood Acres Park Middle Road Concert Area, 200 Hartwood Acres, Allison Park. Free. www.pbt.org N E W S

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Artist’s rendering of the planned hotel addition to the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, in Oakland (the version recently approved by the city’s Planning Commission). The view is from Bigelow Avenue near Fifth.

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HERE’S LITTLE debate about the considerable architectural quality and historic nature of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association on Fifth Avenue in Oakland. The regal building was completed in 1911 to designs by architect Benno Janssen with reﬁned proportions and ornate classical columns in the style of the Venetian Renaissance. It speaks to an era when aristocratic Italian families would spend substantial wealth on their buildings to evoke ancient cultures, embody artistic reﬁnement and celebrate the city’s public life. In early-20th-century Pittsburgh, it reinforced

Oakland’s continuing status as Pittsburgh’s monumental cultural district. The PAA is generally reminiscent of Venice, but the current effort to add a building to it looks exactly like current Pittsburgh in its processes, which have good intentions, but perhaps inadequate outcomes. The need to add to the PAA is understandable. The pleasantly stuffy Edwardian institutional charm persists today, but membership and revenues are similarly declining, as has been widely reported. In fact, similar Oakland clubs such as the University Club and Concordia Club, as well as the Masons,

have simply sold their historic buildings to Pitt. It’s actually remarkable that PAA still survives with a plan to keep its doors open in a way that similar institutions have not. PAA’s proposal to add a hotel behind the historic building as it fronts on Fifth Avenue is potentially reasonable, especially given that the Schenley Hotel (long used by Pitt as a student center) helped begin the district’s transformation. Happily for all concerned, there has been a lengthy and open public process that began last February and has continued through approval by the Planning CONTINUES ON PG. 32

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Commission at the end of July. Councilman Dan Gilman scheduled public meetings and presentations over a period of months and, to its credit, the development team sought input from local groups as well. Criticisms were rampant. “Everybody told them the building was too big,” says Karamagi Rujumba, of Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (a group for whom, in full disclosure, I have recently been a guest speaker). The first version of the proposed 10-story structure was 225,000 square feet and 190 rooms, with modernist asymmetry and non-contextual brown accents in its palette. Indeed, there was a general consensus about a number of the building’s shortcomings. Its design was not sufficiently sympathetic to the historic district, it lacked retail activity at the ground level, and the street-level traffic patterns were not well designed, according to Rujumba. The Schenley Farms Civic Association collected similar criticisms about that design. That group’s membership voted unanimously against the proposal, and the Historic Review Commission initially removed it from the agenda. Development group Callay Capital/ Concord Hospitality Enterprises sent designers PFVS Architects back to the proverbial drawing board to make changes, which addressed many of those issues to at least some degree. “The developer and the team did a good effort and a lot of listening,” says Ernie Hogan, chair of the Historic Review Commission, which recently approved the new design. The revised version is 199,000 square feet and 168 rooms, with a greater emphasis than the first version on harmonious materi-

als and architectural treatments. “I think it’s been one of our better processes,” Hogan says. Indeed, in comments that were both delivered publicly and published, Schenley Farms Civic Association president Norman Cleary calls the design changes “an admittedly marked improvement.” But his group was not wholly satisfied, and its final vote was deadlocked. Hogan allows, “In any project, we are not going to get 100 percent.” The architecture firm that is well qualified to design a nicely functional hotel and to respond courteously through a lengthy public-review process is still not necessarily the best candidate to add to a landmark neoclassical building, or to build with the standards suitable to a historic high-water mark of architectural design. What are the best examples of this kind of building added to neoclassical monuments, and which firms are best suited to make a nationally admirable project? The HRC should require developers to make these inquiries at the outset. This will lead us to better projects, rather than leaving us wondering why, after a long, open and often conscientious process, the results are still mediocre — an improvement from just plain awful. The PAA hotel project needs no further approvals from the city and is now good to go. Indeed, says Hogan, “The real story is what happens with the Syria Mosque [site].” A big development on the site of that former historic auditorium, and now long-term parking lot — adjacent to the PAA — is forthcoming, but not officially submitted. The time to ask these questions was not simply in 1911, but right now. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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Lynn Emanuel

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WITTGENSTEIN’S admonition “Anything

your reader can do for himself, leave to him” is challenged immediately by Lynn Emanuel in the preface to her new book, The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected. Emanuel declares that “chronology is predictable” and “arbitrary,” and then explains how she has cut and pasted together a new ordering of her previous four books (and added several recently published poems), creating what she calls a “new book” full of “linkage” and “collisions.” She tells us she did this to “save you this work,” as if any readers might have done this on their own.

THE NERVE OF IT: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED By Lynn Emanuel University of Pittsburgh Press, 120 pp., $16.95

Although Wittgenstein would not be happy, I found this approach both intriguing and frustrating. This is not a collection you can read to understand a poet’s evolution and maturation. Instead, it attempts — in the spirit of the critic Harold Bloom’s theory of revisionism — to let the works establish themselves in hand-to-hand combat: precursor poems following later

poems. This recalls Walt Whitman, whose “truest contest was with his own earliest text,” says Bloom. Poets like Whitman often revised themselves. Emanuel, however, challenges herself, and the reader, by inverting her own evolution, in effect, asking us to appraise her older works as new ones. Emanuel, a longtime professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, is a nationally recognized and much-awarded poet. But much as the form of the book presents a dichotomy, so does the work itself. Emanuel’s poems can be profound and amazing, and just as easily selfreﬂexive and self-indulgent, sometimes to the point of annoyance. The best piece in the collection, “Frying Trout While Drunk,” from her ﬁrst book (1984), is so strong you could teach a master’s-level course with it. The images build on each other subtly, naturally, until you have lost yourself in them and are sitting with the characters around their kitchen table 60 years ago: When I drink it is always 1953, Bacon wilting in the pan on Cook Street And mother, wrist deep in red water, Laying a trail from the sink To a glass of gin and back.

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Raymond Carver short stories, but Emanuel achieves in a mere 29 lines what took Carver many pages to muster. Emanuel’s favorite trope is self-referencing the poem-as-a-poem. This technique can be interesting when used sparingly but, used constantly — especially in the context of a collection reordered to emphasize such — it becomes numbing. Imagine a film in which the characters constantly stop, look at the camera, and say, “You’re watching a film.” The novelty of this wore off after directors like Godard employed it in the 1960s, and in poetry it fares no better. Those poems that take self-reflexivity even further usually end up weakened. For example, in “Ars Poetica” (2010), the lines “I have always been a poet / who poured herself into the shrouds / of experience’s tight dresses” come off as forced, and much less effective emotionally. In “Stone Soup” (1992), so many similes are packed on top of each other that the poem becomes claustrophobic. In such examples, the poet would be better served by trying to do less work for her readers, trusting them more and letting the text exhale. However, Emanuel is often able to achieve brilliance, with works like “On Waking after Dreaming of Raoul” (1992), through sublime simplicity: “those nights she gunned the DeSoto / around Aunt Ada’s bed of asters while you shortened / the laces of my breath.” Other superb pieces include “I tried to flatter myself into extinction” (2010), which is a wonderfully ironic exegesis of her own writing, and “The D i g ” ( 1 9 9 2 ) , wh i c h must be a joy to hear out loud, juxtaposing gorgeous language and rhythm (“faint brickwork of floor spidering the dust”) with a meditation on death. Deciding whether Emanuel’s antihistoricist ordering of her books is successful is a matter of taste, and I won’t do that work for you. Poems, like any work of art, contain negative space, need to breathe, and certainly react to one another. Sometimes her “linkages and collisions” succeed; sometimes they diminish perspective, as if one were trying to look at paintings in a closet. However, there is enough excellent work in The Nerve of It to merit inclusion in the library of anyone who values original poetry.

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Some day, when everyone’s treated equally, we won’t need to hold special exhibits to make sure all artists’ work is appreciated. Until then, we have shows like As Good as the Guys: Women Photographers in Pittsburgh. It’s a FrameHouse & Jask Gallery showcase for more than a dozen local talents including Lori Hepner, Karen Kaighin, Sue Abramson and Pulitzer-winner Martha Rial. The show, curated by Graham Shearing and Elizabeth Brophy, also includes original work by two late, pioneering photographers, Rosalie Gwathmey and Aaronel de Roy Gruber. The opening reception at this Ice House venue is tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 6-9 p.m. Exhibit continues through Sept. 26. 100 43rd St., Unit 107, Lawrenceville. Free. www.framehouseonline.com

{ART} We’re surrounded by patterns hidden in the world around us. Now, local artist Jakob Marsico has harnessed the everyday movements of traffic for a new light-and-sound installation. Traffic Lights, the product of the latest Trespass

residency at Future Tenant, uses real-time CCTV traffic footage to create an immersive experience employing custom software and dynamic lighting and sound design. Tonight’s opening reception features live music by Evan Richards and Natural Bottom. Joseph Peiser 6-9 p.m. Exhibit continues through Sept. 13. 819 Penn Ave., Downtown.

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It’s a big weekend at the Carnegie Science Center — if you like beer, bubbles or both. The Center’s latest 21+ Night is tonight’s The Science of Beer; tickets include 10 regional beer samples, a presentation from Draai Laag Brewing about wild beer (made with wild yeast), live music and access to all four Center floors. Also featured is a performance of BubbleMania, actor Casey Carle’s internationally touring show blending the art, comedy and science of making giant bubbles. If you can’t make it tonight, BubbleMania returns on Saturday and Sunday, for three shows daily on the Science Stage during regular Center hours. No beer at those shows, though; the kids’ll have to wait till they get home. BO Science of Beer: 6-10 p.m. ($19). Bubblemania only: Noon, 2 and 4 p.m. daily Sat., Aug. 15, and Sun., Aug. 16 (free with admission: $11.95-18.95). One Allegheny Ave., North

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FreeEvent Whether you spend your weekends fashioning your backyard into the grounds of Versailles or don’t know a spade from a shovel, it’s pretty hard to pass up a summer day wandering around a beautiful flower garden. On Sat., Aug. 15, the Penn State Extension, which offers the university’s resources and expert knowledge to citizens of Pennsylvania through specialized programs, holds its annual Garden in the Parks event. Hosted by the Penn State Master Gardeners of Allegheny County, Garden in the Parks invites visitors on guided tours of the demonstration gardens at North and South parks.These gardens are primarily flowerbeds — only potatoes are grown in the North Park site — and gardeners are welcome to peruse the selection to see if any would work in their own home gardens. Visitors can also vote for their favorite flowers, and afterward the winner will be distributed to the Extension’s local nursery partners. In addition, there will be a tasting of basil and garlic grown in the gardens and a scavenger hunt for children. The North Park demonstration garden is located at the corner of Wildwood and Ingomar roads in front of the Veterans Memorial, and the South Park garden is located at the intersection of Corrigan Drive and McConkey Road, down the road from the wave pool. Joseph Peiser 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., Aug. 15. Free. 412-482-3451 or www.extension.psu.edu

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Northeast Ohio-based author Nancy Christie visits Classic Lines bookstore for a reading, discussion and signing. Christie is the author of books including her latest, Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories (Pixel Hall Press), a collection of 18 stories about characters who, according to press materials, “are unable or unwilling to seize control over their lives.” Christie’s work has also appeared in literary journals including Wild Violet and Talking River. BO 7-9 p.m. 5825 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-422-2220

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{MUSIC} Just after his 87th birthday, Andy Warhol is still inspiring from beyond the grave. Todayand tonight, The Andy Warhol Museum offers two performances of Of Ordinary Things, a collaboration between musical trio Anime’BOP and Mid-Atlantic Contemporary Ballet. Anime’BOP (bassoonist Linda Morton Fisher, oboist Robin Driscoll and pianist Robert Frankenberry) performs short compositions, accompanied by MAC dancers; the music is inspired by Warhol images and quotes that will be projected behind the performers. Today’s shorter (hour-long), family-friendly matinee is free. The show continues the Warhol’s Sound Series. BO 2 p.m. (free) and

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Tonight, at Arcade Comedy Theater, Laura and Rick Hall lead a night of musical improv that will get the whole room involved. Laura Hall has been the featured pianist on Whose Line Is It Anyway? since the show’s inception, and her husband, Rick, has acted on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development and Key & Peele. Together with their Advanced Music Improv

shows out there — who knew? — but only one claims “the personal approval of author George R.R. Martin.” Nationally touring Virginia-based troupe Burlesque Is Coming brings its “sultry and sexy, fun and farcical” take on the HBO hit to Cruze Bar tonight. Stars include Cherie Sweetbottom, Lily Liqueur and boylesque performer Dante the Inferno, with in-character standup

workshop, they’ll lead a performance, and afterward join the Arcade house team, the High Scores, for a long-form musical-improv set. JP 7 p.m. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $10. 412-339-0608 or www.arcadecomedy theater.com

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comedy from Ray Bullock, as Varys. A press release notes: “No one will be seated during the Dothraki funeral pyre scene.” You’ve been warned. BO 8 p.m. 1600 Smallman St., Strip District. $12-15. www.burlesqueiscoming.com

+ WED., AUG. 19 {OUTDOORS} If “fishing” still sits unchecked on your summer bucket list, don’t squander these last few weeks. With opportunities like Venture Outdoors’ TriAnglers, there’s no reason not to get out there. Trianglers is a free, weekly mid-day fishing experience on the Allegheny River that meets at Kayak Pittsburgh, under the Clemente Bridge near PNC Park. Bait and equipment are provided, fishing experts are on hand to help out, and all skill levels are welcome. Any participant over age 16 is required to have a fishing license, which can be acquired online. JP 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. North Side. Free. Reservations required at 412-255-0564 or www.ventureoutdoors.org.

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NOT NOT NOT NOT GOING TO MOVE. Alexander says he isn’t moving anywhere even though his dad has taken a job in a city a thousand miles away. Looking Glass Theater. Fri, Sat, 1:30 p.m. and Wed, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 23. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. AS YOU LIKE IT. Shakespeare in South Park. Sat, Sun, 2 p.m. and Sat, Sun, 5 p.m. Thru Aug. 24. South Park Theatre, Bethel Park. 412-831-8552. BROADWAY REVUE. Scenes & music from show favorites. Sat., Aug. 15, 7 p.m. and Sun., Aug. 16, 2 p.m. Seton Center, Brookline. 412-254-4633. CALLING THE HAWK. A comedy about a crime-ﬁghter’s son. Presented by the Baldwin Borough Public Library Teen Drama Club. Fri., Aug. 14, 7 p.m. Harrison Middle School, White Hall. 412-885-2255. EXIT LAUGHING. When the biggest highlight in your life for

the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night w/ the “girls,” what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? Aug. 13-29, 7:30 p.m. South Park Theatre, Bethel Park. 412-831-8552. GIRLS ONLY: THE SECRET COMEDY OF WOMEN. A show about what women talk about when men aren’t in the room. Sun, 2 p.m., Sat, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Wed-Fri, 7:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 16. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769. JULIUS CAESAR. Watch as Caesar’s “ambition” & “greed” lead to his downfall at the hands of a conspiratorial group of senators. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 16. Grand Theatre, Elizabeth. & Sat, Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Aug. 17. Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Castle Shannon. 412-881-1002. THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE. A production of C.S. Lewis’ classic story of the ﬁrst adventure in the land of Narnia. Sat, Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri., Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 23. The Theatre Factory, Trafford. 412-374-9200.

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MURDER ON THE MEDITERRANEAN. Original murder mystery written by R-ACT Theatre’s own Lawrence Spinnenweber. A romantic honeymoon cruise becomes a voyage of danger in this audience participation murder mystery. Fri, Sat, 7 p.m. Thru Aug. 23. The Avenue Theater, Brighton. 724-775-6844. NUNSENSE! The musical comedy about a community of nuns raising money to bury their recently deceased sisters. Thu., Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., Aug. 15, 2 & 7:30 p.m. The Crystal Ballroom, Butler. 724-527-7775. OUTSIDE MULLINGAR. A comedy about love divided by two arguing family. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 15. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. THE REDUCTION. A mixedmedia movement theater piece by David Bernabo. Thu., Aug. 13, 8 p.m. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 412-320-4610. TRAVELING TITAN THEATER TROUPE. Join the readers group & perform for the Orion Personal

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Care residents. Registration required. Thu., Aug. 13, 1:302:30 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. THE WINTER’S TALE. Presented by Poor Yorick’s Players. A challenging play following the story of King Leontes. Sat, 7 p.m. Thru Aug. 16. Tall Trees Amphitheater, Monroeville. 412-537-1705. WORDPLAY. Modern twist on the ancient art of storytelling. Fri., Aug. 14, 8 p.m. Bricolage, Downtown. 412-471-0999.

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DERICK MINTO. Open mic. Thu, 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

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LIVE READ: SECRET SCRIPT. Live reading series returns w/ a “mystery script” featuring performances by Curt Wootton, Rick Sebak, Chris Preksta, & an all-star cast. 8 p.m. and Fri., Aug. 14, 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

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THE DRAFT: IMPROV COMEDY SHOW. SCIT students & SCIT veterans mix them together to make two awesome, one time only teams. 8 p.m. The Maker Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. PLAY, DATE. 10 p.m. The Maker Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

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The Hearth of Yggdrasil is throwing its annual Viking picnic, called Three Rivers Thing, on Saturday, at Settlers Park Cabin. Come and learn to play traditional Viking games, like Kubb (pictured); check out some neat vendors; and picnic in the sun. Workshops will be offered on topics like Viking history and magical healing. 11 a.m.-sunset, Sat., Aug. 15. Algonquin Pavilion, Settlers Cabin Park, 1225 Greer Road, Robinson Township. Free. www.facebook.com/groups/threeriversthing

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FRAMEHOUSE. Women Photographers in Pittsburgh. 15 local artists practicing photography in the region w/ a small group of their forebears in the city, at a time when the medium was dominated by men. Opening reception August 14, 6-9 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559.

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4823 PENN AVE. Studies in Topophilia. Charcoal sketches on vellum by Carolyn Wenning. Garﬁeld. www.carolynwenning.com. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York. Work from these artists from their time as students at Carnegie Tech to their early days in New York. Treasure/Trash. Works by local artist Elizabeth A. Rudnick. Andy’s Toybox. A playful installation of Warhol’s paintings, prints, & photographs from the late 1970s & 1980s. Glycerine & Rosewater. A site speciﬁc artwork by the German/ Dutch artist Stefan Hoffmann, using his unique process of vertical silkscreen printing. Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side. 412-237-8300. ART SPACE 616. Summer Group Show. Features work by Atticus Adams, Kevin O’Toole, & Peter Mandradjieff. Sewickley. 412-259-8214. ARTDFACT. Artdfact Gallery. The works of Timothy Kelley & other regional & US artists on display. Sculpture, oil & acrylic paintings, mixed media, found objects, more. North Side. 724-797-3302. ASSEMBLE. moonbaby.

Welcome to Moonbabyland, a pop-up interactive department store set to discover the meanings of self mythologizing spaces & bodies. Garfield. 412-432-9127. BOXHEART GALLERY. Erin Treacy & Jim Studeny. Paintings & paper assemblages that explore time & fragmentation by Erin Treacy. Paintings inspired by Japanese woodblock prints by Studeny. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Sketch to Structure. Unfolding the architectural design process to show how buildings take shape. Jacqueline Humphries. Comprised of entirely new works, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in nearly a decade of her silver & black-light paintings. She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World. The work of 12 leading women photographers who have tackled the notion of representation w/ passion & power, questioning tradition & challenging perceptions of Middle Eastern identity. CMOA Collects Edward Hopper. Collected works of Edward Hopper & prints by Rembrandt & Charles Meryron, Hopper’s influences. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined w/ 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. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. upStage – An Exploratory of Dance. Work by Peggi Habets, Claire Hardy, Jeannie McGuire & Christine Swann. Oakland. 412-716-1390. GALLERIE CHIZ. Conversations from the Backseat. Mixed media by Luon St. Pierre. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. Stranded in the Underworld. New works by Brian Holderman & Jeremy Beightol. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GALLERY-VERY FINE ART. Group Show. Work by Linda Price-Sneddon, Peggy Habets, James E. Trusko & others. South Side. 412-901-8805. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. MATTRESS FACTORY. Factory Installed. Artists Anne Lindberg, John Morris, Julie Schenkelberg, Jacob Douenias & Ethan Frier created new room-sized installations that demonstrate a uniquely different approach to the creative process. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Shiota, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169. MERRICK ART GALLERY. Roc Prologo. Watercolors by the artist. New Brighton. 724-846-1130. CONTINUES ON PG. 39

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“Adjutant” A desolate concrete stretch of Downtown’s Allegheny River riverwalk (near Point State Park) has been revivified with this new, 850-foot-long mural depicting large-scale silhouettes of common weeds. It was designed by artist Kim Beck for Riverlife’s #TBD project.

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The local four-piece Run Forever released the first single from its forthcoming self-titled record just in time for vacation season. And the tune feels a lot like a hot mid-summer afternoon: a little hazy, a little lazy, with just the right amount of delicious melancholy.

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Pittsburgh industrialists, local history. Sewickley. 412-741-4487. SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland. 412-621-4253. ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice & the immigrant experience in America. Millvale. 412-407-2570.

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REED DANCE INTENSIVE. A culminating show of students after a two week dance intensive. 2 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

SUN 16

BALLET UNDER THE STARS. Family fun & ballet presented by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. 5 p.m. Hartwood Acres, Allison Park. 412-454-9138.

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BIKE TO FEED FAMILIES. Volunteer-organized bicycled food drive beneﬁting Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. 10 a.m. South Side Trailhead, South Side. www.pittsburghfoodbank.org. SAVE SECOND BASE: BREAST CANCER BENEFIT. Live music on the lawn. 2 p.m. Elwood’s Pub, Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

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GERTRUDE STEIN POLITICAL CLUB OF GREATER PITTSBURGH. Meetings of group devoted to LGBT issues in electoral politics. Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m. United Cerebral Palsy of Pittsburgh, Oakland. 412-521-2504.

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Pittsburgh’s riverboat tours aren’t just great for visiting relatives: On a sunny day, admiring Downtown’s skyline from the top deck can make even a long-term resident fall in love with the city again. www.gatewayclipper.com

Rachel Carson Blend from La Prima This deliciously nutty coffee is extra satisfying, considering a dollar of each pound sold goes to the Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale.

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DANAE CLARK. Reception & reading of her book ‘A Buddhist Goes To Rehab.’ 6 p.m. Classic Lines, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-2220. 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. Lot 17, Bloomﬁeld. 412-687-8117. STEVE HALLOCK. Speaking & signing his new book ‘Justice Delayed.’ 6:30 p.m. Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont. 888-800-6078.

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CHARLIE BRICE. A poetry reading.

EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Kinky Boots at Pittsburgh CLO, at the Benedum Center, Downtown CRITIC: Dan Riles, 41, a city clerk from Latrobe WHEN: Thu.,

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The show was excellent; it was exciting, upbeat and Broadway-worthy. It’s a show with a great story, great songs and a great cast. Who can beat Billy Porter — he did it just as well here as he did it on Broadway. I saw him perform in previews when the show opened, in 2013, and loved it just as much here in Pittsburgh. The costumes were dazzling and the music was great. I came down tonight because my friends and I are all theater-goers, but Billy Porter is what made it a can’t-miss because he’s from here. It’s always exciting to see local talent really hit it big like that, and he’s definitely someone who deserves a lot of success. B Y J OS E P H P E I S E R

7-10 p.m. Spinning Plate Gallery, Friendship. www.artspace.org.

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A CELEBRATION OF JAMES LAUGHLIN. A reading, discussion & book signing w/ Ian MacNiven, author of “Literchoor is My Beat’: A Life of James Laughlin”, Publisher of New Directions & Greg Barnhisel, author of “Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy and James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound”. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 412-454-6373. PENNWRITERS SPRINGDALE WRITERS GROUP. Third Sat of every month Springdale Free Public Library, Springdale. 724-274-9729.

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SARAH PERLMUTTER. Book signing. 3 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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PITTSBURGH CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY READING GROUP. Tue, 6 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomﬁeld. 412-224-2847. STEEL CITY SLAM. Open mic poets & slam poets. 3 rounds of 3 minute poems. Tue, 7:45 p.m. Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

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HOW TO CREATE & MARKET YOUR BOOK. This two-session workshop addresses writing a book, ﬁnding a publisher, hiring an agent, digital marketing & social media. Aug. 18-19, 6 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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PENGUINS & PAJAMAS. Visitors will meet the penguins up-close, watch Mr. Popper’s Penguins, w/ a special introduction to the movie from a penguin, make a penguin craft & help the penguins fall asleep w/ story time. 5-9 p.m. National Aviary, North Side. 412-323-7235.

12 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3131. M3: MATERIALS, MEDIA, AND ME! Explore a new material & make a project every Saturday of the summer! For youth in 4th through 8th grade. Sat. Thru Aug. 29 Assemble, Garﬁeld. 412-432-9127. SATURDAY FAMILY STORIES. Songs & stories for kids from birth through preschool, w/ caregiver. 10:30 a.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

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PENGUIN POOL PARTY. Penguin activities, games & crafts. Aug. 15-16, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. National Aviary, North Side. 412-323-7235.

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MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes inspired by books. Listen to stories read by librarian-turned-Teaching Artist Molly. Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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HOMEWORK HELP. For grades 1-8. Tue, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Assemble, Garﬁeld. 412-432-9127. KIDSPLAY. Free educational programming w/ music, dancing & hands-on activities for preschool aged children. New theme every week. Tue, 10-11:30 a.m. Thru Aug. 25 Market Square, Downtown. 412-471-1511.

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BUTTERFLY WALK. Guided hike. Pre-registration recommended at www.alleghenycounty.us/parks. Off Leash parking area. 1-2 p.m. White Oak Park, White Oak. ORIENTEERING, NAVIGATION & MAP READING. Learn essential navigation skills. Meet in Lodge parking lot. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

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VERY ERIC CARLE. A play & learn exhibit featuring activities inspired by ﬁve of Eric Carle’s classic books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Quiet Cricket, The Very Lonely Fireﬂy, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle & The Very Busy Spider. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

GARDEN IN THE PARKS FIELD DAY. Tours of the annual ﬂower trails, herb & pollinator gardens, local beekeeper, children’s activities, tomato & garlic tasting & composting information. Held at North and South Park Demonstration Gardens. 9 a.m.1 p.m. South Park. 412-860-4179. THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. Meet WPMC member Cecily Franklin at the park entrance on Pennsylvania Avenue. We will be collecting mushrooms for display at the monthly meeting. 10 a.m. Dark Hollow Woods, Oakmont. www.wpamushroomclub.org.

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THE DOG DAY OF SUMMER. Learn about our four-legged friends, from dogs w/ important jobs to the dogs of ancient Egypt.

FARMERS AT PHIPPS. Shop for local, organic & Certiﬁed Naturally Grown on Phipps front lawn. Wed, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 28 Phipps

Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914. WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

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8X10 IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT WORKSHOP. A hands-on demonstration & training on how to use The Impossible Project’s 2nd Generation 8×10 black-and-white integral instant ﬁlm to achieve professional artistic portraits. Introductory information on 8×10 cameras, metering, composition, ﬂash exposure is provided in relation to portraiture practice. 6-9 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. OLD ALLEGHENY ANTIQUE SHOW. 10 a.m. Calvary United Methodist Church, North Side. 412-228-8072. PFLAG BUTLER. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m. Covenant Presbyterian Church, Butler. 412-518-1515. PRESERVING THE HARVEST. Susan Marquesen teaching a workshop on how to preserve foods. 6:30 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100.

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NEMACOLIN GALLERY. A Midsummers Night. A solo exhibition w/ work by Paul McMillan. Nemacolin. 412-337-4976. NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. Verklären. A 5-week, evolving exhibition by video/sound artist Nathan Lorenzo. Closing reception August 14, 7-9 p.m. North Side. 412-322-2224. PERCOLATE. Audio/Visual: Four Artist/Musicians. Works by Christiane D, Ian Green, Rashad Jamaal (aka Billy Pilgrim), & Jenn Wertz. Wilkinsburg. 412-606-1220. PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. PhAb Now! Photography by Corey Escoto, April Friges, Lori Hepner, Jesse Kauppila, Todd Keyser & Barbara Weissberger. Oakland. 412-681-5449. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Out of the Archives & Into the Gallery. An

collaborators Sadie Shoaf, Gianna Paniagua, Jordan Beckham x MJ Whalen, Homestead Supply Co. 6-11 p.m. and Sat., Aug. 15, 1-5 p.m. Boom Concepts, Garﬁeld. www.boomconcepts.com.

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BOCCE TOURNAMENT & FESTIVAL. More than 35 fourperson teams will showcase their bocce skills while visitors enjoy Italian food, beverages, music, more. Under the Veterans Bridge overpass. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 412-454-6000. DILLY BEANS CANNING PARTY. PITTSBURGH STYLE WEEK. Make pickled string beans & Fashion shows, designer events, review basic pickling principles. brunches. Various locations. 1 p.m. Earthen Vessels Outreach, www.styleweekpittsburgh.com. Bloomﬁeld. 814-505-5311. GARDEN TALKS. Identifying shrubs & AFRICAN DANCE trees w/ speaker CLASS. Second and Nancy Smith. 10 a.m. Third Fri of every Mount Lebanon Public month and Fourth and www. per pa Library, Mt. Lebanon. Last Fri of every month pghcitym .co 412-531-1912. Irma Freeman Center INTERNATIONAL for Imagination, Garﬁeld. SAILOR MOON DAY. 412-924-0634. Cosplay contest, lip sync, eating CARNEGIE CRAWL & JAZZ. contest, fan art more. 5 p.m. Gallery crawl followed by Jazz Victory Pointe Arcade, South Side. at 3rd Street. Second Fri of every 412-251-5150. month, 5-8 p.m. Thru Oct. 9 LAWRENCEVILLE FARMERS’ 3rd Street Gallery, Carnegie. MARKET. Near Allegheny Valley 412-276-5233. Bank. Sat, 1-4 p.m. Thru Oct. 31 FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA 412-802-7220. DANCE. A social, traditional LIVING HISTORY: COOKING. American dance. No partner Re-enactors will use seasonal needed, beginners welcome, ingredients to prepare foods lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m. common to the diets of 18th Swisshelm Park Community century Pittsburghers. Third Sat Center, Swissvale. 412-945-0554. of every month, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thru Aug. 22 Point State Park, Downtown. 412-281-9284. BOOMAFTERBRUNCH. A MINGO CREEK PARK 2 day pop-up installation from OBSERVATORY 10 YEAR homegrown fashion maven ANNIVERSARY. Celebrate Makayla Wray. On Friday, 10 years of public outreach to music from DJ Bamboo w/ live Washington & surrounding presentations featuring artist &

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exploration of history & historic artistic technique in glass. Friendship. 412-365-2145. POINTBREEZEWAY. Kamili. An exhibition of work by Hannibal Hopson & Amani Davis that reﬂects their mission to use recycled materials & let the objects determine the form & message. Point Breeze. 412-770-7830. REVISION SPACE. Great Waves II. A juried exhibition of works by local artists based in Pittsburgh. Lawrenceville. 412-735-3201. RUNAWAY STUDIOS. Hi Lo. Work on the anxieties of both loss & reclamation of identity, by Dianna Settles. Bloomﬁeld. SHALER NORTH HILLS LIBRARY. Artists of Shaler North Hills Library. Art show of artists who teach at the library. Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. London/

counties. Learn about Mingo Observatory, The Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh, & South West Pennsylvania’s rich history in the field of Astronomy. 5:30 p.m. Mingo Creek Park Observatory, Washington County. 724-348-6150. SHALER LIBRARY CRUISE & SOCK-HOP. DJ Clint Stokes, cruise cars, 50/50 raffle, food & fun. 5:30 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills w/ the Jim Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. 412-759-1569. THREE RIVERS THING: VIKING THEMED COMMUNITY PICNIC. A family-friendly day of fun w/ games, vendors, food, readers, healers & speakers on topics such as Hnefatafl (Viking chess), the runes & Braucherei (PA German folk healing). 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Settler’s Cabin Park, Robinson. 412-301-0872. WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side. 412-224-2827. WINDGAP-CHARTIERS CITY COMMUNITY DAY. 12 p.m. Chartiers City Playground, Sheraden. 412-465-0579. WOMEN’S SELF CARE SUPPORT GROUP. Reduce stress, tackle anxiety & strengthen boundaries while building practical coping techniques & tools in a confidential, healing & supportive environment. Sat, 10:30 a.m. Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry, 412-366-1300 ex. 129. ZEN MEDITATION. Hosted by City Dharma. Thu, 6:30-8 p.m. and Sat, 7-8:30 a.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903.

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portraits by Bill Pfahl. Bea Gallery. Glass Entomology. An array of glass insects & marbles by Michael Mangiaﬁco w/ collaborative work w/ Ed Pinto. Iron Gate Gallery. Farmington. 800-721-0177. TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom. Open showroom w/ the artists. Fridays 10 a.m.-4 p.m. & by appt. only. Lawrenceville. 412-980-0884. THE UNION HALL. Paintings Live Longer. New work by Zach Brown. Strip District. www.zachbrownart.com. UNSMOKE SYSTEMS ARTSPACE. If One Won’t Another One Will. Recent prints, video & collage by Stephen Grebinski. Braddock. www.unsmokeartspace.com. WILDCARD. 100 Days. Work by Rachel Arnold Sager. Lawrenceville. 412-224-2651.

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PITTSBURGH REPTILE SHOW & SALE. Animals on display & for sale to the public. 9 a.m. Harmar House, Cheswick. 724-516-0441. SOUTH SIDE GARDEN TOUR. 18th & Carson Streets. Selfguided tour w/ courtyards,

PFLAG GREENSBURG. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Third Sun of every month, 2 p.m. Trinity United Church of Christ, Greensburg. 412-518-1515.

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MEDICARE: LUNCH & LEARN. A lunch & educational program offered by independent health plan agent, Elizabeth Ley, explaining, in understandable terms how Medicare works, how to pick the Medicare & supplemental plan that works for you & how to factor into your choice the prescription drugs you currently use. 12-2 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100. ROBOTO MONTHLY MEETING. Meet w/ the Roboto board of directors to ﬁnd out what’s happening at the space & help guide it’s future. Third Mon of every month, 7 p.m. The Mr. Roboto Project, Bloomﬁeld. 412-853-0518. 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. CONTINUES ON PG. 40

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CAPOEIRA ANGOLA. Tue, 6:30-8 p.m. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garﬁeld. 412-924-0634. CARD CLUB. Hone your card-playing skills, learn new games, make friends. 6:30 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. Monthly meeting on the topic of DNA barcoding. 7 p.m. Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100. WINE 101. Introductory level course for both hospitality professionals & avid consumers. Tue, 6 p.m. Thru Aug. 19 Dreadnought Wines, Lawrenceville. 412-391-1709.

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BREW UNIVERSITY. Learn all about the different styles of beer & the purpose & history of such ingredients as malts & hops. 6 p.m. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000. CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session w/ literary conversation. First and Third Wed of every month, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. DETROIT STYLE URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd ﬂoor. Wed, 6:30-8 p.m. Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg. 412-242-4345. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550.

audition criteria on our website: www.themendelssohn.org. Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland. 724-263-5259. PRIME STAGE. Auditions for Teen Dating Awareness Tour. Aug. 29, 10 a.m. - noon. Non-equity actors & actresses, ages 14 – 24. Prepare a two minute monologue & be prepared for cold readings. Bring resume & headshot. Auditions for The Crucible. Aug. 29 & 30, 1-4 p.m. Non-equity actors between ages 10-80, for all roles except Tituba. Prepare one minute monologue in the style of the piece. Bring a resume & headshot. Auditions are by appointment. Primestage.com for more information. Prime Stage Theatre Rehearsal Studio, West End. 724-773-0700.

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The Pittsburgh Public Market needs help with renovations. The market is seeking volunteers on Wed., Aug. 26, to help with tasks like repainting, framing and hanging pictures, reorganizing, and other small vendor projects. Lunch, beer and a Pittsburgh Public Market T-shirt will be provided for all volunteers. To register, visit www.showclix. com/event/PPMVolunteerDay.

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DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. Searching for glass artists, ﬁber artists, potters, etc. to compliment the exhibits for 2015 & 2016. Booking for both galleries for 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943. THE DAP CO-OP. Seeking performers & artists to participate in First Fridays Art in a Box. For more information, email thedapcoopzumba@hotmail.com. Ongoing. 412-403-7357. HOME DECOR. Seeking artists who work w/ reclaimed metal, wood, etc. or create art out of vintage industrial pieces. Should be interested in up-cycling & recycling.

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R-ACT THEATRE PRODUCTIONS. Auditions for two short plays by Jeff DeSantis, The Field & Someone’s In The Kitchen. Aug. 15, 12-2 p.m. & Aug. 16, 3-5 p.m. Seeking four males & three females between both plays. Readings from the script, no preparation needed. Rochester. 724-775-6844. GENERAL AUDITIONS. RENAISSANCE CITY CHOIR. Call for equity & non-equity Seeking new singers for our actors. Aug. 23, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 30th Anniversary Season. Prepare two monologues Auditions will take place by OR one monologue & a appt. only. Contact Artistic song. 5 minutes total. Email Director Jeffry Johnson, D.M.A. aeapittsburgh@yahoo.com to at jbj@rccpittsburgh.com sign up. Purnell Center to request an audition. for the Arts, Oakland. Professional training THE JUNIOR & experience are not MENDELSSOHN required! Thru Aug. 31. CHOIR OF . w ww per East Liberty Presbyterian a p ty PITTSBURGH. Seeking ci h pg Church, East Liberty. .com young singers from 412-345-1722. 8th through 12th THE SOUTH HILLS grades. Prepared solo PLAYERS. Auditions for of your choice, preferably “Dial ‘M’ for Murder.” Aug 16 a classical selection (art song, & 17, 6:30 - 9 p.m. Please bring aria, etc.) Carefully selected a headshot & resume. Sun., works from musical theater Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m. and Mon., may be performed, but these Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. Emmanuel should demonstrate a classical Lutheran Church, Castle Shannon. singing technique rather than 412-881-1002. belting. To schedule an audition, THE THEATRE FACTORY. call Emily Stewart at 412-926-2488. Auditions for 2 men & 2 women Auditions will be conducted on –18 & over. Prepare 32 bars of August 27, after 3:30 p.m. Third your favorite musical theatre Presbyterian Church, Oakland. selection. Bring picture & resume. THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF Email tfauditions@gmail.com for PITTSBURGH. Fall auditions for audition slot. August 15, 9-11 a.m. all voice parts for the 2015/2016 & August 17, 6-10 p.m. Trafford. season on Sept 2. To schedule an audition, please review the 412-374-9200.

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I’ve been reading your column for a while, and you always advise kinky people to go seek the same within the kink community. But in my experience, the kink community is very “sex right away, get to know you later”-oriented. So I have two questions. First, as someone who’s a bit of an oldfashioned romantic, is there somewhere I can go to find sexually compatible people who are willing to let me get to know them before we fuck? And second, it’s very difficult for me to come in vanilla situations, which has caused some awkwardness in the past. My fetish is intense CBT (cock and ball torture), it’s pretty specific, and in my (admittedly limited) experience, most guys aren’t very willing to let me inflict that kind of pain. Seeing as I’m probably not going to stop dating people from the general pool (shy 24-year-old cub, not into hookups — I take what I can get), do you have any advice for making conventional sex a little better for me? HORNY IN SANFRAN, BITCHING ABOUT LACKING LOVE SCENE

“Congratulations to HISBALLS for admitting to himself that he has a creative sex drive,” said Donald Roger, the sadistic entrepreneur behind Shotgun Video (shotgunvideo.com), a gay BDSM porn studio that specializes in CBT. “Instead of wasting his time on why-am-Ibored-with-this sex, HISBALLS can look forward to a passionate and fascinating sex life.” To say that Roger shares your kink, HISBALLS, is putting it mildly: Just torturing another man’s balls — listening to that man moan and groan — is all it takes to make Roger come. I’m going to quickly answer your main question, HISBALLS, and then let Roger give you some advice that might actually be useful: Hardcore kinksters — kinksters who find it difficult to come in vanilla situations — make conventional sex a little better by entertaining fantasies about their kinks. But you know what’s better? Dating guys who share or are open to your kinks. “Finding appropriate partners is harder for seriously kinky men, but it’s a lot easier now than it used to be,” said Roger. “Recon is a worldwide cruising site (recon.com) that caters to alt-sex men. HISBALLS can choose a profile name for himself (like MuscleCBT — that guy is notorious), he can put up a few pictures, and most importantly he can write out what he’s looking for. He can tell people if he’s a top or a bottom, give some indication of what experience he’s had, focus on what he wants, but also tell people what his no-fly zones are — as in ‘no unsafe sex, no drugs and no Republicans.’” You can also find kinky guys at Adam4Adam, Manhunt and BigMuscle. You’ll find kinky guys in the general dating pool, too. And you’re not obligated to jump into bed and/or immediately start torturing the cock and balls of someone you’ve just met. “HISBALLS can suggest going to a movie or dinner, or taking in the entire opera season to-

gether first,” said Roger, “or go straight to bed if it seems right. He should go at the speed that’s right for him. And he’ll be surprised — or more likely stunned — at just how many romantic, CBToriented men there are out there.” A quick programming note about CBT: You can really hurt someone — you can really damage someone — if you attempt CBT without knowing what you’re doing. That’s why Roger produced a series of instructional videos for men who are curious about CBT. Look for videos number 59, 60 and 62 at shotgunvideo.com, a series of lectures/demos. They’re just $10 each. Follow Roger on Twitter @RogerOfShotgun. Your advice to UGH last week was ﬁne in general — he’s the frustrated man whose wife isn’t interested in sex — and a pretty solid rehash of your standard advice for people trapped in sexless marriages. But I’m writing because you missed something that may have been key: “Currently, she can last having sex for nearly half an hour before feeling exhausted and stopping, regardless of me reaching orgasm or not.” Two things: (1) Half an hour of PIV sex when you’re not feeling it would take a vat of lube and probably still be painful. (2) His wife lies there getting the inside of her vagina sanded off by Jackhammer McGee here and then has the nerve to ask him to stop when it’s too much “regardless” of HIS orgasm?!? What about her orgasm? What about her delicate vaginal tissue getting torn up? N ot that he will magically consider her pleasure if he’s blind to her comfort and general wellbeing, but it might help him put his marriage in perspective.

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Thanks for your email, ERR, and I really should’ve spotted that. We all have our blind spots, and this is definitely one of mine: When someone says they were having sex for half an hour, I don’t think of 30 minutes of PIV/PIB, as I don’t define “sex” as “penetrative vaginal or anal intercourse.” My working definition of sex includes mutual masturbation, oral, fantasy play and PIV/PIB. So when someone says, “My partner can only last having sex for half an hour,” I imagine half an hour of oral and mutual masturbation and penetration all jumbled together. I need to bear in mind that not all of my readers define sex the same way I do — indeed, far too many people believe penetration is sex and vice versa. Thanks for the reminder, ERR.

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CONFIDENTIAL TO AMERICAN WOMEN: Did you watch the big GOP debate last week? Scott Walker said that he supports a ban on abortion with no exception to save the life of the pregnant woman, and Marco Rubio said that women impregnated by rapists should not be allowed to get abortions — and not one of the other eight men onstage objected. On the Lovecast, Dan and Amanda Marcotte on Planned Parenthood and Republican lunacy: savagelovecast.com.

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many people harbor the unconscious bias that beauty resides primarily in things that are polished, sleek and perfect. Celebrities work hard and spend a lot of money to cultivate their immaculate attractiveness, and are often treated as if they have the most pleasing appearance that human beings can have. Art that is displayed in museums has equally flawless packaging. But the current astrological omens suggest that it’s important for you to appreciate a different kind of beauty: the crooked, wobbly, eccentric stuff. For the foreseeable future, that’s where you’ll find the most inspiration.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

“No tree can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell,” wrote psychologist Carl Jung in his book Aion. My interpretation: We earn the right to experience profound love and brilliant light by becoming familiar with shadows and suffering. Indeed, it may not be possible to ripen into our most radiant beauty without having tangled with life’s ugliness. According to my understanding of your long-term cycle, Virgo, you have dutifully completed an extended phase of downward growth. In the next extended phase, however, upward growth will predominate. You did reasonably well on the hellish stuff; now comes the more heavenly rewards.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

The Great Balancing Act of 2015 doesn’t demand that you be a wishy-washy, eager-to-please, selfcanceling harmony whore. Purge such possibilities from your mind. What the Great Balancing Act asks of you is to express what you stand for with great clarity. It invites you to free yourself, as much as you can, from worrying about what

people think of you. It encourages you to be shaped less by the expectations of others and more by what you really want. Do you know what you really want, Libra? Find out! P.S.: Your task is not to work on the surface level, trying to manipulate the appearance of things. Focus your efforts in the depths of yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Muslims, Jews and Christians are collaborating to erect a joint house of worship in Berlin. The building, scheduled to be finished by 2018, will have separate areas for each religion as well as a common space for members of all three to gather. Even if you don’t belong to any faith, you may be inspired by this pioneering effort to foster mutual tolerance. I offer it up to you as a vivid symbol of unity. May it help inspire you to take full advantage of your current opportunities to heal schisms, build consensus and cultivate harmony.

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wanderer. You’ve had a fuzzy sense of where you belong. It has been a challenge to know which target you should aim your arrows at. During those times, you may have been forceful but not as productive as you’d like to be; you may have been energetic but a bit too inefficient to accomplish wonders and marvels. From what I can tell, one of those wandering seasons is now coming to a close. In the months ahead, you will have a growing clarity about where your future power spot is located — and may even find the elusive sanctuary called “home.” Here’s a good way to prepare for this transition: Spend a few hours telling yourself the story of your origins. Remember all the major events of your life as if you were watching a movie.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

You have been slowing to a crawl as you approach an exciting transition. But I’m here to advise you to resume normal speed. There’s no need for excessive caution. You have paid your dues; you have made your meticulous arrangements; you have performed your quiet heroisms. Now it’s time to relax into the rewards you have earned. Lighten your mood, Capricorn. Welcome the onrushing peace and start planning how you will capitalize on your new freedom.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“Most people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it’s leaning against the wrong wall.” Aquarian actor Paul Sorensen said that. It’s no coincidence that I’m bringing this theory to your attention right now. The coming months will be a good time to determine whether the ladder you have been climbing is leaning against the right wall or wrong wall. My advice is to question yourself at length. Be as objective as possible. Swear to tell yourself the whole truth. If, after your investigations, you decide it is indeed the wrong wall, climb down from the ladder and haul it over to the right wall. And if you’re satisfied that you are where you should be, celebrate!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

When he served as Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi denigrated the cuisine of Finland. “Finns don’t even know what prosciutto is,” he sneered. At best, he said, their food is to be “endured.” He mocked the “marinated reindeer” they eat. But Finland fought back against the insults. In an international pizza contest held in New York, Finnish chefs won first prize for their “Pizza Berlusconi,” a specialty pizza that featured marinated reindeer. The Italian entry finished second. I foresee you enjoying a comparable reversal in the coming months, Pisces. And it all begins now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

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ioned English word that isn’t used much anymore: “gambol.” It means to cavort and frolic in a playful manner, or to romp and skip around with mad glee, as if you are unable to stop yourself from dancing. The astrological omens seem unambiguous in their message: In order to cultivate the state of mind that will enable you to meet all your dates with destiny in the coming weeks, you need to gambol at least once every day.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Do you remember your first kiss? How about the first time you had sex? Although those events may not have been perfectly smooth and graceful, they were radical breakthroughs that changed your life and altered your consciousness. Since then, there may have been a few other intimate rites of passage that have impacted you with similar intensity. No doubt you will experience others in the future. In fact, I suspect that the next installments are due to arrive in the coming months. Get ready for further initiations in these mysteries.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Two-thirds of us don’t know what our strengths and talents are. That’s the conclusion of a study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology. One reason for the problem is what the report’s co-author Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener calls “strengths blindness,” in which we neglect our real powers because we regard them as ordinary or take them for granted. Here’s the good news, Gemini: If you suffer from even a partial ignorance about the nature of your potentials, the coming months will be a favorable time to remedy that glitch. Life will conspire to help you see the truth. (Read more: bit.ly/truestrengths.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

In 1504, Michelangelo finished his sculpture of the Biblical hero David. But he hadn’t been the first person to toil on the 17-foot-high block of marble. Forty years earlier, the artist Agostino di Duccio was commissioned to carve David out of the stone. His work was minimal, however. He did little more than create the rough shape of the legs and torso. In 1476, Antonio Rossellino resumed where Agostino had stopped, but he didn’t last long, either. By the time Michelangelo launched his effort, the massive slab had languished for 25 years. I see parallels between this story and your own, Cancerian. I suspect that you will be invited to take on a project that has been on hold or gotten delayed. This may require you to complete labors that were begun by others — or maybe instigated by you when you were in a very different frame of mind. What’s the best thing you could give right now to the person you care for the most? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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43. Old brewing equipment 44. Stifler’s mom in the “American Pie” series 46. Half hexadeca47. Dotted line scribble, briefly 48. Stavanger’s nat. 49. Bronco tamer who avoided mass layoffs? 54. God whom Greece’s capital is named after 55. The tater to rule them all? 59. Like angry bulls 60. Before, to a pretentious poetry student 61. Startle 62. French military hats 63. Versatile white bean 64. Court document

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{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}

ONE BRIGHT AFTERNOON in early August, Andy Moore biked up into the South Side Slopes to visit three of his favorite pawpaw trees. A front yard in the Slopes is an odd place to find pawpaws, which typically grow wild in forests. But then, the pawpaw is a singular plant: The trees bear the largest edible fruit native to the U.S., a fruit whose creamy texture, richly orange flesh and banana-meets-mango flavor belie its origins as a tropical migrant that somehow thrives this far north. Standing next to one of the trees, just feet from the sidewalk, Moore grasps a slender branch and turns a cluster of pale-green fruits resembling small man{PHOTO BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} gos to his nose. The pawpaws are hard, their skins chalky. He sniffs. “Nothing, Andy Moore inspects a pawpaw tree in a yard on the South Side Slopes. not yet,” he says. The aroma will come in a few weeks, presaging September’s ripening. Then enthusiasts like Moore will have to work fast: Although unripe pawpaws, once picked, won’t ripen, tree-ripened fruits tend to drop and, espe- found long-forgotten trees at Monticello.) A century ago, a genetics journal ran cially on sidewalks, splatter. Moreover, the season lasts a month. Either you get a national contest to find the finest pawpaw, and pawpaws seemed poised to follow other wild fruits, like the blueberry, into cultivation. your paws on pawpaws then or you don’t get them at all. But the pawpaw is eccentric. It’s tastiest when its skin is blackest. It has lots In their geographic range — including most of the Eastern U.S. — pawpaws of big seeds and minimal shelf life, and travels poorly. Nonetheless, its (asimina triloba) were a favorite food of Native Americans, and of popularity isn’t limited to fans who stalk urban trees in parks or newer Americans and their descendants into the 20th century. front yards, or hike to favorite patches in the woods (and who Never commercially cultivated, however, pawpaws were guard the location of such sites jealously). Increasingly, pawlong mostly ignored until a recent revival by foodies, locapaws have been appearing at farmers’ markets and even vores and neo-foragers. Now Moore, 30, a writer living in some supermarkets, selling out at $10 a pound. High-end Manchester, has written the first book dedicated solely restaurants order them by the crate. Kentucky State Unito the pawpaw. In Pawpaw: America’s Forgotten Fruit versity has a pawpaw research program. Some observers (Chelsea Green Publishing, $26), he combines natural see pawpaw possibilities for small farmers phasing out history with an investigation into pawpaw’s prospects tobacco — especially if someone can figure out an effias a commercial crop. cient way to separate the tasty pulp from the inedible skin Moore ate his first pawpaw in 2010, in the Ohio and seeds. woods. The Central Florida native quickly became obLocally, Wilkinsburg’s Garden Dreams sells about a dozsessed with the fruit, its folklore and its future. By 2011, {PAWPAW PHOTO COURTESY en pawpaw seedlings a year. “It’s kinda the next thing,” says he was attending scholarly conferences on the pawpaw, at OF ANDY MOORE} the nursery’s Bob Madden. Tree Pittsburgh sells out of pawpaws one of which he decided to write the book. Moore, who’s also whenever it offers them, says Jake Milofsky, the nonprofit’s tree-care a volunteer at Ballfield Farm organic community garden, in Perry and restoration coordinator. Both Tree Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Parks South, quit every paying gig he had save his part-time job in the University of Pittsburgh’s qualitative data-analysis program. He raised funds on Kickstarter Conservancy have used pawpaws — which thrive in deep shade — in forestand began traversing the country, and the countryside, on his researches. “I can restoration plantings. Moore thinks pawpaws were forgotten in the 20th century mostly because of spot a pawpaw [while] driving 75 miles per hour on the interstate,” he says.

“WHEN WE STOPPED GOING TO THE WOODS, WE STOPPED KNOWING THE PAWPAW.” The book introduces characters like Neal Peterson, a.k.a. Johnny Pawpawseed, a West Virginian who in the 1980s went broke trying to farm pawpaws, but continues to study and promote them. Moore also visits Carroll County, Md., home to America’s biggest pawpaw orchard, and the Ohio Pawpaw Festival, in Lake Snowden, where thousands gather each September for pawpaw ice cream, pawpaw beer and, basically, any way to celebrate pawpaws. The book’s central puzzle is why this botanical anomaly in plain sight remains obscure. After all, Thomas Jefferson cultivated pawpaws. (Moore himself

urbanization, and the supermarketing of our food culture: “When we stopped going to the woods, we stopped knowing the pawpaw.” Still, he sees no paradox in writing a book that’s mostly about attempts to cultivate, process and market the wild fruit he loves. In fact, he adds, the very thing that pushed the pawpaw back into obscurity — urbanization — continues to threaten it, as woods are bulldozed for subdivisions. To survive, he says, pawpaws must get more popular. “If you want to save a food,” he says, “you eat it.” D RI S C OL L @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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