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Louise Brooks’ charisma and naturalness made her an icon of 1920s silent cinema. In director William Wellman’s early, Depression-era portrait of transient life, she gave one of her strongest performances, playing a girl-on-the-run after killing her abusive stepfather in self-defense. Fleeing, she meets two men, a handsome drifter and a high-spirited hobo, with whom she rides the rails to keep danger at bay. This empathetic, darkly realistic drama is an important late silent-era feature and shown as part of The Warhol’s partnership with George Eastman House, to bring rarely shown masterpieces to Pittsburgh.

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HONKALA {BY CHRIS POTTER} Cheri Honkala, a longtime Philadelphia social-justice activist, is the Green Party’s vice-presidential candidate. Honkala and presidential nominee Jill Stein are on the ballot in Pennsylvania and 37 other states. A longer version of this interview is at www.pghcitypaper.com.

HOW WOULD THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IF YOU HAD BEEN INCLUDED? I would have loved to have been on stage talking about [abortion rights]. Or what our foreign policy is: All these guys talk about how we need to get meaner and tougher. [On economics], everything is in this context of how bad the deficit is, and how we need to tighten our belt. But Jill and I refuse to proceed from the belief that there is scarcity in this country. It’s a problem of priorities — big banks getting bailouts while the rest of us fend for ourselves. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SUPPORT YOU, BUT WORRY YOU’LL BE A SPOILER THAT HELPS THE REPUBLICANS? You can’t spoil something that’s already rotten. Our planet — our children being able to breathe and have clean water — is at stake. And if you aren’t voting for us, you’re a spoiler for a new beginning. [The major parties] aren’t addressing climate change, the poisoning of water through fracking, the kowtowing to coal companies. When our children get older, they’re going to ask why we didn’t do something when we had the opportunity.

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YOU’VE BEEN SHUT OUT OF DEBATES, AND WERE ACTUALLY ARRESTED OUTSIDE HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ON OCT. 16. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT’S HAPPENING? We’re learning more and more about how scripted these things are, with agreements between Democrats and Republicans about which questions won’t be asked. People think these are real knockdown debates — but then we spend days talking about Big Bird, instead of climate change. Republicans are portrayed as grizzly bears and Democrats as teddy bears, but they’re both corporate pawns. If they continue receiving all these billions [from corporate donors], the United States just looks like a joke. Other democracies have five, 10, even 15 parties, so there’s much more room for discussion.

GOTHIC NIGHTMARE {ILLUSTRATION BY FRANK HARRIS}

T’S NOT THAT the Republican politicians awaiting Paul Ryan’s arrival on Oct. 20 looked scary. Incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey and U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy … Senate candidate Tom Smith and House candidate Keith Rothfus … these guys could easily have been a reunion of the high school chess club. In the nearly allwhite airport hanger of Atlantic Aviation, before a nearly all-white crowd, they exuded a palpable dweebishness. The crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to Smith, while Rothfus gave a brief speech whose main selling point was that his last name, like that of Ryan and presidential nominee Mitt Romney, begins with “R.” You might have expected a bit more red meat, given the partisan crowd. But for all the Tea Party fervor of recent years, Repub-

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licans are spending a lot of energy trying to come across as harmless. Romney, for one, now appears at debates breezily touting sensible government regulation, and a cautious approach to cutting taxes for the wealthy … after months of portraying himself as a hard-

This election is more important than local candidates want to let on {BY CHRIS POTTER} line conservative. Rothfus, meanwhile, is running ads that depict him not as a Tea Party hero, but as a “regular guy” who mows his lawn and ﬁxes bikes. And Smith is airing an ad with his mother, as-

suring us that her son would never throw her off Medicare. Maybe in today’s GOP, a politician who wouldn’t throw his mother under the bus counts as a “moderate.” Still, if Smith and a handful of other Republicans win their Senate races, Democrats could lose control of their 53-47 majority. Conservatives already control the Supreme Court and the House of Representatives, which means that this time a year from now, the GOP could control all three branches of government. What would that mean? A Senate whose environmental committee is chaired by James Inhofe, who regards climate change as a “hoax.” Potentially an end to the ﬁlibuster — and with it all chance of reining in the GOP’s most extreme judicial nominations. A Supreme Court majority willing to roll back CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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the rights of workers, women and same-sex when you turn on your television. As for Ryan’s speech, it was over in 15 couples. Drastic changes to Social Security and Medicare — not for Tom Smith’s mom, minutes, a mélange of convenient omission perhaps, but for many of us who’ve been and cognitive dissonance. “We are not going to duck tough issues,” he pledged, sounding covering her health care for years. Such sweeping change may seem every bit like a guy whose running mate unlikely. New York Times polling guru Nate wasn’t ducking questions about how to pay Silver has Obama as a 2-to-1 favorite in the for his $5 trillion tax-cut proposal. Ryan presidential race, and has given the GOP touted Romney’s ability to work with Democrats as a governor in Masonly a 20 percent chance sachusetts — where, among of taking the Senate. But PRESIDENT OF THE other things, he passed a that was last month, when UNITED STATES statewide health-care reSilver assumed, among page 10 form. As for Obama, who adother things, that Smith UNITED STATES opted Romney’s reform for had no chance of beating SENATE page 14 his own health-care proposthe Democratic incumbent, HOUSE OF al, only to be rebuked by ReBob Casey. But an Oct. 16 REPRESENTATIVES publicans? Ryan called him Quinnipiac poll shows the DISTRICT 12 “the most partisan [presiCasey/Smith race a dead page 18 dent] I’ve ever known.” heat … and indicates that PENNSYLVANIA When it was over, the in Pennsylvania, Obama’s ATTORNEY GENERAL page 22 Republican faithful haplead has shrunk from 12 points to just 4. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS pily piled into their cars AT THE POLLS and drove away. A small Yet in Western Pennsylpage 26 counter-demonstration of vania, both sides are playing Democrats had long since down the big picture. Rothfus’ rival, incumbent Mark Critz, doesn’t even dispersed. All that was left was a memorial identify himself as a Democrat on his yard fountain featuring an American eagle with signs; Murphy opponent Larry Maggi’s ﬁrst talons extended … and a jet of water spraying TV ad bizarrely accused Democrats of trying it continuously in the face. It was as though to torpedo natural-gas drilling. (The excep- someone was spritzing the symbol of our tion is Mike Doyle, who represents the city of democracy with a seltzer bottle. And as a Romney campaign bus rolled Pittsburgh and faces only token opposition.) That’s why we’ve assembled this guide past it, trailing a crowd of acrid white smoke, to critical races in this year’s election. Keep I couldn’t help but feel that on Nov. 6, the joke it handy when you head for the polls — or may be on us. This time for good. C P OT T E R@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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Sorting out the rhetoric at the top of the ballot {BY CHRIS POTTER}

“THE WAR ON COAL”

Republicans have been trying to convince voters in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere that new EPA regulations on power plants constitute a “war on coal” that is hurting local industry. The outlook for coal is dim: Federal estimates predict that as many as one-sixth of the nation’s older coal plants could be shut down in the next several years. (Though between 2009 and 2010, Pennsylvania’s coal industry actually added jobs, according to the Energy Information mation Administration.) But analysts agree ree that federal environmental policies are far from the largest factor — in part because ecause some regulations have either been compromised on or are in legal gal limbo. A recent report by the e Analysis Group, a leading economic consulting firm, listed the principal factors Barack as sharply-reduced natuObama ral gas prices, rising costs for coal and reduced power demand (stemming in part from milder winters). “These trends started well before EPA issued its new air-pollution rules,” the group found.

TAXES..

Obama favors allowing Bush-era tax cuts on top earners to expire. And for highincome people — those earning more than $200,000 — he favors higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains. Romney has proposed a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut, which he says can be paid for by blowing up the budget by removing loopholes. But most experts say the math simply doesn’t add up. According to the respected Tax Policy Center, such ch a change would likely “provide large rge tax cuts to high-income households, olds, and increase the tax burdens on middle- and/or lower-income taxpayers.” Put simply: If you want to make the tax breaks revenue-neutral, you can Mitt only do it by taxing the Romney middle class. And if you want to avoid taxing the middle class, you can only do it by increasing the federal deficit. Ironically, neither candidate has said much about a tax increase that is slated to come next year, when a “holiday” on Social Security taxes, during which the tax dropped from 6.2 to 4.2 percent, is set to expire. The return to the new rates will cost the average worker an estimated $1,000 each year.

SUPREME COURT

The oldest current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a liberal. She’s also 79 years old, with a history of cancer. (The next two oldest justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, are conservative.) If she were replaced by a conservative, as Romney would likely do, rulings upholding the right to an abortion — and tossing out anti-sodomy laws used to target gays — could easily be overturned.

CLIMATE CHANGE/ CL EENVIRONMENT

Nei Neither candidate has said much mu about the issue. But Obama has touted, and Ob supported, tax subsidies for sup renewable energy, and imposed higher fueleconomy standards for automobiles. He’s punted on whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline — which would open up Canadian oil-sands production that environmentalists worry would be a greenhouse disaster. As governor, Romney supported efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and as recently as the summer of 2011, he was saying “I believe the world’s getting warmer” and “that humans contribute to that.” But he’s backed away since. “My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet,” Romney said during a 2011 stop in Pittsburgh, at the Consol Energy Center, no less.

COLLEGE AID

Early in its term, the Obama administration tio largely culled private banks out of the t student-loan business, and nearly near tripled funding for Pell Grants, a key financial-aid Gr program, to more than $40 p billion. Obama has also taken a hard look at for-profit educators like Pittsburgh-based EDMC, and is pushing to require certain percentages of graduating students to find jobs in their field. Romney wants to remove the jobs requirement. But Republicans believe government funding helps drive tuition costs up — as they’ve continued to do — and Paul Ryan has previously proposed reducing student eligibility for Pell Grants, and capping the grant amount at $5,550 each year for CONTINUES ON PG. 12

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several years. Still, the non-partisan New America Foundation argues that both plans depend on Congress finding money that will be hard to come by. “Both Ryan and Obama are making promises that they cannot possibly keep,” the Foundation’s Jason DeLisle wrote in August.

LGBT RIGHTS

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s leading LGBT-advocacy group, calls Obama “the most pro-LGBT equality president ever.” Along with scrapping the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, Obama scuttled the Justice Department’s efforts to defend the “Defense of Marriage Act,” which bars federal recognition of gay marriages. Obama has also signed hate-crimes laws targeting anti-LGBT bigotry. Romney opposes marriage rights for samesex couples, including civil unions. While he has questioned the timing of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, he has also indicated that he doesn’t plan to restore that policy.

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The “Obamacare” overhaul requires insurers to offer birth control as part of their basic coverage, though women employed by religious institutions must negotiate this on their own, rather than through their employer. The Obama administration has also appointed justices believed to be prochoice, while continuing funding (for non-

abortion services) to Planned Parenthood. He also overturned a policy banning federal money from being allocated to groups that provide abortions overseas. Romney and his surrogates have frequently sent mixed signals on reproductive rights. But as near as anyone can tell, he favors abortion only in the case of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake. He has expressed support for the Blunt Amendment, which would allow any employer to opt out of covering birth control. Although federal money cannot be used to pay for abortions, Romney has pledged to strip Planned Parenthood of its funding even for nonabortion services, and to re-ban funding for groups providing abortion overseas.

SUPPORTERS

Obama’s $556 million in campaign fundraising outstrips Romney’s $340 million — and that gap can be entirely accounted for by small individual checks of less than $200. Romney, though, has cleaned up on support from the financial industry — which has given him more than $47 million to Obama’s $17 million. Romney has also been helped by ads paid for by outside groups. As of this writing, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, roughly $250 million has been spent on ads either attacking Obama or supporting Romney. That’s twice the amount being spent on anti-Romney/ pro-Obama spots. CPOTTER@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM

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THE CANDIDATES

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. is seeking his second term in the U.S. Senate. The son of late former governor Bob Casey Sr., he previously served two terms as Pennsylvania Auditor General and as Pennsylvania State Treasurer. rer. Challenging him is Tom Smith of Armstrong County, a businessman ssman who made millions in the coal oal industry. Smith, a long-time e backer of Republican causes, founded nded an Armstrong County Tea Party group in 2009. Relying ng largely on his own money, he outspent his primary opponents, knocking out the Republican establishment’s more Bob moderate choice, Casey Jr. Steve Welch. A Libertarian, Rayburn Smith, is also on the ballot, though he has not campaigned or raised money.

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Smith has been backed by Tea Party organizations and other ideological groups; Casey’s endorsements include unions and some environmentalists. But while Smith has raised $19.6 million in campaign funds to Casey’s $12.5 million, he himself contributed 86 cents of every dollar in his campaign fund. With access to his own millions, Smith has been able to launch an aggressive campaign portraying Casey as “Senator Zero.” By mid-October, according to data collected by ProPublica, Smith had spent more than $1 million in TV ads compared to Casey’s mere $78,000. And it may be paying off. Polling is all over the map, with some recent polls having shown a double-digit margin between the two, but the respected Quinnipiac University poll recently showed the two candidates in a statistical tie.

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Both Smith and Casey are pro-life. But Casey has not endeared himself to anti-choice groups; he stuck up for Planned Parenthood last year during an effort to cut funding for its non-abortion women’s health services. (Planned Parenthood gave Casey’s legislative record a 44 percent rating this past session.) Smith has a staunch antichoice position, opposing even exceptions for rape and incest. This summer, Smith’s fumbling answer to a question about abortion caused controversy, with Smith appearing to assert that, from a father’s perspective, an out-of-wedlock pregnancy could be just as traumatic as pregnancy resulting from rape.

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Smith favors the partial privatization of Social Security, allowing younger workers to invest some of their Social Security tax on their own. He also backs a Medicare plan — similar to those proposed by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan — in which seniors would receive a subsidy to help pay for private health insurance. But there are doubts about whether such subsidies will keep pace with rising health-care costs. A Kaiser Family Foundation study found that if a plan like Romney/Ryan were in place now, six out of 10 seniors would be paying

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Obama’s effort to extend Bush-era tax cuts on the middle class, while allowing them to expire for the wealthiest. Casey, though, would extend tax cuts for up to $1 million in earnings, rather than the $250,000 level supported by Obama. He has focused less on deficits than Smith, though he boasts of having “voted for a trillion dollars in spending cuts” — a reference to his support of a 2011 compromise to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cuts over 10 years.

more. And while Smith pledges that seniors could remain with the current Medicare program, a similar proposal drafted by Ryan would require those seniors to pay more too. Casey has castigated Smith’s proposals, but he’s offered few specifics about how he would shore up the systems, which face funding shortfalls. Casey does note that his vote in favor of “Obamacare” helps shore up Medicare by imposing cost savings on providers, and levying a tax on highearners. Smith staunchly opposes Obama’s health-care overhaul.

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Smith wants to cap federal spending at 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. (Last year, spending was around Tom 24 percent of GDP.) Smith Smith proposes saving money through a hiring freeze, abandoning earmarks and culling socialwelfare recipients who “exploit the system.” But Smith regards defense — the largest category of federal spending — in a special category: “The emphasis should not be on how much to cut defense, but rather how much is needed to defend the country,” his campaign asserts. Smith says he wants to replace the tax code with a flat tax, retaining some deductions for lower-income workers. But details are scarce — Smith hasn’t even cited what rate the tax will be — and many economists say such plans defy simple math: It’s unlikely to be revenueneutral unless middle-class and poor earners contribute more. For the most part, Casey has supported

Casey has walked a fine line on energy issues. On the one hand, he supports federal grants to help states invest in natural-gas powered vehicles — and money for training workers for jobs in the natural-gas business. But he’s also pushed for the FRAC Act, which requires additional disclosure of chemicals used in natural-gas “hydrofracking.” Casey has advocated for investment in renewable energy sources like wind and solar, while also supporting so-called “clean-coal technology.” Smith, meanwhile, says the FRAC Act “threatens the growth of [the natural-gas] industry.” Such oversight, he says, should be left to the states. Smith opposes government investment in renewable energy, and his energy policy relies heavily on allowing gas and oil drilling on federal lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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If you happen to live in District 12, which ranges from Johnstown to the North Hills and Lawrence County, you are facing one of the toughest decisions in this election. Republican lawyer Keith Rothfus and incumbent Democrat Mark Critz, who won the seat after the death of his former boss John Murtha, share a lot of the same views. Both oppose gay-marriage rights and both favor defunding Planned Parenthood — even though federal funding for the agency ency is not spent on abortion. Even the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, that bastion of conservative values, found it hard to draw a distinction. The paper’s editorial page Keith deemed either canRothfus didate a “perfectly acceptable choice.” But there are differences, if you look closely.

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Critz has received the endorsement of the NRA. But Rothfus was also given a rating of “AQ,” meaning he is in line with the group’s ideals, but lacked a legislative record. Rothfus was endorsed, however, by the even more conservative Gun Owners of America. Critz is also anti-choice, though he supports abortion rights in extreme cases of rape, incest or when the health or life of the mother is at stake. Rothfus has taken an even harder line. When he was endorsed in 2010 by the Republican National Coalition for Life, he indicated he was “pro-life without discrimination.” Not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood has not endorsed either candidate. However, there have been no announced pro-life endorsements, either.

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The pledge to repeal Barack Obama’s 2009 health-care reform has been a GOP battle cry, and Rothfus has been part of the chorus. “We have to repeal Obamacare. … Gov. Romney is committed to putting the $700 billion back into Medicare and I support that,” Rothfus said at an Oct. 16 debate. The claim that the reforms raid Medicare, which provides health care to seniors, has been trumpeted by Republicans nationwide. But independent fact-checkers like Politifact say it isn’t true: “[The ACA] does not literally cut funding from the Medicare program’s budget.” Instead, it reflects projected savings

from reduced health-care costs. Repealing the reforms could even worsen Medicare’s finances: Without the anticipated savings, and a tax on high-income Americans that goes into effect in 2013, Democrats warn the fund could become insolvent as early as 2016. Critz’s position on Obama’s reforms is more complicated. He says he opposes some parts of the law, like the individual mandate that requires everyone to carry insurance or face a tax penalty. But he says insura he would seek a bipartisan effort to tweak the reforms, while preserving the protection of patients with pre-existing conditions, w the ability for young people to stay on their parents’ insurance and the closure of Medicare’s “donut hole” that will help seniors pay for their medications.

BUDGET

Rothfus has largely avoided discussing budget proposals in detail. At an August press conference, for example, he declined to say whether he would uld have voted for draconian budgets proposed by vice-presidential candidate ndidate Rep. Paul Ryan because “I was not there,” but did call them “hardrdhitting.” When asked directly y at an Oct. 16 debate if he supported any budget Mark plan, Rothfus didn’t Critz answer directly, instead speaking in generalities about how the U.S. “borrows 42 cents of every dollar” it spends and how spending cuts are needed. Rothfus does, however, support extending the Bush-era tax cuts — including tax breaks for the wealthy — calling them “a much-needed economic shot in the arm.” Critz, meanwhile, has voted to let the Bush cuts expire on taxpayers earning more than $1 million a year, while leaving lower rates in place for everyone else. “All we’re asking is that the very wealthiest pay just a little bit higher rate, the rate they were paying when Clinton was in office and we created 22 million jobs in this country,” Critz said on Oct. 16. That amendment was defeated by Republicans, and Critz voted for a one-year extension in across-the-board tax cuts that included the wealthy.

LABOR/TRADE

One area in which Critz’s Democratic bona fides are not in question is his support for, and from, labor unions: So it’s no surprise that Critz has been hitting Rothfus hard on outsourcing. Critz says he will support only fair trade agreements that “create new jobs and work to reform trade deals like NAFTA that send jobs overseas.” He also supported multiple pieces of legislation regarding free trade, including legislation that would mandate a biennial review of all trade agreements and the imposition of tariffs on countries that manipulate their currency. In September, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rothfus told those at a candidate forum, “We need trade agreements because most of the world has trade agreements. If we don’t, others will fill that vacuum.” Rothfus is also endorsed by the Club for Growth, a group that pushes a free-trade agenda and has backed a number of free-trade agreements, including one with Colombia that Rothfus has vocally supported.

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On paper, Critz would seem to have a serious fundraising edge: His $2.2 million in contributions dwarfs Rothfus’ $1.4 million according to Bloomberg News, more But acc outside money has been spent on this race than any other o House race in the country — Ho and Rothfus’ backers are an outspending Critz’s. o The National Republican Congressional Committee has spent more than $1 million on anti-Critz ads. Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform — the group whose no-tax-increase pledge has been denounced by Democrats around the country — have spent $1.3 million for ads on Rothfus’ behalf. Rothfus’ direct contributors are a Who’s Who of conservative causes and leaders, including Pat Toomey’s Leadership PAC and a PAC chaired by House Speaker John Boehner. He’s also garnered $10,000 from Eagle Forum, which backs such policies as a constitutional ban on samesex marriage. Critz, meanwhile, draws heavily on support from unions — which have contributed more than $300,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics — as well as the defense and the energy sectors, which are both active in the district. CDEITCH@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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Former Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Kane is seeking to become the first woman to be elected to the post of Pennsylvania Attorney General. But she’ll have to beat Republican David Freed. Kane touts herself as a “prosecutor, not a politician.” Freed, meanwhile, has served as Cumberland County District Attorney since 2006 and his office oversees 4,000 cases a year. (A third candidate, Libertarian Marakay Rogers of York, David Freed is also running.) Kane says a Democrat is needed to keep Republicandominated Harrisburg honest, especially when it comes to assessing how Gov. Tom Corbett, who formerly held the attorney general’s post, conducted the child-molestation case against notorious Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. But so far, the campaign’s largest flash point has been over advertising tactics.

CAMPAIGN TACTICS

The campaign took a nasty turn in September, when the Republican State Leadership Committee ran an ad contending Kane was soft on two rape cases involving young victims. But Kane wasn’t involved in the cases, according to fact-checkers — one of whom ranked it among “the most ost blatantly false attack ads of the political season” — and one victim’s m’s father has denounced the spot. The RSLC eventually pulled the ad. Kane blasts Freed for “repeatedly refus[ing] to denounce the ad or Kathleen tell his supporters to take Kane it down.” Freed did not respond to requests for comment, but has told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his campaign was not involved: “I was disappointed in them. It’s not the ad I would have chosen to run.” Freed has countered that Kane deceptively claimed an endorsement by state troopers — a charge Kane hotly denies. “The situation occurred because of a simple, unintentional mix-up by a campaign intern” that was corrected within hours, Kane says. “Voters see a stark difference between one minor and quickly corrected error and the pattern of intentional lies that my opponent and his supporters have peddled,” she says.

GUN RIGHTS

Freed pledges that he will “preserve our right to keep and bear arms,” and was endorsed by the National Rifle Association. Kane says she supports the Second Amendment, but did not answer an NRA questionnaire — which the organization qu claimed was “a sign of indifference cl or outright hostility to the rights of gun owners and sportsmen.” Antigu gun-violence group CeaseFirePA, gu meanwhile, endorsed Kane. m Director Max Nacheman praises her willingness to investigate reciprocity agreements — deals in which Pennsylvania accepts gun permits from other states, even those with less-stringent requirements. “The attorney general seat for a long time has been given a free pass on being a leader on gun-violence issues,” Nacheman says.

ABORTION

Social issues, notes pollster G. Terry Madonna, “haven’t really played out” at the attorney general level since former governor Bob Casey Sr. passed the Abortion Control Act of 1989, which was challenged by Planned Parenthood and went to the Supreme Court in 1992. But Madonna notes neither candidate has been too vocal about their positions. Planned Parenthood has endorsed Kane, who scored a 100 percent for reproductive-rights issues. Kane is pro-choice, and against mandatory ultrasounds. “It is also telling that my opposo nent, who seeks an office that exists n to protect all Pennsylvanians — including women — continues to remain silent on his position on this law,” Kane says. Freed did not fill out a Planned Parenthood questionnaire, though his campaign has pledged to “protect the sanctity of human life and defend the sacred institution of traditional marriage.”

SUPPORTERS

In addition to the NRA’s backing, Freed has support from conservative business groups like the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the state Chamber of Commerce. The two candidates have split endorsements from police groups; Freed won the backing of Pittsburgh’s Fraternal Order of Police, for example, while Kane picked up the support of FOP locals representing police in the city of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh’s suburbs. LDALEY@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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THIS ACTUALLY IS MY FIRST TIME AT THIS POLLING PLACE. WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to have identification â&#x20AC;&#x201D; either with a photo or without. Acceptable forms of photo ID are: PA driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license or other ID issued by a state or federal agency; U.S. passport; military ID; student ID or employee ID. Non-photo ID must include your name and current address. Acceptable forms are: your voter-registration card; ID issued by state or federal agency; a recent utility bill or bank statement; a recent paycheck or government check; or a gun permit (very chic in some locations).

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;VE MOVED SINCE THE LAST TIME I VOTED, BUT Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M A SLACKER AND FORGOT TO CHANGE MY ADDRESS. WHAT CAN I DO? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re allowed to vote at your old polling place one last time. But tell the poll worker so they can start the process of switching your voter registration to the new address.

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WHAT IF SOMEONE IS TRYING TO INTIMIDATE ME, OR TELLING ME I DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T HAVE A RIGHT TO VOTE? Tell a poll worker. If the poll worker is the one giving you a hard time, tell a poll watcher (one of the volunteers both parties station at polling places to keep an eye on things). And call the hard-working attorneys at the Election Protection hotline: 866-OURVOTE (866-687-8683). If all else fails â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if they want to prevent you from voting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; demand a provisional ballot. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a separate paper ballot that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be counted until election officials determine whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re eligible to vote. (This is a last resort: Provisional ballots are a pain in the ass, and are often tossed out for technical reasons.)

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WHAT IF I SEE SHENANIGANS AT THE POLLS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LIKE PEOPLE DELIBERATELY SLOWING DOWN LINES BY CHALLENGING OTHER VOTERS? Call the lawyers working at the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683). And holler at City Paper while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at it: 412-316-3342, ext. 182.

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HOW LONG ARE POLLS OPEN? Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still in line by 8 p.m., do not give up. Officials must allow you to vote if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in line at 8 p.m.

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HOW CAN I BE SURE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M REGISTERED TO VOTE, OR FIND OUT WHERE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M SUPPOSED TO GO? The easiest way is to go to www.votespa.com and click â&#x20AC;&#x153;confirm your registrationâ&#x20AC;? underneath the â&#x20AC;&#x153;register to voteâ&#x20AC;? tab. Enter your name, county and date of birth, and the website will tell you if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re registered, and where your polling place is.

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WHAT IF I GET TO THE POLLS BUT Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M NOT ON THE VOTER LIST? Ask the poll worker to check again, and to consult the supplemental list, which includes last-minute changes. You may be at the wrong polling place â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it happens. If so, you can ask the poll worker for help, look it up at www.votespa.com as noted above, or call the county at 412-350-4500. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the right place, get a provisional ballot (see below).

I JUST FOUND OUT I WONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T BE IN TOWN FOR THE ELECTION. CAN I STILL GET AN ABSENTEE BALLOT? Yes, but hurry. You have to apply for it, and the county must have your application by 5 p.m. Tue., Oct. 30. Call the county elections office (412-350-4520) for instructions, or check out the www.votespa.com website.

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For September’s Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, artists Michiko N itta and Michael Burton commissioned soprano Louise Ashcroft to sing, altering pitch and volume while wearing a face mask made of algae. According to the artists, since algae’s growth changes with the amount and quality of carbon dioxide it receives, Ashcroft’s voice, blowing CO2 against the algae, should vary the growth’s “taste” as to bitterness or sweetness. After the performance, the audience sampled the algae at various stages and apparently agreed. The artists said they were demonstrating how biotechnology could transform organisms.

and $12,467 per dose — except for Chandler. Following the newspaper’s report, Chandler repriced the venom at $8,000 a dose, thus eating a $31,652 “loss.”

Jordan and Bryan Silverman’s start-up venture, Star Toilet Paper, distributes rolls to public restrooms in restaurants, stadiums and other locations absolutely free — because the brothers have sold ads on each sheet. (Company slogan: “Don’t rush. Look before you flush.”) Jordan, with 50 advertisers enlisted so far, told the Detroit Free Press in August that he came up with the idea, of course, while sitting on the can at the University of Michigan library.

At least two teams of Swiss researchers are developing tools that can improve farmers’ efficiency and reduce the need for shepherds. The research group Kora has begun outfitting sheep with heart-rate monitors that, when predators approach, register blood-pressure spikes that are texted to the shepherd, summoning him to the scene. Another inefficiency is cow-farmers’ frequent needs to locate and examine cows that might be in heat, but professors at a Bern technical college are testing placing thermometers in cows’ genitals, with text messages alerting the farmer that a specific cow is ready for mating. (Since most insemination is done artificially, farmers can reduce the supply of bull semen they need to keep in inventory.)

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After an international trade association reported that women bought 548 million pairs of shoes in 2011 (not even counting those used exclusively for sports), the manufacturer Nine West decided to start its own cable-TV channel with programming on “various aspects of footwear,” according to an August New York Times report. Programs will feature celebrities rhapsodizing about their favorite pair, women who hoard shoes (purchasing many more than they know they’ll ever wear even once), tips on developing one’s stiletto-walking skills, and shoecloset designs. It’s about a “conversation,” said a Nine West executive, “not about a shoe.”

Habersham Funding of Georgia and its competitors make their money by buying terminally ill clients’ life-insurance policies for lump sums, then continuing to pay the policies’ premiums so that they collect as beneficiaries upon death. The companies’ business model therefore depends on those clients dying quickly; a client who outlives expectations turns the investment sour. Thus, according to an August report by the New York Times, the companies run extensive background checks on the illnesses and lifestyles of potential clients and employ computer algorithms that predict, better than doctors can, how long a client will live. Supposedly, the companies are nonchalant about erroneous predictions. N o company, they claim, has an official policy of hoping for early death.

Scorpion antivenom made in Mexico sells in Mexico for about $100 a dose, but for a while over the last year, the going rate in the emergency room of the Chandler (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center was $39,652 a dose, charged to Marcie Edmonds, who was stung while opening a box of air-conditioner filters in June. She received two doses by IV and was released after three hours, to later find a co-pay bill of $25,537 awaiting her (with her Humana plan picking up $57,509), according to the Arizona Republic newspaper. The Republic found that Arizona hospitals retailed it for between $7,900

Among the least-important effects of last summer’s drought in the Midwest: Officials overseeing the annual Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw said there would be fewer high-quality cow patties. Said chairperson Ellen Paulson: “When it’s hot, the cows don’t eat as much. And what was produced, they just dried up too quick.” A few patties had been saved from the 2011 competition, but, she said, “It’s not like you can go out and buy them.”

Researchers writing in the journal Animal Behaviour in July hypothesized why male pandas have sometimes been seen performing handstands near trees. They are urinating, the scientists observed, and doing handstands streams the urine higher on the tree, presumably signaling their mating superiority. A San Diego Zoo researcher involved in the study noted that an accompanying gland secretion gives off even more “personal” information to other pandas than the urine alone.

Spending on health care for pets is rising, as companion animals are given almost equal status to family members. In Australia, veterinarians who provide dental services told Queensland’s Sunday Mail in August that they have even begun to see clients demanding cosmetic dental work — including orthodontic braces and other mouth work to give dogs “kissable breath” and smiles improved by removing the gap-tooth look.

Pathetic: (1) Kalpeshkumar Patel, 40, failed in June to carry out his longstanding threat to burn down the Chevron station in High Springs, Fla. After dousing his car with gasoline in front of the store, he realized he had no lighter or matches and had to ask several customers, without success, to help him out. He was arrested before he could do any damage. (2) Ignatius “Michael” Pollara, 46, and his mother, 70, were arrested following what police said was a 10-year shoplifting spree that might have spanned 50 states. They were nabbed in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., because, said sheriff’s Sgt. Rich Rossman, Pollara could not resist using a “rewards” card traced to him, which he used to get credit for some of the purchases he had switched for more expensive items.

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941 saloon and Tilden Happy Halloween from 941 Saloon and Tilden! Part of the Liberty 900 block Halloween block party. Tons of specials, giveaways, and great music. This is a two story fully decorated event! Don’t miss out on one of the hottest parties on the block! It’s to die for! www.tildenclub.com

Buckhead Saloon Join Buckhead Saloon on Saturday, October 27th for their annual Halloween Blowout! Live entertainment and $500 in cash and prizes costume contest. Make reservations in advance for discounted cover & drink specials. VIP Bottle Service available. To make a reservation, call 412.232.3101 or email H 13T

party@buckheadpittsburgh.com. Visit www.buckheadpittsburgh. com for more details.

rides, and candy hunt. Visit our website for more information at www.gotothebeacon.com

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The Halloween Bash at Blue! Join us at Blue for Vida “The Singing Diva” on October 27th for our annual Halloween Party. Prizes for the best costumes! Costumes are not required but encouraged. Blue is conveniently located in Duncan Manor

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and your skin will crawl... As always, parking is free and your admission price includes all of our attractions and activities. www.cheesemanfarm.com

Cheeseman - Fright Farm The tractors are warmed up and the ghosts and ghouls have arrived to put a chill in the night air. Be warned this is a physically demanding attraction that will assault your senses with intense audio and visual effects. Your heart will quicken

Fright Farm - Rich Farms Rich Farms presents Farmageddon, the theme for its twenty-third year of FrightFarm productions. FrightFarm is Pennsylvania’s

largest haunted attraction, growing every year since its inception. So come on out and join the many people, who have made FrightFarm an annual scary fun tradition! For more information visit: www.frightfarm.com

Haunted Hayloft This historic haunt recounts the Umberger tragedy as the Nicely brothers murdered a nearby

farmer in cold blood then hid out in this very barn until captured and hung side by side. Can you survive their journey into hell and if you do, will you ever be the same? www.hauntedhayloft.com

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self for the scariest ride of your life. Save some scares for the Walking Trail filled with Halloween horrors. Call for group reservations at (412) 823-4813. Benefits The Autism Society of Pittsburgh and The Spectrum Charter School. www.hauntedhillshayride.com

Pennsylvania Trolley Gather the family for a ride to the Pumpkin Patch Trolley on an antique streetcar. Children

can choose a pumpkin and decorate it too while the parents explore more than 30 streetcars (Fri-Sun) ! On Friday and Saturday Evenings (Oct 21-22 and 28-29) enjoy Trolley Rails and Spooky Tales as you ride the rails into the dark and spooky night to enjoy ghostly stories of the Halloween season. www.patrolley.org

Scarehouse The ScareHouse is ranked as one of “America’s Scariest Halloween

Attractions” by Travel Channel and as one of America’s best haunted houses by USA Today and Haunted Attraction magazine. Visit www.scarehouse.com for tickets, dates, directions, and more information about “Pittsburgh’s Ultimate Haunted House.” Located just minutes from downtown in Etna.

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LUKE WHOLEY IS HANGING HIS HAT ON IMPECCABLY FRESH FISH, WELL PREPARED

PETITE AND SWEET {BY ANDY MULKERIN} The steep cobblestone ascent of Capital Avenue off West Liberty Avenue at the border of Beechview and Brookline is already known for one food-related landmark, Fiori’s Pizzaria. If Alexandra Hagen has her way, it’ll soon be thought of as a place to grab a slice and a sweet — at her new mini-cupcake bakery, Le Cupcake Shoppe. Hagen, a Bethel Park native who studied entrepreneurship and marketing at Duquesne University, has long enjoyed baking, but she didn’t always look at it as a business. When she was working partly from home in a marketing job, she upped the ante on her cupcake-baking, and began taking orders from friends for events. After some renovation work, she opened the Brookline shop, with its focus on mini-cupcakes, in early October. The smaller cupcakes, Hagen notes, have about a third of the calories of their full-sized counterparts. And cost less: $1 each, or $10 for a dozen. But they are just as pretty, decorated with colored icing and sugars. Sometimes she places a mini-cupcake as a garnish atop a full-size cupcake, like a top hat. “That was actually kind of a hidden talent,” she says with a laugh. “My mother is very artistic, but I never had any interest in it.” But the real idea at Le Cupcake Shoppe, says Hagen, is quality ingredients and taste. “I told my mom that the only way I’d open a business like this was if I could make them taste as pretty as they look.” AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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HE STORY of Luke Wholey’s Wild Alaskan Grille begins with a sidewalk grill set up in front of ... no, wait. It begins with his family’s iconic Strip District fish market and grocery ... actually, no. It starts 100 years ago in McKees Rocks, where Luke’s great-grandfather sold eggs and butter to railroad workers. Since then, Wholey’s fish market has moved to Pittsburgh and become a local landmark, offering sustenance, delight (in the form of great white sharks, sting rays and other exhibits from the t deep waters where fishing boats trawl) and a comfort (in the form of great big friedcod c sandwiches). Luke Wholey says that he never considered a path away from seafood, and spent e time exploring the streams of Alaska before t returning home to operate, for a couple of r years, that sidewalk grill in front of the family store. His innovation gave fish-market patrons the option of grilled sockeye salmon, vegetables and steamed rice in addition to the deep-fried fare offered within. But young Wholey had grander visions, and this summer relocated his grill to the front of his own indoor, full-service restaurant at

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the other end of the Strip. Luke Wholey’s space is large and lofty, in true Strip style, and decorated with mounted ﬁsh (some of Hemingwayesque proportions) and ﬁsh paintings from around the world. The walls also boast images of Pittsburgh, in particular, Wholey markets past and present. In a town where so many restaurants are decorated with the same dozen black-and-white images of historic Pittsburgh, it’s nice to see a more eclectically curated take on the subject.

LUKE WHOLEY’S WILD ALASKAN GRILLE 2106 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-904-4509 HOURS: Mon.-Sun. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers $4-10; entrees $14-28 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED Though Luke Wholey’s now has four walls and a roof, the menu is not actually that different from its sidewalk-based antecedent: grilled ﬁsh, with a few different sauces, served alongside grilled vegetables and rice or ﬁngerling potatoes. For starters, familiar

choices like calamari, steamed mussels, crab cakes and grilled corn with feta cheese and scallions provide variety, if not invention. Naturally enough, Luke Wholey is hanging his hat not so much on creative cooking as on impeccably fresh fish, well prepared. We’re pleased to report that his hat is safe. Calamari — a recent addition according to our server — is a good exemplar. Tender calamari should be a given, but Wholey’s adds a certain heft: The rings were thick, almost juicy, and the light coating of flour, pepper and herbs was perfectly proportioned. Marinara sauce for dipping was fresh and bright, almost like an Italian salsa. The mussels, also served with marinara, weren’t quite as successful. They were on the small side, and the marinara sauce with Parmesan tended to be either too little, when the sauce ran off, or too much, when a big, juicy blob of tomato muscled aside the shellfish itself. Raw Blue Point oysters were very fresh, briny-sweet and an excellent price at $2 apiece. We liked being able to order just as many as we wished, when so many restaurants foist a half dozen on you; that’s a lot of CONTINUES ON PG. 36

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oysters when just one or two in your party like to eat them. Our entrees spanned meaty yellowtail and swordfish, succulent shrimp and scallops, as well as a beef steak. The yellowtail had a spectacular texture, extraordinarily light for a fish steak. Angelique is not a fan of teriyaki-style sauces, but Jason thought the “sweet soy” sauce on this dish avoided the unctuous perils of most sticky-sweet Asian sauces. A side of diced peppers and zucchini was bright and fresh, but slightly smoky from the grill, while asparagus — served alongside the shrimp and scallops — was beautifully charred. Swordfish with a garlic-ginger sauce was served on a bed of savoy cabbage cooked with bacon, a hearty combination whose salty, smoky flavor profile complemented the zingy preparation of the fish. Meanwhile, the fish itself was swordfish at its flaky, moist and tender best.

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HEAVENLY REWARD A prodigal son returns to Church Brew Works — and the beer world takes note

Grilling shrimp is a challenge for any chef, but Wholey showed his chops with tender, sweet ones. They boasted more ﬂavor than a sauté pan usually imbues, but with none of the drawbacks of intense ﬁre. On the other side of the land-and-sea platter, strip steak was tender yet hearty and beefy, showing the kitchen’s ability to move nimbly between delicate and sturdy meats. With access to seafood as good as any in our inland region, Luke Wholey has carved a new niche for himself in a 100-year-old family business. His simple, fresh approach focuses on his strengths and plays to the preferences of a modern, health- and eco-conscious clientele. If the price jump from the sidewalk to the table seems a touch steep, the transition from takeout containers to china plates is one whose time has come.

What do you get when a guy with 16 years’ experience in professional brewing — plus a master’s degree in chemistry — returns to Pittsburgh’s First Church of Fermentation? If you’re Lawrenceville’s Church Brew Works, you get a slew of accolades at this year’s Great American Beer Festival. The festival, held Oct. 10-12 and organized by the 1,400-plus members of the Brewers Association, is the t Olympics of beer competitions. So it’s no small thing that Church Brew Works was just awarded “Best Large Brewpub of the Year,” and brewer Steve Sloan named “Best S Large Brewpub Brewer.” L The awards capped off a monumental year for the Brew mon Works and Sloan, who re-joined the 16-year-old brewery last November after spending a couple years working with a friend at a California brewery. Since returning, Sloan says, “We’ve made a lot of improvements.” Indeed, this is the first time since 2005 that the festival has recognized the brewery. Four of Sloan’s beers also won individual medals. Heini’s Hooch won a prestigious Gold Medal — awarded only to a “world-class beer [with] the proper balance of taste, aroma and appearance” — in the Old/Strong Ale category. It’s cask-aged in bourbon barrels, and part of a class of unfiltered brews that are called “Real Ales” by beer aficionados. Pious Monk took a silver in European Style Dunkel, a German-style, dark lager; Celestial Gold won a bronze in the Dortmunder, a classic German-style, malty lager; Pipe Organ Pale Ale earned a bronze in International-Style Pale Ale. (Another Pittsburgh-area brewery — North Versailles’ Full Pint Brewing — also received accolades. Its White Lightning garnered a bronze medal in the Belgian-style Witbier category.) Sloan has even more ambitious plans in store. For example, he plans on experimenting with the wild wine yeast Brettanomyces, which is often considered a contaminant. While it usually creates an “off” flavor in beer, Sloan says the right touch can yield an enticing yeasty, sour tang. Then again, Sloan jokes, now that he’s on top of his game, “I’d like to retire.”

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CUCINA BELLA. 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Bridgeville. 412-257-5150. This casual eatery offers an unassuming menu of pizzas and pasta that are prepared with a commitment to fresh ingredients and an openminded, thoughtful approach to flavor profiles. For instance, pizzas range from traditional tomato and cheese to arugula and prosciutto to the adventurous rosemary and pistachios, ricotta, sausage, and green olives. KF GRAN CANAL CAFFÉ. 1021 N. Canal St., Sharpsburg. 412-7812546. The menu here is classic coastal Mediterranean. Even dishes rarely seen at other Italian restaurants — such as snails and penne stuffed with seafood — are traditional, not made up to satisfy eclectic contemporary tastes. The cannelloni alone merits a visit to one of Gran Canal’s cozy, family-friendly dining rooms. KE

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STONEPEPPER’S GRILL. 1614 Washington Road, Upper St. Clair. 412-854-4264. Though seemingly calculated to be just another chain, StonePepper’s relies on good proportions and expert preparations to give some distinction to familiar fare like pizza, burgers and salads. Don’t miss the signature dessert: cinnamon-bun pizza. KE A TASTE OF DAHNTAHN. 535 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412224-2240. Despite the jokey moniker, there’s nothing déclassé about this restaurant, which offers both a kitchsy and refined menu of American comfort food. Fried green “tuhmaytuhs” are Parmesanand panko-crusted and topped with whipped cream cheese. Among the revamped entrees: a rich and distinctive Londonbroil meatloaf, feta-stuffed peppers and Tillamook cheddarspinach ravioli. LE TIN FRONT CAFÉ. 216 E. Eighth Ave., Homestead. 412-461-4615. Though the menu is brief, inventive vegetarian meals push past the familiar at this charming Homestead café. The emphasis is on fresh, local and unexpected, such as asparagus slaw or beet risotto. In season, there’s a charming rear patio. JE

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STARTING TO ROLL Groups mobilizing to change food-truck laws A FOOD-TRUCK rally in East Liberty on Oct. 14 was more than just a group of mobile food vendors getting together to sell their cuisine. They were also assembling to sell a new industry to a city with onerous restrictions meant to keep them from operating. The rally included five of Pittsburgh’s newest trucks — BRGR, Zum Zum, Oh My Grill, Fukuda and Dozen Bake Shop — as well as the pioneer Franktuary Truck. The six businesses have banded together under the umbrella of a newly created coalition called PGH Mobile Food. With the backing of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Justice and newly proposed legislation by Pittsburgh City Councilor Bill Peduto, the coalition is fighting to change city rules that restrict their way of doing business. The rules governing how food trucks operate date back to 1987. Then, the city tightened the vending ordinance to restrict trucks from parking in metered spots and from parking within 500 feet of a business selling a similar product. The vendors are also required to move every 30 minutes. Peduto’s proposed revisions eliminates the proximity requirements; increases the time a vehicle may stay in one spot to up to four hours; and allows vendors to park at meters as long as they wish, so long as they pay to do so. The changes, according to a Peduto spokesman, will be introduced at council’s Oct. 24 meeting. A public meeting will also be held in the coming weeks. Christina Walsh, director of activism and coalitions for the Institute for Justice, attended the Oct. 14 rally where Peduto announced his proposal. As a member of a team that travels to cities to help food-truck owners legally fight cities’ regulations, she says Peduto’s legislation was welcomed. “These food trucks have the right to compete with brick-and-mortar businesses,” she says. For Tim Tobitsch, co-owner of the Franktuary Truck, the changes mean more certainty in the day-to-day operation. As it is, vendors take a gamble each time they set up their trucks within the city limits. “It’ll make it much easier to function legally,” he says. “I don’t think anyone wants to violate the laws.”

THESE FOOD TRUCKS HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMPETE WITH BRICKAND-MORTAR BUSINESSES.”

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“THE HARDEST THING FOR ME AT THESE SHOWS IS TO KEEP MY COMPOSURE AND NOT LAUGH.”

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“One of the things about being an electronic musician,” reflects Dave Crimm, “is that you can do it yourself. Introverted misanthropes get to sit in their attics and do it.” Crimm, who records and performs as 8cylinder, gets a lot done while sitting in his attic and being misanthropic. A computer programmer by day, he got involved in music in the early ’00s after attending Pitt in the ’90s. Coming from an electronic/Industrial-music background, he started making music around the time he made a Nintendo Gameboy hack that was included with a Creation is Crucifixion album. Around that same time, he created rhinoplex.org, a site that hosted, on his own servers, websites for local musicians and artists: DJ Cutups’ Wrecked Distro resided there, as did sites for local artists like Xanopticon and dev/null. (Only recently did he move the site to a hosting service outside of his house.) He also ran Thac0 Records, a label that started with the Jagoff Uprising compilation Crimm put together in 2005, featuring Pittsburgh musicians, many of whom were hosted on rhinoplex. Early 8cylinder material was fast, aggressive breakcore — “people would move to it; it’s not really dancing, it’s more of a freak-out kind of thing” — but the most recent 8cylinder releases, on Crimm’s newer Unmapped North label, is more downtempo and cerebral. There are beats, but there’s also noise and sound sculpture. The other thing about these recent records: Unmapped North issued them on 10-inch vinyl, in incredibly short runs of 100 records each. An unlikely format, a run that’s so short — it makes it all seems sort of financially … “Irresponsible?” Crimm offers. Yes. “It very much is. I can’t back it up with a business plan in any way. I’m selling these at cost.” The most recent 8cylinder offering, Panic, came out this past spring; the next will come out … when Crimm is ready to let it out. “One of the good things about no one giving a shit what I do,” he explains, “is that no one’s sitting around waiting for me to release something.” Panic can be found at Sound Cat Records and Mind Cure, or on the Unmapped North site, www.unmapped north.com.

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KE AND TUBA is a meme waiting to happen: The band plays songs both trendy and timeless on one tiny stringed instrument and a big piece of brass. Ukulele-ist Eric Frankenberg says it’s funnier visually, so he’s fond of videotaping shows. One entry on his YouTube account shows the band performing “Psycho Killer” at ModernFormations Gallery. A skinny dude in a grey sweater belts out a surprisingly on-pitch rendition of Talking Heads’ breakout hit, as the gangly Frankenberg strums his uke, and tuba-ist Alex Baratta blows out the unmistakable bass line. Two women dancers, one short and the other tall, do some hybrid of the robot and jazz hands. This video has fewer than 1,000 views, but it seems certain that the right song could take the band to BuzzFeed or Reddit. Audiences recognize the social-media potential of Uke

and Tuba, and constantly pull out their cell phones to record them. “The hardest thing for me at these shows is to keep my composure and not laugh,” says Baratta.

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Though the band has incorporated several members since Frankenberg and Baratta met as students in Duquesne’s theater program, it’s now been whittled down to the two of them and vocalist Caitlin Northup (who’s been lobbying for a name change to “Uke and Tuba and Caitlin”). The ukulele has been in vogue recently, a trend that perhaps peaked last year

when Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder released an entire album of songs featuring the Hawaiian instrument. Frankenberg insists he was playing it “long before it was cool, back when you could get beat up for it.” In 2006, he was scheduled to perform a set of ukulele covers at a charity event but struggled to pull off Weezer’s “Undone — The Sweater Song” without accompaniment. He hit on the idea of including Baratta, who played tuba in Duquesne’s marching band. A few months later, they had a gig at a Halloween party and Northup was added to the band because she knew the dance from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. All three have taken part in sketch comedy and other comedic kinds of theater. The band’s set lists are a hodgepodge of the seminal and the disposable. The members have learned everything from The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting for the

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Man” to Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.,” and they are up for taking email requests before shows (info@ukeandtuba.com). Any song is game as long as it’s just a few chords. Hence, this one commonality between Lou Reed and Miley Cyrus. “God bless Lou Reed, but everything he’s ever done has been a few chords and written for two instruments, with him just talking stuff out,” says Baratta. “It’s perfect for us.” The band performed “I’m Waiting for the Man” at the grave of Andy Warhol (who was brieﬂy manager/ promoter of The Velvet Underground) for artist Madelyn Roehrig’s ﬁlm project showing colorful visitors to the Bethel Park grave site. She also recruited the band to write a song for the project, which resulted in its sole original composition, “Ballad to Andy Warhol.” The band does a handful of shows each month; gigs range from bars and clubs to all-ages events, for which they scratch certain songs, like Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” from the set. (“I am not going to sing about ‘giving head’ in the [Pittsburgh] Public Market,” insists Northup.) When called to play at a Girl Scouts

convention in West Mifﬂin, they loaded up a set list with teen-pop numbers, though the girls weren’t all appreciative. They seemed to know the band was geeky and thus low on the ladder of social respectability. During a performance of Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body,” “a few girls told me I wasn’t a very good dancer,” recalls Northup. “Then they got up and danced to show me how to do it, I guess,” she adds, with an exasperated huff. When asked if they have an honest-to-God appreciation of the recent pop hits they cover, all three are hesitant to answer. While it was natural for them to goof their way through Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” and Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” (especially considering that they went with the hip-hop remix of the latter), Northup actually sounds very engaged and professional on Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” “It’d be difﬁcult to say we don’t like these songs,” Frankenberg admits. “From a performer’s standpoint, there is a big payoff for minimal effort.” “I listen to the radio for songs for us to cover,” adds Northup. “I tell people it’s strictly professional.”

“A FEW [GIRL SCOUTS] TOLD ME I WASN’T A VERY GOOD DANCER.”

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IN THE ROUND {BY ANDY MULKERIN} WHEN LOCAL four-piece Una de Luna released its debut album, Conspiracy, in 2008, it was hailed as sexy, goth-y triphop. While much of that vibe remains on the follow-up, Lunacy, there’s something more forward, more aggressively dancey about this one. The band — fronted by Marla Degenhardt, with Peter Guellard doing a lot of utility work as a writer and instrumentalist — is releasing Lunacy through Psychotribe, a label on which Guellard’s put out work by his previous band, Mace, as well. But instead of the normal play-ashow thing, Una de Luna is working on something a little more novel.

Gravity doesn’t get them down: Una de Luna

This past summer, the band released a video for the album’s ﬁrst single, “Gravity,” using GoPano, a 360-degree lens attachment for an iPhone that allows the user to make panoramic videos. With help from a Kickstarter campaign that ends this weekend, the members hope to put together a 360-degree interactive live-streamed show that the online audience can control with the click of a mouse. Lunacy mixes new wave-based songs — like “Gravity” — with a ﬂair for contemporary electronic dance music. (Listen to the wubby bass on “Kiss the Villain,” for example.) But the band’s signature laid-back trip-hop beats (and signature sitar) return on tracks like “Supernatural.” Degenhardt’s vocals are beautiful, if sometimes a bit too formal-sounding for the music. (She’s clearly a well-trained singer; we just happen to be used to screamers and whisperers in pop music.) It’s good to see a band that explores a bit without losing focus on its follow-up, and Una de Luna pulls it off on Lunacy. Exploratory as anything is the 360-degree-video idea — which, with a little funding bump this week, could put the band on the map outside of Pittsburgh. AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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THE MEETS EVEN WHEN THE TIME COMES (SELF-RELEASED)

Five-track EP from Johnstown’s Brandon Locher. Knowing that one of these tracks was mastered by Nick Zammuto of The Books might help guide you toward an understanding of what The Meets is like: An understated but intentional compositional framework is overlaid with complex sound collage. Locher is helped along by a loose coalition of players (as is his wont), but this work shows exactly where he’s at as an artist — not a virtuoso player, but a virtuoso thinker. WIRES AND CABLES TOUNDO (SELF-RELEASED)

Another release from the side project of Triggers’ Joe Kasler. Pretty, driving guitar rock with some mean drumming. Some tracks are more exciting than others — opener “Lunar” has a lot more energy than the repetitive slow-burner “Price of Admission” — but on the whole, it’s a fun ride. Only the title track includes vocals, which is a nice touch, and is OK since these tunes have a certain momentum without. JACK MCLAUGHLIN THE SEASON (SELF-RELEASED)

Nice, light tunes, mostly acoustic guitar-based. Topics range from the usual looking-for-love stuff to more heady material, like the Civil War. McLaughlin’s vocals aren’t the strongest, but he seems to understand that, and doesn’t try to overdo it. (Though maybe bringing an opera singer on board for backup vocals isn’t the best idea when that’s the case!) Great guitar work, and there’s a nice original Christmas song thrown in for good measure. AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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Since releasing its first EP in 2010, Grouplove has earned some serious bragging rights. In a few short years, the band has toured with big names like Foster the People and Florence + the Machine, and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart with the single “Tongue Tied,” from debut album Never Trust a Happy Song. Known for catchy hooks and danceable an undeniably da indie-rock sound, Grouplove on a headrecently set out o lining tour. Catch the band RL Grime tonight at Altar Bar; B MS MR opens. Amanda Wishner 8 p.m. 1620 Penn Ave., Strip All ages.. 412District. $20-22. A www.thealtarbar.com 206-9719 or www tarbar.com

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For a while, RL Grime, a producer associated with trap — an electronic nic subgenre a few degrees removed from dubstep and more closely associated with hip hop — was anonymous, and was thought hought to be a rising star. Then RL Grime wass outed as being one and the same as Clockwork, ockwork, the already established DJ and producer ducer who’s worked with Dim Mak and Mad d Decent. Regardless, under either name, he’s a hot commodity, and who knows what kind of costume he’ll come up with for tonight’s AB B Coffeehouse Halloween show at Carnegie negie Mellon. The only guarantee is that hat he’ll have the college crowd moving. Andy Mulkerin 8 p.m. Rangos Ballroom,, University Center, Carnegie Mellon n University, Oakland. Free with CMU U ID; $10 without. www.activitiesboard.org board.org

the headliner is Karmin, the duo you saw on SNL last season, with the woman who wears a lot of make-up and raps really fast and says “Cheeri-o,” and her fiancé, the guy who stands there and might play a keyboard now and then. (By the way, they’re featured in a new Gap campaign.) AM 7 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $25. All ages. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com

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W Off the Earth is more Walk tthan a cover band. Although tthese natives of Canada are probably for p obab y best known o o ttheir “five-peeps-one-guitar” rendition of Gotye’s Gotye’’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” has accumulated more than 100 K ” ((which hi h h million views on YouTube and earned them a spot on The Ellen DeGeneres Show), w the band has been making organic, back-to-basics indie-pop music since 2006. Walk Off the Earth releases its latest EP, R.E.V.O, tonight; see the band live at Mr. Small’s with special guests Julia Nunes and The Mowglis. AW 7:30 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $20. $20. 412-821-4447 4 -821-4447 41 412 or www. mrsmalls. com

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ROCK/POP THU 25

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance Vaughn Trio. Strip District. 412-281-6593. CLUB CAFE. Jess Klein, Daniel Marcus. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOULIHAN’S. ‘Lectric Larry. Robinson. 412-787-7050. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Keith Kenny, Jason Martinko Revue, The Hang Lows. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. THE IRONWORKS. Blue Redshift. Oakland. 412-969-3832. MARKET SQUARE. Get-A-Grip. Downtown. 412-471-1511. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Drive-By Truckers, Glossary. Millvale. 866-468-3401. MRS. V’S GRILL. Red Hands. Brentwood. 412-886-6201. PALACE THEATRE. Rick Springﬁeld. Greensburg. 724-836-8000. SMILING MOOSE. Chai Baba, District 97, Adadsdad. South Side. 412-431-4668.

LINDEN GROVE. El Monics. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. REX THEATER. EOTO. South Side. 412-381-6811. ROCHESTER INN HARDWOOD GRILLE. Gone South. Ross. 412-364-8166. SMILING MOOSE. Title Fight, Pianos Become The Teeth, Single Mothers Title Fight. South Side. 412-431-4668. SWEENEY’S STEAKHOUSE. Lucky Me. Belle Vernon. 724-929-8383. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Waterband. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. WILKINS ELKS. Soul Searchers. Wilkins Twp. 412-823-6300.

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BACKDRAFT. Alter Ego, Punisher, Serpent Lord. Baldwin. 412-885-1239. BLVD PUB & KITCHEN. Lucky Me. Canonsburg. 724-746-2250. CATTIVO. Solar Burn, VEGA. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. CLUB CAFE. Coronado, Satin Gum, The Color Fleet, Paul Luc (Late). Coronado CD release. South Side. 412-431-4950. CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. Bruce

Springsteen & the E Street Band. Uptown. 412-642-1800. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. The Lava Game. Robinson. 412-489-5631. DURAN’S. Mr. Munster. Carnegie. 412-276-7803. THE FALLOUT SHELTER. Machete Facelift, Don’t Wake the Dead, Disgruntled. Aliquippa. 724-375-5080. FRANKIE’S. theCAUSE, Andrea Pearl, Patti Spadaro. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Marco Cappelli’s Italian Surf Academy, Ursa Major, Lazer Background. Garfield. 412-361-2262. THE HOP HOUSE. Ray Lanich. Green Tree. 412-922-9560. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Dirty Charms, Bessemers, Clashing Plaid. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MOONDOG’S. Missy Rains & the New Hip. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. OLD TRAFFORD SPORTS CLUB. Twisted Fate. Trafford. 724-640-5809. THE R BAR. Norm Nardini. Dormont. 412-445-5279. RODNEY’S LOUNGE. Paparazzi. Irwin. 724-864-3222.

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6119 PENN AVE. Buku. East Liberty. ALTAR BAR. Grouplove, MS MR. Strip District. 412-263-2877. BRILLOBOX. Donora, TeamMate, Triggers. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. BULLDOGS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL. The Andrea Iglar Band. Latrobe. 724-537-4444. CLUB CAFE. Bill Toms, Joe Mesiano (Early) Carina Round, Rosi Golan (Late). South Side. 412-431-4950. FRANKIE’S. Chiababa, The Dirty Charms, Granati Bros., Southside Vinny, Gods & Aliens, Katie Simone, Sugarpablo, more. Pittsburgh Food Bank Benefit. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Mal Blum, Caitlin Magarity, Rose & Sara, C-Bend. Garfield. 412-361-2262. GOOSKI’S. Icon Gallery, Nomad Queen, Criaturas. Polish Hill. 412-681-1658. HARD ROCK CAFE. Asbury Daze, SpinCycle 8th Street Rox, more. Hungry Hearts 2 Concert. Benefits the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Station Square. 412-481-7625. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Jordan Hull, Dan Getkin, The Masters of American Music. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. JOEY D’S. The GRID. Harmarville. 412-828-0999. LEGACY LANES. Gina Rendina & The Game Changers. Baldwin. 412-653-2695.

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SMILING MOOSE. Terrible Things. South Side. 412-431-4668. SPEAL’S TAVERN. The Artful Codgers w/ Chris Volpe. Unknown. STAGE AE. Karmin, Outasight. North Side. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Yellow Dubmarine. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. TOWN TAVERN. The Andrea Iglar Band. Leechburg. 724-845-2430.

SUN 28

BRILLOBOX. Bear In Heaven, ERAAS, 88 Sex Biz. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. CLUB CAFE. The Drowning Men, buffalo buffalo buffalo, Gypsy & His Band Of Ghosts. South Side. 412-431-4950. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

MON 29

CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Xavier Rudd. Munhall. 412-368-5225. HARD ROCK CAFE. Rehab. Station Square. 412-481-7625. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Donavon Frankenreiter, Jimbo Jackson, Scarecrow Trip. Millvale. 866-468-3401. STAGE AE. The Royal Concept, Wolf Gang. North Side.

TUE 30

ALTAR BAR. Everclear, Eve 6. Strip District. 412-263-2877. HAMBONE’S. Evil Genius. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. HARD ROCK CAFE. Andy Grammer. Station Square. 412-481-7625. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Solomon Blaylock, Ahura Mazda, Declan Ryan, Makeshift Letterbox. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Walk Off The Earth, Julia Nunes, The Mowgli’s. Millvale. 866-468-3401. SMILING MOOSE. Wolvehammer, Krieg, Doomsday, No Reason to Live Wolvhammer, Krieg, Doomsday, No Reason To Live. South Side. 412-461-4668.

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ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. Mockenstein. Lawrenceville. 412-683-5993. CAFE NOTTE. Pete Hewlett & Scott Anderson. Emsworth. 412-761-2233. CLUB CAFE. Dog the Bounty Hunter Band, Adam & Woody, Caleb Pogyor, Homeless Gospel Choir. Club Cafe’s Halloween Hootenanny. South Side. 412-431-4950. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Shiny Toy Guns, MNDR, Colour Music. Millvale. 866-468-3401. OLD TRAFFORD SPORTS CLUB. Good News Fire. Trafford. 724-640-5809. ROCK BOTTOM. Good Brother Earl. Waterfront. 412-462-2739. SMILING MOOSE. Quiet Company, Brick & Mortar. South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Companion, Berlin Way, Happy Economy. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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SEVICHE. DJ Digital Dave. Downtown. 412-697-3120. TIKI LOUNGE. DJ Luke Duke. Dance, hip hop, rock & top 40. South Side. 412-381-8454.

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1139 PENN AVE. DEEPER. Solid ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. ‘80s/ State Soul DJs: Brotha Mike ‘90s Night: Mockster. Lawrenceville. & Scuzzi. BYOB. Clean, safe & LGBTQ friendly. Begins after 412-683-5993. the bars close Sat. night, 2 a.m. AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Thursdays in AVA. Pete Butta, McFly, Bamboo, 8 a.m. Downtown. AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Soundclash: & Red. East Liberty. 412-363-8277. Hip-Hop vs. Reggae. East Liberty. CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta 412-363-8277. Shak. Homewood. 412-969-0260. BELVEDERE’S. Down & Derby. DISTRICT 3. DJ Solo Dolo, DJ Bamboo. South Side. 757-660-8894. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. CATTIVO. Superstar DJ Terry Kicks. KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. Zombo. East Liberty. 412-363-6012. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. LEVELZ. Technophile. 412-431-8800. Underground techno DJs. ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Do South Side. 440-724-6592. Sum’n Saturdays. Reggae PITTSBURGH CAFE. Night w/ Dan Dabber. Noetik 5000. Hip hop, Lawrenceville. club & R&B. Oakland. 412-251-0097. 412-687-3330. THE ELBOW ROOM. ROWDY BUCK. www. per a p pghcitym Nouveau Lounge Thursday Night .co Nights. w/ Pittsburgh Hoedown. South Side. DJ Company. Shadyside. 412-431-2825. 412-441-5222. SONNY’S TAVERN. DJ Hank IRISH CENTRE. Femz Wit a Twist. D, DJ Spaed. Bloomfield. LGBT after hours. “Come as you 412-683-5844. are.” 2 a.m.-6 a.m. Squirrel Hill. TIKI LOUNGE. College Night: 412-829-9839. Top 40/Hip Hop. South Side. LAVA LOUNGE. Motown 412-381-8454. Getdown Soul Night w/ DJ Kool Kurt. South Side. 412-431-5282. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. South Side. 412-431-2825. Mike & Co. Lawrenceville. S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-683-5993. 412-481-7227. AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Ready SANTO’S SALOON. DJ Dan or Not Fridays. East Liberty. Bogan. Springdale. 724-274-9850. 412-363-8277. SHADOW LOUNGE. Title Town BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Funk & wild R&B 45s. East Liberty. Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell. 412-363-8277. Downtown. 412-456-6666. TIKI LOUNGE. DJ Luke Duke. BALZER’S SOMEWHERE INN Dance, hip hop, rock & top 40. LAWRENCEVILLE. DJ B-Nasty. South Side. 412-381-8454. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0901. BELVEDERE’S. Monalloh Foundry. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. BELVEDERE’S. Into the Dark w/ CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo DJ Pr.Hufﬁnstuff & DJ Reckett. Claat Fridays. Reggae/dancehall Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. w/ Vybz Machine Intl. Sound DIESEL. The Show. DJ Endless. System, Fudgie Springer. East Dance. South Side. 412-431-8800. Liberty. 412-363-1250. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Give CATTIVO. DJ’s Real Estate, A Man A Break. Sunday night Tiny Whiny, Sassy Suggestions. soul w/ DJ Ian Friend. Bloomfield. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. 412-682-0320. ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Revolve. RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill Bara House & Breaks w/ Hana & Clevr. & Digital Dave. North Side. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097. 412-231-7777. THE ELBOW ROOM. Nouveau SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Lounge Nights. w/ Pittsburgh DJ Company. Shadyside. 412-441-5222. Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8. Electro, post punk, industrial, LAVA LOUNGE. ‘80s Dance new wave, alternative dance. Alternative. DJ Doug. South Side. South Side. 412-431-4668. 412-431-5282. TIKI LOUNGE. BP Mangler. THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Mad South Side. 412-381-8454. Tom Brown, Colin Pierce. House & funk. Lawrenceville. 412-682-6414. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. Amazing Punk Night. Rotating DJs. PITTSBURGH CAFE. DJ East Liberty. 412-363-6012. FunkNJunk. Underground MEXICO CITY. DJ Top 40. hip hop, funk & soul. Oakland. Downtown. 412-980-7653. 412-687-3331. SEVICHE. DJ Bobby D. Salsa. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. Downtown. 412-697-3120. South Side. 412-431-2825. TIKI LOUNGE. Old School Hip Hop. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ South Side. 412-381-8454. Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

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WINGHART’S - SOUTH SIDE. 3B (Burgers, Beer, & Bass). South Side. 412-475-8209.

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ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Nate da Phat Barber Selekta & Outtareach. 720 Music & Cafe Night. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097. KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Llamo. East Liberty. 412-363-6012.

WED 31

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Outtareach. East Liberty. 412-363-8277. BELVEDERE’S. Halloweenie w DJ 1 & DJ 2. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Ritmo Wednesdays. DJ Juan Diego, DJ Carla. Downtown. 412-325-6769. KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. Shawn Watson. Reggae, funk, punk. East Liberty. 412-363-6012. SPOON. Spoon Fed. Hump day chill. House music. aDesusParty. East Liberty. 412-362-6001. TIKI LOUNGE. Todd Cheat’s Punk Rock Jukebox. South Side. 412-381-8454.

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THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Evolve, Cemcom, Stillborn Identity, Cincinnatus C. Bloomfield. 724-986-7109. RIVERS CASINO. Lyndsey Smith. North Side. 412-414-5070. SHADOW LOUNGE. Rhyme Calisthenics: The Ofﬁcial MC Competition feat. Oddisee, MH the Verb. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

Halloween Celebration

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AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Steddy P & DJ Mahf, Fortiﬁed PhonetX, 30Realm. East Liberty. 724-355-0913. SHADOW LOUNGE. Ground UP. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

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reservations recommended HARVEST THEMED DINNER & DRINK FEATURES seasonal entrees & fall drinks

SHADOW LOUNGE. Funktapuss. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

BLUES THU 25

CENT’ ANNI’S. Don Hollywood’s Cobra Kings. Beechview. 412-207-9545. FRANKIE’S. Billy Price & the Lost Minds. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027. MOONDOG’S. Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. REX THEATER. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. South Side. 412-381-6811. SLOPPY JOE’S. Wil E Tri & the Bluescasters Blues. Mt. Washington. 412-381-4300.

JERRY ERRY ERRY D MARIA Sings Sinatra & friends as well as Halloween favorites 7-11pm

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MOONDOG’S. Jill West & Blues Attack. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

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THU 25

CLUB TABOO. The Flow Band. Homewood. 412-277-3787.

COUNTRY

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THU 25

CAFE NOTTE. Billy Heid. Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

JAZZ

ELWOOD’S PUB. Midnight Rooster. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. LAVA LOUNGE. Slim Forsythe & his New Payday Loners, The Red Western. South Side. 412 431-5282.

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ANDYS. Joe Negri. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CJ’S. Roger Humphries & RH Factor Jazz Jam Session. Strip District. 412-642-2377. LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends. Entrepreneurial Thursdays. Downtown. 412-392-2217. PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Jimmy Z & Friends. Carnegie. 412-429-7272. SEVICHE. Live Latin Jazz. Jason Kendall & DJ Digital Dave. Downtown. 412-697-3120.

FRI 26

ANDYS. Adam Brock. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CAFE NOTTE. Kenny Blake & Billy Heid. Emsworth. 412-761-2233. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Carolyne Perteete. North Side. 412-904-3335. OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo, Pat Crossley. Downtown. 412-553-5235.

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ANDYS. Maureen Budway. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Moorehouse Jazz. Strip District. 412-281-6593. CJ’S. The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session. Strip District. 412-642-2377. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Chico’s Quintet. North Side. 412-904-3335. SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters. Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

SUN 28

ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tribute to J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding. North Side. 412-904-3335. OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Chris Pangikas. Downtown. 412-553-5235.

MON 29

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Interval. DJ J. Malls, live jazz locals. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

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ANDYS. Eric Susoeff. Downtown. 412-773-8884. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series feat. Cuidado. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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720 RECORDS. James Johnson, Paul Thompson, Brett Williams. Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592. ANDYS. Bunny Bixler. Downtown. 412-773-8884. DANTE’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE. Jerry & Lou Lucarelli Jazz Session. Brentwood. 412-884-4001.

ACOUSTIC THU 25

BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Mark Pipas. Wexford. 724-934-1177. CAFE NOTTE. Bucky Soft. Emsworth. 412-761-2233. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Juan Vasquez. Robinson. 412-489-5631. MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night. West Mifflin. 412-461-8000.

FRI 26

THE CENTER OF HARMONY. Megan Slankard. Harmony. 724-400-6044 x 11. MARIO’S SOUTH SIDE SALOON. Michael Todd. South Side. 412-381-5610. PARK HOUSE. Well Strung, The Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

SAT 27

CLUB CAFE. Paul Tabachneck, Brad Yoder, Broken Fences, Josh Verbanets (Early). AcoustiCafe Showcase. South Side. 412-431-4950. ELWOOD’S PUB. The Unknown String Band. Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

MARS BREW HOUSE. Rick Bruening. Mars. OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants. Downtown. 412-255-0525.

SUN 28

HARD ROCK CAFE. Kip Winger. Station Square. 412-481-7625.

MON 29

HAMBONE’S. Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Pete Hewlett & Scott Anderson. Wexford. 724-934-1177.

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GHOST RIDERS 2. Xela Sound. Butler. 724-285-3415.

CLASSICAL FRI 26

CHATHAM BAROQUE. Also feat. display of jewelry made from musical instruments by Lisa & Scott Cylinder. The Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District. 412-261-7003 x 12.

SUN 28

CARNEGIE MELLON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHRISTOPHER HERRICK, ORGANIST. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland. 412-621-4951. RANDY BUSH, PIANIST. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800.

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WESTMORELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

OTHER MUSIC FRI 26

LEMONT. Dave Crisci. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. PALACE THEATRE. David Phelps. Greensburg. 724-836-8000. PLUMA. No Bad Ju Ju. Irwin. 724-864-7450.

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CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. International Salsa Night. Live salsa dance music & lessons. East Liberty. 412-363-1250. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. Celtic Shores. Strip District. 412-281-4505.

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TUE 30

BYHAM THEATER. Alﬁe Boe. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

WED 31

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Hello Donny: A Showtunes Sing-Along. http://trustarts. culturaldistrict.org/event/3941/ hello-donny-a-showtunes-singalong. Downtown. 412-325-6769.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. With special guests Austin Gibbs Bonaventure & Paper States. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

Drive-By Truckers MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

FRIDAY 26

Gym Class Heroes Flobots with Astronautalis / Mega-Def STAGE AE North Side. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY COLISEUM. With special guest Kendrick Lamar. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.

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THURSDAY 25 Seth's Big Fat '70's Show

CITY THEATRE South Side. 412-431-CITY. Tickets: citytheatrecompany.org. Through Oct. 28.

A Grand Night for Singing CLO CABARET Downtown. 412-281-3973. Tickets: 412-456-6666 or clocabaret. com. Through Jan. 20.

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER Downtown. Featuring The Plastic Cup Boys. Tickets: livenation.com or 800-745-3000. 8p.m.

Drive By, Cold 187um. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.

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Everclear / Eve 6 ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. With special guest Namesake. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

SATURDAY 27 Ground Up

SHADOW LOUNGE East Liberty. Over 18 show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 412-363-8277. 6:30p.m.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. With special guest Faithful Sinners. Over 21 show. Tickets: showclix.com. 8p.m.

MONDAY 29

STAGE AE North Side. With special guest Zug Izland,

BYHAM THEATER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. All ages show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

He's My Brother She's My Sister

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

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{BY AL HOFF} After decades of Halloween-in-the-movies being synonymous with the deeply troubled Michael Myers and his long knife comes Fun Size, Josh Schwartz’ PG-13 comedy celebrating the more traditional pleasures of cat costumes, candy and copping a feel. Wren (Victoria Justice) would rather go to the cute guy’s party with her bestie (Jane Levy), but her mom (Chelsea Handler) makes her look after her little brother Albert (Jackson Nicoll). Albert is a … challenging kid. He makes his on-screen debut looking like a mini shock-comedian/performance artist, sitting naked on the can, wearing weird goggles and refusing to speak.

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O brother, where art thou? Victoria Justice and Jane Levy

Before you can say “boo,” Wren and Albert get separated in a sea of neighborhood Halloweeners. Albert goes on a series of adventures under the respective oversight of a convenience-store clerk, a party chick and douchebag (Johnny Knoxville). Meanwhile, Wren pairs up with the Harold and Kumar of Cleveland — a pair of love-sick nerds dressed as Aaron Burr and E.O. Wilson, respectively — and searches for Albert. Fun Size seems to split the difference between underlining the Importance of Family and Responsibility — and having its laughs eschewing the very same. And by “laughs,” I mostly mean pratfalls, face-mugging and entirely predictable comic plot developments.

In Fritz Lang’s gorgeously shot 1931 film M, Berlin cops and criminals join forces to search for a child-killer. Peter Lorre is indelible as the predator, his portrayal both horrifying and pitiable. In German, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Mon., Oct. 29. Hollywood, Dormont

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WO-THIRDS of the way through

Rob Cohen’s thriller Alex Cross, I wrote in my notebook “Why?” The question mark was one of many piling up in this painfully thin story of a cop chasing a psycho killer who is also chasing him. As the film unspooled, the specific plot point or character motivation I’d been perplexed by no longer mattered. Let that plaintive “Why?” stand for the entire film: Why are these super-smartcop-vs.-super-smart-nutter movies still being made, long after the genre has been played out? And why is this one so unbearably lame, committing every sin: stilted dialogue, amateurish acting, stock characters, cheesy score and poorly filmed action? I haven’t read the James Patterson thrillers from which this film is adapted, but the storyline here is barely more than a checklist of cop-vs.villain contrivances. Tyler Perry — working here as a

Tyler Perry (left) brings the big gun; Matthew Fox brings the crazy

man — unconvincingly plays Dr. Alex Cross, a Detroit police detective; Ed Burns, doling out his usual hyped-up gruff self, is his partner. They chase a ﬁendish killer (Matthew Fox) all over Detroit, after Cross instantly intuits that this highly skilled luntic is targeting foreign business interests.

ALEX CROSS

DIRECTED BY: Rob Cohen STARRING: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Ed Burns

There’s no question that our killer is unhinged. He exhibits every sign of crazy-guy-in-a-movie: He’s dangerously underweight and still works out; his eyes bug out and he cricks his neck a lot; he lives alone in a shack by the docks; he talks to the newspaper clippings on his wall; when he gets ready to kill, weird music plays and the screen goes fuzzy;

and at kill scenes, he makes creepy charcoal drawings. There’s also his bizarre introduction. Our unnamed killer takes a hit order over the phone and watches millions move into a bank account. He then heads into a mixed-martial arts battle — held in an abandoned building but attended by well-coiffed, exotic women — and bribes his way into a match, demanding to be called “The Butcher of Sligo.” Juggling the crazy leaps and plot holes of the still deeply predictable Alex Cross just made me dispirited. As you’d expect, some more people get killed, Cross is forced to go rogue, and the killer just get crazier. There’s the “thrilling conclusion”: a mano-a-mano confrontation in the Michigan Building, a once-grand theater now used as a parking garage. That’s a nice metaphor for this ﬁlm: Never mind creating novel entertainment; just stick the pre-fab bits in their assigned slots and call it a day. A HOF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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CLOUD ATLAS. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry head an ensemble cast in this fantastical drama, in which persons from disparate times and spaces are all connected. (All the actors play multiple roles.) Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) co-direct. Starts Fri., Oct. 26. THE ROUN D UP. In the summer of 1942, the French government cooperated with the N azis by rounding up more than 10,000 Parisian Jews. Roselyne Boschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drama features an ensemble cast that includes a neighborhood of Jewish families, sympathetic Parisians (including Jean Reno as a doctor), Vichy officials and Hitler. While her attempt to show the full picture is admirable, the scope detracts somewhat from our emotional engagement. In French, German and Yiddish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Oct. 26. Manor (Al Hoff) SILEN T HILL: REVELATION . The 2006 horror thriller adapted from the video game wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very good, but perhaps this sequel, directed by Michael J. Bassett, makes improvements in plot and pacing. Like the protagonists of this spookfest, wandering into strange places, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just have to take your chances. Starts Fri., Oct. 26. In 3-D, in select theaters.

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REMIN GTON AN D THE CURSE OF THE ZOMBADINGS. In this comedy from the Philippines, a young boy taunting gays is cursed by a witch to turn gay on his 20th birthday. Which he does. N ow he has to sort out his sexuality and stop the town from being overrun with gay zombies. Jade Castroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film is presented by Silk Screen. In Tagalog, with subtitles. 6:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 25, and 6:30 p.m. Fri., Oct. 26. GRW Auditorium, Point Park University, 414 Wood St., Downtown. $10 ($5 students with ID). www.silkscreenfestival.org WOODY GUTHRIE: AIN â&#x20AC;&#x2122;T GOT N O HOME. The 90-minute documentary, produced for PBSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; American Masters series, profiles folk musician Woody Guthrie, the troubadour of the Great Depression. His life and music are examined, as well as his lasting impact on later performers such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. The 2007 film concludes this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series of labor-related films presented by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 25. Pump House, Homestead. Free. 412-831-3871 PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rightly considered one of the most enjoyable bad movies of all time. Fringe auteur Ed Wood Jr. hit paydirt (albeit long after this 1956 film was produced) with his low-low-budget tale of an alien invasion that raises the dead. Technical gaffes abound, the dialogue is absurd, and the acting wooden â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but Plan 9 never fails to entertain. The plot seems farfetched, but as the noted seer Criswell posits on screen: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can you prove it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen?â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Fri., Oct. 26. Hollywood, Dormont (AH)

The Round Up ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. Every weekend is Halloween for the legions of wannabe Frank N . Furters and Time Warpers. Catch one â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or both! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two screenings of the 1975 campy, sci-fi-ish musical. Midnight, Fri., Oct. 26 (Oaks), and midnight, Sat., Oct. 27 (Hollywood) MATEWAN. Chris Cooper stars in John Saylesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1987 historical drama set in 1920s West Virginia, in which coal miners struggle to unionize against a company determine to divide and conquer using scab labor. This screening is sponsored by Mining Memories, a community volunteer project that seeks to link contemporary communities to historic characters and settings. Brunch, provided by Oakmont Bakery, at 10 a.m.; screening at 11 a.m. Sat., Oct. 27. Oaks, Oakmont. Tickets: $15, for brunch and film, must be purchased in advance; film only, $7. Ticket info at www.theoakstheater.com. FREEDOM HAD A PRICE. Yurj Luhovyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1994 documentary looks at a lesser-known dark chapter of Canadian history. At the turn of the last century, Canada recruited individuals from Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, to help populate its western provinces. But when World War I broke out, many of these immigrants were labeled â&#x20AC;&#x153;enemy aliens,â&#x20AC;? and subjected to abuse and even imprisonment. Screens as part of the Hoverla Ukrainian American Film Festival. 4 p.m. Sat., Oct. 27. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Schenley Drive, Oakland. $10 (Pitt faculty and students admitted free). For more information and to reserve seats, see www.ucowpa.org. NOSFERATU. F.W. Murnauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1922 silent classic screens as part of the Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Halloween party. (Costumes encouraged.) In this Dracula re-telling, the vampire Orlock (Max Schreck) travels to England in search of new victims. With his anguished face and unwieldy talons, Schreckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Orlock evokes both pity and horror, and combined with Murnauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stylish direction, this landmark film offers unforgettable tableaux, such as Orlockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ascension from the shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hold. Also screening: three spooky silent shorts from Casey Malone, plus raffles, tarot-card readings and

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LAST MAN ON EARTH. Vincent Price stars in this 1964 thriller, in which widespread disease has turned the rest of humanity into undead bloodsuckers. Ubaldo Ragonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film is adapted from Richard Mathesonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel I Am Legend, also the source for 1971â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Omega Man and the eponymous 2007 Will Smith feature. 6 p.m. Sun., Oct. 28. Hollywood, Dormont FIRECROSSER. After being released from a N azi camp, a Soviet soldier is imprisoned in a gulag for treason. But he escapes and makes his way to Canada, where he re-invents himself as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Firecrosser,â&#x20AC;? and a chief of a native tribe. Mykhailo Illienko directs this recent feature film, reportedly based on real events. This film concludes the Hoverla Ukrainian American Film Festival. In English, and Russian and Ukrainian, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 27. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Schenley Drive, Oakland. $10 (Pitt faculty and students admitted free). For more information and to reserve seats, see www.ucowpa.org. THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. Vincent Price stars in this 1959 horror classic from William Castle. Price plays an eccentric rich man, who offers five strangers $10,000 each if they can spend just one night locked down in a mansion with an eerie history. 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 28. Hollywood, Dormont ZABRISKIE POIN T. Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni made his only American film in 1970. Reflective of the times, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a trippy and visually intense riff on the counterculture, set in the American desert. A young Sam Shepherd was one of four screenwriters (though cohesive narrative and dialogue are not this elliptical filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong suit), and the soundtrack features a number of bands now enshrined in the classic-rock canon, such as Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and The Rolling Stones. The film concludes a month-long series of films with notable soundtracks. 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 28. Regent Square

MADE IN INDIA. Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010 documentary examines the cultural and economic issues around outsourcing surrogate births. In the film, an American couple pays an Indian woman in Mumbai to carry their embryo to term. The filmmakers will present the film and lead a Q&A after the screening. In English, and Hindi, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Mon., Oct. 29. 5200 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. Free. mnovy@pitt.edu DEMENTIA 13. Everybody starts somewhere, and like other big directors of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola started in low-budget horror. His first film, shot in 1966, depicts the odd goings-on amid an Irish family. Just exactly who is dead? 9:15 p.m. Mon., Oct. 29. Hollywood, Dormont

White Zombie WHITE ZOMBIE. Years ago, zombies were CP simple creatures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; cruelly suspended between life and death â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to devour human flesh to survive. In this 1932 film directed by Victor Halperin, a young bride and groom visiting Haiti fall prey to the devious Bela Lugosi, who has the power to raise the newly dead as zombies answerable to him. Depression-era viewers must have been alarmed to learn of Lugosiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reason for creating a legion of undead: He employed them in his sugar mills. One of the most beautifully creepy scenes is the depiction of these near-lifeless creatures shuffling around a sugar-cane grinder. 7 p.m. Tue., Oct. 30. Hollywood, Dormont (AH) AN DY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warholâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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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Race relations in Chicago is an issue of intimidating breadth and complexity. A new short novel by Bob Hartley examines it through a microcosm — the perspective of an Irish-American boy in the summer of 1962. Following Tommy (Cervená Barva Press) describes the arrival of the first black family in a white neighborhood on the city’s West Side, and the violent racism they encountered. “There were two things that could really get their Irish up,” Hartley writes in his debut novel, “the British and the blacks.” This period is burned into the memory of Chicago-raised Hartley, 54. “My neighborhood transitioned into an African-American neighborhood within six months,” he says. “I witnessed people move with lightning speed, people who’d lived there for generations. People moved at night. It was bizarre. The fear was unbelievable.” Hartley now works nights as a respiratory therapist in Pittsburgh. He’d had only three hours sleep when I met him at his Lawrenceville home, but was passionate about what he saw growing up in the 1970s. “People couldn’t believe what I described could have happened in the ’70s. I set the novel in the early ’60s to make it more believable.” In 1996, following a stint as a comedic actor, he moved from Chicago to pursue a master’s degree in fiction-writing at the University of Pittsburgh. He began writing Following Tommy. “It was very difficult to write because I had to let go of trying to make people look good. Segregation dehumanizes everybody.” Nevertheless, Hartley riddles his cast of corrupt cops and boozehound relatives with brilliant idiosyncrasies. His grim narrative is at once delightful and disturbing. Particularly shocking are the practices of the crooked real-estate agents and insurance-baiters who were instrumental in turning a once-thriving neighborhood into a segregated slum through intimidation and arson. “I wanted to enlighten people about what occurred,” Hartley says. “It’s what has really hit me the most in my life.” Hartley completed the manuscript in 2000 and had it published this summer. He still sees an urgent relevancy to the subject. “Chicago is unbelievably segregated to this day. These people haven’t changed, they’ve just moved. They live in all-white suburbs. They bemoan what happened to the old neighborhood but can’t concede they played a part in it,” Hartley concludes. “I want the novel to be widely read in Chicago so that a discussion can begin. That’s what I want more than anything.”

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IM HARRIS compares his interest in photographing certain areas of Pennsylvania to the drive that leads undersea explorers to the wreckage of the Titanic. “It’s seeing something that hasn’t been touched by human hands in years,” explains Harris, who with his wife, Holly, runs the Facebook project “Abandoned, Old & Interesting Places — Western PA.” This, of course, does not speak well of the area’s economic history over the previous few decades. But as is obvious from the way they have trekked from Erie to Waynesburg in Jim’s pickup to collect images of roadside relics, the Harrises love the half-state in all its tattered glory. “In New England, they refurbish the old colonial stuff,” says Jim. He’s 46 and a dead ringer for a jolly Rush Limbaugh, down to

the cigar. “Here, we abandon our history and just move on. It’s still here but it becomes invisible.” The Harrises make the invisible visible by uploading images of neglected landmarks for an ever-growing online fandom. Sifting through their collection, you’re reminded of how much of Western Pennsylvania has just been discarded. Some are small locations, like a boarded-up gas station or derelict driving range. But many of these aged and battered structures once would have socially and economically deﬁned a town: schools and churches, factories and mine entrances, hotels and theaters (with the blank marquee a constant trope), even entire roads and bridges. In McKeesport, the entire downtown was game for the project. (Holly got a stupendously ironic

shot of the shuttered McKeesport Business Growth Center.) Jim, a native of Bethel Park, has been exploring abandoned places since he was a teen-ager. “My friends and I would just walk up to an old factory or mine and go in,” he says. “It was the thing to do back then.” (He now abides by a strict no-trespassing rule.) Abandoned, Old & Interesting began inauspiciously. The Harrises, who own a Vocelli Pizza franchise in Pleasant Hills, got the urban-explorer itch from time to time and posted their photos on their personal Facebook proﬁles. In July 2011, they started the Abandoned, Old & Interesting account, as well as a concurrent account on the photography site Panoramio.

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At ďŹ rst, the audience was mostly limited to friends and family. Then, last August, the Harrises spread the word to fellow pizza-slingers at a state convention of Vocelli franchisees, and a few local history groups promoted it. By Aug. 22, their page had 4,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;likesâ&#x20AC;? and by Sept. 1, they had 7,000. Then it went viral. As of mid-October, more than 86,000 people had â&#x20AC;&#x153;likedâ&#x20AC;? the page and gotten images of run-down Pennsylvania in their news feeds. The eeriest photos came from Lincoln Way, a (formerly) residential street in a section of Clairton where Jim and Holly refuse to send delivery drivers. Weeds and shrubs grow through the sidewalks and up the sides of the houses, every one of which is uninhabited. There are still curtains in many windows, and a rusted car peeks out of a half-shut garage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what happened,â&#x20AC;? says Jim. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I checked the [tax] assessorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website and [the houses] have had the same owners since the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like everyone walked out one day.â&#x20AC;? Explanations and other commentaries are usually offered by a community of Facebook users. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some cases, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any idea what [a place] was and 30 messages later we will know all about

it,â&#x20AC;? says Holly. In September, for example, she posted a photo of a boarded-up one-room schoolhouse in Rogersville. One commenter identiďŹ ed it as the Crouse School House, leading another to link to a 1912 class photo on the Flickr account of a Greene County historian, showing 21 students and a teacher standing outside of the school. Then another commenter declared sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just seen the face of one of her distant forefathers for the ďŹ rst time. Thanks to the former prominence of many of these places, people often have strong memories of or associations with them: a grandfather who worked at that factory, a ďŹ rst date at that movie theater. This project shows how these structures still stand, both in the physical world and in the collective consciousness. (It also draws predictable bickering about whether industry or unions decimated the area.) Jim is one of the youngest members of the Masonic Lodge in Elizabeth, and among the younger frequenters of local cigar shops. At both places, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fond of listening to stories and getting ideas for new exploration sites from old-timers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, my mission is simple,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think people should forget the past.â&#x20AC;? I N FO @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

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PAST IMPERFECT {BY TED HOOVER} THE SETTING for the new show at City The-

atre could be described this way. Time: The Present. Place: America in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s. In his 2011 work Maple and Vine, playwright Jordan Harrison imagines a group of people called the Society for Dynamic Obsolescence. Frightened of or fed up with the modern world, they create a very large gated community in which the citizens â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on a 24/7 basis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; live, work and think like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1955. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a neat idea: an examination of nostalgia versus reality. The problem is that Harrison seems unwilling or unable to consider the ramiďŹ cations of his setup, and the way he sidesteps the questions heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s posed is maddening. Katha and Ryu are a stressed and depressed married couple who, offered refuge in a safer time, accept. Harrison might have contrasted our notion of retro â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s cool with the actuality of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past. But every time the script begins nibbling around political edges, Harrison retreats into the mawkish personal stories of his characters. This failing is screamingly obvious on race. The unspoken question is whether there any African Americans in this world and, if so, what non-insane black person would ever willingly go back to Jim Crow? Emmett Till was lynched in 1955. The fact that the SDO is probably all white and moneyed could be a very interesting point, but Harrison skips over it.

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He tries to neuter the question by making Ryu of Japanese descent. And while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not negating the racism faced by Japanese Americans, to posit that as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;race issueâ&#x20AC;? of 1950s America is disingenuous in the extreme. Sexual and gender politics are handled in a similarly coy fashion. What could be a great discussion about huge American themes continually dissolves into a not-particularly-interesting soap opera about people who, truth to tell, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really make a whole lot of sense. Director Kip Fagan leads his cast with some intelligence. Caralyn Kozlowski gets the showiest role as SDO den mother and takes advantage of the opportunity. Greg McFadden has fun playing both oppressor and oppressed; Ross Beschler

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Greg McFadden and Caralyn Kozlowski in Maple and Vine, at City Theatre

does well moving from sleazy to sympathetic; and Robin Abramson and Nelson Lee, playing the married couple, manage to ďŹ nd some truth in inconsistently written roles. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

FOUNTAIN OF TEARS {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} BARELY 80 minutes long, with a cast of sev-

en, Quantum Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Ainadamar is nonetheless huge. Director Karla Boos ďŹ lls the large hall of East Liberty Presbyterian Church with much video, sound and fury about freedom and the wastefulness of war. Osvaldo Golijovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2003 opera (libretto by David Henry Hwang) tells of the death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great poet and playwright, and Ainadamarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christ ďŹ gure. The story begins in 1969 in Uruguay, from the point of view of an aging actress who ďŹ&#x201A;ed Spain in 1936, but could not persuade her friend/lover Lorca to leave also. Margarita Xirgu tells her students

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about the turmoil in Spain, and how the Falangists (fascists) murdered Lorca and terrorized the populace. Overriding all is the love she shared with the writer and martyr. Much of Ainadamar is for real, under-

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Raquel Winnica Young and Carolina Loyola-Garcia in Quantum Theatre’s Ainadamar

Blues is an appealing musical with nine wonderful voices from the community. A bit pedagogic about the history of the blues, the script strings the songs on a few wisps of soap-operish subplots. But the real joy is the music, beginning (natch) with an ensemble rendition of “Sweet Home Chicago,” led by Teri Bridgett, as Theresa.

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continues through Oct. 28. New Horizon Theater at the Kingsley Association, 6435 Frankstown Ave., Larimer. 412-421-0773 or newhorizontheater@yahoo.com

{BY MICHELLE PILECKI} THE PREMISE of Nothing But the Blues

would strain credulity if it weren’t based on a real story. In November 1983, Theresa Needham faced the closing of her tiny basement nightclub, which had become a Chicago blues mecca in its 33-year history, hosting big stars like Muddy Waters and launching big names like Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. Joe Plummer’s 2010 play takes a fanciful look at that event for a musical revue of classic blues and blues classics. New Horizon Theater recreates Mrs. Needham’s ramshackle little lounge in a newly cobbled-together theater space in a large meeting room of the Kingsley Association. The effect is not about realism, but about recreating the casual but intimate atmosphere of Theresa’s Lounge. Everybody sings, and everybody dances — even the audience, if they so please. Directed by Eileen J. Morris — artistic director of the Ensemble Theatre in Houston and a regular Pittsburgh visitor —

Trying to save her marriage, sensible church lady Camille Lowman metamorphoses into a siren with “You Can Have My Husband But Don’t Mess With My Man.” Her opponent is the sultry Karla Payne, coming to battle with “Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On.” The two share a winsome “Stormy Monday” that stops the show. Chuck Timbers delivers a lowdown “Born Under a Bad Sign” and Dennis Robinson Jr. kicks in with youthful vigor on “Messing With the Kid.” Les Howard adds gravitas to the storylines and tenderness to his duet with Ms. Bridgett, “We’re Gonna Make It.” (The instrumental tracks are pre-recorded.) Give a hand, too, to Richard Hutchins, Ijazneem, Delana Flowers, musical director Henry L. Biggs and choreographer Anthony Dixon. Yes, the play is a bit creaky in places, but Nothing But the Blues is nothing but sweet sweet music.

Assisting Cousin is a strong artistic team: Don DiFonso, costumes; Michael Essad, scenic design; Douglas Levine, music director; Lauren Kadel, associate choreographer; Steve Shapiro, sound; Andrew David Ostrowski, lighting; Jessi Sedon-Essad, video; and Robert Haley, dialect coach. The Producers’ book is by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music by Brooks. Still outrageous after 44 years, The Producers packs in the laughs at the Playhouse.

Size matters. At least when we’re talking about outdoor sculpture. Public art often must compete with its surroundings, and one strategy is to go big and bold. Think Claes Oldenburg’s 101-foot-tall baseball bat in Chicago, Fastwürm’s 100-foot “Woodpecker Column” in Toronto, or Jonathan Borofsky’s 48-foot “Hammering Man” outside the Seattle Art Museum. Playing with scale is common because it offers the viewer something unexpected. Locally, artists of the Industrial Arts Co-op (IAC) often use the monumental to great effect. Their “Rankin Deer” is a 45-by-35-foot deer head made from industrial scraps that sits among the ruins of the Carrie Furnace. IAC founding member Tim Kaulen’s heron sculpture at the Children’s Museum, “One Great Blue,” stands 15 feet tall. Kaulen and the IAC are primarily known for guerilla street art. Formed in the mid-1990s, IAC has focused on transforming used industrial materials into art in public and abandoned spaces. Often using components found on site, the artists exploit scale, location and the unconventional to create visual surprises. The region’s many defunct industrial spaces provide ample inspiration. Crucial to IAC’s process is collaboration among artists. This has worked well for “unofficial” projects, but for the group’s first official and permanent site-specific sculpture, “The Workers,” the complex machinations necessary to create a public art project seem to have taken a toll. The piece, begun 15 years ago as a commission from the City of Pittsburgh and the Heinz Endowments, is ultimately awkward and lackluster. Installed at South Side Riverfront Park, “The Workers” depicts two steelworkers who are a commanding 20 feet tall. But while it reflects the colossal human contribution to the steel industry, it is neither graceful enough to inspire contemplation nor cartoony enough to cause delight. Levity can be tolerable in a commemorative piece, but the figures in “The Workers” are ambiguous. They look like Rock’em Sock’em Robots, just without the snappy colors. It’s hard not to compare the piece to the beloved and eye-catching “Arch,” Glenn Kaino’s playful 20-foot Transformer sculpture that once resided at Seventh Street and Fort Duquesne Boulevard. “The Workers,” appropriately placed at a former industrial site turned recreation area, and made from repurposed steel, will no doubt have its admirers. Its large scale is certainly a fitting tribute to the region’s heritage, and its raw physicality cannot be denied. But given that both IAC and Kaulen have a proven track record, it’s not clear why their piece, though big, is so bland.

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You need them to describe the Conservatory Theatre Co.’s production of The Producers. Huge cast. Multiple sets. Colossal chutzpah. Large laughs. A towering monument to musical talent and bad taste. And remembering that the venue used to be a synagogue adds an extra frisson. We’re all clear on the plot and history? Mel Brooks’ first feature film, in 1968, was about a scheme to profit from the worst play possible, a musical comedy about Adolf Hitler. Many more projects later, the comic genius turned The Producers into a real musical comedy, a boffo Broadway smash. For the Conservatory, local legend Tomé Cousin collaborated with the original director/choreographer, Susan Stroman, to recreate her Tony-winning efforts for a rousing evening of (sometimes uncomfortable) fun. The Point Park undergrads (and grads) often overachieve with vigorous dancing, lusty singing, quick-witted stage presence, and the delight of playing broad and often offensive stereotypes. If some scene changes are clunky, or the Ziegfeld homage occasionally shaky — well, you can make allowances in a show about a bad play badly done. Tom Driscoll is amazingly on target leading the show as the portly but indefatigable Bialystock, especially in his big solo, “Betrayed.” Opposite him, bromantically speaking (“Till Him” tugs at manly heartstrings), Carter Ellis is an appropriately fresh-faced foil for his pal’s machinations, but without the full Leo Bloom manic panic. Also notable are Jordon Ross Weinhold as the director/star; the energetic Brandon Taylor as his, um, associate; and Mandie Russak as the love/lust interest of the two leads. The company sparkles in the big production numbers, climaxing of course in the infamous “Springtime for Hitler.”

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lined by the black-and-white newsreel footage. But the reality is expanded with a multimedia production that surrounds the audience. We experience the soft calming blue waters of Ainadamar, the “fountain of tears,” which becomes a Calvary-like place of execution. Kicking up the furor are expressionist explosions in red and orange, before resolving into the peacefulness of death. The full-voiced company is all female, portraying men as well as women. Raquel Winnica Young is the angelic but bold Lorca, with Katy Williams mastering a range of emotions and ages as Margarita. The lithe Carolina Loyola-Garcia is particularly memorable, first as the sinuous flamenco dancer, and as the villainous Ruiz Alonso, who prowls the balconies and fills the hall with menace. Music director Andres Cladera leads a fine orchestra. Making Ainadamar a must-see is the synergistic design team: Joe Seamans, video, assisted by Jose Munian; Tony Ferrieri, scene; Scott Nelson, lighting; Ryan McMasters, sound; Richard Parsakian, costumes; R.J. Romeo, production director; and Scott Nelson, production manager. Yes, the opera is in Spanish, but the English translation (projected in subtitles) is easy to follow. And though the words are important, they comprise only a part of Ainadamar. There’s much to hear, see and, especially, feel.

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Initial impressions of Mitch Fatel might be “If Forrest Gump did standup ...” But Fatel adds an edge to his harmless simpleton’s shtick. His naive and stilted delivery of sex-based humor is frequently disturbing and disturbingly funny. The boyish New Yorker has been performing standup for 15 years. He’s appeared on Letterman, Conan, as a correspondent on Leno, and made the hour-long Comedy Central special Mitch Fatel Is Magical. He headlines at Pittsburgh Improv for five shows starting tonight. Catherine Sylvain 8 p.m. Through Sat., Oct. 27. 166 E. Bridge St., Homestead. $17-20. 412-462-5233 or www.pittsburgh.improv.com

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Da DanceAfrica an was founded in 1977, 19 97 in New York, by Chuck Davis, Da av a revered pioneer of African dance in America. Af fr Tonight this celebration of To on African and African-American Af fr dance, da an music and culture makes its second annual ma m Pittsburgh visit, courtesy of the Pit Legacy Arts Project. Public perLe formances tonight and tomorrow at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater feature styles from traditional African to contemporary modern and hip hop. Performers include Davis himself, the Legacy Arts Dancers, Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, and Ill Style and Peace. BO 7 p.m. Also 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 27. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave. $15-20. 412-3633000 or www.danceafricapgh. eventbrite.com

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host deconstructs that era’s, er, flamboyant televisual culture, from The Brady Bunch Variety Hour and Donny and Marie to awards shows starring Liza Minnelli. The polyester, DayGlo and staged banter go under Rudetsky’s microscope for five performances starting tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Show continues through Sun., Oct. 28. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $35-40. 412-431-4400 or www.citytheatrecompany.org

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dance troupe Attack Theatre is back with another season of its Game Night and the Seven-Minute Dance Series. Backgammon, 3-D tic-tac-toe and darts are in the mix at Attack’s spacious Strip District HQ, and the fun is peppered with dancers performing short excerpts of works in progress.

a dancer, PBT ballet mistress Marianna Tcherkassky was named one of the greatest Giselles, performing opposite Rudolf Nureyev. Her husband, PBT artistic director Terrence Orr, describes the supernatural love story as a personal favorite. The ballet’s original score, by Adolphe Adam,

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Adult beverages are also involved. BO 7-11 p.m. 2425 Liberty Ave., Strip District. Suggested donation: $5. www.attacktheatre.com

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The romantic ballet Giselle bears a special closeness to Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. As

will be performed live by PBT’s orchestra, with Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot’s classic choreography, at the Benedum Center. CS 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Sat., Oct. 27, and 2 p.m. Sun., Oct. 28. 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $25.75 - 95.75. 412-456-6666 or www.pbt.org

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The folks at Artists Image Resource see the fun in dysfunction. Today’s First Quadrennial Artists Image Resource Fall Harvest Fun Fair celebrates “political and cultural dysfunction” with: an Election Year Media Booth for deciphering lies; a “shooting gallery of political “s gamesmanship”; an American ga g Dreaming Ring-Toss (with Dr D social-class-appropriate sso prizes); T-shirt- and posterpr p making stations; and other m opportunities to discuss, o ponder and vent. There’s also food and drink, live music and a $5 raffle of work by local artists. BO 4-10 p.m. 518 Foreland St., North Side. $10 (includes carnival tickets). 412-321-8664 or www.artists imageresource.org

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Deborah Kass might wear her influences on the sleeve of her artist’s smock, but she’s not afraid to challenge them. Kass followed in Andy Warhol’s footsteps by studying painting at Carnegie Mellon, but she then sought to redress pop art in which she failed to see identities similar to her own reflected. She came to fame in 1992 by appropriating Andy Warhol’s Jackie O portrait for Barbara Streisand, in her “Jewish Jackie” series. The Warhol Project, Kass’ body of work from 1992-2000, featured Streisand in Yeshiva drag — titled “My Elvis” — as well as stylized portraits of Gertrude Stein and Sandy Koufax. Kass’ work has been shown at MOMA and the Guggenheim. The Andy Warhol Museum’s major mid-career retrospective Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After takes its name from her 1991 print, in which a nose job before-and-after (painted by Warhol) is playfully juxtaposed with Cinderella’s slipper. The show, featuring 75 works, opens this weekend. Catherine Sylvain 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., Oct. 27. Exhibition continues through Jan. 6. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $10-20. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

career, Herrick has performed around the world. Today, on the Oakland cathedral’s recently restored organ — with its more than 5,000 pipes — he’ll play Bach’s “Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue” and works by Mozart, Verdi and more. The concert is sponsored by the Organ Artist Series. BO 4 p.m. 108 N. Dithridge St., Oakland. $5-12. 412-242-2787 or www.oas-series.com

a nonprofit providing disadvantaged women with the attire and support to succeed professionally. The special guest judge is America’s Next Top Model contestant Bianca Golden. VIP tickets include dinner, cocktails and a goody bag in Omni William Penn Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. CS 6 p.m. (VIP event); 7 p.m. (fashion show). 530 William Penn Place, Downtown. $35-100. 616-920-3548

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nose syndrome, a disease decimating bat populations. In the international Year of the Bat, Jennings Environmental Education Center presents Night Flight. Tonight’s indoor slide presentation on bats is followed by a guided outdoor forest walk (without flashlights) exploring bats’ nocturnal world. BO 7 p.m. 2951 Slippery Rock Road, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011 or jenningssp@pa.gov

People often fear bats, but really they have more to fear from us. A single colony of the species known as the little brown bat can consume more than 250,000 mosquitoes and other insects in a night. Humans, meanwhile, destroy the habitat of this flying mammal, and are suspected to accidentally spread white-

Lege Legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham Merc considered any movement cons dance, and his productions a da were ambitiously staged. In his 10 years as Cunningham’s filmmaker-in-residence, video artist Charles Atlas pioneered capturing dance on film, most recently premiering Cunningham’s work Ocean in 2011. The selftaught filmmaker began his career in 1971, in New York. He has collaborated with many performance artists and musicians, including Leigh Bowery, Marina Abramovic, and Anthony and the Johnsons. Atlas speaks tonight at Kresge Theater as part of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art Lecture Series. CS 5 p.m. 5000 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. 412-268-2409 or www.cmu.edu/art

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and for much of 2011 was that country’s interim prime minister. Tonight, Jibril gives a keynote speech at the American Middle East Institute’s annual conference. The event, moderated by Tom Brokaw, is co-sponsored by the U.S.-Libya Business Association … and by the University of Pittsburgh, where Jibril studied in the 1980s. The talk is at Carnegie Music Hall. BO 8 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $25-75. www.americanmei.org

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Rock Band From Ohio.” The five-piece — Cedar Point favorites whose style blends The Cramps, The B-52s and ’60s garage and surf — marks its 20th anniversary on the Halloween beat by headlining The Zombie Bowling Ball, tonight at Arsenal Lanes. This no-cover DJ Zombo and RANT Productions event includes a “Drop Dead Gorgeous” pinup contest for zombie gals and Best Zombie contest for undead fellas. And anyone in zombie attire gets a free bowling pass for his or her next visit. BO 8 p.m.-midnight. 212 44th St., Lawrenceville. No cover (regular bowling fees apply). 412-683-5992 or www.zomboworld.com

The August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble takes center stage along with New York’s highly acclaimed Camille A. Brown (choreographer, A Street Car Named Desire) Desire) & Dancers and world renowned Philadanco! for the Second Second Annual Black Dance Festival Festival.. Alongside these three powerhouse companies, the festival will also highlight emerging ensembles that keep black dance traditions alive not only in their communities but also worldwide. The festival spreads its wings even further by oﬀering master classes and workshops taught by today’ today’ss leading forces in dance. Be mesmerized and revived as these dynamic artists celebrate the past, present and future of Black dance. N E W S

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BRIMSTONE & GRIND: A CHANCE IN HELL. Vaudeville/ Burlesque performance. Presented by Industrial Gardens. Oct. 26-27. Belvedere’s, Lawrenceville. 412-508-3393. FAHRENHEIT 451. Preview reading of a production by Prime Stage Theatre. Sat., Oct. 27, 2 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING. Musical tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein. Wed-Sun. Thru Jan. 20. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-456-6666. HALLOWEEN MYSTERY DINNER THEATRE. Oct. 26-27. Kean Theatre, Gibsonia. 724-444-5326. HOOKED. A violent twist on the story of Peter Pan. Thru Nov. 3. South Park Theatre, Bethel Park. 724-292-8427. LIGHTS! CAMERA! MURDER! Murder mystery dinner theater. Fri, Sat and Sun., Nov. 11. Thru Nov. 10. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park. 724-746-1178. MAPLE & VINE. Burned out by their hectic, Manhattan lifestyles, Katha & Ryu move to Maple & Vine, a neighborhood that lives perpetually in 1955. Tue-Sun. Thru Nov. 4. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489. MIDNIGHT RADIO: PITTSBURGH GHOST STORIES. Tales of local ghost stories inspired by true

This was a great experience. It showed me a lot of the history of Pittsburgh. I’m not from here, so it was very informative. The haunted aspect was really interesting. They have a lot of cool stories and these really brought the history together. A lot of history you forget, but with those haunted stories, it sticks to me. I knew a little about the French and British in the U.S., but not specifically in Pittsburgh. I am very surprised Pittsburgh is such a historical spot! With all these new buildings, it doesn’t really seem that way. They do a great job in Point State Park, continuing to tell the stories. This was my first time in the Fort Pitt Blockhouse. I did not know anything about it. I just wanted a break from studying. I figured I’d walk around the city and I ended up here!

accounts of unexplained phenomena. Thu., Oct. 25 and Fri-Sun. Thru Nov. 3. Bricolage, Downtown. 412-471-0999. NIGHT MUST FALL. Psychological thriller written by Emlyn Williams. Presented by Smithfield Street Theatre. Oct. 25-27. Smithfield United Church of Christ, Downtown. 412-251-7904. NOTHING BUT THE BLUES. A rollicking musical feat. blues classics. Presented by New Horizon Theater. Thu-Sun. Thru Oct. 28. Kingsley Center, East Liberty. 412-431-0773. THE OTHER PLACE. A psychological drama about a biophysicist investigating a personal mystery. Thru Oct. 27. Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. 724-873-3576. POE’S LAST NIGHT. The story of Edgar Allan Poe’s final hours on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. Written & performed by David Crawford, presented by 12 Peers Theater. Sat., Oct. 27, 8 p.m. ModernFormations Gallery, Garfield. 412-496-2194. POSTMORTEM. Mystery thriller by Ken Ludwig. Presented by New Castle Playhouse. Fri-Sun. Thru Nov. 4. New Castle Playhouse, New Castle. 724-654-3437. THE PRODUCERS. Scheming partners Max Bialystock & Leo Bloom attempt to make some cash from a Broadway flop. Thu-Sun. Thru Oct. 28. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW. Donations will be taken for Dreams of Hope, a performing & creative arts group for queer youth & allies. Oct. 26-27. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-365-1286. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Presented by Stage Right! Oct. 26-27. Latrobe 30 Plaza, Latrobe. 724-832-7464. ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. The tale of Hamlet, told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered minor characters, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Oct. 26-28. Greensburg Civic Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000. RUMORS. Neil Simon’s comedy, presented by Community Theatre Players. Thu-Sat. Thru Oct. 27. Community Presbyterian Church of Ben Avon, Ben Avon. 412-734-2050. SETH’S BIG FAT ‘70S SHOW. Seth Rudetsky’s comedic take on 1970s variety & awards shows. Oct. 25-28. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489. SINATRA & STREISAND AS NEVER BEFORE. Tribute performance feat. Bo Wagner & Jessica Zaminska. Sat., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. The Legacy Theatre, Allison Park. 412-394-3353.

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Alan Ayckbourn’s play documenting the changing fortunes of three married couples. Presented by Stage Right. Thru Oct. 27. Boyd Community Center, O’Hara. 412-228-0566. AINADAMAR. A chamber opera about Federico Garcia Lorca’s relationship w/ his muse. Presented by Quantum Theatre. Thru Nov. 3. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800. ARSENIC & OLD LACE. Joseph Kesselring’s classic play. Presented by Throughline Theatre. Fri, Sat and Thu., Nov. 1. Thru Nov. 3. The Grey Box Theatre, Lawrenceville. 1-888-718-4253. THE BEST MAN. Gore Vidal’s play about an ethical man running for the Presidential nomination against an “unscrupulous” man. Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 27. Baldwin Community United Methodist Church, Whitehall. 412-881-1002. BLOODHOUNDS. Interactive murder mystery dinner theater. Fri., Oct. 26. Gaetano’s Restaurant, Dormont. 412-343-6640. BORN YESTERDAY. Comedy about a corrupt junk dealer who brings his showgirl mistress to Washington D.C. Tue-Sun. Thru Oct. 28. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600.

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ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Deborah Kass: Before & Happily Ever After. A major mid-career retrospective of paintings, photographs & sculpture. Opens Oct. 27. North Side. 412-237-8300. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Fine Art Festival. Work by 40+ local artists. Oct. 25 - 27. Ross. 412-364-2442. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Sculptural Works. Work by Pasquale Pristera, Anita Kushner, William Rock, & Felipe Garcia Huidobro. Opening reception: Oct. 27, 5-8 p.m. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. JAMES GALLERY. HYBRIDS: Object/Place/Time. Mixed media paintings by Chuck Olson. Opening reception: Oct. 26, 59 p.m. West End. 412-922-9800. MATTHEWS ARTS GALLERY. The Silk Studio Exhibit. Artist reception Nov. 4. Last show before gallery closes. Bellevue. 412-761-0301. MICHAEL HERTRICH ART & FRAME. Visionaire. Paintings & photos by Son House & Michael Hertrich. Opening reception: Oct. 26, 6-9 p.m. South Side. 412-431-3337. SHAW GALLERIES. Moments in Time. Photographs by Nichole Sinicrope & Frank Sanns. Opens Oct. 26. Closing reception: Oct. 27, 5-8 p.m. Downtown. 412-281-4884.

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28 WEST SECOND GALLERY & STUDIO SPACE. TIME of Change: Group Exhibition. Mixed media/ sculpture by Jim Miller & photography by Suzanne Andrews. Greensburg. 724-205-9033. 3RD STREET GALLERY. 2012 Aqueous Open. The Pittsburgh Watercolor Society presents its 66th Annual International Exhibition. Carnegie. 412-276-5233. 707 PENN GALLERY. Gregg Liberi:Digit(al) Art. Pen to paper.

Brush to canvas. Finger to screen. Downtown. 412-325-7017. 709 PENN GALLERY. BOOK. Book-themed work by Seth Clark, Dana Ingham, Randie Snow & Brett Yasko. Downtown. 412-471-6070. 937 LIBERTY AVE. Currency. Group show feat. new works by local artists. Downtown. 412-456-6666. AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUM. Radiant Circles: Ruth E. Levine’s Generous Life. Key work from Levine’s various artistic stages. Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8010. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Warhol:Headlines. A collection of works by Warhol based largely on headlines from tabloid news. North Side. 412-237-8300. BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. All Local Artists. Multi media work. Artist in the Window. Original acrylics by Sam Norris. Frazier. 724-275-7001. BOKSENBAUM FINE ARTS GALLERY. A Photographic Journey: Israel, Palestine, Egypt & more. Photography by Alex Goldblum. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-3212. BOULEVARD GALLERY. Artistic Reﬂections. Group show feat. painting, photography & jewelry. Verona. 412-828-1031. BOXHEART GALLERY. Trinity. Work by Lyn Ferlo. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Whistler & Rebellion in the Art World. An exhibit feat. Whistler’s aesthetically radical prints. White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes. 6 innovative institutions dedicated to the experience of culture & nature. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CATHOLIC CHARITIES BUILDING. Park Journeys: Yellowstone. Work by Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild students. Downtown. 412-456-6999. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. InterRelated: One Artist’s Response to Silent Spring. Monoprints, mixed media & installation by Kate

“Passing” (detail) by Nichole Sinicrope and Frank Sanns, from Moments in Time at Shaw Galleries Cheney Chappell. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Paintings, Drawings & A Sculpture Or Two. New work by Michael Lotenero. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. EASTSIDE GALLERY. Ceramic Creatures. Work by Bernie Pintar. East Liberty. 412-465-0140. FALLINGWATER. Touchstone Center for Crafts Faculty Exhibition. Work by Andrew Cooperman, Shoji Satake, Fredrick Crist, Kathleen Zimbicki,more. Ohiopyle. 724-329-1370. FE GALLERY. CREEP. Installation pieces from 9 artists. Costume party Nov. 10, 7-11 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-860-6028. FEIN ART GALLERY. 2012 PSA Annual Exhibition. Group show juried by Vickie A. Clark. North Side. 412-321-6816. FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Marcellus Shale Documentary Project. Oakland. 412-681-5449. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Impressions of Interiors. Paintings by Walter Gay. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Moods of Pittsburgh II: Expired Mills, Inspired Landscapes. Group show. Oakland. 412-716-1390. GALLERIE CHIZ. In Your Face. Paintings & Mixed Media by Daniel Bolick. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. It’s a Long Way to the Top . If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll! New works by Michael Walsh. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Beyond the City Lights. New work by Marian Sallade. Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488. THE GALLERY ON BAUM. New Orleans: The Spirit Lives. Photography by Mark David Miller. Oakland. 412-621-2286. GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER. A World of Art. Work by Leah Bevilacqua, Jon Howe, Gemma Allan, & Sylvia K. Downtown. 412-422-0114. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Best of the Bunch. Greensburg Art Center juried exhibit. Greensburg. 724-837-6791. INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. Journey Through Georgia. Work by Dato Shushania, Vissarion Bakradze, Alexander Bandzeladze & Gogi Mikaladze. Sewickley. 412-741-3036. IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Pittsburgh by Pittsburgh Artists II. Group show feat. all media. Garfield. 412-924-0634. CONTINUES ON PG. 66

[HISTORY] THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Presented by The Bethel Park Heritage Players. Fri-Sun. Thru Oct. 28. Bethel Park Community Center, Bethel Park. 412-831-6800 x 745. STOMP. Percussive symphony performance on unconventional instruments. Oct. 30-Nov. 4. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900. TIME STANDS STILL. A comic drama about love, changing directions & the ties of friendship. Thu-Sat. Thru Nov. 3. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. VARNEY THE VAMPIRE OR THE FEAST OF BLOOD. Melodramatic spoof about an overly emotional vampire. Fri, Sat. Thru Nov. 3. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727.

The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall houses both a grand performance venue (patterned after the more famous Carnegie Hall) and one of the last remaining Grand Army of the Republic posts, once a gathering place for Civil War vets. With so much history, it’s no surprise that ghostly sightings have been reported. Learn more at the venue’s History & Mystery Tour, this Sunday. 6-9 p.m, Sun., Oct. 28. 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. $15. Call 412-276-3456 or visit www.carnegiecarnegie.org.

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COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Derek Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. Thru Nov. 22 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-855-2749.

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MITCH FATEL. Oct. 25-27 The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

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BLUE STOCKING BABES. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, OPEN MIC STAND UP COMEDY North Side. 412-322-1000. NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto & IRONY CITY. 9:30 p.m. Steel John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m. City Improv Theater, North Side. Smiling Moose, South Side. 412-322-1000. 412-612-4030. KEVIN HART. Consol Energy Center, Uptown. 412-642-1800. JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open LEAKY BASEMENT. 11 p.m. stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. Steel City Improv Theater, Wed Younger’s, North Side. North Side. 412-322-1000. 412-452-3267. PITTSBURGH COMEDY STAND-UP COMEDY SHOWCASE W/ MIKE OPEN MIC. Wed, WYSOCKI. Fri, 9 p.m. 8 p.m. The BeerHive, Corner Cafe, South Strip District. Side. 412-488-2995. www. per a 412-904-4502. pghcityp

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IMPROV DOUBLE FEATURE:THE DEATH SHOW & THE GRIFTERS. 10:30 p.m. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769. THE LUPONES: MADE UP MUSICALS. 9:30 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, North Side. 412-322-1000. MARK MAMMONE, ED BAILEY, MOLLY SHARROW, KRISH MOHAN, DEREK MINTO. Get Behind Me Satan: An Unholy Evening of Stand Up Comedy. 10 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. THE SERIOUS COMEDY SHOW. Last Sat of every month, 10 p.m. Backstage Bar at Theatre Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

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ERICK WILLIAMS. Mon, 9 p.m. Thru Dec. 31 Inn-Termission Lounge, South Side. 412-381-3497. OPEN MIC COMEDY. Hosted by Aaron Kleiber. Mon, 9 p.m. Thru Dec. 31 Pleasure Bar, Bloomfield. 412-682-9603.

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BOST BUILDING. Collectors. Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939. Furniture, metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles, & jewelry produced by Herman Miller, Tiffany, more. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives that Transform Communities. Folk art objects illustrating the power of women working together to provide for their families, educate their children, promote equality, & give back to their communities. 412-622-3131. BugWorks. Feat. beautiful photography of insects, amazing specimens, & live bugs! Life: A Journey Through Time & Population Impact thru Jan., Winging It: Experimental Gallery About Birds thru March, Lord of the Crane Flies thru April. Ongoing: Earth Revealed,

Dinosaurs In Their Time, more. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad and Village, USS Requin submarine, and more. North Side. 412-237-3400. CARRIE FURNACE. Built in 1907, Carrie Furnaces 6 & 7 are extremely rare examples of pre World War II iron-making technology. Weekly tours are Fri & Sat in May,& Wed, Fri & Sat Aug, Fri & Sat in SepOct. Rankin. 412-464-4020 x.21. CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature and biotechnology. Open Fridays 5-8, Saturdays 12-4 & Sundays 12-4. Garfield. 412-223-7698. CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh Jazz Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards from the International Hall of Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446. DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement and history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park. 412-486-0563. FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows. Downtown. 412-471-3436. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, with classes, car & carriage museum. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501. NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. With classes, lectures,

demos and more. North Side. 412-323-7235. NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. 412-624-6000. OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion site features log house, blacksmith shop & gardens. South Park. 412-835-1554. PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM. Trolley rides and exhibits. Includes displays, walking tours, gift shop, picnic area and Trolley Theatre. Washington. 724-228-9256. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Fall Flower Show. Nearly 3,000 mums in various forms & colors display festive scenes. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants and floral displays from around the world. Oakland. 412-622-6914. PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club. West View. 412-931-4425. PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639. RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the Homestead Mill. Steel industry and community artifacts from 1881-1986. Homestead. 412-464-4020. SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. Gridiron Glory: The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. More than 200 football artifacts, rare photos, & one-of-a-kind documents. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, and exhibits on local history, more. Strip District. 412-454-6000. SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Badges & Buttons, Waistcoats & Vests. Highlights badges by 20 makers from the US & the UK. Downtown. 412-261-7003 x 12.

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HAUNTED HILLS HAYRIDE/ VALLEY OF DARKNESS HAUNTED WALKING TRAIL. Live bands, karaoke, & DJs every Friday & Saturday. Benefits The Autism Society of Pittsburgh & The Spectrum Charter School. www.hauntedhillshayride.com Thru Nov. 2 Haunted Hills, North Versailles. 412-823-4813. PITTSBURGH TERROR TROLLEY TOURS. Thru Oct. 31. Station Square. 412-281-2085.

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DRAWN OF THE DEAD. Screening of Night of the Living Dead Reanimated, costume contest, more. 7:30 p.m. The ToonSeum, Downtown. 412-232-0199. ZOMBIES ATTACK!!! CRAWL & SPRAWL. 9 p.m. Ghoul Mansion, Sharon. 724-977-1717.

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HAUNTED HISTORY TOURS AT POINT STATE PARK. Learn about the history of the Point through shocking a& strange – yet true – tales. Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 27 Fort Pitt Museum, Downtown. 412-565-2850.

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PGH VINYL CON #3. 12-8 p.m. Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Oakland. 412-621-1715.

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OF HALLOWEEN WEDNESDAY OCT 24 Acoustic Music w/ Mike DeLuca 10pm $2 Yuengling/ Light- $3 Pumpkin Pie shots $5 Pumpkin Bombs

THURSDAY OCT 25 Scaryoke w DJ Hyatt 10pm Costume Contest $2 Coors Light- $2.50 Evil shots

FRIDAY OCT 26 Acoustic Music w Brad 7pm- DJ Steve Spin $100 Costume Contest -$3 Miller Lite

SATURDAY OCT 27 DJ Don Deleo- $100 Costume Contest $3 Coors Light

SUNDAY OCT 28 Stillers vs Skins- Buffet-$2 Miller Lite $5 Evil Drinks- Scaryoke w/DJ Marty 9pm

MONDAY OCT 29 Spooky Grooves w DJ Nugget and Gang

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FESTIVALS SAT 27 - SUN 28

AUTUMNFEST. Various fall entertainment, food, activities, more. Sat, Sun. Thru Oct. 28 Seven Springs, Champion. 1-800-452-2223 x 7757.

DANCE THU 25 - SUN 28

TWENTY EIGHTY-FOUR. Multimedia dance-theater performance based on 1984 & the works of Carl Sagan. Thru Oct. 28 The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze.

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DANCEAFRICA. Feat. performances by the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, the Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, IllStyle, & Peace Productions. Oct. 26-27, 7 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-228-5160.

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GISELLE. Presented by Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Oct. 26-28 Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

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GENERATIONS! Kyiv Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. 3 p.m. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-527-5359. PAPAGP GALA & RECITAL. 16 traditional dances performed by the Philippine-American Performing Arts of Greater Pittsburgh. agangeles@verizon. net 5 p.m. Bigelow Conference & Reception Center, Oakland.

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WORLD KALEIDOSCOPE: GRECIAN ODYSSEY DANCERS. 2 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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BUILDING NEW HOPE 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA. Strolling supper, East End Brewing Co. refreshments, more. For more info, email eileen@buildingnewhope.org. 6 p.m. E2, Morningside. 412-441-1200. STEEL CITY SECRET CINEMA. Movie & art exhibition. Benefits the Hollywood Theater. steelcity secretcinema.com Hollywood Theater, Dormont. 412-344-1245.

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LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Landscape Expressions. Work by Lynn Fero. Downtown. 412-392-8008. MAKE YOUR MARK ARTSPACE & COFFEEHOUSE. Polly Mills-Whitehorn Photo Exhibit. Point Breeze. 412-365-2177. MATTHEWS ARTS GALLERY. Watercolors. Work by Doug Brown & his students. Bellevue. 412-761-0301. MATTRESS FACTORY. Feminist and.. Group show. North Side. 412-231-3169. MATTRESS FACTORY SATELLITE GALLERY. Gestures: Intimate Friction. Group show feat. Nina Marie Barbuto, Dee Briggs, Jeremy Ficca, Pablo Garcia, Jenn Gooch, Ling He, more. Guest Curated by Mary -Lou Arscott. North Side. 412-231-3169. MENDELSON GALLERY. Worlds Within. Work by James P. Nelson, David Aschkenas, Robert Qualters, Philip Rostek, more. Shadyside. 412-361-8664. MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Feat. photographs, sculpture, architectural models & drawings, that together examine the relationships between design & health. Oakland. 412-268-4754. MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Looking Deeper: The Artwork of Aimee Manion. Garfield. 412-362-0274. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Cheers, Salute, L’chaim To The Next 50! Group show. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. Urbanscapes. Work by Mary Lloyd Claytor. Closing reception: Oct. 27, noon-4 p.m. Ross. 412-364-3622. OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE. Faces & Places: Photographs of Old Economy. Never before seen photography from the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Ambridge. 724-266-4500. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Halloween Photography Exhibit. Photographs of Frankenstein, Zombies, sorrowful photos of dead children & grandmothers, & other haunting things. North Side. 412-231-7881. PICTURESQUE PHOTOGRAPHY & GIFTS. Photography by Brenda Knoll.

live & silent auctions, more. Benefits The Harry Panos Fund & The Troy Polamalu Football Camp. 6:30 p.m. Westin Convention Center Hotel, Downtown. 412-441-1077.

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Lawrenceville. 412-688-0240. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 2012 Artist of the Year & the 2012 Emerging Artist. Work by Charlee Brodsky & Vanessa German. Shadyside. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. American Idols. Exhibition by John Moran feat. glass busts of all 43 U.S. presidents. Friendship. 412-365-2145. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. No Job No Home No Peace No Rest. Installation by Will Steacy. Gallery. South Side. 412-431-1810. SPACE. Circles of Commotion & Moving Pauses. Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes & Jason Rhodes. Downtown. 412-325-7723. SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Out of Context. Slippery Rock University Art Faculty & Student Exhibition. Friendship. 412-559-8168. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First Fruit XVI: Tending Our Mothers’ Gardens Exhibition. Installations by Ann Tanksley, LaVerne Kemp, Charlotte Ka, Christine Bethea, Tina Brewer & Leslie Ansley. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. THE TOONSEUM. Monster Engine. Children’s drawings turned to paintings by David Devries. Opening reception & kids Halloween party: Oct. 27, 1 p.m. Downtown. 412-232-0199. UNSMOKE ART SPACE. Not Like I Remembered. Sculptures by Aris Georgiades & Gail Simpson. Braddock. 415-518-9921. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Modern Dialect. American Paintings from the John & Susan Horseman Collection. Born of Fire: The Valley Work. Greensburg. 724-837-1500. WILDCARD. Moving Between Dimensions. Screenprints by strawberryluna aka Allison Glancey & Craig Seder. Lawrenceville. 412-224-2651. WOOD STREET GALLERIES. The City & the City: Artwork by London Writers. Visual art by authors of experimental poetry, fiction, history & geography, exploring new ways to combine literature & art in an examination of the modern city. Downtown. 412-471-5605.

CULTURAL DYSFUNCTION. Feat. printmaking activities, an exhibition of new work by Michael Budai & Robert Williams, carnival games, more. 4-10 p.m. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664. BIG CHEMISTRY HALLOWEEN PARTY. Benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters. 9 p.m. Altar Bar, Strip

District. 412-263-2877. THE BIG IDEA BOOKSTORE & CAFE BLACK-TIE MEMBER DRIVE. 8-11 p.m. The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323. EAST END BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP. Benefits The Western Pennsylvania Police Athletic League. 6 p.m. The Edgewood Club, Edgewood. 412-731-3443. FREAKY 5K, TERRIFYING 10K & PETRIFYING PET WALK. Benefits the Steel City Road Runners Club. 10 a.m. North Park Ice Skating Rink, Allison Park. 412-586-7785. HERBES DE PITTSBURGH XI: HERBALHARVEST. Lecture, workshops, more. Benefits educational programs & herb garden maintenance at Mellon Park & Old Economy Village. 1-4 p.m. Old Economy Village, Ambridge. 412-741-0898. PIT BULL AWARENESS DAY DOG WALK. Pet costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, more. All breeds welcome. Benefits Hello Bully. 9 a.m. Boyce Park Four Seasons Ski Lodge, Monroeville. 412-235-1997. RSG1 FALL HARVEST. Benefits the Remi Savioz Glut1 Foundation. 8 p.m. The Boiler Room, Banksville. 724-272-8797. WOODY’S HOWL-O-WEEN PARTY & COSTUME PARADE. Benefits Deuce, a dog in need of surgery to walk again. 11 a.m.3 p.m. Woody’s Self Serve Dog Wash & Pet Boutique, South Park. 412-714-4644.

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BATTLE OF DESIGNERS FASHION SHOW. Feat. 8-10 local designers & guest judge Bianca Golden. Helps benefit Dress For Success. 6 p.m. Omni William Penn, Downtown. 412-553-5235. BOOK ‘EM BOOKS TO PRISONERS WORK PARTY. Read & code letters, pick books, pack ‘em or database ‘em! Sundays 4-7 p.m. or by appt. Thomas Merton Center, Garfield. 412-361-3022.

MON 29

BID FOR HOPE XI. Benefits A Glimmer of Hope Foundation. 7 p.m. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille, Warrendale. 1-800-454-6746.

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BREAKING THE CHAINS: A PUBLIC FORUM ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. Discussion on the Presidential Election & the limits of electoral politics. Presented by the Pittsburgh branch of the International Socialist Organization. 7:30 p.m. Thomas Merton Center, Garfield. 412-860-9513.

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THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking

[VISUAL ART] for additional feedback on their work. Thu The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323. PITTSBURGH WRITES. Weekly writer’s workshop. Thu Crazy Mocha Coffee Company, Sewickley. 412-708-3312. SPEAKEASY READING SERIES. Feat. Marc Nieson, Nikki Carroll, Leigh Thomas, & Jennifer Howard. 9 p.m. Assemble, Garfield. WRITER’S SHOWCASE #3, GHOSTOGRAPHS. Feat. Maria Ramaso-Moore, Eric Lidji & Courtney Lopresti. 7 p.m. Cyberpunk Apocalypse, Lawrenceville.

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JAN BEATTY. Part of the St. Andrews Lecture series. 8 p.m. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Highland Park. 412-661-1245.

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UMBRA PITTSBURGH WRITERS SERIES. Writers workshop. 10 a.m.12 p.m. Carnegie Library, Homewood, Homewood. 412-464-0321. WOMEN READ/WOMEN WRITE BOOK FESTIVAL. 30 female authors, book signings & 4 panel discussions. http://womenread womenwrite.com/ 1-6 p.m. Galleria Mall, Mt. Lebanon. 412-418-9348.

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BERNARD COMMENT. Reading by author of The Shadow of Memory. 7 p.m. City of Asylum, North Side. 412-321-2190.

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BANNED AFTER DARK. Readings from banned & challenged books. Feat. DJ Operation Sappho, Kitty Klottsalot & Rage of the Stage. 8 p.m. Brillobox, Bloomfield. 412-681-7736.

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Ghosts, skeletons, cardboard tombstones — we know what to expect this time of year. Creep, at Fe Gallery, offers something different. “My goal was to harness the feelings of suspense and unease by arranging the gallery into a ‘haunted house,’” explains curator Sara Dixon. The group show features nine installations, all created to give viewers that “scary, creepy feeling.” Through Nov. 3. 4102 Butler St., Lawrenceville. Free. 412-254-4038 or www.fegallery.org

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BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, swing set, sandbox, solar-powered North Side. 412-322-5058. instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. PUMPKIN PATCH TROLLEY. Ride CHARLIE & KIWI’S an antique trolley to the Pumpkin EVOLUTIONARY ADVENTURE. Patch where children get to pick & Join Charlie as he travels back to decorate a pumpkin. Fri-Sun. Thru the Age of Dinosaurs to discover Oct. 28 Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, how evolution works. Feat. story Washington. 724-228-9256. theater & discovery area. SEUSSICAL, JR. Presented by Mon Presented by Commonwealth River Arts Youth Theatre. Connections Academy. Oct. 26-28 Grand Theatre, Tue-Sun. Thru May 12 Elizabeth. 412-384-0504. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3131. www. per HALLOWEEN pa MISSING LINKS (THE pghcitym MAYHEM. Costume .co RAINBOW JUMPY). parade, live performances, Bounce, jump, roll, run & photo booth, appearance walk through a 30-foot inflatby Mr. McFeely, more. 10 a.m.able “jumpy” art piece created by 2 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, Felipe Dulzaides. On loan from The East Liberty. 412-363-3000. New Children’s Museum, San Diego CA. Thru Feb. 3, 2013 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. ARTHUR’S HALLOWEEN. A 412-322-5058. Halloween musical based on TOUGH ART. Interactive artworks the beloved aardvark Sat, Sun. feat. John Pena, Scott Andrew, Thru Oct. 28 Little Lake Theatre, Jonathan Armistead, Jeremy Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. Boyle, Kevin Clancy & Will EXPERIMENTAL COSTUME Schlough. Thru Jan. 13, 2013 DESIGN. Bring a costume from

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home to explore techniques like screenprinting on fabric, spraypainting w/ stencils, & embellishment. Oct. 27-28 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. JACK & THE BEANSTALK. Interactive musical. Sat, Sun. Thru Nov. 11 Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-5201.

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HERBAL ALCHEMY ADVENTURES II. Learn the art of potion making w/ everyday plants. Ages 7-13. Mon, 3:155 p.m. Thru Nov. 19 Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield. 412-924-0634.

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HALLOWEEN NIGHT HIKE. 6:30-8 p.m. Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown. 724-899-3611.

SUN 28

MAP & COMPASS ORIENTEERING. Find flags in the woods using a map & compass. 11 a.m. Mingo

BOARD GAMES NIGHT. Fourth Thu of every month, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. CRAFTERNIGHT W/SARAH GOLDSCHADT. Halloweeninspired craft night. 6-9 p.m. Wildcard, Lawrenceville. 412-224-2651. GEEKS RULE! Feat. Geek TV, Geeks Game Night, Dr. Sketchy night, Toons & Brews, Yoda Yoga, Geek Show & Tell, more. Every other Thu, 7:30 p.m. Thru Dec. 13 The ToonSeum, Downtown. 412-232-0199. MEDITATION & WHOLE LIFE TRANSFORMATION. Supreme Meditation & the Science of Transformation w/ Acharya Kedar. Free public program. 7:30 p.m., Thu., Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. and Thu., Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m. Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. 724-420-5826. PATRICIA WARD KELLY. Gene Kelly’s widow discusses the performer’s life. Reservations required. 8 p.m. Alumni Hall, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Oakland. 412-624-4147. RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall, Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-567-7512. WEST COAST SWING. Swing dance lessons for all levels. Thu, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111.

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SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS: THE FACE OF THE VETERAN. 3rd annual Rita M. McGinley Symposium. Power Center Ballroom. Oct. 25-26 Duquesne University, Uptown. 412-396-5203.

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DEBORAH KASS: DISCUSSION W/ THE ARTIST. Also feat. David Carrier & Eric Shiner. 2 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300. ELIMINATING HATE CRIME. Discussion on Federal & State LGBT hate crime laws & procedures for reporting hate crimes. 12-1:30 p.m. YWCA, Downtown. 412-391-5100. GAME NIGHT & THE SEVENMINUTE DANCE SERIES. 7-minute dance performances between playing old school games like Four-Square, Connect Four, Atari, more. 7 p.m. Attack Theatre, Strip District. 412-281-3305. PUBLIC ART WALKING TOUR. Schenley Plaza, Oakland. 12 p.m. 412-391-2060 x 237. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD & THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. Speaker: Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University. CONTINUES ON PG. 68

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AUDITIONS 12 PEERS THEATER. Auditions for 2012-13 season. Oct. 28-29. Seeking actors for Talk About the Passion by Graham Farrow, Sustenance by James Roday, & the Summer Scribes Reading Series. Prepare 2 contrasting contemporary monologues, 2 mins. or shorter each. Be prepared to read from the scripts. Email sfisher@12peerstheater.org to schedule an appointment. LATSHAW PRODUCTIONS. Auditions for fall & Christmas traveling orchestra shows. Male/female singers & dancers. 412-728-2193. PITTSBURGH IRISH & CLASSICAL THEATRE. Auditions for the 2013 season. Nov. 11-13. Complete the form at bit.ly/PICTaudition regform. Prepare two contrasting monologues of no more than 2

D4D ADVOCACY TRAINING. Workshop presented by PA Center for Women & Politics. Mellon 3 BLOWS TO NARCISSISM: Board Room, Chatham University. COPERNICUS, DARWIN & FREUD. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Chatham University, Discussion exploring the basic Shadyside. 412-365-1878. tenents of psychoanalytic theory. FALL FAMILY DAY. Frontier 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Fashion Show, tours, discussion of Center, Shadyside. 412-661-4224. the book Death by Petticoat, apple roasting, more. Historic Hanna’s Town, Greensburg. 724-836-1800. [VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY] GARAGE SALE, BBQ, & SPIN JAM. Also feat. local artists & photographers w/ work for sale. Election Day is fast approaching, and Obama For America 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Silver Eye Center – PA wants YOU to help get out the vote. Volunteers are for Photography, South Side. needed for three-hour canvassing shifts from now until 412-431-1810. the election, and “comfort captains” will be needed NATIVE PLANT & on Nov. 6 to pass out snacks and assist voters in case of SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE. long lines at the polls. Email mburny@ofapa.com or see Learn about native plants, www.barackobama.com/pa for information. sustainable practices, plant & wildlife ecology, more. 9 a.m.3:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. A CALL TO ACTION: min. each. Send headshot & bio to 412-441-4442 x 3925. ENCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE pictmarketing+audition@gmail. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. TO JOIN THE ‘WORLD’S FIGHT’ com. Visit bit.ly/audition2013 for Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing & TAKE ON A CAUSE LARGER more information. Charity Randall follows. No partner needed. Mon, THAN THEMSELVES. Feat. Pulitzer Theatre, Oakland. 412-561-6000. 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Prize winner Nicholas D. Kristof. THE PITTSBURGH SAVOYARDS. Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 7 p.m. LaRoche College, Wexford. Seeking Stage Director for 412-683-5670. 412-536-1097. Spring 2013 production of “HMS SWING CITY. Learn & practice SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Pinafore” by Gilbert & Sullivan. swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing Operetta experience preferred. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. follows. No partner needed. Mon, Send letters of interest & resumes 412-759-1569. 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace to directorsearch@pittsburgh THERESA CAPUTO. The Long Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. savoyards.org. 412-734-8476. Island Medium star will give 412-683-5670. readings to audience members & will share personal stories about POETRY IDOL. Seeking local poetry her life & unique gifts. BUILDING A BRIDGE TO submissions of 21 lines or less for 8 p.m. Heinz Hall, THE MIDDLE EAST: A Poetry Idol competition. Enter Downtown. CONVERSATION W/ online at www.freecontest.com. 412-392-4900. TOM BROKAW. Part REGENERATIONS. Seeking local TOWN HALL FORUM: of the American artists, environmentalists, historians www. per THE IMPACTS OF a p Middle East Institute & other interested parties for pghcitym HYDRAULIC .co Conference. 8 p.m. Homewood & Allegheny cemeteries FRACTURING FOR Carnegie Music Hall, tree reclamation-art project. Email NATURAL GAS ON Oakland. 412-995-0076. kennthomas2@gmail.com for info. PENNSYLVANIA. Panel discussion CHARLES ATLAS. Carnegie Mellon SILVER EYE CENTER FOR on Hydraulic Fracturing by experts School of Art Fall Lecture Series. PHOTOGRAPHY. Seeking entries & impacted community members, 5 p.m. Kresge Theater, CMU, for a global photography followed by Q&A session. Oakland. 412-279-2970. challenge, Great Pictures for Hard 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sierra Club HEALTH INNOVATION SUMMIT. Times. Submit images via Instagram Office, Oakland. 412-802-6161. Conference feat. speakers on the which illustrate how you & your WEST OAKLAND ART & FLEA current state of healthcare in the community has been impacted/ MARKET. 200 Robinson St., Middle East. 8 a.m. Fairmont responded to today’s economic & Oakland. 12-4 p.m. 412-683-1400. Pittsburgh, Downtown. 412-995-0076. political challenges. Email jzipay@ silvereye.org for information. THE BREW HOUSE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. ASSOCIATION. Seeking artists in HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly A meeting of jugglers & spinners. any visual media for The Distillery letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. 7 Residency Program. Submit 10 Panera Bread, Oakland. 412-683-3727. Union Project, Highland Park. images, current CV, participation & HISTORY & MYSTERY TOUR. 412-363-4550. collaboration statements, & artist Learn about the ghostly encounters WEST COAST SWING statement. For more information, that have been reported throughWEDNESDAYS. Swing dance email brewhouseassociation@ out the years. 6-9 p.m. Andrew lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, gmail.com. The Brew House, South Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, South Side. 916-287-1373. Side. 412-381-7767.

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What do I say to my straight 14-yearold son about porn? My sister tells me that research shows my son has been looking at porn for three years already. Am I too late? DISTRESSED ANXIOUS DAD

According to the Today show and the American Family Association and most of what pops up when you Google “kids and porn,” DAD, you’re three years late to this pants-shitting party. “The average age a child first views Internet pornography is 11,” Matt Lauer warned parents on Today seven years ago. “And those kids don’t look away.” But the alarming statistic Lauer cited — which was used to justify all sorts of proposed crackdowns on online porn — turned out to be total bullshit. Back in 2005, Seth Lubove, a writer for Forbes, traced the stat back to its source. Today got it from the Boston Globe, who got it from Family Safe Media, “a small firm in Provo, Utah, [which] is in the business of scaring parents into buying software to protect their kids from Internet smut.” Family Safe Media got it from Internet Filter Review, a website that markets content-blocking software. Internet Filter Review got it from The Drug of the New Millennium, a self-published book about the dangers of porn addiction. Lubove tracked down the self-published author, and guess what? He couldn’t recall where he got that stat. Lubove reviewed actual research done by legit social scientists and reported that most kids don’t start actively seeking out online porn until age 14. So you’re not too late, DAD. N ow, here’s what I think you should tell your son about porn: There’s a lot of it out there, some of it’s pretty fucked up, and he can get in life-derailing trouble if he gets caught watching the wrong kind, e.g., underage, kiddie, etc. You should tell your son that the sex in porn bears about as much resemblance to real-life sex as action movies bear to real-life life. And warn him that a lot of porn is made by and for guys who have no wives, no girlfriends and no hope. Many of these guys — not most, but many — are angry and resentful, and their anger and resentment is a poison that creeps into a lot of porn. If you put it in your son’s head that the poisonously misogynist is there to appeal to angry losers, your son will be less likely to internalize it — because your son doesn’t want to see himself as an angry loser, right? Finally, if your son is watching porn, he’s masturbating. Tell him to vary his routine: left hand, right hand, a little lube, a lot of lube, firm grip, loose grip. You don’t want your son to ruin himself for partnered sex by using the “death grip” — a fist clenched tighter than any human throat or pussy can clench — during solo sex. And send him to www. makelovenotporn.com for a brisk, sex-positive porn-versus-reality check.

together. It was the best sex of my life. N ew Guy wasn’t looking for anything serious, and neither was I, so we kept things very casual. After a couple months of amazing sex, my long-term boyfriend came back into the picture. All good, right? Wrong! I love him so much, but the sex just seems so dull and average compared to the volcanic sex that I was having during our time apart. Do I sacriﬁce an amazing sex life for a happy life of average sex with the man I love?

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You’re not going to be happy having safe, boring sex, right? So if things don’t improve, your relationship is doomed. So you have nothing to lose by slapping your cards down. Tell Mr. Long Term the truth: The sex has to get better. Now, Mr. Long Term could be lousy at sex, or maybe you two just don’t click sexually. But there’s a chance your problem is a relatively common hang-up. It’s possible that you, or Mr. Long Term, or you and Mr. Long Term feel inhibited during sex because you’re in love, and people who are in love are supposed to make safe, boring love. But people who aren’t in love are allowed to have wild, passionate fucks. Give Mr. Long Term permission to fuck you like he’s never going to see you again. You should fuck him the same way. Fuck each other like the stakes are low. The “lovemaking” inhibition can be literally fucked death, if it’s indeed the problem here. And then you’ll see that you can have a committed relationship, and wild, passionate sex — with the same person! But you gotta want it bad enough to fuck for it.

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I’m a straight woman in a monogamous relationship with a straight man. Last weekend, I went out with my roommate (also a straight woman, also in a committed relationship). We went to a club, took some E, and did way too many tequila shots. We stumbled home and ended up ﬁngerbanging each other. I have never had sexual feelings for my roommate, and she says she doesn’t have them for me. Do I have to tell my boyfriend? I know he would be confused and upset. It was a strange, one-time thing that I plan on never doing again.

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If it was a one-time thing, if you learned your lesson, if you’re sure it won’t happen again, if you didn’t contract anything, and if there are no fetuses gestating (which, barring a miracle, is not an issue for you), you don’t need to disclose this indiscretion. Chalk it up to the E and the tequila, change your sheets, scrub under your ﬁngernails, and spare your boyfriend the upsetting details. Gay Republicans, Dan. Why? How? CONFUSED

A while ago, I broke up with my longterm boyfriend. A few months later, I met someone new and we started sleeping

Self-loathing, that’s why. Homophobia, that’s how.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page. For artists in any genre, in fact, getting started may seem painfully impossible. And yet there can also be a delicious anticipation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesce into coherent images or words or music. Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’re facing a comparable challenge in your own chosen field. Halloween costume suggestion: a painter with a blank canvas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

As you contemplate what you want to be for Halloween, don’t consider any of the following options: a thoroughbred racehorse wearing a blindfold; a mythic centaur clanking around in iron boots; a seahorse trying to dance on dry land. For that matter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t come close to imitating any of those hapless creatures even in your non-Halloween life. It’s true that the coming days will be an excellent time to explore, analyze and deal with your limitations. But that doesn’t mean you should be overwhelmed and overcome by them. Halloween costume suggestions: Houdini, an escaped prisoner, a snake molting its skin.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“Does anyone know where I can ﬁnd dinosaur costumes for cats?” asked a Halloween shopper on Reddit.com. In the comments section, someone else said that he needed a broccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bring this up, Capricorn, because if anyone could uncover the answers to these questions, it would be you. You’ve got a magic touch when it comes to hunting down solutions to unprecedented problems. Halloween costume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaur costume.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

The Live Monarch Foundation made a video on how to fix a butterfly’s broken wing (tinyurl. com/FixWing). It ain’t easy. You need 10 items, including tweezers, talcum powder, toothpicks and glue. You’ve got to be patient and summon high levels of concentration. But it definitely can be done. The same is true about the delicate healing project you’ve thought about attempting on your own wound, Aquarius. It will require you to be ingenious, precise and tender, but I suspect you’re primed to rise to the challenge. Halloween costume suggestion: herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman or other healer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

It’s not a good time to wear Super-Control Higher-Power Spanx, or any other girdle, corset or restrictive garment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willing participant in any situation that pinches, hampers or conﬁnes you. You need to feel exceptionally expansive. In order to thrive,

you’ve got to give yourself permission to spill over, think big and wander freely. As for those people who might prefer you to keep your unruly urges in check and your natural inclinations concealed: Tell them your astrologer authorized you to seize a massive dose of slack. Halloween costume suggestions: a wild man or wild woman; a mythical bird like the Garuda or Thunderbird; the god or goddess of abundance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

In the coming days, many of your important tasks will be best accomplished through caginess and craftiness. Are you willing to work behind the scenes and beneath the surface? I suspect you will have a knack for navigating your way skillfully and luckily through mazes and their metaphorical equivalents. The mists may very well part at your command, revealing clues that no one else but you can get access to. You might also have a talent for helping people to understand elusive or difﬁcult truths. Halloween costume suggestions: spy, stage magician, ghost whisperer, exorcist.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

The coming week could have resemblances to the holiday known as Opposite Day. Things people say may have meanings that are different or even contrary to what they supposedly mean. Qualities you usually regard as liabilities might temporarily serve as assets, and strengths could seem problematical or cause confusion. You should also be wary of the possibility that the advice you get from people you trust may be misleading. For best results, make liberal use of reverse psychology, freaky logic and mirror magic. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

I don’t have a big problem with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hop-scotching among all nine. In fact, I ﬁnd your multi-level multiplicity interesting and often alluring. I take it as a sign that you are in alignment with the fundamentally paradoxical nature of life. Having said all that, however, I want to

alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel uniﬁed, steady and stable. Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

An avocado tree may produce so much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and ﬂuidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

I hope your father didn’t beat you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t ignore you or withhold his best energy from you. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are. But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing. Halloween costume suggestion: your father.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Do you know how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions? Are you good at distinguishing between mediocre gossip that’s only 10 percent accurate and reliable rumors that provide you with the real inside dope? I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in these tasks. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expectations and theories? Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a superhero with X-ray vision, a lab scientist.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

I am ofﬁcially protesting you, Libra. I am staging a walkout and mounting a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you agree to my demand. And yes, I have just one demand: that you take better care of the neglected, disempowered, and underprivileged parts of your life. Not a year from now; not when you have more leisure time; NOW! If and when you do this, I predict the arrival of a ﬂood of personal inspiration. Halloween costume suggestion: a symbolic representation of a neglected, disempowered or underprivileged part of your life. Exhausted by the ceaseless barrage of depressing stories you absorb from the news media? Here’s an antidote: http://PronoiaResources.com.

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Obama “documentary” tells you everything you need to know … about Republicans {BY CHRIS POTTER} IF YOU’RE A Democrat in Western Pennsylvania, this has been a tough

autumn. In Congressional races, Pittsburghers are being asked to vote for a slate of pro-life Democrats, some of whom barely seem alive themselves. (I’m looking at you, Bob Casey.) And for all of his successes — advancing the LGBT agenda, stabilizing a still-weak economy, that whole killing bin Laden thing — President Obama can be frustrating too. There was that ﬁrst debate performance. His feckless response to global climate change. His decision to ignore single-payer health-care proposals. Our Republican neighbors, meanwhile, seem newly energized. Polls are tightening, and while they may not know what they’re voting for — how could they, given a presidential nominee whose political positions change almost hourly? — they know what they’re voting against. Namely, that socialist in the White House, and the America-haters who put him there. So if you’re struggling for motivation this November, take a page from their book. Don’t think of this as a vote for President Obama. Think of it as a vote against a mindset that has given us Rush Limbaugh, the collected works of Ann Coulter … and more recently, the major motion picture 2016: Obama’s America. If you missed 2016 in theaters, don’t despair: It’s out on DVD. (Armstrong Utilities, a local cable provider whose executives include big Republican donors, is also offering it for free through its on-demand channel. Long live the liberal media!)

returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British. Yes, I’m telling you! But it turns out the bust had merely been on loan … and the White House has another copy of it still on display. In fact, the film disproves its own thesis within the first 15 minutes. While showing how Obama has let us all down, the film quotes some Occupy Wall Street protesters. “He’s betrayed virtually everything that I got the impression he was going to do,” says one demonstrator, while behind him a comrade holds a sign reading “Will work 4 revolution.” But wait! If Obama was a closet Marxist anticolonialist, wouldn’t he at least be popular with anonymous revolutionaries? Well, see, “We haven’t seen the real Obama,” D’Souza insists. But if he gets a second term, he’ll use “debt as a weapon of mass destruction” to destroy us! He’ll enable the creation of a United States of Islam! With that, D’Souza joins a fear campaign led by groups like the NRA, which argues that although Obama has done jack-shit on gun control, the jack boots will come out if he’s re-elected. You can see why the GOP faithful eat this stuff up: They’re used to jumping at phantoms. This is a party that is outraged by false information surrounding the deaths of four Americans in Libya … but scarcely stirs when false information sends four thousand Americans to die in Iraq. It’s a party that warns of the federal debt we’re leaving our children … but gives no thought to an environmental in-

YOU CAN SEE WHY THE GOP FAITHFUL EAT THIS STUFF UP: THEY’RE USED TO JUMPING AT PHANTOMS. Based on a book by narrator Dinesh D’Souza, 2016 argues that Obama has inherited the anti-colonial aspirations of his Kenyan-born father. While Barack Sr. was almost entirely absent during Obama’s childhood, D’Souza maintains, his son idolized his revolutionary values. What’s more, D’Souza adds, Obama attached himself to surrogate fathers like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright — all the America-hating names you remember from the conspiracy theories of 2008. (Funnily enough, another ﬁlm making the rounds at Tea Party screenings, Dreams From My Real Father, asserts that Obama’s biological dad was actually a Communist named Frank Marshall Davis, and Obama was inspired by him. Details, details. The point is: Somebody was Obama’s father. And whoever it was, he hated your freedoms.) D’Souza makes his case with lots of armchair philosophy — by undermining America, he surmises, “perhaps [Obama] can become worthy of his father’s love”— and some serious logical leaps. Exhibit A in the indictment, for example, is the fact that Obama

heritance of rising temperatures and sea levels. More importantly, it’s a party that doesn’t even recognize those contradictions: Polls suggest that most Republicans today believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but don’t believe humans are responsible for climate change. Films like 2016 — like books published by Regnery, or news broadcasts on Fox — don’t tell you much about Democrats. But they do put GOP paranoia on display. Within that mindset, what matters isn’t so much depicting Obama as exotic and un-American. What matters is depicting the rest of us that way. Republicans are the Dallas Cowboys of politics — they’ve anointed themselves America’s Team, and decided the rest of us aren’t on it. So they’re turning the entire national debate into an online comment thread — a place to troll those they disagree with, using whatever insult or spurious “fact” comes to hand. So if, on Election Day, you ﬁnd it hard to remember why you’re voting … vote against that. C P OT T E R@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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