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BEAM - Upcoming Shows· new [Oct 8th 2003] - QUANTUM THEATRE - Upcoming Production - "Closer"
· new [Oct 7th 2003] - THE OAKS THEATER - Slight Schedule Change
· new [Oct 7th 2003] - SNAPS & TAPS (Columbus, OH) - Upcoming nights
· new [Oct 6th 2003] - SOMA MESTIZO - Updates and Upcoming Shows
· new [Oct 6th 2003] -
CITY THEATRE - Upcoming Production - "Lovely Day"· new [Oct 6th 2003] -
BOBBIE TOWNSEND - Singer/Songwriter Available· new [Oct 5th 2003] - THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM - JFK Assassination 40th Anniversary Exhibition
· new [Oct 5th 2003] - THE NEW YINZER - Pros Only Returns!
· [Oct 1st 2003] - FLUX - Mt.Oliver/Allentown is in FLUX
· [Oct 1st 2003] - MAMARAMA - Updates
· [Oct 1st 2003] - 7th MOVEMENT - New ethiopian restaurant + other updates
· [Sept 30th 2003] - UPCOMING MUSIC FESTIVAL - Bridge to Independence Benefit
· [Sept 30th 2003] - CLOH.org - Updates + Upcoming meeting info Re: Public Education
· [Sept 30th 2003] - GREATER PITTSBURGH ART ALLIANCE - News Briefs
· [Sept 29th 2003] - WAMO + NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER - Reminder: Oct 6th is Voter Registration deadline
· [Sept 29th 2003] - THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM - Upcoming November Events
· [Sept 29th 2003] - STEEL VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL - Upcoming Exhibit
· [Sept 29th 2003] - PGH DEEP HOUSE - Updates
· [Sept 29th 2003] - ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH - Workshop on Career Paths in the Arts
· [Sept 28th 2003] - KHAFIF MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE - Updates
· [Sept 27th 2003] - NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER - Updates
· [Sept 25th 2003] - SKINNY BUILDING - Ongoing Exhibition
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Thurs Oct 9th
Thurs Oct 9th - 2003 CMU International Festival
FREE | afternoon-evening @ Carnegie Mellon University Forbes Ave [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2075 or www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/StudentActivities/InternationalFestival/index.htm
From Thursday, October 9 through Saturday, October 11, 2003, Carnegie Mellon’s University Center will be transformed into a world of exploration and the workshops, lectures, discussions and performances will be your passport. With non-stop activity scheduled throughout the International Festival, we hope that all members of the community will explore a cultural cross-section of worldly issues. The International Festival planning committee, comprised of students, faculty, staff and community members, is excited to present a festival filled with exciting programs and events intended to explore the world through the arts and literature. For more info and schedule of events, click to http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/StudentActivities/InternationalFestival/index.htmThurs Oct 9th - FILM: Madam Sata
$5 | 7:30pm @ The Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
In a Bohemian neighborhood, circa 1932, Joao Francisco is a lean, fiery-eyed street fighter and prostitute who transforms himself into “Madame Sata,” a glittering transvestite singer, storyteller and Brazilian version of his idol, Josephine Baker. Based on the real Francisco (born in 1900 and sold as a slave by his mother at age 7) the film is a voluptuous, hot-blooded portrait of a social outcast. Told mostly in flashback, this story of a dazzling and unorthodox cabaret star also delves deep into the soul of Rio de Janeiro’s underworld. In Portuguese with subtitles. (Directed by Karim Ainouz; Brazil; 2003; 105 min)Thurs Oct 9th - THEATER: 4.48 Psychosis
Call for Tickets | 7:30pm @ Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon Campus. Forbes Ave [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2407
Directed by Renée Blinkwolt.Thurs Oct 9th - Berlin International Pr-Def Poetry Jam Slam
$5 enterance fee | 8pm @ Dowes on Ninth 9th st by Penn in the cultural district [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-628-2148 or 412-281-9255
This will be a fun filled but intense spoken word night and competition to see who will perform at the real Def-Jam Comedy show next week at the Rosebud.Thurs Oct 9th - Havana Thursdays.
FREE | 10pm @ Club Havana 5744 Ellsworth Ave [ Shadyside ]. Info: 412-661-2025
The night brings out the hippest and sexiest as some of the city's best DJs throw down Jazzy vibes of Deep House and Soulful grooves of Techno. $2 Yuenglings. $3 mix drinks. w/ resident DJ DC Space. Hosted by Jason C.
Fri Oct 10th
Fri Oct 10th - 2003 CMU International Festival
FREE | afternoon-evening @ Carnegie Mellon University Forbes Ave [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2075 or www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/StudentActivities/InternationalFestival/index.htm
From Thursday, October 9 through Saturday, October 11, 2003, Carnegie Mellon’s University Center will be transformed into a world of exploration and the workshops, lectures, discussions and performances will be your passport. With non-stop activity scheduled throughout the International Festival, we hope that all members of the community will explore a cultural cross-section of worldly issues. The International Festival planning committee, comprised of students, faculty, staff and community members, is excited to present a festival filled with exciting programs and events intended to explore the world through the arts and literature. For more info and schedule of events, click to http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/StudentActivities/InternationalFestival/index.htmFri Oct 10th - Homestead Sidewalk Art Carts Project
Free to attend | $40 fee to rent a booth | noon-4pm @ E.8th Ave in Homestead [ Homestead ]. Info: 412-461-4904 or steelvalleyartscouncil@adelphia.net or www.steelvalleyarts.org
For this venue artists who create their own product are defined but not limited to the following categories: photographer, painter, sculptor, ceramist, candle maker, etc. An artist may participate according to his/her wishes (one or more days). The eight wooden carts are approximately 60x36 and have an awning, display well and lower shelf. The carts will each be a bright color and will be placed along East Eighth Avenue at West, Amity, Ann and McClure Streets. SVAC is asking artists to be available either Friday or Saturday or both through October. The price of each cart shall be $40 in cash, payable immediately. Upon completion of the day, $30 will be refunded. Vendor may decorate cart. Vending permits are the responsibility of SVAC. Availability of a cart will be based on a first-come, first-served basis. Assignment of location will be decided by SVAC. Longer hours may be arranged if desired or an Art Cart(s) may be reserved for rental for other venues under a different arrangement, if available.Fri Oct 10th - FILM: Wattstax - 30th anniversary edition
$5 | 7:30 pm @ The Oaks Theater 310 Allegheny River Blvd [ Oakmont ]. Info: 412-828-3611 or www.theoakstheater.com
Wattstax the concert and Wattstax the film were unprecedented events for the Los Angeles African-American community and a source of great pride. In the weeks surrounding the filming of the concert, the predominately African-American film crews took to the streets, recording candid interviews with local African-Americans and capturing a unique, unvarnished view of the Watts community. The crew also filmed then little known comic Richard Pryor's biting insights on the black experience which frame the entire Wattstax movie. The mise-en-scene of Wattstax is all undiluted summer of '72 funk, jive and soul as expressed in and around the streets of Watts. Interspersed throughout Wattstax - The Special Edition are the dynamic fashion, knowing humor, indomitable courage, uncanny insight, and undeniable style of Black Los Angeles. From conception to realization, Stax Records was the driving force behind staging the Wattstax concert in conjucntion with The Watts Summer Festival. They had the foresight and vision to commission a documentary of not just the concert, amazing as it was, but of African-American life in and around Watts as well.Fri Oct 10th - THEATER: 4.48 Psychosis
Call for Tickets | 3:30 and 8pm @ Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon Campus. Forbes Ave [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2407
Directed by Renée Blinkwolt.Fri Oct 10th - ART opening: Works of Bill Schott and Tom Weinrich.
FREE | 7-9pm @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Art. 5200 Forbes Ave [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2081
Works of Bill Schott and Tom Weinrich.Fri Oct 10th - DANCE PERFORMANCE: Noche Flamenco
Call for tickets | 8:00pm @ The Byham Theater 101 Sixth St [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-456-6666 or www.pgharts.org/venues/byham.cfm
Intricate footwork, rapid-fire turns, elegant arm movements and piercing eyes create the emotional tempest that distinguishes Noche Flamenca. Two passionate Gypsy singers force the flamenco-possessed men and women to dance faster, harder, longer. Other performers clap and shout their encouragement as the stage erupts into “a Soul-Stirring Tour-de-Force of Theater” (The New York Times). Born of passion and precision, Noche Flamenca was founded in Madrid in 1993 by artistic director Martin Santangelo and his wife Soledad Barrio. Now one of Spain’s most successful flamenco companies, Noche Flamenca insists on the communal ambience that lies at the heart and soul of flamenco, preserving the essence, purity and integrity of one of the most complicated and mysterious of all art forms.Fri Oct 10th - FILM: The Legend of Suriyothai
$5 | 7:30pm @ The Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
A story of intrigue, romance and war based on actual events in Thailand’s 16th century, this was an audience favorite at Sundance. With a lush visual grandeur worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, the story unfolds as the country’s peace and prosperity is threatened by civil war. A beautiful young princess named Suriyothai must choose between marrying her true love, a gallant young warrior, or agreeing to an arranged marriage set up by the two most powerful families in the country. Palace intrigue, loyalty, lust, deception, assassinations, and bare-breasted amazon fighters – this incredible film has it all. In Thai with subtitles. (Directed by Chatri Chalerm Yukol; Thailand; 2003; 142 min)Fri Oct 10th - Good Fridays: LIVE - Peaches with Gil Mantera's Party Dream
$10 | 7 pm @ The Andy Warhol Museum 117 Sandusky Rd [ Northside ]. Info: 412.237.8300 or www.warhol.org
Canadian-born Peaches (Merrill Nisker), makes, mixes and mutilates her own music with a sexually charged electro sound and DIY punk attitude. The result is a throbbing union of one machine and one woman’s libido. Peaches will be performing with support from Electrocute, an electro-garage girl duo from Berlin. Also performing will be Xbxrx and Columbus, Ohio duo, Gil Mantera’s Party Dream.Fri Oct 10th - LIVE: Andy Milne & Dapp Theory
$8 | 10pm-2am @ The Shadow Lounge 5972 Baum Blvd [ East Liberty ]. Info: 412-363-8277 or seventhmovement@yahoo.com or www.7thmovement.net
Dapp Theory strives to link the essence of jazz with hip-hop and other forms of musical expression. It’s not about playing in any particular style but about connecting to the sensibilities found within the band’s collective musical background…Deeply inspired by the masters of many musics, we strive to create our own music which emulates them only in their inventive spirit. element 5 highly recommended!Fri Oct 10th - LIVE: The Pat Metheny Trio
@ Manchester Craftsmen's Guild 1815 Metropolitan Street [ Northshore ]. 412-322-1733 or www.mcgjazz.org
Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to re-define the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. Metheny's versatility is almost nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie. He has been part of a writing team with keyboardist Lyle Mays for more than twenty years - an association that has been compared to the Lennon/McCartney and Ellington/Strayhorn partnerships by critics and listeners alike. Metheny’s body of work includes compositions for solo guitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, and ballet pieces, with settings ranging from modern jazz to rock to classical. Over the years, Metheny has won countless polls as “Best Jazz Guitarist” and awards, including three gold records for (Still Life) Tal king, Letter from Home, and Secret Story. He has also won fifteen Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, Best Instrumental Composition. The Pat Metheny Group won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums.Fri Oct 10th - LIVE: OPEK
$7 | 11pm-2am @ Club Cafe 56-58 S. 12th st near Carson [ Southside ]. Info: 412-431-9453 or www.clubcafelive.com
Space is the place for this black jazz solar oddessy. Following in the footsteps of a great legend, OPEK take a place of their own. A talented ensemble of veteran jazz musicians play reinteretations of Sun Ra as well as their own with a few inspirations from Charles Mingus and Thelonius Monk. What is OPEK? OPEK is a jazz band, but perhaps more... Swing, funk, and space jam elements all bubble up to the surface. OPEK specializes in the music of the late visionary composer Sun Ra, as well playing new, original works. There's a party atmosphere that the band seems to generate, perhaps because the musicians themselves are enjoying themselves. OPEK performances are interesting, unpredictable, and most of all, fun!Fri Oct 10th - LIVE: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic
9pm @ Mr. Small's Theater 40 Riverfront Dr. [ Millvale ]. Info: 412-821-8388 or www.mrsmalls.com or www.georgeclinton.com
You wanted the funk? Well, funk you. The legendary frontman from Parliament / Funkadelic makes a grand return to the city of bridges. Be sure to get funked up. Be prepare to give up the funk and funk it all out. Over and funk, maggot brain!Fri Oct 10th - SAUCE!
FREE | 10pm @ Ray's Marlin Beach Grill & Lounge 5121 Butler Street [ Lawrenceville ]. Info: www.milkrecords.net/sauce
Check out one of the funkiest, hip shaking nights to hit the city in a while. Soulful. Funky. Warm vibes all around. w/ element 5 favorite DJ Ed Umm. Hosted by Christina & Kelly from Milk Records. FREE! Good Food + Drinks!Fri Oct 10th - Funk, Soul & Rare grooves
FREE | 10pm @ Club Havana 5744 Ellsworth Ave [ Shadyside ]. Info: 412-661-2025
With element 5 DJ Selecta with guest DJs spinning a wide variety of groovy soulful music.
Sat Oct 11th
Sat Oct 11th - 2003 CMU International Festival
FREE | afternoon-evening @ Carnegie Mellon University Forbes Ave [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2075 or www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/StudentActivities/InternationalFestival/index.htm
From Thursday, October 9 through Saturday, October 11, 2003, Carnegie Mellon’s University Center will be transformed into a world of exploration and the workshops, lectures, discussions and performances will be your passport. With non-stop activity scheduled throughout the International Festival, we hope that all members of the community will explore a cultural cross-section of worldly issues. The International Festival planning committee, comprised of students, faculty, staff and community members, is excited to present a festival filled with exciting programs and events intended to explore the world through the arts and literature. For more info and schedule of events, click to http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/StudentActivities/InternationalFestival/index.htmSat Oct 11th - Soma Mestizo: Live at the CMU International Festival
FREE | afternoon-evening @ Carnegie Mellon University Forbes Ave [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2075 or www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/StudentActivities/InternationalFestival/index.htmSat Oct 11th - Classical Music Concert: Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble
3pm @ Carnegie Music Hall Forbes Ave[ Oakland ]. Ticket info: 412-268-2383.
Denis Colwell, conductor.Sat Oct 11th - Homestead Sidewalk Art Carts Project
Free to attend | $40 fee to rent a booth | noon-4pm @ E.8th Ave in Homestead [ Homestead ]. Info: 412-461-4904 or steelvalleyartscouncil@adelphia.net or www.steelvalleyarts.org
For this venue artists who create their own product are defined but not limited to the following categories: photographer, painter, sculptor, ceramist, candle maker, etc. An artist may participate according to his/her wishes (one or more days). The eight wooden carts are approximately 60x36 and have an awning, display well and lower shelf. The carts will each be a bright color and will be placed along East Eighth Avenue at West, Amity, Ann and McClure Streets. SVAC is asking artists to be available either Friday or Saturday or both through October. The price of each cart shall be $40 in cash, payable immediately. Upon completion of the day, $30 will be refunded. Vendor may decorate cart. Vending permits are the responsibility of SVAC. Availability of a cart will be based on a first-come, first-served basis. Assignment of location will be decided by SVAC. Longer hours may be arranged if desired or an Art Cart(s) may be reserved for rental for other venues under a different arrangement, if available.Sat Oct 11th - DANCE PERFORMANCE: Shatarupa - The Splendorous Myths and Divinities of India w/ Sreyashi Dey + Guru Manorajan Pradhan w/ the Odissi Dance Troupe from India.
$8/$10 | 5:00pm @ The Kelly Strayhorn Theater 5941 Penn Ave [ East Liberty ]. Info: 412-363-3000 or www.kelly-strayhorn.org or www.srishtidances.org
This performance will showcase the rich classical traditions of classical Indian dance in the Odissi style performed by well-known artists from India and Pittsburgh. Srishti Artistic Director Sreyashi Dey will be joined by Guru Manoranjan Pradhan and an Odissi troupe from Bhubaneswar, India for the performance in Pittsburgh as well as touring in several other cities in the US. The performance will visually capture the many splendoured mythology of India, the many Gods and Goddesses and their wondrous legends. The traditional choreographies by the legendary Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and other renowned Gurus such as Gangadhar Pradhan and Pankaj Charan Das, restaged in ensemble formats, will capture the grace and beauty of the Odissi style. The first part of the program will feature traditional pieces such as: • Shiva Panchaka Mangalacharan (invocation to Lord Shiva) • Bilahari Pallavi (rhythmic piece based on Raga Bilahari) • Naba Durga (on the nine forms of the Goddess Durga) • Ashtapadi (depicting love stories of Lord Krishna and Radha, from the Sanskrit classic Geeta Govindam) • Mokshya (dance symbolizing the ultimate release or liberation). The second part of the program will feature a Dance Drama, Kanchi Abhijan, based on a myth surrounding Lord Jagannath, the presiding deity of Orissa, the land of Odissi dance. India has had a strong tradition of dance dramas since ancient times. While many of the dance dramas are in various regional folk styles, classical dance dramas use highly evolved technical vocabulary of classical dance and music, combined with traditions of dramatic story-telling to create enduring works of classic choreography. In keeping with Srishti's presentation style, the performance will be accessible to all audiences irrespective of age or ethnicity, augmented by English narration to explain the nuances of the choreographies to the audience.
Sat Oct 11th - FILM: Wattstax - 30th anniversary edition
$5 | 7:30 pm @ The Oaks Theater 310 Allegheny River Blvd [ Oakmont ]. Info: 412-828-3611 or www.theoakstheater.com
Wattstax the concert and Wattstax the film were unprecedented events for the Los Angeles African-American community and a source of great pride. In the weeks surrounding the filming of the concert, the predominately African-American film crews took to the streets, recording candid interviews with local African-Americans and capturing a unique, unvarnished view of the Watts community. The crew also filmed then little known comic Richard Pryor's biting insights on the black experience which frame the entire Wattstax movie. The mise-en-scene of Wattstax is all undiluted summer of '72 funk, jive and soul as expressed in and around the streets of Watts. Interspersed throughout Wattstax - The Special Edition are the dynamic fashion, knowing humor, indomitable courage, uncanny insight, and undeniable style of Black Los Angeles. From conception to realization, Stax Records was the driving force behind staging the Wattstax concert in conjucntion with The Watts Summer Festival. They had the foresight and vision to commission a documentary of not just the concert, amazing as it was, but of African-American life in and around Watts as well.Sat Oct 11th - DANCE PERFORMANCE: Noche Flamenco
Call for tickets | 8:00pm @ The Byham Theater 101 Sixth St [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-456-6666 or www.pgharts.org/venues/byham.cfm
Intricate footwork, rapid-fire turns, elegant arm movements and piercing eyes create the emotional tempest that distinguishes Noche Flamenca. Two passionate Gypsy singers force the flamenco-possessed men and women to dance faster, harder, longer. Other performers clap and shout their encouragement as the stage erupts into “a Soul-Stirring Tour-de-Force of Theater” (The New York Times). Born of passion and precision, Noche Flamenca was founded in Madrid in 1993 by artistic director Martin Santangelo and his wife Soledad Barrio. Now one of Spain’s most successful flamenco companies, Noche Flamenca insists on the communal ambience that lies at the heart and soul of flamenco, preserving the essence, purity and integrity of one of the most complicated and mysterious of all art forms.Sat Oct 11th - FILM: The Legend of Suriyothai
$5 | 7:30pm @ The Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
A story of intrigue, romance and war based on actual events in Thailand’s 16th century, this was an audience favorite at Sundance. With a lush visual grandeur worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, the story unfolds as the country’s peace and prosperity is threatened by civil war. A beautiful young princess named Suriyothai must choose between marrying her true love, a gallant young warrior, or agreeing to an arranged marriage set up by the two most powerful families in the country. Palace intrigue, loyalty, lust, deception, assassinations, and bare-breasted amazon fighters – this incredible film has it all. In Thai with subtitles. (Directed by Chatri Chalerm Yukol; Thailand; 2003; 142 min)Sat Oct 11th - LIVE: Spearhead
9pm @ Mr. Small's Theater 40 Riverfront Dr. [ Millvale ]. Info: 412-821-8388 or www.mrsmalls.com or www.spearheadvibrations.com
Michael Franti's Spearhead is a rare hip-hop bird. Where other rappers spew chest-thumping misogyny and gangsta boasts, Spearhead makes articulate social arguments while trading melodies with singer Mary Harris. While DJs borrow, sample and loop their beats, Franti leads his kick-ass live band on a groove tour through the history of funk. Franti's musical adventurism got its start in the late '80s with San Francisco's Beatnigs, an angry punk riot of rhythm and politics. His next group, the critically-lauded Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprosy (Franti with percussionist Rono Tse), sounded something like a cross between the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. They created sharp and dizzying sound collages to match the impressive scope (international events, history, social disease) of his politically conscious, though occasionally overzealous, rhymes. Though 1992's Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury" had several tracks that matched the intensity of the single, "Television, The Drug Of The Nation," Franti put the Heroes on extended vacation after just one CD. He named his new project Spearhead, after the chief of the Zulu Tribe. With Spearhead, Franti moved away from confrontational polemics and started marrying his social calls-to-action in party-time bombs and stretched-out funk jams. This new balance of brain-expansion and booty-bumping fuels Spearhead's bristling 1994 debut, Home. The CD's focus on HIV is carried home by a live, pan-style (i.e., all things are possible) groove-machine band. Spearhead had a hit in 1995 with "Hole In The Bucket," a sly rewrite of a Jamaican folk song. In 1997, the 15 tracks of Chocolate Supa Highway showed off the band's increasing rhythmic diversity while targeting inhumane prisons as Franti's latest cause.Sat Oct 11th - LIVE: Technoir-Audio
10pm-2am | Ask Venue @ Tango's 20 E.Robinson St across from the Warhol Museum [ Northside ].
These talented performers and DJs are at the core of element 5 parties including Momentum and Shadow Lounge. Tonight, check out their one-of-a-kind live show. Bring your dancing shoes.Sat Oct 11th - LIVE: The Pat Metheny Trio
@ Manchester Craftsmen's Guild 1815 Metropolitan Street [ Northshore ]. 412-322-1733 or www.mcgjazz.org
Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to re-define the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. Metheny's versatility is almost nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie. He has been part of a writing team with keyboardist Lyle Mays for more than twenty years - an association that has been compared to the Lennon/McCartney and Ellington/Strayhorn partnerships by critics and listeners alike. Metheny’s body of work includes compositions for solo guitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, and ballet pieces, with settings ranging from modern jazz to rock to classical. Over the years, Metheny has won countless polls as “Best Jazz Guitarist” and awards, including three gold records for (Still Life) Tal king, Letter from Home, and Secret Story. He has also won fifteen Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, Best Instrumental Composition. The Pat Metheny Group won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums.Sat Oct 11th - Jazz in the House
FREE | 10pm @ Club Havana 5744 Ellsworth Ave [ Shadyside ]. Info: 412-661-2025
Let your resident DC space take you on a jazz oddessy in nu dance music and deep house.Sat Oct 11th - Salsa
$7 | 10pm-2am @ Cozumel 5505 Walnut St [ Shadyside ]. Info: http://cityguides.salsaweb.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh/
Shake your hips to the sounds of Tropa OrchestralSat Oct 11th - CRASH!
$5 | 10pm-2am @ The Shadow Lounge 5972 Baum Blvd [ East Liberty ]. Info: 412-363-8277 or seventhmovement@yahoo.com or www.7thmovement.net
The ever popular afterhours featuring free waffle buffet with all the fixings Waffles made fresh on the spot by the one and only DJ SMI, spinning some straight up soulful and downtempo. BYOB. FREE BELGIAN WAFFLES.
Sun Oct 12th
Sun Oct 12th - FILM: The Legend of Suriyothai
$5 | 3:00pm @ The Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
A story of intrigue, romance and war based on actual events in Thailand’s 16th century, this was an audience favorite at Sundance. With a lush visual grandeur worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, the story unfolds as the country’s peace and prosperity is threatened by civil war. A beautiful young princess named Suriyothai must choose between marrying her true love, a gallant young warrior, or agreeing to an arranged marriage set up by the two most powerful families in the country. Palace intrigue, loyalty, lust, deception, assassinations, and bare-breasted amazon fighters – this incredible film has it all. In Thai with subtitles. (Directed by Chatri Chalerm Yukol; Thailand; 2003; 142 min)Sun Oct 12th - DANCE PERFORMANCE: Shatarupa - The Splendorous Myths and Divinities of India w/ Sreyashi Dey + Guru Manorajan Pradhan w/ the Odissi Dance Troupe from India.
$8/$10 | 3:00pm @ The Kelly Strayhorn Theater 5941 Penn Ave [ East Liberty ]. Info: 412-363-3000 or www.kelly-strayhorn.org or www.srishtidances.org
This performance will showcase the rich classical traditions of classical Indian dance in the Odissi style performed by well-known artists from India and Pittsburgh. Srishti Artistic Director Sreyashi Dey will be joined by Guru Manoranjan Pradhan and an Odissi troupe from Bhubaneswar, India for the performance in Pittsburgh as well as touring in several other cities in the US. The performance will visually capture the many splendoured mythology of India, the many Gods and Goddesses and their wondrous legends. The traditional choreographies by the legendary Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and other renowned Gurus such as Gangadhar Pradhan and Pankaj Charan Das, restaged in ensemble formats, will capture the grace and beauty of the Odissi style. The first part of the program will feature traditional pieces such as: • Shiva Panchaka Mangalacharan (invocation to Lord Shiva) • Bilahari Pallavi (rhythmic piece based on Raga Bilahari) • Naba Durga (on the nine forms of the Goddess Durga) • Ashtapadi (depicting love stories of Lord Krishna and Radha, from the Sanskrit classic Geeta Govindam) • Mokshya (dance symbolizing the ultimate release or liberation). The second part of the program will feature a Dance Drama, Kanchi Abhijan, based on a myth surrounding Lord Jagannath, the presiding deity of Orissa, the land of Odissi dance. India has had a strong tradition of dance dramas since ancient times. While many of the dance dramas are in various regional folk styles, classical dance dramas use highly evolved technical vocabulary of classical dance and music, combined with traditions of dramatic story-telling to create enduring works of classic choreography. In keeping with Srishti's presentation style, the performance will be accessible to all audiences irrespective of age or ethnicity, augmented by English narration to explain the nuances of the choreographies to the audience.Sun Oct 12th - FILM: Wattstax - 30th anniversary edition
$5 | 7:30 pm @ The Oaks Theater 310 Allegheny River Blvd [ Oakmont ]. Info: 412-828-3611 or www.theoakstheater.com
Wattstax the concert and Wattstax the film were unprecedented events for the Los Angeles African-American community and a source of great pride. In the weeks surrounding the filming of the concert, the predominately African-American film crews took to the streets, recording candid interviews with local African-Americans and capturing a unique, unvarnished view of the Watts community. The crew also filmed then little known comic Richard Pryor's biting insights on the black experience which frame the entire Wattstax movie. The mise-en-scene of Wattstax is all undiluted summer of '72 funk, jive and soul as expressed in and around the streets of Watts. Interspersed throughout Wattstax - The Special Edition are the dynamic fashion, knowing humor, indomitable courage, uncanny insight, and undeniable style of Black Los Angeles. From conception to realization, Stax Records was the driving force behind staging the Wattstax concert in conjucntion with The Watts Summer Festival. They had the foresight and vision to commission a documentary of not just the concert, amazing as it was, but of African-American life in and around Watts as well.Sun Oct 12th - Jazz Concert: Carnegie Mellon Jazz Ensemble
FREE | 3pm @ Kresge Recital Hall, Carnegie Mellon campus Forbes Ave[ Oakland ]. Info: 412-268-2383.
David Pellow, jazz director.Sun Oct 12th - LIVE: The Pat Metheny Trio
@ Manchester Craftsmen's Guild 1815 Metropolitan Street [ Northshore ]. 412-322-1733 or www.mcgjazz.org
Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to re-define the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. Metheny's versatility is almost nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie. He has been part of a writing team with keyboardist Lyle Mays for more than twenty years - an association that has been compared to the Lennon/McCartney and Ellington/Strayhorn partnerships by critics and listeners alike. Metheny’s body of work includes compositions for solo guitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, and ballet pieces, with settings ranging from modern jazz to rock to classical. Over the years, Metheny has won countless polls as “Best Jazz Guitarist” and awards, including three gold records for (Still Life) Tal king, Letter from Home, and Secret Story. He has also won fifteen Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, Best Instrumental Composition. The Pat Metheny Group won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums.Sun Oct 12th - The Spoken Word Mic
8pm-1am | $6 @ The Quiet Storm 5430 Penn Ave [ Friendship / Garfield ]. Info: 412-661-9355 or gigs@quietstormcoffee.com or www.quietstormcoffee.com
Back by popular demand (and element 5 recommended). This is one of the city's premier spoken word nights. Hosted by KL CO-hosted by the beautiful...Nailah!Sun Oct 12th - Bros. Peck Jazz Satellite
$3 | 10pm-1am @ The Shadow Lounge 5972 Baum Blvd [ East Liberty ]. Info: 412-363-8277 or seventhmovement@yahoo.com or www.7thmovement.net
Live Jazz. Good Coffee. ‘nuff said.Sun Oct 12th - THE ALL STAR GAME
$2 | 10pm-2am @ Pub. I.G. 328 Atwood St [ Oakland ]. Info: 412-682-1900
Every Sunday but currently closed for renovations. This night brings out the best of the best DJs spinning deep house, old soul, disco, afro beat and anything else with a vibe. An element 5 favorite! Drink special: 1/2 off all Martins until midnight.Sun Oct 12th - Salsa
$3 | 9pm @ Club Havana 5744 Ellsworth Ave [ Shadyside ]. Info: 412-661-2025
Salsa Lessons & DJs spinning salsa music.
Mon Oct 13th
Mon Oct 13th - LIVE: Scene Creamers w/ Johnsons Big Band
8:00 pm @ The Rex Theatre 1602 E. Carson St [ South Side ]. Info: 412-381-6811 or www.rextheatre.com
Revolt against mainstream notions of music with indie-rockers Scene Creamers. In the tradition of the legendary Nation of Ulyses comes this latest Ian Svenonius project. With element 5 favorites Johnsons Big Band.Mon Oct 13th - LIVE: Drums & Tuba
8pm | $6 @ The Quiet Storm 5430 Penn Ave [ Friendship / Garfield ]. Info: 412-661-9355 or gigs@quietstormcoffee.com or www.quietstormcoffee.com
An ecclectic live medly of rock, punk, and jazz. Featuring drums, a guitar, and a tuba with lots of effects pedels.Mon Oct 13th - FILM: Wattstax - 30th anniversary edition + Discussion after with 1970s Stax recording engineer Harold Taylor
$5 | 7:30 pm @ The Oaks Theater 310 Allegheny River Blvd [ Oakmont ]. Info: 412-828-3611 or www.theoakstheater.com
Wattstax the concert and Wattstax the film were unprecedented events for the Los Angeles African-American community and a source of great pride. In the weeks surrounding the filming of the concert, the predominately African-American film crews took to the streets, recording candid interviews with local African-Americans and capturing a unique, unvarnished view of the Watts community. The crew also filmed then little known comic Richard Pryor's biting insights on the black experience which frame the entire Wattstax movie. The mise-en-scene of Wattstax is all undiluted summer of '72 funk, jive and soul as expressed in and around the streets of Watts. Interspersed throughout Wattstax - The Special Edition are the dynamic fashion, knowing humor, indomitable courage, uncanny insight, and undeniable style of Black Los Angeles. From conception to realization, Stax Records was the driving force behind staging the Wattstax concert in conjucntion with The Watts Summer Festival. They had the foresight and vision to commission a documentary of not just the concert, amazing as it was, but of African-American life in and around Watts as well. A discussion led by Harold Taylor, former recording engineer at Stax during the 1970s, will follow the movie.Mon Oct 13th - FILM: The Legend of Suriyothai
$5 | 7:30pm @ The Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
A story of intrigue, romance and war based on actual events in Thailand’s 16th century, this was an audience favorite at Sundance. With a lush visual grandeur worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, the story unfolds as the country’s peace and prosperity is threatened by civil war. A beautiful young princess named Suriyothai must choose between marrying her true love, a gallant young warrior, or agreeing to an arranged marriage set up by the two most powerful families in the country. Palace intrigue, loyalty, lust, deception, assassinations, and bare-breasted amazon fighters – this incredible film has it all. In Thai with subtitles. (Directed by Chatri Chalerm Yukol; Thailand; 2003; 142 min)Mon Oct 13th - Revolve
Free | 10pm-2am @ Zythos. 2108 E.Carson St. [ South Side ]. Info: 412.481.2234
w/ Resident DJs Kerem & Kaleo..
Tues Oct 14th
Tues Oct 14th - GSFA Presents Flamenco, Classical, Bluegrass and Jazz music at The Guitar & Live Music Showcase
$5-$14 | 6-9pm @ Club Cafe 56-58 S. 12th st near Carson [ Southside ]. Info: 412-431-9453 or www.clubcafelive.com
The October 14th program will showcase a Washington DC' flamenco troupe "Flamencos en el Aire" with dancers Anna Menendez and Edwin Aparicio, guitarist Ricardo Marlow, and singer Jose Oretea. Doors open at 6:00pm; Jazz Show 6:15pm; Classical Show 6:45pm; Pre-registered Open Stage performers 7:15pm; Bluegrass Show 7:45pm; Flamenco Show 8:30pm to 9:15pm.Tues Oct 14th - FILM: Wattstax - 30th anniversary edition
$5 | 7:30 pm @ The Oaks Theater 310 Allegheny River Blvd [ Oakmont ]. Info: 412-828-3611 or www.theoakstheater.com
Wattstax the concert and Wattstax the film were unprecedented events for the Los Angeles African-American community and a source of great pride. In the weeks surrounding the filming of the concert, the predominately African-American film crews took to the streets, recording candid interviews with local African-Americans and capturing a unique, unvarnished view of the Watts community. The crew also filmed then little known comic Richard Pryor's biting insights on the black experience which frame the entire Wattstax movie. The mise-en-scene of Wattstax is all undiluted summer of '72 funk, jive and soul as expressed in and around the streets of Watts. Interspersed throughout Wattstax - The Special Edition are the dynamic fashion, knowing humor, indomitable courage, uncanny insight, and undeniable style of Black Los Angeles. From conception to realization, Stax Records was the driving force behind staging the Wattstax concert in conjucntion with The Watts Summer Festival. They had the foresight and vision to commission a documentary of not just the concert, amazing as it was, but of African-American life in and around Watts as well.Tues Oct 14th - FILM: The Legend of Suriyothai
$5 | 7:30pm @ The Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
A story of intrigue, romance and war based on actual events in Thailand’s 16th century, this was an audience favorite at Sundance. With a lush visual grandeur worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, the story unfolds as the country’s peace and prosperity is threatened by civil war. A beautiful young princess named Suriyothai must choose between marrying her true love, a gallant young warrior, or agreeing to an arranged marriage set up by the two most powerful families in the country. Palace intrigue, loyalty, lust, deception, assassinations, and bare-breasted amazon fighters – this incredible film has it all. In Thai with subtitles. (Directed by Chatri Chalerm Yukol; Thailand; 2003; 142 min)Tues Oct 14th - Pittsburgh Filmmakers present FILM KITCHEN
$5 | 7pm @ Melwood Screening Room 477 Melwood Ave [ N. Oakland ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
Presented on the second Tuesday of every month, Film Kitchen is a monthly series that highlights local film and video. This month features a short work by local filmmaker Olivia Ciummo and Bicas, by Todd Martin (a 46-minute documentary on a group of bicycle activists and bike-salvage artists in Tucson.) Film Kitchen is sponsored by Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP, Pittsburgh Brewing, NewMedia, Inc. and Micah Media. (Film Kitchen TV is available to cable customers in the city of Pittsburgh, Thursdays at 11:00 pm, on PCTV 21.)Tues Oct 14th - Rex Jazz Lounge
Free | 9:30 pm @ The Rex Theatre 1602 E. Carson St [ South Side ]. Info: 412-381-6811 or www.rextheatre.com
Open Stage Jam Session featuring Steve Paiko.
Tues Oct 14th - Solid State Soul
Free | 10pm-2am @ Zythos. 2108 E.Carson St. [ South Side ]. Info: 412.481.2234
Deep house night, hitting the Memphis Lounge (Zythos) on Tuesday nights. w/ resident DJ DC Space and guests.Tues Oct 14th - Hardgroove Project
Free | 9pm @ Club Havana 5744 Ellsworth Ave [ Shadyside ]. Info: 412-661-2025
a unique weekly featuring live music + DJs in an Open Jam format. Dancing, drinks - bring your own instruments!Tues Oct 14th - Ya Dig?!
Free | 9pm-1am @ Kelly's Bar & Grill 6012 Penn Circle South [ East Liberty ]. Info: 412-363-6012
720 Soul night. Featuring rare grooves, jazz, and scratchy funk records of DJs Selecta, Bus Pass and guest DJs
Wed Oct 15th
Tues Oct 14th - FILM: Wattstax - 30th anniversary edition
$5 | 7:30 pm @ The Oaks Theater 310 Allegheny River Blvd [ Oakmont ]. Info: 412-828-3611 or www.theoakstheater.com
Wattstax the concert and Wattstax the film were unprecedented events for the Los Angeles African-American community and a source of great pride. In the weeks surrounding the filming of the concert, the predominately African-American film crews took to the streets, recording candid interviews with local African-Americans and capturing a unique, unvarnished view of the Watts community. The crew also filmed then little known comic Richard Pryor's biting insights on the black experience which frame the entire Wattstax movie. The mise-en-scene of Wattstax is all undiluted summer of '72 funk, jive and soul as expressed in and around the streets of Watts. Interspersed throughout Wattstax - The Special Edition are the dynamic fashion, knowing humor, indomitable courage, uncanny insight, and undeniable style of Black Los Angeles. From conception to realization, Stax Records was the driving force behind staging the Wattstax concert in conjucntion with The Watts Summer Festival. They had the foresight and vision to commission a documentary of not just the concert, amazing as it was, but of African-American life in and around Watts as well.Tues Oct 14th - FILM: The Legend of Suriyothai
$5 | 7:30pm @ The Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave [ Downtown ]. Info: 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org
A story of intrigue, romance and war based on actual events in Thailand’s 16th century, this was an audience favorite at Sundance. With a lush visual grandeur worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, the story unfolds as the country’s peace and prosperity is threatened by civil war. A beautiful young princess named Suriyothai must choose between marrying her true love, a gallant young warrior, or agreeing to an arranged marriage set up by the two most powerful families in the country. Palace intrigue, loyalty, lust, deception, assassinations, and bare-breasted amazon fighters – this incredible film has it all. In Thai with subtitles. (Directed by Chatri Chalerm Yukol; Thailand; 2003; 142 min)
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