This Friday May 23 at 8pm, MBF will be in the lounge spinning her home-grown brand of ambient electronica. Free!

In honor of the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at midnite, we'll screen the first three films about everybody's favorite archaeologist back-to-back-to-back.

8pm - Raiders of the Lost Ark

10pm - Temple of Doom

12am - The Last Crusade FREE!

This Wednesday May 14 we will present a free screening of two foreign films about gender identity. Representatives from Persad Center will be on hand to distribute information about their "Closing the Gap" program to help eliminate the health disparities between LGBT & heterosexual youth.

8pm - Ma Vie En Rose ("My Life in Pink" - France 1997) - Ludovic is a young boy who can't wait to grow up to be a woman. When his family discovers the little girl blossoming in him they are forced to contend with their own discomfort and the lack of understanding from their new neighbors. A movie that addresses trans-gender and gender issues in general through the eyes of a child.

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10pm -  Breakfast on Pluto (Ireland 2005) - Based on the award-winning book of the same name by Pat McCabe.  As foster kid Patrick "Kitten" Braden (Murphy) grows up, he leaves behind his small-town life in Ireland for London, where he's reborn as a transvestite cabaret singer in the 1960s and 70s.

Watch the Trailer: 

If you haven't seen me in the coffeehouse the last week, it's because I've been busy setting up the 22nd Annual Pittsburgh International Children's Festival. This year introduces the Festival to a new site in Oakland at the University of Pittsburgh and around Schenley Plaza. The Festival runs from Wednesday May 14 thru Sunday May 18.

The Festival grounds, free to the public, will complement the featured performances with hands-on cultural and educational activities, roving artists, booths, and exhibitors. The Target KidStage returns this year as the center of outdoor Festival action. The stage features a lively mixture of professional artists and regional performance groups.

In addition to the Festival’s relocation, five productions will make their US premiere. The Festival will also welcome one more production than last year and its first-ever theater company from Mexico.

Check it out! 

This Week We Introduce Our Fabulous New Tapas Menu!

• Classic Gazpacho
• Banderillas (skewered bites of marinated vegetables with cheeses or meat)
• Chilled salt baked Adobo pork with cilantro mojo
• Spanish lentil salad with chorizo
• Andalusian potato salad
• Ajo Blanco (chilled garlic & almond white gazpacho)
• Cheese & olive plate

Remember, YIV is BYOB, so don't forget that bottle of Rioja!

And don't worry - we still have all your Middle Eastern Mezze favourites too!

Your Inner Vagabond Coffeehouse & World Lounge in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh will present a FREE screening of a new comedy documentary on Friday May 16th @ 9pm.

Super High Me features comedian Doug Benson and explores the current situation with medical marijuana in California and the United States, specifically focusing on the conflict between federal and state law and the explosive growth in medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles over the past two years.   

As part of his journey, Doug smokes, eats and vaporizes medical marijuana for thirty consecutive days in order to get “Super High.” But there is a catch–first Doug must go thirty days without any marijuana and undertakes a number of tests, completing the same tests while medicated and while sober, in an effort to find out what marijuana does and how it really affects people. Along the way, we follow Doug as he goes out on the road to stand up gigs across the country and hangs out with fellow comedians Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk and Patton Oswalt.

FREE!

Watch the Trailer

This Thursday, May8th beginning at 8:30pm Ishtar, Pittsburgh only classic Turkish Bellydance/Surf-Rock band continues their monthly series of gigs at YIV.

With special guest dancers Nesheli and Deena!

$7 cover & BYOB! 

Lawrenceville transforms into Sao Paulo for a night this Saturday May 10 @ 9pm when award winning Latin artist Luca Mundaca graces the Vagabond Stage.

Luca’s sultry voice and original bossa nova tunes will take you to the heart of Brazil. She has been hailed by critics as one of the important new voices in Brazilian music and has recently won the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for her song "Ha Dias" in the World Fusion category. The song is also featured in the recently released film The Visitor.

$10 cover in the Back Lounge. All Ages & BYOB!

(2007) Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries.

He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, "Who are we?"

FREE!

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International guitar virtuoso Erik Mongrain will be playing the Lounge on Friday May 2 at 7pm with special guest Between Liberties.

No, it's not Andrew's only ursine friend - it's ART ALL NIGHT REDUX.

Did you miss Pittsburgh’s art event of the year last weekend in Lawrenceville?

Shame on you!

To assuage your guilty conscience, we’re hosting many of the works that went unclaimed after the event. And they’re all for sale! All proceeds benefit Art All Night as they plan their next massive show in 2009.

Join us this Wednesday April 30th for a special double feature of two great comedies from the British Isles. 

7pm - Waking Ned Devine (1998): When word reaches two elderly best friends that someone in their tiny Irish village has won the national lottery, they go to great lengths to find the winner so they can share the wealth. When they discover the "lucky" winner, Ned Devine, they find he has died of shock upon discovering his win. Not wanting the money to go to waste, the village enters a pact to pretend Ned is still alive by having another man pose as him, and then to divide the money between them.

9pm - Saving Grace (2000): A widow (Brenda Blethyn) discovers after her husband's suicide that he has mortgaged everything they own and the banks are ready to foreclose. Faced with impending doom and little working knowledge except her ability to grow plants, she struggles to save her home. Enter her gardener (Craig Ferguson), who is struggling to make a few marijuana plants grow in a hidden location and suggests that she use her green house to help grow the plants and sell them to make the money both need.

Our favourite band of musical maniacs, Soma Mestizo, is back in the Lounge again for their monthly experiment with music outside the box on Saturday April 26 @ 9:30pm. 

We love these guys so much, we named a coffee after them!

Come on in and try our version of Mexican coffee, Cafe Mestizo: Fair Trade Organic Mexican Chiapas coffee brewed with cinnamon & blended with full-cream milk, dulce de leche and brown sugar.  

In honor of our upcoming ANZAC Day Wine Tasting & Dinner, we’re showing two films about Ned Kelly, the 19^th century Australian bushranger who was a sort of cross between Billy the Kid and Robin Hood.

Among his many exploits was building a suit of armor made from old iron boilers and brazenly facing down the law in fierce gun battles. His short life has made him a folk hero in Australia. 

Needless to say, he has been immortalized many times over in film. Tonight we show two vastly different versions: 

At 7pm we’ll screen the 2003 version starring the late Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom & Geoffrey Rush. Then at 9pm we’ll screen a trippy 1970 version starring Mick Jagger in his first acting role with original music by Shel Silverstein & Waylon Jennings.

Both films contain beautiful footage of the Aussie Outback.

Free! All ages & BYOB.

So Lawrenceville's Blossom Tour is just in time. 

All this weekend you can venture down to sunny Lawrenceville, pop into one of the 20 participating shops and collect different kinds of seeds at each one. Then take them home, plant and enjoy! We'll be dolling out Basil seeds, so be sure to stop by and dream of pesto.