We thank you for all your past support as we enter the Fall season, and ask for your continued help as we strive to grow and improve. Opening a new business is never an easy thing to do and the first year is always a struggle. Our only goal is to make sure that our guests have the best possible experience that we can offer them, and your feedback and word-of-mouth publicity is crucial in keeping YIV alive and kicking.

That's why we're asking your help to get us into City Paper's Best of Pittsburgh list.

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO VOTE FOR YIV: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bOkx7_2bUDZJuINc_2fUUPfj_2fw_3d_3d

We humbly suggest voting for Your Inner Vagabond Coffeehouse & World Lounge in these categories:

• Best coffeehouse
• Best late night menu
• Best WiFi hotspot
• Best place to take an out-of-towner
• Write in: Best Living Room in Pittsburgh

It would also be a great help to us if you forward this on to your friends and ask them to vote for us, too! And if they haven't been here yet, bring them! Please help support Your Inner Vagabond so we can continue to serve L'ville and all of Pittsburgh for years to come.

"Why can't we get in these things?" she was muttering to herself as she tore open the sections looking for usual Thursday centerpiece - Weekend Magazine.

And by God, we were! I knew this immediately as her strident complaints were cut short, and she started to shriek (yes, she does, on occasion, shriek) "Oh, my God! We're in here! We're in here! There's a photo!" She began to bounce up and down, waving the paper at me, and as I took it from her hand, I remembered the Post Gazette photographer who was in here last week snapping some shots in the front. So one of those shots is prominently featured.

While Pittsburgh's night life may not have an answer to Studio 54 in Las Vegas, it is anything but boring. On any given night, there is something for everyone. Whether it is a quiet night out or a wild dance party, Pittsburgh has many bars and coffeehouses where young adults — and the older ones, too — can fulfill their sense of adventure…

Stepping into Your Inner Vagabond is like visiting a small coffeehouse off a side street in New Delhi. Although it may not be purely inspired by Indian design, the Oriental carpets and matching silk and velvet pillows give patrons a sense of Eastern culture.

The menu, drink list and events schedule have Turkish, Lebanese, Indian, Greek and Moroccan influences. Considered more of a world lounge than merely a coffeehouse, Your Inner Vagabond inspires global consciousness and good coffee. Read More Here.

I also noticed that the majority of the these places are in the Bloomfield/Lawrenceville neighborhoods. It's finally beginning to feel like we're moving on up after the summer malaise, and that L'ville is coming back into it's own. But right now your help and support are critical to help us build a strong foundation to grow.

Please support Your Inner Vagabond: read the article here, come in for a drink, tell your friends to stop by and visit, and vote for YIV as Best Coffeehouse (or even write in a category for us) in the City Paper!

This Friday August 22 at 8pm!

Returning to YIV for another electrifying performance, EJYG hails from NYC and plays groove driven music on self-invented instruments including the Rubarp and Big Barp (electric rubber band harps), the Sitello (an electric cello/sitar combo), the Terraphone (copper pipe horn), the Clayrimba (a three octave tuned clay pot "marimba") and an arsenal of percussion instruments fashioned from old farm equipment, turntable platters, saw blades, and truck springs.

The result is a super original sound with haunting melodies, funky bass lines and layers of dance-able interlocking rhythms that ride over clashes of metal on metal and colorful harmonic washes. Originally inspired by traditional Gamelan music from Bali, the group's music is influenced today by a diverse range of sounds from Indian classical to funk, klezmer to rock and is shaped by the unique and humor laced voice of composer Terry Dame.

“Terry Dame is one of those eccentric musicians for whom composing isn’t enough, she has to create new instruments as well. A downtown fixture." - Time Out New York 

Have a Listen!

$7 cover in the Back Lounge. All ages & BYOB!

If you see one concert for the rest of the summer, make it this one. THIS SUNDAY, Doors at 7pm, Your Inner Vagabond. All ages, all the time, and BYO if you're of age. Appearing with InFiNiEN from New York City, and also featuring fire and bellydance.

I repeat: do not miss this show.

**JUST ADDED: COMPLEX COMPLEX TRIO FROM WISCONSIN!**  

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From IMDB: It’s an intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.

Featuring the legendary performances of: Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead and many many more!

Watch Joe Cocker's legendary performance of "A Little Help from My Friends" (doesn't  he look like he's going to fall over?)

They'll be grooving back here soon!

Have a Listen!

Hosted by Persad Center's Queer Youth Connection & Closing the Gap Programs which aim to eliminate significant health disparities that exist between LGBT and heterosexual youth.

Free!

8pm

King Corn

(2006) Two friends with one year to spare and a deep curiosity about the American food distribution system set out to grow and acre of corn and see what becomes of their crop in director Aaron Woolf's agricultural-themed documentary. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis are best friends from college who have decided to move from the east coast to the Midwest in hopes of getting a better idea where the food they consume on a daily basis actually comes from. Corn is America's most productive and subsidized grain. Upon relocating to Iowa, the pair and seeks out the assistance of friends and neighbors in procuring the land, seeds, fertilizers, and herbicides needed to grow a one-acre bumper crop of this highly-versatile commodity. As their maize is harvested and the sometimes-troubling realities of modern faming begin to emerge, the pair sets off on a mission to track the progress of their product and find out just how it is used to create a variety of different food products. What emerges is an informative and at times disturbing account of both the food Americans so readily consume without so much as a second though and the alarming state of the contemporary agricultural industry.

Watch the Trailer.

9:30pm

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

(2005) This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

Watch the Trailer.

11pm

This Film is Not Yet Rated

(2006) In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by the staggering amount of power that the MPAA ratings board wields, the filmmaker seeks out the true identities of the anonymous elite who control what films make it to the multiplex. He even goes so far as to hire a private investigator to stake out MPAA headquarters and expose Hollywood's best-kept secret. Along the way, Dick speaks with numerous filmmakers whose careers have been affected by the seemingly random and obsessed judgments of the MPAA, including John Waters, Mary Harron, Darren Aranofsky, Wayne Kramer, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, and Atom Egoyan. Warning: not appropriate for children under 18.

Watch the Trailer.

Free! All ages (except for final film) & BYOB.