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TURNING A CORNER IN ONE OF Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods often leads to grey walls, match ing the skies of one of the coun try’s gloomiest cities. The local art scene has stepped in to bring color and vibrance to the landscape, with murals awash in contrasting bright colors and animals, like Pittsburgh artist Baron Batch’s butterfly paint ings and the elephant murals in the South Side. However, some of the most-visited art in Pittsburgh honors notable people with ties to the city. With the recent completion of a large Mac Miller mural in Etna, Pittsburgh City Paper decided to reflect on other murals of Pittsburgh icons scattered throughout the Steel City. That reflection does, unfortunately, highlight a glaring lack of famous local women represented in the city’s public art. Even so, the works listed here still makes for a diverse array of famous Pittsburghers, from Andy Warhol to athletes to horror makeup artists.
A journey through the city’s celebrity murals
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(Left page, top to bottom) Details of Tom Savini mural, Two Andys mural, Pittsburgh Penguins mural, August Wilson mural, "Pittsburgh Legends" mural (Right page) Mac Miller mural and details
Mac Miller Artist: Gustavo Zermeño Jr at I.D. Labs. 363 Butler St., Etna Artists: Kyle Holbrook and the MLK Project at 250 Paulson Ave., East Liberty
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The late Pittsburgh-native rapper Mac Miller worked at the I.D. Labs record ing studio throughout his entire career, and not just in his early days. Owner E. Dan says Venice-based artist Gustavo Zermeño Jr. painted a mural of Miller in Los Angeles that gained media attention. Through the photos and social media posts shared online, Miller’s family saw the mural and were inspired.
“The family got wind of it and just sort of reached out to say, ‘We love the mural,’ and that led to some further discussion,” says Dan. “Gustavo had expressed inter est in wanting to come to Pittsburgh to do one, and we just happened to have a giant blank canvas on the side of the studio so Mac’s mom reached out to me and asked if they [could paint] it. To which I, of course, saidTheyes.”painting depicts multiple por traits of Miller, including one of him wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers bucket hat and jersey. Fans of Miller, as well as his parents, grandparents, and brother, have come to admire the mural, accord ing to ThisDan.isnot the only piece honoring Miller in his home city. Wilkinsburg native Kyle Holbrook, founder of the Moving the Lives of Kids Mural Project, which focuses on art development and education, says he knew Miller before the young rap per’s career took off. Miller worked with Holbrook and MLK on a mural in East Liberty. After Miller died of a drug over dose in 2018, Holbrook organized the cre ation of a mural right next to the one he painted years before. Miller even discussed his work with MLK and Holbrook in Pittsburgh during a 2013 interview on MTV2 Presents: When I Was 17 “That’s the mural I’m most proud of after all I’ve done in 43 countries,” Holbrook says.
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Tom Savini Jeremy Raymer has been painting murals since 2013, many of which portray Pittsburghers.Alongwith Raymer’s passion for painting Pittsburghers comes a love for horror films, which led to him painting a mural of director, actor, and makeup special effects artist Tom Savini. The Pittsburgh native worked on locally shot George A. Romero films like Dawn of the Dead (in which he also plays a biker). The mural depicts Savini holding an old-school hockey mask a la Friday the 13th, another horror classic he worked on. Raymer says he had the opportunity to paint the mural after running into Savini’s daughter and making a connection. After that chance meeting, Raymer was able to meet Savini, who was “geeked” about the mural. Raymer says he has plans to paint one of Savini’s horror creatures in Bloomfield next.
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Speaking of Josh Gibson, Raymer also used his talents to pay tribute to the historic baseball player.
“I really like painting locals, and, in particular, ones local people don’t really know a whole lot about,” Raymer says. “Josh is someone I always wanted to paint and was really excited to do.” Josh Gibson was a star catcher in the Negro baseball leagues from 1930 to 1946. Though he was born
Another Pittsburgh baseball legend who has been commemorated in the form of a mural is Pirates’ great Roberto Clemente, painted by Holbrook and the MLK project in 2019. This stoic painting of Clemente in his uniform sparked an emotional response from fans and Clemente’s family, according to Holbrook.
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“Legends of Pittsburgh” Artist: Michael Malle Second Avenue and Ross Street, Downtown “Legends of Pittsburgh” has been on display at the intersection of Second Avenue and Ross Street since 2000. It features 14 baseball legends who once played for Pittsburgh teams, all standing on a baseball field in the uniforms from their respective eras. Depicted here are Pittsburgh Pirates stars Kiki Cuyler, Ralph Kiner, Fred Clarke, Max Carey, Paul Waner, Lloyd Waner, Danny Murtaugh, Arky Vaughan, Willie Stargell, Pie Traynor, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente, and Honus Wagner. Also included is Josh Gibson, who is the only Negro League player featured in the mural.
in baseball for Puerto Ricans and people of color and so many differ ent things, but this is the only mural on his actual museum,” Holbrook says. “And to take things further, his late wife Vera signed the mural, and his son [Roberto Clemente Jr.] also signed the mural. Both of them told me that it looked like him and teared up.”
in Georgia, Gibson spent most of his life in Pittsburgh after his father relocated here in the early 1920s to work in the steel industry. He played for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays, among other teams in theTheleague.mural of Gibson along the backside of Voodoo Brewing Co. fea tures Gibson in a baseball cap wearing catcher’s gear.
Roberto Clemente Artist: Kyle Holbrook The Clemente Museum. 3339 Penn Ave., Lawrenceville
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August Wilson
This Holbrook piece features award-win ning playwright August Wilson, writing in a notepad surrounded by bright, artistic scenery that highlights the Pittsburgh native’s legacy. The painting was finished in 2014, and features small stories and “murals within murals,” as Holbrook puts it, which were painted by local children. He says a lot of the imagery was based on research and also discussions with Wilson’s family and friends.
Artist: Kyle Holbrook 2037 Centre Ave., Hill District
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Lawrenceville, where the overlay policy was first piloted in 2019 before its permanent adoption last year, has been utterly transformed by development cam paigns during the past two decades.
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In terms of income, census data for the year 2000 shows the average Lawrenceville household lived off just under $28,000 in a year. Two census counts later, Lawrenceville incomes had virtually tripled, while citywide averages hadn’t even doubled. Many point to the construction of SHIRING
Judge Robert Colville of the federal court system has not yet ruled on whether the groups will be permitted to join the suit. Regional advocacy group, the Fair Housing Partnership, has also sought to intervene in the case.
The Brewers Block development will add residential units to Liberty Avenue in Polish Hill.
BAMP’s complaint labels the overlay an “unconstitutional, illegal, and confis catory ordinance,” which it claims saddles builders and developers with the task of rectifying Pittsburgh’s housing problems.
City officials maintain the overlay is a continuation of these earlier initiatives.
have joined a legal battle over an inclusionary zoning law that could shape future housing policies in Pittsburgh and across the country. The underlying suit began more than three months ago, when the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, a nonprofit with a mission “to promote homeownership and the improvement of the residential building industry in Western Pennsylvania," sued the city for approving an expansion to its existing inclusionary overlay zone so that it now includes Bloomfield and Polish Hill, in addition to Lawrenceville.
Affordable housing has been a focal point of city policies during the past two mayoral administrations, where rental and home prices have risen sharply. In January 2015, Councilor Daniel Lavelle (D-Hill District) introduced a bill creating an Affordable Housing Task Force. Two years later, former Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto formed an exploratory committee “to establish a framework of recommendations for moving forward with an Inclusionary and Incentive program to increase the production of housing affordable for Pittsburghers.”
The overlay — signed into law by Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey on May 2 — requires that new residential develop ments allocate at least 10% of the units to low-income households. The ordinance defines low-income renters as house holds at or below 50% of the median area income and buyers with incomes at or below 80% of the median area income.
The city’s motion to dismiss the com plaint argues the claims against it are “speculative” and fail to show how any BAMP members would be directly harmed by the overlay. “These challenges lack merit because the [inclusionary zoning ordinance] is a permissible exercise of the City’s author ity and police power to promote the public health and welfare by increasing the supply of affordable housing,” the motion claims.
Those groups — Lawrenceville United, the Bloomfield Development Corporation, the Polish Hill Civic Association, and the Hill District Consensus Group — filed motions on Aug. 15 to intervene in the case. The filings argue the affected neigh borhoods have borne the brunt of ongoing development efforts, requiring zoning interventions to reduce the number of residents being priced out of the market.
“While this goal may be unobjection able, and even laudable, it is improper for the City to task BAMP’s members with curing this deficit by placing unconsti tutional conditions on their use of their private property,” the complaint argues. But four neighborhood groups have now weighed in on the side of the city, arguing the ordinance is protecting their communities from further waves of investment and gentrification.
Christina Howell, executive direc tor of Bloomfield Development Corporation, says Bloomfield, which borders Lawrenceville to the south and east, hadn’t seen those kinds of economic pressures until relatively recently.
11PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER AUGUST 24 - 31, 2022 well-compensating jobs into the business district. Around the same time, artisans, baristas, and gastronomers began set tling into Butler Street’s cache of stately Victorian storefronts. These economic and cultural draws put a premium on the community’s limited housing stock, forcing many longterm residents out of the market.
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“It’s really disheartening to know that the people who helped build this neighborhood and make it the awesome thing it is today can’t afford to stay here.”
“For so many years, development and interested developers went around Bloomfield, and suddenly, it’s like a whole lot of people discovered us,” Howell tells Pittsburgh City Paper. Howell says the corporation took steps to flatten the spike of rising housing notes, the 2017 Inclusionary Zoning Report ultimately recommended the overlay be adopted citywide.
“The displacement has been extremely stark and inclusionary zoning is one tool to make it” less severe, says Dave Breingan, executive director of Lawrenceville United, a nonprofit com munity organization and early proponent of the zoning overlay.
Jonathan McJunkin, a spokesperson for the Public Interest Law Center, tells City Paper several comparable ordinances in other cities and states have withstood legal challenges, but this case is, unusu ally, being tried in federal courts, raising the “Pittsburgh’sstakes. inclusionary zoning is in line with other policies around the country, some of which have also been challenged and upheld by courts,” McJunkin writes in an email. “This is an important case for the fair housing movement, and a result could have impli cations outside Pittsburgh, throughout Pennsylvania and in neighboring states should this make it to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers NJ and DE as Jimwell.”Eichenlaub, BAMP’s executive director, told City Paper in an email, “BAMP will respond appropriately to the motion to intervene in or response to both the city’s and outside organizations who wish to join the suit.” He declined to comment further.
Despitesays.an inevitable continuation of displacement, Howell says the overlay would at least reduce its force, emphasiz ing that “there’s only so much we can do, market forces being a thing, but there cer tainly are some tools we can use,” she says.
“It’s really disheartening to know that the people who helped build this neighborhood and make it the awesome thing it is today can’t afford to stay here,”
In a court declaration stating her organization’s interest in the suit, Carol Hardeman of the Hill District Consensus Group expresses concerns about devel opment pressures from Bloomfield and Polish Hill pressing into one of Pittsburgh’s largest historically Black neighborhoods.“TheHillDistrict is already facing significant displacement because of a lack of affordable housing and the increasing cost of living,” writes Hardeman, a sup porter of the overlay. “With an uptick in new development, displacement is accelerating and increasing numbers of Black residents are being pushed out of the neighborhood and city by skyrock etingInprices.”Lawrenceville, Breingan notes, decades of soaring prices dispropor tionately hit the neighborhood’s Black population, disrupting and displacing a long-settled community.
“It’s only reasonable that we insist that new housing into the neighborhood creates opportunities for everybody and the kinds of working-class families who have always lived in Lawrenceville and made it what it is today,” he says. Should the overlay survive the legal challenges, city officials plan to expand it
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In 2014, Sleiman and Fristick launched VegFest, an event highlighting the ben efits of a plant-based diet. While the Pittsburgh Vegan Expo is hosted annually
PITTSBURGH VEGFEST 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., Aug. 27. Allegheny Park. Allegheny Commons East, North Side. Free. $20-40 for VIP tickets. pittsburghvegfest.org
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in Monroeville, Pittsburgh VegFest has bragging rights for the first fest of its kind in city limits. The eighth VegFest, happening Sat., Aug. 27 at its usual spot in North Side’s Allegheny Park, demon strates how much the event has exploded. This year, the festival will feature around 150 vendors, 54 of which focus on food.
WHEN LEILA SLEIMAN met Natalie Fristick during a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protest in Pittsburgh, the two women realized they had a lot in common. They were both half Lebanese, cared about animal welfare causes, and adhered to vegan diets. The two started Justice for Animals, a nonprofit aimed at support ing legislative animal rights initiatives in Pittsburgh, but say they later wanted to expand their mission by appealing to a wider“Anddemographic.werealized that Pittsburgh doesn’t have a veg fest,” says Sleiman during a phone interview with Pittsburgh City Paper Sleiman worked for PETA and says she
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The increase in crowds (anywhere from 8,000 to 10,000 each year, according to the VegFest website count) led Sleiman and Fristick to launch the first-ever VIP experience for this year’s festival. While the event is free, VIP ticketholders pay a fee for early access and to snag a limited number of swag bags filled with various vegan treats, stickers, coupons, and more. Sleiman says adding the VIP element allows them to fundraise while still
“It’s gotten so much attention as a food festival,” says Sleiman. “We’re turning away vendors every day. I mean, we’re growing every year. We just don’t even know what to do anymore.”
It’s a far cry, she says, from the first year, when the festival had around 60 vendors, no stage, and three musicians who were “playing in the grass.” Initially, Sleiman says she and Fristick worried about attendance for a festival with such a specific aim. “Natalie and I did it all ourselves with our own money. You know, we didn’t have any sponsors,” says Sleiman. “And I think for the first couple years, we were like, ‘What if no one comes?’”
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keeping the event free to the public, vowing, “We’re never going to charge an entrance fee to VegFest.” She believes that events like VegFest demonstrate the demand for vegan food, something that has noticeably risen in the Pittsburgh restaurant scene. She agrees that, despite the loss of prominent local vegan restaurants like B52 and Reed and Co. in Lawrenceville, plant-based food still has a place in the city, particularly in terms of baked goods like donuts.
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“And so a lot of people start with the connection to the animals that they share their house with,” says Sleiman.
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She adds that, while they do host some out-of-town vendors and busi nesses, they “try to keep it local because it is about the community.”
“This is a summer festival in the city,” says Sleiman. “Come bring your family, bring your friends. We have something for everyone.” •
“You know, putting this money back into the community, getting out there for a day of sunshine and smiling faces, and you get to meet these people that are making these things for you,” says Sleiman. “And that’s really what small business is all about.”
While VegFest sets out to promote veganism, it mostly still serves as a fun, inclusive event.
“Many well-known or established businesses, restaurants, I think, that weren’t fully vegan or hesitant about joining VegFest, now they’re, like, knocking down the doors,” says Sleiman. “But it’s not just because of VegFest. I’m not at all bragging. It’s because veganism has come far. VegFest has, of course, helped, but so have other things. So now they realize, ‘Hey, people are asking about veganSleimanalternatives.’”creditsthe success to VegFest not being exclusive to vegans, and not pushing any kind of agenda beyond spot lighting local vegan food vendors, small businesses, artists, and musicians. It also offers cooking demonstrations, yoga, kidfriendly activities, and more.
As a result, VegFest fosters that connection by allowing guests to meet animals, including cats, dogs, and pigs, from various local rescue groups.
“Our original motto was to spread compassion and awareness about animals, and a very easy way that you can do that three times a day is by leaving them off your plate,” says Sleiman. She goes on to say that most people are not drawn to a vegan lifestyle through educational material like speakers or videos. While many people adopt vegan ism because of health or environmental reasons, she says others come to it by relating what they eat to the relation ships they already have with animals in their own lives.
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Sleiman says that, while the food “always gets the most attention,” the activism inherent to VegFest comes more subtly, mainly through the animal guests there to meet crowds.
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I am inspired by so many cultural icons from the past and tend to throw them in a mixer to make my own indepen dent statement. I am always humbled by the genius of Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, Claude Montana , Issey Miyake. But I create my own style from combining many decades of fashion. When was your first independent style/fashion moment as a kid? Looking back at my childhood photos, I don’t remember really having my own style until high school and college. Probably getting my first bellbottoms was a Woodstock moment of declaring freedom and started my love of revolu tionaries. … Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, social change amplified what we Antique. 5850 Ellsworth Ave.,
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This interview has been condensed for length and clarity. Read the full interview online at pghcitypaper.com.
I have two fashion styles, one for work and one for events, and almost always 95% slow fashion: sustainable, recycled, or green, depending on the terms you like to use. I can also say vintage since that’s where my brand lies. Work is super comfortable and practi cal. Winter brings out combat boots, jeans, and T-shirts. Summer is my signature black tank top with jeans and combat boots or shorts with athletic shoes. My event looks can be anything I con sider my “costume look.” Still relaxed, maybe a T-shirt with a sports jacket, fun skinny-cut pants, or dressier with a vest and tie added. Always with my signature combat paratrooper boots with a side zipper. I love to “paint” a look from my closet collections. Black is my color, but I can change it up with some bright colors when my mood goes there. Who are your style inspirations?
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for a period party. The third are vintage clothing dealers that travel throughout the world looking for specific items to resell. Some come from the UK, around the U.S., but most are from Japan. The Asian market has an incredible interest in anything American. The final group are costume designers who work in theater, dance, or filming movies and TV productions. I love working with the creatives in the last group because you see your curated items on actors who bring life to those items that once had a Pittsburgh backstory. Tell me about what you’re wearing today. I usually wear my thrift-sourced clothes, many of which come through my store. Look No. 1 has my signature paratrooper combat boots, my black industrial jeans by INC, a 1980’s Jeanjer Jeans jacket with a Keith Haring lapel pin (Keith worked down the street at the Center for the Arts before having his first solo art show there in 1978). Underneath is a Paradise Garage tank top gifted to me by two long-time friends Brent Earle and Tomé Cousin. I also have my 1970’s leather band watch and another leather wristband I pur chased in pre-Katrina New Orleans — I wear this to honor those lost in that hor ribleLookflood.No. 2 changes up the jean jacket for a 1970’s print kimono. I was going to wear this for my visit to the 2022 Fire Island Dance Festival that I support, but the hot weather made me change my look. Look for it at an upcoming event. You told me that “Everything has a meaning.” Could you talk about the meaning of the things you are wearing?
I love connecting fashion and cultural history when I have conversations with customers or when I work on one of my fashion events. For a recent fundraiser for Pittsburgh Opera, Diva Dreams & Fashion Queens , I dove into the Eons archives to dress 27 models who were friends, dancers, and actors to curate a show that was gender-fluid and gave representa tion to a community that included, trans, queer, Black, and nonbinary friends. In each look, I attempted to create and “paint” a look that took into account that person’s cultural history through who they were wearing, so they understood the significance of that designer. Through this way, I create “fashion theater.”
Is there anything I left out that you would like to share? Yes, I would just like to talk about how I have created a safe space for my queer community and others who feel they need a place to explore their gender identities, free of judgment. I love to tell the stories of how a mother said she heard Eons was a safe space to bring her trans son and recently an aunt was excited that her non binary nephew bought his first dress at my store. I get really emotional when I talk about this because it tells me I am doing something right. We are the guardians of our future generations. We must always teach the children. We are the change makers. #ArtEqualTruth. TERENEH IDIA Richard Parsakian in Eons Fashion Antique
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LIT • IRL History class did not teach you everything about Pittsburgh. Ed Simon, author of An Alternative History of Pittsburgh, is here to change that. Did you know about the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick? How about the legends of Joe Magarac? Join Simon at Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall as he tells some of those unheard tales.
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Get outside before the weather turns cold with the Summer at the Square block party at Mellon Square. Presented by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, the outdoor event includes live music by local artists, food specials from Italian restaurant Talia, adult beverages, and large lawn games, all in a Downtown urban park built above a parking garage. 5:30-7:30 p.m. 540 Smithfield St., Downtown. Free. pittsburghparks.org
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MUSIC • IRL Summer Sounds, a free event series presented by Hazelwood Local and Weather Permitting, returns to Hazelwood Green Plaza with plenty to enjoy. If the weather holds up, Pittsburghers will be able to jam out with Grammy-nominated musician Cheick Hamala Diabate. While you’re checking out the music, your kids will be over by the screenprinting station, touring the Fusion Mini-Museum, or checking out the Water Blaster Station. Plus, all can satisfy their styles and appetites by purchasing food and art from vendors. 5 p.m. Lytle and Eliza streets, Hazelwood. Free. facebook.com/HazelwoodLocal
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Join Black Girls Do Bike for its National Meetup and a bike ride like no other. Black Girls Do Bike is a community of women of color who bond over their love for cycling. Start off with a luncheon and pool party at the Sherwood Event Center where there will be giveaways, entertainment, and more. The weekend will take participants on a 20-mile ride across the city, beginning at the Westin Hotel on Saturday, and to Pedal Pgh, Pennsylvania’s largest bike ride, on Sunday. 2-6 p.m. Continues through Sun., Aug. 28. Various locations. $20 for luncheon and pool party, free for bike ride. blackgirlsdobike.org
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ART • IRL Looking for a new piece to add to your art collection? Described by the Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media as a “half yard sale, half art show,” the yART Sale serves as a market for artists to clear out their studios by selling any works, materials, or other items they no longer use or need. Support local artists while finding some true originals in the process.
The Comedy Central series Drunk History has covered American cities with the help of many inebriated entertainers. Arcade Comedy Theater puts a spin on that concept by looking at the history of Pittsburgh as a town partly defined by its relationship to alcohol. The Comedy Walking Tour: Pittsburgh’s Drunken History introduces guests to the many real-life characters who, over the centuries, have contributed to this reputation during a 45-minute tour of the Penn Avenue corridor. Tours at 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. 943 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20, free for children under 5. All ages. arcadecomedytheater.com/events
live music and dance, vendors, food trucks, DJs, and more. The Rhythm of the Night fusion band, DoeBoy$, and Tyree Drake are just the tip of the iceberg as over 30 acts will take the stage at what’s dubbed as “Pittsburgh’s creative playground.” Start off outdoors and then move inside once the sun goes down to enjoy some indoor entertainment. 12 p.m.-12 a.m. 4836 Penn Ave., Garfield. Free. Registration required. facebook.com/DreamzofMusic
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STAGE • IRL Author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel moves from the shelf to the stage when Carnegie Stage presents its production of The Great Gatsby. Nick Caraway will be your gateway into the extravagant lives of his cousin Daisy Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, and others during this Jazz Age drama. Take a wild ride without leaving your seat. 7 p.m. Continues through Sat., Aug. 27. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $15-20. carnegiestage.com
MUSIC • IRL Bassist and songwriter Thundercat rose to prominence with his third album Drunk, defined by Pitchfork as a 23-track “opus” that plays like the “aural equivalent of late-night channel surfing.” Beyond his indefinable, genre-spanning work, he has also collaborated with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Pittsburgh’s own Wiz Khalifa, among many others. Experience this one-of-a-kind talent when he plays live at Stage AE 7 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. promowestlive.com/pittsburgh/stage-ae$32.50-85.
LIT • HYBRID White Whale welcomes editor and writer M.E. O’Brien for the launch of her new book Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 20522072. Co-written with Eman Abdelhadi, the latest work by O’Brien, whose stated mission covers “creating trans communist horizons,” is described as “a window into a possible future and a powerful antidote to our present moment’s ubiquitous moods of anti-utopianism, despair, nostalgia, and capitalist-realism.” Joining O’Brien is Alex Colston, a freelance editor and co-director of The Psychosocial Foundation. 7-8 p.m. 4754 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. Registration required. Livestream also available. whitewhalebookstore.com/events
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IRL Twenty One Pilots — or twenty øne piløts, depending on what you read — will celebrate the 2021 release of their album Scaled and Icy at PPG Paints Arena The Icy Tour brings the duo to the stage for a night dedicated to their alt hip-hop, electronicdriven music. Experience why this Ohiobased group became a Grammy Awardwinning, multi-platinum, history-making music act. Also includes a performance by Peter McPoland. 8 p.m. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. $37-123. ppgpaintsarena.com
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LIT • HYBRID Maud Newton and Geeta Kothari both have novels about family life. However, each takes a different path. Newton’s Ancestor Trouble dives into her fascinating, sometimes shocking family history. Kothari’s I Brake for Moose and Other Stories looks at immigrants struggling with the sacrifices and realities of the American dream. Experience these authors and their work when City of Asylum presents the event Writing About Family 7-8:30 p.m. 40 W. North Ave., North Side. Free. Registration required. cityofasylum.org
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FILM • IRL Bad Movie Bingo will make you confront your fear of snakes and bad CGI with a screening of Anaconda at Smiling Moose The event combines BINGO with Neo Trash Video riffing on the 1997 horror film about a group of nature documentarians who tangle with a giant, bloodthirsty serpent in the Amazon jungle. The star-studded cast, which includes Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Owen Wilson, probably want to forget ever being involved in this turkey. 8 p.m. 1306 E. Carson St., South Side. Free. 21 and over. facebook.com/NeoTrashVideo
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NAME CHANGE IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-7024, In re petition of CHELSY ELAINE HOGUE parent and legal guardian of RILEY AALIYAH COLEMAN, a Minor for a change of names to Chelsy Elaine Hogue and Riley Aaliyah Coleman. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 1st day of September 2022, at 9:30 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Build ing, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for.
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NAME CHANGE IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-1583, In re petition of Destiny James, parent and legal guardian of Khy’Anne Hines for change of name to Khy’Anne James. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 15th day of September 2022, at 9:30 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for.
In re petition of Kelly Greer Maruca for change of name to Kelly Ann Greer. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 28th day of September, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for.
NAME CHANGE IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-009386 In re petition of Michael Leonard
NAME CHANGE IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-9390
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