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SEPT. 6–13, 2023 // VOL. 32 ISSUE 36

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SMOKING SECTION

Despite regulations, lots of places in Pittsburgh are still up in smoke.

BY MICHAEL MACHOSKY // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

PITTSBURGH HAS TAKEN a long time to shed its “Smoky City” reputation, but one place that reputation remained true long after the steel mills closed was at the bar. Until only (relatively) recently, it was always just assumed that you’d come home from a night out smelling like an ashtray.

Pennsylvania did get around to banning smoking in most public places in 2008, and a lot of bar owners were nervous about it. Pittsburghers, of course, did not stop going to bars.

But there were always some holdouts — some bars that still allowed smoking. You’d walk in, and it was 1999 all over again. How many of these are left, and how do you find them?

The PA Health Department lists 196 Allegheny County bars that have received smoking exception approvals. That seems like a lot, but a news story from early 2020 put the number at 372, so the number of bars applying for exceptions is clearly on the decline. (Every county’s smoking exceptions can be seen on the Pennsylvania Department of Health website.)

Bars that still allow smoking include Jack’s Bar and Dee’s Café on the South Side, Bob’s Garage in Blawnox, Le Mardi Gras in Shadyside, and Conley’s Bar in Lawrenceville. For many, if not most, of the holdouts, smoking is just part of the atmosphere of nightlife, almost inseparable from going out for a drink.

“The idea of coming to an establishment where you can kind of relax and have your cigarette and your drink at the same time has a very long tradition,” says bartender/ manager Zan Naz of Le Mardi Gras. “We have been around since 1954. We also have a really fine selection of cigars, and cigarettes kind of come along with that.”

The Clean Indoor Air Act (CIAA) of 2008 banned smoking in “public places, which include enclosed workplaces, commercial establishments and areas where the public is invited or permitted.” The exceptions include “licensed establishments” that apply for an exception “whose total annual food sales are not more than 20 percent of the establishment’s total annual sales.” The establishment must also not allow anyone under the age of 18 for any reason. All entrances must clearly state that no one under 18 is permitted, and that smoking is SMOKING SECTION, CONTINUES ON PG. 6

“THE IDEA OF COMING TO AN ESTABLISHMENT WHERE YOU CAN KIND OF RELAX AND HAVE YOUR CIGARETTE AND YOUR DRINK AT THE SAME TIME HAS A VERY LONG TRADITION.”

CP PHOTO: MARS JOHNSON Keith Koll works behind the bar at Le Mardi Gras in Shadyside.

(LEFT) CP PHOTO: MARS JOHNSON A painting honoring Joe Costanzo hangs in Le Mardi Gras in Shadyside. Costanzo purchased the building in 1960 and ran the club until he passed away in 1993.

permitted.

So, if a “drinking establishment” makes less than 20% of their money on food, smoking is allowed. This does not include nightclubs, which are classified as public places or places of employment, which must be smoke free.

Another exception was allowed for drinking establishments that have a “bar area” with a separate air system and separate outside entrance (as of Sept. 11, 2008, the date the CIAA was enacted). That bar area also must have less than 20% of its sales from food in a calendar year.

There have been several legislative

attempts to close the loopholes, but none have managed to shut the door on smoking in bars entirely. At least 28 other states have managed to do it, however, including all of the neigh boring states (New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Ohio) except West Virginia, which has no smoking restrictions in bars.

Since Le Mardi Gras doesn’t have food sales, they easily meet that particular threshold. So, the matter comes down to preference — in par ticular, what their patrons prefer. On a recent Thursday night, the cus tomers kept pouring in, and Naz kept pouring drinks.

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Aaron Loritts lights a cigar at Le Mardi Gras.

Le Mardi Gras in Shadyside is one of the bars in Pittsburgh that still allows smoking inside.

KEEP OFFERING IT DESPITE THE FACT THAT NOWADAYS LESS AND LESS PEOPLE SMOKE. WE DEFINITELY FELT THAT [DECLINE] IN OUR BUSINESS. BUT WE CHOSE TO DO IT ANYWAY.

“It’s something that our customers really enjoy about the place,” Naz observes. “That’s why we keep offering it despite the fact that nowadays less and less people smoke. We definitely felt that [decline] in our business. But we chose to do it anyway.”

Smoking may not be as omnipresent as it once was, but it’s still pretty popular. According to an American Lung Association report from 2019, 19% of adults in Pennsylvania are current smokers, representing almost two million people. That’s still a lot. As long as there are that many — and the law allows — there will be bars that cater to it.

Dee’s Café on the South Side, for example, has no plans to ever change.

“It’s always been like that; it’s a dive bar, and people love it,” says Greg Phillips, a bartender at Dee’s. “I think it brings in more people than it turns away. Even though there’s always ashtrays at the bar, I still get people asking if they can smoke!”

Dee’s doesn’t offer food, so that’s not an issue. There are no plans to add food options unless, of course, there’s some kind of one-in-a-million reason to.

“Only if there’s a pandemic and we have to sell hot dogs to stay afloat,” says Phillips. •

Smoke lingers in the air at Le Mardi Gras in Shadyside.

HOG HEAVEN

The history of Pigsburgh

BY RACHEL WILKINSON // RWILKINSON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

Detail of a

print of the Five Points Slum in New York circa 1829 showing pigs cleaning city streets

as pastures shrank and city streets developed. For a new urban working class, it was an economic advantage to keep a pig, which could be sold or eaten — “a social safety net made of bacon,” as one contemporary reporter put it — and was said to feed a family for an entire season. (Before refrigeration, the meat was preserved by curing or salting all parts of the pig and storing them in a wooden “pork barrel” — the origin of the political term.)

Unlike other livestock, pigs fit well into urban environments. Highly intelligent animals, they knew where they lived and returned home each night similar to a dog, something Charles Dickens observed in his 1842 American Notes: “At this hour, just as evening is closing in, you will see

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them roaming towards bed by scores, eating their way to the last.”

Pigs wandered through the heart of Pittsburgh, scavenging, eating rotting piles of garbage, offal, and even the bodies of dead animals. Municipal trash collection had yet to be established, and hogs — known for their ability to efficiently convert feed into meat — played an unsung role, serving as sanitation workers of sorts.

Pittsburgh’s pigs, of course, had their detractors. Hogs were believed to be dirty, stirring cholera fears. They were also thought to pose danger, having run-ins with passersby, including children. (The same editorial complaining of the hogs’ pervasiveness also described a visitor from Louisville being “run down by a huge porker.”)

PHOTO: COURTESY OF FALLEN ASPEN FARM

In 1816, the ordinance prohibit ing hogs from wandering at large was reinforced — this time carrying a one-dollar fine — but the situation remained laissez-faire. According to the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, it wasn’t until the 1840s that complaints about the pigs began to appear regularly in Pittsburgh newspapers. A Daily Gazette editor griped about the stench of a pig pen near the editorial office — one imagines, not far from the Post-Gazette’s or Pittsburgh City Paper’s own offices today.

The tide turned in 1851 when the city made it legal for individuals to round up wayward pigs for a onedollar bounty. A “Notice to Owners of Hogs” from the mayor’s office appeared in the Daily Morning Post: “The great and increasing number of Hogs running at large has become an intolerable nuisance that must be abated.”

After that, drives to impound pigs occurred regularly, with young boys especially eager to round up pigs for cash. “Death to the Hogs,” a news item from September 1851 read — “The dog days are over and the porkers will be taken to their winter quarters.” Newspapers seemed to adopt

Pittsburgh streets.

Today, regrettably, the hogs of Pittsburgh would not blend as seamlessly into our city life. Dr. Blue Martin, founder and executive director of Pigsburgh Squealers Rescue, warns pigs can easily get bowel obstructions, particularly from eating plastic products and wrappers with food on them. The rescue recently helped with an emergency vet bill for a pig who got into a neighbor’s trash and ingested a battery.

“Pigs are pretty darn smart about not eating dumb things,” Martin said, but modern garbage and its toxicity are a threat.

a gleeful tone: “At a dollar a head, this pays pretty well,” read one report.

In 1859, 39 hogs were reported to be captured in a single morning, and pigs began to disappear from

In the Pittsburgh area, you can still find Ossabaw hogs, direct descendents of Columbus’s Iberico blackfooted hogs, at Fallen Aspen Farm in Lawrence County. Owner and farmer Jake Kristophel tells Pittsburgh City Paper that, ultimately, pigs are “woodland creatures” who thrive by

IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA, YOU CAN STILL FIND OSSABAW HOGS, DIRECT DESCENDENTS OF COLUMBUS’S IBERICO BLACK-FOOTED HOGS.

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foraging, rooting up bugs and plants, and making wallows to wade in. The farm’s hogs are free-roaming, currently munching on acorns, hickory nuts, and fallen apples.

As for the future of raising hogs and consuming pork, Kristophel believes in local sourcing.

“We are anti-factory farming,” he tells City Paper, and Fallen Aspen aims to provide what they feel is an ethical and humane pork option. So-called heritage breeds of pig like Ossabaws are generally costlier and more difficult to find — they won’t be at your local grocery store, Kristophel says — but “it’s way healthier for you,

it’s a completely different product, and you’re supporting local farms and communities. So it does make a huge difference.”

But Martin imagines our future with pigs as a peaceful co-existence, where “not every animal we have needs to be a commodity.” While Pittsburgh’s pigs could still be useful for eating plants and managing undergrowth, similar to goats, she believes “there’s no humane way of eating this animal.”

A vegan, Martin prefers not to “preach,” instead focusing on pig rescue work and directing Pittsbughers to the transformative

experience of rubbing a pig’s belly. Since opening 10 years ago, Pigsburgh Squealers Rescue has

The nonprofit also periodically hosts “Swine and Unwind” yoga events. Visitors are invited to “master

successfully rehomed 275 pigs, while maintaining a menagerie of 35 pigs currently — including a warthog — on its 25-acre farm in Tarentum.

[their] downward hog” with the resident pigs — who may be ready to slot back nicely into contemporary life after all.

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WHILE PITTSBURGH’S PIGS COULD STILL BE USEFUL FOR EATING PLANTS AND MANAGING UNDERGROWTH, SIMILAR TO GOATS, [MARTIN] BELIEVES “THERE’S NO HUMANE WAY OF EATING THIS ANIMAL.”

PHOTO: COURTESY OF FALLEN ASPEN FARM

LITERATURE BOOKS AS ART

BY REGE BEHE // CPCONTRIBUTORS@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

IN OCTOBER 2022, EMMA

Honcharski attended Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, an event that, since 2006, has been a staple of the city’s creative scene. Her friend, Chas Wagner, also attended, and they wondered if it was feasible to host a similar happening in Pittsburgh.

Less than a year later, it’s not only possible, but a reality. The first annual Pittsburgh Art Book Fair — taking place Sat., Sept. 9- Sun., Sept. 10 in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Sculpture — will feature a range of books, zines, and other publications from over 60 local, national, and international artists.

“For the first year, we mostly relied on putting this call out, and then the applications (approximately 120) that came in were pretty organic,” Honcharski, a Wilkinsburg resident, tells Pittsburgh City Paper . “I think a lot of people who are familiar with the format of an art book fair were intrigued, and then also some other folks who have participated in a zine fair or other printed material types of events were drawn to apply.”

Honcharski and Wagner enlisted kindred artists and writers, including Caroline Kern, Mary Tremonte, and Jacquelyn Johnson, to plan and host the event. But the one thing they didn’t do was solicit sponsorships.

The quintet curated and arranged the event without any outside funding, pouring their own money into the fair.

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10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., Sept. 9- Sun., Sept. 10. Carnegie Museum

Honcharski, a writer and media strategist, notes that the Carnegie Museum of Art has been extremely supportive of the venture, not charging for use of the Hall of Sculpture through its co-presentation model.

“All of this is possible because the support they’ve made available to us,” she says, noting that fair organizers will be looking for financial support for future fairs.

The passion for art books that has been the most significant driver of the event. The books that will be available at PABF are unique, one-ofa-kind volumes, not mass-produced tomes of criticism or retrospectives of individual artists.

Tremonte, an artist, educator, and DJ from Observatory Hill, says that “making these kinds of event spaces for people to come together around the culture of publishing books … is really valuable for

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building community.”

“I really feel like the artist publisher community is one of my art homes where I signed up with likeminded individuals and a really intersecting group of people with interests that intersect with my own,” adds Tremonte. “And so, making these spaces for people to come together and just have that mix, it’s really rich and really important.”

The fair offers a chance for working artists, whose selling opportunities diminished during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, to reconnect with buyers. The organizers took this into consideration and made adjustments, depending

on need, for booth fees, prioritizing BIPOC and out-of-town exhibitors. In addition to local artists, exhibitors from states including California,

scheduled to attend.

Most of the exhibited work will be handmade, according to Tremonte. And while there are a few pieces that

tote bags and bandanas for sale, with the proceeds funding next year’s art book fair.

But while the exhibitors want to sell their pieces, PABF’s main emphasis is on community.

Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, and even Milan, Italy (the sublimely named Homie House Press), are

can be purchased for over $1,000, the majority of items for sale will range from $10-50. There also will be

“For myself as an artist, to interact directly with the audience for my work is really valuable and a unique experience,” Tremonte says. “People attending will get to meet the people who really physically made these books. … The printing and binding of these materials is also a very creative process. The person who is publishing will be there, so that direct interaction, I think, is really valuable and special.” •

“THE PRINTING AND BINDING OF THESE MATERIALS IS ALSO A VERY CREATIVE PROCESS. THE PERSON WHO IS PUBLISHING WILL BE THERE, SO THAT DIRECT INTERACTION, I THINK, IS REALLY VALUABLE AND SPECIAL.”

PHOTO: CHRIS UHREN Pittsburgh Art Book Fair

INDIE BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT

New releases at City Books

BY AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

INDIE BOOKSELLER SPOTLIGHT is a regular column listing new releases at Pittsburgh book shops. Support local businesses and find your next favorite read.

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Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

by George Yancy

(Rowman & Littlefield)

Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, and other leading intellectuals provide a guide to confronting modern racism, as well as misogyny and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

Nineteen Steps

by Millie Bobby Brown

(HarperCollins)

Brown trades Stranger Things for the book shelves with this London-set, World War II period drama inspired by her own family history.

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

by Michael Frank

(Simon & Schuster)

Frank captures the experiences of a real-life 99-year-old Holocaust survivor, who, over the course of six years, gives insight to a once-thriving Jewish community in Greece.

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

by Myriam Gurba

(Simon & Schuster)

Described by Simon & Schuster as the “fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity,” Gurba returns with a collection of essays about the harm caused by creepiness.

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

(Penguin Random House)

A celebrated author transports readers to 19th-century England for the story of two people — a Scottish maid and a formerly enslaved Jamaican — connected by a sensational trial. •

VISUAL ART GET FLY

BY SEAN BEAUFORD // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

TO FLY IS TO BE FREE. To achieve the once impossible feat of occupying the air is to ditch reality’s reins and escape gravity’s pull. To “get fly” is to adorn oneself in whatever attire elevates the spirit, or whatever gives rise to witnesses singing your praise so loudly, the vibrations levitate you heavenward. The right outfit can make you feel capable of anything, and so, to get fly is to allow oneself to dream. To dream is to allow oneself to fly

Flight Plans , a solo exhibition by local multimedia artist Njaimeh Njie, now on view at the Carlow University Art Gallery, encourages Black folks to imagine themselves as aviators through her creation of a world that feels like a dream. A world built upon collaged images, home furniture, Black voices, music, and literature.

The threshold of the exhibition leads viewers into a domestic space that feels as familiar as what

a Black person might dream of. Not a dream-home, but the kind of home architected by our subconscious, using material mined from memory of spaces we’ve lived and loved in. A space that, in your dream, you know to be your childhood home, even though it doesn’t look exactly like it, because it also includes fragments of the homes belonging to grandparents, cousins, and friends. An amalgamation of places in which you’ve felt at home, reminding us that home is wherever the heart is full and cared for.

The first of the exhibition’s two rooms resembles a living area, with family photos and a library of books, scored by the vinyl spinning atop a record player. The room contains leather mid-century modern chairs, along with vintage wood and wicker end tables that help transport visitors to a time when that furniture was new and not retro. Floating shelves

above the seats display a selection of records and books on flight, resettling, and various modes of travel between generations, including cooking and archiving.

FLIGHT PLANS

Gallery hours Mon.-Sat. Continues through October. Carlow University Art Gallery. 3333 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Free. carlow.edu

Records by jazz pianists Erroll Garner and Earl Hines, guitarist George Benson, saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, and vocalist Maxine Sullivan show the work of Pittsburghnative aeronauts who turned speakers around the world into launchpads, throwing their souls into the sky like stars that still burn bright and never descend. There are books on the Great Migration, detailing the period in which southern Black folks en masse found their wings and

fled north. Works by Afrofuturists Labelle and Pittsburgh’s own Alisha Wormsley remind us of the intentional practice of manifesting our future existence. Titles by Toni Morrison and Virginia Hamitlon — authors from Ohio, aka the Birthplace of Aviation — tell varying tales of Black folks who learn to fly. Njie summons ancestors, elders, and peers to show us the myriad of ways we can climb higher altitudes.

Furnishing the remaining wall space are Njie’s framed collages, each a compact composition, floating in a sky of white matting like a plane among the clouds. Hovering like birds around each image are handwritten annotations meditating on mobility, place, history, and community.

A wall dividing the space in half is flanked by curtains, like the barriers in airplane aisles, except that these are permanently moved to the side, welcoming entry to the next room.

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Flight Plans at the Carlow University Art Gallery

A kitchen, also set in a time before, contains a family dining table with vintage chairs on each of its four sides, covered by a lace tablecloth overlaid by the kind of protective plastic that shielded all precious furniture during this era. A plastic that signaled gratitude for what wasn’t easily attained, and a thoughtful attempt at preservation for what hopefully might be cherished for generations. A prayer for descendants’ existence. A reminder that the table is prepared for us. As is the runway Njie guides us to.

A sprawling collage printed on mesh vinyl wraps the back walls, setting aside the grounds for us to run toward our ascent. Titled “The Route,” it depicts a reverse

migration and considers the legacy of Black flight, highlighting points of takeoff between African origins, to the arrival in southern America, to settling in Pittsburgh. Njie not only walks us toward the runway paved

the sky. In fact, Western Pa. is home to more Tuskegee Airmen than any other region, which means there’s an entire aircrew on the other side of the Pittsburgh atmosphere to guide our ascent.

There are moments when ancestral memory can feel as familiar as our own, not as if we’ve lived their experiences, but as if we’ve lived with their memories embedded in our minds our entire lives.

by our ancestors, she uses her work to help build that which will uplift us, like Rosa Mae Willis Alford, the airplane mechanic with Pittsburgh roots, whose work helped Tuskegee Airmen soar to historic heights, claiming Black folks rightful place in

The collage, like the room before it, feels dreamlike, with its flattened surfaces, obscured faces, and infinite overlapping of time and space. Except that this dream’s imagery pulls not only from our memory, but also the memories of our ancestors.

But what if it was the other way around? What if our lives are products of their mind, and we merely grew up alongside their memories, as their dreams? What are memories and dreams but cousins living under the shared roof of a mind? What if it has always been a dream and flight was, and always is, possible? That our urge to take to the sky isn’t merely a lofty ambition, but a directive straight from the minds that imagined our boundless existence. To live a dream is the flyest thing anyone can do. •

PHOTO: COURTESY OF CARLOW UNIVERSITY

Flight Plans at the Carlow University Art Gallery

NJIE NOT ONLY WALKS US TOWARD THE RUNWAY PAVED BY OUR ANCESTORS, SHE USES HER WORK TO HELP BUILD THAT WHICH WILL UPLIFT US ...

SEVEN DAYS IN PITTSBURGH

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THU., SEPT. 7

FILM • DOWNTOWN

Film Pittsburgh searches the world for the best films about people living with disabilities and brings them here for the ReelAbilities festival. The annual event returns with five feature films and 14 short films, all ranging from documentaries to animation, and all screening in person at Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse and virtually. The festival also includes an art exhibit, guest speakers, and other programming. Continues through Wed., Sept. 13. 350 Forbes Ave,., Downtown. $5-150. filmpittsburgh.org

ART • GARFIELD

Paint N’ Sip with Victoria Jennings 6-8 p.m. Black Cat Market. 5135 Penn Ave., Garfield. $40, includes painting supplies and non-alcoholic beverages. BYOB. blackcatmarketpgh.com

THEATER • HILL DISTRICT

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company presents Joe Turner’s Come and Gone 7 p.m. Continues through Sat., Sept. 9. August Wilson House. 1727 Bedford Ave., Hill District. $26-45. pghplaywrights.org

FRI., SEPT. 8

CONVENTION • DOWNTOWN

Pittsburgh, I choose you! Trainers will gather at David L. Lawrence Convention Center for the Pokémon Championship series, a whole weekend dedicated to the best players of the Pokémon Go! video game and card game. See participants battle for cash prizes, scholarships, gift cards, and a chance to qualify for the Pokémon World Championships in Honolulu, Hawaii. In addition to the tournaments, spectators of all ages can enjoy retro video games, livestreams, vendors, and more. 12 p.m. Continues through Sun., Sept. 10. 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd., Downtown. $15. pittsburghcc.com

FESTIVAL • SHADYSIDE

A Fair in the Park. 1-7 p.m. Continues through Sun., Sept. 10. Mellon Park. 1047 Shady Ave., Shadyside. Free. All ages. craftsmensguild.org

FESTIVAL • GREEN TREE

Meeting of the Marked Tattoo Culture Festival 2-10 p.m. Continues through Sun., Sept. 10. DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh - Green Tree. 500 Mansfield Ave., Green Tree. $20, free for kids 14 and under. tattoopgh.com

FESTIVAL • RANKIN

Experience traditional Celtic music, food, literature, and more when the Pittsburgh Irish Festival takes over the Carrie Blast Furnaces. This year, the annual cultural event includes live entertainment from harpists, pipers, comedians, and step dancers, a marketplace full of Irish trinkets, and a sampling of Irish whiskey and beer. Take a tour of Carrie Furnaces, throw some axes, or meet various Irish dog breeds during this big weekend happening. 4-11 p.m. Continues through Sun., Sept. 10. 801 Carrie Furnace Blvd., Rankin. $10-60, free for kids 12 and under. pghirishfest.org

ART • LAWRENCEVILLE

Climate Awakening: Crafting a Sustainable Future Opening Reception 5:30-8 p.m. Continues through Jan. 13, 2024. Contemporary Craft. 5645 Butler St., Lawrenceville. Free. contemporarycraft.org

MUSIC • BURGETTSTOWN

Shinedown, Spiritbox, and Papa Roach. 6:40 p.m. The Pavilion at Star Lake. 665 Route 18. Burgettstown. Tickets start at $22. burgettstownpavilion.net

FILM • DOWNTOWN

The Elephant 6 Recording Co. 7:30 p.m. Continues on Sun., Sept. 10. Harris Theater. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $11. trustarts.org

MUSIC • SOUTH SIDE

The Bones of J.R. Jones with Benjamin Dakota Rogers 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Club Cafe. 56-58 South 12th St., South Side. $20. 21 and over. opusoneproductions.com

MUSIC • MILLVALE

Deerhoof with Murder for Girls 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $20. opusoneproductions.com

SAT., SEPT. 9

POP-UP • MT. LEBANON

Crafts and Drafts Pop-Up 12-3 p.m. East End Brewing Taproom. 651 Washington Road, Mt. Lebanon. Free. eastendbrewing.com

FESTIVAL • LAWRENCEVILLE

Spirit Summer Recess Festival and After Party. 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Spirit. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. Outdoor festival free from 2-5 p.m. and $5 after 5 p.m., $10-15 for the indoor after party. spiritpgh.com

PHOTO: COURTESY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT

Climate Awakening: Crafting a Sustainable Future at Contemporary Craft

FESTIVAL • MT. OLIVER

Hilltop Harvest Festival. 3-6 p.m. 150 Brownsville Road, Mt. Oliver. Free. All ages. mtoliver.com

ART • SHARPSBURG

Otherworldly: Artist Reception

5 p.m. Continues through Oct. 29. ZYNKA Gallery. 904 Main St., Sharpsburg. Free. zynkagallery.com

FESTIVAL • SOUTH SIDE

The Bash 5:30 p.m. City Theatre. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $100-250. citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org

LIT • POINT BREEZE

Staring Contest: Essays about Eyes discussion with author Joshua James Amberson, Patrick McGinty, and Candace Jane Opper 6-8 p.m. Bottom Feeder Books. 415 Gettysburg St., Point Breeze. Free. bottomfeederbooks.com

SUN., SEPT. 10

DRAG • BLOOMFIELD

Drag Brunch. 11 a.m. Trace Brewing. 4312 Main St., Bloomfield. $20-220. tracebloomfield.com

KIDS • OAKLAND

Kids Day. 12-4 p.m. Schenley Plaza. 4100 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. pittsburghparks.org

MON., SEPT. 11

MUSIC • DOWNTOWN

Flutist Brandon Patrick George and pianist

Aaron Diehl join forces for Songs of Black America, a program described as celebrating the “rich lineage of Black American composers.” Presented at the Pittsburgh Playhouse by Chamber Music Pittsburgh, the performance will highlight works by Valerie Coleman, Undine Smith Moore, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Mary Lou

Williams, as well as by George, Diehl, and Grammy Award–winning American jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner. 7:30 p.m. 350 Forbes Ave,., Downtown. $35-53. chambermusicpittsburgh.org

MUSIC • STRIP DISTRICT

Jill Sobule. 8 p.m. City Winery. 1627 Smallman St., Strip District. $15-25. pittsburgh.citywinery.com

TUE., SEPT. 12

MUSIC • NEW KENSINGTON

Uada, Ghost Bath, and Cloak 6 p.m. Preserving Underground. 1101 Fifth Ave., New Kensington. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. preservingconcerts.com

WED., SEPT.

WORKSHOP • OAKLAND

13

Pollinator Gardens for the Anthropocene with Claudia West and Harland Patch

6-8 p.m. Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. One Schenley Park, Oakland. $18-20. phipps.conservatory.org

MUSIC • NORTH SIDE

Blending Genre & Perspective Through Sound with Kinetic. 7-8:30 p.m. Alphabet City. 40 W. North Ave., North Side. Free. Registration required. cityofasylum.org

PHOTO: EVELYN FREJA

Aaron Diehl in Songs of Black America

PHOTO: MIKE BRIDAVSKY Deerhoof at Mr. Smalls Theatre

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ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE OF SWEENEY, DANIEL, DECEASED OF PITTSBURGH, PA

Daniel Sweeney, deceased of Pittsburgh, PA No. 022304966 of 2023.

Patricia Sweeney, Ext. 1616 El Paso Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206.

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PUBLIC AUCTION

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 880 Saw Mill Run Blvd, Pittsburgh PA 15226

September 20, 2023, at 1:15 PM.

1021 Bob Oberley, 2055 Rachel Carpenter, 3191 Logan Renkin, 4159 Paris Matthews. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of the leased space to satisfy the Extra Space Lien at 3200 Park Manor Blvd, Pittsburgh, Pa 15205 on 09/20/2023 at 1:00pm 2170

Mathew Merhaut and 3028

Robert Dauer. The Auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 1005

E Entry Drive Pittsburgh PA 15216, September 20, 2023 at 11:30 AM.

Sheila Langel 3186. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 6400 Hamilton Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15206 September 20, 2023 at 1:45 PM. 2060 Ieshia Hearn, 3013 James Reid, 4032 Sunsune Bey, 4076 Jasmine Morris, 4094 Sandra Harris. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated:141 N Braddock Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15208, September 20, 2023 11:00AM: 3038 Vernaea Pride and 6059 Danyel Upshur. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Public notice is hereby given that property placed in storage by the following persons at the following locations will be sold via public sale to satisfy Guardian Storage liens for unpaid rent and other charges. Bidding for property of persons renting space at the following locations will be held online at www. Storageauctions.com ending on September 19, 2023 at 10:00 am, and day to day thereafter until sold at which time a high bidder will be determined.

350 Old Haymaker Road, Monroeville, Pa 14146: Unit #2410 Lawrence White, Unit #3121 Michael Williams, Unit #3224 Atianna M Pettway, Unit #3417 Tiquan Flowers, Unit #3506 Victor Montoya

1390 Old Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, Pa 15238: Unit #12426 Colleen Coll, Unit #3108 Nicole Verner

14200 Route 30, North Huntingdon, Pa 15642: Unit #1097 Mario Polito, Unit #2144 Ashley Cravener,

4711 William Penn Highway, Monroeville, PA 15146: Unit #11704 Jennifer Hogan, Unit #12007 Wilma Gould, Unit #12301 Regina Moton, Unit # 23507 Michele Hunter, Unit #23510 Wilma Gould

1028 Ridge Road, Tarentum, Pa 15084: Unit #21137 Justin Stull, Unit #32708 Shana Coleman, Unit #41519 Kelly Penzenstadler

901 Brinton Road, Pittsburgh, Pa 15221: Unit #10120 Unique Brown, Unit #10305 April Payne, Unit #12420 James Brown De Moura, Unit #3303 Sakeina Keene, Unit #3312 Michaela Proctor, , Unit #5211 Angelique Williams, Unit #6132 Cedric McCarthy, Unit #7113 Shedayah Tyler, Unit #7409 Dannie Cook, Unit #8416 Kiwana Andrews

4750 William Flynn Hwy, Allison Park, Pa 15101: Unit #13314 Kristin Schell, Unit #21411 Jon Kohan, Unit #41105 Rosalind Sugarmann

5873 Centre Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206: Unit #210 Dora Griffin, Unit #2308 Richard Mills, Unit #2406 Andrew Wise, Unit #2517 Ned Phenizee, Unit #4111 James Isler, Unit #4209 Miah Thomas, Unit #6508 Linda Lannigan

2839 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222: Unit #2606 Jerry Hardy, Unit #3313 Xavier Norman, Unit #4106 Mechele Hayes, Unit #4809 Jacquelyn Tune, Unit 6717 Tesha Thomas

750 South Millvale Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Unit #4301 Yi Wang

1002 East Waterfront Drive, Munhall, PA 15120: Unit #1019 Carolyn Tarver, Unit #1222 Latoya Murrell, Unit #1421 Morgan Dawson, Unit # 1423 Shaun McArdle, Unit #1803 Kenneth Sidbury, Unit #3603 Mya Pennix, Unit #3615 Takika Pierson, Unit #3620 Anita Nelson, Unit #3724 Lavonne Knight, Unit #3926 Darriece Burrell

1300 Lebanon Church Road, West Mifflin, PA 15236: Unit #14104 Julie Arnold, Unit #21215 Tawana Brown, Unit #21306 Kelly Penzenstadler, Unit #32204 Chanel West, Unit #32310 Charles Jones, Unit #42113 Aaron Meeks, Unit #42404 Jessica Weaver

1599 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017: Unit #53818 Angelina Bonilla, Unit #6133 Vinnie Richichi, Unit #6139 Tracy Hornak

1067 Milford Drive, Bethel Park, PA 15102: Unit #22207 Lorie Goettler, Unit #23104 John DeMarco

7452 McKnight Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237: Unit #1218 Rick Quigley, Unit #1615 Eric Matvey, Unit #805 Richard J Martin

922 Brush Creek Road, Warrendale, PA 15086: Unit #207 Garrett Beattie, Unit #4124 Esther Hunter

401 Coraopolis Rd, Coraopolis, PA 15108: Unit #13032 Ryan Norton, Unit #13401 Desiree Diaz, Unit #13713 Chloe Strosser

2670 Washington Rd, Canonsburg, PA 15317: Unit #1527 Elijah Emerick, Unit #3209 Jayme Marshall, Unit #3536 Adriana Walker, Unit #4101 John Michael Kloac, Unit #4201 Danyel Marinski, Unit #4306 Robert Reule

Purchases must be made with cash and paid at the location at the above referenced facility to complete the transaction. Guardian Storage has the right to refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property

CREATURES OF FOOTBALL

BY BRENDAN EMMETT QUIGLEY // BRENDANEMMETTQUIGLEY.COM

“So much ___”

31.  Borrowing for the time being

33.  Invoice number?

35.  *With 37-Across, play where the running back lines up as a quarterback

37.  See 35-Across

38.  One-named singer with the #1 song “Somebody

That I Used to Know”

39.  #1 song, e.g.

41.  Late-summer bloomer

42.  Granite State sch.

43.  Not harpsichords, but not pianos either instruments

46.  ___ Salvador

47.  Nights when

people watch balls drop: Abbr.

49.  Like platform shoes and tinted glasses

50.  Noodles with the group

51.  *Trick play where the running back tosses back to the quarterback

54.  Rideshare selection with a larger vehicle

56.  “Why you little!”

59.  Actress Kravitz

60.  *Football, colloquially

64.  Link from an influencer

65.  Sick as a dog

66.  Like some highlight reel catches

67.  Cartoon snarfing sound

68.  “We’re in trouble,” in code

69.  Dictionary cross-reference phrase

70.  X messages, for short

DOWN

1.  Holds onto

2.  Word following pharaoh, carpenter, or fire

3.  Shelf material?

4.  Free-flowing musical composition

5.  It’s always done alone

6.  Where to play

Pro Kadmia

7.  Cartoonist Guisewite

8.  Filled pancake

9.  Animal house

10.  Picturesque caves

11.  Back in the day

12.  Losing sibling’s cry for help, maybe

13.  Dinner centerpieces?

21.  Queen ___ (Disenchantment character)

22.  Grp. for birdmen and flyboys

23.  Hybrid weapon that sometimes shoots arrows

24.  Like bialys

25.  Range of strong emotions

28.  Goes scavenging

29.  Trouser measurement

30.  Boat parts

32.  Tops

34.  UX

designers degs.

36.  One who takes things the wrong way

37.  Frequent Ferrell costar on SNL

40.  The “I” of “IPA”: Abbr.

44.  Nutty candy

45.  Warning signals

48.  Certain camera, for short

50.  Psaki of MSNBC

52.  Where new products debut

53.  Decluttering guru Marie

54.  Spraying weapons

55.  Tex’s string tie

57.  Gift tag word

58.  Poor reception?

61.  How about that

62.  ___-Rock (first female rapper)

63.  Big name in vitamins

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OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT

THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION of the SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals shall be deposited at the Administration Building, Bellefield Entrance Lobby, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213, on October 03, 2023, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for:

PGH. PIONEER

• Aqua Therapy Pool Addition

• General, Plumbing, Mechanical, and Electrical Primes

Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on September 05, 2023, at Modern Reproductions (412-488-7700), 127 McKean Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15219 between 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. The cost of the Project Manual Documents is non-refundable. Project details and dates are described in each project manual.

We are an equal rights and opportunity school district.

NAME CHANGE

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-23-007691

In re petition of Regina A. Camp for change of name to Regina Camp El. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 13th day of September, 2023, 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-23-9695, In re petition of Sheri Fehl, parent and legal guardian of Vincent Anthony Lamoureaux for change of name to Vincent Anthony St. Clair. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 11th day of September 2023, 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.