BY: AMANDA WALTZ
Remembering Pittsburgh's Hard Rock Cafe as it prepares to close
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PHOTO: COURTESY OF MICHI TAPES
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INTO THE LIGHT
BY: AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
At first, I went to LGBTQ dance nights because the music was better. Not having to deal with meat market dudes, who mostly lurked at South Side clubs waiting to pounce on drunk women, was a bonus.
As my Pittsburgh clubbing days progressed, I realized that maybe I wasn’t as straight as I thought. Maybe, I went to these parties at Cattivo, Brillobox, Hot Mass, and other places because I was, in fact, queer, and not just an appreciator of fine house music and mesh tops. I officially came out several years ago at — where else? — a dance party.
Brew House Arts explores this intersection of nightlife and queerness with a new exhibition demonstrating how underground clubs, strip joints, and discos allowed folks across the spectrum to live as their true selves, even if it was in the shadows. It also shows how they persist as safe spaces in a time when LGBTQ culture has become defiantly more visible and, as a result, politicized.
During a well-attended opening on Jan. 23, DJs, including contributing artists Mary “Mary Mack” Tremonte and Jules “Malzof” Malice, pumped music for a crowd eyeing the many works showcased in When the Lights Come On: Queer Nightlife as Emergent Space. Dancers from True T, a Black-led LGBTQ arts organization in Pittsburgh, paid tribute to ballroom culture by voguing, dipping, and duckwalking to the delight of onlookers.
Curated by Hannah Turpin — who organized other queer-centric shows at Brew House, including The Self, Realized: Queering the Art of Self-Portraiture in 2018 — When the Lights Come On features photography, sketches, painting, and other works depicting queer nightlife and dance culture in Pittsburgh and beyond. Above hang kaleidoscopic banners by Malice that sparkle with light from an unseen disco ball or laser light display, subtly adding a club-like vibe to the space.
Clint Fisher pays tribute to the city’s familiar haunts with three canvases dedicated to Lucky’s, a local bar, club, and gay strip joint where stockinged male dancers bump and grind for patrons. Fisher subverts the casually sexual nature of his subject with a style falling somewhere between the serene beauty of Édouard Manet and the exciting business of Romare Beardon — think “Music in the Tuileries” if there were swinging dicks and bare asses instead of ladies with parasols.
CP PHOTO: AMANDA WALTZ "Peter" by Clint Fisher
It's no surprise that Harrison Apple, who co-founded the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, described as an “initiative focused on after-hours nightclubs and working-class LGBTQ lives in Pittsburgh,” would appear here. They do their work justice with “Playback is Endurance,” a nostalgic installation mimicking a workbench built to preserve 1990s-era VHS tapes from ZTV Music On Sight, a Seattlebased subscription service for professional disc jockeys. An old TV loops the videos, and, complete with tracking lines and static, offers an analog look at some of the acts made popular by queer nightlife culture, including the now ultra-famous RuPaul and the Euro-disco duo Sparks.
It’s safe to assume that Apple’s charming multimedia work also winks at poppers, a popular gay club drug made from VCR head cleaner.
In some respects, Bignon and ggggrimes occupy two perspectives: the necessary secrecy of queer past versus a new generation made more defiant by politicians and conservative groups that would see the LGBTQ community forced out of the mainstream and back into darkness.
struck a chord. The various flyers contained here, all messily layered like they were stapled on a college campus message board, harken back to events I have either attended (the Sapphic Pamplemousse dance party) or covered (The Queer Ecology Hanky Project).
The show addresses this aspect more explicitly with “RUSH,” a large papiermâché sculpture of a popular popper brand in the scene since the 1970s.
Embroidery by French artist Théo Bignon and glossy prints by ggggrimes, a self-described “Black non-binary digital artist” from the Bronx, appear throughout the gallery, pulling viewers into different visions of queer nightlife. Bignon, with a combination of thread, sequins, and beads, captures the stairwells, doors, and alcoves that transport revelers to their safe spaces, the shinier elements hinting at fun times ahead. Alternately, ggggrimes lays everything out in the open with works like “Hookup,” a graphic novel-esque portrait of queer sexual desire, the subject gazing directly at the viewer as someone out of frame cops a feel under their shirt.
Jimmy Wright stands out with Club 82, a series of sketches described as capturing the titular New York City club that, in the 1970s, served as a haven for drag queens, glam rockers, and queer people in general. Local photographer and DJ sarah huny young brings viewers back to the present day with vibrant images of Honcho, an annual camping weekend full of music, dancing, and diverse LGBTQ expression.
Rounding out the artists is Nica Ross, whose video work “Eyeball Palace” pays tribute to the essential act of seeing and being seen in clubs, and Amanda Pickler, whose painting lovingly highlights lesbian bar culture. A show like this wouldn’t be complete without a disco ball, supplied here by Janie Stamm, who also produced the fetish-focused “Harness Flag” that hangs proudly in the middle of the gallery.
But it’s “Queer Danceparty Promo,” a collage by Tremonte, that
When the Lights Come On brings queer nightlife out of the dark
While I still feel like an outsider in the LGBTQ community, given my latelife coming out, Tremonte’s many playfully illustrated flyers remind me of my active participation, and that I may never have realized my identity if not for the queer events organized by her and others. It inspired gratitude for the work being done, and the work done by those before, all to create a community defined by acceptance, love, and club bangers. •
When the Lights Come On:
Queer Nightlife as Emergent Space
CONTINUES THROUGH MARCH 22
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CP PHOTO: AMANDA WALTZ “Hookup" by ggggrimes
“Playback is Endurance" by Harrison Apple
EXIT MUSIC
Remembering the Pittsburgh Hard Rock Cafe as it prepares to close
BY: AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
The 1980s and '90s produced a fair share of restaurant chains, but two stood out for their commitment to pop culture ephemera and memorabilia. Planet Hollywood, launched in 1991, welcomed guests to dine among props and costumes from classic and blockbuster films. Then there was Hard Rock Cafe, a similar concept centering on music. Each location had its walls festooned with signed instruments, tour posters, and other items from famed rock and blues musicians.
This venture, launched in London and officially franchised in 1982, featured stages for live performers alongside its dining rooms. This applies to the Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square, opened in 2002 with "an industrial ceiling and exposed-brick stage," indoor seating for 200, a seasonal outdoor patio, and an 80-seat private indoor patio room "overlooking the dancing fountain," according to the location's website.
CP PHOTO: MARS JOHNSON Pittsburgh's Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square
Station Square will soon lose its Hard Rock, ending over two decades of hosting live music that ranged from tribute bands to local acts. The location will close on Feb. 13 after Brookfield Properties, the New Yorkbased firm that owns the property, reportedly decided not to renew the restaurant and performance venue's lease.
The location will go out doing what it has always done, serving patrons a combination of comfort food (including its award-winning burger) and music. On Mon., Feb. 3, hip hop artists Sean Ski, Marly, and Jody Graves will present Final Farewell, a show honoring the venue's contribution to the local music scene.
Sean Ski, whose real name is Sean Lewandowski, tells Pittsburgh City Paper that the Hard Rock played an important role in his career.
"Performing at the Hard Rock has helped me greatly in getting my feet wet and in developing a local fan base," he says. "I felt like it was only right to do a finale show there, not only in celebration and gratitude for my own personal experiences with so many memories created there but to pay homage to everyone both past and present who has played a role in making it such a special spot."
He adds that he had a "great relationship with all of the staff at Hard Rock, adding that they "have always been so kind and helpful" to him and his team. "Many of the employees have also purchased merchandise of mine and have become supporters, which means a lot to me, especially being that my performances there had that kind of positive impact."
Ski says the venue allowed him to open for hip-hop artists Afroman
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SEAN SKI
Sean Ski and drummer Smooth perform at Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square.
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and Dizzy Wright, rock artists like Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors, and "good friend and fellow Connellsville native" Scott Blasey of The Clarks. Ski adds that, after completing his second international tour in anada with hris ebby, he had his first headlining show at Hard Rock in August 2024, which he says "was a success and very encouraging."
The closure of Hard Rock speaks more to the slow death of Station S uare brought on by Brookfield deciding to sell the entertainment complex, than a lack of commitment. Over the pandemic, as other restaurants and performance venues closed permanently, Hard Rock survived COVID-19 and reopened. It also outlived two other anchor Station Square businesses, Buca di Beppo and Joe's Crab Shack, that shuttered in 2024.
Part of Hard Rock Station Square's longevity perhaps lies in its eclectic events. Besides touring musicians, the venue hosted nostalgic acts like the '90s boy group LFO, Broadway musical singalongs, and tribute bands, as well as a Match Gayme event with drag queens and Gisele Fetterman, a CP-sponsored Battle of the Bands in 2018, and, more recently, a DJ convention party.
Ski believes one of the biggest reasons Hard Rock has been a staple in the Pittsburgh music scene is because it provided "a consistent space for the national, middle-tier artists, and local aspiring acts to perform."
"There’s been a primary focus on the A-level musicians getting booked in the bigger venues like [PPG Paints Arena], Starlake Amphitheater, PNC Park, Acrisure Stadium, [et cetera],
CP PHOTO: MARS JOHNSON Pittsburgh's Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square
which is great, but with so many other smaller venues closing down the past so many years, the options are now very limited for other national touring artists and bands as well as local musicians to secure a venue to play a show," he says. "The Hard Rock, along with a short list of other local music venues, have been that outlet."
His statement speaks to smaller local venues that have closed over the past several years, including Rex Theater and, more recently, Club Cafe.
As Hard Rock prepares its exit, Ski would like to see the property be put to good use.
*My hope is that the space is utilized as another music venue/ restaurant or at least something in the arts," he says. "Our local music scene needs a resurgence, and it starts with more performance location possibilities. In general, I’d like to see Station Square as a whole return to prominence." •
Final Farewell with Sean Ski, Marly, and Jody Graves
8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Hard Rock Cafe 230 W. Station Square Dr., Station Square $20-120. facebook.com/hardrockpgh/events
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SEAN SKI
Sean Ski and drummer Smooth perform at Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square.
BELMAR GARDENS BLOOMS
This co-op development by and for Black homeowners remains a local success story
BY: DAVID S. ROTENSTEIN // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
Belmar Gardens, a development with 118 townhomes in Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, was one of Pittsburgh’s earliest Black-owned and developed subdivisions. The brainchild of a Pittsburgh Courier columnist and the wives of other Courier leaders, Belmar Gardens became Pittsburgh’s first cooperative housing development funded by a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH ARCHIVES Hilliards St. in 1959. The Belmar Gardens buildings are to the left and in the background.
When the neighborhood was completed in 1955, renowned photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris captured every step in black and white photos, from clearing the property to the first families moving in. It was a milestone moment in a city marked by neighborhoods destroyed by urban renewal and restricted by real estate exclusions. Belmar Gardens became a homeownership success story and an important part of Pittsburgh’s Black history.
Large numbers of Southern Black migrants came to the Steel City during the Great Migration between 1910 and 1970 in search of better jobs and to escape Jim Crow racism. Instead, they found different types of violence and exclusion , leading many to dub Pittsburgh the “ Mississippi of the North.”
“We knew as young people coming up in a Black community — and this was the same in every Black community in the city of Pittsburgh — that if you went to certain areas, you would not be able to rent,” explained historian Ralph Proctor before he died last year. “You would not be able to buy property.”
These Black professionals had the means to buy housing that fit their status, but yinzer-flavored Jim Crow practices frequently blocked the way. Some people bought homes in East End neighborhoods and others moved to suburbs like Penn Hills.
In 1950, Congress passed a new housing act enabling the FHA to insure mortgages for housing cooperatives. A form of collective ownership, housing cooperatives are like clubs where people apply for mem bership. Instead of access to a clubhouse,
“WE KNEW AS YOUNG PEOPLE COMING UP IN A BLACK COMMUNITY… YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BUY PROPERTY.
Despite many roadblocks thrown up by workplace, housing and educational discrimination, a thriving Black middle class emerged here. Doctors, attorneys, journalists, teachers, musicians and a highly-acclaimed architect were among their numbers, while some racketeers and others likewise prospered. As these men and women accumulated wealth, they outgrew such historically Black neighborhoods as the Hill District and parts of the North Side.
the members get a home. There had been cooperative housing before that, but those properties were usually apartment build ings in big cities like New York.
The new law opened the floodgates for new housing projects in cities and suburbs throughout the country. Groups that historically faced significant housing discrimination, from Jews in Washington, D.C. to African Americans in New York, suddenly had a pathway to homeownership. So too did union workers and others
CP PHOTO: DAVID S. ROTENSTEIN Belmar Gardens
In 1952, Pittsburgh Courier Paul L. Jones and Maybelle Nunn, Helen Prattis, Corrine Lindsay, and Frances Nunn founded Belmar Gardens. Jones had been writing about housing for years. Maybelle Nunn was future managing editor and columnist Bill Nunn’s ex-wife; Frances Nunn was his wife at the time; and Prattis was married to Courier editor P.L. Prattis. Lindsay was an undertaker’s wife whose daughter worked for the Courier.
The group hired New York developer William Brafman to build the subdivision. Brafman had recently completed the highly-acclaimed Merrick Park Gardens in Jamaica, New York. “This is the first project undertaken by a Negro group,” an FHA racial relations officer wrote in a 1953 agency publication.
experience in Pittsburgh. Brafman and the Prattises assembled 9.2 hilltop acres for the development. Numbers racketeer and Hill District barbershop owner William “Woogie” Harris owned a stately Victorian home — now known as the National Opera Company House — down the hill, and he sold Brafman 2.9 acres for the development.
“Well, my Uncle Woogie had part of the property going up there,” recalled Crystal Harris, Teenie Harris’s daughter.
The 1950 Housing Act created two types of cooperatives: management and sales. Belmar Gardens was a “management type” cooperative. In this model, each resident became a subscriber whose monthly payment went towards paying down the mortgage and taxes.
“The houses are row type, built six to
separate, individual houses, having individual heating systems, utilities, garages, and basements.”
Brafman built two streets inside the horseshoe-shaped development, Tilden St. and Vann Rd. — named for Courier publisher Robert L. Vann, who died in 1940.
The first families moved into Belmar Gardens in 1954. Legally, anyone could buy a Belmar Gardens home. “The members of Belmar Gardens are all Negroes, although the offering was not limited to any particular group,” Brafman told Congress.
Pittsburgh’s entrenched segregation practices enabled Black families to create a neighborhood free from white harassment and surveillance because no white families wanted to live there.
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Belmar Gardens quickly attracted notable Pittsburghers, among them pioneering broadcaster Mal Goode and jazz crooner Jerry Betters. Many more less distinguished families also lived there, including James and Mary Truman, whose family papers are archived in the Heinz History Center.
Among the Truman family documents are the family’s 1954 subscription agreement to occupy 7120 Vann Dr. They paid $70 a month for their 5-room home and each month’s payment increased the family’s equity in the property. The family also kept a copy of the 1995 New Pittsburgh Courier article reporting on Belmar Gardens residents’ burning their mortgage and the 1 1 stock certificate marking the transfer to the Trumans’ married daughter, Ella Gaddie.
Longtime Pittsburgh residents remember Belmar Gardens as one of the few Black developments here before the 1980s. “Blacks were building houses even prior to Belmar Gardens being built,” explained Donald Miller, who grew up in the Upper Hill District’s Sugar Top neighborhood.
Chip Boykin, whose family owned a popular barbecue restaurant chain, grew up in a single-family home on Oakdene St. just outside of Belmar Gardens. “All those houses and stuff were more of a planned-type thing, Boykin says of the Belmar Gardens homes.
He doesn’t recall any divisions separating the street where he lived from the people in Belmar Gardens. “I guess we didn t see it as that and stuff like that, Boykin says. It was just, you know, part of the neighborhood at that point.”
Very little has changed in Belmar Gardens since the 1950s. At a time when Pittsburgh struggles to solve an affordable housing shortfall, Belmar Gardens remains shareholderowned, and local affordable housing advocates point to it as a successful cooperative housing model. •
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CP PHOTO: DAVID S. ROTENSTEIN Belmar Gardens
INCREDIBLE NOISE MACHINES
Gina Gory, James Castle, and Forty Winks are among Pittsburgh’s loudest and most innovative new bands
Shoegaze, the fuzzy, ethereal rock genre typified by U.K. pioneers My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, has a new home base: the Keystone State.
Nothing, Blue Smiley, and They Are Gutting a Body of Water are three of the 21st century’s most influential shoegaze acts, and all of them emerged from Philly’s fertile DIY landscape. When feeble little horse, the biggest shoegaze band in Pittsburgh history, broke out nationally in late 2022, their whimsically scuzzy sound was frequently compared to the lo-fi shoegaze idiom percolating across Pennsylvania. For a while, feeble little horse were the only Pittsburgh band tapping into that contemporary shoegaze vein — that is no longer the case.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF JAMES CASTLE James Castle
“THERE’S A FORMIDABLE NOISE ROCK-SLASH-POP SCENE THAT HAS BEEN BREWING IN PITTSBURGH FOR A LITTLE WHILE NOW.”
Going into the decade’s second half, Pittsburgh now has its own impressive roster of up-and-coming bands operating within this distinctly modern framework of Americanized shoegaze. Gina Gory, James Castle, and Forty Winks are three young groups with a mutual love for fuzz-loaded guitar texture, oppressive volume, and vocals that favor atmosphere over articulation. Their millennial scene elders, Gaadge and Ex-Pilots, have released equally worthwhile, albeit more traditional shoegaze products in the 2020s.
The music those aforementioned Gen-Z ’gazers are making, however, feels like a homegrown response to feeble little horse, specifically. A breed of shoegaze that’s brittle and jittery, hooky and shrill, and visually expressed through a post-ironic pastiche of 2000s internet iconography (digital point-and-shoot camera photos, crude photoshop collages, ostentatious hip-hop fonts).
“It’s a real blessing to be playing in the same scene as those two bands,” Gina Gory, guitarist-vocalist Veronika Cloutier says of Forty Winks and James Castle. “They are incredible noise machines in their own right.”
And a scene it is. Gina Gory opened for feeble little horse at their Girl With Fish release show in 2023. “That entire experience was incredibly affirming,” Cloutier enthuses. Last year, Forty Winks’ first-ever gig was with Gina Gory, and James Castle shared the stage with both groups in 2024, including tapping Forty Winks to open their EP release show last November.
“We love seeing them and playing alongside them,” James Castle singer-guitarist, Joel Warchol, says of their peer bands. “They help strengthen the idea that there’s a formidable noise rock-slash-pop scene that has been brewing in Pittsburgh for a little while now.”
Notice how he didn’t say “shoegaze.” The definition of the genre has evolved dramatically since it was first used in the early 1990s to half-jokingly tag an emerging English noise-pop scene of downward pedalboard viewers who were coming up in the wake of My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Cocteau Twins. Shoegaze outposts soon popped up throughout the world (especially in America), and in the decades that followed, the initial meaning of shoegaze has been stretched and
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MICHI TAPES Gina Gory plays a show at Gooskis on Aug. 10, 2024.
molded to accommodate new sonic developments that still feel congruent with shoegaze’s archetypal philosophy: guitars bathed in distortion and reverb, buried vocals, and mosaic songwriting that conveys feelings instead of telling stories.
James Castle isn’t opposed to being lumped under the shoegaze umbrella because the term, in its current, liberallyapplied incarnation, doesn’t feel “constrictive.” “There are so many great bands today that are labeled as ‘shoegaze’ that vary so widely in sound and influence,” Warchol says. “It’s hard to be mad about the distinction if it does come our way.”
Gina Gory and Forty Winks, however, don’t feel like they fit as snugly into that taxonomy.
“Well, we aren’t ever gazing at our shoes. We wouldn’t be a very good shoegaze band,” quips Forty Winks bassistvocalist, Conner McGee. “But seriously, it’s just a popular term right now. We aren’t contrarian, but we really don’t make true shoegaze music. We have our influences, but it isn’t a label we identify with.”
After forming in early 2024 under the name Whatever, the quartet remodeled as Forty Winks last fall and dropped their debut song, aptly titled “noise,” onto YouTube in September. The track erupts with sandblasted chords, chipper drums, and a vocal performance from guitaristsinger Cilia Catello that alternately recalls the twangy melodies of Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and the sassy talk-sings of feeble little horse’s Lydia Slocum.
Their second single, “spurs,” — their first for Pittsburgh DIY powerhouse Crafted Sounds (feeble little horse, Merce Lemon, Gaadge) — features clangy riffs that squeal mournfully in the style of They Are Gutting a Body of Water, and bruised-heart vocals that brood beneath the scrum. McGee avoids claiming influence from any particular shoegaze band, but it’s evident in the way “noise” and “spurs” assemble their individual parts into gushing waterfalls of abrasive pop-rock that Forty Winks are fluent in shoegaze’s sonic lexicon.
If anything, it’s Forty Winks’ lead guitar work that provides the biggest challenge to their shoegaze membership. Chief shredder Kyuhwan “Q” Hwang has a virtuosic playstyle that’s reminiscent of 2010s lo-fi prog-pop group, Crying. With Forty Winks, Hwang’s funneling guitar solos and hammer-on riffs into a genre where that degree of quickfire technicality is historically absent.
James Castle also shred, but more in the way J. Mascis did on Dinosaur Jr.’s proto-shoegaze masterpiece, You’re Living All Over Me. Their debut EP, spenser, released in November 2024, tries on several noisy hats for size (Dino J. rippers, Deftones-y headbangers, Blue Smiley-ish churners) without cohering into a singular identity. Live, James Castle is one of Pittsburgh’s most ferociously engrossing acts, as drummer Ed Haberle bangs his kit like the city’s power grid depends on it, and his bandmates emit enough distorted racket to drown out a fire engine.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MICHI TAPES Gina Gory
“I think now we’re narrowing down that pool and fine-tuning the style we want for our current state,” Warchol says of James Castle’s next phase. “Experimenting with more electronic noise like on the spenser EP, but with even gentler moments and equally harsher ones. Aiming to become more stylistically consistent, but dynamically varied.”
For Gina Gory, it’s a lack of dynamic variation that makes their sound so enamoring. The trio — guitarist Cloutier, bassist Connaely Martin, and synthesist Dylan Henricksen, all of whom sing and are kept in time by a drum machine — are the most established of the three groups, having been steadily releasing music since the summer of 2023. Their debut LP, October 2024’s Died Laughing, is a slow-drip of sticky, syrupy noise-pop that wearily pulses like a poisoned insect twitching its legs during its final hours.
Cloutier checks everyone from Duster to Sonic Youth as being musical reference points, and also emphasizes Gina Gory’s particular affinity for 1990s American shoegazers Swirlies, Lilys, and Astrobrite, groups who are noisier and more gnarled than the dulcet ambience of Slowdive, and who are having an acute influence on the modern milieu feeble little horse has been spearheading.
“There is an overall reverence for a sonically agitated hook when it comes to the impact feeble little horse has had on us,” Cloutier says of their hometown heroes. As for a musical dialogue between Gina Gory, Forty Winks and James Castle, Cloutier recognizes it’s fomenting, even if it’s still in a sapling stage. “The infusion of influence exists, absolutely,” Cloutier says. “But to pinpoint exactly where that exists is hard to say considering how fetal we all are.”
That’s the greatest part about Pittsburgh’s nascent shoegaze wave: the best is still in front of us. All three bands confirm that new music is in the works, and they expect to gig frequently in the coming year. Stock up on earplugs now while you still have time. •
PHOTO: RILEY ALICE KIRK Forty Winks
CP PHOTO: MARS JOHNSON
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A SERIOUS MAN
Comedic actor Tim Heidecker shows his sincere side during a tour for his latest music album, Slipping Away
BY: MATT PETRAS // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
“THE WRITING, THE LYRICS IN THE SONGS I’M WRITING, IT’S ALMOST LIKE GIVING PEOPLE MY DIARY ENTRIES. AND TO SEE THEM SINGING IT BACK TO ME IS VERY TRIPPY.”
Tim Heidecker got more out of the recent Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown than he assumed he would. Its exploration of Dylan, an inspiration for him, moved him to reflect upon his bullishly independent and varied, multi-hyphenate career that he approaches with onand-off sincerity.
PHOTO: CHANTAL ANDERSON Tim Heidecker
“In those days, the first five or six years of my career, when I felt like, you could look to Bob and say, 'I have to shift now. I want to shift. I want to change and do different things, and keep people guessing, and follow my heart when it comes to creative things, and not worry about what people think.' And that’s all he did,” Heidecker tells Pittsburgh City Paper “He was always doing that. He was always ahead of it, and I think he was purely doing it because he was following his heart creatively.”
The comedic actor, whose film and TV credits range from the cult Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! to Jordan Peele’s sophomore horror effort Us,
Heidecker has long known Pittsburgh primarily as that distant, other city on the other side of Pennsylvania. He first visited Pittsburgh while on tour with Eric Wareheim, the other half of Tim and Eric
“Every time I go there, I’m just blown away by how beautiful it is,” Heidecker says. “The hills, the mountains, the bridges, the river. I think it’s quite a charming place.”
Press materials, reviews from critics, and pages on streaming services offer varying labels to describe Heidecker’s music, including country, indie, alternative, folk, rock, and Americana, the last of which Heidecker has come to interpret as “country music for non-MAGA
“NO OFFENSE TO THE WEST COAST, BUT BY THE TIME WE GET TO PITTSBURGH, I’LL BE VERY HAPPY.”
will appear at Spirit on Thu., Feb. 6 during a tour for his latest music album, Slipping Away. The show will include his original songs along with a brief comedy segment.
Now 48, Heidecker still acts and performs, including appearances on the Netflix sketch show I Think You Should Leave and the vampire mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows. He also hosts the silly, sometimes political podcast Office Hours Live (on which he does a great impression of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance) and tours with serious, genuine music.
Slipping Away, a tight 34-minute album, addresses his current career trajectory and place in life.
“Every year, there’s still that mission of making certain things and continuing to express myself while trying to live and support my family and work and bring an income from all of it,” Heidecker says. “It stresses me out in the middle of the night. It’s one of those things.”
Originally from Allentown, Pa.,
people.” His newest songs are about finding validation from his family rather than the press, struggling to write as he ages, and feeling insecure about his singing voice.
When playing music live, Heidecker says he most enjoys watching the crowd sing or mouth the lyrics with him.
“It’s a very surreal thing,” Heidecker says. “I don’t know how to exactly explain why that’s cool for me.
I think because this music is so personal to me. The writing, the lyrics in the songs I’m writing, it’s almost like giving people my diary entries. And to see them singing it back to me is very trippy.”
The upcoming show will include a comedy segment with a PowerPoint about YouTube comments (Heidecker doesn't divulge any other details). Because of this, the show will likely scratch an itch for audience members regardless of what kind of work brought them to Heidecker. He also hopes the songs sound different than they would on another night.
“I’m looking for them to evolve,” he says. “Mix up arrangements and tempos and make it feel like, when you’re seeing it, it’s a very unique experience. It’s not like we’re just trying to replicate the album.”
Heidecker says tours tend to get more enjoyable after the first few shows.
“The first couple shows, my brain is working overtime to try to stay on top of things,” he explains. “I will drop lyrics or play the wrong parts or something. And then, by the third or fourth show, it becomes muscle memory, and it becomes sort of easy and fun and loose, and all the hard things, the memorizing of the guitar playing and the singing, becomes second nature, and then you can have fun and play with the audience and
mix things up.”
This means Pittsburghers will likely catch him at a good time.
“I’m looking forward to getting to, let’s say, Minneapolis on this tour,” Heidecker says, laughing. “No offense to the West Coast, but by the time we get to Pittsburgh, I’ll be very happy.” •
8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Spirit 242 51st St., Lawrenceville $114.50 VIP. spiritpgh.com
Tim Heidecker and The Very Good Band with DJ Douggpound
SWAP • SHADYSIDE
Polish Hill Green Team Seed Swap and Hot Dog Fundraiser. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. PHCA Building. 3060 Brereton St., Polish Hill. Free. instagram. com/polishhillcivic
HEALTH • SOUTH SIDE
Pittsburgh Social Health Connection Expo. 12-5 p.m. Velum Fermentation. 2120 Jane St., South Side. Free. Registration required. pghsocialhealth.org/connection-expo
SEVEN DAYS IN PITTSBURGH
THU., FEB. 6
OPEN MIC/BINGO • MILLVALE
Smut Open Mic and BINGO. 7-10 p.m. Poetry Lounge. 313 North Ave., Millvale. $5. poetrymillvale.com
THEATER • CARNEGIE
Irish Riviera Productions and the Beverly Hills Playhouse present Years to the Day. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Carnegie Stage and Studio. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $30-40. carnegiestage.com
FRI., FEB. 7
CRAFTS • DORMONT
Self-Love Stitch. 5-9 p.m. Topaz Thimble. 2882 Glenmore Ave., Dormont. Free. instagram.com/topazthimble
ART • LAWRENCEVILLE
Keiko Fukazawa Retrospective: The Space in Between 5:30-8 p.m. Continues through May 3. Contemporary Craft. 5645 Butler St., Lawrenceville. Free. contemporarycraft.org
IN PITTSBURGH
DANCE • NORTH SIDE
MARKET • STRIP DISTRICT
Cupid’s Craft and Shop. 6-9 p.m. Kingfly Spirits. 2613 Smallman St., Strip District. $10. kingflyspirits.com
ART • FRIENDSHIP
The fragility of nature comes through in Glass Lifeforms, a new exhibition at Pittsburgh Glass Center. Inspired by the glass biological models made by Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka for Harvard University’s museums, the juried show features 51 representations of animals, insects, plants, and microorganisms, all created using di erent glass-making techniques. The opening reception includes glass-blowing demonstrations. 6-9 p.m. Continues through April 20. 5472 Penn Ave., Friendship. pittsburghglasscenter.org
MARKET • HIGHLAND PARK
Queer Craft Market and PGH Vintage Mixer present Sexy Time Market 6-9 p.m. Union Project. 801 N. Negley Ave., Highland Park. 18 and over. pghvintagemixer.com/events
THEATER • HOMESTEAD
Glitterbox Theater takes a page from Corky St. Clair for a night dedicated to the master of
TUE., FEB. 7 SAT., FEB. 8
mockumentaries. The Christopher Guest Short Play Series pays tribute to the colorful characters created by Guest and his regular players in movies like Best in Show, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Gu man, A Mighty Wind, and others. The two nights of Guestian weirdness will leave audiences asking “Wha’ happened?” 7-11 p.m. Continues through Sat., Feb. 8. 210 W. Eighth Ave., Homestead. Tickets at the door. theglitterboxtheater.com
MUSIC • SEWICKLEY
Folk February Concert Series: Bu alo Rose 7:30 p.m. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Sweetwater Center for the Arts. 200 Broad St., Sewickley. $25. sweetwaterartcenter.org
SAT., FEB. 8
MARKET • ROSS TOWNSHIP
I Made It! Mine: A Valentine’s Day Handmade Marketplace 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Block Northway. The Block Northway. 8013 McKnight Rd., Ross Township. Free. imadeitmarket.com
Texture Ballet School Winter Showcase 6 p.m. New Hazlett Theater. 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $19. newhazletttheater.org
MUSIC • SHADYSIDE
Pi aro: The Bassanos, From Renaissance Italy to Tudor England. 7:30 p.m. Calvary Episcopal Church. 315 Shady Ave., Shadyside. $20-40. chathambaroque.org
DANCE • LAWRENCEVILLE
Attack Theatre presents Sessions with Rachael Sage and Dave Eggar 7:30 p.m. Attack Theatre Studios. 212 45th St., Lawrenceville. $25-45. attacktheatre.com/sessions
THEATER • MILLVALE
Full Day Suspension 2: A 24-Hour Theatre Festival. 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $10-15. mrsmalls.com
PHOTO: COURTESY OF PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER
Salish Sea (Black Tailed Mule Deer) by Crista Van Slyck Matteson, part of Glass Lifeforms at Pittsburgh Glass Center
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FILM • DOWNTOWN
Eraserhead. 9:45 p.m. Continues on Sun., Feb. 9. Harris Theater. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $9-11. trustarts.org
DRAG • LAWRENCEVILLE
Bridesmaids: The Drag Show 11 p.m. Blue Moon Bar. 5115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. Free. 21 and over. instagram.com/thebluemoonbar
SUN., FEB. 9
KIDS • ASPINWALL
Summer Snow Day. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Allegheny RiverTrail Park. 285 River Ave., Aspinwall. Free. All ages. instagram.com/alleghenyrivertrailpark
MARKET • WILKINSBURG
Love Bug Market 11 a.m.-3 p.m. WorkshopPGH. 321 Pennwood Ave., Wilkinsburg. Free. workshoppgh.com
MON., FEB. 10
MUSIC • LAWRENCEVILLE
Dan Bern with Akrasia. 7 p.m. Doors at 6 p.m. Spirit. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. spiritpgh.com
LIT • OAKLAND
Mental healthcare in America has a disturbing history that becomes especially complicated when race comes into play. Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures highlight this with an appearance by Antonia Hylton at Carnegie Music Hall. The award-winning author will discuss her acclaimed non-fiction work Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, which traces the heartbreaking history of a state hospital in Maryland that served Black patients. 7:30 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $25-35. Registration required. pittsburghlectures.culturaldistrict.org
TUE., FEB. 11
DRAG • STRIP DISTRICT
Drag BINGO with S&S Productions 7 p.m. Doors at 6 p.m. Aslin Beer Company. 1801 Smallman St., Strip District. $5-10. 18 and over. aslinbeer.com/events
WED., FEB. 12
FILM • MCKEES ROCKS
Film Kitchen presents Movies on a Winter’s Night. 7 p.m. Doors at 6 p.m. The Parkway Theater. 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. $8. jumpcuttheater.org/film-kitchen
MUSIC • DORMONT
Steel City Cabaret Valentine’s Day Show
7-9 p.m. Back Alley Brewing Co. 2975 West Liberty Ave., Dormont. $10. instagram.com/cabaretpgh
PHOTO: COURTESY OF JANUS FILMS Eraserhead at Harris Theatre
MARKET PLACE
NAME CHANGE
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: 111 Hickory Grade Rd. Bridgeville, PA 15017. February 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM. Michael Darnley 1017. 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, on behalf of itself or its a iliates life Storage or Storage Express, Will hold a Public Auction to sell the contents of leased Spaces to satisfy Extras Space’s lien at the location indicated: 902 Brinton Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15221 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 at 11:30am, 1106 William Wright, 1240 Ronnika Wright, 1242 Warren Wilson,2106 Tahirah Boucher, 2156 Brandon Redden,2249 Cicely Hurt,2250 Cicely Hurt, 3198 Amber Klingensmith. 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 property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, 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 on February 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM. 2002 Sunsune Bey, 2180A Michael Patterson, 2197A Briona Harris, 2230A Warren Bradshaw, L116 Gwyn Campbell, L128 MIRZIYOD MIRAZIZOV. 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. February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM. Rafiyq Cromwell 2077, Emotions Whitfield 5073. 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, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 700 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203. January 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM. 2117 Rick Barnett, 2133 Brandy Banal, 4077 Leah M Jackson. 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, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, 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, February 19, 2025, at 1:15 PM. Tannia Cortes 4041, Tevon Douglas 4105. 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.
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PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, 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 on 2/19/2025 at 11:30 AM. John Mcquillan 2156, Goldman Pierce & Stern GP 3124, Lee Hulbert 4146, Michael Miller 8106. 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.
IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-24-11006 In re petition of James Henry Nevels Clay for change of name to Jamie Cosby Nevels. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 19th day of February 2025, 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.
PUBLIC AUCTION
STUDY SMOKERS WANTED
The University of Pittsburgh’s Alcohol & Smoking Research Lab is looking for people to participate in a research project. You must:
• Currently smoke cigarettes
• Be 18-49 years old, in good health, and speak fluent English
• Be right handed, willing to not smoke before two sessions, and to fill out questionnaires
Earn up to $260 for participating in this study. For more information, call (412) 407-5029
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 February 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm, and day to day thereafter until sold at which time a high bidder will be determined.
350 Old Haymaker Road, Monroeville, Pa 14146: Unit #2315 Tyler Collins, Unit #2326 Alaha Crutchfiled, Unit #3113 Shawn Mackson, Unit #3134 Carlee Harnish-Mcinnes
14200 Route 30, North Huntingdon, Pa 15642: Unit #1144 Stephanie Young, Unit #3030 Ken Simpson 4711 William Penn Highway, Monroeville, PA 15146: Unit #11108 Deborah Sparacino, Unit #13410 Tracey Bresnahan, Unit #23111 David King
1028 Ridge Road, Tarentum, Pa 15084: Unit #31702 Brenda Smith, Unit #31712 Michael Meade, Unit #31810 Brian Pastoria, Unit #31919 Sherrie Oravitz, Unit #32426 Amanda Dietrich, Unit #32502 Nanci Giu re, Unit #41306 Julian Barr, Unit #41312 Jennifer Gravelle, Unit #41326 Nanci Giu re
901 Brinton Road, Pittsburgh, Pa 15221: Unit #10113 Lindsay Weinstein, Unit #10211 James Dixon, Unit #1102 Karley Higgins, Unit #11103 Christian Boyer, Unit #12302 Ledaja Rose, Unit #2209 Odmar Nerette, Unit #2307 Nikki Sims, Unit #3104 Cherece Glaze, Unit #3404 Nicole Schoen, Unit #52121 Andre Brookins, Unit #5412 Christian Boyer, Unit #6130 Kayla Williams, Unit #6201 Eyasha Barron, Unit #6228 Candice Hopes, unit #7213 Marika Johnson, Unit #8103 William Trena, Unit #8416 Jasiya Velazquez, Unit #9407 Candice Hopes, Unit #9414 Ricardo Gruber 5873 Centre Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206: Unit #2943 Nadia Samuels, Unit #3709 Bryan Gore, Unit #4112 Brittany Fuhs, Unit #4209 Miah Thomas, Unit #6602 Lewis J Scheinman (GDA Associates)
750 South Millvale Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Unit #345 Cherise Daniels, Unit #4215 Monique Jones
2839 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222: Unit #1039 Carrie Laing, Unit #3402 Victor Hogan, Unit #3805 Lisa Kowalczyk, Unit #4310 Robert Young, Unit #4811 Dayna Fancher, Unit #5912 Kevin West, Unit #6712 Rebecca Tucker, Unit #6821 Juan Giles
1300 Lebanon Church Road, West Mi lin, PA 15236: Unit #14315 Raekwon Spencer, Unit #22118 Danielle Stubblefield, Unit #22324 Jemel Potter (Matres Moguls), Unit #32105 Kala Mesko (Bath Factory and Window)
401 Coraopolis Road, Coraopolis, PA 15108: Unit #12833 Brittany L Hartwell, Unit #13701 Marguerite Emerson, Unit #22214 Carol A Edlund 1067 Milford Drive, Bethel Park, PA 15102: Unit #23826 Edith Recchion
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APARTMENTS FOR RENT IN PITTSBURGH
ACROSS
1. Graceful woman in the sky
6. Quarter of “quatro” 9. Pat (down)
14. Angers river
15. Pile
16. Marioverse dinosaur
17. Ironclad ancient Greek?
20. Turn on the waterworks
21. Say out loud
22. Sneaker brand
23. WSW U-turn
25. Tire inflation meas.
27. Ancient greek seeing the sights?
36. Septoplasty doc.
37. Cheboygan lake
38. Loop with a slipknot
39. Disfigure
41. Manhandle
43. Senior Bowl org.
44. Ornamental loop on some lace
46. Patron of Ireland, briefly
48. “It’s ___ Greek to me”
49. Ancient Greek with some spray-on tan?
52. Some are frozen in labs
53. Eastern ideal
54. Reflexology businesses
57. Extra serving
of bacon?
61. Album with tracks by a lot of artists
65. Ancient Greek on the job?
68. Bit of slapstick
69. Have a bone to pick?
70. Many-headed monster
71. Exhibiting carelessness
72. Turn green, say 73. Skating jumps
DOWN
1. Barbecue vegetable, perhaps
2. Days of Ancient Greeks, say 3. Citrus fruit
4. Straight-laced
5. ___ Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Ni enegger book)
6. Ctrl-Z command
7. Language of Pandora
8. Crude cartel
9. “Check this out,” initially, on memos
10. David Bowie or Freddie Mercury, e.g.
11. Source of a message in a bottle
12. Threw o 13. Sloppy greeting, perhaps
18. Tie things?
19. Liver problem, briefly
24. Agcy. with a Stem
Cell information page on its website
26. Ant.’s opposite 27. Song’s pace 28. “We’re recording!”
29. City east of Syracuse
30. Grab hold of 31. Greet respectfully
32. Like some freemium purchases
33. Like farmer’s market produce 34. Etsy transaction, e.g. 35. Some barkers 40. Winter equipment where the feet face forward 42. One checking for poison 45. French high-speed rail inits.
47. Member of the familia
50. Bring home
51. Tailbone
54. Competed in an IM event
55. Bread sometimes served with chili
56. Liberal ___
58. On in years
59. “Let me get back to you”
60. Building location
62. Adjective in some gift shoppes
63. Puzzlemaker Reagle
64. “Click It or Ticket” and “It Can Wait,” e.g.
66. Hardly forthcoming
67. Word said while snapping one’s fingers
LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS
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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 February 18, 2025, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for:
PITTSBURGH OBAMA
• Finish Floor Replacement and Miscellaneous Work
• General and Asbestos Primes
Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on January 27, 2025, 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.
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 February 25, 2025, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for:
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
• Water Cooler Replacement
• Plumbing and Electrical Primes
PITTSBURGH BROOKLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• Air Conditioning
• Mechanical and Electrical Primes
PITTSBURGH ROOSEVELT EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
• Finish Floor Replacement and Miscellaneous Work
• Abatement, General, and Plumbing Primes
PITTSBURGH WESTINGHOUSE ACADEMY 6-12
• Stair Tread Replacement
• General Prime
Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on Monday February 3, 2025, 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.