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BY LISA CUNNINGHAM LCUNNING@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

BUNCH OF weed-smoking dogs have taken over Liberty Avenue.

Some have been drawn in simple black outlines, others are painted so brightly, their noses are reflected in the overhead lights. Many are sporting Pittsburgh Pirates hats. And every single one of them is sucking on a big, fat blunt.

It was that cartoonish graffiti of a wide-eyed, floppy-eared, grinning pup that the late Pittsburgh artist Danny Devine was best known for, and it’s also what best summed up his own personality, according to one of his closest friends, fellow Pittsburgh artist Smoking Joe Perry: “Goofy, lovable, loyal.”

When Danny unexpectedly passed away at the age of 37 in June 2021, the large number of social media posts expressing grief made it feel as if the entire street art community in Pittsburgh went into mourning. Now, along with an incredible array of Danny’s own work, over 35 artists have created tribute pieces in Danny’s style for Simply Devine, a Retrospective of Danny Devine, on display from March 2-June 13 at 820 Gallery in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Well-known Pittsburgh street artist Max “Gems” Gonzales is one of the many folks who have created a tribute using Danny’s dog character. His memorial

piece, a large spray-painted wooden cutout, incorporates his own wizard character along with Danny’s. It complements others, like local artist Brian Gonnella’s mixed-media tribute to the dog, with a swapped-out keystone instead of a Pirates' logo and some personal embellishments. All the artists have given a piece of themselves, in addition to honoring their friend.

And Danny had a lot of them. His mother, Debbie Devine, remembers walking down the street with her son when someone shouted to him as they passed. “I know a lot of people,” she recalls Danny telling her. For Simply Devine,

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The art of Pittsburgh artist Danny Devine at Simply Devine

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friends of Danny’s from as far away as Japan are mailing in tributes.

But while he was known and widely loved across the world, Pittsburgh was Danny’s canvas. Even if you didn’t know him personally, chances are you’ve seen his work.

His graffiti was tagged on walls and trains, but he was also a classically trained artist. Along with a fine arts degree from Indiana University, he was a former student of “excellent art teachers” at Peabody High School, and Thaddeus Mossley at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, according to Debbie, an art teacher herself. He created countless zines through indie publisher City Slicker Press and was the brains behind branding pieces for various businesses, including his brother Sean’s popular streetwear shop Daily Bread and sneaker store Refresh, all of which are visible in the exhibit.

Walking into Simply Devine is like a time capsule of those worlds.

In one of the most intimate and emotional gallery experiences I’ve encountered, Danny’s desk has been installed to recreate his old workspace. Milk crates have been set on the floor, an old sweater thrown over the back of the chair, and an array of his artifacts and artwork has been hung on the walls, all staged to look as though Danny could return at any moment.

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DOG SMOKING WEED According to Smoking Joe Perry, Danny Devine’s popular dog smoking weed character originated from a piece of graffiti that showed up on Melwood Street near the old Pittsburgh Filmmakers building, one of the most popular spots in the city for street artists back in the day. “It wasn’t really good, but it was just super silly,” says Perry of the original dog painting. They never found out who the original artist was, but Devine repurposed it, cleaned it up, and turned it into his own.

Since Devine’s death, Max “Gems” Gonzales says that people have already started continuing to tag dog smoking weed pieces around the country in Danny’s memory. “Everyone has their own version of it,” Gonzales says. “I’ve drawn it so many times.”

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A group tribute piece by Shane Pilster, Max “Gems” Gonzales, and David Scott Brozovich

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The art of Pittsburgh artist Danny Devine at Simply Devine

There are objects like a gas mask, spray paint cans, and photographs.

Drawing after drawing of dogs smoking weed, of course, but so much more.

Beautiful hand-letterings. Paintings, cartoons, mixed-media pieces, intricate black-and-white illustrations.

It took Debbie and Sean months to go through all of his artwork.

“You might have one box where you have, you know, 500 prints, and in the next boxes, 50 small hand-painted canvases, and the next might be, you know, scenes that he had 20 copies of each,” says Sean, who says Danny was always interested in learning new things, reinventing his own style every few years.

Just inside the entrance of the gallery is a tribute to one of Danny’s most impressive styles, a memorial piece spelling out the name of the show in a gorgeous 3D cursive script with a mix of linear edges and extended curls. Gonzales and Perry say they used to tease Danny by calling it “ribbon candy” or “lazer spaghetti.” Examples of Danny’s own work in the style can also be found elsewhere in the exhibit.

Perry, who met Danny when he was only 15, considered him a mentor. His slick mixed-media tribute piece, “THEE S,” is what some refer to as a “Stussy S” design, and serves as a memory of their friendship. Both Danny and Perry got “S” tattoos together. Perry got a gray one,

and Danny’s, Perry says, was filled with a pizza design.

Debbie and Danny’s sister, Erin, also have pieces in the show. Debbie’s is a large quilt filled with old clothing of her son’s, including T-shirts and paintsplattered pants.

Art was “his life,” she says.

Tribute pieces for the show will be for sale and donated to the Danny Devine Foundation, a nonprofit Sean created in his brother’s memory. He has plans to create a community art space to permanently house Danny’s art, and where folks can not only learn to make art but learn to turn making art into a business, something he says was important to both him and his brother. He wants to use the space, he says, “to keep his spirit alive.”

Soon after Danny died, world-renown Pittsburgh artist vanessa german wrote a poem about him and included the lines, “Danny Devine and the Dancing Hands of Light and Letters Scripting, Scribing writing up the days in luminous, adventurous swirls. You gave our eyes adventure. Set our hearts free in the sight of it all, didn’t you? What a gift. What a grand gift to have been there with you, even in the few days, months, of these years.”

While Danny was a gift to those who knew him, Simply Devine feels like a gift to the city. A chance to know the vast assortment of extraordinary work of an artist taken way too soon. •

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“THIS IS WHY WE’RE HERE TODAY BECAUSE WE NEED TO STOP COLCOM’S FUNDING OF HATE SPEECH.”

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Andy Kang and Guillermo Perez speak at a press conference on Mon., Feb. 28.

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NDY KANG’S FATHER immigrated to Pittsburgh from Korea in the late 1950s. “His first real American job was right here in Pittsburgh for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,” said Kang at a Feb. 28 press conference, during which a coalition of community groups known as the Drop Colcom Campaign announced a new effort to pressure the Pittsburgh-based Colcom Foundation to cease funding antiimmigrant organizations. More than 70 local businesses and organizations have signed onto a letter demanding Colcom redirect the entirety of its funding to civic and conservation projects.

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Kang said his father’s coworkers, both Black and white, warmly welcomed him to Pittsburgh.

“They showed him around the city and they were generous and inclusive and warm,” Kang said.

But Kang, the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition, also remembers hearing about another, very different aspect of his father’s experience as an Asian immigrant in a mostly white Pittsburgh. Kang said his father often spoke of one night at a local bar when white patrons overheard his father talking with another Korean person about the

Korean War and reacted violently.

“Being the two only Asian people in that bar that night, those remarks were not well received by the other patrons,” Kang said. “My father and his friend ended up fighting for their lives to get out of that bar.” “[This] is also part of America’s story,” Kang said. “Hatred leads to violence. More specifically, hate speech and hateful ideas that are given any kind of credibility lead to violence. And then, beyond that, lead to shameful government policies when the politics of hate overtake a society. This is why we’re here today because we need to stop Colcom’s funding of hate speech.”

The Colcom Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation based in Pittsburgh and started by Mellon bank heiress Cordelia Scaife May. Colcom markets itself as an environmental organization and gives millions to local environmental causes, but the majority of its funding goes to immigration-restriction groups, including some that have been deemed hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A Drop Colcom Campaign press release points out how the Colcom Foundation was originally founded by Dr. John Tanton, an environmentalist and “avowed eugenicist who advocated for a majority white population

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in the U.S. and a sealing off of the U.S.Mexico border to protect against what he called a ‘Latin onslaught.’”

In 2017, the foundation gave more than $34 million to anti-immigrant groups, which was more than 80% of their total giving that year. Since 2005, Colcom has given more than $150 million to anti-immigrant groups, as well as a much smaller figure donated to Pittsburgh-area environmental nonprofits and other groups.

Although founder Cordelia Scaife May’s affinity for white nationalism is well-documented, as is the foundation’s giving to anti-immigrant groups, particularly in a 2019 article by the New York Times, Colcom vice president John Rohe has repeatedly denied the foundation’s ties to white nationalism.

“Colcom categorically rejects intolerance, racism, and anti-immigrant sentiment,” Rohe wrote to Pittsburgh City Paper in 2019. “It refuses to fund groups promulgating such activities. The Foundation supports public education on a long-term sustainable level of immigration. This conversation should never be marred by racial bias. The starting point is to respect all people.”

In a Feb. 28 response to City Paper, Rohe wrote that the Colcom Foundation has “no tolerance for discrimination” and provides funding to nonprofits

“addressing the long-term sustainable level of immigration.”

“It can be difficult to comprehend the environmental impact of the world’s population growth; nearly a quarter million people every day (births minus deaths),” wrote Rohe. “That’s almost another Pittsburgh daily, another million people every four days. Some might prefer to argue for open borders. While their voices should be heard, we might consider how that policy would, for example, directly impact the 40 states already confronting water shortages.”

Concerns that the Earth is at imminent risk of “overpopulation” are perennial and have been frequently debunked.

Guillermo Perez, president of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, is among the local activists who have for years criticized Colcom’s funding of anti-immigrant and white nationalist groups.

At the Feb. 28 press conference, Perez, citing industrialist Andrew Carnegie’s charitable giving as an example, argued that “evil, ill gotten fortunes can be used to generate socially positive outcomes. And Pittsburgh’s philanthropic foundations fund a ton of good work here and across the country. Wouldn’t it be great if one day we could say the same thing about the philanthropy of the Colcom Foundation and the legacy of Cordelia Scaife May?” •

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BY DANI JANAE DANIJANAE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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ONUTS ARE ONE OF LIFE’S greatest joys. As a vegan who stopped eating donuts 10 years ago, I never thought there would come a day when there would be such a wide variety of alternatives to my egg- and dairyladen favorites.

For whatever reason, for many years, most of the vegan donuts that existed were cake donuts. Usually dense and crumbly, these donuts were good, but they just didn’t hit that donut spot the way, say, a Krispy Kreme donut would.

Now, things have changed, and there are a variety of fried-dough donuts available for vegans and non-vegans to enjoy.

Onion Maiden, a shop in the Allentown neighborhood of Pittsburgh, has great vegan donuts that come in inventive flavors and colors. But Allentown is a bit of a hike for my East End-centric life, so when it was announced that Valkyrie Doughnuts would be opening a shop in Pittsburgh, I was overjoyed.

The Florida-based company officially opened its Bellevue location in 2021.

Before then, you could find their squareshaped donuts at Adda Coffee and Tea or Curated Flame as a pop-up. Now that they have a brick-and-mortar shop, Valkyrie has been cranking out delicious donuts for vegans and anyone else who loves a sweet breakfast or an afternoon treat.

Bellevue is also a bit of a hike for me, so I was relieved when Valkyrie announced that they’d partnered with Uber Eats to have these donuts delivered within the city limits. Sometime last week, I jumped on Uber Eats and ordered a half dozen donuts of the shop’s choosing, and a side of their Churro Nuggs, described on the Valkyrie site as “snackable little doughnut holes swaddled in churro style cinnamon sugar.”

You can order a full dozen or a half dozen donuts and a 13- or 20-piece side of Churro Nuggs. The shop also has a selection of vegan cookies to choose from, including a Red Velvet one.

I really liked the idea of not knowing what donuts I was going to get, so when

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Half dozen donuts from Valkryie

they came I was pleasantly surprised.

There were two plain glazed donuts, one with pink frosting and sprinkles, two with pink frosting and a golden drizzle, and an iced one with black and gold sprinkles.

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I started with the black and gold number, and it was loaded with sugary icing that caught me off guard at first. I knew it would be sweet but I didn’t know how sweet. The dough itself is perfectly

balanced and light, which was really the most important thing for me. It gives that classic donut feel that I had been craving.

I then tried one with the plain glaze, which had a brightness to it that I thought might be achieved with lemon juice. Whatever was behind the zest in the glaze, I found it to be perfect, along with the rest of the treat. Sweet, tender, and fluffy, these donuts were my second favorite of the batch.

My ultimate favorite were the pink iced ones with gold glaze. Upon tasting them, I gathered that the icing was either strawberry or raspberry based, and the gold glaze was lemon flavored. On some

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bites, the icing had hardened and gave a little crunchy texture, which I found delightful. The fruit icing had a bit more of a complex flavor than the first one I tried, so I liked it much more. The addition of the lemon drizzle added that zestiness I talked about earlier that complimented the dough well.

The Churro Nuggs, rolled in cinnamon sugar, were a bit uneven. Some were just right while others were a little tough. I still found them to be a nice treat for a great price.

I will definitely be getting donuts from this shop again, and maybe bringing a friend along for the ride. •

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SLINGIN’ BEERS A conversation with Trace Brewing’s Aadam Soorma

BY OWEN GABBEY OGABBEY@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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HE CRAFT BEER scene in Pittsburgh is exploding, but not for everybody. Despite many rallying cries, the space is still a predominantly white-male driven industry. Bloomfield’s Trace Brewing is looking to change that, and a lot of it starts with its Director of Marketing and Guest Experience, Aadam Soorma. A staple in the Pittsburgh beer scene, Soorma has helped shape Trace, which first opened in mid-2020 as a takeout spot, into something wholly unique in the city, and the region, once it opened for dine-in services. Pittsburgh City Paper sat down to talk with Soorma about brewery marketing, inclusion, and the future of the scene.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What made you first get into craft beer?

In Pittsburgh, you’d have to fast forward all the way to 2016-2017. I started as a tour guide with Porter, which was a little craft beer tour company with a bus. So we got our commercial driver’s licenses, we drove the bus, we did the beer tour from 2016 all the way until COVID. I was also a beer columnist at Very Local, so I wrote about beer, which was cool because I got to cover the industry as a writer. And then I quit that job in January of 2021 to help open Trace.

Where did the Guest Experience element come from before you came to Trace?

That was mainly my intuition. When I started, the way my job worked was I was two-thirds marketing, one-third bartending, so I thought of it like sitting at the intersection of both. … I want to have enough know-how in the front of house to know, “Who are the guests? What are the events, the DJs, the food trucks?” So the Guest Experience stuff is mostly hitting us up on social media with an inquiry or a question, most of that stuff goes through me. And then, all the programming in the space. I don’t do any brewing and I don’t

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Trace Brewing’s Aadam Soorma

SOORMA HAS HELPED SHAPE TRACE INTO SOMETHING WHOLLY UNIQUE IN THE CITY ... do any coffee, so the Guest Experience stuff, in my eyes, is an extension of the front of house.

What separated Trace in its first year of dine-in service was being a different taproom experience than a lot of what’s in Pittsburgh. Was that always Trace’s plan?

It was kind of two things. One part of it was our location. Because we’re in Bloomfield, there was no other brewery right here in the neighborhood. So we thought of it, like, Bloomfield is right in the dead-ass center of the city, and we’re near some of the Black community in the Hill, and some of the gay community that exists all across Pittsburgh, so the programming and approach to opening the taproom to more communities was partly driven by our location and partly driven by our staff.

Katie, our general manager, came from Spirit, and no one in our front of house came from craft breweries. So when we heard them talk about these things that could bring different people in, we realized we’re a brewery that loves our product, but we’re also very space and experience forward, and that had a lot of impact on how we do service.

Have you had beer-centric folks tell you they’re surprised at the brewery’s offerings, or seen people coming in for events surprised to enjoy craft beer?

Definitely. On the former side, for the folks who see Trace as a brewery forwardconcept experience, things like having to use the restroom and having it all be gender-neutral, some of them haven’t experienced that because they’ve gone to conventional breweries where it’s very gender-delineated. And they come for the beer and end up staying for the vibe, and it’s awesome. It’s been funny to watch. We’ll have an event like Drag Brunch, and they’ll ask, “Oh, are we allowed to be here?” And I’m like, “Absolutely, we’re for everybody.”

On the flipside, we’ve seen some of the folks come in specifically for an event, end up getting some beers, and enjoying it. And if that’s their first touch point for the craft beer scene, our hope is they explore other breweries, too. And it’s been cool because we’ll have folks say, “I don’t really like IPAs,” and we can say,

“That’s OK, try a saison, try a lager, try a stout.”

You’re obviously kind of a rarity in the “non-bearded white dude” space in the beer scene. Have you seen it change since you started?

Yeah, I don’t know if we’re the frontier, but it’s been funny having folks who cover beer come here and see a different type of clientele, or a night where the whole front of house is people of color or all women, and that doesn’t always happen.

And that’s been cool to see it proliferate out. One of the leading voices for the beer community is Day Bracey, who’s been very forward about beer being great, but elevating the Black community. So he’s come to Trace and gives us feedback, and that’s been really cool to see because he’ll take meetings with other people of color, and he’ll choose to take them at Trace, and that’s awesome because I know he feels comfortable here.

On the guest side, for sure, it’s been really cool to host things like [the dance party] Slappers N Bangers. And the artists 331661_4.75_x_4.75.indd we hire for Live Art Night are usually artists of color because we’re working with BOOM Concepts and Redfishbowl to help curate that program, and work with artists of color.

What has to happen to get those people who do want to make it a more inclusive space to take that next step?

I’d say it’s two things. First, if you’re in ownership or leadership and you’re looking to staff up, chances are you’ll hire who you know. And that’s totally normal, to some degree that’s how we’ve built Trace. But it just takes a little bit of effort. When I book vendors, when I book food trucks, the staff has been really helpful to tell me, “Hey, you’re doing a good job, but you need to do a better job reaching out to this Black vendor, this person of color who’s an artist.”

If you take one extra bit of effort or initiative, it takes time and credibility because it feels a little weird if suddenly a very white brewery all of the sudden does all of these Black events. But if they’re doing the outreach and you’re building that relationship for a sustainable cause, that’s where it just takes effort. •

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Confluence Ballet Company presents Emergence

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HEN TRYING TO GET a new venture off the ground, the team behind it has to take on various roles in order to make it successful. This also applies to the dance world, or, at least, the emerging Pittsburghbased Confluence Ballet Company.

Of all the Confluence dancers, most of them also have administrative positions.

This includes Claire Peoples, who serves as the company’s marketing and social media manager in addition to performing as a dance trainee.

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“We wear many hats,” laughs Peoples during a phone interview with Pittsburgh City Paper.

Peoples will be among those dancing in Emergence, the company’s first in-theater production. Debuting Sat., March 5 at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, the performance is described as featuring “a range of styles from the romantic ballet Les Sylphides, as well as neoclassical and contemporary works.”

With this introduction, Confluence will add yet another voice to the city’s

dance scene, and one that is an all-female company. As of now, Peoples says their only male dancer is Ken Shiozawa, a visiting artist from the Minnesota Ballet.

“We’ve been dancing together since this summer, and we’ve done different outreach things throughout Pittsburgh,” says Peoples. “But this is going to be the first [performance] in an actual theater setting.”

She says the company wanted to showcase their “versatility” for this concert. The show has four pieces totalling 90 minutes in length, including

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by Durante Verzola, a Filipino American freelance choreographer who has worked with dance companies from all over the country, and who has been featured in the New York Times, among other publications.

“It’s very playful and has some moments of comedy,” says Peoples, who also calls the piece, which is set to the music of Leroy Anderson, “jazzy.”

The show will conclude with artistic director Lea Havas’ work “Resilience.”

“What we wanted to do was kind of show everything that we’re capable of, and just celebrate how talented our dancers are, and how they can do everything,” says Peoples.

The performance of KST continues a journey started in 2021, when the nonprofit organization was created as a “space that is safe, equitable, and inclusive for any and all students and artists to create, learn, and express their individuality.” The company strives to not only produce works of the “highest caliber in classical, neoclassical, and contemporary genres,” but to do so in a “positive environment in which artists can grow, collaborate, and thrive.”

“We just want to treat our dancers like they’re people first, and not treat them like they’re dancers first, which I think is a lot of what the current state of ballet is in,” says Peoples. “You’re just kind of treated as a body and not like an actual human being who is living and experiencing everything.”

She credits this to how Confluence is set up, which she says results in a comparatively more fair and equal power balance.

“So we do have a board of directors, and artistic directors, which is the typical setup for a company,” says Peoples. “But in terms of making financial decisions, decisions about what kind of things we want to do in the shows, we have company-wide meetings, where we’re kind of like a little

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democracy, and we all get our opinions heard, which is a lot different than your typical ballet company, where you’re just kind of there to dance and be quiet and not do anything.”

Peoples says Emergence will not only be their first production as a company, but will be the first time many of the dancers have been onstage in a theater since before the COVID-19 pandemic, back in 2019 or 2020.

“Even people who were dancing during COVID, you’re dancing at little outdoor performances, that sort of thing,” says Peoples. “So it feels surreal.”

While the show will take place indoors, Peoples stresses that COVID-19 safety protocols will be in place. For Emergence, all audience members 12 years or older will be required to be fully vaccinated with an authorized vaccine and must show both a proof of vaccination and a current photo ID with their ticket. Masks will be required to be worn by everyone over the age of 2 for the duration of the performance and inside of the venue.

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Peoples says that Emergence is just the first event the company has planned for the upcoming year. She teases at “some exciting stuff coming up combining fashion,” as well as another theater performance in June. She says they would also like to set themselves apart by performing at more unorthodox places.

“We want to bring ballet into places that bigger companies wouldn’t be able to go, so art galleries, museums,” she says. “We’ve done private conferences.

Kind of bring it to audiences that really wouldn’t consider seeing dance, and showing that everyone can find something they relate to.” •

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the Ship of Theseus paradox, Road Signs promises to transport audiences “through a time warp and into the wilderness, backlit by lanterns and bonfires, where past and present blur and audience members become primary characters in the evening’s story.” Don’t miss the chance to take part in Tai’s compelling storytelling and illusion. 7:30 p.m. Continues through April 3. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Tickets $45-75. trustarts.org

EVENT • IRL Spring is upon us, which means it’s time to start planning for your gardening, landscaping, and other home projects.

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music and more. Continues through Sun., March 13. 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd., Downtown. $4-10. Free for kids under 6. pghhome.com

EVENT • IRL If you’ve been craving something new to get you through the winter blues, check out the Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub Tour at Thunderbird Cafe and Music Hall. Founded in 2007, EIT! is a video and performance collective dedicated to sharing found footage and psychedelic documentaries, and hosting internationally touring live shows. You may have seen one of their widely shared videos like Yogi Ogi Dogi or Cat Massage, or their project to collect every VHS copy of Jerry Maguire. Each EIT! tour is described as featuring “song, dance, life-size puppets, and a renewed belief in life itself,” so be prepared for the weird and wonderful.

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by Jason Voorhees himself, Kane Hodder, and fellow Friday the 13th alum Lar Park Lincoln, as well as Fright Nights’ Amanda Bearse and William Ragsdale, and other icons of the genre. The event will also feature movie screenings, a costume contest, panels, autograph signings and photo ops, and more. Continues on Sun., March 6. 164 Fort Couch Road, Mt. Lebanon. $15-40. horrorrealmcon.com

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Continues through Thu., March 17. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $11. trustarts.org

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Product not available in all states. Acceptance guaranteed for one insurance policy/ certificate of this type. Contact us for complete details about this insurance solicitation. This specific offer is not available in CO, LA, NY; call 1-800-969-4781 or respond for similar offer. Certificate C250A (ID: C250E; PA: C250Q); Insurance Policy P150 (GA: P150GA; NY: P150NY; OK: P150OK; TN: P150TN); Rider kinds B438/B439 (GA: B439B).

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