March 8, 2023 - Pittsburgh City Paper

Questions linger a year after Gerald Thomas’s death

Juana Saunders, mother of Gerald Thomas

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DEMONSTRATORS temporarily blocked parts of Penn Avenue and 16th Street to protest a traffic collision that left a bicyclist in critical condition.

Around two dozen cyclists and supporters led by Pgh Bike Jam showed up to the Feb. 28 protest held near the location of the accident. Event organizers say the victim’s condition is still unclear.

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IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:

04 NEWS // Justice Denied

10 ART // 5 Questions with Peter Barbor

12 NEWS // Out of Earshot

14 LIT // Finishing The Pittsburgh Novel

16 LIT // Indie Bookseller Spotlight

18 NEWS // Pittsburgh News Roundup

20 EVENTS // Seven Days in Pittsburgh

22 Crossword and Classifieds

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JUSTICE DENIED

BY SEAN CAMPBELL // SEAN_KEV@PROTONMAIL.COM.COM

Last year, Gerald Thomas was sent to the Allegheny County Jail after charges against him were dropped, and died inside 17 days later. The judge who berated him is now facing a federal lawsuit on his probation policies. This is the first of a two-part series that examines the justice system in Allegheny County through Thomas’s death.

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GERALD THOMAS had just passed through a stop sign when Pittsburgh police officers stopped him in March 2021. Thomas told the officers he had a gun, which he claimed belonged to his brother, in the glovebox, and handed the weapon to them. Because Thomas was on probation for three years and barred from possessing a firearm, he was arrested.

Thomas’s bail was set at $2,000, but Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge Anthony Mariani held him on a probation detainer — a judicial order to hold a person in jail for a probation violation. Thomas remained in jail when, in late January 2022, his attorney convinced the court that the police search of his vehicle was illegal. The charges against Thomas were dropped, but he remained incarcerated after 10 months in jail.

Mariani wasn’t happy. Three weeks later, during a “Gagnon II” hearing — a legal proceeding where it would be determined whether the detainer on

Thomas should remain in place — he was combative with Thomas’s attorney, and rocked back and forth in his chair atop the judge’s bench.

“I have to put you in the cage, lasso you, corral you, stuff you, because you won’t quit,” he told Thomas. “I hold my breath for you, and your mother holds her

Mariani said he was going to postpone his decision on the detainer for at least another 30 days. In the meantime, Mariani said he was going to send Thomas back to the Allegheny County Jail. Saunders said her son looked defeated as officers ushered him out of the courtroom.

“It brought me to tears,” she said. “And to see my son put his head down like that for the first time the way he did going back through them doors, that hurt the most.”

She never got the opportunity to see him again.

“He keeps wanting to be a street guy. I’m surprised he wasn’t driving something with 22s on it,” Mariani said. “I’m tired of making ticky-tacky technical decisions and young men walking out the door and getting shot down in the street two months, three months later because they won’t quit.”

Mariani told Thomas’s attorney that he wanted his client sent to state prison. He also berated Thomas as a habitual lawbreaker who needed to be incarcerated

breath for you.”

Thomas’s mother Juana Saunders was sitting in the back of the courtroom’s gallery. She was confused by the judge’s comments and upset that Mariani spoke for her and her family.

“I didn’t understand what was going on because to me, on this side, no charges, no case,” she said. “If he wanted to know how I felt as a mother, he could have asked me to come up and speak for myself.”

Seventeen days after the hearing in Mairiani’s courtroom, Thomas collapsed from a pulmonary embolism in the Allegheny County Jail. He had just gotten off a call with the mother of his newborn daughter when he became ill. Saunders heard from people near his cell at the time that guards, who wrongly believed her son was overdosing, slapped him in the face and shot him with Narcan. Eventually, Thomas was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

“I have to put you in the cage, lasso you, corral you, stuff you, because you won't quit.”

— Judge Anthony Mariani

tells Gerald

Thomas

while

placing him in jail

This story was produced in partnership with Black Pittsburgh and The Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing.

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people before him, and questions about

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Juana Saunders, mother of Gerald Thomas, holds a photo of her grandchild.

blasted, drinking all night, street parties,

“It cannot help but raise in people's minds the issues of proper conduct for a judge on the bench, proper ways to talk to people before him, and questions about whether he is showing not just respect for the public, but respect for his own office.”

— Law professor David Harris says of Judge Anthony Mariani

completely blasted,” he said. While sentencing a person with substance use disorder in 2016, Mariani quipped that he should make the man pay for the Narcan that was used to bring him back to life twice.

After the law firm’s 2021 report, multiple Black defense attorneys publicly defended Mariani. “I take issue with the allegation that Judge Mariani exhibits racist behavior,” wrote Kelvin Morris in a Facebook post. “My experience has been that he equally makes inappropriate comments at times against both Black and White defendants.” Morris added that “racism is real and certainly present in the criminal justice system, and throughout my career, I’ve learned to recognize it, in both subtle and blatant forms. If I had reason to believe Judge Mariani were treating Black defendants more harshly than White defendants, I would have spoken out against it.”

But Mariani isn’t the only judge on Allegheny County’s Common Pleas Court accused of making racist comments. In February 2020, Mark Tranquilli was removed from the bench after he berated prosecutors for losing a case

by allowing a Black woman on the jury who he repeatedly referred to as “Aunt Jemima,” because she wore a hair scarf in the courtroom.

In October 2022 The Abolitionist Law Center filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of six plaintiffs against Mariani and eight other county officials for their probation detainer policies — the same policies that led to Thomas’s nearly one year of incarceration before he had the opportunity to be released. The lawsuit claims that Mariani and Court of Common Pleas Judge Kelly Bigley have “no lift” orders on potential probation violation cases, leading to automatic jail detention for months, possibly over a year, before their attorneys can argue for release.

According to the lawsuit, “on any given day over the last two years, roughly one third of the people caged at the ACJ (or upwards of 600 people daily) have had a probation detainer lodged against them.” It also included stories of plaintiffs like Dion Horton, who was incarcerated at the Allegheny County jail and lost his job and missed the birth of his child because of a probation detainer.

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Allegheny County Jail

Discovery is ongoing in the Abolitionist Center federal civil rights case. An attorney for Mariani filed a motion to dismiss the case, disputing the legal claims and arguing the allegations against Mariani were unsubstantiated. Mariani’s office said he was away on vacation and hung up during a follow up call to his office. Bigley declined to comment. In an emailed statement, the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania wrote that because of “confidentiality requirements” they “cannot confirm or deny” any details regarding the complaints against Mariani and declined to answer any questions about him.

Black, while the county’s population is only around 13% Black. According to the jail’s data dashboard, by early March 719 people — 43% of the jail — were on some sort of probation detainer.

Tanisha Long, a community organizer with the Abolitionist Law Center and founder of Black Lives Matter Pittsburgh and Southwest PA, says she’s observed more than four dozen of Mariani’s court proceedings. His rulings can be harsh, but they aren’t the worst she’s seen. She says that what upsets her is the arrogance he displays in doling out punishment and his satisfaction in sending people to jail.

“You’re just delighting in the fact that

Since 2015, Allegheny County has been working to reduce the number of people in its jail. But as the jail’s overall population has declined, the racial disparities of those incarcerated has increased. 66% of people in the jail are

these people are going into conditions where people aren’t coming out,” she said. “When you spend your time on the bench berating and beating down people in front of their family members, that’s

A FAMILY MOURNS

S AUNDERS, Thomas’s mother, lost faith in justice the day Mariani sent her son back to jail. “Once he sent my son back to jail and he said those things for me, at that point, I just lost all trust and hope in the judicial system,” she said. Now, she looks to the rest of her family for love and support.

Thomas was a middle child born in 1995. He had five brothers and sisters. Saunders thought of him as the glue that held the large family together. When Mariani sent Thomas to jail in 2021, his girlfriend was pregnant with his fourth child.

“He was a good father. He worked, he wasn’t just riding in the streets,” Saunders said. “He had a newborn baby while he was in jail that he never got a chance to hold.” •

Sean Campbell is an investigative journalist and contributing reporter with The Garrison Project based out of New York City who is focused on social justice. Follow him on Twitter @Sean_Kev. This is part one of a two-part series. The next installment, running March 15, will explore Thomas’s death and the conditions within the Allegheny County Jail.

“He was a good father. He worked, he wasn't just riding in the streets. He had a newborn baby while he was in jail that he never got a chance to hold.”

—

Juana Saunders says of her son Gerald Thomas, who died in jail last March.

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A mantleplace in Saunder's home displays family photos.

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A photo of Thomas's child born during his incarceration at Allegheny County Jail

5 QUESTIONS WITH SCULPTOR PETER BARBOR

BY LUCY CHEN // LUCYCHEN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

IN PETER BARBOR’S STUDIO, you’ll find buckets of clay and paper pulp, steel cages, and various fibers spread over the floor. All these elements work to build up the figures he creates, all of which portray decaying forms like a preserved body pulled out of a bog.

Born in Western Pennsylvania, Barbor was recently a resident at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, but now resides in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh City Paper spoke with Barbor about history, “artistic genius,” and his process.

PETER BARBOR

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You have a very unique and distinctive use of mediums to create partial human forms out of clay, metal, and natural fibers. What led you to create using these materials?

All of my work stems from my study of ceramics and drawing. Before I declared ceramics as my major in art school, I was mostly interested in figure drawing from observation. When I draw, I enjoy layering mark-making techniques and material on a page to create a sense of history and depth. This translated well into clay, which in turn influenced how I navigate other mediums. I don’t deal well with materials that aren’t receptive to touch. I don’t find them intuitive to work with at all.

Plasticity is a quality that is important in ceramics, and almost everything I work with has a plastic stage. Wax, plaster, and clay can all be modeled. Wire mesh holds shapes and defines volume. In graduate school, I became less interested in just using clay and more interested in what happens when many materials work together. How can a piece signify something through its composition that is different from if it were materially uniform? I think a sculpture made of

clay and something else is more similar to our bodies. Figuring out that material hierarchy within a piece never bores me.

What inspires you when you first start a piece?

When I was younger, I often worked from a personal reservoir of ideas. More and more, I want to approach making

thing as “medieval” today, it’s usually

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Peter Barbor at work in his studio, creating his piece "Antiphon"

Overview of Installation "Falling Short of Heaven" at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pa., 2021

in a pejorative sense. Medieval materiality, however, was very sensitive and rich, especially compared to the gray, prefabricated aesthetics we produce today. I like to explore similar materials today because there is this immense gulf between what I am looking at and referencing and what is possible with my contemporary understanding of the same things.

Your work “Bayeux Bois” is directly inspired by the figures of the “Bayeux Tapestry” and brings them into 3D life. Are your other works directly inspired by specific objects of the past, or typically by the time period in general?

That piece was the first work that I made in grad school, and so a lot of it was about trying to understand something historical through the tools of an artist. To memory, I have never made a work so directly related to a historical artifact since. I was drawn to making that piece because it helped me reconcile how arbitrary at times figurative representation can be. I was struggling with how to visually represent the figure. How “realistic” should I make something? At that

time, adopting the style of the figures in the “Bayeux Tapestry” helped me depart from a way of sculpting the human body that was not grounded in much of anything. “Bayeux Bois” started me down a more dedicated path of thinking through certain histories.

Are there any projects you are excited about in the future? Or can you share a dream project or collaboration?

Right now I am working on a group show with a few other artists that should be on view in the fall. It’s the first thing since the peak of COVID that feels “‘normal’” for me, which is nice. I keep considering where my work would best be viewed. I am curious about ephemeral outdoor installation. While the content of my work is increasingly less and less overtly personal, the act of making has become a more and more private experience. It’s difficult to balance teaching, making, and life’s other demands, especially when my studio practice is rarely lucrative in a conventional sense. Collaboration, for now, feels like something that is off the table. I would love to be invited to test a piece in an unconventional space outdoors, however. •

"Bayeaux Bois", 2015

"Another Pale Rider", 2016

OUT OF EARSHOT

BY JORDANA ROSENFELD // JORDANA@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

JOY KATZ MADE an unfortunate discovery shortly after she and her family moved to Highland Park eight years ago, when her first walk around the Highland Park reservoir was disrupted by the sound of rapid gunfire.

“I panicked and looked around, and then I asked someone if they had heard it, too, and that’s when they said, ‘Oh, it’s from the police firing range over the hill,’” she tells Pittsburgh City Paper

Katz thus learned that her picturesque neighborhood is directly adjacent to an open-air firing range in the woods on the eastern side of Washington Boulevard belonging to the Pittsburgh Police Academy.

Since the 1980s, Highland Park residents have complained of consistent disruption from volleys of gunfire, which were once described by neighborhood resident and then-city council member Jim Ferlo as “a mini-Civil War every day and night.”

Over the years, the issue has, at times, rallied residents into concerted

resistance efforts.

“Residents complain that they cannot enjoy their yard or keep their windows open,” reads a joint statement from two Highland Park community groups published in 2021. “People with PTSD have reported being retraumatized, including one family that has had to spend several nights at a hotel to escape the noise; other families have sold their homes and moved. Park users report that they, their children, and their pets are unnerved by the noise.”

Now, Katz is circulating a petition to close the firing range, which she says is a threat to public health. The petition garnered at least 500 signatures in its first two weeks in circulation.

“They’re shooting there all the time,” Katz tells City Paper, noting that residents of Highland Park and the surrounding neighborhoods are “potentially subject to rounds and rounds of gunfire at any time, [that] can last all day long … but also sometimes the gunfire happens at night.”

Katz says she has called the police

departments of every U.S. city of 300,000 residents or more to inquire about the location of their firing ranges. She found that Pittsburgh boasts one of the only outdoor police firing ranges directly adjacent to a densely populated residential area.

Highland Park residents have been asking the city to take concrete steps to suppress the noise of the firing range since 1989. The most they’ve been able to achieve, however, are temporary agreements to limit the use of the range to certain days and hours.

“Scheduling is the only place where they ever yielded at all,” says long-time Highland Park resident David Klahr.

Past agreements to limit shooting to specific times have since been discarded, and Katz and Klahr say the current arrangement is that the police notify the community of their scheduled use of the range. Katz says those schedules often change with little or no notice and that simply notifying residents in advance of the gunfire is an insufficient solution.

“We object to the idea that posting the schedule somehow makes living with the sound of gunfire okay,” Katz says.

The problem has only gotten more urgent with time, Katz says.

“The effect of it is kind of cumulative. After you hear it day after day, year after year, instead of becoming less of a problem, it has a sort of cumulative stress effect. … A lot of us work from home, and we have a lot of seniors in the neighborhood. A lot of people are just home all the time.”

Highland Park is also home to several specific groups of people whose circumstances make them especially vulnerable to the disruptions caused by gunfire, Katz says, including recently resettled refugees from Afghanistan, combat veterans, and people with PTSD, including survivors of the 2018 mass shooting in the Tree of Life building. They claim an autistic child in the neighborhood has seizures that are triggered by the gunfire.

“It’s affecting people’s mental and physical health,” Katz says.

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Location of shooting range near Highland Park

Beyond the impact of the noise, Katz is also concerned about the effects of heavy metals such as lead that are released when a firearm is discharged.

“That’s 40 years of casings, metals, all kinds of debris accumulating … Who’s keeping track of that? What happens to it? Is it cleaned up? Because it could just be sitting up there seeping into our water.”

concerns while trying to find ways to address this deeply complex problem that has existed for decades,” Montano wrote in an email. “Councilwoman

[Deb] Gross has asked us to address this issue, along with a variety of other projects in the Highland Park neighborhood, directly with her constituents at an upcoming community meeting, and

Although residents are calling the constant gunfire a public health issue, the Allegheny County Department of Health tells City Paper this issue is outside of their purview.

The Department of Public Safety referred questions on this matter to Mayor Ed Gainey’s office.

Maria Montaño, Gainey’s press secretary, tells City Paper that the shooting range represents an enduring point of conflict that may take time to resolve. “We have been looking into a variety of ideas on how to help alleviate the

we look forward to further discussion at that time.”

Decades of unsuccessful attempts to restore tranquility to the neighborhood have left some residents resigned to the noise.

“When I was 30 years younger, I used to joke that when I get really old, I won’t hear it anymore because I’ll probably be deaf like my parents,” Klahr says, “and that’s exactly what happened. I wear hearing aids now, so when I hear the firing range, I just turn them off. I kind of aged out of being a victim.” •

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A view of the Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood from Churchland Street

... the surrounding neighborhoods are “potentially subject to rounds and rounds of gunfire at any time, [that] can last all day long … but also sometimes the gunfire happens at night.”

FINISHING THE PITTSBURGH NOVEL

BY REGE BEHE // CPCONTRIBUTORS@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

JAKE ORESICK’S FATHER was dying.

Peter Oresick, a beloved local writer, poet, and teacher, was working on The Pittsburgh Novel , a project to identify novels, plays, and screenplays with Western Pennsylvania locales, when he succumbed to cancer in 2016. He’d spent the last few years of his life trying to finish the gargantuan task.

After his death, Peter’s task seemed to be over. Until Jake stepped in.

“I wasn’t part of the project before he passed away, and I really wasn’t supposed to be,” Jake says. “I supported him doing something that he was fascinated by, but initially, I didn’t feel the same way.”

The completion of the book has, to some degree, secured Peter’s legacy. City Council declared Jan. 31 the date of the book’s initial release as Peter Oresick Day and The Pittsburgh Novel Day in Pittsburgh. The declaration cited the late author for his “extraordinary commitment to our region through the literary arts and his publication of The Pittsburgh Novel, an unprecedented resource which honors all of Western Pennsylvania.”

Jake says picking up where his father left off was a way of grieving for his father. But, at first, he lacked Peter’s passion.

“I would talk to him as I was going through the project,” Jake says of his inner

An author in his own right — Jake wrote The Schenley Experiment, a nonfiction book about the former Pittsburgh high school — the younger Oresick eventually realized the importance of his father’s work and completed the project.

The Pittsburgh Novel: Western Pennsylvania in Fiction and Drama: 1792-2022 debuted on March 7 at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library in Oakland. Now available online through Penn State Libraries Open Publishing, a synopsis describes the book as an “annotated bibliography of all known fiction with a significant geographical setting in any of Pennsylvania’s 26 westernmost counties” over the last 230 years.

The Pitt event featured Jake, along with authors whose Pittsburgh-based books are featured in the bibliography, including Stewart O’Nan, Mark Clayton Southers, and Ellen Prentiss Campbell.

dialogues with his late father. “What do we do here? Why was this on your list? What did you even like about doing this? I didn’t immediately find it as fun as he did.”

It didn’t take long for the younger Oresick to find his stride. Peter had identified approximately 1,500 novels, plays, and screenplays with settings in Western Pennsylvania, from the Allegheny Mountains to the Youghiogheny River. They also cover landmarks like the Buhl Planetarium on the North Side, Renziehausen Park in McKeesport, and the Mountain House Hotel, a resort that operated between 1880-1897 in Cresson, Cambria County.

“It became something that was helping me, in a healthy constructive way, to feel connected to him anew,” Jake says. “We ended up doing something together that we’d never done before, even though he was not here.”

PHOTO: JUDITH VOLLMER Peter Oresick

“My father wanted to find everything. He was on a scavenger hunt.”

In order to complete the project, Jake went to libraries twice a week to check out as many as 20 books at a time. He’d then pore over the books quickly, trying to determine if they were fit for the project.

Out of the 1,000 books he vetted, around 500 made the cut.

“My father wanted to find everything,” Jake says. “He was on a scavenger hunt. Sometimes, if an author was from Pittsburgh or had written other Pittsburgh novels, and had a new book come out, he’d put it on the list and say, ‘There’s a chance it’s set in Pittsburgh.’”

While The Pittsburgh Novel features work by well-known writers with local connections, such as August Wilson, John Edgar Wideman, Michael Chabon, Nancy Martin, and Kathleen George, it’s not merely a list of famous works. Selfpublished books, obscure screenplays, and forgotten works also are cited.

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“He didn’t exclude and he was very democratic in that way,” Jake says. “He said if it was set in Western Pennsylvania and I find out about it, it’s going in the bibliography.”

“I think it had something to do with him being from a small town,” he adds, referring to Ford City, Pa. in Armstrong County, “and thinking, ‘Is there ever going to be anything about my town, is there ever going to be anything about the landmarks that I know?’ So, it’s not just Three Rivers Stadium and the Cathedral of Learning and Mount Washington. It’s everything, a lot of obscure places. He included all of that.” •

BY REGE BEHE CPCONTRIBUTORS@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

SOME

FACTS ABOUT entries in The Pittsburgh Novel:

• Stephen King ( From a Buick 8 , Christine ), John Grisham ( The Associate ), and Jerzy Kosinski ( The Devil Tree) are among the bestselling authors listed.

• Also mentioning Pittsburgh in their works: John Dos Passos ( The 42nd Parallel, The Big Money), Kurt Vonnegut ( Player Piano), Louis L’Amour ( Rivers West)

• Late New Alexandria native Agnes Sligh Turnbull is mostly forgotten now, but her career as a best-selling mystery novelist spanned from the 1930s to 1980, when she published her last novel, The Two Bishops, at the age of 92.

• Another obscure, but once-famous Pittsburgh-based novelist, Gladys Schmitt (1909-1972), has four entries, including one for David the King , a bestseller that sold one million copies in 1946 and was translated into 10 languages.

• It’s no surprise that 11 of the late August Wilson’s works are cited. But Kathleen George, the North Side-based mystery writer, also has 11 books in the bibliography. •

INDIE BOOKSELLER SPOTLIGHT

New releases at City Books

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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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You Never Know by Connie Briscoe

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An assault in her own home leaves a deaf woman wondering if her disappeared husband has anything to do with it in this domestic thriller from a bestselling author.

Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

(Oneworld Publications)

Old Vietnam meets new Vietnam with the stories of two sisters struggling to survive in 1969 wartorn Saigon and of two men searching for answers in the country decades later.

I Will Find You by Harlan Coben

(Grand Central Publishing)

A man escapes from a maximum security prison after a photo suggests that the son he was wrongly sentenced for murdering is still alive.

The Last Suspicious Holdout by Ladee Hubbard

(HarperCollins)

This story collection chronicles a suburban African-American community from 1992 to 2007, a period during which the “Black middle-class expanded while stories of ‘welfare Queens,’ ‘crack babies,’ and ‘super predators’ abounded in the media.”

Mothered by Zoje Stage

(Thomas & Mercer)

A new work by a Pittsburgh-based horror author follows a woman who spirals into madness after moving in with her estranged, newly widowed mother during the COVID-19 pandemic. •

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PITTSBURGH NEWS ROUNDUP

Pa. elects first Black woman speaker, county Dems announce endorsements, and environmentalists question health department efficacy

BY JAMIE WIGGAN // JAMIE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

DEMS ENDORSE

VOTES CAST by more than 1,400 Democratic committee members saw a mix of establishment picks and progressive upsets win the party endorsement Sunday.

Topping the bill, veteran politico John Weinstein clenched support for his county executive bid over progressive lawmaker Sara Innamorato, despite her support from prominent officials such as Mayor Ed Gainey and Rep. Summer Lee.

Meanwhile, incumbent District Attorney Steve Zappala lost the endorsement to Matt Dugan, the county’s chief

STRIP CLUB SAGA

AS A SHUTTERED OAKLAND strip club prepares to reopen under a new name, concerns have emerged about the alleged new owner’s history of sexual misconduct.

TikTok user jadednature, a dancer based in Pittsburgh, posted a video March 1 detailing how the former Cricket Lounge on Morewood Avenue has come under new ownership and will soon open as Medusa’s Lair.

In the video, the poster states she was messaged by another dancer in the area who told her the owner was a man named Aaron Duran, who has a history of sexual assaults. Court records reviewed by Pittsburgh City Paper show Aaron Duran of Green Tree has convictions for indecent assault on an unconscious victim and public lewdness.

City Paper could not reach Duran or confirm the status of the new business.

ENVIRONMENT AIR QUALITY QUESTIONS

AS CONCERNS ABOUT regional air quality continue to dominate headlines, a slate of environmental and health experts last week urged county council to investigate the health department’s effectiveness as a regulator.

The speakers, convened by Clean Water Action Pittsburgh, questioned whether the health department is enforcing a 2021 law requiring polluters reduce their emissions on days when weather inversions trap pollutants close to the ground.

public defender who’s now looking to switch sides.

The establishment-insurgent split played out neatly through much of the ticket. Incumbent Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor handily fought off progressive underdog Darwin Leuba. Bethany Hallam, an at-large county councillor and outspoken progressive kept the endorsement from Joanna Doven, a former mayoral press secretary challenging Hallam from the right. The municipal primary election will take place May 16.

“Many residents and organizations feel that despite the [Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule] requiring that companies lower their emissions during events that will cause worse air quality than normal, nothing has changed,” the organization said in a press release before the Feb. 28 hearing.

The hearing, convened by Allegheny County Council’s Committee on Health and Human Services, was purely advisory and did not include action items.

Topping the bill, veteran politico John Weinstein clenched support for his county executive bid over progressive lawmaker Sara Innamorato, despite her support from prominent officials such as Mayor Ed Gainey and Rep. Summer Lee.

Court records also show Duran was charged in 2009 with “open lewdness,” a third-degree misdemeanor ...

FIRST BLACK WOMAN SPEAKER

STATE REP. JOANNA MCCLINTON

became the first Black woman to lead Pennsylvania’s lower chamber last week after State Democrats secured a small majority through February special elections in Allegheny County.

Her predecessor, Rep. Mark Rozzi (D-Berks), picked up the speaker’s gavel in January through a bi-partisan vote reflecting a near deadlocked chamber. To win Republican support, Rozzi vowed to serve as an independent rather than caucusing with his party.

Since Rozzi’s appointment, the victory of three Democrats in Allegheny County last month shifted the balance of power more conclusively in their party’s favor, prompting a reshuffle.

According to reporting from the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, McClinton (D-Philadelphia) vowed to pursue a progressive agenda.

“We are going to have rules that protect women, people of color, LGBTQIA+,

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because this is Pennsylvania where democracy was born,” McClinton said.

“It shouldn’t matter who you love. It shouldn’t matter whether you pray, and it shouldn’t matter how you were born, and the color of your skin.”

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Brian Kelly

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NEWS BIKE PROTESTS

DEMONSTRATORS ON BICYCLES

blocked parts of Penn Avenue and 16th Street last Tuesday to call attention to a critical collision 12 days earlier.

The cyclists, led by PGH Bike Jam, rode in circles around the intersection, calling attention to hazardous road conditions. The name of the collision victim and her condition were unknown to the leaders of the Feb. 28 demonstration. •

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Chloe Bark

Chris Flyer

Chris Gillotti

Chris Ivey

Chris Mueller

Chris Sichi

Chris Watts

Cindy Hogan

Cindy Hudson

Colby King

Constance Merola

Cynthia Hinck

Elizabeth Collura

Elizabeth Engelhardt

Elizabeth Turner

Ellen Philips

Emilie Yonan

Emily Skopov

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Erin Kelly

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Jeremy Kimmel

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Maria Harris

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PHOTO: GOV. TOM WOLF FLICKR State Rep. Joanna McClinton

CP PHOTO: JARED WICKERHAM Protestors with Pgh Bike Jam

THU., MARCH 9

LIT • OAKLAND

Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Ibram X. Kendi 6 p.m. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $20-25. Virtual option available. pittsburghlectures.org

DANCE • DOWNTOWN

Le Patin Libre presents Carte Blanche 8 p.m. Continues through Sat., March 11. The UPMC Rink. PPG Place, Downtown. $15-70. trustarts.org

FRI., MARCH 10

PARTY • NORTH SIDE

The Carnegie Science Center will make the final frontier fun with its 21+ Night: Mars event. The party caters to grown science fans with insight from real experts and a chance to delve into Mars: The Next Giant Leap, an exhibition exploring the future of space travel. Enjoy brews from SweetWater, music by Big Fat Mallard, and other activities. 6-10 p.m. Carnegie Science Center. One Allegheny Ave., North Side. $20-25. carnegiesciencecenter.org

WRESTLING • UPTOWN

WWE Friday Night SmackDown 7:45 p.m. PPG Paints Arena. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. $20-230. ppgpaintsarena.com

MUSIC • NORTH SIDE

Ceiling Stares, St. Dude, and Bitter Coast. 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. The Government Center. 715 East St., North Side. $12. thegovernmentcenter.com

MUSIC • DOWNTOWN

Soul Sessions: Meshell Ndegeocello

8 p.m. August Wilson African American Cultural Center. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $68. awaacc.org

SAT., MARCH 11

PARADE • DOWNTOWN

Snag some prime sidewalk space to watch the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Touted as one of the largest parades of its kind in the United States, the annual event will begin at the intersection of Liberty Avenue and 11th Street and wind its way through Downtown until it ends at Commonwealth Place. Parade

attendees can also enjoy celebrations at nearby venues, including Kegs and Eggs at City Works in Market Square and festive green beverages at Howl at the Moon. 10 a.m. Liberty Ave. and 11th St., Downtown. Free. visitpittsburgh.com

FEST • SHARPSBURG

Atithi Holi Festival. 5-8 p.m. 1020 N. Canal St., Sharpsburg. Free. atithistudios.com

THEATER • SOUTH SIDE

Native Gardens 5:30 p.m. Continues through April 2. City Theatre. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $25-66. citytheatrecompany.org

FILM • DOWNTOWN

Brief Encounter 7:30 p.m. Harris Theater. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $11. trustarts.org

THEATER • DOWNTOWN

Hits! The Musical. 7:30 p.m. Benedum Center. 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $35.25-105.25. trustarts.org

FILM • DOWNTOWN

Pittsburgh Film Office presents Lights! Glamour! Action! 7:30 p.m.

PHOTO: SUSAN JEFFERS PHOTOGRAPHY HITS! The Musical

PHOTO: JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Ibram X. Kendi

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The Pennsylvanian. 1100 Liberty Ave., Downtown.

BURLESQUE • ALLENTOWN

Bare Book Club Pittsburgh Inaugural KickOff Party 9-11 p.m. Doors at 8 p.m. The Storyville Lounge at Dr. Tumblety’s. 753 East Warrington Ave., Allentown. $60-100. instagram.com/barebookclubpittsburgh

SUN., MARCH 12

FILM • LAWRENCEVILLE

Plenty of actors have donned the black cape of Gotham’s defender. Decide on your favorite when Row House Cinema presents Batman vs. Batman vs. Batman vs. Batman. The theater will screen several takes on Batman (except for that of Pittsburgh’s own Michael Keaton), including Adam West’s hammy 1966 version, Christian Bale’s grounded performance in The Dark Knight, and Robert Pattinson’s 2022 take on the World’s Greatest Detective. You can also revisit Val Kilmer’s Seal-soundtracked, short-lived run as Batsy with screenings of Batman Forever Showtimes vary. Continues through Thu., March 16. 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $12.57. rowhousecinema.com

MUSIC • DOWNTOWN

Emanuel Ax Plays Chopin. 2:30 p.m. Heinz Hall. 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $20-97. pittsburghsymphony.org

MON., MARCH 13

ART • NORTH SIDE

Ukrainian Artist Series: Solomiya Ivakhiv, Sung-Im Kim, & Yuriy Tarnawsky

7-8:30 p.m. City of Asylum. 40 West North Ave., North Side. Free. cityofasylum.org

TUE., MARCH 14

CHESS • SQUIRREL HILL

Declare checkmate at the first round of the Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship at the Pittsburgh Chess Club. The club, which regularly hosts open houses and educational programs, will host the long-running Swisssystem tournament. Looking to compete? Interested players must be U.S. Chess Federation and PCC members. Come back for the next five rounds each Tuesday until April 18 to see who will emerge triumphant.

6:30-9:30 p.m. Continue through April 18. 5869 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill. Free to attend, PCC and USCF memberships required to compete. pittsburghchessclub.org

WED., MARCH 15

MUSIC • ALLENTOWN

Grocer, Same, and YY1000xY. 7 p.m. Bottlerocket Social Hall. 1226 Arlington Ave., Allentown. $10. bottlerocketpgh.com

THEATER • DOWNTOWN

Men on Boats 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Playhouse. 350 Forbes Ave., Downtown. $35. playhouse.pointpark.edu

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PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST Brief Encounter at Harris Theater

$300. pghfilm.org

SUBOXONE TREATMENT

MARKET PLACE

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Located in Southside. Accepting new patients.

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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: 1005 E Entry Drive Pittsburgh PA 15216, March 15, 2023 at 11:30 AM. Rajesh Khanna Arumugam 3167. 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.

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT 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 March 28, 2023, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for:

PGH. LANGLEY K-8

• Finish Floor Replacements and Miscellaneous Work (REBID)

• Asbestos Abatement Primes

SERVICE & MAINTENANCE CONTRACT AT VARIOUS SCHOOLS, FACILITIES AND PROPERTIES:

• Fire Extinguisher and Fire Hoses Service and Maintenance (REBID)

PGH. CARRICK HIGH SCHOOL

• Whiteboard Installations

• General Primes

PPS SERVICE CENTER

• Service Center Fuel Dispenser Island Replacement

• Mechanical Primes

Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on March 6, 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.

Please call (412) 586-1522 to schedule your appointment.

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 March 15, 2023, at 1:15 PM. 1038 Daunte Rump, 1088 Michael Skarada, 2021 Ashley Brace, 3206 Wayne Copeland, and 3255 Wayne Copeland. 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.selfstorageauction.com ending on March 21, 2023 at 10:00 am, and day to day thereafter until sold at which time a high bidder will be determined.

4711 William Penn Highway, Monroeville, PA 15146: Unit #12115 Will Wall, Unit#12211 Renne Ragin-Morton. Unit #13302 Samuel Briedenbaugh, Unit# 13603 Krystle Knox, Unit #1607 Steven Burt, Unit # 22104 Madelyn Scott, Unit #22610 Paul Tarr, Unit#23507 Michele Hunter, Unit #23510 Wilma Gould

901 Brinton Road, Pittsburgh, Pa 15221: Unit: #10408 Jasmine Carter, Unit #3203 Maya Stephens, Unit #3402 James Jett, Unit #7101 Sherrelle Berry, Unit #7305 Amanda Saunders

1028 Ridge Road, Tarentum, Pa 15084: Unit #32435 Kayla Kunselman

4750 William Flynn Hwy, Allison Park, Pa 15101: Unit #12308 Nicole Caicedo, Unit #13221 Matthew Hyre, Unit #22208 Shirley M Ross, Unit #41205 Erika Blackburn

5873 Centre Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206: Unit #7109 Joanie McCalla

2839 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222: Unit #4001 Christopher Breakwell, Unit #5111 Maxfield Peterson, Unit #6717 Tesha Thomas, Unit #6804 Sharronn Scott

750 South Millvale Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Unit #1125 Lamarr Dewayne, Unit #6204 Alisha Mitchell, Unit #6601 Jermica Lockard

1002 East Waterfront Drive, Munhall, PA 15120: Unit #1219 Lutishia Strothers, Unit #2209 Michael Langas Jr., Unit #3204 Tiana Maddox, Unit #3212 Troy Cole, Unit #3525 Azende Reid, Unit #4302 Leia Williams

1300 Lebanon Church Road, West Mifflin, PA 15236: Unit #32521 Tammy D’ercole

1599 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017: Unit #52410 Leann Monz, Unit #52705 Shawn Bridges, Unit #53803 Matthew Loeffert

7452 McKnight Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237: Unit #1305 Carey Andrew’jaja, Unit #2711 Maura Anne MacDonald

922 Brush Creek Road, Warrendale, PA 15086: Unit #3126 Darren Pack

4750 William Flynn Highway, Allison Park, PA 15101: Unit #12308 Nicole Caicedo, Unit #13221 Mathew Hyre, Unit #22208 Shirley M Ross, Unit #41205 Erika Blackburn

401 Coraopolis Rd, Coraopolis, PA 15108: Unit #13301 Michaela Williams

2670 Washington Rd, Canonsburg, PA 15317: Unit #3413 William H Scherz

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.

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NAME CHANGE

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-23-1785

NAME CHANGE

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-23-814

NAME CHANGE

• Be right handed, willing to not smoke before two sessions, and to fill out questionnaires

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NAME CHANGE

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-11449

In re petition of Sabin Darji for change of name to Sabin Siwa.

To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 4th day of April, 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.

In re petition of Alanna Miles Yoon for change of name to Alanna Teach Crow. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 10th day of April, 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-23-000869

In re petition of Vincent Park Morro for change of name to Vanessa Park Morro. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 28th day of March, 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.

In re petition of Ronald James O’Shaughnessy for change of name to Ronald James Barckhoff.

To all persons interested:

Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 10th day of April, 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-23-2773, In re petition of Shikha Gupta and Divay Chandra parents and legal guardians of Aanya Chandra for change of name to Aanya Chandra Gupta. 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 April 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.

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-23-1940, In re petition of Meghan Mannella parent and legal guardian of Mary Clarissa Borushko and Stephen Anthony Borushko III for change of names to Mary Clarissa Mannella and Stephen Anthony Mannella. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 24th day of March 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-22-13304

In re petition of Emily Jeanna Dunnette for change of name to Emily Jeanna Dunnette Burton.

To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 3rd day of April, 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.