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ORAYA BEY LIVES IN Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood on Maytide Street. According to her social media page and an “Expedite Trafﬁc Calming on Maytide Street” online petition she started, she has had two cars crashed into and totaled since June, even though those cars were parked off the street. Three road deaths have occurred on Maytide since 2001, according to Bey. Maytide Street connects the welltraveled thoroughfares of Sawmill Run Boulevard and Brownsville Road.

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Bey and other Carrick community members have proposals to mitigate the trafﬁc problems on Maytide. They are asking to add stop signs, put up plastic bollards to help protect pedestrians, add more yield signs, and several other measures. So far, Bey is still waiting on the city and city council to take on some of these proposals, and odds are they will, but it might just take some time. Pittsburgh city ofﬁcials, particularly the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, have been very busy the last couple of years working on

efforts to make dozens of streets, intersections, and corridors in the city safer for drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. And those efforts have really sped up as of late with several newly reconfigured stop lights installed, bike lanes added, and traffic-calming devices that all basically share the same goal: slow down drivers. For a nation obsessed with driving, car culture, and convenience, this may seem counterproductive. Why would slowing down traffic be good? Well, slowing vehicles down means less road deaths,

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less property damage, and a better environment for small businesses, parks, schools, and other urban amenities. Even shallow observations of cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Paris show how improved city life can be with fewer cars and slower vehicles. And remember that Pittsburgh has been called the Paris of Appalachia; it’s actually a good ﬁt for these trafﬁccalming changes. While the majority of Pittsburgh’s trips are still taken using personal vehicles, more than 10% of the city’s residents walk to work, a disproportionately high amount for a mid-size city like Pittsburgh. Bike ridership rates have also increased each of the last several years. The city’s narrow streets and lack of alternate routes mean fewer chances to zoom through residential areas. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said it was his goal when his administration created the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) to make transportation around Pittsburgh safer and more equitable for all road users, not just drivers.

“We recognize that our streets and sidewalks are used by many different users, and our rights-of-way can and should be more efficient and more safe,” says Peduto. DOMI director Karina Ricks was hired in 2017, shortly after the new department was created. Before Pittsburgh, Ricks worked as the associate director at the transportation department of Washington, D.C., which has also been adding traffic-calming measures and expanding its bike network over the years. Ricks acknowledges Pittsburgh’s traffic-calming changes are a first for the city, but says they are necessary to improve safety. Ricks says the difference between a pedestrian being struck by a driver moving at 25 mph is a 70% survival rate compared to just a 30% survival rate when a pedestrian is struck by a driver traveling 35 mph. “When I came here and there wasn’t a traffic-calming program, and we know that 95% of crashes are human error, but also 80% of fatalities are speed related,” says Ricks. “It is absolutely critical that we recognize that speed kills. Our goal is CONTINUES ON PG. 6

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not zero crashes, that would be nice, but impractical. But our goal is zero deaths.” One of the strategies Pittsburgh has used so far include implementing new traffic lights so that drivers turning left are made to wait until after pedestrians cross the street. That might mean a few seconds longer wait for drivers, but it’s a huge safety improvement for pedestrians. And that is really the crux of what design changes mean for Pittsburgh drivers: slowing down and being more attentive to surroundings. Ricks notes that the farthest city residents will have to drive to get Downtown is about six miles. If a driver is speeding, that journey might take about 20 minutes on city streets. If a driver is not speeding, that journey takes about 21-22 minutes. “Ninety seconds. How can we square that with the potential of taking someone’s life?” says Ricks of the potential of hitting a pedestrian or cyclist while speeding. “You are maybe saving two minutes.” According to a study from Pennsylvania law firm Dallas W. Hartman, Allegheny County had an outsize share of vehicle crashes from 2014-2016 when accounting its population. Many of those crashes happen at intersections in the city, with large concentrations near the West End Bridge, near Deutschtown in the North Side, along Saw Mill Run Boulevard in the South Hills, East Carson Street in the South Side, Fifth Avenue in the East End, and Downtown. And from 2017-2018, traffic fatalities increased in Allegheny County, even as national averages were decreasing. Pittsburgh overall is about on par with national averages for crashes and traffic fatality, but Ricks says the city can become a leader on the issue. DOMI has also been redesigning streets to help drivers slow down. That can mean speed humps, like on Beechwood Boulevard in Squirrel Hill and some other side streets, but those aren’t always great for ambulances and buses. So, DOMI has also been installing devices to slow down drivers. These can be curb bump outs, or even just reflective plastic bollards near intersections like Penn Avenue in the Strip District. DOMI has also started to install mini traffic circles in residential areas like in Highland Park. Trees spaced close together with canopies can also slow traffic down. Really anything that makes drivers feel a bit constrained, and thus more attentive. “Gorgeous tree canopies have the

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same effect as tunnels,” says Ricks. “And tree trunks close together also help people keep their speed down.” Ricks acknowledges Pittsburgh trafﬁccalming can’t be a one-size-fits-all approach. The city has too many streets that serve as the only route between neighborhoods. And many of those are relatively narrow, meaning widening sidewalks or adding bike lanes is difﬁcult to accomplish. So, DOMI has had to get creative by creating Neighborways.

This is when side streets and even alleys are converted into safe and convenient routes for cyclists and pedestrians, to help them avoid the well-trafficked thoroughfares. Neighborways have popped up in South Side, and are proposed for Point Breeze and Bloomfield/ Friendship. They basically improve street conditions and signage on seldom-used roads, as well as replace four-way stop signs with mini-traffic circles. Another thing that Ricks is suggesting

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Pittsburghers do now is stop parking their vehicles on the sidewalk, which is popular in neighborhoods like Mount Washington. She says this is counterproductive by giving drivers wider streets to travel, which encourages speeding, in turn causing more drivers to crash into parked cars. It also blocks pedestrians from having safe passage. Ricks says narrow streets are good, as it slows drivers down and causes them to be more attentive to other road users. As for the future of traffic calming, Ricks says to expect more of the same. DOMI has the ability to install speed cameras and city-managed routes, which is something Ricks is interested in since it eliminates any human interaction to traffic enforcement (which disproportionately affects people of color), but says automated speed and traffic cameras won’t be used on streets that are designed to encourage speeding above posted speed limits, like the downhill portion of Shady Avenue. “I am an ardent believer in selfenforcing design,” says Ricks. “If we design a street where all the environmental cues are telling you that you should be traveling at 45, and the posted speed limit is 25, that is entrapment. That is not fair.” And Pittsburghers are embracing the city’s traffic-calming push, so much so, DOMI can’t keep up with requests from residents. “We only introduced neighborhood traffic calming in 2018 or 2019,” says Ricks. “The program is a victim of its own success, and we have too many applications to handle. We can’t get to them all at the moment.” Ricks says that even though applications are high, DOMI is also making intentional efforts to provide communication and plans for traffic-calming to neighborhoods that might not have the ability to make requests, since most applications are from higher-income neighborhoods. Pedestrian and cycling crash fatalities disportionately affect Black and Brown communities, both locally and nationally. Road medians with plastic, reflective bollards on Frankstown Avenue in Larimer is an example of where DOMI has been able install traffic-calming to serve one of the city’s Black neighborhoods. “We are trying to see the unseen places,” says Ricks. “They are more transit dependent and more walking dependent. We can’t just wait for them to reach out to provide these fixes.”

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FRIDAY PROGRAM at Gwen’s Girls is a ﬂurry of activity. A small group of young women and teen girls, all gathered in the West Commons building on the North Side, enjoy pizza as they sketch designs for T-shirts that will soon be sold to help fund the Pittsburgh nonproﬁt dedicated to empower them. One young woman’s sketch reads “I’m a Queen, Okay?” her handwritten text surrounded by hearts. There’s more than design going on. Two girls stand up in front of the class and practice spoken word before an impromptu dance-off takes off between one of the volunteers and a student. Soon after, everyone in the room plays various board games like Uno and ConnectFour. Gwen’s Girls came to fruition in the early 2000s through the advocacy work of the late Gwen Elliott, who broke

barriers in the 1960s when she joined the Pittsburgh Police Department as one of the first Black female officers in the city. Today, the nonprofit holds a large number of events in addition to its young adult program, including recent virtual events like Black Girls and Gender-Based Violence, Disrupting the Pathways to Juvenile Justice For Black Youth, and Bullying and Sexual Harassment. During her work in the ’60s as a police officer and, later, as a commander, Elliott saw discrepancies with young girls, specifically young Black girls, in the Pittsburgh area that went missing. Twanda Clark Edgal, Chief Program Officer of Gwen’s Girls, says “people knew [Elliott] because they would see her on the news, because she put a lot of effort into trying to find girls.” She quit her job as a commander and

founded Gwen’s Girls in 2002 with funding from Allegheny County Department of Human Services. Gwen’s Girls became an advocacy group speciﬁcally centered on “building the self-esteem of girls and focusing on young Black girls,” says Edgal. The systemic issues Elliott sought to rectify with Gwen’s Girls began with missing Black girls and the lack of visibility compared to their white counterparts, but it evolved into raising awareness that Black girls are suspended from school at a higher rate than white girls are suspended from school. “They’re faring poorly in every system,” says Edgal. “In our child welfare system, Black girls are more likely to go into group homes instead into a family placement. Although we have made improvements, what we know is the data shows us that systems have not

been just in the way Black girls have been treated.” Elliott also made her mark through her work with young teen parents, the foster care system, and after-school programming. But through the many changing programs that Gwen’s Girls has offered, it’s always prioritizes genderspeciﬁc programming tailored to help, not only Black girls, but girls from a wide array of different racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. After Elliott’s passing in 2007, her mission to uplift and champion young women and girls at Gwen’s Girls was passed down to her daughter, now Chief Executive Ofﬁcer, Dr. Kathi Elliott. “There’s not been a place that I’ve gone that I’ve referenced Gwen’s Girls where people haven’t talked about her and talked about what she’s done,” says CONTINUES ON PG. 8

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Edgal. “What’s been interesting to see is how Dr. Elliott has lived that legacy and has continued to make her mark by being actively involved in the community in the education system.” Edgal adds that Dr. Elliott’s expansion of Gwen’s Girls heavily focuses on academics for Black children and looking at each situation with a therapeutic lens while working with young people.

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One of these initiatives is Black Girls Equity Alliance, or BGEA. The program focuses on “improving the outcomes for Black girls in child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and health and wellness.” Through those four different areas, BGEA creates a space for trauma care training, problem solving, research, and gathering local resources to adequately serve the needs of Black girls in the community. Recently in September, BGEA held its ﬁfth Annual Equity Summit with keynote speaker, Cyntoia Brown-Long, an advocate for criminal justice reform and an advocate against human trafﬁcking. “It was the most powerful, energizing experience,” says Edgal. “When we talk about helping women, not just Black women but women in general, own their space and own their voice, the

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summit really does do that. Collaboratively, women work together to really lift up the voice of women, girls, and African-American women and girls in particular.” Just days says before the summit, Gwen’s Girls also received a $400,000 three-year federal grant to “develop education and programming to address and prevent trafficking of girls in the Pittsburgh region,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The grant came from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime. But overall, Edgal says she’s excited to pick up from where Elliott left off with her advocacy. She wants girls who are a part of their programs to know that, “at Gwen’s Girls, we absolutely believe our girls have the potential to thrive and they do as a result of that. We believe in them, we believe in their families, and we believe that — I don’t like to use the word resiliency because they shouldn’t have to be resilient, but we believe in, we know it to be true in that they are able to beat the odds and the obstacles against them.” Most importantly, the issues these girls face aren’t foreign to the social workers, therapists, and educators that work with them on a daily basis. “What I love about Gwen’s Girls is that we are reflective of the girls that we serve. We come from the communities they come from,” says Edgal. “We understand what it’s like to be Black girls growing up in systems that don’t believe in them.”

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HE GOBBLERITO FROM Mad Mex may be the most famous Thanksgiving-themed food in Pittsburgh. Still, plenty of other restaurants offer their own takes on the classic, calorieloaded seasonal meal. After a slightly-disappointing encounter with the Gobblerito last Thanksgiving, I decided to try another iteration this year: The Yard’s Turk’d Up, a Texas toast, cheddar layered grilledcheese stuffed with turkey, mashed potatoes, stufﬁng, gravy, and corn, and paired with a side of cranberry cobbler. There was no way for The Yard to make the Turk’d Up look appetizing; it’s

a beige landscape of foods, save the pale yellow corn. When the sandwich arrived at my table, gravy was gooping out the sides and onto the plate, pooling at the bottom of the thick Texas-toast base.

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I sliced the sandwich in classic grilled cheese style — a diagonal cut right through the middle — which spilled all of the mashed potatoes and gravy, loosely stacked in the sandwich, out from the edges of the toast.

Though it was messy, slicing the Turk’d Up was, I decided, a good call. It forced the less-solid components out, allowing them to act more as a sauce, and kept the bread from getting too soggy (the bottom slice was quite soft from the start). I was able to avoid big, goopy piles of gravy sitting on my sandwich. The turkey was almost undetectable when matched with the hefty slab of stufﬁng that layered the sandwich’s bottom. It was thick enough that, before I even bit into my Turk’d Up, I thought the stufﬁng was a turkey burger patty. I eventually ripped the pieces of toast apart and treated it like an open-face sandwich

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to spread out the stuffing’s reach. Overall, to my biggest surprise, pairing a grilled cheese with Thanksgiving wasn’t as disconnected of an idea as I expected. The crispy edges of the toast were a nice contrast to the soft insides, and slabs of cheddar cheese gave a little punch to the mellow flavors. The worst part was not the sandwich at all, but the cranberry dessert — it tasted like a candle. But, like any good holiday meal, the sandwich (even just half of it) put me right to sleep. If you’re heading for your first Turk’d Up, make sure you have a pillow and blanket nearby, with time in your schedule for an afternoon nap.

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S A CHILD, CHI ILOCHI was turned off

by the bold prints and fabrics of her Nigerian mother’s clothing. But as Ilochi got older, those same colors and patterns started to catch her eye. “I would build off of [that traditional Nigerian attire] in my own style,” says Ilochi, a Pittsburgh native and founder of local styling company StylingByChi. “But I really looked at my mother. My mom didn’t care. She’d be like, ‘I’m wearing what I want to wear. I’m showing up to the grocery store in a suit, don’t say nothing to me.’ So I was like, you know what, if she can do it, there’s something in here.” It started as trial and error, some outﬁts hit or miss, but Ilochi soon realized she had a knack for mixing prints and patterns without creating looks that clashed. “I could throw a lot of different colors together, and it didn’t look tacky,” she says. Now with StylingByChi, Ilochi uses style to heal, help, and inspire through clothing. One could even go as far as to say she’s a fashion philanthropist. Ilochi has a partnership with Goodwill, stressing

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the sustainability of thrifted fashion and quality pieces at low costs. She also speaks to individuals living with autism, those living in poverty, and at-risk youth about making fashion more accessible, and gifts clothes to those in need. Healing, Ilochi says, is where her love for fashion and styling stems from. “Using it as a way to help other people has definitely helped me with my mental health and my understanding of myself as a Black woman,” says Ilochi. “It was really hard for me to embrace that, and being Nigerian, [styling] really helped me find my place. I saw how much it impacted my life and wanted to give back in that sense. I wanted it to be bigger than fashion.” Ilochi first got the idea to be a stylist at age 15. A friend and classmate at Perry High School in the North Side saw Ilochi’s potential and brought up the career as something to pursue. “At the time, I didn’t really know what that was because at schools that aren’t really funded, they don’t talk about fashion,” says Ilochi. “I researched it, and it was everything I was doing already. I just didn’t have a title for it, and it was really like a self-fulfilling prophecy.” From that point on, Ilochi set her focus on studying the ins and outs of being a stylist. “It’s one thing to be selfproclaimed,” she says. But it’s a different

story to have the schooling and knowledge to back a career choice, especially as a Black woman. “I recently started studying Brittany Diego. She’s a Black stylist, and she helps stylists of color learn the ins and outs because one thing I learned when I was studying is that it wasn’t really geared towards Black women,” says Ilochi, “because getting into the fashion industry is a lot different for a white woman than it is for a Black woman. That’s just the reality of it. But once [Diego] started helping and pushing up-and-coming stylists — she has a podcast, she has a YouTube channel, and more — it really, really helped.” Ilochi is currently studying business at the Community College of Allegheny County with one semester left until graduation. After that, she plans to go to the School of Style to get her styling certiﬁcation. “I think it’s important to learn the background of the business because it’s 80% business and 20% creativity,” says Ilochi. Even though Ilochi has yet to get ofﬁcial degrees, she already has a thriving styling business with a focus on helping others. It really took root last summer around Style Week Pittsburgh. Before the fashion show, Ilochi heard that the Goodwill on McKnight Road was doing a back-to-school sale. CONTINUES ON PG. 14

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“I was like, you know I’ve never really seen anything pushing children who can’t afford Jordans or Nikes or things like that,” she says, “so I was like, you know what, I’m going to Goodwill and I’m going to start buying parents clothes, and while they’re shopping be like, ‘Hey, is there anything you’re trying to go for?’” All on her own accord, Ilochi set up shop in Goodwill, helped families ﬁnd stylish pieces for their children, and then bought the clothing for them. “Some parents, when I bought their clothes at checkout, they were kind of taken back,” says Ilochi. But the manager of that Goodwill took notice and told her to contact the Goodwill marketing team. Ilochi emailed the team, but didn’t hear back until Patrice McKenzie, founder of local thrift fashion blog Thrift Out Loud, invited Ilochi to style a model in Style Weeks Pittsburgh’s sustainable fashion show. Each stylist was given a model and a $50 gift card

to Goodwill to show that people can be stylish in something that’s thrifted. After the show, Goodwill reached out to Ilochi about a partnership.

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Now, she showcases thrifted fashion on her social media pages promoting Goodwill, and often donates the clothes to those in need when she’s done. But for Ilochi, that still wasn’t enough. Last year, after the fashion show, she began reaching out to local homeless shelters, youth organizations, and elderly homes to set up talks about clothing and fashion. “It was like uncovering a new layer of purpose,” Ilochi says. “I asked if I could speak about clothing to their residents, how they could stay warm during the winter, how they could layer, and things

like that. There’s more to fashion and styling than wearing what everybody else is.” Before the pandemic, Ilochi would speak to teens and help them see thrifted fashion as cool. She would help people with autism and mental illness find their personal style. Ilochi has taken styling beyond the rack and created an entire brand. “Styling has saved my life, and I mean that in every sense of the word,” she says. “I was in a really bad place mentally. I had lost a few friends to suicide when I really started pushing styling, and being able to get up in the morning and put an outfit on that has these colors, or even if it was a dark outfit, it kind of let me be somebody else and kind of escape what I was going through at the time, and seeing that I could do that for myself, it lit a flame in me, knowing that it could be bigger than fashion, bigger than the glitz and the glam.”

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Love is complicated, especially when it involves sports. White Whale Bookstore will host a virtual reading with authors Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson about their new book, Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back. The book tackles what it means to love sports in the face of all their flaws and “explores how we might begin to reconcile our conscience with our fandom.” 6 p.m. Free. whitewhalebookstore.com/events

There’s still time to enter the City of Pittsburgh’s annual Gingerbread House Competition. The festival is virtual this year, but you can still show off all your gumdrop trees and candy cane wreaths by uploading them online. This year, online gingerbread viewers will be able to vote on the People’s Choice winner. Open through Sat., Nov. 15. pittsburghpa.gov/gingerbread

FRI., NOV. 6 MARKET Holiday shopping starts whenever you want it to. Uncover Squirrel Hill presents winter Festival Fridays, featuring food, drinks, shopping, and more from your favorite neighborhood spots. Masks are required and social distancing will be enforced. 4-8 p.m. Forbes and Murray avenues, Squirrel Hill. uncoversquirrelhill.com

SAT., NOV. 7 MARKET Lucky for fall produce lovers, the Bloomfield Saturday Market is open through late November, so stock up on carrots, cabbage, potatoes, and other hearty winter vegetables. After Nov. 21, the event turns into the bi-monthly Bloomfield Winter Market. 9 a.m.1 p.m. 5050 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. bloomfieldnow.org

TUE., NOV. 10 FILM The New York International Children’s Film Festival is available for Pittsburghers to stream at home through the Harris Theater. The lineup includes the animated short Cat Lake City and the short documentary The Magic of Chess. Available through Thu., Dec. 31. $8. trustarts.org/film

WED., NOV. 11 HISTORY The Heinz History Center has one of the largest collections of historical documents, photos, and other materials in Western Pennsylvania. Get a peek into the depths of its collection with Treasures in the Archives, a virtual event that shows off unique documents about the history of the area. 7 p.m. Free with advance registration. heinzhistorycenter.org/events

SUN., NOV. 8 ART The cicadas that emerge only every 17 years are the subject of photographer Sue Abramson’s show Magicicada at the Silver Eye Center for Photography. After studying the cicadas in-depth, Abramson collected dozens of their exoskeletons and implemented their shapes in the darkroom. The result is beautiful, and a little creepy. Open by appointment. 4808 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. Continues through Thu., Dec. 31. silvereye.org

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These listings are curated by Pittsburgh City Paper writer Hannah Lynn. Email your latest arts and entertainment happenings today to hlynn@pghcitypaper.com

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AST MONTH, PITTSBURGH band

Portrait People released its first full-length album, Hallow, carrying the same title the pop-emo band gave to its very first EP, released three years ago when the lead singer was still in high school. What started as an EP in 2017 flourished into a new, stronger album. As artists grow, their reflections and opinions grow as well, and lead vocalist and songwriter Nic Temple wanted to use the album to show how he matured since he put out that initial release. Portrait People started as a solo project in high school by Temple. From

there, it continued to grow in members and musicality with the addition of David Beck on bass, Mike Law on drums, and David Pawlowski on lead guitar. “The EP was written at a very low point mentally in my high school career,” says Temple. “I was caught up on the negatives and thinking things couldn’t possibly be worse. By the time the songs had been ﬁnished, I was well past the mindset I was in when writing them. I wanted to make a sort of journal update with Hallow, a way to write back to myself and say that I’ll be OK.” Hallow has been a triumph for the band in many ways. Not only have they

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been able to release their first full album, but for Temple, this album has really been backed up by the growing closeness of the band. “At the beginning of playing music together, we were working off of a set of songs that would become our first EP,” says Temple. “I already had a fleshed-out vision for these songs, so there wasn’t much room for crafting the music from an early stage. When it came time to write our first full-length, things became much more open-ended, and it gave us all more room to form and shape our music from scratch, as well as get closer as a band.” The album can be seen as a safety net for the listener. It’s filled with lyrics, singing reassurance throughout the tracks. Through the band’s own

reflection, it gives listeners an invitation to explore one’s mind and truly reflect on one’s own thoughts as well. That’s part of what makes Hallow so personal. “I wanted to make something to serve as a bookmark to be able to flip back to and recount becoming an adult and the feelings that came along with it,” says Temple. “At the time I was developing my outlook on spirituality and reflecting on how I found my mindset changing throughout the process. I never wanted the album to come off as a ‘Christian album’ and be one dimensional. I wanted the themes to be an openended interpretation.” The main themes of the album deal a lot with letting go and moving on from those rough points, something Temple has learned to cope with in life.

“AS AN ARTIST OF ANY KIND, I THINK THE GOAL IS SIMPLE — TO RELATE TO SOMEONE.” These songs can be used as a guide to ﬁnding peace. They’re charged with deep emotion yet energized with selfconﬁdence and motivation. “‘Exit Through The Sun’ has been a favorite of mine since we wrote it,” says Temple. “It started when I was playing a String Machine show at an old school building in the dead of winter. After we played, I was walking outside to smoke and noticed how awesome the reverb was in the stairwell on the way out. I checked to make sure nobody else was there and started singing, ‘When the sun frees my skin from this cold I’ve been dwelling in …’ Looking back I was really just projecting how much I didn’t want to go outside in the cold, but after writing it down and expanding on the words it sort of turned into a main metaphorical theme of the album.” Thankfully, unlike many artists right now, coronavirus didn’t have a huge effect on the release of this heartfelt album. Everything was sorted out songwritingwise, and from there it was a matter of determining the timeline and adapting. “Luckily we had everything tracked and mixed/mastered before coronavirus, so the actual recording wasn’t stunted at all,” says Temple. “The difference came when deciding the layout of the release.

We weren’t sure how an album release would go without live shows to back it up, but we decided to use it as an experiment. We recorded a few songs as a live session to try and emulate going to a Portrait People show, and so far the response has been amazing.” Even with a few bumps in the road, Portrait People have been able to put its new album out there for the world and be heard by those who need the support. “As an artist of any kind, I think the goal is simple — to relate to someone,” says Temple. “My favorite moments as a listener are when you hear someone express a feeling that you’ve convinced yourself nobody else has felt but you. It’s the simple reminders that we aren’t islands and that we share our experiences, at least in some form. At the same time, to be the backing band to a drum sesh on a steering wheel or the soundtrack to a late-night drive are great honors as well.” Even after the new album has been released, there are no breaks for this band. Portrait People have already started working on a new EP, which is yet to be titled. In the meantime, the band will be releasing their live session videos throughout the next two months on the Earthwalk Collective YouTube page.

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books to be a respite from the world’s darker impulses, Margaret Atwood agrees that’s possible. But she notes that books are not always a salve for the ailments that plague us. “There is no guarantee just because something is written down that it’s good for you,” Atwood says. “Mein Kampf was a book. There are words in it. “It’s a hopeful thought, but for every good thing that humans do, there’s a balancing bad thing that has its roots in the same technology or procedure, unfortunately for us.” Atwood will participate in a virtual conversation with novelist Esi Edugyan on Mon., Nov. 9 as a fundraiser for Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. Atwood’s new collection, Dearly: New

Poems (Ecco), is her 75th book since first publishing The Circle Game, a poetry collection, in 1964. The Canadian native has produced short fiction, children’s books, and graphic novels. She’s won numerous literary awards, including two Man Booker Prizes for The Blind Assassin in 2000 and The Testaments in 2019. But Atwood is perhaps best known for The Handmaid’s Tale, the novel that was made into the Emmy Award-winning series on the streaming service Hulu. The story about a totalitarian, theocratic regime that takes over the United States and subjugates women in a patriarchal society has become linked to infringements on women’s rights. At the recent confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, women wore the characteristic Handmaid’s Tale red cloaks and white bonnets in protest

MARGARET ATWOOD IN CONVERSATION WITH ESI EDUGYAN 7 p.m. Mon., Nov. 9. (Virtual event, available online for one week.) $35 or 50, includes a limited edition of Dearly. Note: only one pass is required per household. pittsburghlectures.org/margaret-atwood

of the conservative jurist. According to Atwood, the use of The Handmaid’s Tale cloaks started in Texas, where “you had all these men in dark suits, all men, signing into legislation laws about women,” she says. “The women in Texas who were going to sit in the legislature ordered the outfits online, not specifically Handmaid’s Tale outfits because they didn’t exist yet. They ordered what they thought were going to be red cloaks, but when they arrived, they turned out to be pink, which is another idea. So, they sewed their first outfits as a protest, and it’s spread all over the world.” Here are more highlights from Pittsburgh City Paper’s interview with Atwood.

On becoming a writer: I started considering being a writer when I was 16, not knowing any better. There’s a reason why parents bite their tongue and say, “I’d rather you were a doctor.” It’s a risky thing to do. At that time, in the ’50s in Canada, there were very few people seen as professional

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have to do is close them. So, when somebody says, “I hated your book,” you didn’t have to read it. Nobody made you [read it]. We’re not there yet. We’re not in that kind of totalitarianism yet.

Do you feel compelled to write? Is it something you need to do?

Oh yes. You can hop into the pages and be somewhere else, and that is one of the reasons despite everyone saying it’s the end of reading, etcetera etecetera, babble babble, look at the number of books that are published every year, and look at the number of people that read them.

You can always stop yourself. [Laughs] It’s not like demonic possession, although some people complain it is. [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge writing the Kubla Khan apparently was high on something and darn it whoever interrupted him. We’d really like to know the rest, but it’s pretty good as it is. He made a deep impression on me when I was in the third year of high school because my teacher, Florence Nedley, had long white hair. She used to recite Kubla Khan with her eyes closed, whirling around in a circle. Very impressive.

Do you agree that we are being overwhelmed to the point of sensory overload by Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media? It’s your choice. You can turn it off.

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T’S A COLD, RAINY Wednesday afternoon at Wightman Park, but the weather did little to stop about 100 people from gathering at the site to mark its big reopening after four years of renovations. Adults wearing face masks chatted or walked their dogs, while children played on the new playground equipment, or coasted into the park on a new entrance slide going down the embankment from Solway Street. While addressing the crowd during a special opening ceremony, Will Pickering, executive director of Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, spoke about how the weather conditions perfectly highlighted the park’s new green infrastructure components, which were added to help prevent flooding in the neighborhood. “I can’t think of a better day to talk about stormwater than right now,” Pickering said, explaining how a waterfalllike cascade and rain garden, as well as several underground water retention tanks, would catch runoff that would otherwise flood the basements of surrounding residents. During the Oct. 28 ceremony, local and state leaders, and public works employees like Pickering, spoke on the importance of the park and its muchneeded rehabilitation. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto pointed to Wightman as an example of how the City of Pittsburgh is spending more money on maintaining and improving the city’s 163 parks, the funding coming from a property tax hike approved by voters in a 2019 ballot referendum. Besides the stormwater control elements, other improvements include new play areas designed for specific age groups, a multi-use green space, and a new ballfield and half-court basketball area. The park was also designed to be as inclusive as possible by incorporating playground equipment for children of all ages and abilities, as well as for those on the autism spectrum, and new restrooms with an adult changing station touted in a press release as the first of its kind in a Pittsburgh public space. Overseeing the renovations was the

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Children play on new playground equipment during Wightman Park reopening, Oct. 28, 2020

“I TRULY BELIEVE THAT EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD DESERVES A PARK THIS WONDERFUL ...” City’s Department of Public Works, as well as Ethos Collaborative and Pashek + MTR, two ﬁrms that served as stormwater management and design consultants for the project. In addition to the recreational aspects are public sculptures made by OOA Designs, a woman-owned and run design company founded by artists Oreen Cohen and Alison Zapata. Working with youth from the nearby Carriage House Center, the two women came up with four stainless steel sculptures installed throughout the park. Cohen says the sculptures were inspired by nature — three large pollinating insects line a wooden walkway, while a large work next to the playground is meant to resemble a cascading waterfall. The sculptures also pay homage to the park’s history as the former site of the Lorenz and Wightman Glass manufac-

turers, with colorful panes of tempered glass — provided by Jeannette Specialty Glass/JSG Oceana — framed within the structures. Zapata says the sculptures — the result of a two-year-long process — were also made to be child-safe and functional. Besides being aesthetically pleasing, the waterfall sculpture includes seating and rounded corners. Cohen also points out that the sculptures were made possible by a program that dedicates 1% of any new public development project’s budget to art, an initiative she says the City of Pittsburgh “doesn’t really do anymore.” “We were fortunate two years ago to be chosen because we’re a womanowned business and they really wanted to support that,” says Cohen. “I’m just hoping that more opportunities like that open up for artists in the city.”

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Pittsburgh City Councilor Erika Strassburger (D-Shadyside), who Peduto and other speakers credited for carrying the project to completion, called the newly renovated park a “bright spot” in an otherwise tumultuous year deﬁned by the pandemic, protests, and the upcoming presidential election. Strassburger also stressed how the city will continue working to bring parks similar to Wightman, complete with safe, inclusive playground equipment and facilities, and sustainable infrastructure, to other areas of Pittsburgh. “I truly believe that every neighborhood deserves a park this wonderful, and I look forward to working with my council colleagues and the mayor and other partners here today to ensure that, not just this park, but park equity overall becomes one of Pittsburgh’s crown jewels,” said Strassburger.

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Pretend it’s not 2020 by taking a trip to Mansion on Fifth’s Oak Room Pub, which recalls dining clubs from the early 1990s. Sip on Prohibition-era classics while enjoying renditions of classic and contemporary jazz and blues from Casey Deely. It is still 2020, however, so masks are required, and food must be purchased in order to consume alcohol.

FRI., NOV. 6 (LIVESTREAM) GOT IT COVERED 2020. 8 p.m. facebook.com/NorthHillsCommunityOutreach

Surf-rock band The Turbosonics and musician Chuck Olson are coming together to help raise money for North Hills Community Outreach, a nonprofit that focuses on people in crisis, hardship, and poverty. The Turbosonics kick off the livestream event, before Olson joins the band for a set of classic covers.

SAT., NOV. 7 (IRL) JAZZ AT THE LOADING DOCK. 7 p.m. Afro-American Music Institute, 7131 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $20 suggested donation. facebook.com/aamipgh

On the first Saturday of every month, the founders of the Afro-American Music Institute host a night of good music, food, and fun on the loading dock of their school. For the November edition, music comes from Dr J. (keyboard), Mr. Dan Wasson (bass), Dr. Ken Foley (drums), Mr. Hillary Borneo (steel pan pianist), and Mrs. Pamela Johnson (vocalist).

SUN., NOV. 8 (MUSIC TO STREAM) ‘FALL VIBES IN PGH’ ON PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER’S SPOTIFY Get into the fall spirit with this playlist, featuring artists from Pittsburgh and beyond.

TUE., NOV. 10 (MUSIC TO STREAM) THE DEEP ROOTS OF PITTSBURGH. Never Coming Back. thedeeprootspittsburgh.bandcamp.com

This debut album from rock and roll band The Deep Roots of Pittsburgh was inspired by American rhythm and blues, jazz, country, and the lyrics of Bob Dylan. “Everyone has lost something to COVID-19. Something that is never coming back. Some have lost loved ones, jobs, and livelihoods, and our thoughts and prayers go out to them. For most of us, the challenge is to just keep plowing ahead, faced with so much uncertainty,” states the group’s Bandcamp page. “But Never Coming Back is also a statement of optimism. A decision has been made to go in a new direction that will hopefully be better. Kind of ironic for a four-piece rock band working in the tradition of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks that took its name from The Lord of the Rings.”

WED., NOV. 11 (IRL) ROBIN AND BOB. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Crafthouse Stage & Grill, 5024 Curry Road, Whitehall. Free. facebook.com/CrafthouseStageGrill

Formed in early 2017, Robin and Bob are a musical duo that mixes blues, rock, folk, and old country. They are taking the stage at Crafthouse for a night of live music and fun.

These listings are curated by Pittsburgh City Paper music writer Jordan Snowden. Email your latest music happenings today to jsnowden@pghcitypaper.com

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