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MAY 13-20, 2020 VOLUME 29 + ISSUE 20 Editor-In-Chief LISA CUNNINGHAM Director of Advertising JASMINE HUGHES Director of Operations KEVIN SHEPHERD Managing Editor ALEX GORDON News Editor RYAN DETO Senior Writer AMANDA WALTZ Staff Writers HANNAH LYNN, JORDAN SNOWDEN Photographer/Videographer JARED WICKERHAM Digital Media Manager JOSH OSWALD Editorial Designer ABBIE ADAMS Graphic Designers JOSIE NORTON, JEFF SCHRECKENGOST Events and Sponsorship Manager BLAKE LEWIS Senior Account Executive KAITLIN OLIVER Sales Representative ZACK DURKIN Operations Coordinator MAGGIE WEAVER Events and Marketing Coordinator BRYER BLUMENSCHEIN Business Manager JUSTIN MATASE Circulation Manager JEFF ENGBARTH Featured Contributors REGE BEHE, LYNN CULLEN, TERENEH IDIA, CHARLES ROSENBLUM, JESSIE SAGE National Advertising Representative VMG ADVERTISING 1.888.278.9866 OR 1.212.475.2529 Publisher EAGLE MEDIA CORP.

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Airbnb has been operating in Pa throughout the pandemic and against stay-at-home orders BY RYAN DETO // RYANDETO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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HE GLOBAL coronavirus pandemic has meant a lot of additional stress in everyone’s lives. It’s stressful to shop for groceries, to educate children at home, and to ﬁgure out how to pay bills during record levels of unemployment. But, for the most part, isolating at home can offer a reprieve. It’s one of the few places where people are in complete control. Residential neighborhoods are quiet, and with stayat-home orders still active for much of Pennsylvania, they aren’t seeing many, if any, visitors. Unless, that is, you live next to a home being used as an Airbnb. Throughout the pandemic, the online short-term rental company has been listing thousands of rooms, homes, and cabins available for rental in Pennsylvania,

and visitors are taking advantage. There are some loopholes that allow certain short-term rentals to operate, like for essential travel of frontline workers, which some Airbnb homes are hosting. But it also appears that many Airbnb hosts and visitors aren’t limiting themselves to those parameters — that means people traveling who shouldn’t be, and people breaking social-distancing rules for the sake of a weekend getaway or to throw a party. Airbnb ofﬁcials insist they are following the state’s guidelines and rules involving non-essential business closures, and are providing all the proper information to their hosts. But a South Pittsburgh resident says they have witnessed several stays at a home used as an Airbnb on their street, including what appeared to be a party

in early May. Posts on social media indicate other Airbnbs in Pittsburgh are being used in similar ways, and reviews on Airbnb’s website for stays in April and May rarely mention they were for essential travel. Even though these shortterm rentals are likely violating several rules and orders, there doesn’t appear to be much motivation to force them to stop. THE WEEKEND OF MAY 2, a quiet side street in a residential South Pittsburgh neighborhood was ﬂooded with visitors. Twelve cars were parked on the narrow street, some up on the sidewalk so all the cars could ﬁt close to a home at the end

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of the road. A neighbor who spoke to Pittsburgh City Paper on the condition of anonymity expressed their displeasure, especially baffled at the thought of

something like this happening during the coronavirus outbreak. “We were up until 3:30 in the morning,” the neighbor said. “This house next door

is being speciﬁcally used for the parties. … It was really loud. Our house doesn’t have the best insolation. We could hear them screaming and playing loud music.” CONTINUES ON PG. 6

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The neighbor said this gathering took place at a home used as a short-term rental through Airbnb. The party involved people defying stay-at-home orders to visit a different neighborhood to party and was booked on a short-term rental site, which also violated Gov. Tom Wolf’s orders on business closures. The South Pittsburgh resident says the property next door was bought and en ﬂipped a few years ago, and has been solely used as an Airbnb location (no one lives there full- or parttime). The resident is worried for other people in the neighborhood, including a senior who lives next door, and for themselves in terms of a potential increased chance of contracting COVID-19. ed “For myself, I would be considered ave a high risk for the disease. I have d th asthma and a blood disorder,” said the neighbor. “Who are these people coming into our neighborhood? They have no respect for social distancing.” The neighbor has reached out to corporate communications at Airbnb and gotten a response, but nothing saying they would take action against the host. Directly after the party, the neighbor said the home played host to another group of about ﬁve or six guests. “It is so frustrating and there is nothing we can do,” said the South Pittsburgh resident.

In mid-March, Wolf issued his order closing “non-life-sustaining” businesses throughout the commonwealth. While hotels, motels, and hostels could remain open, it meant that short-term rentals, like those booked through Airbnb, VRBO, Expedia, HomeStay, and other websites, were no longer allowed when a county was under the red phase of the governor’s coronavirus plan. Then on April 7, Pennsylvania Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Davin wrote letters to Airbnb and Expedia, urging them to take stricter measures informing property owners that tthey shouldn’t be advertising sh short-term rentals online. “There is nothing that’s essential abou about a short-term rental in the P Poconos, and so we have shut them down,” said Wolf during an April 1 press conference. But in browsing the Airbnb website, hundreds of listings are still shown throughout Pittsburgh. Some hosts have indicated in their proﬁles that they are adhering to Wolf’s orders prohibiting short-term rentals and not renting during the pandemic, but most are not. Even a cursory glance reveals that several Pittsburgh Airbnbs have hosted guests in April and May, including visitors from out of state like Arizona and New York.

Searches of Philadelphia also show guests staying in Airbnbs in April and May. Harrisburg turned up similar results, including people staying in rooms in people’s homes. Even in the Poconos in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where Wolf speciﬁcally pointed out that shortterm rentals were non-essential, visitors stayed at Airbnbs in April and May. Some visitors even traveled from New York City to stay at cabins in the Poconos. One guest from New York traveled twice to the same East Stroudsburg Airbnb between April and May. A request for comment to the state Department of Community and Economic Development went unanswered. As of May 11, more than 57,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Pennsylvania and more than 3,700 in the state have died. That includes more than 1,500 COVID-19 cases in Allegheny County. The highest rates of corona-virus cases are mostly in the eastern part ofthe state with Berks, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Philadelphia, and Pike counties all seeing more than 700 positive cases per 100,000 residents. Josh Meltzer, head of Northeast Policy for Airbnb, says the company is communicating with hosts about the state’s orders during the pandemic, including ensuring rentals are only for essential situations. CONTINUES ON PG. 8

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“WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE COMING INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD? THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING.”

“Airbnb is working with local governments in realtime to both address these orders and ensure short-term rentals are an available resource for frontline responders and those sheltering in place during this crisis,” said Meltzer in a statement to CP. Airbnb also started to block bookings starting sometime in mid-to-late April in four Northeastern Pennsylvania counties: Carbon, Pike, Monroe, and Wayne. While the company says it has provided several guidelines and rules to Airbnb hosts, the only warning Airbnb provides guests on its website is a written disclaimer in small bold type that reads, “Check travel restrictions before booking. The health and safety of our communities come ﬁrst. Please follow government guidelines and travel only if it’s essential.” Only after navigating through four online links is an explanation provided about Pennsylvania’s short-term rental rules on page 13 of a 16-page document. And the short answer as to whether Airbnb hosts should be renting out their residential properties during the pandemic is no. Unless guests are explicitly traveling to perform military, emergency, governmental, health, or infrastructure related responses, no stays should have been permitted after April 1. Vacation activities in lodgings are prohibited. Airbnb recently launched a program it says has resulted in 100,000 homes being offered up by hosts to help house medical workers who need lodging to self-isolate near hospitals.

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The South Pittsburgh resident might be more sympathetic to people using Airbnbs if guests were relegated to essential workers, business travelers on necessary trips, or people moving to Pennsylvania permanently and looking for temporary lodging before ﬁnding a home. But the resident doesn’t understand how parties are being allowed during the pandemic. Airbnb has a strict no parties rule for hosts and guests, but evidently some people in Pennsylvania are ignoring those rules. According to its website, another Airbnb location, this one located in Beechview, hosted a Pittsburgh family for a 13-year-old’s birthday party in April. “Her group were fantastic guests,” reads an April host review response from the Beechview Airbnb host. “We were so glad to be able to help her make her daughter’s 13th birthday special.” Multiple reviews of Airbnb listings across Pittsburgh during the pandemic mentioned quick stays without context of essential work. A review from a Lawrenceville rental in April said, “The perfect place for a quick weekend trip.” In May, a renter in the South Side Slopes posted, “great lil place to stay and getaway for sure with a nice view of the city.” On May 10, local blogger Sue Kerr posted on Facebook about a party held at an Airbnb in her North Side neighborhood that included guests without masks and trash left in the street. “Alt-hotels do not belong in neighborhoods,” wrote Kerr. “I’m tired

of texting the owner. Just stop trading our health for money. It’s not okay.” CORONAVIRUS CLOSURES have been hard on Airbnb’s bottom line. Last week, Airbnb laid off about 1,900 employees (25% of its workforce) in response to a big dip in bookings. A recent Wall Street Journal article also detailed how some hosts were experiencing large amounts of lost revenue, but this was largely concentrated among hosts who had overextended themselves and bought properties for the sole purpose of converting them into Airbnbs. On May 15, Allegheny County will join 37 other Western and Central Pennsylvania counties in the yellow phase of Pennsylvania’s reopen plan. Shortterm rentals are permissible in yellowphase counties, as long as disinfecting and cleaning rules are followed, and gatherings have fewer than 25 people. “More businesses can reopen, but proper safety measures must be in place,” tweeted Wolf on May 8 in reference to the yellow phase of his reopen plan. “There are fewer social restrictions, but residents should continue social distancing,

wearing masks in public, and doing everything they can to prevent the spread of #COVID19.” However, even under the yellow phase, some Airbnbs are violating a recent state Supreme Court ruling which states that properties solely and continually operating as short-term rentals are violating residential zoning codes. Pennsylvania municipalities, like Pittsburgh, can now enforce zoning violations onto properties in residential zoning districts that operate solely as short-term rentals. Pittsburgh city ofﬁcials could not say how many Airbnb complaints they have received under the coronavirus pandemic, nor did they indicate any enforcement actions against short-term rentals under zoning laws. The South Pittsburgh resident thinks Airbnb should just take down all listings in Pennsylvania during the pandemic. They believe there are just too many hosts and guests violating social distancing rules, and they shouldn’t be encouraged to enter people’s neighborhoods. “Airbnb as a whole needs to just shut their website down in Pennsylvania,” says the resident.

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HROUGHOUT THE duration of stay-at-home orders and coronavirus restrictions, Pittsburgh City Paper is reaching out to local artists, activists, workers, and makers to ﬁnd out how they’re doing, how they’re coping, what they’re watching, and what they’re eating. Today, it’s singer-songwriter Joy Ike, who lives in Philadelphia now but has roots in Pittsburgh.

WHAT’S YOUR DAY-TO-DAY ROUTINE LIKE NOW? Somehow my days have felt equally slower and busier. Because I work from home when I’m not traveling, much of the last six weeks (give or take) has felt like my day-to-day before the pandemic — just more screen time now that my whole world is online. I change things around a bit from week to week but for the most part, when I wake up each morning, I spend a decent amount of time stretching my body while listening to music, having a quiet/devotional time, and then hopping onto my laptop for any number of things — social media posts, responding to emails, working on my taxes (this week), applying for some kind of ﬁnancial aid, live streaming, etc. ... I intentionally try to break up my days with a walk, long cooking experiments, some webinar that someone is doing somewhere, painting, and dancing :) I’ve had more time to create but I know so many people are not experiencing this quarantine in the same way, so I don’t take this extra time for granted. WHAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD TELL A PRE-QUARANTINE VERSION OF YOURSELF THAT YOU THINK THEY SHOULD KNOW? Save up your money and get ready to buy a house when it’s super cheap!!! YOU RELEASED A VIDEO FOR “ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD” RECENTLY, PARTIALLY ABOUT FINDING SILVER

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LININGS IN QUARANTINE, SPECIFICALLY THE CHANCE TO CATCH UP WITH OLD FRIENDS. TELL ME ABOUT WRITING THAT SONG AND HOW THE IDEA CAME TO YOU. While sitting at my piano several weeks ago, I was considering the fact that I had spent my first week of quarantine reconnecting with friends and family that I hadn’t talked to with in such a long time. That’s the spirit that this song was written in. Songs never come out immediately. It usually takes me several months to complete a song from start to finish. So this one felt time-sensitive — like it needed to be released sooner than later. I knew I wanted to make a music video for the song and that the video would capture the stir-crazy feeling of being “stuck” at home all the time and trying to find ways to make the time pass. I just wanted to create something lighthearted that people could identify with, something that would offset the angst and fear that so many people are currently sitting in. WHAT WAS YOUR LAST GIG BEFORE STAY-AT-HOME ORDERS WENT INTO EFFECT? WHAT WAS IT LIKE? The last gig I played was at a friend’s home in Philly in mid-March. We were scheduled to do a house concert that evening but there were already rumors of Philly being on the verge of quar-

antine. We moved the house concert outside, marked the sidewalks and street with chalk, and created six-feet partitions to help regulate the crowd that might form. My friend’s neighbors were nervous at the idea of having a ton of people gather (which didn’t happen), so we wanted to be respectful of all the concerns but still create an opportunity to bring a little bit of hope to the neighborhood. This was at the beginning of the crisis and there had been a ton of angst and fear circulating. Neighbors listened from their porches, through their windows, on the street, and passing by as they took their dogs on walks. So many people shared, after the fact, that that moment in time was necessary for their emotional health. It was a good feeling. WHAT IS A FOOD YOU’VE COME TO LOVE RECENTLY? Everything, always! :) I love to cook ... just love it! So experimenting with new recipes over these past two months has been a ton of fun. WHAT’S AN ORGANIZATION OR CHARITY THAT YOU’D RECOMMEND SUPPORTING AT THIS TIME? I’ve always known Light of Life’s mission to be trustworthy and have a huge heart for the homeless community in the North Side. They get my vote!

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VERYBODY POOPS, and as the COVID19 outbreak and its many wellpublicized toilet paper shortages have shown, it’s every butt for itself. But what are the alternatives to the roll? If you’ve been paying attention to the sponsored ads popping up in your Instagram feed, you may have seen something about bidet attachments. Companies like Brondell, Omigo, and TUSHY (whose website HELLOtushy.com is not to be confused with the porn site tushy.com) have set out to make bidets more mainstream in the U.S. by manufacturing attachments that can be retrofitted to any toilet. These companies have also touted the many benefits of buying a bidet attachment. Tom Lotrecchiano, co-founder of Omigo, claims that bidet users in the U.S. have seen a drastic reduction in toilet paper usage (75% to 100% by his numbers, though I’m highly skeptical of the latter figure). Miki Agrawal, founder and chief creative officer of TUSHY, says that bidets are better for the environment and the body compared to using just toilet paper, which he claims “kills millions of trees per year and causes chronic infections and disease ... like

UTIs, hemorrhoids, and fissures.” Based on recent sale trends, Lotrecchiano and Agrawal say Americans have, perhaps out of desperation, turned to bidets. “What they’re learning is that modern bidets are just better than toilet paper,” says Lotrecchiano, adding that Omigo saw a huge spike in sales and traffic to its website when the COVID-19 crisis began. “They get you cleaner, like taking a shower every time you go, and they are healthier.” Like Omigo, Agrawal says TUSHY sales shot up “when the toilet paper shortage first happened in mid-March,” with profits hitting $1 million in a single day. Both Lotrecchiano and TUSHY CEO Jason Ojalvo claim that their respective product sales are now around 10 times what they usually are. Pittsburgh residents are among those adopting the bidet life. Performance artist Phat Man Dee says she bought hers as soon as the isolation phase began, but had dreamed of buying one ever since she went on a European tour in 2015. “I stayed with some friends who had one, I tried it, and I realized I’d not been

living my best life,” says Phat Man Dee. “Pragmatically, it would help me use less toilet paper, which is good for the environment, but it would also help me be fresh and clean in ways I didn’t know was possible. When I saw the insanity beginning in stores and hoarding style behaviors manifesting, I realized that I should make my dreams of installing a bidet attachment come true.” She estimates that her attachment cost around $50 and took about 20 minutes to install. While she still needs to use some toilet paper to dry off, she says her household now uses a lot less. Hearing about it is one thing, but I wanted to experience this bidet revolution. Because TUSHY is the brand I see advertised most on social media, I asked if I could try one of their attachments. When it arrived, I was surprised at how low-tech it is, consisting of a light, plastic bidet piece, a small water line, and a few other items to help secure it to the seat. I had to make a Home Depot run to grab a ﬂexible water supply line that cost about $5. Once I had that, the installation process took maybe 30 minutes. The bidet I received has three

settings — Butt Wash, Nozzle Wash, and Pressure Off for when it’s not in use. Consumers can choose from fancier versions that offer drying functions and hot water. The first time I used it, I was impressed/terrified at the nozzle’s accuracy; it felt like I gave myself a low-grade enema. Not realizing the intensity of going full Butt Wash, I’m pretty sure I ripped my butthole a new butthole (you can adjust the dial for gentler, less invasive pressure). This is what happens when you don’t fully read the instructions. Once I got the hang of it, I was able to find a comfortable, less traumatizing setting and can confirm that bidet attachments are worth the investment. They are surprisingly affordable (my TUSHY model retails for about $79) and easy to install, with no plumbing experience required. After using the bidet for a little over a week, it’s true that, while you still need to use some toilet paper, you will use far fewer sheets. Phat Man Dee puts it best: “Don’t wait to evolve to the next stage in humanity. Cleanliness is next to Goddessliness. Do it for yourself, do it for your soul.”

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Harvie Farms is a collective of Western Pa. farmers who “believe that it should be as easy to buy from your local farmer as it is from Amazon Prime.” The platform hosts a variety of farm shares, categorizing them by pickup or delivery location.

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From June through Thanksgiving, you can pick up a box of produce from one of Kretschmann’s various city drop-off points. The three sizes are available every week with add-ons — mushrooms and coffee — up for grabs every month. Sign up through email, found on its website.

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Derek Dumont puts together farm-share boxes at Harvie Farms Pittsburgh on Mon., May 11 in Lawrenceville.

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VERY YEAR, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an important component of the growing season for many farmers. It’s a system in which consumers purchase a share at the beginning of the season and, for the next few months, receive weekly or bi-weekly boxes of produce straight from the ﬁelds. The model — similar to a subscription but instead of to a magazine, to a farm — allows the community to invest in local agriculture, and in turn, gives farmers ﬁnancial relief at the start of

their growing season. “Imagine if you put in four months of work to grow six acres of corn, and then nobody wants to buy the corn,” explains Erin Hart, director of Farm to Table Western PA and Buy Fresh Buy Local. “[CSAs] are a contract between the consumer and farmer to say, ‘I’m going to buy from you, no matter what happens.’” But this year, she says, signing up for a CSA is a whole new world. In response to the pandemic, farmers and consumers are finally meeting in the middle,

“where they should be,” according to Hart. The outbreak has pushed consumers to look past convenience and shop “where it matters.” They are more willing to travel to pick up produce and are now stuck at home, willing to cook. More farmers are offering delivery, and many are adding CSA drop offs in Allegheny County. To accommodate the growth of consumer demand, farms are increasing the number of shares available. However, if you’re new to the CSA

world, the concept can be intimidating. Finding the right CSA to ﬁt your needs can be tricky. Follow this advice from Hart and the Buy Fresh Buy Local team, and you’ll be on your way to ﬁnding the perfect CSA.

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1. Find farms near you. This seems like an obvious notion, but it’s crucial. It may be easy to travel a longer distance to pick up your CSA box now; however, when things start to pick up again, it won’t be. Use a resource to narrow down your options. Buy Fresh Buy Local has a guide that lays out farms offering CSAs and where the drop-off points are located. Chatham University is building a comprehensive, online resource of Pennsylvania farms and their respective buying options. In their local food guide, Farm to Table has a CSA drop point locator. (However, Hart does note that some of these resources are dated to the beginning of January and may be missing information.) 2. Follow your farmers. Check their social media pages and websites regularly; this is where they communicate. Many have implemented online ordering — for CSAs and individual orders — and are actively updating their offerings. 3. Look for a CSA that has the right price point and size for you. Different farmers offer different things. Some are able to break their CSAs into small, medium, and large, while others are one-size-fits-all. If customization is important, ﬁnd a farm that allows for

Laura McLafferty puts kale into a farm-share box at Harvie Farms.

you to leave out certain vegetables or tag your box with diet preferences. And search for add-ons. In addition to their regular, fruit-and-vegetable CSAs, many local farmers have additional pieces for purchase. In need of

cheese, eggs, or ﬂowers? Find a CSA that offers extras. 4. Don’t be afraid of having too many vegetables. With the diversity of crops local farmers are putting out and the

ability to customize, surplus is unlikely. But it happens. Did your box include too many heads of cabbage? Turn it into kimchi or sauerkraut. A CSA may force you to get creative in the kitchen, but that’s half of the fun.

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theater is, well, the immersion part, which can be challenging when people are stuck in their homes and even small crowds are prohibited. For the ﬂedgling Vigilance Theater Group, the desire to put on what would be its third show in the face of COVID-19 restrictions required some creativity. As opposed to inviting audiences into a haunted murder mystery, like with its ﬁrst show Hollow Moon, or into an all-female spectral other-realm, like in Welcome to Moonside which took place at the former Lava Lounge bar, Vigilance is executing its latest show, Dawn’s Trail: A Cosmic Uncertainty, with some technological assistance. Vigilance co-founder Sean Collier, who created the company with Dana Custer, Ariella Furman, and Renee Rabenold back in 2018, says they had planned on presenting their next show in November, and were even in the process of having auditions. As the outbreak unfolded, however, they had to quickly shift gears. “We were facing the likelihood that there’s going to be a pretty long break between Welcome to Moonside and another in-person show,” says Collier, adding that they originally planned on not having a show at all. “I wanted to do something primarily for people who had seen at least the previous show, to give a little bit of content and remind everyone we’re still here and building on this company and this story.” Dawn’s Trail — which runs from Mon., May 18 through Thu., June 18 — serves as a spin-off to Welcome to Moonside, which Collier wrote and is described in a Pittsburgh City Paper review as an eerie tale that takes place in a “kingdom for the spirits of deceased humans.” The concept is somewhere between an immersive production and a scavenger hunt, as audience members assist a wandering spirit by gathering clues from emails embedded with videos, phone calls, texts, and even handwritten letters. Collier says Vigilance ultimately

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decided to embark on a virtual performance after seeing what local theaters were doing to stay relevant while still providing entertainment to patrons outside of the physical experience. “I started thinking this is maybe less about, ‘Is this the best theatrical experience?’ and more about what you’re watching on your screen,” says Collier, citing how Pittsburgh Public Theater started hosting online dramatic readings. “It provides a little bit of connection.” To that end, Collier explains that they wanted Dawn’s Trail to be as accessible as possible. Tickets are pay-whatyou-can with a suggested donation of $10. It’s designed so anyone can enjoy it without the headache of downloading and learning how to use a new app or online platform, something many people have had to do in order to communicate while social distancing. “We’re not going to have a group Zoom call with ghosts,” says Collier. The effort to create something challenging, yet pleasurable and easy to do from home extends to the scavenger hunt elements. “We don’t want to send people on unnecessary journeys right now,” says Collier, adding that the clues

will take participants down a linear path and not reach frustrating escape room levels. “Our goal is for everyone to make it to the end of this story.”

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But while Dawn’s Trail is more inclusive in terms of tech and price, Collier stresses that it primarily caters to the estimated 200 ticket holders and guests who saw Welcome to Moonside, as the new show incorporates characters and other details from that experience. “I think it will look pretty obtuse if you don’t know who some of these characters are,” he says. While he says the show is meant to “give people a little break from reality,” they did not want to completely ignore

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the crisis going on right now and tried to ﬁnd ways to integrate it into the story. “We thought about how these characters exist in and outside of our world,” says Collier. “We can’t pretend that the world isn’t weird right now, so what might happen to those characters and what might they need from the audience in a very different world?” As Vigilance and other companies navigate the previously uncharted waters of taking shows beyond the stage or performance venue, Collier hopes no one forgets the value of the physical experience. Rather, he sees the shutdown as an opportunity for creative institutions to “have more ﬂexibility and to generate more content in different ways,” and for audiences to react accordingly. “I don’t want the physical experience of going to the theater in a traditional sense — I don’t want that to go away. That’s important to the nature of the whole artform,” he says. “But I think people are digesting that the life of an arts organization doesn’t stop at the physical theater. … I hope this teaches people to engage with places they love and the places they support beyond just buying the ticket.”

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Riverside Drive In Theatre co-owner Emma Ross checks orders while her daughter Kayla Baker puts together a nachos and cheese to-go order at the theater’s concession stand.

OR YEARS, THE REMAINING drivein theaters still operating were seen as a fun relic. Their lack of modernity was part of the charm. But now, the concept of moviegoers watching from their individual cars is suddenly modern again. There is still no clear answer as to when traditional, indoor movie theaters can open or when movie studios will begin releasing new movies. But drive-in theaters in the area will open on May 15, when counties in Southwest Pennsylvania move into the “yellow” phase and begin partially reopening. At least initially, crowds at drive-ins could surge, as

people are desperate to do anything that involves not being at home. Rick Glaus has been the owner of Dependable Drive-In since 1968 (it opened in 1950), but he says the whole situation is uncharted territory, from planning programming without new releases, to updating the bathrooms with touchless faucets. “I’ve never had to do this before in my life and I’ve been doing this my whole life,” says Glaus. At the beginning of May, Dependable was told it could soon open, along with other Pennsylvania drive-ins. The theater made the announcement on

Facebook, but hours later had to retract as they were told by Gov. Tom Wolf’s ofﬁce that the statement about drive-ins being able to open was made in error. Dependable expressed disappointment at having sunk money into updating the theater for protections against the virus, only to have to wait longer to make the money back. “[I]t is very hard to foot a large bill like that when there is no money coming in. ... Sadly, if this continues for much longer, especially with our newly added expenses, the drive-in may not survive much longer,” said the Dependable Facebook post.

After the Facebook post, a customer started a GoFundMe for Dependable, which has raised around $9,000. The outdoor theater will be able to open with a limited capacity on Fri., May 15 with screenings of Trolls World Tour. In addition to touchless bathrooms, Dependable updated its concession stand to be operated exclusively through an app so customers don’t wait in line. The drive-in will be at 40% capacity and cars will be spaced 10-12 feet apart. Glaus thinks Dependable will be busy immediately upon reopening, but doesn’t know what will happen in the CONTINUES ON PG. 18

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long-run, especially because in difficult economic times, spending money on entertainment isn’t a priority. “I’m sure it’s the same as any business, the movie business has its ups and downs. Three years ago, we had the worst year we could’ve had. ... The movies didn’t work, the weather was bad,” says Glaus. “[Last year], it was busy every night. It was probably one of the best. So you go from probably one of the best years you’ve ever had to absolutely the worst year you will have ever had.” Todd Ament, co-owner of the Riverside Drive-In in Vandergrift, Pa., thinks that drive-in theaters will be popular because even if indoor theaters are allowed to reopen, they likely won’t have any new releases to show. The first major studio releases for the summer aren’t scheduled until mid-July, and even those could get pushed back. To prepare for reopening, Riverside began doing takeout orders from the concession stand so they could test the online ordering system that will now be in place. He says the takeout service won’t continue after they reopen, but it was a good way for loyal customers to support them. In addition to planning screenings of older films, like a double header of Wizard of Oz and Twister, Riverside will

host graduation ceremonies for some area high schools, a trend that has been cropping up with organizations around the country. Over Easter weekend, Harvest Baptist Church of Natrona Heights used Riverside for six services. Ament says he’s even seen a video of a drive-in wedding ceremony.

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It’s not easy to keep a drive-in theater going in the best of times. But now, when everything is upside down, drive-ins have become the only way to watch movies outside of our homes. Glaus says Dependable has stuck around for so long not because it’s ﬁnancially rewarding, but because he’s stuck with it through booming nights with beautiful weather and rainstorms with unpopular movies. “I guess you could say I love it,” says Glaus. “Or I don’t have enough common sense to get out.”

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Of all the signs, Tauruses are among the least likely to be egomaniacs. Most of you aren’t inclined to indulge in fits of braggadocio or outbreaks of narcissism. (I just heard one of my favorite virtuoso Taurus singers say she wasn’t a very good singer!) That’s why one of my secret agendas is to tell you how gorgeous you are, to nudge you to cultivate the confidence and pride you deserve to have. Are you ready to leap to a higher octave of self-love? I think so. In the coming weeks, please use Taurus artist Salvador Dali’s boast as your motto: “There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realize they adore me.”

On the kids’ TV show Sesame Street, there’s a Muppet character named Count von Count. He’s a friendly vampire who loves to count things. He is 6,523,730 years old and his favorite number is 34,969 —187 squared. The Count was “born” on Nov. 13, 1972, when he made his first appearance on the show, which means he’s a Scorpio. I propose we make him your patron saint for the next four weeks. It’s an excellent time to transform any threatening qualities you might seem to have into harmless and cordial forms of expression. It’s also a favorable phase for you to count your blessings and make plans that will contribute to your longevity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

When I was young, I had a fun-filled fling with a smart Gemini woman who years later became a highly praised author and the authorized biographer of a Nobel Prize-winning writer. Do I regret our breakup? Am I sorry I never got to enjoy her remarkable success up close? No. As amazing as she was and is, we wouldn’t have been right for each other long-term. I am content with the brief magic we created together, and have always kept her in my fond thoughts with gratitude and the wish for her to thrive. Now I invite you to do something comparable to what I just did, Gemini: Make peace with your past. Send blessings to the people who helped make you who you are. Celebrate what has actually happened in your life, and graduate forever from what might have happened but didn’t.

“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool,” writes novelist Erica Jong. “Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great,” says singer Cher. “He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom,” declared art critic James Huneker. “Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced,” observed philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. According to my analysis of astrological omens, you’re primed to prove these theories, Sagittarius. Congratulations!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You have two ways to live your life, from memory or from inspiration,” writes teacher Joe Vitale. Many Cancerians favor memory over inspiration to provide their primary motivation. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, although it can be a problem if you become so obsessed with memory that you distract yourself from creating new developments in your life story. But in accordance with astrological potentials and the exigencies of our Global Healing Crisis, I urge you, in the coming weeks, to mobilize yourself through a balance of memory and inspiration. I suspect you’ll be getting rich opportunities to both rework the past and dream up a future full of interesting novelty. In fact, those two imperatives will serve each other well.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Anne Lamott has some crucial advice for you to heed in the coming weeks. “Even when we’re most sure that love can’t conquer all,” she says, “it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.” I hope you’ll wield this truth as your secret magic in the coming weeks, Leo. Regard love not just as a sweet emotion that makes you feel good, but as a superpower that can accomplish practical miracles.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Theologian St. Catherine of Siena observed, “To a brave person, good and bad luck are like her left and right hand. She uses both.” The funny thing is, Virgo, that in the past you have sometimes been more adept and proactive in using your bad luck, and less skillful at capitalizing on your good luck. But from what I can tell, this curious problem has been diminishing for you in 2020 — and will continue to do so. I expect that in the coming weeks, you will welcome and harness your good luck with brisk artistry.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I’m curious about everything, except what people have to say about me,” says actor Sarah Jessica Parker. I think that’s an excellent strategy for you to adopt in the coming weeks. On the one hand, the whole world will be exceptionally interesting, and your ability to learn valuable lessons and acquire useful information will be at peak. On the other hand, one of the keys to getting the most out of the wealth of catalytic influences will be to cultivate nonchalance about people’s opinions of you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Few people have a treasure,” writes Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro. She’s speaking metaphorically, of course — not referring to a strongbox full of gold and jewels. But I’m happy to inform you that if you don’t have a treasure, the coming months will be a favorable time to find or create it. So I’m putting you on a High Alert for Treasure. I urge you to be receptive to and hungry for it. And if you are one of those rare lucky ones who already has a treasure, I’m happy to say that you now have the power and motivation to appreciate it even more and learn how to make even better use of it. Whether you do or don’t yet have the treasure, heed these further words from Alice Munro: “You must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): At this moment, there are 50 trillion cells in your body, and each of them is a sentient being in its own right. They act together as a community, consecrating you with their astonishing collaboration. It’s like magic! Here’s an amazing fact: Just as you communicate with dogs and cats and other animals, you can engage in dialogs with your cells. The coming weeks will be a ripe time to explore this phenomenon. Is there anything you’d like to say to the tiny creatures living in your stomach or lungs? Any information you’d love to receive from your heart or your sex organs? If you have trouble believing this is a real possibility, imagine and pretend. And have fun!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A myriad of modest delights constitute happiness,” wrote poet Charles Baudelaire. I think that definition will serve you well in the coming weeks, Pisces. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there won’t be spectacular breakthroughs barging into your life; I expect no sublime epiphanies or radiant transformations. On the other hand, there’ll be a steady stream of small marvels if you’re receptive to such a possibility. Here’s key advice: Don’t miss the small wonders because you’re expecting and wishing for bigger splashes.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): During a pandemic, is it possible to spread the news about your talents and offerings? Yes! That’s why I suggest you make sure that everyone who should know about you does indeed know about you. To mobilize your efforts and stimulate your imagination, I came up with colorful titles for you to use to describe yourself on your résumé or in promotional materials or during conversations with potential helpers. 1. Fire-Maker 2. Seed-Sower 3. Brisk Instigator 4. Hope Fiend 5. Gap Leaper 6. Fertility Aficionado 7. Gleam Finder 8. Launch Catalyst 9. Chief Improviser 10. Change Artist.

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Orlando, 40-year-old trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by an orca named Tilikum, the subject of the 2013 documentary Blackfish. As punishment, Tilikum was separated from the other orcas and confined to a small isolation tank. Around the same time, Greensburgbased author Karen Dietrich was brainstorming ideas for her first novel, Girl at the Edge, which came out this March via Grand Central Publishing. Dietrich was interested in the idea of Tilikum as a father — he was used as a sperm donor for more than 20 calves — and the legacy of his story. “The story of the orca and the whole situation reminded me of something I’ve always been fascinated by, which is nature versus nurture and how we try to make sense of who we are, based on legacies of our families,” says Dietrich. “It was one of those things where I

became really fascinated like, ‘How would this child whale feel about their father being the infamous whale who killed a trainer?’ I had this whole thing that I imagined in my head.” Dietrich liked the thought of writing a book from a daughter whale’s perspective, like the novel Watership Down, a survival and adventure story about and told through the eyes of a group of rabbits. But for her ﬁrst work of ﬁction, it seemed a bit intimidating. “Once I put myself into the shoes of a whale of all things, whose father had done a very violent act, I got to thinking, I want to explore this morale and decided to translate it into people,” says Dietrich. Girl at the Edge is a coming-of-age story that follows a teenage girl named Evelyn as she struggles with a father who has been in prison, on death row, since before she was born. An infamous Florida killer, everyone in St. Augustine

remembers the day when Michael Joshua Hayes, Evelyn’s father, let loose gunﬁre in a shopping mall, killing 11 people. Evelyn wants to know what drew her father to do such a horrible act, and if it’s a dark attribute that is sitting inside her as well. Like a memoir, Dietrich takes the reader inside of Evelyn’s head — she sees extremely graphic things that are not there, like watching someone slit their throat while sitting in a Starbucks. “Getting into that headspace was really absorbing, I would get really engrossed in that character’s mind,” says Dietrich. “One of the reasons I really love ﬁction is that I love getting into the psyche where you’re kind of mixing your own brain with the characters, in my case. “At the same time, it allowed me to explore. I think we all have those dark thoughts, or we all have snatches of unsavory things we might think of that we don’t necessarily talk about, but it’s

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certainly there and I deﬁnitely wanted to portray Evelyn as someone who struggles with those inner demons so to speak. And what is that really like when you get up close?” This writing process is much more controlled and focused for Dietrich than writing music, which she does as part of Pittsburgh-based band Essential Machine. The indie-rock group is made up of Dietrich, her husband RJ, and their son Robert.

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“When I’m writing lyrics, I’m in a headspace sort of where anything goes,” says Dietrich. “And I can explore whatever topics come to mind. Sometimes I’m writing a song and I don’t really know what it’s going to be about until RJ looks at it and pulls something out of it and says, ‘This is cool,’ or ‘This is interesting.’” Being a family band has its perks, as the whole band is together during the quarantine. So even though they had a bunch of regional touring dates scheduled for April and May that were canceled — the band was going to open

for Against Me at Mr. Smalls Theater — they have had time to work on new music. So far, Essential Machine has four new songs they have demoed at home and are going to be working remotely to complete with Jake Hanner, who recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered the band’s April 2019 release, Wildﬁres. “Hopefully, we have a new album out this year,” says Dietrich. Whether working on stuff for Essential Machine, or simply listening to music while writing — Dietrich says she listened to Iron & Wine’s Our Endless Numbered Days on repeat while working on the novel — music is a driving force in Dietrich’s life, and those ties transferred to Girl at the Edge. “It was really just me exposing all the things that I love in music, whoever I happen to be obsessed with at the time when writing,” says Dietrich. “I didn’t plan on having so many of those references, but they started coming out because when I’m writing, I really like to imagine the book as a movie, as a visual. And I’m thinking, ‘What would be the soundtrack then if this is the scene?’ It happened pretty organically. I didn’t really try to mention too many, but they are artists that I really love and their music has affected me enough that it got blended into my work.”

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