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DISARMING MOVEMENT

BY JAMIE WIGGAN // JAMIE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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ERAME TURNER was a 16-year-old student when he was shot dead in November 2017 just blocks from his home in Turtle Creek. His killer was a 13-year-old classmate.

Turner was the third Woodland Hills student to die that year from gun violence.

His mother, Cathy Welsh, befriended the relatives of another victim when they came to Turner’s funeral in a show of solidarity, and began meeting with other gun trauma survivors to share support and marshal action.

Welsh says the Woodland Hills School District is home to more than 100 grieving families who have lost someone under 30 to gun violence.

“That’s just Woodland Hills,” she said during a June 3 National Gun Violence

Awareness Day rally and community walk in the Hill District. “If you add all the violence-stricken communities in the Mon Valley, then you think about the city of Pittsburgh, it’s bigger than a mass shooting. We have hundreds of families going to bed and getting up without their children.”

Welsh says the work of local advocates has brought the violence down in Woodland Hills, which hasn’t witnessed a fatal shooting within the school community for nearly two years, and she believes their model could be replicable in other communities.

“I truly believe in my heart, bringing our families together with that coalition, it hasn’t stopped our violence … but it has slowed it down,” Welsh said. “Our violent areas aren’t our violent areas anymore.”

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Against this glimmer of hope, the outlook on gun violence across the region remains bleak.

A year after Turner’s death, Pittsburgh became home to the deadliest antiSemitic attack in U.S. history when a gunman opened fire inside Squirrel Hill’s Tree of Life synagogue, killing 13 people. Earlier this year, a teenage partygoer sprayed 90 bullets throughout an Airbnb-rented apartment in the North Side, killing two teens and wounding eight others. Just last week, a one-year-old baby became the latest of 49 Allegheny County homicide victims tallied since January.

On top of the deep layers of localized trauma, Pittsburghers have also been galvanized by a string of mass shootings that has recently rocked the nation.

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Gun Violence Awareness Day event marches Downtown on Thu., June 3.

"Students shouldn’t need to go to school in riot gear to feel safe. We shouldn’t need bulletproof book bags to feel safe in the classroom.”

GUN CONTROL? One week after a school shooting in Texas claimed 19 young lives, protesters assembled outside U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s Pittsburgh office on May 31, calling on the Republican politician to commit to legislative action on gun control.

David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., was among the featured speakers. Four years on, Hogg said he was “shaking from the trauma” while addressing the crowd in Pittsburgh.

“I’ve been doing this for four years, four years longer than I should have had,” he said. “[B]ecause I should have had adults that should have been doing this work before.”

Christian Johnson, a 16-year-old graduate of the Pittsburgh Public system, and Dominic DiNunzio, a current 10th-grade

Pittsburgh Public Schools student, also shared their experience of gun violence and gave calls to action during the rally.

“Students shouldn’t need to go to school in riot gear to feel safe,” Johnson said. “We shouldn’t need bulletproof book bags to feel safe in the classroom.”

Hogg led the crowd through several choruses of “Senator Toomey, save our kids” before urging the protesters to see the politician as a potential ally in a fight engulfing all Americans.

“He doesn’t want kids to get shot down, either, deep down,” Hogg said. “[W] e need Republicans and gun owners in this fight.”

Toomey has previously co-sponsored bi-partisan packages for moderate gun reform, with measures to increase background checks and red-flag laws, but even these modest gestures failed to clear Congress when put forward in 2013 and again in 2015.

Toomey is one of four Republicans

currently sitting down with Senate Democrats to find an agreement on nonpartisan gun reform legislation. Bans on semi-automatic rifles are reportedly not part of the discussions.

Reached for a response to the protest leveled against him, a spokesperson for Toomey said his focus is to “keep guns out of the hands of known criminals and the dangerously mentally ill” without instigating further changes that would reduce gun access more broadly.

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“It is possible to protect Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens while keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals,” the spokesperson said. “The Senator remains committed to achieving this goal, and he is ready and willing to work with anyone on either side of the aisle to accomplish it.”

Toomey has publicly voiced opposition to banning assault rifles in the past, commenting once on Fox News that he wouldn’t support a ban because the weapons are “extremely popular.”

Pa. State Rep. Summer Lee, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress, was among the protesters outside Toomey’s office. She didn’t make a public address, but said during a later interview that the current legislative inertia calls for wider reforms to the political process.

“We already have legislation,” she told Pittsburgh City Paper. “We need to get it passed.”

To make headway on gun law and the other progressive causes she advocates for, Lee said she wants to see revisions to the electoral processes so that those in office may better reflect the nation’s voters.

“Our politicians don’t match and don’t reflect the will of our people,” Lee said, citing popular support for moderate gun reforms, which lawmakers remain unable to capitalize on. “Right now, special interests and super PACs are able to control our elected offices because of the outsized influence they have on our elections.”

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LOCAL GUN LAWS? In response to the 2018 Tree of Life massacre, Pittsburgh City Council, under former Mayor Bill Peduto’s administration, passed a package of bills banning assault rif les and large capacity magazines in city limits, and enabling courts to temporarily seize weapons f rom civilians deemed a public threat. In 2019, Peduto claimed he received a sharp increase in violent threats after signing in the new laws restricting gun use, and local gun activists backed by the NRA hit back with a lawsuit challenging the bills. Allegheny County Judge Joseph James ruled on those favorably, citing a prior state law vesting the power to enact gun legislation solely with the legislature.

Appellate courts have so far upheld James’ verdict, however Spotlight PA reports the Pittsburgh bills and two similar cases initiated by Philadelphia may receive a warmer hearing in the State Supreme Court.

VIOLENCE INTERVENTION? While city officials wait for the courts to determine their authority over local gun controls, Peduto successor Mayor Ed Gainey, who was sworn into office in January 2022, is focusing on efforts to stem gunfire through a focus on violence prevention. He unveiled a new proposal on June 3, which he dubbed a “holistic approach” to violence prevention through a long-term commitment.

“It is time to address violence as a public health crisis that is treatable and preventable,” Gainey said during a press conference in Beltzhoover where he announced the plan.

The 10-page outline notes the failure of previous models based around “the three Ps — prosecution, policing and prisons,” and instead calls for a “public health model” focusing on traumainformed support, community policing, and bolstering economic opportunities across the city.

The plan says the measures should focus on a group of around 200 people, which it claims are responsible for a majority of the gun violence in Pittsburgh.

Davis, supervisor for the nonprofit Cure Violence Pittsburgh, has a grassroots approach that involves training mentors in their own communities who can use their positions of trust to mediate conflict and stave off potential violence. He believes local and national instances of gun violence could be drastically cut if the right resources were put toward supporting preventative measures.

“You’ve got trauma on top of trauma,” he said. “The one thing that we need more of across the board is therapeutic support and mental health services.”

Davis says he’s experienced his fair share of trauma through his work in violence intervention. He has given eulo-

“It is time to address violence as a public health crisis that is treatable and preventable.”

Gainey emphasized the collective challenge posed by gun violence and called for all residents and advocates to pitch in with the effort.

“We need partnerships not only at the local level but also the state and federal level,” Gainey said. “[W]e need a partnership with everyone if we’re gonna save lives.”

As politicians have wrangled over policy issues with little progress to show thus far, Lee Davis has devoted nearly 20 years to preventing gun violence on the ground here in Pittsburgh.

gies, counseled bereaved mothers, and mentored vulnerable teenagers who have later become victims, like the two victims of the April mass shooting in a North Side Airbnb.

But he’s also seen teenagers put down their guns and teach their peers to do the same, and this gives him the hope he needs to press on.

“There are times in the car when I just break out crying,” he said. “[B]ut then you think about those kids who get better, or that family that you help — and you get back on the horse.” •

CP interns Ladimir Garcia and Dontae Washington contributed to this report.

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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Maurice Brown with his beagles, Duke and Lucky

BEAGLE-MANIA Highland Park man and beagles spread joy, become local Nextdoor sensations

BY JORDANA ROSENFELD // JORDANA@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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UKE AND LUCKY BROWN might be the best-known beagles in Highland Park. If neighbors don’t know them IRL from their five daily walks with their human caretaker, the gregarious born-and-raised Highland Parker Maurice Brown, they will likely recognize the pair as the Dynamic Duo, the hyperlocal Nextdoor pet sensation.

Every day for about the last three years, Brown, 55, has posted pictures of Duke and Lucky, who he calls “the boys,” on Nextdoor, a popular neighborhoodbased social media network. Brown pairs the photos with a short blurb providing some context, illuminating what he imagines the dogs are thinking,

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encouraging social distancing and masking, or simply spreading positivity.

He calls these posts “The Dynamic Duo Daily,” and people absolutely love them.

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“Maurice and the Dynamic Duo are pretty much the only reason I login!” writes Quelcy Kogel of Polish Hill on a recent post.

Both dogs are sweet and friendly.

Duke, 10, is older and slower, but Brown says he’s comfortable approaching anyone and behaves well off-leash. In many pictures, Duke has a stony look

that Brown calls “regal.” Lucky, 5, is more outgoing and energetic, according to Brown. Lucky “looks like he’s laughing all the time,” he says, and “Duke’s more thoughtful.”

“I always wanted a beagle because I always wanted a Snoopy,” Brown tells Pittsburgh City Paper in a recent interview at the Highland Park fountain, referring to Charlie Brown’s loveable cartoon pal.

In 2014, his desire materialized in the form of Duke. The dog is named for the Duke Blue Devils basketball team (Brown says he’s been a fan since 1984), but Duke’s name was Cole when he saw him for the first time on Midwest Beagle Rescue,

Education, & Welfare’s website.

“Their vetting process is what really got me into them,” Brown says of Midwest BREW, explaining that it’s “almost like adopting a child.”

Once he passed a background check and met Duke, Brown says the connection was “instant.” Around 2016, Brown started posting pictures of the beagle on Nextdoor and says he was pleasantly surprised that people seemed into it.

“There’s people like me out there that love their pets,” Brown remembers thinking, and those people became his audience. Duke and Brown’s internet presence didn’t really get going, though, until Lucky joined the family in 2017.

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“We have a lot of negativity in the world,” Brown says, explaining why he feels it’s so important for him to keep the Dynamic Duo posts light and positive.

“I focus on my boys, and I see how it makes other people happy. So, why would I post anything negative if [the boys] are positive?” he asks.

In addition to keeping it positive, it’s important to Brown to respond to the people who comment or otherwise engage with the Duo’s posts. He says if someone can take the time to reach out to him, he can take the time to respond.

“They’re taking a small part of their day to look at pictures of my boys and say something nice,” he says, so to acknowledge them is the least he can do.

Unquestionably, Brown’s neighbors and people from other parts of the city appreciate Brown and the Dynamic Duo. Brown was recently selected to be part of the inaugural Nextdoor 100, a collection of 100 Nextdoor users nationwide who were chosen by a panel of judges after being nominated for their positive contribution

to their neighborhoods.

Brown insists he’s never skipped a daily post in the three years since he began the project, but neighbors fret if the algorithm happens to hide one of his posts, thinking something might be wrong with the Duo or their dad. Brown, at the suggestion of a neighbor, recently created a public Nextdoor group where he posts his Dynamic Duo content. It currently has 189 members.

Brown says people often recognize him and the Dynamic Duo when they are out walking, which still surprises him.

“They’ll stop. They’ll drive, and they’ll honk their horn and they’ll say, ‘Is that the Dynamic Duo?’ And some people have pulled over, they’ve gotten out” to pet the boys and take pictures with them, Brown says.

“People say, ‘Wow, it’s helped me get through this, and I love them and they’re positive’ … And that’s just them being them,” Brown explains. “We’re always in the neighborhood. We live here, so we just walk around.” •

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ART

Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary

ACTIVIST ARTIST

BY AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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EEING AN EXHIBITION dedicated to Romare Bearden, one of the country’s most groundbreaking and influential Black artists, in a space also occupied by paintings of white aristocracy from centuries past strikes me as odd. And yet, the Frick Art Museum at The Frick Pittsburgh has done just that, displaying parts of its Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary show in a gallery full of paintings depicting bucolic scenes, and portraits of men who, decked in powdered wigs and finery, seem to stare disapprovingly at the new occupant.

“I bet this dude owned slaves,” I think as I look at a portrait of 18th-century Irish

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playwright Sir Richard Brinsley Sheridan, part of the Frick’s permanent collection.

(My superficial research revealed little on that front, but he was, apparently, a terrible dude nonetheless when it came to harassing and assaulting women.)

This odd juxtaposition defines only part of the temporary Bearden show now on view through Sept. 18. The museum pays significant tribute to the expansive career of an artist who, before his death in 1988, produced vibrant, captivating scenes of Black life, and translated his signature style into more commercial projects like poster designs and magazine covers.

Beyond giving viewers intimate access to a celebrated artist, the show also hones in on Bearden’s efforts as a champion of rights for Black Americans and workers, and his connection to Pittsburgh, where, as a press release explains, he “spent portions of his youth with his grandparents.”

Included in the show is a blown-up photo of “Pittsburgh Recollections,” a 1984 mosaic tiled mural Bearden installed at the Downtown Gateway T station, described as honoring “the city’s history and its residents’ work ethic.” The work “layers themes from art history, literature, and religion with everyday rituals like family dinners to create visual stories

that depict and elevate the Black experience while agitating for social change.”

Looking at the collages, screenprints, and other works on display, the first word that comes to mind is “boundless.”

Bearden clearly never felt the need to stick to one medium, trying his hand at everything from simple line drawing to political cartoons, as seen in four displayed pieces he produced for two Black publications, the Baltimore Afro-American and NAACP’s The Crisis magazine. He also wrote and illustrated a children’s book, the images from which can be seen in the exhibition’s Li’l Dan: the drummer boy, A Civil War Story series, used to tell the story

explore kindness “It’s all fluid ... If it doesn’t fit, or starts to feel uncomfortable or damaging, what else might fit in that space?” of an enslaved drummer boy who uses his art to save a company of Union soldiers.

The sense of limitlessness extends to the array of themes found throughout Bearden’s work. While many of the pieces lovingly depict Black subjects working, playing piano, reading, or performing domestic chores, others stray into mythical and Biblical territory. Sprinkled throughout are scenes from The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a watercolor and ink piece from his Passion of the Christ series, and a screenprint showing Noah as a Black figure floating on a multicolored, somewhat encaustic looking sea.

ROMARE BEARDEN: ARTIST AS ACTIVIST AND VISIONARY Continues through Sept. 18.

Frick Art Museum. 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. Free. Timed tickets encouraged. thefrickpittsburgh.org

The museum invites viewers to compare these pieces to those that draw on Southern Black culture and folklore (Bearden grew up in North Carolina).

Here, the Greek sorceress in Bearden’s “Circe Turns a Companion of Odysseus into Swine” hangs alongside “Conjur Woman,” an uncharacteristically blackand-white photolithograph honoring a Southern African American spirit figure.

“Conjur Woman” speaks to a key theme in the show, that of exalting Black women as powerful, as keepers of knowledge, healing, and creativity. This also

plays into Frick’s continued mission of highlighting women in its exhibitions, including Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960 in 2021 and the 2020 decorative arts showcase Maker & Muse, as well as others.

But as the title suggests, the show mainly seeks to educate visitors about how Bearden used his talent and success to address racial and economic injustice in its many forms, with images of slave ships and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. displayed along with “Soup Kitchen,” a 1935 painting capturing the struggles of Depression-era America.

These efforts extended into real-life action, as Bearden, who had a background in social work, sought to support emerging Black artists through the Spiral Group and the Cinque Gallery, both entities he helped found.

Artist as Activist and Visionary demonstrates that, while Bearden drew inspiration from artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, he was a singular, dynamic force in the art world, something he used to his advantage and the advantage of others. That it runs concurrently with SLAY: Artemisia Gentileschi & Kehinde Wiley and after Reckoning: Grief and Light, two other Frick shows dedicated to Black artists, points to a concerted effort by the museum to move beyond the old world whiteness of its permanent collection, finding new ways to embrace and celebrate those that world sought to ignore, exploit, or snuff out. •

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Mani Bahia

MUSIC

MOB MENTALITY

BY DANI JANAE // DANIJANAE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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HE DOLLAR BANK Three Rivers Arts Festival is a place for artists of all kinds to showcase what they have to offer, and a chance for the city to meet new and engaging talents. Playing at the festival is a big deal for many Pittsburgh-based musicians, especially those who don’t have a huge following.

Mani Bahia and the Mob is a band that officially formed in the winter of 2019 but had their first show in March 2020 at Pittsburgh’s Very Own before everything shut down. They will be playing at TRAF on Sun., June 12 at the Backyard @ 8th Street.

The description of their performance says to “expect vibrant sounds and refreshing energy” from the band, and Mani Bahia, the band leader, agrees.

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“I think the audience should expect to experience something that they haven’t quite heard yet. And some people that they haven’t quite met yet,” Bahia tells Pittsburgh City Paper.

Before the band formed in late 2019, Mani Bahia was a young musician trying to make a living doing music full time. She started piano lessons at the age of six and had one of those Barbie guitars that, when you pressed buttons, made the sounds of someone playing guitar. One day she was outside playing with the toy when a neighbor saw her and asked if she wanted a real guitar.

Bahia said yes and the neighbor, true to her word, brought out a real guitar and gave it to her. Bahia says she's had

guitars on and off for 10 years but only really strummed them from time to time.

It wasn’t until she was 16 that she started taking music more seriously.

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After graduating from high school in 2020, Bahia tried her hand at college but ultimately left because she believed she could achieve what she wanted, to make music for a living, without a degree.

“I come from a lot of people who are either educators or big on education, so it was a goal of my family for me to get

a degree. But as I was in school, I was realizing, well, one, this is a big waste of money because there’s not anything I’m learning here that I couldn’t just go out in the world and learn and do myself and get internships and work my way up with actual experience,” she says.

Bahia started making music as a teen using a USB microphone on her back porch, and ultimately put out her first project, Solstice, which she later pulled from online because, as she explains, the project did not have the proper protections that an artist needs when putting out music. She says that making music over tracks was cool, but around the time she was about to graduate from high school, she really started to work

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"I think the audience should expect to experience something that they haven’t quite heard yet." on forming a band, and so the Mob was added to the act.

The Mob consists of drummer Marvin, who performs under the name Marv Stixx, Aedan on guitar, Dan Sawyer on keys, and bass player Eric, who performs under Bass Ric. Bahia met some of the members, including Sawyer, through a program called Center of Life, a music-centered nonprofit based out of Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood.

While they're a Pittsburgh band, Bahia says they have bigger ambitions.

“We love home, we love Pittsburgh, it is where we come from and where we’ve grown up our whole lives. But in order to be a national band, and even a worldwide band, there’s a level of professionalism and seriousness you have to have,” says Bahia. “A lot of times, what you’ll see in Pittsburgh is people who love music but

don’t want to fully commit to doing music full-time because they’ve been told you can’t make a living that way.”

For Bahia, who does music full-time, it was never an option to not follow her passion and find a way to make a living doing what she loves. The rest of the band is on board with her vision, and it was Eric who originally floated the idea that they should perform at the Arts Festival. A few weeks later, they got the official invite email and are excited to unveil what they’ve been working on for the city.

“We’re performing on Sunday, which is always funny for us because we have a song that we finish our set off with that is called ‘Sunday Morning,’” she explains.

“Even though we’re not performing in the morning, it will still be a fun song to perform on that day because the song kind of just wraps everything up to me.” •

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A collection of comics illustrations by Dave Wachter

COMICS

SIMPLY MARVEL-OUS

BY MATT PETRAS // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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AVE WACHTER ADMITS he’s not good at putting himself out there. His wife is the one who first noticed Marvel Comics advertising a portfolio review for artists at an upcoming convention and pushed him to do it.

“Why not? We’re going to be there. It wouldn’t be that much trouble to print up a portfolio and take it there to have them look at it,” his wife told him, according to Wachter. “And I’m like, ‘Alright, alright. I guess. I guess I’ll do that.’”

From the six-issue miniseries Iron First: Heart of the Dragon, which began in January 2021, to Spider-Man 2099: Exodus #1, released just two weeks ago, Wachter has been regularly creating art for Marvel comic books for over a year, and he’s got more coming. Just announced on June 1, Wachter will do the art for Jody Houser’s Ms. Marvel & Venom #1, which will be released on Sept. 14.

Wachter, a Forest Hills resident, has been a comic artist for more than a decade. Before his Marvel work, he also

“I get to draw Wolverine fighting the Hulk, which is sort of like 9-year-old Dave’s dream-come-true."

It paid off. The Pittsburgh-area artist, most known for a years-long run on IDW Publishing’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series, was hired as a freelance artist for Marvel, and it turned out that the representative who reviewed his work already knew and enjoyed his art. “He said, ‘Thank your wife for me,’” Wachter says.

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did the artwork for the webcomic The Guns of Shadow Valley; the mini-series Godzilla Cataclysm; Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem; and many issues of the ongoing Ninja Turtles series.

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story that includes zombies, dragons, an excursion to Wakanda, the setting of Black Panther stories, and more. Wachter’s dynamic and detailed artwork transitioned perfectly from TMNT to Iron Fist, making it just about ideal for Wachter’s first Marvel project.

“It was pretty easy to go from martial arts to martial arts, actually,” Wachter says. “I think doing Ninja Turtles was good practice for doing Iron Fist.”

For this series, and every one of his Marvel series after, Wachter did both the pencils and inks for the artwork, something uncommon in mainstream comics. Individuals like Carlos Lopez, Giada Marchisio, and Neeraj Menon then provided the colors for his Marvel work.

He did all of the pencils and most of the inks digitally, sometimes inking especially cool pages physically so he could sell the original artwork to fans.

He also did the artwork for the July 2021 one-shot Aliens: Aftermath #1, written by Benjamin Percy; the miniseries Star Wars: The High Republic - Trail of Shadows, which ran from October 2021 to February 2022, written by Daniel Older; the recent Spider-Man 2099: Exodus #1, written by Steve Orlando, and the upcoming issues of X-Men Legends #1 and #2, coming out in August and September, respectively, and written by the legendary Roy Thomas.

Wachter says he loved working on X-Men Legends because of the iconic characters he got to draw.

“I get to draw Wolverine fighting the Hulk, which is sort of like 9-year-old Dave’s dream-come-true,” he says.

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Comics editor-in-chief and co-creator of characters like Wolverine, Luke Cage, and Carol Danvers, are decades-long comics writing veterans, whereas Percy and Orlando are well-known contemporary comics writers, and Older is a popular prose writer newer to comics.

Thomas and Hama wrote for Wachter in the “Marvel Method,” a style credited to Stan Lee in which writers generally outline the story without delineating specific panels and visual perspectives and add dialogue later. Percy, Orlando, and Older, on the other hand, opted for a modern “full script” style, something more detailed and specific, according to Wachter. He says he had a lot of fun working with the writers and particularly enjoyed using the Marvel Method.

“I like the little creative freedom to it and little extra creative input that I get to add to it, where I’m basically a plotter as well as the artist,” Wachter says.

Wachter isn’t done working with Marvel and says he has loved the experience so far. His favorite moment in his Marvel journey came last December at a Chicago convention where Hama was sitting at a booth, signing comics for fans.

Wachter and Hama worked together remotely on Iron Fist, a common practice in mainstream comics, so they had never met in person. And, since his childhood, Wachter has loved Hama’s comics work.

“I was able to walk up to the table and go, ‘Hi, would you sign this Iron Fist issue #1 for me? Because I drew it,’” Wachter says. “And then we talked for like 15 minutes straight, just standing at the table, both with our masks on, just yakking, yakking, yakking.” •

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...HEN MISCHE HOLLAND first moved to Pittsburgh in summer 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they were not sure how to connect with other queer people in the area. The San Diego native has had a passion for rock climbing and outdoor sports for over three years now, and began climbing at the ASCEND rock climbing gym in the South Side as businesses slowly began to reopen after lockdown.

By Holland’s second year in Pittsburgh, they wanted to get more involved in community outreach in their sport and the LGBTQ+ community, and those two passions combined as they took on a role as a team captain for the Queer Scouts climbing club.

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for a lot of us,” they say. “Gyms, in nature, can feel a little scary if you associate ‘gym’ with fitness and weight lifting, but I feel like climbing is more fun and more approachable. It’s very amenable to different body types.”

Holland, a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, used to be involved in a queer skeleton club while in undergrad, so that experience encouraged them to joining another queer athletic club. They co-captian the Queer Scouts with Cat Schrading.

“When the club was founded by a cool group of people a few years ago, some of them worked at ASCEND. They were not only climbing, but also did a lot of work to push for a lot of the inclusive things that ASCEND does now — like the Affinity Sessions, other clubs that they

have founded now,” Schrading says.

Affinity Sessions are free climbing sessions that take place on the third Saturday of every month at the Pittsburgh location, and are open to anyone who identifies as a woman, queer, nonbinary, trans, or femme as an open, judgmentfree climbing time. The gym also hosts Affinity Sessions for members of the BIPOC community once a month.

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The group meets twice a month at ASCEND Pittsburgh, twice a month at the ASCEND location in Youngstown, Ohio, and promotes attendance at the

Affinity Sessions.

“I would say that 50% of people, maybe even more, that come to these club meetups have either never climbed before or don’t have ASCEND memberships, but they want to come for the community,” Schrading says.

Schrading adds there is an extra aspect of safety and comfort that the Queer Scouts offer to members of the LGBTQ+ community when they come to climb.

“There is this consideration for the queer community of ‘Will I see people like me there? Will there be a bathroom I can use? Where will I change?’” she says.

“There’s all of these different considerations that can keep people from trying new things and I think it's really great that the club is here to support that.”

Annie Hanichak, a club regular and

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"They did a lot of work to push for a lot of the inclusive things that ASCEND does now." routesetter at ASCEND Pittsburgh, loves seeing the opportunities Queer Scouts gives to get members of her community who otherwise might not consider climbing at the gym.

“It’s great for them to come and join a group, where it’s comfortable and it’s a fun open group to learn about climbing or climb together and not feel pressure that you would when climbing by yourself or with a few other friends in a typically white male-dominated sport,” Hanichak says.

Since Hanichak works at the gym, in addition to being a club member, she gets the chance to help new members learn the ropes of climbing, even on the bouldering walls that don’t require ropes. She says she primarily works with men at ASCEND, and thinks setting aside gym time for those who identify as LGBTQ+ or BIPOC will help diversify the climbing world.

For Holland, the introduction and connection to the LGBTQ+ community in Pittsburgh is what they are most grateful for when it comes to their involvement

with Queer Scouts. Since taking on a leadership role in the club, they have felt more enabled to branch out into the local queer community, and found friends with which to explore other outdoor activities such as camping and hiking.

“Because I moved here at the peak of the pandemic, I didn’t know anyone before coming here. I’m starting to find out more about the queer community in Pittsburgh, but my basline was zero,” Holland says. “And a lot of avenues I would have gone down to do that didn’t exist at the time, and this is just a fun way to connect.”

Described by Hanichak as the “granola gays” and “hippies,” the Queer Scouts celebrate love of the outdoors and athletics, as well as the importance of finding your community.

“The climbing community itself is very open and liberally-minded, and open to the queer community,” she says. “That’s the way I’ve found it here in PIttsburgh for sure.” •

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LIT • IRL After an impressive debut with ThreeFifths, author and University of Pittsburgh alum John Vercher is back with another amazing novel. Riverstone Books will host a talk for Vercher’s new novel After The Lights Go Out, described as a “harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain.” Don’t miss the chance to meet Vercher to get a copy of his new book. 7:30 p.m. 8850 Covenant Ave., McCandless. Free. Registration required. riverstonebookstore.com

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MUSIC • IRL Steel City Cabaret presents A Night At the Opera at Trace Brewing, where local performers will show off their talents as guests enjoy food and drinks.

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FRI., JUNE 10 FILM • IRL Experience an Afrofuturist musical fantasy when the Harris Theater screens Neptune Frost. Co-directed by musician Saul Williams and Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film is described by Kino Lorber as following a group of anti-colonialist computer hackers set on taking over the authoritarian regime exploiting the natural resources of Burundi. The film was inspired by themes, ideas, and songs from Williams’ work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. 5 and 7:30 p.m. Continues through Thu., June 16. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $11. trustarts.org

SAT., JUNE 11 EVENT • IRL Local businesses will be on display during Bloomfield Late Nights: Second Saturdays.

Launched by the Bloomfield Development Corporation, the ongoing event encourages the community to patronize neighborhood spots, some of which are offering sweet deals. Try a hot or cold beverage at Gryphon’s Tea, feel like a champion while eating Caliente’s award-winning pizza, or enjoy some free ice cream with purchase at Scoops in Bloomfield. 12-10 p.m. Liberty Avenue and Main Street, Bloomfield. Free. explorebgl.com

EVENT • IRL The Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium invites guests 21 and over to party the night away at Summer Safari: Groovin’ thru the Zoo. Dance through your favorite decades with themed musical entertainment and food from local Pittsburgh restaurants, and from the zoo’s catering company. The expected attire for the event is “cocktail fashionable,” and if you aren’t sure what that means, the zoo provides a Pinterest board with ideas.

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7370 Baker St., Highland Park. $90. pittsburghzoo.org/event-summer-safari

DANCE • IRL Dance into Neverland when the Allegro Ballet Academy presents its production of Peter and Wendy at the Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center. Based on J.M. Barrie’s famous book, the story follows the high-flying Peter Pan as he and his fairy companion Tinkerbell take Wendy and her siblings to a magical place, where they must contend with the nefarious Captain Hook and his pirate crew. Bring the whole family to this balletic spin on a classic tale. 6 p.m. 3579 Masonic Way, North Hills. $15-20. facebook.com/allegroballetpa

SUN., JUNE 12 LIT • IRL Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh presents the kick-off for this year’s Summer Reading Extravaganza, an annual event challenging Pittsburghers of all ages to record every book they read through Aug. 31. The day features fun for all ages, including live performances, crafts, games, storytelling, food trucks, a scavenger hunt, and more. Anyone who logs at least one book per month will be entered into a $25 Visa gift card drawing, and all children and teens can pick a free book at any CLP location. Sign up online at carnegielibrary. org/summer. 12-5 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. carnegielibrary.org

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MON., JUNE 13 THEATER • IRL A famous fairy tale villain goes on trial when South Park Theatre presents Big Bad Musical. Described as a “howling courtroom comedy,” the hour-long, family-friendly show finds the Big Bad Wolf defending himself against a class-action lawsuit from every character he’s ever terrorized, including Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, the Three Little Pigs, and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. 6:30 p.m.

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TUE., JUNE 14 ART • IRL See creative pieces made by artists from all over the world during the Fiberart International 2022 exhibition at Contemporary Craft and the Brew House Association. Sponsored by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, the event is described as recording “the changing definition of textile art,” giving audiences a chance to explore a “variety of visual languages and global points of view” as “ancient textile

techniques are transformed into contemporary artworks that ask questions and challenge us to look at ourselves and our place in the world.” Continues through Aug. 20. 5645 Butler St., Lawrenceville and 711 South 21st St., South Side. Free. contemporarycraft.org

WED., JUNE 15 EVENT • IRL The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens encourages guests to reconnect with the natural world and the local community, as well as learn about the lasting effects of climate action during its Nature of Place Symposium: “The Voice of Change.” Hear from scientists, experts, and educators, including Dr. Nichole Nageotte, who runs the conservation programs at the Denver Zoo, and Jonaya Kemper, a game design lead for the P3G Project at Carnegie Mellon University. 12-1:30 p.m. Continues through Fri., June 17. 1 Schenley Park, Oakland. $15-49. phipps.conservatory.org

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