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Advocates threaten to shut down Congressional Baseball Game unless climate legislation passes

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COALITION OF climate advocacy groups says it’s time to leave everything on the field and plans to disrupt this year’s annual Congressional Baseball Game on Thu., July 28 unless Democrats pass climate legislation.

Back Better proposed $555 billion to fund electric vehicle tax credits, renewable power, and other clean energy initiatives.

“This action is coming from a deep, long-building frustration with Democratic failure to pass a reconciliation package that addresses the climate crisis as well

“If Democrats again fail to pass a reconciliation package by their selfimposed deadlines, then we are going to let our justified anger be known.”

Orga n i z e rs o f Th e Co a l Ba ro n Blockade, which includes West Virginia Rising, along with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and Beyond Extreme Energy, say they don’t believe sweeping climate legislation included in President Biden’s Build Back Better plan will pass the Senate. As a result, they're calling for this “Now or Never” action to push for the provisions to be included in a reconciliation bill that would be easier to pass since it would only require a simple majority. Build CP ILLUSTRATIONS: LUCY CHEN

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as the crisis of rising costs,” says Jamie DeMarco, federal policy director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

“We all know the government is currently considering a package that would reduce the cost of energy, reduce the cost of prescription drugs, or possibly reduce the cost of health care, and do it all while reducing our emissions and fighting inflation by reducing the deficit.”

But despite promises that the legislation would pass soon, it’s been stalled for more than a year, DeMarco adds.

And late last week, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin further threatened the climate package, saying he would not support climate and clean energy provisions of Build Back Better, despite numerous attempts by Democratic party leaders to try to appease him.

“If Democrats again fail to pass a reconciliation package by their selfimposed deadlines, then we are going to let our justified anger be known,” DeMarco says. “We just refuse to sit by while members of Congress play baseball as the world burns.”

The Congressional Baseball Game for Charity was first played in 1909, and, last year alone, raised $1.2 million for charitable organizations including the Washington Literacy Center and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington.

But DeMarco notes that the sponsors of this year’s game include BP and Chevron.

Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Forest Hills) is on this year’s Democratic team at

the annual game for the final time, after announcing last year that he wouldn’t seek another term in office. Doyle has served as manager of the Democrats’ team in years past and is currently listed as a coach on the team’s website.

But he questioned the Now or Never group’s plans to target Democrats for their protest. “Obviously we’re very sympathetic with their goals to see climate change legislation passed,” Doyle tells Pittsburgh City Paper. “In fact, every single member of the Democratic baseball team has voted for the bill in the House that would do that. Now it’s stuck over in the Senate.”

Doyle says he thinks their efforts would be better off elsewhere.

“It seems to me a better use of their time would be to organize in these Congressional districts and states, where we have these Republicans that refuse to give us even a single vote — which is all we need, at least one more vote — in the Senate to do reconciliation,” he adds. “So I think if CONTINUES ON PG. 6

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“We just refuse f to sit i b by while members of Congress play baseball as the world burns.” their focus was on that, that would be a more productive process.”

This isn’t the first demonstration from The Coal Baron Blockade. In April, the advocacy group protested outside a West Virginia power plant in opposition to Manchin’s policies on climate change and clean energy. According to Newsweek, the Grant Tower Coal Waste Power Plant receives inefficient coal waste byproducts from Enersystems, a company run by Manchin’s son. At least 16 protesters were arrested at the demonstration.

DeMarco declined to offer specifics about what the activists had planned for the Congressional ballgame other than to say they were committed to nonviolent action and would “disrupt” the game “to give members of Congress in D.C. a taste of our anger.”

Were a reconciliation bill to pass before the game, or if passage appeared imminent, the group plans to still take action, but of a more “conciliatory” nature, noting on its website that “this crisis won’t be solved by one bill, no matter how broad.”

If there’s no strong climate legislation by Aug. 5, the group plans to take direct action in protest of the Democratic National Committee, targeting

Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona senators for further protest. And the activists are planning a last stand if no climate legislation has passed by Sept. 30, which is when Congress goes into recess until after the November elections. The group promises a “highly disruptive, mass direction action that fundamentally disrupts business as usual” in the capital.

Doyle says he supports the group’s right to protest, and agrees that there is a need to move forward on climate change legislation “yesterday."

"I have a voting record that reflects that and so does every member of my team,” he adds.

For his part, DeMarco pointed to a recent analysis from the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute which found that the clean energy provisions in the reconciliation package would reduce energy costs that Americans pay by $5 billion annually.

“That’s billions of dollars back in Americans’ pockets,” he says. “I think the two things right now that people across the country, and especially young people in America, care about right now are inflation and the climate crisis. So inaction on reconciliation is a failure on both fronts.” •

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HE FAMOUS Kaufmann’s Clock in Downtown Pittsburgh has not hung above its namesake department store on Smithfield Street since 2006, when another big retail brand, Macy’s, moved in and stuck around until 2015.

Over the past several months, those working and living Downtown have watched as the first floor transformed into a Target, the latest iteration for a property that has seen a number of failed reinventions. On July 17, the 22,000-square-foot store finally opened to the public, providing a much-needed place to buy affordable grocery items, home goods, clothing, and more in a neighborhood defined by restaurants, galleries, and performance venues.

TARGET 482 Smithfield St., Downtown

But the Target is only the first of multiple retailers set to occupy the 13-story building, creating what many see as a new, more accessible shopping destination Downtown.

The Target will serve as the anchor retailer for multiple stores set to occupy the former Kaufmann’s building, which was originally constructed in 1887. The Smithfield Street Burlington Coat Factory will also relocate there. As reported by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Burlington will occupy 50,000 square feet of space, including the entire second floor.

In addition, Post-Gazette reports

that Five Below, a nationwide chain selfdescribed as selling “trend-right, highquality products loved by tweens, teens and beyond,” will also move in.

“We’re excited to bring the joy of Target to new guests and help them discover a unique shopping experience tailored to the needs of the downtown Pittsburgh community,” says Jeremy Petit, store director of the new Pittsburgh Downtown Target store, in a press release.

Petit adds that the new location will offer a “wide assortment of Target’s top owned and national brands spanning across grab-and-go food and beverage options, back-to-school items, beauty, essentials, and much more.” Also included is an on-site CVS drugstore location, seemingly replacing the now-shuttered Smithfield Street CVS store just a short distance away.

With the opening of the Downtown location, Target now has 19 stores in the Pittsburgh area, which, all together, reportedly employ more than 3,400 team members. Target claims the Downtown location will employ about 40 team members.

The former Kaufmann’s building also houses apartments, a parking garage, and a hotel.

Petit says guests at the new Downtown Target can “shop on their own terms” with “easy, contactless and industry-leading Drive Up and Order Pickup services — ready within a couple of hours with no membership required for the easiest shopping experience in retail.” •

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A Ballot Bin outside the City County Building in Downtown Pittsburgh

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ELLING PEOPLE TO STOP throwing their cigarette butts on the ground will not make people stop throwing their cigarette butts on the ground, according to Pittsburgh’s top anti-litter expert “We could lecture people about cigarettes all day long, and that won’t do anything,” says Christopher Mitchell, the antilitter specialist for the city of Pittsburgh’s Department of Public Works. “But if we change the environment they’re working in and they’re living in, that’s going to have an effect, even if it’s small.”

Thus, the latest initiative in the fight

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against litter in Pittsburgh: Ballot Bins that ask people to vote with their cigarette butts to answer yinzer-themed questions. Is it soda or pop? Washington or Worshington? Are pierogies tastier when prepared soft or crispy?

The department used Keep America Beautiful's 2021 Cigarette Litter Prevention program grant for $15,000 to obtain 35 bins to curb tossed cigarettes, which the department says accounts for about 30% of the city’s litter. The United Kingdom-based companies Hubbub and Common Works collaborate to sell the product around the globe and say the

bins have been shown to reduce cigarette butt litter by 46%.

The department has already chosen partners to entrust many of the bins but sees these 35 bins as a trial run, with more possibly on the way. Organizations can apply for a bin through an online form.

The questions come on removable plates that can be swapped out for other questions, and the city will provide one plate of the partner’s choosing. Partners can choose to swap out the questions, but the bins remain property of the city of Pittsburgh, which expects partners to follow guidelines like forgoing brand

names and the names of real people.

Bins are fully approved to be installed in the Strip District, Lawrenceville, and Mount Washington, with more neighborhoods pending.

There are already two bins Downtown, one outside each entrance of the CityCounty Building, with the questions “What’s more ‘Pittsburgh’: Fries on a sandwich or Fries on a salad?” and “When the ground is icy, is it: Slippy or Slippery?”

Last week, “fries on a salad” seemed to have a distinct advantage, but the battle between “Slippy” and “Slippery” appeared neck-and-neck.

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“But if we change the environment they’re working in and they’re living in, that’s going to have an effect, even if it’s small.”

The idea had been swirling around the department for more than a year, according to Mitchell. After obtaining the funding last year, the department ordered the bins and started making relationships with organizations around the city to house them, a process made even longer when the bins got held up at the border for months.

“The wheels of local government turn very slowly … it was a very long road to get from here to there, but I’m used to it at this point,” Mitchell says, laughing.

Mitchell used Reddit, donning his persona AntiLitterPGH, to ask residents for suggestions of questions to use. Some suggestions that didn’t make the cut likely proved a bit too controversial for the city, including “The aftermath of a Kenny Chesny concert vs. the aftermath of the St. Patrick’s Day parade” from user toxicshock999 and “What’s the speed limit on residential streets? A) 25mph B) 55mph” from user arguchik.

Efforts like the Ballot Bins represent one of many from the department

to combat litter. Mitchell says they like focusing on a series of different, little initiatives.

“We always want to think of every single thing we do as maybe a fraction of a fraction of a percent of a difference of what’s going on in our city, and then we build on that,” Mitchell says. “Constantly, let’s do another fraction of a fraction of a percent based on targeting very small things.”

It’s conceivable someone may walk by one of these neat bins and be tempted to smoke a cigarette to be able to participate, something Mitchell says he’s considered.

“We definitely don’t want to promote smoking at all, but the biggest thing is we’ve got to get it off the ground,” Mitchell says.

Mitchell has a suggestion for nonsmokers excited by the idea of placing a cigarette butt into one of these bins.

“Look on the ground,” Mitchell says.

“I bet you’re going to find one that’s not too far away.” •

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Brian Sink poses for a portrait inside Red Lantern Bike Shop in Turtle Creek.

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HE SANCTUARY of the decommissioned Calvary Church in Turtle Creek is full of bicycles. They lean every which way against the pews and are crammed into any open space.

“We actually still have a shipping container in Braddock full of bicycles,” Brian Sink of Red Lantern Bicycles tells Pittsburgh City Paper.

Why do they need so many bikes?

Because they’re giving them away for free.

Red Lantern Bicycles is a volunteerrun organization, started by Brian and his wife Maria, that gives out refurbished kids’ bikes (and brand-new helmets) for free, sells bikes for adults at low prices, and offers repairs for a nominal fee.

“We often do a big donation, like, we’ll put out 60 kids’ bikes at a time or maybe even more,” Sink says, and then they invite parents to bring their kids over to Red Lantern to grab a bike. They also take donations of bikes for teens and adults, which they refurbish and sell at low prices.

According to their website, adult bikes start at $35. They also repair bikes, for which they charge a small fee. “It’s very, very cheap,” Sink says, “but we never turn anyone away, so it’s never a big deal.”

RED LANTERN BICYCLES 125 Shaw Ave., Turtle Creek. redlanternbikes.org

Around 2013, Sink began bringing bicycles to kids who needed them by pulling bicycles out of the trash in Braddock, where he lived at the time, and donating them to Free Ride Pittsburgh, a bike repair collective in Point Breeze.

With the help of Braddock Redux, Lt. Gov. and Democratic senate nominee John Fetterman’s nonprofit, Red Lantern acquired a shipping container in which to store and repair bicycles and started operating in Braddock.

After several years in Braddock, Red

Lantern moved to its current Turtle Creek home in 2021. The building was formerly home to The United Calvary Church of Christ. Brian and Maria put up the money for a downpayment on the church and are hoping to crowdfund the rest of the purchase through their GoFundMe. “About a half dozen of us, roughly, kind of keep this place afloat,” Sink says. “It’s all volunteer. That sounds cool until you realize we all have jobs.” Brian manages Riverfront Park in Aspinwall and Maria works for the Allegheny County Health Department.

A thrift store that’s been open since the 1970s, and where no item costs more than $2, came with the church, Sink says.

Although the church’s congregation had dwindled to the point where it no longer made sense to operate the building, they made plans with the Sinks to keep the thrift store running after the church changed hands. The bike shop and the thrift store aren’t open at the same times, and they

Inside Red Lantern Bike Shop

“What they do is just wonderful.

I mean, how can you not like an organization that gives free bikes to kids?” don’t share volunteers, but Brian says he’ll sell you a shirt if you really want.

(Hot tip: Sink shares that, since the store’s clientele tend to be older, “You’ll walk in and there will be like 10 pairs of, like, Vans and Chucks and stuff that at regular thrift stores will disappear instantly.”)

Kelley Kelley, whose second term as mayor of Turtle Creek ended in 2021, is thrilled about Red Lantern’s decision to relocate to the borough, which is located about 12 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

“I was just so excited because we don’t have anything like that in Turtle Creek,” she tells City Paper. “What they do is just wonderful. I mean, how can you not like an organization that gives free bikes to kids?”

Kelley says she met Maria through a Turtle Creek park rehab project that Maria was working on in her role at the health department. “Maria and I just hit it off from the get-go, and we became friends. She told me about what she and her husband were doing over in Braddock with the Red Lantern bike shop, which I thought was amazing. Of course, we had some old bikes and donated some bikes and did that kind of stuff. So our friendship kind of grew from there.”

Kelley and her husband often lend Brian and Maria their pick-up truck to

move bikes around, she says. When they lived in Braddock, Sink says they borrowed Fetterman’s truck.

“We went from the mayor of Braddock’s truck to the mayor of Turtle Creek’s truck,” Sink jokes.

“They’ve been just such a great partner, and for Turtle Creek, too,” Kelley says of the Sinks.

But one challenge associated with Red Lantern’s new location is that Turtle Creek, like much of the Mon Valley, is very car-oriented, making the streets inhospitable and potentially dangerous to cyclists and pedestrians.

The community is striving for greater walk- and bike-ability, Kelley says, although it’s a long-term effort. “There’s a lot of work surrounding bringing a bike trail through the area,” she adds.

Sink agrees that the area could use a bike trail. Until then, though, he suggests using a combination of a bicycle and a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus.

“You can take a bus [from] here with a bicycle, right outside the door here, and you can end up down in Oakland, and then you can ride from there or go Downtown and you can go elsewhere.”

“You get people on bikes, that’s a good thing,” he says. •

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Dominique Chestand

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ANY ARTISTS in Pittsburgh say there is a funding gap separating those with close ties to foundations and those who feel on the outside. Dominique Chestand aims to close this gap through her position at the Office for Public Art, working directly with artists to find out what they need and how the local nonprofit can source that for them.

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At the end of 2021, the organization brought on Chestand as a consultant to assist in its goals of helping existing artists working in public art and recruiting more.

A Chicago native, Chestand moved to Pittsburgh in August 2021. When she first arrived, she was the coalition coordinator of VACE (Visual Arts Coalition for Equity), a group of seven small visual arts

organizations with the stated mission of making the Pittsburgh art field “more equitable, visible, and sustainable.”

Chestand has a strong background as an artist and as an administrator, and she brings that experience to her consulting work with the Office for Public Art. Earlier on in her career, she says she often had disagreements with arts organizations about their capacity for the work they do.

“I think a lot of leaders when they’re in the incubation process, in terms of talking about ideas in terms of making the visual arts sector more equitable, they’re very open to the conversation, right?” says Chestand. “They’re very willing to reimagine things, but I think when it comes time to follow through that talk with action, people tend to operate with a lot of fear.”

Dominique Chestand says that administrators and funders need to come to the artists in their communities instead of waiting for artists to come to them.

That fear tends to keep arts administrators from following through on promises they make to artists, she says, leading to a breakdown of communication between the two. But Chestand says that she doesn’t run into this issue while working with the Office for Public Art, especially with the work of Sally Ann Kluz, the executive director.

“A lot of leaders are leading with the wrong question, especially when their missions say that they’re operating in these communities, in the city for artists, but the conversations that fall under that, under those missions, move in the exact opposite direction,” says Chestand.

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As a consultant, Chestand reaches out to artists, arts administrators, and funders to understand the gaps between what artists need and what they are receiving. After extensive conversations, she brings back what she has learned to the Office for Public Art and they adjust their framework around their findings.

One of the things Chestand personally focuses on in her discussions are the needs of Black artists because, as she explains, if you are fulfilling the desires of Black artists, you fulfill the desires of other artists as well.

The specific considerations she takes back are about how artists are paid and how much they are paid, what services the Office for Public Art can provide, and how to get artists interested in using the resources that are available to them.

“What happens a lot is, organizations will say, ‘These are the needs of artists.

These are the obstacles of artists,’ but they’re not out there asking the artists, out there asking administrators who work with specific communities, ‘What

are the obstacles?’” she says. “They are sitting there playing the guessing game and creating a system based on a guessing game and that’s not how you should operate.”

Having been in the city for a short time, Chestand has had lots of conversations with those in the communities the Office for Public Art hopes to serve. She says she has learned that the Pittsburgh arts ecosystem runs on philanthropy, and that many artists are getting money from the same funders, and those with the best relationship with funders are getting the lion’s share.

She says that administrators and funders need to come to the artists in their communities instead of waiting for artists to come to them, and to use “nontraditional marketing avenues” that involve building relationships with communities to make a customized process and expand the pool of artists making public art.

As far as the services the Office for Public Art provides, Chestand says they are focused on longevity, and supporting artists, not just for short bursts, but for long-term projects.

The Office currently operates under the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, but they are severing that relationship in the future and becoming their own entity because of a divergence in vision.

The Office is also collaborating with Jessica Gaynelle Moss, who started the Seed Fund, a grant program for Black artists, on an initiative that will connect Black artists with others who have the specific skills that they need to succeed.

“In terms of their services, [the Office for Public Art] have workshops for people who are learning more about public art,” says Chestand. “They also commission artists to make sure there’s more public art being created by artists from the city of Pittsburgh.” •

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ETURNING FOR ITS 10TH SEASON, the annual Deutschtown Music Festival takes over the North Side on Fri., July 22-Sun., July 24 for three days of local entertainment. But with over 400 bands performing across 31 indoor and outdoor stages, it can be, in one word, overwhelming. But never fear, below are a few of Pittsburgh City Paper’s choice artists to see. Remember, when it doubt, wandering the festival and letting your ears guide you is never a bad decision.

BEST STAGE FOR HIP-HOP LOVERS Historically, Deutschtown has leaned more into rock and DIY performances.

This year, the festival recruited South Bronx hip-hop great and chief curator of the Universal Hip Hop Museum Paradise Gray to curate the Skyline Stage, aka the Peace and Unity Stage. According to Jordan Gilliam, director of education at 25 Carrick Ave Project, Gray was given free rein to program the stage’s performances.

“He has pulled together an incredible web of community partners to provide educational services leading up to, during, and following the festival with a focus on youth engagement and wellness,” says Gilliam. Partners include 1HOOD Media, The Andy Warhol Museum, Tech25, LevelUp Studios, and more.

PITTSBURGH ICONS Miss Freddye’s Blues Band, The Weird Paul Rock Band, Chet Vincent, Chip & The Charge Ups, Bastard Bearded Irishmen, Byron Nash … enough said.

UP-AND-COMING ACTS NOT TO MISS The high-energy band Mani Bahia & The Mob have been slowly but surely making a name for themselves in 2022. If you haven’t had a chance to see the alternative funk band perform, now is the time to catch one of their infectious sets that are better experienced live. The same goes for pop and R&B artist Chandra Rhyme, whose immersive vocals have been drawing listeners in for the past year and a half.

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ALL-AGES MUST-SEES Leila Rhodes is back from Los Angeles, pairing her sultry R&B and rock stylings with indie rockers Snowdonia, Keystone Vibe’s reggae tunes, Sierra Seller’s chilling vocals, Buscrates’ intoxicating hip-hop mashups, Murder for Girls’ punk music, and rock hits from Rave Ami, Gene The Werewolf, The Moat Rats, and Lindsay Dragan.

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WHEN YOU WANT TO GET FUNKY If your definition of funky is bluesy or jazzy, add The Shameless Hex, The Mixus Brothers, Adam Fitz, Lee Robinson, and Wild Blue Yonder to your list. If funk to you means groovy tunes that get the body shaking, make a point to see The Flow Band, Big Blitz, The Stone Throwers, The Sun Champs, Back Alley Sound, and Andre Costello.

Ask me my favorite genre, and you’ll get a different answer every day. So don’t expect to find me posting up at a single stage all day. I’ll be bouncing around, seeing not only those listed above, but artists and bands that have captivated me over the years with their music, their stories, and their commitment to creating alluring melodies and tunes.. er The sets of INEZ, Cisco Kid, Flower t, Crown, The Living Street, JM the Poet, la Jordan Montgomery, Pat Coyle, Gabriella he Salvucci, Swampwalk, Chris Maze, The ck Zells, Halloway Williams, and Hemlock d For Socrates have already been added al to my Deutschtown Music Festival event schedule. •

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Supply and Demand at Wood Street Galleries

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TEPPING INTO Supply and Demand, the new exhibition by Pittsburgh installation artist Ian Brill, days before it’s set to open provides a compelling behind-the-scenes look at what’s to come. Spread across two floors of Wood Street Galleries, the two main pieces are still a mess of corrugated plastic sheeting, zip ties, and salvaged high-impact polystyrene, all handled by a small crew diligently working to complete the show.

“I still have several rolls from the same three to four tons of plastic that I picked up in a U-Haul from a salvage facility in 2014,” Brill says as he gazes at one of the surrounding pieces, a towering, white

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structure that, upon its debut on Fri., July 22, will burst into colorful lightand-sound displays much like those he designed for Spirit and other local venues.

While similar to those commissioned works, Brill sees the new show — which will feature the maze-like “Fast” and the arching splendor of “Impression” — as an evolution for him as a new media artist.

He describes the show, as well as much of his other works, as trying to create a situation where “there is an infinitely expanding opportunity for people to make dissociative leaps.”

Brill, a New York City native, moved to Pittsburgh in 2001 just a few days before

Sept. 11, as he recalls it. Over the past two decades, he made his mark producing works for shows and events across the United States, including in New York, Texas, and California. This is all in addition to the slew of pieces he has made for numerous Pittsburgh arts and cultural organizations and events. In 2021, he even collaborated with musician Clara Kent to create a multimedia show at Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

As preparations are underway for Supply and Demand, Brill points to plans taped to a wall, explaining how one piece will be a corridor meant to simulate a “broken thing of staples.” He also reveals

how the challenges of the last few years, ranging from a serious bout with COVID-19 to battling a liver disorder, gave him a new perspective on life. “[W]hen I survived COVID, I just decided to take my fucking life by the fucking horns and it’s been fucking non-stop,” says Brill, who, in the months leading up to Supply and Demand, has shown in Arkon, Ohio, San Diego, Calif., and in Pittsburgh with a display at the Lawrenceville-based bar Belvdere’s Ultra-Dive.

Supply and Demand came about, Brill says, after Pittsburgh Cultural Trust curatorial assistant Dave Zak reached out to him to do a show at Wood Street Galleries.

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Ian Brill sees the new show as an evolution for him as a new media artist.

Previously, Brill says he worked for over 10 years “off and on” as a new media specialist for Wood Street and other Trust galleries.

He stepped away from the role in 2020, only returning in 2021 to finish co-curating the show This Sacred Thing for another Trust gallery, SPACE, the opening of which had been delayed by the pandemic.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND Fri., July 22-Sun., Nov. 20.

Wood Street Galleries. 601 Wood St., Downtown. Free. trustarts.org

Even as he looks to the future, though, Brill enthusiastically discusses his artform’s forebears. He expounds on how new media art has changed from the days of Korean-American artist Nam June Paik, who, dating back to the 1960s, integrated televisions and other electronic elements into his work, to it now focusing more on areas like experience design and video games. He talks about touring the world for three years as an assistant installing audiovisual work and doing technological support for his mentor, the renowned Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger.

Supply and Demand marks but one project Brill has in the works. He points out his assistant Ryan Ellis, a University of

Pittsburgh graduate who Brill calls “absolutely fucking brilliant.” The two met in 2019 during a previous show at Wood Street Galleries.

“I was applying for a grant at the time to see if I could put up an installation somewhere on Pitt’s campus,” says Ellis, who earned a natural sciences degree at Pitt in 2019. “So I was, like, ‘Oh, Ian, how do I do art?’ And he was, like, ‘Oh, I hate you.’”

The two men laugh before Brill explains that he didn’t want to see another artist experience the same hardships he had gone through in his career.

“This guy just reminded me of my younger, skinnier self, that was, like, switching out of physics at Pitt and that had ruined several relationships trying to be an artist when maybe I could’ve done something more practical,” says Brill, adding bluntly, “But also, I didn’t want the competition.”

Brill admits that he feels like he has grown since that initial meeting, and, in addition to other duties, hired Ellis to do “really, really advanced programming stuff” for him. He also hints at Primer Industries, a project through which the two will work together as business partners, and Brill promises it will be “absolutely unbelievable.”

“Expect your minds to be blown,” says Brill. •

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THU., JULY 28 MUSIC • IRL Listen to music while the kids swing, slide, and more when Center of Life brings its Summer Concert Series to the KaBOOM Playground. Each show takes place at a different location throughout the Hazelwood community, and includes performances from Center of Life’s music programs and local Pittsburgh artists, as well as food, talks, and more. Rained-out events will move to 161 Hazelwood Ave. 6 p.m. 5113 Lytle St., Hazelwood. Free. facebook.com/centeroflifePGH/events

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AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival. The event will feature multiple artists from the Spin Doctors, the band that produced 1990s hits like “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” to The Rusty Shackles. There will be also be food, drinks, and regional vendors so you’re guaranteed to have a fun time. 10 a.m.

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SAT., JULY 30 FEST • IRL The first-ever Hill District Arts Festival is approaching fast. Presented by the youthfocused nonprofit ACH Clear Pathways, the event will take over Centre Avenue and the Kaufmann Settlement House to showcase live performances, local artists, DJs, and more. There will also be kidfriendly activities, food trucks, and other fun for the whole family, with proceeds from the event benefitting ACH’s artistic programming. 12-8 p.m. Continues on Sun., July 31. 1800 block of Centre Avenue, Hill District. Free. achclearpathways.org

ART • IRL The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination features paintings by three contemporary artists with PROCESS: Batista, Dugas, Turri.

The exhibition showcases work by Kenneth Batista, James Dugas, and Scott Turri, with an intention to “share the poetic mystery” of the artists’ respective processes. Experience how Batista and Turri use technology to enhance their paintings, and how Dugas draws on techniques advanced by 19th-century artist Albert Pinkham Ryder.

2-5 p.m. Continues through Sept. 2. 5006 Penn Ave., Garfield. Free. irmafreeman.org

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by Pittsburgh-based artists. Don’t miss “Next Stop Steel Plaza” by Anita Spano and Darlene Thompson, “Thank You But No Thank You” by Mora Harris and Ian Kane, and more. 7 p.m. Continues on Sun., July 31. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $10. mtap.weebly.com

SUN., JULY 31 FILM • IRL See how multiple filmmaking teams met impossible deadlines when The Oaks Theater presents The Pittsburgh 48-Hour Film Project: Best of Screening & Awards Show. The competition challenges local filmmakers to write, direct, score, and edit an original short film in the span of two days. All the completed entries will be unveiled and the best ones will be awarded based on a number of criteria.

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MON., AUG. 1 MUSIC • IRL Get ready for a night of soaring, highconcept rock when Coheed and Cambria takes over Stage AE for its Window of the Waking Mind Tour. Experience the progmetal group’s latest album Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind, the second chapter in its five-part musical project, The Amory Wars. The show gets an extra

boost from Alkaline Trio and MOTHICA, so be prepared for a night of quality head banging. 5:30 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $42.50. promowestlive.com

TUE., AUG. 2 FILM • IRL Learn about the rich history of American music, all in the glorious 4K resolution of Carnegie Science Center’s Rangos Giant Cinema. Narrated by actor Morgan Freeman, and featuring singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc, America’s Musical Journey takes audiences cross-country to explore jazz, blues, zydeco, rock, and other genres, all while showing the “unique diversity of cultures and the creative risk-taking that characterize America, as told through the story of its music.” 2:45 p.m. Continues through Aug. 11. One Allegheny Ave., North Side. $6-7. carnegiesciencecenter.org

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WED., AUG. 3 OUTDOORS • IRL Experience Pittsburgh’s waterways at dawn when Venture Outdoors hosts its Sunrise Paddle. Learn the basics of kayaking and take a leisurely tour up the Allegheny River starting from the James Sharp Landing in Sharpsburg. All participants will be in solo kayaks and no tandems will be available. 6-7:30 a.m.

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LEGAL NOTICE

NAME CHANGE

NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to the provisions of the Fictitious Names Act of Pennsylvania that an application for registration of a fictitious name was filed in the office of the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the conduct of a business under the fictitious name of Route 51 Antiques and Collectibles with its principal office or place of business at 2611 Hayden Blvd Ste 1, Elizabeth, PA, 15037. The names and addresses, including street and number, if any, of all persons who are parties to the registration are: Robert Rhoderick 2611 Hayden Blvd Ste 1, Elizabeth, PA, 15307.

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-007237 In re petition of Jeannine Marie Vittorino for change of name to Jeannine Marie Ambrose.

To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 10th day of August, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for.

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