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A new Latino-focused magazine is hoping to teach Pittsburgh about Latinx culture and serve a fast-growing Latino community BY JULIA MARUCA INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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ARÍA MANAUTOU MATOS has always been passionate about cultural exploration and education. From her ﬁrst experiences at an international school in Puerto Rico, where she grew up, she loved hearing about the lives of her fellow students from across the globe. “Instead of being fearful about what was different, I was curious. That’s something that I’ve brought with me throughout my life. This love for learning about others, and sharing what I know,” Manautou Matos says. When she came to Pittsburgh from Puerto Rico in the 1990s to attend Carnegie Mellon University, Manautou Matos joined the Spanish and Latin Student Association (SALSA) and helped to put together CMU’s ﬁrst ever Latin American Food Festival. Advertised with signs asking, “Do you know what Latin American food is? This is the real thing,” the festival brought people together to see the diversity of food, countries, and people that make up Latinx culture, and inspired Manautou Matos to keep sharing and keep educating. She cites her spearheading of the festival as a main inspiration for her newest project — PRESENTE Pittsburgh Latino Magazine, an online Latinx culture magazine covering the Pittsburgh region, which she launched in March. The Latinx community is small in Pittsburgh, and many still have

a lot to learn about its diverse culture. But with Pittsburgh’s Latino population growing relatively fast, Manautou Matos has been afforded an opportunity to not only to educate non-Latino Pittsburghers, but also serve a burgeoning community in the Steel City. “Now, people are being more vocal, and people are more open to hearing about [Latino issues]. I think it’s the perfect time to just bring it out there, like hey, here is the Latino community, and here is what we are about, and here’s the impact we are having,” said Manautou Matos. Since 2000, Latinos have been the second fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S., a fact that PRESENTE highlights on its mission page. In Allegheny County, they appear to be the fastest. According to 2018 census data, around 25,000 Latinos live in Allegheny County, which is just 2% of the county’s population, but still represents an increase of 40% from the 18,000 Latinos that lived here in 2010. Latinos are growing at a rate that’s slightly faster than Allegheny County’s Asian population growth.

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PRESENTE’s goal is to serve “as a vehicle for regional Latinos to stay connected to important news, opportunities, and events, highlight their impact and accomplishments, thrive, and become key contributors to the regional economy, and celebrate and share their diverse cultural backgrounds,” according to its website. Manautou Matos writes 75% of the content for the magazine, soliciting freelancers for most of the rest. She also built the website herself. PRESENTE was a way for her to bring together her passion for Latinx culture with her professional experience in multimedia and print marketing. She previously served as Marketing Director for Brightside Academy, and had worked in bilingual marketing and communications for years before launching PRESENTE. Articles are written in both English and Spanish, so as to include multiple generations of Latinos and community

members who may have varying language skill sets. The site was originally aimed in particular at highlighting Latinx cultural events in Pittsburgh. “Something in common that I found over and over in talking with everyone was that they didn’t know what was going on. I went to an event, and then I’d find someone and tell them about it, and they’d say ‘Oh, I had no idea. If I would have known, I would’ve gone,’” Manautou Matos said. “There were so many great things going on, professionals making great things for the community, and those things weren’t being publicized.” Manautou Matos says that she has received a lot of help in getting PRESENTE off the ground, especially from Guillermo Velazquez of Pittsburgh Hispanic Development Corporation and Brent Rondon of University of Pittsburgh’s Small Business Development Center. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, which coincided almost immediately with the website’s launch, forced PRESENTE to change course and focus less on in-person events. “I remember just sitting there in front of the computer and just being like, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’” Manautou Matos said. “But I felt like I had to [cover it], and I wanted to, because I thought, ‘There’s going to be many people in the community that are not going to have any idea [what’s happening], or know about spread and things like that.’ So I wanted to keep them informed.” As coronavirus and activist movements like Black Lives Matter came to the forefront, Manautou Matos formed partnerships with Spotlight PA and PublicSource to publish and translate some of their news articles on the PRESENTE website. She also interviewed members of community organizations like the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit law firm which is part of the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, to spread information about issues that affect the undocumented immigrant population of Pennsylvania. The state Department of Human Services “has said that it will authorize Emergency Medical Assistance (EMA) for undocumented persons for testing, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. If undocumented immigrants do not have a health provider to call, they can call the PA Department of Health,” an article explains on the website. The article also directed undocumented people in need of support to organizations like Casa San Jose, Latino Family Center, Latino Community CONTINUES ON PG. 6

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Center, and PHDC for help with accessing health care. Manautou Matos emphasized though that, in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement and amidst the increased nationwide discussion of systemic racism, every Latinos’ experience with race is different. “Latinos can be of all races. They can be of African descent, they can be Indigenous, white, some are Asian. So the way that people experience racism and inequality really differs based on what they look like, unfortunately,” she said. “For instance, I have very curly hair, and I experience different things whether I have that curly hair or whether I’ve straightened it out. I deﬁnitely want to be a part of, through the magazine, partaking in the community of how we can help people, and to make things better for everyone in our community.” In terms of content for the magazine, Manautou Matos has found ways to keep active even in quarantine. Stories explored local Latinx restaurants offering take-out options, a virtual Spanishlanguage small business seminar through the University of Pittsburgh, and a local artisan who started a leather goods shop in the middle of the pandemic. PRESENTE is also part of the Pittsburgh Media Partnership, a collaborative of local news organizations in the

Pittsburgh region (including Pittsburgh City Paper) aiming to help support journalists and independent press coverage in the area. “Pittsburgh Media Partnership has been amazing for me as a newcomer to local media. They’ve been able to guide me — every now and then I’d have questions or a few roadblocks here and there — and the leadership there has been great,” Manautou Matos said. “It was great to sit down with people from all different media organizations in the region. In the beginning, I was hesitant. I’m a perfectionist, and if I do something, I want it to be good. And so many of them said ‘Do this, that’s great, just do it!’ And that kind of gave me that little push I needed to just go for it.” The partnership also directed her to the Facebook Journalism Project grant for local newsrooms covering coronavirus issues, which she applied for in March and successfully received help to cover the cost of the magazine’s COVID-19 reporting. So far, even though the magazine launched less than half a year ago, Manautou Matos has found the public response to be positive. “I’ve heard many people say that we really needed this, and they’re glad that we now have something like this,” she said. Other Latinx media organizations

have covered the Western Pennsylvania area, like La Mega Media in Ohio, but she considers PRESENTE to be unique — it’s an online, woman-owned, minorityowned, Pittsburgh-based magazine. Other Pittsburgh Latinx organizations have emphasized the need for publications like PRESENTE to create community bonds. “If we want to make Pittsburgh a welcoming city, we have to create outlets for our immigrant community to get accurate information in order to create more inclusivity and encourage civic and social engagement,” said Monica Ruiz, executive director of Pittsburgh Latinx community advocacy group Casa San Jose. For now, PRESENTE is all online, but Manautou Matos is considering plans for a print newsletter once or twice a year, depending on how the pandemic progresses. She also hopes to work more with local Latinx businesses and ﬁnd ways for them to be promoted in the magazine, and wants to grow her existing partnerships. A more immediate goal is to get the word out about the magazine and make it a place where people can come with their stories and questions. “I think that many times the people who don’t know are fearful,” she said. “So a way for me to break through that fear is by showing these stories.”

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Antney’s Anise Pizzelle ice cream

With two more months of summer, Pittsburghers still have lots of time left to run to their nearest ice cream stand. But why not try some flavors beyond the usual vanilla or chocolate? Here are three shops in Pittsburgh that are worth a sample, or a whole dang cone — or sandwich!

Anise Pizzelle at Antney’s Ice Cream 1316 Poplar St., West End.

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Pittsburghers love pizzelles, and at Antney’s, they can get it in chunk-sized pieces in a sweet ice cream base, dotted with anise seeds. Get it while you can. Antney’s has over a dozen flavors, and they rotate often.

Lemon Yuzu at Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream Multiple locations. millieshomemade.com

Yuzu is a member of the citrus family, a cross between a mandarin orange and an Ichang papeda, a Chinese sour citrus fruit. Millie’s Lemon Yuzu ice cream is tart and sweet, described as “lickable scoopable sunshine.”

Strawberry Pretzel Salad from Leona’s Ice Cream East End Food Co-op, 7516 Meade St., Point Breeze. leonaspgh.com

Strawberry Pretzel Salad is not a salad at all but instead, a great combination of tart jelly, a creamy center, and a salty-crunchy pretzel crust. Leona’s turned this “salad” into one of its mammoth ice-cream sandwiches in honor of East End Food Co-op’s 40th anniversary. •

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TAKEOUT REVIEW: CHENGDU GOURMET BY MAGGIE WEAVER // MWEAVER@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

HERE ARE TWO MENUS at Chengdu Gourmet: one for American-style Chinese dishes and the other for traditional Chinese fare. If, like me, you grew up on Americanized Chinese food, the first menu — which bills sesame chicken and egg rolls — will feel familiar. The latter will likely not. Chengdu Gourmet has been intoxicating Pittsburghers with the intense flavors of authentic, Sichuan cuisine since 2015. Those who know cuisine from the Sichuan province know it’s associated with spice; its namesake peppercorn is not simply hot, but also numbing. The sensation, compared to the zing of carbonation, primes the palate for heat to come while several aromas evolve as the spice moves from binding to an intense flavor. I ordered a feast of dishes from the restaurant’s traditional menu, starting with Sichuan dumplings and cold sesame noodles, followed by a smattering of vegetable dishes and two meat courses: double-cooked pork and beef in a hot,

spicy broth. Spice was strong in almost every dish, which made the sweeter items even more pronounced. Eggplant in a thick garlic sauce was cloying compared to the hot, red peppers sprinkled in an otherwise mild cabbage dish. A friend compared the dumplings to sweet breakfast sausage when put up against the striking ﬂavor of fermented beans and spice in Mapo tofu, a popular dish in Sichuan, consisting of tofu chunks in spicy, oily sauce.

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Plates of crispy, charred green beans, fresh stir-fried snow pea shoots, and a bacon-like, double-cooked pork were welcome, mild palate changes. The pork dish, a unanimously loved choice, was gloriously — yet not overwhelmingly —

fatty and rich. It was worth noting that the spice, particularly in the beef (made Chongqing style, similar to the broth of a hot pot, featuring lotus ﬂower and tofu) wasn’t unpleasant. The aroma of the bright red broth opened up to a complex mix of garlic and other spices. The beef was one of the spiciest dishes — all of the heat was held in the broth — so good that I pushed through the spice to keep eating, eventually getting used to the burn. If you’re new to Sichuan cuisine and are more familiar with an American style menu, I suggest doing research before ordering at Chengdu Gourmet; the menu is vast and a bit overwhelming. (I’m lucky to know a friend who has lived in China, so I often order based on a combination of her recommendations and Google research.) And, make sure to grab a few friends to eat with you. The best way to enjoy a meal from the Squirrel Hill restaurant is by trying as many dishes as possible.

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WEST AFRICAN DANCE CLASS The Legacy Arts Project offers virtual dance classes several days of the week. Every Thursday, learn West African dance from instructor Yamoussa Elmouze Camara, and “sweat and smile as he leads you through an awesome tour of the motherland.” 6:30 p.m. Continues Thu., July 30-Aug. 13. $10 suggested donation. legacyartsproject.org

MON., JULY 27 1HOOD POWER HOUR Join activist organization 1Hood for 1Hood Power Hour: Creating Change. The virtual forum will stream live on Facebook and discuss housing and eviction support, with guests from the Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters, the United Neighborhood Defense Movement, and the Allegheny County Department of Human Service. 7 p.m. facebook.com/1HoodMedia

FRI., JULY 24 DIAL-UP IMPROV SHOW Technically, every Zoom call is improvised, but this one is done so on purpose. Arcade Comedy Theater hosts Dial-Up, an improv show that mocks the strangeness of Zoom calls, featuring Helen Wildy, TJ Young, and the comedy duo Sprouts. 9 p.m. arcadecomedytheater.com/live

TUE., JULY 28 DRIVE-IN MOVIE NIGHT While many movie theaters are still closed, you can catch an outdoor movie in your car with Allegheny County’s Drive-In movie nights. This week, you can catch Sonic the Hedgehog at Boyce Park. Remember when everyone freaked out about Sonic’s weird teeth? A simpler time. Gates open at 7 p.m., movie begins “at dusk.” 675 Old Frankstown Road, Plum. alleghenycounty.us

SAT., JULY 25 BREWHOUSE EXHIBIT Seeking Truth, a new exhibit now open at the Brew House Association, features digital collages from Njaimeh Njie, sculptural pieces from Jamie Earnest, woodwork from Adam Linn, and more artists that “look to interrupt our current understanding of what is real and what is true.” Brew House Association. Open Thu.-Sat. 711 S. 21st St., South Side. brewhousearts.org

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SUN., JULY 26 ART MEDITATION Chill out with guided meditation from the Carnegie Museum of Art. Yoga instructor and artist Lydia Killian uses different works of art to serve as

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While you might not be able to travel around the country right now, you can at least pretend with National Parks Adventure, a documentary at Rangos Giant Cinema that explores everything from mountains to canyons with stunning footage. 11:30 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. $7. One Allegheny Ave., North Side. carnegiesciencecenter.org

SEVEN DAYS OF MUSIC THU., JULY 23 MUSIC TO STREAM SWAMPWALK. crushed. swampwalkin.bandcamp.com

Oh, the tender ups and downs of having a crush. Wanting to lose yourself in that other person, but also the uncertainty, the vulnerability. In Swampwalk’s latest release, crushed, the electronic artist chronicles those very familiar emotions with delightful lyrics and lots of synths. All proceeds from the short EP will be donated to Project T (Pittsburgh’s Trans-Led Transitional Housing program, a project of SisTers PGH).

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SAT., JULY 25 IRL C. SCOTT. 2-5 p.m. ShurSave, Bloomfield Fans of electronic artist C. Scott may be familiar with his Shur Save Flips beat tape series. A native Pittsburgher, Scott says the Bloomfield grocery store is “one of the last places in the area that feels like the Pittsburgh of my childhood. ”With the news that ShurSave is closing and becoming a Community Market grocery store operated by Giant Eagle, Scott is planning to set up in the parking lot, rain or shine, to play music on the last day of ShurSave’s operations. “We’re still in a pandemic, so if you show up, wear a mask and keep your distance,” reads the Facebook event. “I didn’t manage to actually get permission, so we’re gonna play this one by ear. If I’m

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a part of in Pittsburgh. I’ve seen a lot of performative allyship in major American cities, and thought of what a Pittsburgh-speciﬁc non-answer to police brutality would look like. The common nerve was likely struck because the concert series weren’t just believable, they were damned-near real (minus the hyperbole in the sponsors). We’ve seen concerts that look just like what I tweeted, albeit with *different* sponsors and *different* artists, put on by Pittsburgh organizations whose behind-the-scenes activities are questionable at best. Artists are just trying to survive, so I can’t really blame anyone for accepting work that comes with adequate pay and a built-in audience. Perhaps this is the time to be cognizant of who we, as artists, can equitably accept money from and how that reﬂects on our values.

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VERYBODY IS DEALING with quarantines and restrictions in different ways. While there’s no single right way to cope — social distancing and staying TF home aside — connecting with friends, family, and neighbors is a good place to start. You can contact your loved ones on your own, but you might also be curious how your favorite strangers in Pittsburgh are coping, so Pittsburgh City Paper is reaching out to artists, activists, workers, and makers to see how they’re doing. Today, it’s musician Roger Rafael Romero, aka Feralcat.

What TV, movies, music, and/or other art have you been getting into the last few months?

What has your day-to-day routine been like in quarantine? What would you be doing on a typical quarantine Monday, for example? During quarantine, I am perpetually in a state of setting a routine. I wake up somewhere in the 6:30-7:30 a.m. range (willingly, no alarms), and can start with anything from riding my bike to reading to scrolling through Twitter and learning that day’s tragedy. After an hour or so, I get into my day of teaching private lessons, Zoom meetings, and playing my sax. Routine is easily broken by inspiration, though. I still need to get everything with deadlines done, but I might f*ck around and write some music. Every day is some combination of all of the above plus television and video games.

What was your last live gig before quarantine set in? Would you have done anything differently if you knew you wouldn’t be playing for a while? Right before quarantine, I played a couple of back-to-back Fridays at Con Alma. The second and last of the two shows was with Sierra Sellers and her band. It was a bit bittersweet; we had an inkling that that would be our last show for a long time. I had heard about the SXSW cancellation pretty much two hours before I had to get on stage the ﬁrst Friday for my trio set. The week between the ﬁrst Friday and the last

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Friday was the week when toilet paper ﬂew off of the shelves in panic. I was very excited, but the shows instantly began to feel heavier. Like, I should play the crap out of this music because who knows when I’ll get to play it next. It felt pre-apocalyptic. I would have, if I had any foresight, told myself to play even harder. To be as deeply in that moment as possible, because those moments weren’t going to be there soon.

Have you been working on any new music? Has it been inspired at all by the pandemic? I had a period of time during quarantine when writing music was all I could think about. It felt as though it were my civic duty, as an artist who was then [temporarily] isolated, to use all of the free time I suddenly had toward making the great things I never thought I had time for. As it turns out, even with ample free time, I

struggled to create. For the most part, I get into monthlong stints where I’ll write exclusively for either my solo music or for [the] band. For the band, I’ve been writing what will be our ﬁrst full-length. If everyone in this country wore a mask, perhaps the future of the band getting to tour this music in the United States wouldn’t seem so bleak. It even feels unlikely that we can record the music as we would want to. I try not to give up hope, and instead work within whatever limitations this quarantine has thrust upon me.

You had some funny, popular tweets making fun of hypothetical “solidarity” concerts put on by the city. What prompted those? Why do you think they struck a common nerve? To resurrect the sentiments of a monthplus-old tweet, I was prompted by the gig lineups that I’ve both seen and been

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I’ve played many video games that I will passively continue not to finish, mostly on PC. I got into Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch right when it came out, so I found solace in my new fake mortgage and the benign capitalist world-building that follows. I’ve now rewatched Community three times through, and finally got through Neon Genesis Evangelion. I’ve also been hate-watching Entourage, feeling this nostalgic pull from when I was a teenager and saw what I wanted to see. So much (and I do basically mean all of it) of the show wouldn’t fly in 2020. I’ve read What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young, Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay within the last month, and am currently trudging through Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. I’ve been slow of reading these days, because the internet. Music-wise, I finally got into Code Orange via their new record, Underneath. There’s so much to unpack in this record and I truly believe it’s one of the best heavy albums of the decade. Somewhat of a 180, but there were new records by some of my all-time favorite jazz artists that also came out within the last month or so. Artists Joshua Redman (with Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade), Gerald Clayton (with Logan Richardson, Walter Smith III, Joe Sanders, and Marcus Gilmore), and Ambrose Akinmusire (with Harish Raghavan, Justin Brown & Sam Harris) are occupying my brain these days.

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have read last week, the words I should have written a couple of Fridays ago. I couldn’t type. I wasn’t able to see the screen of my iPad, what with all the tears streaming down my face. I cannot point to any one thing that made me cry for several hours that day and many others since. If you could see me now, I am doing a fullform, complete length of both arms, roundhouse gesture meaning All-ofThis makes me cry. I am doing the meditations, I am lighting the candles, and being in thoughtful gratitude for all I have right now: food every day, safe shelter, an iPad, internet, a working sewing machine, creative curiosity, love, and more. I even say thanks to the abundance all around us, that we have everything we need on this little blue marble. I start and end the day in gratitude. Maybe even in peace with a dash of hope. It is all the hours in between and in the middle of the night, that are becoming more of

a challenge. A friend of mine, who is not at all religious, is very close to getting the serenity prayer tattooed on their arm. In case I wasn’t sure what it was — my very atheistic upbringing and adulthood was in the forefront of their mind, I am sure — my friend repeated it for me. When I looked into it, I saw that the well-known version is not the original. But even more interesting is all the other philosophical nuggets along the lines of the serenity prayer. Like this one from Shantideva, an Indian Buddhist scholar: If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for dejection? And if there is no help for it, What use is there being glum? I immediately stopped being glum. Then I wondered if Shantideva said glum, and what is glum in Sanskrit? Ah, but what is our remedy? Or, more to Monk Shantideva’s point: What is my remedy? I feel like it is all the same thing, really. My remedy is ours

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can we do now? Is there too much fear from commerce to take a step back? Will we continue to do the one week closed here and there, then another and another? A state-wide version of the clunky federal response? Similarly, no cajoling, no laughter, no admonishing, no guilt or smugness can get someone to wear a mask who doesn’t want to wear one. My remedy is to wear one everywhere when I leave the house. Shantideva is telling me that I should not be glum that you are not wearing yours. I try, I really do. But on my morning walks as I try to gather the joy I need for the day, when I see someone not wearing a mask, I feel it. Like a shadow that strikes my eyes through the tree canopy clouding the sun’s brilliant morning bath on my face. Wait, I think, what and why? What advice do you have, dear Shantideva, to get us to understand that our shared remedy saves us, that we are each other’s keeper? Or is there No Help For It?

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