October 12, 2022 - Pittsburgh City Paper

Business Minded

BY JARED WICKERHAM

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BUSINESSMINDED

BY JAMIE WIGGANJAMIE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

EFORE MARLENE AND JOS É JARAMILLO

VALDEZ moved to the area, they had come to know Pittsburgh as a city devoid of Latino eateries, stores, and culture.

But since leaving Philadelphia to start a new life in Penn Hills three years ago, the couple have wit nessed an emerging Latino busi ness community, which they’ve fed into by opening the area’s first Latino grocery store, Orquidea Latin Market in Monroeville, earlier

“We always thought about opening a business, and we thought about a restaurant, but we would need a lot of money and it would be a lot of work, especially with having children,” says Marlene. “And then we thought about opening a store because there’s practically none here."

Their store on Old William Penn Highway is open seven days a week and provides an important service to a growing community of Latinos living in Pittsburgh’s Eastern suburbs, offering products from all over Latin America.

At first, Pennsylvania’s sleepy second city felt jarring to the lifelong urbanites, but they have since come to enjoy life in its spacious, tree-covered suburbs. And so have their three school-age children.

“When we first came, they didn’t like it. They said ‘Where are my friends?’ and after a year they go back there and are, like, ‘I don’t like New York. I like Pittsburgh.’”

Among major metro areas, Pittsburgh’s Latino community is comparatively small, although in recent years, it’s grown at an accelerated pace. The 2020 census counted around 34,300 living in Allegheny County, roughly double that of 10 years earlier, but still less than 3% of the total popula tion. On the other side of the state, nearly 240,000 Latinos live within Philadelphia County — about 15% of its inhabitants.

Its shelves are lined with spices, condiments, and imported deli cacies like frozen guinea pig and fresh Nopalitos — flat green cactus leaves with reputed health bene fits that can accompany a range of dishes when correctly prepared.

The biggest draw for reg ulars, according to Marlene, is their extensive offering of LatinAmerican-manufactured candy and confectionery.

“The people’s response tells us we didn’t make a mistake,” she says.

The Jaramillo Valdezes both grew up in Ecuador, but have spent most of their adult lives in the U.S., first in New York and then Philadelphia, before crossing the state to Pittsburgh.

By 2010, census data shows, Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs were home to a substantial portion of the region’s small but growing Latino population. Since then, the community has continued to expand, although at a slightly slower rate than the county’s southern and western fringes.

Ella Serrato, a realtor based in Fox Chapel, says this year, she’s helped several Latino fam ilies find homes in Monroeville, along with others in neighboring communities.

This, says Serrato, marks a shift from earlier Latino arrivals, who tended to cluster around the Oakland-Downtown commercial corridor.

CP PHOTO: NATE SMALLWOOD Employee Kelly Pesantez stocks shelves inside Orquidea Latin Market.

CP PHOTO: NATE SMALLWOODMarlene Jaramillo Valdez helps stock drinks inside Orquidea Latin Market.

“One of the biggest dreams for us is to own a house, and you can do it here.”

“Now … we have families relocat ing [further out from the city] because they find … you have a good school dis trict, affordability, you can buy a house, you can have safety,” Serrato says. “The people are looking to come to the Monroeville area for the school district, also it is very close to the malls, there are parks around the area. It’s a really nice neighborhood.”

For Luis and Imelda De Leon, who have spent much of their life in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., moving within Pittsburgh’s accessible real estate market offered their first opportunity for homeownership.

The couple relocated here to be closer to their children and grandchil dren, and bought their first home in Turtle Creek a few years ago. Earlier this year, they moved again to a larger home in Monroeville, where they like to walk their dogs through their neighborhood plan and the surrounding parks and green spaces.

“One of the biggest dreams for us is to own a house, and you can do it here,” Serrato says.

The De Leons talk fondly of their life in Monroeville, but their journey here was flecked with pain and setbacks.

When, about 20 years ago, Imelda learned her father was dying, she made an agonizing decision to visit him in Guatemala, knowing that, because of her immigration status, she could face real difficulty returning to her husband and children in Virginia.

Her journey back to the U.S. via Mexico involved swimming across a river, scram bling through barbed wire, and ultimately escaping from a smuggler.

Her daughter Rosamaria Cristello says when they were finally reunited several months later, she barely recog nized her mother, who had lost about half her body weight.

“She did not look herself,” says Cristello, who has channeled the deep trauma from this experience into a career in advocacy and support work at the Latino Community Center, a nonprofit she founded in 2017.

“We’re there to wrap our arms around families that are just like mine was,” says Cristello. “And that’s the heart of

the center, at the root of it is, like, we’ve been there and no one should have to go through that. No one should have to make these decisions.”

Cristello says this p ain can endure, but it can also give way to healing, as it has done for her family.

“Now I can say that I feel complete,” says Imelda, referring to her spacious home close to her family and the finan cial security provided by both her and Luis’ stable jobs.

But their success does not mean they no longer face prejudice. Luis says at least one person involved in hiring him for his previous job expressed doubt on account of his ethnicity.

“They’d been unsure about hiring me, but then give me the opportunity,” Luis recalls.

By the time he left to take a promo tion at a different firm, Luis’ employers acknowledgd a loss to their workforce.

Serrato says that, for many Latino

families, buying a home represents the conclusion of a long journey marked with highs and lows. Her work as a realtor brings her alongside clients as they reach an emotional milestone.

“With each family that I have had the opportunity to help to buy a house, there is always a story,” Serrato says. “And that’s why many of the times there are tears when they close and they get the keys.”

Serrato’s own life has presented its share of trials. Born in Colombia, Serrato earned a degree in computer science and found work in Arizona. She came to Pittsburgh in 2011, and chose to step back from her software engineering career because the regular travel took her away from her family.

She trained as a realtor, and has built up a steady business selling homes around the city. But a painful encounter while finalizing her second sale made her consider giving in before she got started.

“You have to overcome all these objections to all of these things that we face. I feel like those things make us stronger and then we can go and we can keep moving.”

PHOTO: ALEX RESTAURI

The De Leons family, with Ella Serrato, pose outside their home.

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Ella Serrato stands outside RE/MAX Select Realty.

During the sale, Serrato was working with a renowned local agent, who, strug gling to understand Serrato during a pivotal phone conversation, told her, “You have to speak better.”

Serrato was able to close the deal by following up by email. But the encounter still knocked her confidence.

“I felt so bad for a week, and I thought, ‘I don’t know if I want to do this,'” Serrato says. “But you have to overcome all these objections to all of these things that we face. I feel like those things make us stronger and then we can go and we can keep moving.”

Within a year, Serrato says she was recognized as one of the most successful agents in her office.

For the Jaramillo Valdez family, work rarely stops. Every two weeks, José drives to New Jersey, loads a truck full of supplies, and returns to Monroeville the same day. José, who runs a flooring company in addition to helping his wife at Orquidea, says there are no wholesal ers carrying Latin-American imports within closer reach of their home.

“Sometimes he drives through the night,” says Marlene.

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Other than helping her husband with some bookkeeping, Marlene had no expe rience running a business before opening Orqidea, but frustration with the lack of local places to shop and eat encouraged her to pursue her longtime dream of setting up on her own.

“I was on the lookout and I saw this place was to rent and I told [José] there was a premises that had appeared and that’s the place,” Marlene says. “It’s close to home, to the school. And he said ‘I don’t really know much about how that sort of business works, but if you do …’”

Opening the store involved lots of onthe-job learning that took several months to master, Marlene says.

“I have always been like that,” she says. “If I don’t know how to do something, I find a way.”

This attitude, says Cristello, is a defining trait of Latino communities in America.

“Luis has a job, but he’s already think ing of the business that he’s wanting to start,” says Cristello of her stepfather. “So I think that’s just ingrained in our culture. We are very entrepreneur-minded. So I can definitely see this area start to pop up more businesses for sure.” •

Maria Manautou Matos, from Pittsburgh Latino Magazine, and Ladimir Garcia, a West Virginia University student and a Pittsburgh City Paper summer intern and freelancer, contributed to this report, which was made possible with financial support from the Pittsburgh Media Partnership. Follow news editor Jamie Wiggan on Twitter @JamieWiggan

CP PHOTO: NATE SMALLWOOD Store owner Marlene Jaramillo Valdez poses for a portrait at Orquidea Latin Market.

Explore North Park at Park ‘til Dark with free, family-friendly activities and cap the day with Brews + Bites at Pour at the Park

The leaves are changing and now is the per fect time to head out of the city for some fun, recreation and a cold beer.

Park ‘til Dark is the perfect opportunity to expe rience it all. It’s a full day of free, family-friendly recreational activities in North Park, topped off by the annual Pour at the Park beer, spirits, and food fundraiser. Pour at the Park is a fundraising event hosted by the Allegheny County Parks Foundation. Park ‘til Dark and Pour at the Park all take place in North Park on Saturday, October 15th, making it ‘one full day, two great events!’

Get outside and experience new activities in North Park, beginning with a birding hike at 8:00am in partnership with the Audubon Society. Or bring the whole family to family fishing with the PA Fish and Boat Commission, then stop by for some drop-in activities on Tennis Court Road hosted by UPMC Health Plan, including face paintings, caricature drawings, games, plant potting’s, and the BRGR food truck. Slow down and connect with our outdoor spaces with Yoga in the Park hosted by Stray Dog Studio from 3:00-4:00pm.

Additional free activities include: a volunteer tree planting with the Friends of North Park, Trail PGH, and the Park Rangers from 9:00am to 12:00pm; a fall discovery hike in partnership with Outdoor Afro and hosted by the Latodami Nature Center from 12:30 – 2:30pm; and a bike ride around the North Park Lake Trail in partner ship with the All Day Riders and led by some of our very own Allegheny County Parks Founda tion board members.

All activities are free but require registration at parktildark.com where you’ll find full descriptions of each activity.

Following this full day of recreation, stay for Pour at the Park, the annual outdoor brews and bites fundraiser benefiting projects in the parks. This ticketed event features local craft beers, local pizza, grilled meats, authentic tacos, and healthy vegan specialties. Enjoy live music by Sierra Sellers and Chalk Dinosaur. This event is more family-friendly than ever with fun activities for youth aged 6-15 at Coach Dave’s Kids Camp. Tickets for this event, which runs from 5:30 to 8:30pm range from $10 to $55. A take-home stainless steel tasting cup is included with the full-priced ticket. For more details and to purchase tickets, go to at pourat thepark.com.

Park ‘til Dark is hosted by the Allegheny County Parks Foundation and presented by Twin Pines in partnership with the Allegheny County Parks Foundation to encourage all to discover their parks! Park ‘til Dark is sponsored by UPMC Health Plan, Mascaro Construction, Xfinity, Ho rhut Tree Experts, NexTier Bank, Public Lands, Green Mountain Energy, Leaf Filter, Giant Eagle, and Leaf Home, with the help of our commu nity partners Vibrant Pittsburgh, Outdoor Afro, Audubon Society of Western PA, Stray Dog Yoga Studio, PA Fish & Boat Commission, Lato dami Nature Center, the Friends of North Park, Trail PGH, Allegheny County Park Rangers, and the All Day Riders.

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THEATER

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

BY NATALIE DE PAZ // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

DURING REHEARSALS of I Am

A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams , a new opera making its Pittsburgh premiere this month, singers Helen Zhibing Huang and Maria Dominique Lopez practice a duet about being reduced to “a tiny piece of plastic” — a green card.

The opera — created and written by Cerise Lim Jacobs, and composed by Jorge Sosa — responds to threats against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA) act by former United States President Donald Trump.

Maria Sensi Sellner, artistic and general director of Resonance Works, the Pittsburgh theater nonprofit pro ducing the opera, conducted the 2019 world premiere of I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams in Boston, where it was originally commissioned and pro duced by White Snake Projects.

“The question in 2018 was ‘Is this going to remain relevant?’” Sensi

Sellner says while taking a break during rehearsals at the First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh. “And in 2019, as we were coming into the rehearsal room every day, that is when you were seeing headlines about children in cages at the border and it felt more relevant, and I think it continues to feel more relevant on deeper and deeper levels.”

Being from the Pittsburgh area, Sensi Sellner had I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams slated for production by Resonance Works in 2020, which was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams will finally stage here on Fri., Oct. 14 and Sun., Oct. 16 at Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie.

The opera follows the relation ship between Rosa, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, and her attorney, Singa, an ethnically Chinese immigrant from Indonesia.

“We have Rosa who is a community

organizer,” Sosa tell Pittsburgh City Paper during a Zoom interview. “She’s in protest, trying to have her voice be heard in favor of migrant rights, and then she’s arrested and incarcerated and now is fearing — without any protection, is facing — really horrible outcomes. There’s no good outcomes for her. She’s either facing prison time or deportation and the separation from her daughter.”

I AM A DREAMER WHO NO LONGER DREAMS

Fri., Oct. 14 and Sun., Oct. 16. Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. $12.50-50. resonanceworks.org/dreamer

The show confronts the idea of the so-called American Dream promised to those who settle in the U.S. When asked what the phrase means to her, Huang, the soprano filling the role of Singa, says, “We’ve been talking about it a lot [during

rehearsals], actually.”

Huang shares that she sees the American Dream as a “myth that we believed as children.”

“It’s not always equal opportunity for everyone,” she continues. “But also that hope that there is a possibility for us to keep striving is important because, if we only live in a world of darkness and there is no hope, then the world is bleak and there’s nowhere to go, right? It’s the hope that keeps all of us going.”

Mezzo-soprano Maria Dominique Lopez, who plays Rosa, has a more frank take on the American Dream. “It’s a total joke,” says the singer. “I think the American dream is propaganda. It’s nationalist propaganda that was created to raise up the idea of a meritocracy that just really helps to bolster capitalism and the dominator culture that we live in, and have lived in, for many centuries.”

Of the role of Rosa, Lopez says, “I’m half Indigenous Mexican and half-white.

PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN White Snake Projects’ 2019 premiere of I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams

And so, to have a role where I get to sing about being ‘an in-between person’ ... When I read that line in the libretto, in the score, I felt like I had been stabbed with a hot poker … It’s so relatable.”

Much of the opera takes place in a sort-of memory space of the two prin cipal characters as they reflect on their lives. These memories and dreamlike sequences are often highlighted by a children’s chorus, this time being per formed by the Pittsburgh Youth Chorus. Regarding the children’s chorus, as well as the two soloists playing young Singa and young Rosa (Chengxi Tao and Elizabeth Rosales), Sosa says it was important to include young voices because “Dreamers were children. That’s what classifies them as qualifying for DACA protection, is that they came here when they were minors. And they had no agency in deciding to come to this country.”

Sosa expresses gratitude for the

opportunity for his and Jacobs’ work to be produced for a second time, which he says is rarely the case for contemporary opera. He explains that representation and diversity are very scarce in the arts, especially in the realm of opera, an art form dominated by the works of dead white men.

“Those works permeate our culture, and permeate our stages, and permeate the notion of success and achievement in the arts,” says Sosa, adding, “There’s a new demand for work that is diverse and inclusive.”

Sensi Sellner shares that, while she loves pieces from the canon and consid ers them important, she believes that it’s imperative for the art form to have fresh work produced from varied perspectives in order for it to continue to thrive.

“If somebody says to me, ‘I don’t like opera,’ I’m, like, ‘That’s like saying you don’t like movies, because there’s all kinds of opera,’” she says.

CP PHOTO: NATALIE DE PAZ

Maria Dominique Lopez (left) and Helen Zhibing Huang (right) rehearse I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams in a rehearsal space in the lower level of the First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh.

PHOTOS: COURTESY OF RESONANCE WORKS

MUSIC DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES

BY JORDAN SNOWDEN // CPCONTRIBUTORS@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

Q&A WITH THE ARTISTS

Who is one musical Black femme from Pittsburgh, not on the Sistas bill, that you would recommend?

Chandra Rhyme: Diarra Imani is a Black femme from Pittsburgh who immedi ately comes to mind.

Sierra Sellers : I am a really big fan of Aysie. I want to see her on a big stage with all the tools and resources she needs to produce what I know she con jures in her mind. You can tell by her music and her energy that she’s built different. I look forward to seeing what she does with her gift.

What does it mean for you to be participating in this concert?

Rhyme : It means a lot to me to be a part of this concert because it’s rare to see a bill featuring four Black talented women curated by a Black woman. So this is truly unique.

Sellers : It’s always special to be in a room with creatives, but there’s just something to be said about Black women and our art. You feel empow ered and inspired. The way we carry ourselves, the way we make so much out of so little, and then have the audacity to make it look easy. I feel so blessed to be amongst these women, and I am so grateful to have yet another opportunity to shine alongside them.

KIEARRA

WILLIAMS feels lucky. As the marketing manager at Opus One Productions, she regularly puts together incredible evenings of entertainment at venues like Mr. Smalls Theatre, Stage AE, Club Cafe, PPG Paints Arena, and the Benedum Center. But as a Black woman working in the music industry where women of color aren’t adequately represented, she felt it was time to do something close to her heart.

“Personally understanding why at every stage of my life, it has been criti cally important to have role models that look like me and may have had similar

experiences as me, I wanted to curate an event that could empower others to do the same for future generations,” says Williams. “They are, after all, every bit as likely to be the women who empower developing artists to keep going.”

Enter Sistas Of The City. The upcoming concert at Mr. Smalls on Fri., Oct. 14 fea tures local acts Clara Kent, Sierra Sellers, Simone Davis, and Chandra Rhyme. It’s an all-Black femme lineup that Pittsburgh hasn’t seen the likes of since INEZ’s 2020 Acoustic Love Volume One show at Club Cafe or the 2019 August iteration of the Pittsburgh’s Very Own concert series.

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CP PHOTO: KAYCEE ORWIG Chandra Rhyme

this because [Pittsburgh] is voted the most liveable city, but simultaneously it’s also voted the most difficult city for Black women to thrive and live in,” says Kent. “For our experience, it’s very per plexing and also paradoxical. Events like this break the mold and put cracks in the ceiling.”

SISTAS OF THE CITY

7 p.m. Fri., Oct. 14. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $12. mrsmalls.com

Sistas Of The City also presents an opportunity to showcase the various sound and genres often defined as R&B. Kent, for example, makes music that fuses alt-R&B, soul, pop, and even rock, while Sellers falls into the neo-soul cate gory, naming Jill Scott as a major inspira tion. Davis, on the other hand, is a classic R&B singer in the realm of Monica and

Mary J. Blige. And Rhyme creates R&B pop-leaning music in the lane of Aaliyah.

“Sistas of The City represents diver sity,” says Williams. “Clara, Chandra, Sierra, and Simone all have different styles and twists in the ways they blend genres, which is what I believe sets these artists apart. On the surface, it looks like an ‘R&B’ showcase, but these artists are deeper and have a real chance of being influential to music, instead of catering to the formulas that are already in place.”

Whether Sistas of The City intrigues because of the all-Black-femme lineup, the “really dope shuffle of music,” as Kent puts it, or for the showcase of local acts, it’s certainly not one to miss.

“It is my sincere hope that the outcome of this event inspires other Black femmes, especially those that may be a bit younger than us, to go out do something big,” says Williams. “Don’t limit yourself! Make a statement. Make an impact.”

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CP PHOTO: JARED WICKERHAM Clara Kent

CP PHOTO: ERIN ALLPORT Simone Davis

CLOTHES MAKE ... JOSEPH HALL

BY TERENEH IDIA // CPCONTRIBUTORS@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

WITH JOY when I saw you emerge out of the front doors of Kelly Strayhorn Theater. How would you describe your style? Who are your style inspirations?

ISCREAMED

As a teenager, my style inspiration was Lenny Kravitz — that hair, bare midriff, those platforms! Like Prince, David Bowie, and other well-loved male artists, he pushed the boundaries of gendered style. Later in life, I learned of Sylvester, Marsha P. Johnson, Club Kids, Etta James, etc. … badasses who not only made bold choices with their looks but also with how they wore their intersectional identities. At one point, I had Etta’s signature blonde hair!

Color, shape, texture, pattern, and the politics encoded in clothing inspire me. I often think of my style as an every day costume. It’s not about masking but rather amplifying aspects of myself in different contexts. RuPaul said, “You’re born naked and the rest is drag.” I believe this to be true. Set aside their histories, a politician’s suit and a drag queen’s get-up are put on and taken off as agents of spe cific types of power accessed by way of a closet. Get your drag on!

Your shirt is so amazing. During the photo shoot, someone even shared their admiration for it. Describe what you’re wearing today. I’m wearing a bronze, emerald, and black sequin, leopard-print, button-down collar shirt. I’m not usually partial to animal print, but this glam, psychedelic take on a classic print got me. The small sequins are almost indiscernible from a distance. They give the shirt a wetlook. Sequins are a staple in my wardrobe — a simple way to be noticed in a crowd, and there is no shortage of sequin clothing in the world.

White leather boots. Bold. Beautiful. Controversial. Discuss. Yes! These shoes remind me of the vital component of any majorette’s costume — the white boots. They are the bright cap on a shimmering, pantyhosed leg extension for the gawds. I think about

the movement innovation of the Prancing J-Settes and many other southern, histor ically Black colleges and university major ette teams. We now call that explosive and precise movement of J-Sette and saw it in action for the world in Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” and Homecoming performances.

What I love is that southern Black gay men adopted J-Sette movement as their own in LGTBQ+ clubs and other venues, competing in troupes adorned in rhine stoned spandex and glistening brown skin. The exchange and co-creation of a multitute of vocabularies (movement, language, fashion, etc.) between Black women, Black queer people, and the diaspora creates magic! Shout out to Jermone Donte Beacham and Jumatatu Poe for sharing J-Sette at KST many years ago and around the world today. My boots and I thank you!

More men should carry handbags. Also please discuss. When I was growing up, my dad carried a huge leather wallet in his back right pocket that permanently reshaped all of his pants with its impression. When the wallet was in his pocket, I can’t imagine it was comfortable for him to sit. Like him, I have things I want to keep on my person when in transit, and so I carry a bag. Sometimes a clutch, sometimes a tote, sometimes a fanny pack. Just don’t call it a murse! Adding an “M” to a word that describes a product traditionally marketed to women does not make it more or less masculine. It just makes an ugly sounding word. If it’s a purse, it’s a purse — how great! Carry on.

The clutch is handmade with Ghanian woven fabric by Rebel Bred Clothing, a Black-owned clothing line in Wilkinsburg, and it has received more compliments than I can tell you.

We talked a lot about the talent here in Pittsburgh and the Black creative community in the region. What Black fashion designers are you wearing today? Why is it important?

You now know about the clutch and where to buy it. My shirt is designed by Jerome

mily friendly

LaMaar, a queer Bronx native who was commissioned by Macy’s as part of their Icons of Style capsule collection. His clothing is vibrant, playful, and unboth ered. I recommend checking out his Macy’s line.

The black leather pants are from The Kemist Store, a London-based fashion brand by Nigerian-born creative direc tor Sade Akinosho. It gives everything from Sunday best to streetwear. Though it’s marketed as a women’s store, like any clothing, it can be worn by whoever chooses to make it fly.

On the importance of supporting Black designers: In 2012, of Trayvon Martin’s murder, journalist Geraldo Rivera said, “The hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” Rivera later told Politico that it is “common sense” for minorities to avoid wearing hoodies. The hoodie is a staple of the multibillion dollar streetwear industry, a byproduct of the creation of hip hop by Black and Latinx communities. So while folks are capitalizing on the imagination and labor of Black creatives, Black people are crimi nalized for rocking our own cultural and economic contributions to the world. Flip the script. Support Black creativity and Black life at the source.

Are you wearing something that is a special gift to yourself? If so, what and why is it special to you?

Everything I’m wearing is a special gift

to myself! Surprisingly, I’m not wearing anything from a thrift store. Usually I’m wearing a thrift or vintage item that I’ve picked up from Pittsburgh or around the country. One of my favorite Pittsburgh spots is Eons by the fabulous Richard Parsakian.

Kelly Strayhorn is such an important part of the cultural center and soul of Pittsburgh, what are you most excited about for the short- and long-term for KST?

I love this question, especially after con sidering the power of clothing as a way that folks can access and express their identity. We also do that through cultural spaces, like KST, where we create with and care for one another, and claim our right to possess and present our stories.

Something that I’m excited about that has both short- and long-term effects is the public sharing of KST’s strategic plan and vision, “Owning Our Future. Thriving Where We Live.,” that was developed by artists, patrons, stakeholders, staff, and the board of KST. It supports our new mission to be a home for creative experimentation, creative dialogue, and collective action rooted in the libera tion of Black and queer people. We are carrying forth KST’s legacy that has put Pittsburgh on the map for contempo rary performance and community. I’m excited to share it with folks this fall. Be sure to sign up for our email newsletter to receive the latest updates!

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MUSIC HOLDING STEADY

BY GREG BARNHISEL // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

CRAIG

FINN is the lyricist and front man for the Hold Steady, America’s greatest sing-along bar band. But he’s got a side hustle as a solo artist and will play Club Café on Mon., Oct. 17 with the Uptown Controllers.

Pittsburgh City Paper caught up with Finn to hear about his new record

A Legacy of Rentals , his memories of Pittsburgh, and what writers shaped his take on the world.

CRAIGG FINN & THE UPTOWN CONTROLLERS

WITH SPECIAL GUEST KATY KIRBY

8 p.m. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Mon., Oct. 17. Club Café. 56-58 South 12th St., South Side. $40. opusoneproductions.com

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Can you give me your take on a burning local issue:

Is Pittsburgh East or Midwest?

Pittsburgh retains a uniqueness that a lot of American cities have lost. Growing up in Minnesota, I considered it East, but that’s from a Midwesterner’s perspective. Living in New York for the past 23 years, I now understand why there’s a question, but I’d still say East.

Do you have any particularly vivid memories of playing Pittsburgh?

The first time the Hold Steady played, there was at an art gallery. Karl Hendricks, who was kind of a local legend, asked us to come out. I was familiar with his records and honored and flattered that he got in touch with us. But the show in this art gallery was incredibly hot. After the show, I ran out to get a Gatorade, and these guys rolled up in a car and said, “Hey Craig, do you want to go see Pittsburgh?” For two and a half hours, they drove me over all these great bridges and showed me the Iron City brewery. It was a really cool way to see the city. I got back and everyone’s, like, “Why aren’t you packing up your gear? You just disappeared on us.” That was my first Pittsburgh show and it’s a sweet memory.

The other one that comes to mind was on a solo tour. We had a Halloween show at Club Café and needed to come up with a costume. We all like KISS, but we really only like Paul Stanley, so we came up with the concept “All Paul.” We were all in KISS makeup, but we were all Paul Stanley.

You are just getting back from a run of European shows. Has solo touring changed since COVID?

I think the bigger difference was Brexit. There were a lot of challenges, especially when we went to Dublin in the middle of the UK tour, and had to re-route things because of complications affecting travel between Europe and the UK. But the UK’s always been really good to us, and I have a lot of friends there, so it was a joy. We tacked some mainland European gigs onto the front, as well. So I’m tired but also elated.

How does A Legacy of Rentals reflect where you are now, twice as old as so many of your protagonists?

The title Legacy of Rentals is a personal joke, in that, when the pandemic came, a lot of my friends and bandmates

started buying houses. I didn’t. So that’s the little joke — is my legacy a legacy of rentals? Am I someone who’s weight less, someone who’s floating through?

But I see part of that as a commitment to being an artist, to keeping my footprint light so I can move with my art.

The songs start out from a place that’s a little quieter, a little more mundane than Hold Steady songs. I’m able to take on people’s lives that are more unremarkable. The people in them are further along in their lives, trying to figure out how they got there and where they’re going and why their expectations haven’t always been met. They’re smaller people and these are smaller stories.

Every record is like marking your height against a door. As we get older, our height might not actually change, but our emotional perspective changes, and so every record does that. A specter of death haunts this record because I lost a few friends when I was writing it. I thought about what we leave, and how we carry the stories of the people we love with us, to tell both others and ourselves.

Your songs seem to come from a hipster strain in American literature.

Can you talk a bit about your literary influences?

I always have read fiction, so at first, it was like whatever was around. The things that really turned me on in high school were the classics—Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, that kind of stuff.

Now, a lot of it is just the literary stuff that lots of people read. Philip Roth. Richard Russo. George Saunders. Tom Perrotta. I love Denis Johnson. Right now, I’m reading Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, the Scottish author who wrote Shuggie Bain. I also like Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, the hard-boiled stuff.

What can Hold Steady fans expect from a Craig Finn show?

The show leans into the poetry of the songs and some of their quiet, charac ter-driven moments. I always say to the band, “I’m in a big rock band, with the Hold Steady, so this doesn’t need to be that. This needs to connect with some other parts.” We also just changed our support act for the North American dates. It’s Katy Kirby, who’s a great song writer, and I’m just thrilled because I’m in love with her music. It’s going to be an amazing show.

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DIDN’T TAKE MIKE CANTON long to find a new home in Pittsburgh. A month after local listener-supported radio station WYEP canceled his longrunning weekly program The Soul Show in August, it was picked up by Pittsburgh jazz channel WZUM. But while Canton says he’s honored to stay on local airwaves, he’s joining others — including listeners, musicians, supporters, and a current on-air personality — in calling for changes at his old station over racial diversity and equity issues he claims go back years.

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“My goal is to shake the branches a little bit and wake them up,” says Canton, who also publishes a monthly music column for Pittsburgh City Paper.

The Soul Show — which launched in 1995 with hosts Stephen Chattman and Don Patterson, and has been helmed by Canton since 2009 — was terminated by WYEP on Aug. 31, amid other station changes. Also canceled was Ken Batista’s Sunday evening show, An American Sampler, while Jesse Novak’s Roots & Rhythm show was moved from early Sunday afternoons to evenings.

Station officials say the changes reflect listener feedback.

“Based on feedback from listeners, we are working to bring listeners more of the great mix of music on the weekend that they hear during the weekdays,” said WYEP program director Liz Felix in the announcement.

Those mourning The Soul Show say the decision to eliminate one of the only two programs with a Black host indicates something more troubling. The other production — Big Town Blues hosted by Wrett Weatherspoon, the station’s “longest-serving volunteer DJ,” accord ing to its website — remains on Saturday afternoons.

Musicians were among those who took their frustrations online, including local band Afro Yaqui Music Collective, which posted, “Why 91.3 WYEP would cut his program, in favor of expanding existing (predominantly white) rock programming … deserves an explanation.”

Canton and Batista aren’t the only hosts who have been absent from WYEP’s rotation.

Since 2014, fans of soul and funk

music could also hear a mix by longtime local DJ James Scoglietti, aka Selecta, on his Grand Groove Radio program on Friday evenings. But, in the weeks since the announcement, Selecta tells City Paper he’s taken time off “to ponder how to proceed with or without the show.”

“I was upset over the general optics, getting rid of Mike Canton and The Soul Show, given the fact that it was such a long-standing institution,” says Scoglietti.

“It served as a vital outlet for exposing Black music from local and national artists alike.”

WYEP relies “on all sources of listener feedback” when making programming decisions, according to Mike Sauter, vice president for broadcast of Pittsburgh

Community Broadcasting, which also owns Pittsburgh’s NPR news station WESA. He says this includes “emails, direct conversations, social media feed back, and audience behavior (listening data, streaming usage, website traffic, and so on).”

According to a 2021 Local & Services report , WYEP’s audience is listed at an average of about 69,500 per week, and it was recently voted as the “Best Radio Station” for the second year in a row in City Paper’s annual readers’ poll.

Multiple listeners reached out to City Paper to share emails they sent WYEP. These include Pittsburgh residents who canceled their memberships, while others shared evidence of moved support

to WZUM and WTJX, which also airs The Soul Show in the Virgin Islands, where Canton lived before moving to the Steel City.

Listeners and musicians aren’t the only ones taking note.

Kristen Linfante, executive director of Chamber Music Pittsburgh, which is named as an “on-air ally” in Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting’s online list of 2021 media sponsors, says the local non profit is “deeply disappointed” in The Soul Show’s termination. But, she says, it isn’t her only concern.

On Sept. 12, less than two weeks after The Soul Show was canceled, WYEP sent out an email, which some called “tone deaf” and which Canton describes as

PHOTO PROVIDED Mike Canton in his home studio

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“aggressively exclusive,” to its members. At the top of the email was the WYEP logo on a blue background, along with the text, “Off the bat, you may notice that our logo got a little facelift. You like?? We think the blue goes well with our eyes. But that is not the only improvement we’ve made…”

Canton immediately shared a screen shot of the email on Facebook, saying that he hoped it was fake. In the days that fol lowed, he protested by Photoshopping blue eyes onto his profile photo and images of others, which drew the atten tion of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“I think the blue eye incident was a bigger issue than the show’s cancel lation,” says Canton. “I am more disap pointed in them about the blue eyes.”

Linfante says WYEP’s “shocking and offensive reference about their new logo matching their ‘blue eyes’ is a prime example of a lack of sensitivity and aware ness in the realm of diversity, equity and inclusion,” adding that these actions “have certainly caused us to take pause.”

While Canton says he hasn’t heard from the station about his posts, Sauter tells City Paper , “The email referenced used a terrible choice of words and the situation has been dealt with internally.”

Scoglietti also says “the tone deafness

of sending out a mass email so shortly” after the cancellation of Canton’s show also added to his decision to take a break from the station.

Canton says he pushed WYEP over the years to lean on him and their other Black on-air hosts on various topics and, while he acknowledged they did address some of his concerns, including his request to allow Black volunteer hosts to participate in Black History Month programming, he says others were ignored.

When WYEP let him go, Canton says he told them, “I know you don’t really like Black music. Know how I know? Because I never see you at any shows.” He says he also told them they should bring in people of color to help with planning.

The official end of The Soul Show came the day after staff members at Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting filed a petition to unionize. Among Pittsburgh Public Radio Union’s list of concerns was the need to foster a culture where “our concerns are respected, including those regarding racial equity.”

The lack of Black employees in Pittsburgh media is an ongoing problem, as noted by Letrell Crittenden, director of inclusion and audience growth at The American Press Institute, in The

Pittsburgh problem: race, media and everyday life in the Steel City (Full dis closure: City Paper is no exception, and is currently one of five local media outlets participating in a training program with the Press Institute in order to improve internal structure, and diversity and equity practices and initiatives.)

On a DEI section on WYEP’s website, O’Reilly writes that “Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not just an initiative at Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting: it is an inextricable part of who we are and is critical to our mission to serve all of Western Pennsylvania.”

Pittsburgh R&B singer, songwriter, and producer INEZ, who was named WYEP’s Artist of the Year in 2020 and has performed in multiple concerts for the station, says the cancellation of The Soul Show is “a loss for Black music rep resentation in Pittsburgh.”

But INEZ also credits WYEP with being the first station to break her record locally and says the hosts are “some of my favorite people in Pittsburgh whom I love and support deeply. But with that love, comes duty.”

INEZ says she reached out to WYEP to express her disappointment over recent events.

“I feel my candor was received and also the door held open for future con versations of betterment surrounding equity and inclusion,” she says. “I, as a member, collaborator, and local artist, am holding them to it.”

Sauter says WYEP listeners “can rely on the station, as they have for nearly half a century, to continue to provide them with musical discovery of the more than 28,000 different songs we play each year.” When asked if they have any plans to add in new Black hosts or programming that showcases Black artists, Sauter says they “have nothing to announce at this time.” But an inter nal email shared with City Paper shows at least one notable recent hire, a local Black musician who the email says will soon join the staff.

Canton says he believes that the ending of his show could be what helps enact future diversity and inclusion efforts at the station.

“[I]f it can reverse course a little bit and start picking up some interesting diverse things on the weekends or even in the evening, gosh, maybe even the middle of the day,” he says, “I will believe that this sacrifice of The Soul Show was just fine.”

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One of Mike Canton’s Photoshopped Facebook images in protest to an email sent out to members by WYEP

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Row House Cinema celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the Clean Water Act with a special double feature. Presented as part of the American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh’s Clean Water Festival, Waterfest will include screenings of the hit Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher and Dark Waters, a 2019 drama about a major environmental lawsuit. Learn more about water issues on Sat., Oct. 15 when ASCE Pittsburgh presents the Clean Water Festival at Millvale Riverfront Park. 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $12.57. rowhousecinema.com

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Check out a virtual reading on one of poetry’s oldest forms — the sonnet. White Whale Bookstore celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, an anthology that collected more than 600 of the world’s finest sonnets. The reading will feature the book’s editor Phillis Levin and guests Bruce Bond, Molly Peacock, Marilyn

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Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center will enchant audiences with its production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods The two-act show follows a long list of Grimm fairytale characters as they learn the consequences of their wishes, as well as what it means to live happily ever after. Originally debuted in 1987, the award-winning

production has been revived multiple times and saw a big-screen adaptation in 2014. 7:30 p.m. Continues through Sun., Oct. 16. 1 Lincoln Park, Beaver. $18-25. lincolnparkarts.org

SAT., OCT. 15

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Have any old home movies? Bring your 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm reels to Pittsburgh Home Movie Day where they can be properly inspected by moving-image archivists. Film owners can drop off their reels for inspection between 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. or view projected films made by other folks in the region. Pittsburgh Home Movie Day was made possible through a partnership between the Harris Theater and the Film & Media Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Free. facebook.com/hmdpgh2019

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Learn more about the Steel City at the Historic Pittsburgh Fair on the second floor of the

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My Octopus Teacher, part of Waterfest at Row House Cinema

Carnegie Library in Oakland. Pittsburgh personality Rick Sebak will kick off the event with a Questions and Curiosities segment followed by an exploration of the library’s historical resources, a scavenger hunt, and historical tours. There will also be a panel discussion with the Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians on how to fix accessibility barriers in libraries. 1-4 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. carnegielibrary.org

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Get ready for a good cry when Golden Age Beer Co. hosts another round of Sad Karaoke. Hosted by Matthew Buchholz and Andrea Laurion, Sad Karaoke III: The Saddening encourages guests to sing their favorite maudlin tunes within a certain set of rules (no irony, be earnest, and be respectful). If you ever wanted to bawl your way through Adele or Simon and Garfunkel, now is the time. 6 p.m. 337 E. Eighth Ave., Homestead. Free. goldenagebeer.com

SUN., OCT. 16

ART • IRL • GREENSBURG

One of the most comprehensive looks at autodidactic artists comes to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. A press release describes Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America as the first exhibition examining how self-taught artists working between 1927 and 1950 “succeeded in the mainstream art world due to evolving ideas about American identity, inclusion, and national character in art.” Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Ga., the 60-piece collection includes works by John Kane, Horace Pippin, and Anna Mary Robertson Moses, aka Grandma Moses. Continues through February 2023. 221 N. Main St., Greensburg. Free. thewestmoreland.org

DRAG • IRL • CARNEGIE

Bring your lucky charms and competitive spirit to Drag Bingo at Trace Brewing, The event combines the classic game with a show by Pittsburgh drag queens and ball callers Scarlet Fairweather and Calipso. Play four games for $20, daubers included.

Conveniently pre-order a ticket online or buy one at the door before trying Trace’s craft beers. 6:30 p.m. 4312 Main St, Bloomfield. $20. facebook.com/tracebrewing/events

MON., OCT. 17

THEATER • IRL • CARNEGIE

Throughline Theater presents a staged reading of a new play for its Steel City Spotlight Series. Written by Melannie Taylor and directed by Sarah McPartland, Teaira Whitehead is described as following three young people as they face the integration of their city’s schools and the sudden disappearance of their friend. This play is a “story of finding yourself while being blinded by a sea of red and blue lights.” 7:30 p.m. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $5-10. throughlinetheatre.org

TUE., OCT. 18

MUSIC • IRL • DOWNTOWN

As the weather grows colder, BNY Mellon Presents: JazzLive moves from the outdoor Backyard venue to the intimate Liberty Magic. The 70-seat theater space will showcase Staciawa Abbott, a local vocalist described by WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh as performing a “wide variety of material in the jazz genre with seasoned soulfulness and sophistication.” All fall JazzLive performances will take place in Liberty Magic. 5-7 p.m. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Free. trustarts.org

WED., OCT. 19

MUSIC • IRL • MUNHALL

Walk the line to Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall for The Man In Black: A Tribute

To Johnny Cash. Performer Shawn Barker transforms into the late country star for a oneof-a-kind show that has been performed over 1,000 times in 12 countries. A press release touts Barker’s ability to recreate Cash’s “baritone voice” and “spot-on mannerisms” as he plays hits like “Folsom Prison Blues,” “A Boy Named Sue,” and “Ring of Fire,” all with a full backing band. 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall. $25-45. librarymusichall.com

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