Summer doesn't start with a calendar in this city, it starts with the Three Rivers Arts Festival opening tomorrow on Arts Landing. Ten days, free, downtown.

The Temptations and the Four Tops take the Benedum on the same night, a jazz legend turns 75 at the Strip District's City Winery, and Phipps drops you down the rabbit hole for the summer flower show.

There is a 5K in Schenley if you want to earn the brunch (we have a Beatles tribute brunch lined up).

In today's What's On Pittsburgh:
🎨 Three Rivers Arts Festival kicks off on Arts Landing
🎸 The Temptations & The Four Tops at the Benedum
🐰 Phipps' summer show goes full Alice in Wonderland
💣 Cannon firings, forest bathing, and a pinball benefit
- And much more!

Let's get to it.
- Madison Johnson

🎨 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival opens tomorrow on Arts Landing and runs through June 14, ten free days of music, juried visual art, film, and food on the downtown lawn. The Cultural Trust's signature summer fest. Bring a blanket.

🐰 Summer Flower Show: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland takes over Phipps Conservatory all weekend, an indoor-outdoor wonderland of bizarre botanicals, Cheshire grins, and one very late rabbit. Included with admission.

🎬 Carolina Caroline opens Friday at the Harris Theater for a two-week run, a new indie film picked up by the Cultural Trust for its downtown art-house slot.

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Two Motown halls of fame share the Benedum bill for one night, My Girl and Reach Out (I'll Be There) under the same chandeliers. If you've been holding out, this is the call.

Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell celebrates his 75th at City Winery with Tim Angulo and Luke Bergman, one of the most singular voices on the instrument, in the Strip's most intimate room.

Pittsburgh's longest-running art crawl rolls through Garfield and Friendship with galleries open late, the Garfield Night Market parked on N. Pacific, food trucks lining the corridor, and live music down the strip.

Carnegie Performing Arts Center School closes its year at the Andrew Carnegie Music Hall in Homestead, ballet to hip hop across two shows.

Fort Pitt Museum staff fire a replica British 6-pounder cannon on the museum lawn twice Saturday, an up-close demonstration of 18th-century artillery a few steps from the rivers, with a real concussive boom when it goes.

A guided slow walk through Allegheny Commons with a Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy host, equal parts gentle hike and sensory reset. Family friendly, sturdy shoes encouraged.

The Seattle comic (Amazon Prime, Overwhelmed on Dry Bar) brings five clean-leaning sets to the Pittsburgh Improv this weekend. Material on parenting and marriage.

Pittsburgh Pinball Dojo in Bellevue throws an all-day flipper tournament for Save Our Strays cat rescue. DJ TIA on the music, pizza on the house, entry doubles as a donation.

A cross-country 5K over the hills of Schenley Park, part of the city's Community Footrace Series. The course is tough, the post-race scene friendly.

The Brookline Farmers Market returns to Cannon Square for the season, with local farms, pasture-raised meat, artisan bread, and a table for neighborhood swag.

Cleveland's Hard Day's Night brings stitch-for-stitch Beatles tribute to City Winery for a Sunday brunch set, full catalog on Vox and Rickenbacker. À la carte brunch separate from the ticket.

⚾ The Pirates hit three homers Tuesday to beat the Astros for a fourth straight win, the kind of June stretch that buys you a few more weeks of believing.

🥯 NEXTpittsburgh ranked five Pittsburgh bagel shops worth the carbs, no New York drive required.

🎨 Riverlife Chalk Fest drew thousands to the North Shore last weekend for its fifth annual run, with more than two dozen artists turning the riverfront into a temporary mural gallery.

🌉 Moving a 19-million-pound bridge is, it turns out, exactly as complicated as it sounds; NEXTpittsburgh broke down the Commercial Street Bridge replacement plan this week.

🍪 Sarris Candies' new chocolate factory store opened Monday in Canonsburg with tours of the production floor and a Factory Store that is, predictably, hard to leave.

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