Three-day weekend, which is shorthand for the city quietly exhaling for the first time since April.

The Memorial Day lineup tilts perfectly Pittsburgh: a bike ride honoring vets that ends at a brewery, a free family day at Schenley Plaza with an actual Mary Poppins, a goth night that landed on real World Goth Day, and rabbits at Phipps if your weekend genuinely calls for that.

In today's What's On Pittsburgh:

- A Saturday-morning bike ride that honors vets
- Family Day at Schenley Plaza, free, with Mary Poppins on the lawn
- World Goth Day at Mr. Smalls, because the calendar said so
- And much more!

Let's get to it.
- Madison Johnson

🌷 Summer Flower Show: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland opens at Phipps Conservatory and the conservatory's design team went full Lewis Carroll, fall-down-the-rabbit-hole topiaries, technicolor floral set pieces, and oddball botanicals you've never spotted before. Open daily through September.

🎭 Dear Evan Hansen sits at Gargaro Theater for a tight five-night run, the Pittsburgh CLO production of the Tony-winning musical about a misfit kid, a viral lie, and the moment it all comes due. Through Sunday.

🎩 Paul Gertner in Steel City Miracles runs nightly at Liberty Magic Downtown, a master sleight-of-hand show from a local legend who's been fooling audiences (and Penn & Teller, on TV) for forty years.

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John Cameron Mitchell's queer rock opera lands at Greer Cabaret for a multi-week run, and Memorial Day weekend is the first full slate of shows. Big voices, bigger wigs, real emotion.

Night Sky Productions takes over The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls for the official Pittsburgh celebration of World Goth Day, with live post-punk, DJs, video projection, and local vendors selling actually-cool stuff. All ages.

Carnegie's Natural History interpreters read science and nature stories to littles, plus a hands-on touch table with real museum specimens after.

A free morning ride out of Helicon Brewing in Oakdale that honors veterans across the trails before the whole group pulls back to the taproom for breakfast sandwiches and a slow exhale.

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy kicks off the season at Schenley Plaza, with free PNC Carousel rides, face painting, lawn games, plus a Mary Poppins cameo at the plaza named for her.

Kamin Science Center opens its rooftop observatory and planetarium after dark, with one-on-one astronomer time, a working telescope, and a moon-themed program built around whatever the sky is doing overhead.

FTK's Memorial Day weekend ritual lands at Thunderbird with two prior sold-outs on the record. Afrobeats, Amapiano, Soca, Dancehall on every speaker, dress sharp, bring the friend who actually dances.

Well Known Strangers improvises an entire unscripted play on the fly at Arcade Comedy, with audience suggestions setting the rules and the chairs.

Phipps pairs its Alice's Adventures in Wonderland flower show with actual rabbits, a once-a-month meet-and-greet that lets you scratch some real-life bunny ears between topiary explorations and call the afternoon a win.

Trace Brewing in Bloomfield gives over the back room for a drag-meets-dinner pairing, with plates plus tableside performances from a rotating queen lineup. The entrees and entertainment both arrive in costume.

🎖️ Pfc. John Walko of Indiana County, who left for war in 1944, finally came home with his remains identified eight decades later.

☕ NEXTpittsburgh rounded up eight newish coffee shops worth a detour, each with a distinct personality and a route into the morning rotation.

🍕 City Paper's latest food roundup has Pizza Olympics on the calendar and Penn Brewery, one of the city's oldest, in real peril.

🏒 The Pittsburgh Riveters dropped five goals on their season opener, a statement debut for the city's pro women's hockey side.

🎸 Bruce Springsteen brought a nearly three-hour, politics-on-sleeve E Street show to Pittsburgh this week.

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