Good morning, Pittsburgh!
Three Rivers Arts Festival wraps Sunday and Pittsburgh hands the weekend off to a packed bench.
The Clarks turn 40 at Stage AE, Hedwig and the Angry Inch closes City Theatre's 51st season at the Greer, and the Jaggerz set up at the South Park Amphitheater for a free Friday night under the trees. The Romero zombies walk Monroeville Mall (yes, again).
Forty-plus food trucks park outside South Hills Village Friday, the Riverhounds host Scotland Night at Highmark, and Sunday opens with headphone yoga in Schenley.
In today's What's On Pittsburgh:
🧟 The dead walk the Monroeville Mall (again)
🎸 The Clarks turn 40 at Stage AE
🦖 DinoFest at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
🎭 Hedwig's closing weekend at the Greer - And much more!
Let's get to it.
- Madison Johnson
All Weekend Long
🧟 Living Dead Weekend takes over Monroeville Mall Friday through Sunday for a three-day George A. Romero convention in the actual home of Dawn of the Dead. Cast Q&As, vendor floor, autographs, and a parade of fans cosplaying through the food court.
🎭 Hedwig and the Angry Inch closes City Theatre's 51st season this weekend at the Greer Cabaret, a wig-and-glitter rock musical TribLive called "messy, hilarious, strange, and loud." Last shows Friday, Saturday, and Sunday downtown.
🧵 Excellence in Fibers XI is on at Contemporary Craft in Lawrenceville through June 27, a national survey of contemporary fiber and textile work. Quiet, weird, and beautiful. Friday and Saturday hours only.
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Friday
🍔 FOODEESFEST
Forty-plus food trucks and craft vendors park outside South Hills Village for a free graze-and-go afternoon. Family friendly, free parking, plenty of room to wander and decide between a brisket sandwich and a birria taco.
Details: South Hills Village · Friday, June 12 · 1 p.m.
Cost: Free
See More: Link
🎸 Jimmie Ross & The Jaggerz at South Park
The Allegheny County Summer Concert Series rolls into the South Park Amphitheater with the Jaggerz, the Pittsburgh band that gave the world The Rapper in 1970. Free, outdoors, with Hop Farm beer and food trucks on-site from 6.
Details: South Park Amphitheater · Friday, June 12 · 7:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
See More: Link
🛍️ Carnegie Second Fridays
Carnegie's Main Street drops the cars for live music, food trucks, local brewers, and outdoor games. School of Rock and Springs & Arrows on the lineup, Foxy Fran's and Pittsburgh Tortas on the trucks. Fifteen minutes west of downtown.
Details: Main Street, Carnegie · Friday, June 12 · 5 p.m.
Cost: Free
See More: Link
Saturday
🦖 DinoFest
Carnegie Museum of Natural History's second-annual dino party fills the galleries with working paleontologists, hands-on activities, a live-streamed dig site, and a keynote on Nanotyrannus. The kid anchor of the weekend.
Details: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland · Saturday, June 13 · 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost: Included with admission
See More: Link
🎸 The Clarks Thru the Decades
Pittsburgh's house band celebrates 40 years at Stage AE, outdoors and all-ages, with Fantastic Cat on the undercard. The Clarks have soundtracked enough Pittsburgh weddings to qualify as state infrastructure.
Details: Stage AE Outdoors, North Shore · Saturday, June 13 · Doors at 6 p.m.
See More: Link
⚽ Riverhounds vs. Indy Eleven (Scotland Night)
The Hounds host Indy Eleven in a USL Championship Eastern Conference matchup on Scotland Night, with $1 IC Lights for anyone who turns up. Highmark Stadium is a rare riverfront soccer setup, with the Mon out behind the south stand.
Details: Highmark Stadium, Station Square · Saturday, June 13 · 7 p.m.
See More: Link
Sunday
🧘 Dropsound Yoga in Schenley Park
Free headphone-yoga session on the Schenley Park Overlook, an hour of music piped to your ears while the rest of the park breathes around you. No mat required if you bring a towel.
Details: Schenley Park Overlook · Sunday, June 14 · 10 a.m.
Cost: Free
See More: Link
🎶 Bryant Street Festival
Highland Park's Bryant Street business district closes for an outdoor concert in the heart of the neighborhood, a free Sunday afternoon set before dinner. Walk up, stay a while.
Details: North Euclid & Bryant, Highland Park · Sunday, June 14 · 2:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
See More: Link
🎵 North Mississippi Allstars
The Dickinson brothers' hill-country blues band touches down at Thunderbird Music Hall for a Lawrenceville Sunday night, twenty-nine years deep in a tradition handed straight down from RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
Details: Thunderbird Music Hall, Lawrenceville · Sunday, June 14 · Doors at 7 p.m.
See More: Link
In Case You Missed It
🏠 The Allegheny YMCA reopened on the North Side this week with single-room-occupancy housing, accessible childcare, and a community gym built into the same building.
🏖️ Rosedale Beach Club hits 100 years of summer in Penn Hills, an East End swim club that has outlasted disco, dial-up, and at least four Pirates rebuilds.
🏥 AHN Forbes is teeing up a $63 million upgrade at the Monroeville hospital, with a new patient tower and updated surgical suites on the slate.
🏛️ NEXTpittsburgh cracked open the 140-year-old Schenley Farms building in Oakland this week, if you've ever wondered what is behind those walls (most of us have).
🦇 Pitt grad Jeff Bergman, the current voice of Bugs Bunny and Mr. Potato Head, told City Paper how his Pitt years launched a 40-year cartoon career.
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