Where’s the tropical food in Pittsburgh?

County Employee Minimum Wage Won’t Increase — Yet

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald vetoed a bill that would raise the minimum wage for all hourly county employees to $18 an hour in 2024, then $19 in 2025 and $20 in 2026. Fitzgerald claims that the ordinance violates Home Rule Charter, which does not give the legislative body the authority to set pay rates. County Council can still override the veto with a two-thirds majority vote within 30 days. [90.5 WESA]

• Meanwhile, Pennsylvania lawmakers think this will finally be the year that the state increases its minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour. After years of partisan arguments, a Republican is the lead sponsor of a new Senate bill. [SpotlightPA]

Land Bank Attempts To Cover More Ground

Pittsburgh City Council discussed a new process this week for how the city, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, and the Pittsburgh Land Bank work together to put city land back on the tax rolls. The three bodies have to reach a new agreement before the land bank can use $7 million in federal pandemic funding. A new process will hopefully remove some of the red tape that has limited the land bank’s usefulness. [90.5 WESA]

'Channel Pittsburgh' Celebrates Queer Cinema

Starting June 20 at 8 p.m., Channel Pittsburgh (available online and on Roku devices) will air Pride Night programming dating back to 1919. The colorized versions of black-and-white media will explore a century of LGBTQ+ representation in film and television. [Pittsburgh City Paper]

🎶 Music at the Outpost | Friday | 7-9 p.m.

Enjoy food from Farmer x Baker and beers from Trace Brewing while jamming to live music at the 3ROC Outpost in Allegheny RiverTrail Park. [free, Aspinwall]

🥂 Taylor Swift Pre-Game | Friday | 1-4 p.m.

Sip on themed drinks like "Love Story Lemonade" and "Holy Grounds Espresso Martini" at Sally Ann’s. [free to enter, Downtown]

📗 The Negro Motorist Green Book | Friday | 11 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Take a look at the reality of travel for Black Americans in mid-century America and Pittsburgh’s role in the Great Migration at a Heinz History Center guided tour. [$9-18, Strip District]

• 🎧 We talked to NEXTPittsburgh columnist Tony Norman on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast about how a Green Book always sat on his coffee table growing up, plus what to see at the exhibit.

Tastes Like Home: Growing Filipino Food in Pgh

More farmers and gardeners are growing native plants to increase biodiversity and promote conservation, but for people from other countries, planting the fruits and vegetables that they grew up with in Pittsburgh gives them something else — a sense of home. Rafael Vencio of Amboy Urban Collective tells about his experiments with growing tropical plants from the Philippines in Pittsburgh's much colder and grayer climate.