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🎶😢 The final act for Club Cafe
September 12, 2024 · — Francesca Dabecco
Hey neighbor, I’m back! And just in time to get ready for some festive fall fun! The team is talking apple picking, pumpkin patches, and Oktoberfests on today’s City Cast Pittsburgh podcast 🍎🍂🎃
👻 More of a haunted house person? We’ve got you covered!
What's CITY Talking About?
✏️ Stay Tuned for Possible School Closures
Pittsburgh Public Schools was supposed to have a final recommendation for its school closure plan by Sept. 16, but the district pushed it back to Oct. 15 to prioritize community input. [90.5 WESA]
- 🏫 Here’s what to know about the 16 schools that might close. [🎧City Cast Pittsburgh]
- 📣 Voice your concerns at the Facilities Utilization Plan Let's Talk Forum on Sept. 23.
🎤 The Final Act for Club Cafe
South Side is losing another music and performance venue. Club Cafe, which first opened in 1988, will close next year. Owners plan to hold a final week of farewell events in 2024. [Pittsburgh Magazine]
📖 A Local Author’s ‘Rust Belt Feminism’
Sherrie Flick, a South Side Slopes-based short fiction writer and Chatham lecturer, shares her journey of returning to Pittsburgh in “Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist.” The book of essays goes back to her upbringing in Beaver Falls and her awakening to the importance of organized labor. [90.5 WESA]
- 📝 Learn from Sherrie at an upcoming walk & write event, listed below ⬇️
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What To Do
Thursday, Sep. 12
- 🌳 Forest Bathing with the 10.27 Healing Partnership | 10-11:30 a.m. | free | Squirrel Hill
- 🫚 Turmeric Nutrition Education with Royally Fit | 5:30-7 p.m. | $12.51 | Wilkinsburg
- 🎨 Creative Hive at Alumni Theater Company | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | free | Homewood
- ⚖️ Fair Shake Justice Jam at Tree Pittsburgh | 6-10 p.m. | $75 | Lawrenceville
- 🧀 Charcuterie and Knife Skills 101 at The Cheese Queen | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | $80 | Mt. Oliver
- 🎨 Art Battle at Atithi Studio | 7-11 p.m. | $22.47 | Sharpsburg
Friday, Sep. 13
- 💙 Pitt Vintage Palooza at Schenley Plaza | 3-9 p.m. | free | Oakland
- 🍁 Fall Kinsey Vintage Market | 5-9 p.m. | $10 | Oakdale
- 🐓 Backyard Chicken Workshop | 6-7 p.m. | $10-15 | Point Breeze
- 🎉 Millvale Days | various times — through Sept. 14 | free | Millvale
- ✏️ Walk & Write: Schenley Park with Sherrie Flick | 7-8:30 p.m. | $10 | Oakland
- 🎶 Summer Concert at Allegheny RiverTrail Park | 7-8:30 p.m. | free | Aspinwall
Before you go! Just hours after meeting in person for the first time at their debate in Philly, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris linked up again for 9/11 events at Ground Zero in NYC and at the Flight 93 Memorial north of Pittsburgh.
Harris will be in Wilkes-Barre on Friday; Trump is expected to stop in Westmoreland County on Sept. 23.
Until tomorrow,
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