Courtesy of Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and MuseumLab
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and MuseumLab has launched “The Cryptid Critter Crawl,” with eight outdoor installations exploring creatures from myth and legend.
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Get ready for the return of Sweet Baby James to the Steel City, with renowned music man James Taylor rescheduling his postponed PPG Paints Arena date for Aug. 3.
Local favorites The Clarks have a June 5 concert at the Starlight Drive-In in Butler.
In the meantime, there’s plenty of entertainment, both live and virtual, in the form of art exhibitions and workshops, movies, activities for all ages and more music.
UMF New Commons spotlights Solange’s ‘A Seat at the Table’
Rolling Stone magazine calls the album a record about black survival in 2016; a combination of straight talk and refracted R&B,” according to a news release from UMF.
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FARMINGTON American singer and songwriter Solange’s album, “A Seat at the Table,” is the next topic featured by the University of Maine at Farmington’s New Commons Project via Zoom from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, March 17.
Events centering on “A Seat at the Table” are free and will run through March 22. Because of COVID-19 precautions, the following open to the public events are all remote.
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Before she’s even sung a word, Olivia Rodrigo newly heartbroken and eager to wallow in it has beckoned the listener deep into her personal space.
“Drivers License,” the smash debut single by this 18-year-old actor and singer, opens with the sound of a car engine revving to life. As we hear the driver swing her door shut, the dinging of the car’s alarm morphs into a gently pulsing piano figure, and suddenly we’re in the passenger seat next to Rodrigo, who proceeds to unspool her tale of sorrow.
“I got my driver’s license last week / Just like we always talked about,” she sings, “’Cause you were so excited for me / To finally drive up to your house.” Here a slightly sinister bass line enters the mix, promising trouble like a patch of black ice ahead. “But today I drove through the suburbs,” she continues, “Crying ’cause you weren’t around.” For that last line, her voice drops to a mournful whisper, each ripple and crack suffused with the s
“Drivers License,” the smash debut single by this 18-year-old actor and singer, opens with the sound of a car engine revving to life. As we hear the driver swing her door shut, the dinging of the car’s alarm morphs into a gently pulsing piano figure, and suddenly we’re in the passenger seat next to Rodrigo, who proceeds to unspool her tale of sorrow.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Feb. 25, 2021
It can be misleading to talk about “the church” the Black church, the evangelical church, whatever as a monolithic institution, since it blurs the real differences that exist among denominations or congregations, even among the different members of any given parish. The church is an institution in the same way as “the press” or “the judiciary,” which is to say: It is one, but it’s messy.
This week we recommend two books that analyze the history and identity of religious institutions: Christine Leigh Heyrman’s “Doomed Romance,” about a 19th-century scandal in the evangelical church, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “The Black Church,” about links between the church and Black culture at large.