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Many area residents are eagerly awaiting the spring arrival of migratory birds in the Pittsburgh region.
Local experts will be featured in an online forum Wednesday, offering tips to help keep these feathered friends on a safe flight path.
The free program, presented by the Frick Art & Historical Center, is set for 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Topics in the panel discussion will include creative ways to prevent birds from colliding with glass windows and buildings.
Panel participants will include Robert Mulvihill, ornithologist at the National Aviary; Jon Rice, urban bird conservation coordinator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History; and artist Ashley Cecil.
A Pittsburgh woman has combined her love of art, talent for organization and desire to do good to create a website that is equal parts artist marketplace and fundraising outlet. Desiree Canovic, a senior program manager for Highmark, realized a long-standing dream by creating LocalGood, which launched in October. “It
It reminds him of his late brother, Dennis Pratt.
“I thought of the little things, the good things that we should remember,” he said. “When it snows, I think of him. In the winter, I’d come to the shop and he’d have the sidewalk cleaned off.
“He was my little brother, but he was a big guy. When I would go out to sing, he was like my bodyguard,” he said.
Pratt is a longtime regular on area stages, followed from gig to gig by a group of fans known as the Kick It Up Dancers.
He also has performed in Nashville and at the CMA Fest, the Tennessee State Fair and Rocky Gap Music Festival. He has opened for country stars like Pam Tillis, Lorrie Morgan, Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Milsap and Dwight Yoakam.
• Reality and roast: Upcoming online shows from Arcade Comedy Theater include:
• An American Roast, 9 p.m. Friday on YouTube. The roast game show will poke fun at the nation’s history.
• The Latchkey Kids: Reality Still Bites, 9 p.m. Saturday on YouTube Live. The monthly Arcade improv show will be an ally-production of Black History Month with special guests, musicians and improv inspired by the 1990s.
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• Sky’s the limit: Pittsburgh writer and skyscraper tour guide Mark Houser will give a Zoom lecture on “America’s Best Antique Skyscrapers” at 6 p.m. Thursday, hosted by Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Houser will share his own photos of Beaux-Arts features of high-rises around the country, along with details about the early millionaires who commissioned them.