compiled by Sarah Becking

The Three Rivers Arts Festival
Friday, June 2 through Sunday, June 18
Noon until 9 or 10 pm

The Three Rivers Arts Festival Homepage
(check for performing arts schedules, directions and more)

Juneteenth Celebration
aka African American Emancipation Day
June 17-18

Family fun, soul food, and music at the I.C.Light Amphitheatre at Station Square. ($5)
Call 456-4054

Movies at Flagstaff Hill

Citiparks shows free, recent films on Sunday and Wednesday nights in Schenley Park, beginning at about 9:15pm. Take a blanket -- you'll be lounging on the grass. Free concerts sometimes precede the movies. The schedule is available online, or for information, call (412)622-6953

More Free Movies

The Pitt Program Council will be showing the following movies in the Assembly Room of the William Pitt Student Union:

Hurricane: June 20, 7 pm
Scream 3: June 27, 7:30 pm
Erin Brockovich: July 11, 7 pm
The Whole 9 Yards: July 25, 7 pm

This is where some of those student fees go!

July Fourth Celebration
July 3rd...no, 7th...no...

Volleyball, kid's fun, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, WDVE music during the fireworks.
Point State Park
Call 255-2493

Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta
August 3-6

Regatta meets working class town: another round of food and fireworks at Point State Park, but with boats, and an Anything That Floats Race.
Call 875-4853 or 391-1602

The InPGH Summer Issue

This webpage describes at least 99 things to do this summer, including...
 

June 14: Pittsburgh Opera
Free preview of next season, outdoors.
Pittsburgh Center For the Arts, Fifth and Shady Aves. (Shadyside)
Call 361-0873

July 2, 9, 16, and 23: Bach, Beethoven & Brunch
Free classical music starting at 10:30 am 
in Mellon Park, Fifth and Shady Aves. (Shadyside)
Call 622-6953

June 25, July 30, August 27: Jazz at Phipps Conservatory
Free, starting at 1 pm
One Schenley Park, Oakland
Call 622-6914

July 20-22: Squirrel Hill Happening
Street shopping, food, and live entertainment. Benefits the Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. On Forbes and Murray aves.
Call 421-5710

August 13: Shadyside Arts Festival
Arts, crafts, street and stage performances.
Ellsworth Ave., Commercial District. Shadyside.
Call 681-2809. 
 

It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there: Amazing homes in western Pennsylvania

When people learn you have lived in Pittsburgh, they invariably ask if you have been to Fallingwater.  If you grew up here, chances are you haven't, but it's worth the two-hour trip to see how Frank Lloyd Wright incorporated western Pennsylvania's shale, mountain streams, and forests into this masterful work of architecture. Yes, it's under construction, but you can still have an extensive tour.
Closed Mondays; Tuesday-Friday, $8; Saturday-Sunday and holidays, $12
Mill Run, Fayette County.
Call (724)329-8501 for reservations

But Frank Lloyd Wright didn't stop there: Kentuck Knob, also in Fayette County, also epitomizes his architectural style.
The website shows some lovely photographs and gives hours;
call (724) 329-1901 for more information.
(Heidi Green wins the alert librarian award for telling Bibliofile about this site!)

If Fallingwater is too far to venture, consider Clayton, a restored mansion and Pittsburgh landmark. It once belonged to Henry Clay Frick and his family, and is part of the Frick Art and Historical Center.
Tours are available by reservation Thursday through Saturday 10am to 4pm; Sunday from noon to 5 pm.
7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze
Call 371-0606 for reservations.