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Local artist and fashion designer debuts gallery

Sean Armstrong | Staff Writer 09/04/19 Stew Frick, a fashion designer and painter, sees the arts as a well to draw from when dealing with mental illness, the confining nature of gender stereotypes and community. Their first solo gallery and fashion release, Worse For Wear, will appear on Friday, Sept. 6 at BOOM Concepts in Bloomfield. That last source of inspiration — community — is … Continue reading Local artist and fashion designer debuts gallery

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Still Spinning: Sound Cat Records in Bloomfield

By: Zach Brendza|Features Editor This is the fourth story in a series about Pittsburgh’s remaining record stores. Saying Sound Cat Records is a third-generation record store is only half true. It is, in fact, the third go-around at an independent music store at 4527 Liberty Ave. in Bloomfield but the stores were not within “the family,” as they say. Not exactly. Current owner Karl Hendricks … Continue reading Still Spinning: Sound Cat Records in Bloomfield

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Unblurred First Fridays: To Penn Avenue and beyond

By Zach Brendza|Features Editor Once a month, every month, Penn Avenue becomes a bustling drag of nightlife and things creative. This is Unblurred: First Fridays. First Fridays occur just as the name suggests, on the first Friday of every month. Since the late ‘90s, the restaurants, businesses and galleries of Garfield and Bloomfield stay open later, well those that would normally close early, for the … Continue reading Unblurred First Fridays: To Penn Avenue and beyond

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