Articles in The Saturday Light Brigade
YES: Fairchild Challenge
From 02/27/2016: Bella Greco (Shaler MS), Deeksha Sharma and Jocelyn Blackburn (Gateway HS), and Maya Winter, Sao Mai Nguyen, Gordan Merkel, and Moria Connell (Ellis) are all Fairchild Challenge honorees for their projects on biophilic design at their schools. The Fairchild Challenge is sponsored locally by Phipps Convervatory and Botanical Gardens.
YES: Center for Young Musicians
From 02/27/2016: Alexa Bronkaj (8, New Kensington), Ava Heinricher (11, North Allegheny), and Josephine Reiter (12, Squirrel Hill) are violinists from Center for Young Musicians.
Interview: Jason Sauer, Most Wanted Fine Art
From 02/27/2016: Most Wanted Fine Art gallery owner and demolition derby champion, Jason Sauer, on the work that he and his wife, Nina, have done with Goodwill of Southwestern Pa: providing training to young men recently released from prison.
Live Music: Sassafras Stomp
From 02/20/2016: Johanna Davis and Adam Nordell make up Sassafras Stomp, a contradance band, visiting Pittsburgh for a Feb 19 Dance and Feb 20 House Concert.
YES: Girl Scouts of Western PA
From 02/20/2016: Girl Scouts Katelyn McAfee (10, Wexford), Ella Zimmer (10, Wexford), Sara Worsham (13, Oakmont), and Katherine Stancil (14, Gibsonia) on their experience with Girl Scouts of Western Pa and the Cookie Drive, Feb 26 through March 30.
YES: Alexis Batchelder
From 02/20/2016: Alexis Batchelder (12, Lincoln Park Performing Arts School) performing on guitar and voice.
Live Music: Brewer’s Row
From 02/13/2016: Nicholas Hohman, Leah Esser, Mark Hohman, Corry Drake, and Tim College of Brewer’s Row preview their new CD, There Was a Time We Were Kids.
YES: The Middle C Quartet
From 02/13/2016: Grace Halloran (16, Park Place), Nick Raczkiewicz (17, Richland), Jacob Worst (15, Moon), and Matilda LaBranche (17, East Liberty) of TRYPO perform selections from Haydn, C W Gluck, and Handel as the Middle C Quartet.
Interview: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
From 02/13/2016: Devon McCune, Seth Laidlaw, and Jessica Savitz of Stage 62 preview Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day running through Feb 14 at Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall.
YES: Project Perspective, Pittsburgh Brashear Students in Action
From 02/06/2016: Leon Blair (14, Beechview), Savannah Mynahan (17, Morningside), Cameron Brown (16, Beltzhoover), and Carlyle Stokes (17, Brookline) on Project Perspective: Bridging Community and Police Voices developed by Pittsburgh Brashear’s Students in Action.
