Pittsburgh Applause August 2011
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August, 2011 Digital 6 “Dark Knight” Starts Shooting The stage is set as ―The Dark but told the Pittsburgh Tribune- According to a joint press release Knight‖ begins filming. Review’s Mandy Hofmockel that issued with the city, the Pitts- he’s ―had friends who filmed here burgh Film Office (PFO) reports Director Christopher Nolan’s before, and all had good experi- that production will begin in Oak- third entry in his adaptation of the ences.‖ Nolan told the press that land before moving to other loca- classic comic book is shooting Pittsburgh’s architecture was a tions including Downtown. One key scenes in Pittsburgh, one of a key selling point in choosing the important scene will be filmed at group of locations being used city. Heinz Field on August 6 for a across the globe. Filming began fictional football game. Down- earlier this year in India. Roads and buildings will be town streets being affected are closed in Downtown, Lawrence- those in the Smithfield Street vi- At a July 28 press conference, star ville and Oakland with shootings cinity where fake snow will be Christian Bale admits that he has scheduled Wednesdays through used to create winter scenes. Up- never been to Pittsburgh before Sundays to minimize disruptions. dated street closings are being But the results are expected to posted online by the Pittsburgh benefit Pittsburgh’s economy. Downtown Partnership at Inside This Issue The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s www.downtownpittsburgh.com Barbara Vancheri quotes Mayor The August Wilson Page Luke Ravenstahl: ―For every one ―The Dark Knight Rises‖ --- Center admits to dollar that’s invested in film pro- which is also being called large debt 2 duction, our city sees approxi- ―Magnus Rex‖ --- is scheduled for mately $118 in direct spending.‖ a July 2012 release. Crew and Eric Shiner is Page casting information is available at named director of the PSO’s web site at Warhol Museum 4 www.pghfilm.org A local web show Page goes national on Syfy.com 9 deRoy Gruber Dies Considered one of the shining Among her creations is 21-foot WQED and Pitts- Page lights in Pittsburgh’s arts commu- long by 18-foot tall sculpture burgh Zoo launch nity, Aaronel deRoy Gruber died called Steelcityspace. Completed new partnership 12 July 6 at the age of 92. in 1977 and for years on display at the City-county Building, it Gruber explored various media in will become a key part of Mellon a career that spanned seven dec- Park’s developing sculpture gar- Pittsburgh ades, including photography and den. A&E Group sculpture to even fashion design. 643 Liberty Avenue Suite 401 She exhibited at world-class gal- Pittsburgh, PA 15222 leries in New York and Boston as Ph (412) 325-7070 well as Pittsburgh. Fx (412) 325-7069 www.james-richards.com | www.pittsburghaebook.com Pittsburgh Applause 2 August, 2011 Center’s Huge Debt Squonk As they requested operating funds cost of this facility is $750,000 a from the Allegheny Regional year. That’s a hard pill to swal- Gets Voted Asset District (ARAD), the appli- low.‖ It is currently working with cation by the August Wilson Dollar Bank and other lenders to Center for African American restructure a line of credit so that Off TV Culture includes a stunning fig- it will be allowed to receive a ure: $9 million in debt. major grant. Should the grant and It seems America may have tal- outstanding pledged contributions ent, but little taste for the eccen- come through, it will cut the debt tric. by more than a third. Guess also tells Pitz that the cen- ter is looking for a donor to con- Local troupe Squonk Opera was tribute $1 million for the naming voted off of the popular TV series ―We’ve had our fair share of chal- rights to its theatre. That, too, will ―America’s Got Talent‖ during lenges,‖ the center’s Andre Guess reduce the debt. the July 13 telecast with judge told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Piers Morgan calling their act Marylynne Pitz. ―The operating ―what I imagine hell is like.‖ Squonk Opera began in the 1990s in, of all places, a junk yard. Since then, composer Jackie Trust Fails To Block Dempsey and artist Steve O’Hearn have worked with a regular ensemble to create post- Strip Club Expansion industrial performances with original music, design and stag- ing. An attempt to block the expansion ―totally nude with a full service of a strip club in the Pittsburgh bar.‖ The club also offers private Last year’s ―America’s Got Tal- Cultural District has failed. dances, VIP rooms and even an amateur night each month. Play- ent‖ runner-up was 11-year-old boy cover model Bree Olson ap- Pittsburgh singer Jackie Evancho, On July 21, an peared during the last weekend in who has since become a national Allegheny July. Blush’s owner, Albert Bortz, draw and will appear in concert at Common Pleas says that he was to make the club the Benedum Center this fall. judge ruled that more of an entertainment com- the Pittsburgh plex. Cultural Trust (PCT) and the city’s school district could not Among the points the judge made prove irreparable harm should the was that Blush existed at its loca- exotic club Blush expand to Penn tion before CAPA was built, and Avenue as planned. Blush is just a that the school district chose a site The few steps away from the Pitts- next to a strip club. burgh High School for Creative & Pittsburgh Performing Arts (CAPA) and its Meanwhile, a group of law firms A&E Book approximately 800 teenage stu- have pledged over $1 million to dents. the PCT to help it fill budget gaps www.pittsburghaebook.com left by drops in foundation and Blush claims on its web site to government support. 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Pittsburgh Applause 4 August, 2011 New DUQ Hopes To Double Audience The new owners of WDUQ-FM As a jazz station, Cato reports, tion of information to many email have a plan --- to double the sta- WDUQ averaged roughly addresses. Listserves have been used tion’s audience with its new, news 145,000 listeners each week. But for at least 20 years since the web’s format. with the success of the news & formative days as a broad communi- cation tool – ed. James A. Richards]. information format at other public PubRadio is now expanding into stations across the country, EPM online programming, the first thinks the station’s audience being PubJazz to be located at could grow considerably, perhaps www.pghjazzchannel.net. to 300,000. Chuck Leavens, one of those for- ―We think the potential is there, if Meanwhile, a group of former mer staffers, told the Pittsburgh not to double the listenership, WDUQ staffers have launched a Post-Gazette’s Adrian McCoy then to go over 200,000 to new online Pittsburgh channel that the goal is ―preserving the 225,000 listeners per week,‖ scheduled to launch this month incredible jazz history and leg- WYEP-FM General Manager through PubRadio. acy‖. He calls the collaborative Lee Ferraro told the Pittsburgh project as ―a once-in-a-lifetime Tribune Review’s Jason Cato. Established in 1991, PubRadio is opportunity.‖ WYEP is co-owner of Essential a free service provided for public Public Media (EPM), which radio personnel throughout the The site suggest using Quicktime, bought WDUQ from Duquesne country operating a listserve [A iTunes, Winamp, Realplayer or University and dropped the jazz listserve is an electronic mailing list format July 1. that allows for widespread distribu- VLC on the computer and recom- mends the Streams player for iPhone. Eric Shiner Named Bogut New Warhol Director Honored Eric C. Shiner has been named as says in a press release. ―Since director of the Andy Warhol Mu- joining the Warhol, Eric has dis- Pittsburgh radio legend Jack seum, part of the Carnegie Muse- tinguished himself not only for his Bogut is being regarded as just ums of Pittsburgh. knowledge and connoisseurship that --- a legend --- with his up- of the art of Andy Warhol, but for coming induction into the Broad- his passion about the cultural out- casters Hall of Fame. reach that Warhol’s world extends The 39-year-old New Castle na- to audiences of all kinds.‖ Begun in 1982 as the Radio Hall tive has en extensive experience of Fame and renamed in 1990 to as a curator, professor, writer and Meanwhile, the Carnegie Mu- include television, the organiza- even translator primarily with seum of Art has announced that is tion memorializes the Golden Age New York City institutions. He has acquired two masterworks by of broadcasting and to promote Bakewell, Page & Bakewell.