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“116 MacDougal” To Shoot @ 3 Rivers Studios

Once again, Pittsburgh is subbing for New clicking https://en.wikipedia.org/ Much of it will be shot at the City in a film, Scott Mervis writes in wiki/The_Gaslight_Cafe 3 Rivers Studios, a recently the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. opened production facility south “It’s an interesting story that was of the city near Crafton with over That film is "116 Mac- never told before,” Mervis quotes 150,000-square-feet of studio Dougal," the behind-the- co-producer Lynda Schneider. space. Read Mervis' full article by scenes story of the Gas- “That a man from [the Pittsburgh clicking http://www.post- light Cafe. suburb] Dormont, John Mitchell, gazette.com/ae/music/2017/12/18/ opened the Gaslight Cafe, which Commonheart-singer-has-role-in- The Gaslight Cafe was a launched the careers of Bob Dy- 116-MacDougal/ coffee house that opened lan and so many others.” stories/201712180117 in in 1958. Over the next decade, it became a stage for ground- Actress and filmmaker Adrienne breaking poets like (1926- Weir is among the many local 1997), folk singers such as professionals who are part of the (1940-1976) and even comedians like Bill production, which begins shoot- Cosby. The coffee house closed in 1971. ing this spring. IMDB as the full You can read the history of the Gaslight by cast and crew at www.imdb.com/ title/tt7309348/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1 New City Law Upsets Zoo & Shrine Circus

The city's new law on the treatment of ex- However, the nonprofit Shrine A manatee is a herbivorous ma- otic animals is not sitting well with the Circus' Paul Leavy told Routh rine mammal with paddle-like Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, that the law is misleading because flippers and often called a "sea writes Julian Routh in the Pittsburgh Post- the list of banned instruments is cow." The full story is available Gazette. mostly for "shock value." That list online at http:// includes items such as the hack- www.pittsburghzoo.org/News- Mayor Bill Peduto saw and pitchfork. Pittsburgh-Zoo-PPG-Aquarium- signed the bill into law Participates-in-Rescue-of- on December 28. It pro- "We have to have the tools" to Stranded-Manatees hibits any object train and manage the animals, "capable of inflicting Leavy explained. The Zoo argued pain , intimidating or that they already obey all federal threatening pain for the purpose of training regulations and that the city law or controlling" animals. The bill was pro- prohibits "professionally recog- moted by animal rights activists and passed nized tools." 6 to 3 by Pittsburgh City Council on De- cember 19. Violators can face up to 30 In other news, the Pittsburg Zoo days in jail and a $1,000. & PPG Aquarium successfully assisted in the rescue and trans- The Zoo strongly opposed the law but had- port of 10 manatees from the n't issued an official comment by press chilling waters of Charleston, time. South Carolina. Pittsburgh Applause 2 Pittsburgh Applause FCC Fines Sinclair $13.4 Million With its proposed merger with Sinclair insists that it was nothing critics and other TV news execu- Tribune Media pending, the of- more than a mistake. "Sinclair tives that Sinclair is pushing too ten controversial Sinclair Broad- proudly supports the Cancer much conservative-minded news cast Group has been hit with a Foundation and its educational content. However, it has not run $13.4 million fine, reports Wayne mission," the company responds into any issue/problems with the Friedman for MediaPost. in a press release. "Any absence FCC in this regard." of sponsorship identification in these public service segments was unintended and a result of simple human error. After working to SAG reach a reasonable settlement, we are disappointed by this Sinclair owns two television sta- [decision], which we believe is AWARDS tions in Pittsburgh. unreasonable, given the circum- Nominees have been announced - stances of our case and the ab- -- and voting has begun --- for this The fine was for not identifying sence of any viewer harm. We year's SAG Awards. sponsored content regarding 2016 disagree with the FCC’s action infomercials purchased on Sin- and intend to contest this unwar- clair stations for the Huntsman ranted fine." Cancer Institute. Friedman de- scribes it as "the largest fine of its "This ruling," Friedman writes, kind ever." "follows ongoing criticism by TV The Screen Actors Guild Award was began in 1995 by what is now “Prosody” Cancelled the Screen Actors Guild- American Federation of Televi- sion and Radio Artists (SAG- After nearly three decades, the bring in an assortment of different AFTRA) to recognize outstanding respected local literature radio poets to interview, from beginners performances in television and program "Prosody" has been can- who showed a lot of promise, to film. SAG-AFTRA has hundreds celled by public broadcaster mid-level poets who had a book of members in Pittsburgh and WESA-FM, reports Amanda or two but were not well-known maintains a full-time office in Reed in Pittsburgh City Paper. nationally, to national poets who downtown Pitsburgh. are National Book Award winners

"Prosody" began on WESA's and poet laureates.” Among the nominees are the predecessor, WDUQ-FM, and had Pittsburgh-set drama series "This been produced by an all-volunteer Reed's full article is available at is Us" which includes Out- staff. In linguistics, the word https://www.pghcitypaper.com/ standing Drama Ensemble, and "prosody" refers to functions such Blogh/archives/2017/12/19/wesa- Drama Series Actor (Sterling K. as intonation, tone, stress and cancels-longtime-radio-show- Brown). rhythm. prosody

The ceremony airs January 21 on The series has been especially The final "Prosody" aired Decem- Time-Warner's TNT and TBS important for local poets. “I’m ber 30 on WESA. The series con- cable channels. The full list of going to miss the effect it had on tinues as a podcast. nominees available by clicking the larger community,” Michael http://www.sagaftra.org/ Simms, a poet and founder of nominations-announced-24th- Autumn House Press, told Reed. annual-screen-actors-guild- “[Host Jan Beatty] was able to awards®-0

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Pittsburgh Applause 4 Pittsburgh Applause Warhol Hires New Vice President

Marcia Crawley has been named Dali Museum, the Eli and raise $1.5 million to create an by the Carnegie Museums of Edythe Broad Art Museum, and endowment to finance a perma- Pittsburgh as the organization's the Detroit Institute of Arts is nent archivist for the Teenie Har- new vice president for advance- complemented by success as a ris Archives. ment and community engage- senior university fundraiser at ment. Michigan State [University]. Teenie Harris (1908-1998) was a And her experience as a broadcast professional photographer who journalist and government com- documented much African- municator is highly relevant to her American history for the Pitts- work as an advancement officer. burgh Courier newspaper. Domi- Marcia understands both the mu- nique Luster has held the post seum world and complex organi- since 2016. Now with stable fi- Crawley has more than twenty zations, and she’ll be a great am- nancing, the position can continue years experience in the non-profit bassador for all of our museums.” indefinitely. art world, including the Salvador Dali Museum and the Detroit The Andy Warhol Museum has CMA has also announced that the Institute of the Arts. She has also named a new hire: Clark 2018 Carnegie International has also had stints in media (as a re- Crowley-Bunyard is now the mu- been certified by the organization porter) and government. seum's advancement director. He Working Artists and the was most recently with the Boston Greater Economy (WAGE) as “Marcia has an unusually well- chapter of BuildOn, an interna- meeting its standards for paying rounded resume that makes her tional organization formed in artists fees. WAGE was estab- uniquely well-suited to join our 1991 that runs afterschool pro- lished in 2008 to focus "on regu- leadership team and lead our ad- grams in the U.S. and builds lating the payment of artist fees vancement efforts,” said the Car- schools in developing countries. by nonprofit art institutions and negie Museums' Jo Ellen Parker establishing a sustainable model in a press release. “Her develop- In other news, the Carnegie Mu- for best practices between artists ment leadership at the Salvador seum of Art (CMA) has an- and the institutions that contract nounced that has successfully their labor." Piechocki Talks Public Art The The outgoing director of the Of- the OPA's founding director 13 fice of Public Art, Renee years ago. Piechocki, was the Pittsburgh subject of a recent In the interview, Piechocki talks in-depth interview about a variety of subjects, in- A&E Book with Pittsburgh cluding the recent controversy City Paper's Bill over the Stephen Foster statute in O'Driscoll. Oakland. Read it at https:// www.pghcitypaper.com/ A joint project of the city and the pittsburgh/a-conversation-with- Greater Pittsburgh Arts Coun- renee-piechocki/Content? A new edition is cil (GPAC), the Office of Public oid=5969686 currently in Art (OPA) is entrusted with pro- development! moting and supporting public art in Pittsburgh. Piechocki became

www.pittsburghapplause.com www.pittsburghaebook.com Pittsburgh Applause 5 Pittsburgh Applause KQV Goes Dark & WZUM Rises It's long history began as an ex- manager Robert Dickey Sr. (1927 changing its call letters to WESA perimental radio station in 1919, -2011) bought KQV to retain its and its format to all-NPR. but now KQV-AM is no more. all-news format. After Dickey died [read the obituary at http:// PPN then launched an online The station went silent on Decem- triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ steaming station until they ac- ber 31, 2017, after nearly a cen- obituaries/news/s_773690.html - quired the West Virginia station tury of operation. ed.], his children took over KQV. that is now WZUM-FM. But costs kept rising as ad reve- KQV's commercial existence be- nue starting dropping in a chang- "This has been a dream, deferred, gan in 1922. Its ownership and ing media environment. No ade- for tens of thousands of listeners format changed over the decades. quate buyer could be found. in the region," general manager In the 1960's, it was owned by Scott Hanley tells McMarlin. what is now the Walt Disney Meanwhile, the long-time dream "We're thrilled to provide this Company's ABC Radio division. of former WDUQ-FM staffers has greatly needed service for the During this time, it was a popular been realized, reports Shirley community of music fans and rock station known as "The McMarlin in the Pittsburgh Trib- musicians for which Pittsburgh is Groovy QV." By 1975, it was une-Review. famous." Read more at http:// owned by Taft Broadcasting triblive.com/aande/ (now part of iHeart Media) and WQED-TV was once the public music/13087484-74/wzum-fm- adopted the all-news format that radio station of Duquesne Uni- brings-24-hour-jazz-programming made it regionally famous and versity that specialized in playing -back-to-pittsburgh-airwaves influential for the next 40 years. jazz and National Public Radio (NPR). A collection of WDUQ With the backing of Richard Mel- staffers had tried, but failed, to lon Scaife (1932-2014), the con- acquire the station as Pittsburgh troversially owner of the Pitts- Public Media (PPN). Another burgh Tribune Review, station nonprofit took over WDUQ, Faraway CBSN Gains Audience As a sign of the times: CBS Cor- million live streams in 2016, Hill poration's streaming news ser- which rose by 17% in 2017 --- a vice CBSN is seeing his popular- clear sign that consumers, avid for Order your copy of ity grow faster than most observ- news, are also embracing stream- ers expected. ing alternatives to traditional TV James Richards’ offerings." The service plans to sizzling trilogy increase its original programming of novels! in 2018.

CBS Corporation owns, directly www.farawayhill.net or indirectly, radio and television stations in Pittsburgh, most nota- bly KDKA.

MediaPost's Alex Weprin reports that CBSN "had more than 240

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Pittsburgh Applause 7 Pittsburgh Applause Prepping For A Post-Pappas PPT In preparation for the upcoming incredibly inspired by Pittsburgh "I want to continue to bring new departure of Ted Pappas, the Public Theater's legacy of creat- faces to the audience as well as Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT) ing exquisite productions with the Board, and I plan to build on has announced some leadership gifted artists, both nationally and the company's legacy while ex- changes. locally, and I have a terrific crush panding its base of support," Cas- on the city of Pittsburgh," she telli says in the same press re- Pappas is cur- says in a press release. lease. "I'm also looking forward to rently both Artis- creating new community partner- tic Director and Louis A. Castelli, who currently ships." Managing Direc- leads the PPT's marketing depart- tor. He leaves the ment, is being promoted to the PPT in August position of Managing Director. after 18 years. The Lou is a Pittsburgh native who positions will now be held by two spent a decade working for the separate people. Pittsburgh Symphony Orches- tra before moving over to the Marya Sea Kaminski, the current PPT where he assistant in the Associate Artistic Director at Se- company's transition from the attle Repertory Theatre, has city's North Side into its current been named Pappas' successor as home in the Cultural District. the PPT's artistic director. "I am Pittsburgh Applause 8 Pittsburgh Applause

Fort Pitt Cox Launches Converge A new content platform has been than traditional advertising, ac- Closes launched by Cox Enterprises cording to a recent study by Time called Converge. Inc. Almost 90 percent of con- sumers like the idea of custom On December 27, the staff of the content as a way for brands to Fort Pitt Museum announced that engage with them, and 92 percent the facility will be closed for most believe brands offer expertise on of January. certain topics and add value to Cox owns Pittsburgh television content." station WPXI “It’s designed to bring people into The platform is described by the a new brand experience for Cox

company as "designed to inform, that we haven't had before,” Me- The Fort Pitt Museum is a unit of inspire and connect people to the diaPost's Aaron Baar quotes the Senator John Heinz History things they enjoy through technol- Shana Keith, director of public Center. ogy." Converge stories are organ- relations for Cox. “Consumers

ized in three categories: Commu- prefer to engage with content vs. "During the temporary closure," nity, Entertainment and Technol- banner ads, and they prefer to do says the press release. "Fort Pitt ogy. so with stories.” Museum curators will clean the museum's iconic diorama depict- A company press release explains Converge is available at https:// ing the Point in the 1760s. Several that "two out of three consumers converge.cox.com/ newly acquired 18th century loan place more trust in custom content objects will be placed on display, including a horn spoon once be- longing to Catharine Bard, a for- mer captive of the Delaware tribe in the mid-1700s, and an original Images 18th century French trade pistol."

The staff will also be finalizing the museum's 2018 program schedule. Fort Pitt reopens on January 27.

This is an interior image of the new 3 Rivers Studios, which recently opened south of the city near Crafton.

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Focus on Renewal's Father Ryan Arts Center is accepting artist submissions for their February "United We Stand" exhibit. All visual media using any combination of materials are welcome. The jurors have final authority for selection. The deadline is January 26. To submit, visit https://ryanarts.wufoo.com/forms/q4csf9j1idljzr/

Three Pittsburgh job opportunities exist with CBS Corporation: news producer, accounts payable clerk and a health & safety freelancer. For details, click https://cbscorporation.jobs/pittsburgh/pennsylvania/usa/jobs/

Advanced registration is open for all classes, admission and special events at this year's Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival. Opportunities are still available for exhibitors. For more information, visit http://pghknitandcrochet.com/ The festival will be held April 6 -8 at the David Lawrence Convention Center.

The Mattress Factory is currently accepting submissions to be considered for inclusion in the upcoming 2019 exhibition programmatic year. Submissions will be accepted now through February 1, 2018. Full information at www.mattress.org/sites/default/files/12.26.17_Open%20Call%202019%20Release.pdf

Radio station giant iHeart Media has openings in its Pittsburgh office for ad sales, promotions and program pro- duction. See https://iheartmedia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_iHM/1/ refreshFacet/318c8bb6f553100021d223d9780d30be

The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium is seeking a full-time curator of Aquatic Life among other positions as noted here: http://www.pittsburghzoo.org/careers

Advertising sales opportunities have opened at Hearst's WTAE-TV. The station is also seeking a reporter and a technician. Details at https://hearst.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/search/179908

The Frick Art & Historical Center is seeking a new manager for meetings and events. The successful candidate will handle all the logistics, communications and other correspondence for any non‐school related program, event or activity. The museum has four other positions available. See http://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/contact/ employment/

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Contemporary Craft offers a yearlong studio apprenticeship to an emerging craft artist seeking to develop profes- sional skills working with one of the nation’s only non-profits focusing exclusively on creation, exhibition, and education across all contemporary craft media. The deadline is January 31 and information is available at http:// contemporarycraft.org/opportunities/artist-opportunities/

In addition, Contemporary Craft is also seeking a full-time development coordinator. See http:// contemporarycraft.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Contemporary-Craft-Development-Coordinator-Job- Posting.pdf

The Sweetwater Center for the Arts is accepting submission for their spring "Site/Sight" exhibition. The select- ing pieces will be photographic work "concerning humanity's complex relationship to place." The deadline is April 1. Information is available at http://sweetwaterartcenter.org/call_for_artists/site-sight/

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