Post-Gazette Weekend Roundup

Entertainment Digest: 6/24/05

Friday, June 24, 2005

Frick reception and lecture

The opening reception for "Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927-1936," featuring 150 images from the noted photojournalist's early years, will be held from 6 to 10 tonight at The Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze. Reservations are recommended; $25, $20 students/members.

"Romancing the Machine," a lecture by Stephen Bennett Phillips, curator of the exhibition and of The Phillips Collection, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Reservations are recommended; $10, $8 students/members.

For information or reservations, call 412-371-0600 or visit www.frickart.org. (Mary Thomas)

Garden project

A Magic Penny Garden will be sprouting soon at the Union Project, 801 N. Negley Ave., East Liberty, under the guidance of Stephanie Flom, project resident artist and Persephone Project founder/director.

Bring a perennial plant from your garden to the Union Project between 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday. Flom and volunteers will plant the garden from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on three Saturdays in July.

For information, call 412-363-4550 or visit www.unionproject.org. (Mary Thomas)

Metalsmith lecture

A leading figure in contemporary art/craft, metalsmith Robert Ebendorf combines traditional goldsmithing techniques with unconventional materials to create his unique jewelry. He'll give a talk at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District.

Ebendorf will be juror for the Society's "Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder's Prize Exhibition," a biennial show that focuses on a different craft medium each edition.

Admission is $5. For information, call 412-261-7003 or visit www.contemporarycraft.org. (Mary Thomas)

A glance at events in and around town.

Dig Into Gardening, Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens at 9:30 a.m. Tickets: $4.50 to $7.50; 421-622-6915.

Lindsay Mac, Allegheny County Courthouse at noon. Free.

The Clarks, Chevrolet Amphitheatre at Station Square at 7 p.m. Tickets: $45-$25; 412-323-1919.

Lucy Kaplansky, Club Cafe at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $16 advance, $18 at door; 412-323-1919.

"Camping with Henry and Tom," Little Lake Theatre Company at 8 p.m. Tickets: $8-$12.50; 724-745-6300.

Gang Gang Dance with Bloodlines, Andy Warhol Museum at 8 p.m. Tickets: $10; 412-237-8300.

Chris Rice, Pepsi-Cola Roadhouse at 8 p.m. Tickets: $39-$59 (includes dinner); 412-323-1919.

Catie Curtis and Lindsay Mac, South Park at 8:15 p.m. Free.

[Post-Gazette]