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Issue Date: 
July 5, 2011

CONCERTS

Bach, Beethoven, and Brunch, longtime favorite series for classical music lovers and brunch fans, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Sundays through Aug. 15, lawn of Mellon Park, Fifth and Shady avenues, Point Breeze/Squirrel Hill, Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition, Bagel Factory, WQED-FM, 412-255-2493.

Stars at Riverview Jazz Series, features Pittsburgh’s premier jazz musicians, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturdays through Aug. 27, Riverview Park, Riverview Avenue, North Side, BNY Mellon and WDUQ, 412-255-2493.

EXHIBITIONS

The Warhol, Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, exhibition of contemporary art dealing with subject of the male athlete, through Aug. 7; Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, through Aug. 7; The Word of God(ess): Chitra Ganesh’s Tales of Amnesia, through Sept. 4, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District, free quarterly showcase of art and entertainment in heart of the Cultural District, 5:30-9 p.m. July 15, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Architecture Explorations, through Aug. 12; Pittsburgh Biennial, through Sept. 18; Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, through Oct. 9; Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, ongoing, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Heinz History Center, Ben Franklin: In Search of a Better World, exploring the personal side of one of our founding fathers, through July 31; America’s Best Weekly: A Century of The Pittsburgh Courier, through Oct. 2; 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

The Frick Art & Historical Center, Fin de Siécle Prints: Art Nouveau on Paper, through Sept. 11, docent tours of exhibition available at 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, free and open to the public, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

LECTURES/SEMINARS/READINGS

“Art Nouveau and the Ubiquity of Style,” Sarah Hall, Frick Art Museum director of curatorial affairs, 10 a.m. Aug. 12, Lexington Education Center, The Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

TIES Informational Luncheon for Researchers and Research Assistants, talk on Text Information Extraction System (TIES), Rebecca Crowley, director, Department of Biomedical Informatics Graduate Training Program, Pitt School of Medicine, 11 a.m.-noon, July 12, Presbyterian Hospital South, Conference Room M3901, open to Pitt and UPMC faculty, staff, and students, registration required, http://ties.upmc.com/register/index.html, 412-623-4753.


THEATER/DANCE


Love Changes Everything, song and dance celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music, July 8-14, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

House & Garden, two plays by Alan Ayckbourn, through July 17, The Charity Randall and Henry Heymann theaters, both in Stephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, 412-394-3353, www.picttheatre.org, Pitt Arts Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

The Marvelous Wonderettes by Roger Bean, a return to the 1950s and ’60s, through Oct. 2, CLO Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-281-3973, www.pittsburghclo.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

PITT PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSES

Abigale Lade, School of Medicine’s Cellular and Molecular Pathology Graduate Program, 10 a.m. July 6, “Beta-Catenin Signaling in Hepatiac Differentiation: Which Way Does the Wnt Blow?” S123 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower.

Matthew Nicholaou, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, 10 a.m. July 11, “The Genetic Contributions to HAART-Associated Dyslipidemia,” A115 Crabtree Hall.

Simone Reynolds, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, 1 p.m. July 12, “Fetal Growth in Preeclampsia: The Effect of Infant Sex,” A523 Crabtree Hall.

Natalia Khorunzhina, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Economics, 3 p.m. July 12, “Essays on Structural Modeling of Life Cycle Behavior,” 4716 Posvar Hall.


Nicholas Christian, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, 10 a.m. July 14, “Hierarchical Likelihood Inference on Clustered Competing Risks Data,” 109 Parran Hall.

Lora K. Ott, School of Nursing, 10 a.m. July 14, “Medical Emergency Team Calls in Radiology: Patient Characteristics and Outcomes,” 451 Victoria Building.

Kevin Toosi, Swanson School of Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, 10 a.m. July 14, “Wrist Biomechanics and Ultrasonographic Measures of the Median NerveDuring Computer Keyboarding,” 102 Benedum Hall.

Wan Zhu, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Human Genetics, noon July 14, “Mechanism and Functional Roles of Nuclear Respiratory Factor 1 (NRF1) Binding Sites in the Human Genome,” A312Crabtree Hall.

Daniel Roh, School of Medicine’s Cell Biology and Molecular Physiology Graduate Program, 2 p.m. July 15, “Novel Corneal Endothelial Responses to Genotoxic Stress,” S-123 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower.

Nabanita Biswas, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, 1 p.m. July 19, “Adenosine Deaminase Acting on Rna (Adar1) Is a Novel Multitargeted Anti-HIV-1 Cellular Protein,” A115 Parran Hall.