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Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre’s 17th season will be available for free. Each filmed production will be accompanied by an artists’ interview pre-show and a watch party on Facebook Live. Reserve seats online at pghplaywrights.org. “Monday Night Magic: Live Online” will be held every Monday at 8 p.m. as a co-presentation with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Liberty Magic Series. “Monday Night Magic” is New York’s longest running off-Broadway magic show. Tickets for the livestream are $20, and can be purchased under the events tab at stellartickets.com. Little Lake Theatre Compan...

SUSAN JOHNS Thu, 02/18/2021 - 8:45am Jeff Slack, lower left, gives a thumbs up Feb. 16 as fellow selectman Kim Andersson, next box over, comments, “People seek out public art installations.” Zoom screenshot Wiscasset selectmen received this photo and others, all taken elsewhere, as part of Lucia Droby’s yarn bombing proposal. Courtesy town of Wiscasset Wiscasset selectmen received this photo and others, all taken elsewhere, as part of Lucia Droby’s yarn bombing proposal. Courtesy town of Wiscasset The prospects for a colorful yarn exhibit, or yarn bombing, on Wiscasset’s m...

File photo Wiscasset selectmen plan to ask voters for a committee about education in town. Will the question call it a committee on schools’ future or come closer to residents Judy Colby and Bill Maloney’s proposed wording to evaluate the financial impact of tuitioning out the high school grades? The board was not sure Tuesday night, Feb. 16. But after member Jeff Slack reiterated he was seeking a vote that night to commit the board to proposing a committee to voters, Chair Pam Dunning said, “You don’t need to vote on it, Jeff. We’re all on board with working on this.”

SUSAN JOHNS File photo Tuitioning out Wiscasset’s high schoolers may not save money, and will not attract families, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood said Jan. 26 as selectmen and the school committee talked in a Zoom workshop with multiple topics and a prevailing theme: The two panels should keep talking. On the tuitioning out issue, Wood said, “I do not agree that that’s what’s best for Wiscasset ... Whenever you start closing schools, you start ruining the community ... It’s not necessarily going to be cheaper.” Special education and other costs also factor in, she said. �...

Holden Slattery2021-02-12T11:49:30-05:00January 22, 2021| Cantini, who was a vital part of Pittsburgh’s public art scene in the twentieth century, believed art should be free and available to everyone By Holden Slattery In 1930, eleven-year-old Virgil Cantini was struggling to adjust to his new life as an immigrant in Weirton, West Virginia. He’d recently moved from a sunny Italian village to a smoky American steel town. His father and oldest brother had already been in America for years, working to save money, when his mother came with the other seven children. They weren’t only reunif...