28 Jan Short list: Few days of August 17 – 24
The fresh Moth Mainstage check outs Pittsburgh again having perhaps its really varied throw here yet. The fresh York-depending sensation provides anybody informing their own stories, as opposed to cards. The latest Aug. twenty five Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures cost titled Uphill: Stories of Impossible are managed by comedian Rudy Hurry (Def Funny Jam). Storytellers are Kimberly Reed, a good transsexual Nyc-oriented filmmaker which formerly is a Montana high-school quarterback named Paul McKerrow; Said Sayrafiezadeh, composer of acclaimed memoir Whenever Skateboards Was Free, from the expanding upwards within the Squirrel Hill on the mid-eighties just like the kid out-of an enthusiastic Iranian father and you may Jewish-Western mom, one another socialist activists; seeing comedic storyteller Elna Baker, author of New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Moving; and seasoned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Sally Kalson.