Happenings

Concerts

Barry Manilow, pop and soft rock from world-famous singer, songwriter,
7:30 p.m. July 6, Mellon Arena, 66 Mario Lemieux Place, Downtown, 412-323-1919, www.mellonarena.com.

Sweaty Betty Blues Band, jazz, blues, and R&B music, 5 p.m. July 7, Backstage Bar at Theatre Square, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-325-6769, www.pgharts.org.

BNY Mellon Jazz Presents Diana Krall, 8 p.m. July 8; The Machine-Pink Floyd Tribute, featuring Daniel Meyer, conductor, 8 p.m. July 10; Video Games Live, music from the most popular video games of all time, 8 p.m. July 11 and
2:30 p.m. July 12; Live Nation Presents Maxwell, R&B music, 8 p.m. July 18; Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Frontiers, rock music, 9 p.m. July 17, Hard Rock Café, 230 West Station Square Dr., Station Square, 412-481-7625, www.hardrock.com.

Exhibitions

Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room, exhibition about quirky world of an opera-records collector, through July 19; Architecture Explorations, through Aug. 14; Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People, through Jan. 31, 2010; 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3309, www.cmoa.org.

Senator John Heinz History Center, National Negro League Conference, July 16-18; Portrait of the Allegheny, a photo exhibition documenting recreational and industrial uses of the Allegheny River, through July 31; Forbes Field: Celebrating 100 Years, through Nov. 8; and Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, exhibition examining life of 16th U.S. President during American Civil War, through Jan. 15, 2010; 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

Everyone an Artist Gallery, Reflections: The Self Portrait Reinterpreted, through July 14, 4128 Butler St., Lawrenceville, 412-621-2951, www.milestonecentersinc.org.

709 Penn Gallery, Threadline: Works by Lee Renninger, through July 18, 709 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-471-6078, www.pgharts.org.

Box Heart Gallery, The Traveling Wave, through July 18, 4523 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield, 412-687-8858, www.boxheart.org.

Mattress Factory, Thaddeus Mosley: Sculpture (Studio/Home), through Aug. 2, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231-3169, www.mattress.org.

Andy Warhol Museum, Pinball Wizard, through Aug. 9; Conrad Ventur, through Sept. 13; 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

707 Penn Gallery, Discombobulated, through Aug. 22, 707 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-471-6078, www.pgharts.org.

Society for Contemporary Craft, Beyond Shared Language: Contemporary Art and the Latin American Experience, through Aug. 29, 2100 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-261-7003, www.contemporarycraft.org.

Space, Smoke and Mirrors, through Sept. 12, 812 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-325-7723, www.spacepittsburgh.org.

Space 101 Gallery, Bare V, July 10-Aug. 1, 2100 Mary St., South Side, The Brew House Association,
412-381-7767,

Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Magic, Alchemy, Shamanism, July 10-Aug. 14, 200 Broad St., Sewickley, 412-741-4405, www.sweetwaterartcenter.org.

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“Free Business Start-Up Counseling From SCORE,” 10 a.m. July 6, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill Branch, 5801 Forbes Ave., 412-442-9650, www.carnegielibrary.org.

“Genetics Symposium II: Oral Health-Systemic Health Connections,” Alexandre Viera, assistant professor in the Pitt School of Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Biology, 2 p.m. July 9, 355 Salk Hall, School of Dental Medicine, 412-647-3555.

“Time Management for Writers,” featuring Aubrey Hirsch, creative writing professor at Chatham University, 10 a.m. July 11, Green Tree Public Library, 10 West Manilla Ave., Greentree, Pittsburgh Writers Project, 412-921-9292, www.greentreelibrary.org.

Miscellaneous

“Exporting Your Courseweb Course,” live Web cast with limited interaction, 12:15 p.m. July 8, Pitt Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education,  https://cidde-web.cidde.pitt.edu/mCast/default.asp?mCast=BbmCast.

“Using SafeAssign in Courseweb,” live Web cast with limited interaction, 12:15 p.m. July 15, Pitt Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education,  https://cidde-web.cidde.pitt.edu/mCast/default.asp?mCast=BbmCast.

Stephen Foster Music and Heritage Festival, featuring outdoor concert, cemetery tours, and food vendors, noon July 11, Allegheny Cemetery, 4734 Butler St., Lawrenceville, Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association, 412-682-1624, www.doodahdays.com.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District, quarterly showcase of art and entertainment featuring Pittsburgh art galleries, 5:30 p.m. July 17, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Opera/Theater/Dance

8-Track: The Sounds of the 70’s, by Rick Seeber, through Sept. 27, Theater Square Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Sweeney Todd, by Stephen Sondheim, July 16-19, New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side, 412-320-4610,
www.newhazletttheater.org.

Les Miserables, musical based on Victor Hugo novel, July 7-19, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Pitt PhD Dissertation Defenses

Genevieve Woodard, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “Evaluating Novel Risk Factor Associations for Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease,” 1 p.m. July 7, A523 Crabtree Hall.

Emily Drill, School of Medicine’s Center for Neuroscience/Neurobiology Graduate Program, “Deciphering the Role of TLX in Dorsal Neural Progenitors and Its Contribution to Brain Structure and Behavior,” noon July 8, 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3.

Teresa Johnson-Evans, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, “History, Genre, Politics: The Cinema of Yamina Benguigui,” 12:15 p.m. July 10, 1218 Cathedral of Learning.

Mehret Birru, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “The Associations of Ethnicity, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Socioeconomic Status with Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease,” 1 p.m. July 13, A622 Crabtree Hall.

Carlos E. Caicedo, School of Information Sciences’ Telecommunications and Networking Program, “Technical Architectures and Economic Conditions for Viable Spectrum Trading Markets,” 10 a.m. July 15, 502 Information Sciences Building.

Sharad Gupta, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, “Expanding the Complexity and Functional Diversity of BIS-Amino Acid Building Blocks,” 2 p.m. July 13, 307 Eberly Hall.

Jill Francesca Dione, School of Arts and Science’s Department of English, “Body Image: Fashioning the Postwar American,”  10 a.m. July 15, 512 Cathedral of Learning.

Sachiko Miyahara, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, “Statistical Inferences for Two-stage Treatment Regimes for Time-to-event and Longitudinal Data,” 10:30 a.m. July 16, 109 Parran Hall.