MONDAY

DOWNTOWN: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation will offer free self-guided tours of the old Allegheny County Jail Museum at 440 Ross St. from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Those attending should arrive no later than 12:30 p.m. For reservations or more information, marylu@phlf.org or 412-471-5808, ext. 527.

STRIP DISTRICT: An over-21 event, “Cocktails & Conversations: Myths and Mysteries,” will be held at the Senator John Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St. Andy Masich, president and chief executive officer of the center, will discuss some of Pittsburgh’s unexplained events, such as the 1862 Allegheny Arsenal explosion; notorious ones, such as the real story on the attempted murder of Henry Clay Frick; and some of the quirkier ones, such as Pittsburgh’s lost “H.” The History Center will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. for guests to view the exhibits. Mr. Masich’s presentation will take place at 7 p.m. Tickets for event are $16; free for History Center members. For tickets or more information, www.heinzhistorycenter.org. 

TUESDAY
OAKLAND: David J. Gross, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize for physics, will speak on “The Future of Fundamental Physics” at 4 p.m. in Ballroom B of the University Club on the Pitt campus. Mr. Gross is a member of the faculty at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The lecture is presented by the University of Pittsburgh’s Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center. It is free and open to the public.

SHADYSIDE: As part of its annual meeting, the Jewish Association on Aging will host a roundtable, “Healthcare: The Great Debate,” at Rodef Shalom Congregation, 4905 Fifth Ave at 6:30 p.m.. Participating in the panel discussion will be Andrew W. Gurman, M.D., immediate past president of the American Medical Association; Martin Gaynor, the E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and former economics director at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission; Daphna Gans of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; and Karen Wolk Feinstein, president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The program is free and open to the public. For more information or register, 412-521-1975 or www.jaapgh.org.

OAKLAND: Giancarlo Parodi will be the next recitalist in the 2017 Organ Concert Series at St. Paul Cathedral. The recital will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the cathedral, Fifth Avenue at Craig Street. 

WEDNESDAY

SHADYSIDE: The members for the book discussion group of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange will meet for their monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. at The Coffee Tree Cafe, 5524 Walnut St. The book to be discussed at the meeting will be “”Map: Collected and Last Poems” by Wislawa Szymborska. The book discussion group meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the cafe. For more information, 412-481-7636.

THURSDAY

SHADYSIDE: The International Women’s Association of Pittsburgh will hold its weekly meeting from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh, 5401 Centre Ave. The association offers conversational English classes, monthly field trips and monthly cooking classes. For more information, go to iwap-home.blogspot.com or iwap.pittsburgh@gmail.com.

SHADYSIDE: The next program in the 83rd annual Solomon B. Freehof Book and Author Series at Rodef Shalom Congregation will be held at 10 a.m. Writer, reviewer and teacher Helen Faye Rosenbloom will discuss “Forest Dark” by Nicole Krauss. The novel deals with Jewish identity and the relationship between the generations. The synagogue is located at 4905 Fifth Ave.

OAKLAND: Stanford physicist Dan Akerib will give the Bennett-McWilliams Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University at 4:30 p.m. in the Rashid Auditorium in the Gates-Hillman Center on the CMU campus. His presentation will address one of the most profound mysteries of the universe — dark matter. The lecture is free and open to the public.

EAST LIBERTY: “Creating an Authentic Participatory Democracy” will be the topic for a presentation by Greg Coleridge of Move to Amend at 6 p.m. at the East Liberty branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 130 South Whitfield St. Move to Amend seeks to reverse a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gives corporations the same rights as individuals. The program is sponsored by The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. For more information, wilpf.pgh@gmail.com.

OAKLAND: Columbia University professor Jack Halberstam will speak on “Animal Anarchy and the Secret Life of Pets” at a program presented by the University of Pittsburgh’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program.v The lecture will take place at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the Frick Fine Arts Building on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The presentation is free and open to the public.

OAKLAND: PhD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson will team up to explain everything that isn’t known about the universe in a program at 8 p.m. in Ballroom B of the University Club on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The two men will use science, humor and live drawings inspired by PhD Comics new book, “We Have No Idea.” The program is free and open to the public.

FRIDAY

DOWNTOWN: On Fridays in October, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation will conduct two walking tours in the Downtown area. One focuses on Pittsburgh’s Wall Street, the Fourth Avenue area. The 60-minute tour will meet at Oxford Center at the corner of Smithfield Street and Fourth Avenue and will conclude at PPG Place. The second tour focuses on the Grant Street area. This one-hour walking tour begins at the Omni William Penn Hotel at noon and ends at U.S. Steel on Grant Street. Both tours are free. For reservations or more information, marylu@phlf.org or 412-471-5808, ext. 527.

SHADYSIDE: The Faculty/Guest Artist Series presented by the music department at Chatham University will open its 2017-18 season with “The Joy of Piano and Piano Duet: Music by Mozart, Chopin, Dvorak and Brahms.” The recital, which will take place at 7 p.m. in the James Laughlin Music Center on the Chatham campus, will feature pianists Yeeha Chiu, a Steinway artist, and Pauline Rovkah, a member of the music department faculty. Free. 

SATURDAY

SOUTH SIDE: St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church will hold a bazaar, ethnic food fair, flea market and bake sale in the church hall, 109 South Seventh St. The flea market and bake sale will begin at 8 a.m. Hot food — stuffed cabbage, pyrohi, haluski, kolbassi and kraut, hot dogs and hot sausage — will be served from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free parking in the parish lot on East Carson Street. Doors close at 7 p.m.

HIGHLAND PARK: The opening concert of the Pittsburgh Camerata for the 2017-18 season will be “Memories & Remenbrances.” The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in St. Andrew Episcopal Church, 5801 Hampton St. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at door; student tickets are $5. For more information or tickets, www.pittsburghcamerata.org

SUNDAY

OAKLAND: “Why Are They Angry With Us?” will be the first of two forums to be sponsored by the Race & Reconciliation Dialogue Group of St. Paul Cathedral Parish. Larry E. Davis, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and founder of the university’s Center on Race & Social Problems, will discuss a psychological view of white racism. The forum will be held at 2 p.m. at Synod Hall, 125 North Craig St. The second forum, “Black Live Don’t Matter” with attorney Martha Conley, the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh Law School, will take place on Nov. 12 at Synod Hall. The forums are free and open to the public. For more information, 412-681-8528

GREENFIELD: The Catholic Cemeteries Association will host “Sacred Music in a Sacred Space: A Concert in in Honor of Our Lady of the Rosary” at 3:30 p.m. at the Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in the mausoleum of Calvary Cemetery, 718 Hazelwood Ave. The concert will feature the North Hills Chorale, the Good Shepherd Handbell Choir and Jessica Lee. Admission is free, but reservations are required; 412-586-3999 or online at https://ccapgh.ticketleap.com/sacred-music-in-sacred-space/

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First Published: October 23, 2017, 4:13 a.m.