THE HOT LIST
ALL WEEKEND
Schenley racers
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix takes over Schenley Park this weekend, climaxing more than a week of events with a big race.
Qualifying races take place Saturday with the Featured Races on Sunday with more than 150 cars competing. The challenging 2.33-mile circuit has 23 turns and comes complete with hay bales, manhole covers, phone poles and stone walls.
The International Car Show will feature more than 2,000 cars, representing all makes, all years, all countries. On display will be the Janis Joplin Porsche 356, on loan from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Grand Prix, which is free for spectators, benefits the Allegheny Valley School and the Autism Society of Pittsburgh. TODAY 8:30 p.m.: “Cars & Guitars” concert at the Hard Rock Cafe featuring The Hawkeyes and Andre Costello and the Cool Minors; $20; doors open at 7 p.m. SATURDAY 11 a.m.-4 p.m.: International Car Shows & British Car Day 9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Vintage Race Practice and Qualifying Heats SUNDAY 8:15-10:15 a.m.: Warm-up and practice laps 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.: International Car Show on golf course 11 a.m.-noon: Opening ceremonies, parade laps by Marque and Patron Parkers Noon-5 p.m.: Vintage Races Information: www.pvgp.org; 412-559-3500.
Flexing muscle
More than 900 bodybuilders and figure competitors will get a chance to strut their stuff in Pittsburgh this weekend.
The MusclePharm 2015 NPC Teen, Collegiate and Masters
National Championships, sponsored by GNC, will take place in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel at Station Square. Divisions include bodybuilding, women’s figure, women’s bikini, men’s physique and women’s physique.
The prejudging for all women’s events will be at 8 a.m. today through Saturday. The finals will begin at 5 p.m. each day. Men’s prejudging is at noon Friday and at 9 a.m. Saturday. Tickets are $30 for the prejudging sessions and $60 for the finals each day.
Thursday: Men’s physique, teen and college men, and men’s and women’s bodybuilding Friday: men’s masters bodybuilding
Saturday: women’s physique, bikini and figure Info: 412-377-1438; www.garyudit.com.
‘Goodnight Moon’
Little Lake’s Looking Glass Theatre presents “Goodnight
Moon,” a musical adaptation by Chad Henry of the children’s classic by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd. It runs through Aug. 1, with performances at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays, and 1:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays. Tickets: $10 (plus $10 for Saturday’s tea party) at littlelake.org or 724-7456300.
TONIGHT
Mathis with PSO
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday Night Icons series, which got off to a great start last week with Smokey Robinson, continues tonight with Johnny Mathis joining the PSO and resident conductor Lawrence Loh and guest conductor Scott Lavender.
The 79-year-old singer, who was born in Texas and grew up in San Francisco, went to No. 1 on the charts in 1957 with “Chances Are.” His other biggest hits include “Wonderful! Wonderful!,” “Misty,” “The 12th of Never” and the 1979 duet “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” with Deniece Williams.
In a recent interview with the LA Times, he talked about what has kept him going as a performer this long.
“You realize, ‘I don’t have to kill ’em tonight,’” he said. “But what I can do is entertain them. Sometimes you have to go on pure professionalism. … I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they’ll still listen.”
The 7:30 p.m. concert takes place at Heinz Hall. Tickets: $39-$139; www.pittsburghsymphony.org or 412-392-4900.
Whole lotta Rosie
Rosie Flores, who broke out in the early ’80s with rockabilly punk band the Screamin’ Sirens before launching a solo career later in the decade, plays the Thunderbird Cafe, Lawrenceville, at 8 tonight.
Ms. Flores has recorded with rockabilly icon Janis Martin and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Wanda Jackson.
Also on the bill are The Bar Brawl 3, Slim Forsyth and Jennie Snyder.
Tickets are $15-$17; www.ticketfly.com.
FRIDAY
Slinging Satire
The ToonSeum’s opening reception for “Slinging Satire: Political Cartoons and the First Amendment” is free for all — like speech, the invitation reminds us — from 7-10 p.m. Friday.
The Downtown museum of comic-book art at 945 Liberty Ave. heralds the opening of an exhibition of 100 current editorial cartoons formed in conjunction with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum, to showcase the work of today’s top political cartoonists. Artists represented include a dozen Pulitzer Prize winners, five Herblock Award recipients and others from prominent newspapers websites and magazines.
The first half of “Slinging Satire” addresses issues such as global warming, racism, guns, gay marriage and the presidential campaign. The second half is dedicated to cartoons created in response to the Jan. 7 terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. During that attack 12 people were killed, including four cartoonists.
The opening reception is free to the public; donations are encouraged. The exhibit runs through Sept. 26. More at toonseum.org or 412-232-0199.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
Dance Africa
Celebrate the traditional music and artistry of the African Diaspora at this year’s Dance Africa Pittsburgh festival at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. The lineup includes Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble, featuring authentic dance and drumming from West Africa, Cuba and the Caribbean, along with contemporary hip-hop performances. The group will share the spotlight with Balafon West African Dance Ensemble and the Legacy Arts Project community dance ensemble. There also will be an African marketplace, plus an AfroCuban dance workshop.
It’s 8 P.M. Friday and Saturday. Adult tickets are $20, and children’s admission is $10 at www.legacyartsproject.org.
SATURDAY
The PC police
John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/
Talk Show takes on the subject of “Are you tired of the P.C. police strangling your very soul, quashing freedom of speech?” It’s at the Cabaret Theater, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, at 10:15 p.m. Saturday with panelists Michelle Dresbold (handwriting analyst/author), the Delta Foundation’s Gary Van Horn and comedian Michael Buzzelli.
Admission is $10.
SUNDAY
Kelly live
Kelly Clarkson, who gained her fame in the inaugural season of “American Idol,” has a career that will long outlast the show, which comes to an end next year.
The singer brings her Piece By Piece Tour to the First Niagara Pavilion Sunday with a cappella group Pentatonix, which won season three of “The Sing Off” and also appeared in “Pitch Perfect 2,” plus Eric Hutchinson.
Ms. Clarkson has built up a catalog of hits that include “Since U Been Gone,” “My Life Would Suck Without You,” “Mr. Know It All” and “Catch My Breath.”
According to the Boston Globe, “the Texas native was in peak form, delivering the hits with gusto, raising otherwise overlooked album cuts to memorable heights, and remaking the case for the restorative powers of pop music on a hot summer night.”
It begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $99.50; ticketmaster.com.
Anthemic rock
Jersey rockers The Gaslight Anthem, still touring on last summer’s “Get Hurt,” headline Stage AE Sunday, but don’t miss the opening act.
It’s Desaparecidos, the punk-rock project of Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, who was last seen here doing more of a country/folk thing. Desaparecidos just released its first album, “Payola,” in 13 years. Brooklyn Vegan caught the band in late June and said of the show, “This is Conor making some of the most energized music of his career, and having a blast playing it.
Also on the bill is Murder By Death. Doors are at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30 advance; $32 at the door; www.ticketmaster.com.
Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion Day at the Oliver Miller Homestead in South Park will feature a historic skit, beginning with “Serving the Writ” at 2:15 p.m., displays about the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s and a discussion of Miller’s involvement.
It runs from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $2; 412-835-1554 or www.olivermillerhomestead.org.
FREE STUFF
• Bluesman Chris Smither with Rusty Belle play the South Park Amphitheatre at 7:30 p.m. Friday as part of the Allegheny County Summer Concert Series.
• For the county concert at Hartwood Acres on Sunday, BNY Mellon Jazz presents Spanish
Harlem Orchestra, featuring a special tribute to the Latin side of Billy Strayhorn in honor of his 100th birthday. It’s at 7:30 p.m.
• Get the Led Out and River Trail play the Station Square Main Street Stage at 6:30 p.m. Friday. • The Stars at Riverview Jazz Series, Riverview Park, Observatory Hill, presents
Thomas Wendtnet. at 7 p.m. Saturday; www.Citiparks.
• Joe Caro & the Met Band plays the Summersounds series at St. Clair Park, Greensburg, at 7 p.m. Friday; www.summersounds. com.
• Chris Higbee and special guest The Hobbs Sisters perform at the Rivers Casino Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. Friday, followed by
Good Vibrations: Beach Boys Tribute at 7 p.m. Saturday.
• Bach, Beethoven and Brunch in Mellon Park, Shadyside, features West Hills Symphonic Band from 10:30 a.m. to noon Sunday; 412-255-2493 or www.Citiparks.net.
• Citiparks’ Dollar Bank Cinema in the Park screens “The Lego Movie” at Brookline Memorial Park, Oakridge Street, tonight; at Arsenal Park, Lawrenceville, Friday; and at Grandview Park, Mount Washington, Saturday.
“X-Men: Days of Future Past” is screened at Riverview Park, Observatory Hill, on Saturday.
“The Wizard of Oz” will be shown at Schenley Park, Flagstaff Hill, Sunday. All films start at dusk; www.citiparks.net.