Volume 30 No. 10
September 2014
The Andy Warhol you didn’t know By Justin Criado
sons playing in Spain, winning three league championships and MVPs. He’s played for teams in Portugal, the Canary Islands, Israel, and now, France. But throughout his basketball voyage he keeps returning to his Northside home. A place where he faced-off against current Washington Wizards forward DeJuan Blair on the playground. Where he excelled on the football field first at Oliver before finally starting for Tim Keefer’s basketball squad. Where he grew up. Where he experienced loss. “More people should know about Jakim and his dad,” said Keefer, who’s the head basketball coach at Carlow Univer-
Andy Warhol is a cultural icon. Best known for his pop art images like the Campbell’s soup can and Marilyn Monroe portrait, Warhol’s art is truly one-of-a-kind. Recently, though, art admirers have been discovering a whole different side to the Pittsburgh artist, nearly 30 years after his death, through a series of “time capsules.” “The collection is really amazing and really interesting,” Andy Warhol Museum chief archivist Matt Wrbican said. “There are a lot of cool things. There are a lot of bizarre and strange things. “The fact that they’re connected to this one guy who is really so central to American culture at that time is really just amazing.” The North Shore museum has opened all but one of the 600 boxes, which Warhol and his various assistants packed between 1974 and his untimely death in 1987. There is no rhyme or reason to what Warhol packed away in the boxes. The items range from the rare and unusual, like a party invitation from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger or a piece of wedding cake in a napkin from the Kennedy wedding, to common trash.
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Photo by Justin Criado
Jakim Donaldson (center with basketball on shoulder) enjoys coming home to Northside each year.
Northside basketball star continues to give back to his community through free camp By Justin Criado Entering his tenth season as an international professional basketball player –this year with La Portel– Jakim Donaldson has been all over the globe and speaks three different languages, but it’s what he does when he’s home here in Northside for one month out of the year that makes him a true all-star. “Just one little basketball can broaden your horizon and take you all over the world,” Donaldson said during his annual P.R.O.M.I.S.E basketball camp last month at Allegheny Middle School. “It’s a wonderful thought.” Jakim and his father, Jay, founded the Protecting and Restoring the Order of Mankind Initiative and Serving Elders (P.R.O.M.I.S.E.)
non-profit organization in 2007 after younger brother and son, Jehru, was tragically murdered. Starting with annual gatherings in Allegheny Commons Park to remember lost loved ones, Jakim decided to start a free, threeday basketball camp in 2010. “Not having anything like this growing up,” Jakim said. “This being a free basketball camp. Being able to provide so many life skills that are beneficial to a young person’s life. Keep them on the straight and narrow.” Jakim graduated from the old Oliver High School on Brighton Road, and walked-on at Edinboro University where he became an All-American in 2004-05. Going undrafted by the NBA in 2005, Jakim spent seven sea-