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PUPS, PINTS, AND PRIDE
BY: RACHEL WILKINSON
Brewer’s Bar has survived the AIDS epidemic, COVID, and new competition. Now, ownership is trying to secure its future with help from an unlikely partnership
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LEATHER AND GRACE
Brewer’s Bar has survived the AIDS epidemic, COVID, and new competition. Now, ownership is trying to secure its future with help from an unlikely partnership
BY: RACHEL WILKINSON // RWILKINSON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
When Carol Held, owner of Brewer’s Bar, announced its sale at the end of last year, it was hailed as the end of an era for what was known as Pittsburgh’s oldest operating gay bar. Held penned a heartfelt goodbye, promising the Brewer’s 44-year legacy as an LGBTQ community space would continue when it reopened under new ownership.
“I want to thank everyone who has come out to support this bar [and] made this your home bar,” she wrote last December. “On a positive note, it [will] remain a safe space for you all.” Held also implored patrons, “Please support your bars — Blue Moon, P Town, Lucky’s, 5801, and Brewer’s new name soon.”
Days before Held’s 58th birthday in March, the sale went awry.
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“When the deal fell through, I was like, maybe I’m not ready, and maybe it’s just timing,” she tells Pittsburgh City Paper “My husband said to me the day that it all came down, ‘It’s time to pull up your big girl pants and get back to work.’ And I did.”
It’s not the first time the bar has begun a new chapter. Held inherited Brewer’s Bar and Hotel from her late father, Andy Usner, a Pittsburgh police officer, who transformed it from a neighborhood spot into what’s been described decades on as a refuge, historic landmark, and a “cornerstone of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community.”
Held says her father often worked security details in the 1970s and befriended Lucky, the owner of an East Liberty gay bar. Lucky later tipped off Usner about a space for sale in Lawrenceville, and in 1981, helped him buy it and turn it into Brewer’s. (Held doesn’t know where the name came from — though it’s the most common question she’s asked — speculating that the former Iron City Brewery complex sits nearby at 34th St.)
Brewer’s, originally a hotel and bar, occupies a 125-year-old, five-story building on Liberty Ave. In the first-floor bar, the original stamped tin ceiling remains, and grand 1950s hotel chandeliers have been swapped for a full-size traffic light — part of a prank, Held believes — that has sat in a corner as long as she can remember.
In 1981, her father envisioned Brewer’s as both a gay bar and a haven, pushing back against the “non-educated people,” as he called them. Taking on a role his fellow police officers eschewed, Usner also umpired for the Steel City Softball League, known as Pittsburgh’s longest-running LGBTQ sports organization , founded the same year as Brewer’s.
During the peak of the AIDS epidemic, Usner offered the hotel’s 13 rooms to people suffering from the disease and displaced by their families. Often, he let them stay for free and gave them food and medicine, Held says. She recently met someone at Brewer’s who told her that, in the 1980s, they ran the only funeral home in Pittsburgh that accepted those who died as a result of AIDS, and her father often covered funeral and burial expenses.
Held didn’t imagine taking over
Brewer’s Bar, but when her father died in 2010, she found she “didn’t want to let that piece of him go.”
“I got myself together, I came down here, and said, ‘Hi, I’m Carol, I’m the boss,’” she remembers.
“It [took] getting used to, you could say,” Held says. “[But] the more [I was] here in this building, it just inspired me to do the things that my dad did for the community. It rubbed off on me, and I was doing this back in return … like snowballing the things that my dad did.”
Since taking the reins 15 years ago, Held started a Christmas drive in honor of her father, now the annual Andy Usner Christmas Drive, which distributes food and hundreds of gifts to local LGBTQ organizations. She and the Brewer’s staff pitch in to serve an annual Christmas dinner at the bar, another tradition.
“We open our doors, and everyone is welcome,” Held says.
After a decade, Held grew concerned about the cost of the building’s upkeep and declining bar business, a trend even before the COVID pandemic hit. After 35 years in business, Brewer’s also started competing against more contemporary bars with full kitchens, premium cocktails, and upscale ambiance that drew younger patrons.
Last November, Held converted the bar’s two lower floors into a nightclub called The Underground with a DJ booth and light-up floor. While the space would’ve been packed five years ago, Held says, it did well at first but fizzled after a couple of months, making her question if it might be time to pass on the business.
Still, she wanted to keep her father’s legacy alive, which meant returning to the bar’s roots and welcoming all parts of the community.
While the bar had long hosted drag performances, even before they were considered more mainstream , Held decided to embrace Pittsburgh’s growing leather scene, a subculture associated with clothing, fetish wear, kink, and BDSM.
“These are the groups that, during Pride, you don’t hear anything about,” Held explains. “You don’t hear about the leather guys, but these are the guys that mean so much to this community. They fundraise, they donate, they do so many
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Pup Paimon performs during a Pride pet party at Brewer's Bar on May 31, 2025
“He’s a big deal,” Held says, bragging that Bear was “sashed” Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2023 . Bear hosted his first leather fetish night at Brewer’s in September 2023 as an offshoot of Steel City Fetish Con, and said he immediately felt at home.
“A little thing about Brewer’s, I’ve danced and worked in probably five different bars in Pittsburgh,” Bear says. These bars included the defunct Pegasus Lounge and Images Bar. “Putting shows together, Carol [Held] has been the most supportive and easiest to work with. And I mean, we hire all genders, all races, all ages, all body sizes. I don’t know of another bar in Pittsburgh where it’s as welcoming to everybody or focused on showcasing everybody.”
The Steel City Pups also have a monthly “puppy pound” meet-up at Brewer’s. A newer offshoot of leather culture and BDSM, pup play participants roleplay by dressing as pets (pups) and often enter dominant/ submissive relationships with a “handler.” This year, Brewer’s hosted both Leather Pride and Pup Pride parties to kick off Pride Month.
With Bear and Englert aboard, Held is trying to expand and reimagine what Brewer’s can be, even asking the bar’s patrons what they’d
“What can we do to make Brewer’s alive and full of energy again?” she wrote in a Facebook post. “I think our home base here is coming up with great ideas,” Bear says, including an underwear night, a glow night, and a plan for lube wrestling
Josh Englert belongs to Barons of Steel, a Pittsburgh leather and kink-
and sports attire, and “just socialize with each other.” In partnership with the Barons, Brewer’s also hosts a gear swap night that invites
“I FOUND MY PEOPLE IN THE LEATHER COMMUNITY, AND I WOULD SUPPORT THE DIFFERENT EVENTS AT BREWER’S.”
associated private social club, the name of which is a play on steel barons. Bear met Englert through the Barons — “he’s my sash grandpa,” Bear says — which eventually brought him to Brewer’s.
“I found my people in the leather community, and I would support the different events at Brewer’s,” Englert says. “I just got to know Carol [Held], and then she just kept bugging me to become a bartender.”
Englert now bartends at Brewer’s in addition to a day job and hosts
Bear says that while the leather community has existed for decades, it’s still not universally accepted, even among members of the LGBTQ says. “We’re just as much a part of the community as anybody.”
people to donate and exchange leather pieces, making oftenexpensive leather more accessible.
“Leather is different to different people,” Englert says of the evolving leather community. “For some people, it’s just the material, and wearing it makes them feel a specific way, a mindset. For me, it’s an avenue to meet different people. So I love the aesthetics of leather, but the people that I’ve met on my leather journey are the most important thing about it to me.”
While filling out a bold new roster of events, Held says that for her part, she’ll always have a place for the bar’s and her father’s original customers. “We get a lot of young people who will make comments and say, ‘I don’t want to go to Brewer’s. That’s where the old men are.’ But do you know the old men?” she asks. “They’re the ones that started this, you know? … They’re my people, and they’ll be my people until the day Brewer’s closes.”
The closing and likely demolition of Donny’s Place just across the Herron Avenue Bridge — once home to its own leather-themed bar and dance club, Leather Central — highlights Brewer’s continuing operation that much more. Brewer’s still serves Donny’s former regulars who would hop between the two bars.
Englert says, though Brewer’s is “pivoting” to the leather and fetish communities, it’s also still a great place to come and enjoy a drink. The bar gets foot traffic from sports games and its busy intersection, and on weekend nights, you can hear Cher and Britney Spears blasting out of its garage door.
Brewer’s also rents out space for weddings and private events. Bear hosted his annual Halloween party there, and for his birthday, Englert decked out the bar with pictures of
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Brewer's Bar hosts a Pride pet party with Steel City Pups on May 31, 2025
Taylor Swift.
Bear says that when Brewer’s temporarily closed, something was lost. “We met and went on tours of other bars to try and figure out where to go,” he says. “And it just didn’t feel the same … I’ve walked in every gay bar in this city, and you see people you know, and that’s great. But you walk into Brewer’s, the bartenders hug you, and they say, ‘Hey.’ And Carol [Held] thanks you and hugs you, and Josh [Englert]. It’s like a family reunion every time we have an event. And it’s really something more than just showing up and having a drink.”
When Brewer’s sale officially fell through in March, Held immediately called Bear. “I said, ‘Get ready. We’re opening Saturday.’ He was like, ‘What?’” Held says. “It was like Thursday,” Bear remembers. “I [said], ‘Carol, please 100% confirm this show is happening.’”
After being closed for a full month, the bar reopened with a leather fetish night, banking on unseasonably
warm weather over St. Patrick’s Day weekend to draw a crowd. “We had a very big response that day, and people coming in. Everyone was just so glad that it had opened back up again,” Held says. “And so that led to, OK, are we opening next weekend? Sure, let’s do it again next weekend, you know?”
“Right now, we’re working our way back up,” Held says. “It’s like starting a new business all over again, even though we are the oldest LGBTQ bar in Pittsburgh.”
Held adds that she’s “putting 150% into making a go of it, and I’m hoping, praying that we can turn things around.”
“That’s my ultimate goal, and I’m sure that’s their ultimate goal too, because they’re in this with me,” she says of Englert and Bear. “They’ve been my lifesaver.” •
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Pup Paimon performs during a Pride pet party at Brewer's Bar on May 31, 2025
LABOR OF LOVE
BY: COLIN WILLIAMS //
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Staff nurse Jean Stone speaks to the media during a press conference outside of UPMC-Magee Womens Hospital on May 29, 2025.
“WE RECOGNIZE UPMC’S RIGHTS, BUT I WILL TELL YOU THIS, YOU CAN EITHER SEE THE LIGHT OR YOU CAN FEEL THE HEAT.”
On the heels of other successful union pushes in area hospitals, nurses and advanced practitioners at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital announced May 29 that they had overwhelmingly opted to hold a union election with a “substantial majority” of over 1,000 votes. The nurses add to the tally of successful organizing bids — as well as strike votes — at hospitals, including Western Psychiatric, by nurses affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
“We work for a health system that is
an insurer and provider, and, as nurses, we experience the conflict between those roles day to day,” Magee Maternal Newborn Resource Team nurse Jean Stone told a crowd gathered in Zulema Parklet for the announcement. “For too long, the insurance arm of our health system has prioritized expansion and competition at the cost of our care and our practice.”
UPMC has faced a growing tide of public discontent following revelations of generous executive compensation paired with staff and service cutbacks and, more recently, denial of healthcare for trans
patients. Stone and other Magee nurses said UPMC executives’ use of a private jet, Super Bowl commercials, and millions of dollars in pay to retired CEO Jeffrey Romoff stood in stark contrast to what they described in a release as “the worst nursing crisis in the entire nation.”
“I see nurses and practitioners hustling to do everything they can with every minute of their shift, and I see families not receiving the kind of personal and personalized education that we all want to give them before they leave with their newborn,” Stone said.
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Emily De Ferrari attends a press conference in support of UPMC-Magee Womens Hospital workers on May 29, 2025
Magee is home to the largest Level IV neonatal intensive care unit in the commonwealth. The hospital sees some 10,000 births annually, or about half of the Allegheny County total. Multiple speakers said they had given birth to their own children at the hospital and spoke of their pride at being an essential part of Pittsburgh’s
However, nurses also said they felt spread thin — citing the success of nurses in the Allegheny Health Network/Highmark system’s Allegheny General and West Penn hospitals, Magee nurses and advanced practitioners called for fixed staffing ratios, parental leave, and better health insurance so as not
staff members, including U.S. Rep. Summer Lee; Pa. Reps. Aerion Abney, Jess Benham, Dan Frankel, and Lindsay Powell; Allegheny County Councilor Bethany Hallam; Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey; and Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato.
Innamorato said Pittsburgh was “damn proud” to be a “union town” and offered her office’s full support of Magee nurses’ pursuit of a free and fair union election. She said UPMC had a “moral obligation” to recognize the nurses’ vote. “A lot of our dollars, a lot of our taxpayer dollars, actually go to support UPMC’s work, and those resources should be going to patient care, not anti-union campaigns,” Innamorato added.
“It takes time to build trust in pregnancy, in the appointments where people can get all of their questions answered. It takes time to let the process of labor unfold,” nurse midwife Melissa DeiCas told those assembled. “We want a real say in how care gets delivered instead of having the corporate healthcare folks set the direction for where we’re
“Here at Magee, we witness the -
sive care unit nurse Paige Wingardbreaking to have to rush through or cut ourselves off from those moments because we have simply too -
ous elected officials and their
In the face of what they said were anti-union tactics by the regional healthcare giant, nurses struck a defiant chord. Speaking on behalf of “100,000 men and women of Allegheny County’s labor movement,” Allegheny/Fayette Central Labor Council president Darrin Kelly was blunt in demanding a fair and transparent union election and negotiations.
“We are calling for a free and fair election without any interference, which is the American right of everybody that’s behind me,” Kelly said, addressing UPMC’s executives in absentia. “We recognize UPMC’s rights, but I will tell you this, you can either see the light or you can feel the heat.” •
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UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital nurses call for a historic union election to stand up for quality patient care on May 29, 2025.
FEELING SQUIRRELLY
BY: COLIN
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Owner Craig Wilkins opens the new Squirrel Hill location of Squirrelly Discs on May 31, 2025.
The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped recreation, with more people looking to bicycles, exercise machines, kayaks , and long walks with new pets . While some of those booms eventually proved to be temporary, one pastimeturned-sport has continued to see durable growth: disc golf.
Also called frisbee golf or “frolf,” this golf-like game has boomed locally, aided by the presence of well-regarded courses — the ones in Deer Lakes Park and Moraine State Park are globally acclaimed by amateurs and professionals on UDisc, the sport’s dominant app — and area retailers like Squirrelly Discs. The Wexford retailer has built a stable enough customer base to expand into Pittsburgh. The new location, opened fittingly in Squirrel Hill, just minutes from the well-trafficked Par 3 course in Schenley Park, opened to the public May 31 with prizes and pizza.
“We always thought if we added another location, this would be the place. More players, by an order of magnitude, play Schenley Park than any other course in Pittsburgh,” Craig Wilkins, the store’s founder, tells Pittsburgh City Paper . “It’s just a bonus that we were already named Squirrelly Discs.”
I play disc golf and have been a Squirrelly customer. The sport is one my elder millennial joints can handle, and disc golf, with its low price point and free access to courses, is far cheaper than its country-club cousin. There’s also the collectible aspect — I joke with Wilkins that it’s sort of like adult Pogs.
For his part, Wilkins got into the game through his son Cohen “right around COVID time.”
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“WE ALWAYS THOUGHT IF WE ADDED ANOTHER LOCATION, THIS WOULD BE THE PLACE.”
“I used to play ultimate frisbee here in Pittsburgh years ago with some of the club teams, so it was just a natural transition to disc golf,” he says. “I travel around a little bit for work, and I travel and play courses. And I’d see all these great disc golf shops in these other cities. It just felt like that was kind of a gap here in Pittsburgh.”
When his son graduated from college, the family went all in on Squirrelly.
I arrive at the new Squirrel Hill location in a lower-level space next to Steal City Vintage and find Wilkins’ mom folding store-branded shirts while his stepdad brings boxes of inventory down from street level. Wilkins says the local ecosystem for
disc golf has only grown stronger in recent years, with new courses springing up in Denny Park near West View and East Park in Monroeville.
“We’re blessed to have courses here that are free in public parks, which is awesome. That is not the case nationwide,” Wilkins says. As for COVID-era growth, “at least in my experience, those people are still playing, and they’re expanding their game, and they’re moving on to bigger and better courses.”
Squirrelly stocks both new and used discs and equipment. Members of the store’s Acorn Club can sell their old discs for store credit. For new players, Wilkins
recommends that players “start with a putter … What we see a lot of is people will go out and buy the biggest distance driver they can; you know, a speed 14. And that’s not always a recipe for success right out of the gate.”
Beyond giving old discs a new home, Squirrelly stocks discs by Worthington, W.V.-based Elevation Discs, and Wilkins also name-checks Trash Panda, a Colorado company that makes new discs out of ground-up old ones. “You’re seeing more and more of these sustainable materials, rubber materials,” Wilkins says.
Squirrelly also has a TechDisc simulator (think batting cage) that allows frolfers to analyze their arm speed, release angle,
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Red Whittington shops for new discs during the grand opening of Squirrelly Discs' new Squirrel Hill location on May 31, 2025.
and other aspects of their game. Wilkins says he’s been surprised by how long customers hang around the store, whether browsing the inventory or spending longer stretches using the simulator.
“People come in and they’ll be here for an hour. They want to talk about disc golf. They want to browse some discs. Maybe they throw a few in the [simulator],” he says. “Maybe we have the pro tour going on on the TV. It’s kind of like a whole event for them.”
Squirrelly isn’t events-focused Wil ins and his family and sta are leaving that to Pittsburgh Flying Disc and other local boosters of the game. But he’s hopeful locals and visitors to Pittsburgh’s acclaimed courses, including nearby Schenley, will build in a trip to the store when they come to town. There’s no shortage of upcoming tournaments and
league play for Greater Pittsburgh’s thriving disc golf community, and Wilkins says Squirrelly plans to hide a few branded mini discs around Schenley Park and give away T-shirts to entice people into the store.
Wilkins says Squirrelly Discs plans to reach out to other Squirrel Hill businesses and perhaps even schools to encourage interest from younger players.
I text my regular disc golf group about my interview with Wilkins and ask why they love the game. “In disc golf, you alternate between expansive views of nature and focused attention on the game,” one buddy responds. Other positive aspects include stress relief and “bullshitting with friends.”
Both Wilkins and my group chat speak of a growing local “community” around the game — that community now has a retail hub in the heart of the city. •
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Lucas Hawk tests out the new simulator at Squirrelly Discs' new Squirrel Hill location on May 31, 2025.
ACTIVISM BAKED IN
Jasmine Cho is taking artivism beyond the cookie cutter
BY: AAKANKSHA AGARWAL // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
Asugar cookie changed everything in Jasmine Cho’s life. It was simple — its surface covered in smooth white icing, and a portrait of a protestor piped with a delicate tip.
he’d been ma ing portrait coo ies for a while figures li e race Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, astronauts, authors, changemakers she’d admired from afar. She even hand-delivered a cookie to Hines Ward the orean merican star celebrated on and o the field hat was fun ho tells Pittsburgh City Paper t was a cool e perience
But the cookie that truly galvanized her practice wasn’t for someone famous. It was for someone she didn’t even know.
It was summer 2017, and Cho was preparing a solo show at Biddle’s Escape, a neighborhood café in Regent Square. She decided to focus on activists, both past and present. One night, scrolling Instagram, she came across a photo that stopped her in her tracks.
Ben Dumond, a Korean American activist, was holding a protest sign that listed his intersecting identities am gay orean merican immigrant rape sur i or still standing
Cho spent hours piping his likeness onto a sugar cookie. hat was the first portrait did that really made me reali e how
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“IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT MY COOKIES, WHOSE FACES DO I WANT THEM TO SEE?”
serious this work actually is,” she says. “Cookies can feel very disarming and lighthearted, but actually, when I’m doing these portraits, they are not a fast process to create. I have to be really slow and intentional.”
From that moment on, she knew this wasn’t just about cookies anymore. If it ever was.
Long before she became known as a “cookie activist,” Jasmine Cho was just a Korean merican id in 1 0s os ngeles fielding the same question on repeat: “People would ask if I was Chinese or Japanese,” she says. “And when I said no, they’d go, ‘Well, what are you then?’
“Korea just wasn’t on people’s radar.”
Cho was raised by her Korean immigrant parents, as well as her paternal grandmother. Even in one of the most diverse cities in the country she rarely saw her identity re ected or recognized. “I make the distinction of saying Korea because my grandmother lived through
colonization, before South and North Korea were divided,” she explains.
Her earliest connection to identity was shaped by both pride and erasure. She grew up thinking certain words she’d learned from her grandmother were Korean, until she later discovered they were Japanese. The small linguistic betrayal opened yet another door to understanding her identity more deeply.
“That’s when I also started to learn about how the imperialist government of Japan had colonized Korea,” she says. “So that’s another element in terms of my cultural identity.”
Her family later moved to Albuquerque, N.M., where being the only Asian kid in class made her even more aware of her otherness. he first time she was called a racial slur was in preschool.
At school, Asian American history was nowhere to be found. “The only history I learned
that felt remotely close was about the Civil Rights Movement and Black leaders,” she says. “I related to that because I knew what it felt like to be minoritized.”
rt became her first outlet he s etched pop stars from Korean magazines, gravitating toward faces and expressions. Baking followed later, when a friend taught her how to bake from scratch in high school. From then on, she dreamed of opening a café. In college, she became known for her Nutella roll cakes and community bake sales.
Cho came to Pittsburgh to study pharmacy at Duquesne University. But like for many creati e spirits academia didn’t stic the first time around. “A rollercoaster,” she says of her early college years. She paused, started again, paused again; until she landed at Chatham University, where she took a 2011 Maymester course titled "Asian Immigrant Experiences in Pittsburgh,"
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Jasmine Cho poses with her portrait of Sammy Lee (1920-2016), the first Asian American to win a gold medal for the U.S. in Olympic diving.
taught by Professor Pooja Rishi.
That course cracked something open in her, she says.
“I felt everything at once. Anger that it took so long to learn this history, but also a sense of liberation. I realized we weren’t minorities. We had been minoritized in this country.”
It took another few years, and one very unexpected commission, for her activism to find its voice. In 2016, a friend asked her to make cookies for a birthday party — portrait cookies of their face.
“The cookies went viral. This was before TikTok, just on Facebook and Instagram. Everyone was paying attention,” she says. “So I thought, if people are going to look at my cookies, whose faces do I want them to see?”
She began creating cookies of Asian Americans and Pittsburghers she admired but didn’t see represented, like food activist Leah Lizarondo, co-founder of 412 Food Rescue, actress Ming-Na Wen, orthopedic legend Dr.
Freddie Fu, and Hines Ward.
“Leah (Lizarondo) is someone I consider a long-distance mentor. She’s just going to be a mentor in my heart forever.”
By 2017, Cho was running her small baking business, Butter and Joy bakery, alone, and burning out. “Managing a business on your own is a lot,” she says. “But I noticed that even when I was stressed, being in the kitchen calmed me. That’s when I started wondering, is ‘bake therapy’ a thing?”
She Googled it. Nothing came up. The closest term was “expressive therapy.” So Cho enrolled at Carlow University and graduated in 2019 with a degree in art therapy, summa cum laude, and the first in her family to graduate college.
Supervised by Dr. Jennifer Roth and Dr. Beth Surlow, Cho led an interdisciplinary research study through Center for Victims measuring the effect of baking on stress and anxiety. Participants filled out questionnaires and gave saliva samples before and after baking.
The results? Lower self-reported anxiety and reduced cortisol levels.
“I know baking isn’t therapeutic for everyone, some people find it stressful,” she says. “But it can be healing for a lot of people. I just want to expand how we think about wellness and offer one more path to empowerment.”
In 2019, Cho gave a TEDx talk at Pittsburgh’s Byham Theater to a sold-out crowd of 900. “It was amazing to speak in front of that many people,” she says. “But after it went online, I didn’t think much of it, until the views started climbing. Thousands. Then tens of thousands.”
Soon, media outlets like CBS This Morning and NPR came calling. But the messages that stuck with her most weren’t from journalists, they were from strangers around the world.
“I thought my message was about Asian Americans,” Cho says. “But I heard from people in Pakistan, China, Greece — people who just understood what it felt like to be unseen, to be erased. It was incredible.”
In 2020, the City of Pittsburgh officially declared Jan. 28 “Jasmine Cho Day.” “It was surreal,” she says. “Part of me felt undeserving, like, I’m just a baker. But I know the power of representation. If someone sees this and feels encouraged, then that makes it worth it.”
That same year, Cho wrote and self-published her first children’s book: Role Models Who Look Like Me: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Made History. Originally a final project for a Carlow class, it features 14 AAPI trailblazers and ends with a family portrait. “It’s a reminder that even if you didn’t see yourself in history books, your story matters, and your roots run deep.”
On May 30, Cho presented Eum Yang: Sweetness & Strength as part of 1Hood’s Artivist Academy Showcase. The evening included an artist talk and a Tae Kwon Do demonstration in honor of her father, Grandmaster Hee-il Cho. Hee-il Cho helped introduce Tae Kwon Do to the U.S. “He’s the most influential role model in my life,” she says.
Lately, Cho’s been reimagining her own creative form. For the last few years, life pulled her away from the kitchen. “It felt like a whirlwind of relentless challenges that capped my creativity,” she says. But now? “I’m thrilled, grateful, euphoric. This unexpected and welcome transition is happening.”
The transition isn’t just metaphorical. Cho
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Jasmine Cho displays more of her cookie portrait art. Left: I.M. (Ieoh Ming) Pei (1917-2019), late Chinese American architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid Right: Dalip Singh Saund, first Asian American, Indian-born, and Sikh elected to the U.S. Congress in 1956.
just found a brand new stage for her creations: a sunny storefront on Chislett Street in Morningside, nestled beside Firecracker Fabrics and near Ka-Fair Cafe.
his feels li e that dream finally materializing 25 years later,” she says, adding that it was as much a homecoming as a business move. “It’s been my dream to have my own ba ery caf space since first fell in love with baking as a sophomore in high school.”
series with her fianc ordan aylor (aka Council of Saturn), inspired by Korean ballads and her mother’s memories. Cho will bake one treat for each track on the album Passed Memories.
“It’s inspired by omakase,” she says, “but instead of sushi, it’s joy. Curated joy.”
She plans to open slowly, starting with pop-ups and collaborations.
“I’ve kind of pigeonholed myself with
“I KNOW THE POWER OF REPRESENTATION. IF SOMEONE SEES THIS AND FEELS ENCOURAGED, THEN THAT MAKES IT WORTH IT."
She hopes to reopen for custom orders by late summer or early fall, starting with pop-ups and collaborations. First up? Joymakase, a multi-sensory tasting and listening
just sugar cookies, and I want to play again. Try new things.”
More than anything, she hopes the space becomes fertile ground.
“Everything I do is about visibility,” she says. “I want my work to be soil for others to bloom.” •
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Jasmine Cho poses with a piece of her cookie art featuring Karen Fung Yee holding a portrait of her parents, Hoy and Lorraine Fung.
SEVEN DAYS IN PITTSBURGH
BY CP STAFF
THU., JUNE 5
FESTIVAL • STRIP DISTRICT
The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival returns with a new location and a robust lineup of live entertainment, handmade art and crafts, and more. Head to the Strip District for local and national music talent, including throwback artists Lisa Loeb and Suzanna Vega, emerging acts Cautious Clay and Tiera Kennedy, and others. Visit the popular Artists Market, catch dance performances by Garba360 and slowdanger, or take in the Juried Visual Art Exhibition. Showtimes vary. Continues through Sun., June 8. 15th Street Plaza-Waterfront Place, Strip District. Free. traf.trustarts.org
ART • SQUIRREL HILL
Opening Reception: Through Your Eyes with Virginia Christman. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Frick Environmental Center. 2005 Beechwood Blvd., Squirrel Hill. Free. RSVP recommended. pittsburghparks.org
THEATER • SOUTH SIDE
Sister Strikes Again: Late Nite Catechism 2 7 p.m. Continues through Sun., June 29. City Theatre. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $55. citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org
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FRI., JUNE 6
CONVENTION • MONROEVILLE
Living Dead Weekend: Dead are Alive 2025 12 p.m. Continues through Sun., June 8. Monroeville Mall. 200 Mall Circle Dr., Monroeville. Tickets start at $27.72. thelivingdeadweekend.com
ART • SEWICKLEY
Opening Reception: 50 Years, 50 Works. 5-8 p.m. Continues through July 18. Sweetwater Center for the Arts. 200 Broad St., Sewickley. Free. sweetwaterartcenter.org/ upcoming-exhibitions
ART • GARFIELD
Mixtape asks, “Ever wondered what it would be like if Dog Smoking Weed took over an amusement park?” The bar and event space answers this question with [RE] Mixtape: Dannyland, an immersive exhibition paying tribute to late Pittsburgh gra iti artist Danny Devine. Enter a world inspired by Devine’s irreverent art, created with help from local muralists Shane Pilster and Max “GEMS” Gonzales. Attend the opening reception during the Unblurred First Friday art crawl. 6-10 p.m. Continues through August. 4907 Penn Ave., Garfield. Free. mixtapepgh.com
LIT • OAKMONT
Author Craig Johnson presents Return to Sender. 7 p.m. Mystery Lovers Bookshop. 514 Allegheny River Blvd., Oakmont. Free. Ticket required. mysterylovers.com
PARTY • NORTH SIDE
Garden Party: Pink 7-11 p.m. Mattress Factory. 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. $125-375 21 and over. mattress.org
OPEN MIC • HOMESTEAD
i’d ship it: smut fanfic open mic with Indigo Sparks and Sara Bellum. 8-10 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. The Glitterbox Theater. 210 W. Eighth Ave., Homestead. Free. 18 and over. theglitterboxtheater.com
SAT., JUNE 7
CONVENTION • DOWNTOWN
Three Rivers Comicon 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Continues through Sun., June 8. David L. Lawrence Convention Center. 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd., Downtown. $6-100. 3riverscomicon.com
MUSIC • MILLVALE
Squonk Opera presents Brouhaha. 3 p.m. Rainbow Raccoon Park. 112 Meade St., Millvale. Free. All ages. squonk.org/brouhaha
FILM • MCKEES ROCKS
Women and the Wind 3 p.m. Parkway Theater and Film Lounge. 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. $12.25. communityreelartscenter.org
DANCE • EAST LIBERTY
Flamenco Pittsburgh presents Fiesta Flamenca. 8 p.m. Kelly Strayhorn Theater. 5941 Penn Ave., Downtown. Pay What Moves You $15-30. kelly-strayhorn.org
SUN., JUNE 8
OCCULT • NORTH SIDE
Theresa Caputo of Long Island Medium 5 p.m. Doors at 4 p.m. Rivers Casino. 777 Casino Dr., North Side. Tickets start at $39. 21 and over. riverscasino.com/pittsburgh
DRAG • LAWRENCEVILLE
Riverfront Theater Company presents Drag BINGO. 4-8 p.m. Spirit. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $40 in advance, $45 at the door. 21 and over. spiritpgh.com
PHOTO: COURTESY OF KELSEY OGDEN Garba360, part of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
MUSIC • ALLENTOWN
Florry. 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Bottlerocket Social Hall. 1226 Arlington Ave., Allentown. $18 in advance, $20 at the door. bottlerocketpgh.com
MON., JUNE 9
WORKSHOP/ART • CHATEAU
19th Century Photography. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Continues through Fri., June 13. Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. 1815 Metropolitan St., Chateau. $125 for non-members, $40 materials fee. mcgyouth.org
FILM • DOWNTOWN
Director Alex Ross Perry delivers Pavements,a genre-bending look at an iconic indie band. Described as part concert film, part fake jukebox musical, and part biopic, the work defies music documentary conventions to tell the story of Pavement, the influential group fronted by Stephen Malkmus. See it during a limited run at the Harris Theater 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Continues through Thu., June 19. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $10-13. trustarts.org
TUE., JUNE 10
MUSIC • NORTH SHORE
Justice. 7 p.m. Stage AE. 400 North Shore Dr., North Shore. $73. promowestlive.com
MUSIC
• MCKEES ROCKS
Artemas: The Americas Tour 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Roxian Theatre. 425 Chartiers Ave., McKees Rocks. $41-77. roxiantheatre.com
WED., JUNE 11
MUSIC • STRIP DISTRICT
Marsha Ambrosius 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Doors at 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. City Winery. 1627 Smallman St., Strip District. $70-85. citywinery. com/pittsburgh
MUSIC • NORTH SIDE
John Wiese, Lana Del Rabies, and Ill Fitting Party. 8 p.m. The Government Center. 715 East St., North Side. $15. thegovernmentcenter.com/ events
WED., JUNE 11 JUNETUE.,10
PHOTO: COURTESY OF CITY WINERY Marsha Ambrosius at City Winery
PHOTO: COURTESY OF JULIA VINCENT Justice at Stage AE
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 111 Hickory Grade Road, Bridgeville, PA 15017 on June 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM. Ratu Tavisa, 3150. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 141 N Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15208 on June 18th, 2025 at 11:00 AM. 2092 Jacob Parr, 2214A Anthony Je erson, 4022 Simone Deakings. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.
Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
MARKET PLACE
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 6400 Hamilton Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15206. June 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM. Rafiyq Cromwell-2077, John Spriggs-4028, Cassiee Russell-4051, Sherrie Wadley-L088. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its a iliates life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a Public Auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extras Space’s lien at the location indicated: 902 Brinton Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15221 on June 18, 2025 at 11:30am. Angela Ligon 2234, Jayla Johnson 2034, Jasmine Lewis1192, Daniella Bowman 1079, Tatiana Chaneyfield 3084. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse and bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 880 Saw Mill Run Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15226, June 18, 2025, at 1:15 PM. Sam Callahan 1082, Latoya Reed 2010, Rebecca Tucker 3081, Justin Lucot 4048. The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s Lien at the location indicated: 3200 Park Manor Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15205 on June 18, 2025 at 1:00pm. 3061 Leslie Johnston. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 1005 E Entry Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15216 on 6/18/2025 at 11:30 AM. Nathan Gibson 4134, David Diaz 5145, Kaylee Morrow 5161. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.
Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 1212 Madison Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. June 18th, 2025 at 1:30 pm. 117 James Cunningham, 2037 Cheyday Dixon, 6093 Afshana Taylor. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
PUBLIC AUCTION
“Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 110 Kisow Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15205 June 16, 2025 at 11:15AM. Nicole Mantia -32. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.”
PUBLIC AUCTION
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its a iliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 700 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203. June 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM. 1073 Daniel J Williams, 2007 Carla Runvo, 2165 Blessing Spell, 2169 Ceddric Moses, 4200 Tanisha Turner. The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Public notice is hereby given that property placed in storage by the following persons at the following locations will be sold via public sale to satisfy Guardian Storage liens for unpaid rent and other charges. Bidding for property of persons renting space at the following locations will be held online at www.Storageauctions.com ending on June 17, 2025 at 12:00 pm, and day to day thereafter until sold at which time a high bidder will be determined.
350 Old Haymaker Road, Monroeville, Pa 14146: Unit #1407 Tara Long, Unit #2326 Alaha Crutchfiled, Unit #2708 Edith Cardamone, Unit #3224 Je Morrison, Unit #3232 Sedale Davis, Unit #3536 Barbara Baldwin, Unit #3717 Barbara Baldwin 1002 E. Waterfront Dr., Munhall, Pa 15120: Unit #1416 Karen Smith, Unit #1621 Carla Taylor, Unit #1716 Cli ord Wood, Unit #3210 La’Ron Watkins, Unit #3606 Christie Houston, Unit #3740 Davita Inc, Accounts Payable, Unit #3903 Samuel Wright, Unit #3910 Heather Lake
14200 Route 30, North Huntingdon, Pa 15642: Unit #1032 Jonna Peretto, Unit #1062 Kenni McGillivary, Unit #1074 Vileska Rodriquez, Unit #1124 Cherie White, Unit #2080 Anna Byrne 4711 William Penn Highway, Monroeville, PA 15146: Unit #11418 Eveline Cameron, Unit #12603 Shari Johnson, Unit # 13210 Kacie Moody, Unit #23215 Melanie Medgaus
1028 Ridge Road, Tarentum, Pa 15084: Unit #11203 Kasha Cambal, Unit #21123 Daniel Strang, Unit #31116 Maria Acri, Unit #31516 Zane Webster, Unit #31929 Kasha Cambal, Unit #32507 Kialee Gent, Unit #32711 Carley Watt, Unit #41327 Michael Gingery, Unit #41335 Michael Gingery, Unit #41413 Jevair Edmonds, Unit #41418 Fanisha Milisits
901 Brinton Road, Pittsburgh, Pa 15221: Unit #10113 Lindsay Weinstein, Unit #10208 Roderick Thornhill, Unit #6117 Kimberly Cameron, Unit #6132 Desiree Holston, Unit #7114 Alisha Strong
2670 Washington Rd, Canonsburg, PA 15317: Unit #1317 Dolores Coldsmith, Unit #3413 William H Scherz 5873 Centre Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206: Unit #210 Asia Freeman, Unit #2608 James Smith
750 South Millvale Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Unit #1105E Michelle Lee, Unit #1129 Jacob White
2839 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222: Unit #2626 Vonda Williams, Unit #3306 Dave Comstock, Unit #4706 Je rey Horrell, Unit #5023 Celestino Palmer, Unit #6821 Juan Giles
1599 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017: Unit #52112 Donte Johnson, Unit #52808 Adam Berkeley
1300 Lebanon Church Road, West Mi lin, PA 15236: Unit #13110 Vinny Mitchel, Unit #13406 Je ery Young, Unit #21221 John Banks, Unit #32510 Raeneesa Bey-Lockwood
401 Coraopolis Road, Coraopolis, PA 15108: Unit #12828 Ashley Farnen, Unit #13108 Alishea Bush, Unit #21329 Mark Follen
Purchases must be made with cash and paid at the location at the above referenced facility to complete the transaction. Guardian Storage has the right to refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
HELP WANTED FINANCIAL ANALYST
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HELP WANTED PEDIATRICIAN
Allegheny Clinic seeks a Pediatrician to work in and around Pittsburgh, PA and diagnose, treat, and help prevent children’s diseases and injuries. Send CV/cover letter with salary requirements to: Denise Imperatore, Director of Practice Operations, denise.imperatore@ahn.org with “Pediatrician opportunity” in re line.
NAME CHANGE
IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: NO. GD-25-005077, In re petition of Gulsanam Sheralieva and Dilshodbek Narzikulov, parent(s) and Legal guardians of Saloh Dilshodbekovich Nematilloev, change of name to Saloh Nematillo.
To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the Wednesday, June 18th, 2025, at 9:30 a.m, as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for
NAME CHANGE
IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: NO. GD-25-003084, In re petition of Baby Boy Freeman, change of name to Douglas Freeman. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, at 9:30 a.m, as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for
GO FIGURE
ACROSS
1 Just peachy 5 Short distance 9 Beef roasts
Head shop purchase
15 First-time game
no sense”
49 Resistance units
11 Be compelled to
12 Falafel bread
Indigenous Canadian 17 With 28-Across, 1984 teaching 19 Scenic view 20 First bedroom roommate, perhaps 21 Nightmare ___ (disturbing content) 22 Food for the gods 23 Diamond’s opposite on the Mohs scale 25 Target of planks
Parts of a pileup 28 See 17-Across
Wine category
Song by 58-Across
Psychedelic pattern 41 With 13-Down, pan
___ Wednesday
Singer Mann
Arc lamp gas 46 With 62-Across, “This makes
50 Big name in moisturizers 51 Sushi selection 53 Shakespeare character who says “You kiss by the book” 56 Indian bread
58 “If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)” entertainer 61 “To your health!”
62 See 46-Across 64 White-plumed bird
65 Leap in a
13 See 41-Across
18 Walter Payton Man of the Year org.
22 “I ain’t fronting”
24 Look for answers
25 Sports talk radio habitue
26 Jeweler’s unit
27 Soaked
29 Mayor on The Simpsons
30 “Nope, can’t ___ that”
31 Like a despot
32 What spitting spiders spit
33 Idyllic spots 35 Ornamental
shoulder decoration 40 Shoot for 45 Millions of decades 47 “Did you hear that?” triggers 48 Said
___ corda (sofr pedal)
53 Static meme, say 54 Spur (on)
55 Oft-told tales 56 Wassailing time 57 Debate position
Je ne sais quoi
Neuter
Crate diggers, at times
PRIDE
June is Pride Month and Pittsburgh Regional Transit is proud to support LGBTQIA+ people both in the workplace and in the community.