Beer Festival, Arts Festival Top Pittsburgh Weekend Events

PITTSBURGH, PA - It’s a weekend full of festivals around Pittsburgh and one of them will be taking place in the historic setting of the Carrie Furnace in Rankin.

The Beers of the Burgh festival will showcase 50 of the region’s craft breweries Representing breweries will include 11th Hour, Cinderlands, Grist House, Voodoo, Brew Gentlemen, Full Pint and Hitchhiker.

Don’t worry about going hungry at the event, as food trucks will be on hand. There also will be live entertainment during the event, which runs from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. unless you have a 3 p.m. early admission ticket.

There also will be a festival after-party starting at 7 p.m. at the nearby Brew Gentlemen in Braddock. For more information on the festival, click on the link.

Other weekend highlights:

• Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 13-16, Various locations Downtown.

The nation’s premier free arts festival wraps up this weekend, hopefully without any more thefts of vendor artwork such as the ones occurring last weekend. Among this weekend’s performers at the Dollar Bank Main Stage in Point State Park: Slowdanger, Justin Fabus, Funky Fly Project, Mipso, Parsonsfield and Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers. For more details on festival events and activities, click on the link.

• Seth Myers, June 14, Carnegie Music Hall, Munhall.

Seeing as how his father is from Pittsburgh, the Emmy Award-winning writer and current host of "Late Night with Seth Meyers" is practically a yinzer himself. Myers, a "Saturday Night Live" cast member for 13 years, will perform two shows at the Carnegie; tickets are available only for the late one.

• "Grease," June 13, 7:30 p.m.; June 14, 8 p.m.; June 15, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and June 16, 2 p.m., Benedum Center, Downtown

Grease is still the word as this first Civic Light Opera production of the season concludes its run at the Benedum. You probably know the tale of the Rydell High School T-Birds, 50s greasers who are remarkably adept at song and dance for being borderline delinquents. Expect to hear all the classic songs like "You're The One That I Want," "Greased Lightning" and "Hopelessly Devoted To You."

• “The Shining,” June 14, 15 7 p.m.; June 16, 4 p.m. Carnegie Science Center, North Shore.

The masterpiece of modern horror is coming to the Rangos Omnimax Theater, Pittsburgh’s largest screen, brilliantly restored in 4K resolution. n this psychological horror, a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Although this event is more suited for Halloween than summer, who wouldn’t relish the chance to see Jack Nicholson go larger-than-life nuts?