Enjoy these POVs from the 2024 Millvale Music Festival. The videos showcase the art districts on Butler Street and Sedgwick Street as well as the Maple Leaf gallery on Sedgwick Street. You can see the type of artists who were present at the event and the type of music performed in the art districts.

“Yes I do [skateboard] but it is important for me to say that I am not good” artist Bob Freyer told me when I asked him if he was a skater after a skate deck show at .5 gallery. That’s okay that he’s not a particularly good skater because he’s really good at making bad ass skate deck designs. Last Saturday .5 featured skate decks from a variety of artists.

What does a chess match at the end of a gay bar bar crawl have to do with ice manufacturing, Whooley’s Market, the mob, the library, and a historical society? Well, everything of course.

133 years young, the painter known for his murals at Millvale’s Saint Nicholas Croatian Church, Maxo Vanka is alive and well in 2022. He’s also hip to 2022 tech. Though he’s shed his earthly body, his soul can be felt through new works of art and his voice heard through the murals on the church’s walls. The murals, who’s messages ring as true today as they did 85 years ago, were created just before the start of Second World War.