Wiz Khalifa Plays KeyBank Pavilion; Stage AE Hosts Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World; Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix (Sat., 7/20/19)

1) Wiz Khalifa’s songs have been nominated for 10 Grammys, including the hometown fave “Black and Yellow.” The music video for “See You Again” (featuring Charlie Puth), from the Furious 7 soundtrack, was briefly the most viewed video on YouTube when it surpassed “Gangnam Style” by K-pop singer Psy in July 2017. “See You Again” pays tribute to one of the film’s stars, Paul Walker, who died in a car accident before the movie was completed. Khalifa and his backing band, Kush and Orange Juice, headlined Thrival Music at Carrie Furnace in 2017. The band is part of the larger Taylor Gang, Khalifa’s Pittsburgh-based record label. The name harks back to Taylor Allderdice High School, his alma mater, and his admiration of Chuck Taylor shoes. His latest release is this year’s Fly Times, Vol. 1: The Good Fly Young. He will play KeyBank Pavilion. French Montana, Playboi Carti, Moneybagg Yo, Chevy Woods, and DJ Drama open. 6 p.m. 665 Rt. 18, Burgettstown. (CM)

Wiz Khalifia rapping with a smile on his face as his band Kush and Orange Juice performing in the background at the 2017 Thrival Music Festival. (Photo: Rick Handler)

2) It’s a double shot of power pop: Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World at Stage AE. Vocalist Stephen Jenkins is the remaining founding member of Third Eye Blind. They never repeated the commercial success of their 1997 eponymous debut, which sold 6 million copies in the U.S., but they’ve hardly sat around collecting royalties. The band—in various iterations—has continued to record and tour, and it has grown a new fan base, particularly with the release of 2009’s Ursa Major, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Its latest release is 2018’s Thanks for Everything, a covers EP the sales of which benefit the Andy Warhol Museum. Jimmy Eat World enjoyed their highest charting single with “The Middle,” a top five hit on the Billboard Top 40 in 2002. It continues to have a long shelf-life. (“Oh, my god, I love this song,” Taylor Swift says in a 2016 Apple Music ad before lip-syncing to it.) 2004’s “Pain” was another hit for the band. Jimmy Eat World formed in Mesa, Arizona in 1993. Ra Ra Riot, an indie rock band known for songs like “Dance with Me,” open. Doors open 6 p.m. 400 North Shore Dr., North Shore. (HM, CM) 

Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Race Weekend—July 20-21, Schenley Park

3) Drivers will start their engines and fans will lower their tailgates for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix race weekend in Schenley Park.The event is one of America’s largest vintage race events. Saturday will see race qualifying heats with over 150 vintage racers, and Sunday is race day. Both days’ action goes from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Other highlights include car shows featuring international and British cars, a vendors marketplace, food offerings, and track rides in MINI Coopers. The Shelby & Mustang is the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix’s Marque of the Year 2019. Race heats are on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Gates open at 9:30 a.m. Look for Vintage Grand Prix events throughout Pittsburgh in the run up to the race. Charities benefiting from race proceeds are the Autism Society of Pittsburgh and the Allegheny Valley School. Free. (RH)

Two older, vintage, open-wheel racers jockey for position. (Photo: Rick Handler)

If you had the problems Juliet has, you’d drink, too, and Friar Laurence would be your enabler. This message was approved by the makers of ‘Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.’ (photo © Rah Petheridge Photography)

4) Attention, fans of drunk humor: Here’s a show that might be just your cup of 100-proof vodka. The American touring cast of U.K.-based Magnificent Bastard Productions Ltd. visits Pittsburgh to perform a play from the company’s Sh!t-faced® Shakespeare repertoire, Sh!t-faced® Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. To quote from the Magnificent Bastard website: “Each night … one carefully selected cast member is charged with drinking for 4 entire hours prior to showtime. The remaining sober cast are forced to fight their way through the show while incorporating, rectifying, justifying and generally improvising round their inebriated castmate. With foul language, partial nudity, simulated acts of a sexual nature, full contact wrestling, full nudity, actual acts of a sexual nature and involuntary ‘tongue stuff’ … What could possibly go right?” We note with dismay that the company does not use the Oxford comma. But it’s an imperfect world, and the Sh!t-faced® actors have good material to work with. Shakespeare was a funny guy. Even Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy, contains a lot of laughs when simply played the way he wrote it. 8 p.m. One night only. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Cultural District. (MV)

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