July 1 Run: Wendy Bennett Trailhead (see message for map) for Schenley Park run

On Sunday we'll meet at our fave Wendy Bennett Trailhead - map here if you need one - and head into Schenley park in all its glory.  Coffee most likely at 61C.

Last time we beat the crowds to Open Streets territory on the Strip from Penn Ave. to Butler St., where apparently 36,000 people made their way after we left.  My only regret is that I left before seeing the Pittsburgh Sword Fighters.  For the all-important coffee hour, we had a toss-up between La Prima and Smallman Galley: right-out-of-the-oven almond meles or a bathroom?  Weirdly, the bathroom won, but maybe not next time.

Endorsed:

• The Squirrel Hill Night Market, which seems to grow exponentially each year.  "It felt like another city - or Lawrenceville!"
• Lainy 's box of Irish rainbow shoelaces promoting concussion awareness - we tried to figure that out but failed.
• Restaurants:  
• Someone said it is lobster ravioli week at Legume 
• Authentic Chinese Northeastern Kitchen in Squirrel Hill - where the Mediterranean Grill used to be (as in: things that are not there anymore.)
• Basha 21 on Murray - evidently was once Taza 21?
• Books:  Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, James Michener's Iberia (if you're going to Spain)
• TV:  Fauda, Israelis and Palestinians together; The Night Manager, Le Carre updated; Dietland
• Time: "I don't have time for loose tea."