Cicada Myths, Free Museum Tix & Kennywood Lawsuit

We always cite our sources:

• The NFL Draft always features fun videos of students celebrating, and occasionally lamenting, their new employers. Philly’s WTTW Podcast shared a particularly funny one this year.
• Someone’s suing Kennywood over the Steel Curtain’s closure, and his lawyer argues that people aren’t getting their season pass value if this major roller coaster isn’t running.
• Two broods of periodic cicadas are coming above ground this year, but you won’t see them in Pittsburgh. 
• Learn more about a fungus affecting periodical cicada broods all over the nation. Scientists from our region were hopeful some of that fungus could be useful for pharmaceuticals someday!
• Them reported it like this: “A Sexually Transmitted Fungus Is Making Trillions of Cicadas Hypersexual and Gay”
• It’s almost spotted lanternfly season, but you can squash egg masses before the bugs hatch.
• RAD is launching a summer staycation program where you can book free tickets to some of Pittsburgh’s museums starting May 1.
• Pittsburgh CLO’s summer shows and schedules have been announced.
• The student-led Gaza solidarity encampment is coming to a close, but organizers still plan to pressure the university to divest from Israel.

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