Spirit Summer Recess Outdoor Food + Music Festival

As this long, construction-filled, often-rainy summer ends and the kids from pre-K through graduate school gear up to return to classes, it’s good to remember the best “school subject”: recess. Spend some time outside at the third annual Summer Recess Outdoor Food + Music Festival and soak up music and (hopefully) sun at Spirit. Indulge in local vendors’ food, like walking tacos from Round Corner Cantina or ice cream sandwiches from Leona’s. The jam-packed music schedule includes pop-influenced funk outfit Starship Mantis, garage pop-rock group Wreck Loose, and lo-fi musician and vlogger Weird Paul, the back-to-back winner of Best Hair in City Paper’s Best Of Pittsburgh poll. Stick around after nine hours of all-ages outdoor fun for the 21-plus afterparty inside, starting at 9 p.m.