Bellevue is "dry" -- no alcohol legally can be sold there -- but on Saturday night the wine will flow freely. It's part of one man's push to change the law to allow alcohol sales, which he believes will improve the small town.

"My thing is night-time activity on the avenue," says Aaron Stubna, who runs Lincoln Barbers on the main drag of Lincoln Avenue, which recently has been losing businesses. "We've got to get the locals shopping and eating here again."

Hence Saturday's Art/Wine Crawl, the latest such event in Mr. Stubna's and friends' efforts to inject some life back into this not-long-ago more vibrant business district on the north edge of Pittsburgh, just off Ohio River Boulevard.

Participants will pay a $5 donation to get into the core event, the art exhibition and live entertainment on the vacant third floor of the big G.C. Murphy building on Lincoln. Each will be given a punch card good for a free glass of wine ("while supplies last") at a dozen participating businesses, which include everything from the barber shop, which also is an art gallery, to other galleries to a tattoo studio. Affogato Coffee Bar will offer music during the crawl, when some of the musical acts will be on the move, too.

You can visit "Club Perqe," the basement of the well-known, upscale Italian -- but BYOB -- restaurant, Vivo. It's owned by Sam DiBattista, who also owns Affogato and the Murphy building.

On the second floor of the Murphy building (home of Creative TreeHouse, a "shared creative studio"), at 9 p.m., "Pittsburgh's Neil Diamond," Chris Denim, will perform. Admission is $10 and you can BYOB.

Mr. Stubna will split the proceeds with Mr. DiBattista, with whom he's been working to book small concerts in Club Perqe, which also is BYOB.

Mr. Stubna would like to transform part of the Murphy building into a combination theater/music venue/art gallery/wine bar and is working on those plans. He says having a liquor license is crucial to such a project, and to attracting more restaurants and clubs -- and more residents.

"The only way Bellevue is going to be a destination is to have alcohol," says Mr. Stubna, 36, who lives in Kennedy with his wife, Jackie, and their three children, ages 13, 12 and 6. Although they live elsewhere, the couple care about Bellevue, which they think is well-positioned as a place for young professionals to visit and live if there were more to do.

Lincoln Barbers is a 42-year family business he's worked in for 16 years and owned for eight. But it's his passion for movies and filmmaking that is fueling his activities these days.

The theater/gallery/wine bar concept is the same one he's proposed as one of five entities that were vying to develop the Garden Theater, the former porn palace in a historic building on North Avenue on the North Side. The city Urban Redevelopment Authority's neighborhood committee approved his vision, which is still in the running.

Mr. Stubna sees the Garden transformed into a space where, before movies, theater-goers could sip wine and see live entertainment, including on an open-kitchen stage for culinary students of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

He can get a liquor license in the city, but in Bellevue, selling liquor by the glass has been outlawed since 1936. But he thinks he might help swing things with events like Saturday's crawl, which he's been holding monthly since December, though this is the first time wine is prominent on the bill.

"We're getting a good response. Every time it's getting bigger and bigger."

For more information, visit his Web site, web.mac.com/gardentheatervision.