This morning, Natalia called Lindsay for a brunch date. Natalia, dealing with a pathetic addiction to bubble tea, suggested Lulu’s or the Rose Tea Cafe. “But I choke on those damn things!” Lindsay replied. “How about … Big Jim’s in the Run?” Okay … so screw the bubble tea! Not quite Greenfield, not quite Hazelwood, the Run is a neighborhood more
I am not sure why it did not occur to me to me write a post about Mad Mex before. Mad Mex is like a home away from home for me, so I guess I assumed that everyone knows about it and eats there as often as I do. I don’t have time to give a full ode to Mad Mex – I am sitting here at Mad Mex finishing my excellent lunch special and I have to hurry so I more
Friday evening I visited the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern with some friends. This was my first time there, and I took some ribbing from people who said “and you’re from Pittsburgh?!” The place was very easy to find coming from Oakland. I don’t think I would have found the parking lot for the place though, as you need to pass the Tavern and then turn more
The party’s inside, so click inside! Oh yes. It’s HOTNESS, our favorite fuschia-wearin’ silver-sequined spectacle on the Pittsburgh muzack scene. Lindsay and I became Hotness fans when we first saw him play at the Shadow Lounge last year. And we were so excited when we found that the party anthem “We Gotta!” now has a MUSIC VIDEO. (“I got a feeling more
Right now in the Hall of Sculpture of the Carnegie Museum, works produced by students in the studio art programs are on display. The youth programs at the Carnegie nurtured the early talents of such Pittsburgh artists as Andy Warhol and Renee Stout. Walking through the variations on a project, like many examples of “figure proportion study,” I already more
We’re on a photo kick this week! Know these ladies? Pittsburgh owes much of its visual history to photographer Teenie Harris. I was going to attempt to capture the spirit of Mr. Harris in this post, but this letter from Larry Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh describes the project best: “Teenie Harris’ photographs are more
If you want to know what Pittsburgh looks like, look no further than the Flickr group in Pittsburgh. The Flickr group in Pittsburgh has within a year taken an on-line activity to the streets. Over 350 members have posted more than 3,000 photos chronicling the people and places of Pittsburgh. Photos vary from the pedestrian (in the very best sense of more
