Monthly Archives: August 2006

smith

set to premiere on september 26th is CBS’s new show ‘smith.’ why do you care, you might ask? well, at least the first episode of this show was filmed in pittsburgh. the trailer, which you can watch here, shows master theif ray liotta and his team busting into the mellon institute to steal a priceless work of art, then escaping by zooming along highways more

Songs to listen to on your iPod …

while walking around in the Andy Warhol Museum. Don’t ask me why, but I’m on a music kick lately! I found this fun playlist on this cute web site called “tiny mix tapes.” Someone by the handle Compulis compiled this list. IheartPGH – not only do we provide you with the quirks of this city, we also provide the soundtrack! Compiled by: Cropulis Note more

Joe Grushecky – Rock’s best-kept secret

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Music critics place him among the best rock and rollers ever. Over the past two decades, he’s raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for all kinds of causes, including headlining a sold-out (in 57 minutes!) “Flood Aid” benefit concert last December in Pittsburgh with his good buddy Bruce Springsteen. He’s a musician, more

Big Fun Part 2!

One more last minute addition to “Git Aht” … If you’re still looking for something to do tonight, check out BIG FUN PART 2 at the Shadow Lounge tonight. What is this “Big Fun” I speak of? (CAPITAL LETTERS!!) FRIDAY AUGUST 25TH 8:30PM-2AM @ The Shadow Lounge BAUM BLVD. EAST LIBERTY, OMAR-ABDUL AND THE LEAGUE OF YOUNG VOTERS HOST: BIG FUN PT.2, more

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while figuring out how the hell we only ended up in 8th place…) Friday, August 25 Wine Tasting, 5:30 p.m., The Warhol, North Shore Side 12 bucks gets you samples of four wines, some food provided by Big Burrito and admission more

Girl Talk

Greg Gillis aka Girl Talk is a Pittsburgh DJ who put out his third full-length release Night Ripper this spring. The indie purists over at Pitchfork Media give Mr. Talk’s album a rating of 8.4/10 and those cats don’t like anything. The Washington City Paper describes Night Ripper as “the triple Salchow-double toe combination” of mash-ups. (Yes, more

Git Help Aht: Donate Your Old Computer This Saturday At Heinz Field

It sits in your home office or game room… 50-plus lurking pounds of heavy metal, (Dude! Rawk Aht! What? Oh, sorry… go on…) plastic and other stuff that really shouldn’t go to a landfill, right below a gargantuan monitor that is so old it occasionally picks up transmissions from the 1939 World’s Fair, and a keyboard that when typed on makes a sound more