Radio Round Up – January 4, 2008

Happy Birthday Pittsburgh! – 2008 is Pittsburgh’s 250 birthday.  It is
a whole year of events to celebrate all over the region.  Major bike
race across the state of PA coming this summer.  TourofPA.com for more info.

Second City Does Iron City

  • Chicago’s famous sketch comedy troupe comes to Pittsburgh
  • Special show commissioned for Pittsburgh’s 250th Birthday
  • Jan 8 – 13, Call Becky at Pittsburgh Public Theater for tickets – 412-316-1600.

Lunch with Brad Yoder

  • Brad Yoder, voted Pittsburgh’s best solo artisit for 4 of the past 5 years will be preforming at Franktuary for lunch today. 
  • Try one of their steelers themed hot dogs – Roethlisfurteror the Pola(malu)nesian.

Things to do inside this winter…

  • Pub Quiz Night at the brillobox
    • Every Wednesday 9-11pm, prizes for the top 3 teams
  • Scrabble Clubs
    • Pittsburgh has 2 local official Scrabble clubs
    • Squirrel Hill club meets on Wednesadys
    • Mt Lebanon Club meets on Saturdays
    • More info at PGHScrabble.com

Things to look forward to…Coming in February FrostBurn
- the Burning Man of PA.  This looks to be a big winter version of the
famous Burning Man festival that takes place in the desert every year.
More details to come at FrostBurnPGH.com

About Lindsay


Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh for as long as she has been blogging - but fortunatly there are lots of great things about Pittsburgh to share. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon. Lindsay is also working on BlogLocal which is building a map of blogs with local content.