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Post Date: Nov.12.08
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Post Date: Oct.23.08
(Things to do while pretty much condemning your next kid to a lifetime of fighting other kids at the playground…)
Friday
The Great Glass Pumpkin (And Make Your Own, Kinda) The Pittsburgh Glass Center, ‘SLiberty(ish), 6-9 p.m.
Make your own glass pumpkin for 25 bucks, or just attend the event for free and see artisans practicing their craft, which is also part science. It truly is an awesome thing to watch. Plus, you can see their Glory Hole, which is helpfully pictured at left. Seriously. That’s what the opening to the furnace is called. A Glory Hole. Enjoy saying it all night long, over and over to the absolute consternation of those around you. Be That Guy. Glory Hole.
(Linds! Don’t think of it as me being my regular juvenile self! Instead, think of all the accidental traffic this post will get from google now! We’ll be rich! It’s a gravy train with biscuit wheels, baby! And we’re in the bar car with forks and knives!)
Lisdoonvarna (8th Annual Matchmaking Festival Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle, The Strip, 7 p.m.
Apparently they’ll have matchmakers on hand. In my neighborhood growing up, we called them “Pimps” or “Bartenders”, but whatever… It looks like a fun Friday night at Mullaney’s where you could meet someone and fall in like. With beer. Mythbusters just proved that the Theory Of Beer Goggles, wherein the opposite sex becomes more attractive the more you drink, is indeed plausible. I would heartily suggest you try the experiment yourself at Mullaney’s. I’ll be there around, oh, let’s say 1:30 or so, ladies. I’ll be playing the part of “Handsome Stranger” until around 8 Saturday morning, when I’ll be playing “Bald Guy On The Couch Of My Apartment, Eww He’s Gross, How Can I Get Him Out Of Here” at which point I’ll wake up, scratch myself inappropriately, and use your bathroom before making a long-distance call on your land line, which is to say, yes, I’m the man of your dreams.
The The Big Throwback 10 p.m., Brillobox, Western Bloomfield
You Damn skippy… Brillo hosts J. Malls & Omar-Abdul for the monthly funk/dance/soul shindig, coming to you live from the Mothership.
Saturday
Zombiefest 2008, Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, All Day (Of The Dead)
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look, just click the link to find out all about it… There’s way too much going on to list, but be sure you show up Sunday for the World Record Zombie Walk. Or lurch. Whatever. One fun note: the elevator that dude gets torn up in is still in service in JCPenneys. From the inside of the mall, go into the store and sorta keep making your way towards the left rear of the store. If you’re on the lower floor, it’s right by customer service where, oddly, they deal with zombies all the time.
Nightmare On Carson Street Bar Crawl (Or lurch. Whatever), Various Bars, Register at St. James Place, 19th * Mary St, Sahsside
Beer specials, souvenir cup, 15 bars. It benefits the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, and the cost is only 5 bucks with a donation of two cans of food. This, Ladies And Gentlemen, is you Officially Sanctioned Git Aht Drinking For A Cause of the week.
Discounted tickets are available here, though, but their info wasn’t as good as the link in the title…
Sunday
Recover, At Home, All Day
Watch the Steelers and recover. I dunno, maybe go have a bloody mary and the potato/cheese strudel at Point Brugge for brunch. And then wash it down with a bloody mary.
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Post Date: Oct.23.08
RiverQuest is awesome and one of those cool things that didn’t exist when I was a kid. RiverQuest, which used to be called Pittsburgh Voyager, is a floating classrom that is here to provide hand on learning on the rivers. Earlier this summer, RiverQuest moved to a new vessel that is a green, environmentally friendly ship - the Explorer is one of the first green passenger boats in the world.
To celebrate the Halloween Season they have organized a spooktacular “spirits of the Riverfront” Cruise. I really want to go on this - 2 hours of scary stories and visiting haunted spots along Pittsburgh rivers.
The final cruise is this Friday, October 24 7-9pm. Tickets are $10-$15. Click here for all the details.
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Post Date: Oct.16.08
I mentioned this last month, but this festival is worth another post. This is the 10th Anniversary of the Black Sheep Puppet Festival - which is not the longest running yearly puppet festival in the country (who said Pittsburgh was lacking creativity and innovation). They have over 25 events scheduled during the month of October - some of them free events.
More info and a full schedule is available at BlackSheepPuppet.com 
Some other blogs who are talking about the Puppet Festival this year (and years past)…
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Post Date: Oct.07.08
In 2007, I think this was part of the Arts Festival or the Celebration of Glass but i can’t seem to find any pictures from this, there was an amazing display here in Pittsburgh where these photos were projected on a bunch of buildings downtown. The event was so popular in 2007 they extended the display. The Festival of Lights is back to celebrate Pittsburgh’s 250, yes we are still celebrating. This festival is really impressive, fun to look at and FREE.
The festival kicks off this Friday, October 10, 2008 in Katz Plaza.
Pittsburgh Jazz Legend Etta Cox will be performing a free concert starting at 6pm. The lights will be turned on around 8:30pm.
Check out some more pictures here.
There isn’t much info up on the web about when and where the lights on the other buildings will be displayed. I will update when I get more info.
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Post Date: Sep.03.08
Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:
- Designer Days: NCJW, - Each year the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women holds a massive clothing sale of new and used clothing at the Expo Mart. I have gottned some great things here in the past. If you are a clothing shopper this is worth a stop. The 2008 sale is on October 18 and 19.
- Flavorville Cafe - this is the BEST place for lunch in Pittsburgh. Mike fed me lunch almost daily for a year. Mike is awesome and this place is tasty and affordable. I can't believe I haven't blogged about them yet. I will have to make a visit there and write more about Flavorville.
- pairIncubator - World-Class Web Technology Incubator - this looks really cool - the folks behind pair networks are looking for a few good businesses to incubate. deadline is Jane 2, 2009.
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