Yearly Archives: 2009

Beer + Ceramics = Make Your Own Stein Workshop

Christmas Ale, Anchor Brewing.
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This looks like a fun way to spend an afternoon and support the Union Project and East End Brewing too.

Saturday October 17 & 24 3:00PM-5:30PM – $40/person $65/couple

This workshop includes selecting a handmade stein design, funky or classic, then glazing it with high fire glazes. After we fire it for you, come back to crack open the kiln and test out your seasonal creation with a beer on us! We are partnering with East End Brewery for this event!

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Pit Stop

Coconut Cream and Lemon Meringue

Coconut Cream and Lemon Meringue

You know when you are famished and you pull over at the first place you have seen for miles and you don’t know whether you will be glad you did?  Well, the AH and I were glad to stop at the Lone Star Restaurant in Markleysburg where we were able to fuel up for our visit to the Christian W. Klay Winery.  The cheeseburger special was served on homemade rolls with crispy fries.  We couldn’t help but order two slices of pie from the mirrored display – at the Lone Star those are made from scratch too.  Our choices were too numerous to count: chocolate, peanut butter, peanut butter AND chocolate, apple, Dutch apple, cherry, peach, raisin, pumpkin, blackberry, and raspberry.  We went with old staples coconut cream and lemon meringue and were not disappointed.  The lemon meringue was tart without being cloying.  The coconut cream was a rich pudding with a cloud of meringue topped with toasted coconut.  By the time we left the Lone Star our bellies were full and we were ready to move on the the next stop.  The Lone Star doesn’t have a website but you can visit on your next trip to the Laurel Highlands at 4922 National Pike, Markleysburg, PA.

It's Just Honey and Water, Honey

Labels wait to go on the bottles at Glades Pike Winery

Labels wait to go on the bottles at Glades Pike Winery

After a leisurely morning at the Summit Inn (yes, free coffee and they had a fire going) we headed to the first winery on our itinerary.  Glades Pike is about an hour away – and watch those rural routes, signage can be difficult to see.  We arrived at Glades Pike, open since 2002, around 12:30, and were welcomed by the staff, despite the fact that there were several customers already at the tasting bar, Liz, our contact, quickly had us set up with a tasting menu.  We explained that we didn’t have a lot of experience with wine, but having lived in the Finger Lakes region we were aware that in certain regions of the United States, grapes grow differently and local wineries tend to excel at certain grape blends.  In my experience, drinking white in the Finger Lakes can be trancendental, but drinking reds is like sneaking your friend’s grandmother’s Manechewitz when you are 13 – grape juice with a kick.

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Radio Round Up – October 2, 2009

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Here is a run down of the events we talked about on WDVE this morning. What do you have planned for this weekend?

Gallery Crawl Times Two
  • Everything on Penn and Liberty Ave will be open late
  • Lots of art, music, food and drink
  • First Friday of Every month the galleries on Penn Ave in Garfield/Friendship stay open late
  • Stop by and celebrate the Friendship Development Associates 20th Anniversary at the the New Glass Lofts
  • Grandview Park on Mt. Washington
  • 11 am – 4pm, Sat. October 3
  • Art, food, music, kids activities and more
  • Fundraiser for South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association
  • Sunday, October 4, Noon-4
  • Self guided tour of the city steps and sights of the South Side Slopes.
  • Family Friendly Scavenger Hunt with Orienteering
  • Bring your compass
  • $4 a map
  • Deer Lakes Park – take 28 North near Tarentum
  • Friday 5-Midnight
  • Saturday Noon-Midnight
  • Sunday Noon-10pm
RAD Days
  • Sunday, October 4 – ALL FREE – August Wilson Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Andy Warhol Museum, Childrens Museum, Mattress Factory and More
  • see the whole RAD calendar here – http://www.radworkshere.org/interior.php?pageID=48
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South Side Slopes Step Trek 2009

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Get ready for a vertical hike – Pittsburgh is home to thousands of city steps that help people get up and down the hills around this city.  Each year the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association organizes a self guided tour of some of the different steps and points of interest around the slopes.

Sunday, October 4, 2009 – Noon to 4pm
Register at 21st and Josephine Streets – UPMC South Side Lot

Walkers will enjoy all of these features as they tour, at their own pace, approximately 2,700 steps and the intertwining streets and sidewalks that connect them. The courses have changed to offer a different perspective of the South Side Slopes. Trekkers should find the routes pedestrian friendly, especially as they explore the middle areas of the Slopes neighborhood.

The South Side Slopes may quite possibly have the most steps of any neighborhood in the United States. After all, it is home to nearly 10% of the 712 sets of steps within Pittsburgh, which has the most steps of any city in the country. The city with the next greatest amount of steps is the Ohio River town of Cincinnati, followed by

coolest yard ever
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San Francisco. The steps of the combined cities, however, do not equal those in Pittsburgh. Altogether, some 66 out of the city’s 88 neighborhoods have steps. These hundreds of public stairways give tribute to the many hillside neighborhoods.

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