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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 like gunfire clacking up in the hollow and you just know that the Hatfields and The McCoys are a-gonna tussle agin’. Look, it’s not doing you or anybody else any good right now – you’ve long-since upgraded… Read the rest

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do before you FedEx your shampoo to yourself on vacation…) Friday, August 18 Think Pink, 5:30 p.m., Altar Bar, In The Strip Let’s do our Drinking For A Cause early this week and hit the benefit for Adagio Health, who have a program that does breast and cervical cancer screening for unisured women in western PA. Andrew Stockey is the MC, but I don’t think that means he’ll drop any phat rhymes. Or maybe he will… I met him once, he seemed like a really cool guy, about the right age to, like me, know almost every word… Read the rest

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while figuring out what to do with all that left over Joe-mentum.) Friday, August 11 Posion/Cinderella, 7:30 p.m., PG Pavilion Really, there’s not enough Aqua Net in the world to do this show justice… But try, I will. It’s a homecoming of sorts for Poison frontman Bret Michaels (nee Bret Michael Sychak), as the Butler native headlines a show of two HUGE 80s hair metal bands. Cinderella got short-changed by a lot of folks, but they’re musically one of the better bands in the whole genre (or “zhon-durr” as a former coworker of mine used to say,… Read the rest

Git Aht: Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while waiting for that order of black and gold face paint to come in.) Friday, August 4 Tea Time With Accordion, 7:00 p.m., ON Gallery, Garfield Pittsburgh Art Scene Dynamo Laurie Mancuso drops a Gallery opening in the former Horizon Space at 5505 Penn Avenue. The show features Winston-Salem-based Werehouse Art Collective pieces including paintings, drawings and grave rubbings. This wins the Git Aht Best Band Name Award this week, with music provided by “Let’s Get Real Pregnant”. Wiz Khalifa, 7:00 p.m. Mr Smalls Funhouse, Millvale Local Hip Hop music showcase. Wiz is the headliner, but this… Read the rest

Git Aht: Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while… Oh who am I kidding? You’re all going to St. Vincent’s this weekend anyway.) HEY ALL! Git Aht got one o’ them electronic mail accounts, so if you have an event you’d like to let us know about send it on down the line to gitaht@gmail.com. All submissions should be in by, oh, let’s say Thursday at high noon. No promise is made that it’ll make the list, but at least we’ll know about it, and knowing is half the battle. Yo Joe! Friday, July 28 Exposure: Pittsburgh, 7:00 p.m., Z Lounge, South Side Flickr is… Read the rest

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