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Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while deciding whether to ask Joey porter for advice on your love life…)

Friday, September 8
Phat Man Dee, 8:00 p.m. Quiet Storm Cafe
Phat man Dee brings the pianos (and lots of ’em, I’m told) to the Quiet Storm tonight, and gets help from friends Nicholas Megalis from Cleveland, OH and Ratty Scurvics with Stix duh Clown of New Orleans, LA. For those of you unfamiliar with Phat Man Dee, she’s a jazz artist capable of both belting like a valkyrie calling warriors to the great hall for the never-ending feast, and then crooning so sweetly that fallen angels think about switching teams back to the good side. Bonus points for Dee: she rode a pink elephant (ok, fine it was fabric, but still) to her wedding.

The Pittsburgh Irish Festival , 4:00 p.m. and all weekend, Chevrolet Amphitheatre, Station Square
Allow me to share with you a song we used to sing at family gatherings with Dear Old Dad… (The name up there is Patrick for a reason, y’know..)

*ahem*

Weeeeeeeee
Drinkandwefight
andwedrinkandwefight
andwedrinkandwefight
andwedrinkandwefight
(repeat4x)

Soulcialism, 10:00 p.m. White Eagle Club, Sahsside
Soulcialism - JuddyMonthly sweaty dance party courtesy of DJs Juddy and Soccer John. This is rapidly becoming a staple, so go… Important note: there’s no cover, the drinks are cheap, and if you make a small donation to a good charity you’ll walk out with a CD full of solid New Orleans Soul. Is that a good deal? You damn skippy it is.

Saturday, September 9
Rock The Block, 8:00 p.m., Bedford Square, Sahsside
Git Aht loves Australian girls. Git Aht loves Italian girls. Git Aht loves Polish girls. There’s a pattern here, and I could go on for days, but alas we haven’t the time. (ED NOTE: Thank god!) Suffice to say he also loves the Brazilian Girls, and WYEP is bringing their brand of electro-dub-pop-punk-dance-with-lyrics-in-five-languages to the Rock The Block festivites. Food will be provided by a whole rash of local restaurants including personal favorite Harris Grill. Now, I’m only gonna say this following thing once, because if I dwell on it, I’ll get all over-excited and need to think about baseball or Martha Stewart… Open Bar with the price of admission.

Aerosmith with Motley Crue, 7:30 p.m., Post Gazette Pavilion
I haven’t seen the video, but I heard that Tommy Lee trips sometimes when he gets out of the shower. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin‘. Anyway, summer concert season is winding down, and the weather looks to be good this weekend (for the most part), so go out and enjoy open-air music thrown at you forcefully by two absolute legends of rock. And if you get a little misty when they play “Home, Sweet Home” that’s ok. Let it out, I understand. I get the same way when they play “Girls, Girls, Girls.”

Sunday, September 10
Zany Umbrella Circus, 12, 2, and 4:00 p.m, Mellon Park
This is a good chance to catch the Zanies if you missed them up at the Schenley Plaza earlier this Summer. It’s part of the larger “A Fair In The Park” crafts festival presented by the Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh which is going on all weekend and features booths and live demonstrations.

Vertigo, 8:00 p.m., Regent Square Theater
vertigoIndiana PA’s own Jimmy Stewart in the classic Hitchcock flick about a detective afraid of heights.

Okay, fine, it’s a bit more than that, but come on… You know it’s good, it’s Hitchcock, it’s Stewart, it’s the absolutely beautiful Kim Novak. And it’s filled with sexual tension. Everybody love ssexual tension, don’t they? Isn’t that why Moonlighting was so popular back in the 80s?

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Got an event planned? Would you like a whole flock of yinzers with disposable income to show up? Let Git Aht know by sending the electronic mail to gitaht@gmail.com.

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, that always went over well in client meetings, right up there with using “irregardless” without a trace of irony). The heat index out in Burgettstown is going to jump by about 15 degrees from the Bic lighters held aloft when Poison busts out “Every Rose”, so make sure you keep hydrated. Remember, though – Every bad boy’s got a soft side, at least accoring to the commercial for “Metal Ballads” or whatever that compilation disc was called, so don’t get all judgmental if the guy next to you in his mid-30s tears up, just a little, of course… Just a little…

Pittsburgh 50 Finest Event, 6:00 p.m. Level, In Da Strip
For whatever reason, the folks over at 50 Finest keep overlooking the immeasurable contribution that Git Aht makes to Pittsburgh. I mean, dozens of people read this thing, right? And they all rely on this pile of useless information every week. Well, whatever, maybe next year… This is our “Drinking For A Cause” event for the weekend, as all proceeds benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Drinking for a cause is always A Good Thingâ„¢, and doing so at Level means you can lay down on the beds, just for a minute, no, really, I’m ok, maybe a water please, no ice. Thanks sweetheart, you’re the best. I mean that. What are you doing tomorrow, maybe we can go catch a flick dahn waterfront or something?

Saturday, August 12
Urban Hike – Oakmont, 10:00 a.m., Oakmont
Lindsay covered this yesterday, but the need to point this out is important, and saves me from writing a whole item! You think it’s easy getting up early every Friday and ripping off other sources for this information? Well, it’s not. Well, it is. Ok, whichever. The Urban Hikers take on Oakmont and they promise “a great view of the river, walk through some woods with a creepy name, hear about a mysterious bookshop, and see a frighteningly fascinating theater!” which sounds a little better suited to, say, October but it’ll be cold then. I’d rather walk in the warm. With a beer. And the sisters of the Tau Gamma sorority. Who would give me neck rubs as we walk, just out of the goodness of their hearts, ’cause they’re like that. God bless ’em, they’re good people.

Shadyside… The Art Festival On Walnut, 10:00 a.m., Shadyside (Duh!)
Not really sure why the ellipsis is there, but it’s art, right, so just, y’know… go with it. They’re promising… $15 million worth of art for sale, but that doesn’t mean you have to buy all of it. Where… ya gonna put it anyway, really? The… weather’s supposed to be good, so… head up there after your walk in… Oakmont. Y’know… all of the… ellipses kinda makes it sound like you’re doing a… Christopher Walken impression… Hah!… I got a fevah… and the only prescription… is more cowbell! And an… Arts festival on… Walnut.

Social & Ballroom Dance, 7:00 p.m., School House Yoga, Lawrenceville
Git yo cha-cha on in Larryville. Free lesson with admission, light refreshments are offered.

Sunday, August 13
Flick: Yours, Mine And Ours, Duskish, Flagstaff Hill
I dunno if this is the original, which was a charming movie with the great Henry Fonda and the amazing Lucille Ball (and a young Tim Matheson, way before he became Otter.) or the new one with… Umm… I dunno, two mostly forgettable people in a movie calculated to make money because everybody loves a good family comedy, which they probably screwed up anyway by going for the cheap, naked sentimentality than anything #@!%ing honest or genuine or from the heart and the gut AND WHY DON’T THEY JUST TRY TO DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL RATHER THAN RECYCLING THE SAME PABLUM BECAUSE IT TESTS WELL IN FOCUS #@!%ING GROUPS?!? GAH!!!!

Ah, well, it’s free, so there’s that. Have a good weekend.

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Got an event planned? Would you like a whole flock of yinzers like us with disposable income to show up? Let Git Aht know by sending the electronic mail to gitaht@gmail.com.

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 show is jampacked with talent including Basick Sickness, Dem Boyz Crave, Broken Wingz and more. From the Smalls Page: “ALL STAR CAST! Wiz Khalifa doin the Damn Thing!” I couldn’t have put it any better myself, so I won’t even try.

Saturday, August 5
Sing-a-Long Mary Poppins, 3:30 p.m., Byham Theater
So this is a screening of the movie, but it’s a sing-a-long version, which I think means there’ll be, I dunno, subtitles up somewhere. So it’s kinda like karaoke without the drunks. That’s probably a good thing for a family event. My singing at karaoke is something quite atrocious, and when I sing loud enough, I always sound precocious. Luckily, the crowd at Del’s is pretty forgiving. The Byham’s probably pretty much the same, except, y’know… not boozin’ it up.

Let’s Dance Pittburgh, Try-outs 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., Finals 8:00 p.m., Station Square
Put on your red shoes (or moon boots) and dance the blues. This is hosted by MTV’s Susie Castillo, and one of the judges is Franco Harris. FRANCO HARRIS! This is an all ages event, and a dance party open to everyone will follow the competition. Sweet.

Sunday, August 6
Five Guys Named Moe, 7:00 p.m., Rhythm House Cafe
Go see all the Moe-Heads at the Cafe. These guys are approaching local legend status, and it’s always a good time. The special is still the fish parm, which, I dunno, I guess goes good with R & B. Git Aht needs to actually try the fish parm one of these days, but he just can’t bring himself to do it.

Flick: Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Duskish, Flagstaff Hill
The original appearance of Snakes On A Plane.

Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?

Anyway, besides being, y’know, awesome, this is the movie that gave Git Aht one of his first schoolboy crushes, ’cause Karen Allen was so cool (smart, world traveler, could drink guys under the table) and yet so hot (wielding a torch to fend off snakes while wearing heels and a dress cut above the knee). Hoo-fah.

Got an event planned? Would you like a whole flock of yinzers like us with disposable income to show up? Let Git Aht know by sending the electronic mail to gitaht@gmail.com.

Eat, Drink, and Dance!

Eat, drink and DANCE to benefit the local anti-slavery organization Project to End Human Trafficking!

Ray’s Marlin Beach Bar & Grill
5121 Butler Street-Lawrenceville

Friday July 21st, 9:00 PM

$5 (PLUS a portion of your drink prices benefit PEHT!)Shake your booty to several local DJ’s and enjoy FREE food courtesy Ray’s Bar. Come for the cause, stay for the fun!

For more info email contact@endhumantrafficking.org

www.endhumantrafficking.org

Belly Dancing Rules the School

bellyAnd the Burgh. I recently bumped into an old friend who is now a small business owner, belly dance instructor and vegan chef extraordinnaire. Her web site, Healing Arts by Amethyst is a neat introduction to belly dancing, vegan living and sacred dance.

And guess what? her Bellydance and Veil Work for Beginners class starts this Monday, so we can let it all hang out! From the web site:

6-Week Course, beginning this Monday, March 13, 2006
Mondays, 6:45-8:00 p.m.
Stanwix Towers
625 Stanwix Street, Floor 2
Cost: $60 for entire 6-week course

Come learn a choreography using a veil as a prop! Students have the option of performing in a student dance recital “Elements”, on April 28, 2006. If you don’t want to perform, no worries, you can still come to class and learn the choreography for fun and exercise! If you have a veil or other large piece of fabric, please bring it to class. Limited extras are available for use in class, so if you don’t have one, don’t let that stop you from coming to class! Please note, you must first contact Amethyst if you would like to attend classes downtown, as the building is a secured building. You may call any day, including the day of class.

Amethyst also offers massage therapy and other courses and workshops. Check it out!

Last but not least, our resident bellydancer is also a dedicated vegan, and her site includes powerful video on the subject, as well as helpful nutrional information and answers to the perennial question, “What do vegans eat?” Apparently, vegan Coffee-Chocolate Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake is an option. Click below for the recipe and see the site for more.

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