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Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while being honest with the kids …)

Friday, March 9
Spring Feeva Happy Hour , 5:00 p.m., South City Tavern, Sahsside
The local chapter of meetin.org (see, it’s not like they left off the “G” by accident, it’s a whole play on words (ok, not really, but you know what I mean), where you put the name of your major metropolitan area after it. Y’know, like “Meet In Pittsburgh” or “Meet In New York” or “Meet In Wilmerding”. It’s another networking/social/hey baby how YOU doin’ thing, and they’re getting together to celebrate the dawning of a new season, as the year moves from the still silent death of the land that is Winter into the beautiful, glorious spiritual rebirth that is Spring. OR, they get together every now and again to booze it up. It’s probably the latter, because they look like fun people. Go join the local group and show up to booze, or just show up to booze and then join the site. Whichever.

Aid for AIDS: Multi-Cultural Performing Arts Fest , 8:00 p.m., The Rex, Sahsside
phatmandeeLindsay busted out with the premiere on this one, so go there and read about it.

Suffice to say, it’s a pretty good candidate for our “Drinking For A Cause” for the evening, and it’s hosted by The Glorious Phat Man Dee. ‘Nuff said.

Quick Hits For Friday:
“Helloooo Blawnox!” Blindsider plays Moondog’s in Blawnox…
Go to Mullaney’s in the Strip around 9 and get an answer to the question “Alice! Who the F#*k is Alice?!?”

Saturday, March 10
Joe Grushecky , 7:30 p.m., Club Cafe, Sahsside
JoeI don’t remember a time when Joe wasn’t playing a show. And I’m on the dark side of my mid-thirties. That’s how long he’s been around. Friend of Bruce gets thrown at Joe a lot, and that’s not a bad thing. Springsteen knows talent when he sees it (for reference, see his first wife) and Joe is a gifted songwriter and performer. it’s an early show, so there’s also still going to be plenty of time for gallivanting and/or traipsing around the South Side. Go up to Bar 11 afterwards. They’ve installed some sort of bamboo posts on the bar that are absolutely perfect for bashing your head against after you’ve had a few. I speak from immediate experience. Luckily, Rob has a helmet behind the bar if you need to borrow it. I suggest you do, as does does does does my Grade II mild traumatic brain injury with bonus anterograde amnesia.

The Dirty Ball , 8:00 p.m., 121 Ninth St., Dahntahn
I’m wondering how Juddy has any time to do any writing. Is he man or machine, man or superman? We may never know until he shuffles off this mortal coil and scientists have an opportunity to examine the innards. I ask because in addition to working Soulcialism and Deep Funk/Northern Soul and Pandemic and various gigs at Shadow Lounge, he’s DJing this event, a fundraiser for Attack Theatre, home of theater. And attacking. And game night.

They’ll have three dance performances sprinkled throughout the night, along with “Dirty Little Secrets, Dirty Martinis and Dirty Dancing”. Me, I like all three of those. Well, ok, not the dirty martinis per se, because I’d rather be drinking something that wouldn’t get the shit kicked outta me up in Polish Hill, but ok, fine, if you’re going, just be at one with the event and have a dirty martini, join in the spirit.

No word of any “Dirty Talk”, so we’ll just have to play that one by ear. If you are, however, interested in dirty talk and are a single female between the ages of 27 and 40, please feel free to send me an email to gitaht@gmail.com with “Yinz’re Gonna Do What Ta Me? Eww!” in the subject line and we’ll see that you receive a response in as timely a fashion as our current staffing level allows.

Sunday, March 11
Sunday Night Supper With Lauren , 6:00 p.m., Brillobox, Hipster Grahnd Zero (Penn n’ Main)
Three cheese mac n’ cheese. That is all I need to say about Sunday dinner ever.

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Because Knowing Where To Go (and drink) Is Half The Battle
(Further Suggested Reading)
knowing_half – Pittsburgh City Paper
– Pittsburgh Post Gazette
– Craigs List
– This Is Happening

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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.

(* Note: “Flock� being, y’know.. very loosely-defined…)

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while being put in company that’s way better than you are but still being appreciative of the shout out …)

Friday, March 2
Women’s Work , 5:30 p.m., 709 Penn Gallery, Dahntahn
artThis art opening has been a long time coming because, of course, it’s never done.

Thank you. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.

Tonight’s the opening reception, and we all know what that means – free stuff, plus in this case, live music from Autumn Ayers. Over a dozen artists contribute to the show, including Leslie Ansley, Sarah Beitler, Margaret Burley, Susan Constanse, Christiane D, Vanessa German, Stacy Gross, Deborah Hoskings, Jill Hruska, Tavia LaFollette, Monique Kollman Luck, Mary Martin, Joana Ricou, and Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer.

Game Night and the Seven Minute Dance Series , 8:00 p.m., Attack Theatre, Bloom/Gar/Field
So it’s First Friday and Attack does this bit every First Friday. They mine the depths of your mom’s coffee table, the kind with the sliding hideaway cabinets,, right, and they find the gems like Four-Square, backgammon, Atari, and Connect Four. A quick note here – If a large, relatively good-looking (in the right light) bald man named Me is there and you shout out “Pretty Sneaky Sis” I’ll dope slap you. And that ain’t a threat, it’s a fact. Believe that.

Every so often, they’ll be busting out the dance, but only for seven minutes at a time. Am I the only one that thinks the phrase “The Seven Minute Dance” could maybe be a euphemism?

This gig was named one of the best places for Pittsburgh Singles to meet by the PG, so, y’know, work on those opening lines. As a public service, I’ll give you a couple for free:

– “Is that a Pitfall Cartridge in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
– “Do you play backgammon around here often?”
– “Why is this large, relatively good-looking (in the right light) bald man hitting me? It was just a joke when I said ‘pretty sneaky sis!’ Ow! Christ! Ow! Someone help me, for god’s sake!”

Saturday, March 3
Pittsburgh Party For A Purpose – Pittsburgh Cares , 8:30 p.m., Olive Or Twist, Dahntahn
Call it what you want but this is your “Drinking For A Cause” for the weekend. Pittsburgh Cares is a local organization that helps the community through the spirit and application of volunteerism. So they do good work, and what better way to show your support than to get tight in a tony dahntahn establishment? I mean, they normally turn me away* at the door of Olive Or Twist, so right there, you know it’s a quality joint.

Raffles, live entertainment, food, and 100% of the 10 cover goes to Pittsburgh Cares.

(*Note: That’s never actually happened.)

“Amptique” – Indie Dance Party , 10:00 p.m., Creative Treehouse, Bellvue
Amptique is hosting an Indie dance party at Creative TreeHouse that includes work by local artists Laura Petrilla and Matthew Macri. The Creative Treehouse is trying to establish an arts scene up in Bellevue, by opening a space for a shared studio, art & music venue, educational center, and creative service, and good for them. I like the art, and I want more of the art everywhere. Bellevue’s as good a place as any for more art.

The gig’s byob, and they’ll have mixers available. I dunno how deep the mixer selection will be though, so if you’re really into drinking, say, vodka mixed with gatorade and clam juice you’re probably on your own.

Quick Hits For Saturday:
Moxie’s opening a show, the “Box Series” by E. Gibbons…
Planet Art’s opening “Surrealistic Realism” by John Hinderliter…

Sunday, March 4
Liquid Sundays , 6:30 p.m., Rex Theatre, Sahsside
So the “Liquid Sundays” is (I know, that seems awkward using “is”, but I’m such a rank bad hat at the English Language that I’m just gonna go with it that way) a new monthly event taking place on the South Side. I can’t really tell if it’ll always be at the Rex or not, but that doesn’t really matter, I suppose. It’ll be in Sahsside regardless, and how many places could it be hosted?

They start off with a couple bands, “Soulharmonic” and “In The Wake Of Giants”, and they’ll also have an author on hand, Bob Hartman of London to “tell a story or two”. One would assume they’ll be his own, and not like, retelling of other people’s stuff. 21 and up, no cover. We love no cover, in more ways than one.

(Thanks to Nicole for sending this one in and to Dwight for telling her to do so.)

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Because Knowing Where To Go (and drink) Is Half The Battle
(Further Suggested Reading)
knowing_half – Pittsburgh City Paper
– Pittsburgh Post Gazette
– Craigs List
– This Is Happening

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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.

(* Note: “Flock” being, y’know.. very loosely-defined…)

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while making visual aids for the presentation…)

(NOTE: Just a couple quick ones for now, more a little later. See, things are busy what with all the repairs I’m making to the loading dock area of the lavishly-appointed iheartpgh.com headquarters. We had a small “incident” with a truck that was off-loading Lindsay and Natalia’s gin allotment for the month. We store it in an on-site, underground tank. Of course it’s fully-licensed by the PA DEP. I’ve got the paperwork right here behind this crisp one hundred dollar bill, officer…)

Friday, February 23
The Big Throw Back , 10:00 p.m., Brillobox, Penn/Main
brilloAhhh… The name is Brillo, Baby!

The monthly funk fest rolls on, and James still ain’t in the ground. I’m gonna suggest to Maestro Omar Abdul and Co-Conspirator J. Malls that we have a bake sale, or a car wash, or something so we can pay for lawyers to act on our behalf and put James in a final resting place, if only to give all of us a place to travel to and pay our respects, sort of a much funkier Graceland. I’ll open the souvenir stand, and sell sequined capes in various sizes for people to wear home, but then throw off and come back, and then put back on to go home, and then throw off to come back while people cheer over and over and over.

The gig starts at 10, 3 dollar bill y’all. .

The Lunch Club Happy Hour , 7:00 p.m., Bar Louie, Station Square
They sent this to me telling me that they’re doing it “Because drinking alone is…lame.”

Apparently, hey’ve never experienced the joy of getting tight all by yourself while sitting on your army surplus cot in your fifth floor walkup in the village under a bare bulb and listening to Sinatra records while repeating to yourself “They’re all after me, I know it, I just know it.” Right? I mean, we’ve all done that, haven’t we?

We have, right? No?

Well, regardless, the Pittsburgh Lunch Club is the local chapter of the larger social networking site “The Lunch Club” which says it ain’t about the hookups, so right there, I mean, bad marketing. There’s a reason Tom sold myspace to Fox and skated out on all the emo kids with a half billion pieces of silver or whatever it was strapped to his Web 2.0 back… Still though, seems like a good idea, a way for people to network a bit, get out and press the flesh, even if said flesh-pressing is meant to be platonic. They’d like you to register for the local chapter, but I would imagine if you just showed up and said hello, they’d probably be ok with that. They’re getting together out front of the place at 7 and then heading in, If you get there later, ask for “The Lunch Club” and you’ll probably be pointed in the right direction.

Saturday, February 24
An Evening With Gene Collier, 9:00 p.m., Cefalo’s Nightclub, Carnegie
Mr. Collier is one of the best writers in the city, and the PG is lucky to have him, or maybe we’re lucky the PG has him. Consistently creative and funny, his ability to take you down the expected hallway of sports columnist cliche and then make a 90 degree turn away from reality into the absurd makes him a pleasure to read every time. Not to mention, he’s written a play. Well, have you? Right then.

His comedic mind goes on display tonight at Club Cefalo in Carnegie, a short jaunt dahn the Parkway West. The MacYapper, fresh from his attempt to out Pitt Girl, is a “special guest”, and two local comedians hand-picked by the Right Honorable Judge Rufus Peckham fill the opening spots. 10 bucks gets you admission to the gig, and that’s a bargain at twice the price if once it was twice the price it was on sale for half off. Bonus points if you show up as “Carbon Man*” to get an autograph.

(*Ask Gene when you get there.)

“There Was A Time”, 10:00 p.m., Remedy (aka Ray’s), Lawrenceville
Flier_with_rekkidGit Aht loves the Soulcialism event every month, and I also love the Big Throw Back, and I also love funk and soul music. All of these things come together in a sweaty, beer-soaked perfect storm of Deep Funk & Northern Soul at Ray’s Blue Marlin Remedy in Lawrenceville. A half dozen DJs spin tonight, notably Juddy from Soulcialism and DJ Malls from BTB, and they’re bringing others in from ahtta tahn (Philly, which I dig because I’ve always been a fan of the Philly Soul) and way ahtta tahn (London, which I dig because I dated a British woman once and I could’ve listened to her talk all day and night with her South London accent. I mean, her reading the back of a cereal box was a turn on, y’see…).

Ray’s, err, “Remedy”, is a good place to have a beer, or at least was when it was Ray’s. I’m not sure what’s going on here, if it’s been a wholesale change in ownership, or the name “Remedy” is just tacked onto one or two of the upper floors. Whatever (Whichever?) the case, they’ll still have beer, and tonight they’ll have good, solid, DJ-spun music that’ll make you dance.

Because Knowing Where To Go (and drink) Is Half The Battle
(Further Suggested Reading)
knowing_half – Pittsburgh City Paper
– Pittsburgh Post Gazette
– Craigs List

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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.

PGH Party for a Purpose benefits Pittsburgh Cares!!

PGH Party for a Purpose will be hosting its second event on Saturday, March 3rd. 100% of proceeds will benefit Pittsburgh Cares, an organization which inspires volunteerism by organizaing flexible and rewarding volunteer services projects that impact critical need in Greater Pittsburgh.

The party will feature Sonny Cheeba-Cheeba and the Downtown Get-Down Sound from 8:30pm-11:30pm; Mr. Quick M.C. and Akurious Don will perform from 11:30pm til midnight; and DJ Supa C will spin funk, breakbeats, and hiphop til 2am. There will be happy hour specials the ENTIRE night! $2.50 beers, 1/2 off appetizers, and $6 martinis!

Who: PGH Party for a Purpose
What: Bash Benefiting Pittsburgh Cares
When: Saturday, March 3rd, 8:30pm – 2am
Where: Olive or Twist, 140 6th Street (Downtown)
Cost: $10 donation at the door. Remember, 100 percent of proceeds will benefit the extraordinary work of Pittsburgh Cares in our community

PGH Party for a Purpose is dedicated to helping small nonprofits grow by throwing fabulous parties for various Pittsburgh organizations, while encouraging all who attend to have a good time helping their community.

For more information, please contact PGHPartyforaPurpose@gmail.com or go to www.myspace.com/PGHPartyforaPurpose.

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do in between checking prices on flights to Florida…)

Friday, February 9
Ron Jeremy Book Signing , 7:00 p.m., Joseph Beth Booksellers, Sahsside Works
ron_jeremy_lg With appearances in Reindeer Games (2000), The Boondock Saints (1999) and 21 Hump Street (1988), Mr. Jeremy has carved out a career noteworthy for…

Ah, screw it, he’s a porn star, but a brilliant one. Well-educated and well-spoken, Ron’s never taken himself too seriously, and has always seemed to treat the industry he chose with exactly the right amount of respect it deserves, which is to say, not much most of the time. But the man has always known how to market, and he’s incredibly media-savvy. Well now he’s gone and wrote himself one o’ them there books, titled “The Hardest (Working) Man In Show Business“. (I get it, yeah. It’s a boner joke, right.) and his signing tour stops in to the South Side tonight. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say he’ll probably sign body parts if you ask him to.

Soulcialism, 10:00 p.m., The White Eagle, Sahsside
fourcialismThis month is special, it is, as Soulcialism celebrates it’s Fourth Anniversary, or Birthday, or whatever word would be appropriate. (Ah, I see… “Fourthiversary”. There we go.) As always, it takes place in the smoky, funky, sweaty confines of the Eagle, Pittsburgh’s Premier Place for Punks to drink on the cheap.

Good music, good dancing, good people, go. Drink. Dance. Go up to the DJ table and ask about the CD, which has some great tracks on it. Just don’t sit at the far end of the bar near the wall-mounted gas heater, because you’ll either catch fire, desiccate completely and end up looking like one of those Peruvian mummies, or just melt into your component parts of the 6 dollars worth of chemicals we all are without water. DJs Juddy and Soccer John probably won’t be signing body parts, but who knows? It can’t hurt to ask, ladies.

Saturday, February 10
Arctic Fun, You Know, For Kids! , 11:00 a.m. (and all day), Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland
top_of_the_worldAll manner of family-friendly activities going on up at the Carnegie today. Everything’s free to Museum visitors, too, so, y’know, good ’cause we love the cheap here at Git Aht, although to be honest, we love the cheap when it also involves the booze, but we can’t have the everything, can we? No, we can’t because where would we put it?

The guided tours start at 11 am, the kids can make polar bear puppets starting at noon, and you can even touch a caribou’s fur and antlers. One would hope that the Caribou is still involved with them, but ok, I can see how that might be a problem logistically, so I’m thinking that they’ll be detached from their original owner. It looks like they’ll have a live Snowy Owl though, so if you resemble a field mouse, you may want to avoid that demonstration. Just sayin’.

Loretta Lynn , 5:30 p.m., Pepsi Roadhouse, Burgettstown
lorettaLoretta is country, her whole life. The coal miner’s daughter, she married at age 14, had four kids by the time she was 17, and became a grandmother at age 29. She stood by her man even though he regularly cheated on her, and once left her while she was giving birth. It’s like, what else could you possibly heap on there?

And now, she gets to play the dinner show at the Pepsi Roadhouse in Burgettstown. Seems like a bit of a letdown, really, but the show should be good.

Sunday, February 11
Stomp , 3:00 & 7:00 p.m., Benedum Center, Dahntahn
stompEverybody knows about this, right? I don’t need to get into what Stomp is, what they do, how they do it?

Good. Personally, I’d go to the 3 o’clock show so I’m home to see the Police open up the Grammy awards. I haven’t watched the Grammys (Grammies?) in years, and I probably won’t watch these ones either beyond the first 10 minutes or so. Rumors are rampant that they’ll be doing a full reunion tour this year to mark the 30th (30th!) anniversary of the release of “Roxanne”. The old folks among us are hopeful that it’ll happen, and that if/when it does, they’ll make a stop here.

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Because Knowing Where To Go (and drink) Is Half The Battle
(Further Suggested Reading)
knowing_half – Pittsburgh City Paper
– Pittsburgh Post Gazette
– Craigs List
– Pittsburgh Dish

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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.