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Jake Gyllenhall talks Steelers Tattoos, Primanti's and the Terrible Towel

December 8, 2009 Lindsay

Image via Wikipedia I know this was big news last week (see the Post-Gazette story here). Jake Gyllenhaal has been spoted around Pittsburgh this fall – he has been in town filming the movie Love and Other Drugs. Last week he was on Jimmy Kimmel Live and share some stories about Pittsburgh, the Steelers, Primanti brothers and the terrible towel.… Read the rest

Filed Under: Sports, Television Tagged With: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Love And Other Drugs, Pittsburgh Steelers, primanti, primanti's, steeler game, Steelers, tatoo, Terrible Towel

Best Holiday Commercial EVER!

December 20, 2007 Lindsay

Of course it is from Pittsburgh! According to the YouTube comments this commercial has been running since 1982. I was thinking that I had not seen this commercial on TV yet this holiday season. A quick search of YouTube solved that. Eat N’Park’s Public Relations has even put together a schedule of when the commercial will air if you want to watch it on real TV.… Read the rest

Filed Under: History, PGH Trivia, Technology, Television Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas Tree, Commercial, Eat N'Park, Holiday, Star

PGH Trivia: Hill Street Blues

November 30, 2006 Lindsay

I was reading this article today from Bloomberg.com about liens on property in Pittsburgh, how much money is being made and how this complicates redevelopment.  Fun stuff, not so much (It is important stuff though and I reccomend you take a look at the article).  I learned this fun fact from the article – the Hill district was the inspiration for Hill Street Blues.  I did a double take and then went to check this out on Wikipedia (there is some amazing stuff on there). The name of the show was based on Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Chief writer Steven Bochco… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Central, History, Neighborhoods, PGH Trivia, Pro-PGH, Television Tagged With: Hill District

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

September 22, 2006 Patrick

(Things to do while figuring out what the hell happened to the running game… I heard the plane back from Jacksonville still hasn’t landed because someone painted a goal line across the runway.*) (* Recycled Bubby Brister joke.) Friday, September 22 Martini Party, 5:00 p.m., Prive Ultralounge, 1650 Smallman Street, The Strip “Drinking For A Cause” makes a strong comeback this week at Prive Ultralounge. For some reason, “Ultra” and “Lounge” don’t seem to go together in my mind, but ok, I understand how you need to market to the young people today. It’s not like when I was a… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Events, Food & Drink, Television, Theater Tagged With: Friendship

smith

August 30, 2006 breen

set to premiere on september 26th is CBS’s new show ‘smith.’ why do you care, you might ask? well, at least the first episode of this show was filmed in pittsburgh. the trailer, which you can watch here, shows master theif ray liotta and his team busting into the mellon institute to steal a priceless work of art, then escaping by zooming along highways and the monongahela river. awesome! every little bit counts.… Read the rest

Filed Under: Television, Uncategorized

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