Category Archives: Contests

Laser Gaga Costume Contest @ The Carnegie Science Center

Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)

Yes, its true the Carneige Science Center has a laser show set to Lady Gaga, appropriately named Laser Gaga.  In honor of Halloween and all things lady Gaga – the Science Center is hosting a Laser Gaga Costume Contest – put on your best poker face and head down to the science center – there will be prizes for the best costumes.

Please note the fine print on this one – sorry folks – don’t wear meat to the science center:

  • While we encourage your costumes to be creative, they must be appropriate for a family-friendly establishment.
  • Costumes must NOT feature organic materials such as raw meat, anything alive, expose skin in a provocative manner, or use offensive language or graphics.
  • Any masks worn should not cover the entire face.
  • Carnegie Science Center has the right to refuse any costume that it deems inappropriate.

Laser Gaga Costume Contest
@The Carnegie Science Center
Saturday, October 29, 2011
10 pm – Laser Show
to enter contest you must arrive  45 minutes before the laser show
Cost: $2 members, $8 non-members

Looking for some more Halloween fun – you might enjoy this video of Halloween decorations set to LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem.  (If you are reading the email version of the post, click here to see the video)

More Gaga Links…

Pittsburgh Signs Project on BoingBoing & Book Giveaway

The Pittsburgh Signs project photos and book are featured on the BoingBoing today – “Pittsburgh Signs Project: appreciation of the glorious signage of Pittsburgh.”

BoingBoing is a popular blog, that originally started as a zine in 1988, that covers interesting information from around the web.

The Pittsburgh Signs project started as a website and was turned into a book was founded by Pittsburghers – Jennifer Baron, Greg Langel, Elizabeth Perry and Mark Stroup and contains photos submitted by many others.  I just went way back to the IheartPGH archives and actually I think the Pittsburgh Signs Project was one of our first 15 posts back in September of 2005 you can check out that post here.

Here is a set of photos from Flickr tagged Pittsburgh Signs.

Check out the website at pittsburghsigns.org

The Pittsburgh Signs Project book is available for purchase from the Carnegie Mellon Bookstore here for $29.95. One of the comments on BoingBoing notes this book is listed on Amazon
for $125.  I just checked the CMU Bookstore site and they have the book in stock for $29.95).

Photographer: Shari Paglia, Spring 1999

One of our favorite signs was the Atari Sign along Penn Avenue.  The Atari repair sign was located near what is now Salt of the Earth.  Thankfully the Pittsburgh Signs Project has that documented.

Pittsburgh Signs Project Book Giveaway

Because we think this book is awesome – we are going to giveaway a copy.  To enter just leave a comment with a link to your favorite sign from the Pittsburgh Signs website or Flickr or upload a photo of your favorite sign to the comments below.

Next Wednesday, August 10, 2011. We will randomly select one entry to win a copy of the Pittsburgh Sign Project Book.  All comments must be posted by Midnight, Aug. 9, 2011 to enter.

1 Day Left to Enter to Win $100 in ScoreBig Credit

[note] ScoreBig has put together another promo for IheartPGH readers for 2013 use coupon code IHEARTPGH20 and save $20 on your first purchase of $50 or more.  Click here to check out ScoreBig and save on Pirates tickets [/note]

Just a quick reminder that we are partnering with ScoreBig to give away $100 in credit.  And for every person that signs up via this link – IheartPGH earns $1 – which we then use to support more great Pittsburgh stuff.

A quick recap:

  • What is ScoreBig? Think priceline for concert and sports tickets.  Save big on last minute tickets. Click here to read more about it.
  • How can I win $100 in ScoreBig credit to spend on any tickets I want? Just sign up for ScoreBig using this link
  • When does the contest end? Sign up by midnight EST on July 20, 2011
  • Does it cost anything to join ScoreBig? Nope. nada.  just a few seconds of your time.
  • What kinds of cool Pittsburgh projects does IheartPGH support? Pittsburgh day of giving, non profit events, Pittsburgh kickstarter project and more.

Click here to sign up for ScoreBig

Baseball Tickets and More – since ScoreBig is still in invite only mode – currently there are a bunch of Pirates tickets available to bid on.  When I was looking at the site a few weeks ago there were concert tickets for upcoming concerts available as well.

First you select how many tickets you would like and where you would like to sit.

Then you make an offer on what you want to pay for those seats.  ScoreBig gives you an idea of how much people have paid on recent offers as well.

You can make one offer on each star rating every 24 hours.   Your offer includes all fees and delivery charges too.

Click here to sign up for ScoreBig

ScoreBig – Save Big By Bidding on Extra Ticket Inventory + Ticket Giveaway

So, baseball is kind of a big deal right now – and you might actually have a hard time getting baseball tickets.  I have two things that can help with that.

Save Big on Sports and Concert Tickets

I recently learned about a nifty new website called ScoreBig – think of it like priceline for tickets.  ScoreBig sells off extra ticket inventory at a big discount.  You make an offer – if your offer is accepted – the tickets are yours with no additional fees to pay.

Win $100 in ScoreBig Credit

To kick off their launch in the Pittsburgh market – we are co-sponsoring a ticket giveaway.  Click here to sign up for ScoreBig and you have a chance to win $100 credit to ScoreBig so you can pick if you want to spend that on Baseball tickets, concert tickets or another event this summer.

To Enter: Sign up for ScoreBig via this link by Tuesday, July 19, 2011.  We will randomly select a winner who will receive $100 voucher to ScoreBig by email.

Sign Up for Score Big And Support IheartPGH

Additional, by signing up through the IheartPGH ScoreBig Link – you are supporting this blog and Pittsburgh projects – we receive $1 for everyone who signs up through the link.

The important sounding fine print/disclosure – this giveaway is sponsored by ScoreBig.  I spent a good amount of time with their super nice outreach person on the phone learning about ScoreBig – I wouldn’t be blogging about it or co-sponsoring this promotion if I didn’t think this was a worthwhile site.  I have used Priceline many times in the past for hotels and travel.  I think this could be a great way to get tickets to a baseball game, concert or possibly football game this fall at a significant savings.  If you would like to register for ScoreBig with our using the IheartPGH link just go to ScoreBig.com.

Lego Kids Fest Comes to Pgh This Weekend – Win Tickets!

Who doesn’t love Legos? Possibly one of the greatest toys ever made – and I have been thinking about them recently – Swiss-Miss, a design blog based in NYC, recently posted this photo of Lego walls.

And I want to share this photo with you, because it is awesome and brings together Legos and Bon Jovi. This was in the window of S.W. Randals on Forbes Ave in Sq. Hill.

Blake, Age 7 – chose to enter the Lego contest with a Lego creation of a “Bon Jovi Rock Concert” – if that doesn’t speak to the power of Pittsburgh I don’t know what does – happy to see kids appreciate the music of Bon Jovi.

But the Legos are coming to Pittsburgh – The Lego Kidsfest is a giant interactive Lego exhibit that will be in Pittsburgh June 17-19, 2011 at the David Lawrence Convention Center.

What else happens at The Lego Kidsfest:

  • LEGO Model Gallery: 40 life-sized models made entirely from LEGO bricks
  • LEGO Master Builders: building tips, tricks and live demonstrations from the crew who get paid to play
  • Creation Nation: build your own creation to add to a custom map of the U.S.
  • Mystery Mural: build a piece of a giant mural to help reveal the image
  • Race Ramp: build your own custom car, then race it down the ramp against friends and family
  • LEGO Games Arena: roll the dice to play LEGO board games
  • Construction Zone: creative free build, play and display area
  • LEGO DUPLO® Jams: toddlers explore building and imagination while rocking out to fun playroom tunes
  • And much more, covering 125,000 square feet of space

WIN TICKETS with Wawadoo!

We are teaming up with our friends Tim and Chris who are the founders of Wawadoo – a new start up company based here in Pittsburgh. Tim and Chris moved to the burgh to participate in AlphaLab this past spring.  Wawadoo is a new events website that helps your find things to do.  Wawadoo is short for “what would you like to do” – think of it as the Pandora of events.  We will be giving away

Win tickets (4 tickets) to the LEGO Kidsfest Saturday morning session (Sat. June 18, 2011 9am-2pm)! To be entered into the drawing, all you needto do is follow 3 simple steps before Wednesday at 5pm EST:

  1. Visit www.wawadoo.com/legokidsfest
  2. Become a Wawadoo user with the invite code “IHeartPGH”
  3. That’s it! You’ll get an email indicating that you’ve entered the contest and another email when you’re the grand prize winner.

More ways to win tickets – the blog Play Unplugged, which is a blog about games that get you away from the computer, is also giving away a 4 pack of tickets.  Click here for the Play Unplugged Lego ticket giveaway.