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
SWAP & SHOP @ Pittsburgh’s First Citywide CLOTHING SWAP
Saturday, June 24
11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Guest DJs
Brillobox – Corner of Penn and Main Streets in Lawrenceville
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Bring your own clothes and swap for a bag – $2
OR no clothes to contribute? Just fill a bag – $5
All proceeds and remaining items will be donated to the Women’s Center
& Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh.
FIRST:
Clean out your closet, remove clutter, and make a change. Anything you
have that you no longer use and is clean and presentable to wear is
welcomed.
Some Good Ideas:
Clothes you bought and never wore
Small stuff you bought while thinking “I’ll fit into this one day…”
Tragic shopping mistakes
Well worn and loved items that have exceeded their stay in the closet
Unloved gifts that you held on to out of obligation
NEXT:
Wash and sort your discards: women’s, men’s, & miscellaneous; tops,
sweaters, outerwear, shorts, pants, skirts, dresses, footwear, fabric,
(no underwear, please) Stains/holes a-ok (as long as they’re not too
gross)! There’s potential in everything.
Men, we need your clothing too!
Thanks to a reader (Hi Rachel!) for just pointing out that Shanice, who hit the Billboard charts in the late-80s and early-90s with songs like “I Love Your Smile” and “Saving Forever For You” is from the ‘burgh. Fact, she is from Hays Manor, in McKees Rocks, PA. So forget H-Town for your early 90s R&B needs, we got SHANICE! She just came out with an album in 2006 … check it out!
This reminds me of another DIVA who grew up in the ‘burgh. Every few months I put the groovadelic very best of Deee-lite album in rotation. During its most recent pass-through my CD player, I found out that Lady Miss Kier was born in Youngstown, Ohio and then actually spent her childhood in Pittsburgh and Sewickley while her moms went to college here. But unfortunately:
“When she was nine, Kier designed her brownie outfit so that it would include brown bell-bottom pants. The troop rewarded her by kicking her out.”
Oh well. That’s okay because … (I can’t believe this), while doing this search, I found out that Snap! has Pittsburgh roots?! Huh? According to this site:
This Pittsburgh male/female dance duo had a huge international smash in 1990 with “The Power.” London-based rapper Turbo B and his cousin Jackie Harris teamed on “The Power,” with Harris’ curdling vocal elevating Turbo B’s pedestrian rap.
It’s true! Turbo-B was born in Pittsburgh, and was a session drummer for Maze and Chaka Chan; he toured with the Fat Boys. Thea Austin is also from here; she co-wrote some songs for Snap! is still busting out some wicked dance hits today.
I feel like I’ve been violated. How could I have lived my life not knowing that “Rhythm is a Dancer” or for God’s sakes – “I Got the Power!” – started with Pittsburgh angst? Let this code of silence now be broken!
So kids, what have we learned today? Pittsburgh + 90s = Represent. As Miss Kier would say, “Ooh la la, la la-la-la-la-la!”
Well now, this is amusing. I attempted to post this back in March, but the date was incorrectly posted to read 1969.
HMM. Laughter. Back to the original post:
Thanks to Subdivided We Stand for pointing out this slideshow of the STEEL CITY DERBY DEMONS.
Hell yeah!&#!@$!!!! Team membership is closed to overwhelming response BUT they do need VOLUNTEERS and SPONSORS. They’ll have their first bout in 2007.
There’s just one thing I don’t understand though …
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A call to action for one of our own! Ms. Gabby Means (age 11) is > < this close to winning a complete refurbishment of Gladstone Field in Greenfield, but she needs our help! Gabby is a contestant in the Briggs & Stratton Diamonds in the Rough Contest; her heartfelt essay to this national organization has put her in the running for a $20,000 grand prize and baseball clinic from Hall of Famers Lou Brock and Carlton Fisk! She is competing against 15 other kids from around the country and she needs our help. You can read more about Gabby's story in the Post-Gazette article below. Please vote for her here – it only takes 2 seconds!
http://www.briggsdiamondsintherough.com/
Voting ends this Sunday, May 21st, so please vote today!
Softball player, 11, makes pitch for a field like the boys’
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteFor Gabby Means, 11, it’s all about fairness. Fairness and fair balls, actually.
Gabby, of Greenfield, has long smarted at conditions on Gladstone Field, where her Pink Team plays in the Greenfield Organization’s softball league. It wouldn’t be so bad to play on an uneven, overgrown, rocky field, if it weren’t for the fact that the boys play on vastly superior Hammer Field, nearby.
“I’ve always felt it was unfair,” she said. “I think that everybody should have a fair chance of becoming as good as another person.”
When she saw an ad for engine maker Briggs & Stratton Corp.’s Diamonds in the Rough competition, she saw her chance to even the score. The company annually grants $5,000 for improvements to 16 youth ballfields nationwide, and another $20,000 to the grand prize winner, chosen through online balloting.
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