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A Weekend of Comfort Food Events – BBQ, Chili, Mc & Cheese & More –

Even if the weather outside isn’t so frightful – we have hit the long winter slump. But there is a weekend full of comfort food events from BBQ to Mac & Cheese to Chili to help you make it through. Here is a round up of the events we shared on the WDVE morning show today.

Two New BBQ Joints in the Burgh

Union Pig & Chicken opens on Highland Ave
YinzBurgh BBQ now open on Baum and Morewood

Bistro to Go Culinary Open House – Learn to Cook German Food for Free

Bistro to Go is located on East Ohio Street
On Friday, February 24, 2012, 5:30-7:30 – stop by for free lessons in making German foods and sample some German wine

Mac & Cheese Cook-Off

Saturday, February 25, 1pm @ Carnegie Library in East Liberty
15 amateur Mac & Cheese lovers will compete for prizes

Mt. Lebanon Chili Cook-Off

Saturday, February 25, Noon-5pm @ Clearview Commons
Mt. Lebanon Fire Dept vs Mt. Lebanon Police Dept in a chili challenge
Plus Chili and Desserts from 10+ Local Restaunts

Kid-a-palooza 2012

Saturday, February 26, 2012, 10am-6pm @ Convention Center
Giant indor family fun festival
activities, indoor rock climbing, sports, princesses, cartoon characters

Title Town Soul Music Dance Party with Guest DJs The New Day from Austin, TX

after you eat your weight in Mac & Cheese, Chili or BBQ you can dance away those calories at Pittsburgh’s monthly Soul Music Dance Party
Saturday, February 25, 2012 9pm @ Shadow Lounge

“Take a Shot at Changing the World – FREE Youth Film Making Workshop @ History Center

Hosted by the Steeltown Entertainment Project
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 1:30pm @ Heinz History Center
Middle-school and high-school students will have the chance to learn from filmmaking professionals how to make videos that could win them and their schools over $10,000 in cash and prizes.
Workshop is open to everyone
Facebook event – http://www.facebook.com/events/274385809301868/
Will be followed by a FREE screening of My Tale of Two Cities

Submit Your Photos to the Bicycle Photo Show

Bike Pgh is partnering with The Carnegie Library to organize an exchibit of bicycle photos inspired by a publication in Sevilla, Spain
Submit a photo of your bike by February 26, 2012

Tickets Selling Fast – Bannf Mountain Film Festival

we have been noticing lots of great events are selling out quickly – so here is an early warning to pick up your tickets for the Banff Mountain Film Festival comes to town April 6-7, 2012. Tickets available here.

Chili Cook-Off @ Mt. Lebanon Winterfest

So we are in this sort of dreary slump of a Pittsburgh winter – football season has ended (and earlier than usual). The weather is grey, not so cold, but not BBQ weather yet. Pittsbughers have cabin fever. I made the mistake of trying to stop at Trader Joe’s last Saturday at 3:00pm. The rest of Pittsburgh – eager to escape from their homes also decided to grocery shop at that time. I made it through 1 aisle – saw an open cash register and made an escape. But never feat Pittsburgh – we will make it through the grey days of winter by eating a feast!

Fish Fry season has started. Don’t forget the Carnegie Library in East Liberty is holding a Mac & Cheese Cook-Off on Saturday. And it gets better – Mt. Lebanon is hosting a huge Chili Cook-off – The Fire and Icing Festival which includes a Mt. Lebanon Fire Dept vs Mt. Lebanon Police Dept in a chili challenge

FIRE & ICING FESTIVAL – Chili Cook-off & Dessert Tour supporting Relay For Life of Mt. Lebanon

Saturday, February 25, from Noon – 5 pm
Clearview Common – Uptown Mt. Lebanon
Tickets – $10/advance or $15/at the event – purchase at www.mtlebanonpartnership.net or at Mt. Lebanon Municipal Building

Beer Available

Chili Cook-Off Contestants include

A’Pizza Badamo
Bado’s Pizza Grill and Ale House
Bistro 19
Bravo! Cucina Italiana
Café Io
Il Pizzaiolo
Kous Kous Cafe
Rania’s Catering
Walnut Grove

Banff, Bees and Beards – Radio Round Up – April 9, 2010

: Image by jordanfischer via Flickr

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Friday and Saturday Night @ Soldiers and Sailors in Oakland
Amazing collection of outdoor films

Burgh Bees Beekeeper Training Course

Saturday April 10 and April 17
Learn how to be an urban beekeeper

Free Concert at Pittsburgh Opera – Preview of The Marriage of Figaro

Saturday, April 10, 2010, Noon-1pm
Pittsburgh Opera HQ in the Strip @ 2425 Liberty

4th Annual Braddock Chili Cook Off

Benefits the Carnegie Arts Program
$10 gets you Chili and you get to keep the bowl
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 1-5pm @ Braddock Elks Club

YPA Preserve Pittsburgh Summit

Free 1 day workshop on preserving historic places in Pittsburgh – this years focus is on Hazelwood
Saturday, April 10, 2010

33rd Annual Beaver County Maple Syrup Festival

Saturday and Sunday, Brady’s Run Park Lodge in Fallston, Pa
All you can eat pancakes – crafts, kids events and more

Pancakes with Pets

Benefits Animal Rescue League
Saturday, April 11, 2010 10-2 @ Double Wide Grill

Beard Off

: Image by kevincrumbs via Flickr

Double Wide Grill is hosting a playoff beard competition
Stop by the Double Wide Grill on Carson St to get your before photo. Best beard will be selected during each of the elimination games. $500 cash prize to the best playoff beard. Also prizes for beard of the game. Not in Pittsburgh – you can participate online too.

Chili and Crafts at Southside Works + Pop Up Markets

The folks at the ImadeIt Market may have had their valentine’s day show at the Union Project canceled due to the snowmageddon that took over Pittsburgh back in February but they are back with an awesome way to chase away the winter chills – Chili Contest!

Here is the deal – Joseph Beth Books has moved out of their space on Carson Street – to a smaller space across the street -so on Saturday, April 10 – the I Made It market will take over the old Joseph Beth Space and turn it into a Chili spectacular and handmade market.

I Made It! Market, Pittsburgh’s nomadic indie crafts marketplace, joins with the SouthSide Works for a Spring Arts & Chili Festival on April 10 from 2 – 8 pm.

More than 50 regional crafters will join together to create a pop-up marketplace inside the former Joseph Beth Bookseller space, on the corner of 27th and Carson Streets, which will also include a Kids Korner. Outside will be live entertainment and a chili festival complete with a celebrity judged chili competition.

Chili with the Works on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=349630274842

Popping into Vacant Spaces

These pop-up markets are litterally popping up all over the place and it is a great way to reuse vacant spaces and bring communities together at the same time – who knows maybe bringing new faces to vacant spaces will inspire some new tenants too.

Pop Up Pittsburgh was an event organized last year to highlight things happening in uptown, this year they will be popping up in another neighborhood – the Pittsburgh event was inspired by an event in Cleveland – another great idea shared through GLUE – Great Lakes Urban Exchange.
In January, Chris Brogan, one of my favorite writers on social media, linked to a post about Gap pop up shops
Here is another post and there are many others about pop up galleries in vacant spaces
Art Dimensions Pittsburgh (Art Dimensions Pittsburgh on Facebook) – is an artist space that has taken over the old PNC Bank building on the corner of Penn and Highland in East Liberty. The idea was brought to Pittsburgh by Dan Friedson who was involved with Art Dimensions in St. Louis.