One last celebration before you give up some of your favorite treats for lent. Start the day off with a King Cake and check out one of the many events happening around town on Tuesday evening.
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Mardi Gras, The Pgh Puffins and Pancakes – Radio Round-Up for 3/4/2011
Image by Mr. Velocipede via Flickr
Here are some of our picks for this weekend and for Mardi Gras celebrations. You can listen to IheartPGH live on DVE on friday mornings at 6:45 (or just sleep in read our updates here in the blog).
Looking for King Cakes in Pittsburgh? Check out the list of bakeries that have King Cakes here – you can even order online from a few of these places too.
March Mardi Gras Hot Jam @ Pittsburgh Glass Center
- The first friday of every month – the Pittsburgh Glass Center stays open late for a FREE open house
- March 4, 2011 6-9pm – live music and glass blowing demonstrations
- Can’t make it to the glass center you can watch live demos online via Ustream – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pgc-hotjam
Pancake Breakfast & Maple Sugaring Celebraion @ Fern Hollow Nature Center in Sewickly
- Saturday, March 5, 2011, 8:30am-Noon
- Pancakes with REAL maple syrup ($8 for adults/$6 for kids)
- Lots of free outdoor activities and a bonfire too
Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration
- Saturday, March 5, 2011, 11am-1pm
- Pittsburgh Children’s Museum
- Celebrate Dr. Seuss 107th birthday
Its a Women’s Hockey Night in Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Puffins vs. Dayton Fangs
- The Pittsburgh Puffins are Pittsburgh’s women’s ice hockey team
- Saturday, March 5, 2011, 8-10pm @ Mt. Lebanon Ice Rink
One Sweet Burgh at Hard Rock Cafe
- Pittsburgh has a premier Dave Matthews Cover Band – with an awesome name
- One Sweet Burgh will be performing all of your Dave Matthews favorites at the Hard Rock Cafe
- Saturday, March 5, 2011, 10 pm at the Hard Rock Cafe
Image courtesy of Tree Pittsburgh
All You Can Eat Pancakes to Benefit Tree Pittsburgh
- Sunday, March 6, 2011 10am-2pm
- Doublewide Grill
- $10 for pancakes – benefits Tree Pittsburgh
- Sunday, March 6, 2011 2-6pm @ Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Ave in Oakland
- $20 gets you soup, bread and a handmade bowl to take home
- artists and student have donated their time to make all of the bowls for this event
- all proceeds go to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
- Sunday – celebrate with Zydeco music at the Pittsburgh Public Market
- Tuesday – Boiler Maker Jazz Band at Penn Brewery
Some Ways to Celebrate Mardi Gras in Pittsburgh
I know we are so close to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day – but hold on to your green beers because we have to celebrate Mardi Gras first. You need to eat some pancakes and king cake before you can get to the green beers. Here is a run down of some mardi gras celebrations and scroll down for a list of bakeries where you can find king cakes.
Pittsburgh Public Market – Sunday, March 6, 2011
The Pittsburgh Public Market will celebrate Mardi Gras with authentic Zydeco music.
Hofbrauhaus Fasching Celebration – Tuesday, March 8, 2011 6:30-10:30pm
Celebrate It’s Mardi Gras, German-style! Join Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh for Fasching on Fat Tuesday. Fasching is the German version of Carnival. Guests are invited to dress up in costume and enter to compete to become the King & Queen of Fasching, with plenty of prizes provided by Hofbrauhaus! Live entertainment, contests, drink specials, beads, bier and more!
Penn Brewery Mardi Gras Celebration – Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Fat Tuesday celebration with the Boilermaker Jazz Band from 7-10pm
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Looking for a King Cake for your celebration? Our sources tell us the following Pittsburgh bakeries make king cakes.
- Bethel Bakery in Bethel Park has king cakes and other mardi gras treats which can be ordered online here
- Oakmont Bakery has king cake in multiple flavor choices and you can order online here
- Jean-Marc Chatellier’s French Bakery in Millvale
- Priory Fine Pastries on the North Side
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And if all else fails, you can stop by Le Mardi Gras in Shadyside – I can’t promise any sort of Mardi Gras celebration – but they have strong drinks, zydeco on the jukebox (it might be the most eclectic bar jukebox in town) and some paintings of the french quarter that are rumored to have been painted by a student in exchange for his bar tab. Le Mardi Gras is just a bar, no food, they don’t take credit cards (but there is an atm there) and surprisingly they have a website http://www.lemardigras.com/
Radio Round Up – February 1, 2008
- Friday Feb 1 – Boilermaker Jazz Band
- Saturday Feb 2 – Dixie Doc and the Pittsburgh Dixieland Allstars
- Tuesday Feb 5 – Boilermaker Jazz Band
- crazy kind people jump into the Monongahela on Groundhogs day
- Fundraiser for Circle C
- noon @ the 18th Street boat ramp, warm up afterwards at Folino’s Continue reading
Mardi Gras Celebration!
I was getting a little worried that Pittsburgh had more Groundhog Day
celebrations than Mardi Gras celebrations. Penn Brewery to the rescue. I was lucky enough to visit a fellow Pittsburgher in New Orleans for Mardi Gras a few years ago, before the flooding. It was definitely the biggest party I have ever attended. Mardi Gras, like Groundhog Day are holidays that need to be celebrated. So head on over to Penn Brewery for bead, beer and good music. I love the Boilermaker Jazz Band (check 
out the picture of the band performing in New Orleans) and I can only say good things about Dixie Doc and the Pittsburgh Dixieland All-stars. Continue reading