In a surprising comeback after an easy defeat a week or so ago, Snow kicked Lukey’s ass in today’s second battle in the War on Snow. I left Oakland at 3:40 p.m. today and I got home less than 20 miles away at 5:40 p.m. And I didn’t see a salt truck/snow plow until I [...]

Category: Weather | February 29, 2008 | 15 Comments »

Atlanta is abuzz over the acquisition of one Colby Armstrong. From an article entitled “New Thrasher sad about leaving Sidney Crosby, Penguins“: Yes, there were tears. The Penguins were the only organization Colby Armstrong ever knew after being Pittsburgh’s first-round draft pick in 2001. “I was shocked and saddened to leave my friends,” Armstrong said. [...]

Category: Penguins | February 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »

1.  If you’d like to hear some of the best of Myron Cope, this site kicks all sorts of ass. 2.   Asylum is holding a hottest newscaster in the country contest and guess which local newscaster is in the finals along with the likes of Jillian Barbarie and Soledad O’Brien. Sonni, you say?  No. [...]

Category: Local media, Mayor Ravenstahl, Penguins, Pirates, Sonni Abatta, Steelers, The Damn Pigeons, Weird Burghers, Wendy Bell | tags: Luke Ravenstahl, Sonni Abatta, Wendy Bell | February 29, 2008 | 16 Comments »

I have wasted many an hour, enough hours that they surely add up to days, weeks, perhaps months, sitting in the slow, fiery hell that is the Parkway East. I hate, loathe, seethe at the Parkway East. I wish it ill. I evil eye it and spit upon it every chance I get. If I [...]

Category: Downtown happenings | February 28, 2008 | 32 Comments »

Another movie will be filmed in the Burgh this spring, this one produced by DreamWorks. The company expects to begin shooting a romantic comedy entitled “She’s Out of My League” on March 31, with production scheduled to wrap up at the end of May.  Produced by Pittsburgh native Jimmy Miller, the film is slated to [...]

Category: Downtown happenings | February 28, 2008 | 23 Comments »