This is a picture of Dan Chaon
Slightly blurry Cathy Day (The Circus in Winter) with Dan Chaon (You Remind Me of Me). On October 18, 2006, at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at the University of…
Category Archives: pittsburgh
Chile spiced mango for everyone!
Trader Joe’s comes to Pittsburgh. And not a moment too soon.
Mysteries of Pittsburgh returns
Just when I said we didn’t need any Sienna Millers around the parts, what shows up in my neighborhood but the Mysteries of Pittsburgh film crew.
It’s all about the french fries
By moving from LA to Pittsburgh, I have apparently taken 1.5 years off my life, according to this interactive map of longevity by state, (courtesy NPR).
Flowers in the attic
Pittsburgh homeowners who’ve uncovered cool or creepy things while renovating their houses could score a spot on the HGTV show If Walls Could Talk, which is headed to the city…
Fishy fishy fishy fish
This is the as-packed-as-possible crowd that turned out to see literary theorist (turned Law School dude) Stanley Fish do his fantastic rhetoric dance Thursday at Pitt. Fish is there, in…
mysteriouser and mysteriouser pittsburgh
Friday I showed up at 7:30pm to be one of about 100 punk club scene extras in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. The short version: Peter Sarsgaard is indeed a babe,…
Don’t dis the Zep
Pittsburgh Pirates fans, who’ve been hanging in through a pretty dismal season, got treated to post-game fireworks shows this week. And there was a live band! Problem is the band,…
blogging Pittsburgh
In the midst of my first week of classes, on Wednesday 8/30, a few industrious Pittsburgh bloggers will be getting together for Blogfest 7 to, I’m guessing, blog, talk about…
Mysteries of the Mysteries of Pittsburgh
As noted by Bookslut and Largehearted Boy, Friday there’s an open casting call for the movie version of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Here, in, of all places, Pittsburgh, where they…
