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Cool Picks Friday November 23, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) With all the early, early morning “Black Friday” shopping specials, “Happy Hour” can come early today too. If you started work (shopping) early, like 4 a.m., then your “Happy Hour” would start at, say, noon. Maybe have lunch at  Walnut Grove, Applebee’s, or Chili’s (most of…

Cool Picks November 22 (Thanksgiving), 2012

The Entertainment Central team wish you and yours a joyous and blessed Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is a day for all of us to count our blessings no matter how big or small they are. A day to give thanks together no matter what way we choose to worship or not worship. It’s a day of hope and fellowship;…

Cool Picks Wednesday November 21, 2012

Cool Picks Brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Music royalty is in town tonight. B.B. King, the “King of the Blues,”and his bed guitar “Lucille” are playing the Benedum Center.  The multiple Grammy award- winning artist is known for hits “The Thrill is Gone,” “Sweet Sixteen,”  and the album he recorded…

Cool Picks Tuesday November 20, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Citizen Cope (Clarence Greenwood) is in concert tonight at the Byham Theater. Citizen Cope brings his distinctive harmonic voice and couples it with great rock, soul, blues and folk influences for a rich melodic sound. Best know for songs “Bullet & A Target,”  “Son’s Gonna…

Cool Picks Monday November 19, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) SpacePlace is a cool new exhibit that has just opened at the Carnegie Science Center. SpacePlace simulates what it feels like to be an astronaut through its exhibits: Zero-G Climbers–strap into climbing gear and scale a zero gravity climbing wall while completing a simple task; Micro-G Simulator–complete real-life…

Cool Picks Sunday November 18. 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Today is the last day for War Horse, winner of five Tony awards, at the Benedum Center. The stage play, made into a movie recently, showcases the relationship between a boy and his horse during World War I.  Young Albert’s bed horse, Joey, is sold…

Cool Picks Saturday November 17, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) The pre-holiday festivities continue Downtown with First Holiday Saturday. Market Square is the official kick off place for much of the action, with music starting at noon and continuing until 9 p.m. Artists include Vanessa Campagna, The Granati Brothers, and Jeff Jimerson and Airborne. The 3rd Annual Mascot…

Cool Picks Friday November 16, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Hey everybody, it’s Light Up Night Pittsburgh 2012, one of the region’s biggest free events. There are three stages full of musical groups: Market Square, Clemente Bridge and EQT Plaza, starting at 5 p.m.  Artists include: Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers, Kenny Blake Quartet and…

Cool Picks Thursday November 15, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) KC and the Sunshine Band (from Miami, Florida) are bringing their classic dance grooves including: “That’s The Way I It,”  “Get Down Tonight,” “I’m You’re Boogie Man,”  “Give It Up” to the stage of  Greensburg’s Palace Theatre . 7:30 p.m. 21 W. Otterman…

Cool Picks Wednesday November 14, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) South Side Stories is not a new Rick Sebak documentary or a WDVE Morning Show skit  it is writer/actor Tami Dixon’s new one-woman show which just opened at the City Theatre. Dixon spent two years gathering neighborhood stories from South Side natives about working in…

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