Rick Handler

Cool Picks Sunday August 5, 2012

1) Flood City Music Festival continues today with many fantastic bands and performers including: The Harlan Twins, 1 p.m.; Sonny Landreth, 5:30 p.m.; Yellow Dubmarine, 6 p.m.; Mon River Ramblers, 7 p.m.; McCoury Band, 8 p.m. Gates open noon. Peoples Natural Gas Park,  Johnstown. 2) CITIPARKS Bach, Beethoven and Brunch’s classical music series presents Cincopation…

Cool Picks Saturday August 4, 2012

1) Wiz and Mac, two hometown guys who’ve done good, are back in the ‘burg (Burgettstown) for a joint rap fest.  Wiz Khalifa & Mac Miller, both Pittsburgh Taylor Allderdice High grads, are bringing their “Under the Influence of Music Tour” to First Niagara Pavilion. Special guests include: Kendrick Lamar, Chiddy Bang, School Boy Q., Chevy Woods. Miller’s recording, “Blue Slide…

Cool Picks Friday August 3, 2012

1) The Steelers continue their training camp tradition of holding a night practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium. It’s a fest between the Steelers and their fans in this intimate stadium setting. A great chance to see your favorite Steeler up close and personal; so close that you can see individual strands of Troy Polamalu’s hair.…

Cool Picks Thursday August 2, 2012

1) Classic rock mainstays, Chicago and the Doobie Brothers, who both racked up numerous hits during the 70’s, are joining forces tonight at First Niagara Pavilion. Chicago’s brassy horn section gives extra depth to hits like 25 or 6 to 4; Saturday in the Park; Just You and Me; Beginnings; If You Leave Me Now.…

Cool Picks Monday July 30, 2012

1) Matisyahu & the Dirty Heads play the Carnegie Library Music Hall in Munhall. Matisyahu is a talented reggae-rapper who goes by his Hebrew stage name.  Special guest, Moon Taxi. 7 p.m. 2) Garfield Artworks hosts Olympia, Washington’s Ruby Fray (an indie chamber-folk band) with Aydin and Let Them Eat Cake. 8 p.m. All Ages. 4931 Penn…

Cool Picks Sunday July 29, 2012

1) Filter, Menew, Sick Sense, Through These Walls, Patron Saint, and The Show are taking the Altar Bar stage by storm starting at 6:30 p.m. tonight in an all ages show. The headlining band, Filter, is a an alternative metal band from our neighbor to the north, Cleveland. Richard Patrick, Filter’s lead singer, sings of life’s…

Cool Picks Saturday July 28, 2012

1) South Side Johnny is not some guy who s hanging out on Pittsburgh’s South Side (although he may).  He’s the main man in the group South Side Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. They’re part of the same Asbury, New Jersey scene that produced Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. Springsteen has even written…

Cool Picks Friday July 27, 2012

1) Country party rocker Toby Keith takes the stage at First Niagara Pavilion tonight. He’s sure to play his big hit “Red Solo Cup”  (re: the color and brand of cup that’s used at many parties, tailgates and “keggers”). Toby Keith has a lot of friends, with over two million “s” on his page. 7…

Cool Picks Thursday July 26, 2012

1) The sisters from Seattle and their band, Heart, are in concert at Stage AE. Heart first rose to fame in the 1970’s with hits: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Heartless, Dog and Butterfly. Top ten albums on the Billboard Magazine’s album charts in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2010 provide testimony to the bands enduring rock legacy. Gates…

Cool Picks Wednesday July 25, 2012

1) Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts and Design is an ongoing, featured exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Art. The exhibit, showing in the newly renovated Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries, is a varied retrospective on American and European decorative arts, from 18th century Rococo and Neoclassical periods to contemporary craft and design of the 20th and…

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