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Cool Picks Friday December 14, 2012

Jerrod Niemann, Dancing Queen, Sonoma Grille, Jazz Nutcracker

Cool Picks Sunday December 9, 2012

The Nutcracker, The Crucible, Holiday Concert: Warm by the Fire, Watch the Steelers at a Shadyside Bar.

Cool Picks Monday December 3, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Celtic Women are in town. What a great combination. “Celtic Woman” teaming up with the Pittsburgh Symphony for “A Christmas Celebration–The Symphony Tour” joins the angelic-voiced women (their performance specials are popular on PBS) with the power of a live, dynamic symphony orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Heinz Hall. 600 Penn…

Cool Picks Sunday December 2, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, affiliated with the Pittsburgh Symphony, is giving a free (download and paper tickets from their website) performance tonight at Heinz Hall. The SYMPHONIC DANCES program includes: Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, and Mozart Violin Concerto with Noah Bendix-Balgley, Faure Pelleas, and Melisande…

Cool Picks Wednesday November 28, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Buddy Valastro, star of TLC’s TV show “Cake Boss,” brings his Homemade for the Holidays Tour to the stage of the Benedum Center. Valastro will entertain you with family tales and traditions, straight from Carlo’s Bakery in Hoben, New Jersey.  Along with all of the fun, he’ll demonstrate…

Cool Picks Monday November 26, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day!  1) Gwar can be described as a very heavy metal band with elaborate horror and science fiction costumes, masks, and props. Their songs are often composed of obscene lyrics. Their stage performances contain humorous politically and morally deficient themes and acts.  Their album titles are…

Cool Picks Sunday November 25, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) The Brian Setzer Orchestra are in town tonight as part of their 2012 Christmas Rocks! Extravaganza tour. Setzer is a multi-Grammy, award-winning, innovative musician. He revived the rockabilly genre in the 1980s with “Stray Cats” and brought back swing music with his orchestra in the 1990s. …

Cool Picks Tuesday November 13, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Jakob Dylan’s (Bob Dylan’s son) band, The Wallflowers are playing a concert at Carnegie Library Music Hall. Jakob Dylan’s musical sound has been influenced by his dad, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. The Wallflowers are touring in support…

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Shadyside’s Smooth New Cantina, The Steel Cactus

For this mission, the Recon Patrol (RP) went deep undercover in order to bring you the lowdown on a new spot in Shadyside, The Steel Cactus: Authentic Mexican Restaurante & Cantina. We spent a few nights snooping around this smooth-loing, modern cantina, the latest offering from the AMP’D  Group (who brought you  South Side’s “Local” and…

Cool Picks Sunday October 14, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) Autumnfest continues today at Seven Springs with a fine arts & crafts bazaar, food, activities for adults and children, canopy zip , climbing wall, alpine slide and entertainment including: U.S. Kids, Mercedez, Daugherty & Beck, Gashouse Annie.  11 a.m.-5 p.m., Seven Springs. 2) Fort Ligonier Days commemorate…

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