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Cool Picks Tuesday December 4, 2012

Kenny Loggins, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Fred Pugh, Space Exchange

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 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 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 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 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…

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…

Cool Picks Wednesday November 7, 2012

Cool Picks brings you the best in Pittsburgh entertainment every day! 1) There’s a “bluegrass jam” happening with the Shelf Life String Band at the North Side’s Park House. Yuengling pints are $2 until 12 a.m.  There’s a complimentary one for joining in the jam, so bring along your instrument. No cover; free peanuts + free popcorn, “oh boy!” 9 p.m.-midnight.…

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