Posted by pittgirl on 30 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Downtown happenings, Eye rolls, Sonni Abatta
For the first time this year, Downtown Pittsburgh’s New Year’s Eve celebration will be marked by the raising of a giant ball at midnight, a la Times Square.
Yes, raised: the thousand-pound, glowing ball is named “The Future of Pittsburgh,” so when the midnight countdown happens it will be lifted to the top of a [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 30 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Eye rolls
I like to wake up with my world intact. I like to know that the lesbian barista at Starbucks will flirt with me as usual. I like to know that a pigeon will probably accost me and then immediately regret it when I taser its ass. I like to know that somewhere on Grant Street [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 30 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: David Conrad, Mayor Ravenstahl
The headline to this article is this:
So I assumed that the Mayor must have done something, like lend a working hand a la Bob O’Connor or Yarone Zober, or donated some of his 90k+ salary. But from reading the article it appears what Lukey actually did do was show up.
Is this all part of his [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Random
“It’s amazing how many Starbucks customers don’t know what it’s like to work at Starbucks,” said Ken Miller, an IWW member and former Starbucks worker.
According to this article, there was a massive (read 20 people strong) protest at a Squirrel Hill Starbucks demanding that Starbucks workers be allowed to unionize … or something.
My question isn’t [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Eye rolls, Mayor Ravenstahl
A bullet in the brain might have cost Dominic J. Costa his job as Pittsburgh police chief, but that hasn’t stopped him from considering a run for mayor.
Costa, who twice retired on medical disability, most recently in September, questions Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s credentials and said he’s considering a Democratic primary challenge in May.
“Every day, people [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Random
Add this one to the articles I’m pretty sure the Carbolic Smoke Ball wrote and the PG picked up as real.
Consider the Carrick woman whose cell phone was stolen Saturday from her car by an unknown man who reached into her front seat through an open window.
That evening the man called her other cell phone [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Eye rolls
Again, my shallow bitchiness is coming out because this article had me chuckling.
“It’s an armed robbery and an assault,” said Vernon Township Sgt. Randy Detzel. “They knocked him to the ground and took his deer,” the Meadville Tribune reported.
I know I should be aghast that people kill deer (Hiya, PETA readers) and I know I [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Local media
Rob Owen, the Wendy-hating (but I imagine Burgh Blog-loving) TV writer for the PG, in addition to dropping the word “verisimilitude” pointed out in his Tuned In Journal, this article in the Onion:
PITTSBURGH—Veteran anchorman Don Cannon accidentally revealed his annual salary on-air Wednesday following a KDKA-TV News At 6 segment on the increasing costs of [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 27 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers, Troy Polamalu, Weather
Watching this season of Steelers football slip quietly into the annals of “Embarrasing Shit that has Happened to the City of Pittsburgh,” the PittGirl family was the quietest it has ever been during a Steelers game, mostly because we weren’t watching football much.
The ladies gave up during halftime and gathered in the kitchen to drink [...]