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Come paint, socialize and sip cocktails at venues around Pittsburgh with Colors & Bottles!! We are a modernized painting class bringing fun to all ages and skill levels!!

We are a modernized painting class for all skill levels. We hold painting classes at local venues around Pittsburgh. Our goal is to promote local artists, local businesses and get people out socializing. Come learn to paint by one of Pittsburgh's local artists

Every show is unique! Live shows dazzle audiences with brilliant colors and rockin' music in the Buhl Digital Dome. Based on audience requests, our laserists choreograph sight-and-sound spectacles of full-dome proportions! Shows and schedules change quarterly. For schedule details and complete show listings, visit our website or call (412) 237-3400 for more information.

Soho Weekly Live Trivia hosted by Last Call Pittsburgh. Compete with other bargoers for gift card prizes and possibly win other prizes from giving staff members. Drink and food specials aplenty, always free to play. Hope you can make it. Show starts @6:30p. Arrive at 6pm to get signed in.

An exhibition of four, original, interactive artworks that are “tough” enough to withstand kid handling. Play with a giant kaleidoscope, activate a sculpture with your voice and more! This exhibit is supported by a grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

Come enjoy different featured wines every Tuesday at Braddock's Streetside Bar. Hosted by Jack Bryce from Grapenuts.

Join the Mount Washington Community Development Corporation on Tuesday, August 21, as we celebrate the completion of a brand new segment of the Emerald View Park trail system! Bring your own picnic and we'll provide trail tours, doorprizes, entertainment, lemonade and most importantly dessert! We'll be gathering at Emerald View Park, Olympia Park entrance (corner of Hallock St. and Virginia Ave, Pittsburgh 15211), at the pavilion adjacent to the playground. Trail tours start at 5:15pm, music sta... More Details

The Big Burrito Group and Troegs are helping Pittsburgh Brewniversity throw a benefit dinner for Operation Walk Pittsburgh! This three-course, three-beer dinner will help Operation Walk provide charitable surgeries this September in Honduras and this November in Pittsburgh. There will be Treogs specialties available, current rumors suggest there could be a Flying Moufflan and/or Naked Elf appearance! Come out and help support this great cause as they help fund their work in Pittsburgh and around... More Details

Join us for a unique charity wine tasting event at the Diamond Run Golf and Country Club on Tuesday, August 21. The event will be held in the Club House and begins at 6:30PM. The event will feature light fare, a wide-variety of guest and host provided wines, and a silent auction/basket raffle. Cost for the event is a bottle of wine and a $25 donation. All monies benefit Operation Walk Pittsburgh, a local non-profit organization that provides free hip and knee replacement surgeries both in Pittsb... More Details

The Carnegie Performing Arts Center (CPAC) is proud to announce its 37th season producing dance and drama classics at the Andrew Carnegie Music Hall in Carnegie. Students at the Carnegie Performing Arts Center range in age from 3 to adult and can choose to be involved in three fully mounted theatrical productions. All CPAC performances are held at the Andrew Carnegie Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie. Friday and Saturday performances will be at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. The first offe... More Details

Bring from 3 to 8 people to Idlewild in whatever vehicle you drive, and get everyone in for $89.99+tax when you present a coupon available at participating Giant Eagle locations. (Must redeem coupon at entrance gate for discount). SAVE AN ADDITIONAL $4.00 per car when you present your Giant Eagle Advantage Card with your coupon. Please note that this is a limited operation day.

Five short comic plays and vaudevilles by Anton Chekhov! "The Bear", "The Proposal", "Drama: A Comedy", "Swan Song" and "On the Evils of Tobacco".

US Premiere of new version by Tom Stoppard! A sort of comic Hamlet, Ivanov is overcome with inertia and self-disgust. his wife is dying and he feels nothing. He is drowning in debt and despair, and he does nothing. Is it him? Is it Russia? Ivanov was the twenty-seven-year-old Chekhov's shot at dispatching the 'superfluous man' of Russian literature, and in surrounding him with a brilliantly drawn set of provincial types he created some of the finest comedy he ever wrote.

Laura Zorch and Laura Odegaard will spend the residency week manufacturing moments of happiness for the public through pop-up happenings (happy-nings) Monday through Thursday. The evening of FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, the public will be invited to work with Laura and Laura to create happiness in the form of gifts to be exchanged at the culminating Happy Factory event on Saturday night; there will also be a screening of the film Happy on Friday night. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 will be the culminating HAPPY FAC... More Details

Two plays by Brian Friel, inspired by Anton Chekhov! In "The Yalta Game" (inspired by "Lady with the Lapdog"), two strangers almost manage to convince one another that disappointments are 'merely the postponement of happiness to come...' "Afterplay" features Uncle Vanya's niece Sonya, now in her forties and the only customer in a run-down cafe in 1920's Moscow...until the arrival of the Three Sisters' brother Andrei.

"Three Sisters" poignantly conveys the lives, struggles, loves and secret desires of sisters Masha, Olga and Irina and their somehwat ineffectual brother Andrei. Set in a mythological provencial town in late 19th century Russia, we see their lives unfold before our eyes.

Impressionism in a New Light: From Monet to Stieglitz, on view at Carnegie Museum of Art May 12–August 26, 2012, presents a robust picture of what Impressionism means in art, displaying paintings, drawings, prints, and pastels by major artists alongside works by many of the most famous Pictorialist photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Carnegie Muesum of Art hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-5pm. Thursday: 10am-8pm. Sunday: 12pm-5pm.

This traveling exhibition of 33 paintings and 13 sketches tells the story of Negro Leagues-the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of truimphs and defeats on and off the field.

Discover the joys of seasonal eating in this new series of FREE cooking demonstrations hosted by Big Red Room Café Chef, Angelo Galioto! Taste new foods and engage your whole family in the fun of cooking as Chef Angelo shows you how to prepare easy, delicious recipes using ingredients straight from the Museum Garden. Join him for a new garden-to-table adventure each Tuesday and Friday this summer at 12:15 p.m. in the new Buhl Community Park.

American Greetings Properties, the intellectual property and outbound licensing division of American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM), announced today that the ToonSeum: Pittsburgh Museum of Comic Art will host a retrospective exhibit celebrating the 30th anniversary of the beloved and iconic Care Bears. The “Care Bears: 30 Years of Caring…and Hugs” exhibit will run from June 29th through August 26th. The ToonSeum’s “Care Bears: 30 Years of Caring…and Hugs&r... More Details

Discover the joys of seasonal eating in this new series of FREE interactive cooking demonstrations hosted by Big Red Room Café Chef, Angelo Galioto! Taste new foods and engage your whole family in the fun of cooking as Chef Angelo shows you how to prepare easy, delicious recipes using ingredients straight from the Museum Garden. Join him for a new garden-to-table adventure each Tuesday and Friday this summer at 12:15 p.m. in the new Buhl Community Park.

Kids' Zoofari sponsored by CHIP, brought to you by UPMC for Kids. Kids Rule during Kids' Zoofari. Free train rides and carousel rides for kids. Animal enrichment on the weekends.

An immersive urban theatrical adventure through the many layers of the city of Pittsburgh.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the first-ever educational exhibit based on the beloved movie classic. Come over the rainbow with Dorothy and Toto on an exploration of the colorful Land of Oz. Journey from the sepia-toned Gale Farm to the vibrant Emerald City and experience the adventures of Dorothy and her friends.

Factory Direct: Pittsburgh showcases the artwork of 14 established contemporary artists invited to conduct artist residencies in Pittsburgh-based factories. Factory Direct artists will work closely with the management teams and factory workers within their host facilities to plan and execute a new work of art based on the factory’s history, technologies, materials, and/or processes.