Lifestyles category, Page 117
Send a holiday card, support a worthy local cause
Even with some people turning to electronic holiday greetings, sending cards by mail is still a treasured tradition. Americans purchase approximately 6.5 billion greeting cards each year, including 1.6 billion Christmas cards, according to the Greeting Card Association, an industry trade group. That makes Christmas cards the most popular type...
Pittsburgh’s Sammy’s Famous Corned Beef to reopen Downtown
The popular “Sammy’s Special” sandwich — a large portion of hot corned beef, topped with Swiss cheese, coleslaw and Russian dressing on freshly-baked bread – will be available once again. Sammy’s Famous Corned Beef reopened with dine-in and pick up on Tuesday. Located on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh, the...
McDonald’s McRib sandwich to make its annual appearance
The long wait is almost over for hungry McRib lovers. McDonald’s is bringing the cult favorite sandwich back to restaurants on Wednesday. This will be the first time since 2012 that it will be available at all of the fast food chain’s 14,400 outlets nationwide. McDonald’s brings back the McRib...
‘Luminary Night’ to kickoff holiday festivities in Greensburg
Greensburg will celebrate its 51st annual Luminary Night beginning at 5 p.m. Dec. 3. About 400 luminaries will light the way for visitors along Main, Otterman and West Second streets and Pennsylvania Avenue, and a Christmas tree will illuminate the South Pennsylvania Avenue Parklet. The Downtown Greensburg Project, which organizes...
TribLive Taste Test: Sheetz Project Happy Hole-idayz Doughnut AleVideo
Beer brewed with doughnut holes? Why not? Today’s TribLive Taste Test subject was the brand-new Project Happy Hole-idayz, a collaboration between Sheetz and North Carolina brewery Wicked Weed. Each batch is supposedly brewed using a pound of the convenience store chain’s Shweetz doughnut holes, with notes of vanilla frosting and...
Steelers’ JuJu Smith-Schuster donates Thanksgiving meals to seniors
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster fondly remembers Thanksgiving dinners growing up. “The older people would always be served first,” said Smith-Schuster on Tuesday. He’s making the sure the seniors are taken care of this year, especially when they might not be able to have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and...
Living with Children: It’s not too late to turn things around
Question: We have a 10-year-old daughter who runs our family. We allowed her to begin dictating to us when she began talking and it’s just gone slowly downhill ever since. She manipulates us with shrieking tantrums, disrespect and downright refusal to do what we tell her to do. We must...
Toy safety group releases annual list of top 10 ‘worst’ toys
BOSTON — Cute plastic animals with tiny accessories that pose a choking hazard, Black Panther-inspired claws with the potential to cause facial or eye injuries, and green slime that could be harmful if swallowed: These are just some of the items on an annual list of potentially dangerous toys released...
For rookie Thanksgiving cooks, expert tips to avoid disaster
NEW YORK (AP) — After Christopher Hughey tweeted that he’s tackling his first Thanksgiving turkey this year, the advice started rolling in. Brine it. Don’t bother. Try “spatchcocking” — grilling the bird split open. Remember to turn on the oven, and expect that something will burn. “One extreme is that...
Break bread from Pittsburgh’s Pane e Pronto bakery this ThanksgivingVideo
Baking bread from scratch takes flour, yeast and the most important ingredient … time. “It’s a process,” said Nick Malburg, head baker at Pane e Pronto, an Italian takeout, bread and catering kitchen in the Strip District. “You can’t rush it, because if you do, people will notice.” Malburg has...
Dutch Wonderland will open Holiday Lights drive-thru attraction
Dutch Wonderland may have closed their amusement park for the year, but a festive seasonal attraction is starting up in December. The park’s Holiday Lights attraction will allow guests to drive through a ⅕ mile long trail, decorated with hundreds of thousands of electric Christmas lights. The drive-thru destination will...
The Rink at PPG Place in Pittsburgh opens for a 20th season
It’s 2020 for the The Rink at PPG Place. It opens at 11 a.m. for its 20th season on Friday on what would have been Light Up Night. The pandemic halted the annual kick-off event to the holiday season. But gliding on outdoor ice is still happening. “We are glad...
Toast the season with festive twists on holiday spiritsVideo
You don’t have to go to the bar to get a well-made drink. Many can be served in your house. “With most people spending the holidays at home because of the pandemic, there are easy ways to make cocktails in your house,” said Barry Young, co-founder and master distiller at...
Kennywood introduces chaperone policy for guests under 18
Kennywood Park announced a chaperone policy beginning with the opening of the 2021 season. Anyone under 18 years of age who enters after 4 p.m. must be accompanied by someone 21 or older, who is also a paying customer. In the past few years there have been incidents — from...
Mississippi road signs mark Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash site
GILLSBURG, Miss. — Lynyrd Skynyrd, the rock band famous for “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Free Bird,” now has highway signs pointing to the site of the Mississippi plane crash that claimed the lives of some of its members. Fans gathered Sunday as the Mississippi Department of Transportation unveiled exit signs...
Sorry, Grinch. Virus won’t stop NORAD from tracking Santa
WASHINGTON — Children of the world can rest easy. The global pandemic won’t stop them from tracking Santa Claus’ progress as he delivers gifts around the globe on Christmas Eve. The North American Aerospace Defense Command has announced that NORAD will track Santa on Dec. 24, just as it has...
Living with Children: Avoid this trap
Nearly every time I talk to an adoptive parent, I become saddened, disgusted, angry or each in turn. It recently happened again. The parent in question is the mother of a pre-teen boy who was adopted in early toddlerhood — at least a year before the ability to remember past...
Get free Sheetz coffee every week during the holidays
If you don’t already have a Sheetz customer rewards card, it might be a good time to get one — especially if you are a coffee drinker. Today, Sheetz announced a new holiday coffee program designed to keep customers and employees safe during the holiday season. To maintain social distancing...
Freshen up your holiday decorating with these tips
Since you’ve been spending so much time homebound, you’re well ahead on your holiday decorating, right? Well, maybe not. Maybe you are in such a funk that you are having a brain freeze on thinking about the holidays. Or, perhaps you do have that decorating pretty well planned out, or...
Thanksgiving turkey questions? Experts offer up advice
Your role for Thanksgiving dinner might be different this year. “I suspect we will have a lot of first-time turkey makers,” said Carol Miller, one of 50 Turkey Talk-Line experts for Butterball, a turkey brand and the largest producer of turkey products in the U.S. “With so many people staying...
Jamie Oliver’s crispy salmon tacos served with mango and avocado
In his new cookbook, “7 Ways,” Jamie Oliver highlights 18 ingredients — from chicken to shrimp and eggs to potatoes — and offers seven new ways to construct dishes around them with no more than eight ingredients. Here is one of the offerings: Crispy Salmon Tacos Serves: 2 Start to...
Out & About: The Westmoreland lights up the Greensburg night skyVideo
With the flick of a switch, accompanied by oohs, aahs and applause, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art was awash in a festive glow. The second annual Winter Lights Illumination Night was held Friday, bringing cheer to downtown Greensburg as the darkest days of the year tick down to the...
Back to the Foodture restaurant expanding to Pittsburgh’s South Side
The “Buggie” is two 8-ounce burgers in between two grilled cheese sandwiches with two layers of egg, bacon, tomato, lettuce and sauce. And an extra slice of bread in between. The signature item on the Back to the Foodture menu in Pitcairn might expand one’s waistline. Sales of the burger...
Pittsburgh Creche installed at U.S. Steel Plaza
As Mary Lou Setzenfand help set up the creche Friday, she had a wise observation. “Make sure Joseph has undergarments,” she said, referring to the statue of Joseph in the stable for the Pittsburgh Creche, being installed Friday at the U.S. Steel Plaza, Downtown. Setzenfand, of Ross, and more than...
Giant pickle ornament among Pittsburgh’s holiday attractions
There’s a big dill in Pittsburgh this holiday season. The giant custom-made Heinz pickle balloon, a recognizable sight above the Clemente Bridge during Picklesburgh festivals, has been transformed into a super-sized ornament. It will be unveiled Nov. 27 (the Friday after Thanksgiving) in EQT Plaza, Downtown, a project of the...
