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Football whoopie pies a total touchdown for game day
Football season is officially underway, so bring on the weekly goodies! These football-shaped whoopie pies will score points for being delicious as well as adorable. They’ll be the MVP of your tailgating table. (Note: If you’re making these in the off season, or if you’re short on time, you can,...
Fill up at Mac and Cheese Festival, Pittsburgh Pierogi Festival
Carb counting is not an option when two of the region’s tastiest comfort foods are the main attractions at two different food festivals the weekend of Sept. 21-22. Pittsburgh’s first Mac and Cheese Festival will take place at Highmark Stadium at Station Square on Sept. 21, followed by the sixth...
Top Picks From the Wine Cellar: 5 ‘natural wines’ to savor
In today’s social media cauldron, nothing generates more heated diatribes than the topic of “natural wines.” Pontificating pundits — most self-appointed — routinely unleash clickbait fodder with full-throated opinions either for or against the wines. Yet this blathering does little to enlighten casual wine drinkers just hoping to understand “natural...
Pizza Hut debuts Stuffed Cheez-It Pizza
No, you aren’t dreaming. This is reality. Pizza Hut just took one of the most addictive snack foods this side of heaven and stuffed it — either with mozzarella or pepperoni — and made it a thing. A single order of the ’za snack gets you four large squares of...
Learn to preserve fresh food at Penn State Extension’s canning seminar
Tony Thomas’ grandfather kept a small garden behind the house Thomas and his wife bought a couple years ago, in Pittsburgh’s Morningside neighborhood. After a season spent amending the soil, tilling it and laying down compost, he and his wife have a backyard vegetable and flower garden bursting at the...
Luke and Mike’s Frontporch in Aspinwall focuses on outdoor dining experienceVideo
Billy Rice of Aspinwall has owned 11 restaurants. But his last eatery endeavor, Luke & Mike’s Frontporch, is personal. “I named this last restaurant after my boys,” Rice said. “It’s a great outdoor spot, and it’s been a great adventure.” “They will be the next generation to take over,” said...
A new look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s textiles, home goods
A small but important exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City explores a little-known facet of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s creations: his line of wallpapers, printed and woven textiles, and other home goods designed for the public. “Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955-60” remains...
Out & About: Dinner theater guests reach the stars with ‘Galileo’
Around these parts, re-enactors are usually portraying figures from the French and Indian or Revolutionary wars. For the first installment of the 2019-20 History Dinner Theater Series, the Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery at Saint Vincent College ventured a little further back in time. On Sept. 14 in the...
Out & About: Greensburg Art Center exhibition covers the 3 ‘P’s’Video
The Greensburg Art Center has the natural world covered in its current exhibition, “People, Places and Plants … OH MY!” Featuring 70 artists, the exhibition opened with a reception Sept. 14 and continues through Oct. 18. Each of three walls in the center’s Rowe Gallery is devoted to one “P”...
Travel tip: Chainsaw carvers will have Cook Forest buzzing
Unleash your inner lumberjack Sept. 12-15 at the Chainsaw Carvers’ Round-Up. The Cook Forest Sawmill Center for the Arts will be buzzing (literally) with the sound of 16 carvers transforming logs into surprisingly detailed works of art. Live carving will be featured each day, along with auctions of the newly...
4 ways to preserve summer produce
In the last warm weeks of summer, it’s hard to imagine that today’s tomatoes, corn, peaches and other late-summer bounty will soon be just memories. But wait, they don’t have to be. With a bit of forethought, and a bit of time, we can safeguard some of this magnificent produce...
Living with Children: Dad says co-sleeping destroyed his marriage
A New York writer named Jonathan Daniel Stern, writing in the Aug. 7 issue of the e-zine “Fatherly,” laments that co-sleeping has destroyed his marriage. As best as I can figure, Stern and his ersatz wife are still married and live under the same roof, but the marriage is gone,...
Son asks his mom to stay in a hotel, she’s not having it
Dear Carolyn: I’m a 70-year-old mom of a 35-year-old, newly married son, my only child. What are your thoughts about his telling me that if I visit them, I need to stay in a hotel? I would only visit if invited of course. I visited him before and stayed in...
Las Vegas is getting a millennial makeover
Of all the ways to burn through cash in Las Vegas, zip lining 12 stories above the throngs at the outdoor mall known as LINQ Promenade may be the most thrilling. Next to hunting down zombies in a virtual reality game, seeing Lady Gaga in concert or hanging out at...
It’s time for vermouth to come out of the depths and star in cocktails
It’s time vermouth came out of the back seat and leapt into the driver’s seat. No longer just the briny backbone of a martini or the sweet round note in a Negroni, vermouth belongs in summery cocktails on its own authority. Vermouth, simply put, is an aromatized, fortified wine —...
Learn about 5 beneficial insects in the garden
While some gardeners still think that any bug in the garden is a bad bug, change is in the air. Most plant-lovers now realize that insects and plants go hand-in-hand and that there are far more beneficial insect species than there are harmful ones. In fact, of Earth’s million insect...
Raise a glass at the New Kensington Wine & Beer Festival
For Jimbo Jackson, it’s about giving back. The entertainer, who lives in Arnold but was born in New Kensington, will take the stage at the second annual New Kensington Wine & Beer Festival. The event is from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20 along Fifth Avenue. The event is free...
Out & About: Greensburg exhibit puts new twist on traditional ‘womanly arts’
An art show that is “a testimony to the strength, work, voice and beauty of all women” is on display through Sept. 30 in the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center. Appropriately titled “The Art of Woman,” the exhibition features 35 pieces by Mary Ellen Raneri of Latrobe and Raven Cintron...
Watch out for black cats and Jason Voorhees, it’s Friday the 13thVideo
Do you suffer from triskaidekaphobia? Those with superstitions surrounding the number 13 are in for a double whammy today. It’s not only Friday the 13th, there’s also a full moon. Today is a stay-in-bed day for you. Happy Friday the 13th pic.twitter.com/YzSIvSray1— out of context the office (@officecontexts) September 13,...
Plan now for the best tomatoes next year
A myth among tomato lovers is that home-grown tomatoes taste best. Not true! The best varieties of tomatoes are what taste best, whether they’re grown on a farm or in a backyard. What about growing conditions? You would think that tomatoes grown on a farm or backyard in a sunny,...
New greenhouse testament to Frank Pizzi’s dedication to Pittsburgh Zoo
Every gardener wants a state-of-the-art greenhouse, but not everyone is going to need one that’s 18 feet tall. Frank Pizzi, curator of horticulture and grounds at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium explains what this new building replaces. “The last greenhouse was a fabricated thing from a kit and a...
Do deer contaminate garden crops through their droppings?
Question: Can rhubarb be eaten even though deer roam through the rhubarb patch? Amswer: Deer droppings do have the potential to transmit both E. coli and chronic wasting disease (CWD), the latter of which is specific to deer and elk and has symptoms similar to mad cow disease. CWD has...
Overholt Rye whiskey, once owned by Mellon family, to be auctioned in Kentucky
Someone next week will have a shot at buying a historic bottle of whiskey distilled in Westmoreland County that typically fetches more than $1,000 a shot, on the rare occasion it can be found. On Thursday, a 1909 bottle of Overholt Rye whiskey — passed down through the Mellon family...
Popeyes asks customers to bring their own bun for chicken sandwichesVideo
Popeyes has brought a new meaning to BYOB: Bring your own bun. The chicken restaurant has come up with a temporary fix to the fact its popular sandwich has been sold out at many locations by telling customers to supply their own bread. “Due to the extraordinary demand, the sandwich...
Out & About: ‘Kecksburg’ movie cast and crew visit with fansVideo
Interest in the 1965 Kecksburg UFO incident, though steady throughout the years, spiked with the Sept. 12 premiere of the movie “Kecksburg,” complete with red carpet at the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Uniontown. In the run-up to the premiere, filmmaker Cody Knotts, cast and crew members had...
