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The weather is slowly rising as these days goes by in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Besides some of the late spring thunderstorms, the weather couldn't be more enjoyable these days. Laying out and enjoying the sun's rays are just one of the many things to do in the steel city. There's also the trending baseball games, concerts, bike trails, and...

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Electric Daisy Carnival

Electric Daisy Carnival hit New York this Memorial Day Weekend bringing with it 40 of the top DJs and over 100,000 dancing fans. This electronic dance music festival spanned the entire weekend, making for two straight days of thumping base, neon clad youth, and nonstop dancing. Exceeding last year’s attendance by the tens of thousands, festivals like this...

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Halston’s Heritage: Interview with Lesley Frowick

       In the 70s, when boundaries were being blurred and art was taking to the streets, fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick and artist Andy Warhol began a friendship that defined American glamour. For Halston, women of every shape could easily wear his designs with ease and elegance, preferably without a bra. He was of the first designers to pin an...

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Maniac Magazine Goes to Sweetlife

As I embark upon my trek back to the lovely city of Pittsburgh, my diaphanous chiffon dress offering no protection against the bus’ scratchy polyester-tufted seats, I cannot help but reminisce about the wonderful nine hours I spent at Sweetlife just a day ago. Sweetlife, a Music and Food Festival stationed at Maryland’s outdoor concert venue, Merriweather Post...

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Grit & Grace MARC FRIEDBERG

The S&P Restaurant Group, which is responsible for the delicious eats of Spoon and BRGR, has done it again. Their latest venture, grit & grace, is situated just outside of Market Square Downtown and is open and ready to please your palate.        The restaurant’s name is an expression of opposites and reflects the culinary dichotomy...

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Hungry Hearts: The Women of eatPGH

           eatPGH is in transition. This group of four women, dedicated to promoting the food scene in Pittsburgh, is so much more than the blog they began in 2009. Since their start they have gathered an enormous following, published two books with another on the way, and began an urban dinner series in the...

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Derby Maniac

The Kentucky Derby is easily one of the standards on a bucket list to those with a fast pulse and streak of adventure. This mama grew up around the Woodstock-esque atmosphere of Derby Mania when my girlfriends and I would skip school and quite recklessly offer rides to visiting college kids who were wandering the bars on Bardstown...

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Luckily, this is not about the old French crime novel, instead, it is simply about the color yellow and how it manages to brighten up a room. I know, yellow? Ew. But hear me out, yellow is actually a recommended color for your more common rooms, living rooms and even bedrooms. Wanna know why? Well, yellow is actually proven to...

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PGH Street Art

PGH Street Art

As a citizen or a tourist of PGH, you've probably seen some of our local street art. From the tags, to the small prints, to the huge murals, it's certainly a growing trend in not just this city, but cities all over the world. The art world is moving to the streets, no longer seen as a graffiti,...

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