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Pittsburgh Celebrates Medicare’s Anniversary (video)

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Pittsburgh Celebrates Medicare's Anniversary with a Demonstration

Pittsburgh Celebrates Medicare's Anniversary with a Demonstration

On Friday July 29th 2011, Pittsburgh celebrated the 46th anniversary of the passage of Medicare. Supporters of Medicare and single-payer convened outside of U.S. Senator Pat Toomey’s office and performed a skit which satirized the duel between UPMC and Highmark. The group then declared Smithfield Street Bridge the Medicare for All Bridge, satirizing Allegheny County Council’s decision to allow for “the placement of advertising, naming rights, or sponsorship notices…” on county bridges “as a means of generating supplemental revenue for the County…”
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Carrnivale Theatrics’ INTO THE WOODS Review

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Carrnivale Theatrics' INTO THE WOODS performed at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh

Carrnivale Theatrics' INTO THE WOODS performed at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh

“If the End Is Right, It Justifies…the Beans.”

Carrnivale Theatrics is putting on a great performance of Stephen Sondheim’s INTO THE WOODS right now. I’ll get to it.

“I wish!”
Showtunes. An alien world to me, or at least they were, as the saying goes, “once upon a time.”

“Near may be better than far, but it still isn’t here.”

I have been a music freak all my life. People don’t display their music collections anymore, not in these days of downloads and mp3’s, but it used to be that if you were to invite me into your home, if I saw a music collection, I would head straight for it and instantly form an implacable judgment of you based entirely on your taste in music.

“None would run from us….Yet one has.”

I spent several of my younger years living in a several communal situations, giving me endless opportunities to form snap musical judgments. For a variety of irrelevant reasons, however, it took me a while to have much to do with the greasepaint crowd, but then this one new guy moved in, with box after box of… showtunes.
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Sade and John Legend Live Concert Recap

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Sade and John Legend Live in Pittsburgh - Concert Recap

Sade and John Legend Live in Pittsburgh - Concert Recap

A lot of great music was played in the Burgh this weekend. Most notable was Sade and John Legend who sold-out the Consol Energy Center on Saturday night. It was her first Pittsburgh performance in over ten years and Boring Pittsburgh was there to cover the concert for everyone who couldn’t make it.
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Pittsburgh Marathon 2011 Recap Video

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The Dicks Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Half Marathon/Marathon took runners on a wet tour on the streets May 15, 2011. Ryan Sheehan of the Hanson Running project took the lead early in the half but a strong group of Africans including the half marathon winner Nicholas Kurgat broke away after 10km by running a 4:43. In the Mens Marathon a large group of Africans including runnerup David Rutoh pushed the pace early however, Jeff Eggleston of Flagstaff, Arizona who was brought in to help pace the elite american men for the first 18miles at the Olympic Qualifying Standard time was not far behind. Eggleston caught the group shortly after his pacing duties were over and started to push the pace which caused the group of runners to be trimmed down. Eventually with 2 miles to go the race between Rutoh and Eggleston however Rutoh could not hold the pace and Eggleston held on for victory. (video link)

Congratulations to all of the runner that worked their asses off in preparation for the big run yesterday! We’d like to send a special shoutout to @MichaelSally, the Boring Pittsburgh #BurghVerified marathoner. Excellent video coverage above by TeamBoyceProductions!

A few things must be pointed out about this annual event:

  • “Pittsburgh Marathon” has been a local trending topic on Twitter since the weekend. Boring Pittsburgh isn’t sure if that’s due to people tweeting their finishing times or because of all the ranting about road closures.
  • Calling it the “Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon” is boring! Enough is enough with branding everything under the sun.
  • The winner usually isn’t even from Pittsburgh… not even from USA for that matter! Wait, has the winner ever been a Pittsburgher?

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