Weekly Agenda
November 18, 2013
Tuesday, Nov. 19
WHIRL Magazine’s inaugural Chef’s Best Dish event
The Circuit Center and Ballroom
5 Hot Metal St., South Side
Time: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Admission: $45-$75
21+
Come try more than 30 of Pittsburgh’s best dishes as local chefs battle for awards such as Best Dessert, Best Iconic Pittsburgh, Best Seasonal, Best Presentation and Best Overall. There will be complimentary cocktails as well as an open cash bar, and part of the proceeds will go to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
Wednesday, Nov. 20
Stage AE
400 N. Shore Drive, North Shore
Doors open: 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $39.50 in advance, $42.00 at the door
Need some old-school thrash metal in your life? Is so, look no further than Slayer’s show at Stage AE. France’s Gojira and Australia’s 4Arm round out the multinational lineup for what promises to be a great concert.
Thursday, Nov. 21
Pizza Sola
114 Atwood St., Oakland
10 p.m. to midnight
Admission: Free
21+
Pizza Sola in Oakland will be hosting a mustache and beard competition that will feature categories for both men and women. Proceeds from the purchase of Yuengling bottles and Victory drafts, as well as raffle proceeds, will be donated to the Pittsburgh Cancer Caring Center, Victory Brewing’s Movember team and Peter Brady, a Pitt student who was recently paralyzed.
Friday, Nov. 22
Light up Night
Downtown
noon
Admission: Free
Introducing a month’s worth of events for this holiday season, Pittsburgh’s 53rd annual Light up Night kicks off with tree lightings, fireworks and free music all over downtown Pittsburgh.
Saturday, Nov. 23
A poetry reading with Patricia Smith
Kresge Theatre, Carlow University
3333 Fifth Ave., Oakland
Book table open at 7 p.m., reading at 7:30 p.m.
Free
Slam poet Patricia Smith will be doing a reading and performance at Carlow University as part of the school’s Madwomen in the Attic reading series. She will be reading poems from her latest book, “Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah.”
Sunday, Nov. 24
Through Dec. 31
Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood St., Downtown
Chicago-based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschlager’s audiovisual installation puts visitors face to face with a swirl of amorphous, flowing bodies that combine to form a collective mass, creating a strange, harmonious display.
Monday, Nov. 25
AcoustiCafe Open Stage
56-58 South 12th St., South Side
Free
21+
Based on the incredibly successful open-stage environments that have been popping up in similarly sized music towns such as Nashville, Tenn., AcoustiCafe gives up-and-comers and eager amateurs alike a laid-back space to work on their sound in front of a positive, supportive audience.
