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A view of the fireworks from the West End overlook during last year's Light Up Night.
I once received the following call: Caller With Particularly Shrill Voice: What do Macy's windows look like? (Today)
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Girl Talk -- "This is the first time where I've ever requested security on stage, just because if it wasn't there, every show would just completely implode within five minutes."
Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, is calling from the shadow of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., deep in New England Patriots territory, where he has a Friday night gig on his whirlwind tour of 34 cities in 40 days. (Today)
The Eagles bring a long list of hits with them to the Mellon Arena stage at 8 p.m. Friday, including material from their most recent album, "Long Road Out of Eden."
Music director Manfred Honeck returns to shake things up again with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. What, you say? (Today)
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"The content just spilled right out of me," Bill Deasy says of his latest, "A Different Kind of Wild."
On his new album, "A Different Kind of Wild," Bill Deasy comes out of the closet -- as a sentimental fool. (Today)
The Pittsburgh Playhouse Repertory Company's production of "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" stars, clockwise from left, Tony Bingham, Justin DeWolf and Robin Walsh.
The issue at the heart of the family battle royal in Edward Albee's "The Goat" is shocking -- funny, sure, but intentionally upsetting and even disgusting. (Today)