Fri July 18 - from 6:30 PM to 10 PM
Full Moon run with the
Pittsburgh Hash House HarriersHomestead, PA
Must be 21
Sat July 19 - from 11 AM to 2 PM
Orienteering at Boyce Park
Orienteering is a competitive form of land navigation, using topographic map and compass. Goal is to locate control flags in the woods in the least amount of time.
Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club will host a meet on Sat July 19, 11 AM - 2 PM "Den" shelter. Courses will be be beginner, adv beginner, intermediate, advanced. The sport is a all-weather, all-skill leve, and all-age activity. It is suitable for families with children and adventure racers as well. Cost is $4 per map (group can share a map, and cost is still only $4).
Sat July 19 - All Day
Shenley Park
Grand Prixvintage car racing
free
Sat July 19 - from 8 to 11 PM
Braddock -
"Out of This Furnace" event... and a
comment from a participating artist
Sat July 19 - 7 PM
Gist Street Reading Series annual outdoor cookout
July 19, 2008: The Eighth Annual Gist Street Cookout Extravaganza with McSweeney’s
REMEMBER to bring FOOD. Inventive casseroles, lively fruit pies, traditional three bean salads, whole fishes. Burgers. Tofu. You make it; you bring it; we grill it (or set it on the table); and then we all eat it. Together. BYOB.
Eating begins at 7pm; Readings begin at 8pm. McSweeney’s has grown to be one of the country’s best-read and widely-circulated literary journals. As a small publishing house, McSweeney’s is committed to finding new voices. Recent books and journals have appeared on bestseller lists around the country and have won multiple literary and design awards, including stories selected for Best American Poetry, Best American Travel Writing, the O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories. Two of our books were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm
The cookout poets, rallied by Dominic Luxford, editor of The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets:
Atsuro Riley was brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry and lives near San Francisco. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and McSweeney’s, and has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and Poetry's Wood Prize.
Patrick Lawler has published three books of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990), (reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994), and Feeding the Fear of the Earth, winner of the Many Mountains Moving poetry book competition (2006).
Courtney Queeney's Filibuster to Delay a Kiss and Other Poems was published by Random House in 2007. She lives in Chicago.
Gerry LaFemina's latest book is the prose poem collection Figures from The Big Time Circus Book/The Book of Clown Baby. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland, where he directs and teaches at the Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University.
The cookout fiction writer, rallied by McSweeney's Angela Petrella:
Nathan West lives in Philadelphia, Pa. He recently completed a translation of the medieval Spanish materpiece Carcel de amor, and is at work on an epistolary novel. His story “The Balloon” was published in McSweeney’s issue 21.
Sun July 20 - 6 AM to 10 AM
Triathlon - Pittsburgh North Shore
watch 'em swim at 7 AM
watch 'em bike on the HOV lane of I-279
watch 'em run on the bike trail along the Allegheny river to Millvale
... and sing the National Anthem at 6:45 AM
Don't park on the north side of Pittsburgh, but on a metered space on the street in Downtown close to the Clemente bridge (there is no need to feed the meter on Sunday).
