Drinking Skeptically in Pittsburgh is tonight!
Where: The Bar, 2132 East Carson Street
When: 7:30pm-11ish? Friday, November 20th. [3rd Friday of the month!]
You can RSVP on Facebook or Meetup, and check out the Google map that shows the best places to find parking.

Just a quick reminder that Drinking Skeptically Pittsburgh is tomorrow!
I probably can’t make it but I hope you’ll join the folks who’ve RSVP’d on Facebook and Meetup and say hello to our new organizer Bill C. He’s keeping DS alive on those sites as Laura and I are no longer able to (hence the [...]

So this monthly thing we do? The one where we get together for drinks and fun? It’s tomorrow, Friday September 18th, at 7:30, in the usual spot –The Bar on E. Carson. [More details & rsvps at Facebook and Meetup.]

You should come out, especially if you’re interested in taking over this much neglected site, as [...]

We are thrilled to announce a fabulous new change to our favorite monthly social gathering! We’re moving to The Bar at 2132. (That’s E. Carson St. — A Pittsburgh phrase meaning “where the bars live.”)
The owner has not only graciously let us reserve the front section of this posh place on a Friday night, but [...]

Orbs, dust, April showers, or have you just been Drinking Skeptically?
Come and join us at Claddagh’s Irish Pub, for an evening of drink and merriment. The Facebook invite is here, or you can find us on Meetup. (Or you can comment here. We’re flexible!)
Hope to see you there!

Small town attention/thrill seekers form a ghost hunting team, meet a theater professor with a flair for the dramatic and have a sleepover in a university theater. Will you find out about their hijinx and adventure in the next Goosebumps novel? Oh no, gather ’round children — this story is coming to you straight from [...]

Wanted to pass along some links I’ve been sent this week of interest to those in and around Pittsburgh . . .

1000 Plaintiffs for Newdow v. Roberts — Friends of Mike Newdow, a group of PA Nonbelievers, has set up a website to assist Constitutional activist Mike Newdow “demonstrate that there is a lot of [...]

Last night Pittsburgh CBS affiliate, KDKA gave approximately three minutes of news time to Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik to guilt Catholics into voting for “pro-life” John McCain while repeatedly insisting that he couldn’t tell anyone who to vote for.
“The Pope has said you know we’re so concerned about financial bankruptcy but maybe the question that [...]

I just got wind of a really exciting event happening in Pittsburgh.  The Creative Non-Fiction Writers Conference 2008 is presenting on Science and Technology from October 2-4.   They have a myriad of events for writers as well as those just interested in hearing engaging panel discussions and readings from leading voices in the scientific community.  [...]

Apparently, Pittsburgh cops have written 188 disorderly conduct citations in the past 20 months for incidents of “swearing, making profane gestures or just generally acting like jerks.”
Some of these “incidents” were genuinely funny, e.g., the woman who said “I’m an [effing] passenger” at a traffic stop; but I think that we should also be genuinely [...]