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What's On Pittsburgh · Weekend
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Good morning, Pittsburgh! The Warhol throws its Halloween party on Friday: tarot readings, a theremin, and a DJ set in the galleries hung with the Death and Disaster paintings. It sold out last year. Sunday is the quiet surprise. The Brookline market works its last Sunday of 2026, the Steelers kick off in Paris at 9.30 a.m., and the History Center hands its six floors over to Halloween. The Hounds also close their regular season at home on Saturday, with a parking chair giveaway. Let's get to it! - Madison
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★ WEEKEND PICK
💀 Night of Death and Disaster
The Andy Warhol Museum · North Side · Fri 8 p.m. to midnight · $35, VIP $75
The Warhol's annual Halloween party runs 8 p.m. to midnight through the galleries: a DJ set, tarot readings, a theremin player, live poetry typed to order, and floral arrangements built to answer the Death and Disaster silkscreens. Twenty one and over. Thirty five dollars gets you in at 8, and seventy five buys a VIP hour from 7, while the rooms are still quiet. Why go: It is the one night a year you get the Warhol after dark with a drink in your hand, and it sold out last year.
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🎃 Fall Fest at the Pittsburgh Playhouse
Pittsburgh Playhouse · Downtown · Fri from 6 p.m., Sat and Sun from noon · Free
Point Park turns its block of Forbes Avenue into a free street festival with food, local vendors, games and pumpkins to paint. Friday from 6, Saturday and Sunday from noon. The ticketed show inside, Boo's Halloween House Party, plays 2 and 5 on both weekend days. Why go: Free, Downtown, and it works with a stroller.
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FRIDAY, OCT 23
🎸 SUNGAZE and LAVISHER
Bottlerocket Social Hall · Allentown · Fri doors 7 p.m., music 8 p.m. · $18 advance, $20 door
Four bands of guitar and reverb in Allentown, with SUNGAZE at the top of the bill and LAVISHER, Vyva Melinkolya and Blinder underneath. Doors at 7, music at 8, eighteen dollars in advance and twenty at the door. All ages. Why go: Bottlerocket's own reference points for the bill are My Bloody Valentine and Ethel Cain.
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FRIDAY, OCT 23
🐸 Creepy Crawlies
Evergreen Community Park · Ross Township · Fri 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. · Free
Naturalist April Claus brings live snakes, toads, turtles and salamanders to Evergreen Community Park and teaches you to tell a frog from a toad by sound alone. Free, 7 to 8.30, best for ages 7 and up, under 16s with an adult. Why go: Ninety minutes of western Pennsylvania herpetology, for nothing, on a Friday night.
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SATURDAY, OCT 24
🎩 Ween-O-Ween 4: A Black Tie Event
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls · Millvale · Sat doors 8 p.m., band 9 p.m. · $20.15 advance, $23.15 door
SamJAMwich plays Ween in the Funhouse at Mr. Smalls, and the dress code is black tie. Doors at 8, band at 9, $20.15 in advance and $23.15 on the night with fees included. All ages. Why go: A tuxedo, a Ween tribute and Millvale on Halloween weekend. There is no sensible reason and that is the point.
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SATURDAY, OCT 24
🧟 Mombie Zombie Zoe Show
Steel City Cellar · North Side · Sat doors 7 p.m., show 7.30 p.m. · $17
A one night Halloween showcase downstairs at Max's Allegheny Tavern, where the host comes back from the dead to introduce a bill of ghouls, goons and fiends. Doors 7, show 7.30, seventeen dollars. No minimum age, but bring ID if you are drinking. Why go: It is a bar basement, it is seventeen dollars, and it is one night only.
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SATURDAY, OCT 24
⚽ Riverhounds vs Birmingham Legion
F.N.B. Stadium · Station Square · Sat 7 p.m.
The last home match of the Hounds' regular season, Birmingham Legion at 7 on the South Shore, and it is Fan Appreciation Night with a parking chair giveaway. The club publishes no face value, so check the price on its ticket link. Why go: The defending USL champions are playoff bound for a ninth straight year, and the postseason starts 31 October.
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SATURDAY, OCT 24
🎃 Paint Pumpkins with Police
Fox Chapel Borough Building · Fox Chapel · Sat 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. · Free
Fox Chapel's police department sets up behind the station with pumpkins, paint, refreshments and a costume contest, run by Sergeant Craig Sorg. Free, 11 to 1, and each family is asked to bring a non perishable item or a grocery gift card for the Blawnox Food Pantry. Why go: The pumpkins are provided, which is the whole appeal.
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SATURDAY, OCT 24
🪚 Beginner Woodworking: Steelers Flight Board
Contemporary Craft, Timmons Studios · Lawrenceville · Sat 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. · $90 plus a $25 materials fee
John Henley runs a four hour beginner class at Timmons Studios in Lawrenceville, where you build and finish a Steelers flight board from scratch. No experience needed. 11 to 3, and the cost is $90 plus a $25 materials fee, so budget $115. Why go: You go home with the thing you made, which almost nothing else this weekend offers.
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SUNDAY, OCT 25
🥕 Brookline Farmers Market, last one of 2026
Brookline War Memorial parklet · Brookline · Sun 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. · Free
The last market of 2026 at the Cannon, 10 to 2. Fruit and vegetables, meat and cheese, bread and pies, honey, and a caricature artist. The season opened on June 7 and closes here. Why go: Free, hyper local, and it does not come back until June.
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SUNDAY, OCT 25
🍳 Kegs 'N Eggs Brunch Watch Party
Spoonwood Brewing · Whitehall · Sun 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. · No cover
The Steelers kick off in Paris at 9.30 on Sunday morning, which is how Spoonwood ends up serving brunch and beer at that hour. Doors 9.30 to 1.30, in house only, walk in with no cover. Why go: A 9.30 a.m. kickoff is the one morning of the year when a breakfast beer in Whitehall is simply correct.
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SUNDAY, OCT 25
🧘 Sunday Reset
August Wilson African American Cultural Center · Downtown · Sun noon to 1.30 p.m. · Suggested donation $15
Thinkwell Yoga, a Black owned studio, leads a yoga session inside the August Wilson Center, part of a wellness series built on handing people a third space for an hour. Noon to 1.30, registration required, fifteen dollars suggested, and recommended for 18 and over. Why go: Downtown on a Sunday afternoon, in a building most people only enter for a show.
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SUNDAY, OCT 25
👻 Haunted History Center Halloween
Senator John Heinz History Center · Strip District · Sun 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. · Free for ages 17 and under
Six floors of museum turned over to Halloween: a haunted scavenger hunt, slime with the Steel City Ghostbusters, and fossils with a visiting bone lab. Free for ages 17 and under, regular admission for adults, which the museum does not publish online. Reserve ahead. Why go: Free for the kids, four hours, and an orange pickle pin while supplies last.
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SUNDAY, OCT 25
🍬 Trunk or Treat at Hartwood
Hartwood Acres Amphitheater · Allison Park · Sun 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. · Free
The county parks department parks up at the Hartwood amphitheater and lets goblins work the open trunks for two hours. Free, no registration for trick or treaters, and weather permitting, so check the parks Facebook page before you drive out. Why go: Two free hours of candy on a county estate, and South Park runs the same thing on Saturday.
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ICYMI
In case you missed it around Pittsburgh this week.
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and the PRT board votes on it this Friday. Keeping the 123 year old bore between Mount Washington and Station Square open would cost an estimated $43 million. About 1,500 cars a day use it; the last scheduled bus went through years ago.
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literally. Three Allegheny County library systems have now unionised with the United Steelworkers, the newest being Cooper-Siegel in Fox Chapel on a 13 to 3 vote. PublicSource found part time library assistants there earning as little as $13.22 an hour.
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after two and a bit years on Butler Street. Rising costs, the owners said, and they picked a December date to carry staff through the holidays and honour a New Year's Eve wedding. Loaded, La Palapa, Cuddy's and Kazoku all go with it.
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- Madison
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