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What's On Pittsburgh · Weekend
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Good morning, Pittsburgh! Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, which hardly ever happens, and the city has planned accordingly. Take the free one first. The CMU Philharmonic plays Night on Bald Mountain at Heinz Hall at 2 on Saturday. Costumes encouraged, tickets required, no charge. Friday is the grown up night. The Gateway Clipper sails its last haunted cruise of the year, fireWALL opens COVEN at the Greer, and Slappers N Bangers brings its Halloween party indoors to Thunderbird. Sunday the Steelers host Cleveland at 1, so plan around it. Let's get to it! - Madison
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★ WEEKEND PICK
🎻 CMU Philharmonic: Halloween at Heinz Hall
Heinz Hall · Downtown · Sat 2 p.m., doors 1.30 · Free, tickets required
Carnegie Mellon's orchestra gives Halloween afternoon to Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Falla's El Amor Brujo and Kapustin's second piano concerto in between. Jacob Joyce guest conducts. Eighty minutes, no interval, costumes encouraged, and activities in the lobby for children before the downbeat. Why go: A free seat in Heinz Hall is rare, a free seat in Heinz Hall on Halloween with a witches' sabbath on the stand is rarer, and you are out by half past three with the whole night still ahead of you.
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📚 Pittsburgh Art Book Fair
Carnegie Music Hall Foyer · Oakland · Sat and Sun 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. · Free
More than a hundred exhibitors fill the Music Hall foyer with artist books, zines and small press work, local tables next to ones that flew in. Book launches, listening sessions and storytelling workshops run across both days. Why go: It is free, it is browsable for ten minutes or three hours, and you will leave with something nobody else owns.
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FRIDAY, OCT 30
🥬 Northside Farmers Market, still going in November
Allegheny Commons, East North at Cedar · North Side · Fri 3 to 7 p.m.
The city runs this one on Fridays in Allegheny Commons, three to seven, on the green between East North and Cedar. The season goes to the twentieth of November, so there are only a few left. No admission charge is published. Why go: Everything else on Friday starts after dark. This is the one you can do at four in the afternoon.
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FRIDAY, OCT 30
🚢 Haunted Three Rivers, last sailing of the year
Gateway Clipper, Station Square Dock · Station Square · Fri 6.30 and 8 p.m., board 30 minutes early
An hour on the water with the crew telling ghost stories, local legend and the grimmer parts of river history. The season has run Fridays and Saturdays since late September, and Friday is the last sailing. All ages. Why go: Skyline, bridges and a decent fright, and you are back on dry land by nine.
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FRIDAY, OCT 30
🎧 Slappers N Bangers brings Halloween to Thunderbird
Thunderbird Cafe & Music Hall, 4053 Butler St · Lawrenceville · Fri 9 p.m. · Free, ticket required
Slappers N Bangers is a Pittsburgh hip hop and R&B party and it brings its Halloween edition indoors to Thunderbird. Arie Cole and WritersBlock412 on the decks, costumes expected, twenty one and over, and the ticket is free. Why go: A free ticket, local DJs who know the room, and Butler Street already out on Halloween eve.
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FRIDAY, OCT 30
🕯️ fireWALL Dance: COVEN
Greer Cabaret Theater · Cultural District · Fri 7.30 p.m., opening night · $52.51 to $64.31
Six witches, six powers and one Devil who thinks he cannot be touched. fireWALL is a Pittsburgh contemporary dance company and this is the opening night of its run at the Greer. Eighteen and over, 105 minutes with an interval. Why go: Local dance at full scale, on the right weekend for it, in a room small enough that you see the work.
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FRIDAY, OCT 30
🔪 Fright Night: Dressed to Kill
Pittsburgh Improv, 166 E Bridge St · Homestead · Fri doors 9.15, show 9.30 p.m.
Trevor Austin, this year's Pittsburgh Magazine best comedian, runs a costume showcase in the Improv's late slot. Twenty one and over, with a two item minimum in the showroom on top of the ticket. Why go: A local comic running his own room beats a touring headliner, and half past nine is the hour stand up is for.
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SATURDAY, OCT 31
🍎 Soergel's Fall Festival, closing day
Soergel Orchards, 2573 Brandt School Rd · Wexford · Sat 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The last day of the Wexford farm's autumn run: pumpkin and apple picking, flower picking, tractor rides and the food barn. It shuts at 3 rather than 5, and the orchard says why in plain words, so everyone can get home for trick or treating. Why go: There is no next weekend. This is the one.
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SATURDAY, OCT 31
🎺 Mt. Lebanon Pumpkin Patch Parade
Washington Road · Mt. Lebanon · Sat 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
The parade runs the length of Washington Road, from the cemetery down to Lebanon Avenue, and the shops along it hand out sweets once it has passed. The municipality publishes no charge. Why go: A main street closed for ninety minutes on Halloween morning is the south hills at its best, and the sweets start before lunch.
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SATURDAY, OCT 31
🧡 Pumpkin Palooza at Kelly Strayhorn
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave · East Liberty · Sat 1 to 4 p.m., programme at 2 · Pay What Moves You, $0 to $25
Crafts, sweets and partner organisations in the lobby from 1, then an hour on stage hosted by K. Chase Patterson with K Theatre Dance Complex, Yanlai Dance Academy's K pop class and PMT Conservatory. A costume parade across the stage closes it. Why go: Your child gets to walk a real stage in costume, and you decide what the afternoon is worth.
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SATURDAY, OCT 31
🪩 TIRIPS REDRUM, Spirit’s eleventh Halloween party
Spirit, 242 51st St · Lawrenceville · Sat 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. · $30 advance, $40 on the door
Detroit house figure DJ Minx headlines, with Teen Wolf Too, Brotha Mike, Buscrates, Slow Danger and a long list of Pittsburgh bands across both floors. Twenty one and over. The costume contest pays $500 cash plus a year of free entry to Spirit shows. Why go: Eleven years in, this is the Halloween party the rest of them are copying.
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SUNDAY, NOV 1
🥟 Slovak Heritage Festival, 36th year
Cathedral Commons Room, Cathedral of Learning · Oakland · Sun noon to 4 p.m. · Free
Pitt's Slovak Studies Program fills the Commons Room with food, vendors, traditional music and dance, talks on Slovak culture and the Czechoslovak Room open to walk through. No registration, and parking in Oakland is free on Sundays. Why go: Thirty six years of one of the city's oldest immigrant communities doing this properly, in the best room in Pittsburgh, for nothing.
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SUNDAY, NOV 1
👟 Friendship Circle 5K and Walk 4 Friendship
1922 Murray Ave · Squirrel Hill · Sun 5K at 9.30 a.m., walk at 9.35 · $35 for the 5K, the walk is free
Friendship Circle turns twenty and marks it with its first timed 5K through Squirrel Hill, with a shorter walk setting off five minutes later. The charity runs year round programmes pairing young people of all abilities. Why go: Murray Avenue on a Sunday morning, and you can take the free walk and still be done before brunch.
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ICYMI
In case you missed it around Pittsburgh this week.
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the Beaver Falls kid born Dominic Ierace who gave a decade to the Jaggerz before the Cruisers turned Ah! Leah! into something every wedding reception west of the Alleghenies still plays. He announced his retirement only weeks ago, after three years with bladder cancer.
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and puts no new money into the Housing Opportunity Fund. Both had been getting $10 million a year. Jasiri X and Rashad Byrdsong are among those pushing back on bringing the violence prevention work in house. Mayor O'Connor's formal budget address is 9 November.
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Noah Wyle and the cast shot exteriors on the North Side for season three, which premieres 3 January and plays out across a single shift set on 12 November 2026. Erik Greenawalt spent forty hours on a ten by fifteen foot chalk portrait of them to mark it.
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- Madison
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