Hold Me Closer, Inappropriate Dancer: Rockin’ On The Youghiogheny River

Achievement: #88. Dance inappropriately in 8 Pittsburgh locations

Are you ready for a serious amount of inappropriate dancing pictures? Are you sure? We went to Ohiopyle to visit a coffeeshop and write, and guess what? Everything was closed. Everything, of course, except the Youghiogheny River, which was open … Continue reading

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An Ohiopyle Daytrip

Achievement: #10. Spend a day at Ohiopyle

As it tends to happen every year (or at least the two years we’ve been doing this), we wind up scrambling a bit for completions in the last month or two of the year. Really, I’d wanted to do this … Continue reading

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Pittsburgh Churches: Immaculate Conception In Bloomfield

Achievement: #58. Photograph 10 Pittsburgh churches

Church #3 took us until November to get… I am really not understanding the difficulty rating on this Achievement! Immaculate Conception is a beautiful church in Bloomfield, situated between the shops and restaurants on Liberty Ave. We always loved passing … Continue reading

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“Roethlisberger” Showdown: G/M Dog n Burger Shoppe

Achievement: #67. Eat a Roethlisburger at GM Dog and Burger Shoppe and Peppiā€™s and compare

So, in the off chance that you do not live in Pittsburgh and have no knowledge of Pittsburgh sports, or have not been near a TV playing the news in the past year or so, I will do a brief … Continue reading

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In Which Michael Loses His Rocky Horror Virginity

Achievement: #45. See Rocky Horror with Steve and Tony

This Achievement was a fail, but since we gave it such a valiant effort, I give us a pass on it. It was really out of our control (mostly), but we really gave it a shot. Michael has never seen … Continue reading

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Murray Avenue Restaurant Challenge: Sree’s Is The Bee’s Knees

Achievement: #2. Eat at every restaurant on Murray Ave

Our next stop on Murray Ave was Sree’s Foods, which is an Indian restaurant best known for its food truck on CMU campus. I don’t know if food trucks are a universal thing, so I’ll briefly explain this concept. Think … Continue reading

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Murray Avenue Restaurant Challenge: Aiello’s Pizza

Achievement: #2. Eat at every restaurant on Murray Ave

Dear world, I think I have a new favorite pizza place. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever had a true favorite pizza place, besides Pizza Roma on Perry Highway, and that was only because when I was little, … Continue reading

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In Which We Fake-Celebrate The Pittsburgh Pirates’ World Series Win

Achievement: #86. Celebrate something imaginary at a nice restaurant

As I’ve mentioned before, we were kind of searching for things to add to our list at the start of the new year,and one of our ideas (well, my idea) was to celebrate something imaginary at a nice restaurant. This … Continue reading

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Living It Up At The Primadonna

Achievement: #23. Have dinner at the Primadonna

The Primadonna is a formerly-well-known Italian restaurant in McKees Rocks that I know about for a funny reason. Back when we were little (maybe 10 or 11?), my friend Jessica’s parents took us to the Neville Chemical Plant open house. … Continue reading

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Our Year In Overindulgence: Seafood Buffet (And More) At Hokkaido

Achievement: #100. Overindulge on wings, vodka, seafood, and cupcakes (but not at the same time)

Ok, I’ll admit, when it came to the end of the list, we may have been scraping for ideas a bit. But this Achievement is just so inclusive, covering so many different aspects of indulgence! We completed our seafood overindulgence … Continue reading

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