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🎉 Celebrate the New Year in Pittsburgh
December 28, 2023
Good morning, neighbor! Can you believe this is the last Hey Pittsburgh newsletter of the year?! To the thousands of you (pinch me! 💛) who read this newsletter every day: thank you for making my 2023 so special. I hope we grow our community even more in 2024!
Until then, I’ve got your weekend and New Year’s Eve plans below. Let the countdown begin…
What To Do
Thursday, Dec. 28
- 🎄 Home for the Holidays Tour at Clayton Mansion with The Frick | various times | $12-24 | Point Breeze
- 🐦 Holiday Lights and Late Nights at the National Aviary | 5-8 p.m. | $14.95-17.95 | North Side
- 🌟 Maxo Vanka Murals Holiday Lights Tours | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | $18-20 | Millvale
- 🎶 Norside Organ Trio at Fat Cat Eats, Drinks & Music | 9-11 p.m. | free | East Allegheny
Friday, Dec. 29
- 🪴Grand Opening of Greenhouse Co-Op’s plant shop & cidery | 12 p.m. | free | Greenfield – through Sunday
- 🎪 “A Magical Cirque Christmas” at the Benedum Center | 2 & 7 p.m. | $49-69 | Downtown
- 🎄 Home for the Holidays Tour at Clayton Mansion with The Frick | various times | $12-24 | Point Breeze
- 🐦 Holiday Lights and Late Nights at the National Aviary | 5-8 p.m. | $14.95-17.95 | North Side
- 🌟 Maxo Vanka Murals Holiday Lights Tours | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | $18-20 | Millvale
- 🎨 Sip & Paint Your 2024 Journal at Atithi Studios | 7-9 p.m. | $45 | Sharpsburg
Saturday, Dec. 30
- 👟 Pittsburgh Marathon Training Kickoff at Gingerbread Man Running | 8-11 a.m. | free | Shadyside
- 🪕 Kids’ Honky-Tonk JUICEBOX hosted by Jon Bindley | 10-11 a.m. | $5-10 | Squirrel Hill
- 🎄 Home for the Holidays Tour at Clayton Mansion with The Frick | various times | $12-24 | Point Breeze
Sunday, Dec. 31
- 🖍️ Countdown to Noon at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | $2-19 | Allegheny Center
- 🌟 Maxo Vanka Murals Holiday Lights Tours | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | $18-20 | Millvale
- 🎄 Home for the Holidays Tour at Clayton Mansion with The Frick | various times | $12-24 | Point Breeze
- 🎆 Highmark First Night in the Cultural District | 6 p.m. | $20-45 | Downtown
- 🪩 Midnight Masquerade at Kingfly Spirits | 7 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. | $35 | Strip District
- 👠 Alaska 5000 & Lola LeCroix New Year’s Eve Party at City Winery | 7 & 10:30 p.m. | $50-150 | Downtown
- 🎉 Spirit’s New Year’s Eve | 8 p.m. | $20-45 | Lawrenceville
- 🎇 NYE with Beauty Slap & Big Blitz presented by Brew Gentlemen & Thunderbird Music Hall | 8 p.m. | $15.50-18 | Lawrenceville
- 🌙 Space Bar NYE Pajama Party | 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. | $30 | Downtown
- 🖋️ New Year's Eve Party with Pittsburgh’s Poetess Rachel Ann Bovier | 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. | $20 | Brookline
- 🎶 InnerSound New Year’s Eve Masquerade at Tinseltown, Mixtape | 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. | $30 | Bloomfield
- 🍾 2024 Noire New Year at Ineffable Cà Phê’s Unspeakable Speakeasy | 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. | $35 | Bloomfield
- 🍸 NYE Black Tie Event at Love, Katie Distilling | 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. | $125 | Sharpsburg
- 🥂 Champagne on the Titanic at The Storyville Lounge at Dr. Tumblety's | 9 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. | $140-260 | Allentown
- 🎭 New Year's Eve Masquerade Party at Blue Sky Kitchen & Bar | 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. | $30-40| East Liberty
Monday, Jan. 1
- ❄️ Pittsburgh Polar Bear Club Plunge at the Mon Warf | 9:30 a.m. | free | Downtown
- 🚲 Icycle Bicycle with the Western Pennsylvania Bicycle Club | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | free | South Side
- 📽️ Public Domain Day at Row House Cinema | 12:20-8:25 p.m. | $28 | Lawrenceville
Tuesday, Jan. 2
- 🥧 Pies & Pints at 3 Rivers Outdoor Co. | 5-8 p.m. | free | Regent Square
- 🪨 Women on Walls Social Climbing at ASCEND | 7-9 p.m. | $15 | South Side
- 🗳️ Allegheny County Executive Inauguration Celebration at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center | 7-11 p.m. | donation | Downtown
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The space between Christmas and New Years can be kind of weird, right? After the bustle of the holiday, we all take a collective deep breath before we jump right back into clinking glasses at midnight.
Everyone spends this time differently, so the whole City Cast Pittsburgh team is sharing what we’re up to between Christmas and New Years in Pittsburgh: cold weather sports, cozy hibernation activities, and ways to redd up before the calendar turns to 2024.
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Happy New Year, neighbors!
— Francesca Dabecco
Thanks to City Cast Pittsburgh’s Megan Harris for editing this newsletter!
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