13 booze-y candies to satisfy your sweet tooth
1. Champagne Gummy Bears Two great tastes that taste great together, these are perfect for you. Made with Dom Pérignon Vintage Champagne, these bears add the delicious flavor of bubbly to your average...
View ArticleQuiz: Trans-Siberian Orchestra or Mannheim Steamroller?
We get so confused. It's so embarrassing at holiday parties. Our nerdy friends all the know the difference. Why can't we tell? Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Mannheim Steamroller. (Our Dad says they all...
View ArticleSecret to a good cookie? Artificial intelligence, apparently
Jeanette Harris never would have put two teaspoons of cardamom in a recipe for a dozen cookies. The spice is strong, polarizing and typically associated with India and Asian cooking, not gluten-free...
View ArticleSo long, Sally! WTAE anchor calling it quits
Pittsburgh won't be the same without her. After 40 years with WTAE, anchor Sally Wiggin revealed Monday she's retiring. Wiggin dropped the news during WTAE's lead in segment to the Pittsburgh Steelers...
View ArticleHow to perfect the 'invisible box challenge'
You've probably seen the clip by now, which has gone viral. That's the Invisible Box Challenge, the latest craze sweeping the internet. We have zero ideas how to even begin to attempt this, so we...
View ArticleThings don't go according to plan for skydiving Santa
He probably should've opted for the sleigh. A skydiving Santa looking to make a grand entrance while taking an Elf on the Shelf to a 9-year-old girl crashed into a tree and light pole before hitting a...
View ArticleHow to get free Christmas music for your party
It's a shame that Pandora is so synonymous with streaming music when there are so many better sites out there. Like 8tracks — a streamer that subsists on user-created playlists. Members choose at...
View ArticleNapoleon Dynamite and Pedro are back!
Yep, we're gonna be fat lards like Tina now. Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) and Pedro (Efren Ramirez) are back 12 years later — for a Burger King commercial celebrating tater tots, of course.
View ArticleHere's your chance to own a Pittsburgh bridge
Imagine this in your Pittsburgh collection, next to the Three Rivers Stadium seats and all those commemorative Iron City cans. Remember this display? It sat outside the City-County Building in 2016...
View ArticleSh*tter's full, so plane has to make an emergency landing
It makes us have to cross our legs just thinking about it. A Delta flight from New York City to Seattle had to make a stop in Billings after the plane's toilets stopped working and passengers couldn't...
View ArticleThe 'Pittsburgh Dad' episode with the surprise ending
"Pittsburgh Dad" episodes after a Steelers' win are our favorite, and the latest is nearly as awesome as the Steelers' last-second win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night. Watch to the end....
View ArticleNational Aviary has some babies on the way, so now we have a nest cam
OK, we all know how much you liked the giraffe cam . Now, here's a chance to watch for more babies — and closer to home. The National Aviary on Pittsburgh's North Side has installed a high-resolution,...
View ArticleIs the 'reindeer boob' really something we need?
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ... and tinsel on your tatas? Apparently, these are a few of our favorite things. The hot holiday fad for 2017 apparently is to take out a tit, slap on...
View ArticleThe most popular Christmas candy, by state
What the hell, Pennsylvania? You can do better. Candy Store , which sells — wait for it — candy, recently surveyed 50,000 customers and combined the findings with major candy distributors to come up...
View ArticleAnd the color for 2018 is ...
What we have here in 2017 is a heap of chaos and disruption. What we need in 2018? Well, The Pantone Color Institute has thoughts about that. "Ultra Violet" wasn't chosen Thursday because it's regal,...
View ArticleStreaker at Buffalo Bills game admits his shortcomings in court
Even naked, he ran for more yards than his Buffalo Bills team did Nov. 12. The dude who stripped it all off and streaked across New Era Field pleaded guilty to exposure on Thursday. Well, kinda hard...
View ArticleGoogle's got an easter egg in its Christmas search
By now, we all know about the Google Doodle.* But did you know about Google's Christmas easter egg? Try doing a search with "Christmas" as main thrust of your search. The halls of your results will be...
View ArticleLonger is apparently better for Twitter
When it comes to tweets, 280 is better than 140, apparently. Tweets making use of the extra characters Twitter enabled last month are retweeted and liked more than standard 140 character posts,...
View ArticleExcedrin's gonna throw Cleveland a parade if the Browns go winless
This is the best thing ever. Excedrin has kicked in more than $7,000 to complete a fundraising effort to pay for a parade should the hapless Cleveland Browns finish the season with a "perfect" winless...
View ArticleUpgruv podcast 27: The Song Show
Ah, Christmas songs. Nothin' like 'em. Everyone seems to have their favorites. Rob, Chris and Jill and certainly no exception. On a very special Christmas episode, the gang goes caroling through the...
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