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| Super
Chicken! |
When you find yourself in
danger,
When you're threatened by a stranger,
When it looks like you will take a lickin'...
There is one thing you should learn,
When there is no one else to turn to,
Caaaall for Super Chicken!!
(**bwuck-bwuck-bwuck-bwuck**)
Caaaall for Super Chicken!! |
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Links |
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Other Dances |
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Swing City
(map)
(bus 67F/61ABC/59U) - The biggest swing
dance in Pittsburgh: Saturday nights from 8pm-12:30am at the Wightman
Community Building in Squirrel Hill. $7/DJ weeks, $10 live
band weeks. Includes one-hour lesson.
Check the official
schedule on the
Swing City
website details.
Coal Country
Swing (map)
(bus 61A) - At the lovely Edgewood
Club in Regent Square, sponsored by Pittsburgh dance behemoth
Coal Country Traditions. Dances
happen twice a month on Sundays during the school year (they close
in the summer). Always a live band, always $7.
61A from Oakland/Sq Hill.
The
Groovejuice Special (map)
(bus 61B) - Small, friendly Tuesday
night lindy crowd. Dance, learn, hang out. $3 DJ, $6
w/band. 9p-11p.
The last dance for the summer is on 8/2/2005.
Dancing will start back up again in the near future. See the
website for more information.
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Classes |
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Coal Country
Traditions - Another great teaching group, especially notable
for their wide variety of offerings.
Swingnut (map)
(bus) - Excellent
Lindy Hop classes taught by local DJ/dancing impresario Jake Sprouse,
taught right before Groovejuice in the upstairs classroom.
Swingnut will not be teaching Lindy
Hop classes for the foreseeable future. See the website for
more information.
iDance.net - Click here to
download instructional dance video clips
from your favorite teachers? At
www.iDance.net each video clip will teach you one dance move, concept, or styling. Clips start at $.99 each. Lindy Hop, Balboa, Bal-Swing, Hip Hop, Vernacular Jazz, Charleston and more! Clips for both leads and follows. We are adding clips and instructors daily, so come check us out!
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Pittsburgh has some of the best, and most accessible,
live music venues anywhere. Get out and enjoy the sounds!
Blues Café
/ Blue Note Café (map)
(bus 54C):
Blues dancers love this place! Live music seven nights
a week with no cover charge, and it's a Primanti Bros. to boot,
so you can eat like a real Pittsburgher. Music usually starts
around 9:30 and goes late. Best nights are Mondays for The
Professionals, Tuesdays for West End Project, and Thursdays for
Dante's Inferno. If you go during the week (i.e. on the nights
mentioned) the venue is indeed all ages.
Dowes on
9th (map)
(bus): This is a swank upscale jazz club
in the Downtown Cultural District. You should dress appropriately.
Best night: Wednesdays for Roger Humphries' RH Factor. $5 cover
+ 2 drink minimum.
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Events |
| November 4-6:
Pitt Stop Lindy Hop V
is coming! It's the biggest event of the year: six dances,
300+ dancers, huge venues, killer bands. Don't miss it! |
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Retail |
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Paul's Compact
Discs (map)
- There are lots of places to buy CDs in this town, but Paul's is
my favorite. They have plenty of swing, blues, and jazz at excellent
prices.
The Copacetic Comics Company
(map)
(bus 67AF/61ABC) This tiny shop off
a Squirrel Hill side street sells an astonishing collection of books,
comics, music, movies, and cards. The store carries several collections
of top-rate, heavily discounted European reissues of classic jazz
and blues recordings. Tell them Chicken Swing sent you. |
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Bus Directions |
| Take advantage
of your free bus pass, get off campus, and dance!
Our PAT consultant, Yakov, has been riding these trips since 2001,
so you can trust these directions. Before
making your trip, it's best to read the schedules (provided by link
here and available in print at Pitt and CMU's student unions) and
ask the bus driver for your stop so you're sure not to miss it.
Swing City (Wightman Center):
Wait on Forbes, heading away from downtown
(Hillman Library / UC)
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67F
to Wilkins and Wightman, by the CVS; turn right on Wightman;
you can see the venue from the corner, it's on Solway St.
- 61A
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61B,
61C,
or 59U
to Wightman St. (right before Murray), turn
left and walk 0.3 miles to Solway, then turn right and you see
the venue.
The Center is a huge former schoolhouse, impossible to miss.
Coal Country (Edgewood Club)
Wait on Forbes, heading away from downtown
(Hillman Library / UC)
61A
to Maple Street, get off at the old train station. Go down
the stairs and through the semi-creepy tunnel. Get out,
turn left at the street, walk one block. The Edgewood Club
is clearly marked on that corner.
Groovejuice / Swingnut (Wilkins
School)
Wait on Forbes, heading away from downtown
(Hillman Library / UC)
61B
to Charleston St. (1 block after the Beer Store.) Get off
the bus and turn right. The school is right there.
Blues Café
Wait on Fifth, heading towards downtown (although
you're not going downtown), or wait on Forbes and Craig at the Kiva
Han.
54C
to Carson and 19th on the South Side. The venue is on the SW corner.
Dowes on 9th
Take any downtown bus (which is
most of the buses on Fifth), ask the driver if he's going downtown,
just don't get a 54/56/59) to Forbes and Grant St., get off and
walk to the venue: Turn right on Grant, left onto 7th Ave, left
on Liberty, right on 9th St, it'll be on your right. (It's
a 5 min walk.)
Copacetic Comics Company
67F to Wilkins and Murray;
turn right on Murray, left on Northumberland, right on Ashbury (at
the police station).
61ABC
or 59U to
Forbes and Murray; left on Murray, right on Aylesboro, left on Ashbury.
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