Home Turf Tourists – Pittsburgh
Moving to suburban Philly after college, I got a lot of flack about being from Western Pa. “Pittsburgh? That’s not a city!” And then I moved to New York for graduate school. You can just imagine what I heard. Yet, when getting together with my childhood friends, I can think of no more fitting gathering spot than the city of our youth. With a wealth of museums, parks, shopping districts, restaurants and bars Pittsburgh offers both the casual visitor and hardcore tourist countless things to do. This summer my friends and I revisited the Andy Warhol Museum, the largest American museum devoted to a single artist. Want to see Elvis, the Last Supper, Silver Clouds or Brillo Boxes writ large? The Warhol’s got them as well as 4,000 other works of his art. Along with a love of New York, the Velvet Underground, eccentricity, art and cats, the late pop artist and I share a birthday. I found it quite fitting to be there, admiring the best of Andy and his Wild Raspberries cookbook, less than two weeks before our special day. A short ride up the Duquesne Incline …