It’s that SEASON again! Is it the Season of Lights, the Season for Enhanced Political Correctness, or just an excuse to keep retail businesses in the black? However you slice it, it seems to be a time for people to get together, party, and chow down on comfort food. So we’re going to do just that!

We’re gathering together ALL the secular groups in Pittsburgh at the Church Brew Works, 3525 Liberty Ave in Lawrenceville, for our second annual Festivus for the Rest of Us party! This is your chance to mingle with folks from Steel City Skeptics, Pittsburgh Secular Freethinkers, CFI Pittsburgh, CMU’s AHA! (Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics), the University of Pittsburgh’s Secular Alliance, and the yet-to-be-formally-recognized Duquesne Secular Society.

So mark your calendars for December 18th from 5 to 9 p.m. We’ll be gathered round the Festivus pole competing in feats of strength (like thumb wrestling), airing all kinds of grievances (don’t we always?), and drinking beer brewed on an altar. Let’s fête the general mayhem of the season!

If you can please RSVP through your local group using the Meetup or Facebook links listed in Blogroll on the left.  Last year close to 50 came to celebrate.  Let’s try to increase that number this year!

When: 7:00PM – 11:30PM, Friday, Oct 21st [3rd Friday of the month!]

Mano Singham is a theoretical physicist and currently Director of UCITE (University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of three books: God vs. Darwin: The War Between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom (2009),The Achievement Gap in US education: Canaries in the Mine (2005), and Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs (2000).”

It might be of interest to get a feel for our speaker’s sensibilities by going to Dr. Singham’s blog. Even if you are not able to attend the meeting, you will find some interesting reading there.

Copies of his latest book will be available for purchase.

Where: Carnegie Science Center

When: Thursday, October 13, 7:00 pm

Cost: $5 (free to Friends of the Center)

Parking in the Science Center lot is $5, ($3 for Carnegie Science Center members).

Dr. Singham will be joining us for dinner at Jerome Bettis’ Grille 36 at 5:30. Anyone who wishes to may join us. The restaurant is about an 8-minute walk from the Science Center, so you can park in the Science Center lot and walk to the restaurant without having to move your car or pay for parking a second time.

When: 7:00PM – 11:30PM, Friday, Sep 16th [3rd Friday of the month!]

Korea Garden
414 Semple Street,
Pittsburgh , PA

More details at Meetup.

When: 7:00PM – 11:30PM, Friday, Aug 19th [3rd Friday of the month!]

When: 12:00PM – 3:00PM, Sunday, June 5th

How to find us: Ask the hostess

When: 7:00PM – 11:30PM, Friday, May 20th [3rd Friday of the month!]

Join us at the Double Wide Grill, 2339 E. Carson Street, for Drinking Skeptically. We start gathering at 7pm, but latecomers are more than welcome. You can RSVP on Facebook or Meetup. Newcomers: our tables will have signs with the Drinking Skeptically bottlecap logo. Look for us and introduce yourself!

When: 7:00PM – 11:30PM, Friday, April 15th [3rd Friday of the month!]

Join us at the Double Wide Grill, 2339 E. Carson Street, for Drinking Skeptically. We start gathering at 7pm, but latecomers are more than welcome. You can RSVP on Facebook or Meetup. Newcomers: our tables will have signs with the Drinking Skeptically bottlecap logo. Look for us and introduce yourself!

When: 7:00PM – 11:30PM, Friday, April 15th [3rd Friday of the month!]

Join us at the Double Wide Grill, 2339 E. Carson Street, for Drinking Skeptically. We start gathering at 7pm, but latecomers are more than welcome. You can RSVP on Facebook or Meetup. Newcomers: our tables will have signs with the Drinking Skeptically bottlecap logo. Look for us and introduce yourself!