Category: default || By jt3y

In light of yesterday's rant, I'd be remiss in not mentioning that former East Hills denizen Bob Braughler shares my interest in the funnies; he deconstructed "Mary Worth" on Thursday over at "Subdivided We Stand."

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Via Daryl Cagle's cartoon blog at Slate, here's a great political cartoon from M.E. Cohen on the Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court.

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From Jan Ackerman in the Post-Gazette comes details of Homestead's 125th anniversary celebration. The events start with a parade and end, of course, with fireworks, because we in the Mon-Yough area do love us some fireworks. Steeler and Homestead native Charlie Batch (who's done some awfully good things for his hometown recently) will be the grand marshal of the parade, while Porky "Bossman" Chedwick will be a featured guest.

There's also going to be a film festival at the Steel Valley Arts Council; among the films to be screened is a documentary about Homestead's late, lamented Leona Theater. What the Memorial Theater was to residents of Our Fair City, the Leona was to the Steel Valley. Given that tomorrow is supposed to be hazy, hot and humid, staying inside for part of the afternoon to watch movies doesn't sound like a bad way to spend a few hours!

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Can someone tell me why there seems to be a Subway on every corner in the Mon-Yough area these days? Are Subway franchises inordinately cheap to start, or are they that profitable? Out in Monroeville, I recently noticed that there are now three Subways about a mile from each other (one on Monroeville Boulevard, one on William Penn Highway, and one just north of William Penn Highway, near the Pittsburgh-Monroeville Airport).

A new one opened recently in the old Begandy Furniture building on Dravosburg Hill, and I'm rather stunned that there would be that much potential business there, other than for the office workers at Bettis Laboratory and the old Harbison-Walker research center.

Anyway, via "The Sneeze," I learned all of the Subway-related gossip I care to know at the website of Thom McGrath, who runs several restaurants for the sandwich chain.

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To Do This Weekend: The Homestead celebration, obviously! Also, Dale Hetrick and The Burgh Big Band play the bandshell at Renziehausen Park, 7 p.m. Sunday. ... "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" wraps up its run at McKeesport Little Theater, Coursin and Bailie avenues, on Sunday with a 2 p.m. matinee. Call (412) 673-1100.