Pittsburgh Is Home To The Best Cake In America, Says HuffPost

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We here at Pittsburgh Magazine are not so different from Jay-Z. We’re also all about the cake (cake, cake, cake cake). So we’ve been trumpeting the deliciousness of Prantl’s Bakery to anyone who would listen (that would be you, dear reader) for years. Thankfully, the nice folks over at the all-consuming digital media behemoth The Huffington Post have taken notice, too.

HuffPo’s Taste blog has named Prantl’s burnt almond torte The Best Cake America Has Ever Made. That’s a bold proclamation, made bolder still by the author outright trolling the inevitable New York City comment section mumblywumps right in the lead paragraph.

Read more: http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Best-of-the-Burgh-Blogs/The-412/April-2014/HuffPost-Taste-Praises-Prantls-for-Having-the-Best-Cake-America-Has-Ever-Made/

Pittsburgh’s ‘Knit The Bridge’ Project Declared A Success

It was covered by the BBC and NPR, Time.com and the Huffington Post and by media in Europe and Israel.

The vast, improbable, record-breaking Knit the Bridge project — in which the 1,061-foot-long Andy Warhol Bridge was covered with 580 knitted and crocheted blankets during the second weekend of August — is officially a success, according to organizers, public officials, knitting enthusiasts, yarn bombers and people on the streets of Downtown.

Today is the last day to see the largest such “yarn bombing” of a structure in the United States and possibly in the world, before a team of volunteers arrives at 5 a.m. Saturday to start dismantling the project. The bridge will be closed until 7 p.m. Sunday as volunteers undo the thousands of plastic ties fastening the acrylic yarn panels to the structure, said Amanda Gross, a local fiber artist who came up with the idea for the Knit the Bridge project.

As the city basked in warm September sunshine Thursday, those strolling near the 87-year-old steel suspension bridge gave the project rave reviews.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/lifestyle/knit-the-bridge-project-declared-a-success-702219/#ixzz2e8uj3g5u

Mike And Ike Splitting Up, Candy Divorce Part Of Marketing Campaign

Mike and Ike candies, regular flavor. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Editor’s note:  GOOD GRIEF!

Mike and Ike, the dapper mustachioed icons for the chewy fruit-flavored candy made by Just Born of Bethlehem, are going their separate ways after a six decade union.

In an unconventional, tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign, Just Born began touting the separation on Mike and Ike’s Facebook page this month.

As far as advertising campaigns go, this one seems to be working quite well.

So far, The New York Times has published a story on the matter. And a headline on the Huffington Post web site reads as follows:

“Mike And Ike Head For Gay Divorce In New Ad Campaign.”

Read more: http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-mike-and-ike-divorce-20120413,0,254144.story

Failed Doomsday Prediction Leaves Followers In A Quandary

This story boggles the mind.  People quit their jobs, quit school, gave thousands of dollars to Harold Camping to spread the message that the world would end on May 21, 2011.  Now, followers and former followers must put their lives back together –  find jobs, finish school and start over again.  Harold is baffled as well (say it ain’t so Joe).  What should be done about the millions of dollars collected from followers?

Read the entire story from the Huffington Post here:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/22/may-21-judgment-day-may-22_n_865298.html