By Sarah Lolley, Accidental Mama Jockey Rosie Napravnik looked seriously at the silent auction table, writing her name down a second time for a painted pony plate. Catching her attention by waving a microphone in front of her face I waited beside her while she made her bids. She stands 5’ 1” but can peer [...]
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Derby 2014 — A Run for the Galas!!!!!
Posted on www.ManiacMagazine.com By Sarah Lolley, Accidental Mama The Kentucky Derby is easily one of the standards on a bucket list to those with a fast pulse and streak of adventure. This mama grew up around the Woodstock-esque atmosphere of Derby Mania when my girlfriends and I would skip school and quite recklessly offer rides [...]
Derby Mama
By Sarah Lolley Growing up a filly in Kentucky, the pounding of a horse was like the pounding of my heart and the fever to my head. For twenty years I come home for Derby because the quiet hometown that taught me my prayers becomes the essence of Southern charm and hospitality along with debauchery [...]
Dirty Ball: Street Walking Down Memory Lane
By Sarah Lolley A theatrical party on a grand scale, Attack Theatre’s Dirty Ball is at the top of Pittsburgh’s short list of must-be-seen-wearing-a-crazy-outfit, or as little as possible, events. The last time this mama got down and dirty at the annual fundraiser, I was six months pregnant the weekend before I was running down [...]
Hollywood Hair for the Oscars
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield presents Lights! Glamour! Action!™ March 2, 2014 @ Hienz Field Tickets available @ Showclix.com The Pittsburgh Film Office’s Lights! Glamour! Action! Gala is an annual event for over 800 attendees that enjoy the cinematic drama of dressing up and celebrating the movie industry that has touched down in our [...]
Happy Birthday to Mama
2/7/14 From the diary of Sarah “do” Lolley I am a Kentucky girl, now a woman. Took me a long time to know what that meant. I had to drink myself to near nudity and love men who didn’t mean it, to become the person I was always there inside me. Crazy, Kind, Comforting, and [...]
Carnegie International 2014
The Art World owns the Night published in Maniac Magazine Jan/Feb 2014 issue by Sarah Lolley Carnegie International Gala Oct. 4, 2013 Photos: Kathleen Lolley The 2013 Carnegie International curators Daniel Baumann, Dan Byers, and Tina Kukielski inspired by the discourse of art and its relationship with its surroundings, transformed the Carnegie Museum into a [...]
What I did this Summer by Accidental Mama
Whole Foods is My Favorite Place to Cry and My Baby’s Obsession with Dirt Down His Pants ~~~By Sarah Lolley Summer started with a fit of anxiety as I became a single mother of two boys when my husband flew the coop for Romania with our oldest, Lyra 4-years-old. In the weeks leading up to [...]
Runway to Real Way ~ New Looks for the New Year
Project Runway Looks for Real People Project Runway All Stars touch down in Pittsburgh by Sarah Lolley Tonight, Thursday January 9, on the Lifetime Channel’s Project Runway All Stars Season 3’s finale you might recognize a couple of Pittsburgh’s local creative talent. Donnie and Pamela Vasey, owners of Divinity Salon in Aspinwall, are members of [...]
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