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Paris in Pittsburgh: Diner en Blanc Recap

  A picnic from heaven, where everyone is dressed in celestial white, gleaming in the darkness and beaming with excitement, 1000 attendees joined their white picnic tables for the Diner en Blanc event at the Gateway Plaza. As is the tradition of the international event, the location was not revealed to registered guests until the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Happy New Year!

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Not-So-Scary Interview with Orthodontist Tina Reed

When its more than candy terrorizing your kids teeth! Sarah Lolley talks with the hippest Orthodontist on the block, Tina Reed D.M.D. It’s that time of year again when candy becomes a meal, kids scream too loud on sugar highs, and you tell yourself that to save your kids teeth you are going to confiscate [...]

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The Masked Ball Masterpieces

Hair by Brett James Salon & Make-up by Audra DeLuca for Chanel        

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Meet the The Masked Ball Creators

Tara Rieland and Brett James ~ Madcap Masters of Mystery and the Masked Ball AM: Since I have known you, or about you, organizing platforms for couture fashion designers have been a passion of yours. Tell me about the first time you felt what couture meant and how it inspired you. Tara: I was in [...]

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