Just depends on where you live. My kids played at sportrak in Sewickley, Tri County outside of Cranberry. One of my sons also played up in Butler for a winter. My nephew plays at Tri county as well, plus he has played at PISA in Cheswick and a place in Washington that I forget the name of. There is another place in New Castle that I'm not too familiar with but I know its there. As far as east and south of Pittsburgh I am less familiar.

City or Suburbs? If you have a car there are many very affordable suburbs that aren't a terrible commute to the city. Otherwise, public transportation isn't great here. To answer your question though, Pittsburgh is relatively affordable compared to other cities.

Yeah, it's at the intersection of Perrysville Avenue and Legion, just over from North Charles. So it's Perry Market, the old theater, empty lot, Legion, then Wilson's on that side

Not really when compared to other metro areas of our size.

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Ah okay. Thanks. Any sense of which leagues might be best? I'm likely to move out here so I'm trying to get a sense for the scene.

thanks this is really helpful!

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Gryphons tea in Bloomfield has quite a lot of spices at bulk prices!

There are a lot of places you could check in the Strip before Penzeys. My normal search order is:

1. Salem Market
2. Many More - in the back past the fish tanks
3. Lotus

Salem has bigger bags of good quality cumin for a couple bucks.

The airport

I mostly do this, because I do find the taste and aroma better, but sometimes you just don’t have the time or equipment ready to grind spices in the moment. I still keep ground cumin on hand for this reason.

Second this, especially if you just need enough for one recipe, so you just scoop like a dollar's worth. Plus you can smell the jar when you open it, so you can confirm they're strong enough, haha.

There are several indoor arenas around but as far as I know they are full with leagues all winter. I've not heard of any pickup games at any of the places I frequent.

River city growers has fresh herbs, like basil. Believe it’s by appointment only bc they do not have a store front yet.

Souper Bowl..... it's right across the street for the arena.

This! And the prices are great too.

It's short for "involuntarily celibate". It connotes a group of mostly straight men who hold resentment or hate for women because they feel they're owed sex but don't get it.

Twice.

They found two guns, turned him back, and found a third gun the second time.

It's also implied that they only screened him the second time because he didn't have his employee ID on him. That might be putting too much faith in the wording of a short news blurb, but still.

If you are from Ohio, WV, or MD, take your ass home.

The east end food co-op has a great bulk spice selection at good prices.

There are a million local markets for whatever you are looking for, cumin you can get anywhere. Mexican IGA on Broadway, Black cumin from the uzbeck/russian store in Mt wash, indian from 1 of the 30 stores around town. You don't go to penzeys cuz it's super cheap, you got to penzeys for quality and to support one of the only loudly outspoken anti republican establishments in this hick-ass hellscape.

I kind of agree, BUT...

The proportion of human adults who meet this level of "responsible" is probably no more than about 60%, and this is incompatible with our current system of allowing gun ownership by default to virtually all adults except convicted felons. I should not be allowed to walk into a store and buy a gun solely by virtue of how long it's been since I came out of my mother's vagina. The absolute lowest bar possible would be to require me to have at least taken some sort of half-assed safety course, like you do for cars or boats or even for a hunting license.

And, of course, here in PA we regulate the sale of NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER more heavily than we do the sale of ammunition.

Not an expert, but could buying cumin seed and grinding it fresh give a better result? not sure if cumin seed might also go bad as quickly

Im sure if you put in the thyme you’ll find a shop better suited to your tastes.