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Article: South Side offers Works -- and Slopes
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- December 15, 2008
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Christmas shopping can be a real drag.
Admit it. There's no escaping. All that money. All that time.
Trying to find that perfect gift for Aunt Emma, who is just so sweet
but has no interests.
Sigh.
One way to sidestep the pain of a day in the mall is to avoid
that colossus of capitalism altogether and give you and yours a good
day out.
The South Side offers markets from a magic shop to the trendy
spots in SouthSide Works. It also has restaurants and pubs that can
provide enough fuel to keep you going and treats to act as a reward
for success.
But, most of all, it offers some of the best urban hiking in the
city, with monumental municipal staircases that lead to magnificent
vistas of the ...