S.W. Randall Toys

S.W. Randall Toys (630 Smithfield St) has been around since 1970, and has a surprisingly large amount of toys considering how small it is.

The toy store was recently featured in the Pittsburgh Business Times:

"While the store’s neighborhood locations in Shadyside and Squirrel Hill continue to target mostly children, the Downtown store now caters to Downtown office workers as well. Jewelry boxes, music boxes, figurines, remote-control toys, Santa Claus dolls, ornaments — (Owner Jack) Cohen likely has stocked it all, offering wide selection instead of focusing on volume sales of a few items the way chains stores often do."

This place is definitely worth the visit, and even though you can't buy Wii games here, you can buy a variety of unique toys and gifts you won't find in any big box store.

If you love jigsaw puzzles like I do, check out their game & puzzle section. No joke- 25,000+ piece puzzles!

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LA Street Art in Pittsburgh

From an anonymous reader:

Just happened to run into Shepard Fairey putting this piece up downtown today. This Los Angeles-based artist is one of my favorites and I consider myself so lucky to have caught this in the act, so I had to snap some shots. This is located on Wood and First. I talked to him and he told me he was preparing for his show coming up at the Warhol in October.

This is the same artist that created this, this and probably most popular, this, behind the "OBEY" stickers you see in almost every city. Apparently he put some more work up along Penn and other spots throughout the area. If you happen to spot any of these, let me know and send me some pictures!

He'll be at this upcoming event, which you can read a little about on iheartPGH, (for which he created the poster):
Don't miss his show at the Warhol in October!