Kidapalooza, Gun Show, Mummies Top Pittsburgh Weekend Events

PITTSBURGH, PA - It’s the perfect remedy if your children are bored on a dull weekend day in the middle of winter. Kidapaloza is returning for any year of fun and festivities at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

This year’s event will include the Giant Eagle healthy snacking and sampling area; performances on the main stage with Al Mazing, iceman reptiles and more; rides and inflatables and the CDG Sports Challenge Zone.

There’s more. Kids can meet princesses and superheroes in Cartoon Camp and have their hair styled in the princess pavilion, a Home Depot builders workshop and Kidsburgh.
You’ll have six hours to cram in all of those fun activities. Kidapalooza takes place Feb. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Other weekend highlights:

• Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Love is in the Air, Feb. 1, 11:15 a.m., Heinz Hall

In this children-oriented performance, Fiddlesticks celebrates love's many shapes with family, friends, and neighbors. You’ll hear how Gershwin, Elgar, and Mister Rogers express their love through music and you can share photos of the people you love for a special slideshow on the Heinz Hall screen.

• Showmasters Gun Show, Feb. 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Feb. 2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Monroeville Convention Center.

There’s no better place in Pittsburgh this weekend to purchase, trade and sell guns, ammunition and related merchandise. On hand you’ll find handguns, shotguns, rifles, holsters, safes, antiques, carbines, antique pistols, swords, cartridges, early Indian and western Americana and coins No loaded guns permitted in the building.

• CineLunch: Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, 11 a.m., Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

It’s certainly an appropriate day to attend a screening of the classic Bill Murray comedy in which weatherman Phil Connors is forced to repeatedly relive Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney. Lunch options include gourmet ham and turkey sandwich and vegetarian garden salad with fresh bakery roll.

• Mummies of the World: The Exhibition, Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Carnegie Science Center.

If you haven’t seen this fascinating exhibit yet, this is the weekend to go. Featuring 40 real human and animal mummies and 85 related artifacts from all over the globe, the exhibition is a window into the lives of ancient people from every region of the world - including Europe, South America, and Ancient Egypt. Exhibits include a mummified family from Hungary, a mummified German nobleman found in the crypt of a 14th century castle, South American shrunken heads and more.