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CBS News
31-01-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Moe's Southwest Grill reduces pricing in Pittsburgh area to celebrate 20-year anniversary
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Moe's Southwest Grill a Mexican-style fast food franchise reduced prices in the Pittsburgh area for its 20th anniversary. "We were just two local guys in our 20s when we bet everything we had to open that first location in Cranberry," said Mike Geiger a local Moe's franchisee. Local franchisees Mike Geiger and John Laquinta opened the first Moe's location in Cranberry Twp. in 2005. Together they now operate ten locations in the Pittsburgh region and two locations in Erie. Moe's menu items will have former throwback prices. Every Thursday in February, Moe's will offer its signature burrito "The Homewrecker" at the original 2005 price of $6.29 that comes with its complementary chips and salsa. This spring the team will launch a food truck known as Moe's Queso Takeover as a thank you to Pittsburgh. "We have ordered over 100,000 custom paper serving trays that the truck will use in 2025 to thank guests with some queso love all over the Pittsburgh region," said Laquinta. Throughout all of 2025 the team will launch special promotions. "To look back and know how many lives we have been able to impact, how many community projects we have helped bring to fruition, and to have served tens of millions of guests during those 20 years, we are truly humbled," said Geiger.
Boston Globe
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Mike Geiger lights up ‘Winteractive' at New England Aquarium
Advertisement Animator and sculptor Mike Geiger with "Nature's Solace," an illuminated sculpture in front of the New England Aquarium. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff His 6-foot-tall luminous structures made from recycled plastic, 'Nature's Glow' (at 2 Avery St.) and 'Nature's Solace' (outside New England Aquarium), shelter beds of flowers and foliage. 'I definitely see them as characters,' Geiger said. 'I feel like I know their personalities.' With each work in the series, 'the idea is it's like a spirit guardian that's taking care of their foliage,' he said. He sees more of these benign protectors of nature in his future. 'Ideally,' he said, 'we have families of characters.' A detail of Mike Geiger's "Nature's Solace." The illuminated, character-driven sculpture shelters beds of flowers and foliage. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Where to find him: Age : 49 Originally from : White Rock, British Columbia Lives in : Toronto Studio : Geiger works on the sculptures nights and weekends 'wherever I can find space in my home,' he said. Mike Geiger, "Nature's Solace," presented as part of the Downtown Boston Alliance's 'Winteractive' outdoor art experience. Annielly Camargo/Downtown Boston Alliance The 'biggest thing' for him as an artist: 'The animation industry in America is super struggling right now,' he said. 'I don't know that people outside of the art world understand how intrusive AI is.' AI sources what it generates from How he started : Geiger's design sensibility was shaped by skateboarding in the 1980s and '90s. When he was ready for college, his local art school rejected him. 'Then my mother called me and said, 'Don't worry about it. I signed you up for an animation class on the weekends.'' Geiger said. 'I fell in love within the first week.' Advertisement That experience got him into Mike Geiger cutting flowers to be used in "Nature's Solace." David L. Ryan/Globe Staff How he works : Developing his sculptures, the artist starts with sketches to see what sort of character springs up. Then he imports the drawings into Advice for artists : 'This is a really tricky question because I have a 9-year-old son who wants to be an artist, and it's like, well, what's the future with AI?,' Geiger said. But he still believes: 'If you're passionate about what you do, no matter what the situation, there will be a road for you.' Cate McQuaid can be reached at
