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Here are the links for this weekend, you can listen to us most friday mornings at 6:45 am – we catch up with with Jim and Randy on WDVE about things to in Pittsburgh!  A thanks to the kind folks at Oh Yeah! Ice Cream (follow them on twitter @oysocial) for coffee and brainstorming on this weekends list.

St. Baldrick’s Day and I Shamrock PGH T-shirts

• To help raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation which supports kids with cancer – Bill Toland will be shaving his head
• Make a donation or post a tweet about the event and win an I Shamrock PGH t-shirt

Green Dress Run

• Sunday, March 14, 2010 – 2pm, Meet @ Calico Jacks on the North Side
• Hash House Harriers, 4-5 Mile Run or Walk with beer stops along the way
• Benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
• Wear a green dress

Dog + Yoga = DOGA

• Sunday March 14, 3pm @ Animal Friends
• Yoga and meditation for you and your dog

Minty Margarita at Mad Mex

• 2 of the best things every combined in to one awesome drink – the Mad Mex Margarita meets the Shamrock Shake
• Lots of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at all of the Pittsburgh area Mad Mexs locaitons (Oakalnd is still out favorite )

Carnegie Museum is Free on Thursday Evenings in March

• Museum is open until 8pm on Thursdays
• Free admission after 3:30 pm

Donate a Sweater for “Would You be My Neighbor Day”

• March 15-19, 2010 – Drop off sweaters at the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a foundation that supports children with cancer.  Each year they have a fundraiser where individuals volunteer to raise money and shave their heads – it is fun and it is a show of solidarity with kids who lose their hair to chemo and radiation treatments.

A felllow Pittsburgher, Bill Toland,  has volunteered his head to the cause and could use your help in meeting his goal of raising $3000 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.  Click here to go to Bill Toland’s fundraising page and support the cause.  (Help us track donations from IheartPGH readers by giving a donation that ends in .17).

I Shamrock PGH T-shirt Give Away

To help Bill spread the word about this great cause we are going to offer a little t-shirt giveaway.  The good folks at Commonwealth Press have printed up a nifty I Shamrock PGH t-shirt just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. 

Last week we had the opportunity to suggest some Pittsburgh neighborhoods and blogs for a post on AOL’s Rented Spaces about top housing markets in Pittsburgh and Louisville.

AOL’s Rented Spaces – “Insiders’ Tips on Top Housing Markets” - March 5, 2010 by Katie McCaskey

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

• From Glamour Magazine – "These Sisters Rescued 54 Orphans" – Katie Couric interviews Ali and Jamie McMutrie for Glamour magazine about their work in Haiti
• Another "Tale of Two Cities": Ontario city finds parallels in Pittsburgh revitalization – Carl Kurlander is taking his Pittsburgh documentary around the country. Check out this article from Ontario and look for a screening of the film "My Tale of Two Cities" in Washington, DC in the near future
• Venture Outdoors offers a new bike tour this summer – Ride Across PA – check out this bike tour from Erie to Morgantown and some of the other great bike tours that Venture Outdoors has lined up for Summer 2010

Follow IheartPGH on Twitter – we share more links there almost daily!

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We have recieved numerous emails asking what to do after the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.  As you may know, Market Square is under construction (check out these articles on the impact of the construction on the Market Square businesses – Post-Gazette 2/5/2010 and Tribune Review 2/26/2010).  We are very sad to see another local business close and there are many Pittsburghers who are sad about the lack of a place to celebrate after the parade.

Most Friday’s at 6:45am we get to give a little update on things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend on the WDVE morning show. Here is a run down of what we talked about this week…
History UnCorked

• Fundraiser at Heinz History Center
• Friday, February 26, 6:30-10:30pm
• Heinz History Center

Snowball Fight

• Saturday, February 27 – Noon, Flagstaff Hill
• Brought to you by the folks who organized Santarchy
• Wear a silly hat