Monthly Archives: February 2007

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while making visual aids for the presentation…) (NOTE: Just a couple quick ones for now, more a little later. See, things are busy what with all the repairs I’m making to the loading dock area of the lavishly-appointed iheartpgh.com headquarters. We had a small “incident” with a truck that was off-loading Lindsay and Natalia’s gin more

links for 2007-02-22

Amizade Happy Hour for Global Service & Understanding This should be an excellent event, fun times for a good cause. East End Brewing will provide the beer. It looks like there are going to be some great raffle prizes too. (tags: events amizade Feb 2007 unionproject) dorkbot pittsburgh dorkbot = “people doing strange things with more

PGH Party for a Purpose benefits Pittsburgh Cares!!

PGH Party for a Purpose will be hosting its second event on Saturday, March 3rd. 100% of proceeds will benefit Pittsburgh Cares, an organization which inspires volunteerism by organizaing flexible and rewarding volunteer services projects that impact critical need in Greater Pittsburgh. The party will feature Sonny Cheeba-Cheeba and the Downtown Get-Down more

REINFORMATION

Another great reason to visit Braddock.  Dorothy 6 is an art and performance venue in Braddock (416 Library Street, Braddock, PA 15104). This Friday, Feb 23rd from 7-11pm is the opening reception for REINFORMATION REINFORMATION – A new collage and assemblage from Richard Schnap and Mike Leahy. I met Mike a few years ago when I was working more

links for 2007-02-21

Welcome to Garfield Artworks Website for the gallery Garfield Artworks. A great venue in the east end for music, art and film. (tags: gallery pittsburgh art music film propgh propgh-groups manny) more

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while adjusting to life in a post-apocalyptic world…) Friday, February 16 The Great Guinness Toast, 8:00 p.m., Mullaney’s Harp And Fiddle, Strip District That yearly thing to get people to drink Guinness to set a new world’s record more

Savage Republic

In 1987, I was a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon excited by all the music being exposed by the innovative, forward-thinking college DJs at WRCT-FM. One of those was my friend Norm Veenstra, who had a particular interest in dark-tinged rock and began to bring some of the bands to Pittsburgh that we liked to spin on the air. That resulted in a riveting outdoor more