Radio Round Up – March 20, 2009 – Happy Spring

March 20, 2009 · by Lindsay · in

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Would You Be My Neighbor Day – March 20

  • Wear a sweater to honor Mr. Rogers
  • Check out the film My Tale of Two Cities at Waterworks Cinema, Friday, Mar. 20 at 7pm – Mr. McFeely will be there
  • Free Admission at the Children’s Museum all day on March 20.

Happy Spring! – Free Italian Ice

  • Today is the First day of Spring
  • Free Italian Ice from Noon – 10 pm today at all Rita’s locations.

Black and Gold Sprints – Bike Racing in the bar

  • the folks at Urban Velo are bring bicycle racing to Saturday nights
  • They will bring the bikes to the bar – this Sat. March 21, 7-11pm at Over the Bar Bicylce Cafe on Carson Street
  • $10 to enter, Open Qualifying from 7-9pm
  • More info at http://www.blackandgoldsprints.com/

Mustache March

  • Mustache’s for Kids was a charity that was started in 1999 – men compete to grow mustaches to raise money for Children’s charities
  • Sat. March 28, 2009 7pm @ Shootz Cafe – March Mustache Extravaganza
  • More info and a mustache gallery at MustachePGH.com

You be the DJ at Schenley Plaza

  • The Pittsburgh Parks conservancy is looking for folks who want to DJ for lunch hour at Schenley plaza in April and May. You bring the ipod with the play list – they will set up the rest.
  • Sign up here at PittsurghParks.org/plaza-music

Preserve Pittsburgh Summit

  • Sat. March 28, 2009 – 8:30 am – 4pm, reception to follow
  • Day long summit on preserving historic buildings in Pittsburgh
  • The Summit is free, tickets to the reception are $25
  • Summit includes bus tours of historic buildings and lunch

Citizen Journalism Training Project

  • The Public Square Project is a new program in Pittsburgh focus in getting more people to participate in journalism
  • Every Thursday in March at the Union Project from 6-8pm
  • Learn about how to be a citizen journalist and tell stories about your neighborhood
  • All works shops are FREE!

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Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh for as long as she has been blogging - but fortunatly there are lots of great things about Pittsburgh to share. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon. Lindsay is also working on BlogLocal which is building a map of blogs with local content.

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