If you are out and about in Downtown or Oakland on Friday and Saturday around 5:30pm – look up in the sky. The Sky is the Limit is a new project from Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor of Art Kim Beck. An airplane skywriter will write messages over Pittsburgh taken from billboard advertising. The Sky Is The Limit Friday, October 1 more
This isn’t your middle school gym class… Join with others for a giant game of capture the flag in Schenley Park. Capture the Flag Friday, October 1, 2010 – 7-10pm Schenley Park – (meet at the stone courtyard at the crest of the hill by the main entrance of the park. If there are middle-aged men playing bongo drums, we’ll be nearby with our flags more
It’s time for the annual City Paper Best of Pittsburgh entries. September 30 is the deadline to vote for your favorite places and things in Pittsburgh. There are lots of categories for voting. And submitting your favorites enters you to win an ipad from the folks at Mac Outfitters. Here are a few of my choices: Best Dance Club – Shadow Lounge Best more
One of the many organizations that does good things in Pittsburgh is PUMP. PUMP stands for Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project and was founded 15 years ago when a grad student wrote a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. What started as a group of volunteers looking to connect more young people to Pittsburgh has grown over the past 15 more
On Thursday, September 23 there will be a photo shoot for the 2nd Pittsburgh Gigapanorama – you are invited to participate. The details for Thursday are available here. For the whole story about the project keep reading. Gigapana-What? I promise this is not a scary disease or some fancy name for bed bug infestation – a gigopanorama is a giant panoramic more
Image via Wikipedia I am back on a diet – a low car diet that is. The good folks at ZipCar have included me in another year of low car dieting – I give up driving for a month and they supply some Zipcar credits and fun giveaways (I hope we can give away some Zipcar gifts here on the blog too). After participating in the low car diet last year more
Image by IheartPGH via Flickr I have been stuck at home all week – fighting off what I hope will be the first and only cold of the fall season. I have been catching up on bad tv and blog reading and one of the events that has been receiving much attention in the blogosphere and beyond – it was actually a friend who I saw on the bus last week more
