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progress pittsburgh PRE-ELECTION BONANZA: tuesday 10.24.06

progress pittsburgh is hosting a PRE-ELECTION BONANZA to bring you everything you need to know to get educated for and involved in the upcoming general election. please join us on october 24th at 5151 penn gallery in garfield, with the partisan project show, for an evening of information and informal conversation. representatives from organizations more

smith

set to premiere on september 26th is CBS’s new show ‘smith.’ why do you care, you might ask? well, at least the first episode of this show was filmed in pittsburgh. the trailer, which you can watch here, shows master theif ray liotta and his team busting into the mellon institute to steal a priceless work of art, then escaping by zooming along highways more

more things to do tonight

1. Traditional fuel. It’s… Bad for the environment. A foreign-relations headache. And getting much more expensive. But what are our other options? Join us for Green Drinks this Friday at Phipps Conservatory from 5:30 to 7:30pm for a discussion on the great advances in bio-diesel and other local alternative fuel options with our hosts Steel City more

be in a movie about pittsburgh

i just received this information in an email: “IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD” BE PART OF A FILM SHOOT SATURDAY JULY 1, 2006 5:00 PM AT THE POINT On Saturday July 1st at 5 p.m., Pittsburghers, past and present, near and far, are invited to join Mr. McFeely (David Newell) to sing “It’s A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood” at The Point. This more

e house

one of the many hip shops on carson street in pittsburgh’s bustling south side is the e house. not only is it hip, but it’s also green. e house is one of the few places in this city where you can buy organic household products, all natural clothing and accessories. e house also takes recycling, particularly some tricky items like battreries. to go back more

pittsburgh’s great blizzard travel game

while shopping at capo’s furniture in beaver falls recently, i came upon pittsburgh’s great blizzard travel game. produced in 1978 by c.p. marino, this game comes with a two-sided board, destination cards, weather cards, blizzard cards, cars [player pieces] and 2 dice. according to the rules, the point of the game is to land on each of the five more

the fish that saved pittsburgh

so i was just flipping around on cable and this movie caught my eye. with pittsburgh in the name, how could i resist? it turns out that this 1979 sports spoof is about the pittsburgh pythons, a basketball team that isn’t very good until they turn to astrology. starring julius erving, this film comes with plenty of gym shorts with contrast piping, striped more