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Plant 911!

Can’t figure out why your petunias are wilting, your orchids haven’t bloomed in a decade, or your front lawn looks like Mars? E-mail Dr. Phipps at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. A service created to help green thumbs in the Pittsburgh area, these master gardeners are ready and waiting to serve you your every green need. You can even bring in funky specimens for them to identify and diagnose! Fun stuff! Also from the site: If you’d rather speak to a Master Gardener in person, call Dr. Phipps’s GreenLine. GreenLine is staffed on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m.… Read the rest

Pitaland

So, let’s just admit it. A lot of our East End friends don’t know how to cross rivers (and vice versa.) But let’s not forget about the Pittsburgh neighborhoods beyond tunnels and bridges. One of them being the lovely Brookline, in Southern Pittsburgh (just across the Liberty Tubes.) Brookline in itself is awesome. Think plenty of shade trees along a wide boulevard filled with quaint family owned businesses. One of the many reasons to visit Brookline is Pitaland, the Middle-Eastern grocery store, a Lebanese-born, Pittsburgh-made family business. I stop buy to stock up on staples like hummus, baba ghannouj and… Read the rest

Amnesty International Film Festival

Thank you Amnesty. The Amnesty Film Festival comes back to Pittsburgh from September 7 to September 11. Fifteen films will be presented, profiling human rights struggles across the globe. Films from Cuba, Peru, Cambodia … and even Brooklyn. I am definitely going to try to make it to some of these films. They fascinating, especially after this summer’s crappy Hollywood offerings. As much as films like this shake our senses, they also offer us hope and encouragement in trying times. We are all world citizens. Here’s a sample movie: WAR GAMES: East Coast Premiere “In January 2003, an amazing event… Read the rest

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