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Kid Friendly Event – Celebrate Moms, Kids Books and Local Book Sellers

7 May 2009

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Thanks to @suzigurl for sending us the link to this event. It is kind of a cool story that started with a Tweet back in Decemeber – a group of people organized some events in New England to celebrate authors of kids books.  So a group of Pittsburghers are working to bring the events to [...]

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History Books – Making the Connections

16 April 2009

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Making the Connections Book Launch Party Friday, April 17, 2009, 4-7 pm Shadow Loung, 5972 Baum Blvd, East Liberty RSVP on Facebook here. One of the final events of the Pittsburgh 250 celebration was the community connections wrap up session back in December.  The afternoon turned out to be a lot more fun that I had anticipated.  As part [...]

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Pittsburgh Signs Project Now Available on Amazon.com

2 March 2009

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Image by theamericanroadside via Flickr If you are a regular reader you will know that we really like signs (and sometimes climb over guard rails to photograph them) and that we have been following the Pittsburgh Signs Project from its beginnings as a blog to a published book. The book -  Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of [...]

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Author Lecture: Timothy Keller, The Reason For God

20 May 2008

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While I heart PGH is happy to answer lots of questions about Pittsburgh – questions like the reason for pierogi are more what this website is about. The Reason for God is a book and this event came to me from a Pittsburgh native and a good friend who is working on the publicity [...]

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Making Cities Stick – Sticky Cities

7 April 2008

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If you haven’t yet heard of GLUE than I am excited to share this with you. Abby Wilson who is from Pittsburgh and her friend Sarah Szurpicki is from Detroit (full dicloser – I have know Abby for 14 years). Abby and Sarah started GLUE last fall to look at the cities in [...]

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Walk Pittsburgh from anywhere

23 September 2007

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If you have read any of my posts on Urban Hike, you will know I am a big fan of walking around this city.  When I was in high school I read Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood.  Annie writes about growing up in Pittsburgh and I was addicted to this book as she attended the [...]

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