Happening This Week
American Idiot Tuesday – Sunday Heinz Hall, Cultural District An all-new musical based on Green Day’s Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album. More info/tickets: http://culturaldistrict.org/venues/heinz-hall Night Of The Living Dead Friday 5p Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District This classic,…
Building Your Family Tree – History Center to offer FREE Workshops in on Researching African American and Jewish Family Histories
Nowadays we can log on to ye olde Facebooks and keep tabs on our cousin and in many families Grandma and Grandpa are using the Facebooks to keep in touch. But if you want to find out about previous generations…
Ghost N’At & Haunted Pittsburgh Tours
Jim Krenn RAW is a video podcast by Jim Krenn. In this video series is a kind of behind the scenes look at what happens in Pittsburgh when Jim isn’t on the radio. If you are new to Pittsburgh –…
Scottish and Scutching in the Laurel Highlands This Weekend
History lovers, hold on to your hats and pack up your wagons (station wagons) and head out route 30 east to the laurel highlands this weekend – it is a double header of cultural festivals. We are often asked about…
Head Up To Harmony – Community Day on Saturday, June 18
Just a short drive north of Pittsburgh on 79N. is the tiny but historic town of Harmony, Pa. The town may be small – but they have got some big things going on. Saturday is the perfect day to drive…
Is Oakland Haunted?
Image by Talke Photography via Flickr You can find out if Oakland is really haunted on one of the Haunted Pittsburgh walking tours. Now if I were visiting any other city – and saw a haunted tour – I would…
World War II History Comes to Pittsburgh – The USS LST Ship Memorial
Image via Wikipedia On Friday, we posted a photo of the very large ship that is docked in the river next to Heinz field. This is the USS LST ship – it served in World War II. The USS LST…
Oh My Gosh – It's Frothingslosh! The 15th Annual Iron City Brewing Oberbrau Haus Beer Collectibles Show
Image by garboden via Flickr Looking for some friends who also like to collect beer stuff – well it turns out that Pittsburgh has a club for that too. Olde Frothingslosh is a Pittsburgh beer can and breweriana collecting club…
Grandview Park Celebrates 100 Years – Celebration Saturday, October 3!
Image by Jeff Pang via Flickr For the past 10 year a group of dedicated volunteers has been working to bring back the grandness to Grandview Park – and the timing is perfect. The park will celebrate its 100th birthday…
THE BURGH STANDS FOR VICTORY!
Last month I made it to the end of Viper Soul Club at the Shadow Lounge and one of the last songs of the evening was about Pittsburgh but I wasn’t able to get all of the details from DJ…
A Revolution on Wheels: The Model T at 100
Image by gem66 via Flickr This is a very interesting time for the automobile industry – it is interesting to think about just how much cars have changed when they were first developed. The exhibit Model T at 100 is…
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