I heart PGH.com

Calling all zip car drivers and zip car wanna be drivers.  The folks from Zip Cary have organized a little zippity happy hour of sorts.

What is ZipCar?

ZipCar is a car sharing company.  You sign up and become a member, they send you a membership card with a microchip.  There are ZipCars in designated ZipCar parking spots around Pittsburgh.  When you want to use a car – you visit ZipCar.com and reserve the car (more…)

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

• Free Waffles on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – Free waffles – made with magic – networking and conversation – this Wednesday at the DeepLocal waffles. We stopped by for Waffles at the December waffle Wednesday – great group of people and good coffee.
• Walking to New Orleans – Al Hoff, who is also the brains behind the blog – City of Sad Toys – has started a new project. She is virtually walking from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Each day she logs how many miles she walks and plots that on a map of the route from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Each post includes some history and background about the locations she is virtually walking through.
• Coming this Spring – New Public Market opens in the Strip District – From PopCity Media "The Pittsburgh Public Market will have space for 42 vendors, ranging from fresh and prepared foods to arts and crafts to local, seasonal produce. So far, vendors will include: 21st Street Coffee and Tea, Elysian Fields Farm, Pittsburgh Candy Buffet, Tracy's Treats natural skincare products and more. The market will be open Friday through Sunday each week."

Follow IheartPGH on Twitter – we share more links there almost daily!

To kick off March Madness (and to give you a distraction to the snow) – we are giving away 2 tickets to the March 4th Pitt Basketball game and a parking pass.   Tickets courtesy of Pittsburgh Budget Cars.com, the best place for used cars in Pittsburgh.

What: 2 Tickets and a Parking Pass to March 4, 2010 Pitt Basketball Game (vs. Providence)

Why: because the nice folks at Pittsburgh Budget Cars are kind enough to sponsor this promotion

How to Enter: Leave a comment here or post a tweet with the #iheartPittBBall

Winner will be randomly selected on February 19, 2010 and notified by email.

SNOMAGEDDON T-shirts, Screen Printing Demo and East End Beer

• Commonwealth Press is opening their doors on Friday, February 12 at 5pm
• Come see the shop, check out the screen printing, get some snOMGpgh t-shirts and drink some East End Brewing Beer

• Friday, February 12, 6-10pm
• Ages 10+
• $25 – make your own glass valentine or glass flowers

(more…)

A long time ago, before there were blogs and before IheartPGH – some friend and I used to screen print t-shirts in my basement.  The first t-shirt we every printed was an IheartPGH t-shirt (I think I still have one of the origonals).  After printing a ton of shirts and realizing that I wasn’t really able to do large orders – I picked up a flyer for Commonwealth Press and sent them an email.  Dan and I met for coffee and we have been talking t-shirts ever since.

Dan and Shannon started Commonwealth Press in the basement of their house – they do an awesome job of screen printing t-shirts – if you can dream it – they can print it.  They are fast and helpful and affordable – Iknow they have done a great job of large and small orders (I think they were once kind enough to print 8 t-shirt for me).  One of the first converstaions Dan and I had was about clean and green and I know they do their best to steer clear of some of the toxic elements that can be involved in screen printing. (more…)

Just got a comment on the calendar page asking if there is anything to do in Pittsburgh on Saturday, February 13.  So I thought I would just start a post and let anyone share suggestions and ideas in the comments and via twitter. If you include the link to this post in your tweet – your tweet will also show up below the comments.