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

• From Glamour Magazine – "These Sisters Rescued 54 Orphans" – Katie Couric interviews Ali and Jamie McMutrie for Glamour magazine about their work in Haiti
• Another "Tale of Two Cities": Ontario city finds parallels in Pittsburgh revitalization – Carl Kurlander is taking his Pittsburgh documentary around the country. Check out this article from Ontario and look for a screening of the film "My Tale of Two Cities" in Washington, DC in the near future
• Venture Outdoors offers a new bike tour this summer – Ride Across PA – check out this bike tour from Erie to Morgantown and some of the other great bike tours that Venture Outdoors has lined up for Summer 2010

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My Tale of Two Cities Screening to Benefit Sewickly Public Library

• Check out Carl Kurlander’s documentary about moving back to Pittsburgh. The film will be screened at the Santa Fe Film Festival in December. See it here in Pittsburgh this weekend.
• Friday, November 13, 2009, 7pm Sewlickly Public Library

The Nina and The Pinta make a pilgrimage to Pittsburgh

• Take a tour of the life size replicas of the Nina and the Pinta that are docked next to Heinz Field
• Tours daily 9am-4pm until Nov. 15, Tickets are $7

German Christmas Market at the Harmony Museum

• Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 14 & 15) in historic downtown Harmony, PA (30 min north of Pittsburgh on 79N)
• modeled after a traditional German Christmas Market
• Gifts, food and a visit from Father Christmas

Oakmont is Alive with the Sound of Music

• This weekend – Sound of Music is playing at The Oaks theater in Oakmont
• Saturday, November 14 – Cinebrunch -$10 gets you brunch and a movie ticket

ToonSeum Grand Opening

• Pittsburgh’s Cartoon Musuem moves to its new home on Liberty Ave. Downtown
• Stop by and check out the exhibit celebrating 100 years of animation

Michael B’s Barber Shop – Cuts Around the Clock

• Starting at 6pm, Friday, November 13 and running for 24 hours the Barber shop will be open for hair cuts
• All proceeds benefit Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc.
• Michael B’s is located on West Liberty Ave in Dormont

Beer School – “Session Ales”

• Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 6:15 pm
• Theater at Cabaret Square
• Co-hosted by award-winning beer writer, Lew Bryson (He wrote the book on Pennsylvania Breweries)

I just received an email from Carl Kurlander about the showings of My Tale of Two Cities. The film’s producer, Stephanie Dangle Reiter, will be speaking after the showing this Saturday at Penn Hills Cinema at 7:15 pm.

Check out some of the news coverage about the film…

• USA Today
• Rutland Herald
• Pop City Media
  

Have you seen the film yet? What did you think?

The premier of the Pittsburgh Documentary My Tale of Two Cities (see my original post on the documentary here) was such a success that they have added more showings.  From the film’s website…
Due to popular demand, “My Tale of Two Cities” will play at the Penn Hills Cinema starting Monday, December 1, running through Saturday, December 6, at 7:15 p.m. (76 Federal Drive Penn Hills Shopping Mall 412.243.1831; they are closed on Wednesday). On Monday, filmmaker Carl Kurlander will be there to introduce the film and discuss it afterwards.
A DVD of the film is also available from the WQED online store.  WQED has a number of great Pittsburgh documentaries available for sale too.  Perfect holiday gift ideas!

Some other holiday ideas are movies set in Pittsburgh.  Here are just a few…

What is your favorite movie set in Pittsburgh?

For more holiday gift ideas check out some of our other gift ideas.

We have been patiently waiting for the premier of this movie – My Tale of Two Cities, a documentary about Pittsburgh which has been in the works for a few years now. Back in 2006 we posted the invite to come join in a neighborhood sing along of “Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” The film is complete and the screening is November 28, 2008 at the Byham Theater. You can read more about the film at MyTaleOfTwoCities.com.

We started IheartPGH after meeting people who didn’t grow up here but choose to live here – each person had a story about what brought them to Pittsburgh. Those stories turned into three years of stories about people and places in Pittsburgh. So it is hard not be excited about a documentary length story of Pittsburgh which has the potential to take the Pittsburgh story to a whole new audience beyond Western PA. I am eager to see which Pittsburgh stories were selected for this film.

Check out the trailer here. I learned a few facts about Pittsburgh that I had not heard before…who knew Pittsburgh was the birth place of bingo?

You know how you hear about something and then it becomes one of those things that just keeps crossing your path. That is how I feel about Carl Kurlander’s story of Pittsburgh. I first learned about Carl Kurlander from a chapter in the book, What Should I do With My Life, which I was reading on a plane ride to California a few