Tag Archives: Carnegie Mellon University

Fairs, Flowers and Flea – Radio Round Up – April 16, 2010

Here is the list of things we discussed on WDVE this morning.  You can hear our weekend picks Friday morning at 6:45 on 102.5FM. Since your dad was a lad…Gus and Yia Yai’s Ice Balls Located next to the Tennis Courts in West Park, stop by for the best ice ball in Pittsburgh Tribune Review article about Gus and Yia Yia from June 2001 Facebook more

Blogs, Talk Show and Waffles – Saturday, Oct. 24

UPDATE SAT 10/24: We have a great line up of Guests and hilarious blog posts for this eve. Click here for a sneak peek. We will also have some trivia questions and fantastic prizes! Join us live in Pittsburgh or streaming online at www.waffleshop.org – we will be taking questions via skype and twitter too! We now have an official hash tag #blogtalk more

CALL FOR PROPOSALS! Your Big Idea Could Win Cash and Free Waffles for a Year

Image by groovehouse via Flickr The folks at the Waffle Shop are looking for your big idea – really big ideas – and if your big idea is the best idea you could win $250 and Free Waffles for a Year!  You don’t have to be in Pittsburgh to win either.  If you aren’t in town to attend the idea event on Oct. 3, 2009 – they will have an actor stand more

Live from East Liberty … its the Waffle Shop

I wanted to make sure to post about this before the spring semester ends.  I have made a few visits to the Waffle Shop in the past few months. The Waffle Shop is a class project for the undergraduate art course – The Storefront Project which is taught at Carnegie Mellon.  Last semester it was Waffle Shop – a reality tv show.  For the spring semester more

I still call it the "Tech Fair" – Spring Carnival at Carnegie Mellon and Goldfish

I cannot believe that I have been blogging about PGH for over 3 years and I have not published a word about the tech fair.  One of the must do events of the spring when I was a kid was to attend the Tech Fair – year later when I was working at Carnegie Mellon for the summer – I was confused when everyone kept talking about this Spring Carnival – apparently more

Pittsburgh Signs Project Now Available on Amazon.com

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 Western Pennsylvania more

Telling Untold Tales – Unbeknownst Pittsburgh!

Image via WikipediaI stumbled upon this event while browsing weekend activities for this weekend at ThisIsHappening.org and this looks like my kind of event – Pittsburgh story telling.  A bunch of historians from around Pittbsurgh are digging up some artifacts and stories from the Warhol Museum (I love Andy Warhol’s time capsules), The Homewood Cemetary, more