Yearly Archives: 2009

Last Minute March Madness Pool

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I just realized that I had not yet made any picks for March madness!  I did pick a winner in last years basketball pool, so I decided there is still time for a pool in 2009.  If the president can make some bracket picks, you can too.  Make your picks by NOON on Thursday March 19.

I set up a group on the CBS sports website  – http://pghlove.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?referrer=MKTG_BM_INVITE

  1. Click the link above
  2. If you don’t have an account with CBS sports you will have to create one
  3. log-in to the IheartPGH group and set up your bracket – the group password is pghlove

Here is the link http://pghlove.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?referrer=MKTG_BM_INVITE

We will work on some prizes for the winners.

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Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Cities in between – GLUE Conference Day 1

The Great Lakes from spaceImage via Wikipedia

I am in Milwaukee for the 2nd annual GLUE conference. GLUE stands for Great Lakes Urban Exchange – which is a project that was started 2 years ago by Pittsburgh’s Abby Wilson and Sarah Szurpicki of Detroit. The website GLUEspace.org has become a portal for anyone to share information about cities in the Great Lakes watershed. IheartPGH has been a fan of GLUE from the beginning (see the post from April 2008) and thanks to GLUE both great lakes city t-shirts from both IheartPGH and STL-Style made the New York Times last summer.

You can read more about the 2009 GLUE Conference here.

I just wanted to post a quick summary with some links from the first day of the conference.

growingpower.jpgWe started with a tour of Growing Power, Inc. which is an urban farm in Milwaukee that has become a model and a training facility for urban agriculture around the country.  They are doing some amazing work here growing food (and worms) in green houses.

We then headed over to Sprecher Brewery for dinner – which included salad made with greens from Growing Power.

The speakers after dinner were really interesting

  • Willie Hines Jr. is the president of Milwaukee Commons Council, he spoke about his experiences moving back to Milwakuee, working in business and government and running for office
  • Carol Coletta is president and CEO of CEO’s for Cities – a non profit organization that advocates for cities.  Carol has lots of information and facts about cities and how to improve cities.  The CEO’s for Cities websites has lots of resources for anyone interested in cities. (Carol was one of the panelists at the first CityLive PGH event back in Sept. 2007)
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Links Worth a Look – March 8th

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

  • Ridgway Rendezvous – Chainsaw art festival! Why haven't I heard of this before? Just finished the 10th annual festival. I am putting this on the calendar for next year.
  • Pop City – Pittsburgh's Frick Park named Best Urban Escape by Get Out! magazine – Pittsburgh's 561-acre Frick Park was recently named Best Urban Escape by Get Out! magazine, a web magazine devoted to outdoor adventure in the Ohio River region.

    Bordered by Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze, Park Place, Swisshelm Park and Regent Square, the wooded park offers miles of trails for hiking, mountain biking, bird watching and cross-country skiing, and even lawn bowling.

  • Photo Essay: Pittsburgh Art In Public Places – Nice photo slide show of Pittsburgh public art from PopCity Media

Click here to see more links we like.

Radio Round Up – March 6, 2009

The Vader ProjectImage by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr

The Vader Project

 

 

History Uncorked (Isn’t history better with Beer? )

 

  • 11th Annual Young Professional Event at the Heinz History Center
  • Drinks, Music, Food from favorites around the strip district
  • Friday, March 6, 6:30-10:30p

3rd Annual Braddock Chili Cook Off

 

  • Saturday March 7, 1-5pm
  • Braddock Elks Club, 424 Library Street, Braddock, Across from the Carnegie Library in Braddock
  • Benefits the Braddock Carnegie Arts Program

Play It Forward

  • Saturday, March 7 Noon-4pm
  • Bring any unwanted musical instruments to Construction Junction in Point Breeze
  • Instruments will be donated to two programs here in Pittsburgh that work to get more kids interested in music.

South Side Leprechaun Leap

  • St. Patrick’s Day Themed Bar Crawl
  • Saturday, March 7, 2-10pm
  • Register at Town Tavern – bring a can of food for the food bank

Trips for Kids Fundraiser at OTB Cafe

  • Trips for Kids is a non profit organization dedicated to getting more kids on mountain bikes
  • This is the launch party for the Pittsburgh Chapter of Trips for Kids
  • Saturday, March 7, 7-9pm at OTB Cafe – a new bicycle themed bar on Carson Street
  • $15 at the door

Unblurred First Fridays on Penn Avenue

  • Friday, March 6, 2009, 6pm and the first Friday of every month the galleries & businesses stay open late
  • Stop at the Quiet Storm and order some nachos
  • Check out the glass blowing at the Pittsburgh Glass Center
  • Grab some coffee at Pittsburgh’s newest coffee shop Voluto – they server serious coffee

Citizen Journalism Training Project

  • The Public Square Project is a new program in Pittsburgh focus in getting more people to participate in journalism
  • Every Thursday in March at the Union Project from 6-8pm
  • Learn about how to be a citizen journalist and tell stories about your neighborhood
  • All works shops are FREE!

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Sourdough Bread is not Mancici's Bread- Washington, DC Chef tries to Recreate Primanti Brother Sandwich

primanti brothers sandwichImage by cygnoir via Flickr

Thanks to the IheartPGH reader for sending me the link to this blog post on Washingtonian.com blog – How to Make PS7’s Primanti Brothers Sandwich.

One regular at PS 7’s in Penn Quarter craves them so much that he schlepped one back to DC for chef Peter Smith. Smith declared it the “best sandwich in the world” and came up with a sopressata-on-sourdough version topped with hand-cut fries and pepper slaw ($7.50) for his lounge and lunch menus. The customer said, “Dude, this is as close as you’re going to get.”

I want to make sure to point out to anyone reading this blog post who has not been there – that Primanti Brother Sandwiches are made with Mancini’s Bread. Mancini’s is a bakery located in McKee’s Rocks that literally makes the best bread ever – there really aren’t words that describe how great this bread is – it is that good. Just writing about the bread is making me thing of driving there to pick up some bread right now.

It is nice that this DC restaurant is trying to help bring a little bit of Pittsburgh to DC – sour dough bread is just not the same thing as Mancini’s bread.

The blog posts includes a video and recipe for the PS7 version of the sandwich.  here is a video of a Happy Pittsburgher showing off a Primanti Brother’s sandwich that was sent to him from Pittsburgh.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kX0nLj0Qgk[/youtube]

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