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Four Things To Do This Week

January 13, 2013 Eric

This week: Oscar season kicks off and one of the best musicals of all time visits Pittsburgh!   Steel City Poetry Slam Tuesday, ~9:30p, $5 Shadow Lounge, Shadyside The Steel City Poetry Slam is held on the third Tuesday of every month at the Shadow Lounge on Baum Blvd. Sign up sheet goes out usually between 9:15 and 9:30pm, and the slam starts shortly thereafter. More info: https://www.facebook.com/steelcityslam   Pittsburgh Job Fair Monday, 11a Holiday Inn, North Hills All job seekers are encouraged to network, submit resumes and connect with hiring managers from some of the area’s top local employers.… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Community Organizations, Dance, Events, Literary, Movies, Music Tagged With: job, Movie, musical, oscar, poetry, Squirrel Hill

Tree Pittsburgh Presents Arbor Aid 2011

October 26, 2011 Maya

Arbor Aid is an annual fundraiser for Tree Pittsburgh, an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the City’s vitality by restoring and protecting City trees.  This fundraiser has grown over the years into one of Fall’s more fun and unqiue events.  Art made from salvaged wood is exhibited, food and drink is plentiful, and entertainment this year is provided by Pairdown, and the Armadillos.  And the folks at Tree Pittsburgh know that to make it a true Pittsburgh celebration you need to include an epic Cookie Table … and a Hug a Tree Photo Booth.  So strap on your dancing… Read the rest

Filed Under: Annual Events, Arts & Culture, Dance, Events, Fundraisers, Green PGH, Music, Non-Profits Tagged With: Strip District

Spillapalooza

July 7, 2010 Maya

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, if only there was a way I could combine my love of Zumba, empty swimming pools and marine wildlife into one amazing event!”?  Well, the good folks in Lawrenceville have figured it out for you.  That’s right, its SPILLAPALOOZA, a grassroots benefit for oil spill victims being held this Saturday from 12:30 -7pm at Leslie Park Pool (46th and Butler Streets)!  The event will feature a Zumbathon in the pool and loads of music, dancing and festivities.  Zumba dancers show up at 12 for registration!  Cost is $10 to participate in Zumbathon or… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Dance, Events, Fundraisers, Music, Outdoors Tagged With: Lawrenceville

WYEP Holiday Hootenannny this Thursday!

December 14, 2009 Maya

I started out with a lot of clever openings to this post … and then I decided to look up the exact definition of ‘hootenanny.’  The first definition is exactly what you envision, (n.) “a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.”  However, an older use of the word hootenanny is in fact a ‘thingumbob.’  If I was going to a thingumbob on Thursday night I figured I should find out what it was.  And there it was… the definition of thingamabob, according to Dictionary.com was thingamajig!  All confusion cleared up, I emailed a couple of… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Dance, Events, Food & Drink, Fundraisers, Music Tagged With: folk music, food bank, Pittsburgh Opera, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Serious Swing – Pittstop Lindy Hop v. 9.0

November 19, 2009 Lindsay

If you are a swing dancing fan or have always wanted to try swing dancing – this is the weekend for you. November 20-22, 2009 is the 9th annual PittStop LindyHop – 3 full days of swing dancing your pants off. The Pitt Stop folks have been organzing an annual swing dance weekend here in Pittsburgh since the year 2000. A reliable swing dancing source has told me that these dances are fun for swing dancers of all levels. Image by indoloony via Flickr The weekend pass and the Sunday afternoon dance are sold out but there are still tickets… Read the rest

Filed Under: Dance Tagged With: biolermaker jazz band, pittstop, pittstop lindy hop, swing, swing dancing, the boilermaker jazz band

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