If you are looking for a unique way to race for the cure this weekend – you can jump into a pink dress and join the Pittsburgh Hash Hound Harriers for their first annual Pink Dress Run (last summer they held a red dress run).
Pink Dress Run
Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 5pm meet at OTB Cafe on Carson Street
Wear a pink dress and follow the hash for some running and beer.
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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.
We 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
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Not only is this a great idea because it gives you a chance to recycle something you might not use any more, and to support kids but it is pretty cool that Play it Forward was inspired by a 13 year old Coleman Daugherty as part of his community service project for preparing for his Bar Mitzvah…
“Wouldn’t it be cool to get people to donate the musical instruments that they’re not using to kids who would like to learn how to play music?” After exploring this idea with several members of the local musical community, Coleman discovered that there is indeed a need for donated instruments, but that no such program was currently operating to fulfill that need in the Pittsburgh region
Here is how it works
More information about Play It Forward is available at the Construction Junction Website.
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Yesterday, I opened up my email to find one with the subject help – I opened the email thinking maybe it was a request to post an event or recommend a neighborhood – but this is a big request…
Subject: help
Dear IheartPGH,
Needed an awesome idea and figured you were the best person to turn to.
I want to figure out the coolest way to propose to my girlfriend in Pittsburgh. I’ve Googled a bunch of stuff, taking out billboards, renting a limo etc. I really wanted to figure out if it were possible to have dinner and propose …
I have received a few emails to IheartPGH over the past few years and I try to reply with helpful answers to all of them – but this is a big one and I have no experience with marriage proposals – I am totally flattered you thought to email me. If you are looking for advice on where to eat lunch for less than $5 (pretzel Shop) or best coffee (La Prima) or where can I find a bar with the largest taxidermy collection (Joe’s Bar, Ligonier) – I can help with that. The prefect Pittsburgh marriage proposal – not my area of expertise!
With his permission (and I promised to keep him anonymous so that it is a surprise,) I am posting this request to see what you dear readers of IheartPGH can suggest.
I did a little blog research on marriage proposals, thus far no one has blogged a Pittsburgh engagement story. Plenty of people have blogged about their engagement stories – Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Metroblogs, proposed over Twitter (read her side of the story here). Their story was also covered by Boing Boing and Wired covered some other Tweetheart stories here. I am sure that you can do better than this suggestion of proposing by instant message, from Engagement-ideas.com (yes that blog exists). We are not necessarily looking for geeky proposal ideas – this is about Pittsburgh proposal ideas.
So please leave your suggestions and ideas here in the comments – if you have a great Pittsburgh engagement story – please share that too. If you would prefer to send your ideas by email – please email info@iheartpgh.com and I will forward all of your ideas to the lucky guy. Continue reading
Yesterday, I was watching this interview on KDKD where I learned that most people gain 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Years. I want to mention that this interview was about a new product, that I think is pretty cool, called GoWearFIT, which is from a Pittsburgh company, BodyMedia.
One way to burn off some of those extra holiday calories would be to attend the December Viper’s Soul Club. Viper’s Soul Club is the monthly dance party with soul. DJ’s Juddy n’ Gordy will be spinning 1960s R&B, Motown, and Northern Soul music.
