Category Archives: Community Resources

Happy Hours

Lots of great happy hours to check out this evening

Drinking Green – Green Drinks is back at Bossa Nova. This months hosts are the great guys behind G-TECH, a new start-up company from some CMU students. I have had the opportunity to talk with both Andrew and Nathaniel from GTECH a couple of times – they have great ideas for the future of Pittsburgh and they are lots of fun. All are welcome to attend.

Green Drinks
Friday, July 20, 5-8pm
Bossa Nova

Beers in Braddock – head on down to the Braddock Elks club, meet the mayor, check out this historic steel town and some of the exciting development there, DJ Zombo is back in town.

WRCT’s radio madman takes his wild collection of amazing music to the Elks in Braddock this Friday at 8pm.
50’s Rockabilly, 60’s Garage and Surf, Nutty Novelty tunes, Crazy R and B plus music that defies description. It’s a wild ride!

More info on Braddock: http://www.15104.cc/

Beers at the Braddock Elks Club
Friday, July 20, 8pm
Elks Lodge 883, 424 Library Street , Braddock , PA

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Drinking with the dogs

You can drink beer with some four legged friends. Animal friends is hosting Bark’N’Brew this Friday at Penn Brewery.

I am not sure if you can bring your own dog, I think that would be a good idea but I am not sure Penn Brewery would like that.

Your $5 admission gets you a lot more than the opportunity to drink with some furry creatures:

  • Boilermaker Jazz Band – one of the BEST in Pittsburgh
  • Raffle Prizes & Auctions
  • Guest Bartenders – Dave & Dave from OnQ.
  • Some handsome four-legged friends
  • Tasty beer

Bark N Brew
Friday, July 20 at 6pm
The Penn Brewery, 800 Vinial Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
$5 cover – proceeds benefit Animal Friends
Call 412.847.7055 for de-tails.

How Tall Is That Tree?

Now you can learn how to find out about the height of a tree and all sorts of interesting facts about Pittsburgh trees.

Check out this upcoming Sierra Club event…

Public Meeting of the Allegheny Group of the Sierra Club
Wednesday. July 11, 7:30-9 PM
Phipps Civic Garden Center, Mellon Park, Fifth and Shady Avenues, Pittsburgh.

MASTER CRAFTSMEN AND PENNSYLVANIA’ S CHAMPION TREES
Climb Them, Measure Them [Selectively Hand Harvest so as to Sustain
the Forests] and Create Classic Furniture from Them

This will be a specially exciting and interesting meeting as we have
a master arborist show how to get to the tops of big trees, a member
of the Eastern Native Tree Society show us how to determine how tall
those trees actually are, and a master woodworker show us how to
convert the wood from those trees into magnificent hardwood products.
Bernie Eckley, Tony Kelly and Jim Starkey will lead us in an
outdoor/indoor tour of Pennsylvania’ s exceptional hardwood trees,
demonstrating climbing techniques and how to tell how big a tree is,
then in a virtual tour of the Neshannock Woods furniture shop, show
the tools and techniques for re-creating 19th Century classic
furniture. If you admire big trees and superb joinery, come check this
out!

There will be plenty of opportunity to question these experts. If you
are really interested in any of these, we can create outings to follow
up on your interests.

Contact Donald L. Gibbon (dongibbon ‘at” earthlink.net) for more details.

Radio Round-Up July 7

Thanks to Jim and Randy for having me back again.  Here is a round up of what we were talking about on WDVE this morning…

Urban Hike

  • What is the boardwalk to nowhere?
  • Saturday, July 7
  • This month Urban Hike heads to Sewickley

Art Squared

  • Friday evening – Unblurred -Penn Ave Arts District
  • Hot Jam – Stop by the Pittsburgh Glass Center on Penn Ave for live glass blowing
  • Saturday afternoon – Lawrenceville Artist Studio Tour

Buy Your Own Pittsburgh Homestead

  • Union Project in Highland Park
  • Dollars & Sense – Free series on money
  • Pittsburgh is awesome because anyone can buy a house
  • This Monday, folks from Dwelling House Savings & Loan will be there to talk about the details of buying a house
  • Nice People, Tasty Snacks

Bringing Bacon Back

  • Harris Grill, Shady Side
  • Tuesday night is Bacon Night
  • Free baskets of bacon at the bar

Save the Date – Steel City Big Pour

  • Big Big Beer Festival
  • September 15, Construction Junction
  • Two Words: Kegerator Art
  • Over 15 Confirmed Breweries

Save Your Money Honey

The Union Project continues their monday evening series Dollars & Sense.

Stop by this Mondasy, July 9, to learn about planning and saving for your first house – yes, you too can buy your very own Pittsburgh homestead. This week’s presentation will be feature the good folks from Dwelling House Savings and Loan (a super community oriented band here in Pittsburgh).

I was there two weeks ago for a crash course in budgeting, met some super nice people and dined on some tasty snacks from the Union Project Cafe.

Dollars & Sense: Savings & Loan Seminar
Monday, July 9, 6:30-8:30pm
More Info: UnionProject.org