Category Archives: East

Free lectures by three Brooklyn-based painters

American Jewish Museum
Jewish Community Center – 5738 Darlington Avenue
October 24, 7:00 pm

Lectures by Miriam Cabessa, Seth Cohen, Peter Rostovsky

In conjunction with the American Jewish Museum’s current exhibition “Of the Painted Image”, please join us for an evening of lectures with three young leading New York City based painters- Miriam Cabessa, Seth Cohen, Peter Rostovsky. A wine and cheese reception with the artists will immediately follow the lectures.

Space is limited – Please RSVP by calling 412-5221-8011, ext 105

For more information about the artists and exhibition, please visit www.jccpgh.org/museum.asp

Basketball Benefit

Watched enough basketball recently? You are eager to go out and shot some hoops yourself? This is the event for you. Stop by the Hoops for Hope event on Saturday and join a basketball game to benefit the Children’s Home of Pittsburgh. Last year over 300 people attended the event.

REINFORMATION

Another great reason to visit Braddock.  Dorothy 6 is an art and performance venue in Braddock (416 Library Street, Braddock, PA 15104).

This Friday, Feb 23rd from 7-11pm is the opening reception for REINFORMATION

REINFORMATION – A new collage and assemblage from Richard Schnap and Mike Leahy.

I met Mike a few years ago when I was working on the Kerry/Edwards campaign.  He has being doing websites, good websites, long before me.  Mike runs an online gallery Grainbag, definitely worth checking out.  I don’t know much about Richard Schnap, but I am eager to check out his work too.

Sadly I will be out of town for this fantastic evening, if you attend the event, please leave some comments (or pictures) and let us know how it went.

Name that tank

In just 3 hours the auction will end.  Our friends at East End Brewing are about to purchase a brand new tank for brewing more beer.  (I have a major affinity for stainless steel tanks, as I used to work for an auctioneer that specialized in selling dairy processing equipment, tanks, cheese vats, pumps – you name it, i helped to sell them in auctions in exotic places like Labelle, Florida, Dodge, Nebraska, or Castroville (artichoke Capital of the world), Calilfornia.  In fact we had a few brewers show up some of the auctions to buy tanks for their breweries.)

East End Brewing is auctioning off the naming rights for the new tank.

WHAT YOU GET:
The winning bidder will have their name, or the name of their choosing, dramatically emblazoned on the side of this tank, so that all can be reminded of your devotion to a craft we at East End Brewing find so near and dear to us.  You can make your bid for yourself, for a friend, chip in as a group, or even do it on behalf of an organization you find near and dear – anything goes!  Also, to make this a bit more fun, there’s no reserve on this auction.  This means that if you’re quick, you can be the LEAD BIDDER for at least a while, without committing more than a couple bucks!

And if YOU are the person who steps up and wins this thing, the name on the tank can be just about anything you want.  Name it after your favorite pet, your favorite song, your favorite East End Beer, your favorite fiancée, or even your favorite brewer – though I’m not holding my breath on that last one…The only requirement is that we keep it clean.  After all, people bring their kids in here each week, so I’ll reserve the right to decline anything I think is really out of line – but I’m not a prude.  I’ll work with you.

It is a beautiful dome top tank (I told you I liked equipment).  So maybe you should bid on this tank and name it after IheartPGH.com?

Click here to go to the ebay auction.
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Botanical Garden Bodaciousness

My usual response to growing things is a greedy, “nice garden, what’s edible?,” but I recently visited Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens new exhibit, which recreates a tropical forest environment in Thailand, and loved it.

For one thing, when the weather is maxing out at below freezing outside, it’s wonderful to walk into a tropical environment, where they have to keep the fans on and you get to take your coat off. Even better, because Phipps has focused on environmentally friendly building (oxide fuel cells, energy blankets, thermal massing and root zone heating for those of you in the know) there’s no need to feel guilty about wandering about in mid-70s weather in the middle of winter.

Best of all — the good folks at Phipps invited Buddhist monks to bless this Thai tropical forest so that it could be spirit-friendly, as well as eco-friendly.

Ellen James of Phipps explained, “Anytime there is new construction in Thailand, spirits who lived in the trees and the land have been distrubed and need to be welcomed back to the structure. The blessing was conducted by Buddhist monks but the ceremony has its roots in animism. There are two spirit houses in the tropical forest where the spirits can now live. In Thailand spirit houses are everywhere in front of small huts to large corporate headquarters. People leave offerings like flowers, rain water, cigarettes, and fanta soda.