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Pittsburghese in the NY Times

A reader has alerted us to a profile of Pittsburghese in the New York Times. Fine eating and drinking establishments in the South Side and Bloomfield are given their due. Oh, those East Coasters can’t get enough of our freakiness. This is my favorite part of the article: Julie Schoonover, the barkeeper from Corning, had described the dialect of the Steel City (a k a Pixburgh) more succinctly: “If you want to hear some freaky talk, go to Pittsburgh,” she told me. “It’s all ‘yinz goin’ dahntahn’ down there.” Read the rest below!… Read the rest

NY Magazine Tells us New Yorkers are Fleeing to Pittsburgh

No, I am not making this up. According to New York Magazine, the current hippest destinations for New Yorkers are: 1. Shanghai 2. Budapest 3. Pittsburgh From the magazine: If Philadelphia is our “sixth borough,” then Pennsylvania’s second city is Philly’s West Village. “It’s more gay-friendly than Manhattan,” says Coldwell Banker relocation specialist Mark Rutigliano, who moved here (with his partner) from West 11th Street. It’s not just that Queer As Folk is set hereâ€â€?a serious performing-arts scene thrives downtown and the city hosts the annual International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Of course, Pittsburgh’s appeal also lies in its… Read the rest

Carnegie Museum of Art – for children

Child Magazine ranked the best museums in the country for children. Check it out: 1. Art Institute of Chicago 2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 3. Dayton Art Institute 4. De Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 5. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART, Pittsburgh 6. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 7. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha 8. Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, DE 9. Dallas Museum of Art 10. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (Thanks to Ambrose for the link!) Why? According to the article: 5. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Hosts weekend drop-in programs in the galleries for kids… Read the rest

A Steeler Nation

I am not sure where this came from or who wrote it but it has been emailed to me 5 times and it does a darn good job of talking about Pittsburgh so I thought we should include it here for those visitors to I heart PGH that haven’t recieved it 5 times. If you know where this came from so we can give credit where credit is due. In the 1980’s, as the steel mills and their supporting factories shut down from Homestead to Midland, Pittsburghers, faced for the first time in their lives with the specter of unemployment,… Read the rest

Seattle native loves Pittsburgh

Hi all, Due to increasing traffic because of the STILLERS VICTORY we got off track and off our bandwidth for a few days. But we’re back with more juice! Thank you for your patience. And on that note, check out the wonderful column below, which appeared in the Seattle Times. It speaks for itself! (Thanks to a friend and native Pittsburgher – now living in England! – for sending me the article.) Editorials & Opinion: Friday, January 27, 2006 Guest columnist Why this Seattle native is rooting for the Steelers By Kathy M. Newman Special to The Times Don’t get… Read the rest

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