Category Archives: Pro-PGH

Tales from the Frontlines: Doorknocking PGH!

So there I was… walking up a hill on the northside, with streetlist and literature in hand, and Susan Banahasky on my right. When there it was! Oh my there it was. We stopped. We stared in awe. Finally, I came to my senses, made an incoherent noise about having a camera, put everything on the ground, and pulled out my digital camera! (Thanks Mom and Dad) Now, I don’t know the people who own this house, and it wasn’t on our list, so I never had the chance to talk to them, but from what I can tell, they heart PGH and the Steelers, a LOT!

Steelers Pride

Pittsburgh Cares about Darfur!

I was at the Save Darfur rally in Washington DC yesterday. Aside from the awesome speakers, something caught my eye. A sign rise from the crowd & brought a nostalgic tear to my eye….of course being ever so unprepared, I was without a camera. Much to my surprise that little sign made it into today’s Washington Post Online – (it’s in a audio photo gallery and the only way I could save it was by doing a printscreen so sorry for the lack of clarity!) Go Pittsburgh! and thanks for coming down to show your support.

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Ed note: A group of about 300 Pittsburghers went to DC for the rally through Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition: http://www.pittsburghdarfur.org/

An impressive coalition of regional organizations is helping to collect postcards to send to our leaders to take action in the Sudan. Organizations are listed below. If you would like to get involved, please contact David Rosenberg.
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Cinco De Mayo is coming soon

I am not sure why it did not occur to me to me write a post about Mad Mex before. Mad Mex is like a home away from home for me, so I guess I assumed that everyone knows about it and eats there as often as I do. I don’t have time to give a full ode to Mad Mex – I am sitting here at Mad Mex finishing my excellent lunch special and I have to hurry so I can get back to work.
But I did want to take a moment to give everyone a head up about Cinco de Mayo celebrations at Mad Mex. I just gave my lovely server Sarah one of the I Heart PGH baby buttons and some of the other servers have already stopped by to see if I have more. I heart Mad Mex and the staff loves this website.

Anyhow, Cinco de Mayo is a holiday that I think should be celebrated – so save the date on your calendar and head over to Mad Mex for
$1 off Mexican Bottles
Breakfast Burritos starting at 9am
$5 big azz margaritas
and
A Chance to win free mad mex for a year (which is about the best thing I would ever want to win ever)
Mad Mex Menu

Where is this place? The original Mad Mex is hidden in Oakland. Great location (just be warned it is usually loud there.) Plus there are some other Mad Mex locations in ‘gasp’ the suburbs. Which is another reason I heart Mad Mex because they provide a safe and healthy place for me to dine on those rare ocassions I have to stray from the city.
Click here for a list of Mad Mex locations.

We’ve Got the Look

If you want to know what Pittsburgh looks like, look no further than the Flickr group in Pittsburgh. The Flickr group in Pittsburgh has within a year taken an on-line activity to the streets. Over 350 members have posted more than 3,000 photos chronicling the people and places of Pittsburgh.

Photos vary from the pedestrian (in the very best sense of the word), to the sublime, to the fantastic. One Pittsburgh flickrite, Daniel Weeks, specializes in kite photography.

For the past few months, the Pittsburgh Flickr group has held regular gallery showings (which can get rather wound up, considering the behavior some people resort to when in front of or behind a camera). But even the more sedate, can have a good tiime at the Exposure shows. Additional activities include group visits to and from other cities, photowalks in various neighborhoods — one will take place on the South Side this weekend — and an effort to rescue and find homes for stray dogs.

The next Exposure will take place Friday, April 28, 7-10 p.m., at the z:lounge, 2108 Carson Street.

Shown below are two flickrites at the last Exposure held at the Garfield Artworks on April 7.

Tee-Jay aka Slim aka the Ghetto Will Smith

So if you go to our myspace profile you will hear the most badassest song about Picks-berrrrrrgh ever. Seriously. When do you ever hear St. Clair Village, Mt. Oliver, Knoxville, Arlington and Carrick mentioned in the same breath with such respect and UNITY?

It’s brought to us by Tee-Jay, a Pittsburgh native. This man has skills.

You can purchase his upcoming album My Testimony on April 25th from his myspace page. It will also be available from Stedeford’s Records, located at 417 East Ohio Street on the North Side since 1964.

Please buy local:

“When you spend $100 at the chain Borders Books & Music, your purchase creates only $13 worth of local economic activity. That same $100 spent at a locally owned book or record store generates $45, or more than three times as much local economic activity.� Conclusion of a new study, Economic Impact Analysis: A Case Study conducted by Civic Economics, published by Livable City in Austin, Texas. (brought to us by Sustainable Pittsburgh.)

On that note, check out these upcoming local performances:

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