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Eat Pancakes for Tree Pittsburgh

On Sunday, March 6 from 10am to 2pm at the Double Wide Grill on the South Side you get all you can eat pancakes for $10 and your donation goes directly to benefit Tree Pittsburgh – an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the City’s vitality by restoring and protecting City trees.  Why should you attend?  Well, pancakes are delicious (and there is a vegan option), you get free coffee and potatoes as well, tunes from Big Snow Big Thaw, and street trees are a critical element for a livable urban environment.  Are you one of those people that includes… Read the rest

A Few Short Votes Can Put PGH On the Twitter Map

Okay, Pittsburgh fans – we need to Pittsburgh on the Shorty Awards map.  The Shorty Awards are like the oscars of Twitter.  Each year they come up with a bunch of categories – and the winners are chosen by who gets the most votes. This year I think we should create a Pgh category on the Shorty awards. To nominate or vote for some one just post a tweet with the following info: I nominate @TwitterUser for a Shorty Award in #PGH because [add reason here] or You can also send shorter votes like this: #shortyawards @username #PGH [add reason… Read the rest

Steelers vs. Packers Fan Challenges – Super Bowl Promotions to Support Good Causes

Our inbox is overflowing with interesting, funny and occasionally dumb ways to show off your Steelers pride this week.  Here are a few of the promotions that are fun and for a good cause too.  Here are 4 of the Pittsburgh vs. Green Bay challenges that we know about.  If you know of others please add a link to the comments below. ————————————————- Envirobowl 2011 – PennFuture is competing against Clean Wisconsin in Enviro Bowl 2011. The challenge is to see which environmental group can raise the most donations by Noon CST on Super Bowl Sunday. The stakes are high:… Read the rest

A Beer-Partisan Situation Needs Your Help: Send East End beer to the White House

There is an important Pittsburgh and Steelers related effort that needs your help!  This is a matter of Pittsburgh pride.  It seems that the White House has placed an order from a Wisconsin brewery for the super bowl, but not from Pittsburgh. From the East End Brewing email – I could summarize for you but then you would miss the beer puns – so I will just paste in their works… It seems that during a recent visit to Wisconsin, The Whitehouse placed a beer order from fellow Craft Brewer, Hinterland Brewing Company in Wisconsin, so that they could have… Read the rest

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