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“Pittsburgh called one of the smartest places to live”

Millionaire’s lifestyle on a middle-class budget? This is just one of the reasons that Pittsburgh is called one of smartest places to live by Kiplinger’s Magazine. We already know that Pittsburgh is a smart place to live but it is nice to be recognized. It is nice to see that other people are picking up on reasons to love Pittsburgh. Here is what the authors of the study remarked: TOP TEN #9 Pittsburgh, Pa. June 2006 What we loved: The city’s ethnic European cuisines. The pierogies served at The Church Brew Works — formerly a Catholic church that’s now a… Read the rest

The Teenie Harris Archive Project Needs Your Help!

We’re on a photo kick this week! Know these ladies? Pittsburgh owes much of its visual history to photographer Teenie Harris. I was going to attempt to capture the spirit of Mr. Harris in this post, but this letter from Larry Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh describes the project best: “Teenie Harris’ photographs are unsurpassed in the range of subjects they portray and for their ability to evoke the spirit of an era and to display the humanity of a people. Harris’ 40-year career with the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the largest and most influential Black… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

People’s Awards … Webby Awards.

This just in! Both the CMU Admissions and University of Pittsburgh JURIST sites are eligible for the Webby “People’s Voice” Award. The public has until May 5 to vote for their favorite nominees. In order to do so, you must register here. After registering, you will be taken to the ballot nomination form here. Both sites are located under the SOCIETY heading, with CMU under School/University and JURIST under Law. When I voted, CMU was 4th in its category with 17% of the vote, and JURIST was numero uno in the law category with 47%! Woo! Go Pitt! But come’on… Read the rest

Pittsburgh REPRESENTS at the Webby Awards

Well, well, well … From over 5500 entries, two Pittsburgh-based websites have made it to the Webby Awards, the Internet version of the Oscars (Grammies, Golden Globes whatever.) Click here to read about the awards. * Designed by Pittsburgh-based firm Wall-to-Wall productions, Carnegie Mellon University’s Admissions web site was nominated under the School/University Category. See: http://my.cmu.edu/site/admission * And under the Law category, JURIST, published by a team a faculty and students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law was nominated, beating out a lot of other well-funded law sites. See: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu The winners will be judged on: * Structure… Read the rest

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