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Neighborhood with Heart, Celebrates with Art – Polish Hill Arts Festival – Sun. July 17

Polish Hill is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, that according to Wikipedia is only .25 square miles large, while it may be geographically small, this neighborhood had a big heart.   We are happy that the Polish Hill Civic Association does an amazing job of updating resident of Polish Hill and Pittsburgh on neighborhood happenings and important civic info via their appropiatly named blog – Blogski.  BLOGSKI July 7th, 2011 houndsbay Posted in West Penn Recreation Center | No Comments " Shawn Shreckengost, the director of West Penn Community Recreation Center, just updated us about what’s going on at the center lately.… Read the rest

Movies, Parks, Urban Chickens and St. Anthony Festival

Here is a run down of our weekend top picks that we shared on WDVE this morning – lots of things to do this weekend in Pittsburgh! Beat the Heat @ The Movies Shaun of the Dead @ The Oaks Midnight showing of The Big Lebowski @ The Hollywood Theater in Dormont (The theater just reopened in May!) Arts Festival @ The Harris Theater – All Films are free! Cinema in the Parks is back! Free movies all summer long in Pittsburgh parks New movies each week Saturday June 11, 2011 – Batman at Riverview Park National Women’s Collegiete Rugby… Read the rest

Donut Day, Free Concerts and Kayaking (Radio Round Up for June 3)

Friday is National Donut Day Free donut with any beverage purchase at Pittsburgh Dunkin Donut locations First Fridays on Penn Avenue (forgot to mention this on DVE – but definitely worth a stop this eve) Galleries and Businesses along Penn ave stay open late the first Friday of every month – free activities for all – check out the list here. Hot Jam at Pittsburgh Glass Center TeeRex at Cotton Factory Check out Penn Avenue’s newest gallery Assemble – they have an awesome show, Random Output, that involves electronics. Allegheny County Marbles Tournament yes! Marbles! like glass Marbles! – actually… Read the rest

Links Worth a Look – February 24th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: Franktuary is going green with the help of their CORO Fellows! – Our favorite local hot dog shop has been working hard on their sustainability practices – read what they have been up to and check out some of the other great posts about local food on their brand new website. Call for Artists: Poster Contest – Three Rivers Arts Festival – Pittsburgh, PA – A division of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – The Three Rivers Arts Festival and the City Paper are holding a poster contest. The grand prize… Read the rest

Arts Festival Pick: Take Me Out

I have been waiting for the Arts Festival to kick off because there are some great things happening at the festival this year.  Pittsburgh based theater group and friend of Iheart PGH, Barebones Productions  is bringing what is sure to be an interesting theater presentation to the festival – Take Me Out.  The play Take Me Out is the story of a baseball player who announces he is gay.  Barebones has brought some other great plays to town in the past few years – (click here to see some past blog posts about Barebones Productions).  I have had the opportunity… Read the rest

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