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Little Italy Days

I think Bloomfield is my most favorite neighborhood in the entire city.  Bloomfield is like those neighborhood that you find in other cities, places filled with interesting buildings, walkable streets and amazing ethnic food.  Amazing food and neighbors that really care about the neighborhood.  Bloomfield becomes a big italian party for 3 days this weekend.  Stop by, eat good food and enjoy some of the best of Pittsburgh. Plus the Bloomfield merchants have a pretty snazzy website with some great pictures and an RSS feed. There will be tons of street food so I will save my Bloomfield favorites for… Read the rest

Learn to bellydance while balancing on top of glasses!(yep, you read that right)

Sunday, September 16 10:30am-5pm(with a lunch break) The Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh(3827 Willow Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15234) Vegetarian bellydancer, Deniz, will teach a full day workshop! In this workshop you will learn how to dance on top of glasses!! You will also learn floor work, veil tricks, and more! It’s too good to pass up! Sign up soon! There will also be a show the night before at Altar Bar featuring 2 vegan bellydancers: Amethyst and Aviva. Other dancers include Astarte, Dharma, Christa, and Tavi. To see clips of Deniz, sign up for the workshop, etc please click the link… Read the rest

Artists Helping Artists

It is wonderful to think that artists, who are sometimes referred to as “starving”, are willing to come together to help an artist in need. Artists Helping Artists: Jacob Drake is hopefully the first in a series of benefit events in which local crafters and artisans are doing just that–coming together to help another artist. Jacob Drake (http:www.myspace.com/jacobdrake) is an animator from Eastlake, Ohio who created “Old School Revolution,” an animation that received over 100,000 views on ifilm.com. Jacob was born with muscular dystrophy and relies on his computer not only for his art but also for other aspects of… Read the rest

Do I need a sleeping bag for PodCamp Pittsburgh?

Nope, no sleeping bag needed. You don’t even need an Ipod for PodCamp. PodCamp Pittsburgh is the 2nd PodCamp ever and people from all over will be coming here to Pittsburgh to learn about every thing pod. More than PodCasting, PodCamp will be talking about blogs, podcasting, internet video and more. I will be there talking about blogs and more blogs. And it is all FREE(thanks to some awesome sponsors)! This is a really cool unconference, which means it is a conference that is run by the people. The other great thing is that lots of the super stars of… Read the rest

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while trying to determine what we did to get put on notice…) Make your own Friday, September 29 Exposure: Pittsburgh, 7:00 p.m., Club Havana, Shadyside The local photographers group holds it’s monthly show at Club Havana in Shadyside. It’s probably too cold tonight for the patio, although you’ll be spending a lot of time out there, Smoky Joe, regardless of weather, once the ban goes into effect. C’est La Vie, as the French say, but what do they care, they can smoke wherever they want. Hell, surgeons chain-smoke Gauloises during hernia operations over there. “Vive le Nicotine!”… Read the rest

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