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Fanboys and Last Weekend For Vader Project at Warhol

Vader Project HelmetImage by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr

This is the last weekend to see the Vader Project – collection of 100 Darth Vader helmets which decorated by artists (see our Vader Project post) which will be at the Warhol until May 3.

For anyone who is interested in Star Wars – the film Fanboys will be shown on Saturday and Sunday at 12:30.

A comedy about a group of friends who, eager for the premiere of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace travel to Skywalker Ranch to steal an early copy of the script.

More info about Fanboys at the Warhol including a link to buy tickets is available here.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUwOMqQgOtg[/youtube]

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Radio Round Up – March 6, 2009

The Vader ProjectImage by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr

The Vader Project

 

 

History Uncorked (Isn’t history better with Beer? )

 

  • 11th Annual Young Professional Event at the Heinz History Center
  • Drinks, Music, Food from favorites around the strip district
  • Friday, March 6, 6:30-10:30p

3rd Annual Braddock Chili Cook Off

 

  • Saturday March 7, 1-5pm
  • Braddock Elks Club, 424 Library Street, Braddock, Across from the Carnegie Library in Braddock
  • Benefits the Braddock Carnegie Arts Program

Play It Forward

  • Saturday, March 7 Noon-4pm
  • Bring any unwanted musical instruments to Construction Junction in Point Breeze
  • Instruments will be donated to two programs here in Pittsburgh that work to get more kids interested in music.

South Side Leprechaun Leap

  • St. Patrick’s Day Themed Bar Crawl
  • Saturday, March 7, 2-10pm
  • Register at Town Tavern – bring a can of food for the food bank

Trips for Kids Fundraiser at OTB Cafe

  • Trips for Kids is a non profit organization dedicated to getting more kids on mountain bikes
  • This is the launch party for the Pittsburgh Chapter of Trips for Kids
  • Saturday, March 7, 7-9pm at OTB Cafe – a new bicycle themed bar on Carson Street
  • $15 at the door

Unblurred First Fridays on Penn Avenue

  • Friday, March 6, 2009, 6pm and the first Friday of every month the galleries & businesses stay open late
  • Stop at the Quiet Storm and order some nachos
  • Check out the glass blowing at the Pittsburgh Glass Center
  • Grab some coffee at Pittsburgh’s newest coffee shop Voluto – they server serious coffee

Citizen Journalism Training Project

  • The Public Square Project is a new program in Pittsburgh focus in getting more people to participate in journalism
  • Every Thursday in March at the Union Project from 6-8pm
  • Learn about how to be a citizen journalist and tell stories about your neighborhood
  • All works shops are FREE!

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100 Darth Vader's at the Warhol

The Vader ProjectImage by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr

The Vader Project opens this weekend and The Warhol

100 works by contemporary international artists utilizing 1:1 scale authentic prop replicas of the Darth Vader helmet used in the Star Wars films.

From Vinyl Pulse (a blog about designer toys)

The exhibit officially opens this Saturday, February 28th (12-4) with a make-your-own-vader mask event. Come out dressed up as your favorite character.The Vader Project opens at the Warhol this weekend.

From I like the Warhol museum for alot of reasons – I am not really sure if Andy Warhol would like the Warhol museum but that is anothr conversation.  If it weren’t for the warhol museum this blog wouldn’t exist.  After a trip to the Warhol on a rainy sunday afternoon – I decided to teach myself to screen print.  The first t-shirt I printed was an IheartPGH t-shirt.  A few year later, I had forgotten about t-shirts and was working on campaigns when we started the IheartPGH blog and brought back the t-shirt idea.  The t-shirts and the blog have been a good thing.  It was an IheartPGH reader that left a comment about Spreadshirt and I was happy to find a great source for IheartPGH T-shirts and now I work for Spreadshirt and when I am not writing about Pittsburgh, I am writing about t-shirts here.  I had no idea when I dragged friend of IheartPGH to the Warhol musuem back in 2003 that it would be so influential. Continue reading →