You may have noticed a new look for IheartPGH recently – we are trying to make the site easier to use and easier to find more information that you might be looking for about Pittsburgh. We have long wanted to show off more great pictures of this fine city! The front page here and the side bar are now displaying photos from the IheartPGH Flickr Group. If you are a Flickr user please join the group and share your photos! Currently the box on the front pages displays the most recent photo – I am trying to find a way… Read the rest
The Steel City is Ready for the Super Bowl, originally uploaded by IheartPGH.This is a great picture. The statue outside of the City County Building on Grant Street is ready for the Super Bowl.I am not able to make it downtown to the cage the cards rally today but one of the IheartPGH field reporters sent this picture to me. Have a great picture of Steelers fans or Steelers gear – send them to me info@iheartpgh.com or post to the IheartPGH Flickr group – http://www.flickr.com/groups/iheartpgh/… Read the rest
I found this picture on Flickr while I was writing a blog post about something else. I thought it was worth sharing. I have a soft sport for clever graffiti see a picture I took of more graffiti here.
Image by Salim Virji via Flickr… Read the rest
Image via WikipediaWhat do Mr. Rogers, Nancy Reagan and Jimmy Carter have in common? They all signed the Pittsburgh Quilt along with Ronald Reagan, Mr. McFeely and 30,000 other Pittsburghers back in 1988. (Never did I think I would have a reason to write about Nancy Reagan on IheartPGH).
Over the summer I wrote about the Pittsburgh Quilt which had been lost in the storage archives for the past 19 years. While I was writing about the quilt, which I had also forgotten about I couldn’t find one picture of it on the internet. So I headed out to the… Read the rest
December 8 is Santaarchy 2007. I love this event. Natalia post this event on IheartPGH way way back in 2005 (2 years seems like a long time in blog time). I am always thrilled to see it return each year.
A while back a group of people in San Francisco went out drinking dressed in Santa Suits. Thus began Santarchy. Now people all over the world get together for an evening (or afternoon) of drinking dressed as Santa. It is Santa fun for grown ups. And yes there are Santarchy’s all over the world. Check out the calendar located at… Read the rest