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“Cold Turkey” Screening at The Hollywood Theater – Thursday 11/21

Just in time for the family fun of the holidays! Cold Turkey is a film about families and Thanksgiving. With an all star cast, including Peter Bogdanovich and Cheryl Hines, this looks like a promising film.

You can watch Cold Turkey online at Amazon and Google Play. If you would like to catch this film on the big screen, Cold Turkey will be showing at The Hollywood Theater in Dormont this Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 7:30pm. Tickets are available online via Gathr.

A friend of mine sent me the preview to this film last week and I thought this was worth sharing. Here is your opportunity to check out a Thanksgiving film a week before Turkey day and an excuse to visit one of Pittsburgh’s independent movie theaters. (Check out the IheartPGH guide to independent movie theaters in Pittsburgh here).

Looking for more holiday movies on the big screen? The Hollywood Theater in Dormont will be screening Planes, Trains and Automobiles and It’s a Wonderful Life this weekend – check out the November schedule here.

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Fish FRYdays, Night of the Living Dead, Food Festivals & Oscar Party

Here are the links for all of the great stuff we discussed on WDVE this morning. We are on live most Friday mornings at 6:45 am.

Happy FRYday! If you are one of my grades school classmates you can’t say the word Friday with out thinking of Mr. Hazlett, our history teacher, who would say every Friday – happy shake-n-bake day.

Fish fry season is here and someone has put together an AMAZING map of all the fish fries around Western PA.

Check out the Pittsburgh Lenten Fish Fry Map here and like the map on Facebook here.

Night of the Living Dead 45th Anniversary Celebration Friday, February 22, 2013 5pm – 10pm Heinz History Center 45 Anniversary of Night of the Living Dead Pittsburgh best Zombie Contest 7pm Screening of the film
International Polar Bear Day Saturday, February 23, 2013 11am Pittsburgh Zoo will be celebrating International Polar Bear Day
Mt. Lebanaon Winter-fest- Chili & Homebrew Fest Saturday, February 23, 2013 12-3p Clearview Commons Chili fest and Hombrew fest are separate events – tickets are $10 each
North Hills Food Truck Round Up Saturday, February 23, 2013 12-3pm Coffee Buddha – 964 Perry Hwy, Pgh, PA 15237 Pgh Taco Truck, OhMyGrill, Pierogi Truck & BRGR will be there! Facebook Event Link
The Mattress Factory’s 35th Anniversary Bash Saturday, February 23, 2013 1-4pm Community Party at the Museum – pay what you wish 5-7pm Anniversary Bash – tickets $20
Hollywood Theater Oscar Party Sunday, February 24, 2013 6:30pm Hollywood Theater in Dormont Tickets are $10 or $25 for VIP Balcony Seating Facebook Event

CMU worker’s online map of Lenten fish fries reels in viewers (triblive.com)
KDKA Fish Fry Guide 2013 (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)
Sewickley Valley Lenten fish-fry season in full swing (triblive.com)
Pittsburgh Lenten Fish Fry Map (yinzhungry.wordpress.com)

Four Short Films by Pittsburgh Filmmakers – Sat. Dec. 3

There is a lot happening in the Pittsburgh filmmaking scene. We aren’t just talking about the big films – yes Tom Cruise has been in town. But there are lots of smaller projects happening here too.

This Saturday, December 3 there will be a screening of four short films by Pittsburgh filmmakers the event is titled A Night of Altered Reality and will be held at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont. I first learned about the film, Lightweight, from the Steeltown Film Factory competition and it is exciting to see the finished film. The Steeltown Film Factory is an annual competition that is open to anyone – the submission period for the 2012 contest is now open.

The four films that will be screened are:

A Night of Altered Reality, a screening of short films that intersect at the corner of Surreal Street and Dream Drive.
The Hollywood Theater Dormont Pennsylvania
Saturday, December 3, 2011
7:00pm until 10:00pm

This Weekend, Party Like its 1984

Didn’t make it out to the Penn Brewery for their 80’s birthday celebration? Looking for more ways to celebrate the 80’s? You are in lucky. Two words – Purple Rain, Purple Rain!

Yes, this weekend you can bask in the 80s with a celebration of Prince (or if you prefer the artist formerly know as Prince). The Hollywood Theater in Dormont is hosting a Purple Rain Party. Dress as your favorite rock star and head over to the theater for music, prizes and Purple Rain on the big screen.

Purple Rain Party
Where: Hollywood Theater, Dormont
When: Saturday, August 6, 2011 6-9p,
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=231103883567491

(via PopCity Media)

Save the Date – May 4th – The Hollywood Theater in Dormont Will Reopen

photo copyright Jennifer Baron

Local movie theater lovers rejoice! Thanks to a group of volunteers – Friends of the Hollywood Theater – the Hollywood Theater in Dormont will be reopening this spring.

May 4th – The Hollywood Theater will host a screening of the PBS documentary The New Metropolis.

Looking forward The Hollywood Theater will host the 48 Hour Film Festival, Rocky Horror Picture show and many other community events.

Determined not to lose another single-screen theater, a group of local movie-lovers, area residents and community leaders banded together to formulate a strategy to reopen the beloved Hollywood. The result was the FOHT, whose mission is to reopen the theater not only to show movies, but as a community center where the public can enjoy movies, film festivals, concerts, and special events such as big screen viewings of sporting events and the Academy Awards. The FOHT hopes that reopening the theater will add to the vitality of the Potomac Avenue business district, Dormont, and the entire region.

Check out the Post-Gazette article on The Hollywood Theater here.

They are working on updating the website – www.TheHollywoodDormont.org and you can follow the Facebook page here.

Here are some great photos of the interior of the theater (interior photos are copyright Fred Terling):

: photo copyright Jennifer Baron

You can learn more about The New Metropolis here. I think this will be a really interesting film that addresses some issues that Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas are dealing with.

Here is the trailer:

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