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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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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,… Read the rest

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

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… Read the rest

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