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Meet Hatfield Street

Lawrenceville is one of Pittsburgh’s most happening neighborhoods. Butler street has been booming with new businesses in the past few years.

Well, there is a new street of businesses in Lawrenceville, Hatfield street is filling up with more great places to shop and see local art. Stop by this weekend for a Hatfield Street block party.

Art & ‘Tique on Hatfield Street
At least 20 local businesses and artists from Lawrenceville will come together on the 4700-4800 block of Hatfield Street from 11 a.m. through 5 p.m. on August 18 to showcase all that Lawrenceville has to offer.

“Art & ‘Tique on Hatfield” is free to the public and will feature fine art, antiques, clothing, food, music, and live performances in a block party setting. The celebration is the result of a collaboration between the Hatfield Street Galleries: DNA Blue Collar Gallery, The Society for Cultural Exchange, Trinity Gallery, and Zombo Gallery.

Via 16:62 Design Zone, Digging Pitt

Art Squared

Twice the art filled fun. As you know the first Friday of each month is Unblurred on Penn Ave. The galleries and businesses along Penn Ave stay open late for all sorts of fun.

The folks from the Friendship Development Associates have cooked up more fun. This month, on Saturday July 7th the galleries in Lawrenceville will open their doors to visitors.

Art Squared

Friday, July 6, 6pm – 2am
Unblurred
Penn Avenue Arts District
More Info: PennAvenueArts.org
Satruday, July 7, Noon-5pm

Worth a Look:
Hot Jam @ Pittsburgh Glass Center
Live Glass blowing from 6-9pm

Artist Studio Tour
Lawrenceville
More Info: ArtistStudioTour15201.org

Savage Republic

In 1987, I was a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon excited by all the music being exposed by the innovative, forward-thinking college DJs at WRCT-FM. One of those was my friend Norm Veenstra, who had a particular interest in dark-tinged rock and began to bring some of the bands to Pittsburgh that we liked to spin on the air.
That resulted in a riveting outdoor performance by seminal Los Angeles band Savage Republic, who combined dark Joy Division-esque postpunk with tribal industrial rhythms on blazing 55-gallon oil drums and Middle-Eastern
influenced guitar melodies run through surfy reverb. The effect was unequalled by any other American band at the time, and comparable to legendary UK bands such as Killing Joke, as well as later imitators such as Godspeed You
Black Emperor.

Savage Republic existed from 1981 to 1989, releasing four amazing albums – Tragic Figures, Ceremonial, Jamahiriya, and Customs – and then breaking up to do various other bands. During their existence, they
were known for their staunch independent attitude and their amazing letterpress album covers and postage stamps. In 2002, the band reunited to headline the “Beyond the Pale” festival hosted by the well-known
art-metal band Neurosis in San Francisco. Now, they have gotten back together to record new material for release on Neurosis’ label, Neurot Recordings (also home of Isis). Their upcoming tour includes only a handful of US dates, and Pittsburgh is lucky enough to be one of them.

To see this band again after 20 years will be an unbelievable experience, one that should not be missed!

Savage Republic will perform on Friday February 16 at 8 pm, at the Lawrenceville Moose, 51st & Butler Sts. in Lawrenceville.

Opening the all ages show (21+ to drink) will be Microwaves and Mike Tamburo.
Tickets are $18 at the door, $15 advance at Paul’s CDs, Eide’s Entertainment, Dave’s Music Mine, Caliban Books, Brave New World, Record Village, and The Exchange Squirrel Hill.

Check out the Savage Republic website at http:/www.mobilization.com and their myspace at  http://www.myspace.com/savagerepublic

TNY Presents…Love Bites

The New Yinzer is a magazine. http://www.newyinzer.com.

I am happy to write about this event.  A few years ago, before IheartPGH, possibly before blogs exisited, the New Yinzer published a book called Pittsburgh Love Stories.  I had to hunt for that book all over the city, it was one of the few books I really wanted to read.  I like reading about how  others see Pittsburgh, I have read and reread Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood many times.  So after hunting over this city, I found that book.  So I am equally excited that The New Yinzer folks have an even about love, not necessarily love for Pittbsurgh, but we can just focus on how much we love Pittsburgh all the time.  And yes, you can still order a copy of the book from the New Yinzer website.

TNY Presents…Love Bites

@ Brillobox
2.9.07
4104 Penn Avenue
$5.00
(Doors 7:30pm, Readings 8:00, Bands 9:15, DJs 12:00)

MC: Jonathan Moody

Readers: Jason Endress, Karen Lillis, Jessica Fenlon, Brendan Kerr, Claire Donato, Karl Hendricks

Bands: Branches, Flotilla Way, Race the Ghost, Sing the Evens, Play the Odds, Workshop

DeeJays: DJ T&A, DJ Edgar Um

Putting the 2 in Tuesday

Good golly, Miss. Molly.  Another reason to get out of the house.  But thanks to the Brillobox’s $2 Tuesdays, it is looking like Tuesday is going to be the best day of the week.  Good beer and really good bar food for $2.  What do you think of the food at the Brillobox?  What is on the $2 Tuesday menu?
$2 Tuesdays
$2 domestic bottles
$2 selected appetizers
$2 select draft

5:00pm-9:00pm

The Brillobox is worth a visit any day of the week.  You can check out their calendar at http://www.myspace.com/brilloboxevents