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Treaders Choice: Two Opening Receptions at the Mattress Factory

[note] From Lindsay: another great event suggestion from Treading Art!  I’m particularly interested in seeing the photos from the DETROIT artists.  If you are interested in Detroit and other rust belt cities – keep an eye on the GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange) Facebook page here. [/note] Treading Art has been putting together an amazing list of weekend events around Pittsburgh.  Each week we feature one of the events from their Weekend Treadings list. This weeks Treader’s Choice event is an awesome opening reception at the Mattress Factory.  Check out all of Treading Art suggestions for this weekend here. Opening… Read the rest

Treader’s Choice: Soul Factory Motown at the Museum

Treading Art has been putting together an amazing list of weekend events around Pittsburgh.  Each week we will highlight one of those events here on IheartPGH and link you back over to Treading Art’s weekly events post. This weeks Treader’s Choice event: Soul Factory: Motown at the Museum It’s here – the annual Urban Garden Party at the Mattress Factory! Come out to honor the Detroit artists from MF’s fall show and get down Motown style. This year promises to be extra flashier as it’s the museums 35th anniversary. Costumes galore, photo booth extraordinaire, tasty local delights, Vancouver based dj… 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

If you’ve always wanted to start your own band…

Then this workshop at the Mattress Factory is for you.  On Saturday, September 15, 2012 – the Mattress Factory  hosts Tunes to the Truth: Songwriting Workshop. Tunes to the Truth: Songwriting Workshop September 15 1:00p-4:00p Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, Northside free with museum admission all ages The workshop is an opportunity to creatively voice your opinion on important social or political issues through songwriting and video! Using a musical version of the exquisite corpse game, we will collectively rewrite ridiculous, meaningless contemporary songs and make them significant. Of course, writing the song is just the beginning. We’ll be making… Read the rest

Music, Mattress Factory, Mini Golf – Radio Round Up for June 17

Here is a run down of our weekend top picks that we shared on WDVE this morning – another awesome weekend in Pittsburgh! Happy Hour Paddle skip the traffic – join Venture Outdoors for an hour long kayak on the rivers Friday, June 17, 2011 5:45-7pm ($20/$15 if you are a Venture Outdoors member) Join the group for drinks and snacks after the paddle For your listening pleasure – Concerts this weekend Fri – Hometown Music Fest at Southpark Ampitheater (Lovebettie, Lohio, Meeting of Important People, and City Dwelling Nature Seekers) Fri – Devo at State AE Sat – Rusted… Read the rest

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