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Links Worth a Look – July 30th

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Recipe – Chocolate Chip and Pecan Blondies from Burghilicious – These look amazing – click the link to check out the photos and get the recipe from Pittsburgh food blogger – Burghilicious.
Maki – Cool Tool for Working on Website Mock Ups – Congrats to Pittsburgh's bearded studios (located in East Liberty) – Smashing Magazine (blog about making pretty websites) featured Maki – a tool that bearded created to make it easier to look at website mock ups.
More Great Blogs from the Burgh! – Great round up of some more Pittsburgh blogs – food, beer, rivers – Pittsburghers are blogging their passions. Check out the profiles of 365 days/ 365 Beers, Brown Eyed Baker Blog , Table and Spoon and Today on the Allegheny River blog.

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FoodBurgh visits the JuiceBox Cafe – Nice review with lots of photos from FoodBurgh of the new cafe in Shadyside. Juice Box Cafe offers smoothies, wraps and salads – all with a focus on fresh and healthy.
Plans for a new sustainable cafe in Homewood – Construction scheduled to start in August. The building will be powered by a geothermal energy system. "More than just a coffee shop, Café 524 hopes to spur the rebirth of the Homewood business district and serve as a catalyst for sustainability and community activities. " (via PopCity)
New program from Sprout Found supports biodiversity projects – The Sproud Fund – which has supports lots of interesting, fun and innovative projects in Pittsburgh is launching Spring – a new program to support biodiverstiy projects. The Sprout Fund Seed Award (I am a committee member for the Seed Award) supports all kinds of projects – you don't need to be a non-profit or a business to get a grant. If you have an idea – talk to Sprout to see if your project might be a good fit for a grant. (via PopCity)

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Free Waffles on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – Free waffles – made with magic – networking and conversation – this Wednesday at the DeepLocal waffles. We stopped by for Waffles at the December waffle Wednesday – great group of people and good coffee.
Walking to New Orleans – Al Hoff, who is also the brains behind the blog – City of Sad Toys – has started a new project. She is virtually walking from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Each day she logs how many miles she walks and plots that on a map of the route from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Each post includes some history and background about the locations she is virtually walking through.
Coming this Spring – New Public Market opens in the Strip District – From PopCity Media "The Pittsburgh Public Market will have space for 42 vendors, ranging from fresh and prepared foods to arts and crafts to local, seasonal produce. So far, vendors will include: 21st Street Coffee and Tea, Elysian Fields Farm, Pittsburgh Candy Buffet, Tracy's Treats natural skincare products and more. The market will be open Friday through Sunday each week."

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

Day 62 of 365 Days of Beer – East End Smokestack Heritage Porter « 365 days… 365 beers – Drew lives in Pittsburgh and is drinking and blogging about a new beer every day for 365 days. Check out his post on the East End Smokestack Heritage Porter. He is currently on day 83 of this challenge. This blog looks great and has nice photos of the beers too. Maybe we can meet up with Drew one of these days to try out some other Pittsburgh beers.
Post-Gazette Article on Digital Marketing – Fizz or fizzle? Pepsi ads end-run Super Bowl, go digital – This is an interesting article from the Post-Gazette for 2 reasons. 1. a look at how Pepsi is approching Super Bowl ads – rather than TV they are spending money on community grants voted on by the online community. 2. This article highlights some of the Pittsburgh advertising firms and the work they are doing in digital marketing.
Growing Power's National-International Urban & Small Farm Conference – I had the opportunity to visit Growing Power, which is an urban farm located in Milwaukee last year during the GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange) conference. It was an eye opening visit to learn about food sourcing,urban farming and land use. If you have any interest in small and urban farming this is a great organization to check out and I am sure this will be a fantastic conference.

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Pittsburgh Bloggers: What's New Out There – Great article from Pop City media about some new bloggers in the burgh – a look a few of Pittsburgh food bloggers who are eating and blogging about the best things to eat in town.
Diner Critique: Pamela’s Diner (Pittsburgh, Pa.) – Blog about Diners around the country visits Pamela's and links to our post about Obama's love of the Pamela's pancakes.
CASBAH Benefit Dinner Series – The Big Burrito group has a great line up of benefit dinners at Casbah for 2010. Each month they plan a special dinner and donate the proceeds from the event to a different local nonprofit. Check out the 2010 line up and make your reservation today.