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Links Worth a Look – February 2nd

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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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the “other” Hank’s in New Brighton | Dave and Dave’s Excellent Blog – For all of the Glen's Frozen Custard Fans out there – here is another custard shop. Check out the Daves blog for a video clip too.
Only In Pittsburgh » Blog Archive » Mary Mondays! – Great picture from Big Jim's in the Run – Steelers Flag and Virgin Mary.
Pittsburgh's Kobold reaches Mt. Everest summit – Michael Kobold, a watchmaker from Robinson, and Sir Ranulph Fiennes have scaled Mount Everest, reaching the summit last night.
Post Gazette Video – Chemexin and Pressin Coffee – Amy and Drew – Tazza D’Oro – Post-Gazette talks coffee with some of the top coffee shops in town

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2008 Three Rivers Film Festival – Opens Nov. 7 – and runs until Nov. 22, 2008 – lots of great films coming to town. Which films do you reccomend?
new works « garbella – She is a member of the Pittsburgh Craft collective and she makes some great t-shirts and other screen printed items. IheartPGH was the first thing I screenprinted 5 years ago, long before I knew about blogs, so I have a love of anything screenprinted. I want a I bike PGH t-shirt! Check out this cool clock and the rest of her blog and Etsy shop.
Apple Festival and Pie Contest – Saturday at the Union Project – its all apples at the Apple Festival. There is also an Apple Pie contest.
Belt buckles, headbands, soap, t-shirts and more – check out some of the items that you will find at Handmade Arcade this weekend
Madcap recap « Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Blog – Check out the great picture of the tent in Schenley Park

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Coming to Pittsburgh – Extreme Makeover Home Edition – Volunteer!! – Thanks to PittGirl for posting about this! We should all sign up to volunteer. Do you think they will let me blog about it?
Twitter / Sharp_Edge – you can now follow the Sharp Edge on Twitter – new beers get a tweet!
Mellon Square gets national recognition – Thanks to Dan for posting this on Twitter (http://twitter.com/DanDroz). Nice to see another great downtown spot get some recognition.

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PUMP Quiz Night – Quiz night is back on Monday Sept 22 at 7pm.
Pittsburgh Party for a Purpose Sat. September 20, 2008 at Ryans Pub – The party for a purpose folks are back with another great event at Ryans Pub. $10 at the door benefits Amizade's "Keep it Real" program.
Random acts of kindness: The tab picked up for four ladies at Brown's Country Kitchen – More stories about nice people…
After we had eaten our dinner and were going to have dessert, the waitress graciously informed us that our dinner had been paid for — and that we each had an additional $5 to order dessert. We all were totally astounded when she told us that the gentleman at the table next to us had taken care of our tab.

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