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Movies, Parks, Urban Chickens and St. Anthony Festival

Here is a run down of our weekend top picks that we shared on WDVE this morning – lots of things to do this weekend in Pittsburgh!

Beat the Heat @ The Movies

  • Shaun of the Dead @ The Oaks
  • Midnight showing of The Big Lebowski @ The Hollywood Theater in Dormont (The theater just reopened in May!)
  • Arts Festival @ The Harris Theater – All Films are free!

Cinema in the Parks is back!

  • Free movies all summer long in Pittsburgh parks
  • New movies each week
  • Saturday June 11, 2011 – Batman at Riverview Park

National Women’s Collegiete Rugby Championships

  • are being held here in Pittsburgh – Friday and Saturday
  • USA Rugby
  • Games will be played at Founders field in Cheswick

Riverview Park Heritage Day

  • Saturday, June 11, 2011 Noon-4pm
  • Nature and Arts activities for the whole family
  • Read about the history of Riverview Park here

Redd Up, Thread Up

  • Saturday, June 11, 2011, Noon-6pm
  • 120 Federal St. North Side (Old Firewaters)
  • Community Clothing Swap to benefit East End Cooperative Ministires
  • $10 you can fill a bag of clothes, bring a bag of clothes and save $5

Urban Chicken Coop Tour

  • Sunday, June 12, 2011, 9am-2:20pm
  • Self guided tour of urban chicken coops in Pittsburgh
  • Meet coop owners and learn about urban farming

Feast of Saint Anthony Festival

  • a big fat Italian celebration in the Strip District
  • Sunday, June 12, 2011
  • mass, procession of the statue of Saint Anthony
  • Food, Fun, music by Bon Journey and Fireworks


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Lebowski Bash @ Arsenal Lanes with DJ Swank Cat

The Big Lebowski
Image by Sleeper Cell via Flickr

As if a Sunday evening of bowling at Arsenal Lanes wasn’t great enough…

The every popular DJ Swank Cat is bring the Summer of Swank to Sunday night.

Sunday, July 26, 2009 – 9pm – Lebowski Bash2009 – Arsenal’s Tribute to The Big Lebowski.  Lebowski tunes and bowling prize giveaways!

The Trib recently profiled DJ Swank Cat – this is my favorite question and answer from the article.

Q: What is one of the weirdest things that has happened while performing?

A: Printable? Hmm … because of technology, I’ll play a song and everyone will get out their cell phones, whether it’s an iPhone or one of the other phones that can interpret what the song is and then tell them what the song is. So it’s funny. I’ll be playing and all of a sudden all these hands will come up holding these glowing phones trying to figure out what the song is. And more often than not, it won’t show up on the phones, which is great.

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Radio Round Up – April 25, 2008

Urban Hike Crafton

  • 3 hours of walking and talking history about Crafton
  • Home of the area’s only 24 hour donut shop and childhood home of Bill Cowher
  • FREE
  • Saturday, April 26 – Meet at the Sharp Edge Creek house at 1:30

More Hockey

  • Saturday, April 26, 3pm
  • The Pittsburgh Celebrity Hockey Team plays the Pittsburgh Pharoahs to benefit Muscualar Distrophy
  • Celebrity Hockey include former Steelers, Penguins, City Council Members, Larry Richert and more
  • Ice Castle Arena in Castle Shannon

All Art, All Night

  • 11th Annual Art All Night in Lawrenceville
  • Saturday 1-4 – Anyone and Everyone is welcome to drop off their art
  • Show opens at 6pm and runs until 2pm the next day
  • # 2 57th Street, former Roomful Express, ArtAllNight.org
  • FREE for everyone

The Big Lebowski on the Big Screen

  • Calling all Coenheads – 4 weeks of Coen brothers films
  • Sunday, April 27, 2008, 8pm at Regent Square Theater, PghFilmmakers.org