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Millennial Trains Project Update

mtp-logoTHANK YOU Pittsburgh!  A week ago I learned that there were 3 seats left on the waiting list for the Millennial Trains Project inaugural trip.  I sent an email to the IheartPGH email list asking for help to raise the $5000 needed to get a seat on the train.

I am honored to have the support of over 90 Pittsburgh lovers.  In less than 36, the Pittsburgh lovers in this city an all across the country, helped me meet the fundraising goal.

Tomorrow, yes tomorrow! I head to California and the trip starts Thursday morning.

Pittsburgh Meet-Ups from Coast to Coast

I’ve got events planned for each stop and I need your help to reach out to your fellow Pittsburghers in San Francisco, Denver, Omaha, Chicago and Pittsburgh!  I am still working on locations (ideally a Steelers bar or a business owned by a Pittsburgher) for each meetup but I’m hoping to meet with and talk to as many Pittsburghers as possible.

An Updated Map of Pittsburgh Places and Steelers Bars

You can follow the trip and help us build the biggest list of Pittsburgh places over at www.UnitedStatesofPittsburgh.com.  We’ve made some major updates and you can now browse the directory by a fancy map.   You can submit more locations to the map here.

Follow The Trip

I’ll be updating the United States of Pittsburgh Facebook page and Twitter @USofPGH along the way!

Read more about the Millennial Trains Project

Treader’s Choice: Test Pattern [Live Set]

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:

Friday, July 12th

Test Pattern [Live Set] by Ryoji Ikeda

Test Pattern in concert

Test Pattern in concert

Long awaited and much anticipated, test pattern is art in the form of experience. Data is converted into barcode patterns and translated into audiovisual performances of intense flickering imagery highly synchronized to a soundtrack. This will be the third concert in Ikeda’s datamatics series.

Pierce Studio @ 805 Liberty Ave – Cultural District

10pm//$10

Get your tickets here

Stay up to date on all of the Weekend Treadings and see what else is going on with local Treaders here.

Treader’s Choice: Penn Avenue Arts in Motion

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:

Penn Avenue Arts in Motion

Penn Avenue Arts in Motion

Saturday, June 15th

Penn Avenue Arts in Motion

Celebrate the East End and all the changes the Penn Avenue Arts District has made and those to come! Learn about current Penn Ave dwellers, what’s in store and explore some music, art and “I Made It! Market.”

Penn Ave Arts District @ 4800-5500 Penn Ave – Garfield
12-6pm//FREE, but not including your loot!
Check out Treading Art for more Weekend Treadings

A New PGH Talk Show, TalkPGH, is Looking to Talk to You About Your Neighborhood

I have always thought we needed a better local talk show and this looks like just the solution.  TalkPGH is hitting the streets on April 6, 2013 one their first of many neighborhood tours.

 

They are looking to find folks in the following neighborhoods to help us find interviewees and shooting locations, as well as interviewees to be on the show.  If you are interested contact Nina info@talkpgh.com or 517.420.6715.

South Side Slopes Step Trek 2009

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Image by peterp via Flickr

Get ready for a vertical hike – Pittsburgh is home to thousands of city steps that help people get up and down the hills around this city.  Each year the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association organizes a self guided tour of some of the different steps and points of interest around the slopes.

Sunday, October 4, 2009 – Noon to 4pm
Register at 21st and Josephine Streets – UPMC South Side Lot

Walkers will enjoy all of these features as they tour, at their own pace, approximately 2,700 steps and the intertwining streets and sidewalks that connect them. The courses have changed to offer a different perspective of the South Side Slopes. Trekkers should find the routes pedestrian friendly, especially as they explore the middle areas of the Slopes neighborhood.

The South Side Slopes may quite possibly have the most steps of any neighborhood in the United States. After all, it is home to nearly 10% of the 712 sets of steps within Pittsburgh, which has the most steps of any city in the country. The city with the next greatest amount of steps is the Ohio River town of Cincinnati, followed by

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Image by peterp via Flickr

San Francisco. The steps of the combined cities, however, do not equal those in Pittsburgh. Altogether, some 66 out of the city’s 88 neighborhoods have steps. These hundreds of public stairways give tribute to the many hillside neighborhoods.

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