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The Shadow Lounge, which I think is one of the best venue’s in Pittsburgh, has planned a massive party to celebrate their 9th Anniversary! They have put together an amazing line up of entertainment for the evening. Get your tickets here...

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I am really excited to learn about this project that Pittsburgh filmmaker Ben Hernstrom is working on about Madagascar. Ben has worked on some great films about Pittsburgh. You can learn more at Ambulantic.com and check out some of his other work on youtube...

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Back in February I read this blog post on The Blog Herald about 2 guys who were planning a bike ride across the country to encourage more geeks to ride bikes to work...

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

Last month I made it to the end of Viper Soul Club at the Shadow Lounge and one of the last songs of the evening was about Pittsburgh but I wasn’t able to get all of the details from DJ Juddy about this Pittsburgh song...

Its time for another fantastic party from the folks behind Pittsburgh Party for a Purpose - every other month they get together to host a party at a local watering hole and the proceeds from the evening benefit an area non-profit...

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For Local Blog in Pittsburgh I am not sure who nominated us - but thank you - what an honor! Please stop by the Parent’s Connect Website and VOTE IheartPGH for best local blog!

This event comes highly reccomended to me by a number of IheartPGH readers. Rhyme Calisthenics is an MC competition that combines the intensity of a rap battle with the excitement and unpredictability of a game show...

Thanks to @suzigurl for sending us the link to this event. It is kind of a cool story that started with a Tweet back in Decemeber - a group of people organized some events in New England to celebrate authors of kids books...

Image via Wikipedia Since the playoff game is on Friday night and hopefully Sunday - Saturday afternoon is free this weekend. A great afternoon to combine some exercise with beer. Check out the Venture Outdoors mircobrewery hike...

The Brewer’s Ball is a local beer tasting event to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The 2nd Annual Brewer’s Ball will be held on Friday, May 1, 2009 at the Circuit Center on the South Side...

Image by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr This is the last weekend to see the Vader Project - collection of 100 Darth Vader helmets which decorated by artists (see our Vader Project post) which will be at the Warhol until May 3...

Image by planetschwa via Flickr So one of my most favorite Pittsburgh warm weather activities - Kayak Pittsburgh - reopens for the summer on Saturday May 2. The Downtown location will be open weekend in May and full time during the summer months...

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Image via Wikipedia I really want to highlight this event for this weekend - I am going to try to stop by on Friday or Satruday evening. I met the founder of the Unsmoke Artspace a few years ago and I have really enjoyed seeing his dedication to Braddock and the region...

I wanted to make sure to post about this before the spring semester ends. I have made a few visits to the Waffle Shop in the past few months. The Waffle Shop is a class project for the undergraduate art course - The Storefront Project which is taught at Carnegie Mellon...

Image by michael and anna via Flickr Woo Hoo! Spring has sprung and the urban hike folks are back with their first hike of 2009. This is one of my favorite PGH activities - totally laid back group - you don’t need to be a hiking expert...

Attending Art All Night in Lawrenceville this weekend is a must … but have you ever thought of volunteering? The group has, in my opinion, one of the most user friendly volunteer sign-ups(http://www.artallnight.org/vols.html)...

I can’t believe that we at IheartPGH have not posted on this important annual event before. Thanks to the folks at Venture Outdoors for reminding me that this weekend is Carp All Night, which is a sister event to Art All Night...

Null Space, Chris Briem’s blog with lots of interesting info - often about Pittsburgh, links to this blog post from Otherstream - a blog from a North Carolina resident who has just purchased a 2nd home here in Pittsburgh - mostly just because he loves Pittsburgh...

Image by Fire Monkey Fish via Flickr Making the Connections Book Launch Party Friday, April 17 4-7pm @ The Shadow Lounge Check out the new book that chronicles some of the community projects that were part of the Pittsburgh 250 celebration...

Image by carolclarinet via Flickr Attack Theatre is an award winning Pittsburgh based dance/music/video perfomance group. The Dirty Ball is their annual fundraiser that is now in its fourth year...

Image by michael and anna via Flickr Saturday, April 18th, 2009, 6-10pm is the 2nd evening of the Sierra Club’s Environmental Film Festival. They have a great line up of 5 different films for the evening - including a showing of some of the YERT footage...

Making the Connections Book Launch Party Friday, April 17, 2009, 4-7 pm Shadow Loung, 5972 Baum Blvd, East Liberty RSVP on Facebook here. One of the final events of the Pittsburgh 250 celebration was the community connections wrap up session back in December...

I cannot believe that I have been blogging about PGH for over 3 years and I have not published a word about the tech fair...

Lawrenceville businesses will open their doors for the fourth annual Lawrenceville Blossom Tour, a free event to be held April 17-19, 2009. Twenty-five of Lawrenceville’s most interesting merchants will pass out a variety of flower and herb seeds to all visitors (while supplies last)...

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Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: Pop City - It's green, it's blue, it's the Super Shuttle, hiring drivers - Yippee! Super Shuttle is coming to Pittsburgh. I hope this will solve the problem of missing the last 28x when you get back to Pittsburgh late at night...

Image via Wikipedia Thanks to the IheartPGH reader for sending this along. I think this looks like it would be fun to watch. WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SENIOR IDOL! Participants must be residents of Western Pennsylvania age 50 and older and non-professional...