News Around the Neighborhood
PechaKucha Night Pittsburgh Vol 27
Tuesday, July 18 at 7:00 – 9:30 pm City of Asylum, 40 W North Avenue Doors open at 5:00 pm
Among the 11 local presenters will be Allegheny West’s own Brian O’Neill, author of the 2009 book The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the 21st Century. Brian will talk about the inadvertent plug his book just got from Donald Trump and what has changed about the city since the book was written. Arrive early for dinner or drinks at Casellua. Enjoy great food, wine and artfully curated cheese plates. Shop and browse City of Asylum Books, an independent bookstore specializing in works in translation and world literature. If you have questions about PechaKucha Night or how to pronounce “PechaKucha”, please contact Greg Coll at gregcollcreative@gmail.com . We look forward to packing the house! Co-organized by Greg Coll with AIGA Pittsburgh, AIA Pittsburgh and Greater Pittsburgh Arts CouncilAlleys, Axles & Ales Tour: Volunteers Needed
We’re seeking neighbors who are willing to open their homes (and garages) for the Alleys, Axles & Ales tour.
The target date is September 23. We also need volunteers who are willing to work in preparing and executing the tour. Please contact Carol Gomrick at carolgomrick@gmail.com if you are able to help.
2017 2nd Annual 4th of July Rib Cookoff
We’d like to thank all the participants in this year’s Rib Cookoff. Once again their efforts made this annual picnic a great success and one of the best foodie events in town!
This year’s participants included Tom Barbush, John Burton, Clayton Harris, Scott Mosser, John Tingue, Mariana
Whitmer and Tony Caruso.
While all the ribs were fantastic, bragging rights go to Scott Mosser for 2017. Scott will be holding onto the trophy for 12 months but will bring it back for 2018’s winner! If you have a great recipe that you’d like to enter next year, please remember that the neighborhood will provide the ribs! What have you got to lose?
A Night of Traditional Colombian Harp Music
Melba Janneth Rey Rey
Thursday, July 27th
8:00 pm
Melba Janneth Rey Rey (Colombia) performs traditional Colombian harp music with an unusually rhythmic flair. She discovered her passion for harp music at the age of ten, while attending the academy of Joropo & Arpa. Under the tutelage of maestro Hildo Ariel Aguirre Daza, she became a master of the Colombo-Venezuelan harp music traditional in the Llanos region in Colombia.
Melba is an internationally-lauded musician and has performed with premiere ensembles Arpas de Colombia and Agrupación Femenina Cayena and in many major Colombian venues.
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Did you know that there is a restaurant in City of Asylum @ Alphabet City? During these events, Alphabet City will be set up so that you can have dinner during the event (or simply order drinks).
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A Film Anthology About the LGBTQ Experience in Kenya
ReelQ & Pittsburgh Black Pride Present
Stories of Our Lives
Friday, July 14th
7:00 pm
In 2013, The Nest Collective (a Nairobi-based arts collective) began interviewing people identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex in Kenya. After collecting hundreds of stories, they wrote scripts for 5 of the most compelling and transformed them into Stories of Our Lives, an anthology of short films.
“Stories of Our Lives is both a labor of love and a bold act of militancy, defying the enforced silence of intolerance with tales rooted in the soil of lived experience.”
– Toronto International Film Festival
Stories of Our Lives was an Official Selection of the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals, and was a winner of the Special Jury Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, among other notable accolades.
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Did you know that there is a restaurant in City of Asylum @ Alphabet City? During these events, Alphabet City will be set up so that you can have dinner during the event (or simply order drinks).
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Recipes from A Tour & Tasting in Old Allegheny
Thank you to all of our friends, new and old, who joined us for 2017’s A Tour & Tasting in Old Allegheny. Those of you who attended already know that we had wonderful Spanish tapas to pair with a selection of wines from the same locale. Even if you weren’t able to make it, we wanted to share these delectable treats – and information about the wines that greeted visitors to homes and gardens alike.
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Thaw Mansion
Dish: Spanish Skewers
Wine: Bodegas Muriel Fincas, Bodegas Hesvera
Hipwell Building
Dish: Tortilla Española
Wine: Martin Codax
Whitmer House
Dish: Spanish Meatballs with Cracked Olives
Wine: Latue Tempranillo
& Sweets
Dish: Chocolate Dulce de Leche Bars
Wine: Delgado Medium Dry Amontillado Sherry
Bonus: Cinnamon Churros
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Emmanuel Church
Dish: Gazpacho
Wine: Jaume Serra Cristallano
Willock House
Dish: Pan con Tomate
Wine: Clos de Nit
Johnson House
Dish: Blue Cheese & Walnut Shortbread
Wine: Bodegas Hesvera
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Help Out in Allegheny Commons for OpenStreetsPGH
Hello, Northsiders!
I am looking for some help this weekend at this month’s OpenStreets! I will be at a table over near the Iron Deer statue in Allegheny Commons with a table full of fun stuff and a device I use to make BIG BUBBLES =)
I will be there from 8am setting up till 1pm. Please let me know if you are willing to join me as a volunteer for even just half an hour. Any help is appreciated =)
Thank you all! Hope to see you Sunday!
Erin Tobin
Community Outreach Coordinator
PHLF: Oh My Aching Back!
Join us at the Landmarks Preservation Resource Center for our ongoing programs on house restoration, architecture, history and other aspects of historic preservation, community development, and urban planning.
Location: Landmarks Preservation Resource Center, 744 Rebecca Avenue
Date: Tuesday, June 20th
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Contact: marylu@phlf.org or (412) 471-5808 ext. 527
How to Keep Gardening as We Age
Gardening is great exercise, but it can become more difficult through the years. Aging knees and backs, and overall muscle loss make it harder to do the kind of gardening we once enjoyed. This talk will provide suggestions for making your garden less labor intensive while still providing joy and a beautiful setting for your home.
About the Presenter
Martha Swiss is a garden writer, designer and speaker. She is a regular contributor to Pennsylvania Gardener magazine and the publications editor for the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. Her articles have also appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Fine Gardening. She is a graduate of Chatham University’s landscape design program and a Penn State master gardener.
All lectures are free to PHLF members. Non-members: $10
RSVPs are appreciated: marylu@phlf.org or (412) 471-5808 ext. 527
Check out http://phlf.org/events/ for more PHLF tours and events.
$1,000 Neighbor-to-Neighbor Grants Now Available
Neighbor-to-Neighbor $1,000 grants are Back!
Apply by Friday July 7th for a grant to build a better Northside
If you call the Northside home and have an idea for making your community a better place to live, learn, and work, you can apply for a $1,000 Neighbor-to-Neighbor grant from The Sprout Fund.
In partnership with the Buhl Foundation and in support of the One Northside initiative, Sprout provides microgrants to support small-scale neighborhood-level projects. Applicants must live or work on the Northside and funded project activities must take place in one of the 18 neighborhoods of the Northside.
Thinking of applying? Learn more at a lunchtime workshop this Friday, June 16th. RSVP today!
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RSVP for an Info Session
Thinking about applying for a grant? Sprout is hosting information sessions at the following Northside neighborhood locations:
Friday, June 16 | 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Woods Run
1201 Woods Run Avenue
Register to Attend
Thursday, July 6 | 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Allegheny
1230 Federal Street
Register to Attend
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Pultizer Prize Winner and Author of Negroland Margo Jefferson Speaks June 27
Margo Jefferson
Thursday, June 27th
8:00 pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and author Margo Jefferson will be reading from her multi-award winning autobiography Negroland, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Heartland Prize.
Margo places a critical lens to her childhood growing up among the Chicago’s upper-crust, elite black social sphere – a world she dubs “Negroland.” Widely regarded as one of 2016’s Best Books of the Year (as noted by such publications as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Time Out New York and others), Negroland is a provocative work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.
Jefferson is a national treasure and her memoir should be required reading across the country. – Vanity Fair
Margo is a professor at Columbia University and has been a staff writer for The New York Times and Newsweek, and has published in New York Magazine, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Believer, Guernica, Bookforum, O, the Oprah Magazine, Vogue and Grand Street. Not shy about tackling potentially controversial subject matter, Jefferson’s essays have weighed in on such topics as Ebonics, “race ennui” and black feminism. She also wrote and performed a theater piece, Sixty Minutes in Negroland, at The Cherry Lane Theater and The Culture Project.
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Did you know that there is a restaurant in City of Asylum @ Alphabet City? During these events, Alphabet City will be set up so that you can have dinner during the event (or simply order drinks).
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