News Around the Neighborhood
2019 Tour and Tasting
Graffiti Busters!
Graffiti Busters is funded and run by the City of Pittsburgh. If graffiti is reported, Graffiti Busters will remove it from commercial and residential properties at no cost to the property owner. They can be reached at (412) 665-3609 (Mark Brentley).
Neighborhood Mixer: Mix@6
Start St. Patrick’s Day weekend with your friends and neighbors as the AW Mixer returns to Peppi’s! Don your favorite St. Paddy’s apparel while you enjoy a BYOB happy hour along with a famous sub or salad. Advance thanks to host Jeff Trebec and the staff at Peppi’s!
In Memoriam
With sorrow and regret, we report the passing of Nancyjane Vaughn, friend of the neighborhood and mother of longtime neighbor Nonie Knauss. If you wish to show support to Nonie and her family, kindly consider a donation to:
Tov Church
1597 Washington Pike
Suite A38 #129
Bridgeville, PA 15017
Sponsor a Western Avenue Flower Basket
We’re delighted to announce that Western Avenue in Allegheny West will once again be beautified by hanging flower baskets provided by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC).
The WPC will provide the baskets, flowers, installation, watering and maintenance, “take down” and storage of the baskets. We had 41 baskets sponsored in 2018, but with 32 double poles, there is plenty of room for others to help in this worthy endeavor! We want to ensure that all who would like to participate be given the chance to do so. Please respond by March 31st to be included for 2019.
In 2019, WPC is providing a discounted rate of $355/basket — including the sign! — for the initial year, which includes purchase of the basket, as well as plants, hanging, maintenance, take-down and storage. Sponsors will be subsequently reassessed at a $275/basket rate thereafter for plants, hanging and take-down, maintenance and storage.
Please go to alleghenywest.org/about to sponsor a basket or to make a donation. Contact Trish Burton (412) 523-9402 or tdburton3@gmail.com to discuss.
Housing Opportunity Fund Survey
The Housing Opportunity Fund could use your help in distributing a survey link for residents who could not attend any of the five public meetings to inform the 2019 Annual Allocation Plan. The link is: bit.ly/HOF19PGH
We are especially interested in reaching people directly affected by affordable housing issues.
The Housing Opportunity Fund is a locally-funded source dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing in Pittsburgh. Although our timeline for 2018 funds began late in the year, our Advisory Board is required to put together the allocation plan for 2019 earlier this year based on our legislation.
Thank you,
Jamie
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Jamie Reese
Affordable Housing Policy & Data Analyst
Housing Opportunity Fund
Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
Five Fingers for Marseilles Brings the Spaghetti Western to South Africa
Sembène – The Film & Art Festival Presents
Five Fingers for Marseilles
Monday, March 18th
7:00 pm
Twenty years ago, the young Five Fingers posse fought for the rural town of Marseilles against the brutal oppression of Apartheid South Africa.
Their battle is heartfelt but innocent, until hot-headed Tau kills two policemen in an act of passion. He flees, leaving his brothers and friends behind, but his action has triggered a violent fight that will leave both Marseilles and the Five Fingers forever changed.
“Here, saloon doors are blazoned with crosses, villains wear white shawls instead of black hats and freedom fighters shoot peashooters rather than pistols. In stylish and entertaining fashion, “Five Fingers for Marseilles” looks over the South African countryside and finds fresh vistas for the western genre.” – New York Times
Twenty years later, Tau is released from prison, and returns seeking peace. Finding the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it. Will the Five Fingers brotherhood stand again?
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PHLF: A Short Discussion of Architecture and Time
Location: Landmarks Preservation Resource Center, 744 Rebecca Avenue
Date: Tuesday, February 19th
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Contact: marylu@phlf.org or (412) 471-5808 ext. 527
A Short Discussion of Architecture and Time
Judged from afar, historic buildings are old, and contemporary architecture is new. But the more carefully you look, the more time works to intertwine the seeming opposites. Some particularly old buildings are still futuristic, while the avant-garde can be surprisingly shop-worn. By looking at a combination of familiar favorites and unlikely obscurities in architecture, punctuated with insights from a few key texts, this presentation aims to present a broadening sense of how buildings allow us to experience time, not simply as past, present, or future, but across a varied range of effects.
About the Presenter: Charles Rosenblum is a journalist, critic and scholar writing about architecture, art and other aspects of visual culture. For the past 20 years, he has taught history of architecture and art at a number of universities in Western Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in books and publications nationally and regionally, including several for PHLF. Charles has won journalism awards for architectural writing in the Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Quarterly. In 2013, he was historical consultant and on-screen expert for the documentary, Henry Hornbostel in Architecture and Legacy, broadcast on WQED. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on Hornbostel’s architecture.
This lecture is FREE and open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated: marylu@phlf.org or (412) 471-5808 x 527.
PHLF: A Short Discussion of Architecture and Time
Location: Landmarks Preservation Resource Center, 744 Rebecca Avenue
Date: Tuesday, February 19th
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Contact: marylu@phlf.org or (412) 471-5808 ext. 527
A Short Discussion of Architecture and Time
Judged from afar, historic buildings are old, and contemporary architecture is new. But the more carefully you look, the more time works to intertwine the seeming opposites. Some particularly old buildings are still futuristic, while the avant-garde can be surprisingly shop-worn. By looking at a combination of familiar favorites and unlikely obscurities in architecture, punctuated with insights from a few key texts, this presentation aims to present a broadening sense of how buildings allow us to experience time, not simply as past, present, or future, but across a varied range of effects.
About the Presenter: Charles Rosenblum is a journalist, critic and scholar writing about architecture, art and other aspects of visual culture. For the past 20 years, he has taught history of architecture and art at a number of universities in Western Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in books and publications nationally and regionally, including several for PHLF. Charles has won journalism awards for architectural writing in the Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Quarterly. In 2013, he was historical consultant and on-screen expert for the documentary, Henry Hornbostel in Architecture and Legacy, broadcast on WQED. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on Hornbostel’s architecture.
This lecture is FREE and open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated: marylu@phlf.org or (412) 471-5808 x 527.
Discounted Tickets for Northsiders: An Octoroon
Presented by Kinetic Theatre
February 15-24 | 7:30 pm Evenings; 2:00 pm Matinees
Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebone is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful ‘octoroon’. But the dastardly M’Closky has other plans – for both Terrebone and Zoe. An Octoroon invites us to laugh loudly at how naïve the old stereotypes now seem until nothing seems funny at all.
An Octoroon is recommended for mature audiences only.
You’re Invited
Northside residents and workers can get $4 off admission to the shows. During check out, use the coupon code:
NSIDE
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