Lost and found in western Pennsylvania

  Main Street in downtown Butler, PA, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. This afternoon I was scheduled to meet up with friends at a coffee shop in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. I don’t go to Shadyside often, so I printed out some directions, hopped in the car, and headed south. About halfway there I realized …

All the fun that’s fit to print

To help you plan your week, here are the key events on my schedule. Please join me when you can: Wednesday, December 5: The 74th anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition. I’ll post recommended beverages on Wednesday. For now, if you are the sort of person who enjoys an intoxicating beverage, plan to be somewhere …

Every song’s a comeback

Laura and Jude Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey Last Friday, my sister Laura flew into town for the weekend. My brother Jude had bought three tickets to see Wilco in Pittsburgh, and he’d asked Laura to come. I got the third ticket. The show was excellent. Jeff Tweedy and his band clicked nicely and seemed to …

PodCamp Pittsburgh 2!

I want to tell you (or remind you yet again) of a noteworthy event, one that I’m proud to be involved with and that I hope you’ll enjoy. A blockbuster summer sequel: PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 It was a hit last November, so we’ve brought it back. PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 happens this weekend, on Saturday, August …

“I’ve never thought twice about the safety”

I’ve been on a video shoot this morning, so I haven’t read much of anything about the convention center collapse in Pittsburgh. But from what I’ve read so far here here and here, the David L. Lawrence Convention Center seems to be turning into Pittsburgh’s version of Boston’s John Hancock Tower. The building’s most dangerous …

Creative Cafe of Elisco Advertising

New creative/social venue opening in Lawrenceville: Elisco Advertising will open up its Creative Cafe located in Lawrenceville to bring together artists, musicians, poets and chefs for regular happenings, just to get the creative juices flowing. And the public will be invited to many of them. Elisco has a reputation for alternative advertising. But they also …

When’s the next BlogFest?

Dear Pittsburgh-area bloggers: We’re trying to schedule the next BlogFest. We thought we’d have everything in place by now, but it has been devilishly difficult to plan things right now at our normal location, Finnegan’s Wake. I’m told this is because it’s baseball season. Apparently people like to go to Finnegan’s Wake before, during, and …