Time Magazine: Pittsburgh in Nine Photos

Time Magazine put out a recent photo essay on Pittsburgh in nine photos, showing the new Pittsburgh which has emerged from the collapse of the steel industry thirty years ago.

The photo above shows a faded advertisement for the Uneeda Biscuit in Lawrenceville, which was the first cracker packaged for sale.  Nabisco (which had a large plant here, now known as Bakery Square) through its now parent company Kraft, discontinued the brand in 2010.

You can see the slide show here.

10 Interesting Things in Pittsburgh in March

Pittsburgh Magazine has an interesting piece on the Top Ten Things to Do in Pittsburgh in March, ranging from theater to the outdoors. It's worth a read if you're visiting over the next month!

Pictured is Carly Rae Jepsen, who's appearing at Mr. Small's Funhouse in Millvale on March 18.

See the story here.

Priory Specials Support Catholic Charities

Once again the Priory Hotel is supporting Catholic Charities "Saving Grace" program, in which hospitality partners give a portion of proceeds from various special items which are available throughout the Lenten season to Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh,  Catholic Charities provides assistance in education, health and welfare to citizens of the metro region regardless of faith.

This year we're celebrating New Orleans with our "Not Pat O'Brien's Hurricane, a potent rum concoction by our Monks' Bar mixologist Nikki, and our "Priory Meets Bourbon Street" overnight package.  A portion of the sale price for each of these specialty items will be donated to Catholic Charites.

You can read more about these special packages here.

12 Moments that Changed Pittsburgh

Here's some interesting historical analysis from Pittsburgh magazine.  It underscores Pittsburgh's role in the center of some of the most interesting revolutions in science, medicine, labor and industry, and it's well worth a look!

Read the article here.

All the Cool Kids are Coming to the Steel City

According to the Huffington Post, Pittsburgh is one of four cities gathering hip momentum and attracting enough "cool kids" to be the next Portland.  Not sure if that's good or not, but maybe it beats the alternative.

Here's a link to the story.

Pictured is Pittsburgh's hipster heaven neighborhood, Lawrenceville.

It's Restaurant Week in Pittsburgh, and Whirl Magazine has 10 recommendations of places you might like to try.  Participating restaurants offer a price fixe dinner showing off some of their signature concoctions!  You can see Whirl's recommendations here.  Pictured above is East Liberty's Paris 66.

Exhibit A: Pittsburghers are Nuts

An annual event cooked up by some masochists occurs every Saturday after Thanksgiving here in Pittsburgh, the Dirty Dozen bike race/ hill climb.  It challenges cyclists to climb 13 of the steepest hills in the city, all in one day.  Having driven up and down many of these hills myself, I can attest that it's terrifying traversing them in a car, much less on a bicycle at the end of November!

Here's a piece by the Washington Post covering our little corner of craziness!