After 2 years making crepes at a small crepery in a wealthy neighborhood, I became curatorial Assistant at Wood street Galleries (woodstreetgalleries.org).
I have always loved the arts - music, theater, film, dance. Pittsburgh hosts a surprisingly large and vibrant arts community for its size and population. Im sure you all heard, Pittsburgh is one of the worst cities to meet singles, but we evaded the real estate bubble bursting!
Tonight my employer, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is hosting the downtown Gallery Crawl. All the galleries stay open until 9pm and are accompanied by festivities, alcohol and music.
In my neighborhood of East Liberty we have a smaller gallery crawl called Unblurred. I started going to Unblurred when i came to pittsburgh 4 1/2 years ago and it has been inspiring to watch the public (usually young 20 and 30 somethings - some dragging babies with them!) supporthing the growth of new art spaces. These are not all well lit, maintained galleries but an amalgam of DIY art spaces and entrepreneurs.
Pittsburgh's claim to fame is none other than, the Steelers. In 'yinzer' dialect the "STILLERS".
The cities' pride in their football team has never wavered. They continue to drink in heinz field's parking under extreme weather conditions and lost games. Pittsburgh pride is mobile. My roommate Jake watched the AFC game in Santiago Chile and was approached by other Steeler's fans! Steelers followers take their responsibility to their team seriously. Jetblue added a non stop flight from pittsburgh to tampa just for the superbowel. Tampas stadium will be flooded with a sea of black and gold. Good luck Cardinals, you're going to need it!
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/preview08/columns/story?id=3530077
