Sorry, Striking Distance. There’s a new favorite Pittsburgh movie in town.
Yes, I saw Adventureland, and yes, it was fantastic. And yes, there was a ton of Kennywood in it. And the 16th Street Bridge, and fireworks, and the Monroeville Mall.
But unlike that beloved mess of a cop drama, this movie is actually very good. It [...]
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Charming Pittsburgh-oriented media #10: New favorite
Posted in Pittsburgh Media on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love surprises
Posted in Pittsburgh Media, Point of Interest on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, enough moping. Time to get back to business.
Living outside of Pittsburgh, I generally don’t know when new CPOM is coming out until it’s already here. So sure, I’ve seen the previews for Adventureland, but the booths and hot dog stands are nondescript enough that I didn’t realize it was Kennywood until I read about [...]
Charming Pittsburgh-oriented media #9: The Odyssey
Posted in Pittsburgh Media, Steelers on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jim Wexell is a freelance writer who has covered the Steelers for ages, and now publishes SteelCityInsider.com. And he’s had an experience that inspires one specific emotion in Steeler fans.
Envy.
Deep, profound, unadulterated envy for Wex’s journey across the country for the Steelers’ entire road schedule in 2007, going to Steeler bars all over America, tailgating, attending [...]
Charming Pittsburgh-oriented media #8: Viva la revolution!
Posted in Photos, Pittsburgh Media, Post-Gazette on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The whole point of CPOM is to evoke a sense of place. That’s why pictures and stories of Pittsburgh are so vital for expatriates, because of their ability to transport us back to familiar places and emotions. And that’s why Post-Gazette photographer Steve Mellon’s Pittsburgh Revolution Series is among the very best at doing that. [...]
To Pittsburgh, from the Prom Queen
Posted in Homesick, Pittsburgh Media, tagged Pittsburgh Magazine on February 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I was hoping to like the article in this month’s Pittsburgh Magazine entitled “A Love Letter to Pittsburgh,” by New York author Ellen T. White. After all, that’s what this whole blog is, right? A love letter? Nothing more affirming than reading something you’re guaranteed to agree with – makes you feel smart.
Not so much [...]
Who IS this guy??
Posted in Pittsburgh Media, Steelers, WTF, tagged Bill Steigerwald on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, obviously, I haven’t been in on this Pittsburgh new media thing long enough, because R2P only just brought to my attention the rantings of disgruntled boomerang journalist Bill Steigerwald. This guy has about three things to say about his-hometown-and-mine, all nasty, and repeated again and again with only minimal change in syntax such that [...]
Don’t read this
Posted in Cat's Call, Pittsburgh Media, Steelers, tagged Madden NFL 09, PittGirl on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Read this! (Woy is hosting surprise guest blogger PittGirl – aka Jane Pitt – this week) (Why are you still reading this?) (Though it’s hard to escape noticing that for someone who wanted to disappear from public view, PittGirl has had a lot of surprise reappearances…) (She should just come back permanently. Stop taunting us, [...]
Charming Pittsburgh-oriented media #7: No game? No problem.
Posted in Pittsburgh Media, Steelers, tagged Here we go steelers on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Want to see goofy black-and-white footage of the “Pirates” in their leather helmets? Or Jack Lambert in a sweater vest? Want to see Three Rivers Stadium, and Coach Cowher’s spittle raining down upon its turf? Want to see again why we cherish The Chief and The Cope, and why the Raiders held a monopoly on [...]
Pittsburgh Playlist
Posted in Moi, Pittsburgh Media on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Something about me: I am a very auditory person. I read out loud to myself. I remember what I’m told without taking notes. And I surround myself with as much music as possible, including my relatively constant internal soundtrack. The movie of my life is mostly boring, but that doesn’t stop me from scoring it [...]
Pittsburgh Media Superhero
Posted in Pittsburgh Media, Post-Gazette, tagged Michael Chabon on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are two kinds of people: those who love Michael Chabon, and those who haven’t read him yet. He is not just the King of CPOM – though he is definitely that, his first two novels being The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys - he is this generation’s ambassador from Pittsburgh to the wider literary and [...]
