One thing that Pittsburgh and Austin are about to have in common: brand-new, state-of-the-art, beautiful hospitals for children. Dell Children’s Medical Center opened in Austin in 2007 and is a truly great place. Austin should be proud to have it.
Now the new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is opening on Saturday – a spectacular, sprawling, one-of-a-kind [...]
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Good things are everywhere
Posted in Pittsburgh Growth, Point of Interest, tagged Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh on April 29, 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 [...]
More from the top of the city
Posted in Photos, Point of Interest on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know there are hundreds of thousands of pictures of exactly this. We’ve seen them before, on postcards, tourist brochures, books, everywhere. But you can never look at it too much, can you?
Second most beautiful place? Don’t be silly.
Travelogue: Excuse me, senor, but there’s a papa in my arroz
Posted in Pittsburgh Food, Point of Interest, Steelers on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Dorothee Trois-Rivières. Motto: Trying out restaurants so you don’t have to.
We kept seeing signs advertising Emiliano’s in McIntyre Square in McCandless, and we figured that now was as good a time as any to be disappointed with Mexican food in Pittsburgh. That’s definitely one area in which Texas has us beat, and if you’re ever [...]
Goodbye, Concrete Donut of Champions
Posted in Pirates, Point of Interest, Steelers, tagged Three Rivers Stadium on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eight years ago today:
Reasons you’re glad you live in Pittsburgh #8: This beautiful building
Posted in Photos, Point of Interest, tagged The Mellon Institute on February 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few years ago I had occasion to spend some time at The Mellon Institute, that imposing neo-classical trapezoid that inhabits the corner of Fifth and Bellefield. It used to be a separate institution before it merged with the Carnegie Institute of Technology to form CMU.
Its outside is an imposing colonnade of monolithic columns, the [...]
