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Pop Filter Hot Pick: Toonseum hosts city's first Comic Arts Festival and Block Party

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Hundreds of world-renowned cartoonists are descending on Downtown, as Pittsburgh welcomes the National Cartoonists Society Conference for the first time. To celebrate, Toonseum is hosting its own first: Pittsburgh's inaugural Comic Arts Festival and Block Party, and you're invited.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Spring into art this Friday at the Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District, a free and festive night of immersive art and performance with 36 stops, not to mention pop-up shopping.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Fiberart International 2013 opens at PCA and Contemporary Craft

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Featuring established and emerging artists from around the globe, the Fiberart International 2013 opens on Friday at Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, showcasing its most diverse selection of works and artists to date.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Geek Art/Green Innovator's Festival (aka GA/GI) occupies Penn Avenue

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Geek out and go green at this weekend's fourth annual Geek Art/Green Innovator's Festival (read: GA/GI) along the Penn Avenue arts district. Test out new video games designed right here in the Burgh, purchase eco-fashions from local designers and find out what exciting plans are in store for the roof of Downtown's USX Tower.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Weekend of Public Art features performances, workshops, tours and more

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The first of its kind Weekend of Public Art ushers in a new era of activated spaces and places in Downtown Pittsburgh. Zany Umbrella Circus rolls into town with a tent and bus in Market Square, the Sisters of the Lattice transform a parking lot into a performance venue and more--and you're invited to be a part of it all.

Love locks of Pittsburgh: street art with heart

Richelle Szypulski Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Have you seen those collections of padlocks adorning bridges and fences? Love locks are are a trend from Europe where couples attach a lock, declare their love and then throw away the key. A Point Park journalism student checks out the scene at the Schenley Park Bridge and unlocks a romantic Pittsburgh love story.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: VIA Music & New Media Festival

Marty Levine Wednesday, September 26, 2012
There's nothing like VIA in Pittsburgh and there never has been, say those who program the cutting-edge audio and visual festival. What's new this year? Everything.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Just DIY It at the Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire!

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, September 19, 2012
There's no better place to nurture your inner inventor--or yarn bomber--than at the Mini Maker Faire, setting up shop on September 22nd at Buhl Community Park and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.

A tour of six stadiums with a baseball (and Pirates) fan

Elaine Labalme Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Six cities. Six teams. Six days. And all those food stands! This travel writer and baseball fan can think of no better way to end the summer as she and her family hit the road to see the Nationals, the Orioles, the Phillies, the Pirates, the Indians and the Tigers. In between they eat really well.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Humor in Craft opens at Society for Contemporary Craft

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Ever felt intimidated by contemporary art, or had the feeling that there's an inside joke--and maybe it's even on you? Visit the Society for Contemporary Craft's new exhibtion, Humor in Craft, to laugh out loud, and with conviction, at everything from the mundane to the morose. Crafting and laughter will collide at the museum's opening reception on July 20th.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Summer Gallery Crawl & Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, July 11, 2012
This Friday the 13th head downtown for a double whammy of arts and culture. It all kicks off with the Cultural Trust’s free Summer Gallery Crawl from 5:30 to 9 then wraps up in style at Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh at the former Bally's Building.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Factory Direct Pittsburgh

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, June 20, 2012
An ambitious new exhibition organized by The Warhol Museum continues to put Pittsburgh on the new economy map in terms of industry and innovation. Pairing 14 acclaimed contemporary artists with bustling local factories, Factory Direct: Pittsburgh redefines the very nature of labor, production, manufacturing, and creativity.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Calling all geeks, artists and green innovators to Penn Avenue!

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Pittsburgh has a legacy of innovation and invention and now local innovators have a place to geek out and go beta with like-minded techies and greenies. Teaming up with Unblurred, the annual GA/GI Festival is back with a bigger-than-ever showcase of homegrown eco, art and technology industries.

Parties, Apps, and Panels: SXSW Interactive

Heather Estes Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Leave it to DeepLocal for the insider's view of SXSW Interactive. While they were there in Austin to present a mind-bending presentation on the Prius mind-controlled concept bike, they also got connected and enjoyed some great parties, too. Headed there next year? Here are some tips.

Pop Filter Hot Pick: get UNBLURRED by the arts along Penn Avenue

Jennifer Baron Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The mild temps aren't the only reason to be out on city streets this Friday. From the grand opening of the one-of-a-kind Center for PostNatural History (think taxidermy meets Sea Monkeys!) to an open art studio at Assemble, Unblurred is your passport to experiencing local arts talent.
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