Written by MilwVon on February 12, 2008
- BODIES – The ExhibitionCarnegie Science CenterPittsburgh, PABODY WORLDS is the world renowned exhibit created by Gunter von Hagen that has traveled the world bringing the human body in its most basic form to illustrate how...
Written by kjlouden on June 27, 2005
- I have mentioned before that Pittsburgh has many close ties to Central and Eastern Europe. Thanks to guide Owen Lipsett, a knowledgeable source on the history and peoples of those regions, I have learned...
Written by kjlouden on June 21, 2005
- As powerful wings move the air above us, our guide looks up and guesses that
a turkey vulture has invaded our space. Then she recognizes it as a peregrine falcon and
remembers that these raptors are...
Written by kjlouden on March 26, 2005
- I designed our walk of downtown to start at the Omni William Penn Hotel, where we were staying, but the necessity of pulling out of the parking lot there (and finding a less crowded one)...
Written by kjlouden on February 17, 2005
- You remember the song: "Hey, Babe! Take a walk on the wild side!" I couldn’t help thinking of it as we roamed the Mexican War Streets on the north side of the city. Isn’t...
Written by kjlouden on February 12, 2005
- It is said that Andrew Carnegie "robbed Egypt." Indeed, the Egyptian collection is well-known and wonderful, but so is the art collection. Carnegie International, the exhibition series established by Andrew Carnegie in 1896,...
Written by kjlouden on February 11, 2005
- Before I go inside, I visit the statues on the grounds. Poseidon is here alongside of Scottish poet Robert Burns. I muse about the choice of Burns for the lawn of a conservatory...
Written by kjlouden on February 11, 2005
- I have never enjoyed "Breakfast with the Birds," a regular event at the National Aviary, but a few of them have "let go" after breakfast on my head! I must learn to get there...
Written by kjlouden on February 11, 2005
- In a restored warehouse building in the Strip District, John Heinz Regional History Center is not only a storehouse of Americana, but also a grouping of important exhibits on settling the frontier, the Whiskey Rebellion,...
Written by crashbowman on August 30, 2006
- When I arrived at PNC I was excited and I had high expectations from some of the things I had heard about the stadium, but at the same time I had been disappointed by stadiums...
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