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Staying warm with Citiparks
Due to the frigid weather that the City of Pittsburgh faced this year, the CitiParks warming centers were activated several times to offer shelter to those living in the surrounding Pittsburgh neighborhoods. But in Downtown, no CitiParks warming center exists. There are six CitiParks warming centers located around the city in Beechview, Brighton Heights, Greenfield,…
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“Deer Hard”: How Pittsburgh rallied against deer overpopulation
By: Gavin Petrone Walking through Riverview Park on a cool, late-March afternoon, one would be hard pressed to see any obvious sign of white-tailed deer. No tracks, no visible buck rub on tree bark, no droppings; no deer. The deer’s meal of choice, sprouts and seedlings, litter the ground along Riverview’s trails. These plants were…
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The Mr. Roboto Project: Pittsburgh’s one stop shop for all things ‘DIY’
By: Cilia Catello Jon Engle caught a black eye in the tiny, overcrowded room as “Short Fictions” new album “Fates Worse Than Death” pulsated around the cement walls of the Mr. Roboto Project. Engle’s friends snuck him into the venue and despite the board members’ best efforts, fists were flying and people were suspended in…
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