Happenings in Pittsburgh!! (Philadelphia, York, Oakland: renting, to live in, safe)

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Now I understand.

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Forbes ranked Pittsburgh in the top 10 Best Cities for Couples out of the top 40 metro's in the country.

In a recent round-up of the Best Cities for Couples, Forbes editors identified what unmarried couples require to maintain a stable relationship while on the path to marriage or something less traditional. Looking at the country's largest 40 metropolitan areas, Forbes collected data on marriage and divorce rates for the 20- to 34-year-olds that live there, the affordability of a starter home there, the area's income disparity and the availability of family counseling.

Best Cities for Couples

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(This may interest you NYSTYLE)

Chick downtown boutique in the culture district was featured in lucky magazine. The boutique is doing excellent and is inspiring a lot of interest in the Pittsburgh fashion industry.

Chickdowntown was a much-anticipated addition to Pittsburgh's Cultural District when it opened in 2007, and the store's mix of unique, statement-y items and sleek basics has been so successful, in part, thanks to owner Amy Reed's unerring eye. "I realized that every time someone told me a piece might be tough to sell, it actually flew off the rack," she notes with a laugh. The streamlined interior—awash in silver, gray, and the palest lilac—is a perfectly subdued counterpoint to the bold clothes, which run the gamut from trim, fitted jackets by Gryphon to evening-worthy dresses from Hanii Y. and Thread Social.

chickdowntown: This new boutique has brought forward-thinking style to downtown Pittsburgh.

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Thank You..........xoxox

K

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The Mattress Factory museum (a contemporary and often controversial "underground" art museum on the north shore for those who don't know) is adding a contemporary cafe to the north shore as well! It opened on Thursday. Check it out! It is vegetarian and vegan friendly, too.

On Feb. 21—evoking its origins as a vegetarian co-op and community gathering spot—the Mattress Factory will serve up creative fare in its new BoxSpring Café, located at 500 Sampsonia Way. With seating for 50 patrons, the 800-square-foot café is located adjacent to the museum’s 400-square-foot shop, which carries hip design-oriented wares, such as belt buckles and purses constructed from recycled children’s book covers. An art-infused ambiance features subdued lighting, free Wi-Fi and design accents like a black granite counter outlined in red neon.

Vegan and vegetarian friendly, BoxSpring will serve selections created by chef Rich Rosenthal of M Catering, including wraps and salads, a weekly soup, flatbread pizza, and quesadillas. With seventeen years of epicurean experience, chef Rich launched his career at The Carlton, was managing chef at Café Azure, and studied at Napa Valley-based Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. A new spring menu will feature fruit smoothies, coffee frappes and baked goods by Vanilla Pastry Studio.

Eat outside the box: Mattress Factory unveils new café on Pittsburgh's North Side

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THANK YOU..........XOXOX

I went to the opening last year ..........AWESOME shop. Kama in southworks is a fab store and Original sin in Southside Carson St.

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they have some great parties at Mattress Factory and The Warhol Museum

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This is interesting! Robert Morris University is adding a state-of-the-art stock exchange (modeled after the one in NYC) as part of it's 4 million dollar upgrade to the School of Business. They claim it will offer an unprecedented hands-on experience for financial strategy trading for its students. Really cool if you ask me! The rendering is beautiful, too.

The PNC Trading Center will provide students with access to a unique method of hands-on training in financial trading strategy. The center is the result of a $520,000 grant from the PNC Foundation, the charitable arm of The PNC Financial Services Group.

The first phase of construction includes an 8,000 square-foot, two story building, which will be attached to the business school’s Matthew Hall. The learning facility will simulate the NYSE and feature real-time stock tickers and computer stations with market information and analytical software. An adjacent, two-story stadium will allow classes to watch the action through windows, a unique touch RMU believes is not offered at most other business schools.

RMU to add a NY-style stock exchange to business school

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The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (there are four total) raised an unprecedented 161 million dollars, the largest fund-raising amount in it's 113 year old history. Culture still thriving in Pittsburgh? Appears so. Especially now that the ballet is back on track and remaining strong.

Among the numerous projects and programs to benefit is Dinosaurs in Their Time, the fabulous reinvention of Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s famed dinosaur exhibits, which opened to the public in its first phase in November 2007. In addition, Powdermill Nature Reserve, a 2,200-acre biological field station in the Laurel Highlands, will be renovated as will the Sarah Scaife Galleries, home to Carnegie Museum of Art’s permanent collections.

Other beneficiaries include the expansion of Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems and the creation of its new Wertz Gallery: Gems and Jewelry; Buhl Digital Dome, the new high-definition, full-dome experience at Carnegie Science Center’s Buhl Planetarium and a program endowment to fund educational and exhibition programming at all four Carnegie Museums.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh raise unprecedented $161 M

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Here is one example of many little articles that have been featured in NYC newspapers and magazines about Pittsburgh. Apparently NYC is under the impression that Pittsburgh is a sleeping giant waiting to explode. Could it be? I hope so! All the NYC buzz about the area IS exciting, to say the least.

This particle write-up is from New York Magazine (nymag) and lists three places that New Yorkers are fleeing to. Pittsburgh is one of the three places, while Shanghai and Budapest (we are in strange, company, eh?) are the other two.

The write-up focuses on the gay scene of Pittsburgh, which I think would be somewhat surprising to the gay posters on Pittsburgh city-forums.

3. Pittsburgh
If Philadelphia is our "sixth borough," then Pennsylvania’s second city is Philly’s West Village. "It’s more gay-friendly than Manhattan," says Coldwell Banker relocation specialist Mark Rutigliano, who moved here (with his partner) from West 11th Street. It's not just that ***** As Folk is set here—a serious performing-arts scene thrives downtown and the city hosts the annual International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Of course, Pittsburgh's appeal also lies in its affordable real estate: $300,000 gets you a three-bedroom house. And if you do get homesick, there’s an upscale gay bar called New York, New York.

New Yorkers Are Also Fleeing To...

Now that I think about it, I do question the date of this write-up as New York, New York was renamed 5801 a couple years ago.