Cheap stuff (Pittsburgh, Carnegie, Braddock: movies, universities, cost)

[raubre]

What are your favorite cheap (or free) things to do in Pittsburgh.

I love free concerts during the Arts Festival and Regatta. Many tiimes they have national acts too.

Free movies in the city parks too.

[BrianTH]

(1) Exploring Frick Park, including watching the dogs play in Hot Dog Dam, and wandering the grounds and free museums in the Frick Art & Historical Center (only tours of the Clayton's interior cost anything).

(2) The Carnegie Libraries.

(3) The Cathedral of Learning and Heinz Chapel, and particularly the Nationality Rooms.

[simplyinjest]

For something alternative and free, check out Café Scientifique Pittsburgh.

You can visit an establishment (this month it's the Penn Brewery) and listen to a unique and informed science-related lecture. I definitely agree with BrianTH regarding Frick Park and the Carnegie Libraries - in particular, check out the main library in Oakland

[fleetiebelle]

The local universities constantly have free or cheap lectures, programs, and movies, too. CMU's carnival is at the end of this month--there are rides and booths and the buggy races.

[jinxd_13]

I love this post! Ya'll keep 'em coming. Thanx for the Cafe Scientifique bit. I can't wait to find one to go to when I get there

[Geeo]

The gallery crawls in the Cultural District, Shadyside (Ellsworth Avenue), and Garfield along Penn Avenue. Carnegie Library (especially Oakland main). The JCC in Squirrel Hill had a good free lecture series this winter, as well. Also fun to go up to Schenley Oval and walk the track, or Highland Park to walk the resovoir.

[raubre]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

(1) Exploring Frick Park, including watching the dogs play in Hot Dog Dam, and wandering the grounds and free museums in the Frick Art & Historical Center (only tours of the Clayton's interior cost anything).

(2) The Carnegie Libraries.

(3) The Cathedral of Learning and Heinz Chapel, and particularly the Nationality Rooms.

Where is Hot Dog Dam? That sounds cute.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by raubre

Where is Hot Dog Dam? That sounds cute.

I love it (particularly as a dog person who currently does not have a dog). Basically it is just a little spillover dam in a small stream which creates a shallow pool, and they have fenced off the immediate area so people can take their dogs off their leashes and let them play.

It is along Tranquil Trail, the one running along the valley parallel to Braddock (Fern Hollow), just south of where the trail passes under the bridge for Forbes Avenue. The quickest ways down there are from the trail starting on the Squirrel Hill side of the Forbes Avenue bridge, the trails which cut down from Point Breeze, or the trails which cut down from Regent Square. You can also take the Falls Ravine Trail from the Squirrel Hill side of the park. And basically, you get just look for the wet, muddy, extremely happy-looking dogs, and go whichever way they are coming from.

Edit: Here is a picture I googled (strangely enough, no dogs in it, but it gives you an idea):

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[igo]

-Carnegie Library (already mentioned)
-Unlimited play for $8 at games n'at arcade on Wednesday and Thursday. Games N' At .com
-$5 movies on Monday at the southside works + free popcorn.
-skateboard/bike

[raubre]

Wanted to bring this back to the front page