CP photo: Kaycee Orwig Local Hidden Gem for Animal Experiences: Black Cat Market Co-owner, Indigo Baloch Pittsburgh boasts a number of great ways to see and experience art and entertainment. Some are more obvious, like the major museums located in the city’s Oakland and North Side neighborhoods. Others are a little harder to find, but no less interesting or worthwhile. See below for
Pittsburgh City Paper’s list of
local faves and
hidden gems, including galleries, theaters, tours, and other fun ways to spend a day with friends or family, or on a solo adventure.
Art Museum
4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. cmoa.org
Remembering the St. Patrick s Day flood of 1936, one of Pennsylvania s worst natural disasters
This flood was the driving factor behind the passage of the Flood Control Act of 1936, which unleashed a flurry of federally sponsored dam-building.
Credit: Photo courtesy of the Detre Library & Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center Author: Isabel Soisson (FOX43) Updated: 11:38 AM EDT March 17, 2021
PENNSYLVANIA, USA Much like how St. Patrick s Day has looked different the past two years due to the spread of COVID-19, St. Patrick s Day in 1936 looked different as well.
On March 17, 1936, a flood resulted in one of the worst natural disasters the state has seen, according to the Senator John Heinz History Center, which is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution.
Villanova University Receives $10 Million Gift from Martin G. McGuinn, Esq., ’64, ’67 to Advance Faculty Research and Support Student Veterans
In recognition of McGuinn’s lifetime giving, a new residence hall in The Commons on Lancaster Avenue will be named McGuinn Hall
VILLANOVA, Pa. – Villanova University President the Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, today announced a $10 million gift from Martin G. McGuinn, Esq., ’64 CLAS, ’67 JD retired chairman and CEO of Mellon Financial Corporation (now BNY Mellon) to advance faculty research and to increase support for veterans attending Villanova. In recognition of McGuinn’s lifetime giving, a building on campus in Villanova’s new residences, known as The Commons, will be named McGuinn Hall.
PAUL GUGGENHEIMER Tribune-Review, via AP
PITTSBURGH Before Jerry Falwell, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Joel Osteen, Archbishop Fulton Sheen and famous radio evangelists such as Father Charles Coughlin and Aimee Semple McPherson, there was Edwin Van Etten.
It was the Rev. Edwin Van Etten, far from a household name, who helped popularize the live radio sermon. It began Jan. 2, 1921, at Pittsburgh’s Calvary Episcopal Church on fledgling KDKA radio and continued Sunday nights for decades. And as it happens, Van Etten, rector of the East Liberty church, initially shied away from the idea.
It was exactly two months after KDKA’s historic first broadcast of the 1920 Harding-Cox presidential election results that the station put together the first live remote broadcast from Calvary.
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