The second annual Geek Art / Green Innovation Festival or GA/GI Festival 2 is coming on April 1st and 2nd. The event showcases the best of eco, technology and the arts here in Pittsburgh. Friday night's "Unblurred" event takes place between 4900-5740 Penn Avenue in Friendship and has over 150 artists, galleries and businesses participating with art, eco and technology displays. Saturday features family activities, artist markets and fashion at the Union Project, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Glass Lofts (which incidentally are cool industrial condos for sale with some big incentives). You can find out more on the GA/GI Festival at their website, http://gagifest11.blogspot.com/ Interested in living green in Pittsburgh? Call Christa Ross from RE/MAX Select Realty, at 724-933-6300 x214 (offi... 03/14/2011

Car Free Fridays – East LibertyJune 18th Friday, June 187:30 am - 10:00 am Make a statement. Go Car Free on Fridays! Sign up for the June edition of Car Free Fridays at the following events and activities to receive the East Liberty discount voucher and enter the monthly raffle. Whole Foods Market, East Liberty – bicycle there and get breakfast! Meet Pittsburgh Bike Czar Stephen Patchan Minor biker repairs provided by Trek of Pittsburgh Fifth Avenue Place, Downtown – bicycle there and get breakfast! Minor biker repairs provided by Chris from Thick Bikes Green Gears Pedicab will provide complimentary rides from Port Authority’s Wood Street Station to anywhere in the Golden Triangle. William Pitt Union, Fifth Avenue, Oakland – bicycle there and get breakfast! Minor biker repairs provided ... 06/17/2010

East Liberty is a historic and culturally diverse neighborhood located in Pittsburgh’s East End. Through its history East Liberty has had some big ups and downs. One look at the amazing East Liberty Presbyterian Church (my daughter calls it a princess castle) and architecturally interesting buildings on Penn Avenue and it is easy to glimpse East Liberty’s booming past. Unfortunately, this area was also the victim of misguided urban development policy. By the mid 1970’s it was best known for abandoned storefronts and high crime. The good news is that East Liberty has been working its way back up the ranks of Pittsburgh neighborhoods, thanks in part to an aggressive nonprofit community development corporation, East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI). ELDI has spearheaded the recovery of the... 08/25/2009