Engagements & Weddings
Shay Meisinger and Jonathan Browne. (Val McCormick Photography.) Colby Freeman and Peter Meisinger of Manchester, Ct., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Shay Whitney Meisinger to Jonathan Paul Browne, son of Patrick and Janet Browne of Pittsburgh, Pa.
2012 Seen Calendar
Jan. 10: Homeless Children's Education Fund reception. At the Society for Contemporary Craft; 412-224-6067 Jan. 13: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Leadership & Diversity Awards-CORO Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts hosts 'Picture This!'
The powers that be at the Ward Home threw their hat into the social circle on Saturday by hosting its first-ever public benefit since its founding more than a century ago.
Young Achiever: Matthew J. Nemeth
Young Achiever Matthew J. Nemeth, a senior at North Allegheny High School, was a first-place winner in photojournalism at the 2011-12 Fairchild Challenge competition, a free multidisciplinary environmental education outreach program developed from the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, Fla.
MONDAY'S COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Dirty Gerund Poetry Series Pittsburgh poet William James and musical guest Mighty Tiny. 9 p.m. Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St., Worcester.
The photographs of Teenie Harris shine in a magnificent Carnegie Museum of Art exhibition
"Teenie" Harris, a photojournalist, created a vast chronicle of black life in Pittsburgh from the 1930s to the 1970s and revealed his own ebullient spirit through the visual record he left behind.
The Hot List: 01/26/12
ALL WEEKEND Hot Wheels On this off weekend for football -- aside from the ceremonial Pro Bowl -- the David L. Lawrence Convention Center will be home to cool cars, a wrestler, a swamp person and an exterminator. It's the 51st annual Baierl Subaru Pittsburgh World of Wheels, sporting a showroom filled with flashy, custom-built cars.
Young Achiever: Connor Uretsky
Connor Uretsky, 16 a junior at the Winchester Thurston School, received a Gold Key Award and an honorable mention as part of the Pittsburgh region submissions to the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and has been invited to exhibit his works at LaRoche College, McCandless, this month.
Progress takes big step on Pittsburgh's North Side
Exhausting dramas such as "Ben Hur" and "Gone With the Wind" played at the Garden Theater in its mainstream days, but none could match that of the theater's own finale, a death throe that played out interminably and paralyzed investment around it.