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Rosedart's Fliers and backdrop featured in the Pittsburgh Post gazette
Living with it, sticking with it: GLUE'burgh part 2 (Updated)
by Diana Nelson Jones/Sept 18
In the last post, I stated that Pittsburgh is sexy the way Paris is dirty.
What I mean is that "dirty" isn't the first thing anyone who hasn't been to Paris at least a few times would ascribe to Paris, just as "sexy" isn't the first thing anyone would ascribe to Pittsburgh unless he or she just gets it. A lot of people walk awash in Pittsburgh's sexiness because they have fallen deeply in love with it or been sucked in by its wiles, guiles and anti-styles. Other people get it because they delight in the quirky, the iconoclastic edge, the spurs and doglegs of our city streets, the honest gutsiness of its old-timers and the freakin' fantastic set of 712 outdoor stairways.
People who get it: The same people are intrigued by parallel universes, such as Alice's rabbit hole and Kinsella's infinite baseball game.
So many people want Pittsburgh to hold them because they love it. We now have as many former Pittsburghers as we have Pittsburghers, and they live all over the world. Germany, Arizona, Tangiers, Lichtenstein, the D.C. Beltway, St. Pete, Atlanta, Texas, Cranberry... and they devour our local news on-line, having wanted this city to hold them, too. Their love was a labor of contradiction: They couldn't live with it but they can't live without it.
The Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE) is gearing up to inform public officials of the conditions under which its members would stay if.... and the reasons why they are staying put for now -- in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and a few other cities.
Visit www.gluespace.org, where you will see a lot more than this intro:
Want to take the "rust" out of "Rustbelt"? Are you an advocate? A neighbor? A voter? A dot connector? The Great Lakes Urban Exchange needs your help to answer the question: what's right and what's wrong about my post-industrial city?
Join the movement for a “Rustbelt” Renaissance here on GLUEspace and via GLUE's offline activities in your sticky city. Become a member, tell your story, and help us collect, cross-pollinate, and replicate good ideas. Welcome to the mega-regional family.
Detroit's GLUE had its party in June. Pittsburgh GLUE held its "I Would Stay If..." party at the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty last night. It was one-part cocktail-mingle, one part workshop. About 120 people came and 75 of those chose to be photographed.
At every GLUE party in every Rust Belt/Lake Effect city, participants are being photographed holding their written responses to "I Would Stay If..." and "I Am Staying Because..."
The photo in this post (I know, it's too dark but hey...) is of Sarah Rubin, 27, executive director of the Hillman Center for Performing Arts in Fox Chapel. She held an "I Am Staying Because..." poster that read: "I am staying because I believe each neighborhood should have its own means of art." Obviously, she believes she can have some impact on that happening.
"I do," she said brightly. "I'm in a wonderful position to work with arts groups in many neighborhoods. I work with the African-American Music Institute in Homewood, the Neighborhood Academy in Garfield, and I can work with kids on how they wish to see themselves in the world."
Sarah, you are a re-enlivening person who makes me glad to be alive in the 'burgh.
Next, you will meet Michelle Coker, Melissa Osiecki and Carrie Hagan, but before I begin deliberating on the next installment and take care of a lot of other pesky chores of the workday, I want to leave you with the message on a flier I saw at the Shadow Lounge last night:
"The NAJP presents...We aren't waiting for the politicians! Change begins in Pittsburgh! Love, Rosedart."
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Posted Sep 18 2009, 11:05 AM by Diana Nelson Jones
by Diana Nelson Jones/Sept 18
In the last post, I stated that Pittsburgh is sexy the way Paris is dirty.
What I mean is that "dirty" isn't the first thing anyone who hasn't been to Paris at least a few times would ascribe to Paris, just as "sexy" isn't the first thing anyone would ascribe to Pittsburgh unless he or she just gets it. A lot of people walk awash in Pittsburgh's sexiness because they have fallen deeply in love with it or been sucked in by its wiles, guiles and anti-styles. Other people get it because they delight in the quirky, the iconoclastic edge, the spurs and doglegs of our city streets, the honest gutsiness of its old-timers and the freakin' fantastic set of 712 outdoor stairways.
People who get it: The same people are intrigued by parallel universes, such as Alice's rabbit hole and Kinsella's infinite baseball game.
So many people want Pittsburgh to hold them because they love it. We now have as many former Pittsburghers as we have Pittsburghers, and they live all over the world. Germany, Arizona, Tangiers, Lichtenstein, the D.C. Beltway, St. Pete, Atlanta, Texas, Cranberry... and they devour our local news on-line, having wanted this city to hold them, too. Their love was a labor of contradiction: They couldn't live with it but they can't live without it.
The Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE) is gearing up to inform public officials of the conditions under which its members would stay if.... and the reasons why they are staying put for now -- in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and a few other cities.
Visit www.gluespace.org, where you will see a lot more than this intro:
Want to take the "rust" out of "Rustbelt"? Are you an advocate? A neighbor? A voter? A dot connector? The Great Lakes Urban Exchange needs your help to answer the question: what's right and what's wrong about my post-industrial city?
Join the movement for a “Rustbelt” Renaissance here on GLUEspace and via GLUE's offline activities in your sticky city. Become a member, tell your story, and help us collect, cross-pollinate, and replicate good ideas. Welcome to the mega-regional family.
Detroit's GLUE had its party in June. Pittsburgh GLUE held its "I Would Stay If..." party at the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty last night. It was one-part cocktail-mingle, one part workshop. About 120 people came and 75 of those chose to be photographed.
At every GLUE party in every Rust Belt/Lake Effect city, participants are being photographed holding their written responses to "I Would Stay If..." and "I Am Staying Because..."
The photo in this post (I know, it's too dark but hey...) is of Sarah Rubin, 27, executive director of the Hillman Center for Performing Arts in Fox Chapel. She held an "I Am Staying Because..." poster that read: "I am staying because I believe each neighborhood should have its own means of art." Obviously, she believes she can have some impact on that happening.
"I do," she said brightly. "I'm in a wonderful position to work with arts groups in many neighborhoods. I work with the African-American Music Institute in Homewood, the Neighborhood Academy in Garfield, and I can work with kids on how they wish to see themselves in the world."
Sarah, you are a re-enlivening person who makes me glad to be alive in the 'burgh.
Next, you will meet Michelle Coker, Melissa Osiecki and Carrie Hagan, but before I begin deliberating on the next installment and take care of a lot of other pesky chores of the workday, I want to leave you with the message on a flier I saw at the Shadow Lounge last night:
"The NAJP presents...We aren't waiting for the politicians! Change begins in Pittsburgh! Love, Rosedart."
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Posted Sep 18 2009, 11:05 AM by Diana Nelson Jones
Sunday, October 4, 2009
From Rosedart: Michelle Field, positive thinker
Hello my name is…
Michelle Field
Aka…
The b***h with an off an on switch.
I was raised in…
Mount Lebanon, Pa
The reason that you’re reading about me is…
Because Rosedart loves me, and I cuz I'm real. I'm a realist.
Right now I’m working on…
cleaning my room and trying to fight through my a.d.d.
My most prized possession is…
It WAS a silver ring until I lost it, now I'm lost without it. I feel naked without it.
Second most prized...
My computer.
The first thing I do in the morning is…
Uh oh, probably yell at everyone, I'm not all that into the morning.
The last thing I do at night is…
Grab my teddy.
My momma always said…
marry a doctor or a lawyer
I love it when people…
are happy and funny
I can’t stand when people…
can't be real, if you don't like someone and you treat them nice to their face. I hate that.
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen is…
I haven't seen it yet.
The ugliest thing I’ve ever seen is…
Heartbreak.
If you ever see me walking down the street…
you'll be like "she is so fly..."
If I had to say sorry it would be because…
Someone didn't like my sarcastic comments.
The best advice I ever got...
My momma always says "don't ever let anyone use you." Also don't catch aids cuz you won't find out for seven years.
My plans for tomorrow include...
class, then work til six, then who knows. My life is a mystery.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Psalm 23 works for me, remember?
The Lord Is My Shepherd
A Psalm of David.
23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters. [1]
3 He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness [2]
for his name's sake.
4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, [3]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely [4] goodness and mercy [5] shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell [6] in the house of the Lord
forever. [7]
For those that mean me, and you harm. Let em' read this.
A Psalm of David.
23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters. [1]
3 He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness [2]
for his name's sake.
4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, [3]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely [4] goodness and mercy [5] shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell [6] in the house of the Lord
forever. [7]
For those that mean me, and you harm. Let em' read this.
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