venangago-go: October 31, 2009 – Photographing Halloween, The Pillowman, Call for extras, and Free and Legal Downloads

Involving young adults with non-profits? Don’t those crazy Pittsburghers know that youths must be marginalized and progressed stymied?

A five-year art program that students and faculty agree created a special energy in the halls of Titusville Middle School has come to an end, but the fruits of the endeavor - five bronze statues bearing the likeness of TMS students - are permanently a part of the school's landscape.

Allegheny College’s Playshop Theatre will open its 80th season with Martin McDonagh’s thriller The Pillowman in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre at the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts. The play will be performed Nov. 5-8, with productions at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

The Pillowman contains strong language, violence and situations that some may find unsettling. The play is recommended for mature audiences only.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $7.50 for non-Allegheny students, senior citizens and Allegheny employees. Although admission is free for Allegheny students with identification, they are asked to make reservations. For more information or to order tickets, contact the Playshop Theatre box office at (814) 332-3414.

Hundreds of extras are needed for the movie The Last Vampire on Earth. Interested people should meet at the Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., at 3 p.m. Monday, said casting director Linda Weaver.

Needed are college-age people, skateboarders, hippies, guitar player, rapper and random students. Extras don’t need to preregister and can just show up to participate. Call (330) 758-4417 for more information.

Does Pitt's Cathedral of Learning host a ghost?

How to Photograph Halloween Costumes

Jim Kronmiller asks, Why would a photographer teach other photographers?

The Keystone View Company was a major distributor of stereographic images, and was located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. From 1892 through 1963 Keystone produced and distributed both educational and comic/sentimental stereoviews, and stereoscopes. By 1905 it was the world's largest stereographic company. I bring this up because goodwill is selling a collection of 256 of its images for about fifty cents per, at the om,ent,.

Greg Runco is creating and posting weekly installments about Jazz in Pittsburg on YouTube.

To coincide with the Hoyt Associated Artists 2009 Holiday Exhibition the Hoyt Institute is holding its 3rd annual Brewfest on Saturday November 14, 2009 . Breweries present will be...
-Church Brew Works
-East End Brewery
-Erie Brewing Co.
-Great Lakes Brewery
-Penn Brewery
-Rock Bottom Brewery
-Wolavers Brewery(Vermont)
Tickets are $35(non-Hoyt members) and $25(Hoyt members).

Allegheny College will take visitors on a journey to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, unveiling unprecedented mural-sized images of the galaxy’s core as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at Pelletier Library, located at the corner of North Main and East College Streets on the Allegheny campus. As part of the event, James Lombardi, associate professor of physics at Allegheny College, will discuss how the images were taken and what they imply about the center of the Milky Way.

For more information about this event, please contact James Lombardi, associate professor of physics, at (814) 332-2975 or jalombar@allegheny.edu.

Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult within 25 years

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