Iceland: Life continues in shadow of volcano
By Bryan Lawver, Point Park News Service REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Plumes of volcanic ash continue to billow from Iceland's Eyjafjalla glacier, grounding European flights, stranding travelers around the world and coating the countryside in a thick layer of gray dust.
Pittsburgh mixes Historic Architecture with the Technological Age
By: Jeanette Reft While Mayor Luke Ravenstahl currently serves in the office of a nearly 100-year-old building, he is the first Pittsburgh mayor to publicly keep up with the modern age of technology.
Pittsburgh: A city for a poet, that doesn’t even know it.
By Jeanette Reft, Point Park News Service Nathan Mallory, co-owner of Cannon Coffee in Brookline, did not envision having a plain, boring spot for locals to drink coffee.
The feed: Pittsburgh journalists discuss the values and disadvantages of gathering news through social networks
By Faith Cotter Special to the Point Park News Service When the Steel City was blasted with an unusually large amount of snow at the beginning of February, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reporter Mackenzie Carpenter used her know-how with the social networking site Twitter to keep on top of snowstorm news.
He makes art of hanging it
Q and A with Art Handler, Marc Burgess By Rachel Tokarski, For Point Park News Service A fulltime employee at Downtown’s Wood Street Galleries, Marc Burgess, 27, of Bloomfield, has been working for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for three years. Always having a love for the arts, and being an artist himself, he attended C.A.P.A. and the School for the Arts Institute of Chicago. Now, Burgess helps install art pieces from artists around the world.
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