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The ToonSeum Celebrates Pittsburgh Characters
Pittsburgh may have been built on steel, but it’s the people of the region that have continually transformed the area into something special. From Andrew Carnegie to Sophie Masloff, Andy Warhol to...
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woManos: The Hands of Fate
It all started when Godzilla visited the Steel City in 1876. Film school graduate Matthew Buchholz had been researching old photographs and illustrations of Pittsburgh when the idea of Photoshopping an...
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Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage
On September 8, 1966, millions of television viewers across the country embarked on a five years mission “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations,” and, more...
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Daleks Invade the Hollywood Theater
The British science fiction television series Doctor Who premiered on the BBC in November 1963. Although it met with success from the start, it wasn’t until the fifth episode that the show firmly...
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Tekko 2016 Descends Upon the Steel City
Have you ever thought about visiting Japan? Well, once a year, the City of Pittsburgh transforms itself into the Land of the Rising Sun as thousands of Steel City natives descend upon the David L....
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The ToonSeum Hosts a Cosplay Fundraiser
Cosplaying—the act of dressing up as a favorite character—has been around for over 100 years. The very first science fiction comic strip, Mr. Skygack, from Mars by A.D. Condo, premiered in 1907, for...
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Winter is Coming to the Mt. Lebanon Public Library
“When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die,” Cersei Lannister explains to Eddard Stark during the first season of the HBU drama. “There is no middle ground.”Despite such a dire warning,...
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Star Wars Night at PNC Park
To call Star Wars a cultural phenomenon is a vast understatement. For millions of fans around the world, Star Wars IS culture. The saga that George Lucas created back in 1977 serves not just as...
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To Boldly Go: The Graphic Art of Star Trek
The science fiction television series Star Trek premiered on NBC on September 8, 1966. Over the course of fifty years, what began as a simple TV show has evolved and endured to become one of the most...
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SWAN Day Pittsburgh 2015
It all started with a car ride and a stop for pizza. Chicago film critic Jan Lisa Huttner, who was instrumental in the 2004 formation of WITASWAN (Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now),...
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