Pittsburgh, PA - March 3 -12, 2006 - 25th Annual Duquesne Light Home and Garden Show’s Post-Gazette/Bidwell Dream Garden. This collaboration between the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Bidwell Training Center Horticulture Technology Program opens Friday, March 3, 2006.

Where: David L. Lawrence Convention Center

Created by the Post-Gazette’s Backyard Gardener Doug Oster with Bidwell Training Center’s Horticulture Technology Program students.

The “Dream Garden” is a 2000 square foot space consisting of a series of themed gardens. Included are raised beds which provide the perfect viewing opportunity for gardeners of all ages. Some of these beds have viewing windows which allow visitors to see the “magic” that evolves under the garden’s surface. Educational in scope, the display is packed with practical gardening tips and design ideas guaranteed to inspire and motivate even those of us without “green thumbs”. (more…)

By Ed Masley, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Twenty years ago, when the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild began presenting jazz in what Marty Ashby recalls with a smile as “a burnt-out industrial park,” he and Bill Strickland used to drive around town picking people up just to get them inside the legendary North Side venue that since has hosted such masters as Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson and Wynton Marsalis.

For the full Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06062/663873-42.stm

One of the longest running jazz subscription series in the country, MCG Jazz celebrates its 20th season (PDF) with more than 100 events.