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Our second program. We're not dead yet! A bar and a breakfast.
The Pittsburgh Glass Center holds a design competition to come up with a new martini glass! And we share the saga of Cooking Up A Breakfast Special, showing the sequence of how we shot too many places for one PBS documentary!
A big hodgepodge? A big surprise birthday party. A big question about sandwiches. A big sandwich in Oakland. A beloved small business on the South Side.
It's a holiday program! Light Up Night! Interesting old photos! Brightly decorated houses! Beloved places in the Strip! Did someone bring eggnog?
A tasty show. We have breakfast in Philadelphia at Carman's Country Kitchen. We stop at Max's Allegheny Tavern for sauerkraut and more. And we get dessert at Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor in the Strip District.
It's a one-day bicycle ride around Pittsburgh. It covers 13 very steep hills. It's a test of strength, endurance, biking skills and human perseverence. It's called the DIRTYDOZEN. It was started in 1983 by Danny Chew, his brother and some of their friends. It's now a Pittsburgh tradition and an extraordinary celebration of our city's terrain!
Rick is looking for new friends and talks about 3 of his recent documentaries with PITTSBURGHin their titles: WHATMAKESPITTSBURGHPITTSBURGH?, UNDERGROUNDPITTSBURGH and INVENTED, ENGINEERED& PIONEEREDINPITTSBURGH. Get all 3 shows on DVDs for a $60 membership at WQED!
It's a thank-you note to historian and author Brian Butko, a look back at many of his appearances in our WQED programs over the years!
WQED-TV is 57 years old this year, and we celebrate this "Heinz Year" by looking at the Heinz legacy in Pittsburgh: Heinz factories, Heinz History Center, Heinz Hall and Heinz Field. It's ketchup!
It's a donut show! We check out good ones from Steuben Street in Pittsburgh's Elliott neighborhood to Baker Tom's on the big island of Hawaii. It's a celebration of bakeries and some of the best things we eat in the morning.
They are the Pittsburgh region's two largest and oldest county parks. Both opened on June 18, 1927, and both are full of good surprises. Which is better? Wanna fight?
It's a giant sort-of-Victorian holiday village covered in candy! It's an astounding work of folk art. It's Gingerbread Lane. We follow its creator, chef Jon Lovitch, from icing in February to assembling in November at Station Square. Sweet stuff!
In June 2012, the North Side Leadership Conference held a special North Side Sandwich Week competition at the Penn Brewery. Cameraman Bob Lubomski and producer Rick Sebak went to sample some of the sandwiches (like the Roethlisburgers in the photo -- they were cut into smaller pieces!), and now we've put together this report celebrating ten great spots to get outstanding North Side sandwiches.
The local art scene, job prospects and affordability were some of the reasons why Pittsburgh has received national honors for being one of the “most livable” cities in the country. But what we want to know is why the folks who call our fair city home live here. What’s brought them here and, perhaps more importantly, what keeps them around year after year. Why live here is the question and Rick Sebak seeks out the answer from the people in this “most livable” city.
This program is a sampler of "Extras" from 3 of our Pittsburgh History Series specials. From RIGHT BESIDE THE RIVER, Nic DiSio from Reyna Foods shows us how he makes tortilla chips in Cadogan, PA, and we talk to folks in California, PA, about an old movie of their town in 1938. Then we share some extra bits from UNDERGROUND PITTSBURGH and WHAT MAKES PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH? Good fun stuff!
Rick Sebak presents a program about the many wonderful things about Millvale.
We celebrate the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Squirrel Hill Tunnels! Looking at history, the ongoing renovation project, and some surprises, including help from Sam Hall, WTAE's traffic reporter.
We look back on some of the best bits from IT'SPITTSBURGH's first season! Donuts in Elliott, breakfast at Square Cafe and Hot Metal Diner, a stupendous bike ride up Pittsburgh thirteen steepest hills, and lots more.
It's a goofy celebration of some programs produced and narrated by Rick Sebak at WQED. It's also a pledge program with rank amateurs doing pledge breaks! It's a revelation! And you can get all 33 Sebak DVDs as a thank-you if you pledge $400. That's a bargain!