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Tom Roberts

January 25, 2014 – 3:43 pm
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From 1/25/14: Tom Roberts previewing his new score for The Pawnshop, one of the films featured on 1/26 (2 pm) at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont as part of a celebration of Charlie Chaplin made possible in part by The Sprout Fund and including a discussion led by Pittsburgh’s Dan Kamin

2014 GRAMMY Nominees for Best Children’s Album

January 18, 2014 – 6:58 pm
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From 1/18/14: Live interviews with the performers nominated for the 2014 GRAMMY Award for Best Children’s Album

YES: Hope Academy Teen Theater Company

January 18, 2014 – 6:57 pm
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From 1/18/14: Hope Academy Teen Theater Company with songs they’ll perform at the 5th Annual East Liberty Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 1/20, noon

YES: Girls of Steel Robotics

January 18, 2014 – 6:48 pm
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From 1/18/14: Members of the Girls of Steel Robotics team sharing their experience with the robot-building kickoff event held earlier this month

South Side Stories with Tami Dixon

January 18, 2014 – 6:44 pm
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From 1/18/14: Tami Dixon with an excerpt from her acclaimed one-woman play South Side Stories, on stage at City Theatre through 1/26

YES: Gemini Theater’s “A Pirate Princess Adventure”

January 11, 2014 – 5:11 pm
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From 1/11/14: Gemini Theater with a scene from “A Pirate Princess Adventure”, running 1/11 to 2/2

YES: A+ Schools Teen Bloc

January 11, 2014 – 4:55 pm
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From 1/11/14: A+ Schools Teen Bloc students on their recently-created Students Bill of Rights.

ENOUGH Violence

January 4, 2014 – 3:44 pm
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From 1/4/13: Our series in collaboration with Society for Contemporary Craft and its ENOUGH Violence exhibit continues as we welcome Dr. Rolf Loeber, Ph.D, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Loeber joins us to discuss his research and the impetus for the ENOUGH Violence exhibit.

YES: South Asia Youth Summit Delegates

January 4, 2014 – 3:08 pm
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From 1/4/14: Ten Pittsburgh-area high school delegates to the South Asia Youth Summit discussing their travel to Nepal and Sri Lanka as well as their creation of.Pittsburgh Youth: Feed it Forward to improve environmental and human health in Pittsburgh and visit local middle schools to teach younger students about healthy food

YES: Pittsburgh Music Academy Cellists

January 4, 2014 – 2:56 pm
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From 1/4/14: Pittsburgh Music Academy cellists Jonah Rosenberg (9, Squirrel Hill), Clara …