Re: (TV) Scenes

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 12:06 PM -0500 7/16/01, Ken Thompsen wrote:
> Well, you sound better off than me.

OTOH, my best amp comes from San Antonio.  'Course, the company that 
made it went out of business in the '70s.

> Tell me, is Pittsburgh as really as
> dusky and metallic (industrial) as it is portrayed?

You be the judge: http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/weather/actioncams/

Interesting that you ask.  A few days ago was the 109th anniversary 
of the battle of the Homestead strike.  I can look out my back door 
and see the location across the river.  The mill came down some years 
ago, and there's a megastore shopping center there now.  (ObTV 
content: Richard Lloyd spent part of his childhood in Homestead.)

The city's cleaned up over the years. Not much manufacturing now, but 
there's still a manufacturing-mindset in many ways, mostly in a 
desire to bring in some big corporate sugar-daddy.  It's not going to 
happen.  Meanwhile, a lot of local things--startups, merchants, 
artists, musicians--are ignored.  At the civic level, at least.  But 
that's probably true in many places.   And it's fairly cheap to live 
here.

> Anyway, my question pertains not only to what music you guys are digging,
> but theatre, poetry, etc..

There is a theatre scene here, although I'm not really a theatre 
person.  There are some very active people in poetry, also...  And a 
lot of openings.

> And maybe if I should just pack my bags and burn. Whatever you offer, I
> appreciate all the answers...

Chicago has a hell of an impressive scene, actually... (We've lost a 
number of people to Chicago.)

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Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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