Blog of Josh Hall

Checking out BoringPGH.com the other day and stumbled on this gem.  I’ve never heard of the band Formula412 before, but I dig it.  The video is pretty decent, and I really like the concept.  Might even make PAT Transit look cool…if that’s possible.  It was done by Bill Paladino, who you’d recognize as the guy […]

I’m giving away free tickets to see Pittsburgh Native and 4 time X-Games gold medalist Adam Jones on Jauary 29th! Adam is currently ranked third overall in the ASA World Championships of FMX, and has three AST Dew Tour wins and he’s from the ‘Burgh! He makes the stop with the freestyle motocross tour, Nuclear […]

The hill district has the first-in-the-nation off-campus university-run community pharmacy!  If you remember back with all the grocery store talks, Kuhn’s was supposed to build a full service store with a pharmacy in it, but now that they backed up, Duquesnse University stepped up and built one.  I’m excited to see the relationship with the […]

Carnegie Mellon architecture students put together a huge study an redesign of Pittsburgh’s urban landscaping and planning. One idea included a ski lift like cable car that would go from the top of the civic arena area down to the David Lawrence Convention center (page 103 of the report).  Some other ideas included a water […]

There’s a new webisode (online episodes) called footnote, and the first episode features how people live in community and interact with one another. Pittsburgh was chosen, and it’s a pretty cool picture of some of the more unique groups in the city. (features some friends as well) You’ll have to follow the link to watch […]

Pittsburgh Housing Authority announced their plan to demolish Addison Terrace in the Hill District. If this goes through, it will only leave the Bedford Dwellings as the last remaining barracks style housing projects in the Hill District. For those of you not familiar with the Hill but hear about shootings and crime, 99.9% of all […]