Artists Image Resource
A full print shop facility for practicing artists and students, AIR also has a gallery, frequent events, open studio nights, more.

Handmade Arcade
Pittsburgh’s first indie crafts fair, held in November. This minimal site provides information about the fair and applying for a space. Also includes some press and photos.

Space gallery
SPACE is probably the largest (and, generally, the hippest) of the Cultural Trust galleries, showing mostly local, some national artists.

Modern Formations
A gallery and performance space in Garfield, established in 2001.

Manchester Craftsmans Guild
Classes for all ages, gallery spaces, jazz performance space.

“Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is a multi-discipline, minority directed, center for arts and learning that employs the visual and performing arts to foster a sense of accomplishment and hope in the urban community”.

Wood Street Galleries
This Cultural Trust gallery is new media and video-heavy, showing national and international artists.

Pittsburgh Glass Center
Glass studio facility and gallery.

Digging Pitt
An independent gallery run by John Morris. This site also includes John’s blog on the arts scene in Pittsburgh.

Clay Penn
A ceramics studio and gallery owned by Laura Jean Mclaughlin.

Paint and Body
A now-defunct art/performance venue in Garfield, run by Lauri Mancuso.

Pittsburgh Art Review
An online open forum for reviews and criticism of art exhibitions in Pittsburgh. Create an account and post a review.

Free Ride
Free Ride! is a non-profit recycle-a-bike shop that educates people on how to recondition used, donated bicycles.

Bike Pittsburgh
An organization committed to making Pittsburgh increasingly safe, accessible, and friendly to bicycle transportation.

maphub.com/map.php
Maphub and Bike Pgh have collaborated on a resource for cyclists to show where accidents have occurred and identify problem spots around the city. On the map, select Bike PGH: Bike Hit Hub to view.

Construction Junction
Architectural and materials salvage. Also organize "SALVO" a salvage arts event and fashion show.

Dreaming Ant
Movie rentals--very hip.

Jerry's Records
Huge selection of vinyl, all genres.

Copacetic comics

720 records

Need some community stuff--
got any suggestions?

filmkitchen.org
A monthly screening of local video artists held the second Tuesday of every month.

pghfilmmakers.org
Filmmakers runs three theaters (Melwood Screening Room, Harris Theater, and Regent Square Theater) and offers classes in film and video at their facility in upper Oakland.

I Heart Pittsburgh
A well-organized, intelligently written, daily update of happenings and interesting things around Pittsburgh, covering art/culture, sports, kids events, festivals, food, and more.

Pittsburgh Dish
“Writing about local issues that escape the eye of traditional media”

PIttsburgh Bloggers
A long list of Pittsburgh-based blogs.

“Pghbloggers.org is a social organization dedicated to bringing local bloggers together, online and in person”

This is Happening
The go-to site for information about what’s going on. You can subscribe and get a customized list of current happenings, and the Editor’s Picks are always a good overview of the best/most interesting events each week.

giststreet.org
The Gist Street reading series is held monthly at sculptor James Simon’s Uptown studio.

unicornmountain.com
A cross-disciplinary arts collective that publishes a loosely-themed comic anthology/literary journal/music compilation showcasing the work of underground illustrators, comic artists, writers and musicians.

newyinzer.com
In their words: “The New Yinzer is a literary organization whose mission is to question, develop, and embody the newly emergent identity of Pittsburgh by way of literary discourse while also providing regional writers with a working classroom in which to cultivate their writing from a fresh idea to a finished product”. (For out-of-towners: a Yinzer is local slang for a Pittsburgh native--”yinz” means the same thing as “y’all” does in the South).

thebigideapgh.org
A bookstore dedicated to alternative, multicultural, woman-positive, queer-positive, class-conscious material and all the things that promote a sustainable community.

radio.indypgh.org
Rustbelt Radio, Pittsburgh Indymedia's weekly radio program featuring news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media. Stream or download program.

wrct.org
WRCT is the radio station at Carnegie Mellon University. Listen on the Internet.

brillobox.net
Brillobox is a restaurant, a bar, and on the second floor, a club, with bands, performances, and Thursdays music fit for dancing, deejay’d by Pandemic.

clubcafelive.com
An intimate nightclub featuring local, regional and national artists across a range of music genres. Cocktails and small menu.

quietstormcoffee.com
A coffee shop/restaurant, kid-friendly (lots of toys), a music venue (on Fridays and Saturdays).

therobotoproject.org
“ The Mr. Roboto Project is a cooperatively-run show space, art gallery and zine library located in Wilkinsburg (right outside the Pittsburgh city limits.) Our aim is to create a comfortable and open space for people to experience a true DIY (do-it-yourself) community.”

shadowlounge.net

31stpub.com

mrsmalls.com

gzpgh.com
In their own words, “Ground Zero is an open network of doers, makers and creative people who collaborate on projects focused on Pittsburgh's urban environment and culture”. Founded in 2000, the group is currently mostly inactive, but their website shows the variety of their projects and activities.

bewellpgh.org
A Western PA-targeted resource of information compiled from various sources on healthcare options for the uninsured. Add or edit resources, leave comments.