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Outside My Window: a Bird Watcher's View of the World

with Kate St. John
WQED's computer guru Kate St. John is also an avid birder . . . and blogger!

Dolls' Eyes in the Spring - (posted: 05/18/2013)
Last weekend at Slippery Rock Gorge I found spikes of white flowers surrounded by compound leaves. At first I thought it was Black Snakeroot (Actaea racemosa) but my Newcomb's Wildflower Guide reminded me that snakeroot doesn't bloom until the... more

It's A Boy! - (posted: 05/17/2013)
This morning at the Cathedral of Learning Dorothy and E2's chick was weighed measured given a health check and banded. He's in great health and yes he's a boy. Above he shows off his enormous feet normal size for a 22 day old peregrin... more

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Rick Sebak's blog

Rick Sebak's Blog

WQED TV producer and PITTSBURGH Magazine back-page writer writes about his current work and assorted other things


Whew! BREAKFAST SPECIAL 2: REVENGE OF THE OMELETS is at PBS! - (posted: 11/05/2012)
It's November 5 2012. It's our deadline for delivery of the tape of our new program BREAKFAST SPECIAL 2 REVENGE OF THE OMELETS and I think we've made it. I spent most of the morning on the phone with two good natured and patient folks at... more

Looking for the Vale of Cashmere! - (posted: 01/15/2012)
My friend and sometimes editor Matt Conrad sent me an email today and said some folks on reddit.com were posting questions about how to find the ruins of the Vale of Cashmere that we showed in our recent IT'S PITTSBURGH program called NORTH PARK VS.... more

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Chris Chat: a blog about food and family with Chris Fennimore

Chris Chat: a blog about food and family
with Chris Fennimore


SCOTCH EGGS - (posted: 03/18/2013)
So Rick Sebak and I made these on the OVER EASY show last week and everyone wants the recipe. Well technically we showed the recipe to entice people to become members of the station and to get the DVD's and the cookbook. But since the recipe i... more

BIG NIGHT SEATS STILL AVAILABLE - (posted: 04/02/2012)
We're getting ready to cut the Timpano We has such a great response to the Big Night Dinner at D'Imperio's on Monday May 7 that we decided to add another night. There are still some seats available for the dinner on Monday April 30. It will... more

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WQED-FM PSO Tour Blog

WQED-FM
PSO Tour Blog

with Jim Cunningham

Luxembourg Deluxe - (posted: 11/10/2012)
The Pittsburgh Symphony's 2012 European Residency Tour has closed with another rapturous audience roaring its approval of the Tchaikovsky Sibelius and Stucky program with encores and Manfred Honeck conducting. It was a slog to get here... more

Stuttgart Liederhalle - (posted: 11/09/2012)
The ride from Frankfurt to Stuttgart was smooth. I admired the nice fall colors in the leaves of trees along the Autobahn. We arrived late and it was tough because the players went right to the stage of the Liederhalle to rehearse Tchaikovsky's Fift... more

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