What happened during the 31st Rock-A-Thon? In case you missed it, here’s a small recap of the highlights during the 67 hours of Pure College Radio Insanity: • Kevin and Andy (our Last DJ Standing competitors) went from totally pumped to totally pissed off to totally “I don’t care” to totally passed out. • Getting … Continue reading
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What happened during the 31st Rock-A-Thon?
Rock-A-Thon 2011: Tomorrow’s Shows
Rock-A-Thon 2011: Today’s Shows
Rock-A-Thon 2011: Tomorrow’s Contests
Rock-A-Thon 2011: Today’s Contests
2011 WPPJ Rock-A-Thon: The Great Pie Fiasco
Point Park Perfekshun (Episode 4): The Fabulous Firedrill Fiasco by Nate Zerambo
Point Park Perfekshun (Episode 4): The Fabulous Fire Drill Fiasco Dear Friends, My head is absolutely pounding right now, as if I’ve been attacked by a sledgehammer straight to the cranium. No need to worry though, I was NOT actually terribly assaulted, just abruptly woken up. Although with the amount of throbbing pain … Continue reading
Occupy Lawrence Hall Lobby Morning Show Segment
Point Park Campus News by Elizabeth Layhew
10/17/11 – 10/23/11 Point Park University is teaming up with Universities across Pittsburgh for Sock Drive For The Homeless. The mission of the drive is to raise 600 pairs of brand new socks to give out to the homeless. To donate, there will be designated donation boxes located around campus. The donation time period ends … Continue reading
Point Park Sportsbeat Blog by Zachary Weiss
First off, I would like to apologize for the lack of entry last week. There was no show two weeks ago thus no entry. Moving on to last week’s show, hosts Kevin Calhoun and Matt Desmond both ran through the soccer teams to open the show before breaking for a commercial. … Continue reading
Desert Island Albums by Wayne Weil
Desert Island Albums I was at a party not long ago with some friends from work. The conversation turned to a usual one at such parties over drinks. We’ve all had this conversation before. It begins with the question “If you were stranded on a deserted island, what three albums would you take?” It seems … Continue reading
Point Park Perfekshun (Episode 3): Waterfall Park by Nate Zerambo
Point Park Perfekshun (Episode 3): Redemption of the Abandoned Parking Lot Dear Friends, Most people were annoyed by the deafening noise of the construction on the Boulevard of the Allies that took place last month, but I actually enjoyed the ear-piercing reverberation pounding within my skull for ridiculously long hours. Alas, the monstrous roars of … Continue reading
Welcome to the New Review with Dennis Funk
Heya! I’m Dennis Funk or DJ Funk, which are my real initials believe it or not, though I DJ under the pseudonym Dada Dance. I will be one of your weekly bloggers here on the very lovely and beautiful WPPJ website. This is just my opinion, but I think people argue too much about music … Continue reading
Candy Segment by Nick Sperdute
Listen to the award winning DJ Nick Sperdute’s Candy Segment!
Point Park Sportsbeat Blog by Zachary Weiss
It was another great show last week on Point Park Sportsbeat, the first ever Point Park radio show to be exclusively about Point Park Sports. The show started with hosts Kevin Calhoun and Matt Desmond discussing the Point Park Sports teams at great length. The acknowledged the teams and what could be worked on. … Continue reading
Bloggin and Rollin with DJ Dylan James
Hey all! This is Dylan, or DJ Dylan James as some call me, with my first blog post! I’ll be posting every Tuesday with info on upcoming shows, reviews of past shows, and plenty of other bits of information you can use such as album reviews. And of course, feel free to tune into my … Continue reading
Point Park Sportsbeat Blog by Zachary Weiss
Hello this is Zachary Weiss, Assistant Executive Producer, once more with a recap of the past two weeks of Point Park Sportsbeat. On the second week of the show, we had sophomore defender Emily Levier from the Point Park Women’s Soccer Team come in and talk about the season, the starting of a new … Continue reading
Point Park Perfekshun (Episode 2): Ode to the Fabulous Food by Nate Zerambo
Dear Friends, Under the advanced and effective leadership of the new charming and charismatic chef, this semester Point Park will be taking significantly amazing steps towards enhancing the quality of the already wonderfully remarkable food service. First, they are renaming the campus restaurant on the third floor of Lawrence Hall from “Residential Dining Facility” (or … Continue reading
Point Park Sportsbeat Blog by Zachary Weiss
Since this is the first ever blog post for Point Park Sportsbeat, let me introduce everyone to you and tell you what we are about before we recap the first show. My name is Zachary Weiss, and I am the Assistant Executive Producer of Point Park Sportsbeat. My responsibilities are to take pictures of each … Continue reading
Tambourines include the talentless by Wayne Weil
The tambourine is the most useless musical instrument whatsoever. It is bunch of tiny cymbals, about as barely audible to the human ear as a dog whistle, placed on a frame. You need to be on some serious drugs to think you hear a tambourine, because without said drugs, you can’t. Not that I’m knocking … Continue reading