On Stage: Celebrating 50 years of Nektar at The Flash
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Nektar
Nektar means different things to different people.
It could be a keyboard controller, a scientific research company from San Francisco, or a manufacturer of honey crystals.
To some, Nektar could mean a fine dining restaurant in Mexico’s Yucatan region, a juice bar in Greece or a wine bar in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
For music fans, Nektar...
Don’t Retire – ReFire: New Year! New Decade! New Beginnings?
By Gail Suplee Tatum, Columnist, The Times
So many of us enter the New Year with great expectations and high hopes for a year greater than the year before. In order to accomplish that, we look for ways to start over and improve ourselves. We’re ready to turn over a new leaf, to make things different, to get ahead, and to achieve greatness.
Whether resolutions were made or not, my guess is that...
Bennett announces run for 160th District
Amber Bennett
Amber Bennett of Upper Chichester announced Monday that she will seek the Republican nomination for State Representative in the 160th District, seeking to replace retiring State Rep. Steve Barrar.
The 160th is split between the southern tier of Chester County, including Kennett, Kennett Square, Pennsbury, Pocopson, as well as Delaware County, with Chadds Ford, Concord, Bethel and...
In wake of pipeline settlement, Dinniman says DEP fails to manage pipeline projects
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has fined a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners more than $30 million, but appears to have green-lit resumption of construction on various ETP pipeline projects including Mariner East II — leaving one local state legislator, state Sen. Andy Dinniman (D-19), expressing anger at the state’s inability...
What To Do: First Friday of 2020 is a busy one
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
If you want to get out of the house and do something fun this weekend, you do have some interesting options.
The first Friday of the month is a good time to check out a First Friday event. This weekend, two good choices are Kennett Square and Lancaster.
January 3 will be the opening day of the 2020 season for the Kennett Square Winter Farmers Market...
On Stage: Badfish offers ‘Sublime’ show at TLA
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Badfish
Sublime may be gone but the music of the ska punk band from Southern California lives on.
When a trio loses its guitarist/vocalist/primary songwriter, it usually spells the end of the band. Such was the case with Sublime when the trio’s main man Brad Nowell died in 1996.
The music of Sublime lives on through Badfish, a Sublime tribute band...
2020: Happy New Year!
A very Happy and Healthy New Year to all of our readers, advertisers, supporters and friends.
We hope the new year brings prosperity and good news.
We’ll be enjoying a bit of down time for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, but be right back with fresh content on Thursday, Jan. 2.
Again — may 2020 be a happy, healthy and positive year for you and your family.
On Stage: Slambovian Circus of Dreams enjoys Philly NYE tradition
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Slambovian Circus of Dreams
The Mummers Parade is a great Philadelphia tradition.
It dates back more than a century, has its roots in South Philadelphia and is always held on January 1.
There is another Mummers tradition in Philadelphia.
It dates back more than a decade, has its roots in South Philadelphia and is always held on December 30.
Some...
What To Do: Ring in the new year in style
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Kennett Square Mushroom Drop
New Year’s Eve is about partying – dining, drinking, welcoming the new year and…partying.
The biggest party night of the year is the highlight of the schedule for the next week. Tuesday night is December 31 – New Year’s Eve.
On New Year’s Eve, Kennett Square will be partying in style at its annual “Midnight...
Inner Nature: Gender — sex made visible
By Vidya Rajan, Columnist, The Times
Charles Darwin concluded his seminal “Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” with this immortal paragraph: “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,...
