What To do: Valentine’s is over, but wine and chocolate are forever
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
This is always the deadest time of year for activities and special events.
Winter arrived in December. Now, all the holidays — Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, Dia de los Reyes, Valentine’s Day, Carnival and Mardi Gras — are in the rear-view mirror.
And winter, which is bleaker this year than most, is still here.
Fortunately,...
What To do: Football? Love is in the air, too
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Next weekend, there will be a wide array of holiday events – many dealing with chocolate and wine.
The Chaddsford Winery (632 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford, 610-388-6221, http://www.chaddsford.com) is getting a jump on the rest with an event starting this weekend.
Every Saturday and Sunday through February...
What To Do: Beat the winter blues by getting outside for fun
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
One way to deal with winter is to get outside and celebrate it rather than staying inside and hiding from it.
This weekend, there is a great way to be out in the open air enjoying a winter event — “Chestnut Hill on Ice.”
“Chestnut Hill on Ice” (Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill, chestnuthillpa.com) is scheduled for January 29 from...
What To Do: Pea Soup Supper goes virtual for 2021
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Pea Soup meal
Late January is usually a time when the calendar features welcome annual events such as the Kennett Chocolate Lovers Festival, STEMtastic Weekends at Hagley Museum, Motorsports Race Car & Trade Show at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, the classy elite car show at Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia,...
Longwood Gardens announces Winter Wonder display, opening Jan. 23
KENNETT SQUARE — Longwood Gardens today announced Winter Wonder, a new display that invites guests to experience the often-overlooked beauty and serenity of the winter landscape outside, as well as the colorful exuberance of the tropics inside Longwood’s Conservatory. In addition to the horticultural splendor, Winter Wonder features Voices in the Landscape: Deeply Rooted with Storyteller Charlotte...
What To Do: A time before dinosaurs
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
The Academy of Natural Sciences
During normal times, a visit to a museum was a great way to break up the winter doldrums that accompany January, February and March. This winter, COVID-19 restrictions forced area museums to shutter their doors in late 2020.
Fortunately, restrictions on museums have just been lifted by the state. Like a phoenix rising...
What To Do: Despite many cancellations, Santa still coming to West Chester
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
These crazy times just keep getting crazier – and scarier.
COVID-19 infections and deaths are spiking in Pennsylvania and nearby New Jersey and Delaware. As a result, the states’ governors have been ramping up the restrictions and calling for shutdowns throughout the area.
Philadelphia has been hit with the toughest restrictions but Pennsylvania in...
On Stage: With live shows dwindling, Greg Sover adapts to new realities
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
The Greg Sover Band
Live music in the area is still alive (barely) – not quite dead (completely).
Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 restrictions have made it hard for live venues to keep presenting music on stage. It is much worse in Philadelphia where the city’s additional restrictions have closed things down entirely.
Sellersville is 37.5 miles from...
What To Do: Holiday season roars in with new, family-safe events
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
Thanksgiving has passed and Black Friday has arrived. That means the Christmas season has reached the top of the holiday rollercoaster and is now slamming downhill – full force at faster miles an hour.
Even though COVID-19 restrictions have eliminated a lot – a whole lot – of traditional area holiday activities, there are still holiday events everywhere...
What To Do: A holiday season like no other gets under way
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
Longwood Gardens
The number of days left in the countdown to Thanksgiving 2020 is in single digits. We all know that Thanksgiving is the traditional “unofficial” start of the Christmas holiday season – even though the season commercially “started” when Christmas items were being stocked on stores’ shelves on Labor Day Weekend and “Black Friday”...
