Christmas Schellville drew 163,000 people in 2022. (Schell Brothers)

Ho-ho-ho! Classic Delaware area Christmas traditions await

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines, RSS-Culture, Weekly Review

Here are some memorable spots to mark Christmas in Delaware and just over the border into Pennsylvania. Be prepared: some places required advance tickets, sell out or will be crowded. Longwood Gardens, for instance, drew 572,000 people in 2022 for its spectacular Christmas displays, and Schellville drew 163,000 for its extravaganza. These event run for weeks. There’s a separate list …

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Brighten up dark nights with these merry light displays

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

If you’re looking for a little holiday magic to brighten up the dark nights of winter, look no farther than the Wilmington Riverfront, where a two-mile stretch of the Riverwalk will be lit up for the Holiday Magic at Riverbright Wilmington. It’s one of more than a dozen of holiday light displays in the region, many of them free, like …

DelawareLive Sept 3

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – September 3, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Review Includes: Here’s a chance to own a piece of Barry’s, Ginger’s collection Rockwood’s new Goth Ball to usher in spooky season Del. toughens rules on motorcycle helmets, eye protection Study: Goldey-Beacom best at giving hand up economic ladder 1st Latinos student summit to celebrate culture, voice Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

DelawareLive July 16

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – July 16, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Review Includes: Loop coalition: Finish walkable bike trail around Wilmington Delaware Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ comes to Rockwood this month DRBA details millions going to bridge, airport infrastructure Bodhi Kitchen opens in Rehoboth; My Sister’s Fault reopens Wilm. city council adamantly refuses to censure Oliver Milford votes to decrease taxes for next year 4 local baseball stars find out their …

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Delaware Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ comes to Rockwood this week

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Delaware Shakespeare returns to Rockwood Park this month with the three witches taking on a more central role than usual. “The witches enjoy chaos as a tool for learning,” said AZ Espinoza, who returns to DelShakes to direct the Scottish play, in a press release. “They lean into the power of the natural world to seek balance and to remind …

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These holiday lights will help you get your glow on

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  We might be living through the golden age of holiday lights displays. Whether you want inside or out, huge or just enough, artistic or deliberately tacky, walk-through or drive-through, free or you’re willing to pay, there’s a display for you either here in the First State or right over the state line. In Delaware, many of the displays have …

DelawareLive Oct 16

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Oct. 16, 2022

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Delaware retailers must accept cash under new law Milford’s Ashley Lockwood named 2023 teacher of year Boost ‘22 collab results in 88% of city students graduating Culture ‘Revisionists’ is latest addition to haunted NCC scene Wilmington glass artisan specializes in cremation art Business Low-cost …

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Festival fun: Ice cream, Midsommar compete for attention Saturday

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  Ice cream or Swedish meatballs? That’s the decision festival goers will have to make Saturday, June, 25, as both the New Castle County’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival at Rockford Park and the first Midsommar Festival at the Old Swedes Historic Site compete for your summer fun attention. There’s music, vendors and food at both. But only one has ice …

Smaller Rockwood festival – but with lots of ice cream

Betsy PriceEntertainment, Events, Headlines

The Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival at Rockwood Park (New Castle County) Rockwood Park will host a scaled-down ice cream festival 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 26. Confirmed ice cream vendors include Cinnamon Bun Exchange, Dino’s Ice Cream Truck, the Ice Cream Shoppe, Kilby Cream, Kona Ice, Paleteria y Neveria Tocumbo, UDairy Creamery and Woodside Farm Creamery. Live local music …