May 1, 2013
Spring and summer are synonymous with flowers and plants of all sort. Get ready to prep your home and garden for the warmer weather this weekend at Chestnut Hill’s Home and Garden Festival. From 11 a.m to 5 p.m on Sunday, May 5, Germantown Avenue between Rex and Willow Grove Avenues blooms with colorful plants, [...]
Read more»March 12, 2013
The San Francisco based Alonzo King LINES Ballet Discovery Project will be coming to Philadelphia for the first time ever to lead dancers in a four day instructive course. The group will be coming to the Philadelphia Dance Theater from March 14-17. The program is for students ages 13-25 who have a skill level of [...]
Read more»December 11, 2012
The Cliveden Carriage House on Germantown Avenue pours over the age old process of fermented beverages with a special two hour tasting and educational event, Uncorking the Past: A Tasting and Talk with Patrick, Friday, December 14, 7-9 p.m. Guest Patrick McGovern, the Scientific Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory, will [...]
Read more»November 26, 2012
Save yourself the chaos of shopping at the mall for your holiday gifts and consider taking a trip to the quaint and quiet streets of Chestnut Hill. Wednesday evenings, December 5, 12 and 19 are Stag & Doe Nights, the chance to take a charming stroll down Germantown Avenue where shops will be welcoming shoppers [...]
Read more»November 19, 2012
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the group behind the largest indoor flower show in the world, is holding a pop-up holiday store to help you deck the halls for all of your garden-savvy friends and family. The festive 400 square-foot space, located across from the Chestnut Hill Hotel on Germantown Avenue, will be adorned with birch [...]
Read more»October 23, 2012
Calling all witches, wizards and muggles: Chestnut Hill is bringing back its bewitchingly popular Harry Potter Weekend for 2012, once again magically transforming the neighborhood’s businesses along Germantown Avenue into restaurants and shops straight off the pages of J.K. Rowling’s books. A whole weekend’s worth of spellbinding events will transport you to Hogsmeade with delicious [...]
Read more»October 5, 2012
Hang onto your wands, Harry Potter fans! There will be wizardry and wonder in the air this October as Chestnut Hill once again transforms itself into Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley for Harry Potter Weekend, while Chestnut Hill College hosts the 3rd Annual Philadelphia Brotherly Love Quidditch Cup Tournament. On October 26-27, the Chestnut Hill neighborhood [...]
Read more»October 4, 2012
Quintessence Theatre opens its third season with Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Othello on Wednesday, October 10 at 7 p.m. with a pay-what-you-can performance at the Sedgwick Theater on Germantown Avenue. Just as iconic as the story of Othello, in which the celebrated General of Venice falls in love with Desdemona and makes a mortal enemy out of the infamous Iago, is the theater itself. It’s a 1928 art deco movie palace, and a jewel in our cultural landscape. For more on fall theater in Philadelphia, check out our preview. And for the rest of the Quintessence season, click here. [Quintessence]
October 2, 2012
Historic Germantown returns to revolutionary times for the annual Revolutionary Germantown Festival, set for Saturday, October 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Once again, hundreds of costumed soldiers and actors as notable colonial figures will reenact one of the Revolutionary War’s most memorable battles, the Battle of Germantown, as the focal point in a day-long celebration. The [...]
Read more»September 27, 2012
UPDATE: Chestnut Hill is postponing the Fall for the Arts Festival one week, until October 14, because of predicted rain. Each year, Chestnut Hill welcomes autumn with the Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts Festival, an October Sunday packed with art, music, great food, boutique shopping and family fun. During the fest, Germantown Avenue — [...]
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