I’ve done a few posts about fun events highlighted in the Fall Festivals Guide https://www.capegazette.com/center/fall-festivals-2023/263774, including the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival https://www.rehobothjazz.com/ and True Blue Jazz Festival https://www.truebluejazz.org/, but realized I could probably blog every day for a month if I tried [...]
I’m astounded at the array of talent coming to the beach for this year’s events and – equally important – because these events sell out very quickly. If you love music and appreciate soulful vocals, soft and rumbling beats and a touch of the avant-garde, I hope you’ll check out the master schedules and plan ahead for some wonderful experiences taking place at several different venues, including the Cape Henlopen Performing Arts Center, the Rusty Rudder, the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center and other locations in Rehoboth and Lewes.
Last week I posted about a lot of the fall fun to be had on my own home turf around Delaware’s beaches and rural downstate spots listed in the 2023 Festivals Guide published by the Cape Gazette. This week I’m looking at the Brandywine Valley far to the north, where rolling pastures give way to beautiful and charming towns, including downtown Wilmington. It’s especially beautiful in the autumn, and full of entertainment and cultural attractions.
Unfortunately, we can count on brutal temps and cloying humidity ahead. If you still want to spend most of your time outside there are lots of great parks offering shady trails for walking and biking. But there are also so many fabulous museums where you can spend hours enriching your brain in air conditioned comfort.
When I first moved to Delaware in 2000, I was impressed with the major museums like the Delaware Art Museum and the Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, both located in Wilmington. I lived in Wilmington then and quickly discovered the Art Loopa free, self-guided art [...]
Live theater can be found all year long at many great venues. The variety of performances, the talent, both local and professional, and the quality of the productions are outstanding. Lets look at live theatre starting [...]
Independent films are popular all over Delaware and so are the smaller, more intimate theaters you can find throughout the State.
Lets start in the North with Theatre N at Nemours. On October 2, 2002, Theatre N at Nemours was [...]
Looking for an opportunity to explore the arts in Delaware? Clear Space Theatre in Rehoboth Beach is featuring Margaret Edsons 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning one-act play, WIT. This play focuses on university professor Vivian Bearing (Rosemary Loar), an expert on the poet John [...]
Since Salvaged and Haute Interiors began in 2012 their business has been exploding and once they opened on Coastal Highway just outside Lewes, next to Surf Bagel, Brynn Byerly and Michelle Hepting have become our local answer to [...]
Most of them I have bought from on multiple occasions and their pieces are ones I wear again and again. I have never been one for regular jewelry store jewelry, except for my wedding and engagement rings of course. What used to [...]
