Help During The Holidays

THIS WEEK'S VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, Bethlehem is looking for male volunteer callers to make Santa Calls on Dec. 1, 2, 3, and 4 from 6-8pm each night. Get in the holiday spirit in our holiday decorated office while we serve cookies and hot chocolate, and provide Santa hats and [...]

Santa’s Coming To Town This Friday!

The official start to the holiday season begins this weekend at Lehigh Valley Mall It’s the most anticipated event of the year: Santa’s Arrival! Join  in welcoming Santa on Friday, November 7, 2014 6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.. Delight in the magic of the holiday season and prepare your holiday shopping lists before getting up [...]

New Lehigh Valley Fashion Magazine Launches Saturday

On November 8th, Lehigh Valley Fashion Week launches "Inside Look" fashion magazine.  The magazine will be issued quarterly, highlighting the seasons of Fashion (Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer).  Fashion focused articles will be about local designers, models, and businesses making progressive movements.  The magazine will be printed copies, and available for purchase at various boutiques and other businesses.  There are advertising packages for [...]

SteelStacks Wins Urban Land Institute ‘Global Award for Excellence’

Photo courtesy of Paul Warchol SteelStacks, the arts and cultural campus located on the site of Bethlehem’s former Bethlehem Steel plant, has been honored with an Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Award for Excellence for its role in helping to redevelop one of the largest Brownfields in the nation.  The award was presented to [...]

Boo Bash This Saturday

SPOOKY KIDGITS BOO BASH AT LEHIGH VALLEY MALL ‘Bully Free Zone’ App Released by Captain McFinn also Available Halloween is here and Lehigh Valley Mall is inviting all little ghouls, goblins and boo'tiful princesses to come have a spooktacular time at the Kidgits Halloween event.  Lehigh Valley Mall will offer local children a safe place to take [...]

A Series of Lasts

By Erin D'Amelio It was inevitable. Time doesn’t stop when you’re engaged in something that you enjoy. In fact, it’s the opposite: it runs away from you and you spend most of your time either trying to catch it or in full amazement at its speed. It’s that nasty, not-so-secret yet still surprising phenomenon that [...]

Volunteer Today and Feel Good About It

THIS WEEK'S VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY AMERICA ON WHEELS, Allentown needs volunteers for Gift Shop/Admission Assistants (handling register required) on Saturdays 10am-1pm or 1pm-4pm and Sundays noon-4pm. Help customers with merchandise and take admissions. Training provided. Call Liz Hahn, 610-432-4200 x10, fund_development@americaonwheels.org. HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS & SITES proudly announces its 12th Annual Turkey [...]

Last Mead Tasting & Demonstration of the Season

Today, October 18, 2 pm and 3 pm   Join your friends at scenic Burnside Plantation for a mead tasting and demonstration by The Colony Meadery of Allentown. This demonstration will be the last this season, so be sure to take in the sights, sounds, and sweetness of fall before it is too late. Burnside [...]

Annual Jeanette Barres Zug Lecture This Sunday

The Moravian Single Sisters and the Wider World “Learn about the networks that connected them throughout colonial America and across the Atlantic, the women weren’t nuns!”  Scott Paul Gordon Join Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites on Sunday, October 19, 2014 for the annual Jeanette Barres Zug Lecture.  This year’s speaker is Professor Scott Paul Gordon, [...]

Rebellion

By Erin D'Amelio The rain begins to fight the heat of the day, casting raindrops onto the scorched earth in the evening hours. Eager to explore the newfound moisture, insects both familiar and unfamiliar worm their way through the well-aged cracks in the walls of our house, delighted by the dregs of our cooking not [...]