Biker Chicks
Imagine that the Super Bowl was being played in Japan next year or that the World Series was being hosted by Ireland. Imagine that a major sporting event was being temporarily transplanted to another country, and imagine all the planning, all the work, all the details that would need to be managed to pull off [...]
Dragon Slayers
It is one of those near-perfect nights in late spring, when daylight stretches into evening. On the grassy slope along the riverbank, a group of women gather. They buckle themselves into red life vests, grab their paddles, clamber into the boat, and spend a few minutes debating whether or not to take their sunglasses for [...]
Bikes 101
Cruising Through Life
She is an accomplished actress and singer. She is a theater coach and teacher. She sang at the White House for three presidents and produced shows at Madison Square Garden. She was on the investigative team of a television news program and created handmade jewelry. She performed with Frank Sinatra and [...]
Bucks County’s Independent Movie Houses
Back in the day, going to the movies was an ideal low-pressure date; no one was required to be socially adept or even to talk to his or her partner as the film rolled. While that may still be true for the latest blockbuster at some anonymous multiplex, independent movie theaters [...]
SPICE UP THE SUMMER WITH FESTIVALS GALORE!
June 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Destinations, Featured
Festivals come in all shapes, sizes, and themes, and this artistically rich region offers a plethora of choices. Here are just some of the festivals that will enrich your summer season.
Celebrating over twenty years of showcasing artists from all across the country, The Manayunk Arts Festival, held June 26th to [...]
Dog’s Best Friend – Victoria Schade is Doylestown’s Own Canine Guru
She doesn’t chase squirrels. She doesn’t chew on shoes. She doesn’t pant. But beyond that—if it’s related to dogs—Victoria Schade does it. She trains dogs. She made a DVD about dogs. She wrote a book about dogs. She appears on Animal Planet to talk about dogs. She owns a store for dogs. [...]
Must Love Dogs – Debbi Rotenberg Breeds (and Needs) Portuguese Water Dogs
After living in her Newtown home for 25 years after her two sons were grown, Debbi Rotenberg finally decided to get a pool. For the dogs. Rotenberg and her husband have five Portuguese Water Dogs. “We tried not to,” she said. “But, they’re like potato chips.” She couldn’t stop at [...]
Lovely at a Distance
Deer. Graceful and gentle-eyed, they are a defining feature of life in Bucks County. If you are a gardener, your appreciation of their beauty may be jaded by their propensity to devour the most precious of your plantings.
A full-grown deer can consume over five pounds of food a day, and they’re [...]
Barn, Revisited
“It’s funny, there’s this whole green revolution. I didn’t mean to get on this recent green building bandwagon,” said Sean Tracy of Bucks County Timbercraft. “But we’re recycling these beautiful hand-hewn skeletons. Old barn floors become cabinets, walls, doors, trim, staircases, furniture…there’s not a whole lot of stuff that doesn’t get reused.”
Tracy began restoring barns [...]
