Community Events

This week includes both a look at history and a chance to share your own as fall moves in with a wide variety of socially distanced and virtual events.

This is an unusual time without the usual variety of Oktoberfests and other major fall festivals on the seasonal events calendar.

This week’s “Things to Do” features festivals for techies, music lovers and beer lovers.

The historic site is debuting “Night Tours” — a self-guided experience fit for pandemic times.

Some restaurants are reopening for indoor dining in Philly with promotional weeks and COVID-19 protocols to lure customers back.

Morning Edition Host Jennifer Lynn interviews Nick Stuccio, president and producing director of FringeArts, about taking the Fringe Festival virtual this year.

Museums return, dining out in Chestnut Hill, drive-in movies and music

This week, as we start winding down to the official end of summer (way too soon) there are a variety of events that tease the senses, from sight to touch.

Things to do this week in the Delaware Valley include the BlackStar film fest, drive-in concerts, and Family Fun Month.

The annual event, which usually draws thousands of nude cyclists for a trip around Philadelphia and its tourist sites, had been set for later this month.

The digitally streaming music festival offers longtime fans a way to camp through their laptops.

More venues are opening up at reduced capacity and with other COVID-19 protocols, including mandatory mask-wearing.

As we embrace the dog days of summer — there’s still plenty of fun, family-friendly activities to discover in our region.

In the Philadelphia region, people are finding new ways to enjoy the outdoors and public spaces with coronavirus mitigation efforts in place.

Drive-ins are the socially distant live music venues of the summer of 2020. “I don’t ever want it to stop,” said one concertgoer at People’s Light in Malvern.