Support the 12th Annual St. Patrick’s Parade Committee! Enjoy drinks and celebration with friends at Marley’s Gotham Grill, Bea McNally’s Irish Pub, Man Skirt Brewing, and Czig Meister Brewing Company.
Starting February 26, 2020
"Happy Leap Day. A day where 'this time last year' and 'this time next year' does not apply. -Anonymous
That once-every-four-years occasion arrives Saturday, so we thought we'd leap right into this week's Wanderings with a photo from Kent Sweigert that makes us very hoppy. Speaking of hoppy, check out Hackettstown's pub crawl to support their upcoming St. Patrick's Day Parade. Speaking of leaping, be sure to leap to the Plan Ahead section, there are some events where you'll want to book your seats now! Happy Leap Day, and Happy Wanderings!
Coming Up
Come out and try Line Dancing, hosted by Draught House and Monteray Entertainment.
Pamper yourself for 20 minutes to rejuvenate! Reiki is an energy healing modality, and a treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Joe is a massage therapist and an intuitive body worker. $40 per session, appointment required.
Kathy's Kove presents a monthly Cultural Fundraiser Dinner for Ghana 4E, a non-profit organization working with students in Ghana, Africa. This month features salad, homemade manicotti, Italian sausage, tiramisu and beverage (BYOB wine or beer). Suggested donation is $25. Please reserve.
Acoustic guitarist/vocalist Scott Messina performs classic rock hits spanning six decades.
Triple Headliner Extravaganza: Jerrold Benford (Comedy Central); Moody McCarthy (Conan O'Brien) and Jim Dailakis (Australia's Funniest Comic). Wine available for purchase by the glass or bottle, bring your own snacks. Doors open at 6pm for the 8pm show. Note: show contains adult humor
1990s cover band featuring music by artists such as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, STP, Pearl Jam, Tool, Sublime, SOAD, Nirvana, Everlast, Tom Petty, Pantera and many more.
Come experience the pleasure of these greenhouses – filled with unusual blossoms and exotic scents! Reservations are required for this free, one-hour informative lecture-tour of this collection of herbs from around the world.
Bachelors – this could be your lucky day! Bachelorettes - bring him out for a “message in a bottle.” Wine tasting with plate of small bites. Guys accompanied by their sweethearts taste for free.
Come enjoy some wine while listening to Stan & Elise play some jazz and '60s classics.
Annual seven-course meal! Doors open at 5:30pm with dinner served at 6pm. $35/ticket can be purchased from any 72 Fire member, by calling the firehouse at 908-475-4400, or by visiting www.72fire.com
Spaz, Biff, Stretch, and Mongo have graced stages from the Jersey Shore to Las Vegas, earning their reputation as “America’s Party Band Fun-omenon” every step of the way. Party the night away at Bea McNally's!
Musician/composer John Cain will play songs you know well, and some new ones, too.
Did you start 2020 with the intention of making some changes- but find yourself in the exact same place? Sometimes all it takes is a little help.
Back by popular demand, the energetic stand-up comedy and ventriloquist stylings of John Pizzi. Best known for his unique "one, two punch" style humor, this how is bound to please. Ticket price includes dinner and show (all service will be done table side).
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BY APPOINTMENT: You can learn technology at any age! Warren Hills High School Streak Nation Service Club offers Free Tech Help by appointment to senior citizens in Warren County.
Al and Willie as “Lewis and Clark” were top-billed vaudevillians for more than forty years. Now they aren’t even speaking. When CBS requests them for a “History of Comedy” retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.
Plan Ahead
Budding Artists' spring session of classes (Where Art and Math Meet) is open for registration for kids ages 5-18. These free classes meet Mondays in March. Choose a time: 4-5:15pm or 6-7:15pm.
Comedians perform hilarious Stand-up with headliner Mike Burton. Featuring Scott Brenan and Hosted by Don Michalowski.
Hosted by Knowlton Fine Arts Homeschool Co-op, the conference is for anyone who homeschools or is considering homeschooling.
In recognition of Daylight Savings Time, Hope Junction Antiques is, once again, hosting a clock clinic with our local timepiece expert, Stan Hands. Show Stan your old, your new, your inherited, your "out of whack" clocks and see what he has to say on the subject.
Hosted by VanNest-Hoff-Vannatta Farmstead and Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Warren County. Patrick Peckard, from Hunterdon County Parks and Recreation will be giving a presentation on the history of maple sugaring and how it came to be maple syrup.
Time for a bit of nostalgia with an Italian tradition! Formal wine tasting, Chicken parmigana dinner with roasted veggies, salad, bread and dessert.
Established in 2007, Moe-tion Dance Theater is a contemporary modern dance company based in New Jersey. Under the artistic direction of Maureen Glennon, the company is dedicated to experimenting and creating new forms of expression.
New Jersey native Timothy Liam Smith takes us on his journey through becoming an Irish Tenor, how he sang for three US Presidents, and how life can come full circle if we work at it.
The 50-voice choir from Geneva College in western Pennsylvania brings their music to Warren County for a free concert entitled “Rejoice Again!” The Genevans have acquired a reputation for choral excellence, musical variety and spiritual impact.
Interested in raising your own flock of chickens or ducks for eggs or meat? Come learn the basics and have your questions answered by Hank Bignell Jr., M.S. Senior Program Coordinator.
They were warned… They are doomed… And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.
Guest Artist, Professor of Art Jean Perry, will feature "Women of Flowers" a brief lecture on the interesting lives and works of numerous botanical artists, followed by a botanical study and watercolor painting of a flower in season. The public is welcome; refreshments served.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW DATE TBD. Streets fill with enthusiasm as families, residents and visitors line up along the curb, in store windows and porches to celebrate and witness this festive parade in the Irish-American tradition. Parade starts at 3:30pm.
Given the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled out of an abundance of caution to help protect against spreading the virus.
It's time to "spring" forth now that warmer days are here and high time it is, after a winter that has been unlike any other. This well-known timekeeper is here to remind us not to waste a minute. He's also on hand to announce an upcoming Clock Clinic at Hope Junction Antiques.