I live in the Norristown area and absolutely love to take little trips to downtown Philadelphia. Since I love it so much you would think that I have taken Philly’s mass transit regional rail line, SEPTA, into Philadelphia a thousand times. …
Have you ever been to the James Michner art museum in downtown Doylestown, Pennsylvania? I took a drive up from Norristown and visited this museum about 15 years ago and remember liking it but not really being all that…
I live in nearby Norristown and only accidentally stumbled upon the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in Conshohocken. This is a surprisingly fun event. People line up along Fayette Street, sometimes about five people deep along the numbered cross streets, and…
Who thought giving to charity could be so much fun? For quite a few years in a row now I’ve been attending the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation’s “Time Out For Teal” This event is open to the public and…
If you live in the Norristown, PA Montgomery County area you don’t have to travel all the way in to Philadelphia or up into New York to see an art exhibit. There are a number of small art museums in the area…
OK, you live somewhere in the East Norriton, Norristown, Plymouth Meeting areas and the kids are just driving you nuts. I mean seriously nuts and you want to start spanking everyone from four to forty years old you might want to…
Finding bands covering popular radio top 40 songs is pretty easy to do these days. Go to any popular nightclub that is open late and you’ll be certain to find the typical bands playing the local circuit of clubs. Finding…
I’m usually the first one to admit that I’m not an expert food critic by any means. When I started my “Things to Do Near Norristown” website I had decided that if was do food reviews, I’d probably stick with…
If you’ve strolled the streets of downtown Media you might have walked by the PA Veterans Museum a dozen times and never noticed it. Downtown Media is full of wonderful distractions. There are great places to eat, grab a drink, see a play,…
It goes without saying (even though I’ll say it fatuously here) that there are plenty of bodies of water in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. There are ponds, rivers, streams and lakes. The problem with these rippling pools of H20 is that …
