New Hope News

Curator Paul Eisenhauer on the spiral staircase designed by Esherick, who was known as the "godfather of the studio furniture movement." Sitting here at Wharton Esherick's curvy dining room table is an intimate experience, for the revered artist and furniture-maker probably lingered in this very spot a million times nursing coffee or Jim Beam and ... (more)

For most of his life he's been Gene Ween, the nimble-voiced frontman of one of rock's great genre-hoppers but Aaron Freeman is finally ready to put his alter-ego to bed.

NEW HOPE, Pa. - In a slow market for selling real estate, the borough council faces an additional impediment in attempting to sell a former borough hall that once served as a fire station.

EVERY ART LOVER and his mother-in-law's brother's third cousin will be at the Barnes Foundation this weekend looking to get in on its first free fete.

Franklin County commissioners on Thursday endorsed three grants for nonprofit organizations providing low- to moderate-income housing in the southern part of the county.

USTA Eastern has appointed Jill Fonte as the section's new Executive Director. She will begin her term on June 4. "I am very excited to lead Eastern through this transition," said Fonte, of New Hope, PA.

That dead silence you hear is co ming from Quakertown, and Richland, and Milford, and Richlandtown, and Trumbauersville, and Haycock.

Hundreds marched through New Hope on Saturday for the annual LGBT Parade, this year part of a week of festivities.

The Arts Community of Easton is seeking artists for the 16th Annual Riverside Festival of the Arts Sept.

There hasn't been much drama at New Hope's historic Bucks County Playhouse lately, at least not on the stage.

Earlier this year, I announced an essay contest for teenagers about bullying. Some 1,200 essays later, we have our grand-prize winner.

In anticipation of the start of New Hope and Lambertville's Friday Night Fireworks, police and fire crews are working to retrieve the fireworks barge that floated downriver to Upper Makefield, Pa., after it was cut loose from its mooring.

It's the time of year to dust off those boats and start polishing them for the upcoming Delaware Canal Festival.

Birdie's songs are more eerily upbeat, yet fun. Catchy and flirty one moment, a tune can quickly shift into a much darker place - all the while, twined together with a sharp, sticky electric and bass guitar.

Cameron Silver knows how to make an entrance. The Decades retailer accompanied designer Nicole Miller to the Met Gala Monday night.

Julie and Gregory Vernick have opened Vernick Food & Drink at 2031 Walnut. Food is simple, he says,"If there are three ingredients listed on the menu, that's what's in it." MICHAEL S. WIRTZ / Staff Photographer Culinary Institute of America grad Gregory Vernick, who spent most of his career in the Jean-Georges Vongerichten orbit opening his ... (more)

A Plans for a new 12,000-square-foot wine and spirits store were presented to Newtown Borough Council Tuesday night.

Police are investigating a crash involving a van and a bicycle at East Fourth and Buchanan streets in South Side Bethlehem.

Firefighters and other emergency services personnel had to go around a whole neighborhood in Buckingham before they could get to it.

Sept. 8, 2011, had been a very long night for the men and women of the New Hope-Eagle Fire Co.