Bucks Happening This Week: Winterfest is Here!

With Winterfest in full swing, Bucks County is happening this weekend. Check out more fun things to do on our sortable calendar of events, & in our restaurant guide. Plus, make sure to set aside some extra time this weekend to nominate your favorite people, businesses, and events for the 2012 Happening List.

WINTERFEST

The event of the season has arrived! Check out some of the New Hope-Lambertville Winterfest events below, and view the official website for more info. (more…)

Feast Your Eyes on Stockton Market

There’s no doubt about it; Bucks County residents love their local, especially when it comes to farm fresh food. In a country dominated by fast foods and genetically modified meats, we’re lucky to be surrounded by sprawling farms and passionate locals who work hard to provide the community with top-quality products.

Bucks Happening recently stopped in at Stockton Market, located just seconds away from the Delaware River in the heart of Stockton, NJ.  The deceptively spacious store is home to a unique indoor farmer’s market, which is open year-round with regular vendors including local purveyors and artisans, farm fresh produce, artisan cheeses, savory fresh breads and pastries, organic beef, free-range chicken, seafood, organic coffee and teas, smokin’ good BBQ, a chocolatier, hand made baskets and more.

On a lazy Sunday morning, we mosied on over to browse through Stockton Market’s unique vendors, several of which come from Bucks County including Simple Living 101 of Erwinna, El Mariachi of Plumsteadville, and My Fresh Coffee Scoop of Pipersville (more…)

Women in Business: Linda Shick of Doylestown’s Naftulin & Shick

Linda Shick

Bucks County is known for having some pretty dangerous roads and intersections. If you’ve ever navigated the many intersections of Street Road during rush hour, or driven down the windy, wooded back roads of Central and Upper Bucks, you know the potential dangers: distracted drivers, deer, dark roads, etc. No one is more aware of these dangers than Attorney Linda Shick, who has dedicated her whole life to litigating accident cases where people have been hurt through no fault of their own.

Linda is a partner with Naftulin& Shick, a personal injury law firm located right in Doylestown, Bucks County. A graduate of C.B. West High School, she received her JD from Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey. She’s currently a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association as well as the Bucks County Bar Association.

Linda represents hundreds of people in Bucks County (and surrounding counties) who are injured due to car collisions, workplace accidents, vicious animals, negligent property owners, construction accidents, and careless truck drivers. She helps victims recover their lives back and get back on their feet in the aftermath. (more…)

Shooting for the Stars: Solebury School’s Jeff Vespa

Solebury School Alumnus Jeff  Vespa’s first break as one of the Hollywood’s best known red carpet photographers happened quite by accident – or maybe it was fate. In May 1998, Jeff was working at a job he didn’t like much, when he found an internet job listing that read, “Wanted:  Photographer for Red Carpet premieres in Los Angeles.” At first, Jeff thought it a joke, but printed out the ad and kept it on his desk.

After a few days, he decided to call. What could he lose? On the phone, the voice at the other end asked him, “Are you available tonight?”  Jeff said, “Yeah, I’m available.” Their regular photographer had moved and they needed someone to cover the Bulworth premiere with Warren Beatty, he was told. Jeff needed a flash, a battery pack, and a zoom lens, all items he did not own. The one thing he did own was a good Canon camera with a 50 mm lens. (more…)

Post-Holiday Pamper: Win a Hair Cut & Style!

Last week’s Face & Body Spa give-a-way was all about de-stressing after the holidays. Now, you’re ready to start 2012 fresh with a Hair Cut & Style Give-a-way!

No doubt about it, when you look good you feel great. Would you like to make a change this new year or improve what you already have?  Then enter to win some post-holiday pampering from The Face & Body Spa!  One of their highly skilled stylists will provide one luck Bucks Happening reader with a private consultation, shampoo, cut and blow out.

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Photo of the Week: County Theater

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Wellness Tip with Gardner Family Chiropractic

Is it bad to “crack” your back or neck a lot?

GFC: This question is frequently asked because people associate the “cracking” or “popping” of one’s back or neck with a chiropractic adjustment. The two are not the same thing. If a person has a desire to “crack” his/her neck or back it is often because one area of their spine is fixated or jammed causing another area to move too much and “pop”, sometimes by itself. It’s the fixated or jammed area that needs to be properly adjusted by a chiropractor so that the other parts of the spine will not be hypermobile and noisy. When you “crack” your back you may be relieving the tension for a little while. Do you notice how it keeps coming back? That is because you are not giving yourself a specific chiropractic adjustment.  (more…)

The Inn at Bowman’s Hill Achieves Exclusive 4 Diamond Rating

Congratulations to The Inn at Bowman’s Hill in New Hope for receiving an exclusive four-diamond rating by AAA, the only Inn in Bucks County to achieve this prestigious rating in 2012!  Check out the full list here.

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50% Off Sushi at Kyoto

Super Rainbow Roll at Kyoto via Alexus on Foodspotting

Calling all sushi lovers!

There is an amazing deal currently happening at Kyoto in Trevose that was just too good not to share…and just in time for the weekend!

For a limited time, a large portion of the menu at Kyoto (pictured below) is being offered at 50% off – including a wide variety of standard and specialty sushi rolls as well as hibachi options.  The posh new restaurant, which opened it’s doors back in September, is also a BYOB, making dining out at Kyoto an absolute steal.

We have no idea how long this is going to last, but a Kyoto rep confirmed it’s currently being offered on week nights AND weekends. So go ahead- head out to eat without the guilt! (more…)

Bucks Happening This Weekend

Heat up these cold winter days at fun events all around Bucks County this weekend, January 20th – 23rd. Check out more fun things to do on our sortable calendar of events, & in our restaurant guide. Plus, make sure to set aside some extra time this weekend to nominate your favorite people, businesses, and events for the 2012 Happening List.

Calling all girls 7th to 12th grade! Friday January 20th is a Girls Only Sleepover Event at the Central Bucks Family YMCA Teen Center. Bring your sleeping bags, pajamas, games, movies and nail polish to our Girls Sleep over. Food will be provided (evening and breakfast) and event will be fully supervised by female Y staff. Members $20/Potential-Members $30…For more information, contact Kevin Crail, 215-348-8131, x1147. Pre-registration is required, no money accepted at the door. (more…)

Single in the Suburbs: The Perfect Second Date

What’s it like being a single, twenty-something, gal dating in Bucks County? Follow Single in the Suburbs as she takes us on her dating (mis)adventures! For more fun in between articles, follow her on Twitter.

Are you starting the year with a “brand new you” like I always tell myself I’m going to do and then forget about by this time? Don’t worry, I’m not going to post any tips on resolutions or what you should do to change yourself. I’m sure you’ve read enough of that by now. What I’m really excited about for 2012 is the movie line-up. After receiving my weekly email from the County Theater in Doylestown, I’ve become very excited for the upcoming films – The Artist, The Iron Lady, Melancholia among many more! (Also, The Dark Knight Rises in the summer!!!)

This got me thinking about one of my favorite movie dates. It was with a Princeton grad and we saw Black Swan, which was excellent, in my opinion. (more…)

Take a Stand Against SOPA

SOPA threatens the freedom which allows capitalism to thrive in America. To place such strict controls on the Internet is no less threatening than placing those controls on freedom of speech as a whole.

We’re just beginning to tap into the incredible power of the Internet- improved resources, targeted services, the seamless sharing of information around the world- and all of that progress hinges on our ability to stop SOPA from passing. (more…)