Salem Main Streets and the Salem Chamber of Commerce invite you to participate in the annual Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival – a decadent tradition of delectable chocolate, sparkling ice sculptures, and Valentine’s Day shopping! Now in its 20th year, the signature elements of the festival have evolved to include new app-based games with prizes, more ice

Salem State Theatre Department presents the world premiere of The Thing They Love written by 2021 graduate Parker Goodreau. Directed by Esme Allen, the production will take place at the Sophia Gordon Center March 3 – 6, followed by virtual streaming March 20 – April 30. Tickets for both performance modalities are available at www.salemstatetickets.com.  Set in prohibition-era New York

Salem once again shows it knows how to make a fun event out of Valentine’s Day shopping. Now in its 20th year, Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival is a city-wide celebration of delectable chocolate, sparkling and lit ice sculptures, and Valentine’s Day shopping. New this year, visitors can play the “Chocolate Hearts Challenge” game on the Destination Salem app to

Salem once again shows it knows how to make a fun event out of Valentine’s Day shopping. Now in its 20th year, Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival is a city-wide celebration of delectable chocolate, sparkling and lit ice sculptures, and Valentine’s Day shopping. New this year, visitors can play the “Chocolate Hearts Challenge” game on the Destination Salem app to

This winter, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) opens a new gallery that, for the first time, combines its Native American and American collections. On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America brings together more than 250 historical and contemporary works from its collections to consider what it means to belong to a community, place, family and nation. Spanning more than 10,000 years

Salem Main Streets is looking for local farmers and food vendors to participate in the 2022 Salem Farmers’ Market located in downtown Salem in Derby Square on Thursdays, 3:00–7:00 p.m. from June 9 through October 13, 2022.  Anyone wishing to sell their products at the market must submit an application for consideration by March 16, 2022.  Applications can be downloaded from www.salemfarmersmarket.org. 

Salem Main Streets is looking for local farmers and food vendors to participate in the 2022 Salem Farmers’ Market located in downtown Salem in Derby Square on Thursdays, 3:00–7:00 p.m. from June 9 through October 13, 2022.  Anyone wishing to sell their products at the market must submit an application for consideration by March 16, 2022.  Applications can be downloaded from www.salemfarmersmarket.org. 

From Salem Main Streets Santa Claus is coming back to town in 2021! Join Salem Main Streets and the City of Salem as we celebrate two of our most beloved annual traditions – Santa’s Arrival and the lighting of Salem’s Holiday Tree – all in one evening. Santa Claus will arrive at the top of the Hawthorne Hotel (18 Washington

From North Shore Music Theatre Bill Hanney’s North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) will present the area’s largest and most beloved production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL for its 30th Annual Production. This award-winning, original musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic story was created solely for North Shore Music Theatre in 1989 and cannot be seen anywhere else. The show will play

From Historic Beverly Did you know the city of Beverly, Massachusetts is home to over 3 dozen Veterans squares and memorials? We’ve seen the signs: Hellard Square, Pasolini Square, and Lantz Square but do you know the history of the soldiers for which these squares and memorials are named? How about Cooney Field or Dix Park? In this online Veterans