So you have your Independence Day all planed out.  Maybe it’s going to the Esplanade to see the Pops or perhaps you’ll stay close to home and watch the Salem fireworks from the Willows where you can catch surrounding town explosions as well.  That’s great but have you though of what your going to do [...]

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Special Events / Festivals
“Toast” Benefit for The Art Corner
Music
Friday June 27th

Karem Cameron (jazz 6:30-9:30pm) DARQ ( 10pm) @ Bangkok Paradise
On the Grille Night @ Dodge Street
Los Sugar Kings (mambo-salsa dance party 9:30pm) @ Edgewater Cafe
DJ Ondrej! (house, trance 8pm) @ Gulu Gulu
Grateful Ted (rock 8pm) @ The Lobster Shanty
Kevin Kennedy (contemporary soft rock) @ [...]

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A few months ago (April 24th 2008) one of Salem’s businesses The Art Corner suffered a horrible fire.  Over the past couple of months we have seen them keep their chin up and move forward, resurrecting the business in a new location.
Many of the areas local artists, photographers and businesses use the framing services of  [...]

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Clean Energy Day and Living Green & Renewable Energy Fair
Saturday, June 14, 2008
10 am - 3 pm
Old Town Hall / Cinema Salem / The Gathering
This Saturday Salem will be hosting it’s first official “Clean Energy Day” in conjunction with the Living Green & Renewable Energy Fair.
Everyone is talking “Green” these days and while I’m [...]

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Salem has a diverse mix of like-minded people and is abundant with societies, social clubs, groups and organizations. Now we can add one more to the mix, the Build Guild a collection of interweb workers.

From their site:
Created by two Salem web geeks, Marc Amos & Angelo Simeoni, the Build Guild is a monthly event [...]

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I realize that it’s a bit early to be talking about a July event but a recent commenter asked if Salem had music other than jazz so I had to put the word out.
Lately there have been some great jazz vocalists and bands playing in Salem so they have garnered a few write ups and [...]

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Salem’s Jazz and Soul Festival kicked off on the right foot with Afro-Cuban Jazz musician Juan Chavez and his band made up of fellow Berklee students.

The weather might have been chilly Saturday afternoon but the band was hot, playing a mix of salsa and jazz that had everybody on the front steps of the Old [...]

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Just because we are smack dab in the middle of restaurant week doesn’t mean we can’t talk about your cooking your own food at home (maybe next week sometime). The number one thing that all chefs will tell you is that in order for your meals to go from good to great you need [...]

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The face of Salem starts to change today on April 1. Many of the tourist related museums are scheduled to open back up. If you checked out our earlier post you know that street sweeper start clearing the winter sand from the roads. But more importantly cheap and expensive beer [...]

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People visit Salem year round. Obviously October is the busiest month of the year but tourists flock to this historic city from April till November, giving the residents a brief respite during the winter.
If you are thinking of coming to Salem there are a few options on how to get here. You can take [...]

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