The Salem Insider

Insiders guide to food, entertainment & living in Salem Massachusetts for tourists and residents.

Salem Literature Festival

Literally Salem: The Salem Literature Festival

By Glen Hughes on Be the first to comment
Categories: art, business, community, events, literature, photos

Salem has all sorts of thriving scenes that the average tourista would never find if s/he wasn’t looking for it.  Take for instance our local wordsmiths.  We have done articles in the past about Author lectures and events pertaining to improving your writing.  Recently Cornerstone Books hosted an Editor speed date.  Writers are alive and [...]

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Salem Spring Fling

Spring Charity Battle Royale

By Glen Hughes on 7 Comments
Categories: community, events, seasonal, spring

We were planning on running an article about Salem’s Spring Fling today however, we got a last minute email about another event that made us change this post a bit.  You might remember a post we did called “Wine Wars” discussing how some notable events in town sponsored by Pamplemousse or Salem Wine Imports always [...]

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Juan P Chavez

Salem Jazz and Soul Festival

By Glen Hughes on 2 Comments
Categories: community, events, music

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 [...]

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PEM ice sculpture

Photos of the Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival

By Glen Hughes on Be the first to comment
Categories: art, business, community, events, photos, seasonal, tourism, weather, winter

Salem’s 6th Annual Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival went pretty much as predicted with the weather playing a major role in its outcome. This year it was warm with intermittent snow and rain. Even through the poor weather conditions we were able to grab some photos. You can blame mother nature for [...]

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