Arts & Culture

The city's first major running festival since Runner's World's in 2019 will include a 5K, 10K and half-marathon.

Country music star Walker Hayes will perform at Musikfest on Aug. 7, it was announced.

Once a nationally touring musician, the alt-folk artist found a home and contentment here in the Lehigh Valley's original music scene, which he said supports him and other artists like no other outside major cities. His new show traces his path.

The Allentown Art Museum hosted performances celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Sunday, setting alongside its works by Black artists.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day has become a day of service each year, as people come together to take action and make their communities better. Here are volunteer opportunities and events taking place in the Lehigh Valley.

Celebrations are set to take place throughout the Lehigh Valley while volunteer efforts focus on forming an ongoing connection with the community.

Nkasso, a West African family-owned eatery, held a ribbon-cutting and grand opening on Friday at 44 N. 8th Street in Allentown. It offers bissap, a drink made out of the flowers of the Roselle plant (a variety of Hibiscus), along with other cultural staples.

This week, the LehighValleyNews.com digital desk handpicked three events for you to enjoy, including Easton Restaurant Week, the 'Of Portraiture & Polio' exhibition and Positively Picturesque.

The symphony is asking composers in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding area to submit works for string quartet or any combination of traditional string quartet instruments.

Sit-down dining and over-the-counter food on the menu for Easton Restaurant Week, starting Jan. 15.

Karen Britt is a professor of business at Northampton Community College and the founder of Juneteenth Lehigh Valley.

The proposed Archer Music Hall would be a 31,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art entertainment venue at 935-939 Hamilton St. in Center City Allentown.

In a community revitalization effort from a local community coalition, Fountain Hill is getting its very own restaurant week.

The annual Wine & Shine Lehigh Valley program by the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail will run for three weekends in April, allowing people to taste wine or spirits at each of seven locations.

$7.3 million in improvements were approved by a vote of members at Brookside Country Club Wednesday, heralding facility improvements including a redesign of all 18 holes on the golf course

About 900 people dipped into the Delaware River to raise money for the Lehigh Valley's chapter of the Special Olympics.

Professional freestyle football competitors Aguśka Mnich and Patrick Bäurer came to the Lehigh Valley.

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Christina Russo, of the Lehigh Valley Food Facebook group, is relaunching the Lehigh Valley Food Breakfast Lunch and Dinner Club to help people meet each other.

Browsing an online auction, a Roseto man came across items being stored at an Easton warehouse that were part of a cache of architectural salvage. The lot contained signs from the Hotel Easton, which opened in the 1920s.

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After some ups and downs, the South Whitehall planners recommended preliminary/final approval to plans for the new ride.