Fall fashion

Mary, Mother of the Redeemer’s 11th annual Fashion Show will be held noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at Spring Mill Manor, 171 Jacksonville Road, Ivyland. Tickets are $45, $22 for children under 13. “Shades of Autumn” is the theme for this year. A special prize features a wedding dress package. There will be plenty of door and 50/50 prizes to be won by chance drawings. Call Christine or Margot at (215) 362-7400 or e-mail at cbmmrad@aol.com.

Smell it coming


It’s Garlic Fest 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in Easton on Centre Square and Northampton and Third streets. Meet garlic growers and market vendors, check out a Chef’s Showcase and Celebrity Chef Cook-off competitions with gourmet garlic dishes, and hear live music. Visit www.eastongarlicfest.com.

’Round the garden

“From Harvest to Table,” a progressive dinner, starts at 6 p.m. Saturday at Longwood Gardens, Routes 1 and 52, Kennett Township. Tickets are $150. Call (610) 388-1000, ext. 100 for reservations.

Hit parade

Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe, presents Air Supply at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $30 and $35.

Sha Na Na’s rock ‘n’ roll revival is featured at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $22.

Merle Haggard is in concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $50 and $55.

Call (866) 605-PEAK or visit www.pennspeak.com.

Understand Greek

St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 30 E. Forge Road, Media, holds its Greek Festival from 5 to 9 tonight, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and noon to 9 p.m. Sunday. Highlights include Greek music and dance, Mediterranean seafood, children’s activities, gyros, souvlaki, baklava, ouzo and more. Admission is free. Call (610) 459-0366 or visit www.stgeorgefestival.com.

Thrills and chills

Six Flags Great Adventure, Route 537, Jackson, N.J., has Fright Fest Saturday through Nov. 2, with rides and Halloween shows and attractions. It’s suitable for all ages during the day with more intense, scary stuff after 6 p.m. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays, 5 to 11 p.m. Fridays starting Oct. 10, 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 13 and Nov. 2. Wild Safari will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and Oct. 13. Prices (not include New Jersey sales tax) are $49.99, $39.99 online at www.sixflags.com, $29.99 for children under 54 inches tall and disabled patrons; $10 for Wild Safari with the purchase of a theme park ticket. Call (732) 928-1821.

From the edge

- The Creative Living Room, 15 S. Chester Road, Swarthmore, presents live impressionistic jazz with Steve Giordano’s Spacetet at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $15. Call (610) 544-5800.

- Andrew Bird of Squirrel Nut Zippers presents songs from his solo disc “Armchair Apocrypha,” which features violin, electric guitar, glockenspiel and whistling. Show time at the Zoellner Arts

Center, 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, is 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $21 and $25. Call (610) 758-2787.

You’re only 250 once

Pittsburgh celebrates its 250th birthday with a free, fun-filled day 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday with fireworks, a boat parade, a bicycle and hiking trail between Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh and a community festival that highlights the ongoing transformation of Point State Park. Get the full schedule at www.imaginepittsburgh.com.

Soup for you





Chowderfest is on Long Beach Island, N.J., with a Merchants Mart selling New England and Manhattan clam chowder, and a Chowder Cook-off Competition. The Merchants Mart is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday with end-of-season sales on shirts, shorts, hats and more under large tents at Beach Haven’s Ninth Street and Taylor Avenue ball field. Under the tent Sunday is the Chowderfest Challenge, where 20 restaurants and organizations competing for the “King of Clams” title. Winners are decided by people’s choice. Tickets are $20, $10 for children 4-12. Get tickets and a map at the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, 265 W. Ninth St., Ship Bottom, N.J. Also visit www.chowderfest.com.

Stirring things up

“Heresies/Herejias,” a retrospective of Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer, is on view Oct. 8-Jan. 25 in both the Zoellner Arts Center Main Gallery and the Dubois Gallery in Lehigh University’s Maginnes Hall, both accessible from Packer Avenue, Bethlehem. Meyer’s contention that all photographs, manipulated or not, are equally “true” and “untrue” has been labeled heretical in the “orthodox documentary” photography community, hence the exhibit’s title. Zoellner Art Center gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Dubois Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Visit www.luag.org.

Her majesty’s wine

The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire celebrates one of the things the Mount Hope Estate and Winery does best with a Wine Harvest Weekend. From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, take part in grape stomping, a grape toss and wine tasting. The Faire grounds are on Route 72 off Turnpike exit 266, Cornwall. Admission is $28.95, $23.95 for seniors and students, $9.95 for children. Call (717) 665-7021 or visit www.parenfaire.com.

Anniversary show

The Lipizzaner Stallions present their 38th anniversary presentation, “Dancing White Stallions,” at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Wachovia Spectrum. Tickets are $35 and $25; for children 12 and under and seniors 60 and over admission is $44 and $23.



The stallions are also appearing at the Stabler Arena, 124 Goodman Drive, Bethlehem. Tickets are $22.50 and $27.50. Show times are 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday. Call (215) 336-3600. Also, check www.lipizzaner.com.

This spud’s for you

Rained out last week, Cherry Crest Adventure Farm, 150 Cherry Hill Road, Paradise Township, offers Potato Fest from 10 a.m. to dusk Saturday. There’ll be potato sack races, a potato scramble, a potato eating contest and much more. Admission is $13.95, $11.95 for children 3-11. Call (866) 546-1799 or visit www.cherrycrestadventurefarm.com.