NOVEMBER 25, 2009 PAGE: 5 THE NUTCRACKER C H PAGE: 8 E S BUY FRESH, T BUY LOCAL E R C PAGE: 25 O SOUND U CHECK N T Y WWW.DAILYLOCAL.COM/CC C U IS IN E & N IG H T L IF E MARKS- MALLOWS PAGE: 15 RCE: N PEA SIMO not justing 15 GE: glassblow PA 10% OFF Ron’s Gift Cards Until New Years Ron’s Beer See Website For Details Baskets Basket Includes Six Bottled Beers Of Your Choice Plus • 2 Rons Pint Glasses You just pay for the beer! LOOK FOR OUR NEXT WINE TASTING EVENT IN DECEMBER 0535370 SAVE THE DATE: DEC. 31st - NEW YEARS EVE BASH xxx xxx /PAGE 3 TABLE NOV. 25, 2009 MAGA xxx ZINE CHESTER COUNTY CUISINE & NIGHTLIFE xx xxx OF www.dailylocal.com/CC STAFF: xx xxxCONTENTS Randall P. Notter Publisher Andrew M. Hachadorian Editor Tricia A. Johnston PAGE: 4 Advertising Director Sunday Funday CC is a magazine of the Daily Local News, pub- lished every other Wednesday and distributed free throughout Chester County. Our offi ces are locat- ed at 250 North Bradford Avenue, West Chester PA. Copyright 2009, Daily Local News. Reproduction of CC, in part or in whole, is prohibited without written permission. PAGE: 6 To advertise in CC, call Holiday PAGE: 9 Jim Steinbrecher at 610-430-1138. Gift Guide Simon Pearce COMMENTS: Send comments to: [email protected] [email protected] MARY’S MESSAGE: PAGE: 17 Center Stage PAGE: 11 I’ve been told I’m easy to shop for and I THINK that’s a good PAGE: 25 Beer Buddies thing. Anything that has to do with travel, music, books and, Coupon you guessed it, FOOD (“food” includes beer and wine of PAGE: 27 SavingsInebriated by Art course) makes me VERY happy! Luckily for me, and other PAGE: 28 Concert Listings food fanatics out there, Chester County has LOTS of options for holiday gifts. Check out the Holiday Gift Guide on pages PAGE: 29 Sassy Suppers 6 and 7 for some delicious goodies this holiday season. 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It’s a like Miracle on 34th Street, White blend of roasting turkey, snow-lad- Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life en clouds and melting charge cards. through the month of December. This can only mean one thing: Holi- Bask in a night of nostalgia at this 0535176 day ’09 is upon us! The implications marvelously kitschy venue, pre- are obvious: go shop, eat, visit and empted by a seasonal supper at Ma- make merry. But to fill the spaces in jolica. Prix Fixe menu available between or keep your out-of-town Thursdays and Sundays, $30 for guests entertained, sprinkle in a few three courses and always no-cork- of these activities and may your days age fee at this BYOB. be merry & bright. x In the Sights of the x Borough: Fill your thermos with Season hot cocoa and hoof it People’s Light & Theater will pres- x to the Old Fashioned ent Snow White through January 3. Christmas Holi- As you can expect from this theater day Parade in company, this is not your daughter’s x d o w n t o w n Snow White, so check out their West Chester, website for the skinny and to snag Friday, Decem- tickets. Hop on over to Winterthur ber 4, at 8 P.M. Museum & Country estate on De- Before the pa- cember 12 for ‘Forgotten Saturday.’ Dream Dinners, Goshen Village Shopping Center rade, get your 1514 Paoli Pike West Chester, PA 19380 Discover popular and little-known 610-344-0321 fitness on at landscape features while walking [email protected] The Jingle Elf with a Winterthur horticulturist. A 0534507 Run, which Brandywine Christmas is displayed kicks off at 7 P.M. at the River Museum through Janu- Contact the Chester ary 10. For the kids, or for the kid in Now Open! County Running Store you, check out Lewis Carol’s ‘Alice for more information. in Pictureland’ exhibit also at the Located in the Heart of Downingtown, PA Nosh, Soup & Sandwiches Museum, running concurrently. 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Now…Go Boost That Economy!! 0535175 NOV. 25, 2009 /PAGE 5 xxxxx xx xxThe xx xx Nutcracker BY When Abby Grosskopf said she’s dance is more of a structured ballet time consuming which is really xx LAUREN “never bored,” she wasn’t kidding. dance, but the costume she wears as hard on me,” she said. “It makes up MCCORMACK a mouse is very elaborate and fun to for itself. It’s really worth it because The 14-year-old ballet dancer has a wear. it’s a really fun experience.” xx SPECIAL TO THE grueling schedule that requires her DAILY LOCAL to be in Philadelphia six days a week Grosskopf, who is a freshman at the xx Though Abby Grosskopf is in half of NEWS practicing her craft for hours and Baldwin School, realizes it’s not easy the 24 performances this season – also rehearsing for the Pennsylvania to juggle her ballet career with her the company splits the younger xx Ballet’s production of George Bal- academics and social life, but she dancers up into two casts – Betsy anchine’s The Nutcracker. somehow makes it work, her moth- Grosskopf said she never gets tired er, Betsy Grosskopf said. xx of watching the production, even “I’m always busy,” Grosskopf said. though Abby has been performing “I’m never bored.” “She’s pretty structured and orga- xx for seven years and her older sister nized,” Betsy Grosskopf said. “She was in it before her. Now in her seventh year with the likes to do a lot of different things. Nutcracker, Grosskopf, of Chadds Abby likes school too. She likes his- Ford, is a candy cane in the Land of tory and science. Sort of a political “I watch at least 10 performances a Sweets and a mouse in the battle junkie, follows news and politics. year I would say,” Betsy Grosskopf scene in the iconic Christmastime She’s an honors students, and gets said. “I never get tired of it, it’s beau- production, which begins Dec. 12 really good grades. She is motivat- tiful. It’s just gorgeous. It’s the best and runs through Dec. 31 at the ed.” feeling for the kids when they look Academy of Music in Philadelphia. out and the Academy of Music is full Grosskopf previously was a party In addition to dancing, Abby Gross- of people. The whole atmosphere, girl, angel, one of Mother Ginger’s kopf – a huge fan of the Twilight se- everything just goes together. It’s a children and, for two years in a row, ries – was on the varsity tennis team very worthwhile trip for anybody. Marie, the lead role. at Baldwin and plays the piano. She It’s an unforgettable experience.” also visited Cambridge, England last “It’s amazing looking summer as part of a foreign ex- Abby Grosskopf said out into the audience change program.