Your South Jersey Weekend Awaits (Jan 9–11 🎉)

📍 Autumn Lake Winery — Williamstown
📅 Thursday, January 8th | ⏰ Evening Event

Autumn Lake Winery is hosting an incredible night of live dueling pianos paired with a delicious buffet dinner — the perfect cozy-but-fun winter outing. Expect sing-along favorites, crowd energy, and lots of laughs while you sip local wine overlooking the vineyard. This one sells out fast every time, so don’t sleep on it!

📍 Paint-A-Treasure Studio — Haddon Heights
📅 Saturday, January 11th | ⏰ 1:00 PM

This sweet winter workshop combines painting fun with cake decorating — thanks to a partnership with Tis So Sweet Bakery. You’ll create a winter-themed masterpiece and learn to decorate an adorable snowman cake. It’s creative, hands-on, beginner-friendly, and perfect for kids, families, or anyone who just wants a cozy afternoon activity.

📍 Gremlin House Wrestling — Gloucester City
📅 Saturday, January 10th | ⏰ Evening Event

Independent wrestling fans — this one is wild. Gremlin House Wrestling brings the intensity, drama, characters, and high-energy action you can’t get anywhere else. Expect a rowdy crowd, big personalities, and nonstop entertainment from bell-to-bell. If you’ve never been to a local wrestling event before… this might be the one to try.

📍 Collingswood Grand Ballroom — Collingswood
📅 Sunday, January 11th | ⏰ 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Future brides, grooms, and planners — this is your chance to tour one of South Jersey’s most beautiful wedding venues. Meet vendors, sample bites, enjoy live demos, and get inspired while exploring this historic ballroom space. Whether you’re just browsing or deep in planning mode, this showcase is a perfect way to spark ideas.

📍 Rancocas Woods Village Shops — Mount Laurel
📅 Saturday, January 10th | ⏰ 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Huge markdowns, color-tag deals, designer discounts, and new-year wardrobe refresh energy — that’s what the Dash Consignment Tag Sale is all about. You’ll find incredible bargains on clothing, handbags, and more while supporting a woman-owned local business. If treasure-hunting is your love language, this is your event.

📍 Brooklawn American Legion — Brooklawn
📅 Weekend Event | ⏰ Evening

Designer Bag Bingo is back at the Brooklawn American Legion — and the prizes are seriously worth playing for. Gather your friends, grab your lucky dauber, and enjoy a fun night of raffles, laughter, and friendly competition. These events always pack the house, so expect great energy and lots of happy winners leaving with gorgeous brand-name bags.

📍 The Haddon Fortnightly, Haddonfield
📅 Saturday, January 10th — 7:00 pm

Step back into 1776 with a live performance celebrating New Jersey’s five signers of the Declaration of Independence. The “Ministers of Apollo” bring early American music to life with authentic instruments, storytelling, and historical narration that paints a vivid picture of Revolutionary-era Philadelphia.

It’s the perfect night out for history lovers, music fans, and anyone who enjoys a unique cultural experience close to home. Light refreshments will be served — and you’ll walk away with a deeper appreciation for New Jersey’s role in America’s founding.

📍 Scottish Rite Auditorium, Collingswood
📅 Friday, January 10th — 8:00 pm

Dancing Queens… this one’s for you 💃✨
MANIA is widely regarded as the #1 ABBA tribute show in the world, bringing all the sparkle, harmonies, and sing-along magic of Sweden’s biggest pop group to the beautiful Scottish Rite stage. Expect full costumes, iconic choreography, and every hit you know by heart — from Mamma Mia to Take a Chance on Me.

Perfect date night. Perfect girls’ night. Perfect “we know every lyric” night.

📍 The Levoy Theatre, Millville
📅 Saturday, January 11th — 8:00 pm

If you grew up blasting STYX or just love classic rock done RIGHT — Return to Paradise delivers. This high-energy tribute recreates the soaring vocals, piano riffs, and stadium-rock vibes of STYX’s glory days. Think Come Sail Away, Renegade, Lady, and more… all inside the historic Levoy Theatre. 🎸

It’s nostalgic. It’s loud (in the best way). And it’s an awesome excuse for a night out.

📅 January 12–18 | Downtown Collingswood

South Jersey’s beloved dining destination is celebrating food lovers all week long! Collingswood is bringing back Restaurant Week: Winter Warm-Up Edition, giving diners a delicious reason to explore the borough’s vibrant restaurant scene and support local businesses during the quieter winter stretch.

Participating restaurants throughout Collingswood will serve special prix-fixe menus, seasonal dishes, and exclusive offerings that highlight each chef’s creativity and local flavors. It’s a perfect excuse to revisit favorites, discover new spots along Haddon Avenue, or finally try that restaurant you’ve been eyeing.

From cozy Italian trattorias and chef-driven bistros to unique culinary experiences, Restaurant Week showcases why Collingswood’s dining scene is a favorite for South Jersey foodies. With limited-time menus crafted just for the week, it’s an ideal winter outing whether you’re planning a date night, friend dinner, or solo foodie adventure.

📍 Menus and participating restaurants will be updated as the week approaches — click image above for a list of current restaurants

A Gloucester City classic has a brand-new chapter — and it comes with some serious cheesesteak credentials. Pudge’s Pub has officially taken over the former Max’s Seafood location, bringing the team behind the legendary Pudge’s Cheesesteaks in Pennsylvania across the bridge to South Jersey. If you’ve ever had one, you already know: these are award-winning, fully loaded, absolutely no-shortcuts cheesesteaks — the kind people drive for.

But here’s what makes it even better: they didn’t just move in — they honored what came before them. Pudge’s Pub kept some of the beloved Max’s Seafood favorites on the menu, so longtime locals still see familiar plates alongside the new lineup of pub classics, burgers, cheesesteaks, and comfort food.

The vibe? Relaxed. Friendly. Neighborhood-true. It feels like the kind of place where you’ll see familiar faces, catch the game, grab a great meal, and probably start planning your next visit before you leave. Gloucester City has itself a new go-to spot — with a whole lot of flavor and heart behind it.

📍 Pudge’s Pub — in the former Max’s Seafood location, Gloucester City

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