Things To Do In Yeadon

Awarded Best Movie Night by Philadelphia magazine in 2011, Cinema 16:9 projects theatrical run movies along with independent, foreign, and classic films in surround sound and full HD projection. Comprising two screens and 100 comfortable stadium-style seats, the theater also welcomes visitors to BYOB while catching a flick.

With a passion for historic movie theaters—and a simultaneous disappointment with the unoriginality of major multiplexes—founder David Titus has created a modern moviegoing experience that maintains the uniqueness and charm of Golden Age movie theaters. Along with an eclectic list of screenings, the theater features creative programming such as Terrible Tuesday, during which audiences mock terrible films; 8-Bit Warrior Wednesday, at which attendees play classic NES and SuperNES games on the big screen; and Dinner and a Movie, which includes discounted movie tickets and discounted meals at great local restaurants.

For those who like to watch movies at home, the theater’s movie-rental program features more than 3,000 titles on DVD and Blu-ray. All-out cinephiles can benefit from the theater’s membership program, which offers plans with unlimited movie tickets and rentals. The theater also hosts private movie screenings for birthday parties and challenging knitting parties and boasts a full concession stand that doles out organic and local foodstuffs in eco-friendly containers.

Mainline Magazine escorts its readers down an upscale avenue of cultural happenings, unveiling pages of recommendations for dining, design, and shopping, as well as profiles of local personalities. While perusing the Early Summer 2011 issue, follow the tastemakers to the Pennsylvania Dutch region or learn how to spruce up a home with a few well-considered interior tweaks and one prominently displayed life-size-doll collection. High-quality paper stock and vibrant, stylish graphics make the bimonthly magazine's full-color spreads of interiors and events burst off the page like a pop-up book filled with active fireworks.

For four decades, Putt-Putt Golf and Games has hosted friendly competition with four putt-putt golf courses and an array of games. Colorful blossoms and rocky waterfalls add character to 18-hole putt-putt golf courses, and creative hole designs add challenge. Groups of partygoers can request a staff chaperone to guide them through the labyrinth and hand over a treasure map to the course’s bounty of nougat-filled golf balls.

In the Game Zone, visitors settle competitive challenges at an air-hockey table or face-off against digital emissaries in the Terminator Salvation arcade game. Outside, the Jump Shot is a trampoline basketball hoop that launches athletes toward slam-dunks in lower orbit.

Formed in 1929, the Scott Arboretum encompasses more than 300 acres of the Swarthmore College campus. The elegantly green grounds showcase more than 4,000 kinds of ornamental plants, including trees, shrubs, vines, and perennials that are compatible with the local climate. Visitors that wrap their green thumbs around today's dual membership will receive many benefits, including admittance to all lectures, discounts on special events, two tickets to the annual tour of the private gardens, issues of the quarterly newsletter Hybrid, access to the Arboretum’s horticultural-literature library, plus opportunities to participate in the community-gardening program.