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Wawa murder on our minds; Affordable house calls; Devon’s cutest cottage; AmberNoon’s new Wayne digs; Songsan BBQ Ardmore & Rudee’s Thai Wynnewood; Au revoir, Paramour; Lionheart Tutoring & more

April 11, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

It’s been two weeks since the brutal murder at the Radnor Wawa and we’re still aghast.

We didn’t know Stephanie MIller personally, but her death seems personal. We’re taking it personally.

She walked among us.

Her 6-year-old son goes to school here.

We’ve bought coffee at that Wawa.

The store on Old Sugartown has reopened, its floors scrubbed. The only hint of the horror that happened here: a makeshift memorial on a window ledge.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SOUL Tagged With: Amberrnoon, Brian Kennedy, Christine Shirley, Dan Chinburg, Devon cottage, Dina Previti, domestic violence, Erum Ilyas, FEarless Restaurants, flocked, Geoff Partridge, Guatemala, Imbibe, Jasper's Backyard, Jasper's Westside Tavern, Jim Beam, John Griffin II, Joseph Kitonga, kKorean BBQ, Lionheart Tutoring, Main Line murder, Mandarin, Marty Grims, MOMS Demand Action, Nova Nation, Paige Sullivan, Paint the Town Red, Paramour, Radnor Residents for Gun Safety, Radnor Wawa murder, red flag laws, Rittenhouse Place, Rosalie, Rrudee's Thai, SAT prep, Scott Furman, Songsan, Spread Bagelry, Stephanie Miller, Sullivan's, sun-protection, Sydney Grims, Vitable Health, Wayne Hotel, Wayne murder, Whole Foods, women's heart health, Wynnewood West

Boss Ladies! AR Workshop Malvern & Wayne mom’s Yogi invention; Plus, KOP Mall facelift, Nova News, Politics, Platoon Fitness & more

March 29, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Callin’ all wine-lovin’ ladies and DIYers: the coolest spot this side of The Buttery just opened in Malvern.

AR Workshop is a custom art studio where you make wood signs, photo frames, canvas pillows, tote bags and more.

Sipping all the way.

(Giving “craft cocktails” a whole new meaning, right?)

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, PLAY, SHOP, SOUL, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: AR Workshop, Bikram, Boston College, Campli PHotography, Courtney Mullen, crafts, DIY projects, Eastside Flats, Final Four, Focus Fitness, Fourth Congressional District primary, girls night out, Jay Leno in West Chester, Jo Ruse, Joe Hoeffel, Kasie Hunt, King of Prussia mall, King Street, Lauren Hart, Louella, Main Line personal training, Malvern, march for our lives, March for Our Lives Philadelphia, Mojo Fitness, MOMS Demand Action, PA primary elections, Platoon Fitness, Pope Francis, Ryan Costello, Safe School Symposium, Sixth Congressional District, Stoneleigh bunnies, Todd Carmichael, trampoline park, Urban Air, Villanova, Villanova acceptance rate, Villanova admissions, Villanova baseketball, Villanova campus construction, women's nights, yoga, YOGI Fitness mats

Ex-Stoga aide admits student sexual assaults; New Bryn Mawr BYOB; Fresh ‘Canvas’ for downsizing boomers; Teegarden dogs; Our Closet; Mister Sprinkle & more

November 30, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Guilty as charged. A former teacher’s aide has admitted to the repeated sexual assault of a Conestoga sophomore – in his school office, his car and her bedroom – during the 2016-2017 school year.

After pleading not guilty at his April arraignment, Arthur Phillips changed his plea to guilty last Tuesday and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison.

If Phillips had been younger, Chester County Judge Patrick Carmody said he wouldn’t have accepted the plea deal. “You’re 67, Do you understand that you may never leave jail, that this might be a life sentence?” he asked the defendant.

Phillips said quietly that he understood.

The judge was clearly disgusted by Phillips’ crimes.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SOUL, Uncategorized Tagged With: 76ers, a cappella group, Academy Ball, Arthur Phillips, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr Mainliners, Canvas Valley Forge, Charles Hallinan, Choice BYOB, Christmas cookies, Conestoga High School, Conestoga lawsuit, Conestoga soccer, Devon Horse Show, holiday gifts, King of Prussia Town Center, loan shark, Main Line dining, Mike Shelly, Mister Sprinkle, Saxbys, Teegarden dog park, Teegarden Park, Tredyffrin dog park, Tredyffrin Winter Rec, Wentworth Gallery, Winterfest

Heroin with a happy ending; MOMS Demand (gun) Action; Crowded schools; Bistro boomlet & weekend preview

October 5, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

What a difference a decade makes.

Hang out with the Tankels’ in their Malvern living room and you’d never know this observant Quaker family was nearly destroyed by drugs.

Teasing and cracking jokes, they clearly love being together. Like the “normal” Main Line family they weren’t – for six harrowing years.

Truly, if walls could talk, the Tankels’ home would scream: of stolen money and pilfered pills, of school expulsions and shouting matches, of multiple car crashes and surprise drug tests, of Visine and baggies, of trust faithfully extended and repeatedly betrayed. All of it fallout from Eric Tankel’s addiction to pot, to pain pills, and ultimately, to heroin.

Six of his close friends died from their addictions.

But Eric, thankfully, is very much with us.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, SOUL Tagged With: Body X, Chadds Ford Winery, Cornerstone Bistro, Daylesford Abbey Art Show, Delice et Chocolat, drug addiction, drug rehab, Gateway Shopping Center, gun control, gun violence, heroin, King of Prussia wine garden, Kirkland's, Knauer Performing Arts Center, Lower Merion School District, Lumi Juice, Main Line Antiques Show, Malvern, MOMS Demand Action, Motherest, Paoli Blues Fest, Penn Wynne Elementary School, SAVVY event, school overcrowding, surrey services, Tredyffrin/Easttown School District, Uptown Speaker Series, What to Eat Now

Summer ’17 Catch-up: Life Time KOP’s sinkhole; remembering Radnor’s N. Mora; Skinny Pizza (?!); Nova’s new Inn; Crime news; Fall Classic; Mt. Joy & more

September 7, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

/>By all accounts, things were going swimmingly at the area’s fanciest new fitness “resort,” Life Time Athletic in KOP.

Until they weren’t.

On Saturday, Aug. 5, staff noticed the water level in the indoor pool had suddenly dropped a few feet and the decking in one corner had collapsed.

Uh-oh.

The club promptly closed the pool, drained the water and demolished it.

The culprit? A sinkhole – although management’s e-mails to members never used the “s” word, referring only to the pool’s “inadvertent” closure and “required repairs.”

Not the sort of splash Life Time envisioned when opened for its first summer season in June.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, PLAY, SHOP, SOUL, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, Cotilllion, Denise Barger, Devon, Devon Fall Classic, Devon Horse Show, drug treatment centers, fitness clubs, Inn at Villanova, King of Prussia, Larry Schwarts, Life Time Athletic, Matt Quinn, Montrose Mansion, Mt. Joy, Nick Moya, Paoli, Paoli Village Shoppes, Penn State, Plato's Cloet, PucciManuli, Recovery Center of America, Sam Cooper, sinkholes, Skinny Pizza, South Wayne Porch Fest, Tredyffrin murder, Villanova University

Wait til you see what Valley Forge Park’s got cooking; 8 reasons to love new AmRev Museum; Pun’s Toys, LM taxes & Cricket Club news; Saluting Dodo & G. Sills & more

April 27, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Ah, Valley Forge National Historical Park, the Central Park of the Main Line.

Walk, ride or hike its 3,500 acres and you can just smell the history.

But the Park’s not resting on its cherry laurels these days.

Far from it.

Thanks to its newly invigorated nonprofit arm, the Valley Forge Park Alliance, it’s marching forward with dazzling plans that will affect ALL of us – anyone who “recreates” in the park (90 percent of visitors), brings guests there, or even drives through.

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Filed Under: PLAY, SHOP, SOUL, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: anne hamilton, Conestoga High School, heart disease, historic preservation, Lower Merion School District, Valley Forge Park

Carol Burnett pops into Paoli; New Tin Lizard in Bryn Mawr & Locust Lane Brewing; Talking teen depression with DMAX; Carson Kressley sighting and much more

April 11, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A TV icon touched down in Paoli this week.

Shhhhhh.

Carol Burnett paid a hush-hush visit to overjoyed folks at Daylesford Crossing senior living Monday, charming one and all.

Nope, she didn’t know a soul there.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, SHOP, SOUL, STYLE Tagged With: Beer, Blue Octagon, brewing, brewpubs, Carol Burnett, Carson Kressley, Conestoga Football, Conestoga High School, Conestoga Lacrosse, Daylesford Crossing, Devon Horse Show, DMAX Foundation, Drew Bergman, drug addiction, fashion, Locust Lane Craft Brewery, Malvern, Minding Your Mind, Paoli, Paoli Blues Fest, retail, Sage Senior Living, salsa, senior living, shopping, St. Norbert Church, style, Tate Kienzle, teen depression, teen drug abuse, teen suicide, Tin Lizard Brewing, Tredyffrin Township, Xolo tacos

Wait ’til you see what just ‘Hatch’ed in Wayne; Saving Wynnewood, one mansion at a time; ‘Nova’s tiny Superfan; Paint the Town Red & more

March 16, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Pregnancy or new motherhood getting to you?

Join the club.

Literally.

Just open in Wayne: Hatch: A Sanctuary for Motherhood, an upscale, membership-based Mecca for expectant and new moms.

Because motherhood has its bumps – and they can’t all be covered in maternity tops.

Also because Dr. Spock and What to Expect When You’re Expecting are SO last century.

The Hatch method: an array of programs to help you “Grow, Glow and Know.” The goals: Get physically and mentally fit and get educated. Baby and hubby will thank you.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, PLAY, SHOP, SOUL Tagged With: Ellen show, Hatch, Hatch: a sanctuary for Motherhood, heart disease and women, Hersha Hospitality Trust, historic preservation, Jay Shah, Keenan's Nova World, la colombe, Lankenau Hospital, Lower Merion Board of Commissioners, Main Line Health, maternity fitness classes, maternity health, motherhood, Paint the Town Red, pregnancy, Roi Lush, Surrey, theo cherkas, Todd Carmichael, Villanova men's basketball, Wayne, Women's Heart Initiative, Wynnewood

Local beer boom; Stunning news @ aging skin; Academy Ball Ever After; Gucci crimes; Bridal tidings; Saluting newsman Tom Murray & more

January 31, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Suddenly, the Main Line is soaking in suds.

Sure, we have locally-owned brewpub faves like Ardmore’s Tired Hands, McKenzie Brewhouses in Berwyn and Malvern, newbie La Cabra Brewing and, slithering soon to Bryn Mawr, Tin Lizard.

And yes, we’ve got a few, but not nearly enough, cozy gastro-pubs like The Goat’s Beard and Teresa’s Next Door in Wayne.

And of course, restaurants far and nigh (Biga, Savona et. al.) have been beefing up their beer lists.

No, the BIG news in brews is this: a brand-new law permits PA peeps to take home beer by the bottle.

Holy Heineken!

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, SOUL, STYLE Tagged With: Academy Ball, Academy of Music, addiction, Alvin Terrell, Ardmore, Ashani Weeraratna, auto theft, ballroom dancing, Beer, beer distributors, Beer Yard, biomedical research, breweries, brewpubs, bridal boutiques, bridal gowns, Cara Bradley, Carla Zambelli, Chris Kunda, Civil war graveyards, crime, crowlers, Daily Local, Deborah Van Cleve, Deneen Marcel, Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, Evgeny Dyachenko, Golden Star Dancesport Championships, Gucci, historic preservation, journalism, Karen Sauter, King of Prussia, Kunda Beverage, La Cabra Brewing, lash extensions, Malvern, Manayunk, Martin Short, Matt Guyer, Mayor's Anti-Drug Task Force, meditation, melanoma, mindfulness, New Leaf Club, news editor, Paoli, Paoli Design Center, Plato, Plato's Closet, Remix, skin cancer, state stores, Summerhill, sun damage, sunscreen, tanning, theft, Tired Hands, Tom Murray, Tredyffrin Police, Twin Willows, Van Cleve Collection, Van Cleve Pavilion, Verge Bodymind, Wayne, Wistar Institute, Women & Science, Yang Institute for Integrative Medicine, yoga

Luxurious Life Time Athletic, DryBar coming to Ardmore; White Manor Country Club sold; local ‘FADD’ to fight ODs; a Broadway good-bye & more

January 17, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The elite health & fitness company likes the Main Line so much, it’s putting not ONE, but TWO of its mega clubs here.

Our first Life Time – a scratch-built, 140,000 sq. ft. whopper with a “resort-like” outdoor pool and waterslides – will debut in June on Swedesford Rd. in Tredyffrin. (Life Time’s calling it King of Prussia, but the map says it’s Wayne, if only by a hair.)

And just announced: our second Life Time will be in Ardmore – an exclusive “diamond” level club (a notch above KOP’s “onyx premier”) in the former Macy’s building, one of two Grand Dames of Suburban Square. (The tall Times building is the other.)

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SOUL, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, Berwyn, Bobby Flay, Broadway, Chopped Jr., concert, Concert Golf partners, Conestoga High School, country clubs, Dan Schmidt, department stores, drug addiction, FADD, fitness clubs, Food Network, health, health and fitness, Here We Wait, Heroin overdose, Jeremy DeFelice, Jersey Boys, King of Prussia, Life Time, Main Line, Marty Snyder, Meredith Antoian, Music in Memory, musical theater, Nectar, New Leaf Club, overdose, Patrick Feury, Peter's Place, Rosemont, Ryan's Hope, Ryan's House, Sara Moyher, Sara Schmidt, Suburban Square, Tredyffrin, Wayne, web TV, Wendy Monaghan, West Elm, White Manor Country Club

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