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Mighty & Main Line-born, The Motherchic blog launches Nordstrom line (!); Hello, Avalon Bistro Bryn Mawr, Bartaco KOP, Rec Studio Wayne, StudioFlora Berwyn; Plus, Wagsworth, Kramer Drive, Home Grown & lots more

May 2, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Lindsey Renninger Schuster might just be the most photographed woman on the Main Line.

She takes multiple “mirror selfies” each day.

She stars in professional shoots up to 150 times a year.

She’s photographed incessantly on vacation.

Always camera-ready, she changes clothes five times a day.

No, Schuster’s not a celebrity, a socialite or even a model, at least not technically.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: ABC House, ABC Lower Merion, Anna Sicalides, Avalon Bistro, Avalon Bistro & Bar, Bartaco, Berwyn stores, Berwyne Fire Company, Bryn Mawr restaurants, Chrissy Piombino, Colby Cohen, comedy shows, Davio's, dog grooming, Elizabeth Bloom, fashion blogs, Gibson, Gino Marchetti, Habitat for Humanity, Haverford, haverford square, Home Grown, Howie Roseman, J.D. Sobota, Jerry Holtz, John Crosby, Karen Nicolas, kennels, King of Prussia, Kramer Drive, Laugh it Up in Malvern, Lauren Addis, Life Time Athletic, Life Time Work, Lindsey Schuster, Liz Bloom, Lucy Lopez, Main & Vine, Malcolm Jenkins, Mary Ann Esposito, Mary K. Dougerty, McKenzie Brew House, mentoring, mommy blogs, Myra Sack, Nicole Miller, Nordstrom, OnUp Innovators, OnUp Media, pet resorts, Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Radnor ABC, Rec Studio, school rankings, Scott Bluebond, St. Norbert, StudioFlora, Tacos, The Motherchic, U.S. News & World Report, UIF, Uncommon Individual Foundation, Valley Forge Military Academy, Wagsworth Manor Pet Resort, Wayne murder, Zach Ertz

Remembering Radnor’s Heidi Diskin: a life of caring, cut short by depression. Plus, Paoli’s billboard battle, Target fever, Kindred Collective Bryn Mawr, Ardmore murder news, Retail roundup, Etcetera & more

October 11, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

On Sept. 7, three days after her sons started the new school year at Radnor Elementary, Heidi Diskin ended her life.

She was 44.

We share this with you because Heidi would want us to.

“One hundred percent, she would want her story told,” said her husband, J.D., in a phone interview. “My hope is that what happened to Heidi can be a teachable moment. As terrible as this situation is, it’s an even worse tragedy if it doesn’t help others.”

To family and close friends, Heidi’s suicide was a sucker punch – a heart-wrenching coda to 20 years of pain.

To those less close, it seemed, well, inexplicable.

Because Heidi had made mental health advocacy and suicide prevention her life’s work. She’d started a brain health foundation, she’d spoken to countless groups, she’d even hosted a cable TV show about mental health. How could Heidi Diskin – of all people – have succumbed herself?

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Filed Under: BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anthropologie, Ardmore murder, Bill Claypool, bipolar, Blue Gene Gala, Blue Octagon, Blue Octagon Too, Brigid Stasen, Bryn Mawr, Campli PHotography, Carla Zambelli, Catalyst Outdoor Advertising, CCC Sale, Center for Social Impact, Christina Carlin-Kraft, Circe, Clockworks, Community Clothes Charity, Dan Maxwell, depression, Devon Target, Devon Yard, digital billboards, DMAX Foundation, Eaves, Eaves Townhouse, Etcetera, Finneran Pavilion, flower walls, Haverford College polling place, Heidi Diskin, J.D. Diskin, Jordan PIncus, Kindred Collective, King of Prussia mall, Krissa Wichsser, Louella Boutique, Madeline Miller, Malvern Prep, Minding Your Mind, model murder, Nicol Floral Design, Nicol Segel, North Italia, Paoli billboard, Parlour, Parlour Ice Cream Ardmore, Pattye Benson, Radnor Fireworks, Radnor suicide, Revivalist Gin, Robin Halpern, Skinny Pizza Paoli, spotted lanternfly, suicide, surrey services, Target, Tredyffrin billboard, Tredyffrin Township, True Food Kitchen, Ventnor movie theater, Villanova, Wayne Target, William claypool

T/E probes policy after alleged gun threat & hate speech rattle middle school parents; Gotta go to Main & Vine & Devon Horse Show; #SaveStoneleigh, shore dunes and much more

May 24, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

With recent school shootings very much on their minds, some Tredyffrin-Easttown Middle School parents are taking aim at T/E’s response to an alleged threat of gun violence and bullying.

They sent e-mails, made phone calls, met with school officials.

Then, scores of them showed up at a school board meeting Monday night.

The district was ready. Message received, loud and clear.

The Superintendent announced the creation of parent focus groups to evaluate T/E’s threat-response policy and suggest changes as needed. He said the district will also explore “best practices” of other districts across the country and review relevant research.

And the day after the meeting, the principal of T/E Middle School sent an extraordinarily detailed e-mail to parents explaining how, as a parent himself, he takes students’ safety personally.

The hubbub started in early February. It simmered, then boiled over last week after a TEMS family, the Nissenbaums, told their story to the AP.

And it ran in newspapers across the country.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Actor's Lab Philly, anti-semitism, Bar Spoon Beverage Co.. Rebecca Adler, Beth Kephart, Brain Fog event, Bryan Fox, Bullying, Deedee Francis, Devon Art Gallery, Devon Derby, Devon Horse Show, Easttown Middle School, Emlen Tunnell, First Night at Devon, Great Valley Pet Hotel, Jessica Knoll, Ladies Day at Devon, Lower Merion School District, Nissenbaum, Nora Nissembaum, Radnor High School, Radnor Township Building, Sandy Nissenbaum, Save Stoneleigh, Scott Dorsey, Sports Legends of Delaware County Museum, Stoneleigh, The Favorite Sister, Tredyffrin, Tredyffrin-Easttown School Board, Wayne

Peek inside posh new Life Time in Sub. Square; Tasting Ripplewood in Ardmore; The Switch; An opioid confession; Jane Winchester; Nifty Mom’s Day gifts & more

April 26, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Polished to perfection, Life Time opens its “diamond” level club in Suburban Square this week.

All that’s missing?

Beds.

Not kidding. The “healthy way of life company” – now ensconced in the old Macy’s – wants to be your fitness center, your hair-and-nail salon, your restaurant, your spa, your babysitter – and now, your office.

Not just a “laptops-welcome-free-wifi” of office.

But a real one, totally tricked out.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alice's Table, Amy McCann, Ardmore, Beke Beau, Cara Bradley, Common Space, Crissy Pyfer, Dorinda Medley, Duffy Real Estate, gastropubs, get real main line, Jackie Verna, Jane Paradis, Jane Winchester, Karen Phelps Moyer, Kimmel Center, Life Time Athletic, Life Time Work, Lilly Pulitzer, Lisa Thomas Laury, Lisi Lerch, Lori Gildea, Main Line mansions, Moyer Foundation, mural, Mural Arts Philadelphia, pendant jewelry, Peter Martin, Philadelphia mansions, Ripplewood Whiskey and Craft, St. David's Episcopal Church, St. David's Episcopal Day School, Suburban Square, Teen makeup camp, The Switch, The Voice, thepurebag, Thom Nickels, Toni Filipone, Wynnewood mural, yoga bags

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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Devon Yard beckons brides & mitzvahs; Saving sex-trafficked girls; Flamingos trending; Shopping scoops; A SAVVY Save the Date & more

September 21, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The dirt is flying and the bulldozers are busy at the old Waterloo Gardens, now a bustling construction site for Devon Yard.

Good thing, too.

Because URBN is already booking weddings and mitzvahs – from Sept. 1, 2018 onward – at the Yard’s splashy event venue, Terrain Gardens.

Never mind that the project took more than four years to get OK’d; URBN’s confident it can have the whole shebang up and running in less than 12 months.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anthropologie, Autograph Brasserie, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr Village, Center for Self-Care, Devon, Devon Yard, Egg by Susan Lazar, event venues, Events, Flocking for Florida, Greg Seltzer, human trafficking, Hurricane Irma, hurricane relief, Josh Gansky, Main Line retail, Philly Music Fest, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, Susan Ingram Weidemann, Terrain, Terrain Garden Cafe, Terrain Gardens, Trattoria Amis, Tredyffrin, Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust, Tredyffrin House Tour, URBN, Walk Her Home, Waterloo Gardens, Wayne, wedding venues

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

New Mistral, a bold move at KOP Mall; $$ for Stoga’s accused; Gravity Vault rocks Radnor; Queen of Soaps’ new memoir; Retail ups & downs & more

March 28, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

You’ll never guess what just blew in to the King of Prussia Mall.

Legitimately hip dining.

We kid you not.

Twice we visited the new Mistral – named for the stiff “mistral’ winds that clobber the coast of south France.

Twice, we were, well, blown away.

While the usual suspects – Cheesecake Factory, Grand Lux Café, California Pizza Kitchen – are corporate, aka manufactured for the masses, Mistral is:

  1. privately owned
  2. relatively intimate
  3. chef driven. (A fancy way of saying that an onsite chef creates and executes the menu. No corporate recipes.)
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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, STYLE Tagged With: Agnes Nixon, and the Great Comet of 1812, ballet, Broadway, Bryn Mawr, Comet, Conestoga 3 Gofundme, Conestoga Football, Conestoga hazing, dining, Eagle Village Shops, Gravity Vault, hardware stores, indoor rock gyms, Josh Groban, King of Prussia mall, locker room hazing, Main Line restaurants, Mistral, My Life to Live, Natasha, Pierre, Queen of soap operas, Radnor, Radnor High School, rock climbing, Rosemont, Saffron Indian Kitchen, Shoba Narayanan, Suburban Hardware, the Nutcracker, Vivi G. Shoes, Wayne shoestores

ANEU Approach in Paoli; Haverford’s new Incline Running; Main Line at the Oscars; SAVVY swag; ‘Nova crosses; Paoli on track & more

March 1, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Wait ’til you see what Main Line culinary queen Meridith Coyle’s cooked up this time. The gal who brought us Meridith’s Market, Binnie & Flynn’s (Take 2), Fresh Ideas Market and Aneu Catering has come up with, yup, a fresher idea.

Call it “ANEU Approach” to eating, dining, and throwing parties. (She does.)

In expansion mode, she just bought a whole shopping center – near Del Chevrolet and the Van Cleve Pavilion in Paoli.

A scant three weeks later, she opened her re-tooled, three-pronged food biz.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, STYLE Tagged With: Agnes Irwin School, ANEU Cafe, ANEU Catering & Event, ANEU Market, Aronimink Golf Club, Benj Pasek, dining, Flowers After Hours, Haverford School, Incline Running, Joan Shepp, John Middleton, Juice Merchant, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, La La Land, Main Line, organic food market, organic restaurants, Oscars, Paoli, Paoli train station, Philadelphia Flower Show, Radnor Township, St. Katharine of Siena School, Starfish Project for Children, Taliba Foster, Tredyffrin, Villanova University, Wayne

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