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We run down the headlines and foodie news and chat with Radnor’s top cop Chris Flanagan and the straight-shooting chef/owner of Wayne’s At The Table, Alex Hardy. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts or watch us on YouTube. (Search for SAVVY Main Line: The Podcast.)
With her girl-next-door face and bouncy personality, it’s hard to picture Wayne mom Tracy Viola as the duplicitous, defiant drug-addicted teen in her new memoir, Pretty Wrecked.
But maybe that’s the point of this tell-all: looks (and smarts) can be deceptive. Heck, they help you deceive. You can be pretty – and pretty wrecked for years – but you can fool yourself for only so long.
Sooner or later, you’ll crash and burn.
Tracy hit rock bottom seven months after her Agnes Irwin graduation when, strung out and shivering with nowhere to sleep, she crawled inside an empty Toyota parked behind the Devon Acme.
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A swell new spot to sip, sup, schmooze and wed is heading to a hotel near you – thanks to another partnership between two of the Main Line’s biggest players in restaurants and real estate.
Yowza, that was some year, Main Line!
Before we turn the page on 2023, enjoy this recap of the year’s biggest stories – with direct links in case you missed a few the first time around.
Prompting the most buzz: our in-depth, exclusive investigation of “the swift rise and abrupt fall” of Wayne boutique owner, Hillary White Jean, whose purported rich-and-famous lifestyle crumbled under a barrage of personal bankruptcies, contentious lawsuits and criminal arrests.
At 10 p.m. on July 29, 2023, Patrick Hoey, cancer survivor, four-year diver for Conestoga’s swim team and rising junior at Penn State, lingers on a dock in upstate New York.
It’s the first night of vacation – he’d been invited to tag along on his buddy’s family trip to the Finger Lakes – and he wants one last dip in Keuka Lake before rejoining his friends in the lakefront rental.
“So I dive off the dock and as soon as I hit the water, I can’t feel anything; I can’t move,” Patrick, 20, recalls on a recent Saturday morning in his family’s Devon home. “I was sinking face down in the water.”
Cue the carolers and deck the halls. For the first time in its 127-year history, the Devon Horse Show will be lit up like a Christmas tree this year.
Yuletide at Devon, a winter festival inspired by the Christmas markets in Germany, is coming to town … and staying from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve.
Produced by a father-son team from Villanova backed by 20 local investors, Yuletide aims to become an upscale holiday happening that families return to year after year.
Shortly after dinner on Sunday, April 30, T/E Middle School fifth grader Reagan Monast suddenly stopped dancing to Taylor Swift and ran up to her bedroom. A check of her Apple watch confirmed the worst: her heart rate was sky high – 144 beats per minute.
Panicked, she asked her parents: “Am I going to have another seizure? Can I make it stop?”
Recession? What Recession? No sign of it here, with so many restaurants, retail and building projects taking root this spring.
We begin in downtown Wayne, where a long-time-coming Blue Elephant has finally made her grand entrance.
Hillary White Jean wafted into Wayne on a cloud of luxury perfume, designer heels, extravagant cars and personal charm.
Sixteen months later, her splashy store, JWH Boutique, departed in the December darkness, leaving a string of angry landlords, fashion vendors and small business owners in her wake.
