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Two award-winning journalists.
One stage.
And a whole LOT to talk about.
No wonder tickets are going fast for Main Line School Night’s May 19 Visionary Voices fundraiser: “America, the Media, & Small Acts of Courage” with MSNBC chief correspondent Ali Velshi in conversation with veteran news anchor Pat Ciarrocchi.
One of the last fine jewelry stores still standing on the Main Line is folding.
In business for nearly 80 years, Walter J. Cook Jewelers is closing its 2,750 sq. ft. Paoli showroom. A storewide liquidation sale begins next week.
Calling all book clubs: the author of The Alice Network, The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye is coming to Main Line.
Historical fiction writer Kate Quinn will appear – in conversation with 6ABC’s Jessica Kartalija – at the Jane Win jewelry showroom in Wayne at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 24.
A break in Villanova University’s growing PR nightmare.
The man who recorded a student’s sexual assault on his phone won’t be walking at their shared graduation on May 16. He’s staying away.
The petite powerhouse behind the Main Line’s signature bridal emporium has left the building.
Deborah Van Cleve sold her Paoli business this week – the Van Cleve name included – to her longtime manager, Ashley Grape.
Looks like Tredyffrin will get its first pocket pickleball park – but don’t be jumping up and down just yet, pickle ballers.
This project’s going to take a while – years, perhaps.
And it won’t come cheap.
Celebrated with flag raises and solidarity marches around the world, Transgender Day of Visibility on the Main Line will largely pass … invisibly.
“I’d love to say we’ll mark it in some way,” says a Devon mom of a 16-year-old transgender boy. “But the truth is: things don’t feel safe these days. A flag in the yard may put a target on our backs. We will mark it in our hearts.”
She’s not alone.
Has there ever been a more serendipitous restaurant launch than Maison Lotus?
Just as Season 3 of the hit TV show heats up, Wayne’s newest hotspot debuts with sultry, swanky “White Lotus” vibes.
A bombshell decision made in secrecy and kept under wraps – the removal of three graphic novels from Radnor High School’s library – is now – you guessed it – the talk of the town.
Hundreds weighed in on social media after first reading about the book bans in a newspaper article.
Emails were fired off to school board directors and administrators.
Teachers were buzzing after the superintendent informed them en masse a full eight days after an ad hoc committee voted to remove the books.
Superintendent Ken Batchelor’s explanatory letters to parents came a week later. His emails filled in blanks but for some only raised more questions.
When Campbell’s Soup heiress Dorrance “Dodo” Hamilton died in 2017, the fate of her expansive Strafford estate was anyone’s guess.
Would her elegant home, outbuildings, greenhouses and specimen plantings go to her heirs?
Or would they become a nature preserve? A suburban offshoot of the PA Horticultural Society? A small school, perhaps?
One thing was certain: the land – more than eight acres in a prized spot behind Wayne’s Eagle Village Shops – was valuable.
