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Transgender in Tredyffrin – C. McMillan’s story; Semi-Super Wawa to Wayne?; LM school search update; J. Alexander’s KOP & Alomore in Gateway & much more

August 7, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Don’t bother searching for Cal Stone McMillan in Conestoga’s 2103 yearbook. The only McMillan listed is brainy trumpeter Caroline, and well, she’s long gone.

Because Caroline, in trans parlance, is Cal’s “dead name.”

In print and in person, Caroline has been largely erased – birth certificate, passport and driver’s license all say “Calvin” now. Calling Cal “Caroline” would be “deadnaming,” disrespectful because it signals non-acceptance.

Along with the masculine name, there’s a manly physique, a strong handshake, a deeper voice, a beard.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aberdeen Sunoco, Alomore, Alpha Brava Canine, Ardmore, Barbara Bigford, Beach Pockets, beach umbrella anchors, Ben Thomas, Broadway, Cal McMillan, Caroline McMillan, Cerise BYOB, Cerise Craft Steakhouse, clairemont, Dine out for the Dogs, Easttown Library, fashion boutiques, Gateway Shopping Center, gender dysmorphia, Gerry Lenfest, J. Alexander's, Jeremy Nowak, Jersey Boys, Karakelian, Kathy Rumer, Keystone Shops, King of Prussia mall, Lower Merion School District, Medical Marijuana, Mike Badey, Morris Cloethier Mansion, Nahjee Grant, Nathan Twedt, passports, Radnor Poice, Sara Schmidt, Sara Schmidt Studio, Snapchat, Songs for Seeds, St. Katharine of Siena, Stacy Stone, Stoneleigh, Transgender, Tredyffrin, Van Gogh Pop-up, vincent van gogh, Wawa, White Dog Cafe

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

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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