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Stallone’s rocky time on the Main Line; Tis the season for CCC sale & Surrey house tours; Fresh downtown Wayne intel & This and That

October 25, 2026 / By Caroline O'Halloran / 2 Comments /

Before Rocky Balboa pounded sides of beef in a South Philly meat locker, Sylvester Stallone was pumping iron in Berwyn.

“There is no Rocky without Philadelphia,” Mike Sielski declares in Going the Distance: Stallone, Philly and the Story of Rocky, his new book timed to the film’s 50th anniversary.

Rocky wouldn’t be Rocky without those runs through the Italian Market, those strolls through gritty Kensington, that triumphant climb up the Art Museum steps, argues the award-winning Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist and WIP radio host in his fifth book.

But the Main Line looms large in Rocky’s origin story, too.

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?