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GUNS! Students walk out, Parents gather & Stoga teacher speaks out nationally; Devon’s new Lumbrada; Ardmore’s new Living Room; Pro athletes talk mental health; Village Wellness & more

March 15, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

They called B.S.

Fed up because they don’t feel safe in school, thousands of Main Line students walked off the job Wednesday.

For 17 minutes or more, classrooms became ghost towns, the halls were mostly quiet.

There would be no repercussions. Lower Merion, Radnor and T/E Schools were of one voice: students would not be penalized for commemorating Florida’s fallen 17 and demanding #NeverAgain.

As a precaution, parents were cordially not invited to attend – forbidden, in fact, from entering schools that became “closed campuses” from 10 to 11 a.m. Local police stood at the ready, their services, thankfully, not needed.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP Tagged With: #Enough, Anselmo Torres, Ardmore, Barbara Bigford, Berwyn, Bluebell Kitchens, community acupuncture, Conestoga High School, CYO basketball, Dan Maxwell, Deb Ciamacca, Deb Fein, Delaware Valley Friends School, Delice et Chocolat, Devon, DMAX Foundation, Emergency Aid of PA, entrepreneurs, Jennifer Thompson, Lance Isakov, Laura Mann, Laurie Doan, Lower Merion High School, Lumbrada, Main Line acupuncture, Main Line School Night, Mexican restaurants, Mullen Interiors, national school walkout, Peter Cardone, Radnor High School. Moms Demand Action, St. Monica's Parish, student athletes, student walkout, suicide prevention, Taste of the Main Line, teen mental health, The Living Room at 23 East, Tredyffrin Public Library, Village Wellness

Heroin with a happy ending; MOMS Demand (gun) Action; Crowded schools; Bistro boomlet & weekend preview

October 5, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

What a difference a decade makes.

Hang out with the Tankels’ in their Malvern living room and you’d never know this observant Quaker family was nearly destroyed by drugs.

Teasing and cracking jokes, they clearly love being together. Like the “normal” Main Line family they weren’t – for six harrowing years.

Truly, if walls could talk, the Tankels’ home would scream: of stolen money and pilfered pills, of school expulsions and shouting matches, of multiple car crashes and surprise drug tests, of Visine and baggies, of trust faithfully extended and repeatedly betrayed. All of it fallout from Eric Tankel’s addiction to pot, to pain pills, and ultimately, to heroin.

Six of his close friends died from their addictions.

But Eric, thankfully, is very much with us.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, SOUL Tagged With: Body X, Chadds Ford Winery, Cornerstone Bistro, Daylesford Abbey Art Show, Delice et Chocolat, drug addiction, drug rehab, Gateway Shopping Center, gun control, gun violence, heroin, King of Prussia wine garden, Kirkland's, Knauer Performing Arts Center, Lower Merion School District, Lumi Juice, Main Line Antiques Show, Malvern, MOMS Demand Action, Motherest, Paoli Blues Fest, Penn Wynne Elementary School, SAVVY event, school overcrowding, surrey services, Tredyffrin/Easttown School District, Uptown Speaker Series, What to Eat Now

Movie theatre to Tredyffrin (?!); Devon pot dispensary’s surprising CEO; New frat suit; True Food Kitchen & new Wayne BYOB; Pun’s to Ardmore; Devon Yard & more

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

Dim the lights and pass the popcorn: The Main Line might get its first luxury movie house.

The owner of the Swedesford Plaza Shopping Center in Tredyffrin is in serious talks with an upscale theater company to turn the dowdy old Pathmark into a state-of-the-art cinema experience.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, Chamounix Ventures, Delice et Chocolat, Devon Yard, Drexel fraternity lawsuit, Duck Donuts, Easttown, ECHO Realty, French pastry shop, Gateway Shopping Center, George Badey, Haverford Duck Pond, Healthy eating, Ian McGibbon, Keith Morgan, Keystone Dispensaries, King of Prussia mall, La Jolie, Marijuana dispensary, Medical Marijuana, Michael Badey, Movie Tavern, Movie theaters, Paoli train station, Pathmark, Pun's Toys, Shipley School, Station Square, Swedesford Plaza, Terrain, Tredyffrin, True Food Kitche, Wayne, Wayne BYOB, zoning

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