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Rock on! Wayne’s new music hall; ANEU to Rosemont; Wayne murder/suicide & jailhouse death; Mt. Joy; Eagles’ ‘Case for Smiles’ and more

February 8, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Great balls of fire! Wayne’s about to get what Ardmore’s had for years: its own live music hall.

118 North will open on N. Wayne Avenue Feb. 15, adding a touch of Austin/Nashville to our fair town.

To which we say: Rock it to us.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, Uncategorized Tagged With: 118 North, Academy Ball, Academy of Music, Aneu Catering and Events, Aneu Kitchen & Juicery, anne hamilton, Ardmore Music Hall, Arthur Phllips, At the Table, Bill Golderer, BodyX, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr Mainliners, Center for Families, Cindy Kerr, Colonial Theatre, Conan, Conestoga, Conestoga sexual abuse, Gryphon Cafe, Haverford, healthy food, Kenny Kearns, la colombe, Main Line music venues, Mainliners chorus, Mary Foote, Mary Nixon, Matt Quinn, McGillicuddy's, Meridith Coyle, Merin Cricket, Mt. Joy, Natural Lands Trust, New Leaf Club, Philadelphia Eagles, Radnor police, Rosemont, RugbyRaod, Ryan's Case for Smiles, Sam Cooper, Stoneleigh, Super Bowl, Tredyfrin-Easttown School District, United Way, Villanova, Wayne, Wayne murder-suicide, Wayne Music Festival

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

Stoga hazing update: Father of accused player speaks out; Berwyn’s big facelift & assorted SAVVY shorts

August 4, 2016 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The father of one of the three Conestoga football players charged in the broomstick sodomy scandal has broken his silence. He’s publicly calling on Chester County DA Tom Hogan to take action: either set a court date or drop the charges.

“Enough is enough,“ Dorian Ross tells SAVVY. “It’s been five months. We want closure.” His son heads off to college in a few weeks and deserves to have this “dark cloud” resolved, he says.

Claiming he needed more time, Hogan postponed a pretrial conference set for May 12 until further notice. But since then, Ross says neither he nor his attorney has heard boo from the DA.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY Tagged With: Berwyn, bookstores, Conestoga High School, covered bridges, farmer's markets, Hazing, high school football, Main Line real estate, redevelopment, Rosemont, Valley Forge Park

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