SAVVY MAINLINE

it's what you want to know

  • Home
  • About
    • About Savvy
    • About Caroline
  • Events Calendar
  • Our Events
  • Reel
  • Savvy Team
  • FRIENDS
  • Contact

Coping with coronavirus: The Main Line pauses, pivots and pitches in. Will life ever be the same?

April 11, 2020 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Frankly, we weren’t going to publish. This coronavirus crisis is too crazy/awful/unwieldy to even begin to unpack. Plus, we weren’t sure how to handle our loyal advertisers, who have enough bills to worry about.

But we’ve been monitoring the Main Line’s New Normal. And while plenty about it stinks, there’s good news worth sharing.

So we’re going ahead. You’ll see our advertisers’ banners and hear some of their corona-coping stories but they won’t be billed. It’s the least we can do.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Aneu, Berwyn, cabin fever, coronavirus, covid-19, drive-by dance party, Fabric Shield, face shields, first responders, Food It Forward, hand sanitizer, HomeCooked, Hope Veterinary Hospital, Leslie Gudel, Main Line, Main Line Health, masks, McKenzie Brew House, Medical Students for masks, pandemic, People's Light, Radnor Memorial Library, salute to heroes, shutdown, Surrey, Valley Forge Park

Once Upon a Drag Queen Storytime in Tredyffrin; Devon Center debate; Debut of drop-in childcare; New noshes Lovebird & Bua Loy; Inside One Ardmore; Finer spirits in Wayne; SAVVY steals & more

July 11, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

After the hullabaloo in Havertown, no one knew what to expect when Tredyffrin Public Library hosted its first-ever Drag Queen Storytime.

Protesters?

Counter-protesters?

An overflow crowd?

An angry mob?

After it received pushback emails and calls, the library wasn’t taking any chances that late June morning.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 19th Amendment, Angela Bruno, Ardmore apartments, Ardmore Restaurant Week, Ardmore train station, Asian restaurants, austism, austism center zoo, Balena Canto, Bastille Day, Bastille Day Block Party, Beans Beauty, beer garden, Betzwood, Black Powder Tavern, Bua Loy, Chester County homicides, childcare, Color Street Nails, Deb Ryan, Devon Lanes, Devon Laotian restaurant, Devon restaurants, District Attorney, Drag queen, drag queen story time, Driving Essentials, drop-in childcare, Elmwood Zoo, Fabletics, Fine Wine & Good Spirits, Frances Wolf, Fulbright awards, Great American Pub, Harry Potter Scavenger Hunt, Harry's Treasures, Hemcher family, Jack Stevens, Janet Gallagher, Jeremy Garcia, Joan Stuart, Justice Bell, Katherine Ruschenberger, Kids Clubhouse of the Main Line, Kilwins, Laurel House, Lovebird Chicken, Make-A-Wish, Matt Dwyer, Mike Noone, mustang, Neptune, Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, Old Eagle School, One Ardmore, One Ardmore Place, Pennhurst, PLCB, Radnor Financial Center, Ronald Meyer, scavenger hunts, second opinions, SEPTA, Snap Pizza, Sontuosa BYOB, state stores, stick-on nails polish, suffragettes, Temple Grandin, Tom Hogan, Trails on Tap, Tredyffrin Library, Turn 5, unemployment, Valley Forge Park, Vanguard, Villanova University, Washington Memorial Chapel, Watson Adventures, Wayne state store, Wharton Esherick, Willows, Your 2nd Look

Devon Horse Show edition: Survivor Kirstin Day back in the saddle, What’s new in 2019, Shop the show. Plus, Cryoskin is here (!), Picket Post Pickle, Swedesford update, Trace Ardmore, Ardrossan, new Wayne co-op & more

May 23, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

On June 1, Kirstin Rabe Day will return to the show ring at Devon.

It’s been a while.

Twenty years, in fact.

With her erect carriage, her spit-shined boots and gloved fingers, Kirstin will be the picture of equestrian elegance..

But beneath her finery, emotions will be churning.

I’m here.

I’m healthy.

I’ve made it back.

When she last competed at Devon, Kirstin, now 38, was a junior at Radnor High School. She won two ribbons.

Seven months later, she had to give up riding altogether, and with it, her beloved horse.

Read More See More

Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, Uncategorized Tagged With: anorexia, Ardmore, Ardrossan, Ardrossan book, art galleries, BodyX, Bozzuto, Brian Kennedy, Chase pool, Chesterbrook Civic Association, Conestoga Rugby, Conestoga start time, Cryoskin Main Line, Devon Derby, Devon hat contest, Devon Horse Show, Devon Horse Show Ladies Day, Gideon Glick, Golf Galaxy, Green Bridge Development, HH Gregg, historical marker, Hope Montgomery Scott, Janice Hillman, Janny Scott, John Daley, Killian Riggs, Kirstin Day, Kirstin Rabe Day, Little House Shop, Main Line Co-op Pop Up, Marny Baxt, Melissa Sinni, Minding Your Mind, Paoli Business and Professional Association, Paoli Inn, Paoli Village Shoppes, Picket Post, Picket Post Swim Club, Radnor Hunt, Radnor Races, Renfrew Center, Robert Montgomery Scott, Sam Chew, Saturday Club, school start times, Strafford Chiropractic, Strength is Beautiful, Swedesford Plaza, The Beneficiary, The Blue Beret, theft, Trace, Tredyffrin Township Planning Commission, Valley Forge Park, Wawa murder, Wayne Music Festival, Yoga in the Park

FURY over Element Kitchen’s disappearing act; Felony Lane Gang hits Paoli (Women beware); Art for all; Cancer Support; Martha Stewart & much more

April 12, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Dream kitchens up in flames.

New bathrooms down the drain.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars, given in good faith, gone.

Employees summarily fired, their paychecks bounced. A lease broken, rent skipped.

The flood of fuming allegations against Element Kitchen & Bath in Paoli (and formerly Devon) beggars belief.

Did this really happen? Here?

No bargain basement remodeler, Element – until it up and vanished – operated out of a splashy showroom in the heart of Paoli at the beautifully renovated KingsHaven Design complex.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Acme, Ardmore Music Hall, Ashley Lunkenheimer, autism, Autism Awareness Luncheon, Bernice Paul, Beth Buccini, brain injury, Cancer Support Community of Greater Philadelphia, Community Arts Norristown, Conestoga High School, Corsica, Daylesford Crossing, Element Kitchen & Bath, Episcopal Academy, Felony Lane Gang, FLITE, Friends Central School, Gabrielle Arts Foundation, Giada de Laurentiis, Harlem Wizards, In the Pocket, Jahnavi Rao, Jay Wright, King of Prussia mall, KingsHaven Design, Kinney Center, Lisa Scottoline, Liseter, Main Line Art Center, Martha Stewart, Mary Gay Scanlon, michael sheehan, Mike Sheehan, Molly Shepard, Natanya Sortland, navy yard, Nicole Schaeffer, Paoli, Paoli Library, Pearl Kim, Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show, Philadelphia Antiques Show, Race to Recovery, School of Rock, social justice, T, Tommy Conwell, Tredyffrin Police, Valley Forge Flowers, Valley Forge Park, Wendy Coleman, West Chester homicide, Wheels of Wayne, Williams Sonoma

Wait til you see what Valley Forge Park’s got cooking; 8 reasons to love new AmRev Museum; Pun’s Toys, LM taxes & Cricket Club news; Saluting Dodo & G. Sills & more

April 27, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Ah, Valley Forge National Historical Park, the Central Park of the Main Line.

Walk, ride or hike its 3,500 acres and you can just smell the history.

But the Park’s not resting on its cherry laurels these days.

Far from it.

Thanks to its newly invigorated nonprofit arm, the Valley Forge Park Alliance, it’s marching forward with dazzling plans that will affect ALL of us – anyone who “recreates” in the park (90 percent of visitors), brings guests there, or even drives through.

Read More See More

Filed Under: PLAY, SHOP, SOUL, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: anne hamilton, Conestoga High School, heart disease, historic preservation, Lower Merion School District, Valley Forge Park

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.

Read More See More

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

SIGN UP TO GET SAVVY IN YOUR INBOX. (NEVER MISS A POST!)

Upcoming Events

There are currently no events.

Share/Connect

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Hot Headlines

  • After public outcry, Radnor returns banished books; Nova rape protest update; New eats: Settantatré Berwyn, Manorah Bryn Mawr; Wonder ‘food halls’ in Ardmore & KOP; Hot Headlines; This and That & more
  • MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss America, the news media, free speech & ‘Small Acts of Courage’ with veteran news anchor Pat Ciarrocchi in Bryn Mawr. Tickets to this timely talk – a vital fundraiser for Main Line School Night – are going fast.
  • Longtime Paoli jeweler makes ‘difficult, bittersweet’ decision to close, liquidate inventory
  • Bestselling author Kate Quinn to meet fans at Jane Win in Wayne
  • After public outcry, the student who participated in a sexual assault in a Villanova dorm will skip graduation

© 2025 · Developed by JX2 Development.

savvymainlineheader

Stay in the know with SAVVY Main Line! Get news, scoops and local buzz PLUS special offers and exclusive invites delivered to your doorstep.

×