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Sizing up Saquon’s secret weapon – the NEUBIE (We tried it!); Wokworks; About Face for VF Military Academy; Sweet longevity deal; This and That & more MMO

November 20, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / 15 Comments /

Main Line athletes, weekend warriors and post-op patients are all getting a charge out of the NEUBIE, the new-ish electric stimulator that Tredyffrin’s own Saquon Barkley swears by.

Only 14 providers in PA have it and only two are local: Christine Hayes Physical Therapy & Integrative Healing Center in Paoli and at Bryn Mawr Sports Rehab.

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Smile and say CHEESE: Wildly popular in Bryn Mawr, Johnny’s Pizza now open in Wayne

October 30, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / Leave a Comment /

It’s an established Main Line quirk: locals rarely cross the Blue Route.

That’s why a second Johnny’s Pizza in Wayne – just 4.4 miles from the bustling Bryn Mawr original – isn’t a self-sabotaging act of cannibalization.

It makes sense.

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Wayne welcomes World Wide Stereo, a next-level hub for the latest in home tech and entertainment

September 23, 2025 / By Caroline / /

Prepare to scrape your jaws off the floor, folks – World Wide Stereo in Wayne is a WOW!!!

Newly opened in the old Starbucks, it’s a welcome 180 from that sketchy CBD/kratom shop that Radnor township wisely gave the boot after a hot minute. It’s also a snazzy upgrade over its former Main Line home in Ardmore.

Indeed, World Wide Stereo Wayne is way more than a store – it’s a show-and-tell emporium: a place – for homeowners, builders, architects and designers – to not just see the latest in smart tech and whiz-bang entertainment, but to EXPERIENCE it.

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Burtons Grill & Bar: vibrant vibe, familiar fare at the old Chili’s in Wayne

June 20, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

At long last, there is life – and lots of it – at the long-abandoned Chili’s in Wayne.

With murals of native birds and branches inside and out, generous splashes of lush greenery, and teeming crowds at opening-week festivities, the new Burtons is positively buzzing.

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Blockbuster news: ‘Passionate local investors’ unite to save historic Anthony Wayne Theater

February 3, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Twenty years after the nonprofit Bryn Mawr Film Institute rallied the community to revive an aging movie palace, a similar group has emerged to restore Wayne’s once-shining centerpiece, the historic Anthony Wayne Theater.

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‘Sonnez les matines’ in Wayne. Open just a week, Matines Café is already rousing crowds.

November 21, 2024 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

No need for Frère Jacques to ring those morning bells – the Main Line is already making its way to Matines.

Talk about a new café hitting the sweet spot.

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‘Pretty Wrecked’, a Wayne mom’s new tell-all; This is not your father’s library; Main Line family brings Cabrini to the big screen; Wayne Wawa & lux condo news; Hello, Osushi Wayne, Fiore Rosso 2.0, Full of Grace Florals, Blue Heron, RAZRBAR & more

March 6, 2024 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

With her girl-next-door face and bouncy personality, it’s hard to picture Wayne mom Tracy Viola as the duplicitous, defiant drug-addicted teen in her new memoir, Pretty Wrecked.

But maybe that’s the point of this tell-all: looks (and smarts) can be deceptive. Heck, they help you deceive. You can be pretty – and pretty wrecked for years – but you can fool yourself for only so long.

Sooner or later, you’ll crash and burn.

Tracy hit rock bottom seven months after her Agnes Irwin graduation when, strung out and shivering with nowhere to sleep, she crawled inside an empty Toyota parked behind the Devon Acme.

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Spring beginnings! Blue Elephant Wayne, Amada Radnor, Exit 13 Gastrobar, Berwyn Farmer’s Market, Coulter Place Ardmore, HOTWORX, Discseel, Le Mignon & more

April 17, 2023 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Recession? What Recession? No sign of it here, with so many restaurants, retail and building projects taking root this spring.

We begin in downtown Wayne, where a long-time-coming Blue Elephant has finally made her grand entrance.

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The Main Line’s first all-gifted school; BIG plans for Wayne; Post offices closing? Iron Chef José Garces spices up Radnor; Boyds snazzes up Wayne; Bevy of new boutiques & lots more

September 29, 2022 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Some of our brightest minds aren’t wowing their “Challenge” teachers in T/E, skipping grades in Lower Merion, or acing their APs at Agnes Irwin.

They’ve left our vaunted public and private schools to enroll in a largely unknown startup: The Grayson School, the only independent, non-profit school in PA created specifically for gifted learners in grades Pre-K through 12.

“All Gifted, All Day” is the school’s tagline.

And surprise, surprise: It’s right in Radnor.

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Development déjà vu in Devon; Look who’s coming to Bryn Mawr, St. David’s & Malvern; Amazing lashes in Wayne; Everyone Reads T/E; Montessori memory care in Paoli; Student suicides & more

February 7, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Remember those ever-evolving plans for Devon Yard? How they once included a hotel, apartment building and parking garage near the old Waterloo site? And how, after a series of skirmishes, feisty neighbors thwarted all three.

Well, never say never.

The same developer – Eli Kahn, in partnership with Wade McDevitt – is back with new versions of each, all sited within spitting distance of Devon Yard and the Devon Horse Show.

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