Undocumented on the Main Line; Louella heads east & lots of comings & goings...
A Main Line teenager wore these booties during a border crossing 16 years ago. They live among us, hiding but in plain sight. They mow our lawns, mind our kids, cook our food, clean our homes. They are...
View ArticleNew Mistral, a bold move at KOP Mall; $$ for Stoga’s accused; Gravity Vault...
The Chef’s Counter at the new Mistral KOP 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...
View ArticleCarol Burnett pops into Paoli; New Tin Lizard in Bryn Mawr & Locust Lane...
A TV icon touched down in Paoli this week. Shhhhhh. Carol Burnett paid a hush-hush visit to overjoyed folks at Daylesford Crossing senior living Monday, charming one and all. Nope, she didn’t know a...
View ArticleNew sexual abuse suit vs. Conestoga – most damaging of all? Plus, Tredici...
Wayne resident Arthur Phillips in the 2016 Conestoga yearbook and in his 2017 mugshot. The Tredyffrin/Easttown School District is absorbing yet another fusillade – this one, an utterly explosive...
View ArticleMovie theatre to Tredyffrin (?!); Devon pot dispensary’s surprising CEO; New...
Dim the lights and pass the popcorn: The Main Line could be getting its first luxury movie palace. The owner of the Swedesford Plaza Shopping Center is in serious talks with an upscale theater company...
View ArticleDevon Yard beckons brides & mitzvahs; Saving sex-trafficked girls; Flamingos...
A rendering of the Reception Room at Terrain Gardens at Devon Yard. The dirt is flying and the bulldozers are busy at the old Waterloo Gardens, now a bustling construction site for Devon Yard. Good...
View ArticleHeroin with a happy ending; MOMS Demand (gun) Action; Crowded schools; Bistro...
Liz, Eric, Ethan and Ken Tankel in their Malvern home. 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...
View ArticleKOP Mall shooting; Shopping & school news; A celebrity house call; ‘What to...
Just in time for Halloween: scary times at the King of Prussia Mall. Last Saturday afternoon, a woman returning to her car in the garage between Nordstrom and Lord & Taylor was held up at...
View ArticleDemocrats win big in T/E & beyond; Longtime Main Line ob-gyn arrested; Stoga,...
Conestoga alums Kyle Boyer and Heather Ward, both still in their 20s, will join the T/E School Board. Local Democrats are still pinching themselves – perhaps nowhere more so than in Tredyffrin, where...
View ArticleEx-Stoga aide admits student sexual assaults; New Bryn Mawr BYOB; Fresh...
Guilty as charged. A former teacher’s aide has admitted to the repeated sexual assault of a Conestoga sophomore – in his school office, his car and her bedroom – during the 2016-2017 school year....
View ArticleDouble issue: Movie (!), dining & shopping scoops, plus our annual all-local...
A streetscape rendering of Malvern’s rapidly expanding “urban village,” Uptown Worthington. Pop some corn: seems the western Main Line is going to the movies. One of the nation’s largest movie chains...
View ArticleCan Wayne theater be saved? Plus, Berwyn murder update; ‘Choice’ Bryn Mawr...
For years, downtown Wayne’s movie theater has been slugging it out with the big boys: the Regals, the AMCs, the Movie Taverns, and, to a lesser degree, the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. Slugging it out...
View ArticleRock on! Wayne’s new music hall; ANEU to Rosemont; Wayne murder/suicide &...
Team 118 North: Partner Kenny Kearns, Marketing/PR Manager Kristen Kearns, Partner Joe Rufo, GM Steve Keenan, Talent Buyer Chris Perella; (back row) Partner Matt Thornton, Assistant Talent Buyer Graham...
View ArticleTwo Devon mysteries solved: What’s up with old Shiraz site & empty KMart;...
It’s a Main Line mystery: Twin buildings – perhaps the most opulent ever built in these parts – sitting idle for years in the heart of Devon. Unleased. Unsold. Ripe for the taking but no one’s biting....
View ArticleGUNS! Students walk out, Parents gather & Stoga teacher speaks out...
Stoga teacher Deb Ciamacca talks guns on national TV, Delaware Valley Friends School students walk through Paoli, and T/E parents meet to talk gun safety. They called B.S. Fed up because they don’t...
View ArticlePeek inside posh new Life Time in Sub. Square; Tasting Ripplewood in Ardmore;...
Polished to perfection, Life Time opens its “diamond” level club in Suburban Square this week. The only things missing? Beds. Not kidding. The “healthy way of life company” – now ensconced in the old...
View ArticleLucky us! Swell new Stoneleigh public garden in Villanova, The Bercy Ardmore,...
A romantic lych gate at Villanova’s new Stoneleigh public garden evokes traditional English gardens and alfresco weddings. The Main Line has a new treasure. Dusted off, spruced up, and ready for our...
View ArticleT/E probes policy after alleged gun threat & hate speech rattle middle school...
Nora and Sandy Nissenbaum outside their Wayne home. With recent school shootings very much on their minds, some T/E Middle School parents are taking aim at the district’s response to an alleged threat...
View ArticleBig ‘downtown’ Devon news; Splashy new swim school; More ethnic eats in...
Devon Horse Show 2018 is history – but whoa, Nelly. There’s a move afoot that could change the look of “downtown” Devon almost as much as URBN’s fast-rising Devon Yard. The horse show’s chairman and...
View ArticleMulti-family housing boomlet in Tredyffrin? Big plans for Swedesford &...
Rendering of proposed Swedesford Plaza apartment building Holy Lazarus! A long-stagnant stretch of Tredyffrin has a pulse. The owner of Swedesford Plaza wants to bulldoze the old HH Gregg and build...
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