Cafette defies expectations for 13 years. by LEN LEAR Jan Wilson, 47, has a license to thrill. Her 13-year-old restaurant, Cafette, at 8136 Ardleigh St., is a triumph of mind over platter. Although it has lasted 10 times longer than any of its immediate predecessors, Cafette still has lots more juice left in its caboose.
Cafette is unique and quirk-alicious. It is the only restaurant in the Chestnut Hill area that is not only on a non-major road but is the only business on a residential street that otherwise has only single-family homes.
World premiere will celebrate 30 years for all-women's choir by KIA MUHAMMAD A prolific Germantown composer has written a piece of music that will have its world premiere Saturday, May 14, at World Café Live in University City. It was written in honor of the 30th anniversary of the all-female Anna Crusis Choir and its director, Jane Hulting, who is leaving after 20 years at the helm.
CHA grad's hip-hop band releases first CD by ANNE BARR A glance at the Chestnut Hill Academy Web site provides a view into the “diversity of experiences” the school seeks to provide for its students. Classical musicians, sporting events and school theatricals are all profiled. But is CHA likely to some day add a hip-hop group member named “Vision” to its list of visiting artists? Mike Fiebach, CHA ’03 and member of the underground hip-hop band “The Catastrofiks,” dreamed of doing “something out of the ordinary” during his days at CHA. As the summer approaches, Fiebach is finding that his dream is becoming reality and that he may wind up enriching the diversity of his alma mater.
Ex-director at Woodmere now runs Oneida Mansion by JIM WEAVER When my wife Barbara and I were married, we received some Oneida silver tableware as a wedding gift. It was a lovely gift, but I didn’t know anything about the manufacturer or its history until recently. When Patricia (Pat) Hoffman, former Mt. Airy resident and director of development at Woodmere Art Museum for the past eight years, accepted the position as executive director at Oneida Community Mansion House in upper New York State (near Rochester) in February, I began to make some inquiries. I discovered Oneida Ltd. (the silverware company) and the National Historic Landmark mansion and museum/library are connected.
Mt. Airy composer's premiere hurt by acoustics by MICHAEL CARUSO David Hayes, the Philadelphia Singers and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia gave the world premiere of Babylon, a work for chorus and orchestra composed by Mt. Airy resident Thomas Whitman on Sunday night in the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium.
