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In The News...
‘Hollywood in Chestnut Hill’
First Chestnut Hill Film Festival this weekend
by LEN LEAR
Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep will not be there
stepping out of limousines and wearing Versace gowns and million-dollar
diamond necklaces. Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson will not be there
flashing their sparklers and grinning from Bethlehem Pike to
Cresheim Valley Road.
But Tom Bond, 48, who grew up on Springfield Avenue, wouldn’t
miss it for all the antiques on Germantown Avenue. Tom
now lives in North Wales, but he still has such affection for
Chestnut Hill that he has helped to create the first-ever “Freedom
Film Festival of Chestnut Hill,” whose films will all be
shown at two area locations, The Stagecrafters and Solaris Grille
, from...
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In Sports...
Burke returns to CHA as new
A.D.
by TOM UTESCHER
In hiring a successor for outgoing athletic director Stan
Parker, Chestnut Hill Academy didn’t have to stray far from home.
Mark Burke, who grew up in Wyncote and was the second of
four brothers to graduate from CHA, has ended his seven-year tenure as
assistant basketball coach at Millersville University in order to take
the helm of the sports program at his alma mater.
Burke graduated from Chestnut Hill in 1986, and went on
to play basketball at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, where he was
a sociology major. Subsequently, he earned...
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In LocalLife...
Center city quality
in nearby Roxborough
Maria’s: one year of spectacular Italian
cuisine
by LEN LEAR
You might say this article is a testament to
the “squeaky wheel gets the grease” bromide. Hugh
Gilmore, owner of Gilmore’s Used Book Store, 43 E. Chestnut
Hill Ave., made it quite clear that he had my telephone number,
and there was no way he would stop calling me until I did an
article on Maria’s Ristorante, which is celebrating
its first year in business today (July 15) at 8100 Ridge Ave.
In upper Roxborough (at Summit, the first traffic light north
of the Andorra Shopping Center).
“We go there once a week,” Hugh said
in more than one recent, civilized phone call. “We love
the food, prices are reasonable, the restaurant is beautiful,
and Maria and her family...
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