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Local Life
Chestnut Hill Film Group by LEN LEAR The Chestnut Hill Film Group (CHFG), the Delaware Valley's only community-based film society that still shows classic movies free of charge, next Tuesday, October 5, will unspool its 31st consecutive year of showing vintage films at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave. CHFG specializes in films that cannot be seen anywhere else, and they are all shown on film, not video. The season starts with To Catch a Thief (1955), an Alfred Hitchcock "thrillomedy" starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. On October 19, CHFG is offering something that may have never... Hiller manages area's most outdoorable restaurant By LEN LEAR I've met hundreds of restaurateurs over the past 25 years of writing about area restaurants, but there is none I respect more than Carlos Melendez, owner of Coyote Crossing in Conshohocken since December of 1996 and a second Coyote Crossing in West Chester as of January 29, 2004. When Carlos came to the U.S. From Mexico City 13 years ago, he was 22 and dreaming the American Dream. (Carlos grew up dirt-poor in Mexico City, where he had to join a gang to survive, "and I did some things I shouldn't have.") Speaking no English, Carlos got a job as a busboy at a small Mexican restaurant, Tapas,... by TOM UTESCHER Chestnut Hill Academy's soccer squad climbed back to the .500 level and Germantown Friends School dipped below that mark last Thursday, when the visiting CHA Blue Devils took a 2-1 decision on the Tigers' turf. A 1-0 halftime lead for Chestnut Hill (2-2) vanished when GFS (1-2-2) converted a penalty kick midway through the second period, then senior Andrew Ferry booted in the gamewinner for the Devils with 13 minutes remaining. CHA attacked at the outset and went ahead with just 5:44 elapsed. Pat Spanninger tapped the ball from the center of the 18 over to the left outside corner of the box, where Dan Shuptar lined up a successful shot. Germantown's Mbizo Mzamane banged a ball over the CHA... Beautiful objects often leave by PAT STOKES Who would have thought that if one created a nest, of sorts, that the nest would turn into a niche? Explanation coming up. In October, it will be just two years since Beth Robertson opened her interior design shop, Designer's Nest, at 1215 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Why does a tall, good-looking, talented gal (married, husband Richard, three children) take such a step? The love of lovely things is at the bottom of it, augmented by the know-how to put stuff together to produce a harmonious, beautiful setting anyone would enjoy living in. Beth always had a feel for textiles, having... Hill resident leads thrilling Orchestra concert By MICHAEL CARUSO Chestnut Hill resident Ignat Solzhenitsyn led the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia in the opening concert of its 2004-05 season Sunday afternoon in the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. The Chamber Orchestra, of which Solzhenitsyn is the music director and principal conductor, offered a program that was effectively put together and showed the ensemble to be in excellent music condition. Sad to say, a similarly constructed concert heard the previous evening across Commonwealth Plaza in Verizon Hall was far less successful. Sunday afternoon's concert proved several important points; one is that the time-tested formula of overture-concerto-symphony can still be thrillingly efficacious if the three scores are compelling and complementary pieces of music and if they receive inspired and masterful renditions. That was assuredly the case with the Overture to Cherubini's opera, Medee, Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Opus 107, and... |