Chestnut Hill Local

by LEN LEAR

Chestnut Hill jazz musician Walter Bell was hired early this year to play at a wedding in Virginia on September 20. You may recall, however, that this was the same time as a power blackout throughout much of the east coast.
“I tried to phone down there to see if it was still on but could not get through,” said Bell, who’s tall and handsome, has a sunshine...

by PAT STOKES

During the somewhat more relaxed years of the ’60s, you could sometimes observe a certain kind of homely humor in the displays of such unlikely places as retail shops, maybe in the mall. One such example could be seen at Old Navy in the Plymouth Meeting Mall. Planted in midst of the piles of pants and tops was what appeared to be an old touring car, possibly...

My name is Brett H., and I have a problem.

It has been going on for some time now. I don’t drink. I don’t have indiscriminate sex (not that I don’t want to). My problem isn’t drugs, nor is it violence. I’m afraid it’s much deeper than those combined.
You see … I am a mocker.
When I see Master of the Universe in his Armani suit his cell phone, suddenly I’m on the phone self-importantly calling my...

Chestnut Hill masseuse also
has great touch as an artist

Ah, the south of France — the balmy breezes, the light — what could be more seductive on a gray, blustery November day? Chestnut Hill resident Helene Halstuch’s recent monotypes and paintings on view at the Muse Gallery in Center City through November 30 are easily a cure for the most persistent Seasonal Affective Disorder. This is unmistakably Cézanne’s France, glowing with golden ochres...

40 years after JFK slaying
Who still believes the one-bullet theory?

by JIMMY J. PACK JR.

This Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy. Though I wasn’t even a thought deeply recessed in my parents’ minds at that time, history has taught me much about Kennedy’s death. Over the years, in elementary school, every teacher would say, “Ask anyone what they were doing when JFK was shot, and they can tell...

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Never ask for whom Bell toils Acclaimed Chestnut Hill musician has a national reputation — and all that jazz

Never ask for whom Bell toils
Acclaimed Chestnut Hill musician has a
national reputation — and all that jazz