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Author Lisa Marchiano remembers a cold winter day when she was a new mother, pushing her infant and toddler children in their stroller through Mt. Airy and their stroller getting stuck in tree roots popping up through the sidewalk.
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by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
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11/6/25
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November is upon us, and you know what that means: Time to think about how you’re handling Thanksgiving this year.
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by Karen Plourde, Editor, Weavers Way Shuttle
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11/6/25
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One does not normally expect to see the words “mob” or “organized crime” in the same sentence as “Chestnut Hill,” but Alfred O’Neill is an anomaly.
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by Len Lear
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10/30/25
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If you’re in the mood to see Halloween-themed feats of aerial acrobatics, check out the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts’ (PSCA) Haunted Circus on Saturday, Nov. 1, in West Mt. Airy.
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by Anita Nicholson
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10/30/25
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Philadelphia’s internationally acclaimed Academy of Vocal Arts is set to open its 2025-26 season of fully staged operas with one of the standard repertoire’s most beloved comedies: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” (“The Marriage of Figaro”).
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By Michael Caruso
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10/30/25
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Bob Bowersox's latest opus, a play entitled “Growing Flowers on the Moon,” will have its world premiere staged at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, 200 W. Tulpehocken St. in Germantown, from Nov. 6 to 15.
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by Len Lear
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10/30/25
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Now that Jansen has closed after a 10-year run at 7402 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy, I am convinced that the best fine dining restaurant in the area is La Provence in the Ambler Train Station.
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by Len Lear
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10/30/25
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Good is your enlightened home. Evil is your dark jungle. Only one door separates them; if you cross it, two hands will imprison you in anguish and pain. Never open that door!
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by Will Standish
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10/30/25
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Many of Woodmere's works have gone unseen by the public, stored in vaults at Woodmere’s Charles Knox Smith Hall. Space constraints hindered the museum’s ability to display more of its collection — until now.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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10/29/25
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Rel J. Dowdell, who lived his entire life in Northwest Philadelphia until he took a position five years ago as a full-time director of film studies at Hampton University in Virginia, is a much-honored screenwriter, director, producer and film studies educator.
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by Len Lear
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10/23/25
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As a Springside Chestnut Hill Academy teacher for the last 23 years, Mary Ann Domanska definitely has an astute understanding of inquisitive, energetic young girls, which she has put to brilliant use as an acclaimed author of children’s books.
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by Len Lear
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10/23/25
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The new Bruce Springsteen biopic, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” which is already getting Oscar buzz, will be opening in movie theaters around the country on Friday, Oct. 24.
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by Len Lear
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10/23/25
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Quintessence Theatre Group hosted the world premiere of “Fire!!” this weekend.
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by Hugh Hunter
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10/23/25
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It may have been a week late but Sunday’s Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts Festival attracted a large crowd on a warm, sunny day.
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by Donna Shaw
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10/23/25
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If you’re searching for spooktacular activities this Halloween season, look no further than Northwest Philadelphia.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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10/23/25
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If you enjoy scary stories, then “Misery,” now running at Act II Playhouse, is the show for you.
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by Hugh Hunter
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10/23/25
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Although it’s hardly as old as the city’s venerable Mendelssohn Club Chorus, Philadelphia’s Singing City choir traces its lineage all the way back to 1948.
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by Michael Caruso
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10/23/25
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Recognizing the Northwest’s surplus of creativity, the Roxborough Development Corporation (RDC) is offering an outlet for these artists to showcase their work through a new gallery called Art on the Ridge.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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10/23/25
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What setting could more perfectly capture the spirit of Halloween than a walk through the woods at sunset — only to discover that a murder has just occurred?
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by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
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10/16/25
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An intriguing blend of horror, humor and musical wizardry will be served up this Halloween at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church of Germantown.
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by Constance Garcia-Barrio
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10/16/25
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