March 23, 2006 Issue
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March 23, 2006 Issue
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Local LifeSex
change photos featured in new Woodmere exhibit
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Clarissa Sligh is a compelling story teller. The talented Philadelphia photographer uses her visual medium as a narrative. She is one of six artists featured in the Second Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Photography at Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Art Museum, March 26 through June 25. Sligh’s photographic series, titled “Jake in Transition,” is a provocative yet sensitive view of a female-to-male transsexual. When I was growing up, I thought there were boys and girls and that you were one or the other. In actual fact, it’s not that simple.
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There was something about Mary, at least this one.
Mary Harris, reared a ‘Yunker and educated at a girls’ Catholic high school, traveled to Egypt at age 19, took a ride on a camel and fell in love with Oriental rugs.
“That trip was when I first toured the weavers’ workshops and bought my first rug,” Harris said Friday. “I couldn’t stop buying them. I just love them so much.”
By her mid-30s, Mary had run out of space for her purchases. So she opened a shop, Rugmaven, on Main Street in Manayunk. A second Rugmaven opened in Chestnut Hill after that. Harris also maintained her practice as a psychotherapist.
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Paul Nolan and Kelley White, both of Germantown, and Michele Trackman, of Mt. Airy, appear in the new WHYY production CIRCLE OF CARE: THE ARTS IN MEDICINE, a half-hour documentary that explores how the creative arts are used to aid communication in healing and healthcare. The program will premiere on Wednesday, March 29, at 8 p.m. on WHYY TV12.
The documentary will be followed at 8:30 p.m. by a live, one-hour discussion with leading local experts, documentary subjects and a live studio audience on the role of arts and humanities in medicine. Television viewers can also participate in the conversation by e-mailing their questions and comments during the program on arts/medicine to widerhorizons@whyy.org. At 9:30 p.m., the PBS special The New Medicine about integrative medicine will be aired.
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Stephen Starr is an enigma, like Bigfoot or the Bermuda Triangle. The most successful Philadelphia restaurateur and arguably the most successful non-chain restaurateur in the country, he is unassuming almost to the point of anonymity. The ultimate non-diva, the owner of 12 Philly restaurants, two in New York and two coming to Atlantic City, does not hang out with celebrities or sycophants, does not do the nightclub scene, has no entourage, does not wear designer clothes, drive a fancy car or live in a mansion.
If you passed Starr on the street, you’d swear he was an engineer or high school math teacher. I’m willing to bet that some of his newer employees would not recognize him if they served him an overpriced cocktail.
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Jason C. Brown, has made a lifelong dream come true by opening his new gym, CrossFit Philly, at 7224 Germantown Ave. (entrance on Nippon Street.) with his gym-partner, Pamela MacElree. But this isn’t your ordinary gym. You won’t find people sweating to the oldies on elliptical traners with iPods plugged into their heads, nor with you find treadmills or any type of machine that holds piles of cold iron weights. CrossFit Philly focuses on bodyweight exercise and a unique style of weight lifting.
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Chestnut Hill resident Claire Dickson, owner of an eponymous boutique in Lafayette Hill (in a strip mall just past the Persian Grill), is celebrating her 25th anniversary this spring with a fundraiser to benefit From The Heart, a local organization also celebrating nearly a quarter of a century raising funds for local charities.
