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Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Germantown will host Dr. Anna O. Marley, a 10-year Mt. Airy resident, for an illustrated talk about Henry Ossawa Tanner on Saturday, March 6, 1 p.m.
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by Len Lear
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3/3/21
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One of Greater Philadelphia’s most distinctive and acclaimed musical instruments is the Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill.
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by Michael Caruso
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2/26/21
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A few years ago I asked local resident Dan Rose how he liked living in Chestnut Hill. He replied, “My wife, Martha, and I have lived in several places, but I have loved only two, Vermont and Chestnut Hill. I will only leave Chestnut Hill in a pine box.
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by Len Lear
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2/26/21
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I have always enjoyed Tom Judd’s voice in the creative mix of our city’s artists, and Woodmere is honored to celebrate a new exhibition, History in Motion: Tom Judd’s Subway Mural, on view through June 13, 2021.
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by William Valerio
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2/24/21
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Molly Sweeney leads a full and productive life as a woman who is blind. But her husband, Frank, can never leave well enough alone.
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by Rita Charleston
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2/19/21
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The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year with a “virtual” concert that aired Feb. 4-11. The entire program was dedicated to the music of celebrated Chinese …
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by Michael Caruso
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2/18/21
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Is there a price to pay for fame coupled with the curse of color and gender? Were she alive today, Florence Price (1887-1953), said to be the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, might hold the answer.
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by Rita Charleston
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2/18/21
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When Trapeta B. Mayson came to the U.S. as an eight-year-old child with her family in 1975 from Liberia in sub-Saharan West Africa, she could not have possibly imagined that she would become a social worker and award-winning poet.
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by Len Lear
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2/17/21
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You might say that Gigi Glendinning, 52, is a member of a quintessential Chestnut Hill family.
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by Len Lear
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2/11/21
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Works of art made in recent months at Woodmere by children from preschool age to high school in our studio and school program.
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by William Valerio
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2/10/21
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Perspective is everything, and no one knows this more than Mt. Airy architect Joel Levinson, who recently launched the Daring Diagonality Virtual Museum, the first museum dedicated to Diagonality.
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by Sue Ann Rybak
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2/3/21
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After a hiatus for the Christmas/New Year holidays, the Philadelphia Orchestra returned to its virtual 2020-21 season with a concert highlighting the talents of its newly appointed principal oboe, Philippe Tondre.
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by Michael Caruso
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1/27/21
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Last week my wife and I were sitting in the waiting room of Mt. Airy Family Practice when I could not help but notice a series of beautiful paintings of birds on the wall that were for sale.
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by Len Lear
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1/22/21
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Chestnut Hill's multi-talented French-Canadian chanteuse Lucie Daigle, a virtual local legend, is the only local musician I have interviewed since last March who has actually been performing live semi-regularly during the pandemic.
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by Len Lear
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1/22/21
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Piffaro, Philadelphia Renaissance Band, continued its “virtual” 2020-21 season of entertaining historic concerts Jan. 5-12 with “Music for Twelfth Night.”
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by Michael Caruso
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1/22/21
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The beginning of a new year is a time to reflect on the past year in order to move forward more thoughtfully. At Woodmere, this is always the agenda for our first staff meeting in January.
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by William Valerio
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1/21/21
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Fiammetta Hsieh Rubin, who has been living in Chestnut Hill for 47 years, was born in Rome in 1936. She was raised seven miles outside of Rome on the ancient Appian Way, one of southern Europe's …
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by Len Lear
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1/20/21
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You never know where interesting stories will come from. I recently Googled the name Nick D'Angelo, an artist from upper Roxborough whom I wanted to know more about after learning about him.
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by Len Lear
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1/15/21
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I would never claim to be a jazz aficionado, but I do listen to many genres of music, depending on my mood, and I was blown away this week when I happened to listen to “Piano Arrangements,” a 2018 jazz CD by Mt. Airy pianist Lou Walinsky.
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by Len Lear
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1/15/21
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How long does it take to walk down the aisle? In this case, half a decade. Or, as the old joke says, "Marriage is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, suffer-ing."
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by Bill Wine
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1/15/21
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