If you happen to dine at three of the four White Dog Cafés in the region, you will see huge, spectacular paintings of dogs on the walls. You don't have to be an art maven or even a dog lover to appreciate them. more

The Chestnut Hill Business Association is hosting Holidays on the Hill, an annual series of events and festivities that has been delighting residents since the mid 20th century. more

Whether you’re shopping for a unique gift or browsing so you can drop hints when someone asks what you’d like for a present, the artwork and handcrafts on the Hill this season will draw you in. more

Things to see and do as the holidays arrive. more

Quintessence's Little Women: The Broadway Musical, Dec. 1-31 at the Sedgwick Theatre on Germantown Avenue, celebrates its return to in-person theater. more

Rashika West hit the ground running when she launched Essential Community Connections at 8030 Germantown on the first floor of the Venetian Social Club. more

Erika Richards is a professional illustrator who has mastered the technique of blending watercolor and Prismacolor pencils in her Afrocentric work, with an emphasis on black female portraiture. It is now on display through December at 8133 Germantown Ave. more

Fires in California, a lack of dock workers in France and a problem at the Canadian border are having a trickle down effect felt by shop owners on the Avenue. Shelves are not bare. Yet. But some coveted holiday items may be in short supply. more

Elodie Breslin, a seventh-grader at Our Mother of Consolation School on East Chestnut Hill Avenue, placed third in the city-wide art contest to design the "I Voted" sticker handed out at the polls this year.  more

On October 28, just two weeks ago, Woodmere purchased Saint Michael’s Hall.  On behalf of everyone involved on both sides of the transaction, including the Sisters of Saint Joseph and Woodmere’s Board of Trustees, I extend deepest thanks to the many organizations and individuals who assisted, helped strategize, and made philanthropic gifts to make this purchase possible. more

“Wedding Band,” by Alice Childress, takes place in 1918 South Carolina and focuses on the love story between Julia, a black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker. The couple yearns to … more

On Sept. 18 a new 100-seat music, comedy and private event venue, The Royal Glenside, opened at 1 South Easton Rd. in Glenside. The first performance on Sept. 18 featured eight local bands. Nov. 18 will be the first Comedy Night. Then local stand-up comics or acoustic music every Thursday night. more

(2011 / 107 minutes) British fisheries expert Ewan McGregor is asked to realize a sheik's unlikely vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert. He finds an unusual ally in the British Prime Minister's press secretary, Kristin Scott Thomas. more

Mt. Airy resident Laura Cohn is celebrating the 25th year she’s been running her holiday pop-up store featuring handmade gifts from Bali with a long list of events, starting now and running … more

At the Woodmere Art Museum on Saturday, November 13, the amazing duo of cellist Scott Ballantyne and pianist Hiroko Sasaki will be offering an all-Beethoven program that explores the evolution of this great composer’s early, middle, and late cello sonatas. more

Anthe Capitan-Valais, a resident of Chestnut Hill and then Flourtown over the last 39 years, is an acclaimed artist whose works have been exhibited at Woodmere Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of … more

The Haunted Horses came out at Northwestern Stables. This trick or treat event, is specially designed for younger children and families. more

The pumpkin carving contest is a community event for all ages. Jack o’ Lanterns were sorted by an impartial panel of pumpkin experts into the categories of Funniest, Scariest, and Most Creative in each age group. more

(1946 / 100 minutes) An unfaithful serviceman's wife is murdered as war-traumatized veterans haunt the shadowy streets of California in this archetypal film noir. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix star in an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler, directed by George Marshall. more

The Avenues Café offers Lee Locklear a chance to blend his business acumen and cultural heritage. more