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Longtime Mt. Airy resident Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who died Oct. 20 at the age of 92, may be the most memorable person I have ever met.
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by Len Lear
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11/6/25
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I would not be surprised if Giulia Iaquinto qualified for the Guinness Book of World Records.
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by Len Lear
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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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Chestnut Hill resident Barbara Gaines Winkelman, an author of 15 children’s books and writing teacher for 10 years who wrote the Citizen Canine column for the Local in 2021, died Aug. 7 at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center of a traumatic brain injury suffered in a freak accident.
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by Len Lear
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10/30/25
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It is no secret that while cell phones can connect young people and be useful for researching school projects, they can also expose kids to things they should not be seeing.
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by Len Lear
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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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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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Mt. Airy resident and chef Nathan Baynes’ food cart, “2 Street Sammies,” is a Northwest Philadelphia landmark as much as the Water Tower or McNally’s.
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by Len Lear
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10/23/25
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A lifelong Chestnut Hill resident (except for his years away at college) is trying to balance out the scales between adjuncts and their employers.
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by Len Lear
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10/16/25
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Lara Cantu-Hertzler, a Germantown resident for most of her life, is one of the area’s most prolific artists whose stunning work is currently on display through the end of October at Borrelli’s Chestnut Hill Gallery.
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by Len Lear
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10/16/25
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Looking back on his 40 years in Philadelphia courtrooms, with 18 years spent on the bench in the Court of Common Pleas, longtime Chestnut Hill resident Judge Jeffrey Purcell Minehart said in a 2021 …
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by Len Lear
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10/16/25
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During our recent phone interview, my first question to Tom Cotter, who will be performing at The Stagecrafters Theater in Chestnut Hill on Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m., was “Where are you from originally?” His answer: “My mother’s uterus.”
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by Len Lear
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10/16/25
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You may recognize the byline Constance Garcia-Barrio, a long-time Mt. Airy resident who has been contributing freelance articles to the Local for 17 years.
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by Len Lear
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10/9/25
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When Laura Madeleine, a primarily batik artist and Wyndmoor resident for more than 35 years, was a teenager, a close friend of her family spent a year at her son’s bedside as he lingered after being shot in the head.
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by Len Lear
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10/9/25
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Lawyers, who are often maligned in the media and by stand-up comedians and popular culture, get a bad rap, according to Armand J. Della Porta Jr.
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by Len Lear
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10/9/25
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In 1980 and 1981, my wife and I went several times to a club in Bryn Mawr called The Main Point, an intimate coffeehouse and live music venue that operated from 1964 to 1981.
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by Len Lear
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10/9/25
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It would not surprise me in the least if I were watching the yearly Academy Awards next year or the year after and I heard, “And the award for best docudrama film goes to Nadine Patterson, of Philadelphia’s Harmony Image Productions, for “Reclaiming the Light: The Life and Times of Lewis Latimer.”
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by Len Lear
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10/9/25
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