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When it was released in 1955, “The Night of the Hunter,” which will play at Woodmere’s Smith Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 20, was rejected by critics and audiences alike.
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by Will Standish
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10/15/26
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Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) is a name that may not be familiar to some non-jazz buffs, but there was no musician quite like him.
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by Len Lear
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10/15/26
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Manayunk Development Corporation is debuting a Manayunk Fall Fest and Mac N’ Cheese Crawl on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. along Main Street.
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10/15/26
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Emi Wong Shing, a senior at Germantown Friends School, has been named the 2026-2027 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, and she is making it look easy.
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by Gregory C. Jackson
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10/15/26
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“Witch” (2018) by Jen Silverman has no witches, but you do meet a string of memorable characters.
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by Hugh Hunter
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10/8/26
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Who would have thought a film about baseball’s blackest mark could be so compelling?
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by Baird Standish
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10/8/26
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Not every pop song is popcorn fluff about “moon, June, spoon.”
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by Len Lear
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10/8/26
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Carved pumpkins and ornamental gourds start to decorate porches and front yards as Halloween approaches, but my kitchen counters and pantry shelves grow a collection of various winter squash.
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by Kieran McCourt, Weavers Way Shuttle contributor
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10/8/26
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Artist Eric Serritella, whose work is on display at Gravers Lane Gallery in Chestnut Hill, had a 16-year corporate career as a successful marketing and advertising executive.
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by Len Lear
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10/1/26
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Kohlrabi is another member of the brassica or cruciferous family, like cabbage and broccoli. Its root-like bulb develops above the dirt, unlike the root vegetables it resembles.
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by Kieran McCourt, Weavers Way Shuttle contributor
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10/1/26
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Chestnut Hill artist Claudia Rilling always wanted to be an artist, even as a child growing up in Bucks County, but she had no idea how to make that happen.
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by Len Lear
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10/1/26
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Travel back in time to October 1777 and experience the Battle of Germantown at the Revolutionary Germantown Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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10/1/26
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A small-time criminal, a beautiful American in Paris, a stolen car, a dead policeman and a romance that may or may not be one: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” has all the makings of a conventional crime drama.
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by Lily Williams
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10/1/26
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If you like hearing a pianist playing with two hands, you just might like pianists Duo Fuerza twice as much.
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by Len Lear
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10/1/26
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Mt. Airy resident Warren Cooper, who will perform at Woodmere on Friday, Oct. 2, 6 p.m., may not be an ordained minster, but he has always used his musical talents in the service of a higher purpose.
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by Len Lear
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10/1/26
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Roxborough Development Corporation is bringing back its annual Roxtoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 3, from noon to 6 p.m., transforming Ridge Avenue into a fall festival.
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10/1/26
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I can still remember going to Jake’s restaurant in Manayunk when it opened on Oct. 19, 1987, because that same day the stock market crashed, losing about 500 points.
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by Len Lear
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10/1/26
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“Listen with Your Eyes: A Moe Brooker Retrospective” opened in Chestnut Hill over the weekend at Woodmere’s Smith Hall.
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by Julianna Musser
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10/1/26
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The Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library kicked off their “Meet the Musicians” series on Sept. 15 with a free performance from local saxophone legend Jack St. Clair and his accompanying quintet.
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by Chris Hetrick
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9/24/26
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On Thursday, Oct. 8, jazz pianist and composer Joe Block will perform at the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s “Fall Frolic: An Evening in the French Quarter.”
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by Will Standish
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9/24/26
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