Main Line Today July 2007
New treatments have eased the twists and turns of scoliosis.
New and different day-after activities for wedding guests.
Boot Camp Workout Ellis Athletic Center One devotee of Ellis Athletic Center’s C.L.I.M.B (Creative Ladder Intervals Mega Boot Camp) workout described it simply as “brutal” and, in the next breath, said he couldn’t wait ...
Slice of the Old Country Trattoria Giuseppe: a tasteful nod to Southern Italy. THE SCENE: On a crisp, sun-drenched afternoon or fair summer eve, the patio at Trattoria Giuseppe, Edgemont’s toast to southern Italy, is ...
After the Fall Following a year of dream runs and shattered potential, Barbaro’s trainer moves on. Just hours before the May 5 running of the Kentucky Derby, Michael Matz isn’t at Churchill Downs. Rather, the ...
PBS Comes to Swarthmore History Detectives investigates a mysterious Quaker map. Chris Densmore, curator of Swarthmore’s Friends Historical Library, doesn’t want to spoil the show. So he won’t say what he told History Detectives researcher ...
Grilled Hanger Steak with Panzanella (Tuscan-style Tomato-bread Salad) Sean Weinberg, Restaurant Alba 7 West King St., Malvern (610) 644-4009, restaurantalba.com • 4 6-ounce portions of hanger steak • 1 tbsp. garlic • 1 tbsp. chopped ...
Forget about Making Dinner The area’s best takout and delivery options. Gourmet Meals to Go: Thomas’ Kitchen 362 W. Lancaster Ave., Wayne , (610) 225-0480 Thomas Von Muenster (pictured), owner of Thomas’ Kitchen, is ...
High School Coach (Readers’ Choice) Speedy Morris, St. Joseph’s Preparatory School (basketball) 1733 W. Girard Ave., Philadelphia , sjprep.org High School Sports Team (Readers’ Choice) Conestoga Football 200 Irish Road, Berwyn ; (610) ...
MLT Staffers Reveal Their Personal Faves Senior Editor Tara Behan Appetizer: Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant Various locations, ironhillbrewery.com My hands-down favorite on Iron Hill’s apps menu are the cheese-steak egg rolls—chopped steak, melted American ...
7 tips for planning a wedding without losing your job. Ask anyone who works in special events about planning a wedding, and they’ll tell you that putting one together is like taking on a full-time ...
Settling In A Midwestern family revels in Main Line manse living. The Main Line was a foreign place to Joanie and Bob Hall when they moved here from the Midwest 13 years ago. Joanie was ...
This Month’s Coolest Culinary Events » The Wine School of Philadelphia’s Sommelier Smackdown features Christophe Tassan (Le Bec-Fin) July 11 and Christophe Guillot (Brasserie Perrier) July 25. 7:30-9:30 p.m. 2006 Fairmount Ave. (800) 817-7351. » ...
To Haverford College professor Roger Lane, a much-sought-after expert on why we kill, Philadelphia’s latest murder epidemic is hardly shocking. It’s the inevitable product of history. Otherwise, he’s talking with those hands, occasionally clapping them ...
» Nectar’s Patrick Feury is keeping it all in the family. Terence Feury (Striped Bass, Ritz-Carlton) will join his brother and partners Scott Morrison and Michael Wei at their highly anticipated bi-level Euro restaurant-market, Maia, ...
Fly Guys Want the buzz on the nation’s oldest radio-controlled airplane club? It’s over your head. Larry Scaggs, Russ Anderson and Harry Lawton are like boys with their fishing rods on a summer afternoon—only they’re ...
A recent mid-week splurge at Restaurant Taquet offered the reminder that tradition is nothing to turn up your nose at—especially when it’s packaged as impeccable service, first-rate cuisine—in this case, classically prepared, contemporary French fare—and ...
Props to George George Taylor was probably entirely deserving of the article Mark Dixon wrote [Retrospect, March 2007]. So right you are to salute him. I thought him underrated. Bravo, plaudits. You would do well ...
Getting It Straight New treatments have eased the twists and turns of scoliosis. For 14-year-old Abby Kienzle, it was a brace that saved her from having to go under the knife. Four years earlier, the ...
