Main Line Today September 2007
Your Home Improvement Questions Answered Question: I’m putting an addition on my home and I want to find the right builder. How should I start? Answer: Scott Elliott, Pennsylvania Builders Association (pabuilders.org) The biggest mistake ...
Living Design Domain Home is one of those furniture stores you wish you could live in. “We have everything you need for your home, from top to bottom,” says Shay Walker, manager of the King ...
This Month’s Coolest Culinary Events » Enjoy fine and locally produced wine, beer and cuisine, live music and auctions at the Chester County SPCA Wine and Beer Festival Sept. 9. Duling-Kurtz House and Country Inn, ...
Positively Positano Before now, it had been more than a decade since I ate at Positano Ristorante, but savory memories prompted my long-delayed second visit. The ambiance remains alluring, with a rustic aura duly reminiscent ...
Imagine This Behind every majestic home you see on the Main Line there’s an architect with boundless talent. In the new coffee-table book Dream Homes Greater Philadelphia (Panache Partners, 271 pages), 46 of the most ...
Fooling April Philadelphia foolingapril.com This local piano-driven foursome seems to be on their way thanks to local performances with the likes of John Mayer and Dave Matthews and tons of buzz around their new album. ...
Gone Hollywood Details: This one-time Gladwyne home of the Main Line’s most famous movie director (take a guess) has all the amenities you’d expect from a house at this price point, thanks to award-winning builder ...
Battle Scars A local veteran’s WWII memories are stirred by Ken Burns’ The War. Learning to sail an LST took Emil Senkow a year. He enlisted in the Navy on Sept. 11, 1943—his 18th birthday—and ...
Woz’s Wizardy Here’s to one of the best teachers around. I’m at my desk on the final day for students last June, knowing this piece is for September, the start of another school year—my 20th ...
Wrightsville, Pa. (in South Central Pennsylvania’s lower Susquehanna River Region) Drive time: About 90 minutes. Back to nature: Rent a kayak ($20-$30 for up to two hours) or take a guided dinner or weekend brunch ...
The Other Singing Elvis Unlike the long-deceased music icon who shares his first name, Elvis Costello has been surprisingly successful at maturing—both artistically and otherwise—with minimal embarrassment. It’s unlikely fans of the jittery, acerbic British ...
MLT’s annual guide to the coming season’s most fantastic galas. With summer all but over, it’s time to shore up your social calendar for the holiday season and beyond. Sound daunting? Never fear. You can ...
News & Notes » “Let them eat cupcakes” is the motto at Cupcakes Gourmet, the Main Line’s first gourmet cupcake business. The brainchild of Maki Evans and Heather Carter, this Downingtown venture is quickly expanding ...
After a devastating sex-abuse scandal, can the area’s newly ordained Catholic priests bring a semblance of trust and normalcy to their Church? Now in the midst of its bicentennial celebration, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is ...
Price of ChangeMoney was the motivation when a local school accepted its first black student. Do people prepare for change? Or, when it happens, do they simply learn to deal? The 1937 admission of the ...
Bouncing Back Sports injuries are given—a hard recovery doesn’t have to be. You’re playing tennis or out for a morning run and suddenly you hear a “pop” and feel searing pain. You’re not alone—2.29 million ...
Well Read What started out as a two-week vacation to visit family turned into a three-month “radical sabbatical” in West Africa for Homa Tavangar and her daughters. The original plan was to serve as reading ...
Fabien-Baber Communications Kids may just win the debate over whether they spend too much time on computers and cell phones if companies like Fabien-Baber Communication remain in the limelight. In June, the Springfield-based company, led ...
Villa Italia Tuscan charm finds its way to Wynnewood. Debra Copit couldn’t imagine anywhere better than the Main Line to raise her young family. Well, maybe one place. “I love Italy,” she says. “That’s the ...
