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Renovating a Main Line Home

I am never alone in my house. The good news is that I’m never lonely. The bad news is that it’s really expensive to have […]

Restaurants

Restaurant Weeks Out the Wazoo

Center City’s Restaurant Week is into the second day of its 12-day run but it is far from the only Restaurant Week that’s coming up. […]

City Life

Adult Learning on the Main Line

I’m totally ready for structure in my life again. I love summer, but the heat, humidity and bathing suits wear thin after a few months. […]

City Life

Don’t Get Stepped On By Main Line Social Climbers!

If you hang around any area where successful people reside, you’re bound to run into social climbers. Here on the Main Line, there are lots […]

City Life

Home, Safe Home on the Main Line

I know I watch too much television, but has anyone happened to take note of the really annoying commercials for alarm companies that have been […]

City Life

Wildlife on the Main Line

One of the best things about living on the Main Line is the abundance of nature. We lucky residents are surrounded by natural beauty. There […]

Restaurants

Hunan Returns

When a restaurant closes for 8 months it likely isn’t coming back. But as Rick Nichols reports, that happily wasn’t the case for Ardmore’s Hunan. […]

Restaurants

A Peanut Butter Restaurant?

PB & U is coming to Wayne in late July. The web site for the fast-serve restaurant promises more than just smooth or crunchy. “from […]

City Life

Lesbians + Straight Men = Fireworks on the Main Line

The annual Fourth of July Adopt-a-Lesbian Picnic and Hammer Throw was an epic success, we’re happy to report. More than 100 sisters of Sappho—many riding […]

City Life

Main Line Belt-Tightening

I’ve bundled! No, I haven’t botoxed, I’ve bundled. It’s the new battle cry for the fiscally savvy Main Line housewife who, heretofore, thought bundling meant […]

City Life

Where Are All the Straight Men on the Main Line?

My heterosexual colleague Kelly Rowell last week opined about the shortage of gay men on the Main Line. In the interest of fairness, here is […]

City Life

Gays Wanted on the Main Line

There seems to be a shortage of one particular commodity on the Main Line: gay men. I realized this limitation had reached crisis proportions after […]

City Life

Everybody Loves a Main Line Nobody

One of the things I like most about living on the Main Line is our community newspaper, the Main Line Times. When I first moved […]

City Life

Begging on the Main Line

An invitation has just arrived in the mail. It’s the third one this week and the gazillionth so far this year, and we’re only halfway […]

City Life

Why Are There No Good Restaurants on the Main Line?

“Free for lunch”? A simple question. One that I either receive or pose to someone else several times a week. Living on the Main Line […]