Arts & Entertainment
Countdown to ‘huppah’: The best man seeks a comeback
“Sorry, Molly, the airport’s closed. We’re heartsick about it, but we had to give up and head home. Give Aaron a hug fo ...
13 years ago
The best man blows it: The case of the missing rings
After a well-oiled, highly kibitzed viewing of the latest X-Men movie in the hotel suite, the male side of the Levy-O’Meara wedding ...
13 years ago
The Santa experience — during the rest of the year
Today–the day after Christmas–the holiday begins to deflate. Stores are taking down decorations, and Santa Claus is packing u ...
13 years ago
Wilma Theater remembers Vaclav Havel, Czech writer and politician
The Wilma Theater in Center City Philadelphia is remembering playwright and politician Vaclav Havel who died Sunday. The theater principa ...
13 years ago
Recalling a once-famous 19th century Germantown kidnapping
The investigation of the famous 1874 child kidnapping of Charley Ross comes to life in Carrie Hagen’s new book “We is Got Him ...
13 years ago
Wedding morning: The world wears white; the boys play some street ball
On Rachel Levy’s wedding day, the world wore white. Early that morning, snow was general over the Delaware Valley. It had fa ...
13 years ago
Rachel in love, with a frosty beverage in hand
A few blocks away from the Omni hotel, Aaron O’Meara continued to gaze at Rachel Levy with lovestruck eyes, as she downed a very sm ...
13 years ago
Chester County writers present a fiction ‘sampler’
As part of our holiday book bag this week, we’re talking about works that focus on the Delaware Valley. This time we head west with ...
13 years ago
Parental postmortems on the rehearsal, and dread for a snowy dawn
About midnight that night, the Levys and O’Mearas each lay in their hotel rooms in Old City. Each husband and wife stared into the ...
13 years ago
London bridging: Penn professor to design park for Olympics and beyond
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has been chosen to redesign a section of London following the 2012 Olympic Games. La ...
13 years ago
Reminding Philadelphia of ‘Forgotten Tales’
A sewer worker is swept away by a flash flood through Philadelphia sewers. A man storms into a Philadelphia synagogue wielding a snake. ...
13 years ago
How Rachel Levy and Aaron O’Meara got together
“Gator!” “Big Dude!” Kris Mason elbowed his way past a few tired businessmen holding Scotch and soda ...
13 years ago
‘Gen. O’Meara’ arrives at Philly wedding HQ to take command
Try as she might, Molly O’Meara couldn’t really sustain the pretense that Suzanne Levy’s crazy wedding calendar was spo ...
13 years ago
About the author, illustrator and radio cast
Chris Satullo and Tony Auth have done a serialized, illustrated Christmas story together every year but one since 1996. The first dozen s ...
13 years ago
How the legend of the Levy-O’Meara wedding began
Later on, once the tale of the wedding weekend of Rachel Levy and Aaron O’Meara had settled into legend – to be told and retold a ...
13 years ago