Arts & Entertainment
The best man gets hugged; the bride gets kissed
Pete Chen was holding court at the bar of the Downtown Club, as waiters circled with chicken satay and stuffed mushrooms on trays, and th ...
14 years ago
Christmas lights that stop traffic
The Christmas lights display at Jack Yoast’s home on Butler Pike in Ambler would leave the paterfamilias of “Nation ...
14 years ago
The best and worst sounds of the season
We asked NewsWorks readers for the best, and worst, holiday songs. Most seemed to prefer rock, n ...
14 years ago
The wedding: ‘The Cloud’ to the rescue
A dozen minutes behind schedule, Aaron O’Meara, flanked by his beaming parents, entered the main ballroom at Philadelphia’s D ...
14 years ago
Intentional icing at Citzens Bank Park as rink forms for Winter Classic
Construction is well under way on the ice rink at Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia where the Flyers will play the New York Ranger ...
14 years ago
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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 years ago