February, 2011 - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Local Actress Pierlisa Chiodo-Steo on her last role and the Oscars

Local actress Pierlisa Chiodo-Steo, who just completed a run at Stagecrafters Theater as Amanda in Noel Coward's "Private Lives" is taking a break before doing some readings in March. Her…

February 27, 2011

Sports

Flyers hockey monster on the run in Chestnut Hill

Misty was out for a run on Highland Avenue with her owner, Julie Byrne, who was about to rush off to the Flyers - Islanders ice hockey game. An American…

February 25, 2011

Current Affairs POLITICS STORES

Signature collectors know little about their candidate

A young woman, wearing a large white button reading "Official Democratic Petitioner" was one of three individuals collecting signatures just inside the Chestnut Hill Pathmark on a petition for Donna…

February 19, 2011

BUILDINGS Food and Drink

Big Rob serves up Maryland style barbecue

Rob Lambert takes his food truck around to a couple locations in Germantown and Mount Airy and specializes in barbecue, Maryland style. Rich Sanders is a satisfied customer seen here…

February 17, 2011

CHESTNUT HILL ENVIRONMENT FASHION

Valentines Day roses – does love hurt?

[Alexandra Serfass, Robertson's Flowers greenhouse employee] In the 2004 movie, “Maria Full of Grace,” a pregnant young woman trades the harsh conditions of a flower packing operation in Colombia to…

February 14, 2011

Sports

Andy Thorne’s Allens Lane snowboard run

Andy Thorne of Chestnut Hill took advantage of the ample snow and a pile of stones at a construction site at the Allens Lane Art Center fields in Mount Airy…

February 13, 2011

ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Vancouver librarian volunteers in Galapagos

Sally Taylor, a university reference librarian from Vancouver, Canada is finishing up an 8-month stint as a volunteer librarian at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos. She spoke…

February 8, 2011

ART BUSINESS HISTORY

Personalizing grave monuments

Gallagher Memorials has been at the corner of Ivy Hill Road and Cheltenham Avenue, across from Holy Sepulcher Cemetery for more than 100 years. In that time, the use of…

February 5, 2011

Current Affairs NATURE POLITICS

Israeli traded sand for snow, hopeful for democracy in Egypt

Along the cleared paths of the Morris Arboretum, visitors enjoy a snowy winter wonderland. Jacob and Sarah Pinto come frequently to the arboretum with their sons Shachar (right) and Yishai,…

February 4, 2011

ART BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY

From township manager to candle king

Bill Binder’s father loved the milk box, candle-making project his son was doing some 40 years ago with his cub scout pack so much so that what began as a…

February 2, 2011