Curtis Institute’s young supporters, known as the Crescendo Club, hosted a Curtis On Tour Preview night at the historic Drexel Mansion on Rittenhouse Square. 

The Young Friends of the Academy of Music 155th Anniversary Ball have kicked off their exciting new program, and celebrated the Academy Ball with a pre-party at R2L on Saturday.

I had the pleasure of visiting fashion designer and dressmaker Janice Martin in her Ardmore, Pennsylvania studio on a fine Fall day a while back.

Since Philadelphia-based Steve B. Burke, CEO of Comcast and now NBCUniversal executive extraordinaire, has been a national figure, his face appears more and more in print media (and on the internet). 

The Consular Corps of Philadelphia is the oldest association of its kind in the nation, founded in 1880. Today, it includes representatives of more than 30 countries and is one of the largest in the nation. 

Matt Schultz moved to Lansdowne, PA when he was 8 years old, went to Lansdowne High School, and aside from a few short-term leaves of absence, has spent the majority of his adult life in Lansdowne. Now, he is heading up the exciting and ambitious efforts to revive the Lansdowne Theater.

The charming young face of Women for the Waterworks and other Fairmount Park Conservancy initiatives, CEO Katrina L. Wilhelm, is more than just that.  The smart young woman who is reintroducing Philadelphia to the importance and beauty of its phenomenal infrastructure of urban green space is just the kind of ingenue needed to spark a lasting civic romance.

Alexis Clarke Pew is Proper Philadelphia’s Style and Shopping Editor. Starting this month, ‘Lexi’ will be traveling to local boutiques to give our readers a different angle on shopping in Philadelphia and surrounds.