Broadway Baby
It started out as just another ordinary, extraordinary day in the life of Paloma Garcia-Lee. After all, the seventeen year-old was already no ordinary teenager. This was the high school graduate who left her Wrightstown, Pa., home to live on her own in New York City and fulfill her dream of [...]
Joy to the World
The little faces come first—like the 66 mustachioed men collectively staring ear-to-ear from one drawer, each with a unique glint in their black eyes. Next come the bodies—hundreds of miniature forms, each revealing a different, and rather forgiving, figure (a small sign on a shelf reads “Tall Fat Women”). Finally, reams [...]
Pursuing Her Passion for Photography
December 10, 2010 by admin
Filed under Artist Corner, Featured
With a clear passion and an inspired imagination, Ruth has been creating scenic photography in Bucks County since jumping ship from the pharmaceutical industry. Though she is not the first to make that transition, she definitely feels it has been a calling. “From Pharma to Photos” begins to describe the journey [...]
The Starmaker
It’s not easy to become a “has-been” by age twelve; it means you need to start very young (like at age three), work in a particularly unforgiving business (like acting and modeling), and you have to achieve instant success (like appearing in 40 commercials and countless print advertisements). It’s quite an [...]
The Pearl of Fashion
The tagline for iPEARL Fashions, a clothing design company in Yardley, PA is “Luxurious fashions for elegant women.” Owned and inspired by Ilene Pearl Bannwart, the business grew out of a love for fashion, a lifelong challenge with body image, and the legacy of a grandmother. The name iPearl is fitting [...]
Fall Fashion
Biker Chicks
Imagine that the Super Bowl was being played in Japan next year or that the World Series was being hosted by Ireland. Imagine that a major sporting event was being temporarily transplanted to another country, and imagine all the planning, all the work, all the details that would need to be managed to pull off [...]
Dragon Slayers
It is one of those near-perfect nights in late spring, when daylight stretches into evening. On the grassy slope along the riverbank, a group of women gather. They buckle themselves into red life vests, grab their paddles, clamber into the boat, and spend a few minutes debating whether or not to take their sunglasses for [...]
Bikes 101
Cruising Through Life
She is an accomplished actress and singer. She is a theater coach and teacher. She sang at the White House for three presidents and produced shows at Madison Square Garden. She was on the investigative team of a television news program and created handmade jewelry. She performed with Frank Sinatra and [...]
