Arts & Entertainment

PorchFest brings music, art and history to Allentown

Allentown’s Main Street will become a showcase for music, art and local history Saturday, Sept. 12, when the Allentown Village Initiative presents the borough’s first PorchFest. The free event will...

Lawrence historian wins $25K national scholarship

While many parents take their children on vacation trips to the beach or the mountains, Julia Ciccone's parents...

Piano Jam opens Richardson’s Steinway to all

For generations, some of the world’s leading pianists have taken a seat at the Steinway grand piano in...

Art Cart delivers a new kind of soul food to town

It’s a hot summer day and brightly dressed Brook Beatty stands on South Broad Street in downtown Trenton. After...

Laura Benanti brings ‘Nobody Cares’ home

Laura Benanti says she is “blessed to be a chameleon.” Her context is unexpected. She is not referring to being...

Off the Presses: ‘Only the Clothes on Her Back’

"I began writing this book before I knew I was writing it,” writes Laura F. Edwards at the start of the newly released Oxford...

Princeton Makes Features Poets Levin, Solomon

Princeton Makes’ Second Sunday Poetry Reading returns with featured poets Lynn Levin and Sandy Solomon on Sunday, April 10, at 4 p.m. ...

Passage Theater Review: ‘Janet Wide Awake’

History hides in corners. For instance, Passage Theatre artistic director C. Ryanne Domingues entered Trenton’s Hedgepeth-Williams Middle School for the Arts and noticed a...

Joe Kossow’s COVID-Stilled Life Gets Lively

Joe Kossow is a Princeton-based representational painter who makes paintings the way he sees the world. With thorough drawings and an eye for interesting...

Trenton’s First Fridays Merge Art, Music, and Community

Trenton’s First Friday — an evening of viewing art at galleries open late and having light refreshments, held on the first Friday of each...

Off the Presses: ‘She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton’

The September 20, 1816, session’s minutes of the Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton state that on that day “Betsey Stockton — a coloured woman...
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