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...

The Gardener’s House Presents an Historic Opportunity

"It’s still a work in progress,” cautions D&R Greenway executive director Linda Mead as she begins a one-on-one tour of the 1820 building known...

The Making of an American Urbanist and a Regional Biographer

"American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life” by Richard K. Rein is a new book that mainly looks at an...

‘The American Urbanist’ Sampler

Richard Rein’s critically praised biography of urban critic William H. Whyte, “American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life,” reads, in...

Off The Presses: ‘Inside the Critics’ Circle’

The new Princeton University Press publication “Inside the Critics’ Circle” touches on an activity that’s been stepped up at U.S. 1 over the past...

Bristol Riverside Theater Review: ‘A Comedy of Tenors’

Bravo Beppo! Beppo is a purposely unbilled character in “A Comedy of Tenors,” and his entrance, which contains a happy surprise, breathes new and...

Off the Presses: The New Princeton Companion

Princeton University Press has just released the updated edition of what it calls the “definitive single-volume compendium of all things Princeton.” ...
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