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...

Film Chronicles Black Veterans’ ‘Two-Front War’

Regional Veterans Day commemorations include the presentation of Rider University film and history student Dani Jackson’s “A Two-Front War” at the university’s Bart Luedeke...

Premiere Set for Wonderland-Themed Rock Opera

Original sounds spin around in Vaughan Burton’s mind, and the guitarist/composer/session musician says sometimes the only way to flush out the swirling music is...

Theater Review: Ken Ludwig’s ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’

Though known primarily as an architect of complex comedies and convoluted farces, Ken Ludwig displays a simpler, less complicated side to his writing in...

Dance Review: American Repertory Ballet’s ‘Emergence’

Presenting its first program curated by new artistic director Ethan Stiefel, and dancing before a live audience for the first time since February 2020,...

Off the Presses: US 1 Worksheets Volume 66

The region’s poetry community is emerging from the pandemic with a renewed focus and a new edition of US1 Worksheets, a publication that has...

Time to welcome the Jersey Devil home — to Bordentown

The Jersey Devil was born in Bordentown. So claims a 1905 newspaper article written by Alminus Alba. ...
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