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...

Area Handbell Composer Ringing Sue’s Blues

(Editor’s Note: With the guidance of the devoted host of WPRB radio’s Classical Discoveries, Marvin Rosen, U.S. 1 has started to reach out to...

Todd Evans Serving Trenton Art Family Style

“I am an open mic host, community artistic event organizer, a bit of a poet, and run a community theater group — most, if...

Opportunities

Calls for Diapers Maker’s Place, a Trenton-based nonprofit...

T.S. Eliot & Emily Hale Letters: Re-examined

April will be a revealing month regarding the American-born English poet and Nobel Laureate T. S. Eliot and his relationship with his lifelong friend...

An Anthropologist Takes on Miss and Miss’d America

Laurie A. Greene nicely sets up her newly published Rutgers University Press book, “Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World’s Playground,”...

PEFF Returns Virtually

The 15th annual Princeton Environmental Film Festival, organized by Princeton Public Library, runs in a virtual format through Sunday, April 18. ...
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