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...

Grantmakers Join Forces to Support the Arts

One year after the pandemic shuttered numerous New Jersey cultural organizations and threw state artists into unemployment, the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery...

Opportunities

Call for Nominees JFCS of Greater Mercer County...

Off The Presses: ‘The Foreigner’s Song’ by Pablo Medina

Nationally known and former Trenton area poet Pablo Medina’s “The Foreigner’s Song: New and Selected Poems” is a type of aural retrospective. Here the...

Opportunities

Audition Somerset Valley Players, Hillsborough’s community theater, is...

Gallery Going: Wisdom of Trees at Tulpehaking Nature Center

With some regional museums and exhibition space still closed and planning to reopen, we are continuing to remind readers of their important contributions by...

Off the Presses: ‘Marines Don’t Have Curlers – Reloaded’

Subtitled “Fifty Years Behind a Styling Chair,” the book “Marines Don’t Have Curlers” is area hair stylist Robert Matuzsan’s series of vignettes that in...
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