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...

Murals Keep Trenton Art Scene Alive

The Trenton Downtown Association’s “Murals on Front Street” project continues for the fourth year thanks to a $25,000 New Jersey State Council on the...

Rider Cookbook Sees Voting as Recipe for Rights

The centennial of the 19th Amendment that guarantees American women the right to vote is being marked by Rider University with a publication that...

Off The Presses: James Baldwin’s Promise and the Fire This Time

“I, Jimmy Baldwin, as a black writer, must in some way represent you. I’ll make you a pledge. If you will promise your elder...

James Baldwin, Jim Crow, and New Jersey

Author and activist James Baldwin writes in his autobiographical “Notes of Native Son” that the year 1942 produced a “great change in my life.”...

Opportunities

Learn Italian Registration for Princeton’s Dorothea’s House Fall...

Wind Down a Socially Distanced Summer with a Scenic River Stroll

The calendar isn’t lying. Summer is nearly gone. And with travel restrictions, social distancing, and a deadly virus alive in our midst, it just...
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US1 | Issue 9/9/2026