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...

It’s Time to Make the Season Merry & Bright

Traditions abound this season and bring to life beloved musical works and plays to brighten the spirits in this time of year when sunlight...

Musicians Get Brassy with Free Bordentown Concert

Horn player Karl Megules has definite ideas about the structure of a brass quintet. He believes that an enlightened brass quintet needs the addition...

Dance Review: American Repertory Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’

If you’re pressed for time, yet want to squeeze in some rich and rewarding ballet-going this holiday season, the American Repertory Ballet’s snappy production...

Opportunities: Auditions and Chances to Give Back

Audition The Princeton Ballet School, the official school...

Celebrating Women Artists ‘at the Leading Edge’

The Douglass College art department at Rutgers University was a hotbed of avant-garde experimentation in the 1960s and ’70s, with Geoffrey Hendricks, George Segal,...

Regional Record Shop Still Spinning Live Music

John Chrambanis learned to harness his financial resources working with his father at the family’s Trenton restaurants, including the New Presto and Old Tavern....
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US1 | Issue 9/9/2026