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...

Bristol Riverside Review: ‘Next to Normal’

More than anything, productions of “Next to Normal,” a 2009 musical depicting mental illness, have to humanize the show’s characters so their mutual and...

Music Review: NJ Symphony Orchestra

Take a German musical master inspired by time spent in the Austrian Alps, a famed Norwegian schooled in Europe, and a French composer whose...

Opportunities: Help for Heroes, Recycling, and More

Send a Hero Home The Knights of Columbus...

‘Unfine’ Artist Carney Mixes Minwax, Wood, and Determination

It’s Friday afternoon. The kids at Lawrence High School have gone for the day, although their exuberance can still be felt in the chalk...

A Quick and Mysterious Visit to the House of Poe

“Where did my husband go? I think my husband disappeared.” I was saying this half to myself, but the docent at the Edgar Allan...

Jamaica, Judaism, Jersey Mix in New Memoir

It’s 1902 and Ross Kenneth Urken’s paternal grandfather, Paul Urken, leaves Riga, Latvia, arrives in Trenton, and opens a bicycle and glass shop. Twenty-one...
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US1 | Issue 9/9/2026