Arts & Entertainment

Basement venues give young musicians a place to be heard

On a show night, an ordinary basement in Mercer County can become a concert venue, packed with young music fans standing just a few feet from the bands while...

Leon Rainbow paints Trenton’s story on a larger canvas

Leon Rainbow is an exciting artist to watch. People have been watching him for years as he paints...

Princeton Arts Council seeks market vendors

Artists, food busines ses and vintage dealers have several August deadlines to apply for fall and holiday markets...

Bucks County marks ‘Rent’ 30th anniversary

Bucks County Playhouse will mark the 30th anniversary of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical “Rent” with a new production...

Karly C and Rebel Y’all find their stride

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, Mercer County folks can say they knew Mike Matisa and Karly C. “when.”...

Ballet Review: ‘Pride and Prejudice’

Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” is set in 1813 Regency England, where passions smolder under the veneer of a determinedly genteel society. As...

Jersey Sculptor Finds a Muse in Bruce

It’s unofficially official: Bruce Springsteen has taken over Princeton. ...

Opportunities

Host an Artist The Princeton Festival is currently...

The Joy of Turkish Cooking, Traveling, and Writing

Joy Stocke’s Stockton, New Jersey, kitchen is as redolent as the Turkish countryside in spring. In fact the cumin, sumac, garlic, lemon, Aleppo pepper,...

Ballet World Premiere Takes Austen Novel Approach

It was the theater management that selected the team to create story ballets in 19th-century Tsarist Russia. Then a librettist would choose which scenes...

‘Anthracite Fields’ Heating Up Trenton’s Cultural Scene

‘Here what I like to see happen,” says Doug Varone to the 30 singers bunched together near the center of Hillman Performance Hall on...
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