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.”...

Princeton Arts Museum Reopens Ancient Americas Colelction

Could talent in ball playing games be in the blood of Central and Mesoamericans? Judging from the array of ball playing figures and figurines...

Review: ‘Repairing a Nation’

The Tulsa Oklahoma race riots of 1921 devastated the prosperous Greenwood section of the city famously known as the “Black Wall Street.” That terrible...

Blind Lemmon Pie Seeing Its Way Through Years

When singer-songwriter-vocalist-guitarist-harmonicist Larry Archer and others started the regionally known band Blind Lemmon Pie as a side project from their main group, PLC (Principles...

A Dutch Writer & New Found Friends

Pia de Jong already had a well established career as a novelist and writer when she moved from Amsterdam to Princeton in the summer...

In Portrait Exhibit, Seeing the Bigger Picture

A portrait show could seem like back to basics, but not in the hands of Maria Evans, artistic director at the Arts Council of...

200 Years of African American Art in Philadelphia

The names make an art lover’s heart beat faster — Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Willie Cole, Faith Ringgold, Kara Walker, Jacob Lawrence, Bill...
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