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...

Trenton Walks! Continues with Fall Treks

Residents of Trenton and beyond are invited to join any of 12 more Trenton Walks! in September and October, with volunteer leaders hosting walks...

Credit Where Credit’s Due for Elizabeth Menzies

Time travel back to the mid-century campus of Princeton University, when college men went to class in suits and skinny ties, beloved old buildings...

Old Barracks Acquires Research Collection

The Old Barracks Museum has acquired the Donald Londahl-Smidt Research Collection. The collection, focused on the Hessian and English forces fighting in America during...

Off the Presses: ‘Experience Is the Angled Road’

"In the summer of 2018, when I moved from the huge president’s home in Pennington, New Jersey, into a two-bedroom apartment in midtown Manhattan,...

Behind The Voice of Steven Mackey’s ‘Memoir’

Natalie Christa Rakes finds herself at the convergence of memory and music in her performance on “Memoir” — Grammy-winning composer Steven Mackey’s deeply personal...

Mackey on ‘Memoir’

Editor’s note: Composer Steven Mackey wrote the following about his composition “Memoir,” the subject of the story on page 13. It was originally published...
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