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...

Plenty Pepper Steel Band spices up Capital Philharmonic’s April concert

If you’ve ever traveled to Trinidad and sampled the regional fare from street vendors, you’ve probably eaten a seriously toned down version of that...

George Antheil and a Marriage of Music & Industry

When “Ballet Mécanique” was given its world premiere in Paris in 1926, the onslaught of synchronized player pianos, airplane propellers, sirens, electric bells, and...

April Poets Present at Princeton Makes

Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, host their monthly Second Sunday Poetry Reading on...

PPL Presents 18th Annual Environmental Film Festival

Princeton Public Library’s Princeton Environmental Film Festival, now in its 18th year, offers eight feature-length documentaries and 14 short films screened in person and...

Artworks Exhibits Reflect Influences Past and Present

Trenton artists Alia Bensliman and Spriha Gupta are sharing their work in exhibits on view through May 24 at Artworks Trenton. An opening reception...

For Pianist Jonathan Biss, It’s Mind Over Music

Growing up in Bloomington, Indiana, in a house full of music, Jonathan Biss has been playing the piano since childhood. Both his mother (Miriam...
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