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.”...

Theater Review: ‘Wife of James Whelan’

Mindful of how important an opening paragraph is when it comes to keeping the reader’s interest alive, I’d like to say at the top...

If You Like Sitting in the Dark, Come on Down

Look at the calendar. It’s less than four months until Christmas, and less than three months until Thanksgiving, and that means all those family...

The Decade That Blurred the Line Between High and Low Art

Some titans of art photography in the mid-20th century — Walker Evans and Edward Weston among them — condemned color photography as “vulgar” and...

Pat Tanner: Rojo’s Roastery

Since the day in 2006 that David Waldman opened the doors to Rojo’s Roastery, his coffee cafe and small-batch roasting operation in Lambertville, he...

Balancing Evolution and Theology

Kenneth Reynhout, co-director of the Science for Ministry Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary, was a teenager when he first confronted the issue of whether...

Theater Review: ‘Oh, Deer!!’

Marvin Cheiten’s “Oh, Deer!!,” playing through this weekend at the Hamilton Murray Theater on Princeton’s campus has kernels of fun and madcap ideas sprinkled...
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