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: ‘Three Mo’ Divas’

First there was the Three Tenors, then Three Mo Tenors who sang their way through selections from the vast vocal musical repertoire of the...

Theater Review: ‘A Moon to Dance By’

I don’t know what exactly brought Franz Lehar’s 1905 operetta “Die Lustige Witwe” (translated from the German as “The Lusty Widow” but more commonly...

The Newark Museum Pulls Out Its Earliest Collection

What better way to mark 100 years in the museum business than to trot out your very best. That’s what’s happening in Newark, where...

Life 101: Where Do We Start?

Before he published “Tuesdays with Morrie” in 1997, Mitch Albom was just one sports journalist and columnist among others. But with the publication of...

Opportunities

Arts Nominations VSA Arts of New Jersey seeks...

Charles Dickens: Four Generations Later

Very jolly transatlantic laughter interrupted my conversation by phone to London with Gerald Charles Dickens, the great, great grandson of the famous Charles Dickens....
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