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: ‘Waiting for Godot’

The quaint quasi-respectable genre known as Theater of the Absurd stayed around for much of the 1960s, but actually peaked with Samuel Beckett’s 1955...

Think Big, Feel Big, at the New Jersey Film Festival

‘Final Gifts” has been described as a little like the 1981 gem, “My Dinner With Andre” because there are only two characters onscreen, engaged...

Opportunities

Call for Entries Franklin Township has a call...

Juxtaposing Home Sweet Home with Industry

Traveling with his family on road trips as a child, Bruce Wodder always wondered about the precariously situated places some people lived. Houses that...

Theater Review: ‘The Brothers Size’ & ‘Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet’

The second half of “The Brother/Sister Plays” trilogy has opened at McCarter Theater and the promise that playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney showed a few...

Capturing Heroism, One Brush Stroke at a Time

There is a reason artist Daniel P. Turner Thomas keeps the Turner in his professional name: he is distantly related, on his mother’s side...
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