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: ‘Pal Joey’

The delayed opening of this long-awaited revival of the 1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical was unavoidable. It was, however, almost ironically beset...

Three New Jerseyans Who Haven’t Forgotten Katrina

There are music artists who make no apologies and then there is Karen “Farenthings” Updike who unabashedly states the following on her current self-titled...

Marc-Andre Hamelin Kicks Off Winter Festival

Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin performs three hands’ worth of French music at the opening concert of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s 2009 Winter Festival, “Paris:...

Blacks and the Revolutionary War

Olivia Carpenter Glenn, who has put together one of several African American-themed exhibits for this year’s Patriots Week, says many people in this state...

Let’s Try…The Rocky Hill Inn

She’s back! The grand old lady on the corner of Princeton Avenue and Washington Street in Rocky Hill has received her initial face lift...

Seven Fishes: An Italian Christmas Tradition

There is much lore surrounding the historical and religious significance of the Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner, a commemoration of the wait, called...
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