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.”...

‘A Princeton Christmas’ and Opportunities

‘A Princeton Christmas,” the new CD by eight Princeton area choral groups, profiled in last week’s U.S.1 (“Chew on This: A Christmas CD with...

A Viennese Appetizer to Kick Off New Years

If you can get yourself to New Brunswick on New Year’s Eve, you can drink in the bubbly atmosphere of a Viennese New Year,...

Ouch! These Tickets Are Hot!

When McCarter Theater quickly sold out its 7:30 p.m. shows to its perenially popular cabaret series earlier this fall, Bill Lockwood, McCarter’s special programming...

Let’s Try Labyrinth Books

Serious reading has returned to Nassau Street in the space formerly occupied by the late, lamented Micawber Books. Fans of the homegrown readers’ refuge...

Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’

So who needs another production of “A Christmas Carol?” With the traditional, perennial, and spectacular version of Charles Dickens’s beloved story being performed at...

A Little Victorian London with a Dash of Bedford Falls

Rattling up Route 31 North and revving it onto Route 78, you would never guess that an old-fashioned Christmas lies just out of sight....
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