Arts & Entertainment

PorchFest brings music, art and history to Allentown

Allentown’s Main Street will become a showcase for music, art and local history Saturday, Sept. 12, when the Allentown Village Initiative presents the borough’s first PorchFest. The free event will...

Lawrence historian wins $25K national scholarship

While many parents take their children on vacation trips to the beach or the mountains, Julia Ciccone's parents...

Piano Jam opens Richardson’s Steinway to all

For generations, some of the world’s leading pianists have taken a seat at the Steinway grand piano in...

Art Cart delivers a new kind of soul food to town

It’s a hot summer day and brightly dressed Brook Beatty stands on South Broad Street in downtown Trenton. After...

Laura Benanti brings ‘Nobody Cares’ home

Laura Benanti says she is “blessed to be a chameleon.” Her context is unexpected. She is not referring to being...

Fall Arts Preview: Dance

American Repertory Ballet “Elevate,” a program of three...

A Day Trip to the Mt. Cuba Center

The mid-Atlantic's only native plant botanical garden, one filled with luscious flowers and plant trials as well as being a haven for birders, a...

Off the Presses: ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’

Editor's Note: One of Rutgers University Press' 2023 publications examines the sometimes overlooked history of New Jersey agriculture — New Jersey’s Jewish farmers. ...

Bucks County Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’

The soaring textured voices of Kate Baldwin and Nicholas Rodriguez are enough to warrant a trip to New Hope to see the Bucks County...

‘Hardship Alaska’ by Donald Proffit

Trenton resident and former Lawrence High School principal Donald Proffit has written a memoir of his experiences as a conscientious objector assigned to alternative...

Off the Presses: The Legacy of Longdale Manor

Lawrence-based writer Carrie Turansky has just released her latest of 20-some novels, “The Legacy of Longdale Manor.” ...
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