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.”...

And When She Was Bad, She Was Very, Very Bad: Ellen Sussman

‘One day, as I was headed to a reading for someone else’s anthology, I thought about the many essays I had written and realized...

Crawling Around the Inside of Chamber Music: The Arianna

The Arianna String Quartet has achieved immortality. The University of Missouri, St. Louis, where the ensemble is in residence, has granted the group tenure....

Art Review: ‘Eccentric Bodies’

It’s not easy to restructure social and cultural concepts that have been shaping Western thought for centuries but a major exhibition that just opened...

Opportunities

Literati New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest seeks...

Theater Review: ‘Run for Your Wife’

‘Run for Your Wife,” by Ray Cooney, the last play in Off-Broadstreet Theater’s 2006-2007 season (the 2007-’08 season begins in August), has been described...

Opera Review: `Carmen’

From the moment the curtain went up on Princeton Festival’s production of Charles Bizet’s “Carmen,” seen by this reviewer on opening night, Saturday, June...
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