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...

A Sudanese Refugee Finds Peace

While the war in Iraq makes headlines every day, there is another war going on in a different part of the world that doesn’t...

Review: ‘Jacques Brel Is Alive’

‘Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris” has to be the most emotional musical in town. The same thing was true...

They’re Still Saving the World

For Peter Yarrow, one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the past year has been full of upheaval and importance for the legendary folk ensemble....

Ziaf, Piaf, It’s All French to Me

Believe it or not, the most successful band Catherine Capozzi has been involved in came together totally by accident. In 2003, her alt-rock group,...

Oh Susannah! Boheme Opera Goes American

Every performance of Boheme Opera Company in Trenton’s War Memorial is a special challenge because of the size and shape of the stage, says...

Mastrosimone on Home Turf

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