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...

Toggling Rock, Blues, Ballads

Hearing Jess Klein in person at one of her shows, you’d never guess this guitar toting singer-songwriter says she was influenced by singers who...

Review: `Move It and It’s Yours’

There comes a time in most creative people’s lives when they have to make a choice: keep on with the acting/music/writing/ painting/(fill in your...

Reviews: Off-Broadway Roundup

Most shows that open Off-Broadway last but a few weeks. This is not because they haven’t been well-received but because so many are part...

Let’s Try: Catch a Rising Star

A man walks into a bar – you’d think he’d learn to duck. Well, maybe I should think about keeping my day job. But...

A Physician Rediscovers the Piano’s Voice

Pianist Rosanne Vita Nahass, a Belle Mead resident who returns to piano performance after what she calls a detour into being a physician, uses...

Eyeing the Original Cliffhanger

When I think of my childhood in Japan, I think of kamishibai. It means "paper theater." Every afternoon, the kamishibai man came on a...
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