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 Cancer Survivor’s Lesson We Can All Use

When Wendy Burton was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, she understood that she could very well be in the fight of her...

‘The Good Body’

It happened, and she’s not proud of it. ...

Anatomy of a Powwow

As I hang up the telephone after interviewing Vaughnda Hilton of Native Nations Dance Theater I realize, with some embarrassment, that the number of...

Bonapartes of Bordentown

You might not know this but royalty once resided in Bordentown. In the 1800s both Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother), former king of Spain and...

Vince Gill’s Country Story

To the casual observer of country music, it may have appeared that Vince Gill emerged from nowhere in 1990, with his first breakthrough hit...

The African-American Experience, Part 1

Talking with actress Phylicia Rashad, I note that her serenity is unflappable. She speaks of spiritual matters as easily as she would give me...
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