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...

Whitman on Katrina, Bush, 9/11, and Iraq

It was more than 50 years ago that Christine Todd Whitman’s father gave her a line of advice that would become the guiding star...

Band Reviews

Summit Street Band The Pontiac Grille on South...

Let’s Try . . . Fuji

The newspaper coupon was tantalizing. Half price sushi on Monday and Tuesday nights at a spot that was new to us, Fuji, a Japanese...

Inventing the Chamber-tini

It all happened quite by accident. I was sitting at a committee meeting for the 2005 Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Trade Fair/U.S.1 Better...

Theater Review: ‘Visiting Mr. Green’

An 86-year-old widower wanders into a Manhattan street and is nearly run down by a car driven by a young business executive not paying...

From India to France: The Roots of Gypsy Dance

More than 1,000 years ago, gypsy tribes fled the military draft in northern India and migrated. Some traveled through Bulgaria into Transylvania and Hungary,...
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