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...

McCarter Theater Review: ‘Wuthering Heights’

After an exaggerated beginning, in which the visual of the wind blowing the novel’s narrator, Mr. Lockwood, about seems more important than getting on...

‘All Downhill’ for 70-Year-Old Trenton Ski Club

After a few years of COVID-induced cocooning, have you been itching to take off for the great outdoors? Are you eyeing that pair of...

James Stewart Jazzes up the Candlelight Lounge

Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader James Stewart is old enough to remember the glory days of his hometown Trenton’s jazz club scene. ...

Off the Presses: ‘Spirited American Women’

"This book is like being at a party where you hardly know anyone," writes Lavinia Kumar at the opening of her new book, “Spirited...

Gala Gives Young Filmmakers Red Carpet Treatment

These kids today. They’re actually quite brilliant. So...

In Their Own Voices: The 12 Steps & More Bookshops

We live in an economy that sells us addictions. Focused on the joys of shopping, gambling, eating, excitement, drinking, and love — our society...
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