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...

Princeton University Library Exhibit Pays Tribute to Toni Morrison

Author Toni Morrison is a literary icon who left an indelible mark on the world of writing and, in her time as a professor...

Off the Presses: A Book on Broadway Musicals

"The Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes, and Disagreements" is the newest of a half-dozen books on theater by former Star Ledger theater critic...

Fight in the Museum: 9 questions with glass artist Susan Kelly

Colored glass has its origins in ancient Egypt and Rome. It has been an instrumental architectural element in Catholic churches for centuries, bridging the...

George Street Review: ‘Clyde’s’

At first, Melissa Maxwell's production of "Clyde's" for New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse doesn’t seem like a typical Lynn Nottage play. ...

More Than a Mural: A Princeton Love Letter to Washington

In addition to being a presence in two murals discussed in the surrounding pages of U.S. 1, George Washington was a presence in the...

Historic Mural of Washington Crossing the Delaware Rediscovered

A priceless painting depicting Washington's troops crossing the Delaware, which languished in a dusty basement for 50 years, was recently unearthed and is being...
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