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...

Rejoice, It’s Cinema Al Fresco

Last summer one of Thomas Grim’s wishes came true. After chipping at away at a dream for 10 years – to bring an outdoor...

Examining Film’s Power to Inspire and Ignite

It’s one thing to go to the movie theater, buy a ticket, popcorn and soda, and sit back, relax and watch the movie. It’s...

Review: `The Merry Wives of Windsor’

In the epilogue to Henry IV, Part II, Shakespeare wrote: "If you be not too much cloy’d with fat meat, our humble author will...

Where Canada, London, and America Meet

When "Ragtime" opened on Broadway on January 18, 1998, the sheer spectacle of this turn-of-the-century America musical epic was as acclaimed as was Stephen...

The Thinking Man’s Jazz Pianist: Mose Allison

Songwriter, singer and piano master Mose Allison has influenced more rock ‘n’ roll musicians than there are keys on the piano. Modern and classic...

Jersey Joe is Still Laughing

He’s the guy who made the line "what exit" the classic New Jersey joke, a comedian who made a career out of skewering the...
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