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...

Trenton’s Slice of Hollywood

The Trenton Film Society knows the importance of local talent. Over the past two years, the group has organized more than a dozen events...

Broadway Review: ‘Pacific Overtures’

Most theater musicologists would probably concur that the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical "Pacific Overtures" is a stunning if also vexing example of the concept...

Sculpted in Photography

The annual solicitation of "amateur" photographers for the juried photo exhibition at Grounds for Sculpture began with applications sent to regional photo clubs, adult...

Review: ‘Secret in the Wings’

When Heidi is told by her parents, who are about to go out for dinner with friends, that they have asked their neighbor Mr....

Celebrating Mozart’s Big 2-4-9

Mozart began writing opera at a very young age, 12 to be exact, with a comical one-act singspiel – a kind of opera performed...

Where Jazz & Fine Food Meet

Lots of musicians and singers might say they were strongly influenced by Frank Sinatra. But jazz musician John Bianculli can claim a direct influence...
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