American Repertory Ballet’s Swan Lake dazzles with beauty

The Princeton Ballet School-affiliated American Repertory Ballet presented an ambitious new production of the uber-famous classical ballet Swan...

Vietnam War through a photographer’s lens

A photograph hanging in Bryan Grigsby's Bordentown home captures a moment from the Vietnam War that has remained with him for nearly six decades. Taken May 6, 1968, the black-and-white...

Arts & Entertainment

A Baroque look at pumpkins, politics and power

Autumn, political intrigue and centuries-old satire will come together in Princeton when the Dryden Ensemble opens its 2026-27 season with Of Pumpkins & Politicians,...

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Mercer colleges form higher education consortium

Mercer County Executive Dan Benson joined the presidents of The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Mercer County Community College (MCCC) and Thomas Edison State...

Rider’s 107.7 The Bronc named top college radio station

Rider University's student-run radio station, 107.7 The Bronc, has been named the 2026 College Radio Station of the Year by the National Association of...

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Go Inside This Week’s Issue of U.S. 1: April 13, 2022

The following stories were originally published in the April 13, 2022, issue of U.S. 1 Newspaper. ...

Connie Mercer Moves to Expand Legacy Beyond HomeFront

From a kitchen table to a statewide network, Connie Mercer has seen her Lawrenceville nonprofit, HomeFront, evolve to tackle family homelessness and poverty in...

Dance Review: ARB’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

A principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre from 1997 to 2012, the Pennsylvania-born Ethan Stiefel set the hearts of a whole generation of tween-age...

‘Jaw-Dropping’ Exhibit Brings Sharks to NJSM

There are no megalodons in the ocean. None. Zip. Nada. The prehistoric giant sharks are dead and gone, and they’ve been gone for more...

Off the Presses: ‘Only the Clothes on Her Back’

"I began writing this book before I knew I was writing it,” writes Laura F. Edwards at the start of the newly released Oxford...

Passage Theater Review: ‘Janet Wide Awake’

History hides in corners. For instance, Passage Theatre artistic director C. Ryanne Domingues entered Trenton’s Hedgepeth-Williams Middle School for the Arts and noticed a...

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