Princeton is one of 19 locations across the United States participating in the 2025 Being Human Festival, an annual event launched in the United Kingdom in 2014 and in the United States in 2024. The festival is organized by the nonprofit National Humanities Council in partnership with humanists and humanities organizations from around the country. […]
Sylvette de Aldrey Krause, originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Jessie Krause, from Princeton — mother/daughter, respectively — are showing their paintings together at Tipple & Rose. A reception takes place Thursday, April 17, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., concurrently with Princeton University’s Art Walk. Sylvette began showing her work here in Princeton in […]
Bordentown City joined the ranks of New Jersey’s multi-brewery towns when Fox House Brewing opened in March. The new microbrewery joins Tindall Road Brewing as a potential stop on a Farnsworth Avenue pub crawl. Fox House, from city residents Chris and Abby Campbell, has been two years in the making. The cozy, sedate tasting room […]
Unlike so many successful small businesses, there was no business plan or clearly articulated vision for Revilla Grooves ‘n’ Gear. But record buyers from around the state, Staten Island and other parts of New York City and eastern Pennsylvania flock to the store. Given that big chains like Best Buy are no longer selling compact […]
On Saturday, April 12, Princeton Record Exchange will be rocking the 15th annual National Record Store Day. Record Store Day (RSD) serves as a vibrant celebration of the culture surrounding independently owned record stores. With each passing year, its popularity continues to soar. On this special day, hundreds of limited-edition titles are exclusively available at […]
Priya Vulchi has been turning heads — and transforming attitudes — since 2014. It was then that she and her Princeton High School classmate Winona Guo had an “aha” moment about racial literacy, leading them to create the nonprofit CHOOSE and publish classroom handbooks for various age groups featuring interviews with Princeton residents discussing their […]
Michener Art Museum’s original exhibition, “Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural,” opening Saturday, April 12, features the debut of the internationally known glass artist’s newest, monumental work, an eight-foot-tall stained-glass dome designed for a single viewer. On view through September 14, the immersive stained-glass environment, also titled Super/Natural, represents a “three-tiered cosmos” that explores the idea of biophilia, […]
The Princeton Public Library’s Princeton Environmental Film Festival returns for its 19th year, running Friday, April 4, through Sunday, April 13. A selection of films will be screened both in person in the library’s Community Room and virtually via the Eventive platform. Some will be shown only in person or only available to stream online. […]
A riddle: How was the opening night of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” at Bristol Riverside Theatre reminiscent of a football game? The answer: The first act was unfocused, with impressive movement but loose storytelling, no obvious place to look, uneven acting, and wretched sound design that drowned out lyrics and dialogue, the fuzzy lyrics […]
One of Princeton University’s best known dropouts is receiving a posthumous hero’s welcome as both town and gown celebrate F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” which was first published 100 years ago in April, 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Fitzgerald, considered a member of Princeton’s Class of 1917, though he never graduated, nonetheless owes much […]