The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, now in it 25th year, spans two weeks and features 14 films to entertain, enlighten, and spark discussion. The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life connects Rutgers University with the community through public lectures, symposia, Jewish communal initiatives, cultural events, and teacher training in Holocaust […]
Photography lovers are spoiled for choice with two ongoing exhibits featuring multiple photographers working in a range of styles and subjects. And both shows are free to go and visit. Gallery 14 Three simultaneous exhibitions are on view at Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography in Hopewell. The shows are on view through Sunday, November 24. […]
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) presents “The Super Hero’s Journey,” a solo exhibition of paintings by artist Patrick McDonnell. McDonnell, a Princeton resident, has entertained audiences for 30 years with MUTTS, his internationally syndicated comic strip. For the first time on the east coast, he will display his large modernist paintings. The Super Hero’s […]
Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, hosts a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, November 10, 4 p.m. The reading takes place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center. The November reading features music-themed poetry by Barbara H. Williams and Judy Rowe […]
David Ives not only manages to mingle two interesting plays, the one we’re seeing and one being rehearsed, in his 2010 comedy, “Venus in Fur.” He also weaves myriad ideas, some contradictory, in his wise, canny, entertaining script. Ives loves to juxtapose fashionable notions and political mores with the reality of a situation. He shrewdly […]
A little more than 50 years ago, Hans Sandberg and a group of other young Swedes embarked on an adventurous journey from Sweden to India, traveling the famous “Hippie Trail.” The trail was an overland route from the mid-1950s to the 1970s that was followed by Western travelers often seeking adventure and cultural exploration. They […]
While discussions around child-rearing frequently revolve around the roles and responsibilities of mothers — and the struggle to balance a successful family life with a successful professional life — a strong father can be an equally important figure in a child’s life. Two upcoming events are focused on empowering fathers and ensuring they have access […]
Curated by Trenton artist Jonathan “Lank” Conner and Final Boss Comics & Games, Sequential/Variants is a two-part show. The exhibition will be displayed for the first time at Artworks Trenton through Saturday, November 23. An opening reception takes place Thursday, November 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. and features artist vendors, a pop-up comic book […]
For the past 10 years or so, driving through the charming Delaware River town of Stockton, New Jersey, has been accompanied by a tinge of sadness for the imposing, shuttered stone building at its center, the Stockton Inn. The inn, whose original structure dates back to 1701 or thereabouts, had long held a reputation as […]
Visual artist Cathy Dailey is the featured speaker for the “Inside the Artist’s Studio” series at Princeton Makes in the Princeton Shopping Center on Thursday, October 24, at 7 p.m. Dailey, a Princeton Makes cooperative member, creates vivid, whimsical images of cats, dogs and birds, as well as abstract art, in a variety of media, […]