Despite what pollsters might say, we are not just faceless groups of statistics divided into ethnicities, gender, age, etc. We are all individuals, and we all have personal stories to tell. How fitting that the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey’s season opening concert at Patriot’s Theater in Trenton was titled “American Stories.” It was a […]
American Repertory Ballet launched its 2024-2025 season with “Wonderment,” the most stylistically diverse program I’ve ever seen this versatile little company tackle. Presented at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, October 18 through 20, the quadruple bill — curated by ARB Artist in Residence Ethan Stiefel — requires four radically different performance styles, all impressively […]
“Economist” and “award-winning novelist” are not usually descriptors used for the same person, but Varun Gauri is an exception to that rule. The Princeton University lecturer in public and international affairs published his first novel, “For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus,” on October 8. He discusses his book in conversation with novelist Laura Spence-Ash […]
Princeton-based photographic artist Robin Resch presents her latest exhibition, “Nature Eternal,” at Songbird Capital, located at 14 Nassau Street. The show features a collection of landscape photography that draws viewers into the profound relationship between nature’s strength and our shared ephemerality. The exhibition runs through November, offering visitors an immersive visual experience. At the heart […]
The vibrant colors of fall are on full display, both in the leaves falling from the trees and in these three new art exhibits, all recently arrived to regional galleries and all free and open for the public to view and enjoy. Gallery at MCCC Mercer County Community College’s Gallery hosts “Tim McFarlane – Black […]
The late Princeton-based musician Joel Spiegelman will be honored with a special memorial concert on Wednesday, October 23, at Bristol Chapel on the former Westminster Choir College campus on Walnut Lane in Princeton. Spiegelman (1933-2023) was a distinguished composer, conductor, and pianist whose seven-decade career left a mark on the worlds of classical and contemporary […]
The brawl begins in the right center aisle of Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, where men clad in shades of red start talking about being insulted and start pushing each other and shouting taunts to blue-garbed loudmouths congregated in the left center aisle. Soon the fracas has reached the McCarter stage, where surly knaves from both sides […]
The Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs is launching its 90th year with a birthday celebration at its first session of the season on Sunday, October 20, at 4 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton at 50 Cherry Hill Road. All are welcome. In the fall of 1935, the Chairman of Princeton University’s Music […]
New Jersey music journalist Bennett Kelly celebrates the launch of his debut rock & roll novel, “Sensation Blues,” on Saturday, October 12, at the Ivy Inn in Princeton. The free event runs from 2 to 5 p.m., and copies of the book will be available for purchase. Attendees who buy a book will also receive […]
More than all of the speeches by Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, or William Henry Garrison, the vehicle that influenced most average Americans to disdain slavery was a work of fiction, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Stowe focused on individuals, members of a family fleeing a tyrannical owner, one that touched on a concept and […]