Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, October 13, at 4 p.m. The readings take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center. The October reading features Bob Rosenbloom and Sophie Liebergall. Their readings will […]
Some of lifetime Mercer County resident Rose Kesting’s earliest memories are helping in her mother’s kitchen — cooking, baking, and expressing her young creativity. Now, after 30 years of experience as a speech language pathologist, she is coming full circle with those memories. Kesting, also known as Chef Rose, held a passion for cooking throughout […]
One could scan over John Rounds’ garage and constantly see something new. Directly in front of his make-shift workshop is a collage of descended trees in different seasons, to the left are framed wine boxes, and a cut-out of New Jersey made with license plates takes center stage, reflecting light off its sharp corners. All […]
Heidi Schreck is lucky I was not among the American Legion members judging a speech she made during her teen years at Legion halls throughout the country to earn prize money she could put towards her college education. She would have lost to the rival that plagued her throughout that adolescent journey. The theme of […]
For those not familiar with the subtleties of jazz, a lot of what award-winning guitarist Stephane Wrembel is doing on guitar may sound like he’s assembled a Django Reinhardt “cover band.” But the reality is, Wrembel has added his own stylistic nuances and built upon the foundation left behind by Gypsy jazz pioneer Reinhardt. Jazz […]
On a crisp morning in Robbinsville, the local farmers market is buzzing with business. Among the rows of fresh produce and local artists, a vibrant, delicious stand catches the eye. Here, Sarah Reggimenti is running a small but impactful operation that goes beyond the sales. This scene is the result of years of innovation and […]
The Hobart Art Show showcases 25 of the region’s leading contemporary artists from the Delaware River region in a show running two weekends, September 28 and 29 and October 5 and 6, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Seinbeiser Farm in Frenchtown. Visiting the exhibit is free. The bucolic 26-acre property is owned by […]
Not until the 10 minutes before the end of “Empire Records,” the world premiere musical at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, does the peace coalesce in any significant way. Once it does, you wonder where the heart and depth of a sequence that features a mock funeral and personal revelations from core characters was for the rest […]
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-25 season opened Saturday, September 14, with works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and contemporary composer Gemma Peacocke, and also featured an array of guest musicians from the Youth Orchestra of Central New Jersey. 2025 will mark conductor/music director Rossen Milanov’s 60th birthday, and he is programming some of his favorites all season […]
The caliber of the player is critical in several ways to “The Gin Game,” the neat, entertaining two-hander playing at the Bristol Riverside Theatre’s makeshift “pop-up” digs at Bristol’s Regency Room. First, there’s the sense of competition when two sit down to a game of cards. Weller Martin (Keith Baker) takes refuge on the porch […]