Eric Rosen’s production of “Anastasia” at New Hope’s Bucks County Playhouse is entertainingly engaging throughout, but it shines in crucial dramatic moments when characters have something monumentally serious to discuss or need to reach a difficult personal decision. For these sequences, such as when the dowager empress of Imperial Russia, a Romanov, mother of the […]
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, December 8, at 4 p.m. The reading takes place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center. The December reading features music-themed poetry by Winifred Hughes and Lynn Levin. […]
“Rhythms of the Land,” an exhibit by artist Susan Hoenig, is on view at the Hutchins Galleries at the Lawrenceville School from Thursday, December 5, through Saturday, January 25, 2025. A free opening reception takes place Friday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m. The following artist’s statement accompanies the exhibit ‘The land upon which we gather […]
Visitors to Small World Coffee will get to see another side of their baristas in December, as they host a takeover of the monthly art show. Through Tuesday, January 7, every piece of art on the walls at both the Nassau and Witherspoon cafés is from a current or former employee of Small World. An […]
BeiGene, a global oncology company that opened a clinical R&D and manufacturing facility in Hopewell Township in July of this year, has announced its intention to change its name to BeOne Medicines Ltd. In a statement issued in mid-November announcing the change, the company noted that the new name is a way of “confirming its […]
The City of Trenton announced on November 26 that it had received a $4 million New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Local Property Acquisition grant for the revitalization of the former Lafayette Yard Hotel located at 1 West Lafayette Street. The $17 million NJEDA Local Property Acquisition Grant Program was awarded to 12 real estate […]
The Bunbury Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation is awarding nearly $13 million in grants to local nonprofits. Earlier this year, The Bunbury Fund launched its 10-year anniversary by announcing a plan to sunset the fund and award a series of large-scale grants to local nonprofits. The unrestricted Sunset Grants are intended to significantly […]
The Trenton Center for Healing, Unity, and Belonging (The HUB) celebrated its grand opening on December 3. The center, a collaboration between Creative Change Counseling Inc. and the Mercer County Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Services, provides a community-focused approach to justice, placing a strong emphasis on restorative practices, healing, and proactive community […]
Try as we might to be comprehensive in our calendar listings, it’s inevitable that a few holiday happenings have fallen through the cracks or come to our attention well past the deadlines for our recent rounds-ups of holiday boutiques and other festive events. Here are a few late-breaking additions to the calendar: The Watershed Institute […]
The following stories were originally published in the December 4, 2024, issue of U.S. 1 Newspaper. Cover Stories ‘Lost Polyphonies’ Finds Its Way to Princeton Between the Lines The Holiday Calendar Keeps Growing Preview of the Arts Stories Bucks County Playhouse Review: ‘Anastasia: The Musical’Poets Levin and Hughes Headline at Princeton MakesIn Her Own Words: […]