Category: archives

  • ‘We Don’t Live Here Anymore’

    Adults play musical beds in this film version of two stories by Andre Dubus. By: Elise Nakhnikian    Based on two Andre Dubus stories from the ’70s, We Don’t Live Here Anymore reminds me of those short stories The New Yorker used to specialize in, where some world-weary couple engages in several pages’ worth of soul…

  • Comic Potential

    Critic Bill Wine explores what makes films funny in a lecture at the Yardley-Makefield Library. By: Amy Brummer Mary Ann Chamberlain, a member of the Makefield branch’s board of directors. Bill Wine’s lecture on comedy at the Yardley-Makefield Library Sept. 20 will be sure to mention the work of Woody Allen.    For all the cinephiles…

  • Open space — but why?

    Monument Park in Princeton Borough has everything a town park can offer, except visitors. By: Jennifer Potash    On a balmy, sunny day earlier this summer, I sat on a bench in the pedestrian mall leading up to Monument Park at Princeton Borough Hall. I drew a few looks — as if I were the first…

  • Ye Olde Good Times

    The Village Renaissance Faire is back for another family-friendly event in Wrightstown. Related Story: Slings and Arrows By: Matt Smith A juggler tosses knives.    Four years ago, Wrightstown resident Ken Hone was scratching his head thinking of ideas for a large community happening to benefit the local public library and other nonprofit groups. He came…

  • Friday night highlights

    Wade runs wild in Montgomery football turf opener By: Bob Nuse    As far as Zoran Milich was concerned, this was no ordinary season-opening game.    And his Montgomery High football team responded with a far better than ordinary performance.    Playing its first game at brand new Cougar Field, with an overflow crowd looking on, Montgomery turned…

  • Report calls for downtown special improvement district

    Move opposed by university, Chamber of Commerce. By: Jennifer Potash    For downtown Princeton Borough to remain competitive with nearby regional malls and other niche shopping areas, the best defense is creation of a special improvement district, according to consultants retained by Princeton Future.    In July, Princeton Future’s Community Based Retail Neighborhood Initiative, a group of…

  • Twisted Logic

    Patrick Dougherty’s cocoon-like stick sculptures will be a work in progress at Grounds For Sculpture. By: Ilene Dube "From the Castle’s Kitchen," 1999, Skulpturepark Rosental, Weitzelsdorf, Austria.    After Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture has been exhibited for two years, he returns to the site with a wood chipper and turns the art to mulch. He’s a believer…

  • Page turning North into title contender

    Boys’ XC team has high hopes By: Justin Feil    When Mike Page joined the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ cross country team as a freshman, expectations were high for a good year. But those expectations were fed by the influx of stars developed at the old West Windsor-Plainsboro High School. As a senior, Page and the…

  • Stubbs finds WW-PN offers great support

    Coach was helped during recovery By: Bob Nuse    If Art Stubbs didn’t already know the kind of support he had around West Windsor-Plainsboro North before, he does now. Back in May, the WW-P North football coach and physical education teacher needed to have a valve replaced in his heart. The surgery was going to keep…