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  • Editorial-July 15, 2004

    City must work to avoid repeat gas explosions By: Mae Rhine    It’s been more than 34 years since the deadly gas explosion that rocked the city of Lambertville.    And no one can resist a shudder recalling that tragic event.    It must have felt like déjà vu Saturday when residents and businesses were evacuated near the…

  • Phyllis Bowers D’Autrechy

       Phyllis Bowers D’Autrechy, 71, died Tuesday in Venice, Fla.    Mrs. D’Autrechy, formerly of Pennington, was a former sixth-grade teacher in the Riverton and Hopewell Valley Regional School districts and retired as the archivist for Hunterdon County.    She was active in many genealogical and historical societies and served as a founder and charter member of the…

  • ‘Educating Rita’

    The Villagers offer this variation on the Pygmalion theme. By: Stuart Duncan    Educating Rita is a 1980 play by British playwright Willy Russell that takes the Pygmalion theme, chops it down to two characters, places the scene in the office of a dissipated professor at a university somewhere in the north of England, near Liverpool,…

  • Gas line ruptured during CVS work

    The contractor was working weekends without the supervision of the city engineer. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — A construction crew, working Saturday morning on the new CVS drugstore on Cherry Street without the supervision of the city’s engineer, ruptured a gas line and caused the evacuation of nearby residents and businesses.    No injuries were reported,…

  • ‘Proof’

    Princeton Summer Theater stages this drama about a family of unstable mathematicians. By: Stuart Duncan    David Auburn’s first job after graduating from the University of Chicago was at a chemical company, writing copy for labels for a carpet shampoo. But his real interest was the theater, and when acting proved unpromising, he turned to playwriting.…

  • Letters-July 15, 2004

    Roxey Ballet needs support To the editor:    Last December, Roxey Ballet Company sent letters asking for support, and we thank all those who stepped forward during these difficult economic times.    In a time when public funding for the arts is being dramatically cut, and our families need the arts more than ever, we feel compelled…

  • ‘The Secret Garden’

    Playful Theatre Productions stages this musical adaptation of a favorite children’s story. By: Stuart Duncan    It’s exactly what the Open Air Theatre in Washington Crossing State Park needed — a few new breaths of fresh air to handle sticky sound systems or light boards that develop glitches, and a director for a show who wasn’t…

  • ‘Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story’

    Ben Stiller stars in an oddball comedy in which jocks square off against less athletically inclined competitors. By: Bob Brown    Dodgeball is one of those sports we associate with high school. It seems designed to perpetuate the pecking order of the athletic haves and the have-nots. As shown in one of this film’s hilarious spoofs…

  • Booze, Sex and Death

    ‘Watering Hole’ recounts the colorful history of a New Jersey tavern. By: Susan Van Dongen Top, Michael Toussaint, a.k.a. "Michael Christopher," performs as Bette Midler at Maddie’s Mine Hill Tavern.    AMOROUS mailmen, wild women, a tiger tamer, a ventriloquist, doctors, lawyers, judges, miners and just regular folks — they all lifted a glass at Maddie’s…