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  • Long Live the Queens

    Known as South Africa’s "cheerful militants," the Mahotella Queens began performing during the darkest days of apartheid. They will perform at Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick Oct. 17. By: Susan Van Dongen function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,’location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10′); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); The Mahotella Queens come to New Brunswick Oct. 17.    When the Mahotella Queens sing "Don’t…

  • ‘Mystic River’

    A strong cast and a focused touch keep Clint Eastwood from directing a run-of-the-mill murder mystery. By: Jim Boyle    Three boys, Sean, Jimmy and Dave, play hockey on the street of a Boston neighborhood in the 1960s. These opening minutes of Mystic River are pretty much the only happy moments for an otherwise dark and…

  • Staff, parents follow fired principal to a new school

    Turmoil at Newgrange School results in rapid opening of Bridge Academy. By: David Campbell    Officials at The Bridge Academy, a school for children with language-based learning disabilities that received provisional approval from the state a week ago, are seeking to put their past with the Newgrange School behind them.    Conceived last May by a small…

  • Communities plan Halloween events

    West Windsor, The Arts Council of Princeton get spooky.    The West Windsor Township Division of Recreation and Parks is offering the following Halloween events:    • Daytime hayride, Saturday, Oct. 18, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. This family event is held at Wind- sor Farms, 1202 Windsor Rd., West Windsor. The hayride will go to the pumpkin…

  • Conformity in the eyes of beholder

    Battle brewing between developerand planners over impact of project By:John Patten    A developer’s claim of providing a conforming application failed to impress members of the Planning Board at the Oct. 2 introduction of Northeast Developers’ plan for four houses off of South Branch Road.    Speaking for the developer, engineer Lawrence Lopresti of EPK Consulting in…

  • Oct. 9, 4:57 p.m.: Musical immemorium

    Strummer, Zevon and Cash. By: Hank Kalet    Eric Alterman honors the dead in this week’s issue of The Nation, the dead being Joe Strummer, Warren Zevon and Johnny Cash.    The music world — and the world more generally — is a far less gracious place this year with their losses, though we are very lucky…

  • To build schools … or not to build

    Population shifts mean relief in still-growing Hillsborough By: Beth Kressel    To build, or not to build? That is the question facing the Hillsborough School District as the Board of Education decides whether constructing a new school building is necessary to accommodate children whose families might move to future township housing developments.    Two New Jersey demographers…

  • Voters to decide fire consolidation

    Florence Township Fire Chief defends plan to centralize station. By: Scott Morgan    The week before its special election, the Florence Township Fire District is fending off an anonymous campaign aimed at swaying voters from approving a $4.2 million bond plan to purchase land for a new, centralizing station building.    Over the past week, a string…

  • Lonely Hearts

    In Arthur Laurents’ ‘Attacks on the Heart,’ premiering at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, the same heady mix of opposites-attract love and lust ensues, but between two smart, complex characters well into middle age. By: Matt Smith Attacks on the Heart.>    The set-up is familiar: A chance meeting at a New York City café…