Category: archives

  • July 23, 9 p.m.: This is not a horse race. It’s an election.

    Election coverage should be about issues not polling and fund-raising. By: Hank Kalet    Good piece in Slate on "the folly of horse-race journalism" — or the kind of journalism that focuses on who is ahead in the polls and who is behind and not on what the candidates have to say or what they believe…

  • Peking Pavilion

    Gourmet Chinese food at reasonable prices is the draw at this Manalapan establishment. By: Antoinette Buckley Peking Pavilion 110 Highway 33 West Manalapan (732) 308-9700 fax: (732) 308-0266 Food: Very good Service: Very good Prices: Inexpensive to moderate Cuisine: Chinese Ambiance: Classy but active Hours: Lunch: Sun.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Dinner: Sun.-Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat.…

  • ‘The Spitfire Grill’

    The Peddie Community Players find the heart in this boutique musical. By: Stuart Duncan    The Spitfire Grill made its debut in 1996 as a modest, independent film. Small-town critics embraced it, particularly the cast, but the big-city reviewers killed it. Roger Ebert (The Chicago Sun-Times), for example, gave it only two stars and called it…

  • Dancing partners

    Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve holds Community Day Jay MacDowell, 3, of Solebury dances with his balloons to bluegrass music during Community Day at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve July 19.

  • 10 weeks and 10 years

    By: Betty Jane Hunt    The theme of the 2003 West Amwell Township Country Fair, to be held Sept. 13, will be the 1950s.    In order to prepare everyone and make them more astute about this period of history, there will be 10 trivia questions each week before the fair, covering events from each of the…

  • An artist’s touch

    The Hunterdon County YMCA camp at South Hunterdon is creating its own mule for the Miles of Mules art project. Deanna Weber, 8, makes sure starch is absorbed into tissue paper being used to cover papier mache on the campers’ mule during the YMCA Camp at South Hunterdon.

  • Political theorist wins award for 1977 book

    Albert O. Hirschman of the Institute for Advanced Study recognized for work on the roots of capitalism.    Albert O. Hirschman, professor emeritus in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been selected as winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2003 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for "The Passions and the…

  • July 22, 9:30 p.m.: Kobe’s case

    Obsession and the need to reserve judgment. By: Hank Kalet    I don’t know what happened in that Colorado hotel room between Kobe Bryant and the hotel employee. The only people who know are Kobe and his accuser.    What I do know is that the coverage of the accusation and eventual charges follows the standard script…

  • University preparatory program earns praise

    Academic enrichment for talented, low-income students from Princeton and nearby towns. By: Alyson Zureick    "Who wants more homework?"    Princeton sociology professor Miguel Centeno is met with laughs and groans from the group of high school sophomores in front of him. Dr. Centeno laughs, too, then bounds around the room, asking the students about their weekend…