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  • Canvas Rhythm

    Painter Lee Rumsey celebrates the worlds of dance and music in an exhibit at the Princeton Thelogical Seminary. By: Matt Smith Painter Lee Rumsey didn’t begin painting seriously until her late 30s. Above, "Silent Journey."   Left, "Catching the Rhythm" depicts a scene from an African drum and dance workshop. Above, "She Touches My Spirit."…

  • Reverberating Forms

    Photographer Michael A. Smith finds abstraction in unlikely places. By: Diana Wolf    Michael A. Smith failed art in high school and never took a photography course. In fact, during a Boy Scout photo demonstration at age 12, he thought an "acid stop bath" would burn. The Bucks County resident never imagined his photographs would achieve…

  • Cultivating the Domestic Arts

    Meghan Wood uses buttons, stitches and party cakes in her sculpture. By: Susan Van Dongen    Except for a brief period of "sew-your-own" and "express-yourself" fashion, sewing hasn’t been hip for a long time. It was more likely associated with mundane domestic tasks, like replacing a button on a spouse’s shirt. Stitchery hadn’t been considered a…

  • Panel backs proposal for grad-student housing

    Recommends approval of Princeton University’s plan to add 206 units at Lawrence Apartments. By: David Campbell    Princeton planning advisors Wednesday night unanimously recommended approval of Princeton University’s plan to add 206 new graduate-housing units at Lawrence Apartments off Alexander Street.    The Site Plan Review Advisory Board of the Princeton Regional Planning Board voted 6-0 to…

  • DISPATCHES: More questions than answers on Iraq

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Something needs to be done about Iraq    I can hear the war drums beating.    And they’re getting louder by the day.    Now it only seems a matter of when.    It is no secret that the Bush administration is considering a military strike against Iraq designed to remove Saddam Hussein.    President George…

  • MONROE: Man wanted in kidnapping

    Resident accused of driving away with 15-month-old baby By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough police are searching for a Monroe Township man who they said led them on a chase with a 15-month-old baby in his car Monday around midnight.    The baby was later returned safely to its mother, but the abductor, Raymond Powell Jr.,…

  • Cultivating the Domestic Arts

    Meghan Wood uses buttons, stitches and party cakes in her sculpture. By: Susan Van Dongen    Except for a brief period of "sew-your-own" and "express-yourself" fashion, sewing hasn’t been hip for a long time. It was more likely associated with mundane domestic tasks, like replacing a button on a spouse’s shirt. Stitchery hadn’t been considered a…

  • Michael Raker

       FRANKLIN — Michael Raker, 58, died Saturday at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Edison, he lived in North Brunswick and East Windsor before moving to Somerset two years ago.    Mr. Raker worked in sales for McGraw-Hill Co. 20 years. He previously worked with Kendall Park Pharmacy, where he was well-known in the…

  • Ida Mastroianni

       EAST WINDSOR — Ida Mastroianni, 79, of Spring Hill, Fla., and East Durham, N.Y., died Aug. 9 at her daughter’s home in East Windsor.    Born in Carnegie, Pa., she was a wife, mother and grandmother who enjoyed spending time with her family.    Daughter of the late Luigi and Emilia Mattiole Bernardini, she is survived by…