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  • This holiday — sing a joyful song

    A music junkie’s stocking full of picks By: HANK KALET ‘Among my favorite pastimes is picking through the bins at the Princeton Record Exchange or any small record store, finding some old, hard-to-find chestnut from my youth or taking a chance on something completely new…. That’s how I became an REM fan, how I developed…

  • ‘Heist’

    David Mamet directs his best psychological thriller in years.   [R] By: Kam Williams Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito in The Heist.       David Mamet made his first mark on the stage, receiving accolades for his searing, super-realistic stories about small-time con artists. Driven by streetwise dialogue spat out by actors in deliberate staccato, his readily recognizable work…

  • This holiday — sing a joyful song

    A music junkie’s stocking full of picks By: HANK KALET ‘Among my favorite pastimes is picking through the bins at the Princeton Record Exchange or any small record store, finding some old, hard-to-find chestnut from my youth or taking a chance on something completely new…. That’s how I became an REM fan, how I developed…

  • Giving thanks, as we look to brighter days

    Making sense of a confounding holiday By:     Thanksgiving may be the most confounding of holidays in this country.    Historians are rewriting the myth of our first Thanksgiving to reflect the realities of the conflicts between the indigenous people and the European settlers left out of children’s school books. While a meal did take place,…

  • Fred F. Petrone, 77

       Fred F. Petrone, 77, died Friday, Nov. 16, at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.    Born in Princeton, he lived in Monmouth Junction for 46 years.    He was a member of Carpenters Local Union 781 in Princeton.    He was employed at Dow Jones & Co. for 12 years, retiring in 1990.    His parents, Antonio and Mary Petrone…

  • A thank-you to doctors and angels

    GUEST COLUMN By: Albert Nevruz    In May of this year, I was admitted to the emergency room at The Medical Center at Princeton with a pain in my bladder and vomiting.    After initial observation, I was moved to the 6th-floor for further study as to the cause of my problem. Dr. Vukasin took over and,…

  • This holiday — sing a joyful song

    A music junkie’s stocking full of picks By: HANK KALET ‘Among my favorite pastimes is picking through the bins at the Princeton Record Exchange or any small record store, finding some old, hard-to-find chestnut from my youth or taking a chance on something completely new…. That’s how I became an REM fan, how I developed…

  • Borough OKs police car lease plan

    New vehicle replaces older model By:Alec Moore    The Borough Council approved the leasing of a new Ford Crown Victoria patrol car for the Police Department during its meeting Monday night.    The new patrol car will replace one of the department’s older cars, maintaining its total number of marked patrol units at six.    Although Mayor Angelo…

  • ‘Amelie’

    Wacky director Jean-Pierre Jeunet delivers a highly stylized farce.   [R] By: Kam Williams Audrey Tautou, in Amelie, written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.       Every now and again, along comes that insubstantial foreign film, sufficiently adorned with superficial pretense, as to appease the palates of the masses of would-be sophisticates.    The Red Violin (1998) leaps to mind…