Category: archives
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Editor’s Journal – A New Year’s resolution to keep: Just try
I was never a “Star Wars” geek, but one thing that sticks in my mind, something I try to adhere to, came from the wise, rubbery lips of Yoda: “Do, or do not. There is no try.” When I eat something I’m pretty certain I shouldn’t, or sneak a cigarette at the bar after I’ve…
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‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’
Johnny Depp is no Broadway belter, but that’s no mark against him in another great performance. By Bob Brown Well, happy bloody holidays! This is the oddest season to debut Sweeney Todd for the movies. Not much holiday cheer in this production, but it is a film spectacle in its own right. Director Tim Burton…
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Share Your Picks for 2007
What were your favorite movies and theater experiences in central New Jersey of 2007? Read Movie Critic Elise Nakhnikian’s list of the year’s best films and Stage Critic Stuart Duncan’s picks for the top plays and musicals of the past 12 months, then share your opinions with fellow TIMEOFF readers. Let us know your favorite…
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Ten to Remember
Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman helped make The Savages one of the year’s best movies.
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Plainsboro Middle School to host Andean Folk Life event
PLAINSBORO— The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the Folklife Program for New Jersey will present Music of the Andes, with Urama Shikan, at Plainsboro Middle School on Saturday, January 5. The program will highlight the Andes region of South America, with performances of traditional music and folk dances of the mestizo and indigenous…
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Francis Stanley Pinkowski
Capt. Francis Stanley Pinkowski, USNR Retired, died at Westerly Hospital Dec. 22. Born in Nanticoke, Pa., in 1927, he graduated from Nanticoke High School in 1944. That same year, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving in the Asiatic/Pacific Theatre of Operations. At the end of his tour of duty, he attended Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,…
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Filip Forsbeck
Longtime university employee Filip Forsbeck of Princeton died Monday at the Merwick Rehab Hospital & Nursing Care. He was 72. Born in Chicago, he was a Princeton resident since 1946. Mr. Forsbeck retired from Princeton University after 42 years of service with the purchasing department as a mail carrier. He was a graduate of…
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School board meeting
The Chesterfield Township Board of Education will meet in the Media Center of Chesterfield Elementary School at 7 p.m. Jan. 2. The board will meet with the architect for the construction project for the new school.
