Category: archives

  • To Your Health-Sept. 13, 2007

    Recognizing the symptoms of depression By: Dr. Terry Shlimbaum    At one time or another, just about everyone will be faced with the "blues."    Maybe we can identify the cause or perhaps it sneaks up on us at a time when everything "seems to be going so well."    Maybe it lasts for a few days, or…

  • Dance

    Assorted classes, clubs, dance parties and groups American Ballroom Co., Enterprise Firehouse, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, Newcomers Social every Wed., 7-9 p.m., $10; Social every Fri., 8-11 p.m., $15; private lessons and group classes, open to public; (609) 931-0149; www.americanballroomco.com Arts Council of Princeton, conTEMPORARY Arts Center, Princeton Shopping Center, 301 N. Harrison St., Princeton,…

  • BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Carving new business

    BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Carving new business

    Frank and Keith Bielanski are building their business with close attention to thier customers’ needs. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • Looking For a Princess

    Somerset Valley Players wishes ‘Once Upon a Mattress.’ By: Stuart Duncan    When Once Upon A Mattress opened in New York, it was judged to be just another in a long line of George Abbott hits. In just the decade of 1950-60 the writer/director brought to Broadway Call Me Madam, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wonderful…

  • Read with your children and watch scores increase

    Kari McGann, Lannigan Drive    Parents can help raise reading scores so that our schools don’t fall short on test reports by simply making sure their children are reading every day.    Support your community to increase school reading scores by trying some of these suggestions with your own children, or cutting out the suggestions and…

  • ‘The Hunting Party’

    Based on an ‘Esquire’ article about a vacation in Bosnia, this film doesn’t quite know whether it wants to be an action picture or a comedy. By Bob Brown    Writer/director Richard Shepard (The Matador, 2005) spins this war comedy from Scott Anderson’s very funny 6,300-word article in the October 1, 2000 issue of Esquire, “What…

  • ‘The Hunting Party’

    Based on an ‘Esquire’ article about a vacation in Bosnia, this film doesn’t quite know whether it wants to be an action picture or a comedy. By: Bob Brown Richard Gere hunts down a big news story in The Hunting Party.    Writer/director Richard Shepard (The Matador, 2005) spins this war comedy from Scott Anderson’s very…

  • Singh will fight for New Jersey

    Karan Bhatia of Monmouth Junction For my first time volunteering on a political campaign, I am excited to be involved in Seema Singh’s fight for the state Senate seat. My family has known Ms. Singh for several years now, and to know that she is a favorite candidate to make a difference to the 14th…

  • Montgomery teen injured in fall from car

    MONTGOMERY — A 15-year-old from Montgomery injured his legs, when he fell from a moving car in the Wawa parking lot at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Donna Zucker, the young man’s mother, had parked her car in front of the Wawa with the car running, police said. While Ms. Zucker was inside the Wawa, her son…