Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: May 15 – May 25

    PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: May 15 – May 25

    Celebrating Cinco de Mayo — Students at the YWCA Princeton’s Child Care Center at Valley Road School celebrated Cinco de Mayo (May 5), Mexico’s national holiday, with special treats called ‘sopes’ — homemade tortillas with queso fresco and black bean spread. Left to right are 4-year-olds Jennifer Lopez from Pennington and Jacqueline Clara and Yasmin…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: May 15 – May 25

    PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: May 15 – May 25

    BRRR!!! — Rotarian Mary Grace Royal of Plainsboro, a member of Princeton Corridor Rotary, with Ice Cube Detector team member James Roth, who talked about the building of a neutrino collector in Antarctica by a group of University of Delaware scientists. The Ice Cube Detector will help scientists research the fundamentals of particle physics and…

  • Pinot to Picasso or Let them eat brie

    Anne Sweeney of Monmouth Junction     Did none of the 450 people attending the Arts Council of Princeton’s Pinot to Picasso fundraiser think its decor in poor taste? I find the “creatively transformed raw office space…. into an inner city street scene with graffiti covered walls, chain link fence, and a ‘subway station’ entrance” (The…

  • May is National Bike Month

    Ken Carlson of West Windsor     The spring newsletter of the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance is out and contains our exciting calendar of upcoming events, descriptions of new bicycle and pedestrian improvements coming this year, many volunteer opportunities, and news about our ever-evolving organization.    This month is National Bike Month. We’re asking people…

  • West Windsor winners thank voters

    Shing-Fu Hsueh, Linda Geevers, Kamal Khanna of West Windsor    We are grateful to the West Windsor voters for their overwhelming support of our candidacies. We ran a positive campaign of accomplishments and vision for the future. AOL’s NeighborhoodScout got it right when they ranked West Windsor the “number one family-friendly neighborhood” in the nation.…

  • PRINCETON: Around Town: Meet Bello — he’s taking the lead on Nassau Street

    PRINCETON: Around Town: Meet Bello — he’s taking the lead on Nassau Street

    By Pat Summers Special Writer     Someday, years from now, after retiring from his challenging career, Bello may look back to an early spring afternoon in 2009 when he was the hit of Nassau Street — when women flocked to admire him, exclaiming over his looks and his dashing attire. They wanted to touch him,…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Arts Council finds its edge

    PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Arts Council finds its edge

        The Arts Council of Princeton kicked off Princeton Arts Weekend April 24 with its annual spring fundraiser “Pinot to Picasso — Vintage 2009.” Close to 450 people attended this lively art and wine event to raise funds for the Anne Reeves Artist-in Residence Program located in the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts.    …

  • PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Princeton Symphony gpes ‘Island Chic’

    PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Princeton Symphony gpes ‘Island Chic’

    Melanie Clarke, executive director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, greets Barbara Byrne, Ron Merican, Nina Wainwright and Tom Byrne. Photo courtesy of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra

  • PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Arts Council finds its edge

    PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Arts Council finds its edge

    David Newton Dunn Contributing artist Shirley Kern in front of her donated piece. Photo courtesy of David Newton Dunn