Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • ‘Midsummer Magic’: Princeton Festival previews 2009 season

        Richard Tang Yuk, artistic director of the Princeton Festival, unveiled the 2009 Festival Season at “Salsa Sensations,” the festival’s preseason fundraiser, which took place Nov. 15 at The Nassau Club in Princeton.     The season will run from Saturday, June 13, through Sunday, June 28. The theme is “Midsummer Magic.”     Now entering “its…

  • IN VINO VERITAS: Beaujolais Nouveau captivates …

    By LESLIE CRAMER Special Writer     Give it up — surrender to the hype. The hype of the Nouveau rage, that is. By this point, you’ve likely seen posters and advertisements in your local wine shop, wine bar or liquor store announcing “Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!” What all the fanfare is about is this…

  • Leaving leaves where they fall

    Anne Robotti of Princeton    Regarding Stephen Hiltner’s Nov. 11 letter on autumn leaves: Stephen, will you marry me? I’ve been saying this for the entire 12 years we’ve lived here, enduring the glares of my neighbors and defiantly keeping my leaves where they belong — on the ground. It’s not easy, but I’m sick…

  • Let’s thank our public health heroes

    David Henry, Princeton Regional Health Department     Have you ever heard of Dr. Charles Henneken? In 1988, his study on aspirin discovered that daily, small doses of aspirin could reduce men’s chances of having a heart attack by 44 percent. In 1849, John Snow figured out that Britain’s cholera epidemic was being spread through contaminated…

  • Princeton’s green home tour a success

    Anne Waldron Neumann, Princeton Environmental Commission Green home tour was a success To the editor     I’d like to thank all the visitors and exhibitors who made the Princeton Environmental Commission’s second Green Home and Garden Tour so successful last Saturday.    The tour’s exhibitors included architect Ronald Berlin who, with Construction Waste Management and Franzoni…

  • Spirits lifted by Haydn’s ‘Creation’

    Ruth V. Sharon-Seed of Princeton     These days when our financial anxiety has been elevated, there was nothing that could have lifted our spirits as well as did Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation.”    In a performance on Sunday, Oct 26 at Richardson Auditorium, the astonishing conductor, Francis Fowler Slade, the Princeton Pro Musica chorus and orchestra,…

  • Defending Princeton from ‘unhip’ tag

    Jeff Nathanson of Arts Council of Princeton     The Nov. 11 front page article, “Sorry, but Princeton is not hip; even worse we’re not cool,” perpetuates an unnecessarily negative perception about this town that is that not only undeserved, but also inaccurate. Granted, Princeton isn’t a big city, but it happens to be a great…

  • Municipalities must cut energy costs

    Kevin P. Moroney of Montgomery     Local elected officials are going to be faced with very difficult choices in the months to come. The unprecedented global financial situation is going to put enormous strain on the resources of all the local communities. It is therefore imperative that we make smart, sustainable choices as we need…

  • Gusciora bill threatens right to bear arms

    Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms     The New Jersey Assembly is poised to vote on a new gun control measure that could criminalize ownership of the very guns that secured this nation’s independence, and outlaw possession of expensive safari-class hunting rifles.    The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and…