Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • AROUND TOWN: A tea party worthy of the Sugar Plum Fairy

    AROUND TOWN: A tea party worthy of the Sugar Plum Fairy

    Caroline Palmer and Ava Ruff, resplendent in their red satin parties dresses, enjoy ‘The Nutcracker Children’s Tea Party,’ where a McCarter Theatre lobby becomes a ‘room glistening with an array of twinkling lights and clinking, white stoneware teacups.’ Photo courtesy of Victoria Gray Palmer

  • SCENES: Sarnoff Library affair just ‘out of this world’

    SCENES: Sarnoff Library affair just ‘out of this world’

    By CHRISTIAN KIRKPATRICK Special Writer     I have to admit it. When the announcer said that martial law had been declared in Mercer County, my blood ran cold.     Sure, I was just watching an actor reading a radio script, and I knew that the Martians would die in the end, but I couldn’t help…

  • SPOTLIGHT: O happy day! Brother Cornel West recollects …

    SPOTLIGHT: O happy day! Brother Cornel West recollects …

    CORNEL WEST Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • SPOTLIGHT: O happy day! Brother Cornel West recollects …

    SPOTLIGHT: O happy day! Brother Cornel West recollects …

    ‘We went through the history and what Martin Luther King meant to him — the level of sacrifice, the commitment to justice.’ By JAKE UITTI Special Writer     Reflecting upon Tuesday’s events, Dr. Cornel West, professor of religion at Princeton University and a nationally prominent advocate of social justice, noted that above all else, the…

  • SCENES: Sarnoff Library affair just ‘out of this world’

    SCENES: Sarnoff Library affair just ‘out of this world’

    Wearing event-appropriate ‘Martian’ head gear, Alex Magoun, Ph.D., director of the David Sarnoff Library, introduces Hunterdon Radio Theatre’s 70th anniversary re-creation of ‘War of the Worlds,’ while HRT’s founder and director, William Spears, prepares to begin conducting the choreography of actors, microphones and sound effects that brought to life the historic Orson Welles-Mercury Theatre on…

  • SCENES: Celebrating opera: Opera New Jersey flies on wings of song

    By CHRISTIAN KIRKPATRICK Special Writer     “Celebrate Opera” galas are always musical feasts. Instrumentalists play during the cocktail receptions that precede these black-tie dinners, and Opera New Jersey stars sing between dinner courses. Taken altogether, these performances constitute a very tasty concert.     Saturday’s benefit, however, offered something extra — a banquet for the eyes…

  • AROUND TOWN: A tea party worthy of the Sugar Plum Fairy

    AROUND TOWN: A tea party worthy of the Sugar Plum Fairy

    By VICTORIA GRAY PALMER Special to The Packet     At this time of the year, most children and parents have been thinking of Halloween, not Christmas. But, for me, I can think of only one event that I will make reservations for, and probably be one of the first to call and inquire about: “The…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Goat is finding a place on menus

    By FAITH BAHADURIAN Special Writer     Goat is a no-show in most American markets, and that’s a shame. When I was collecting recipes to write about last summer’s Indo-American fair, I received a recipe for rogan josh, a type of curry, made with goat, from Jaya Sinha, owner of Ganges Authentic Indian Cuisine in Princeton…

  • PU corrects record on student population

    Mark Burstein, executive VP of Princeton University     An article in the Friday, Oct. 31 edition of The Princeton Packet (“PU Campus Plan draws a not-so-fast from Princeton Borough”) included inaccurate information about the projected growth of Princeton University’s student population. The actual projected total student population for the year 2016 is approximately 7,500 students.…