Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Beef recall and cruelty

    Laura Connolly of Princeton     I have been a quasi vegetarian over the years. I really haven’t been a certified vegan or true vegetarian the way I would ideally like to be. But I try and make conscious efforts. My diet changes began with learning more about how the food got to my plate and…

  • Beth Ertz: Making arrangements

    Beth Ertz: Making arrangements

    By Hilary Parker Special Writer Movies, musical theater, cabaret? Just call Beth Ertz, composer, arranger and pianist, seen here with ‘Maestro,’ a full-time resident of her music studio in Grover’s Mill.      Grammy-nominated musician Beth Ertz is like a funky melody — the kind that shouldn’t work, but does.     After two decades arranging and…

  • Beth Ertz: Making arrangements

    Beth Ertz: Making arrangements

    Movies, musical theater, cabaret? Just call Beth Ertz, composer, arranger and pianist, seen here with ‘Maestro,’ a full-time resident of her music studio in Grover’s Mill. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • PCDO invitation to candidates

    Jenny Crumiller, Jim Floyd, Peter Wolanin of PCDO      In regard to your recent article “Candidates stir in Princeton Township’s committee race”,  we invite all Democratic Princetonians to join the PCDO and participate in local and national party politics. The PCDO is committed to promoting democratic competition within our party. The PCDO will hold two…

  • VANTAGE POINT: Dateline Princeton — just don’t ask the date

    Incongruous: a lack of harmony, consistency or compatibility … lack of propriety or suitableness. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary By Pat Summers Special Writer     You park in the middle of an empty parking lot. Before you can leave your car, the next driver to arrive pulls up … right next to you. In fact,…

  • Falling leaves in Princeton

    Steven Hiltner, Princeton Environmental Commission    As tradition would have it — this past fall and well into the winter — Princeton’s streets once again bore the constricting clutter of leaves piled high and wide. This four-month long ordeal makes little sense from safety, aesthetic, fiscal or ecological points of view. Nor does it always…

  • BOOK NOTES: ‘Look Me in the Eye’ goes inside autism

    By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer     How could something as common as making eye contact be so difficult? How can people who are so brilliant with solving complex calculations, for example, be so limited in the basic everyday skills of life?     It seems ironic that the very people who suffer severely from being able…

  • A WINTER GALA: Masqueraders gather at the Princeton University Art Museum

    A WINTER GALA: Masqueraders gather at the Princeton University Art Museum

    Jill and Robert Lerner. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Yet another ‘trionfo’ for the Polenta Fest

    IN THE KITCHEN: Yet another ‘trionfo’ for the Polenta Fest

    Titti Prina’s family hails from Genoa. She chose to make a savory polenta with mushrooms and tomato sauce, and sweet cornmeal fritelli with raisins, pictured — ‘heavenly, but so much trouble that Ms. Prina vows never to make them again.’ Photo by Faith Bahadurian