Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • History in the making

    History in the making

    Serious collectors eagerly awaiting Princeton Antiques & Fine Arts Show By Christian KirkpatrickSpecial Writer    Up and down the Eastern Seaboard, people are writing on their calendars: Sept. 29-30, Princeton Fall Antiques & Fine Arts Show.    Dealers are deciding what to bring; collectors are considering what they’d like to buy, and supporters of the Historical Society…

  • History in the making

    History in the making

    A dealer booth from last year’s Princeton Fall Antiques & Fine Arts Show.

  • Sixteenth annual Jazzfeast set for Sept. 15 in Palmer Square

       On Saturday, Sept. 15, Palmer Square will host the 16th annual Jazzfeast, the popular open-air jazz festival that features some of the region’s best jazz musicians and showcases cuisine from a selection of the area’s finest restaurants.    The musical lineup this year includes The New Legacy Jazz Band featuring Beth McDonald, The Kenny Werner Trio,…

  • Renewing community

    Renewing community

    Dorothy Moote of Princeton with the recorders she plays for pleasure Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Renewing community

    Renewing community

    Dorothy Moote leads a movement to rebalance the scales of justice By Pat SummersSpecial Writer    In her comfortable living room overlooking a lush garden that seems to go on forever, five recorders rest on a stand. Of various sizes and colors, they include alto, tenor, soprano and two basses. Dorothy Moote has played these early-music…

  • Local impact of Dow Jones sale remains unclear

    Bancroft family, owners of the Wall Street Journal’s parent company, agree to sell firm to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. By: Paul Koepp, Staff Writer It’s too soon to tell if the impending purchase by News Corp. of Dow Jones & Co. will have repercussions in South Brunswick, a company spokeswoman said.    Dow Jones spokeswoman Andrea…

  • En Plein Sight

    An exhibit of landscape paintings at the Historical Society of Princeton captures historic buildings and farms.  "I feel like I paint with a gun to my head," Brett Weaver says matter-of-factly, "…to get it before the light changes." This direct "jump right out and attack it" approach at first seems to contrast with the fragility…

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  • Musical Journey

    Jacob Miller is ‘Gonna Be Just Fine’ in performances at the 449 Room and Court Tavern. By: Megan Sullivan, TIMEOFF   On a recent afternoon, Jacob Miller finds himself sitting by the pool at a random Days Inn in Lumberton, N.C. The singer-songwriter makes a pit stop during his long drive from Washington, D.C., back home…