Category: time_off
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A Night of One-Act Plays: It’s laughter all around with these farces from Princeton Summer Theater
By Bob Brown I laughed myself silly at Hamilton Murray Theater, and you will too if you catch the two one-act farces being staged by Princeton Summer Theater through Aug. 2. These are in keeping with the Princeton Summer Theater’s theme “of adaptation and myth, exploring how stories are retold and passed down through time.”…
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Worldly Sounds: Second Sky is bringing the music to Grounds For Sculpture
By Keith Loria Musicians Billy Medina, Wes Dilorio and Bill Lascek-Speakman met while students at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, drawn together by a common love of world music. ”We were friends and played music together and just came together as a band in 2006,” Mr. Lascek-Speakman says. “We started working with Rhythm and Culture Music…
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The Gambler in AC: Kenny Rogers at Caesars
By Mike Morsch In 1968, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition had a Top 5 single with the song “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” a song that captured the psychedelic era epitomized in the late 1960s. That was 47 years ago. If one asks Mr. Rogers today what condition…
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Ready to Rock Mercer County Park: Tween sensation R5 promises to entertain music lovers of all ages
By Keith Loria The forecast for July 18 calls for plenty of screams as one of the tween-set’s hottest bands, R5, will be heading to the Mercer County Park Festival Grounds in support of its new album, Sometime Last Night. Not that one needs to be a teenage girl to enjoy the band’s music. In…
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Watch the Colors Burst: See some fireworks, and learn some history, on Independence Day weekend
By Anthony Stoeckert Independence Day is one of the highlights of the summer, a day for barbecues, friends, family and fun. And of course fireworks, and our area has plenty of firework displays that are sure to get you “ooh-ing” and “ah-ing” as the skies burst alive with color. And with the Princeton area being…
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The Boys of Summers past: Flemington Neshanock take on the Bog Iron Boys Saturday in Princeton
By Mike Morsch, Packet Media Group Nicknames have always been a part of baseball. Joe Dimaggio was called “The Yankee Clipper,” Ted Williams was known as “The Splendid Splinter” and Willie Mays was “The Say Hey Kid.” Those Hall of Fame players earned those nicknames through a variety of ways, normally by their performances, but…
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Fei-Fei Dong Concert Canceled
Artistic and General Director Richard Tang Yuk has announced that The Princeton Festival has been forced to cancel the piano recital by Fei-Fei Dong scheduled for Friday June 26. According to a release from The Princeton Festival, a computer problem has prevented the U.S. State Department from issuing visas for the past two weeks. While…
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Life as He Saw It
The Barnes Foundation is hosting an exhibit showcasing 90 works by William Glackens By Ilene Dube ON a gray day in late November, I find myself craving color — something to prevent the external dreariness from making its way inward. The paintings of William Glackens, on view at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia through Feb.…
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Pure Music
‘The 78 Project’ at the ACME Screening Room By Anthony Stoeckert SOUND is all the rage these days. Audiophiles praise the wonders of vinyl, and Neil Young says your iTunes captures a mere fraction of the music that’s created when musicians make records, and has developed what he says is a better music player, which…