• ‘Golden Classics’ CD sales benefit Elijah’s Promise

    Larry Campanella has released a new CD, “Larry Campanella Sings the Golden Classics,” which will benefit the Elijah’s Promise soup kitchen in New Brunswick. PHOTO COURTESY OF AUDIO DUPLICATING SERVICE Sales of the newly released CD, “Larry Campanella Sings the Golden Classics,” will benefit the Elijah’s Promise soup kitchen in New Brunswick. Larry Campanella of…

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  • Historical drama to be shown at library

    The Summer International Film Festival at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, will continue Aug. 6 with 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. screenings of “A Royal Affair,” a 2012 historical drama from Denmark. The film, which is rated R, tells the story of a physician-philosopher who brings enlightenment to the court of Danish…

  • Talk to shed light on war-torn Germany

    The Middlesex County chapter of the Brandeis National Committee will offer a program titled “A Personal Tale of Germany 1932-1946” at 1 p.m. Aug. 19 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Guest speaker Fred Heyman, who lived in Germany through the 1930s and ’40s, will share his personal recollections of the…

  • Doo-wop concert coming to Monroe

    The Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission’s 2013 Music in the Park free summer concert series will continue with a performance by The True Tones, offering classic oldies and doo-wop from the ’50s and ’60s, beginning at 6 p.m. Aug. 1 in the open-grove gazebo on the lake at Thompson Park. In the event of rain,…

  • Actors invited to Aug. 7, 8 auditions

    Tryouts for the upcoming Berdanhand Productions presentation of “Fade Out at Clo-Achers,” a satirical look at life in adult communities, are set for 6:30-9:30 p.m. Aug. 7 and 8 at the Twin Rivers Branch of the East Windsor Library, 276 Abbington Drive. The play was written by Myra Danon and Meryl Berness. Director is Arlene…

  • Plays-in-the-Park puts spotlight on fighting summer hunger

    Ilona Kovacs (l) and Margaret Papai pick up food from the Bayard Street Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick for MCFOODS. Summer in central New Jersey brings with it both the good and the bad. Almost ceremoniously, the annual temperature spike means that Plays-in-the-Park — a county-sponsored, more-than-half-century-old staple of outdoor theater in Edison’s Roosevelt Park…

  • Local teacher writes about fictional zombie apocalypse

    By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer Like many prospective writers trying to navigate their way through a fastpaced, post-college world, Katherine Kuzma-Beck started a blog. With the state of the economy and having studied journalism in school, she decided that new media, and blogging in particular, was the way to go. “I just kind of went…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Zachary W. Andren of Spotswood was named to the dean’s list at the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for the spring 2013 semester. Andren is a 2012 graduate of Spotswood High School. Katherine O’Neill of East Brunswick was named to the dean’s list at the University of Connecticut for the spring…

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