Tag: Lifestyle
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LOOSE ENDS 7/3: An interview with the Mayor of Princeton
By Pam Hersh When you tell your friends and colleagues that you are retiring one year before you actually leave, that last year at work often can assume a laid-back and relaxed quality. At the Jan. 2 Princeton municipal reorganization meeting, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert announced that she would leave her Princeton mayoral position on…
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LOOSE ENDS 6/19: Joe Greene and his company
By Pam Hersh I am no Pollyanna, but I discovered several glass-is-half-full aspects of this COVID-19 pandemic. The very clean glass becomes even fuller when you factor in the acts of extraordinary heroism and generosity. • Masks. I love masks. They are super anti-aging weapons (you have no wrinkles if you can’t see them), as…
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LOOSE ENDS 6/12: The Princeton Ballet School (PBS) of the American Repertory Ballet performs its annual school show virtually
By Pam Hersh A birthday celebration on June 13 will have a particularly graceful, albeit virtual, demeanor, when the Princeton Ballet School (PBS) of the American Repertory Ballet performs its annual school show. In past years, the show has graced the stage of the Patriot’s Theater of the Trenton War Memorial in front of hundreds…
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LOOSE ENDS 6/5: Women who embody the YWCA mission honored
By Pam Hersh On Friday, May 22, McCarter Theatre ’s retiring Artistic Director Emily Mann, also renowned as a playwright, asked me – and dozens of others – “How does the story we just told resonate with your story?” I had nothing to say. I was one of many who had witnessed by Zoom an…
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LOOSE ENDS 5/29: Princeton artist Ryan Stark Lilienthal
By Pam Hersh In the current phase of social isolation life, I became particularly nostalgic for social mingling, when I walked past Small World (the smaller one on Nassau Street) on Memorial Day weekend. I saw a crowd of people awkwardly trying not to hang out near one another, as they were taking advantage of…
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LOOSE ENDS 5/22: Reopening of Alexander Road pales in comparison to COVID-19 crisis
By Pam Hersh In hyperbolic language similar to what I hear from my six-year-old grandson, several of my friends declared a few months ago that Nov. 6, 2019, was the “worst” day of their lives. It was the day Alexander Road closed. Christmas was going to be ruined for Princeton downtown retailers, the Grinch would…
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LOOSE ENDS 5/8: The upsides of a virtual gala
By Pam Hersh My friends are worried that the COVID-19 social distancing has made me go off the deep end – into a pool of Cheetos dust. I have proclaimed to them and to anyone who will listen that this social isolation thing is just my cup of tea – and cup of coffee, glass…
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LOOSE ENDS 5/1: The Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad
By Pam Hersh Giving up on things is not Mark Freda’s thing. I know these things about him, because I have worked with Mark on various town initiatives (emergency services, town/gown relations, Spirit of Princeton events) for the past 40 years. So when he, along with the Spirit of Princeton co-chair Kam Amirzafari, decided to…
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LOOSE ENDS 4/24: Stopping the devastation of COVID-19
By Pam Hersh In the spring of 2019, Dr. Craig Gronczewski, the chair of Emergency Services at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, was focused on operational improvement at the hospital that had become part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in January 2018. With an MD from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and an…