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Battered by bad economic times, some residents
are demanding that Princeton University pay
property taxes from which it is legally exempt.
And the university is asking permission to move
the Dinky train station further from Nassau Street.
Michele Alperin reports on the Battle of Princeton, page 31
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address to our group of CASA volunteer child advocates, child welfare leaders, CASA supporters and
the Princeton Art Museum Family a cross-section of interested people
Day referenced in the second letter from the community. Drawing
to the editor below. We previewed from his memoir about his experithe event in our May 13 issue, in an ences living for 11 years in the fosarticle by Helen Schwartz that also ter care system, he illustrated the
featured an interview with the new horrors and ultimately the hope
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Mr.
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Bridge has spent the
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first letter to the editor
Lines
for children within the
below received nothing
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CASA of Mercer County is a
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hunting, consult our event listings children in foster care in Mercer
at www.princetoninfo.com, where County. An education fund was eswe list everything we know into tablished in Dr. Levin’s honor bethe far future — including Satur- cause he highly valued education,
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day. He also was instrumental in
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Interchange
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Rutgers University Is a Major Boon To New Jersey
Survival Guide
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Integra Reflects on Its Period of Growth
Leadership & Spirituality In the Workplace
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Company Index
Building Blocks Consulting, 10;
GenLed Financial Services, 40;
Henderson Sotheby’s International, 37; Hopewell Valley Community Bank, 39; Integra LifeSciences,
5. JL Ivy, 39.
Leadership Strategies on Hunt
Drive, 7; New Jersey Entrepre-
neurial Network, 8; Novovision,
40; NRG Energy, 39; Princeton
Borough,31; Princeton Future,31.
Princeton Regional Chamber of
Commerce, 10. Princeton Township,31; Princeton University, 31.
Rutgers University, 4; St. Joseph’s
Seminary, 39; Weidel Commercial
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ESSAYS & SOLILOQUIES
INTERCHANGE
Rutgers Is a Powerful Economic Engine in NJ
While Princeton University recently released an economic
analysis report detailing the university’s contributions to the
greater Princeton area and Mercer County (see story page 31,
Rutgers University was also documenting its favorable impact on
the state economy. Earlier this
month Rutgers released its report
extolling how the university’s presence benefits the entire state. The
following overview was released
by the Rutgers media department.
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urther proof that Rutgers is
one of the state’s most valuable
economic resources: The amount
of state and local tax revenue paid
each year by Rutgers graduates
across New Jersey is greater than
the university’s total annual budget.
In 2007, for example, Rutgers
alumni living in New Jersey paid
an estimated $1.765 billion in state
and local taxes, based on state tax
and home ownership statistics. In
comparison, the university’s total
operating budget for 2007-08 was
$1.748 billion — $17 million less.
Contributions to the state and local
tax base by Rutgers alumni are
among the many powerful pieces
of information contained in “Solutions From Rutgers,” the university’s 2009 economic impact report
released on Tuesday, May 12.
The report, based largely on
state and federal data, details the
many ways — both large and small
— that Rutgers benefits New Jer-
sey residents and enhances the
state’s economic health. The report
shows that Rutgers and its faculty,
staff, students, and visitors channel $3.8 billion in direct and indirect spending into the state economy — more than six times the
state’s $595.3 million investment
in the university.
Reviewing the report, university president Richard L. McCormick said it is easy to see why
SmartMoney magazine recently
concluded that a Rutgers degree
ranks sixth in the nation in overall
value. “Armed with a Rutgers degree, most of our graduates choose
to remain in New Jersey, where
they become productive members
State and local tax
revenue paid by Rutgers graduates
across New Jersey
outstrips the amount
needed to cover the
school’s total annual
budget.
of the state’s workforce and informed citizens who proudly contribute their talents and energies to
seek solutions to the many challenges that we face,” McCormick
said.
Rutgers’ more than 200,000
alumni living in the state earned an
estimated $10.6 billion in 2007.
These alumni paid an estimated
$969 million in local property taxes, $624 million in state income
taxes and $172 million in state
sales taxes that year. Other key information contained in the report:
* In 2008 Rutgers received
$691.5 million in revenue from
outside the state. This includes
more than $270 million in external
research funding and more than
$215 million on tuition, fees and
living expenses by out-of-state
students.
* Also in 2008 the university received $8.4 million in royalty income from patents and licenses secured by Rutgers researchers. That
is nearly double the amount of royalty revenue the university received in 2004.
* Over the next three years the
university will invest $500 million in more than 20 capital construction projects on the Camden,
Newark, and New Brunswick
campuses. These projects will create more than 5,000 construction
industry jobs through 2011.
* Rutgers has opened several
new structures in recent years that
have boosted the university’s host
communities. These include the
new Rutgers School of Law building in Camden, the new College of
Nursing
facility
in
New
Brunswick, and University Square
at Rutgers-Newark — the first residence hall built on the Newark
campus in nearly two decades.
* The New Jersey Small Busi-
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ness Development Centers, headquartered at Rutgers-Newark,
have been helping small businesses across the state succeed for 30
years. In 2008 the center helped
clients create and retain more than
12,000 jobs.
* The Rutgers-Camden Technology Campus has mentored
more than 60 companies. In-state
companies that have “graduated”
from this incubator have more than
160 employees and an annual payroll that exceeds $8 million.
* Since 2001 Rutgers’ awardwinning Food Innovation Center
in Bridgeton has assisted more
than 1,000 companies and entrepreneurs in each of the state’s 21
counties. By 2015 the center is
projected to create more than
1,000 new jobs.
* Launched this past fall, Rutgers Against Hunger, a statewide
initiative that aims to increase
awareness of hunger and encourage community service, has collected nearly nine tons of food for
New Jersey food banks.
The report also spotlights the
hundreds of students from Camden, Newark, New Brunswick,
and Piscataway participating in the
Rutgers Future Scholars Program.
Each year 200 eighth-graders —
50 from each of the university’s
host communities — are selected
for the program based on economic need and academic promise. The
university provides opportunities
for educational growth, social development, personal enrichment,
and economic support. Those students who successfully complete
the five-year program and are admitted to Rutgers will attend the
university tuition- and fee-free.
The full economic impact report
is available online at go.rutgers.edu/impact.
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Thursday, May 28
How A Company
Gets Big and Strong
W
hen Integra LifeSciences
was just a little company, not even
deemed creditworthy by the bank
from which it was seeking funds, it
managed to purchase a company
twice its size, the NeuroCare
Group. That was in 1999, when Integra had $15 million in sales of its
original artificial skin product, Integra Skin. Neurocare had $35 million in revenues and about 150 employees, more than Integra did.
Furthermore, Neurocare was profitable and Integra was losing $10
million a year.
Despite these imbalances in size
and profitability, Integra was able
to acquire the NeuroCare Group,
after raising about $15 million
from George Soros and his entities
and borrowing another $20 million
from the bank. Because NeuroCare
was profitable, however, and Integra was not, the banks funds were
lent to NeuroCare.
What Integra was looking for
from NeuroCare was its commer-
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cial infrastructure rather than its
technology. NeuroCare already
had a portfolio of products its
salespeople were marketing to
neurosurgeons, and it was easy for
them to add Integra’s newly
launched DuraGen product to the
mix.
“Rather than establishing new
relationships, a brand, and pouring
all that effort into being a startup,”
says Stuart Essig, CEO of Integra
LifeSciences, “we could leverage
many years of experience in the
group we acquired. The product
was such a success that it made the
company we acquired and Integra
substantially more profitable and
continued to build our reputation in
this new market of neurosurgery.”
Essig will speak on “Operating
with Confidence, Accelerating Organic Growth with an Aggressive
Acquisition Program,” at the Association for Corporate Growth New
Jersey meeting on Thursday, May
28, at 6 p.m. at the Westin Princeton. Cost: $75. To register, go to
http://chapters.acg.org/newjersey.
Integra was founded by Rich
Caruso as a technology company
whose objective was to develop a
new form of regenerative medicine, says Essig. This would be accomplished via an Integra-designed scaffold that a surgeon
would implant in a patient’s body
to help the body repair itself. Both
in the company’s initial creation
and in its steady growth, acquisitions have been essential. Essig describes three different acquisition
strategies that have made Integra
what it is today:
Gathering technologies and
space to create a company. To develop the artificial skin that was to
be Integra’s founding product required a variety of technologies,
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and Caruso’s feat was to find them
and bring them together. He acquired intellectual property and
patents from Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s
hospitals, from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and ac- which shared some characteristics
quired manufacturing capacity in with the neurosurgery market. “It
the form of a Marion Laboratories was a new, young market, looking
facility. “Bringing together a group for innovation,” says Essig. Furof technologies under one roof and thermore, the market was small
using them to develop new prod- enough that Integra could have a
ucts is one aspect of how mergers real impact.
and acquisitions can add signifi“As a company you didn’t have
cant value,” says Essig.
to be a behemoth to be relevant to
Once the technologies were in your customers, because the numplace the company focused on de- ber of customers were relatively
veloping the artificial skin scaffold few,” says Essig. And because the
that would help regenerate tissues, number of orthopedic surgeons in
and on bringing it to market. That the United States focusing on exmeant mastering the manufactur- tremity reconstruction was someing process, doing clinical trials, where between 4,000 to 8,000, Increating the right marketing group, tegra would be able to step into this
and ultimately launching the prodmarket without needing thousands
uct. That all took place well before of new salespeople.
Essig arrived in 1998.
The company identified a
Acquiring a commercial in- French company building a presfrastructure. Once the technology ence in Europe and the United
and product were ready to go, Inte- States with innovative foot and angra had to build a commercial in- kle implants that could help heal
frastructure — sales, marketing, problems related to trauma, deforbrand name, relationships with mity, or aging. “Their focus was on
implants for
customers.
structural
One possibilitreatment and
ty would have
Rather than expendour focus was
been to create a
ing the effort to be a
on the soft tiscommercial insue repair of
frastructure by
startup, Integra leverthe skin that
hiring a sales
aged many years of
was
dammanager from a
experience in the
aged,” says
competitor
to
Essig. “This
build a sales
groups it acquired.
was an opporgroup
from
tunity to marscratch. Essig,
however, was interested in acceler- ry these two technologies in one
ating
the
commercialization sales and marketing and commerprocess and had a better idea. cial infrastructure.” In 2004 Inte“What better way than to buy an es- gra acquired Newdeal Technolotablished company that already has gies in Lyons, again launching its
those relationships, has other prod- own products through an existing
ucts on the market, and would view company’s commercial infrastructhe technology from Integra more ture.
Recently Integra made a similar
as a new product launch than having to build out a whole new com- move. To accelerate commercialization of its new products for
pany?” he asks.
So the team started the acquisi- treating bone deformities in the
tion process that would allow them spine, in 2008 Integra acquired
to quickly launch Integra’s tech- Theken, in Akron, Ohio, which benology in the neurosurgery market. came the cornerstone of the new
The first step was to identify op- Integra Spine division.
portunities by asking themselves
Purchasing companies with
what size company would make complementary product lines.
sense, and what kinds of people Essig estimates that during his
and products an appropriate acqui- tenure with Integra the company
sition would have. They also had to has completed 35 acquisitions, and
think about where a potential ac- between 40 and 45 since its foundquisition was located and whether ing in 1989. Many of these acquisiit would need to move to Integra’s tions represent new product lines
corporate location or vice versa.
that are complementary to diviOnce they had identified a com- sions within Integra. Three years
pany, they would have to persuade ago, for example, Integra purits owner to sell to Integra. “It was chased from Tyco a range of proda challenge even to establish credi- ucts for treating brain tumors and
bility that we were a potential ac- added them to its neurosurgery
quirer, given how small we were,” suite. In the area of extremities, InEssig recalls.
tegra bought Kinetikos Medical, in
Diversifying into new mar- Carlsbad, California, a company
kets. By 2004 Integra’s revenues in that developed and manufactured
the neurosurgery market exceeded joints for the hand.
So far Integra’s acquisition
$200 million, and this success
brought a new decision to the table strategy has been successful. In
— should Integra diversify its rev- 2008 Integra had income of apenue base into new markets, using proximately $655 million, with
2,800 employees worldwide; it opa similar set of strategies?
The company investigated the erates in 10 countries, and its prodmarket of extremity reconstruction ucts are used in more than 100
— foot, ankle, and hand surgery — countries. “Today we are a very
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says Essig.
Although the company has been
affected by the slump, with expected revenue growth of only 5 or 6
percent a year, as compared to its
historical revenue growth of 20
percent a year, Essig notes that Integra has about 50 open positions at
its Plainsboro headquarters, and it
is actively looking for talented
people in regulatory, quality, finance, legal, sales, marketing, and
product development.
Essig is a Long Island native
whose mother was a nurse and father was a lawyer. After getting a
bachelor’s degree from Princeton
University in 1983 he pursued his
interests in economics and international business at the University of
Chicago, where he received an
MBA and a doctorate in financial
economics. His dissertation looked
at why firms issue certain kinds of
securities in public markets, and he
was expecting to be a professor.
That was until he got a summer job
on Wall Street.
Essig got a permanent job with
the merger department of Goldman
Sachs in 1988, and his first project
was the Bristol-Myers Squibb
merger. He advised the medical device division of Bristol-Myers on
about 20 deals and ended up as
managing director of Goldman
Sachs’ medical technology practice.
Interested in building a medical
device company of his own, Essig
met Caruso through mutual acquaintances, and in 1998 Integra’s
board asked him to join as CEO to
bring the company into the next
stage of commercialization. “Understanding our strengths and
weaknesses and being open to
leveraging other people’s strengths
rather than building out ourselves
has allowed us to accelerate the
process of commercialization,”
says Essig, summing up Integra’s
strategy for growth.
— Michele Alperin
Sunday, May 31
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business
coach
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become leaders in the fullest sense.
To discuss the initial phases of
this inner process for business individuals, and to explain the role today’s spiritual leaders may play in
the quest, Payne is hosting “Leadership and Spirituality: Transforming the Workplace,” a two-day
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spiritual. To achieve this overall
change, he guides leaders toward
certain realizations. “The first is
accepting that you and each member of your team and company
holds within himself an innate,
powerful force for creative good,”
says Payne. Individuals want to
create and do good things. Remember, these individuals are the company’s primary asset. Therefore, it
logically flows that the leader’s
foremost job description is to constantly work at unleashing this
force in each member of his team.
Leaders are asked to delve deep,
hold up to light their most personal
motivations and beliefs, and then
retool them for their own, and the
team’s benefit. It is a daunting,
continuing journey that requires all
one’s spiritual resources. It also
would be improved if some expert
spiritual mentors were on hand to
aid with the process.
Clergy connection. The obvious choice for this kind of executive mentoring should be one’s
faith leaders. But, alas, such connections are seldom readily made.
For centuries, Christian clergy and
other faith leaders have from their
pulpits scorned the world of commerce and industry as tainted and
destructive to the spirit. Business
people have responded by compartmentalizing spiritual faith and
all such other “warm fuzzy things”
as not appropriate for the workplace.
Payne is calling for an end to
this ancient turf war. The individual has been the primary loser in
this battle. Both business and religious institutions seek the common goal of the individual’s overall enrichment and success.
Within the Christian realm,
Payne feels, clergy have the ability
to bring business leaders to the
next leadership realization. “Finally,” he says, “leaders come to see
that this force for creative good lies
not just in themselves and in their
team members, it exists all around
them, and acts as a source on which
all may draw at will.” This, for
Christians, is seen as the power of
Christ and the grace of God. However, Payne insists, it is not the labels, but the spiritual tools which
must gain acceptance in each
leader personally, in ways that
work for him.
For the clergy to regain its rightful place as spiritual mentors of the
entire person, a little education
might be in order. The reverend
who takes the time to learn the fiscal maneuverings, commercial
strategies, and the vagaries of life
in the cube farm will seem infinitely less otherworldly when he mentors an executive. Likewise, business leaders will have to individually learn to break down their lifecompartmentalizing walls and turn
off the “warm-fuzzy” alarms.
“It’s all about performance,”
says Payne. Unleashing the spirit
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can fill the workplace with excited
individuals, bustling in early to set
some newly envisioned project into motion. ‘Tis not some fairyland
workplace ideal, rather it is the logical expression of the human creative gifts with which we have all
been endowed.
— Bart Jackson
Wednesday, June 3
The Angels Are Here,
And They’re In Packs
A
gathering of angels can be
and hard find. You don’t often find
groups of angels — financiers who
help fund startup businesses — together in a formal setting. “It’s usually a more informal process,
someone who knows someone
who can put you in touch,” says
Donald Frawley.
Frawley, a member of the board
of the New Jersey Entrepreneurial
Network, is an expert at finding angels and has been helping entrepreneurs meet potential investors for
several years. NJEN will present
“A Gathering of Angels: A Roundtable with Seven Angel Funding
Angel groups are a relatively recent development that solves a lot
of problems for both
startup companies and
the angels themselves.
Groups,” on Wednesday, June 3, at
noon at the Princeton Marriott.
Cost:
$55.
Register
at
www.njen.com.
Angel groups that will be represented at the June meeting are include Delaware Crossing Investor
Group, Golden Seeds, JumpStart
NJ Angel Network, Keiretsu Forum, Mid-Atlantic Growth Fund,
Robin Hood Ventures, and TriState Private Investors Network.
Keiretsu, which is new to NJEN, is
one of the largest angel networks,
with 17 chapters and 750 investors.
The meeting will include a combination of question and answer
time as well as a “reverse venture
fair format,” in which entrepreneurs will be able to meet individually with each of the representatives.
Frawley suggests that entrepreneurs come prepared to present
their executive summaries to “the
people who can write you a check.”
Angel investors fund more businesses, and at earlier stages, than
venture capitalists. The organization of angels into groups, as opposed to acting only as individual
investors, is a relatively recent development that solves a lot of problems for both startup companies
and the angels themselves, explains Frawley. First, the angels
become easier to find, and second,
the groups enable the investors to
pool their resources and invest
more money in a greater number of
deserving startups.
“When we started these meetings in 1990 or 1991 we were about
the only game in town, the only
place entrepreneurs could go to get
information, meet potential investors, and just network,” Frawley says of NJEN. “Now, there are
a lot of options for entrepreneurs in
New Jersey. You could go to a
meeting every week if you wanted.”
The board members noticed a
drop in meeting attendance about
two years ago. “We went from 50
or 60 people at a meeting to about
20. That’s not networking, that’s a
social organization,” he says. The
board decided to take some time
off and rethink the structure of
NJEN. After a six-month hiatus,
the group returned in January with
a new schedule and a new format.
“We looked at past events and
realized that the most successful
were when the people who have actually done what we are talking
about are the speakers,” Frawley
says. “If we are talking about how
to attract venture capital we have a
venture capitalist speak, not a consultant. If we are talking about how
to sell a business, our speaker is
someone who has actually sold his
business.”
Frawley himself is a business
and corporate attorney who became involved in the organization
because of his work with entrepreneurs. He received his bachelor’s
from Lehigh University and a J.D.
from Georgetown in 1973. He
spent several years with Smith
Stratton in Princeton before opening his own practice in 1998 in
Morristown. He is still a consultant
with Stevens and Lee, the firm that
acquired Smith Stratton.
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suggestions on how to make a presentation to a potential investor.
The right product. “The number one piece of advice I can give is
to have a good product,” he says.
“Make sure that your product is
something that someone wants to
buy.” He mentions working with
an entrepreneur at a business incubator who had developed a method
to increase the amount of pure oxygen generated by a portable oxygen generator such as those used by
people with lung disease. “I asked
him if his product was cheaper than
what was already available on the
market. He said no, it was better
and so it cost more. I asked him if
people wanted purer oxygen than
they currently had and he didn’t
know.”
The moral, says Frawley, is that
while it may be possible to build
not just a better mousetrap, but the
best mousetrap, if no one wants it,
it won’t sell. “Nine out of ten new
technologies will work. The important question is does anyone
want to buy it? There has to be a demand for a product, and you have
to show your potential investors
that demand,” he says.
Boil it down. One of the most
common mistakes new entrepreneurs make when meeting with investors is to hand out too much information too early. “Boil it down
to a one-page executive summary,”
says Frawley. The summary should
include what the company does,
any customers or potential customers who are interested in the
product, and how much money is
needed. “If the investors want
more information, they’ll ask for it
later,” he explains.
“So many entrepreneurs tell me
they just can’t do it in one page.
They are so in love with every nook
and cranny of their process. They
are sure the investors must know
every detail of how something
works.”
It is difficult to stand back and
look at your own business objectively, but presenting a summary
that is too detailed can actually take
you out of the running with many
potential investors. Investors often
have so many summaries to study
that if their attention is not captured
in the one page, the summary will
be cut in the first round. “If an investor has 10 summaries to look,
and eight are one page and two are
longer, those two will be the first to
go in the wastebasket,” he says.
Find the right investor. Finally, Frawley says, it is important for
entrepreneurs to do some research
before approaching an investor.
“Don’t waste someone’s time by
asking them to invest in an area
they are not interested in,” says
Frawley. “If they invest in medical
products and you have software
you are wasting their time.”
— Karen Hodges Miller
Business Meetings
Wednesday, May 27
1 p.m.: The Learning Key, “Pharma Industry Knowledge: Employee Luxury or Requirement?” Elizabeth Treher, $395. Webinar.
215-493-9641.
6 p.m.: Building Alliance for Local
Living Economies, “Building SelfReliant Local Economies,” Judy
Wicks, $35. Trenton Marriott,
[email protected].
206-202-2883.
7 p.m.: Princeton Library, Resume
Workshop, conducted by 12 employment experts, free. Witherspoon Street. 609-924-9529.
Thursday, May 28
7:30 a.m.: Bartolomei Pucciarelli,
Business Getting Results,
Michael Pucciarelli. Free for firsttime attendees, but registration is
required. 2564 Brunswick Pike.
609-883-9000.
9:30 a.m.: Rutgers, “New Jersey
Collegiate Career Day,” largest
career fair in New Jersey. Free to
attend. Student Center, New
Brunswick,
[email protected]. 732932-7084.
6 p.m.: ACG, “Operating with Confidence: Accelerating Organic
Growth with an Aggressive Acquisition Program,” Stuart Essig, Integra LifeSciences, $75. Westin
Hotel, Forrestal Village, [email protected].
www.acgnj.org.
7 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Communicating for Success,” $19. Register at
www.sbdcnj.com. Telecourse.
609-771-2947.
Friday, May 29
10:30 a.m.: Professional Services
Group, career workshop or guest
speaker,” free. One Stop Career
Center, Yard Avenue, Trenton.
609-292-7535.
11:30 a.m.: VANJ, All-Day Entrepreneur Expo and Elevator Pitch
Olympics, free to attend. Marriott
Hanover, East Whippany,
[email protected]. 973-631-5680.
Saturday, May 30
2 p.m.: Penn Club of NJ, “How to
Conduct a Successful Job Search
In the Recession” Market,” Dick
Stone, free. East Windsor Library,
Sunday, May 31
6:30 p.m.: Princeton Theological
Seminary, “Leadership and Spirituality: Transforming the Workplace,” Stephen G. Payne, Leadership Stretegies, $165. Concludes June 1. Library Place,
Monday, June 1
7 a.m.: Princeton Theological
Seminary, “Leadership and Spirituality: Transforming the Workplace,” Stephen G. Payne, Leadership Strategies, $165. Library
Place, [email protected]. 609497-7990.
6:30 p.m.: Penn Club of NJ, “How
to Conduct a Successful Job
Search In the Recession” Market,” Dick Stone, free. Lawrence
Library, [email protected].
732-239-9958.
Tuesday, June 2
5:30 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, Bordentown chapter, “Wine and
Cheese Networking,” free. Olde
York Country Club. 609-6899960.
6 p.m.: MCCC, “Human Resources — Leading in a Changing
World,” six-session course
through July 7, $290. West Windsor campus, [email protected].
609-573-3311.
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7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, Networking and support for changing careers, free. Parish Hall entrance,
Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street.
609-924-2277.
8 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Real Estate Investing 101,” $19. Register at
www.sbdcnj.com. Telecourse.
609-771-2947.
Wednesday, June 3
Noon: NJ Entrepreneurial Network, “A Roundtable with Seven
Angel Funding Groups,” Randy
Harmon, Foundations Business
Development Group, $55. Princeton Marriott,
9:30 a.m.: Robbinsville Business
Networking Group, networking,
free. Robbinsville Firehouse,
Route 130 North. 609-945-7330.
5 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, Trenton
Chapter, “Why Not Wednesdays?” networking, featuring Joe
Piscopo, $10. Roma Bank headquarters, Route 33. 609-6899960.
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8 a.m.: Mercer Chamber, Robbinsville Chapter, “Creative Solutions for Providing Child Care
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The Business Edge
Learn How To Laser Focus
Your Networking Skills to Develop
Business at the Princeton Regional
Chamber's June 4 Luncheon
A Letter from the Chairman
W
ith a few months remaining as
Chairman of the Chamber, I am truly amazed
at the programs and initiatives your Chamber
has planned for the remainder of the year.
We are heading into the lazy, hazy, crazy
days of summer full swing ahead with the
annual Golf and Tennis Outing on Monday,
June 8, one of the Chamber’s most popular
fundraisers. July is a great time for outdoor
get-togethers, and what better way to relax
and connect with the community, neighbors,
and business associates than at the MidSummer Marketing Showcase on Tuesday,
July 14, on the Green at Palmer Square?
There is no slowing down in August when
the focus of the Wednesday, August 6,
Monthly Membership Luncheon will be on
healthcare and wellness. We are pleased to
support our nonprofit healthcare related
members by offering to them a complimentary exhibit table at this meeting.
Moving into September our thoughts turn
back to business, and what better way to reinforce existing business relationships and
create new than by exhibiting at the Chamber’s Trade Fair and Culinary Showcase on
Tuesday, September 29, at the Westin at Forrestal Village? With room for additional exhibitors and food vendors, this is one event
you will not want to miss.
The year concludes on Saturday, December 2, with the annual Business Leadership
Awards Gala at the Tournament Players
Club Jasna Polana, where we toast to the
successes of the past year and anticipate future prosperity. In addition, we are pleased
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Lawrence H. Krampf
Chairman, Princeton Regional Chamber
of Commerce
Board of Directors,
CEO, Princeton
Communications Group, Inc.
to honor three exceptional Chamber members as the Entrepreneur, Leader and Innovator of the Year. In these uncertain economic times, your Chamber continues to be
your support system, the platform for you to
do business and connect and exchange ideas
with your peers. I hope to see you at a Chamber event soon, perhaps even for a challenging game of golf or tennis on June 8th.
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buffet luncheon and the
program at noon; it will
adjourn at 1:30 p.m. Cost
to attend is $40 for
Chamber members and
$50 for non-members
and walk-ins. Reservations can be made at
www.princetonchamber.org, or by calling
609-924-1776.
Michael Goldberg’s
expertise is in helping
sales folks gain more laserlike focus, attract more
prospects to the pipeline,
create more quality referral
streams, and write more
business. Michael speaks at
conferences and associations, runs sales meetings,
and delivers dynamic programs on networking, leadership, public speaking,
communication, customer
service, and career search.
“The Chamber is dedicated to presenting quality and
business focused programs
and speakers to promote
awareness and knowledge to
not only our membership
Building Blocks of Business: Networking consultant Michael Goldberg addresses the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce membership luncheon on Thursday, June 4, at
the Princeton Marriott.
but also to the entire business community,” says Peter
Crowley, president and CEO
of the Chamber. “We are
looking forward to a lively
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olf clubs and
country clubs have pool
rules and everyone splashing around in the pool
knows what they should and
should not be doing. When
networking at a business
event, wouldn’t it be great if
everyone who is splashing
around knew what they
should and shouldn’t be doing? Without knowing the
rules, it’s no wonder so
many professional people
are fearful and uncomfortable with networking, even
at the shallow end.
Michael
Goldberg,
founder of Building Blocks
Consulting and well known
business building consultant, will present an interactive program about the do’s
and don’ts of business networking at the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Monthly Membership Luncheon Meeting on
Thursday, June 4, at the
Princeton Marriott Hotel
and Conference Center. The
meeting will begin at 11:30
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Don’t Worry,
Be Happy …. Learn
How at the Princeton
Chamber’s June 17
Breakfast Meeting
Eleventh Annual
Educator Institute
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in Healthcare’
T
he Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce Foundation is hosting its 11th annual Educator’s Institute, running Tuesday,
June 23, through Thursday, June
25. This three-day institute is free
and open to all educators including
teachers K-12, administrators, and
guidance counselors.
The program helps provide a
better understanding of the skills
students need to meet the demands
in the workplace, offers a forum
for dialogue between educators
and the business community, and
exposes educators to the realworld challenges in business. Site
visits include in-depth discussions
with employees involved in all aspects of the host site’s operations,
presentations on hiring, promotion
and training, and tours of the facilities.
This year’s host sites are Robert
Wood Johnson; University Medical Center at Hamilton; Meadow
Lakes Senior Living; and SERV
Behavioral Health System Inc.
For additional information or to
sign up for this program, please
contact Deborah Kilmer at
[email protected], or
609-924-1776, ext. 104. Registration for this program is required.
Educational professionals who
attend the three-day institute are
eligible for 15 professional development hours. Thank you sponsors: ETS, Verizon, Novo Nordisk
Pharmaceuticals, Ortho-McNeilJanssen Pharmaceuticals.
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Sustaining Sponsors 2009
With great appreciation, the Chamber thanks the following companies
and organizations who have shown their support and loyalty to the Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce by becoming Sustaining Sponsors.
Our Sustaining Sponsors enable us to take the Chamber to an advanced level
which allows the resources for greater benefits and enhanced programs and events
to our members and the business community.
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W
hat is my purpose? How
can I be happy? For thousands of
years, people have pondered these
big questions, often finding the answers elusive. Those looking for
happiness won’t find it on a shop
shelf, says Peter Stimpson, an
Episcopal priest and experienced
therapist. Stimpson doesn’t claim
to have all the answers, but he will
share a wealth of wisdom he has
learned by counseling and ministering to people for age 35 and older with members of the Princeton
Regional Chamber of Commerce
at the Business Before Business
Breakfast Meeting on Wednesday,
June 17, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:15
a.m. at the Nassau Club, 6 Mercer
Street. Cost to attend is $20 for
Chamber members and $30 for
non-members and walk-ins. Reservations can be made at
www.princetonChamber.org
or
calling 609-924-1776.
Happiness is not a product you
buy, but a process of becoming
who you are by how you relate to
others, says Stimpson. His presentation will focus on three principles
— insecurity, power, and success
that guide one’s choices in this
process.
“Peter Stimpson is well-known
in the Princeton community as a
therapist and also from his familiar
family advice column in the Town
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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., Nassau Inn, Princeton Communications Group, Inc.,
Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc., Heartland Payment Systems
Topics. We look forward to his perspective on success and happiness,” says Chamber president Peter Crowley.
Peter Stimpson has counseled
people from all walks of life since
1972, has written a popular advice
column since 1983, and now a
book entitled “Map To Happiness:
Straightforward Advice on Everyday Issues”. He has been the executive director of Trinity Counseling Service since 1989.
BRONZE
Accenture
Bank of America
Bank of Princeton
Bartolomei Pucciarelli
Bovis Lend Lease
Brown Dog Marketing
Capital Health
CareersUSA
Community Options
Eden Autism Services
ETS
Munich ReAmerica
NAI Fennelly
Ortho-McNeil Janssen
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
PNC Bank
Princeton Air Conditioning
Princeton Fuel Oil Inc.
Princeton HealthCare System
Princeton Internet Group
Princeton Marriott Hotel &
Conference Center at Forrestal
Princeton University
PSE&G
Sarnoff Corp.
Stevens & Lee
Town Topics
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The Princeton Chamber Welcomes
Its Newest Members . . .
Company Name
Contact
AAA Taxi, Inc.
Bobby Trigg’s BT Bistro
Charles Schwab
Fleet Safety Network LLC
Herrington Technology, LLC
Law Office of Bernard P. Hvozdovic Jr. LLC
Lawrence Township Education Foundation, Inc.
Miele, Inc.
New Penn Associates
Pierre Deux
Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors
Right Management
Daniel Palumbo
Olga Talyn
Michael Maniscalco
Rob Seabaugh
Valery Herrington
Bernard Hvozdovic, Jr.
Diane Senerth
Vicki Robb
Peter Baldini
Naomi Cooper
Richard Burke
Lynn Brown
...and
Renewing Members
Angela Deitch Consulting
Borden Perlman Agency
Camillo’s Cafe
Chauncey Conference Center
Educational Testing Service
Market Entry Inc.
Nassau Club of Princeton
National Business Parks
Princeton Performance Dynamics
Princeton Tour Company
Salt Creek Grille
Stonebridge at Montgomery
To The Point Communications LLC
Wachovia National Bank of West Trenton
Barry N. Wasserman M.D.
CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FORUM,
FOCUSES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP
FOR THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR
The Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce Founda-
tion will present a three-part workshop series titled "Social Entrepreneurship in the Non-Profit Sector",
presented by Andrew Seligsohn,
Director of Civic Engagement
Learning, Pace Center, Princeton
University on Tuesday, June 16,
Tuesday, September 22, and
Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
The Leadership Forum will focus on the application of entrepreneurial approaches to the independent sector, especially to existing non-profit organizations. This
three-part workshop will consider
the definition and practical use of
social entrepreneurship. Then, in
an interactive exploration, the
practicum will examine the success
of organizations that have mobilized change to maximize their
ability to achieve organizational
goals in order to improve lives,
communities and environments.
Registration takes place at 8:00 8:30 am and the Program from 8:30
- 10:30 am. The cost to attend includes all three dates: $60 for nonprofit leaders including staff and
Board; $80 for other Princeton Regional Chamber Members and
$100 for non-Members and walkins. All three workshops take place
at D&R Greenway Land Trust,
Johnson Education Center, One
Preservation Place, Princeton. For
directions visit www.drgreenway.-
org/directions.htm. Reservations
can be made by calling 609-9241776 or at www.princetonchamber.org. Additional information
can be found at www.princetonchamberfoundation.org
Non-profit organizations that
complete all three parts of the 2009
Leadership Forum will be eligible
to participate in the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce
Foundation's 2010 Partnership
Program. The Partnership Program will be a pilot experience that
will connect the skills and resources of the business leaders in
the Princeton Region with the
Board and developmental needs of
the non-profit organizations which
serve that same community.
Andrew Seligsohn is a graduate
of Williams College and holds a
PhD in political science from the
University of Minnesota. Before
coming to Princeton, Seligsohn
taught at Hartwick College, St.
Olaf College, and Macalester College; at Princeton he has been a lecturer in the Center for African
American Studies. Seligsohn's
long-standing focus on citizen-sector social and political action led to
his interest in social entrepreneurship. He has played a leading role
in the development of the Pace
Center's social entrepreneurship
program, teaching both creditbearing and not-for-credit seminars on social entrepreneurship for
Princeton students
Chamber Sponsor Spotlight:
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MAY 27, 2009
Princeton Chamber
Plans Annual Golf
& Tennis Outing
The Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce announces
its annual Golf & Tennis Outing,
which will take place on Monday,
June 8, at Greenacres County Club,
2170 Lawrence Road.
This popular event has been a
sell-out in recent years and this
year is proving to be no exception,
with only a few individual golf and
tennis playing slots remaining
open.
This year at the Golf & Tennis
Outing, the Princeton Regional
Chamber will honor the National
Junior Tennis League (NJTL) of
Trenton for its ongoing work to
strengthen the character and enhance the lives of underprivileged
youths by providing opportunities
Network After
Work!
T
he Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce will sponsor another of its popular Business
After Business Networking receptions on Thursday, June 25, from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m. The event will be
hosted by Hopewell Valley Community Bank, Hopewell Crossing
Branch, 802 Denow Road in Pennington.
The cost to attend for Chamber
members is $25 and non-members,
$30. Advance reservations are required. Call 609-924-1776.
Organized 10 years ago by local
Save the Date:
Esther Dyson
Speaks July 9
E
sther Dyson, alternately
dubbed the First Lady — or the
Court Jester — of the Internet, will
speak at the Princeton Chamber’s
luncheon on Thursday, July 9, at
the Princeton Marriott at 11:30
a.m. A world-renowned writer,
forecaster, and investor in emerging technologies, emerging companies, and emerging markets, she
is the daughter of physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician
Verena Huber-Dyson.
in tennis, education and nutrition.
The NJTL was founded nationally
by Arthur Ashe, Charlie Pasarell,
and Sheridan Snyder in 1968.
In 1975 a Trenton chapter was
established as a nonprofit 501(c)3
organization. Programs of the
NJTL of Trenton serve more than
1,600 children in the greater Trenton area.
We encourage you to visit
www.njtloftrenton.com, for further information about this welldeserving organization.
The outing will feature a scramble format golf tournament, tennis
mixer, silent auction, cocktail reception, dinner,and networking.
Those who do not wish to play
golf or tennis may register for
cocktails, dinner, and networking
for $50 per person. Please contact
Cheri Durst, director of special
events, at 609-924-1776, ext. 105,
or E-mail [email protected] for further details.
business leaders, Hopewell Valley
Community Bank has achieved
success by meeting the needs of
small businesses and families
throughout Mercer County and the
surrounding areas. Come to the
June 25th Business After Business
event to experience firsthand the
familiar faces and friendly banking
of Hopewell Valley Community
Bank, complete with delicious
food, wine, and beer, as well as an
abundance of networking and
business building opportunities.
Guests are encouraged to bring
plenty of business cards for distribution for the door prize drawing.
For information about Hopewell
Valley Community Bank visit
www.hvcbonline.com.
Just returned from five months
training as a cosmonaut in Russia,
Dyson has recently resumed her 10
part-time jobs as director of nine
start-ups and one publicly traded
marketing conglomerate, WPP
Group.
She will talk briefly about her
varied interests — Silicon Valley,
genomes, Russia. and space — and
answer questions about anything
from investment strategies to
health care.
Esther Dyson’s signature slogan, “Always Make New Mistakes,” is now so famous that it has
been made into a refrigerator magnet. For more information, call
609-924-1776, or visit wwwprincetonchamber.org.
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Lawrenceville
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Princeton Chamber’s Foundation Presents
Education and Civic Engagement Awards
T
he Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Education Committee presented its annual Business Education Initiative Award to
Eleanor V. Horne, vice
president of ETS Social Investment Fund, at the
Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Monthly
Membership
Luncheon
Meeting on Thursday, May
7, at the Marriott Princeton
Hotel and Conference
Center. The Business Education Initiative Award is
sponsored by DeVry University and it recognizes
individuals who have
demonstrated exceptional
educational initiatives and
who have contributed to public and private partnerships.
In addition to the Business Education
Initiative Award, the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation
presented The Kristin Appelget Civic
Engagement Student Awards to the five
junior high school students who have
made outstanding contributions to their
communities by working or volunteering through civic, school, religious, political, and other organizations. The
Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation seeks to reinforce the
goals of civic engagement and civic
participation by acknowledging the
contributions of young people.
Appelget Award Winners: Left to right,
Stephen Kaplan, South Brunswick High School;
Sarah Horton, Stuart Country Day School of the
Sacred Heart; Peter Crowley, President and
CEO, Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce; Kristin Appelget, Princeton University;
Sarah Schulte, Stuart Country Day School;
Neal Bakshi, Princeton Day School; (lower l-r)
Karen Jezierny, Princeton University and Chairman of the Board, Princeton Regional Chamber
of Commerce Foundation; Rachel Gittleman,
Stuart Country Day School.
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ART
FILM
LITERATURE
DANCE
DRAMA
MUSIC
PREVIEW
DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, MAY 27 TO JUNE 4
Wednesday
May 27
In the Spotlight:
Olmstead’s Jersey Legacy
Art Talk, Ellarslie, Trenton City Museum,
Cadwalader Park, 609-989-3632. www.ellarslie.org. “The Olmstead Historic Landscape Legacy in New Jersey” presented by
Kathleen P. Galop. Olmstead landscapes in
the area include Cadwalader Park, Lawrenceville School, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Fairview Cemetery in Westfield.
Galop is the author of “Branch Brook Park:
An Historical Perspective.” Free. 7 p.m.
ing Catherine DeChico’s color photographs, is a visual journey through area
historical towns. On view to June 30. Open
24 hours daily.
Art Exhibit, Abud Family Foundation for
the Arts, 3100 Princeton Pike, Building 4,
Third Floor, Lawrenceville, 609-844-0448.
“Student Art Show,” an exhibition of works
by Lawrence High School students. On
view to June 11 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, noon to 4 p.m. Noon
to 4 p.m.
Architecture: Hillier Lecture
David R. Goldberg Lecture in Architecture, Arts Council of Princeton, 102
Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. J. Robert Hillier,
founder and president of Hillier Architecture, presents the annual lecture. Register.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Drama
Senior Recital, Princeton University, University Chapel, 609-258-4241. www.princeton.edu. Works by Beethoven and Piazzolla by Sam Lachman, cello; and Taotao
Liu, piano. Free. 7 p.m.
Altar Boyz, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120
Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Musical featuring five
guys in a pious pop act. Christopher Gattelli, the choreographer of the original OffBroadway production, is director and choreographer; Gary Adler, the co-composer,
is musical director. Through May 31. $34 to
$42. 8 p.m.
The Brothers Size and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, McCarter Theater at the
Berlind, 91 University Place, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. Evening II of the
Brother/Sister plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Adult language and mature
themes. Evening I and II may be seen in
any order. $36 to $49. 7:30 p.m.
High School Musical 2, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New
Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. Through June 7.
$25. 8 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Eagle Diner Art Gallery, 6522
York Road, New Hope, PA, 215-862-5575.
“Yesterday’s Tomorrow,” an exhibit featur-
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We suggest calling before leaving
home. Check our website, princetoninfo.com, for up-to-date listings, cancellations, and late listings.
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569
Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149.
www.americanballroomco.com. For newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country
Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 609-924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction
and dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
In the Galleries: ‘Orange Room’ 2008, above left, by Anne
Agee, acrylic, vinyl, and gouache color on mulberry paper,
from a group show on view through July 3 at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon. 609-924-8777.
Above right: 'The Graduate' by George Thaddeus Saj, from
'Princeton TIgers,' an exhibit of 16 tiger masks crafted from
wood, opening with a reception on Thursday, May 28, at
Cranbury Station Gallery, 28 Palmer Square. 609-921-0434.
Photo: Cranbury Station Gallery
Be Calm
Meditation and Buddhism, Yoga Above,
80 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-6131378. www.yogaabove.com. $10. 7:30
p.m.
Food & Dining
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-924-0039. www.coolvines.com. “CoolVines vs. the Big
Brand Taste Test.” 5 to 8 p.m.
Gardens
Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden,
Plainsboro Historical Society, Wicoff
House, 609-799-9040. www.plainsboronj.com. Register. 7 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, American Red Cross,
Princeton Prosthodontics, 311 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton, 800-448-3543.
www.pleasegiveblood.org. 1 to 7 p.m.
Caregiver Support Group,
Alzheimer’sAssociation, Buckingham
Place, 155 Raymond Road, Princeton,
800-883-1180. www.alz.org. 5:30 p.m.
Attention Deficit Disorder Lecture and
Discussion, Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
Riverside School, 58 Riverside Drive,
Princeton, 609-683-8787. “Side Effects of
Psychotropic Medication for ADHD: What
They Are and How to Manage Them” presented by Dr. Adam Hauser, a child and
adolescent psychiatrist. 7 to 9 p.m.
Speaking Circle, Comprehensive Communication Services, 610 Plainsboro
Road, Plainsboro, 609-799-1400. Facilitates the development of connection and
PREVIEW EDITOR:
JAMIE SAXON
[email protected]
presence for individuals seeking greater
public speaking confidence. Register. $65.
7:30 to 10 p.m.
For Parents
Statewide Parent Advocacy Network,
Family Support Organization, 3535
Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-5861200. “Child Welfare” workshop presented
by Geri Elmer. Register. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Lectures
We Are Boost, Marriott, Trenton, 206-2022883. www.weareboost.org. “Building SelfReliant Local Economies in a Time of Environmental and Economic Crisis” presented
by Judy Wicks, co-founder of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and
founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia. Register.
$35. Cancelled.
Conversation Cafe, Princeton Area Community Foundation, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, Princeton-Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-219-1800. www.pacf.org.
Public forum for people to get together and
talk among neighbors. Register. Free. 7
p.m.
Job Search, Princeton Public Library,
Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Resume writing workshop presented by a team of human resource consultants and professionals. 7
p.m.
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Live Music
Karaoke Night, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Register to reserve your spot at
fame. $10. 5 to 8 p.m.
Acoustic Singer-Songwriter
Showcase, KatManDu, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-393-7300. www.katmandutrenton.com. 15-minute back to
back sets. Produced by Lance
Reichert of qbdigital.com. To sign
up E-mail [email protected]. 7 to 11 p.m.
Dance Party, Erini Restaurant,
1140 River Road, West Trenton,
609-882-0303. www.erinirestaurant.com. DJ Nick Z. 9 to 1
a.m.
Eric Az, John & Peter’s, 96 South
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8625981. www.johnandpeters.com.
9:30 p.m.
Thursday
May 28
In the Spotlight:
Alumni Mixer
Young Alumni Happy Hour, IvyPlus, Ferry House, 32 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. Alumni
ages 21 to 39 from Amherst,
Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cambridge,
Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,
Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Mount Holyoke, Oxford, Princeton, Radcliffe, Smith,
Stanford, Swarthmore, U Chicago, U Penn, Vassar, Wellesley,
Williams, and Yale. Guests must
be accompanied by alumni. Free
admission. Pay for food and
drinks. BYOB. Register with Larry
Ward at [email protected].
6:30 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Princeton
University, Firestone Library,
609-258-3000. www.princeton.edu. First day for “Liberty and the
American Revolution” celebrating
50 years of book collecting by
Sidney Lapidus, Class of 1959.
The exhibit features 157 important books, pamphlets, and prints.
On view to January 3. 9 a.m.
Art Exhibit, Cranbury Station
Gallery, 28 Palmer Square,
Princeton, 609-921-0434. Opening reception for “Princeton
Tigers,” an exhibit of 16 brightly
colored tiger masks crafted and
assembled from wood. The artist,
George Thaddeus Saj, is a retired
surgeon whose formal art education began at the Newark School
of Fine and Industrial Arts and
Dartmouth College. On view to
June 30. 5:30 p.m.
Drama
In the Red and Brown Water, McCarter Theater at the Berlind,
91 University Place, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. Evening
I of the Brother/Sister plays by
Tarell Alvin McCraney. Adult language and mature themes.
Evening I and II may be seen in
any order. $36 to $49. 7:30 p.m.
Altar Boyz, Bristol Riverside
Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street,
Bristol, 215-785-0100. www.brtstage.org. Musical featuring
five guys in a pious pop act.
Christopher Gattelli, the choreographer of the original Off-Broadway production, is director and
choreographer; Gary Adler, the
co-composer, is musical director.
Through May 31. $34 to $42. 8
p.m.
High School Musical 2, Bucks
County Playhouse, 70 South
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. Through
June 7. $25. 8 p.m.
Our Town, Theatre Intime, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton
University, 609-258-1742. www.theatreintime.org. Thornton
Wilder drama. Through May 30.
$12. 8 p.m.
Inventive American Cuisine
www.acaciacuisine.com
2637 Main Street • Lawrenceville, NJ • 609-895-9885
Tonight & Every Wednesday
3-Course Prix Fixe Menu: $29 pp (Every Tuesday, Too!)
Live Entertainment Every Thursday Night
This Week’s Artist: Thursday, May 28th, 6-8:30 p.m.
The Acacia Jazz Trio
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
www.theblackcattango.com. $10.
8 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Philip Fried, author of
“Cohort,” a new collection of poems. 6 p.m.
Good Causes
Teen Prevention Education Program, Princeton Center for
Leadership Training, DoubleTree Hotel, Somerset, 609-2529300. www.hitops.org. Students
from HiTop’s teen council present
workshops on dating violence
prevention and homophobia
reeducation. Register. 9 a.m. to 2
p.m.
Wine Tasting Around Town,
Hope for the Animals, Face &
Body Spa, 15 South Main Street,
Yardley, PA, 215-321-1798.
www.fbspa.com. Participants
meet and are sent strolling
through stores in the downtown
area for wine and snacks. Finale
at Yardley Inn for appetizers and
wine. Register. $45 to benefit the
no-kill dog and cat rescue organization in Morrisville. Donations of
cat toys, towels, and treats invited. 6:30 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Al Madrigal, The Stress Factory,
90 Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $13 to $15. 8 p.m.
Reunions
Princeton University, 609-2581900. To May 31.
Ballads and Blues:
Storyteller-singer
Tom Rush appears
on Friday, May 29, at
Grounds For Sculpture. 609-689-1089.
Now Accepting Reservations for Father’s Day Brunch
Sunday, June 21st
Lunch: Tues – Fri
3-Course Power Lunch
Dinner: Tues - Sunday
Indoor/Outdoor Dining
Food & Dining
Italian Buffet Fundraiser, ItalianAmerican Heritage Center,
2421 Liberty Street, Hamilton,
609-631-7544. www.italianamericanfestival.com. All
you can eat menu. Adults $14.
Children under 12, $7. 5 p.m.
Bistro Wines, The Inn at Fernbrook Farm, 146 Bordentown
Georgetown Road, Chesterfield,
609-298-3868. Tasting of old
world bistros. Register. $45. 7 to
9 p.m.
History
Yardley Historical Association,
Old Library, 46 West Afton Avenue, 215-493-6625. “Photographs of Yardley in the Early
1900s” presented by Lawrence
Hale, a longtime resident. Free.
7:30 p.m.
For Teens
Zydeco Workshop, Princeton
High School, Arts Council of
Princeton, Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8777. www.prspac.org.
Workshop for middle and high
school students with Terrance
Simien. Register. Free. 4 p.m.
TeenConnect, Rotary Club of
Princeton, YWCA, 59 Paul
Robeson Place, Princeton, 609924-8652. www.teenconnect.us.
Conference for girls in grades 9 to
12 includes a boxed dinner, professional workshops on teen issues, and tee shirts. Register.
Free. 6 to 9 p.m.
Catering On
and Off Premises
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THURSDAY EVENING WINE TASTING
Cozy up to the Cottage
for a quaint tasting of table wines
of old world bistros from France.
May 28 7-9 p.m. R e s e r v a t i o n s R e q u i r e d
ON-GOING WINE TASTING EACH MONTH. CALL FOR DETAILS
May 29
Family Theater
Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey, Sovereign Bank Arena,
Hamilton Avenue at Route 129,
Trenton, 609-656-3222. www.comcasttix.com. Zing Zang
Zoom. $17 to $76. 7 p.m.
Lectures
The Inn at Fernbrook Farm
and The Savvy Pour invite you to join us
in expanding your palate
and making new friends while discovering
the world of wine and indulging in the
beauty of Fernbrook Farm
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609-298-3868
[email protected]
146 Bordentown Georgetown Rd.
Chesterfield, NJ 08515
20 Minutes from Princeton
Like eating at “Nonna’s” house!
Career Fair, Rutgers University,
Student Center, New Brunswick,
732-932-7084. www.careerservices.rutgers.edu. “New Jersey Collegiate Career Day” brings
130 employees seeking to fill positions for full-time jobs and internships. A list of employers is on
the website. Free. 9:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
Utilizing Procrastination, NeuroEnhancement Strategies,
Princeton Pike, 609-918-0089.
www.neuro-enhancement.com.
“Re-evaluate Your Relationship
with Time” presented by Jeff
Schoener. Register at [email protected]. $10. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
Live Music
Happy Hour, New Brunswick
Rocks, Delta’s Restaurant, 19
Dennis Street, New Brunswick.
www.newbrunswickrocks.com.
Entertainment and music, discount drinks, hors d’oeuvres (till
5:30 p.m.), prizes. 4 to 7 p.m.
Singer Songwriter Showcase,
Triumph Brewing Company,
609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. Hosted by Frank
Thewes. 9 p.m.
Brother Hijinx, John & Peter’s,
96 South Main Street, New Hope,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
West Side Architectural Walking
Tour, Princeton Tour Company,
98 Nassau Street, near Starbucks, 609-902-3637. www.princetontourcompany.com. See
the homes of Einstein, Robert
Wood Johnson, Woodrow Wilson,
and Grover Cleveland. $20. 1 to 3
p.m.
R Musicians
on Fridays & Saturdays R
Unwind at the End of the Week
R
Catering for All Occasions R
On or Off Premises
206 Farnsworth Avenue • Bordentown • 609-298-8360
www.ilovemarcellos.com
Singles
Dinner, Yardley Singles, Cafe
Antonio, 107 East Trenton Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-7361288. www.yardleysingles.org.
Italian cuisine. BYOB. Register. 6
p.m.
Divorce Support Group,
Hopewell Presbyterian Church,
Hopewell, 609-213-9509. Support, personal growth, and social.
Call for location. 7:30 p.m.
Friday
May 29
In the Spotlight:
Simien & Zydeco
Benefit Concert, Princeton High
School, Walnut Lane, Princeton,
609-806-4300. www.prspac.org.
Terrance Simien and his Zydeco
Experience Band presents a benefit concert for the W.E.B. DuBois
Scholars Institute scholarship
fund, a five week summer program at Princeton University for
African American and Latino
American students. Elementary
and middle school bands, with
guest artists Nick Antoine and
Olive Giles, open the concert.
Register. $20. 7:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Reunions Organ Concert,
Princeton University Chapel,
Washington Road, 609-2583654. Eric Plutz on organ. Free.
3:30 p.m.
Best of Nature, New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra, Patriots
Theater, War Memorial, Trenton,
800-ALLEGRO. www.njsym-
phony.org. Musical reflections of
nature from classical works of
Britten, Dvorak, Beethoven, and
Smetana. $17 to $55. 7:30 p.m.
Pop Music
George Strait, PNC Bank Arts
Center, Holmdel, 732-203-2500.
www.livenation.com. Prices vary.
7 p.m.
Art
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6922. www.mcl.org. “Ecologically Friendly
Reusable Shopping Bags” on display through June 30. The collection belongs to Glen Key Dalessandro of Hightstown. 10 a.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus., 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Bucks County Community College, Hicks Art Center
Gallery, 275 Swamp Road, Newtown, PA, 215-504-8531. www.bucks.edu/gallery. Opening reception for “Artists of Bristol on
the Delaware” an exhibit featuring
paintings, sculptures, jewelry, and
crafts. Items available for purchase. Open Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free admission. 5 to 7 p.m.
Drama
Playmaking Undercover: The
Hostage Plays, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, Front
and Montgomery streets, Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. $5. 7 p.m.
Booth, Actors’ NET, 635 North
Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, 215295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. Drama about Junius Booth
and his sons, Edwin and Johnny.
Through June 14. $20. 8 p.m.
$34 to $42. 8 p.m.
June 7. $25. 8 p.m.
Sweeney Todd, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical about a barber obsessed with revenge.
Opening night reception with cast
and crew follows the performance. Weekends through Sunday,
June 7. $16. 8 p.m.
Stark Raven Mad, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org.
Princeton Triangle Club show
pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe.
The show within a show features
song and dance and a madcap
race to replace the missing raven.
$22 to $30. 8 p.m.
The Brothers Size and Marcus;
or the Secret of Sweet, McCarter Theater at the Berlind,
II of the Brother/Sister plays by
Psychedelic Funk:
Brother Hijinx take
the stage on Thursday, May 28, at John
& Peters, 96 South
Main Street, New
Hope. 215-862-5981.
any order. $36 to $49. 8 p.m.
The Odd Couple, Somerset Valley Players, Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-7469. www.svptheatre.org. Comedy featuring
the female version. $14. 8 p.m.
Wilder drama. $12. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. $15. 8
to 11 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to
11 p.m.
Good Causes
Conference, Prevent Child
Abuse-New Jersey, Mercer College Conference Center, West
Windsor, 732-246-8060. www.preventchildabusenj.org.
“Strengthening Those Who Touch
the Lives of Children” conference.
Keynote speaker is Reverend
Darrell Armstrong. Breakfast and
lunch included. Register. $95.
8:45 a.m.
Comedy Clubs
Comedy Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Sign up. 7:30 p.m.
90 Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $13 to $15. 8 p.m.
Terry Gillespie, Mary Frances
Connelly, and Dan Sawyer,
Bucks County Comedy
Cabaret, 625 North Main Street,
Doylestown, 215-345-5653.
www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9
p.m.
Family Theater
Zoom. $17 to $76. 10:30 a.m.
and 7 p.m.
Live Music
Happier Hours, Hopewell Valley
Live music. Food and wine available. Free admission. 5 to 8 p.m.
Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk
Cafe, 2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995. Jazz
guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
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Celebrating Liberty:
Title page and frontispiece from ‘Olaudah Equiano: The
Interesting Narrative
of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa, the African’
written by himself,
London, 1793, from
‘Liberty & the American Revolution,’
opening on Thursday,
May 28, at Princeton’s Firestone
Library. 609-2583165. Photo: Nick Barberio
Arturo Romay, Sotto 128
Restaurant and Lounge, 128
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-7555. www.sotto128.com.
Spanish guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Kate Taylor and Eryn Shewell,
The Record Collector Store,
358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.the-record-collector.com. James Taylor’s sister. $18.
7:30 p.m.
Kristian Rex, Bowman’s Tavern,
1600 River Road, New Hope,
215-862-2972. 8 p.m.
Concert: Tom Rush, Grounds
For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds
Road, Hamilton, 609-586-0616.
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Storyteller singer presents ballads and blues. $32. 8 p.m.
Kevin Reavey, It’s A Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
American Hawk, Erini Restaurant, 1140 River Road, West
Trenton, 609-882-0303. www.erinirestaurant.com. 9 p.m.
Cynics Haven, Sotto 128
Acoustics from the 1970s to the
present 9 to midnight.
Kyle Perella, Steve Cherkassky,
and Levee Drivers, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New
Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Evil Empire Showcase, Hamilton Lanes, 1200 Kuser Road,
609-585-2600. $7. 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
East Side Architectural Walking
Tour, Princeton Tour Company,
98 Nassau Street, near Starbucks, 609-902-3637. www.princetontourcompany.com. See
infamous undergraduate eating
clubs, site where Einstein signed
letter to Roosevelt referring to the
atomic bomb, and the homes of
Michael Graves, Saul Bellow, and
Toni Morrison. $20. 1 to 3 p.m.
Singles
Yardley Singles, Washington
Crossing Inn, River Road, 215736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Drop-in. Music and dancing.
Cash bar. No cover. 9 p.m.
Socials
Scrabble, Classics Used and
Rare Books, 117 South Warren
Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All
skill levels welcome. 6:30 to midnight.
A Night of Love, Peace Weavers,
50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton,
607-776-4060. www.pwnightoflove.blogspot.co. “Thriving
Through Transformational Times”
presented by astrologer Kelley
Rosano, drumming, and meditation. Register. $15. 7 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Trenton, 609-3948326. www.trentonthunder.com.
Altoona. $5 to $10 7:05 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Annual Golf Outing, St. Augustine of Canterbury School, Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club, Bedminster, 732-297-6042. Break-
fast, lunch, green fees, driving
range, cart fees, valet parking,
and beverages. $160. 7 a.m.
Saturday
May 30
In the Spotlight:
Reunions P-rade
Princeton University, 609-2581900. The annual procession of
alumni begins in front of Nassau
Hall and wends its way through
the campus, affording the public
hundreds of viewing spots. Free.
2 p.m.
Kuchipudi dance features dancers Madhavapeddi Murthy and
Shoba Natarajan; Bharathnatyam, founded in South Indian,
is used both as a vehicle of worship and emotion using classical
steps, is presented by Chitra
Venkateswaran and Ramya Ramnarayan; Kathak presented by
Archana Joglekar. Co-hosted by
the Plainsboro Arts Partnership.
$12 to $25. 5 p.m.
Fresh Made To Order Sushi
Freshness is what matters in Sushi.
Comparable in quality & freshness to the
finest restaurants in the area.
Classical Music
Concert, Opera Project, Saint
Andrew’s Church, 50 York Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-2425. Deborah Maher, soprano, in concert
with Teresa D’Amico, Raymond
E. Foose, Cassandra Marie Lambros, and Celeste Siciliano. $15
donation. 1:30 p.m.
An Evening of Song, Westminster Conservatory, Williamson
Hall of Westminster Choir College, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Westminster Community
Chamber Choir performs partsongs and solo songs. 3 and 7:30
p.m.
Concert, Princeton Girlchoir,
Patriots Theater, War Memorial,
Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. “Celebrate
the Journey,” the 20th anniversary concert. $20. Patron tickets,
$50, include a pre-concert reception. 6:30 p.m.
Laments & Dances from the
Irish, Raritan River Music Festival, Clinton Presbyterian Church,
Clinton, 908-213-1100. www.RaritanRiverMusic.org. A collaboration between multiple artistic
forces features Andrew McKenna
Lee’s orchestration by the String
Orchestra of New York City,
Arnold Black’s music for guitar
duo and strings by Newman &
Oltman Guitar Duo, and readings
by Frank McCourt, author of “Angela’s Ashes,” from his memoirs.
$35. 7:30 p.m.
Teriyaki Boy can’ t be beat for its combination of
well-prepared food and inexpensive prices.
—Princeton Living
$
20
Sushi
selections from 2.29
Choose from Teriyaki, Tempura, Udon or Combos & Platters.
Over
Take-out & Catering
Service Available.
All food is cooked
to order in 100% vegetable oil.
MARKETFAIR
609-897-7979 Fax: 609-897-1204
Mon-Thurs. 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 11am-7:30pm
INTRODUCING THE AREA’S
FIRST MOZZARELLA BAR.
World Music
Anjali, Nrithyanjali Institute of
Dance, Community Middle
School, 55 Grovers Mill Road,
Plainsboro, 732-398-9895. www.nrithyanjali.org. Three different
classical dance styles from India.
Enjoy homemade fresh mozzarella, as well as imported
Buffalo mozzarella and other related cheeses.
Sample with a tasty selection of condiments such as eggplant salad,
homemade cherry jam & fresh vine-ripened tomatoes.
180 Nassau Street
(down the alley
from Cox’s Market)
Elegant Dining
with an
Eastern Pacific Flavor
609-924-0500
Call for Reservations!
Open M-Sat. from 5 p.m. Serving Nightly Food & Drink Specials
& Discounts, as Well as a Small Plate Menu.
Happy Hour M-F from 5-7 p.m.
Princeton Forrestal Village
www.trepiani.com • tel: 609•452•1515
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Art
Photo Accordion Book, MGP
Studio Arts, Plainsboro, 609799-3941. Materials included for
one book with each individual
page cut to frame your art, photos, prints, or drawings to create
an album. Register. $100. 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus., 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Drama
$34 to $42. 2 and 8 p.m.
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical about a barber obsessed with revenge. $16.
2 p.m.
any order. $36 to $49. 3 and 8
p.m.
Playmaking Undercover: The
Hostage Plays, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, Front
and Montgomery streets, Trenton,
609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. $5. 3 and 7 p.m.
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 4 and 8
p.m.
$20. 8 p.m.
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical about a barber obsessed with revenge. $16.
8 p.m.
Stark Raven Mad, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org.
Princeton Triangle Club show
pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe.
The show within a show features
song and dance and a madcap
race to replace the missing raven.
$22 to $30. 8 p.m.
Wilder drama. $12. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Tango Workshop, G & J Studios,
5 Jill Court, Building 14, Hillsborough, 908-892-0344. www.gandjstudios.com. Lesson followed by dance social. Beginners
welcome. No partner needed.
Register. $20. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Road,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Tango
dance and lesson. $12. No partner needed. 7:45 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm. .
BYOB. $12. 8 to 11 p.m.
Literati
Book Sale, Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Hardbacks, $1; paperbacks,
50 cents; miscellaneous media
and art at bargain prices. 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-3948400. Emily Doscow, author of
“The Sharing Solution.” Noon.
Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-3948400. Eric Cooper, author of
“Knight Seeker” and Trenton resident. 2 to 4 p.m.
Princeton’s Version of Monty Python:
‘Stark Raven Mad,’ this year’s Triangle Show honoring Edgar Allen Poe, comes to McCarter on Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30. 609-258-2787.
Comedy Clubs
90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $13 to $15. 8
and 10:30 p.m.
Taylor Mason, Conrad Roth, and
Dan Sawyer, Bucks County
Comedy Cabaret, 625 North
Main Street, Doylestown, 215345-5653. www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9:30 p.m.
Fairs
Spring Housing Festival, Trenton Department of Housing and
Economic Development, West
State Street between Warren and
Board streets, 609-989-3607. Assistance with financing, refinancing, energy efficiency, tenant’s
rights, and foreclosure. Food, ice
cream, face painting, and dancing. Free. Noon to 3 p.m.
Faith
Kirtan Satsang, Krishna Leela
Center, 13 Briardale Court,
Plainsboro, 609-716-9262. www.krishnaleela.org. Musical mantra
chanting, group satsang, and discussion. 5 to 5:45 p.m.
Food & Dining
West Windsor Community
Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive
Parking Lot, Princeton Junction
Train Station, 609-577-5113.
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Produce, bakery
items, meat, coffee, tea, sandwiches, ice cream, pickles,
sauces, flowers. Arts, crafts, children’s activities, culinary demonstrations, entertainment, and wellness information. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Farm Market in the Porkyard,
Hamilton’s Grill Room, 8 Coryell
Street, Lambertville, 609-3974343. www.hamiltonsgrillroom.com. Open air market with area
farms, seasonal cooking demonstrations, entertainment, and tastings. Jim Hamilton prepares a
spring specialty on a spit at 1 p.m.
Also Homestead Farm Market
and the Chocolate Box. Free admission. 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
“Think Pink: Dry Rose.” 2 p.m. to
5 p.m.
Cooking Class, Studio Spruce,
Princeton, 609-915-1119.
“Springfest: High End Grilling”
presented by Chef Anne-Renee
Someillant. Register. $50. 6:30
p.m.
Gardens
Garden Workshop, Middlesex
County Agricultural Extension,
Earth Center in Davidson’s Mill
Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue,
South Brunswick, 732-398-5262.
“Low Budget and Low Maintenance Landscapes.” Register.
$25. 10 a.m.
Organic Victory Garden Series,
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey,
Princeton Day School, 650 Great
Road, Princeton, 908-371-1111.
www.nofanj.org. “Problem Solving in the Garden” presented by
Mike McGrath of NPR’s “You Bet
Your Garden.” Register. 1 p.m.
Farm Garden Workshop, The
Meadows Foundation, Hageman Farm, 209 South Middlebush
Road, Somerset, 908-789-2206.
www.themeadowsfoundation.org.
Garden talks, planting demonstrations, information about victory, herbs, vegetables, and heritage gardening. Tour of the
house and barns. Sale of gently
used gardening books and cookbooks. Childrens activities. Rain
or shine. $5 per carload. 1 to 4
p.m.
Health & Wellness
Yoga and Meditation, Let’s Do
Yoga, The Estates, West Windsor, 732-887-3561. letsdoyogagmail.com. Multi-level yoga class
with meditation. Beginners are
welcome. Bring mat and blanket.
Call for location. $15. 7 to 8:30
a.m.
NAMI Mercer 5K Benefit Walk,
NAMI Mercer, NAMI Center,
3371 Brunswick Pike, Suite 125,
Lawrenceville, 609-799-8994.
www.namimercer.org. NAMI Mercer, a family-oriented mental
For Individual, Family or Group Session Please Call
908-720-7464
166 Bunn Drive, Suite 102 • Princeton, NJ
Dr. O’Gara has been treating patients
for over 15 years and has extensive
experience with
Adults, Adolescents & Children
addressing:
Depression • Trauma
Anxiety Disorders • Eating Disorders
Sexual Abuse & Dysfunctions
Relationship Issues
Most Insurance Plans Accepted
MAY 27, 2009
health outreach organization, extends chance for community involvement in its fight against stigma. 9 a.m.
Canine CPR and First Aid, Natural Health Center of Central
NJ, 2430 Route 130, North
Brunswick, 732-821-5800. Basic
techniques and emergency situations presented with videos and
dog mannequins. Book included.
Register. $45. 9 a.m.
Body, Breath, and Spirit Workshop, Volition Wellness Solutions, 842 State Road, Princeton,
609-688-8300. www.volitionwellness.com. Movement,
breathing, meditation, and healing. Presented by Jane Martin
and Pat Czeto. $99 includes
lunch. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Caring for the Back, Princeton
Center for Yoga & Health, 50
Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. “Core
Strengthening and Weight Control.” Yoga postures, breathing,
and relaxation techniques. Register. $30. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
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Holistic Women’s
Health Care
Nutrition/Herbs • Stress Management
Weight Management/Body Composition
Individualized Menopause Assessments
Bio-Identical Hormones • Outpatient Gynecology
Functional Medicine/Genomics
Natural Approaches to Preventing
Breast Cancer, Heart Disease & Osteoporosis
Kathleen M. Thomsen, MD, MPH
Women’s
Health & Wellness
Edwin’s Brother Was John Wilkes Booth:
Junius Booth (George Hartpence, right) and his
son, Edwin (Tom Smith), star in Austin Pendleton's historical drama ‘Booth,’ about a famous
19th-century Shakespearean actor and his son,
opening on Friday, May 29, at Actors’ NET in
Morrisville, PA. Parental guidance suggested
due to intense moments. 215-295-3694.
History
Princeton University, Mudd Manuscript Library, 65 Olden Street,
609-258-6345. www.princeton.edu. “The Best Old Place of All:
Treasures from the Princeton
Archives,” an exhibit featuring
greatest treasures from the 18th,
19th, and 20th centuries. Free. 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
18th Century Colonial Clothing
Sewing Workshop, Old Barracks Museum, Barrack Street,
Trenton, 609-396-1776. www.barracks.org. Make an 18th century skirt. Register. $25 plus materials. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
presents show based on Barbara
Park’s book series. $10. 2 and 4
p.m.
Teatro Si, Crossroads Theater, 7
Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www.teatrosi.com. Fandango Magic
features Michael Turco, an illusionist, with musical and dance
performers. $25. 3 and 7 p.m.
For Families
Lectures
Open Bounce, Bounce U, 410
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-443-5867. www.bounceu.com. All ages, $6.95;
adults, free. 8:45 to 10 a.m.
Haying, Howell Living History
Farm, Valley Road, off Route 29,
Titusville, 609-737-3299. www.howellfarm.org. Farmers work in
hayfields and put loose hay in the
mow of a barn with a pulley-operated hayfork. Free parking and
admission. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Birds: From Egg to Parenthood,
Plainsboro Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Fran Reichl, professor emerita at the PItt
School of Medicine, presents a
talk for adults about bird behavior.
Free. 3 p.m.
252 West Delaware Ave.
Pennington, NJ 08534
609-818-9700
www.drkatethomsen.com
For Teens
Peace Conference, Princeton
Public Library, Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Proactive
Education for Activism, a daylong
conference featuring workshops,
speakers, networking, and education organized by Students for
Peace. Register. Free. 10 a.m.
Family Theater
Zoom. $17 to $76. 11 a.m. , 3 and
7 p.m.
Seussical, Paper Mill
Playhouse, Brookside Drive,
Millburn, 973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. $12 to $15. 1 p.m.
and 4 p.m.
Junie B. Jones, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Theatreworks/USA
Live Music
Larry Tritel, Thomas Sweet Cafe,
1330 Route 206, Skillman, 609430-2828. www.larrytritel.com.
Guitar and vocals. 9 a.m. to
noon.
Gold Fiction, John & Peter’s, 96
South Main Street, New Hope,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 3 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Sotto 128
Spanish guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Country and Bluegrass Music
Show, WDVR-FM, Lambertville
Assembly of God Church, 638
Route 518, Lambertville, 609397-1620. www.wdvrfm.org.
Heartlands Hayride Band. $10.
Food available. 6 to 8 p.m.
Dick Gratton, Farnsworth
Gallery, 134 Farnsworth Avenue,
Bordentown, 609-291-1931.
www.farnsworthgallery.com. Solo
jazz guitar. 7 to 10 p.m.
Music Night, Hopewell Valley
Performance by Maggie Wordale.
$10 includes light appetizers. 7 to
10 p.m.
Laura Crisci and CCoy, Grover’s
Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Neil Innes, The Record Collector
Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue,
Bordentown. www.the-record-collector.com. A 90-minute show includes Neil Innes’ 40 years in rock
and Monty Python. Mr. Unloved
opens the show. $25. 7:30 p.m.
Nancy Halter, Carla Simowski,
and Keith VanDoren, It’s A
Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 8
to 10 p.m.
Retro Groove, Erini Restaurant,
609-882-0303. www.erinirestaurant.com. 9 p.m.
Power Theory, Finnigan’s, 529
Route 130 North, East Windsor,
609-448-8012. 9 p.m.
Gravity Hill, Hillbilly Hall, 203
Hop-Wertsville Road, Hopewell,
609-466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com. 9:30 p.m.
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215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
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South Brunswick Arts Commission is accepting submissions
for “South Brunswick: In and
Around,” a juried exhibit at the
gallery in the municipal building,
from July 7 to September 30. Open
to New Jersey artists in all media,
including photography, sculpture,
and crafts. Submit up to three images in jpg format on a CD or by Email at [email protected]. No fee.
Deadline is Friday, June 12. Call
732-329-4000.
Artsbridge has a call for entries
for its annual juried show of paintings, works on paper, sculpture,
mixed media, and photography.
Drop off dates for juror section is
Sunday, May 31, noon to 5 p.m.;
and Monday, June 1, 4 to 7 p.m.
Entry fee is $40. All works must be
original and created within the last
two years. Riverrun Gallery, Route
29, Lambertville. Opening reception is Saturday, June 6, 6 to 9 p.m.
Mercer County seeks art by
county residents ages 60 and up for
the Mercer County Senior Art
Show on Monday to Thursday, August 17 to 27 at the Robbinsville
Senior Center. All work must be
done within the last three years.
Submit one piece of art in acrylic,
computer generated images, drawing, mixed media, oil, pastel, photography, prints, and watercolor.
One winner in each category
moves on to the state show in October. Visit www.mercercounty.org
or call 609-989-6661.
Gordon Haas offers “Plein Air
in Italy,” a Positano art workshop.
Saturdays, October 3 to 10. $1,600,
airfare not included. Visit www.gordonhaas.com for details.
Vendors Needed
4-H of Middlesex County
seeks vendors to participate in a
yard sale on Saturday, June 20, 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Raindate is Saturday,
July 11. $15, provide your own
table; $20 includes a table. Call
732-398-5262 or E-mail [email protected].
For the Young
Musicians in the Making offers “Nature’s Music,” program for
birth to age five with an adult, on
Monday to Thursdays, June 8 to
July 2, at 9:30 a.m. Also, “Music
Makers at the Seashore,” July 22 to
26, Monday to Friday, 2 to 2:30
p.m. Both programs are in Plainsboro. Visit www.musiciansinthemaking.com or call 609-750-0600.
West Windsor Library and
Greening of West Windsor offer “I
Love Earth,” a summer photography workshop series for 10 to 14
year olds. Workshops are Saturdays,
June 27, July 11, July 18, and August
1, from 10 a.m. to noon. Call 609799-0462 to register. Also a photography contest for photographers,
ages 10 to 17; and filmmakers, 14 to
22. Deadline is Monday, September
7. Visit www.greeningofwestwindsor.com for more information as
well as volunteer activities.
Berlitz Language Services offers summer camp in English,
French, and Spanish beginning on
Monday, July 6. 31 D Hulfish
Street, Princeton. Call 609-5976571.
Jobs Available
Trenton Children’s Chorus
seeks an artistic director and a program director. Both jobs are 12month positions, approximately 20
hours a week. Deadline is Monday,
June 15. Visit www.trentonchildrenschorus.org for details and requirements for each position.
Around the State
South Jersey Tourism Corporation launched “ForeverGreenNJ.com,” an eco-tourism website.
The interactive online community
allows visitors to rate destinations
and provide feedback about their
experiences for biking, hiking,
walking, running, fishing, water
activities, campsites, nature, preserves, farm stands, wineries, outdoor events, festivals, environmental education, and heritage
sites. Website: www.visitsouthjersey.com.
Middlesex County Cultural
and Heritage Commission offers
“UnCommon History,” a free
monthly audio series focusing on
the bizarre, rare, and unknown
events, people, and places in New
Jersey. Visit www.co.middlesex.nj.us/culturalheritage or call 732745-4489.
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Outdoor Action
Spring Bird Walk, Bowman’s Hill
Wildflower Preserve, River
Road, New Hope, 215-862-2924.
www.bhwp.org. For ages eight
and up. Register. $5. 7:30 to 9:30
a.m.
Nature Photography: Spring
Through the Lens, Bowman’s
Hill Wildflower Preserve, River
Road, New Hope, 215-862-2924.
www.bhwp.org. Register. $8. 10
a.m. to noon.
Wild and Woolly, Stony Brook
Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus
Mill Road, Pennington, 609-7377592. www.thewatershed.org.
Wool spinning. Register. $9.
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Birding for Beginners, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner
Road, Plainsboro, 609-897-9400.
www.njaudubon.org. Bring binoculars. 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Retail Therapy
Rummage Sale, Trinity Church,
Crescent Avenue, Rocky Hill,
609-921-8971. Benefit for religious education, youth programs,
and outreach projects. 8 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
Singles
Princeton Area, 732-759-2174.
www.dinnermates.com. Ages 30s
to early 50s. Call for reservation
and location. $20 plus dinner and
drinks. 7:30 p.m.
Socials
The Hub, Princeton United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, Princeton,
609-924-0781. www.princetonumc.org. Social center
for men and women who have developmental disabilities. Non-sectarian. Facilitators and volunteers
organize meals, music, games,
videos, and crafts. Enter from the
parking lot in back of the church.
Wheelchair accessible. Free.
6:30 p.m.
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
Young Virtuoso:
Violinist Betty Zhou,
19, solos with the New
Jersey Symphony Orchestra in a program
called ‘Best of Nature,’ Friday, May 29,
Patriots Theater, Trenton. 1-800-ALLEGRO.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Altoona. $5
to $10 7:05 p.m.
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Diana Run, Diana Fund, Community Middle School, 55 Grovers
Mill Road, Plainsboro, 609-7999000. www.dianarun.org. Annual
5K run to benefit scholarship fund
for teenagers to experience other
cultures and communities
through world missions programs. Diana Rochford was 17
and a rising senior at High School
North when she died in a car accident in 2002. She was captain of
her soccer team and president of
Interact, a charity organization at
her high school. Refreshments
and trophies. USATF certified
course. Rain or shine. Register
online. 7 a.m.
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Sunday
May 31
In the Spotlight:
Young Artists’ Concert
Spring Concert, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, Princeton
Alliance Church, 20 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 732580-3979. www.bravuraphil.org.
“A Concerto Extravaganza” features winners of the 2009 Young
Artists competition, Sunny
Chang, 16, a cello player from
Millburn; Cheryl Pong, 16, a violin
player from WW-P High School
South; and Andrew Sun, 17, a pianist from West Windsor. The
production includes Beethoven’s
Emperor piano concerto and
Symphony No. 6. $15 to $25. 7
p.m.
Classical Music
Mostly Motets, St. Matthews
Church, 300 South Main Street,
Pennington, 609 737-0985.
www.stmatthews-nj.org. Concert
of both a cappella and accompanied music. Free will donation.
3:30 p.m.
Spring Concert, Greater Trenton
Choral Society, St. David’s
Church, 90 South Main Street,
Cranbury, 609-655-4731. www.community.nj.com/cc/trentonchoral. Works include Puccini’s Messa di Gloria
and excerpts from Mendelsson’s
Elijah. $15. Camilla Jarnot of
Plainsboro performs on the organ. 4 p.m.
Music For Meals, Jewish Family
and Children’s Services of
Greater Mercer County, Adath
Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville,
609-987-8100. www.jfcsonline.org. Community Cantors in Concert. Bring a non-perishable food
item to support the Ohel Avraham
Kosher Food Pantry. $18; $50 per
family. Register. 4 p.m.
Pop Music
Kingston Women’s Chorus,
Kingston United Methodist
Church, 9 Church Street, Kingston, 609-921-6812. “For the
Beauty of the Earth” features environmentally themed songs by
John Rutter and Felix Mendelssohn. Mike Aucott, a folk guitarist
and banjo player, presents the
premier of an original tune. Dotty
Westgate accompanies on piano.
Free will donation. 7 p.m.
World Music
Sharim v’Sharot, Kol Emet, 1360
Oxford Valley Road, Yardley, PA,
215-493-8522. “The Experience
of Jewish Life, Past and Present”
presented by central New Jersey’
Jewish choir. $15; $25 family. 4
p.m.
Art
Miniature Carousel Book, MGP
Studio Arts, Plainsboro, 609799-3941. Construction includes
a series of five scenes. Register.
$50. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Phillips Mill, 2619
River Road, New Hope, 215-6225599. www.phillipsmill.org. First
day for the annual Photographic
Exhibition featuring more than
140 photographs. On view to
June 21. Open Sundays,
Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 1
to 5 p.m.; and Friday and Saturday, 1 to 9 p.m. 1 p.m.
Variation on the Pamphlet, MGP
Studio Arts, Plainsboro, 609799-3941. Creative expression
for the structure. Register. $50.
1:30 to 4 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Coryell Gallery, 8
Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609397-0804. Reception for the annual spring exhibition including
works of Joanne Augustine, Albert Bross Jr., Michael Budden,
W. Carl Burger, Vincent Ceglia,
George Van Hook, Barbara
Watts, and Steve Zazenski. The
exhibit is on view through July 5. 3
p.m.
Drama
Health & Wellness
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 2 p.m.
The Brothers Size and Marcus;
or the Secret of Sweet, McCarter Theater at the Berlind,
II of the Brother/Sister plays by
any order. $36 to $49. 2 p.m.
Bristol, 215-785-0100. www.brtstage.org. Five guys in a pious
pop act. Christopher Gattelli, the
choreographer of the original OffBroadway production, is director
and choreographer; Gary Adler,
the co-composer, is musical director. $34 to $42. 3 p.m.
$20. 6 p.m.
Stroke Risk Assessments and
Screenings, Princeton HealthCare System, Mt. Pisgah
Church, 170 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org. Register. Free.
9 to 11 a.m.
Morning Meditation, Center for
Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Guided and silent meditation practice
for all levels of experience. Free.
10 a.m.
Yoga and Meditation, Let’s Do
Yoga, 15 Jewel Road, West
Windsor, 732-887-3561.
letsdoyogagmail.com. Multi-level
yoga class with meditation. Beginners are welcome. Bring mat
and blanket. Register. $15. 5 to
6:30 p.m.
Literati
Book Sale, Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Stuff a bag for $3. 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Good Causes
Annual Tea, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Hollowbrook Center, Hollowbrook Drive, Ewing, 609-5050669. Awards for scholarship recipients and winners of the essay
contest. Register. 4 p.m.
A Night in Paris, New Hope Arts
Center, Hamilton’s Grill, 8 Coryell
Street, Lambertville, 215-8629606. Wine, live music by
Pairadocs Paul Jerome and
Frank DiBussolo, dinner, and a
silent auction. $89 to $100 to benefit the new art center. 6 p.m.
New Hope Arts Center Fundraiser, Hamilton’s Grill Room, 8
Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609397-4343. Food, spirits, , live music, and silent auction. 6:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Chocolate Show, Bucks County,
Eagle Fire Hall, Route 202 and
Sugan Road, 215-850-6292.
www.buckscountychocolateshow.com. “The Journey of the
Pod” exhibit is opening in conjunction with the annual show.
Portion of the proceeds for National Wildlife Federation. $10. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
For Families
Open House, YMCA Camp Mason, 23 Birch Ridge Road, Hardwick, 908-362-8217. www.campmason.org. For ages 7 to 16. 1 to
4 p.m.
Family Theater
Zoom. $17 to $76. 11 a.m. , 3 and
7 p.m.
Seussical, Paper Mill Playhouse,
Brookside Drive, Millburn, 973376-4343. www.papermill.org.
$12 to $15. 1 p.m.
peacecoalition.org. Presentation
in the mosque followed by a ride
to the New Jersey State Museum
Auditorium and a walk to Trinity
Cathedral. Interfaith potluck at
5:15 p.m. (Dishes should be kept
in cooler. Sign with ingredients
should accompany dish). 1:30
p.m.
Singles
Dick Gratton, Bistro Soleil, 173
Mercer Street, Hightstown, 609443-9700. Solo jazz guitar. 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Piece: Improv Comedy,
John & Peter’s, 96 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-5981.
www.johnandpeters.com. 3 p.m.
Bob Egan, Bowman’s Tavern,
1600 River Road, New Hope, PA,
215-862-2972. www.bowmanstavernrestaurant.com. Open mic
and sing-along. 6 to midnight.
Oldies Night, Hillbilly Hall Tavern and Restaurant, 203 HopWertsville Road, Hopewell, 609466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com.
Dance or sing the night away with
DJ Ron. 6 to 10 p.m.
Joe Harvard Band, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New
Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Etz Chaim Sociable Single Seniors, Monroe Township Jewish
Center, 11 Cornell Avenue, 609655-5137. For 50 plus. Register.
$5. 1 to 4 p.m.
Picnic, Yardley Singles, Washington Crossing State Park, PA,
215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Food and beverages
provided. Bring a wrapped gift for
the Chinese auction. Volleyball,
horseshoes, and grills available.
Register. $15. 1 p.m.
Tri-Faith Walk, Coalition for
Peace Action, Majidut Taqwa
Mosque, 1001 East State Street,
Trenton, 609-924-5022. www.-
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With Heart and Voice:
The Princeton Girlchoir, above, gives a
20th anniversary
concert to honor
founder Jan Westrick,
right, who is retiring,
on Saturday, May 30,
Patriots Theater, Trenton. 609-688-1888.
Live Music
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Sports
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Altoona. $5
to $10 1:05 p.m.
Sports for Causes
5K Run and One-Mile Fun Run,
Premier Physical Therapy, Veterans Park, Hamilton, 609-4264442. www.practicehard.com.
Benefit for Breast Cancer threeday event. Register online. 7:30
a.m.
Bike for Amy, The Amy Foundation, South Brunswick Community Center, New Road. www.amyfoundation.org. 25 and 50-mile
rides for all levels to support the
cost of breast cancer screenings
for low-income women. Register.
$150. 8 a.m.
Monday
June 1
In the Spotlight:
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Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 5000 Windrows Drive,
Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
Art
Father’s Day Exhibit, Gold
Medal Impressions, 43 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609-606-9001. www.goldmedalimpressions.com. Photographer Richard Druckman features a limited number of collection-quality photographs from Super Bowls, Giants, Jets, Eagles,
Yankees, Mets, Nets, Devils, Flyers, Rutgers, Georgetown, and
West Windsor-Plainsboro High
School North and South images.
Through June 20. Call for hours. 7
a.m. to 7 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Daniel P. Turner
Thomas, Plainsboro Library, 641
Plainsboro Road, 609-448-0560.
www.danielpturnerthomas.com.
“Shore to Please” featuring paintings of the New Jersey shore as
well as “Miracle on the Hudson,” a
watercolor created after the recent crash. The painting, featured
in the New York Times and Fox 5
News, is being donated to the
crew of Flight 1549 in the fall. On
view through June 30. 9 a.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Neil White, author of
“In the Sanctuary of Outcast.” 6
p.m.
Socrates Cafe, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Princeton, 609-915-1119. “Baking
for Children with Food Allergies”
presented by Chef Anne-Renee
Someillant. Register. $60. 9:30
a.m.
Health & Wellness
Compassionate Friends, Raymond Dwier Center, 392 Church
Street, Groveville, 609-516-8047.
Support group for families following the death of a child of any age
and to provide information to help
others be more supportive. 7:30
p.m.
For Families
Pre-school Playdate, Bounce U,
410 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-443-5867.
www.bounceu.com. for ages 2 to
6. $7.95; adults, free. 10 to 11:30
a.m.
Lectures
and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6922. www.mcl.org.
“Finding a Job Today” presented
by Richard Stone, a human resource professional. Register.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
Conversational ESL, Comprehensive Communication Services, 610 Plainsboro Road,
Plainsboro, 609-799-1400. First
of five-session course to work on
vocabulary, grammar, and accent.
Register. $129. 7 to 10 p.m.
Friends of the Lawrence Library,
and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6922. www.mcl.org.
Meeting. 7 p.m.
Colleges
Class Day, Princeton University,
Cannon Green or Jadwin Gym.
www.princeton.edu/. Ticketed
event for seniors and their invited
Let’s Do Zydeco:
Terrance Simien
presents a benefit
concert on Friday,
May 29, at Princeton
High School, Walnut
Lane. 609-806-4300..
guests. Katie Couric, a longtime
journalist and role model for cancer awareness. She is the first
woman and journalist to deliver
the Class Day address since
Princeton began inviting speakers from outside the university
community in 2001. 10:30 a.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in for soups,
wraps, gelato, and tea, coffee,
desserts, or espresso. Register at
www.meetup.com/PrincetonArea-Singles-Network. 6:30 to 8
p.m.
Sports
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Bowie. $5 to $10
7:05 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Golf Outing, Anderson House,
Stanton Ridge Golf Club, Route
523, Whitehouse Station, 908534-5818. www.andersonhouse.org. Register. $300. 9 a.m.
Golfing for a Cure, Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation, Edgemont
Country Club, Edgemont, PA,
215-885-6500. Golf, lunch, and
dinner. $150. 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday
June 2
In the Spotlight
Princeton Graduation
Commencement, Princeton University, Nassau Street. www.princeton.edu/webmedia. Honorary degrees conferred are TBA.
10:20 a.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
Greenway Amphitheater at 202
Carnegie Center, 609-452-1444.
Lunchtime music series. Free.
Noon.
Pop Music
Jersey Shore Rock-n-Roll Revue, State Theater, 15 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7469. www.StateTheatreNJ.org. $35. 8 p.m.
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Review: ‘The Brothers Size’ & ‘Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet’
T
he second half of “The
Brother/Sister Plays” trilogy has
opened at McCarter Theater and
the promise that playwright Tarell
Alvin McCraney showed a few
weeks ago has been confirmed and
expanded. Here indeed is a new
and vital new voice for American
theater — daringly fresh, yet rooted in the classics; raw and brutal,
yet exquisitely grounded in love.
It is not necessarily a voice that
will please everyone. If you enjoy
sitting back and letting the playwright’s words wash over you in a
gentle, warm stream, you will be
disappointed. McCraney expects,
no demands, that his audiences not
only listen, but react. If you expect
simple, expository speeches, you
Rounding Out the Trilogy: Marc Damon Johnseldom be satisfied. His characters
son (Ogun Size), above left, and Brian Tyree
stubbornly refuse to finish senHenry (Oshoosi Size) in ‘The Brothers Size’; and
tences — or thoughts. He uses
Nikiya Mathis, Alano Miller, and Kianné Muwchett,
character names more suited to the
far right, in 'Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet.'
Caribbean than to America and his
street vernacular would occasionPhotos: Richard Termine
ally make David Mamet blush.
Some may also question his insistence that stage directions are
spoken as well as performed, even slightly disreputable and slightly Heather Alicia Simms, as Oba, his
if there is startling insight into hu- disturbing to both brothers. Direc- mother; Kianne Muschett; Nikiya
mor and pathos with those director Robert O’Hara (who also di- Mathis; and Kimberly Hebert Gretions. This is a young writer (he is rected the third play) stages this 58- gory — are only too happy to offer
only 28) who has already mastered minute drama with timing that will advice. Once again, playwright
every theatrical trick from the excite those who note such things McCraney suggests the time as
and a taste for “the distant present.”
Greeks to the
Plenty of surprises along the
humor
that
present and usfinds laughs in way: at any given point, any chares them without
Outstanding compahuman failings. acter may break into song. In fact,
shame, with exny, superb direction
In the second we even have a mini-American
traordinary
and all, playwright
half of the Idol moment with a hanging light
prowess.
evening, “Mar- bulb as a microphone and a car
In
“The
Tarell Alvin McCraney
cus; or The Se- hood as a platform. The staging
Brothers Size”
is a sizzling new talcret of Sweet,” may remind you of a child’s kaleiwhich
opens
ent.
we will again doscope, with constantly changing
part II of the
meet the Size and shifting patterns and colors
trilogy, we are
brothers, but (credit costume designer Karen
introduced to
Ogun Size, the elder brother, hard- years later. And we will meet Eleg- Perry.) But, above all, outstanding
working, a mechanic in whose one- ba’s son, the Marcus of the title. company, superb direction and all,
man garage the play takes place. (Naturally enough Marcus is playwright McCraney is a sizzling
And his brother, Oshoosi, more played by Alano Miller who played new talent for the American the— Stu Duncan
flamboyant, just out of prison, but Elegba and Marc Damon Johnson ater.
still apparently in trouble with the and Brian Tyree Henry will again
The Brother/Sister Plays, in
law. The two are nephews of Aunt play the brothers. But the situation repertory at McCarter Theater until
Elegua whom we met in part I and is entirely different and we look at Sunday, June 21, at which time
life from an entirely different per- they will move to the Public Thewill again in the third play.
There is a third character in the spective. Marcus is clearly search- ater for an Off-Broadway run. 609play, Elegba, slightly mysterious, ing for gender approval and the 258-2787 or www.mccarter.org.
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work of papermakers in the
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Capturing Heroism, One Brush Stroke at a Time
T
here is a reason artist
Daniel P. Turner Thomas keeps the
Turner in his professional name: he
is distantly related, on his mother’s
side of the family, to James
William Mallord (J.M.W.) Turner,
one of the great painters of the English Romantic period.
“There is some lineage that goes
back through my mother’s side, so
maybe there is a bit of the rub off
the old block,” Thomas says in a
phone interview from his home in
East Windsor. “I’m very proud of
it. One of the interesting things
about Turner is that he did a lot of
patriotstheater
at the war memorial
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paintings of heroic and battle
scenes. A friend of mine suggested
I might go that route and do heroic
scenes.”
Thomas is off to a running start.
His watercolor “Miracle on the
Hudson,” depicting the landing of
US Airways Flight 1549. Thomas
has painted the chilly passengers
waiting to be rescued, standing on
the wings of the plane as it slowly
sinks into the river, emergency vessels and life rafts nearby. He plans
to donate the painting, which has
been featured in the New York
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crew of flight 1549 in the fall, after
a series of summer shows.
“Miracle on the Hudson” is just
one of a number of Thomas’ watercolors on view in a solo show,
“Familar Places,” in the gallery of
the Plainsboro Public Library, for
the month of June, starting Monday, June 1. An art chat with the
artist, open to the public, takes
place on Sunday, June 21, at 3 p.m.
Born in Wales, Thomas came to
the United States in 1993 and was
enchanted with the natural beauty
of central New Jersey. “When you
fly in to New Jersey, you first see
Elizabeth and the refineries and
whatnot, but it’s very different
down here, as well as into areas like
Newtown, PA,” Thomas says.
“Luckily, all the farmland preservation around here has really
helped. My heart probably rests
back in Wales, in the mountains,
which I have also painted, but right
now I’m concentrating on Jersey
landscapes.”
In the exhibit at the Plainsboro
Library, viewers will recognize the
fall harvest of pumpkins at Stults
Farm in Plainsboro, sites such as
Gil and Bert’s ice cream place in
Cranbury, Terhune Orchards in
Lawrenceville, and Hamilton Jeweler’s and Lake Carnegie in Princeton. (Incidentally, Thomas, an avid
birder, reports that volunteers have
recently banded two chicks high up
in a nest of bald eagles near Lake
Carnegie.)
Thomas works both on site and,
when the weather is too hot or too
cold, in his studio. He has been
drawing and painting since childhood, when he was the illustrator
for his primary school’s magazine.
“I did little charcoal and pencil
drawings of the birds I saw, just
dabbled with it,” he says. “But I
didn’t take it up as a career, just
found it later in life. I gave art up
for a long time, but now I’m pursuing it with a passion. I strive for
capturing atmosphere and that’s
most difficult with watercolors —
it’s all about the light. I started off
doing picture post cards but now
I’m striving to be an artist known
A Moment Makes History: Daniel P. Turner
Thomas painted ‘Miracle on the Hudson, above,
a 2 x 3 foot painting commemorating US
Airways Flight 1549, in just five days.
for creating a mood. It takes a while
to establish this. Once you’ve mastered the medium a little bit, you
ask yourself, ‘what am I going to
do with this?’”
Thomas has more creative time
on his hands now since the sluggish
economy has affected his business,
Chameleon Marketing, a full service marketing communications
agency based in East Windsor. For
some 12 years Chameleon has specialized in working with the pharmaceutical, financial, and entertainment industries, but Thomas
admits things have slowed down.
“One thing about the recession, it’s
a good time for people to take up
something like painting,” he says.
“For me, it’s therapeutic, peaceful,
and relaxing. I’ve been able to
spend more time painting, and am
slowly making a name for myself
as well as making a little money. I
have a little claim in the U.K. since
I have paintings in the Welsh National Gallery (the national museum of Wales), as well as a few
paintings in private collections.
But I only began my U.S. painting
career about four years ago, so it’s
‘My heart probably
rests back in Wales,
in the mountains,
which I have also
painted, but right now
I’m concentrating on
Jersey landscapes.’
very young. This is like dipping a
toe in the water, defining myself as
an artist, finding out what I like to
do, which I think will be mostly
landscapes.
“I will be doing just watercolors,
though,” he continues. “They’re
difficult but if you can get involved, be patient and persevere,
they’re very rewarding.”
Thomas is a self-taught artist
who grew up as the eldest son of the
royal chaplain to Queen Elizabeth
II. “We rubbed noses with royalty,”
he says modestly. “In fact, I’m in
the process of writing a book about
the experience. My family and I experienced a lot of interesting things
behind the scenes. But sadly, my
father passed away in 1997 and my
mother in 2003, so it’s up to me to
remember. We lived opposite
Buckingham Palace for some eight
years and my father was one of the
chief (persons) who counseled
Charles and Diana during their
marriage. He would come back
from (speaking with them) and I remember him looking very distraught.”
T
homas remembers the late
princess kindly, reflecting that the
press was overly critical of her. He
notes that his father died just two
days before Diana. “It was as
though my father was saying,
‘come on up here, you don’t want
to hang around down there,’”
Thomas says.
Because of his family’s proximity to the royal family, Thomas
gained access to private places like
the grounds of the Royal Military
Academy at Sandhurst, where he
sketched and painted. Almost 30
years ago, he did a sketch of the
private cricket field there, which
he had almost forgotten. A friend
encouraged him to exhibit it at a
small show in Bernardsville last
year.
“Lo and behold, someone
bought it,” Thomas says. “I never
knew who it was but that’s the
amazing thing about art. You never
know who’s going to buy what.”
Thomas says his mother was also artistic and wanted to paint but
never seemed to find the time.
“When she died, we were clearing
out her house and I found some art
materials, paint brushes and what-
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out she had enrolled in
an art class but never
took it. I still use some of
her brushes.”
After a stint at “one of
those Harry Potter-type
places” — a private
boarding school called
Haileybury — Thomas
got a degree in business
from London University
in 1988 and went into
advertising. He worked
for KLP, one of the UK’s
top marketing and communications agencies,
and was transferred to
the company’s New
York branch. “I came
over with my wife and
three children in 1993,
and never looked back,”
Thomas says.
Bumpy corporate circumstances led him to create
Chameleon, his own firm. He says
running his own business suits him
better and even in rough times,
“you do your best to keep things
going. You have to create your own
security because, as I learned, you
can’t rely on a company.”
Now divorced, Thomas stays
close to his children, Amanda, who
is attending Gettysburg College in
Gettysburg, PA; Robert, who is at
Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, and youngest daughter
Charlotte, a high school student at
West Windsor-Plainsboro North.
Thomas turned 50 last year, which
he reflects is a “good age.”
He painted “Miracle on the
Hudson” in just five days, inspired
by the uplifting story, a bright spot
in a particularly bleary news cycle.
“It’s a great demonstration of how,
in these times, we can all pull together,” Thomas says. “The pilot
and crew did such an incredible job
and they were very humble with
the media. I was moved by that, by
the way the pilot and crew didn’t
seek out more publicity. I thought,
‘if more people were like this and
didn’t always look for glamour,
this would be a better place.’That’s
why I painted it. Who knows? I
might do more ‘heroic’ paintings
like this in the future.”
Art Exhibit, Daniel P. Turner
Thomas, Plainsboro Library, 641
Plainsboro Road. Monday, June 1,
9 a.m. “Familiar Places” featuring
paintings of local sites as well as
“Miracle on the Hudson,” a watercolor created after the recent crash.
The painting, featured in the New
York Times and Fox 5 News, is being donated to the crew of Flight
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MAY 27, 2009
Save the Earth, It’s Our Only Source of Chocolate
W
by Karen Hodges Miller
ine and chocolate Chocolate Show is just one of sevare not a match I have traditionally eral activities she is involved in.
thought of as ready-made. I’m She also offers special “Chocolate
more likely to pair my chocolate Parties to Go” at Valentine’s Day.
with, well, more chocolate, than
Her desire to bring together
with wine. I’m more used to being chocolate experts and chocolate
told basics like pair white wine lovers is why the educational exwith chicken or fish, red wine with hibits are such an important part of
red sauce and pasta or red meat. the Bucks County Chocolate Show,
Now, I confess that’s about the ex- she says. “I want everyone to untent of my knowledge, and up until derstand and appreciate where
now of my interest, in choosing the chocolate comes from and the susright wine. But when I heard about tainable agriculture of the rain forthe art of pairest. I want to find
ing wine with
a way to help
chocolate, I
empower and
Pairing wine and
was intrigued.
show support for
chocolate
is
just
one
One of sevthose communiof the presentations
eral presentaties. If we do that
tions at the secit’s a win/win sitat the Bucks County
ond
annual
uation for everyChocolate Show.
Bucks County
one.” Tartakoff
Chocolate
donates a portion
Show on Saturof the proceeds
day, May 31, is “Two of a Kind: The from the show to the National
Art of Pairing Chocolate and Wine.” Wildlife Federation.
The show will be held at the New
Wine and chocolate are a natural
Hope Eagles Ballroom (formerly pairing in more than just taste, says
the Fire Hall) at 46 North Sugan Danielle Ferrante, co-owner of the
Road in New Hope. In addition to Chocolate Box, at 39 North Union
the presentations, the show features Street in Lambertville, who will
chocolatiers and chocolate shops give the presentation on wine and
showcasing artisan chocolates and chocolate. While chocolate has reeven organic and vegan chocolates; ceived a bad reputation in many
“The Journey of the Pod,” an educa- quarters, particularly with dentists,
tional exhibit focusing on the cocoa when taken in small quantities it
bean and how it becomes a choco- can actually help improve your
late bar; and demonstrations such as health. “It makes sense when you
chocolate recipes presented by think about it,” Ferrante says.
James Beard Award-nominated “Both are botanicals with antioxicookbook author Michael Recchiuti dant properties, and both are
from his book, “Chocolate Obses- bioflavins.” Antioxidants work to
sion.”
inhibit the onset of conditions such
Gretchen Tartakoff is the found- as heart disease and diabetes and
er of the show, which made its de- possibly lower the risk of infection
but in 2008. She first opened her and cancer. Bioflavins, or B2, are a
business, the Chocolate Bar, six naturally occurring nutrient within
years ago in Bucks County when the body which is important for a
she thought she might be down- healthy metabolism. She recomsized from her position in the engi- mends about three ounces of
neering department of a pharma- chocolate a day, the darker the betceutical corporation. The downsiz- ter, along with one glass of wine to
ing didn’t happen, but a new busi- gain the maximum health benefits.
ness was born.
Tartakoff, of Solebury, PA, has
always loved chocolate, but inut for most of us the health
stead of opening a traditional can- benefits are just one more excuse to
dy store, she decided to create a eat chocolate. Why might you
business that promotes chocolate match it up with the right wine?
— everything about chocolate — The best reason is the taste. “It’s a
from local store owners and choco- match made in heaven when it is
latiers to the growers in the rain done right,” says Ferrante.
forest who work to produce the coShe and her mother, Rita Fercoa beans. The Bucks County rante, bought the Chocolate Box
B
Chocolate Bliss: Danielle Ferrante, foreground, and her mother,
co-owners of the Chocolate Box in
Lambertville, on opening day, 2006.
Right: The store’s exclusive lavender honey bonbons.
from the previous owners a little
over two years ago. Danielle previously worked in the food business
in and around New Hope and Lambertville, and Rita previously
workd in nursing home and assisted
living
administration.
(Danielle’s father, Daniel, is an
electrical engineer, focusing primiarily on the design and execution of
high speed rail systems.) “I’ve always loved chocolate and I was
constantly working to learn about
it,” says Ferrante, who describes
herself as a self-taught chocolatier.
“When we learned the shop was up
for sale we thought it was the perfect choice for us. When we bought
the shop we wanted to continue its
tradition of integrity and excellence and still add a few of our own
trendy touches.”
Ferrante and her mother do not
make the chocolate that is sold at
the store. That would be chocolatier
Cheri Lee, of Cheri Pie Sweet
Treats, located in Bucks County.
While Lee has her own business
that features pastries as well as
chocolates, the candies she makes
for Ferrante are sold exclusively at
the Chocolate Box. Two examples
are strawberry balsamic bonbons
— strawberry ganache molded in
white chocolate with a dollop of
balsamic vinegar, and lavender
honey bonbons — lavender infused
honey ganache (the honey comes
from Peace Valley Lavendar Farm
in Doylestown) enrobed in 61 percent dark chocolate. Lee will join
Ferrante for the presentation at the
Bucks County Chocolate Show.
They will pair dark chocolate with a
variety of red wines made by local
wineries including Tomsello Winery in Hammonton, and Chaddsford Winery, of Chadds Ford, PA.
Ferrante says the most important secret to enjoying chocolate
and wine together is to make sure
that the wine is at least as sweet, if
not slightly sweeter, than the
chocolate with which it is served. If
the wine is less sweet than the
chocolate it may take on a bitter
taste. “Match lighter, more elegant
wines with lighter, more elegant
chocolate. A chocolate with a floral
flavor goes well with a floral
wine.” Stronger chocolates are enhanced by a wine with a stronger
flavor. She suggests eating the
chocolate first, then following it
with a sip of wine.
While you
don’t necessarily need a special occasion
to try pairing
chocolate and
wine, Ferrante
suggests that a
formal chocolate and wine
tasting
can
make a novel
and interesting
social event.
To plan a tasting party, she
advises starting with the lightest chocolate and
lighter wines and moving gradually to the dark chocolate and red
wines. In addition, make sure that
you have some saltines or oyster
crackers on hand as well as a pitcher of water to clear the palate between selections.
White chocolate, which is made
with cocoa butter, milk, and sugar,
is not technically chocolate because it contains no cocoa liquor. It
has a very buttery flavor and works
well with sherry, says Ferrante. She
also says white chocolate works
well with muscat, tawny port,
sauterne, or ice wine (a dessert
wine made from grapes that were
frozen while still on the vine).
Moving on to milk chocolate, Ferrante suggests it is best enhanced
by a sweet dessert ine such as
Gewurtztraminer, Reisling, muscat, sherry, white zinfandel, sauterne, and late harvest wines.
Also, don’t just think chocolate
bars when combining wine and
chocolate. A chocolate mousse or
chocolate cheesecake can also be
complemented by the right glass of
wine. Sparkling wine or champagne are fabulous in combination
with chocolate-dipped strawberries, for instance.
For dark and bittersweet chocolate, Ferrante says look for a more
full-bodied wine. Zinfandels are an
excellent choice to pair with dark
chocolate with 65 percent or
greater cacao, what Ferrante calls
robust dark chocolate. Other good
wines to choose include pinot noir,
cabernet, syrah, or merlot. For
what she calls fragrant dark chocolate, with 65 percent or less cacao,
Ferrante suggests light-bodied
fruity reds such as beaujolais, pinot
noir, merlot, and fruity whites such
a white zinfandel, sauvignon
blanc, chenin blanc, Gewurtztraminer, riesling, and vintage port.
In addition to Ferrante’s presentation, other presentations will include: “Infusing the Flavors of the
Season,” by Robert Cabeca of
Robert’s Chocolates in the Washington, DC, area. Cabeca will explain how he uses fresh ingredients
to infuse his chocolate with a variety
of flavors. “Chocolate: A Healthy
Passion,” will be presented by nutritionist Shara Aaron, who will discuss the history and relationship of
chocolate and health. Pierrick
Chouard of Vintage Plantations
Chocolates will explain how to read
the labeling on chocolate and what
that percentage of cocoa content really means. In “Theobroma Cacao:
Food of the Gods and of the Ancients” presents new information
about the history of chocolate and
the work underway in cocoa farmer
education and sustainability.
Ferrante’s last word on pairing
chocolate and wine is that there is
no right or wrong. “Listen to your
own taste buds. You know what
you like, and you should remember
to have fun. Pairing chocolate and
wine shouldn’t be serious. It’s
about enjoying life.”
Bucks County Chocolate
Show, Eagle Fire Hall, Route 202
and Sugan Road, New Hope, PA.
Sunday, May 31, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“The Journey of the Pod” exhibit.
Presentations throughout the day.
Chocolate vendors and exhibit
booths. Proceeds benefit National
Wildlife Federation. $10. For more
information on the Chocolate Box
in Lambertville call 609-397-1920
or visit www.chocolateboxusa.com. 215-850-6292 or www.buckscountychocolateshow.com.
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June 2
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Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront
Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-8326.
www.trentonthunder.com. Bowie. $5 to $10
7:05 p.m.
Wednesday
June 3
In the Spotlight:
Brazilian Jazz
Bossa Brasil, Salt Creek Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro,
609-419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com.
Mauricio de Souza, drums; Jerry Weir, vibraphone; and Kevin Reilly, bass. 6:30 p.m.
Drama
In the Red and Brown Water, McCarter
Theater at the Berlind, 91 University
Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org.
Evening I of the Brother/Sister plays by
Tarell Alvin McCraney. $36 to $49. 7:30
p.m.
The Little Foxes, Shakespeare Theater of
New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.-
‘Bird Dreaming’: This photo
is one of three by Laurinda
Stockwell that won Best of
Show in the Phillips’ Mill
Photographic Exhibition,
opening on Sunday, May 31
in Solebury. 215-862-0582.
shakespearenj.org. Drama based on Lillian
Hellman’s tale of a Southern family. Through
June 28. $30 to $54. 7:30 p.m.
High School Musical 2, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New
Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. Through June 7.
$25. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569
Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149.
www.americanballroomco.com. For newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
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Movies
Confirm titles with theaters.
17 Again. Drama about a middle aged man who becomes 17
stars Zac Efron and Matthew Perry.
AMC.
Angels and Demons. Thriller
with Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor based on Dan Brown’s
novel. AMC, Destinta, Garden,
MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
The Brothers Bloom. Film
about con men stars Adrien Brody,
Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel Weisz.
Montgomery.
@lt:Dance
Flick. Comedy with the Wayans
brothers. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Drag Me to Hell. Thriller directed by Sam Raimi. AMC, Regal.
Earth. Documentary narrated
by James Earl Jones and Patrick
Stewart. Montgomery.
Every Little Step. Documentary follows “A Chorus Line” from
the original concept through the
audition process and interviews to
Broadway. Montgomery.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
Comedy with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.
AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery,
Multiplex, Regal.
Hannah
Montana:
The
Movie. Family film with Miley
Cyrus. Multiplex.
Management. Comedy with
Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, and
Woody Harrelson. Montgomery,
Multiplex.
Monsters vs. Aliens. Animated
Dreamworks film with voices of
Reece Witherspoon, Seth Rogen,
and Hugh Laurie. AMC, Regal.
Next Day Air. Comedy action
Literati
Readings and Workshops, Raritan Poets, East Brunswick Library, Two Jean Walling Civic
Center, 732-257-3088. www.ebpl.org. Free. 7 p.m.
Good Causes
Volunteer Orientation Meeting,
HomeFront, 1880 Princeton Avenue, Lawrenceville, 609-9899417. www.homefrontnj.org. Information about volunteer opportunities. Register. 6 p.m.
Fairs
about cocaine stars Mike Epps and
Dante ‘Mos Def’ Smith. AMC,
Destinta.
Night at the Museum: Battle
of the Smithsonian. Sequel features Ben Stiller at the Smithsonian. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Obsessed. Thriller with Beyonce. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
The Soloist. Performing arts
drama with Robert Downey Jr. and
Jamie Foxx. AMC, Montgomery,
Multiplex.
Star Trek. Sci-fi with Kirk and
Spock. AMC, Destinta, Garden,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
State of Play. Russell Crowe
and Rachel McAdams in drama
about politics. Montgomery, Multiplex.
Terminator Salvation. Action
with Christian Bale. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Up. Opens Friday, May 29.
AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Pixar’s Latest:
‘Up’ opens May 29.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Action with Hugh Jackman and
Liev Schreiber. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Venues
Wednesdays on Warren, Trenton Downtown Association,
South Warren Street, Trenton,
609-393-8998. www.wednesdaysonwarren.com. Music, arts, and food. 11:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m.
For Families
Family Concert, Barnes &
Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-716-1570. www.bn.com.
Presley and Melody. 4:30 p.m.
For Parents
Special Ed Support Group, Family Support Organization, 3535
Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton,
609-586-1200. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Lectures
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Johnson & Johnson, 199
Grandview Avenue, Skillman,
800-448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Public Speaking: ESL, Comprehensive Communication Services, 610 Plainsboro Road,
Plainsboro, 609-799-1400. First
of four-session course to improve
self-expression and pronunciation. Register. $99. 7 to 9 p.m.
Seniors and Caregivers, Princeton Senior Resource Center,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, 609-924-7108.
Discussion of community resources available for older adults
to live independently, their families, and caregivers. Register.
Free. 7 to 8 p.m.
UFO Ghosts and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal Study
Group, Hamilton Township Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Pat Marcattilio facilitates monthly meeting.
Free. 7:30 to 11 p.m.
History
Live Music
Stroller Strides, Historical Society of Princeton, Bainbridge
House, 158 Nassau Street,
Acoustic Singer-Songwriter
Showcase, KatManDu, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-393-7300. www.katmandu-
Faith
Meditation and Buddhism, Yoga
Above, 80 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-613-1378. www.yogaabove.com. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325
Sloan Avenue , I-295 Exit 65-A, 609890-8307.
Destinta, Independence Plaza,
264 South Broad Street, Hamilton,
609-888-4500.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-683-7595.
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South,
Montgomery Center Theater,
Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center
Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 609-371-8473.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
New Brunswick, 732-940-8343.
Princeton, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Walking tour
of Princeton for moms, dads,
grandparents, caregivers, and
their tiny tots. Town and university
sites. $7. 10 a.m.
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Tour the restored mansion, galleries, and gardens. Tea before or
after tour. Register. $15. 11:15
a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
Lighter summer reds to pair with
grilled fish. 5 to 8 p.m.
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June 7. $25. 8 p.m.
The Little Foxes, Shakespeare
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on Lillian Hellman’s tale of a
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Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
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PREVIEW
John Boutte Brings N’Awlins to the Crawfish Fest
W
hile
singer-songwriter John Boutte is about as New
Orleans born-and-bred as one can
get, what he sings in most of his
shows is a smorgasbord of songs,
some having origins in New Orleans, others not. Boutte has been
singing since he was a young
teenager.
His latest album, “Stew Called
New Orleans” is a collaboration
with guitarist Paul Sanchez that
features originals he wrote with
Sanchez, including the title track,
but also covers of Paul Simon’s
“American Tune” and Jelly Roll
Morton’s “I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say.” Boutte’s live
shows typically include Randy
Newman’s “Louisiana 1927,” Neil
Young’s “Southern Man,” and
even Great American Songbook
standards like “Accentuate the
Positive.” He’s 51, but moves on
stage like a 30-year-old. He rides
his bike almost everywhere he
needs to go in the Crescent City.
Boutte and Sanchez will perform
at the 20th annual Crawfish Festival in Augusta, NJ, which takes
place on Friday through Sunday,
May 29 to 31. Boutte and Sanchez
take the stage on Friday at 6 p.m.
and on Saturday at 11:45 a.m.
Boutte says he has been singing
since he was 12. “I always have had
music in me,” he says in a phone interview from New Orleans, “but I
started out by playing cornet in elementary school, so that’s when my
formal music lessons started. Then
I would get home from school and I
would drive my sisters nuts.” Since
his older sisters sang, he sang with
them at family gatherings, he says,
and his sister, Lillian, has made a
name for herself.
Like every other family in his
Seventh Ward New Orleans neighborhood, which was integrated
with Creole, black, and white families living together (mostly)
peacefully, Boutte says, “we always had music around the house
and everybody had a piano in their
parlor. My parents had some classic jazz and R&B records, but they
did not want us to go into music.”
These days, Boutte lives in the
same neighborhood,
Boutte was the eighth of 10 siblings, four boys and six girls. “By
the time I was born, my parents
were older; they weren’t out jitterbugging like they were when they
were younger. I was influenced a
lot by the music you hear in the
streets here, the Mardi Gras Indians and brass bands and traditional
jazz. And we’d hear Mahalia Jackson on the radio, and there was a
sanctified church next door, so we
were always surrounded by music.
“I always knew I could sing,” he
continues. He began singing at talent shows, first performing Motown music, which was all the rage
in the 1960s, and later he got into
urban group harmony, or doo-wop.
“My first radio performance
was in the ninth grade. I sang
‘Rockin’ Robin’ on WVOK radio
here,” he says, adding he’ll never
forget the experience. “In my later
by Richard J. Skelly
teens we all had doo-wop groups
and we were going around singing
at talent shows. I remember there
were a couple of talent shows that I
even saw Aaron Neville on.”
“We were an old Creole family
that had been based here for years.
You wouldn’t think my parents
were musical, but they were,
’cause everybody was musical. I
was brought up around so much
great music,” he says, noting many
of his uncles and aunts and neighborhood friends of his parents were
part-time musicians. “They were
carpenters or brick layers and they
did music on the side as a social
thing.” Boutte’s father was a carpenter and barber who died young
from the ravages of diabetes, and
his mother was a housewife.
Boutte’s grandfather “came from a
long line of master carpenters, but
my father wanted to be a lawyer,”
he says. He says his father injured
his hand in World War II, “but they
thought he was white so they took
him to a white hospital, fortunately,
otherwise, they might have cut it
off.
“My father had perfect pitch and
a very commanding voice, because
when he said, ‘Goddammit,’everything would stop among the 10
kids. And he was an incredible fisherman and hunter and golfer who
had two holes-in-one in his life. He
encouraged me to play golf, but I
said, ‘Dad, look, there ain’t no
black people out there!’” Boutte
currently does play golf, as much
as his schedule allows for it.
A
t Xavier University in New
Orleans, where he majored in business administration, graduating in
1980, Boutte became very interested in writing his own songs, but he
didn’t get very far with that until
later in life. “What do you know
when you’re 17 or 18? You’re trying to get laid and trying to fit in. It
took me a long time before I wrote
my next few songs after those initial ones in college. I was actively
encouraged by Paul Sanchez, because I was working with Michelle
Shocked when she first moved to
New Orleans and that brought me
into the singer-songwriter scene,”
he says. Sanchez played guitar
with Shocked as well with Cowboy
Mouth, a popular rock band that
has toured widely outside of New
Orleans.
Of his current releases, “Stew
Called New Orleans” and “Good
Neighbor,” both collaborations
with guitarist Sanchez, Boutte says
there’s a certain magic that comes
about when the two write songs or
perform together. “Paul is a rock
’n’ roll guy and I’m basically coming from a jazz and classic R&B
perspective,” he says. “Paul wanted to write stuff that had more of a
bluesy edge, but he also wanted to
write song that were more pop-ori-
Time to Chill:
Clockwise from near
right: John Boutte
and Paul Sanchez,
Janiva Magness,
JJ Grey, and
Trombone Shorty.
ented. And he wanted me to sing
more pop-oriented songs, to show
the versatility of both of us.
“Paul says it’s easy for him to
write songs with me, because I talk
in songs,” he says.
Boutte learned about the business of singing jazz and classic
rhythm and blues for a living from
his older sister, Lillian. “I used to
follow Lillian around and observe
what she was doing with people
like Allen Toussaint, Dr. John and
various R&B guys. I just observed
the scene and wanted to see what
was going on,” he says. He spent
several years touring Europe with
his sister’s gospel group.
“Now that I think about it, I
don’t think I had any choice in the
matter. I was always singing,” he
says. “And I would be miserable
doing anything else. I was an officer in the Army [after college], I
worked for a bank, and I worked
for the World’s Fair in 1984. I’ve
done all kinds of things over the
years.”
At times his two career paths
have collided, he admits. “When I
was working in a bank, one day I
forgot to shave. The president
came in and looked at me, but the
reason I forgot to shave was because I had spent the day before
with Stevie Wonder. Stevie came
down to get his first honorary doctorate from my alma mater,”
Boutte says, “so naturally, I sang
for Stevie. And he told me I had
something special, I had a signature voice. So I asked him, ‘Well,
what do I have to do, man?’And he
said, ‘patience and determination.’
“The bank president very sternly told me to go home and shave,
and so I did, but while I was home,
I got a phone call from my sister,
and she was struggling with a tour
in Europe,” he says, “so I gave my
two weeks notice and I never returned.”
Boutte’ freely admits his patience has been taxed many times
through the years, and there have
been many ups and downs in his
career. Ask anyone in the music
business, and they’ll tell you how
difficult it can be for vocalists, particularly jazz vocalists. Danny
Barker, a guitar player and singer
who played and shared stages with
Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong,
and dozens of other jazz and blues
greats, told Boutte years ago: “You
have to have all your pockets open
to show the world you’re a good
musician.”
In recent years, Boutte has been
out on the road more, showcasing
his unique New Orleans musical
sensibilities to the rest of the world,
and finally, the rest of the world
seems to be catching on. His voice
has elements of Sam Cooke, Harry
Belafonte, Rod Stewart, and Jimmy Scott all rolled into one, yet it’s
none of those voices; it’s John
Boutte.
B
oth pre and post-Katrina,
Boutte has done a fair amount of
touring, taking his special stew of
New Orleans classic rhythm-andblues, jazz, and Creole-flavored
pop tunes far and wide. He has fond
memories from recent tours in
Canada. “There’s always something good that comes out of something bad. After Katrina, the doors
to Canada opened up for me, and I
did the Vancouver Festival and the
Winnipeg Folk Festival,” he says.
“There’s a bunch of festivals up
there in the summer and it was a
healing thing for me to go up to
Canada that summer after Katrina,
to go up in the great northwest and
get empathy and love from the
folks who realized what we were
going through.”
Of the slow recovery and cleanup process post-Katrina, Boutte,
who left New Orleans for a long
time when the levees broke in
2005, says, “our attitude down here
is determined. We got flooded out
and nobody wants to take responsibility for the insurance. We’ve
been fortunate with the volunteers
who have come down here to help
us out and rebuild, but something
Growing up in the integrated neighborhood of the Seventh Ward of
New Orleans, John Boutte says, ‘Everybody had a piano in their parlor.’
like this has never happened before. It’s unprecedented. There are
a couple of places that are whitewashed, and I know that game. I
was an Army officer; I saw it there.
The spirit of New Orleanians is,
we’ve done a lot with a little for a
very long time. It’s a poor city. It’s
not Davos, Switzerland.”
As far as the music scene in New
Orleans is concerned, he says he’s
mildly disgusted, because the city
is such a friendly and inviting and
welcoming place, compared to
many other American cities, it’s often hard to leave. “As far as the
scene here goes, it’s like this:
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whore. You know what I’m sayin’?
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never gets the kiss. I hope you can
follow that analogy, because that’s
what the New Orleans music scene
is really like. And after all, it was
the music and the food that brought
all these people back here after Katrina.”
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R
aucous comparisons
being drawn between Princeton
University’s ample pocketbook
and the dwindling ones of town
residents are perhaps inevitable in
the midst of a serious economic
downturn, as are the demands
about the university’s obligation to
increase its support of Princeton
governments and schools. The university, from its corner, responds to
the brewing tax revolt by asserting
that even though its mission of education and research entitles it to a
property-tax exemption, it is willingly contributing significant sums
to the broader Princeton community.
The ire of some Princeton residents is directed not only at what
they see as the university’s inadequate financial contribution to
their community, but also at the
university’s proposal to move the
Dinky station, the rail connection
between the town and the main
Northeast corridor rail line, about
460 feet farther from Nassau Street
in order to create an arts and transportation neighborhood. This will
be a second time the university has
moved the Dinky away from town
[its terminus originally was at the
base of the Blair Arch steps, behind
the University Store], and mass
transit-minded residents claim it
creates a hardship for people who
walk to the Dinky.
Both the university and Princeton residents view themselves as
having the interests of the greater
Princeton community at heart, but
their conclusions are not always
the same. When Robert Durkee,
the university’s vice president and
by Michele Alperin
secretary, was asked what role the
university plays as a citizen of the
Princeton community, he pointed
out that a whole chapter of the university’s 180-page campus plan
document is devoted to the university’s relationship with the surrounding community. In fact, he
Both the university
and Princeton residents claim they have
the interests of the
greater community at
heart.
says, one of the five guiding principles of the planning process was to
sustain strong community relations, reflecting the university’s
desire to be a positive contributor
to the community in a variety of
ways.
Durkee says he recognizes that
the university depends on its surrounding community. “It is an important factor in faculty and staff
deciding to come to the university,” he says, “and so sustaining the
diversity and vitality of the com-
munity is important to us. We’ve
been here for more than 250 years
and we’re not leaving.”
Arecent report by the university,
“Education and Innovation, Enterprise and Engagement: The Impact
of Princeton University,” details
the overall financial impact of the
university, estimating that for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 2007,
Princeton University directly and
indirectly accounted for $833 million in economic activity and 8,951
full-time jobs in Mercer County
and $1.09 billion in economic activity and 10,655 full-time jobs in
New Jersey.
Princeton University, says Durkee, is also the largest taxpayer in
both the borough and the township.
A report on the Princeton Community Democratic Organization’s
website lists the 2006 property taxes paid by Princeton University
and compares them with taxes paid
by residents. The university paid
$816,186 to the borough as against
$8,729,551 by borough taxpayers;
$894,178 to the township as
against $17,247,745 by township
taxpayers; and $3,391,528 to the
schools as against $15,652,401 by
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borough
taxpayers
and
$37,190,546 by township taxpayers.
On top of tax payments, says
Durkee, the university makes annual contributions to the borough,
last year at a level of $1.2 million
— far and above its contribution
level just 10 years ago of $80,000 a
year. The university also donated
$500,000 each for the Princeton
Regional Schools’ recent construction program and for the new public library, and it has supported the
Arts Council, the hospital, and other community organizations. “It’s
been a pretty significant financial
commitment we’ve made,” says
Durkee.
Durkee also suggests some
ways the university contributes indirectly to the borough’s annual
budget — in addition to what it
pays in taxes. The borough profits
from parking revenues and hotel
fees at the Nassau Inn paid by people drawn to the town by the university, and the town experiences a
higher general level of economic
activity due to spending by the university community and its visitors.
“So the economy of the borough is
significantly enhanced by the fact
that the university is here,” concludes Durkee.
Next Durkee raises the university’s contributions to Princeton’s
quality of life through its cultural,
educational, and athletic offerings:
a community auditing program,
where, for a modest fee, about 800
people audit university classes;
free public lectures; theater; the art
museum and children’s library; inexpensive football and basketball
games; the university’s beautiful
grounds; and even the chapel congregation. These offerings are either free or of modest cost, says
Durkee, who adds, “All of these are
opportunities that in other communities people have to go some distance to experience.”
Recently the university has
launched another effort to help the
borough with a challenge it has
faced — the lack of enough volunteers to support the fire department, particularly during the day.
Because the university’s staff includes many who are trained firefighters in their home communities, the university has worked with
the borough to develop a program
where 20 university staff members
will be on call to supplement response to fire alarms during weekdays, and there will be no cost to
the borough except providing uni-
Town . . . : Sue Nemeth, a township committeewoman, and Dudley Sipprelle, a resident of the
borough, both want more from the university.
forms. “This was a way we thought
we could be helpful to a need the
community has,” says Durkee. “It
is hard to put a dollar value on it.”
Yet a number of Princeton residents do not view the contributions
listed by Durkee as sufficient, and
they have been expressing anger
that the university, given the size of
its endowment, is not its fair share.
Raucous might be one way to
‘When a wealthy private institution has
billions of dollars in
amassed wealth, the
tax exemption doesn’t make a lot of
sense.’
describe the April 26 meeting of
the Princeton Citizens for Tax Fairness, where Kristin Appelget,
Princeton’s director of community
and regional affairs, attempted to
establish a negotiation process
with the concerned taxpayers. People who attended the meeting reported that she was greeted with
“insults and jeering” — not the
normal tenor of town-gown interaction.
Sue Nemeth, a Princeton Township
committeewoman
and
founder of the Citizens for Tax
Fairness group, ran for office in
part, she says, “to represent folks
who feel overburdened by rising
property taxes.” Having lost money in their investments and retire-
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ment plans, Princeton residents
want to be able to stay in their
homes, says Nemeth, who believes
that the university has an obligation to do more to help them — in
combination, she adds, with
greater efficiencies in town government and consolidation.
“It is not enough for the university to just pay for the few services
they use,” says Nemeth. “Unfortunately taxes are not levied only on
the services you use — then I
would only pay for one child and
my neighbor, whose children are
grown, would pay nothing.”
Dudley Sipprelle, chair of the
Princeton Republican Committee
and a borough resident who settled
in Princeton after a career in the
State Department, agrees that the
university should be doing more
and points out that essential services are at risk. “In this state,” he
says, “where the government is
shutting down hospitals and laying
off people, and jobs are being lost,
that the university can go its merry
way and not pay its fair share for
this community and this state is, to
my way of thinking, a scandal.”
Sipprelle, who ran unsuccessfully for both Borough Council and
the school board within the past
year, maintains that having a taxfree endowment of $12 billion imposes obligations. (This number is
the amount the endowment is expected to sink to by the end of the
of the current fiscal year, according
to a March 5 article in the Daily
Princetonian, the undergraduate
newspaper.) “Princeton’s endowment has more money than the total
market capital of the Dow Jones 30
industrials and one-third greater
than Starbucks,” says Sipprelle.
And even though the endowment
has decreased, he suggests that the
obligation does not, noting that he
personally cannot plead with the
tax assessor for lower taxes because his 401(k) is down.
Nemeth states that the town
budget does not decrease when the
university does not pay what she
considers its fair share, and the result is that residents pay the difference, substituting for the university. Referring to the same document
cited above, detailing 2006 property tax payments, she says that if all
university property had been taxed
in 2006, taxes for each borough
property owner would have decreased by 24 percent.
The fact that the university occupies so much of the borough’s
land, suggests Sipprelle, also imposes an obligation. “Forty-six
percent of the borough’s property
is tax exempt, and 42 percent of
that, by far the largest footprint, is
occupied by the university,” he
says. “They do not pay property tax
although their property is the most
valuable in the borough in terms of
assessed valuation.”
The result is a tax burden shared
MAY 27, 2009
. . . Vs. Gown:
Princeton University
vice president Robert
Durkee and Kristin
Appelget, the director
of community and regional affairs, point
out that, despite other
budget cutbacks incurred at Old Nassau,
voluntary contributions to the Princeton
community are increasing.
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by borough taxpayers, numbering
slightly over 2,000, whose growth
is constrained by the minimal
amount of land available for development. Because the university
does not pay taxes on all its property, says Sipprelle, “that leaves just
shy of 2,500 parcels left in the borough that can be taxed, and someone has to pay for the police, sewers, library, roads, and all those
public services.”
Sipprelle maintains that what
the university should be paying in
taxes is the $30 million it would
owe if all its property were taxable,
and he is angry at the university’s
unwillingness to do so. “They
don’t want to pay, and they keep
stiffing the local community,” he
says. “If they were to pay their fair
share of taxes, they wouldn’t have
to make donations to anybody. Up
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be lifted.
Nemeth has a slightly more positive view. She suggests that the
university is well intentioned and
is hopeful that it will hear the community’s pain and reevaluate. She
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according to a February 26, 2009,
press release from Yale’s office of
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D
urkee, who has worked as
an administrator at Princeton almost from the time he graduated in
1969 [when he served as an undergraduate editor of the student
newspaper along with Richard K.
Rein, now the editor of U.S. 1] has
a different perspective on Yale’s
contribution. He maintains that,
viewed as a percentage of New
Haven’s total budget, it is comparatively smaller than Princeton’s
contribution to the local communities. Princeton, he says, determines
the appropriate amount it should be
paying to the borough and township, given its tax exemption, in
part by looking at its peer institutions, the other Ivy League
schools. “As a percentage of the
municipal budget,” he says,
“Princeton University’s contribution far outdistances the contributions of comparable institutions.”
Not all of the Ivies make a contribution, he says, although most do,
and even those that pay a larger
dollar amount are not even close to
Princeton’s contribution as a percentage of municipal budgets.
For Durkee it is the university’s
tax-exempt status that is the critical
factor in determining its obligations to the local community. “The
university is a tax-exempt institution,” he says. “Contrary to what
some people have said, it is not be-
cause we are small or recently
founded or lacking resources. We
are a tax-exempt institution because our mission is to provide education and research. The fact that
we are tax exempt means that not
only are we expected to devote all
of our resources to teaching and research, but the people who give us
money do so with the understanding that that is what we will spend
our money on.”
The national and state governments, which grant Princeton a tax
exemption because of the importance of its mission, require the
university to submit regular reports
documenting that it spends its
money only for educational and research purposes.
The university does pay taxes on
certain properties that are not a direct part of its educational program, and Durkee admits that contributing some funds to the community is appropriate, even within
the constraints of the tax exemption. “But you have to be careful to
get the balance right,” he asserts.
Sipprelle does not agree with
Durkee’s understanding of why
higher education institutions have
been granted tax exemptions. “It
was so they could not be censured,
so that they were guaranteed academic freedom and freedom of expression,” he says. “If they were
subject to taxation, they could be
taxed out of existence.” Clearly, he
adds, Princeton University does
not have to worry about being
taxed out of existence. His conclusion? “The university has got to be
brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century; they have to
pay their share.”
Nemeth questions the validity of
granting tax exemptions to wealthy
universities. “A tax exemption applies when an institution is new and
struggling or is state funded,” she
says, “but when it is a wealthy private institution with billions of dollars in amassed wealth in an endowment, the exemption doesn’t
make a lot of sense.”
An important question, Durkee
says, is whether the university’s
contribution offsets the kinds of
services it requires from the community. “Every time we have done
that analysis, it shows we have
more than offset the cost,” he says.
For more than 50 years the university has, for example, kept on
the tax rolls any university housing
properties that could produce
school children, for example, graduate student housing — even
though they could be tax exempt.
As a result, last year the university
paid $3.4 million in school taxes
and had 85 children in the local
school system from universityowned housing. “If you do the
math,” says Durkee, “the cost of
educating those students is about
$1.4 million, but our tax payment
was $3.4 million. You can do the
same analysis for other services
provided; every time we’ve done
that, it shows the amount we are
paying more than offsets the burden.
“We don’t want to have a negative financial impact; we want to
have a positive financial impact,”
says Durkee. “We do that through
paying taxes, making contributions, generating economic activity, and it all adds up to far more
than the burden that we put on the
community. And that’s before the
access to cultural, academic, and
athletic life on campus.”
Another issue raised by the tax
fairness camp is that high taxes are
forcing out the bottom half of the
economic scale, in particular the
Italian Americans who came to
Princeton as bricklayers in the
1890s when Woodrow Wilson began his building program and the
African American community that
has been in Princeton since the
1680s.
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several efforts made by the university to ensure that moderate-income housing is available in the
Princeton community. First of all,
it provides a fair amount of housing
for its own faculty, staff, and graduate students, allowing them to live
in Princeton without competing for
other moderate-income housing
available in the community. “I
don’t think there is any university
that houses as high a fraction of its
graduate students as we do — over
70 percent,” says Durkee.
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tributed for to affordable housing
programs in the borough and township for a long time, and it is currently, at its own expense, constructing a five-unit structure on
Leigh Avenue. The university has
also been an active participant in
Princeton Community Housing.
Sipprelle is not convinced by
Durkee’s arguments. He points out
that there may be other mechanisms for getting the university to
contribute what he considers its
fair share. He cites a recent effort
by the mayor of Providence, Rhode
Island, to put a head tax of $150 per
semester on students at Brown
University and three private colleges to make up the city’s budget
deficit. “It’s really about a shared
commitment to the well-being of
your community. Everyone should
be doing their part and coming to
the table,” said Mayor David Cicilline, according to a May 13 Associated Press article.
Whatever the ultimate resolution of Princeton residents’ attempts to convince the university
to cough up more money, the “tax
revolt” they are instigating is motivated in part by a perception that
Princeton University views the
town’s needs as peripheral to its
own. Sipprelle, after noting that the
university is a wonderful institution that makes Princeton what it
is, adds, “Princeton University
now has this navel of the universe
complex about themselves, that
everything revolves around them
and everything they want to do
should be done.” He suggests this
attitude is perhaps inevitable within the walls of what he says is the
fourth wealthiest academic institution in the world.
For Sipprelle, the issue of moving the Dinky is ancillary, but one
that is “symptomatic and illustrative of the university’s approach to
things.” The proposal to move the
Dinky farther from the borough
downtown, he suggests, is simply
for the university’s convenience in
realizing its vision for its arts center project.
“If the Dinky is moved,” says
Sipprelle, “it should be moved
closer, where there is more access
for people.” He also raises the issue
of the university’s proposal to
build a massive parking garage on
the east side of the campus as another reflection of the university’s
noblesse oblige approach.
The Dinky issue is huge for both
sides. The community wants the
station as close to downtown as
possible, while the university sees
its move farther away from downtown as essential in its plan for
building an arts and transit neighborhood approximately where the
Wawa now sits.
Durkee explains why the new
plan would require the Dinky to
stop about 460 feet south of where
it does now. The move is necessary
to create room for a driveway from
Alexander Road directly into the
university’s No. 7 garage, which
would relieve traffic snarls during
rush hour.
Durkee admits that the move
would inconvenience those who
walk from downtown to the train.
For members of the university
The university’s own
shuttle system is
available free to community people, and
will take them from
the Dinky to Nassau
Street.
community, who he says account
for a significant number of Dinky
riders, as well as for those who
drive to the Dinky, Durkee sees little effect. For those who walk from
town to the Dinky, but always stop
first at the Wawa for a cup of coffee
before going, the walk to the new
station, which would house the
Wawa, would actually be shorter.
To help out the many people
who find the distance to the
Dinky’s current location to be too
great, the university last year covered the cost of the new free shuttle
bus service in town, the “freebie,”
run by the borough during morning
and afternoon rush hours, and the
university has an arrangement with
New Jersey Transit that will sustain the service into the future.
“We’ve said we are willing to talk
with the borough and township
about possibly expanding both the
hours of the freebie and the route so
that more people in community
could take it,” Durkee says. He
adds that if the free shuttle reaches
farther into the township, it could
take more cars off the road and reduce pressure on parking.
The university’s own shuttle
system is also available to community people, says Durkee, and will
take them from the Dinky to Nassau Street. These two types of bus
service to the Dinky, suggests Durkee, “is the beginning of an integrated transit system and we are interested in thinking about how to
make it more robust.
“One reason we were interested
in developing a design for the area
that creates a real transit plaza,”
says Durkee, “is that we can design
it in a way that allows for shuttles
and other buses and taxis to collect
people at the Dinky or drop them
off fairly smoothly and move them
into the community.”
The university also wants to encourage people to bike to the
Dinky, and part of its plan involves
improving bike routes to the station, and providing convenient bicycle storage and repair facilities.
The plan for the arts and transportation neighborhood addresses
a number of community needs in
its five goals, Durkee maintains,
including resolving traffic backups, enhancing economic activity,
and creating new opportunities for
the community to engage in the
arts. The goals:
Create a new arts district for
the campus and the community.
From the university perspective,
the district will provide more opportunities for Princeton students
to engage in the arts — creative
writing; theater; dance; visual arts,
including sculpture and painting;
filmmaking; and music performance. The side benefit for the community will be more opportunities
MAY 27, 2009
to attend performances and exhibitions and enjoy the arts.
The plan includes a new arts
building, a satellite to the art museum devoted to contemporary art,
and an attractive outdoor plaza.
The two existing Dinky buildings
will be converted to a restaurant
and a cafe.
Durkee envisions the plaza as a
place where a mix of people will be
able to sit and talk and perhaps
watch musical performances or
participate chess tournaments. “I
see it as a place where people in
town, people coming into town for
the arts and retail spaces, and students and other university people
are all sharing a space,” says Durkee, “and it becomes a very attractive community space where town
and gown come together.”
At certain times of the year, particularly during the summer, says
Durkee, members of community
will not only be able to attend performances and exhibitions but potentially will be able to use the
space for community-based artistic activities.
Improve traffic circulation in
the area. The plan will separate
strands of traffic that now converge in the same area: students
crossing the road at Alexander and
University Place, traffic backups
on Alexander and Faculty Road,
cars pulling in and out of the Wawa
and dropping people at the Dinky.
A roundabout will replace the
light at Alexander and University
Place; the Wawa would move to
the new station; and the new driveway from Alexander Road into the
existing 700-plus-car parking
garage will allow its users to avoid
the indirect approach to the lot
through Faculty Road, which the
university estimates will save 350
vehicle miles per day.
Visitors to artistic performances
would be able to find the garage
more easily and then walk through
a nicely landscaped public space to
theater performances. Because the
newly planned neighborhood will
focus on the arts, it will no longer
house the university offices there
now, thereby reducing the number
of people who use that corridor to
get to and from work.
The plan will have 433 public
parking spaces within a fiveminute walk to the station as
against 413 at present, and Durkee
suggests parking in the lot will
replicate the types of parking
available now — the permit lot,
long-term meters, and meters on
the street.
Enhancing the Dinky experience. At the university’s expense,
a new Dinky station will be constructed that will be heated, air
conditioned, and will have a nice
waiting area that includes the
Wawa. Access to cars, buses, rideons, taxis, and even bicycles will
be convenient. Durkee points out
that responsibility for the closure
of the existing Dinky station falls
to New Jersey Transit, which has
been responsible for its operation,
but as part of the new plan, the university will take responsibility for
operating the new station.
Creating attractive lively
public spaces, including retail.
Creating a neighborhood that
is model of sustainability. The design of the new station will incorporate future capacity for bus rapid transit, as advised by New Jersey Transit. The bus would travel
in part on a dedicated roadway adjacent to the Dinky track, where
New Jersey Transit owns the right
of way, and then might continue on
to the streets into downtown
Princeton.
“I don’t have any idea whether
it will ever happen or when, but we
have designed the whole plan in a
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way that would accommodate
that,” says Durkee. In the shorter
term, he is hopeful that the arts
neighborhood will bring in more
people, helping to sustain the
Dinky by attracting more riders.
A side benefit of the project for
the Princeton community is that
the university will have to invest in
a lot of new infrastructure before it
can build anything. “We’ve been
hearing from a lot of local construction companies and unions
who are very excited about the
plan,” says Durkee. “In a time
when there is not a lot of construction activity, it would be an opportunity for a lot of jobs.”
Marvin Reed, chair of the planning board’s master plan subcommittee and former mayor of Princeton Borough, says that although the
community has drafted an amendment to its master plan resolving issues around transportation and
parking, it has not yet resolved
questions raised by the university’s
proposed new arts neighborhood.
“From the university’s point of
view, it is a nice location for them
to have all the performing arts
spaces for students, but it is done at
the expense of the community and
the people who regularly use the
train,” says Reed. “They have to
walk farther than now to get to the
station.”
Reed notes that the Dinky station was originally at the base of
the Blair Arch, behind Richardson
Auditorium, where the Princeton
University Store is now located,
and he observes: “People who
were a part of that history say, if
anything, we need a system where
the station is closer to the center.”
In Reed’s opinion the debate
about moving the station raises a
larger question about whether
pressure should be put on the state
to accelerate development of an
advanced express system, abandon
the train line, and convert to a busbased system that would not require people to change to a new vehicle to continue their journeys.
Such a system could also have
spokes reaching to the new Plainsboro town center, MarketFair,
Quaker Bridge, Carnegie Center,
and Forrestal Village.
Reed does not think that converting the Dinky to a bus rapid
transit system that would terminate
at the Dinky station is the best approach. “If you have to transfer, it
tends to discourage development
of an effective number of passengers,” he says. If passengers remain on the vehicle they get on at
Princeton Junction, which would
also stop at other places on Nassau
Street and in other parts of town,
then the location of the Dinky station, says Reed, is a moot question,
or at least not as important, and
such a fancy station as currently
conceived would not be necessary.
To enable the university to move
forward with this project will re-
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quire zoning changes in both the
borough and township, because the
proposed arts district would occupy land in both. Right now the issue is with the planning board,
which is in the process of updating
the community master plan with
respect to the whole campus expansion plan. “We have most of the
new language drafted except for
the part of the arts neighborhood,”
says Reed, adding that they are
likely to adopt what they have already completed and return to the
arts neighborhood at a later date.
At this point, says Reed, the
planning board has been suggesting to the university that they revise the plan to leave the station
where it is and build the arts neighborhood around it. “Nobody rejects the idea of doing an arts district,” he says. “The question is
how it is done and where the buildings for it are placed so that we can
maintain the interaction that the
community is used to.”
Durkee says that the plan has
been extensively discussed with
the public for close to three years in
various open houses, planning
The university is
hopeful that the arts
neighborhood will
bring in more people,
helping to sustain the
Dinky by attracting
more riders.
board meetings, and other settings.
Recently the discussion has gotten
more focused, starting with a presentation to the borough council on
May 5, and moving along with one
in June to the township, and then
one with the planning board.
A
t the moment the proposed
location for the arts and transportation neighborhood covers six different zones, and Durkee suggests
the first step might be to think
about what the right zoning is for
the area and whether the area
should include land farther south
on Alexander Road in addition to
the more limited arts and transit
neighborhood. Once the zoning is
in place, the university would refine its plans further and begin to
seek approvals.
“Even folks who have had different views about the specifics of
the plan, particularly the location
of the Dinky,” says Durkee, “seem
to have agreed with the goals. So I
could imagine putting zoning in
place to allow those things to happen, and at a later stage a discussion of the specifics of a particular
plan.”
So how will the issues between
university and town ultimately get
resolved? Robert Geddes, president and chair of Princeton Future
and former dean of the university’s
School of Architecture, would like
to see town/gown issues worked
out in the context of a community
planning process. Princeton Future, says Geddes, was created to
initiate discussion between borough and township, community
and university, businesses and institutions that would develop a vision of the type of community
Princeton wants to be. Both Marvin Reed and Kristin Appelget, the
director of community and regional affairs, sit in at Princeton Future’s meetings. “Not as members,” says Geddes, “but it is a very
collegial relationship.”
For Geddes, the Dinky issue
represents an opportunity for revisiting this process and bringing to
the table all the complexities that
should be considered. Geddes, as
an architect, offers his own personal suggestion for a design that he
believes might be acceptable to
both sides. His idea includes the
university’s proposal with two
squares and two plazas side by side
— one for the arts and one for
transportation. What he adds are
two major walkways and additional mixed-use development.
One walkway from the Dinky to
Blair Arch would be a beautifully
landscaped path into town. The
other would be a tree-lined promenade that stretches from the transportation plaza along Alexander
Road, along a newly developed
area between the rail line and
Alexander, which would include
housing, offices, research facilities, and lofts for artists, lawyers,
and other organizations. Geddes
believes this new neighborhood
would offer enormous economic
benefits for the community.
What Geddes envisions is a very
dense and intense development,
with buildings as high as five to six
stories; it would also include
neighborhood convenience stores.
Geddes explains what he means
by density and intensity. “You can
have density like on a subway car
or in a crowd trying to get across
34th Street and 8th Avenue,” he
says. But intensity emphasizes casual, face-to-face interactions on
the street; the focus is on people
coming together, as they do in the
downtown plaza next to the Princeton Public Library. A mix of people
and activities similar to what he is
describing, says Geddes, is why
Brooklyn is so successful now.
Durkee suggests that the university itself considers a mixed-use
development similar to what Geddes is describing to be essential; it
is in fact mentioned at the end of
the campus plan as something that
may happen beyond the plan’s 10year horizon. The university’s idea
is for a mixed-use neighborhood,
with community housing and some
additional retail; Durkee muses
that it might also be a nice living
area for artists teaching for a year
in the university’s expanded arts
program.
Although the idea is enticing,
Durkee says that just the arts and
transportation neighborhood itself
is ambitious in this recession; the
satellite for the arts museum, for
example, is not part of the initial
plan. “We thought it was plenty
ambitious to try within 10 years to
do the infrastructure, the new station, develop retail, and construct
the first arts building,” he says.
Later on the university will add
other arts buildings and think about
what will happen farther down
Alexander.
In the end the decision about
what is best for the Princeton community will require that both
pieces of the community, town and
gown, come together with a willingness to listen to each other’s priorities. A genuine dialogue is perhaps the only way to bring all the
requirements and their implications to the table, with the hope that
a better solution will result.
Perhaps both sides need to assume a dash of humility as they approach each other. On the one
hand, Princeton University should
remember that, despite its current
financial power, it was not doing so
well when it came to the Princeton
city fathers many years ago looking for a new place to situate itself.
Princeton was already a thriving
community, and its city fathers decided to give the College of New
Jersey 10 acres of prime real estate,
1,000 pounds, and 200 acres for a
wood lot. Eventually it was the university that renamed itself after the
town and not vice versa.
But on the other hand, Princeton’s residents need to admit to
themselves squarely that the existence of the university and all it has
to offer is a large part of why they
live where they live.
Only then should the negotiations begin.
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ay Disch decided to
trade independence for a bigger
platform. Meg Coughlan wanted to
earn her broker’s license and to
work in her own community of
Montgomery. Susan Norman saw a
crying need for a residential real
estate office in Cranbury.
If it has been a buyer’s market
for houses, it is also a buyer’s market for realty businesses. Disch,
Coughlan, and Norman are the
newest broker managers at Henderson Sotheby’s International, the
half-century old family business
that has popped up with its third,
fourth, and fifth locations.
“A couple of opportunities presented themselves in markets
where we had been in the past,”
says Jud Henderson. “The most
important part of it is getting the
right people. We have been thrilled
with the quality of people that have
come to be in charge and with the
agents that have joined us.”
The firm was founded in 1953
by John T. Henderson Sr. and continued under the ownership of the
late John T. Henderson Jr. Except
for a three year period when it was
sold to what was then Gloria Nilson GMAC, it was under Henderson family control. It was reestablished in 2002 as the Princeton Real Estate Group, led by brothers
Judson and Matthew Henderson,
and when it joined the Sotheby’s
franchise it took back the Henderson name.
The first branch office the one in
Pennington, was acquired when
Tod Peyton closed his independent
firm. The Hendersons bought it,
closed the Nassau Street office,
and kept Peyton’s Pennington one.
At its peak, the company had 12 locations, including those in Yardley,
Lambertville, and Flemington. But
Henderson says five is enough, at
least for now. “We have good control over these five.”
Effective May 1, Disch sold
Disch Realty but remains in
Hopewell as broker manager and is
taking over the commercial real estate practice. Last fall Coughlan
A buyer’s market in
real estate? Henderson thinks so, and
has taken over the offices of several competitors.
opened in a Belle Mead space that
had previously been a Henderson
office. And Norman carved out a
niche on Cranbury’s Main Street in
April.
To hear Norman tell it, Cranbury
residents are pleased to have a real
estate office at the former Stults
Realty location. “Just from having
an office, we have already had
walk-in business,” she says. “People knock on the door and peer in.
There is no other real estate company in town.” She anticipates listings in the Route 130 corridor,
from North Brunswick to Burlington County, including Medford,
Wrightstown, and Freehold, and
has just listed one in Cherry Hill.
“These people are specifically calling for Sotheby’s.”
Norman grew up in Massachusetts, the daughter of a teacher, and
has a bachelor’s degree in health
administration from Thomas Edison State College. She is a single
mother with three children and
went into the real estate business in
1992. “I knew I had to do real well
in real estate,” she says, citing the
extra degrees she has earned. Norman was recruited as the virtual
leader for Henderson’s Cranbury
business but pushed for opening a
brick and mortar space. “There
was a need for a prominent realty
company here,” says Norman. “It
would be stupid not to do this.
What drew me to Sotheby’s, and
especially the Henderson Sotheby’s, is that they are putting together state of the art facilities with online technology and great programs of Internet advertising. It
blew away what any of us were
used to doing.” She has recruited
six agents — four from Coldwell
Banker, one from Re/Max — and
acquired one from Henderson.
Meg Dougherty Coughlan, who
was born in Princeton and went to
Stuart Country Day School, married an insurance broker and has
three grown daughters. She started
in the business with Weidel in
Bucks County and moved back to
Princeton five years ago.
It can be challenging to break into real estate here. “Restarting in
any new marketplace in any sales
area is always a formidable task,
particularly when there are so
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lan. “Shortly after I joined Henderson I heard
that this office was in the works. I have been
in this business for 18 years. I thought it
would be a new challenge — to get my broker’s license — and work in my own community.”
Princeton can be also challenging for the
home buyer. “Montgomery has more options
for buyers who want newer homes that are
close to Princeton and commuter routes. A lot
of real estate business gets done in Montgomery but there are few real estate offices,”
she says. She plans to get listings in Somerset
County as well, including Hillsborough.
“I’m not big on being yoked,” says Disch,
who has the fifth office in the network. He
graduated from Cornell in 1980 with a degree
in industrial and labor relations. “I have been
on my own since 1993 when I left Merck. But
I own the building with my wife and will stay
on as broker manager. So I am only semiyoked.
“And it was really hard being an independent, new guy in a down market.” It’s hard to
meet client expectations. “They are asking
for multiple advertising, as many websites as
possible, and glossy color 8 x 11s, and I wasn’t in a position to do that. It’s going to give
me a bigger platform to get some listings that
I might not have been considered for before.”
Plus, he will get the commercial business
for the five-office operation. Matt Henderson
and Hal Hoeland had been doing the commercial, but Hoeland is on sabbatical and
“Matt couldn’t wait to give up the property
management, and we will still work together
on the commercial. We’ve known each other
for years; there is no issue about not liking or
trusting each other.”
He and his wife, Erica, built and sold Triumph Brewery and used the proceeds to buy
a farmhouse in the Sourland Mountains.
Then he started PowerWorks, to take advantage of electricity deregulation, and was
lucky to break even by selling it just before
Enron crashed. Then he was a commercial
agent at Trillium Realty, working for Paul
McArthur. After the required three years he
opened Disch Realty in 2005, and merged
with Henderson at the beginning of May. He
has four full time and 10 part-time brokers.
The deal comes with incentives for future
growth. “It was a really good deal for both
parties. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I
know these guys. There is a lot of synergy
here.”
He remembers that John Henderson always liked to have a Hopewell office and had
always had an eye on his building, formerly a
residence on the corner of Princeton Avenue.
The growing Henderson family is also experience a reunion of sorts at its home office
on Chambers Street in downtown Princeton.
Peggy Henderson, John Jr.’s widow and still
active in the business, reports that her daughter, Jane Kenyon, who had a contractual
agreement to remain with Gloria Nilson after
Henderson originally sold out to that agency,
now has returned to the Henderson fold. “She
shares an office with her two brothers,” says
her mother. “I call it the playpen.”
And, Peggy Henderson continues, her
granddaughter, Kenyon’s daughter Isabelle,
is now working for Princeton Network LLC,
Henderson’s referral company. She just graduated from Penn and is planning to move to
Hong Kong next April to take a banking job.
“For now,” says the proud grandmother, “we
are four generations.”
— Barbara Figge Fox
Henderson Sotheby’s International
Realty, 34 Chambers Street, Suite
101, Princeton 08542; 609-924-1000;
fax, 609-924-7743. Judson Henderson, broker of record. Home page:
www.hendersonsir.com.
37 North Main Street, Cranbury 08512;
609-395-0444. Susan Norman, manager.
134 South Main Street, Pennington
08534; 609-737-9550; fax, 609-7716883. Cathy Nemeth, manager.
45 East Broad Street, Hopewell 08525;
609-466-4666; fax, 609-466-4611.
Raymond E. Disch, broker.
2161 Route 206, Belle Mead 08502; 908874-0000; fax, 908-874-5572. Meg
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MAY 27, 2009
HVCB Opens in Princeton
H
opewell Valley Community Bank
will open a new branch next month at the intersection of Route 206 and Mount Lucas
Road.
The Princeton branch will be in a leased
stucco building formerly occupied by Bank
of America. HVC Bank board chairman Pat
Ryan said the bank plans to staff the branch
with people familiar with the Princeton
community. The Princeton branch will be
HVCB’s seventh.
Hopewell Valley Community Bank
(HWDY), 4 Route 31 South, Box 999,
Pennington 08534; 609-466-2900;
fax, 609-730-9144. James Hyman,
president and CEO. Home page:
www.hvcbonline.com.
No More Retreat At St. Joe’s
W
ith money too tight to continue
funding, St. Joseph’s Seminary will close its
30-year-old retreat programs forever on Friday, May 29.
The seminary’s ruling body, the Catholic
Vincentian order, will now study what the
future will hold for the property, a valuable
44-acre parcel off Route 1, just behind
Princeton Forrestal Village. Speculation
that the property might be sold, however, are
premature. According to the Rev. Aidan
Rooney at St. Joseph’s, a committee has
been formed to study all possibilities, including sale and reuse, but no one yet knows
what will happen to the ground.
David Knights of Picus Associates on
College Road East, the developer of Princeton Forrestal Village (itself a former St.
Joseph’s property) and real estate consultant
to Princeton University, which bought that
parcel in 1984, said that no one has contacted his office with any questions about the
Comeback for Jean Luc?
In the Hamptons, Yes
When the Princeton-based partners of Ed “Jean Luc” Kleefield an-
nounced their separation and the closing of their restaurant on Alexander
Road, JL Ivy, one proof cited of
Kleefield’s mismanagement was the
fact that his restaurants in the Hamptons had also been closed under the burden of debts and bad checks.
Not so fast, the PR savvy Jean Luc
told the New York Post just before the
Memorial Day weekend. In fact, he
promised, three of his restaurants in the
Hamptons — JLX, Grappa, and
Madame Tong’s — would be ready to
serve their loyal following over the
three-day weekend. “The food has been
ordered, the miniskirts are coming out,
and there’s only one guy who could pull
this off . . . moi,” he was quoted as saying in the May 24 Post.
But not everyone apparently got the
memo. According to a report in the
Southampton Press, police were called
Friday, May 22, to the front lawn of
Madame Tong’s to quell a dispute between Kleefield and Lyle Pike, who
claimed he was the owner of the restaurant, not Kleefield. Pike had previously
charged Kleefield with writing two bad
checks for a total of $295,000. Police
left the restaurant without making any
arrests, and both Kleefield and Pike
conducted separate, but mostly contradictory, interviews with the Southampton media.
As for the reopening of the restaurants, Kleefield reported on Tuesday,
May 26, that they all had reopened as he
predicted they would to the Post.
Kleefield also disputed the account given by his former Princeton partners in
U.S. 1’s May 20 issue and vowed that
he would continue to fight for control of
the Alexander Road restaurant.
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5000-17,500/SF, South Brunswick
land. Picus facilitated the Forrestal
deal and has, with the university,
had a longtime, amicable relationship with the seminary and the Vincentians, Knights said in a phone
interview last week. If a sale was in
the offing, he said, he would at
least expect to know about it.
St.
Joseph’s
Seminary,
Mapleton & Seminary Roads,
Princeton 08542; 609-4522144. Rev. Michael Carroll,
president.
Exelon Still in Hunt
for NRG Takeover
William Barish - [email protected]
Sale or lease, Route 31, Pennington
4000-16,000/SF
Al Toto - [email protected]
www.112Titusmill.com
West Windsor, 13,000/SF Sale or Lease
William Barish - [email protected]
Princeton, 1750/SF, Office Condo
6 Private offices, conference room,
Reception area - corner unit - 12 Roszel Road
Al Toto - [email protected] - reduced price $299,000
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For more information and other opportunities, please
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A
federal agency has approved utility company Exelon’s
proposal to buy power generator
NRG Energy, a bid that NRG continues to reject as inadequate. The
4-0 vote by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission is one of
several regulatory approvals
Chicago-based Exelon Corp.
needs to complete the deal NRG.
Exelon proposed buying NRG
last October in an all-stock deal
now worth nearly $6 billion. A
combined Exelon and NRG would
create the nation’s largest power
company, big enough to power
nearly 45 million homes with
47,000 megawatts.
Exelon, the nation’s largest nuclear power company, praised the
ruling, calling it a significant step
toward completing the regulatory
process. NRG has said regulatory
approval is not as important as
“Exelon’s continued refusal to offer appropriate value to NRG
stockholders.”
NRG Energy Inc. (NRG), 211
Carnegie Center, Princeton
08540-6213; 609-524-4500;
fax, 609-524-4501. David
Crane, president and CEO.
www.nrgenergy.com.
Crosstown Moves
GenLed Financial Services,
Box 441, Plainsboro 08536;
609-430-3007. Zahid Rupani
CPA, president. Home page:
www.genled.com.
Accountant Zahid Rupani appears to have left his office at Research Park. His firm, however,
can be reached at its longtime post
office box address.
Novovision Inc., 301 North
Harrison Street, Princeton
08540; 732-329-3209; fax,
732-329-2420. Wally Soufi,
product manager. www.novovision.com.
Software developer and consultant Wally Soufi has moved
NovoVision from Jefferson Plaza
to North Harrison Drive.
Founded in 1993 as a general
healthcare consulting firm, NovoVision in 1999 began developing
specialty products. Its flagship
product, NovoPath is an anatomic
pathology software designed to
improve the handling and efficiency of medical specimens.
Weidel Commercial Realtors,
2 Route 31 South, Pennington 08534; 609-737-2077;
fax, 609-730-8546. Steve
Marusky CCIM, director,
commercial
properties.
www.weidel.com.
Steve Marusky has moved the
Weidel Commercial office from
Main Street in Lawrenceville back
to Route 31 in Pennington.
Between the Lines
their staff went out of their way to
make this a memorable evening.
We were especially touched and
happy to have Joan Levin, Mark’s
wife there to kick off this first public educational event, which we
hope to repeat for many years to
come. Those interested in volunteering for CASA or donating to
CASA, please go to www.casamercer.org or call 609-4340050 for more information.
Lori Morris
Executive Director,
CASA of Mercer County
Randall Kirkpatrick
Development Director
Art Museum Brings
‘Outside In’
I
t was our pleasure to welcome
the 900 people who attended Family Day (a record number) on May
16, sponsored by the Friends of
Princeton University Art Museum! This eagerly anticipated annual event features art projects, live
entertainment, a Treasure Hunt,
and lunch - all offered free to the
community. This year’s theme celebrated Asian art and culture,
drawing inspiration from the museum’s impressive collection, as
well as the fascinating works on
view in Outside In: Chinese x
American x Contemporary Art (a
special exhibition open through
Sunday, June 7).
Throughout the day children
were able to create their own
works of art: masks, calligraphy,
origami, brush painting, Chinese
screens, and Chinese knotting.
MAY 27, 2009
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OFFICE RENTALS
1st 3 months FREE. Hamilton Office,
Klockner Road. 1100 sq. ft. Call 609528-0984.
1st 3 months FREE. Hamilton Office,
Klockner Road. 2166 sq. ft. Call 609528-0984.
1st 3 months FREE. Morrisville Offices. Bridge St. 2@1500 sqft ea. Call
609-528-0984.
2nd Floor Office Condo in Montgomery Knoll: 500 sq. ft. 2 offices with
reception area. Call 609-924-9214.
Cranbury Office or Retail: In Village
near Post Office. Three rooms on Main
Street. Good visibility. $1,200. Also three
rooms on Park Place, $965, good parking. 609-529-6891.
They and their families were treated to selections from the chamber
ensemble Music from China, playing traditional Chinese instruments and engaging their young
audience in an interactive program. Several groups from the
Princeton Chinese Language
School delighted our visitors with
dance and yo-yo performances. A
Treasure Hunt led our guests to
discover many of the museum’s
own treasures in the collection.
Prizes were given to everyone who
participated in the exploration.
Special thanks to Susan Cheng
and Music from China, as well as
art teachers Amarilis Matteo,
Phyllis Wright, Brad Holcombe,
and Vicky Moy. The museum is
extremely grateful to the many students, parents, teachers, and staff
from the Princeton Chinese Language School, who generously
provided their time and talents:
Refen Koh, Helen Nan, Tracy
Kuo, Stephen Kuo, Jason Tam,
Benjamin Hong, Mei J. Hong,
Charlton Hook, Wen Chyi Shyu,
Greg Tang, Yachuan Tang, Sheron
Tang, Wee-fen Tsui, Shu-Hsin
Hsieh and her Senior Dance
Troupe, and Grace Kuo and her
junior dance troupe. What a wonderful collaboration!
Join us next year on Saturday,
May 22, for Family Day 2010.
Liz Murray
Friends of Princeton University
Art Museum
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Office Opportunities
OFFICE RENTALS
AREA OFFICE RENTALS
Princeton, Trenton, Hamilton, Hopewell, Montgomery,
Ewing, Hightstown, Lawrenceville and other Mercer,
Somerset & Middlesex Communities. Class A, B and
C Space Available.
Pennington - Office For Lease
Howe Commons • 65 South Main St., Downtown Pennington.
200 - 1,315 SF 1-5-year term, close to restaurants, shopping.
Ample parking on site. ONLY 4 OFFICE SUITES LEFT!
For details on space
and rates, contact
www.WeidelCommercial.com
Cranbury Village: 1 person private
office in professional building. Shared
waiting room. Parking. $500/month utilities included. 609-655-3493.
Hamilton: 2500 + sq. ft., Rt. 33 Office
Complex, Reception, 3 Offices, 2 bathrooms, large open space, 609-9360960, or [email protected]
Hightstown: 2nd floor office suite.
Separate entrance, off-street parking,
waiting area, large secretarial area, 3
private offices, 2 bathrooms, 1000 sq. ft.
$1100 per month plus utilities. Also: an
office (333 sq. ft.) shop (667 sq. ft.) combination, HVAC for office, bathroom,
plenty of parking. Perfect for small contractor or distributor. No fabrication allowed. $900 per month plus utilities. Also: 2-room office in downtown area.
$300 per month plus electric. Please call
609-448-6628 for any of the above.
Montgomery Knoll office Condo:
375 square feet 2nd floor carpeted usable office space divided as two offices
with windows with pleasant view and reception area plus private bathroom and
ample storage space. $750 per month.
Call or e-mail to [email protected], 609-688-1808.
Al Toto [email protected]
Office - Pennington Pointe
450 - 4,400 SF Available
FREE RENT AVAILABLE! 1 to 5-yr. lease terms available.
The Longer the lease, the lower the rent.
Space immediately available! Call Now!
Office Space for Rent in Montgomery/Skillman area for psychotherapist or nutritionist; shared lobby and
kitchen areas; $425 per month; 3 month
lease to start; terms flexible. 609-4971560.
LIGHT MANUFACTURING, R&D
ASSEMBLY
40,000/SF, Route 31 & I-95, Ewing
Visit www.penningtonpointoffice.com
Lease - Princeton Office - Nassau Street
1,181 SF. 1 Private office. Bull Pen for six
Conference Room. Storage. Parking on site. RENT REDUCED!
- 20’ clear
- Tailboard & drive in access
- New roof, sealed floor
- 3500/SF of office
- Heavy power
- Expansion potential
Contact:
William Barish, Broker
[email protected]
609-921-8844
Cell: 609-731-6076
Hopewell Boro, Office/Professional/Records
500-30,000/SF Office & low priced storage, warehouse
★
William Barish [email protected]
Tree Farm Village - 23,000 SF
WOODSIDE AT THE OFFICE CENTER
Plainsboro, New Jersey
1,500-4,500 SF Retail Available Immediately, Liquor License
Available, New Building, Great Location, Flexible Terms
Suites of Approx. 800, 909, 1,818 (fully furnished) & 2,121 Sq. Ft.
Available for Immediate Occupancy
Modern, One-Story Office Buildings
•
609-799-0220
Park-Like Setting
For more information and other opportunities, please
call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
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Quality Office Space at Affordable Prices
OFFICE RENTALS
Pennington - Hopewell: Straube
Center offices from virtual office, 25 to
300 square feet and office suites, 500 to
1,700 square feet. From $100 per
month, short and long term. Storage
space, individual signage, conference
rooms, copier, Verizon Fios available,
call
609-737-3322
or
e-mail
[email protected] www.straubecenter.com
NEW CONSTRUCTION
FOR SALE
Rocky Hill
1026 Rt 518
Office/Medical Space
1250 SF-9000 SF
Trenton
10 Rutgers Place,
Professional Office Building
$425,000
Excellent downtown location!
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail [email protected]
Princeton - Location, Location: Jefferson Plaza, Princeton. 600/1200 sq.
ft., 1 block off Route 1, private entrance,
private
bathroom
and
parking.
$960/$1700 plus utilities. 609-5772793; [email protected].
Princeton Professional Office:
11x16 private garden setting. Shared
conference/waiting rooms, parking, utilities. North Harrison Street. 609-9242809.
Princeton Professional Park, off
Route One. 600 sq. ft. - Furnished. Perfect for Law Firm, Medical, CPAs, Consultants. Call 732-329-1601 for details.
Princeton- 192 Nassau St. Two single offices available for lease. 251 SF &
404 SF. Can be leased individually or
combined. Please call 609-921-6060 for
details.
Lawrenceville
168 Franklin Corner Road
3200 SF, 1350 SF, 1150 SF
Lawrenceville
168 Franklin Corner Road
from 500 SF to 3500 SF
Princeton- Research Park Rt. 206
opposite Princeton Airport. 878 SF four
room office & 919 SF open space with
small kitchenette, please call 609-9216060 for details.
Princeton-Nassau Street: Sublet 13 rooms, 2nd floor, includes parking/utilities. Call 609-924-6270. Ask for Wendy.
Princeton: Research Park/Off of
Route 206. For Psychotherapist. PT/FT
availability. Call 609-921-6646 for more
information.
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Princeton
812 State Rd.
120 SF, 425 SF
Hamilton
127 Route 206
350 SF, 2260 SF, 3900 SF
Unique Rental Space zoning (I3), ordinance passed for retail and recreation
activities, ample parking all utilities, one
1200’, one 2000’, one 2500’ one 3600’,
and one 10,000. Located at 325 and 335
New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call
Harold 732-329-2311.
REAL ESTATE
First Time Buyers: Why rent when
you can own? Free list of homes available with no money down for qualified
buyers. Text Rent 1606 to 555000. Std.
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msg/data service rates apply. Text
T1606 For Terms RE/MAX Tri County.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
Hightstown: Beautiful 1600 sq. ft.
storefront in downtown area. $1700 per
month plus utilities. Call 609-448-6628.
Nassau Street Storage Space: 1227
SF and 2671 SF basement storage.
Clean, dry, secure space. Call 609-9216060 for details.
STUDIO SPACE
Studio space for classes, workshops, etc. 19 ft x 19 ft. space with lots
of natural light. $30 per hour. Kingston.
Call 609-468-1286.
HOUSING FOR SALE
Foxmoor Community Townhome
for Sale in Robbinsville: 2-bedroom, 2
1/2-bath with garage in desirable Foxmoor community. Perfect for emptynesters or single professionals. Cherry
wood cabinets throughout. Landscaped
yard with retractable awning. Fireplace
and many other upgrades. Call the owners at 609-638-4242. Asking $299,900.
Roosevelt - Open House, Sunday,
May 31 1 to 3 p.m.: 17 Lake Drive.
Route 571 East to Lake Drive. Very special home on 1/2 acre. 4 Bedrooms, 3
Baths, eat-in kitch, D/R, L/R, den, huge
family room, garage, in-ground pool.
Spotless palace! Many amenities and
extras. New Price $469,900. Levinson
Associates Realtors. 609-655-5535.
Marketed by Mel Adlerman. 609-6557788.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Cranbury Apartment for Rent: One
bedroom and bath, vaulted ceiling on
second floor. Main St. near Post Office.
Occupancy, flexible; laundry facility.
$900. 609-529-6891.
Hopewell Borough Apartments: 1,
2, and 3 bedroom units. Ideally located
in central Hopewell Borough. LR, DR,
newly refinished wood floors, large yard.
1 off-street parking space and on-site
laundry. Rents range from $770 to
$1,600. Nassau Street Properties, 908874-5400, ext. 802.
Lawrence Twp. House for Rent: 3
BRs, 1 1/2 Bath, LR/DR, Kitchen, full
basement, off-street parking, great
neighborhood / schools. $1250 pm 609902-0709.
Pennington-W. Franklin Ave & Rte.
31: Two-story single house, 4 BR, 2
Baths, DR, FR, Kitchen, Garage, Basement, Attic Storage, Landscape & Snow
Removal included; $2,400/mo + Utilities; Please call 609-737-3322, E-mail:
[email protected]
Laboratories
& Research
Center
Princeton Corporate Plaza
with over 80 scientific companies
U.S. 1 Route 1 Frontage
Exit 8A NJ Tpke
1 Rossmoor Drive, Monroe Twp.
6900 SF (Bank, Rest., Various Uses)
950 SF (Hair Salon)
New Laboratory Incubator #4
Bordentown
3 Third Street
2008 SF
Contact:
Cosmo Iacavazzi
Bryce Thompson Jr.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Thompson Realty of Princeton
195 Nassau St. • Princeton, NJ 08542
Tel 609-921-7655 • Fax 609-921-9463
• Affordable & Immediate
• Occupancy Available
• Innovation/Flexibility
• Promoting the Scientific Community
PARK-LIKE CAMPUS WITH OVER 80 SCIENTIFIC COMPANIES
WALK TO HOTEL & GYM FACILITIES • CAFE ON PREMISES
GREAT LOCATION
IN RESEARCH
CORRIDOR
www.princetoncorporateplaza.com • 732-329-3655
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HELP WANTED
Customer Service/Business
Development: Part-time. From
home. Database management,
and vertical marketing to new
and
existing
accounts.
Sales/Telemarketing experience
preferred. Safeguard business
printing and promotional products. 609-924-2465.
Dance Teacher: Experienced
professional needed to inspire
motivated students. Well-established school in Mercer County,
NJ. 2009-2010 school year. Resume to [email protected] and call 609-7377596.
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Thai Hostess/ Chef wanted
for Princeton Restaurant: 609356-8913 or [email protected].
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CAREER SERVICES
Career Coach to 2 Major
Outplacement Firms: Coach
and provide winning resumes/
cover letters. Karen Tombacher
609-987-8717.
J&J Staffing Resources, has been a leader in
the employment industry since 1972.
We specialize in: Direct Hire, Temp to Hire
and Temporary Placements.
Certified Professional Resume Writer, Licensed Career
Counselor: Assessments/job
search/career. Resumes/cover
letters. Guarneri Associates. [email protected].
866-8814055 toll-free.
Job Worries? Let Dr. Sandra
Grundfest, licensed psychologist
and certified career counselor,
help you with your career goals
and job search skills. Call 609921-8401 or 732-873-1212 (License #2855)
JOBS WANTED
Dog Groomer: Experienced.
Also a student to learn dog
grooming. Job guaranteed.
Princeton Junction location. 609897-9500. 609-477-4683.
Administrative
assistant/
customer service Experienced
with excellent work ethics, communication + management skills.
Certified microsoft user specialist. Recognized for contributions
to corporate goals. Please contact Nancy Naar @ 732-8211211.
Editor: Work from home and
proof federal court transcripts.
Will supervise a small team.
Work 25 hours per week during
business hours. Income to $35
per hour, plus bonuses. Must
have transcription experience, 4year college degree, and type 70
Do you need good clerical,
data entry, word processing,
administrative support? My
skills include oral and writing
abilities, strong organization and
proofreading, attention to details
and accuracy. Optimum team
contributor effectively handles
HOUSING FOR RENT
Princeton area four bedroom house
in wooded country setting - fireplace and
pond.
http://princetonrentals.homestead.com/. 609-333-6932
WANTED TO RENT
Mercer County: Adult 30+ female, no
live-ins, non-smoker. Mature F/T student science major, reliable income.
Separate Unit - No Roommates. By July
1st. Email [email protected]
CONTRACTING
Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Hauling/All Yard Work
from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
WINDOW CLEANING
Window Washing: Lolio Window
Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609-271-8860.
HOME MAINTENANCE
Dr. Honey-Do List, Handyman for
Hire: Odd jobs/yard work/you name it.
$20 per man hour. Serving Mercer and
Hunterdon Counties and Bucks County,
Pa. Call Alex at 609-213-4899.
Handyman: Electrical, plumbing, any
projects around the house. 609-2756631.
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PERSONAL SERVICES
MENTAL HEALTH
INSTRUCTION
Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs. Many
services available. Reasonable rates.
Call Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit
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Transporter: Retired professional,
30 years local driving experience, will
safely drive your car to business, medical, shopping, airports. If no license,
senior citizen, unable to drive, call 609773-0459.
Tutoring Available in Reading: Writing and math. I am certified kindergarten
through fifth grade. Pursuing Master’s in
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Virtual Assistant handling your
business globally. Reports typed, transcription, emails, calendar mgmt,
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PSYCHOTHERAPY: Healing problems at their source. Body: Our barometer of decisions we make that hurt or
heal. Mind: discovering responsibility
and inner knowing. Spirit: deeper level
guidance through dreams and pastlife
therapy. Individuals, couples. In person
or phone. V. Meluskey, Ph.D. 609-9213572
Virtual Assistant: Do you need helping managing your life off and on the
road? Virtual Assistance @ Your Finger
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send e-mail to [email protected] 800-745-1166.
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Computer Service: Computer repair,
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Call 609-213-8271.
MS Access Development: We build
custom business processes to streamline and control day-to-day tasks of running a business. No upfront payments
and Fee Estimates. Contact Michael
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Bookkeeping for your bottom line.
QuickBooks certified user. Call Joan today at Kaspin Associates 609-4900888. @ClassHeading:TAX SERVICES
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Services: For individuals and small
businesses. Notary, computerized tax
preparation, paralegal services. Your
place or mine. Fast response, free consultation, reasonable costs. Gerald
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Childcare/Pre-School Home: West
Windsor. On 3 private acres. Holistic,
imaginative, fun. Nourishing each
child’s talents for 25 years. Explore the
difference. homeagainearlyschool.com.
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Massage and Reflexology: The
benefits are beyond what we even fathom. Experience deep relaxation, heightened well-being, improved health. Holistic practitioner offering reflexology,
Swedish and shiatsu massage. Available for on-site massage at the work
place, etc. Gift certificates, flexible
hours. Call Marilyn 609-403-8403.
Massage By Marina: Soulful, nurturing, eclectic and caring. Four hands.
Cell 609-468-7726, 609-275-1998.
Upscale, Classy Est. Staff: Enjoy
our hot pack service, an oasis for your
soul and spirit. Enjoy the deep tissue
and healing touch of our friendly, certified massage therapists. Call: 609-5200050. (Princeton off Route 1 Behind
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Having problems with life issues?
Stress, anxiety, depression, relationships... Children and adults. Free consultation. Working in person or by
phone. Rafael Sharon, Psychoanalyst
609-683-7808.
Princeton Counseling and Psychotherapy: Individual, couples, family.
Anxiety, depression, relationship issues. Most major insurances accepted.
609-658-3653.
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Lessons in Your Home: Music lessons in your home. Piano, clarinet, saxophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Math, Science, English & SAT Tutoring: Available in your home. Brown
University educated college professor.
Experienced with gifted, under-achieving and learning disabled students. Free
initial consultation. Call Bruce 609-3710950.
Music Lessons - Farrington’s Music: Piano, guitar, drum, sax, clarinet,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin. $28 half
hour. School of Rock. Join the band!
Princeton 609-924-8282. Princeton
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Recent UC Berkeley graduate, math
major, currently Ph.D student offering
tutoring for grades K-12 in SAT prep as
well as general math, science. and writing. If interested, please contact Kevin at
510-847-6931.
SAT Mathematics Summer Camp:
The Lawrenceville School. Week long
camps throughout June and July.
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attentional issues? Our experienced,
certified coaches can help you find effective strategies and tools. Contact us at
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Looking for a Different Kind of
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rock, classical and world music. The
group has performed at many premier
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Counties including Katmandu and John
and Peter’s. Hall of Mirrors has opened
for Spiraling (an ensemble led by keyboardist Tom Brislin of: Yes, Debbie Harry’s solo band, Meatloaf, and Camel),
and has performed with the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, Lisa Bouchelle, and
Sharon Silvertein. To have Hall of Mirrors play at your special event, please
call Vaughan at 609-259-5768.
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609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
One Man Band: Keyboardist for your
wedding or party. Perfect entertainment.
You’ll love the variety. Duos available.
Call Ed at 609-424-0660.
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Computer with XP: Good condition.
$100 with trade. Call 609-275-6930.
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p.m. Something for all ages: Baby
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antiques, home goods, books, music,
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I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob
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Richard K. Rein
hen I
die some poor soul
is going to have to make an expedition up to my attic and decide what
to do with more than 40 years
worth of hand-written notes,
source material, rough drafts, and
magazine and newspaper clippings
that comprise the work that has
managed to support me all these
years.
I offer one piece of advice to that
unlucky person: Throw it all away.
Nobody will be able to read my
handwriting and, even if they do, it
won’t mean anything to anyone but
me.
Well, most anyone. Just this
week I heard from two people recalling the good old days of the
1970s — as memorialized so some
small extent by my attic archives.
The first E-mail, from Princeton
resident Susan Wilson, was in response to my column of May 13,
on the off-hand remarks of HiTops
honoree Shelby Knox, the 22-yearold sex education proponent from
Lubbock, Texas. I had interviewed
Wilson back in the late 1970s,
when she was at the forefront of the
New Jersey battle to bring sex education into the public schools.
To quote from Wilson’s E-mail:
“You may not believe this, but
this morning when I handed my
husband [former Time Inc. executive and founding publisher of NJ
BIZ} a copy of U. S. 1, I had
plucked off the counter at Lucy’s
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based but we distribute
about 35,000 free copies
too. Your sons might like
to subscribe to it or together you can explore
the website.
“As for me, I write a blog for sex
educators on the ANSWER website. You can, if interested, find it at
answer.rutgers.edu/blog/.”
[email protected]
Ravioli Kitchen, I said: ‘I should
get in touch with Rich sometime
and bring him up-to-date on what I
have done in the field of sex education, because he interviewed me
for a story he was doing on the
State Board of Education’s attempt
to have a statewide requirement for
family life/sex education.’ And I
still remember the question you
asked me.
[Oddly enough, 30 years ago I
had asked Wilson the same question I asked Shelby Knox at the HiTOPS fundraiser: What, if any-
Some things from the
’70s haven’t changed
that much, including
debates about sex
education and those
languid New Jersey
nights.
thing, in her life caused her to become involved in sex education as
an issue? Wilson’s answer wasn’t
quite as dramatic at Knox’s — she
was simply an early childhood educator serving on the state Board of
Education who was appointed to a
task force to study the subject and
then got caught up by the challenge
of it.]
“Anyway,” Wilson continues in
her E-mail, “fast forward to this issue. My husband handed the paper
back to me after several hours and
said: ‘Check out the story that Rein
wrote about sex education,’ which
of course I did. Good story.
“I have a possible sequel for you
as the father of two teenage sons:
Check out www.sex.org and it will
give you some information about
some of work that I did as executive director of the Network for
Family Life Education (now called
Answer, Sex Ed Honestly), located
at Rutgers from the years 19822005 when I retired at age 75. Our
greatest claim to fame was the development of a free newsletter,
Sex,Etc., written by NJ teens for
teens in all states which has now
morphed into a magazine.
At its high water mark, the
newsletter reached 600,000 teens
across the country through a network of 7,000 adults mostly in
public schools but in many other
venues. We added a website that
gets 20,000 visitors every day. The
magazine is now subscription-
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Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
Hamilton Twp., 609-890-0142. Our retail outlet is open Saturdays 10 to 4:00,
or by appointment.
Wanted - Baseball Cards/Memorabilia: Football, basketball, hockey.
Cards, bats, balls, photographs, programs, autographs. Highest prices paid.
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PERSONALS
Free Classifieds for Singles: And
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W
ithin a day of Wilson’s Email I received another, this one
from a music administrator in
southern California, also reminiscing about the ‘70s, in particular
about T. Harding Jones, the young
conservative Princetonian who became the point person for the controversial Concerned Alumni of
Princeton group. After Jones died
of cancer in 2007 I wrote a column
reflecting on his life (U.S. 1, October 17, 2007).
“I worked at Westminster Choir
College in Princeton from 1971 to
1976, and I would see him coming
and going around Nassau Street.
He was a very colorful presence
and had an almost regal quality
about the way he carried himself.
Through some friends at Princeton, I heard about CAP and some
its stands on various issues. They
called him ‘T.’ Was that actually
what friends called him?
“I only had one occasion to
speak with him — possibly it was
after a play at McCarter Theater —
but I have no recollection of what
was said. I was definitely in awe of
him; he was that man-of-the-world
I thought I wanted to be. And that
square jaw! Who couldn’t admire
that?
“I was very young when I
worked at Westminster, still very
impressionable. The Princeton
campus was imposing, its academic standing in the world on a different plane than Westminster. But I
loved walking on the campus. It
was magical, a wonderful place to
walk at night, especially the warm
months. In the summer the campus
was typically deserted, and the feel
of those languid New Jersey nights
is still with me.
“I thought of Harding yesterday,
I have no idea why after so many
years, and I typed his name into
Google and found your insightful,
beautifully written piece.”
What remains of my life in the
’70s is all up there in attic. I am
tempted to begin rooting around, in
particular for that article on Susan
Wilson and the early days of sex
education in New Jersey. But instead I decide to enjoy the languid
New Jersey night.
PERSONALS
the bank. To submit your ad simply fax it
to 609-452-0033 or E-mail to [email protected]. If you prefer to
mail us your ad, address it to U.S. 1 Singles Exchange, 12 Roszel Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540. Include your
name and the address to which we
should send responses. We will assign
a box number and forward all replies to
you ASAP. People responding to your
ad will be charged just $1. See the Singles Exchange at the end of the Preview
Section.
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Phone, Fax, E-Mail: That’s all it takes
to order a U.S. 1 Classified. Call 609452-7000, or fax your ad to 609-4520033, or use our E-Mail address:
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won’t be much: Our classifieds are just
50 cents a word, with a $7 minimum. Repeats in succeeding issues are just 40
cents per word, and if your ad runs for 16
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Medical/Office
Plainsboro Village Center,
Schalks Crossing & Scudders Mill Rd., Plainsboro, NJ
SF Available 1,000 to 20,000; Additional Unit of 751 SF of Office
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330 Carter Road, Hopewell, NJ
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220,000 SF ■ Will divide to 5,000 SF
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1060 State Road, Princeton, NJ
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Total SF: 85,930 ■ Single Story Building
Maximum Height: 35’ ■ Outside Storage Space Available
6.64 Acres ■ Zoning: IP2 ■ $3.50 NNN
Available Units for Lease: 18,000 SF, 10,000 SF, and 5,400 SF
Call for Sale Price & More Details!!
Office, Medical or Retail for Lease
16,000 SF Available
1 Story building with ample parking for 80 cars
1 Drive-in Door ■ Lower level has 500 SF of storage with lift
Close Proximity to St. Francis Hospital,
Trenton Train Station & Route 29
Office Condos
YOUR
NAME
HERE
2997 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ
101 Poor Farm Road, Princeton, NJ
45 Everett Dr., West Windsor, NJ
Office Condominiums for Sale or Lease ■ 7,500 SF
Office/Medical ■ Will Divide ■ Located in Lawrenceville’s
Medical District ■ Covered Parking ■ Medical Build-Out Available
Close Proximity to Route 1, I-95 & I-295
Put Your Name on the Building ■ Create Your Own Identity!
Class A Office/Medical
Available: 5,750 SF on 3rd Floor & 1,250 SF
on 2nd Floor ■ Completely Renovated
3 Sides of Windows
½-Mile Outside Downtown Princeton
For Lease - Office/Warehouse ■ 2 units at 4,846 SF Contiguous
Incl. 1,500 SF of Office & 1 Drive-In ■ 2 Units at 5,643 SF
Contiguous Incl. 2 Loading Docks & 2 Drive-Ins, 20’ Clear
1 Unit at 9,586 SF Incl. 2,500 SF of Office
& 1 Loading Dock ■ Convenient to Route 1, I-95, I-295
& the Princeton Jct. Train Station
80 W. Upper Ferry Road , Ewing, NJ
200 Whitehead Road, Hamilton, NJ
Sports and Entertainment Factory
5 Nami Lane, Hamilton, NJ
For Sale or Lease, Office or Flex Space
Newly Constructed 27,000 SF Available
Will Divide to to 3,500 SF
Minutes to Route 1, I-295 & the Hamilton Train Station
Design Your Own Office Space!!
Office Subleases
600 College Road East, Plainsboro, NJ
Office Sublease ■ Available Units: 11,922 SF & 6,278 SF
Close Proximity to Route 1 Corridor
Class “A” Atrium Office ■ Parking: 4 Cars Per 1000 SF
Cafeteria in the Building ■ Short Term Lease Available
Furniture Included
For Lease: 10,000 SF – 2nd Floor
Will Divide – Very Aggressively Priced
$12.00 per SF Plus All Operating Expenses
Space is Ready for Occupancy
1 Mile from I-95, .5 Mile to Rt. 29
Investment Property
42,000 SF Available ■ For Lease
Range from 410 SF and Up 14’ to 32’ Clear
Zoned for Industrial, Office, Warehouse
or Sports/Entertainment Use
Convenient to US Hwy. 1 and Interstate 295
Newly Renovated ■ Clear Span Space
Flex
3705 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, NJ
Quakerbridge Office Plaza II
Sublease ■ Available Office: 4,125 SF
Furniture and Phones Available
Parking: 5 Cars per 100 SF
Two Years Remaining on Lease
12 Roszel Road, West Windsor, NJ
Professional Office Condo for Sale or Lease
1,461 SF Available, 1st Floor Suite
Restrooms Renovated in 2006
Close Proximity to Route 1 Corridor
& the Princeton Junction Train Station
1450 Parkside Avenue, Ewing, NJ
Ewing Township, NJ
9-1
15 Princess Road , Lawrenceville, NJ
Apartment Complex for Sale
10 Units – Fully Leased ■ Sale Price: $699,000
Good location – Great Investment!!
Unit 1: 3,750 SF Office/Flex
Unit 2: 7,500 SF Office divisible to 1,875 SF
Unit 3: 5,000 SF Office/Flex
Drive-in Doors ■ Will Divide ■ For Lease
Located at Intersection of I-295 & Princeton Pike
Office/Warehouse/Medical Use
www.fennelly.com
4,500 SF ■ Will Divide to 3,000 SF
Perfect for Medical/General Office
Adequate Parking ■ For Sale
Ibis Plaza
3525 Quakerbridge Road
Hamilton, NJ 08619
609-520-0061

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