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Go East: Sell to China, 7; Chris Duarte’s Blues Guitar, 24;
Folk Songs a la ‘Billy Elliot,’ 33; Medarex’s Promising Drug, 40.
Can You Do This at the Beach?
Michael Cremone of Yoga Above
takes the ‘business’ out of yoga by
switching to donation-only classes.
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Even a $1 million PILOT hardly
replaces the $28 million Princeton
Borough and Township lost in
2006 because most university
property is not taxed. Nevertheless, alumni like McVay insist, the
university enriches all Princetonians because we can hear lectures,
n June 3’s U.S. 1, Scott Mc- audit classes, or attend sporting
Vay, Princeton alumnus and long- events. A minute’s thought will
time resident, praised America’s 2 show McVay that these benefits acmillion not-for-profits driven by crue only to Princetonians with edvoluntary leadership. A former ucation, leisure, and wealth — asChautauqua president and Dodge sets that not every Princetonian
Foundation executive director, possesses.
McVay has served the not-forIn 2006 Princeton Borough
profit sector with distinction.
homeowners averaged higher
McVay’s main point, however, property taxes than in 98 percent of
was that Princeton University, a New Jersey communities. Yet
nonprofit governed by volunteer Princeton Borough ranks in New
trustees, benefits our local econo- Jersey’s 51st percentile in per capimy and the quality of our lives in ta municipal spending. Why the
ways we seldom fully recognize.
discrepancy? First, the borough’s
Unfortunately, other observers 2,000 homeowners are one seventh
see Princeton as a
of the borough’s 14,000
$13-billion
hedge
population, of whom
Between
fund to which a small
6,000 are students. If all
institution of higher
The
borough homeowners
learning clings, publiwere married, it would
Lines
cizing the fund, elicitbe as though each couing contributions, and
ple supported municipal
ensuring its nonprofit status. The services for five children, three of
university, in this view, is governed them young adults.
not by volunteers but by an investSecond, if the university’s PIment-management corporation, LOT equaled that missing $28 milwhose president’s salary was lion, borough taxes would drop 24
$1,441,226 in 2005 — a third of a percent, and township taxes 15
million more than the university’s percent. It’s as though Borough
voluntary payment in lieu of taxes and Township homeowners conto Princeton Borough. The univer- tribute 24 percent and 15 percent of
sity’s annual PILOT to Princeton their property taxes to three of their
Township is currently nil, reduced children’s wealthy university. This
from $6,000.
financial burden is rapidly destroying Princeton’s diversity in income, age, and ethnicity.
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Company Index
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American Grill & Sushi, 39; American List Counsel, 40; Amicus
Therapeutics, 40; Asia Marketing
Management, 7.
Califon Connection, 5; Danka
Office Imaging, 41; First Choice
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profit mission of educating and
creating knowledge — Princetonians who ask for help reconciling
those 51st and 98th percentiles —
are “shrill.”
The university has another mission, though, as president Shirley
Tilghman recently acknowledged:
Its “charitable purposes” are
“scholarship, teaching, research,
and service to others.” Shouldn’t
service to others begin at home?
Anne Waldron Neumann
22 Alexander Street Princeton
More On Radio:
WPRB — Not WWFM
The following letter continues
the discussion prompted by U.S. 1’s
June 3 article on WWFM, the listener supported classical music
station.
S
peaking for myself, I only
would add that the kind of classical
radio that I present, and which,
thanks to the internet stream, has an
international following, is impossi-
ble nowadays except at a station
like WPRB. Sadly, I sincerely
doubt that the powers that be at
WWFM would give me the kind of
programming flexibility that the
students who run WPRB give me
and give me enthusiastically.
I listen to WWFM from time to
time, and I know that the air-sound
at WWFM is both too tightly formatted and too tightly “pre-programmed” to allow a broadcaster
to present the kind of “free-form”
show that I do on the air at WPRB.
If, for example, I decide on the spur
of the moment that I want to play,
one after the other, 10 different
recordings of the Bach Passacaglia
in C Minor on the air, at WPRB I
can.
Neither the regular listeners nor
the management at WWFM would
put up with such a thing.
And then there’s my penchant
for playing “historic” recordings.
Recently, I played the earliest
recording of the Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, a performance
conducted by the Gustav Mahler
protege Oskar Fried that was
recorded in Berlin in 1923, using
the acoustic process. A WPRB listener got in touch with Tiffany Lu,
the Classical Director, and told her
that it was the finest performance
of the symphony he had ever heard.
I sincerely doubt that such a
recording ever would reach the air
waves or the internet stream at
WWFM; such “antiquated” sound
surely would run afoul of the “
minimum sound standards” that
my WWFM listening experiences
tell me are strictly enforced in its
broadcast studios.
WPRB, however, encourages
such “off the beaten path” programming.
These observations are not intended as a criticism; they are statements of fact. WWFM satisfies the
needs of a different classical music
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audience, an audience that prefers
the kind of “balanced” programming one expects at symphony orchestra concerts, chamber music
concerts, and the solo recitals of
vocalists and instrumentalists, an
audience that wants its music in the
best sound possible.
The WWFM audience overlaps
the WPRB audience, and vice versa. They are not mutually exclusive. WPRB is WWFM’s broadcast
colleague, not its competitor, and
the co-existence of the two stations
expands the options available to
the classical music aficionado in
their broadcast territories.
WWFM may not be the venue
for the kind of programs that I present on the air, but I am every bit as
concerned as the rest of WWFM’s
listeners are about its survival. I
fervently and sincerely hope that
WWFM will continue to flourish,
both on the air and via the internet.
Teri Noel Towe
HWH on WHWH
I
read your June 3 issue about
radio with a lot of information from
Tom Taylor (Commercial Radio
Faces ‘The New Normal’).
I sold Nassau Broadcasting in
1986 and so have not been involved in radio hardly at all since. I
don’t know where you got two
pieces of incorrect information.
WHWH (my initials) has not been
owned by Nassau Broadcasting for
some years. It’s owned by a Chinese man who owns about 20 stations with odd patterns.
The FCC in its wisdom advised
them all about 9-10 years ago they
had five more years to stay on the
air. They offered the station higher
frequencies to simulcast and then
keep if they wished. And so it was
that WHWH went off the air about
3 years ago. About a year and half
ago, it suddenly was back on the air
for reasons I still don’t quite understand. It is totally automated with
no commercials (though they have
carried some high school sports),
and its music strays from Christmas music in July to soft rock to
light jazz — a potpourri of nothing.
I suspect, with FCC approval, they
may be trying to demonstrate that
the WHWH pattern is not truly interfering with the other two 1350
frequencies — one in Connecticut
and one in Pennsylvania. Or, perhaps to find a compromise signal.
In any event, it’s not owned by
WHWH. And it’s not business
news.
WHWH was the No. 1 station in
the 1970s with its outstanding
community outreach, an honored
eight-man news staff, broadcasting
Princeton football and basketball.
FM was still trying to emerge as a
profitable medium. I had bought
WTOA, owned by the Trenton
Times, in 1964 for $75,000. It was
a real loser, as were most FM stations at the time.
Move ahead to 1975 when
WPST (I changed the letters) still
was not beating out WHWH. I
hired a young professional broadcaster and his programming man,
Tom Taylor. They came to me one
day to tell me it would never make
it unless it went into rock. I didn’t
like rock then, nor now. But Tom
knew current music and WPST became a great station and very valuable.
Lou Mercatanti bought WHWH
and WPST from me and had about
55 stations a year or two ago. He
wasn’t the only one who got
overextended. However, he is a
good businessman and I suspect
with his new financial partner he
will see good times again in another year or two.
Herbert W. Hobler
JUNE 24, 2009
SURVIVAL
GUIDE
EDITOR:
SCOTT MORGAN
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Wednesday, June 24
Save the Customers,
Save Your Business
T
he struggle for customer
loyalty is not over once a new customer makes a purchase. In fact, it
has just begun. Vicki Lynne Morgan, president of Califon Connection in Sussex County, says that
businesses can lose 20 to 30 percent of their customer bases in a
year’s time, with about two-thirds
of these losses due to poor management of customer relationships.
Businesses do all kinds of things
that may turn people off, she says
— project an identity that is not
trustworthy, be short on the telephone, or simply not understand
customer concerns.
To be truly customer-centric requires information about customers’ buying habits and interests, the ability to communicate
regularly with customers using
technology, and techniques for creating positive customer experiences. “People want to enjoy
spending their money, and they
want to have a fulfilling encounter
with you as a service or sales product provider,” says Morgan. “Getting to know them one on one, understanding them, and being able
to communicate and express empathy toward them helps the parties to
really bond.”
Morgan was scheduled to speak
on “Customer Experience Management — How to Prevent Churn,
Attrition, Turnover, and Defection,” on Wednesday, June 24, at 7
a.m., at a webinar sponsored by the
New Jersey Small Business Development Center. Cost: $19. For information about other SBDC programs, call 609-771-2947 or visit
www.sbdcnj.com.
Customer loyalty is critical to
business success. “The longer you
have a customer, the greater the
profitability is from that customer,” says Morgan. The first sale
is not always a moneymaker, she
explains, because of a substantial
investment required in terms of
time, energy, imagination, and
money. But the value of the relationship grows as the customer
does repeat. “It’s more expensive
to keep finding new customers
than to keep old ones,” she says.
Morgan describes five strategies
that together promote customer
loyalty:
Relationship strategy. To establish strong relationships with
customers, company representatives must project a strong professional identity characterized by
thoroughness, organization, excellent speaking skills, a professional
look, and knowledge of their business. They also need to create trust
through high ethical standards and
total clarity as to how the company
does business. Customers can then
feel positive about the relationship,
and employees can feel they have
been helpful to the client. “The
customer goes away as a happy
camper and will speak well of the
company,” says Morgan, “and the
employees will see a boost in their
energy.”
Product strategy. Because customers expect company representatives to be experts in their products, salespeople must be able to
explain how a product or service
fits and benefits the customer’s
business. If the product is a copy
machine, a sales rep might say to a
potential customer, “This product
makes 200 copies a minute, and it
will increase office productivity
because you won’t have to wait for
copies being made.” A sales rep also must be aware of the product’s
position in the marketplace, which
can range from high end to dollarstore quality.
Customer strategy. Businesses
need to identify and clearly define
their target markets and to profile
the customers falling within them,
including their needs, wants, and
urgencies; their expectations of the
business; and what motivates people in that industry to make certain
decisions. In the selling process,
says Morgan, “customers like
choices, and they expect you to be
an advisor to them.”
Presentation strategy. Written
and verbal presentations — PowerPoints, sales letters, and brochures
— must be well constructed, deliver a clear message, and maintain
the customer’s attention. This re-
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R O B I N N A L LY
A D V E R T I S I N G
Loyalties: Business
is built on dreams, but
success is built on
loyalty, says Vicki
Lynne Morgan.
quires appropriate sequencing to
deliver information in a logical
way, excellent grammar and graphics, and engaging vocabulary.
“Use vocabulary that customers
are comfortable with and can relate
to, not words they have never heard
before,” says Morgan. “Use words
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that make what you are talking
about even more interesting.”
Words she likes include: discovery, experience, exactly, delightful, and spectacular.
Service and after-the-sale
strategy. This involves not only
supporting the product or service,
but also telling the customer what
the business is going to do to follow up. “Once you get the sale, it’s
that service and after-the-sale strategy that keeps the relationship going,” says Morgan.
Businesses should arrange to
periodically visit their customers
to check in and answer any product
questions. “When you do that, you
are opening the door for more opportunities for repeat and referral
business,” says Morgan.
Morgan was born in the
Philadelphia suburbs. Her father
never finished high school, but
rose within the close-knit candy industry, where he was well respected. He worked for several candy
companies, ending his career with
Just Born, and developed many
different flavors of jelly beans.
Morgan studied business at
Centenary College in Hackettstown. After first being a secretary and administrative assistant,
she ended up as a customer trainer
for Xerox in Illinois and New Jersey, and then as a supervisor of
trainers.
Towards the end of her tenure
with Xerox, she became the first
sales rep working for the company
in New Jersey, but after a couple of
years decided to leave.
Her next venture was a business
JUNE 24, 2009
in the pet supply industry that she started
with her next door neighbor in 1976. “He
bought a truckload of dog food, and I said
I’d help him sell it,” recalls Morgan. That
relationship led to Morgan forming, in
1976, Animal Brands, a “doing business as”
for her company, Califon Connection. Animal Brands is a manufacturer’s representation agency that serves the pet industry as
an independent sales contractor. Her husband joined her in the business in 1989.
As the pet industry changed over the
years, Morgan and her husband wanted to
diversify. In 2001 she started the Russmor
Marketing Group, the business name for
her teaching, public speaking, and consulting, which has included writing training
manuals and serving as a counselor for entrepreneurs and small business owners
through the Small Business Development
Centers in New Jersey.
About two-and-a-half years ago the
Morgans together started Russmor Marine,
a dealership for selling floating docks to
private individuals, commercial clients,
and college rowing teams. They got interested in this business four years ago when
they bought a property on a lake whose
dock had sunk to the bottom of the lake.
When they went out to buy a floating dock,
they learned that a dealership was available.
Referring to the various commercial endeavors that she and her husband have developed, Morgan observes, “You could say
we have entrepreneurial spirits.”
— Michele Alperin
Friday, June 26
Sell To China!
They Have A Lot of Money!
T
ake a guess at how much money is
just sitting around in Chinese vaults waiting
for foreign sellers to claim it. If you said $1
billion, multiply by 2,000 and try again.
James Chan is dumbfounded that
American companies have not caught on to
this. Sellers here stick to the one half of the
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Go East, Young Man:
James Chan says businesses importing from China are missing a rich, largely untapped export market.
profit equation they have always used —
buy widgets from a distributor in a place
like China, where you can get them for half
the price, then sell them in the market for
the same price you always charged. But
while American companies love to buy
from China, few have tried selling to it.
Even with $2 trillion lying in wait.
Chan, who owns the international marketing consulting firm Asia Marketing
Management in Philadelphia (www.asiamarketingmanagement.com), will present
“Export To China” on Friday, June 26, at
10:15 a.m. at Monmouth University in West
Long Branch. Cost: $45. For information
on the seminar’s content, contact
[email protected]
1 or call 732-571-3641. For registration details E-mail [email protected] or call 732-571-3636.
Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1949,
Chan earned his bachelor’s in geography
from the University of Hong Kong in 1970.
He came to America in 1971 and earned a
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that engage in illegal and sometimes fraudulent loan modification services or, in some cases,
NO SERVICES AT ALL. Many of
these companies have defrauded such debtors out of THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS without
obtaining any results whatsoever
for the debtor, perhaps because
no services were performed at all
or such companies knew that
there would be no modification to
the loan but yet charged and accepted fees anyway from the
debtor in advance.
For the past few months, the
Attorney General of New Jersey
filed lawsuits and imposed fines
against several companies and
individuals that were engaged in
violations of these laws and other laws. The counts in the complaints against these "loan modification" companies ranged from
violations of the Debt Adjuster
Act (also known as the Debt Adjustment and Credit Counseling
Act) to the Consumer Fraud Act.
See Milgram v. United Credit;
Milgram v. Hope Now Financial
Services and Milgram v. New
Hope Modifications. See also
the NJ Dept. of Banking & Insurance website warning con-
sumers against loan modification
companies at http://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_consumers/finance/modifyscam.htm.
Loan modification services in
exchange for fees is ILLEGAL
unless it is done by an attorney
or a qualifying non-profit organization. Under the Debt Adjuster
Act, a "debt adjuster" is defined
as any person who "acts or offers
to act for a consideration as an
intermediary between a debtor
and his creditors for the purpose
of settling, compounding, or otherwise altering the terms of payment of any debts of the debtor."
Bogus loan modification companies are charging exorbitant illegal fees ranging from $2,000 to
over $3,500 because such companies are not attorneys. If debt
adjuster work is done by a qualifying non-profit, then the fees are
limited to a maximum $60 per
month to a non-profit credit counselor per consumer. Also, any
non-profit company must have a
license and a $50,000 bond to
be permitted to perform debt adjustment services.
Loan modification is simply an
area involving the practice of
law; it's contract negotiation with
a lender, which is why lawyers
are permitted to charge their normal (but hopefully reasonable)
legal fees for such services. In
fact, the Debt Adjuster Act explicitly carves out an exception for
attorneys. A violation of the Debt
Adjuster Act is a fourth degree
offense and the fines start at
$1,000 for first offense and then
$5,000 for each subsequent offense.
Therefore, you should not give
any money to any non-attorney
that offers to modify your loan for
a fee. But, for those of you nonattorneys who are engaged in
loan modification work, STOP IT
NOW, lest you violate the Debt
Adjuster Act. Please call my office at 609-799-0090 for guidance in this area and REAL LEGAL ADVICE to help you with
your debt matters. Note that you
may also be entitled to bankruptcy protection if necessary.
Darren M. Baldo, Esq., CPA,
LL.M. 4093 Quakerbridge Road,
Princeton Junction. 609-7990090. www.dbaldolaw.com
Even though I am an attorney, I
am required by law to disclose that
"We are a debt relief agency and
that we help people file for bankruptcy relief," if necessary.
Loan modification services in exchange for fees is ILLEGAL
unless it is done by an attorney or a qualifying non-profit organization.
master’s in geography from the
university of Chicago in 1973. He
began his professional life as assistant professor of geography at
Boston University in 1977, the
year he earned his Ph.D. in the industrial and commercial geography of China from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was an
associate professor of geography at
the State University of New York at
Cortland.
China opened to trade with the
west in 1979. In 1981 Chan left
teaching for a a career in marketing
and promotions at Academic Press.
This was at a time when China was
dirt poor — so poor, in fact, that
Chan remembers hearing stories of
American parents trying to coax
their children into finishing what
was on their plates because “there
are children starving in China who
would love to have that food.”
But at Academic Press, Chan
had an idea. He was in charge of
selling technical textbooks to college libraries in the States, and it hit
him that China had its own highend colleges. So Chan convinced
his bosses to let him market science
and math books to the top 1,000
colleges in China. “I had to wait 11
months for the first check,” Chan
says. “It was for $150,000 — U.S
and prepaid. That meant guaranteed funds, no risk.”
Chinese universities became a
valuable customer to Academic
Press almost instantly. That
$150,000 — which is about
$300,000 adjusted for today’s
money — came from a poor country looking to better itself, and it
kept coming as Academic kept
selling. Two years later Chan
founded his consulting practice
and started trying to alert American
businesses to gold mine they have
been ignoring.
“China is loaded,” he says.
“Companies need to sell to China.”
Fat, lazy, and ignorant. The
United States has grown accustomed to success. It led the world’s
economies for decades by embracing consumerism and its buy-low,
sell-high creed, and because of it,
American companies got fat and
happy by fueling American people’s bottomless appetite to consume.
But by feeding the American
consumer U.S. companies lost
sight of the world at large, Chan
says. In their quest to increase profits by paying out less, American
companies have ignored the fact
that the country’s chief supplier is
now 30 years older and 10,000
times richer than it was in 1979.
Part of it is arrogance, Chan
says. People still think Chinese
kids are waiting for American table
scraps, and companies still think
Asia is where you buy, not where
you sell. They also think they are
still on top. “That’s not always true
anymore,” Chan says. America’s
economy is not the envy of the
world and its products and services
are losing their hold on the brass
ring. As our economy gasps and
flops, Chan says, American companies finally are starting to realize
that they need the rest of the world
as a customer.
Get a ladder. “We only pick the
low-lying fruit,” Chan says. “Nobody wants to put up a ladder to get
the fruit 15 feet above the ground.”
There is a lot of fruit up there,
but Chan is the first to admit that
getting it is a lot of work. “Importing is easy,” he says. “Exporting is
hard.” It requires a knowledge
about your intended customer that
takes much study and understanding of culture and buying habits.
“Exporting is not for everyone,” he
says. “Exporting is not brain surgery, but it is not for everyone.”
More than anything, Chan states
repeatedly, successful exporting is
all in the motivation. You simply
have to want to do the work required to know your product and
know why people on the other side
of the world need it.
Monogamy. “Don’t sell your
mother or your wife to the Chinese,” Chan says. “You can’t just
sell everything.”
It is the biggest mistake Chan
sees from companies that do want
to export. China already has computers and cars and clothes. Nothing says the Chinese won’t buy
yours, but you will hardly make a
JUNE 24, 2009
splash by throwing everything at
the port of Hong Kong. Building a
profitable exporting enterprise
takes patience, time, and understanding. “Exporting is not like
sleeping with everybody,” Chan
says. “It’s like finding a spouse.”
Unless you find the right one, you
are destined for a messy break-up.
You also need to be one-of-akind. Remember, the Chinese
know how to make cars, But they
might not know how to build precision parts. They know how to operate factories — but they might not
know how to implement industrybest practices. They can work computers, but they might not have optimum software for their business
machines.
“You need to have something —
products or services — that cannot
be easily duplicated,” Chan says.
“Then they won’t need you.”
The Chinese prefer blonds. So
what, then, do the Chinese need?
One answer is, they need blond
hair.
The American toy market is
worth billions in sales every year,
and, true to the old formula, American companies often have their
toys — like little blond dolls —
built in China. But who in China
has natural blond hair? Certainly
not enough people to supply the required amounts of hair for making
dolls. And, much to Chan’s surprise when he first learned of the
market for blond hair from the
States, you can’t just mix yellow
dyes and soak dark hair in it. So
Chinese toymakers buy flaxen
locks by the ton.
Beyond shaven heads, China is
desperate for high-tech products,
Chan says. Particularly those that
are in niche markets — such as precision auto parts — and are cuttingedge. Precision-engineered parts
like springs, bearings, and “little
things” are in high demand, as are
quality pharmaceuticals.
“There are a lot of fake drugs in
China,” Chan says. “Things that
are not effective. There is a good
market for genuine, real drugs.”
Unique services also have a
ready market in China — legal,
professional, psychological, and
financial services, processes, systems, and procedures that are not
easily duplicated. Say you write a
book, Chan offers. If it is valuable
to the Chinese, universities and
businesses will gladly pay you to
come to China to talk about it. It’s
the same reason Chinese parents
willingly shell out $50,000 a year
to send their kids to American colleges, he says. The education at
Wharton School of Business cannot be duplicated in China.
Starting. So how do you know
if you have something the Chinese
want to pay for? Sometimes they
just come out and E-mail you. “If
you are getting pre-paid E-mail orders from China and you haven’t
advertised to them, that should tell
you something,” Chan says.
It is not as far-fetched as one
might think, he says. Chinese companies and executives routinely
monitor American companies and
products and they are willing to
pay for what they can’t get at home.
But if your E-mail folder is not
filling up with orders from China,
try looking at who your customers
are here. Remember, Chan realized
that if American colleges bought
text books, so did Chinese colleges. Companies here can start by
evaluating what their products and
services do for the domestic audience, then do a little leg work to see
if that niche is being filled overseas.
We just need to stretch for the
higher fruit. “It’s all about motivation,” Chan says. “It’s about paying attention.”
— Scott Morgan
Saturday, June 27
Half-Priced Houses?
Don’t You Believe It
S
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real estate commercials start making you offers you would be stupid
to refuse: Buy houses at government auctions for as little as $100;
gobble up distressed properties
with no money down — and for
half their market value — and sell
them for enough profit to earn a
yacht full of Playboy Playmates
like the guy selling his secrets on
TV.
Stephen Waniak, broker for
Keller Williams Cornerstone Realty in Belle Meade, would like to remind would-be real estate investors of the cliche about things
that sound too good to be true.
There are ways to make money in
distressed real estate and there are
ways to buy properties for less than
market value, he says. But lenders
will guard the properties on which
they hold liens. Sheriffs’ offices
will ask you for 20 percent when
they hold sales on foreclosed properties. And you will almost never
find a livable house going for 50
cents on the dollar.
Besides, if your goal is to find a
good deal on a piece of property,
does it matter whether the house is
actually in foreclosure?
Waniak will present “How To
Buy Foreclosed Properties” on
Saturday, June 27, at 9 a.m. at Mercer County Community College in
West Windsor. Cost: $60. Visit
www.mccc.edu or call 609-5703311.
Waniak, who grew up in Absecon, studied at Rutgers but ultimately left for a career in real estate.
That was 26 years ago, when he got
into the sales end. He eventually
started his own company, sold it,
and became a broker, working with
several national firms, most recently h GMAC Gloria Nilson.
When it comes to buying foreclosed real estate, misconceptions
and pitfalls are everywhere. The
biggest misconception Waniak
finds is that people think they are
going to walk into a sheriff’s sale
with no money and walk out with a
massive new home. In truth, he
says, to walk out of a sheriff’s sale
with a property in tow you will
need to cover 20 percent of the purchase price with cash (or certified
funds) and be able to close within
30 days. There also is no home in-
spection — homes are sold in as-is
condition. “You don’t always
know what you’ll get,” Waniak
says.
Mostly houses go into foreclosure because they are over-financed. Whether because of subsequent mortgages, because the adjustable rate adjusted just a little
too far, or because the homeowner
lost income, the borrower can no
longer afford the house. But the
lender still wants its money, and if
a homeowner can’t pay, the bank
will move to possess the house. In
most cases the lender sends a representative to the sale to “bid up” the
property to the amount of the lien
against it. Without a higher bid
from another buyer, the lender will
take possession of the property.
The property then is labeled “real
estate-owned.”
Outside investors can and do
win properties at auction, but those
who do are not just people with
nothing else to do, Waniak says.
They are serious investors with
lines of credit, money, and the ability to do title searches. “They’re almost professional buyers,” he says.
In short, buying distressed prop-
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JUNE 24, 2009
Health Resources for Discerning Patients
Dr. Sheryl
Haber-Kuo
Providing Great
Care For the Family
D
r. Sheryl Haber-Kuo runs
a modern medical practice with a family feel to it:
she provides general care to patients 15 to 100-plus-years-old in
her Mercerville office.
Because her patients run the
gamut in age, she is adept at
treating everything from the
common cold to coronary artery
disease, hypertension to high
cholesterol.
That’s because she is board
certified in internal medicine. An
internist provides long-term,
comprehensive care, managing
both common and complex illnesses.
“As an internal medicine specialist, I’m trained in the diagnosis and treatment of many illnesses,” said Dr. Haber-Kuo.
“I’m also a strong believer in preventive medicine. An ounce of
prevention really is worth a
pound of cure. That starts with a
nice, balanced diet, and watching how you treat your body.”
A cancer survivor who underwent a bone marrow transplant
in 1996, Dr. Haber-Kuo is well
suited, professionally and personally, to advocate for cancer
prevention. She encourages her
patients to seek regular mammograms, colonoscopies, and
other screenings.
She recommends yearly
physicals to her over-35 patients, biennial physicals for
those under 35.
While cancer does cause one
out of every four deaths in the
United States, it is second to
heart disease. Dr. Haber-Kuo
says most patients don’t know
that statistic. She explains there
are simple things they can do to
stay well.
“First, don’t smoke,” she said.
“Never smoking, or quitting
smoking, is critically important in
the fight against cancer and
heart disease. That is one of the
easiest ways to help yourself
stay healthy.”
Dr. Haber-Kuo also is an exercise proponent. A regular exerciser — every morning — Dr.
Haber-Kuo sets an example for
her patients, especially those
who “don’t have the time. Exercising, a healthy diet, and not
smoking are key to feeling good
and staying healthy. I work
closely with all my patients in
these areas.”
It’s obvious from her upbeat
personality and focus on preventive medicine that Dr. HaberKuo is a people person. In fact,
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that’s one of the reasons she entered the medical field.
“I like treating people,” she
stated. “I treat a lot of families —
parents, kids, siblings, in-laws —
and have built special relationships with them. I get most of my
new referrals by word-of-mouth.
It’s a nice practice with nice patients.”
Dr. Haber-Kuo gives her staff
the credit for the office’s sterling
reputation. She says her support
staff “bends over backwards” to
accommodate her patients. With
a significant word-of-mouth
draw, it’s clear her staff certainly
are doing their jobs.
Dr. Haber-Kuo has been practicing for more than a decade.
She earned a B.A. in biology
from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA., and her
M.D. from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. She completed her internship and residency
at Hahnemann, and began her
career working for an HMO in
Trenton. In 1999 she went into
private practice.
Her practice accepts most insurances, and is accepting new
patients. The office is open Mondays, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and
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Hours are by appointment.
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Climbing Kilimanjaro, Conquering Disease
F
by Bart Jackson
or some climbers, like a broad, knowing
Eileen Colon, “Because it is there” grin, and a gentle,
just isn’t good enough. This time- practical resolution
honored rationale for the inordi- of manner. It benate commitment to training, time, speaks that which
romantically
and danger was originally uttered we,
by Englishman George Mallory, perhaps, attribute to
who died in 1924 on his third at- farm women who
tempt to summit Mount Everest. It seem ever calm,
has since become the credo for wise, and have always seen — and
many mountaineers, but not all.
brushed
For a special few, like Colon, casually
mother of five and second-degree aside — problems
black belt in karate, high peak as- worse than the curcents are a means to a loftier goal. rent one. Besides,
Colon plans to continue fighting the achievement of
her way up mountains to help de- whipping her boys
successful
feat the egregiously expanding dis- into
eases of Alzheimer’s and Parkin- shape makes for an
son’s. As part of a similarly moti- impressive resume
vated group called “The Regulars,” indeed.
Yet if you are
she is training for a June 28 assault
on Mount Kilimanjaro — the high- looking for a truly worthy individest peak in Africa, just a bit shy of ual to tend your most precious in20,000 feet elevation. She does this fant during your working hours,
not because she has a parent, you might be disappointed. Eileen
friend, or relative afflicted with ei- Colon Bencivengo does not appear
ther disease. Colon holds a high in either the white or yellow pages
level degree black belt in the un- of the phone book. “When I first
began in this business, the calls
der-lauded skill of caregiving.
This becomes evident the mo- flooded in,” she says. “Parents
ment you enter the modest ranch were obsessing about their kids.
house that is home to her, husband They became irritatingly pushy —
always checking,
Angel,
and
demanding, callsons David,
‘No mountain is easy,’
ing. So I keep my
Stephen, and
phone unlisted.”
Miguel, who
says Eileen Colon. ‘It
Nor
does
still live at
doesn’t care who you
Colon’s daycare
home. Five
are. If a mountain
advertise. In fact,
cribs engulf
the business has
most of the
wants to open up on
no official name.
small living
you it will.’
After registering
room, extendwith the state as a
ing
from
home care giver,
couch to the
dining room table that doubles as several years ago, Colon briefly
her office. This is the Colon day- listed her services with a few agencare center, involving infants as cies. That lifted the gate on the
young as three weeks. Parents steady stream of clients, who pass
seeking the care required for the on praise by word of mouth and
very youngest of children entrust keep Colon’s cribs always filled. In
them to her each morning, starting this way, she operates an entrepreabout 7 a.m. Shortly after the boys neur’s envy — a chance to continugo off to school, Angel backs his ally work on the service, without
pickup truck out to service the worrying about new customers.
clients of his landscaping business,
and Eileen is left alone to tend her
charges until the final pickup, usunative of the Trenton area,
ally around 4:45 p.m., just before Colon is the cousin of Hamilton
Angel returns from his second job Mayor John Bencivengo. Her
at Firmenich International.
mother worked in a blouse factory
Colon, 51, radiates to these par- and her father was a manager in the
ents a kind of solid, warm capabili- luggage department at the defunct
ty that sets them at ease. She sports E.J. Korvette’s department store in
A
Trenton. “They are definitely
where I get my strength from,”
Colon says. “My mom always
looked adversity in the face. My
dad always encouraged me. I pull
my strength from the two of them. I
don’t think they would have
climbed mountains but my passion
and my compassion derives from
them, especially my mom.”
Colon’s passion to raise the flag
and don the hiking boot against
both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
sprung out of her own parental concern. “You’ve got kids flipping
around on MySpace, and you just
want to get a little bit of an understanding of what they are getting
into. So I signed on,” she recalls.
It was this same kind of handson child rearing that led her into the
karate ghia that she now fastens
with a black belt. “All the boys
loved karate from as early as age
four,” says Colon. “And one day,
while watching the lessons, another mother and I decided to get involved and take a class.”
That was more than 10 years
ago. The other mother soon
dropped out, but Colon became
passionate and stayed on. In fact,
when we caught her amid all the
Kilimanjaro training and preparation, she was planning a three day
“vacation” to karate camp to shoot
for her third degree black belt. The
boys have almost gotten over their
embarrassment of having mother
on the mat.
But Colon’s just-to-monitor entry into MySpace was to expand
Little Hill and Big Hopes: Eileen Colon, above
on the slopes of Washington’s Mt. Hood, is leaving June 28 to tackle Africa’s tallest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro – Swahili for “little hill.” Colon and a
group of climber/activists called the Regulars
hope to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s and
Parkinson’s disease research.
her life in ways never imagined.
Grabbing those few moments of
relative calm during her daycare
days, she went online and began
meeting friends. One of them was
Jim Brenner from the New York
area. In 2006 Colon was preparing
for participation in the three-day
“Sixty Mile Walk for Breast Cancer.” At that time, she learned that
Brenner, at the young age of 37,
had been diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s. Completing the
breast cancer 60-miler, she began
scouring the net and found New
York’s annual Parkinson’s Unity
Walk. With some hard browsing on
MySpace, she formed a 27-person
team calling themselves “Jim’s
Gems,” complete with T-shirts.
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Darder added. “The quality of
eggs does diminish, so harvesting should ideally take place in
the 20s and early 30s. The sooner, the better.”
The process begins with a
consultation, preliminary blood
work and a general health check.
Then, an ultrasound helps determine if there are enough eggs in
the ovaries to make the procedure worthwhile. Next extensive
counseling takes place on how to
use the medications and inject
the hormones that ramp up egg
production.
This portion of the process
takes approximately 10 days,
during which blood tests and ultrasounds are administered to
monitor egg growth. This may be
done at any of IVF New Jersey’s
four offices, which open early to
accommodate working women.
“Once we have enough eggs
growing, we do an egg retrieval
at the Somerset office,” Dr. Darder continued. “It’s a minor surgical procedure under IV sedation.
It only takes around 15 minutes.
Patients can return home within
about an hour, and can resume
normal activities in a day.”
Dr. Darder is thankful for this
minimally invasive procedure,
which can be done quickly in the
office. He said it’s far superior to
the “old” method, which required
in-hospital surgery, general
anesthesia, and a longer recovery time. Today there’s no incision, no stitches and only some
light spotting and mild cramping
as side effects.
After the procedure, eggs are
frozen and stored. When the time
comes to attempt pregnancy,
eggs are thawed and fertilized,
and placed back into the womb
via a non-surgical procedure.
“This is great technology,” he
noted. “The egg survival rate is
quite high: 75 percent at IVF New
Jersey. It’s a great option for
women who just aren’t ready to
get pregnant, but would like to do
so one day using their own eggs.”
IVF New Jersey offices are
open every day of the year, by
appointment, except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s
Day. Women interested in egg
freezing, or any of the many fertility options offered at IVF New
Jersey, may call 609-799-5666.
IVF New Jersey. ivfnj.com;
800-IVFNJ-44.
Hamilton Office: 3379
Quakerbridge Road, Suite 105,
Hamilton. 609-799-5666.
Somerset Office: 81 Veronica Avenue, Somerset. 732-2209060
Freehold Office: 495 Iron
Bridge Road, Suite 10 (2nd
Floor), Freehold, 732-577-6500.
Annandale Office: Concourse at Beaver Brook, 1465
Route 31 South, Annandale.
908-238-1220
Short Hills office: Opening
soon!
Princeton
Radiology
Tips to Pick the Best Diagnostic Imaging Center
W
hen you’re faced with
an illness and your doctor hands you a prescription for a radiology procedure — like an MRI or a CT scan
— what do you do?
The choices are numerous,
but not all imaging centers are
created equal. That’s why it pays
to do some research before
scheduling your exam. Some important factors to consider are:
facility accreditations, technologists’ and radiologists’ expertise
and training, available technology, and the accessibility of your
imaging study to your doctor.
ACR Accreditations: In order
to operate x-ray equipment, a diagnostic imaging center is required to obtain a state license.
In addition, depending on the
modality, other licenses and accreditations are mandated. For
example, to perform mammography, a facility must have both an
American College of Radiology
(ACR) Accreditation in mammography, and a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Mammography Quality Standards Act
(MQSA) Certification. To perform
nuclear medicine studies, such
as PET/CT, a site must be certified by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC).
In addition to these required
certifications and accreditations,
a diagnostic imaging center may
decide to establish itself as a
premier service provider by obtaining voluntary certifications in
other imaging modalities. Princeton Radiology is accredited in all
modalities at each of its four outpatient imaging centers in
Princeton, Jamesburg, Hillsborough, and East Windsor. Additionally, each office has a facility
license granted by the FDA.
Certified Technologists:
Technologists are the individuals
who operate the equipment and
obtain the images for the radiologists to interpret. A good technologist will carefully explain the procedure to you and let you know
what is required, position you
gently, and perform the exam.
You’ll want to make sure the technologists at the center you select
are registered, meaning they’ve
met certain educational and certifying exam requirements.
At Princeton Radiology, all of
our technologists are registered
(“R.T.”), and those operating in
specialty areas, such as ultrasound or mammography, have
additional certifications in those
areas. Technologists who administer contrast injections for CT,
MRI or nuclear medicine studies
are also certified in basic and/or
advanced cardiac life support in
case of a reaction.
Expert Radiologists: Radiologists are medical doctors who
have been specially trained to interpret images of the body and diagnose disease. They supply
your doctors with information they
need to provide appropriate treatment or care. They also monitor
the progress of each exam to assure that the most accurate results are obtained for every patient. It is important, when selecting a radiology group, to investigate the qualifications of the radiologists. Board certification is an
absolute minimum.
The radiologists at Princeton
Radiology are all certified by the
American Board of Radiology,
but what’s even better for our patients is that each expert radiologist also has sub-specialized
training in specific radiological
imaging modalities and different
areas of the body. They hold certificates in neurological imaging,
musculoskeletal imaging, pediatric imaging, vascular and interventional radiology, nuclear
medicine, and breast imaging.
Advanced Technology: Another consideration when looking
for where to schedule your procedure is how current the software and imaging tools are at the
center. The field of radiology is
constantly changing, and new
digital technology has made procedures faster and images clearer. Generally, the newer the
equipment, the better the images, and the lower the radiation
dosage required. Princeton Radiology offers the latest state-ofthe-art, all-digital diagnostic
equipment — including digital
mammography, SPECT/CT and
PET/CT — to detect disease
quickly and accurately.
Access to Results: After your
imaging study, your doctor needs
to receive your results as soon as
possible so he/she can best direct
your care. Until recently, your
study would have been developed on film and delivered to your
doctor, a process that often took
days. Now, with Picture Archiving
& Communications Systems
(PACS), many imaging centers
can deliver the results from your
study to your doctor’s office digitally at the speed of the Internet.
When you have an exam performed at any of Princeton Radiology’s four outpatient facilities,
your complete study (both report
and images) is accessible to
your doctor on his/her computer
via the Internet. This means no
more waiting for a report to be
sent, and no more picking up and
transporting images to your doctor’s office.
Your Choice: Princeton Radiology - Excellence in Imaging: As a patient, you have the
choice of where to go for your di-
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Buckingham Place
Senior Services
The solution for comprehensive
programs for seniors
A
ssisted living, senior day programs
and home health care are the basis
of a comprehensive program to
help seniors and their families that are
available at Buckingham Place Senior
Services.
In 2002, Buckingham Place opened to
provide assisted living and a medical adult
day program to greater Princeton-area
seniors. Since then, the organization has
added a social senior day program, in addition to the medical adult day program
and licensed home health care services,
making the name Buckingham Senior
Services reflect the many services offered.
“We are very excited about adding
home health care for seniors who wish to
age in place in their own homes, through
our licensed home health care program,”
said Hillary Murray, Managing Director of
Buckingham’s Home Health Care and
Marketing. “We pride ourselves on outstanding residential and day programs.
Now, that same level of excellence is
available to clients in their homes.”
Buckingham hires only experienced
and licensed certified home health aides,
and provides them with additional handson training at the assisted living facility in
Princeton. A nurse oversees the hiring
process and monitors trainees to ensure
they are ready to provide the highest quality personal care.
“Because of this approach, we’re able
to monitor the skill set and personality of
each home health aide to better match
them to meet a client’s needs,” Murray
added. “Our clients also meet with the
aide before he or she starts the home care
assignment, to make sure it’s the right fit.”
agnostic testing. If you choose
Princeton Radiology, you can be
sure that you will be getting the
best care available. That’s because standing behind our name
are 32 Board Certified Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists
from some of the most prestigious institutions in the country,
sub-specialty licensed technologists, a consistent 99% patient
satisfaction record, and a 50year-old tradition of delivering
the latest, most sophisticated
treatments and technology available with the level of expertise
and patient care you expect from
world-class doctors.
For more information about
Princeton Radiology, call 609655-0802 or visit www.princetonradiology.com.
Princeton Radiology offers
the most advanced all-digital imaging services available in their
full-service facilities located in:
Princeton, Jamesburg, Hillsborough and East Windsor. 609655-0802. www.princetonradiology.com.
Princeton
Medical Institute
Princeton Medical Institute has room in new
Alzheimer’s study
A
local institute is a leading
center for Alzheimer’s
treatment and research,
and is offering a free medication
program to the public for the
treatment of Alzheimer’s and
memory problems.
Senior Care Services
Murray says people often choose home
care because they don’t wish to leave
their homes just yet, aren’t ready to move
to an assisted living facility or have a
spouse who is able to share in the care of
their loved one. Buckingham Senior Services provides important in-home assistance to help seniors stay in their homes
as long as possible.
“As care needs change, we offer short
or long term stays in our assisted living facility. Seniors may also want to try the day
program as a stepping stone to transitioning into the assisted living environment,”
Murray said.
Murray encourages interested seniors
and their families to visit Buckingham
Place. Seniors can give assisted living a
try for a few weeks so they can make an
informed choice. This trial stay is at Buckingham’s normal daily rate, and is a great
way to “test drive” residential living in a
community setting. It also gives families
the chance to see furnished units, which
are available at no additional charge.
“Sometimes, it’s not feasible to move a
senior’s furniture,” Murray noted. “In other
cases, a senior may be coming from a rehab or other setting. Providing furnished
units is easier for the family. Our furniture
is included at no additional charge.”
Those interested in adult day care can
enjoy a complimentary guest day at Buckingham Place. Seniors may try activities,
meet other participants, enjoy lunch and
learn about the program.
“We also offer two support groups for
caregivers,” Murray explained. “One during the day and one at night. Our evening
group includes dinner, discussion and a
workshop on a specific topic.”
Murray encourages seniors and their
Dr. Apter
People who are experiencing
memory issues and have not yet
been diagnosed may come in to
the Princeton Medical Institute
for a free evaluation to see if they
have Alzheimer’s or a preAlzheimer’s condition. There’s
no obligation to enter the study,
but those who do will be provided
with free medication, free physical exams, and travel reimbursement.
“We are working with medications we hope will prevent the
progression of the illness,” said
Jeffrey T. Apter, M.D., president
and principle investigator at
Princeton Medical Institute, and
a senior attending physician at
University Medical Center at
Princeton. “That’s quite different
from current medications which
are on the market and are helping with the symptoms.”
Dr. Apter’s current study includes a new generation of medications aimed at preventing the
accumulation of the “bad protein”
in the brain. Study participants
may be just starting to see memory issues and currently are un-
families to call for more information or an
appointment: 732-329-8888.
Buckingham Senior Services — Assisted Living, Senior Day Center, Home
Health Care. 155 Raymond Road # 1,
Princeton. 732-329-8888. www.buckinghamplace.net
LIFE St. Francis
Living Independently for Elders
L
IFE St. Francis is the newest healthcare choice for elders living in Mercer County and sections of Burlington County. We are a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE),which
can assist elders to live safely at home
while being helped by a team of healthcare experts.
If you’re like millions of other family
caregivers, you want the best care for
your aging loved one. But getting that care
can be frustrating. You know what it’s like
to drive your loved one to different appointments. You know managing medications and coordinating care between doctors can be challenging. And you struggle
with leaving your loved one at home alone
during the day. It doesn’t have to be this
way. LIFE St. Francis can coordinate all
the care and services your loved one
needs so you don’t have to place them in
a nursing home. LIFE St. Francis is a
service of St. Francis Medical Center, one
of Central New Jersey’s most respected
healthcare providers since 1874
The LIFE Center is an important part of
this program. It is located at 1435 Liberty
Street in Hamilton Township. Here, seniors
receive health care, nutritious meals, and
participate in activities with others so they
may remain active, socialize and make
diagnosed, or may be those with
a diagnosis who already are on
other medications.
“We provide year-round free
memory screenings for those
who feel, or whose loved ones
have noticed, that their memory
is much worse than what it
should be for their age,” Dr. Apter
explained. “We ask potential participants to bring a friend or loved
one to the screening so that person can help provide history and
corroborate the information provided. There’s no obligation to
enter the study; sometimes people are just looking for answers.”
Alzheimer’s is a very common
disorder associated with aging.
Dr. Apter, who has been involved
in Alzheimer’s studies for more
than 15 years, and worked on
studies for the currently available
medications, says by age 65, 3
percent of the population has
memory issues. By 85, almost 50
percent have been diagnosed.
By 2050, it’s estimated 16 million
people will have the disease;
that’s why he’s committed to trying to find a way to slow the progression.
“It takes a long time before
medications qualify for FDA approval,” he added. “There’s at
least five years in clinical trials
before the drugs can come into
the marketplace. Our studies
take place under the FDA’s supervision and ethics review
boards’ requirements.”
Dr. Apter’s reputation precedes him - people come from all
over New Jersey and Pennsylvania for memory-loss evaluations
and to participate in his studies.
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new friends. The LIFE Center provides
one location where doctors, nurses and
other healthcare professionals can provide
treatment and monitor changes in an individual’s health. We encourage seniors to
do things for themselves so they can live
independently as long as possible. Transportation to the Center is included.
The LIFE team will:
Make a special healthcare plan for and
with each participant.
Manage all healthcare services for participants.
Help participants to live safely in the
community.
Participants receive all healthcare services from LIFE St. Francis. Other than
emergency care, all services must be authorized by the care team. A provider within the LIFE network must deliver these
services. Participants may be personally
liable for the cost of unauthorized or out of
network services.
In short, LIFE St. Francis provides all
the medical and nursing care, physical
therapy, occupational therapy, nutritional
services, and social work support needed
by a participant. When it is best for the
senior, these services can be provided at
home. If hospital, nursing home or home
care is needed, it is coordinated through
the LIFE St. Francis team.
There are no financial eligibility requirements to become a LIFE participant. However, many participants are enrolled in
Medicare and qualify for Medicaid. You
are eligible for this program if you:
Are 55 or older.
Live in the service care area.
Are certified by the state at a nursing
home level of care.
Can live safely at home with the support of the LIFE Team
Call LIFE St. Francis at 609-599-LIFE
(5433) to see if you or your family member
is eligible.
Anyone interested in being evaluated, or in bringing a loved on in
for evaluation, may call Princeton Medical Institute’s special
number for this trial: 609-9216050.
Princeton Medical Institute.
Woodlands Professional Building, 256 Bunn Drive, Suite 6,
Princeton. 609-921-6050. [email protected],
www.gminstitutes.com.
Princeton Dermatology Associates
A new doctor and a new
office in North Brunswick
P
rinceton Dermatology Associates is moving to a
new, state-of-the-art office
at 1950 Route 27 in North
Brunswick, less than a half mile
down the road from its current location in Somerset.
Sola Choi, M.D. has joined
Princeton Dermatology Associates, and will be practicing out of
the new North Brunswick office,
which is expected to open on
June 30. Dr. Choi will handle
adult and pediatric dermatology,
as well as dermatologic surgery,
such as the removal of skin can-
cers, moles and other skin
growths.
“We are extremely pleased to
welcome Dr. Choi,” said practice
founder Roderick T. Kaufmann
Jr., M.D. “ She has a great background and the right experience
for our practice and patients”
Dr. Choi earned her M.D. from
Harvard Medical School. She did
her dermatology residency at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center in Lebanon, N.H. She
practiced dermatology in Massachusetts and northern New Jersey before coming to Princeton
Dermatology Associates.
Dr. Choi joins David A. Wrone,
M.D., who specializes in Mohs
Surgery, at the North Brunswick
site. Mohs is a same-day surgery
predominantly done for facial
cancers. According to Dr. Kaufmann, it is a conservative way to
approach and treat cancers with
minimal pain and quick healing.
Mohs clears the cancer from the
site with adequate margins, and
restorative or reconstructive surgery can be done simultaneously.
All Princeton Dermatology Associates offices also provide cos-
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:
Princeton Medical Institute is looking for people to be involved in a new
Alzheimer’s study; Dr. Sola Choi has joined Princeton Dermatology’s North
Brunswick office, expected to open on June 30.
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metic services “Approximately
80 percent of cosmetic procedures now are non surgical,” Dr.
Kaufmann explained. “And although Botox is still number one,
fillers like Juviderm, Sculptra,
Restylane , Evolence, and
Radiesse, are in high demand.”
The benefits of non-surgical
techniques are persuasive. Not
only is there less downtime, but it
is also much less expensive.
Most procedures can be done at
lunchtime with great results.
Doctors Kaufmann and Wrone
are skilled at using all these
techniques and often combine
them to achieve the desired look.
Dr. Wrone will continue to provide cosmetic services in North
Brunswick, while Dr. Kaufmann
and Dr. Wrone handle the cosmetic procedures in the Princeton office. Dr. Kaufmann is available to provide these services at
the other three offices.
To determine the best course
of action, a Princeton Dermatology Associates physician evaluates each patient, discussing the
patient’s goals and objectives.
The doctor then makes a recommendation based on the assessment on how best to accomplish
what the patient would like to
achieve.
Princeton Dermatology Associates was established more
than two decades ago by Dr.
Kaufmann to provide specialized
care for the skin, ranging from
medically necessary treatments
for various skin conditions such
Keep Your Smile For Life
New Plainsboro Village (Beside
1st Constitution Bank), 11
Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro. 609-750 1666.
Rane’s Dental
Offices
Giving you sedation
as the answer to
dental phobia!
Dr. Kaufmann
as acne, rashes, sun damage
and skin cancer, as well as cosmetic services. The practice also
houses the Aesthetics Center of
Princeton, which provides a wide
range of medically supervised
clinical and cosmetic services for
the public. The practice takes
most insurances.
Princeton Dermatology Associates. Somerset office relocating on June 30 to 1950 Highway 27, North Brunswick. 732297-8866. Fax: 732-821-0626.
Princeton Shopping Center,
301 North Harrison Street, Suite
1E, Princeton. 609-683-4999.
Fax: 609-683-0298.
Pennington Point West, 2
Tree Farm Road, Suite A-110,
Pennington, 609-737-4491. Fax:
609-737-4496.
Monroe Centre at Foresgate,
5 Centre Drive, Suite 1A, Monroe Township. 609-655-4544.
Fax: 609-655-2390.
Pheasants Landing, 311
Amwell Road, Hillsborough. 908281-6633. Fax: 908-281-6691.
Dr. Michael
Cortese
R
ane’s group of dental offices has become a home
for all phases of dentistry
serving children and adults in
Plainsboro and surrounding areas. Their mission statement is
“To provide exclusive dental care
by the best team of healthcare
advisors, creating lasting relationships with you and your referrals
and ultimately providing you 200
percent satisfaction.” In keeping
with this mission they have general dentists and specialists on
board at two locations right
across from each other, eliminating the need to travel all over town
for dental treatment while providing for the constantly growing demand for their services.
Rane’s Exclusively Yours
Dental is the parent office providing mainstream General Dentistry and Sedation while Rane’s
Dental Aesthetics is their specialty office providing Orthodontics,
Periodontics, Implant Surgery,
and Advanced Cosmetic Dentistry. Dr. Janhavi Rane, President and CEO of the Rane’s
Dental Group, is a long-time resident of Plainsboro where she
lives with her husband and three
children. She has a bachelor’s in
biology and psychology from
Rutgers — the State University,
and dental training from New
York University, Harvard School
of Dentistry, and Newark Beth Israel Hospital. She also serves on
the Human Relations Council
Committee of Plainsboro Township and is the president of The
Mercer County Dental Society.
Dr. Rane says, “It has always
been our attempt to give our patients all the services they need
in order to make their dental visits as stress free as possible because that’s the only way they
will be motivated to come. According to the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation
(DOCS Education), a professional organization dedicated to ensuring that patients receive safe,
comfortable and anxiety-free
dental care, 30 percent of the
population avoids the dentist due
to fear. This all-too-common
“dental phobia” prevents people
from receiving necessary routine
dental care, potentially compromising the health and functionality of their mouth and smile.”
Turn Back the Clock
Without Cosmetic
Surgery
Dr. Rane
At Rane’s Exclusively Yours
Dental, Sedation Dentistry has
eliminated that problem. Sedation is a process used to establish a relaxed, easy and calm
state through the use of sedatives. Sedative drugs (tranquillizers, depressants, anti-anxiety
medications, nitrous oxide, etc.)
can be administered in a variety
of ways. “At our practice we have
a Board Certified Anesthesiologist, Dr. Glen Atlas, M.D. who administers the sedative through an
IV putting you to sleep so you can
have all your dentistry done in
one visit with no pain, no fear,
and in a perfectly safe manner
while a physician and a dentist
monitor you all along. After it’s
done you just wake up and don’t
remember anything. Sedation
can help you deal with dental
phobias so you can get the treatments you need whether they are
routine or cosmetic dentistry.”
Sedation dentistry is not just
for the dental phobics. Rane’s
dental offices see a lot of special
needs patients and children for
sedation dentistry. “It’s actually a
big relief for parents to see their
kids sleeping peacefully and getting all their dental work done in
a safe and painless environment
rather than seeing them screaming and crying never wanting to
come to the dentist again,” says
Dr. Rane. Getting all their dental
treatment done in one visit under
sedation is most in demand for
children because parents don’t
need to take out time from work
for multiple visits. The child
wakes up with no memory of the
dental work done, and everyone
goes home happy. “We block out
longer appointments for sedation
patients so as to accommodate
any additional work they may
want or if they want their cleanings done while they are asleep
too.”
If you are reluctant to change
the appearance of your smile because you are afraid or anxious
about undergoing long or complicated dental procedures, sedation dentistry can make you feel
comfortable during the treatment
process and help you achieve a
smile you can be proud of.
Apart from Sedation Dentistry
the offices together with their five
doctors, Dr. Janhavi Rane, DDS;
Dr. Pradeep Sukumar, DMD; Dr.
John Cuozzo, DMD, MS; Dr.
Robert Conti, DMD; and Dr. Glen
Atlas, MD, provide all types of
dental treatment to children,
adults and seniors in a high tech,
classy and comfortable environment participating in most of the
major dental insurances.
Rane’s Exclusively Yours
Dental. Plainsboro Shopping
Center (Beside Super Fresh and
Dunkin Donuts), 10 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro. 609275 1777. www.ranesdental.com
Rane’s Dental Aesthetics (A
Dental Specialty Extension).
M
ost people don’t know
what a prosthodontist is.
They also don’t know that
implants and reconstructive dental care, or even cosmetic dentistry done by these skilled specialists can take years off your
face and turn back the clock. The
“instant face lift” occurs because
teeth are the main support of,
and can actually “lift” the face.
Prosthodontists, one of nine
dental specialists recognized by
the American Dental Association
(ADA), complete two to three
years of post-doctoral university
training.
Unlike the oral surgeon who
specializes in surgery and the orthodontist who specializes in
straightening teeth, the prosthodontist is the only specialist in the
whole mouth. They can insure
the most optimum functional and
cosmetic results. To achieve this,
they refer patients for portions of
their care to other specialists and
then coordinate the overall treatment to ensure a beautiful and
long lasting result.
“An extreme makeover can be
an extreme disaster or a beautiful transformation that changes
your life. For example, we see
cosmetic work that fails after a
few years when proper orthodontic treatment is not done first,”
says Princeton dentist, Dr.
Michael Cortese, DMD, PA.
Dr. Cortese received degrees
from the University of Notre
Dame and Fairleigh Dickinson
University School of Dentistry
and his Certificate in Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Dental Oncology from the University of
Texas Health Science Center,
M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. This post-graduate
program includes an additional
three years of training in all areas
of cosmetic dentistry including
dental implants, restorative procedures, and reconstructive
care. A member of the prestigious American Academy of
Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Dr.
Cortese is one of only 350 accredited Maxillofacial Prosthodontists worldwide. He has also
been named one of New Jersey
Monthly’s Top Dentists and was
selected by his peers to be listed
in The Best Dentists in America,
first edition.
In addition to bringing smiles
to scores of patients in the New
Jersey and New York area, Dr.
Cortese completed additional
university training in facial reconstruction to become a maxillofacial prosthodontist. Combining
his artistic skills with this training
he fabricates prosthetic facial
parts for patients after cancer
surgery or trauma. All of his patients benefit from this specialized artistic skill and training.
Some of the other state-ofthe-art dental procedures and
techniques offered at Princeton
Prosthodontics, working in coordination with your general or
family practitioner, include: teeth
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whitening (bleaching), bonding,
veneers, crowns, dental implants, smile makeover, special
needs of geriatric patients, cleft
palate and lip, TMJ and TMD,
and snoring and sleep disorders.
Dr. Cortese can also help you
jumpstart your new, younger
look with the latest dental delivery system of Botox, Restylane,
and all cosmetic fillers. Since
dental specialists are the most
experienced practitioners in delivering injections, patients say
their treatments in Dr. Cortese’
office are the most comfortable
they have ever experienced.
“There is no single factor more
vital in making that all-important
good first impression than a
healthy smile,” says Dr. Cortese.
“Beyond the fact that my staff
and I are uniquely qualified in
this area is that we pride ourselves on taking the time to sit
down and listen to our patients.
We enjoy getting to know our patients and their individual needs.
Our first goal is that our patients
are comfortable and understand
all of their treatment options. Additionally, we assist with convenient financing arrangements so
that every patient can have the
care they deserve.”
Princeton Prosthodontics.
311 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. 609-683-8282.
www.drcortese.com
Dr. Donna
Vagnozzi-Bucci
Where spa dentistry is also high-tech dentistry
D
r. Donna Vagnozzi-Bucci’s patients are well acquainted with her office’s
spa-like atmosphere and caring
staff. But behind the amenities
and smiles is an arsenal of technology.
CEREC is one of the most
useful advances available to today’s dentist. According to Dr.
Vagnozzi-Bucci, it’s the “future of
dentistry. CEREC allows us to
scan the tooth and computergenerate onlays, inlays and
crowns,” she explained. “This
turns what used to be two or
three visits into about a two-hour
procedure.”
According to Dr. VagnozziBucci, scanning the tooth is not
only more comfortable than an
impression, but also enables our
doctors to get a precise render-
ing of the tooth. The crown is
then milled from strong porcelain
right in the office. There’s no
need for temporary crowns and
repeat office visits with CEREC.
“They’re strong and look gorgeous,” Dr. Vagnozzi-Bucci
added. “And, they’re metal-free.”
Dr. Vagnozzi-Bucci is committed to providing her patients with
top-notch care in a state-of-theart office. Her sterilization system is hospital-grade. She uses
digital x-rays so there’s minimal
radiation and a crystal-clear rendering.
“We can diagnose more than
we ever could with digital x-rays,”
says Dr. Vagnozzi-Bucci. “These,
along with the DIAGNO-dent, a
laser unit that detects cavities before they can be seen on an x-ray
or felt the traditional way with an
instrument, enable us to detect
and take care of cavities when
they’re smallest. Therefore,
there’s less chance of long-term
breakage, which would require
more costly treatment. “
Part of a dental exam at Dr.
Vagnozzi-Bucci’s office is the
oral cancer screening. They use
the VELscope to detect cancers
and ulcerations early.
VELscope’s blue light can find
lesions that can’t be seen with
the naked eye.
With all the high tech, there’s
still plenty of soft-touch. Every
visit is a chance for Dr. VagnozziBucci and her team to educate
their patients on preventive dentistry. Each team member ensures the patient’s comfort and
listens to the patient’s concerns.
Her knowledgeable staff also
helps patients maximize their
dental insurance benefits and
can direct patients to various financing options if necessary. An
endodontist and a periodontist
are available in the office for patients needing root canal, periodontal surgery and implants.
“I’ve been practicing 21 years,
and the technology has never
been better,” she said. “However,
no matter how high-tech we’ve
become I’ve built my practice on
listening to people, honoring their
wishes and treating them like
family. I invite you to come experience our one-of-a-kind office.”
The Spa Dentistry Office of
Dr. Donna Vagnozzi-Bucci,
Tree Farm Village, 7 Tree Farm
Road, Suite 200, Pennington.
609-818-9797. www.drvagnozzibucci.com
Dr. Sheryl Haber-Kuo, M.D.
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
• Medical Preventative
Maintenance
• Treating Men & Women
from 15 yrs to 100 +
• New Patients Welcome
Most Insurances Accepted
Monday evening hours available
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Cranbrook II Professional Building
2312-2314 Whitehorse-Mercerville Rd.,
Suite 201 • Mercerville
609-586-9566
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Fitness Resources For Novices & Veterans
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Corporation
Specialized help for
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H
elp for those suffering
from diseases requiring
medical supplies, particularly compression therapy, and
support for their caregivers, is
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American Disabilities Corporation’s mission is to personalize
service to meet the very particular needs of its clients and their
caregivers. Neil Tucker, M.Ed.,
managing director and partner,
took his background and his passion for these populations and
developed a company to bring
them innovative and useful products and supplies.
“We provide the full range of
medical supplies: wheel chairs,
walkers, incontinence products
and more,” Tucker said. “But I’m
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gives the patient options for improving overall well being.”
Tucker is trained as a massage therapist, a profession that
helped him see the need for a
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and supplies. He earned his undergraduate degree from Trenton State College, and two master’s degrees (health education
and health sciences) from The
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“I saw that those managing
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Any body part can swell postsurgery. Additionally, diseases
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“Great products and a good fit
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“We just brought on an experienced fitter, Tony Vlahovic, to
better serve our growing client
base. We’re expanding our
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American Disabilities Corporation’s largest supplier recently
named the company a Center of
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in New Jersey. The organization
also was just awarded a New
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any state or county facility that
buys medical supplies off a state
contract. This confirms that
American Disabilities Corporation is committed to great customer service and quality products.
“ADC also looks out for caregivers,” Tucker noted. “We created Caregivers Oasis to support
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their daily wellness, help manage stress and reduce burnout.
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JUNE 24, 2009
ART
FILM
LITERATURE
DANCE
DRAMA
MUSIC
PREVIEW
DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, JUNE 24 TO JULY 1
Wednesday
June 24
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Say Cheese
Cheese Class, Bon Appetit,
Princeton Shopping Center, 609924-7755. www.bonappetitfinefoods.com. “Cow, Goat, and
Sheep Cheeses.” BYOB. Register. $50. 7 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit Extended with a Public Reception, Artworks, 19
Everett Alley ,Trenton, 609-3949436. www.artworkstrenton.com.
“The Garden of Artistic Delights,”
a group show of work which features a garden theme or is made
fro placement in the garden, has
been extended through Friday,
July 24. Public reception in the
main gallery for the Art All Night
artists who sold work. Also on display, “The Salon Show,” held in
tandem with Ellarslie, the Trenton
City Museum. 6:30 p.m.
Arts Council Meeting
Annual Membership Meeting,
Arts Council of Princeton, Paul
Robeson Center for the Arts,
102 Witherspoon Street. Celebration of the one year anniverary of
the opening of the Pual Robeson
Center with cake and champagne. Presentation of the Arts
VIsion Award to Judith and
William Scheide and the Pride of
the Arts Council Awards for outstanding volunteers, business
and community partners, and
artists. Performance by pianist
Mariam Nazarian. 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Opera New Jersey, Palmer
Square, 609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Arias and ensembles from popular operas.
Free. 6 p.m.
Atzilut Concerts for Peace,
Doylestown Community Performing Arts Council, Chapman
Park, East Road, Doylestown,
PA, 215-348-9915. www.doylestownpa.org. Arab and Jewish musicians in concert present shared
music of both Hebrew and Arabic.
Bring blankets, chairs, and picnics. At Central Bucks West High
School, 375 West Court Street, if
raining. Free. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
REO Speedwagon, PNC Bank
Arts Center, Holmdel, 732-2032500. www.livenation.com. Prices
vary. 7 p.m.
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We suggest calling before
leaving home. Check our
website, princetoninfo.com,
for up-to-date listings, cancellations, and late listings.
Drama
The Full Monty, Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn,
973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Elaine Stritch portrays
Jeanette Burmeister in the musical bare-it-all story set in Buffalo,
New York. For mature audiences.
$56 to $84. Through July 12. 7:30
p.m.
No Horse and Buggy — Just Rock
The Amish Outlaws perform on Saturday, June
27, at 7 p.m. at the Freedom Festival in Mercer
County Park. The event, from 3 to 11 p.m.,
includes a petting zoo, beer and wine, fireworks, and other bands.609-989-6559.
The Amish Outlawleft the Amish way of life after their
‘Rumspringa,’ in which Amish children at the age of
16 have an opportunity to live free of the strict Amish
code of conduct before deciding if they want to come
back and be baptized into the Amish church.
Photo: PartyLikeaRAWKstar.com
My Fair Lady, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m.
The Fantasticks, Princeton Festival, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, 800-595-4849. www.princetonfestival.org. Musical by Harvey
Schmidt and Tom Jones. $30 to
$35. 8 p.m.
The Tempest, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, College of
Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, 973408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Shakespeare’s mystical drama on the outdoor stage. Through
August 2. $29 to $53. 8:15 p.m.
PREVIEW EDITOR:
JAMIE SAXON
[email protected]
Dancing
Contra Dance, Princeton Country
Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 609-9246763. princetoncountrydancers.org. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
Literati
U.S. 1 Poets, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Patricia Goodrich and
Rita Williams read from their
works. 7:30 p.m.
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Faith
Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432.
www.relaxationandhealing.com.
Meditation and inspirational readings with Susan Pie, spiritual
medium. Register. $30. 7 to 9
p.m.
Meditation and Buddhism, Yoga
Above, 80 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-613-1378. www.yogaabove.com. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farm Market, Hopewell Train
Station, 1 Railroad Place,
Hopewell, 609-466-8330. Farm
fresh vegetables, breads, maple
syrup, meats, and more. 2 to 7
p.m.
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
“Wines to Watch the Grass Grow
By” features aperitifs and sippers.
5 to 8 p.m.
Wine Sampling, Valley Wine &
Spirits, Hopewell Crossing, 800
R Denow Road, Pennington, 609730-1119. www.valleywinespirits.com. Free. 5 to 8 p.m.
Wine Tasting, One 53, 153 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, 609921-0153. Cabernet Sauvignon
of Napa served in two-ounce
pours accompanied by hors
d’oeuvres. Register. $50. 6:30
p.m.
Cheese Class, Bon Appetit,
Princeton Shopping Center, 609924-7755. www.bonappetitfinefoods.com. “Cow, Goat, and
Sheep Cheeses.” BYOB. Register. $50. 7 p.m.
For Families
Family Concert, Barnes &
Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-716-1570. www.bn.com.
Music Together performance and
CD signing. 4:30 p.m.
Summer Program Kickoff, Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly
Street, Lambertville, 609-3970275. www.lambertvillelibrary.org. “The Puppet Zoo” presented
by Mock Turtle Marionettes. 6:30
p.m.
Lectures
Mendelssohn and Schubert: The Cypress String
Quartet performs on Thursday, June 25, as part of
the free Princeton University Summer Concerts
series at Richardson Auditorium. 609-470-8404.
609-882-0303. www.erinirestaurant.com. DJ Nick Z. 9 to 1
a.m.
Soir Du Femme, John & Peter’s,
96 South Main Street, New Hope,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Thursday
June 25
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
This Band Has Four Pastors and a Leasing Agent
Concert, Nassau Presbyterian
Church, 61 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-213-0940. www.nassauchurch.org. Life’s Other
Side gives a free concert of old
country/western music with fourpart harmony. Band members include four pastors (three are retired) — Don Mackenzie, Wallace
Alston, John Nelson, and John
McClure — and Mark Hill, director
of leasing for Hilton Realty in
Carnegie Center. Guests include
Jeremy Steele of Princeton on
pedal steel guitar and drummer
John Straus. 7 p.m.
Cypress String Quartet, Princeton University Summer Concerts, Richardson Auditorium,
609-470-8404. www.pusummerchamberconcerts.org. Free tickets available at the box office at
6:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:30
p.m. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
Patio at 502 Carnegie Center,
609-452-1444. Free. Noon.
Music Fest 2009, Mercer
County, South River Walk Park,
Trenton, 609-448-7107. www.whatsgoingonthisweekend.com.
Verdict presents reggae and
Caribbean sounds. Food and
beverages available. Activities
and prizes for children. Bring
blanket, chair, and picnic. Free. 5
to 8 p.m.
The Klez Dispensers, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton Shopping Center, 609-924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Klezmer music. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Kids Gospel Music Festival,
First Baptist Church, Pettoranello Gardens Amphitheater, Community Park North, junction of
Route 206 and Mountain Avenue.,
609-924-0877. Angels Choir in
concert led by Minister William D.
Carter III. Free. 6 to 7 p.m.
Music in the Park Series, Lawrenceville Main Street, Weeden
Park, Main Street, 609-219-9300.
www.LawrencevilleMainStreet.com. The Tone Rangers present
country and blues. Bring a chair.
Free. 7 p.m.
Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe, 732-5215000. www.monroetwplibrary.org.
“How to Live the Best You Can in
Challenging Times” presented by
Betsy Wiggins, a certified empowerment coach. Register.
Free. 1 p.m.
The Awful Picnic: The General
Classical Music
Slocum Disaster, Middlesex
County Cultural Commission,
Piano Competition Finals,
East Jersey Olde Towne Village,
Princeton Festival, Taplin Audi1050 River Road, Piscataway,
torium, Princeton University, 800732-745-4489. www.culture595-4849. www.princetonheritage.org. Kathleen Hulser,
festival.org. $20. 8 p.m.
public historian for the New York
Historical Society, presents a program about the steamer that
burned in the East River with
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1,021 passengers. The high death
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toll resulted in boat safety inspections. The burned hulk of the General Slocum was purchased by
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Last Week of June to Labor Day 8:30a 4:00p
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Extended C are A vailable
www.pacf.org. Public forum for
people to get together and talk
Fiddleheads Day Camp Offered Weekly to Children 6-1 1
among neighbors. Register. Free.
7 p.m.
Every day your children will choose from new activities that broaden their world
Fiddleheads Day Camp
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Live Music
Happier Hours, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Live music. Food and wine available. Free admission. 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]. 7:30 to 11 p.m.
Dance Party, Erini Restaurant,
1140 River Road, West Trenton,
“Age Appropri ate Program s
Emphasi ze Personal Growth and Skill Developm ent”
and nurture their connections to nature and agriculture. Adventures on our farm
and in our woods will inspire and educate your children while still letting them
have fun and be themselves. Experienced camp counselors will guide your children
in structured groups of no more than ten.
“Age A ppropriate
P rograms
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Summer Enrichment
Program focuses
on local
Offered Weekly to Young Adults 1 2 - 1 4
agriculture, ecology, and community. Weekly overnight trips will
allow our Young Stewards to experience the natural diversity of
New Jersey .
• Visits to local farms & the pitch pine forests of NJ Pine Barrens
• Explore the NJ coastline
• Paddle local waterways
• Engage in a weekly conservation project
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JUNE 24, 2009
June 25
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Pop Music
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Catering Company
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the War Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609-984-8400.
www.thewarmemorial.com. Free
guitar master class 5 to 6 p.m. prior to the concert. 7 p.m.
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Summer Workshops, Brodsky
Center for Innovative Editions,
33 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-932-2222. www.brodskycenter.org. Papermaking
for ages 6 to 8, Sandra Sewing,
$150. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Drama
$56 to $84. Conversation about
the show in the mezzanine at
6:30 p.m. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Urinetown, Princeton Summer
Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062. www.princetonsummertheater.org. Musical. $20. 8 p.m.
The Little Foxes, Shakespeare
Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Drama based on Lillian Hellman’s tale of a Southern
family. $50 to $54. 8 p.m.
Also, The Tempest, College of
Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, 973408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Shakespeare’s mystical drama on the outdoor stage. $29 to
$70. 8:15 p.m.
Film
Newark Black Film Festival, New
Jersey State Museum, Auditorium, 225 West State Street, Tren-
Fresh Made To Order Sushi
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MARKETFAIR
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Mon-Thurs. 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 11am-7:30pm
Remember ‘Don’t Speak’? No Doubt, above,
comes to the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel
on Friday, June 26; Def Leppard, below appears
on Wednesday, July 1 732-203-2500.
ton, 609-292-5420. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. Screening of “The Space Traders,” a film
about a conservative AfricanAmerican politician. Speaker is
Warrington Hudlin, filmmaker, DV
Republic. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes
followed by guided practice. $10.
8 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Christopher Beha,
author of “The Whole Five Feet:
What the Great Books Taught
Me.” 6 p.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.
Butch Bradley, The Stress Factory, 90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $13 to $15. 8
p.m.
Food & Dining
Happy Hour, BT Bistro, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-9403. Discount appetizers and drinks. 4 to 7 p.m.
Chef’s Challenge, Mrs. G TV &
Appliances, 2960 US Highway
1, Lawrenceville, 609-882-1444.
Cook-off event open to the public
with three professional chefs: Jason Hensle of Salt Creek Grille,
Eben Copple of the Yardley Inn,
and Peter Nowakowski of Rat’s.
Each chef will prepare three
courses — appetizer, entree, and
dessert. Attendees at the event
will have the opportunity to cast a
vote for the People’s Choice
Award for the best chef. Amateur
chef Randy Forrester of Hopewell
will join the chefs. Professional
judges include Pat Tanner, a contributor to U.S. 1. RSVP via Email at [email protected].
Space is limited. 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Backpacking through the Vineyards, The Inn at Fernbrook
Farm, 146 Bordentown Georgetown Road, Chesterfield, 609298-3868. Journey through the
vineyards on a hayride. Raindate
is Friday, June 26. Register. $65.
6 to 9 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Yoga Intensive, Yoga Above, 80
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609613-1378. www.yogaabove.com.
$30. 6 to 8 a.m.
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Harris School of Business, 3620 Quakerbridge Road,
Trenton, 800-448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. Register. 8
a.m.
Why Do We Have Cravings?,
South Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Register. Free. 6 to 8
p.m.
Lifeworld, Kingston Wellness
Associates, 4446 Route 27,
Kingston, 215-598-7225. www.thenewtemperament.com. “Getting Past Yourself: A New Look at
Temperament” presented by
Michael Edelstein. Prerequisite is
to take the online assessment.
Register. $65. 7 to 9 p.m.
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6922. www.mcl.org. “Explore the Connection Between
Your Life Plate and Food Plate”
presented by Sally Jones, a life
coach. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Overeater’s Anonymous, Princeton Alliance Church, Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609750-7349. www.overeatersanonymous.com. 12-step program with meetings, studies, discussion, and speakers. 7:30 to
8:30 p.m.
Lectures
Informational Meeting, Licensed
Site Remediation Professionals Association, Mercer College
Conference Center, West Windsor. www.lsrpa.org. For scientists,
engineers, and others with an interest in site remediation in New
Jersey. For information E-mail
[email protected]. 6 p.m.
Life Planning, Neuro-Enhancement Strategies, Princeton Pike,
609-918-0089. www.neuro-en-
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B
obby Trigg threatens to
do a hat trick in our own backyard.
The opening of his way-cool BT
Bistro tucked into the side of the
Palmer Inn (Clarion Hotel) on
Route 1 South is the second venue
for his triple crown. The wellknown and well-loved Ferry House
is still thriving on Witherspoon
Street. This newest destination can
only enhance his reputation.
The funky decor starts at the facade where the bold red paint
catches the eye from the road. As
you enter, a serene glass waterfall
divides the space into the foyer and
the bar entrance. A startling spray
of chrome branches and tiny bright
lights makes a strong impression.
These lights are scattered throughout the restaurant and, coupled
with small spots, throw good lighting down on the tables.
The large bar has ample seating
both for a gathering of friends just
for drinks or as an optional dining
area. The strong use of rich, warm
wood and bright chrome create a
modern look that doesn’t scream
hotel trendy. The extremely highbacked black wicker seats in the
bar area give the perception of privacy. This sense of enveloping intimacy is carried through into the
main dining area where the backs
of the upholstered banquettes soar
a good three feet above diners’
heads. These, coupled with a low
ceiling, keep the noise down to a
mercifully low level, even when
the room is well populated. My
friends and I were able to have an
actual conversation at normal decihancement.com. Presented by
Jeff Schoener. Register at
[email protected].
$10. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Live Music
Concert, Nassau Presbyterian
Church, 61 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-213-0940. www.nassauchurch.org. Life’s Other
Side gives a free concert of old
country/western music with fourpart harmony. Band members include four pastors (three are retired) — Don Mackenzie, Wallace
Alston, John Nelson, and John
McClure — and Mark Hill, director
of leasing for Hilton Realty in
Carnegie Center. Guests include
Jeremy Steele of Princeton on
pedal steel guitar and drummer
John Straus. 7 p.m.
Singer Songwriter Showcase,
Triumph Brewing Company,
138 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. Hosted by Frank
Thewes. 9 p.m.
Politics
Green Your Homeowner Association, Sustainable Princeton,
Township Municipal Building,
609-924-5366. Sustainable
Princeton, township and borough
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Trying a new restaurant with another couple means everyone can
get something different and all can
sample a variety of dishes. The
menu is small and supplemented
by nightly appetizer and entree
specials. The first time I dined
there, we tried the pureed bean
soup ($8) and the fried calamari
While my friends and
I protested that we
would eat lightly, we
all cleaned our plates,
were in danger of
licking them, and
then ordered a sampler plate of desserts.
($9). Both disappeared rapidly.
Our main courses were a special of
sea scallops served on pulled pork,
a surprising combination that
worked on all levels ($27); a filet
mignon that could be cut with a
fork, served with truffle mashed
potatoes on a Portobello mushroom ($30); salmon ($25) and the
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For people who protested that
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June 26
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Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
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Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to
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cream ($8). All this with wine and
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varied and the bar itself was doing
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there as the main dining room.
Trigg has trained the staff well and
each server was helpful with all our
questions. Service was proper with
the only gaffe in the “serve from
the left, remove from the right” being made by one of the managers
who reached across both women at
our table.
The only burning question now
is when can we expect the third potential jewel in the crown to appear: the renovated Peacock Inn on
Bayard Lane. A call to the Ferry
House yielded only the response,
“There is no set date.” If it follows
the lead of its sibling venues, we
will have a real dining dilemma on
our hands.
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T
he Chapman Stick is not
a guitar. It is not a bass, and not any
other stringed instrument. But it
has made a huge impact on music,
especially through the efforts of
Tony Levin and Michael Bernier
and their group, Stickmen.
The Chapman Stick is a stringed
instrument that, in actuality, works
like a keyboard instrument. Emmett Chapman, an English guitarist, in 1969 developed a technique known as “free hands,”
through which both hands are parallel to the fretboard, allowing for
different tunings and voicings. He
began working on the Stick later
that year and didn’t begin marketing the new instrument until 1974.
The Stick looks like a wide version
of the fretboard of an electric guitar, with 8, 10, or 12 strings. It is
considerably longer and wider than
a guitar fretboard, however.
A guitarist or bassist plays his or
her instrument with one hand on
top of the fretboard and one hand,
in reverse position, plucking or
strumming. On a Stick, both hands
sound notes by striking the strings
against the fingerboard just behind
the appropriate frets for the desired
notes. For this reason, it can sound
many more notes at once than most
other stringed instruments, making
it more comparable to a keyboard
than to other stringed instruments.
Stick players such as Levin and
Bernier can play bass, chords, and
melody at the same time. A band
with two Sticks doesn’t really need
much else as a result.
Although, others such as guitarist Stanley Jordan, who uses a
technique on his guitar that employs a technique very close to
what is known as “free hands,” his
sound, while distinctive, is not the
same as that of the Stick.
The Stickmen, featuring Levin
on stick and bass, Bernier on stick
and guitar, and drummer Pat Mastelotto, will perform on Saturday,
June 27, at Pettoranello Gardens’
North Ampitheater in Princeton,
closing out the 2009 season of free
concerts presented by Blue Curtain
at Princeton Community Park.
“The Chapman Stick is an instrument I’ve played for some
years. It’s very versatile, with guitar and bass sides, and I often use it
in my writing,” writes Levin via Email. His band has been touring
Europe, primarily, this year. “My
last solo CD was titled ‘Stick
Man.’ But I was unable to reproduce much of the last CD’s material live, because there were multiple
Stick takes on it. Hence the idea of
two Stick players in one band. The
perfect complement to that unusual
lineup is Pat Mastelotto, who plays
not only acoustic drum kit, but
electronic, with a lot of looping and
samples. He’s also my King Crimson band mate, so there’s a nice
musical history there for us to take
advantage of.”
Yes, any conversation about
Stick Men has to include mention
of King Crimson, the Englishfounded progressive-pop collective that fused classical structures
with jazz harmonies and rock
rhythms and aesthetics. The band
has been going strong since the
1970s. Levin met King Crimson
founder Robert Fripp in 1980, and
soon he was the band’s Stick player. Fripp has said that he was lucky
to find Levin; the bandleader had
been auditioning a stream of English and American bassists, when
Levin simply showed up one day
and asked to be in the band. He had
“an utterly original style,” Fripp
has said.
Stickmen (not to be confused
with a Philadelphia group with a
similar name) is a fairly new project. Levin says he got the idea to
put the band together only a bit
more than a year ago, and he contacted Bernier, who was one of his
earlier Stick instructors and longtime writing and jamming collaborator, and his bandmate Mastelotto.
The group has been performing together since October.
“Surprisingly, it was a tour of
Poland [3 concerts in a week],” he
says. “We had been writing together in the year before that, and really
Michael and I have been sorting
out ideas together for years. Last
January we had a nice show in New
York’s Town Hall, opening for Eddie Jobson’s new UKZ band, and
then in the spring we toured Italy,
Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Belgium, Holland,
On a Stick, both
hands sound notes
by striking the strings
against the fingerboard just behind the
appropriate frets for
the desired notes.
and France. So it’s an understatement to say we’ve broken the band
in.”
T
o Levin, there are many
greats on the Stick. First and foremost are Bernier and Emmett
Chapman. “Michael Bernier of our
group plays with some techniques
unique among all the Stick players,
and I’ve had a great time learning
some things from him, in person, as
we share ideas and techniques,”
says Levin. “Emmett Chapman,
the inventor, is an excellent player,
and has been an influence on all
Stick players. There are quite a few
other excellent players around the
world: Tom Greisgraber in San
Diego, Greg Howard in Maryland,
Bob Culbertson in the Bay Area,
Steve Adelson in Brooklyn, Nick
Beggs in England (who I last saw
playing the Stick on tour with John
Paul Jones). In the southwest, playing her own style of music, there is
Linda Cushma.
“In Italy there is Virna Splendore, and in Israel and Russia,
Irene Orleansky is quite influential. Others too. I’m just listing
from top of my head some of the
players whom I’ve learned from.”
Others connected with the Stick
include Blue Man Group, Alphonso
‘Free Hands’:
Pat Mastelotto
(drums) Tony Levin
( Chapman Stick),
and Michael Bernier
(Chapman Stick).
Johnson, formerly of Weather Report, and Mike Oldfield. The instrument has also been part of many
films and TV shows, often appearing as some sort of futuristic stringed
instrument in science fiction.
To Levin, who was born and
raised in the Boston suburb of
Brookline, music is something he
has always had an affinity for.
When did he start playing? “Back
when the earth was cooling,” he
says. “I started as a classical bass
player, when in grammar school.
Then I went on to music college
[Eastman School of Music], playing in the Rochester Philharmonic
a bit, and moving on into jazz, then
studio work, then hard rock, where
I feel the most at home musically.”
Studio work is second nature to
Levin. After his time in Rochester,
where he played with all-time great
jazz and rock drummer Steve
Gadd, he moved to New York and
began working as a studio bassist.
He has, at one time or another,
played with Peter Gabriel, Buddy
Rich, Todd Rundgren, Pink Floyd,
Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Yes, Paul
Simon, Gary Burton, James Taylor,
Herbie Mann, Richie Sambora,
Carly Simon, Gary Burton and
Seal, among others.
Levin, who turned 63 earlier this
month, has also been instrumental
(sorry) in the creation of something
he calls “Funk Fingers.” If you
know Peter Gabriel’s music, you
have heard them. “Funk Fingers are
drum sticks attached to the fingers,
to play on the bass with a percussive
sound,” he says. “I came up with it
for Peter Gabriel’s piece, “Big
Time.” I sold them on my website
for a time, hoping bass players
would start using them, but moved
on with things, because manufacturing and selling are not things I
want to be involved in much.”
Music in the Park, Blue Curtain, Pettoranello Gardens Amphitheater, Community Park
North, junction of Route 206 and
Mountain Avenue.. Saturday, June
27, 7 p.m. Stickmen featuring
Tony Levin, Pat Mastellotto, and
Michael Bernier, and Lily Neill.
Rain date is Sunday, June 21. Free.
609-924-7500 or www.bluecurtain.org.
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Opportunities
Auditions
Maurer Productions has auditions for “Hollywood Arms” on
Friday, July 10, 6 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and
Sunday, July 12, 11 a.m .to 6 p.m.
at Mercer College, West Windsor.
Visit www.mponstage.com for information and to schedule an appointment. Six women, five men,
and three children are needed.
Villagers Theater has auditions
for “What the Bellhop Saw,” a
door-slamming British farce, on
Tuesday, June 30, at 7 p.m.; and
Sunday, July 5, at 2 p.m. Readings
will be from the script. Visit www.villagerstheatre.com or E-mail
[email protected] for information.
Somerset Valley Players has
auditions for “The Emperor’s New
Clothes” on Saturday, June 27,
noon to 3 p.m.; and Monday, June
29, 7 to 9 p.m. Actors needed are
ages 15 to 50, five men, and four
women. Visit www.svptheatre.org
or call 908-369-7469.
West Windsor Library has auditions for Halloween Playfest on
Saturdays, July 25 and August 1
and 8, 2 to 4 p.m.; and Wednesdays,
July 29 and August 5, 7 to 9 p.m.
For ages 8 to 17, one actress 18 to
30; and one actress, 30 to 45.
Teenage guitar or keyboard players
are needed. Auditions will consist
of reading from the scripts. 333
North Post Road, West Windsor.
Contact Michael Kerr at 609-2758901 or E-mail [email protected].
Salsa Mambo Class
Pennington Ewing Athletic
Center presents an eight-week salsa mambo partner dance course beginning Friday, July 10, at 7:30
p.m. Jose Papo Diaz instructs.
1440 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing.
$85 to $95 per person. Call 609883-2000 or E-mail [email protected] for information and registration.
Health
New Jersey Department of
Health and Senior Services is distributing “Speak Up When You’re
Down,” a card with signs and resources for treatment of postpartum depression and other perinatal
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Folk Music
The Hickory Tree Chorus and
Bill Griese, Folk Project, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21
Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489. www.folkproject.org. $7. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Opera New Jersey, Palmer
Square, 609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Musical Theater concert. Free. 2 p.m.
Upper Princeton Swing Collective, Crossing Vineyards and
Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Jazz and swing
standards. Rain or shine. Bring a
chair. Wine and cheese available.
Register. Concert, $10 to $15.
Buffet dinner, $25. 7 p.m.
Concert in the Park, South
Brunswick Recreation, Beechwoods Park, 137 Beekman Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-3294000. www.sbtnj.net. Mr. Ray
presents a family concert. Bring
chair or blanket. Picnics welcome. Free. 7 p.m.
mood disorders which can affect
women before, during, and after
pregnancy.
Visit
www.njspeakup.gov, call 800-328-3838,
or visit Jewish Family & Children’s Service, 707 Alexander
Road, West Windsor, Jewish Community Development Council, 4
Princess Road, Lawrenceville; or
Princeton YMCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton.
Princeton Healthcare System
offers “Safe Sitter,” a course for
ages 11 to 13, on Thursday and Friday, July 23 and 24, 9 a.m,. to 3
p.m. at Hamilton Area YMCA,
1315 Whitehorse Mercerville
Road, Hamilton. Register. Bring
lunch. $65. Register at www.princetonhcs.org.
Trees
Arbor Day Foundation offers
“What Tree is That?” a booklet to
make it easier to identify trees in
New Jersey for $5. Visit www.arborday.org for an interactive version or to order the booklet.
School
William Paterson University
offers bachelor’s degrees in early
childhood education and liberal
arts at Mercer County College.
Open house on Wednesday, July 1,
at 6 p.m. Call Laurene Jones at
609-570-3307 for information.
Phillips’ Mill offers free photo
workshops to introduce digital
photography programs. Five biweekly meetings on Tuesdays, 7 to
10 p.m., during July, August, and
early September. $200. Visit
www.phillipsmill.org or call 215862-9568 to register.
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Ellarslie presents a summer art
and theater camp for ages 6 to 13,
Monday to Friday, August 3 to 14,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your lunch.
Register. $250.
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed
Association
offers
Kindercamp Tuesday to Thursday,
June 30 to July 2, 9:30 a.m. to
noon. For children who have completed kindergarten and entering
grade 1 in September. $75 plus current Watershed membership. Visit
www.thewatershed.org or 609737-7592.
Kings of Kingdom offers vacation Bible School with Jean Prall
Rosolino, director of Youth Stages
drama program, at Trinity Church,
33 Mercer Street, Kingston. For
ages four years to fourth grade.
Register with Jennifer Parker
Wrzeszez at 609-924-2277 or [email protected].
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Educational Family Fair!
Saturday, June 27th • 1 to 5 pm
it’s Local, it’s Fun, it’s for Everyone!!!
281 Pennington-Lawrenceville Rd!
(right across Fyr-Fyter)
Volunteer Please
www.pegasuschildrensacademy.com
609-737-2693
Holy Cross Center of Learning presents religion classes, mass,
music, prayer services, Rosary
recitation, and workshops. Volunteer aides are needed to assist the
students in the classroom as well as
during other activities. For information contact Rose Anna Romanello at 609-882-4567.
New Jersey Blood Services
seeks volunteers to work blood
drives. Call Jan Zepka at 732-6168741 for information.
Fresh Air Fund seeks volunteer
host families to share a home with
an inner-city child for the summer.
Visit www.freshair.org or call 609371-2817 for information.
Catering, delicatessen, scrumptious sandwiches
A Princeton institution for more than a century
180 Nassau Street, 609-924-6269, fax 609-924-5442
www.coxsmarket.com
Camps
New York Giants Youth Football Camps, Princeton Academy
of Sacred Heart, 1128 Great Road,
Princeton. Monday to Friday, July
6 to 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For ages 6
to 14. Visit www.nygiantscamps.com or call 877-226-9919 for information.
Rock and Roll Boot Camp, a
two-week program, 3570 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Begins Monday, July 6. Call
Mike Morpurgo at 609-890-7090
for information.
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No Doubt, PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, 732-203-2500.
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It Was a Very Good Year, Bristol
Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Musicale featuring the pop standards of the late
1950s and early ‘60s. $29. 8 p.m.
Art
Summer Workshops, Brodsky
Center for Innovative Editions,
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for ages 9 to 12, Sandra Sewing,
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Romeo & Juliet, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community
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609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Shakespeare’s love
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Soup Du Jour, Off-Broadstreet
Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical comedy features an undercover reporter working as a waitress.
$27.50 to $29.50 includes
dessert. 8 p.m.
973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Elaine Stritch portrays Jeanette Burmeister in the musical
bare-it-all story set in Buffalo, New
York. For mature audiences. $56
to $84. Through July 12. 8 p.m.
The Fantasticks, Princeton Festival, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, 800-595-4849. www.princetonfestival.org. Musical by
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones.
$30 to $35. 8 p.m.
Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062. www.princetonsummertheater.org. Musical. $20. 8 p.m.
Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University,
Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Drama based
on Lillian Hellman’s tale of a
Southern family. $50 to $54. 8
p.m.
$70. 8:15 p.m.
Company, Plays-in-the-Park,
Capestro Theater, Roosevelt
Park, Route 1 South, Edison,
732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a chair.
$5. 8:30 p.m.
Dancing
www.catcharisingstar.com.
Reservation. $20. 8 p.m.
and 10:30 p.m.
Dena Blizzard and Chris Morris,
Bucks County Comedy
Cabaret, 625 North Main Street,
Doylestown, 215-345-5653.
www.comedycabaret.com.
$17.50. 9 p.m.
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. $15. 8 to 11
p.m.
11 p.m.
Faith
Literati
Food & Dining
Warehouse Book Sale, Scholar’s Bookshelf, 110 Melrich
Road, Cranbury, 609-395-6933.
Hard to find titles including scholarly and general interest books.
Cash or checks only. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Farmers Market, Greater Hightstown East Windsor Improvement Project, Memorial Park.
www.downtownhightstown.org. 3
to 7 p.m.
Wine Tasting, Joe Canal’s
Liquors, 3375 Route 1 South,
Lawrenceville, 609-520-0008.
www.ultimatewineshop.com.
Free. 4 to 6 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Lowell Sanders, Joe Pontillo,
and Steve Trevelise, Catch a
Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, 609-987-8018.
Women’s Red Tent Service and
Hike, Har Sinai Temple, Baldpate Mountain, 609-730-8100.
www.harsinai.org. Picnic dinner
under the red tent, walk up the
mountain, Shabbat service, and
Oneg Shabbat. Bring a folding
chair, jacket, and comfortable
shoes. Register. $10. Rain date is
Friday, July 10. 5:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Yoga Intensive, Yoga Above, 80
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609613-1378. www.yogaabove.com.
$30. 6 to 8 a.m.
Cross, Nassau Club of Princeton,
6 Mercer Street, 800-448-3543.
www.pleasegiveblood.org. Noon
to 6 p.m.
Family Theater
Cinderella, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street,
New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. $8.
11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Lectures
Career Beacon Workshops, Professional Service Group of Mercer County, One Stop Career
Center, 26 Yard Avenue, Trenton,
609-292-7535. “Building Stronger
Workshop Relationships Through
E-mail.” Free. 10:30 a.m.
Live Music
Happier Hours, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
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.
The Mixxtape, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Rock
and roll. Rain or shine. $12. 7:30
p.m.
DJ Spoltore, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Music from the 1960s
and ‘70s. 7:30 p.m.
Richie Cole and His Alto Madness Orchestra, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown. www.therecord-collector.com. “A Tribute to
America.” $15. 7:30 p.m.
15 Keys, It’s A Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Musicology, Erini Restaurant,
609-882-0303. www.erinirestaurant.com. 9 p.m.
Little Big Thing, John & Peter’s,
Fast Lane, Triumph Brewing
Company, 400 Union Square,
New Hope, 215-862-8300. www.triumphbrew.com. $5 cover. Must
be 21. 10 p.m.
Mike Montrey Band, Triumph
Brewing Company, 138 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-924-7855.
www.triumphbrew.com. Mike
Montrey’s solo album, “A Perfect
Reality,” is nominated for Asbury
Music Awards top release of
2008. 21 plus. $4. 10 p.m.
Russian Duo: Pianist
Terry Boyarsky and
balalaika virtuoso
Oleg Kruglyakov give
a free performance on
Saturday, June 27, at
Princeton Public Library. 609-924-9529.
Outdoor Action
Marsh Trails Volunteer Crew,
Mercer County Park Commission, Roebling Park, Nature Center parking lot, 609-989-6540.
www.mercercounty.org. Volunteers assist with basic trail maintenance, litter removal, and habitat Improvement projects. For
ages 16 and up. Register by Email to [email protected]. 9
a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Bike the Path, Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park, Kingston
Canal House, 609-924-5705.
www.dandrcanal.com. 10-mile
bike ride to Griggstown. Bring
your own bicycle. Register. Free.
Subject to cancellation for inclement weather. 10 a.m.
Schools
Musikgarten Demonstration
Class, New School for Music
Study, Kingston United Methodist
Church, 9 Church Street,
Kingston, 609-921-2900. www.nsmspiano.org. Early childhood
music and movement class. Register. 10 a.m.
Ballet Physique, Princeton
Dance and Theater Studio, 116
Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-203-0376.
www.princetondance.com. Grand
opening for ballet and pilates
combination class features appetizers from Kacik Catering and a
gift. No dancing experience necessary. Free. 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Singles
A Patio Party, Princeton Elite
Club, Westin Hotel, Forrestal Village, 201 Village Road, Plainsboro, 609-454-3183. www.princetoneliteclub.com.
Caribbean themed food pairing
and tropical inspired music. Register. $20. 7 p.m.
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Support group for
men and women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Scrabble
Classics Used and Rare Books,
117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All skill levels
welcome. 6:30 to midnight.
For Seniors
Performing Arts Series, West
Windsor Senior Center, 609799-9068. “Jerry Herman” presented by Ted Otten and Michael
Kownacky. Register. Free. 2 p.m.
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Opera Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
P
rinceton Festival’s production of Benjamin Britten’s “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” seen
on opening night, Saturday, June
20, was a staged portrait of the fantastic — wispy, and incongruous.
Both what was seen and what was
heard coalesced to form a vividly
solid phantom.
Credit goes to director Steven
LaCosse and his imaginative team
of designers: Jayme Mellema, sets;
Marie Miller, costumes; and Norman Coates, lighting. Conductor
Richard Tang Yuk led singers and
instrumentalists in discreet displays
of musical mastery that blended
with the atmosphere of unreality.
Using no curtain, the production
greets the audience by showing the
projection of a forest, domain of
the fairies, whose limits are
shrouded in mist. A disembodied
voice, speaking in rhymed couplets, sets a Shakespearean mood
by declaiming, “Friends, Romans,
Princetonians” and advising listeners to turn off cell phones and avoid
littering candy wrappers. During
the course of the opera the forest
undergoes transformations. Lights
appear among the branches of
trees. Seasons arbitrarily change.
Puck (Dean Anthony), eerily
omnipresent in this production,
opens the opera by popping up
from the orchestra pit, wizened and
clad in feathers. He brings unity to
the production by appearing at its
conclusion, as well as turning up
constantly on stage. Anthony is often referred to as “the tumbling
tenor.” As the mischievous Puck,
he virtually flies, while performing
conjuring tricks. Anthony’s formi-
dable gymnastic skills are amplified, since Puck is ironically portrayed as being about 70, decades
older than Anthony is in real life.
Enlisted by Oberon, Puck is responsible for misapplying fairy
magic and bringing about the mixups that causes characters to become enamored of unlikely partners. Tytiana falls in love with the
This production is a
gently-paced voyage
into an extraordinary realm, a staged
portrait of the fantastic — wispy and
incongruous.
ass into which Puck had changed
Bottom.
O
beron, king of the fairies, is
a counter-tenor (Daniel Bubeck), a
consistent reminder that we are in
unfamiliar territory. Cloaked in authoritative black and silver, he and
his diminutive wife, Tytiana (Jennifer Zetlan), commands the
fairies, while carrying on a very human marital spat. The young
fairies, played by the Princeton
Festival Children’s Chorus, dutifully report the news of the forest
and carry out the wishes of Oberon
and Tytiana. Four members of the
competent chorus take on solo
roles: Peaseblossom (Adam ButzWeidner), Cobweb (Joel Pena),
Moth (Reed Schmidt), and Mustardseed (William Christensen.)
Fleeing Athens, two
mismatched pairs of
lovers encounter the
fairies.
They
are
Lysander (Brian Stucki))
and Hermia (Abigail
Nims), followed by
Demetrius (Tyler Duncan) and Helena (Caroline
Worra).
Both
Lysander and Demetrius
love Hermia. Helena
loves Demetrius. Among
the four, Stucki’s voice is
outstanding from the
outset in its smoothness.
Initially on opening
night, the women were
often difficult to hear
above the orchestra;
however, they presented
a provocatively audible
cat-fight in Act Two. All
four of the lovers contribute to the well-balanced quartet
in Act Three. Their costumes seem
to date from about 1910.
Six rustics, tradesmen, bring
comic relief to the opera, as they do
to the Shakespearean play, by rehearsing the drama of Pyramus and
Thisbe. Their dress could have
come from the late 16th century.
Bottom (Curtis Streetman) has the
largest part and the largest voice.
“Here we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously,” he
knowingly announces. The acting
of their leader, Quince (Brian Banion), is outstanding. With a straight
face, he calls the rustics’ play a
“most lamentable comedy.” Snug
(Jeremy Milner) admits his mental
slowness and has to rush back on
stage repeatedly to fetch what he
leaves behind. The troupe includes
Shakespeare with a Libretto: Brian Bubecki
and Jennifer Zetlan and as Oberon and Tytania,
King and Queen of the Fairies, with three of their
fairy band. Photo: Jessica B. Franko.
Flute (Douglas Perry), Snout (John
Daniecki),
and
Starveling
(Michael Redding.)
The Princeton Festival Orchestra, under Richard Tang Yuk, contributes to the magic with spotlighted solo instrumental passages.
Two harps, aided by a celesta,
make other-worldly sounds. Aggressive, bare percussion sounds
underline the unreality. The use of
extended instrumental techniques
by brass instruments reminds us
that the events depicted are out of
the ordinary. Rich cello solos un-
derline the emotional aspects of the
opera.
Princeton Festival’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a gently-paced voyage into an extraordinary realm.
— Elaine Strauss
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Princeton Festival, McCarter Theater, Princeton. Sunday, June 28, 3
p.m. Benjamin Britten’s opera.
$30 to $110. 800-595-4849 or
www.princetonfestival.org.
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H
e may have done some
crazy things, like dropping out of
high school in San Antonio as a 16year-old to move to Austin but guitarist and singer-songwriter Chris
Duarte has shown his parents —
and the rest of the world — he has
his head on straight after all.
How many other blues and
blues-rock songwriters do you
know who look to Shakespeare for
inspiration in their songwriting?
“If you just spend enough time
reading Shakespeare, you’ll see the
whole panorama of human emotions,” Duarte says in a phone interview from a tour stop in Virginia, “so I try to incorporate some
of that drama into my songs, to
move people emotionally the way
we’re moved when we hear great
Dylan songs like ‘Hard Rain,’ or
‘Blowin’in the Wind.’” But Shakespeare is not his only influence. “I
also love the lyricism you can find
in a lot of the classic Broadway
musicals.”
Known for his fiery, venomtipped guitar solos and for playing
with a trio for the last 18 years,
Duarte caught his first big break in
1994 when he was signed to Silvertone Records and released his first
internationally distributed album,
“Texas Sugar/Strat Magic.” He
made waves on the international
blues-rock scene and began touring the U.S., Canada, and Europe
immediately after.
Like Robert Cray, Eric Clapton,
Derek Trucks, and Dylan himself,
Duarte believes blues music has
got to keep evolving to survive as a
vital musical genre. “I love the traditional blues,” he says, “but I also
want to push the music forward,
too. I love what Derek [Trucks]
does when he gets going with that
slide [guitar] but I also want to be
thought of as a forward thinking
guy, in other words, to keep expanding the parameters of modern
blues.”
Duarte performs on Thursday,
June 25, on the Trenton War
Memorial stage, where the audience will be seated with him on the
stage for greater intimacy and a
club-like atmosphere. He gives a
free guitar master class prior to the
concert. At the concert he will be
accompanied by his longtime
drummer, Jeff Reilly, and bassist
Matt Stallard. Like Duarte, they are
also based in Atlanta. Duarte
moved to Atlanta from Austin in
October, 2005, after getting married.
Unlike many other musicians,
Duarte has a good understanding
of the importance of the press. It
was a music columnist Graham
Snyder from the Fort Worth StarTelegram who launched his career
in 1986, writing about a show he
performed in Dallas. “I was playing a gig with Junior Medlow and
the Bad Boys at JJ’s Blues Bar and
he couldn’t believe we were putting so much energy into a show for
such a small crowd, so he called me
‘the next promising guitar player to
To Rock or Not to Rock: Chris Duarte counts
among his influences Shakespeare and Broadway.
come out of Texas, along with
David Grissom.’ He put me and
David Grissom in the same sentence and that’s pretty much what
got the ball rolling. I was still very
young and when you’re that young,
you’re considered kind of a phenom.” Also, Duarte’s father was a
reporter for a Catholic newspaper
in San Antonio. His father later left
the newspaper business to work for
the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington,
D.C. His mother worked as an administrator for a Catholic college
Known for his fiery,
venom-tipped guitar
solos and for playing
with a trio for the last
18 years, Duarte
caught his first big
break in 1994.
in Texas and still resides in San Antonio.
He has an older brother and sister and a younger brother and sister, “so I’m right in the middle of
all those people, and it just came
out in perfect sequence when my
mom had kids, boy-girl-boy-girlboy,” he says. Duarte became obsessed with the guitar as a 13-yearold and learned advanced techniques very quickly through a lot of
hard work. When he dropped out of
high school and moved to Austin,
he quickly secured a gig with Bobby Mack and Night Train, a band
that toured regionally around
Texas.
‘M
y parents had already divorced, so we were just living with
my mom in San Antonio,” he says
of his decision to move to Austin,
“and I knew from the time I was 14
I wanted to be a musician. So I
moved to Austin with a friend of
mine into an efficiency apartment.
I just wanted to be a musician, I
didn’t want to play music to meet
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girls; world domination was my
goal.”
Several years after moving to
Austin, as a present for his mother,
he says,”I walked in to U.T. [University of Texas at Austin] and took
all the GED tests and passed them
all in one day, with no studying. I
was always an above-average student in school.”
Duarte credits both parents for
his success as a musician, since
they were big on the Beatles and
Joan Baez. “I remember the first
record that I bought was the Beatles single, ‘Hey Jude.’ My older
brother was playing guitar first,
then my mom got me one, too, and
we both learned from the Beatles.”
Even though he spends much of
his time traveling around the U.S.
in a van on grueling tours, often involves driving 21 hours for three
hours on stage, Duarte says he realizes he’s blessed to do what he does
for a living. “It’s such a rush when
everything is going right on stage
and when those musical thoughts
coming out of your head are coming out of your guitar, it’s just the
greatest feeling, and there’s nothing like it in the world.
“I think I’m one of the luckiest
people alive, because I’m getting
paid to do what I already enjoy doing. I’ve been able to do my thing,
play my original music and get
paid for it, and I’ve been doing it
since 1991. I haven’t had to get
those jazz gigs and play quiet or get
those wedding gigs and play all the
requests,” he says. “I’ve been so
lucky that people have been supportive of what I do.”
Since the critical, if not commercial, success of “Texas Sugar/
Strat Magik” in 1994, Duarte’s other releases include “Tailspin Headwhack” in 1997 and “Love Is
Greater Than Me” in 2000, also for
Silvertone. His current release is
“Vantage Point” for Blues Bureau
International.
Apparently, Shakespeare and
Broadway are not Duarte’s only influences. “Certainly, [fellow Texan, the late] Stevie Ray Vaughan,
but also John McLaughlin and Jeff
Beck. But my number one musical
idol is [jazz saxophonist] John
Coltrane,” he says. “I try to incorporate the jazz sensibility into what
I’m doing. I’m trying to break out
of the box that is blues scales that
people normally associate with
guitar players, yet I don’t want to
be too cerebral about it. My live
shows still have a lot of passion to
them, as well as spontaneity.”
Chris Duarte, Patriots Theater
at the War Memorial, Memorial
Drive, Trenton. Thursday, June 25,
7 p.m. Free guitar master class 5 to
6 p.m. prior to the concert. 609984-8400
or
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Theater Reviews: Offbeat Off-Broadway
‘Things of Dry Hours’
“I am a teacher at a local Sunday school. I sing in the choir at my
church. I eat apples and save the
seeds. And I pay my two cents a
month dues as a member and unit
leader of the Communist party of
Alabama. Hallelujah.” — Tice
I
t took a little research to find
out what is meant by the title of
Naomi Wallace’s play “Things of
Dry Hours” (there is no clue in the
play or in the program). Derived in
part from a line (“We are things of
dry hours and the involuntary
plan”) in a poem, “Kitchenette
Building,” by African-American
poet Gwendolyn Brooks (19172000), it means that it is the unexpected things in our life that makes
us who we are.
Wallace’s intense, emphatically
poetic drama is set in 1932 in Birmingham, Alabama, during the depth
of the Great Depression. The play
revolves around three people, a
black father and daughter and a
white man who intrudes fatefully
in their life. During this period in
American history Communism
found a receptive territory among
unemployed,
poverty-stricken
Americans. Social disorder was
particularly encouraged among the
Black American Southern communities where many were recruited
as an activist force for liberation
and as a new hope for the working
class. The playwright uses this incendiary landscape to weave a story as much embraced by
metaphors, symbols, and metaphysical happenings as it is
cloaked in a grim reality.
Wallace, whose “The Trestle at
Pope Lick Creek” and “One Flea
Spare” stand out for their fertile
word-play and use of historical settings, has a predominantly poetic
voice. If, in the case of “Things of
Dry Hours,” the text often sounds
like a struggle between abstracted
naturalism and artistic narcissism,
perhaps that is a compliment.
However, the result can be a cause
for tedium.
It takes only a short time to realize that Tice Hogan (Delroy Lindo), the sturdy, strong, and vital
figure who appears to have leaped
from a moving train, is really a
ghost. Following his opening
monologue, in which his dead self
considers his fear of “the knock on
the door,” and the nature of apples
and friendship, he segues into the
man he was.
Indeed, a knock on the door
could mean the police, the Klan, or
in this instance, Corbin Teel (Garret Dillahunt), a fugitive who believes he has killed a foreman in a
factory. Corbin claims that he was
told that he could depend on Tice to
hide him until it was safe for him to
leave. It is an uneasy situation for
the middle-aged Corbin, whose life
revolves around the words in two
books — the Bible and the Manifesto of the Communist Party. A literate, if impoverished out-of-work
widower, Tice preaches the Lord’s
words from a pulpit in Sunday
school even as he preaches Karl
Marx on a soap box in the park. Although he is obsessed with reading
and in contemplating whether human nature can be changed, Tice
remains suspicious and wary of
Corbin.
Tice’s resolve to not be involved
with women is replaced by his devotion to his widowed daughter,
Cali (Roslyn Ruff), who works as a
laundress for a wealthy family. Although Cali has similarly sworn off
men in the light of her unhappy
marriage, she is notably energized
when she steps into the odd mateless shoe collection she has
usurped from that family. The ex-
by Simon Saltzman
tended presence of the illiterate
Corbin, who claims he wants to be
trained by Tice as a Communist activist, presents a challenge to them.
Perhaps he is more than that to
Cali, who begins to feel the beginnings of a sexual tension growing
between her and Corbin.
A triple threat as a playwright,
actor, and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson is here wearing only his
director’s hat. He works wonders
with the lugubrious and occasionally funny text for optimum effects.
A scene in which the white sheets
on Cali’s bed rise and float around
the room (possibly symbolic of the
Klan) to the strains of Rachmaninoff is effectively eerie. Much of
the play’s mood is entrusted to
lighting designer Marcus Doshi,
whose added atmospherics add
considerably to Richard Hoover’s
simple but effective set design.
Lindo, who was Tony-nominated for his role as Herald Loomis in
the original Broadway production
of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,”
gets Tice’s message out loudly,
clearly, and with an impassioned
conviction that keeps the play
steady on its course. Ruff, another
alum of August Wilson (the Signa-
There is no guess
work regarding Wallace’s theme: that try
as we might we can’t
change human nature.
ture Theater revival of “Seven Guitars”), seethes with suppressed fire
and surface ice as the emotionally
confused Cali. To Dillahunt’s credit, he keeps us guessing, as he
should, with Corbin’s on-again offagain displays of lust and loyalty.
There is no guess work regarding
Wallace’s theme: that try as we
might we can’t change human nature. But, neither can we change
the way a poet like Wallace is disposed to embrace dramatic literature. ++
“Things of Dry Hours,”
through Sunday, June 28, New
York Theater Workshop, 79 East
4th Street. $65. 212-239-6200.
‘Coraline’
Mum and Dad and I we live on
the second floor of this old house
that was once one house but is now
divided into flats. Above, in the attic under the roof, is a crazy old
man who says he’s training a
mouse circus. On the ground floor
below are two old women who say
they were once actresses.
— Coraline
hoever gets the credit for
casting Jayne Houdyshell as a
young girl in this musical stage
version of Neil Gaiman novel
Coraline should take a bow. As the
titular character, the courageous
Houdyshell is not only totally believable in a role significantly far
from her own age but also delightful. This Tony-nominated actress
bowled us over for the first time as
the mother who healed sick neighborhoods but found solace tethered
to her La-Z-Boy in Lisa Kron’s
“Well.” Rather than mention the
other roles that have continued to
validate Houdyshell as one of our
foremost character actresses, let
me say that she endears herself instantly and continuously as the precocious English girl with a vivid
imagination who loves to explore.
In Coraline she is the heart and soul
of a musical that unfortunately is
constructed around too many in-
W
credulously conceived and performed characters.
Undoubtedly Houdyshell’s success in portraying the title character has been sparked by Leigh Silverman who also directed her in
“Well.” Silverman certainly had
her work cut out disciplining the
fantastical and metaphysical elements that weave through this story. If she has purposely blurred the
boundary that separates a dream
from reality, she has succeeded.
Where her direction falters is in not
keeping a tighter rein on the essential group of supporting actors who
unfortunately drift in their portrayals between the amateurish and the
acquiescent.
Arriving within a year of the release of a successful cartoon version of the novel, “Coraline” is an
adaptation for the stage with some
“compressing and conflating,” as
noted in the program, by David
Greenspan, who not only wrote the
musical’s book but takes a prominent role as the Other Mother. In
creative partnership with Stephin
Merritt (music and lyrics), there is
evidence that Greenspan has labored rigorously to grace the short
novel (first published in 2002) with
a conspicuously audacious sense
of theatricality. Much of it, however, falls as flat as the singing, with
Houdyshell the notable exception.
It is a good thing that Coraline
gets and deserves our attention as
she shares with us her annoyance
with her workaholic parents (January LaVoy and Francis Jue), who
are too preoccupied to notice how
much she craves their attention.
The family has just moved into a
second story flat within a large
home, presumably a once stately
mansion that has been converted
into separate apartments. Set designer Christine Jones and lighting
designer Ben Stanton have done a
super job creating a basic environment of musty fixtures and relics
that transposes itself from the mundane to the mysterious and foreboding with a minimum of ado and
fuss.
Serving as confidant/narrator
Coraline is especially curious
about her new home. She begins to
notice that certain things are not
exactly normal when rats begin to
creep up (as do the songs) from
among the floor-boards and that
one locked door that . . . well, you
know. Of course, traipsing about
the damp surroundings in and out
of the house in her green rubber
boots, Coraline suddenly finds she
has entered a world that mirrors her
own even as she meets oddly familiar characters that appear sincere,
but soon become suspiciously sinister and even frightening.
Although Coraline’s subsequently scary adventures are a
barely disguised mirror of Alice’s
As the titular character, the courageous
Jayne Houdyshell is
not only totally believable in a role
significantly far from
her own age but also
delightful.
Adventures Through the Looking
Glass, Gaiman’s little girl is obviously in more serious danger in this
alternate universe. We are also not
altogether surprised when the
“Other Mother” turns out to be less
loving than she first appears and
wants Coraline to stay forever. The
Other Mother has a nasty end that
Get Downtown: Garret Dillahunt and Roslyn
Ruff, above, in ‘Things of Dry Hours’; Elliot
Villar, below left, William Youmans, Jayne
Houdyshell, January LaVoy, David Greenspan,
and Francis Jue in ‘Coraline.’
echoes the demise of the bad witch
in “The Wizard of Oz.” It similarly
resounds with melodramatic excess. In this blood-curdling finaletto “Falling,” Greenspan gets to
span more octaves than have been
attempted since the hey-day of
Yma Sumac (famed during the
mid-20th century as “the nightingale of the Andes” for her octavespanning vocals).
Considering that this is a musical, there has apparently not been
much of an effort to encourage the
supporting cast of non-singers to
hit the prescribed notes. This may,
however, be attributed to the accompaniment supplied by Phyllis
Chen at a derelict un-tuned piano.
Chen also plunks the piano’s seemingly warped strings throughout
the show with aplomb. In considering Merritt’s curious-er and curious-er score, in which the notes
follow one another gainfully and
mercifully without bumping into
each other, there is often something
to admire in the lyrics. You have to
laugh when Coraline sings about
her parents’ cooking: “Dad cooks
chicken — and says it’s free range.
But he stews it with prunes — and
he’s always basting it. Mom cooks
chicken — but it comes in frozen
packages, and I hate tasting it.”
The story’s significant others
are an odd bunch, all of whom live
in the different quarters (real or
imaginary) in the house where alter-egos and dead spirits are apt to
be afoot. Francis Jue, who was so
marvelous two seasons past playing 17 characters in David Henry
Hwang’s “Yellow Face,” is again
proving his versatility as the Father
and, among others, the elderly retired actress Miss Forcible who
lives with another has-been Miss
Spink (LaVoy). Together they relive highlights of their careers and
even perform a decidedly grotesque vaudeville act for the understandably unappreciative Coraline.
Elliot Villar cavorts amusingly
as the eccentric Mr. Bobo who lives
on the upper floor and spends his
time training a mouse circus, and
who also persists on calling Coraline Caroline. Presumably the talking Cat, as played with a grin and
some degree of grace by Julian
Fleisher, comes from Cheshire and
proves a dependable and affectionate companion to Coraline. If you
are inclined more to grinning than
guffawing, you may find that your
time is not ill-spent with Coraline
as she discovers that there is no
place like her real home and her real parents. In any case, it would
have been fun to see Coraline click
her green rubber boots three times
as everyone sings, “Amazing?
Keep chasing your tale. O! Follow
your tale.” ++
— Simon Saltzman
“Coraline,” through Sunday,
July 5, Lucille Lortel Theater, 121
Christopher Street. $65 to $95.
212-279-4200.
The key: ++++ Don’t miss;
+++ You won’t feel cheated; ++
Maybe you should have stayed
home; + Don’t blame us.
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June 26
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront
Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-8326.
www.trentonthunder.com. Reading. $5 to
$10 7:05 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Golf Outing, Princeton High School Football, Princeton Country Club, Wheeler
Way. Benefit for the team’s booster club. Email [email protected]. Register. $150.
Rain or shine. 8 a.m.
Saturday
June 27
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Who Will Be the
Next Mr. Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rican Parade of Trenton, La Villa
Ristorante, 2275 Kuser Road, Hamilton
Square, 609-209-5009. www.trentonprparade.org. Candidates running in four categories including Miss Puerto Rico, ages
15 to 20; Miss Puerto Rico Juvenile, ages
10 to 14; Miss Puerto Rico Infantile, ages 5
to 9; and Mr. Puerto Rico, for young men
ages 15 to 20. 3 p.m.
Classical Music
Yardley-Makefield Chamber Music Society, Bucks County Performing Arts Center, Yardley Community Center, 64 South
Main Street, 215-493-3010. www.bcpac.org. “Mostly Mozart” features violin and piano duos, a piano trio, and a piano quartet.
Discussion and refreshments. Free. 4 p.m.
Princeton Festival, Princeton University
Chapel, 800-595-4849. www.princetonfestival.org. Durufle Requiem conducted by
Simon Carrington. $30 to $50. 8 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Leon Redbone, Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission, Monroe Township
High School, 1629 Perrineville Road, 732521-2111. www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com. Neo-vaudevillian performer presents acoustic guitar concert. $20. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Opera New Jersey, Palmer Square, 609921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Musical Theater concert. Free. 2 p.m.
Monday Blues, West Windsor Arts Council, Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor,
609-919-1982. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Swing and jazz orchestra with 17 members
from the Princeton area presents originals
and music from the swing era. Free concert
in “Celebrate Americana” summer music
series. Bring chairs or blankets. Inside Panera if raining. 6 p.m.
Music in the Park, Blue Curtain, Pettoranello Gardens Amphitheater, Community Park North, junction of Route 206 and
Mountain Avenue., 609-924-7500. www.bluecurtain.org. Stickmen featuring Tony
Levin, Pat Mastellotto, and Michael Bernier,
and Lily Neill. Rain date is Sunday, June
21. Free. 7 p.m.
Robert Murdock Band, East Brunswick
Public Library, Community Arts Center,
Dunhams Corner and Cranbury roads,
732-390-6767. www.ebpl.org. Tribute to the
British invasion. Rain date is Sunday, June
28. Bring a chair. Free. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
311, PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, 732203-2500. www.livenation.com. Prices
vary. 7 p.m.
Doo Wop, Ocean Grove Camp Meeting
Association, 54 Pitman Avenue, 732-7750035. www.oceangrove.org. Charlie
Thomas’ Drifters, the Diamonds, Vito & the
Salutations, Emil Stucchio & the Classics.
$25 to $30. 7:30 p.m.
It Was a Very Good Year, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol,
215-785-0100. www.brtstage.org. Musicale
featuring the pop standards of the late
1950s and early ‘60s. $29. 8 p.m.
Look Closer: Boehm Porcelain experts present a demonstration in conjunction with ‘Made in Trenton,’ an exhibit about the
varied goods produced in Trenton, on Sunday, June 28,
Ellarslie, Trenton City Museum. 609-989-3632.
World Music
The Russian Duo, Princeton Public Library, Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
Terry Boyarsky on piano and Oleg
Kruglyakov on balalaika present traditional
and classical Russian music including humorous pieces, folk songs, gypsy melodies,
and dance music. Free. 3 p.m.
Art
Summer Workshops, Brodsky Center for
Innovative Editions, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-932-2222.
www.brodskycenter.org. “Quick and Dirty
Book Arts,” Lisa Switalski, $150. 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
Introduction to Bookbinding, MGP Studio
Arts, Plainsboro, 609-799-3941. Construct
a pamphlet, an accordion book, and a multi-section book. Register. $100. 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
Performance Sculpture Installation,
Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine
Street, Doylestown, 215-340-9800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. Carole Frances
Lung, a sculptor, performance artist, and
social activist incorporates donated clothing into an outdoor sculpture entitled “Hired
Out.” Lung works with two Bucks County
College art students weaving the walls and
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roof of an outdoor loom mimicking
the shape of a prison cell from the
Bucks County jail through July 2,
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. On view to
Sunday, October 18. 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, The Studio of Ben
Solowey, 3551 Olde Bedminster
Road, Bedminster, PA, 215-7950228. www.solowey.com. “An Intimate View,” an exhibit of small
paintings and drawings by Ben
Solowey. 1 to 5 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus., 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Ellarslie, Trenton
City Museum, Cadwalader Park,
609-989-3632. www.ellarslie.org.
Opening reception for “Made in
Trenton,” an exhibit about the varied goods produced in Trenton.
On view to September 13. 7 p.m.
Drama
The Odyssey, Franklin Township Library, 485 DeMott Lane,
Somerset, 732-873-8700. www.franklintwp.org. Adapted performance by Next Stage Ensemble.
Register. Free. 2 p.m.
$56 to $84. Through July 12. 2
p.m. and 8 p.m.
Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062. www.princetonsummertheater.org. Musical. $16 to $20. 2 and 8 p.m.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 4 and 8 p.m.
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
‘70. $14. 8 p.m.
dessert. 8 p.m.
The Fantasticks, Princeton Festival, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, 800-595-4849. www.princetonfestival.org. Musical by
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones.
$30 to $35. 8 p.m.
p.m.
Unlimited Potential Theater
Company, VSA Arts of New Jersey, George Street Playhouse, 9
Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-745-3885. www.vsanj.org. “Adagio,” a theater
piece in two acts weaves together
stories of personal experiences
with disability, and poetry of Emily
Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar
Allen Poe, William Shakespeare,
and Lewis Carroll. $6. 8 p.m.
$70. 8:15 p.m.
$5. 8:30 p.m.
Dancing
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Musician’s workshop from 3 to 6 p.m., $10. Bring
a dish to share at the pot luck dinner at 6 p.m. Dance follows. $8. 3
to 11 p.m.
Waltz Workshop and Ballroom
Dance Social, G & J Studios, 5
Jill Court, Building 14, Hillsborough, 908-892-0344. www.gandjstudios.com. Beginners welcome.
No partner required. Lesson followed by social. Refreshments.
BYOB. $12. 6:30 to 11 p.m.
11 p.m.
Literati
Warehouse Book Sale, Scholar’s Bookshelf, 110 Melrich
Road, Cranbury, 609-395-6933.
Hard to find titles including scholarly and general interest books.
Cash or checks only. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-3948400. Kisha Green, author of
“Even If I Did;” Alison Hobbs, author of “One Taste;” Brittani
Williams, author of “Black Diamond;” and Derrick, author of “A
Hustler’s Worst Nightmare.” 2 to
4 p.m.
Book Award and Lecture,
Princeton Theological Seminary, Erdman Center, 20 Library
Place, 609-497-7990. www.ptsem.edu. Hispanic Theological
Initiative presents David A.
Sanchez, assistant professor of
New Testament studies at Loyola
Marymount University and author
of “From Patmos to the Barrio:
Subverting Imperial Myths,” with
the annual book prize. Reception
follows. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Pasta Dinner, Colonial Fire
Company, 801 Kuser Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-5454. All you
can eat. $10; $7 for children. 3 to
8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Lowell Sanders, Joe Pontillo,
and Steve Trevelise, Catch a
Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
www.catcharisingstar.com.
Reservation. $20. 7:30 and 9:30
p.m.
and 10:30 p.m.
Jimmy Carroll, Gene Norris, and
Adam Smith, Bucks County
Comedy Cabaret, 625 North
Main Street, Doylestown, 215345-5653. www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9:30 p.m.
Miss Puerto Rico
Pageant
Puerto Rican Parade of Trenton,
La Villa Ristorante, 2275 Kuser
Road, Hamilton Square, 609-2095009. www.trentonprparade.org.
Candidates running in four categories including Miss Puerto Rico,
ages 15 to 20; Miss Puerto Rico
Juvenile, ages 10 to 14; Miss
Puerto Rico Infantile, ages 5 to 9;
and Mr. Puerto Rico, for young
men ages 15 to 20. 3 p.m.
Fairs
Annual Car Show, Bordentown
Elks, 11 Amboy Road, Bordentown, 609-947-4560. Music, food,
raffles, and cars and trucks older
than 1986. Entry fee, $15. Benefit
for the organization’s veterans
committee that has adopted six
units in Iraq. Presentation of trophies at 3 p.m. 9 a.m.
Kutztown Festival, Fairgrounds,
Route 222, between Allentown
and Reading, 888-674-6136.
www.kutztownfestival.com. Family-oriented festival that celebrates
Pennsylvania Dutch folklife. Juried folk artists, American craftsmen, music, country dancing,
children’s activities, quilt sale, and
food. $12. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Blueberry Bash, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, 609924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Annual event includes pick your own blueberries,
pony rides, feed the farm animals,
and walk the farm trail. “Aesop’s
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Fables” presented by Tuckers
Tales Puppet Theater. Music by
Jay Smarr. Bring your favorite
blueberry recipe to the juried
bake-off with categories for adults
and children. Blueberry treats
available. Free admission. 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46
Yard Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Noon to 5 p.m.
Freedom Festival, Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Mercer County Park,
609-989-6559. www.mercercounty.org. Petting zoo,
beer and wine, laser park, crafts,
and fireworks. Band performances include Princeton School of
Rock, 5 p.m.; Split Decision, 5
p.m.; Amish Outlaws, 7 p.m.; and
The Dawgs at 10 p.m. Free admission. 3 to 11 p.m.
Crafts
Princeton Rug Society, West
Windsor Library, 333 North Post
Road, 732-274-0774. [email protected]. “Rugs on
View, Auctions of 2008” presented by Ewa Zak. 2:30 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
Farmers Market, Montgomery
Friends of Open Space, Village
Shopping Center, Routes 206
and 518, 908-359-9665. www.montgomeryfriends.org. Organic
vegetables, breads, flowers, popcorn, honey, and pasture-fed beef
and pork. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Farmers Market, Pennington Market, 25 Route 31, Pennington, 609737-0058. Local produce, cooking
classes, live music, environmental
workshops, and demonstrations of
earth-friendly products and ideas.
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
West Windsor Community
Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive
Parking Lot, Princeton Junction
Train Station, 609-577-5113.
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. “Order Within
Chaos,” an art program inspired
by Jackson Pollock’s drip technique, presented by the West
Windsor Arts Council. Produce,
bakery items, meat, coffee, tea,
sandwiches, ice cream, pickles,
sauces, and flowers. Arts, crafts,
children’s activities, culinary
demonstrations, entertainment
programs, and wellness information. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
East Coast Food and Wine Festival, Slow Food and Wine Festival, Hopewell Valley Vineyards,
46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609890-8188. www.slowfoodandwinefestival.com. Food and wine
seminars, cooking demonstrations, winery tour, wine tasting, an
etched wine glass, beekeeping
and honey making, cheese making, cookbook authors, and farmers market. $40; $60 for two days.
Parking included. Also Sunday,
June 28. Noon to 5 p.m.
Wine Tasting, Joe Canal’s
Liquors, 3375 Route 1 South,
Lawrenceville, 609-520-0008.
Part Iron Chef, Part American Idol: Amateur
chef Randy Forrester of Hopewell will compete
with three professional chefs in the Chef’s Challenge, open to the public, on Thursday, June 25,
at Mrs. G TV & Appliance, 2960 Route 1, Lawrenceville, Attendees will vote for the People’s
Choice Award. RSVP at [email protected].
www.ultimatewineshop.com.
Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
“Rethink Pink” features new dry
roses. 2 to 5 p.m.
Gardening Tips and Techniques,
Master Gardeners of Mercer
County, 431A Federal City Road,
Pennington, 609-989-6830.
www.mgofmc.org. Tour of seven
gardens include talks about
shade, pests, critters, pruning,
deadheading, staking, and
mulching. $3 donation. 10 to 11
a.m.
CPT for Healthcare Professionals, Natural Health Center of
Central NJ, 2430 Route 130,
North Brunswick, 732-821-5800.
Register. 9 a.m.
Tinnitus Self-Help Group, First
Presbyterian Church, 100 Scotch
Road, Ewing, 609-883-0203.
“Drug Therapy” discussion. 10 to
11:30 a.m.
Health Care Fair, Princeton Public Library Plaza, Witherspoon
www.obama.com. Blood pressure
screenings, chair massages, food
drive benefits area residents in
need, children’s health insurance
and home care services. Free.
Raindate is Sunday, June 28.
Noon to 5 p.m.
Health & Wellness
History
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.
Cross, St. James Church, 17
Eglantine Avenue, Pennington,
800-448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Cross, United Methodist Church,
21 N. Main Street, Cranbury, 800448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Guided Tour, NJ State House,
West State Street, Trenton, 609633-2709. www.njleg.state.nj.us.
Guided tours hourly. Free. Noon
to 3 p.m.
Preview Open House, Roebling
Museum, 100 Second Avenue,
Roebling, 609-599-7200. www.roeblingmuseum.org. Tour the
newly-restored main gate building, once the gate for the Roebling Mill workers. Oral history
film, archives, collections, restored galleries, and museum artifacts. 1 to 5 p.m.
Gardens
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Kids Stuff
Advanced Abacus Math, Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Demonstration of advanced abacus math
and NLP skills for ages 4 to 14 of
all levels. Register at 609-6512846. Free. 10 a.m. to noon.
For Families
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.
Community Yoga, In Balance
Center for Living, 230 South
Branch Road, Hillsborough, 908369-4949. www.inbalancecenter.com. Mixed level class. $17. 9
a.m.
Old Time Baseball, Howell Living History Farm, Valley Road,
off Route 29, Titusville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. Annual event features the Howell Farm
Hogs vs. the Jersey Bulls. The
public is invited to watch or play in
the game, which is scheduled for
1:30 p.m. Rules will be taught to
prospective players during a practice game at 11:30 a.m. 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Educational Fair, Pegasus Children’s Academy, 281 Pennington Lawrenceville Road, Pennington, 609-737-2693. www.pegasuschildrensacademy.com.
Book readings, food, inflatable
castle, Mad Science’s slim booth
and fire and ice show, Music to
My Ear. Donations benefit Make a
Wish Foundation. Free. 1 to 5
p.m.
For Teens
Karaoke Contest, South
Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. “Don’t Forget the Lyrics”
for grades 6 to 12. Free. 1 to 8
p.m.
Family Theater
Cinderella, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street,
New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. $8.
11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Lectures
Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe, 732-5215000. www.monroetwplibrary.org.
“What’s Stopping You from
Putting Your Plan into Action?”
presented by Betsy Wiggins, a
certified empowerment coach.
Register. Free. 1 p.m.
Citizenship Workshop, Twin
Rivers Library, 276 Abbington
Drive, East Windsor, 609-4431880. www.mcl.org. Bilingual volunteers and immigration attorneys review citizenship applications. Register. Free. 1:30 p.m.
Live Music
Larry Tritel, Thomas Sweet Cafe,
1330 Route 206, Skillman, 609430-2828. www.larrytritel.com.
Guitar and vocals. 9 a.m. to
noon.
Ran Tan Toon, John & Peter’s,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 3 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Sotto 128
Restaurant and Lounge, 128
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-7555. www.sotto128.com.
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.
Cafe Improv, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.cafeimprov.com. Music, poetry, and
comedy. Register to perform. $2.
7 p.m.
Darla Rich Jazz Quintet,
Hopewell Valley Bistro & Inn, 15
East Broad Street, Hopewell,
609-466-9889. www.hopewellvalleybistro.com. Dinner and
dancing. 7 to 9:30 p.m.
3-26 and Rodney Eva, Grover’s
Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Rock and blues.
7:30 p.m.
Kristian Rex, Bowman’s Tavern,
1600 River Road, New Hope,
215-862-2972. 8 p.m.
Bob Orlowski, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Retro Groove, Erini Restaurant,
609-882-0303. www.erinirestaurant.com. 9 p.m.
Meg Hansen Group featuring
Billy Hill, Sotto 128 Restaurant
and Lounge, 128 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-7555. www.sotto128.com. 9 to midnight.
For You and Go Go Volante,
John & Peter’s, 96 South Main
www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30
p.m.
AJ Slick, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union Square, New
Hope, 215-862-8300. www.triumphbrew.com. $5 cover. Must
be 21. 10 p.m.
Stratopheerius, Old Bay, 61
Church Street, New Brunswick,
732-246-3111. www.oldbayrest.com. $4. 10:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Merit Badge Workshop, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed,
Sourland Mountain Preserve,
Somerset, 609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. “Insect Study”
for Boy Scouts. Register. $15.
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Compass Basics, Washington
Crossing State Park, Visitor
Center, Titusville, 609-737-0609.
For ages 9 and up. Register. $5
per car. 1 to 3 p.m.
The Basics of Birding, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner
www.njaudubon.org. $5. 3:30 to 5
p.m.
Colleges
Aging and Public Policy Issues,
Mercer County College, 1200
Old Trenton Road, 609-570-3311.
www.mccc.edu. “Aging, Public
Policy, and Societal Impact” presented by Bob Cabnet, program
manager at the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging. Register. $60.
9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Book Sale
Plainsboro Public Library, 641
Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Hard-
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LANSOLUTIONS
N
ow you can do your sun
salutations and meet the universe
halfway for a lot less. YogaAbove
on Nassau Street is moving to a
donation based system for all
classes beginning Sunday, June
28.
“Yoga is not a business and
should not be treated as one,”
says owner Michael Cremone.
“When it is, the intention and
spirit is lost. Yoga is about being
connected to something larger
than ourselves that we are all part
of. It is about community, hugging instead of shaking hands,
cooking not just eating. It is about
eradicating the things that separate us all, yet respecting the differences between us. It is all so
much more than the physical
practice, yet the physical practice
connects it all together.
“In a time when yoga is very
popular, yoga seems to have a
dollar figure associated with it.
YogaAbove would like to offer
yoga to everyone regardless of
their economic limitations. Yoga
is meant to release and open the
mind, not the wallet.”
backs, $1; paperbacks, 50 cents;
miscellaneous media and art at
bargain prices. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Singles
Princeton Singles, Canal Walk
parking lot, Route 27, Kingston,
609-896-1170. A moderately
paced walk or run along canal,
followed by optional lunch. Register. 10 a.m.
Princeton Singles, Montgomery
Theater, Route 206, Montgomery,
908-874-6539. Movie and dinner.
For ages 55-plus. Register. 4
p.m.
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
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.
Professional and Business Singles Network, Yardley Country
Club, 1010 Reading Avenue,
Yardley, 888-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Dance and social.
Cash bar. Jacket and tie. Ages 40
to 69. $15. 8 p.m.
Dance Party, Steppin’ Out Singles, PNC Bank Arts Center,
Holmdel, 732-656-1801. www.steppinoutsingles.com. Ages 40
and up. $15. 8 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.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Reading. $5 to $10
7:05 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Heartbeat Spinathon, Boheme
Opera, Princeton Fitness & Wellness Center, 1225 State Road,
Princeton, 609-581-9551. www.bohemeopera.com. Spin, sponsor, or donate. Register. 11 a.m.
to 7 p.m.
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The suggested donation is $12
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not possible, yogis can contribute
whatever they can. YogaAbove
kicks off the donation system on
Sunday, June 28, with “A Day
Above,” a day of celebration and
classes. For a full schedule visit
www.yogabove.com.
A Day Above, Yoga Above, 80
Nassau Street, Princeton. Sunday, June 28, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sun
salutations, meditation, open
Sunday
June 28
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Pennsylvania Dutch Folklife
and Reading, 888-674-6136.
food. $12. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Classical Music
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Princeton Festival, McCarter
Theater, Princeton, 800-5954849. www.princetonfestival.org.
Benjamin Britten’s opera. $30 to
$110. 3 p.m.
Konzergild Concert Series, St.
Philip’s Church, Route 32 at
Chapel Road, New Hope, PA,
215-297-8099. www.alexandredjokic.com. Duo D’Esterhazy with
Alexandre Djokic on violin and
Robert Gajdos on piano present
works of Bach and Mozart. $20. 3
p.m.
In Remembrance, Capital
Singers of Trenton, St. Anthony’s Church, 625 South Olden Avenue, Trenton, 609-620-0160.
www.capitalsingers.org. Concert
with the Trenton Community
Singers features music by Faure,
Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Alice
Parker, Eleanor Daley, and
Joseph Martin. Richard M. Loatman, Ellen Donero, and Kenneth
Howard conduct. $18. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Concert and Fireworks,
Hopewell Valley Veterans Association, Alliger Park, 203 Washington Crossing Pennington
Road, Titusville. www.hopewellvalleyveterans.org. Concert by
the 63rd Army Band followed by
fireworks display. Free. Rain date
is Wednesday, July 1. 7:30 p.m.
Pop Music
It Was a Very Good Year, Bristol
Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
www.brtstage.org. Musicale featuring the pop standards of the
late 1950s and early ‘60s. $29. 3
p.m.
Breathe Easier:
Michael Cremone,
owner of Yoga
Above, in the lotus
position.
flow, acro yoga, Phoenix Rising
demonstration, Buddhism, Feldenkrais demonstration, and gentle yoga. Donations invited. 609613-1378 or www.yogaabove.com.
Art
Miniature Books, MGP Studio
Arts, Plainsboro, 609-799-3941.
Create traditional and experimental book structures. Bring collage
elements and stamps. Register.
$100. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Art Exhibit, The Studio of Ben
Solowey, 3551 Olde Bedminster
Road, Bedminster, PA, 215-7950228. www.solowey.com. “An Intimate View,” an exhibit of small
paintings and drawings by Ben
Solowey. 1 to 5 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Ellarslie, Trenton
City Museum, Cadwalader Park,
609-989-3632. www.ellarslie.org.
Boehm Porcelain experts present
a demonstration in conjunction
with “Made in Trenton,” an exhibit
about the varied goods produced
in Trenton. 2 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus., 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Drama
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
‘70. $14. 2 p.m.
dessert. 2 p.m.
$56 to $84. Through July 12. 2
p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
p.m.
$70. 8:15 p.m.
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Dancing
Milonga Tangazo, Central Jersey Dance
Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Road, Princeton, 609-945-1883.
www.centraljerseydance.org. Tango lesson
and open dancing. No partner needed.
$12. 7 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Talent Show, The Stress Factory, 90
Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-5454242. www.stressfactory.com. $27. 8 p.m.
Fairs
Kutztown Festival, Fairgrounds, Route
222, between Allentown and Reading, 888674-6136. www.kutztownfestival.com.
Family-oriented festival that celebrates
Pennsylvania Dutch folklife. Juried folk
artists, American craftsmen, music, country
dancing, children’s activities, quilt sale, and
food. $12. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Blueberry Bash, Terhune Orchards, 330
Cold Soil Road, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Annual event includes pick your own blueberries, pony
rides, feed the farm animals, and walk the
farm trail. “St. George and the Dragon” presented by Tuckers Tales Puppet Theater.
Music by Heavy Traffic. Bring your favorite
blueberry recipe to the juried bake-off with
categories for adults and children. Blueberry treats available. Free admission. 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
East Coast Food and Wine Festival,
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard
Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Noon to 5
p.m.
Faith
Pranpratishtha Worship Ceremony, Radha Krishna Temple, 357 Lawrence Station
Road, Lawrenceville, 609-802-8990. Ancient Vedic rituals focus on a new five-foot
marble statue of Shirdi Sai Baba, an Indian
saint who lived in the early 20th century remembered for bringing communal harmony
between Hindu and Muslim communities.
The rituals are only performed the first time
a statue is placed to be worshipped. Free.
11:30 a.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Lawrenceville Main
Street, 16 Gordon Avenue, Lawrenceville,
609-219-9300. www.LawrencevilleMainStreet.com. Vegetables, fruits, flowers,
herbs, meat, and poultry. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Trenton Farmers’ Market, 960 Spruce
Street, Lawrence, 609-695-2998. www.thetrentonfarmersmarket.com. Farm vendors,
food producers, wineries, cooking demonstrations, and musical entertainment. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Happy Hour, BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1
South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. Discount appetizers and drinks. 4 to 7 p.m.
Summer in Southern Italy, CoolVines,
Camillo’a Cafe, Princeton Shopping Center, 609-924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
Four-course wine dinner paired with Italian
regional cuisine. Jeff Mazen from Domenico Selections presents tales of his travels
to Puglia and Campania and explain the
pairings selected. Register. $75. 5 p.m.
Health & Wellness
A Day Above, Yoga Above, 80 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-613-1378. www.yogaabove.com. Sun salutations, meditation, open flow, acro yoga, Phoenix Rising
demonstration, Buddhism, Feldenkrais
demonstration, and gentle yoga. Donations
invited. 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. See story page 28.
Raja Yoga, Integral Yoga Institute Princeton, 122 Carter Road, Princeton, 732-2742410. www.iyiprinceton.com. Reverend Jaganath Carrera, author of “Inside the Yoga
Sutras” and founder of Yoga Life Society,
presents a talk about ethical principles,
physical practices, and meditation. Register. $30. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Morning Meditation, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road,
Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432.
www.relaxationandhealing.com. Register.
Free. 10 to 11 a.m.
Power Vinyasa and Yin Yoga Workshop,
Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, 50
Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Continuous movement between held postures.
Benefit for the children of Uganga. Register. $40. Noon to 3 p.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.
History
Singles
Garden Highlights, Pennsbury Manor,
400 Pennsbury Memorial Road, Morrisville,
PA, 215-946-0400. www.pennsbudymanor.org. $5; children, $3. 1 to 4 p.m.
From Revolution to Relativity, Historical
Society of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-9216748. www.princetonhistory.org. Classic
walking tour of downtown Princeton and
Princeton University includes stops at Nassau Hall, University Chapel, Woodrow Wilson’s homes, and Einstein’s residence.
Register by phone or E-mail [email protected]. $7. 2 to 4 p.m.
Friends of the Delaware Canal, Phillips’
Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope, 215862-2021. www.fodc.org. Screening of two
vintage 1930s films created by W.W.
Chambers to promote the preservation of
the Delaware Canal. Lance Metz, National
Canal Museum’s historian converted the
original 16 mm film to digital media. The
films include footage of the mule-drawn
boats hauling coal along the waterway,
New Hope School artists William Lathrop
and Edward Redfield, and the ceremony
depicting the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company giving the land to Pennsylvania.
Register. $5. 4 p.m.
Etz Chaim Sociable Single Seniors, Monroe Township Jewish Center, 11 Cornell Avenue, 609-655-5137. Discussions, socializing, and refreshments. $5. 1 to 4 p.m.
Yardley Singles, Grounds for Sculpture,
Hamilton, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Meet at main parking lot near
the horse statue. $10. Optional dinner.
Register. 4 p.m.
For Families
Wooden’s Poultry Farm Tour, Howell Living History Farm, Valley Road, off Route
29, Titusville, 609-737-3299. www.howellfarm.org. Noon to 4 p.m.
Live Music
Dick Gratton, Bistro Soleil, 173 Mercer
Street, Hightstown, 609-443-9700. Solo
jazz guitar. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tom Glover, Triumph Brewing Company,
400 Union Square, New Hope, 215-8628300. www.triumphbrew.com. 1 to 3 p.m.
Mercer Jazz Trio, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Sign up. 2 p.m.
CC Colletti, 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 piano. 6 to 10 p.m.
Oldies Night, Hillbilly Hall Tavern and
Restaurant, 203 Hop-Wertsville Road,
Hopewell, 609-466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com. Dance or sing the night away with DJ
Ron. 6 to 10 p.m.
Christine Havrilla, Triumph Brewing
Company, 400 Union Square, New Hope,
215-862-8300. www.triumphbrew.com.
7:30 p.m.
Rainbow Fresh, John & Peter’s, 96 South
Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-5981.
www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Paul Kennedy, Dublin Square Pub, 167
Route 130 North, Bordentown, 609-2987100. www.dublinsquarepubs.com. Irish
pub and restaurant features an interior
hand-made in Ireland, live music, a menu
of Irish classics like corned beef and cabbage, beef stew, and shepherd’s pie. 10
p.m.
Outdoor Action
Family Nature Walk, Washington Crossing State Park, Visitor Center, Titusville,
609-737-0609. Informal naturalist guided
walk. $5 per car. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Literati
Book Sale, Plainsboro Public Library,
641 Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Stuff a bag for
$3. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Chess
Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro
Road, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. For advanced adult players. 1
to 5 p.m.
Sports
Softball Game, Outer Circle Ski Club,
Plainsboro Park, 609-799-4674. www.outercircleskiclub.org. Pick up game for
adults over 21. 2 p.m.
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront
Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-8326.
www.trentonthunder.com. Reading. $5 to
$10 6:05 p.m.
Bare-It-All: ‘The Full Monty’
runs through Sunday, July
12, at Paper Mill Playhouse.
973-376-4343.
Monday
June 29
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: I Say Picasso
Art on Screen, Princeton Public Library,
65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. Screening of
“Surviving Picasso.” 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony Chorus,
5000 Windrows Drive, Plainsboro, 732469-3983. harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15 p.m.
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Drama
$5. 8:30 p.m.
food. $12. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Salsa Dance Lessons, International Arts Collaborative,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609333-0266. www.princetonsalsa.org. Jose (Papo) Diaz instructs
advanced beginners at 7; and beginners at 8:30 p.m. No partner
necessary. $20. 7 p.m.
Blood Drive, University Medical
Center at Princeton, Medical
Arts Building, Witherspoon Street,
609-497-4366. www.princetonhcs.org. All blood types needed
— especially O negative and O
positive blood. Thomas Sweet
Pint for Pint ice cream program.
Free valet parking for donors.
Open Mondays to Fridays, 7:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Skin Cancer Screening, Robert
Wood Johnson Medical Group,
1 World’s Fair Drive, Suite 2400,
Somerset, 732-235-5782. Fullbody screenings by dermatologists and educational materials
about skin cancer, self-examinations, and sun safety. Register.
Free. 4 to 7 p.m.
New Member Orientation, Professional Service Group of Mercer County, One Stop Career
Center, 26 Yard Avenue, Trenton,
609-292-7535. “How Can PSG
Help in Job Search?” Free. 10:30
a.m.
Literati
Lectures
Plainsboro Literary Group,
Plainsboro Public Library, 641
Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Nibbles, conversation, and readings.
6:30 p.m.
Seminar, Stalla Review for the
Chartered Financial Exams,
Westin Hotel, 201 Vllage Boulevard, Plainsboro, 877-727-7232.
www.stalla.com. “Financial Analysis Techniques” presented by Peter Olinto. Register. Free. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m.
Film
A Day at the Races, County Theater, 20 East State Street,
Doylestown, PA. www.countytheater.org. Marx Brothers. 7 p.m.
Art on Screen, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Screening of “Surviving Picasso.” 7 p.m.
Dancing
Good Causes
Chef’s Night, Elijah’s Promise,
The Palace, Somerset, 732-5459002. elijahspromise.net. Food
tastings benefit organization to alleviate hunger. Register. $125. 6 p.m.
Fairs
and Reading, 888-674-6136.
Live Music
Spook Handy, South Brunswick
Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbpl.info. Folksinger in concert. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Singles
Spaghetti Night, Yardley
Singles, Vince’s, 25 South Main
Street, Yardley, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6 p.m.
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/Princeton-Area-Singles-Network. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Reading. $5
to $10 12:05 p.m.
Tuesday
June 30
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
It’s Magic
The Gustafsons, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
www.brtstage.org. “Amazing
World of Magic,” a family-friendly
magic show by a couple who
once appeared on the Ed Sullivan
show. $15. 1 p.m.
Classical Music
Organ Concert, Princeton University Chapel, Washington
Road, 609-258-3654. Camilla
Jarnot on organ. Free. Noon.
The Rain in Spain: Lauren Brader as Eliza Doolittle and Jim Lynch as Henry Higgins, in 'My Fair
Lady,' through Sunday, June 28, at Bucks County
Playhouse. 215-862-2041.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Folk and acoustic music by
singer-songwriter whose new album, “Jack Common’s Anthem,”
was inspired by the cult Geordie
novelist of that name. Register.
$20. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
Outdoor Concerts
Jez Lowe, Arts Council of
Princeton and Princeton Folk
Music Society, 102 Witherspoon
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
Greenway Amphitheater at 202
Lunchtime music series. Free.
Noon.
Concerts on the Landing, Patriots Theater at the War
Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive,
Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Doreleena
“Lady D” Sammons-Posey. Free.
Noon.
Art
Performance Sculpture Installation, Michener Art Museum, 138
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to present your original short fiction, humor, short play, or poetry
for our special issue to be published on Wednesday, July 22.
This is an unusual opportunity to have your work published
and circulated and to actually be paid (a modest honorarium)
for your effort.
To participate in the U.S. 1 Summer Fiction issue, submit your
previously unpublished work in any of these categories: short story,
humor, play, or poetry. Please: No more than one entry per category
per writer. Submissions should not exceed 2,000 words (if longer
please indicate sections that may be deleted for space requirements).
All entries must be received no later than Thursday, June 25,
by mail to U.S. 1 Newspaper, 12 Roszel Road, Suite C-205,
Princeton 08540; by fax to 609-452-0033, or as an E-mail message
to [email protected] (MS Word OK). Poetry should
also be accompanied by a hard copy. Authors retain all rights.
Preference will be given to central New Jersey writers
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Submissions from children are not encouraged.
Important: Be sure to include a brief biographical summary
with your submission, along with your name, address,
and daytime phone number.
Questions?
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At the Movies
Confirm titles with theaters.
Angels and Demons. Thriller
with Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor based on Dan Brown’s novel. AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
The Brothers Bloom. Film
about con men stars Adrien Brody,
Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel Weisz.
Montgomery.
Dance Flick. Comedy with the
Wayans brothers. AMC, Destinta.
Drag Me to Hell. Thriller directed by Sam Raimi. AMC, Destinta, Regal.
Easy Virtue. Romantic comedy
with Jessica Biel and Colin Firth.
AMC, Montgomery.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
Comedy with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.
AMC.
The Hangover. Comedy about
a bachelor party in Vegas. AMC,
Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
Imagine That. Comedy with
Eddie Murphy. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Land of the Lost. Will Ferrell
stars in sci fi trip to an alternate universe. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
My Life in Ruins. Comedy set
in Greece with Nia Vardalos and
Richard Dreyfuss. AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex.
Night at the Museum: Battle
of the Smithsonian. Sequel features Ben Stiller at the Smithsonian. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
The Proposal. Romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock and Ryan
Reynolds. AMC, Destinta, Garden,
The Soloist. Performing arts
drama with Robert Downey Jr. and
Jamie Foxx. Montgomery.
Star Trek. Sci-fi with Kirk and
Spock. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
State of Play. Russell Crowe
and Rachel McAdams in drama
about politics. Montgomery.
Summer Hours. L’Heure d’ete.
Garden, Montgomery.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.
Remake of adventure in the NYC
subways with Denzel Washington
and John Travolta. AMC, Destinta,
Terminator Salvation. Action
with Christian Bale. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen. Action with Megan Fox
and Shia LaBeouf. AMC, Destinta,
Up. Disney animation with voices of Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai,
Christopher Plummer, and John
Ratzenberger. AMC, Destinta, Garden, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Action with Hugh Jackman and
Liev Schreiber. AMC.
Year One. Comedy with Jack
Black and Michael Cera. Opens
June 19. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
South Pine Street, Doylestown,
215-340-9800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. Carole Frances
Lung, a sculptor, performance
artist, and social activist incorporates donated clothing into an
outdoor sculpture entitled “Hired
Out.” Lung works with two Bucks
County College art students
weaving the walls and roof of an
outdoor loom mimicking the
shape of a prison cell from the
Bucks County jail through July 2,
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. On view to
Sunday, October 18. 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Art History Seminar, Michener
Art Museum, 138 South Pine
Street, Doylestown, 215-3409800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. Art Speaks: “Contemporary
Art and Artists” in conjunction with
“An Evolving Legacy: Twenty
Years of Collecting at the Michener Art Museum.” 3 to 5 p.m.
ins are welcome. Tuesdays,
12:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8
a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturdays, 7 a.m.
to 2 p.m. 12:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Meditation Class, A Kneaded Escape, 405 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 732-895-5926. www.akneadedescape.com. $16. 6 to
7 p.m.
Discover Wild Foods, Franklin
Township Library, 485 DeMott
Lane, Somerset, 732-873-8700.
www.franklintwp.org. Science,
ecology, history, folklore, mythology, and anecdotes about herbs,
greens, fruits, berries, roots, and
mushrooms presented by Steve
Brill, author of “Identifying and
Harvesting Edible and Medicinal
Plants in Wild (and Not-So-Wild)
Places.” Register. Free. 7 p.m.
grades 6 to 12. Register. Free. 4
to 7 p.m.
Drama
$70. 8:15 p.m.
$5. 8:30 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Read & Pick on the Farm: Flowers, Terhune Orchards, 330
Cold Soil Road, 609-924-2310.
www.terhuneorchards.com. Storytime, craft activity, and fruit or
vegetable picking for pre-school
to age 8. Register. $7. 9:30 and
11 a.m.
Venues
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
Family Theater
magic show by a couple who
once appeared on the Ed Sullivan
show. $15. 1 p.m.
Lectures
Career Enhancement Skill Building Series, Neuro-Enhancement Strategies, Princeton Pike,
609-918-0089. www.neuro-enhancement.com. “Interview
Artistry: Let Your Charisma Shine
Through” presented by Jeff
Schoener. Register at [email protected]. $15. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
Live Music
Juke Jam, John & Peter’s, 96
South Main Street, New Hope,
For Families
Singles
Storytime, Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-7161570. www.bn.com. Victoria Adler
author of “All of Baby, Nose to
Toes.” 10:30 a.m.
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6
p.m.
For Parents
Socials
Country Line Dancing, Hillbilly
Hall Tavern and Restaurant,
203 Hop-Wertsville Road,
Hopewell, 609-466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com. Instruction
throughout the evening. 7 p.m.
Special Education Parent Training, Family Support Organization, 3535 Quakerbridge Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-1200. “Filing a
Complaint, Lawyers, and Legal
Research.” Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Fairs
For Teens
and Reading, 888-674-6136.
food. $12. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Teen Craft: Collage Art, South
Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction,
732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. For
Men’s Circle, West Windsor, 609933-4280. Share, listen, and support other men and yourself. Talk
about relationship, no relationship, separation, divorce, sex, no
sex, money, job, no job, aging
parents, raising children, teens,
addictions, illness, and fear of aging. All men are expected to commit to confidentiality. Call for location. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
Dancing
Food & Dining
Wine Tasting, Eno Terra Restaurant, 4484 Route 27, Kingston,
609-497-1777. www.enoterra.com. Taste 10 wines. Register.
$15. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Cross, 707 Alexander Road,
www.pleasegiveblood.org. Walk-
Do You Have a “Honey-D
Do” List?
Full Service Contractor from Hourly Handyman Service
to New Construction. Specializing in Custom Built-Ins
& Finished Carpentry
We can bring your home up to ADA compliance
Computer-A
Aided Design Available
Fully Insured • Reference Upon Request
Ryan A. Henninger - Carpenter/Builder, LLC
Member Better Business Bureau
609-883-6269
www.rahcarpenterbuilderllc.com
It’s a Four-Hanky: Sofia Vassilieva, left,
Cameron Diaz, and Abigail Breslin in New Line
Cinema’s drama ‘My Sister’s Keeper,’ opening on
Friday, June 26.
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South,
Montgomery Center Theater,
Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7444.
Wednesday
July 1
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Is It a Panic Attack?
Panic Relief, Franklin Township
Library, 485 DeMott Lane, Somerset, 732-873-8700. www.franklintwp.org. Workshop. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Philly Horn Band, Doylestown
Community Performing Arts
Council, Central Park, 425 Wells
Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-3489915. www.doylestownpa.org.
Nine-piece group including guitar,
drums, keyboards, saxophones,
trumpet, percusionist, and six vocalists. Bring blankets, chairs,
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center
Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 609-371-8472.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
New Brunswick, 732-940-8343.
and picnics. At Central Bucks
West High School, 375 West
Court Street, if raining. Free. Fireworks follow concert. 7:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Def Leppard, PNC Bank Arts
Center, Holmdel, 732-203-2500.
www.livenation.com. Prices vary.
7 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Daniel P. Turner
Thomas, Gourgaud Gallery,
Cranbury, 609-448-0560. www.danielpturnerthomas.com. “Familiar Places” featuring watercolors of Plainsboro, Cranbury, and
West Windsor locations, 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
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MUSIC
PREVIEW
Modern Folk Songs That Sound Centuries Old
I
f Jez Lowe had not discovered folk music, he might have become one of the masters of modern
British fiction. Bright, creative
working class types have a way of
finding an outlet. But Lowe was into music from an early age, and set
out on the path that has made him
one of the best songwriters and performers of the last 30 years.
Lowe brings his talents back to
Princeton on Tuesday, June 30, in a
concert at the Paul Robeson Center
for the Arts. His appearance is
sponsored jointly by the Arts
Council of Princeton and the
Princeton Folk Song Society.
He will surely sing some songs
from his latest CDs, “Northern
Echoes” (a concert album) and
“Jack Common’s Anthem,” but
there will be clamoring for tunes
going back to his first solo endeavor in 1980. Over the past quarter
century, Lowe has built a reputation as one of the leaders of the
modern British folk world. With 15
albums to his credit, he has appeared all over the globe, including
the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian. In 2006 he was commissioned by the BBC to write 23
songs for a series, “The Radio Ballads,” which brought him well-deserved recognition. He was nominated for Folksinger of the Year by
the BBC in 2008. Even more
telling is the esteem in which he is
held by other folksingers. His
songs have been recorded by
countless other artists, including
Fairport Convention, the Dubliners, Liam Clancy, Cherish the
Ladies, Mary Black, and Robbie
O’Connell.
Earlier this year, as part of the
Charles Darwin bicentennial, he
was one of eight artists invited to
spend a week in Darwin’s Shropshire estate writing songs for a live
concert, documentary, and CD celebrating the life and works of the
naturalist.
Lowe’s songs often take the
form of a short story, sometimes
sad, frequently humorous, occasionally angry. Many take place in
and around his home county of
Durham, like the trilogy “A New
Town Incident,” “London Danny,”
and “Another Man’s Wife,” each
offering a different point of view of
a romantic triangle. His songs are
not so much autobiographical as
they are observations of the people
and places he’s seen.
“When I was young me father
said to me/Never take advice that
comes for free/’Cause you can
have all the riches of the golden
kind/But without the riches of your
peace of mind/You won’t make old
bones, you’ll see,” Lowe sings in
one of his most popular songs.
Now in his 50s, he speaks fondly of
the life he has led and the life he
leads, his soft Northern England
accent coming clearly across on a
trans-Atlantic cell phone.
He has never strayed too far
from his birthplace in Easington
Colliery in County Durham, not far
from the Scottish border. To the
rest of England, he is a Geordie,
by David McDonough
one of those creatures from the
northwest, with a strong Scots influence. He denies the claim. “The
real Geordies wouldn’t admit to
that,” he says. “They’d say you’ve
got to be from Newcastle-UponTyne, 20 miles away, a very exclusive club that. But as far as the rest
of England is concerned, I am a
Geordie.”
Lowe’s roots are actually Irish.
His family came over in the early
1900s to work in the coal industry.
Easington Colliery was a thriving
mining town until 1993, when the
mine closed with a loss of 1,400
jobs. The event threw the town into
an economic decline from which it
has yet to recover. It was the perfect
location for the out-of-work miners film “Billy Elliot” in 2000.
A single man, Lowe still lives in
the area. Although his career takes
him all over the world, he professes
a great attachment to the places of
his youth. “Afriend of mine, another folk singer, came and stayed
with me in the early 1980s when
the coal mines were still around,
and everyone was burning coal in
their home fires. He could smell the
coal and the soot, and I had never
noticed it; it was just part of the life.
We didn’t know anything else. But
we were right next to the sea, with
its clean air, and it’s quite rural, not
like Birmingham in the midlands,
land-locked and smoggy.”
M
any of Lowe’s songs deal
with coal mining — “Ballad of
Johnny Collier,” “Black Diamonds,” “These Coal Town Days”
— and the dangers involved. “Last
of the Widows” takes inspiration
from the Easington Pit Disaster of
1951, in which 81 men were lost.
“My father retired just before
they closed down in the mine in
1993,” says Lowe, “He was in the
rescue attempt in ‘51. After he
died, we got a photograph from a
newspaper, of him and a bunch of
other guys just about to go into the
cage to go down. How do you go
back to work after that? I don’t
know — I don’t know how they
went down in the first place. There
were people working right on the
site of the explosion, just doing
their normal jobs, within four days.
I suppose it had a profound effect
on the place, but there were other
smaller scale accidents all through
the years. I lost friends from my
class at high school, and I suppose
everyone has similar stories.”
In communities where everyone
works for the same company, and
faces the same dangers, there is a
close-knit feeling that can’t be duplicated. It’s reflected in many of
Lowe’s songs, not all of them darkspirited. In songs like “Big Meeting Day” and “High Part of the
Town,” he celebrates the fun of going over to the nearest big town,
Durham, for special occasions. It’s
obvious that he misses the collective feeling that was Easington before the mine closed.
“That took all of the community
spirit away,” he admits. “It’s a sort
of cliche to say that you didn’t have
to lock your doors because everyone was so friendly. There was a
mutual support system among the
workers and their families because
of the danger involved; you couldn’t afford to have enemies. That’s
what was taken away. People have
died off or moved away, so they’ve
brought in people from other parts
of the country. So it’s not really a
typical community anymore.”
In 2006 Easington was listed as
the fourth most economically deprived place in England. It was also
said to be the obesity center of England. “That’s a new one on me,”
says Lowe dryly. “It sounds like
some social building in the middle
of town — the Obesity Center.”
So how did the child of a coal
miner avoid going down into the
pit? Lowe explains: “Another
cliche — ‘no son of mine will go
down the mines’ sort of thing.
Mainly my mother pushed me into
more academic things, so I went to
high school and into college. I was
already playing in bands around
here, so I didn’t want to go far
away. I went to Sunderland, about
10 miles away, and studied languages. That was all I was good at.
I like language and the use of languages a lot, so it was a natural
thing.”
It was also a natural and fairly
seamless step up to becoming a
professional musician. “From a
very young age, I was into folk music,” says Lowe. “There was lot of
folk music around here, and Irish
songs in the family. It was all right
here on the doorstep; it was inevitable that I would get into that.
There was a bunch of guys in my
high school taking lessons. They
passed on what they learned; I never studied formally. I wasn’t writing yet — it was the traditional oldtimey stuff that attracted me. It was
almost like serving an apprenticeship; listening to as much traditional stuff as I could from different
parts of the world — Irish, Scottish, American songs. I didn’t start
writing at all seriously until about
1979 or ‘80.”
Lowe points out that the modern
folk songs got a tremendous shot in
the arm when the conservative
Margaret Thatcher government began to rule England in 1979. “Suddenly, we had something to be
against. It jumpstarted a lot of people. I kind of drifted into writing
and playing for a living. I was playing with Ged Foley (later to join
two seminal Celtic traditional
groups, the Battlefield Band and
Patrick Street), and we kind of
forced each other into playing professionally. And it coincided with
From the Land of ‘Billy Elliot’: Jez Lowe grew
up and still lives in Easington Colliery, a thriving
mining town until 1993, the perfect location for the
film ‘Billy Elliot.’
me starting to write songs, and as
soon as I starting doing that, I got a
good reaction, not just from the audiences but from other singers,
who wanted to take the songs and
sing them as well. I knew I was
maybe onto something. And that
happened almost straight away.”
I
t’s easy to see why his success
came quickly. One of the extraordinary things about listening to
Lowe’s early work is how fully
formed the songs are. It never appears that one is listening to a
young man in the process of learning his craft; the songs could easily
have been written by a man with
years of experience in the business.
It is a tribute to Lowe’s unerring ear
for the way people talk and his gift
for the right phrase.
“I did suss [catch onto] what I
was doing pretty quickly,” he says.
“But there were a lot of precedents
for what I was doing up here. It wasn’t as if I was forging new ground.
Hopefully, there was a little bit of
originality there, but lots of people
like Alex Glasgow and Johnny Handle were songwriters from this part
of the world, with a sort of an
acoustic left wing bent, quite influenced by the melodic tradition they
have up here in the Northwest, the
Geordie songs, as well as the humor.
And then Irish singers and writers
like Christy Moore, the Dubliners,
and Planxty were here all the time.
You could go out any night of the
week and see these people playing.
It was incredible; I was very lucky.
The mainstream music just didn’t
have an ear for it. They poured scorn
on it, very dismissive of it, regarded
the folk scene as a bunch of nutters.
It has changed — suddenly everybody is an expert on Dylan and
Woody Guthrie and Ewan McColl.
But back then it was underground
music.”
Perhaps there is no better tribute
to Lowe’s abilities than the fact that
several of his songs, like “The
Bergen,” a wistful ballad of a lost
ship, and “Back in Durham Jail”
Irish singer-songwriter Jez Lowe’s songs often take the form of a
short story, sometimes sad, frequently humorous, occasionally angry.
are thought by many listeners to be
centuries-old traditional tunes.
They are probably the most covered of his songs as well.
Then there’s the strong political
strain in Lowe’s songs. “The
Guilts” is an angry song about
those who have forgotten the less
fortunate (“That was almost enjoyable to write”). Bloodstained rails
against man’s marked ability to
turn any kind of quarrel into a
bloodbath. “Tom-Tom” marks out
a caution against the over-reliance
on technology. “Not so much anger
as puzzlement on that one,” says
Lowe. “That song came out of a
conversation I had in Australia
with a New South Wales folklorist
named Chris Kempster. It’s a sort
of technology vs. the tradition, sort
of a fun song. It got a big reaction
when I first started it. We don’t do it
so much anymore, but now that you
speak of it, I think it’s due for a revival.”
It’s not nearly all dead serious
with Jez Lowe, though. His keen
sense of humor, which runs
through nearly all his work, is on
high display in songs like “The
Vikings,”
“Father
Mallory’s
Dance,” and “Aloysius.” “The funny ones are the hardest,” he says. “I
have to do them so that they are not
just funny once, but keep being
funny. And they’ve got to be topical but without being burnt out in a
month.”
Unlike some performers, Lowe
has no quarrel with being on the
road, especially with his frequent
back-up group, the Bad Pennies.
“I’m not really into recording,” he
admits. “It’s the live performance
and the traveling that I like. It’s
broadened my outlook. I think I am
more reflective and contemplative
about stuff, but I don’t think it’s an
age thing. I think it’s just the way of
the world. There’s no set project that
I want to do; things just sort of come
out of the blue. I’m quite happy just
to muddle along, and hopefully,
some other thing will pop up.”
Jez Lowe, Arts Council of
Princeton and Princeton Folk Music Society, 102 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton. Tuesday, June
30, 8 p.m. Folk and acoustic music
by singer-songwriter whose new
album, “Jack Common’s Anthem,”
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adopting the team motto, “Together is One,” and was honored with
her official team nickname —
Strong Feather.
Since his youth Simone beThe compassion snowballed.
“All of the sudden a light went off longed to those elite legions of roin my head,” recalls Colon. Soon mantic adventurists who make regshe had assembled a 300-person ular pilgrimages to the tops of the
support team for Brenner. Through Adirondack and White mountains
a friend of a friend of an Internet of New England. Spare days from
friend, Colon became introduced his Westchester, NY, architectural
to Vincent “Enzo” Simone, practice would invariably find him
founder of the Regulars. She fell in in his truck, heading for New
love with the sheer magnitude of Hampshire’s Mount Washington or
Mount Marcy for quick scrambles
his plan.
The Regulars, Simone ex- up the trail. “Washington is like my
plained to Colon in online chats, first girlfriend,” Simone says. “The
were a group that has undertaken one who always stays in your
the immense challenge of climbing head.”
In 2003 Simone learned of the
10 of the world’s highest peaks in
10 years, beginning with France’s jungled-over peak of “Wild Ali”
famed Mont Blanc and graduating, (Kauai Island’s Alealau Mountain
naturally, to the summit of Mount in Hawaii) whose pathless summit
Everest. In addition to raising was dubbed the world’s highest
awareness and funds for Parkin- rainforest. “When I read that its top
son’s and Alzheimer’s cures, the had not been reached in 30 years,”
Regulars hold a more individualis- says Simone, “that was all I needed
tic goal. “You are your ultimate to hear.” He spent three years makchallenge.” It is the tattoo on Si- ing map, GPS, and helicopter remone’s back, and he was reciting it connaissance, and in 2005 assemto her. “We are a team, striving for bled an assault team of his climba team goal — but climbing is very ing buddies who traditionally bore
the name “Regmuch individulars.”
ual.”
Just prior to
The ReguColon froze on Mount
his expedition
lars insist that
Hood – not from
preparation Siattaining new
mone’s mother
personal sumweather, but from
was diagnosed
mits for a cause
fear. It served to steel
with
Alzis not a proacher resolve for Kili.
heimer’s, as her
tive approach
mother
had
reserved
for
been stricken
those rare, lifelong mountaineers. It could be years earlier. Then, shortly after,
achieved by regular folks. The Simone’s father-in-law became
team has already attempted Mont stricken with Parkinson’s. “I right
Blanc and summitted Cotopaxi in then decided to marry what I liked
the Ecuadoran Andes. Why not, Si- to do with what I needed to do,”
mone asked Colon, join us for the says Simone.
The Regulars, having dwindled
eight remaining climbs beginning
with the then-upcoming Mount from nine to two, set out for
Alealau Mountain’s summit in AuHood?
She signed onto the Regulars, gust 2005. The GPS produced an
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Eileen Colon’s Quest
image like spaghetti, which represented the muck, mud, and
primeval brush through which they
fought. Finally the two climbers
were forced to descend. Then, almost near safety, the two climbers
heard voices:
“Are you the two guys climbing
for Alzheimer’s?”
Two more had heard of their efforts and come to join in the fun. In
the end Simone and his partner
passed on their findings and descended. But the others, armed
with their forerunners’ knowledge,
did stagger to the top, breaking the
unsummittable spell that had lasted
three decades.
Quickly the team re-expanded
and prepared for Mont Blanc, and
then the Andes, which brought
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though. Colon was a city girl, Trenton-area born and raised. “I had
never seen a mountain except in
pictures,” she says. “And then, in
2008, when I stood at the base of
Mount Hood in Oregon, I looked at
all that snow and height — I just
said, ‘Wow! Do they really think I
am going to climb that?’”
Strong Feather grew overwhelmed.
She had devoutly dedicated herself to her physical training, walking four, six, seven hours at a stint
around the flat, horizontal lanes of
Hamilton. Her legs were strong
and her limbs were ready. Mentally, she brought the immense experience of karate’s ability to focus
and drive on toward the achievement at hand. She was certainly excited and passionate about conquering the diseases.
But mountains stand strange,
fierce, and amorphous. On the
snows of 11,249-foot Mount Hood
there exist no formulized responses to threat or challenge. What you
can do must be blended and
bartered against what may safely
be done. Wthin a minute, conditions change and all bets are off.
She began the Mount Hood
climbing school feeling bewildered. “They gave me this ice axe
and told me to make a series of
quick side steps down the slope,
wearing this 65-pound pack,” says
Colon. “I tried. It wasn’t right, and
I just sat down, clinging into the
snow, petrified.”
It took the instructor a half hour
to talk Colon down off the slope.
The next day, the remaining members of the team attempted a summit climb and were forced down by
bad weather. In the end, everyone
A Writer’s Road To To the Top of Mount Kilimanjaro
S
omewhere above 18,000
feet I stopped looking for cape buffalo at twilight. These beefy halftonners were known to pant and
stagger Kili’s stony slopes that far,
just to lap fat tonguefuls of salt
from the volcanic rocks.
Friend George Fox, husband of
U.S. 1 senior correspondent Barbara Figge Fox, lured us to the
slope of Africa’s highest peak with
tales of his own climb up this newer, longer, more technical, and far
more interesting Breech Route.
Just two seasons off Everest in Tibet, and Annapurna in Nepal, my
wife, Lorraine, and I were particularly susceptible. We gathered
climbing buddy Richard Craig and
headed for Tanzania.
The jeep had stopped in the machete-dense jungle. Shouldering
my pack, I asked guide, Daniel,
“Where is the mountain?” “It is this
way, Bwana,” he replied, employing the Swahili term of respect
meaning “Sir.” Lorraine, not so
lucky in translation, rankled under
the appellation of “Mama” meaning roughly “a maid who is no
longer nubile.”
There is a danger which reaches
beyond those making the decision
to climb. As my wife (then 49) and
I were planning our own first ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro, we
made the acquaintance of world
class mountaineer Scott Fischer.
He had recently opened “The
Breech Route,” which went up the
back of the mountain. It involved
more technical scrambling, no
huts, and one spent the pre-summit
night in the glacier-filled crater.
Be warned, though. Everybody
underestimates Kili because they
don't take altitude into account.
Two people died on the mountain,
from altitude sickness
when Fox was there.
The only way to avoid
this, he says, is to
climb only 2,000 to
3,000 vertical feet a
day, when above
10,000 feet. The minimum fitness level you
need to suummit Kilimanjaro, Fox says, is
the ability to run a 10minute mile,
We enjoyed chatting with and briefly
getting to know Fischer. Both of us had been
to Everest via Tibet.
(We, of course, had
merely climbed on it –
he had thrice summitted). In 1996 Fischer
died while taking mountaineering
tourists up and down Everest. His
death brought home to us that for
those less than perfectly trained,
the risk of mountain climbing involves a jeopardy to more than the
individual. Those who guide, and
those who must face the danger of
rescue may equally suffer the same
fate of noveau climbers not experienced and wholly prepared.
Kilimanjaro takes in the whole
sweep of all we envision as Africa.
Almost 20,000 feet high, its remaining two volcanic cones grandly bestride the continent’s eastern
rift — a geologic north-south scar
running most of its length below
Egypt. Once out of the jungle we
spent two days watching these
cones grow as we crossed the open
plain of the collapsed caldera,
formed from the third eruptive
cone when Kilimanjaro first rose.
Our ascent from the surrounding
6,000 feet to the summit was to be
deliberately slow for the sake of acclimatizing to the beauty and the
altitude.
Once on the main mountainside,
things got relentlessly steep. Some
scree-laden spots entailed climbing 13 inches forward to slide back
a foot. Others, like the now-dwindling tongue of the Arrow Glacier,
made footing treacherously slick.
But each evening, as we pitched
tents, we were rewarded with
“Golden Time” — the term when
the sun, heading for the great
swells of opaque clouds below us,
would briefly, brilliantly set aglow
the rocks and glacier faces around
us.
The night before the summit our
tents huddled beneath the glacier in
the creaking glacier in the central
volcanic cone. Richard said it was
minus-16 here — at the equator.
Grudgingly answering nature’s
call we were greeted by an explosion of showering meteors raking
the black night sky from horizon to
horizon. We watched in slackjawed awe.
The next day the wind shrilled
as we held the battered wooden
sign announcing “You Have
Reached the Highest Point in
Africa.” Lorraine, as she always
does, flung wide her arms and embraced the summit’s open sky.
We have every faith Eileen
Colon will do the same. No doubt
she and the Regulars will all succeed in their mission to conquer
Kilimanjaro and raise the world’s
interest in beating Alzheimer’s and
Parkinson’s diseases (see main story, page 11). They carry with them
this writer’s hopes and prayers,
along with those of thousands of
others. But as a caveat, may they
keep in their own prayers those
who will lead them and those
awaiting the call to rescue. They
are, after all, trekking for life.
– Bart Jackson
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of contact lenses of all types, including colored lenses. “Usually
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for an experienced contact lens
wearer we have lenses the same
day as the office visit,” he says.
The practice also offers emergency services. “We get many
patients who may be doing
things around the house and
have gotten an object into the
eye, and they may have a
scratched eye,” says Dr. Ciccarello.
Following American Optometric Association guidelines, Dr. Ciccarello recommends that babies be examined at birth to 6
months by pediatric or neonatal
specialists and children at age 3
before starting kindergarten. For
both older children and adults,
Dr. Ciccarello prefers a yearly
appointment. “I recommend as a
general rule an eye exam once a
year to make sure the eyes are
staying healthy and, if a person
is wearing eye glasses or contact
lens, that vision is comfortable,
crisp, and appropriate,” he says,
adding that diabetes patients
must be examined at least once
a year to rule out retinal or other
issues.
Dr. Ciccarello sees children as
young as three. “I always recommend for parents to have their
children examined even if they
don’t feel there are any vision
problems,” he says. “We can
pick up other things — the health
of the eye and the ability of both
eyes to function together to provide binocular vision or depth
perception.”
Dr. Ciccarello, who has owned
EyeCare Associates since January 2000, has been practicing for
14 years. He graduated in 1995
graduation from the Nova Southeastern University College of
Optometry in Ft. Lauderdale and
has bachelor degrees in chemistry and biology from the University of South Florida in Tampa.
The office is open Monday to
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with
the last appointments weekday
between 7:30 and 8 p.m. The
practice accepts insurance for
Medicare, Aetna US Healthcare,
Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other vision plans as well.
Jim I. Ciccarello, O.D. & Eyecare Associates, located in the
Princeton Market Fair. 609-5201008. Fax: 609-520-9279.
www.icareassociates.com
Montgomery
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Eye health & fitness from
Montgomery Eye Care
S
ummer’s here, and that
means appropriate protection against the sun’s
damaging UV rays – protection
for the eyes.
Most sun worshippers know
they need to protect their skin
with a good sunscreen. What
many forget is that eye exposure
to UV light on a prolonged basis
can have detrimental effects.
Dr. Mary Boname
“Cataracts can form faster and
earlier,” explained Dr. Mary
Boname, owner of Montgomery
Eye Care “It can also lead to
macular degeneration, as well as
skin cancers on the eyelid.”
According to Dr. Boname,
everyone needs to protect his or
her eyes from the sun’s harming
rays. Those who are fair-skinned
with blue or green eyes are especially vulnerable. Without protection, the free radicals released by sunlight can cause
damage to the ocular tissue, and
can even result in keratitis, a
sunburn on the eye.
“Sunglasses are a great defense,” said Dr. Boname. “However, cheap sunglasses won’t do
it. Your sunglasses need to have
a good UV filter so they filter the
400 nm wavelength that’s most
damaging. Also, cheap plastic
lenses can distort over time,
making your vision worse. Investing in good sunglasses is important.”
Montgomery Eye Care sells
and fits prescription and non-prescription sunglasses in a variety
of sizes, styles and price ranges.
Maui Jim, for example, has an
anti-reflective filter on the front
and back surface of the lens and
is polarized. This reduces the
glare and makes things less
bright.
Other popular brands include
Kate Spade, Fendi, Gucci, RayBan and the brand-new Nina
Ricci Jackie O Sunglasses, inspired by former First Lady
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
“We fit every pair of sunglasses we sell,” noted Dr. Boname.
“Fit is incredibly important, and
helps make sure the frame you
like does its job.”
Dr. Boname also has eye
health and fitness advice for contact lens wearers: use according
to the instructions. She sees a lot
of cases of conjunctivitis from
those who don’t take their lenses
out before swimming, or who
don’t use lens solution properly.
She says it’s important to use
fresh solution everyday, and to
clean and air-dry the case each
day.
“Those taking part in competitive outdoor sports such as golf,
biking or tennis, and serious athletes, should look into prescription goggles,” she added.
“They’re comfortable and lightweight, and don’t interfere with
their game.”
Montgomery Eye Care is open
Monday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 7
p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
and Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Hours around holidays may vary,
and are posted on the door. Or,
call 609-279-0005 for information.
Montgomery Eye Care.
Montgomery Center, 1325 Route
206, Suite 24, Skillman. 609279-0005. [email protected].
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triumphed. A new personal
achievement, not the summit, was
the goal. It always had been.
Colon’s mountainside freezing
response, actually, is quite typical
for the totally uninitiated. But
Strong Feather had gotten that far
up the slope, and today heads for a
new challenge completely undeterred.
On Sunday, June 28, Strong
Feather and 11 other Regulars will
shoulder their packs and head for
Kilimanjaro. At just over three vertical miles, “Kili” takes its name
from the Swahili meaning “little
hill.” The group will take the
Marango Route, which involves no
technical climbing and affords the
climbers nightly huts, but involves
vast altitude changes and agonizingly steep slopes. This is where
professional mountaineers preparing for Everest and K-2 come to
train.
In mountaineering lure, the Seven Summits refer to the highest
peak on each continent. Those
whos set out to conquer them usually start with Australia’s 7,000foot stump, Mount Kosciusko,
then move onto Kilimanjaro because it is, compared to the remaining five summits, the easiest to
summit. Just remember — that’s
relative to peaks like Mont Blanc
and Everest.
“No mountain is easy,” Colon
says. “It doesn’t care who you are,
or how experienced you may be, or
how well you trained. If a mountain wants to open up on you it will.
The best mountain climbers have
had to descend Kilimanjaro due to
altitude. I am going because I am
able to, not because it is easy.”
Having experienced the terror
that froze her in place on Mount
Hood, Colon decided to steel her
nerve and simply not acquiesce to
fear in the face of Africa’s “little
hill.”
“What’s different this time as
opposed to Mt. Hood is that I got a
taste of what it is like to stand on a
mountain that I have never done
before,” she says. “The fear factor
was intense. I trained in November
on Mt. Washington, which built my
confidence, and I overcame that
fear.” Having learned through her
martial arts background that mental fitness is as important as the
physical, Colon set her mind to Kili
and is certain she will not change it
now. “You always have to develop
your mind no matter what endeavor you wish to accomplish,” she
says.
She also says she is better prepared this year because her involvement with the Regulars and
her desire to shed light on the diseases the group hopes to bring
down have intensified her desire to
summit Kilimanjaro
Juggling a business, a family,
and a training regimen for Kili
takes a lot of effort, Colon says.
And a lot of time management. “I
train after work, in the gym on the
treadmill, fully elevated, and on elliptical and bike,” she says. “I used
the machines to strengthen my legs
and arms also; had a personal trainer last year who formulated a training plan for me and I stuck with it
this year.”
Colon’s training plan involves
walking or hiking with her daypack for as many as five hours at a
time, usually on weekends, she
says. She’s also trained by climbing bleachers and, of course,
through karate.
“Everything is tricky when you
work and are a mom but my boys
are older and understand the importance of what I am doing,” she
says. “They encouraged me alot to
get out there on days I was feeling
sluggish. “
Colon’s road to from Mount
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Ground Crew: Eileen Colon’s efforts have been
bolstered by her ‘street team:’Hal English, left, of
First Choice Bank, Karen Tunney, Colon, Karen
Gibson of YKiKi Cafe, Kathy Clemency, former
owner of 130 South and American Grill & Sushi,
and Kathryn Hartz of ScopeMedical.
Hood’s fear to Kilimanjaro’s
promise took her to New England
first. Back in November Simone
took the Kilimanjaro team on a
mid-winter, midnight training
climb up Mount Washington. The
The concept of fighting two diseases with
10 climbs on six continents holds widescreen cinematic appeal.
renowned Washington winds
howled, hurling 17 inches of snow
across the trail, and leaving the
team to break through huge dunes
of alternating powder and halfpacked slush. Temperatures ranged
from bitter to worse, and Colon
cinched her balaclava (a hood with
a large hole for vision) down so only the narrowest slit of eyes and
nose lay exposed to the stabbing
blast.
There is no easy route up
Washington’s 6,288 feet, but
Colon and the team made it up and
down, in the dark, after a full day of
driving to New Hampshire. Meanwhile, back at home, the endless
walks, karate, and gym workouts
continue. She bristles with justified confidence.
And an aspiration. “I would
hope to see my boys come along
with me next year when we climb
Mt. Washington,” she says. “It is a
dream of mine.”
Ten days prior to her trip to Kilimanjaro Colon’s Street Team hosted its expedition kickoff fundraiser
cocktail party, “Ain’t No Mountain
High Enough,” at the Hamilton
Manor Cellar. The goal — to raise
$10,000 from the expected 200
guests and to provide Eileen Colon
with some much needed adrenaline.
All the money goes to the
Alzheimer’s and the Parkinson’s
foundations. Not one penny of
these funds goes to the Regulars,
nor to Colon. The $7,000 for the
trip, plus all her equipment expenses come wholly from her own
pocket.
Like many Regulars climbers,
Colon has collected a coterie of
supporters — also considered part
of the Regulars’ team. These angels help raise funds and bring the
climbs and climbers further into
public light. Colon originally
asked her cousin, Karen Gibson,
who owns the YKiKi Cafe in the
Hamilton Area YMCA. She
brought aboard her niece, Kathryn
Hart, account director for
ScopeMedical; Kathy Clemency,
former owner of Route 130 South
Restaurant; Hal English, vicepresident of First Choice Bank in
Robbinsville; and Karen Tunney,
who works at Hamilton Manor.
“Each of these people has enormous networks throughout the
community,” says Gibson. “Hal
English has worked long and hard
with (former Hamilton Mayor
Glen) Gilmore. You would be
amazed at how anxious people
from everywhere are willing to
help.”
“Ain’t No Mountain High
Enough” was also not without a
certain celebrity sparkle. Famed
country singer Loretta Hagen
played live music at the festivities.
Following her mother’s diagnosis
with Alzheimer’s, Hagen turned,
as so many have, to the Internet for
support and connection. “Several
of our group met her on the MySpace site,” says Gibson. Hagen
has advocated for curative funding
in several benefit concerts, including one on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial.
And the outreach goes on. The
concept of fighting two diseases
with 10 climbs totaling 44.5 vertical miles, in seven countries, in six
continents, truly holds widescreen
cinematic appeal. Backlight Productions has seen Simone’s and the
Regulars’ epic struggle and is currently interviewing the team for a
documentary that will be released
in 2010. Global film distributor
Tribecca Films has already contacted the group seeking development rights. Actress Lisa Gibbons,
star of “Silent Witness” and “Bug
Off!”, after losing her mother to
Alzheimer’s, founded a fund raising foundation, and has agreed to
take on the narration role. “There
are 30 million families around this
country suffering from Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. You cannot believe the outpouring of support we have all gotten. Everyone
is so generous — they just need a
place to focus that generosity,”
says Colon.
Throughout the planning stages,
Colon is constantly calculating
how many people will become
aware of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s threats. How much money
can be raised to find cures and
treatments? “When I get there, I
will reach my hands up and touch
God. And my mother.” she says.
Beyond “because the disease is
there,” Colon’s reasons for her
climbs and disease-battling passion remain a bit vaguely expressed. Like many instinctive
caregivers and people of action,
she probably spends little time analyzing the whys, and more time
planning the hows. The motivating
rationale with which Colon seems
at ease is, “I do it for my kids, so
they don’t have to face the danger
of these diseases.”
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Life in the Fast Lane
M
onday, June 22, was a
down day for the stock market. But
stock in Medarex, a biotech on
State Road, rose nearly 17 percent
on news that its drug had played a
part in a dramatic turnaround for
two cancer patients. By late afternoon it was the market’s leading
gainer.
This development followed a
Mayo Clinic statement announcing
that two patients with advanced
prostate cancer, treated with
Medarex’s ipilimumab, are now
cancer free.
Ipilimumab is a fully human antibody that binds to CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated
antigen 4), a molecule on T-cells
that plays a critical role in regulating natural immune responses.
The associated press release entitled “Mayo Researchers: Dramatic Outcomes in Prostate Cancer
Study” reported on the following
data: Two Mayo Clinic patients
whose prostate cancer had been
considered inoperable have no evidence of disease thanks in part to
an experimental drug therapy that
was used in combination with standardized hormone treatment and
radiation therapy. The men were
participating in an investigator
sponsored clinical trial of ipilimumab.
In these two cases, physicians
say the approach initiated the death
of a majority of cancer cells and
caused extensive tumor shrinkage,
allowing surgery. In both cases, the
aggressive tumors had grown well
beyond the prostate into the abdominal areas.
Edited by Kathleen McGinn Spring
The patients first received a type
of hormone therapy called androgen ablation, which removes
testosterone and usually causes
some initial reduction in tumor
size. Researchers then introduced a
single dose of ipilimumab, an antibody, which builds on the anti-tumor action of the hormone and
causes a much larger immune response, resulting in massive death
of the tumor cells. Both men experienced consistent drops in their
prostate specific antigen (PSA)
counts over the following weeks
until both were deemed eligible for
surgery. Then, during surgery, extensive tumor shrinkage was observed. One patient underwent radiation therapy after surgery; both
have resumed their regular lives.
Medarex (MEDX), 707 State
Road, Princeton 08540; 609430-2880; fax, 609-4302850. Howard H. Pien, president and CEO. Home page:
www.medarex.com.
Clinical Trials
Amicus
Therapeutics,
5
Cedar Brook Drive, Cranbury
08512; 609-662-2000; fax,
609-662-2001. John F. Crowley, CEO. www.amicustherapeutics.com.
Amicus Therapeutics has begun
the U.S. registration Phase 3 trial
with its investigational drug, Amigal for the treatment of Fabry disease. The FDA is in agreement that
Amicus is eligible to seek accelerated approval for Amigal. The
company has begun submitting the
Phase 3 protocol to investigational
sites worldwide and expects to begin the dosing of subjects in the
second half of this year.
“The start of our Phase 3 trial
with Amigal is a major milestone
for Amicus and highlights our transition into a late-stage development company,” John Crowley, the
company’s CEO, said in a prepared
statement. “We are very pleased
with the outcome of our interactions with FDA around the design
of this pivotal study and are confident we have set the stage for a successful Phase 3 study. We continue
to believe that Amigal may be an
important treatment option for patients who suffer with Fabry disease and a significant step forward
for them and their families.”
Fabry disease is a lysosomal
storage disorder caused by inherited genetic mutations, which result
in the various symptoms including
pain, kidney failure, and increased
risk of heart attack and stroke.
Cornerstone
Pharmaceutical, 1 Duncan Drive,
Cranbury 08512; 609-4097050; fax, 609-409-6035.
Bob Rodriguez, president &
COO. www.cornerstonepharma.com.
Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals
has begun a phase I/II clinical trial
of a drug for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. CPI-613, the initial
candidate to emerge from the company’s Altered Energy Metabolism
Directed technology platform, will
be used in combination with gemcitabine, a standard chemotherapeutic for the treatment of pancreatic
and other cancers. Patients newly
diagnosed and intended to be treated with gemcitabine may be eligible for this study.
CPI-613 is the first drug in a
new chemical class that targets
metabolic changes that may be
common to many cancer types.
CPI-613 has been granted orphan
drug status by the FDA for pancreatic cancer, a cancer type that typically has a poor prognosis, spreads
rapidly, and often goes undetected
in its early stages.
It is projected that this year there
will be more than 42,000 Americans diagnosed with pancreatic
cancer and approximately 35,000
deaths associated with pancreatic
cancer.
The open-label trial is currently
underway at the Eastchester Center
for Cancer Care in New York. Additional clinical sites will be added.
Management Moves
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton,
1 Hamilton Health Place,
Hamilton 08619; 609-5867900; fax, 609-584-6525. Anthony J. Cimino, CEO. www.rwjhamilton.org.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton has named
Anthony J. Cimino president and
CEO. Cimino, who has been on the
hospital’s board of directors since
1988, replaces Ellen Guarnieri,
who will resume work in her
healthcare consulting company in
mid-July after working on Cimino’s transition team.
Cimino has worked in both the
public and the private sectors. He
was Commissioner of Personnel
for the state from 1992 to 1994, and
before that was an Assemblyman
for four years. He has served as a
member of the state’s Pension and
Healthcare Benefits Commission.
A Hamilton resident, Cimino
was president of CMX Engineering, a Manalapan-based company
with 21 offices throughout the
country.
American List Counsel, 4300
Route 1, Building 2, CN 5219,
Princeton 08543-5219; 609580-2800; fax, 609-5802818. Susan Rappaport,
CEO. www.alc.com.
Susan Rappaport has been
named president and CEO of data
marketing services provider American List Council. She succeeds
Donn Rappaport, her husband,
who founded ALC in 1978 and retains the title of chairman.
For the past five years Susan
Rappaport has served as COO of
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Massage Merger
A
fter almost 13 years Full
Circle Family Massage & Healing
Center is closing its doors on June
30 and will merge into a new wellness center in Kingston.
Full Circle’s owner, Darby
Mackenzie Line, said she and her
therapists were invited to become
part of Onsen for All, a wellness
center based on the Japanese onsen tradition of soaking in hot water for therapeutic benefits. Line
said that most of Full Circle’s therapists will be going with her and
that Onsen for All is expected to
open in the fall on Route 27 at the
intersection with Raymond Road.
A multi-service center offering
massage and bodywork services,
Onsen for All will feature a Japanese style spa garden with four
large wooden soaking hot tubs.
“When we opened Full Circle
in 1996, we were pretty much the
only game in town,” Line said.
“My goal was to help make massage therapy a mainstream way of
ny’s list brokerage operation. She also founded Direct Media, a list brokerage company, which merged
with ALC in 1997.
Donn Rappaport had been named
CEO of Zumbox, which has developed technology to deliver paperless
mail to digital corporate or personal
inboxes.
Swine Flu Vaccine
VaxInnate, 3 Cedar Brook Drive,
Cedar Brook Corporate Center, Suite 1, Cranbury 08512;
609-860-2260; fax, 609-8602290. Alan Shaw, CEO. Home
page: www.vaxinnate.com.
VaxInnate Corporation has reported positive preclinical results
for a recombinant swine flu vaccine
it developed in less than three
weeks, making it one of the first
companies in the world to begin testing a vaccine that could help halt the
spread of the swine flu pandemic.
Preclinical studies in mice suggest that VaxInnate’s recombinant
swine flu vaccine could provide protection against the pandemic H1N1
influenza A swine flu strain. Further
preclinical testing of the vaccine is
already underway.
The company is hoping to work
with the U.S. government on further
development of its swine flu vaccine, and is also seeking international partners for the development of
this and other pandemic vaccines.
The vaccine must undergo review
and licensure by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) before
it could become available in the
United States. Similarly, regulatory
agencies in other countries or regions must license the vaccine before it can be used in those areas.
Conventional means of making
flu vaccines using eggs takes 6-9
months. VaxInnate points out that
the federal government is funding
alternative cell-based production
and that vaccine production using
cell culture takes about six months,
while its technology takes only
weeks.
New in Town
United Stationers Supply Co.
(USTR), 100 Liberty Way,
Cranbury 08512; 609-6194000; fax, 609-409-9066.
Wayne Scott, general manager. www.ussco.com.
North America’s largest distributor of business products has moved
its New York regional office and distribution center from Edison to
Cranbury, bringing 350 jobs to the
town.
handling stress and muscle pain.
During our 13 years in business,
we’ve seen that happen.”
The last decade has seen a
boom in the growth of day spas,
which offer a variety of services
including massage. New massage
schools have opened, and more
massage therapists and facilities
are available. In addition, discount massage facilities have appeared in many strip malls.
Onsen for All looks to take
things up a notch. “People will be
able to come in, get a robe and
slippers, soak in the tubs, enjoy
the wood-fired sauna, hang out in
this gorgeous building, meditate
in a quiet room, relax, for as long
as they wish,” Line said.
“It’s going to be a unique community resource that will help
people step out of their everyday
lives for a few hours or more, and
re-set their stress levels to zero,”
she said. “In this day and age,
what could be better?”
Full Circle Family Massage &
Healing Center, 329 Princeton-Hightstown Road, Cranbury.
Distributor of more than
100,000 business items, United
Stationers reported $5 billion in net
sales for 2008 and has 67 distribution centers across the continent.
Its headquarters is in Deerfield,
Illinois.
United Stationers was founded
in 1922 and was the first company,
beginning in the 1930s, to print and
distribute an office products catalog. Today the company supplies
resellers with a broad range of such
supplies, from paper cups to file
storage equipment.
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Alfred L. Kettell Jr. Esq., 215
North Main Street, Pennington 08534; 609-737-9898;
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Alfred Kettell has moved his
law office from Route 31 to North
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Leaving Town
Danka Office Imaging, 1095
Cranbury-South River Road,
Suite 22, Jamesburg. Home
page: www.danka.com.
One year after a $240 million
sale to Konica Minolta, Danka Office Imaging is closing its Jamesburg facilities and relocating its operations to Iselin.
Danka sold office imaging units
and systems, a line the Japan-based
Konica Minolta sought to expand.
The company was in business for
more than 30 years before entering
into an agreement with Konica Minolta last April.
The closure of the Jamesburg
site takes 25 employees from there,
but a spokeswoman for Konica Minolta said that all employees have
been relocated, none downsized.
Most are going to the Iselin headquarters. The move is expected to
conclude by the end of July.
Milestones
Bruce L. Stackhouse, 70, on
June 19. A stock car racer and master mechanic, he worked at Al’s
Sunoco in Pennington.
Judith Febo, 56, on June 18.
She was an executive secretary at
Bristol-Myers Squibb.
John T. Daugherty, 65, on June
2. He was director of group benefits administration at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
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
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Available
Warehouse-Recreation-Assembly
5000-17,500/SF, South Brunswick
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]
For Lease - East Windsor Office
3200 SF. 399 Monmouth St.. Holiday Inn Conference
Center. On-site hotel, catering, meeting facilities.
Al Toto - [email protected]
Kevin Coleman - [email protected]
Sale, Income Property,
Ideal for Owner User - 8A/Jamesburg
Kevin Coleman - [email protected]
For more information and other opportunities, please
call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
Survival Guide
In short, buying distressed properties is not simply paying the difference between what was paid and
what is owed on a mortgage.
Homeowners need to be aware of
predatory offers for foreclosure alternatives, such as ones in which a
buyer takes over the payments on a
property and the homeowner signs
over the deed. Homeowners in
Florida and Nevada, two of the
hardest-hit markets in the country,
have been hit with a number of
these offers, which only compound
the problem, Waniak says.
“Florida is just decimated,” he
says. “There are literally thousands
of properties on the market and a
severe shortage of willing buyers.”
And lenders are saddled with “nonperforming assets,” which in turn
causes problems when they go to
fund new loans. Consequently,
fewer people can borrow and fewer are in a position to buy. So properties sit there, unsold.
Banks do not necessarily want
to own a lot of debt-laden properties, and this creates opportunities
to buy real estate at below-market
values. Investors just need to be
motivated to navigate the proceedings and to understand some of the
terms and processes.
Where to look. Finding properties in foreclosure is the easiest part
of the process. Sheriffs’ departments advertise properties in
newspaper classifieds and online
searches are plentiful. There are
businesses that sell lists of distressed properties, Waniak says,
but those are hardly necessary. The
most popular site, www.foreclosure.com, lists properties by state,
city, and region, including sale
prices and comparison values.
The Real Deal:
Stephen Waniak
says distressed properties can make good
investments – but
don’t expect easy
money and miracles.
HUD. The federal government
offers vast amounts of information
for free. Through the government
anyone can find lists of distressed
properties, procedures for bidding,
and information on just about anything connected to real estate sales
and auctions.
You will also get no help with it.
While the information is there,
knowing how to decipher it is a
skill itself, and even then is no
guarantee of success. “It can be
very complicated and frustrating,”
Everybody wants to
buy property for less.
But does it matter
whether that property
is in foreclosure?
Waniak says. “If something doesn’t work, you don’t know why it
didn’t work, they never tell you.
It’s really a faceless transaction.”
Upside-down. You once took
out a mortgage to buy your house
for $150,000. Then you decided to
refinance. The bank, riding high
over most of the past decade, was
all to eager to give you a king’s ransom as a second mortgage.
When the bottom fell out, you
found you owed $500,000 on a
house worth no more than
$475,000. “This is what we mean
when we say someone is upside-
down on the mortgage,” Waniak
says.
People get upside down for a
few reasons, he says. Some are victims of adjustable-rate mortgages.
A few years ago lenders were giving money away to almost anyone.
Credit standards were relaxed,
down payments were not always
needed, and even the fact that
someone was out of work was not
always a barrier to a handsome
loan. Lenders offered low introductory rates that would adjust
over time. Consequently, many
people eventually got adjusted
right out of their affordability
range.
Others are victims of market retraction. Unable to make payments
for a $350,000 house, they lost the
property. In the meantime, the value sank to $335,000.
Short sales. A short sale is the
sale of any property for less than
the value owed on it. It can be the
result of an inability to keep up on
payments, but Waniak says it does
not automatically mean a homeowner is in financial tumult. “They
might not be behind, they might
just want to sell the house and they
owe more than it’s worth,” he says.
However a short sale occurs, the
homeowner will petition the lender
to accept a lesser value. It is not itself a foreclosure issue, Waniak
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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.
1st Month FREE: Princeton Route 1.
Single Offices, Office Suites, Virtual Offices, 50MB High Speed Internet, Great
Reception Team, Instant Activation,
Flexible Terms. Call 609-514-5100 or
visit www.princeton-office.com
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.
East Windsor, Route 130. 1 or 2 person office in professional building. Ample parking. $395 monthly. Call 609730-0575.
OFFICE RENTALS
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Princeton, Trenton, Hamilton, Hopewell, Montgomery,
Ewing, Hightstown, Lawrenceville and other Mercer,
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Hamilton: 2500 + sq. ft., Rt. 33 Office
Complex, Reception, 3 Offices, 2 bathrooms, large open space, 609-9360960, or [email protected]
Lawrenceville: Psychotherapy/professional service office, third floor suite,
2 offices available with shared waiting
and group therapy rooms. Handicapped
accessible. Copier, fax machine, and
kitchen included. High speed Internet
available. Great location on Princeton
Pike. Immediate availability. Contact
Rosemarie 267-391-7351.
Monroe Township: 450 square foot
stand alone building, across from Clearbrook, $825/month + utilities. 609-6558700.
Pennington - Hopewell: Straube
Center offices from virtual office, 25 to
300 square feet and office suites, 500 to
2,400 square feet. From $100 per month,
short and long term. Storage space, individual signage, conference rooms, copier, Verizon Fios available, call 609-7373322 or e-mail [email protected]
www.straubecenter.com
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 Prof. Office Park, off
Route One. 600 sq. ft. Perfect for Law
Firm, CPAs, Consultants, Medical. Call
732-329-1601 for details.
William Barish [email protected]
Available - Near Train - 9300 SF
777 Alexander Park. Will Divide, Great Signage
Immediate Occupancy, Cafe On Site
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.
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.
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
says. It is, rather, an alternative to
foreclosure. But the result for a
buyer is opportunity to find good
properties for less than they are really worth. A dose of reality, however: Less than market value is
rarely half or a quarter market value. The difference often is less than
$50,000.
And all advantages in a short
sale do not belong to the buyer. For
the seller, there will be no foreclosure on his record; for the bank, the
loss of $20,000 in outstanding debt
outweighs the $80,000 in procedural costs it will take to settle the
estate.
No stress. Waniak gets a lot of
calls from people looking to understand the distressed property puzzle. Many are under the spell of real estate infomercials that turn a
nice profit for their purveyors and
much confusion among their buyers. Such programs explain the
benefits of cashing in on pre-foreclosure and foreclosed properties,
but Waniak says they miss something most people do not stop to
consider.
“I always ask people what their
investment objective is,” he says.
“Some people want to buy a house
and live in it. Some want to buy it,
rehab it, and hold it. What everybody wants is to be able to buy
property for less money. So I ask
them, ‘Does it matter whether it’s a
foreclosure?’”
Distressed properties are not the
only ones that sell for less than
their eventual resale. Sometimes
people are motivated to sell a house
that belonged to a family member
and they will take a low-ball. Some
markets have shrunk and eventually will open up, but not until after a
homeowner is forced to leave.
Some people sell properties themselves and do not know they could
get more.
Use an agent. Good buys exist,
and not just in bad situations. What
Waniak wants people to know is
that qualified real estate agents are
the best bet in making real estate
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All events are subject to
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deals. “Just be careful out there,”
he advises. “Talk to a broker. And I
don’t say that because I’m a broker.
Nobody is going to give you better
advice than someone who deals in
real estate professionally.”
— Scott Morgan
Business Meetings
Thursday, June 25
5 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, joint networking event with Hunterdon
Chamber, free. Station Restaurant, Lambertville. 609-689-9960.
5 p.m.: Princeton Chamber, “Business After Business Networking,”
$30. Hopewell Valley Community
Bank, Pennington. 609-9241776.
6:45 p.m.: SCORE Princeton, “Using QuickBooks,” free. Princeton
Library, [email protected].
609-393-0505.
Friday, June 26
8:30 a.m.: Biz4NJ, “Speaking
4Biz: Business Growth with a
Speaking Edge,” Eileen Sinnett,
$5. Held the last Friday of each
month. CCS Studios, 610 Plainsboro Road, [email protected]. 609-799-1400.
10:15 a.m.: Monmouth University,
“Export to China,” James Chan,
Asia Marketing and Management,
$45. Long Branch campus,
[email protected]. 732571-3636.
10:30 a.m.: Professional Services
Group, “Building Stronger Working Relationships Through Email,” free. One Stop Career Center, Yard Avenue, Trenton. 609292-7535.
Princeton Commerce Center
2950 SF, Immediate Occupancy
Just Off Route One at Meadow Road Overpass
Saturday, June 27
9 a.m.: MCCC, “How To Buy Foreclosed Properties,” Stephen Waniak, Keller Williams, $60. West
Windsor campus. 609-570-3311.
2 p.m.: NJ Bankers, “Bank Security and Law Enforcement DoubleHeader with Trenton Thunder,”
$109. Waterfront Park, Trenton,
[email protected]. 908272-8500.
Monday, June 29
8:30 a.m.: Dale Carnegie Institute,
“How to Sell Like a Pro,” threeday course, $1,695. Route 130,
Bordentown. 609-324-9200.
Tuesday, June 30
www.29emmons.com
Office/Professional - Cranbury
700-21,000 SF. Forsgate Drive/Route 32,
Jamesburg. Various divisions possible.
Tuesday, June 30
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, Networking and support for changing careers, free. Parish Hall entrance,
Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street.
609-924-2277.
Wednesday, July 1
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, free. Settimo
Cielo, East Front Street, Trenton.
609-689-9960.
Kevin Coleman [email protected]
Commercial Property Network
609-921-8844 • www.cpnrealestate.com
For more information and other opportunities, please
call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
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OFFICE RENTALS
Princeton-Nassau Street: Sublet 13 rooms, 2nd floor, includes parking/utilities. Call 609-924-6270. Ask for Wendy.
Sublease Large Private Office. In
Princeton Commerce Center (near MarketFair). $495/mo plus share of utilties.
609-734-0004 or 609-977-7111.
Yes, I Offer...
20% “Stimulus Discounts”
on
Interior & Exterior Painting
Owner-operated, highest quality work
for over 40 years in the Princeton area.
Julius H. Gross, Inc.
www.juliusgross.com • [email protected]
Phyllis
(Cohen)
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Princeton Restaurant For Sale:
Prime downtown location, turnkey, zoning privilege, long lease, positive ongoing business open potential for any cuisine. $295K, Call Zhen at 609-5787277.
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
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.
609-924-1474
JOIN
Tired of an Office Park?: Unique office space available in historic building
with views of the Millstone River. Easy
access from Rt. 1. Free parking. Conference room, kitchenette, receptionist included. Law library. Secretarial services
available. Friendly, professional atmosphere. Contact Liz: 609-514-0514;
[email protected].
President of Mercer Co.
Top Producers ‘07
President of Women
for Greenwood House
www.princetonmercerhomes.com
253 Nassau Street • Princeton
COMMERCIAL SPACE
HAMILTON WAREHOUSE - Call the
“Flexperts”! 700 to 100,000 SF WH/
Dist/ Showroom/ Ofc/ Shop/ Mfg/ Studio.
Units Avail. CHEAP RENTS! Creative
modern recycled new sunny spaces.
Great locations, immediate occupancy.
Hi ceilings, load docks, drive ins. 700 sf
office @ $945. 2,000 sf @ $1595. 4,000
sf @ $2595. 7,000 sf @ $2,900. 16,000
sf @ $7,900. Other sizes available. ASK
ABOUT OUR $.99/SF SPECIAL DEAL!
MUST SEE! Brian @ 609-731-0378 or
[email protected]
An independently owned and operated member
of The Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
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Space: 500 to 2,500 SF available. Hi
ceilings, OH doors, tons of parking,
beautiful building with thriving tenant
base. Hi speed ready. CHEAP — Call for
rates! Brian @ 609-731-0378 or [email protected].
Nassau Street Storage Space: 1227
SF and 2671 SF basement storage.
Clean, dry, secure space. Call 609-9216060 for details.
STUDIO SPACE
Stockton Real Estate, LLC
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.
32 Chambers Street • Princeton, NJ 08542
1-800-763-1416 • 609-924-1416
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HOMEMAINTENANCE
(FSBO), or send E-mail, Subject Big
Ranch, [email protected] for
packet.
Green your home with new energy efficient windows and cut your heating and
cooling bills by up to 50 percent. Federal
government program covers 30 percent
of installation cost. Free estimates and
guaranteed lowest prices from local
multimillion dollar company. Call Doug
Zehr at Premier Remodeling: 609-2163123.
Spring Lake: Perfect Victorian style
Beach House in Villa park area. Wraparound deck, 3-4 BR, 2.5 BA. 4 blocks
from beach at 418 Central. FSBO. 732359-6302. $985,000 OBO.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Country Setting: 1 possibly 2-bedroom apartment for rent. Duplex. Newly
renovated. Internet cable ready. $1,300
per month. Call for appointment: 732207-8373.
Cranbury House for Rent: Two bedrooms, one bath, all appliances, near
Post Office. Unique location in charming
village setting. Mid-July, $1,325. 609529-6891.
Ewing Near TCNJ: Two bedroom,
one bath apartment. All appliances. MidAugust. $850 including heat. 609-5296891.
Four Bedroom House near Princeton Shopping Center and university.
$2,500/month. 609-638-4702.
Four-Car Garage Non-Heated for
rent or lease. Private residence. Perfect
for automobiles and/or long-term storage. Call 732-207-8373 or E-mail [email protected].
Pennington-W. Franklin Ave & Rte.
31: Two-storey 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]
Plainsboro: 3 bedroom ranch house
on wooded lot. Full basement and attic.
Central AC. Nonsmoking. $1850. 609683-1515 or 908-229-9056 or www.tinyurl.com/ngnxok.
Princeton area four bedroom
house in wooded country setting - fireplace and pond. http://princetonrentals.homestead.com/. 609-333-6932
Princeton House for Rent: Walk to
university, $2300 a month. 3 bedroom.
Available 7/1. [email protected]
609-865-4966
ROOM FOR RENT
Somerset - Large Furnished Room:
Clean, cable, light kitchen, nonsmoker.
$550/month. Convenient to Routes 1
and 287. 732-828-4106.
REAL ESTATE ADVICE
Buy Bank-owned Properties: Free
list of Foreclosure Properties + Photos.
Receive a FREE daily list by E-mail.
http://www.bankowneddealsonline.com
/ RE/MAX Tri County.
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.
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.
Man With A Van/Handyman: Small
local moves, furniture assembly, appliance installation and other odd jobs.
Serving Mercer County and nearby areas 7 days a week. Reliable, courteous
and professional service at reasonable
rates. Call: 609-512-7248.
Reliable Lawn Service and Landscaping: Lis# 2750131. Mowing. Fertilizing. Mulching. Spring and Fall Clean
Ups. 609-209-5764.
DECKS REFINISHED
Cleaning/Stripping and Staining of
All Exterior Woods: Craftsmanship quality work. Fully insured and licensed with
references. Windsor WoodCare. 609-7996093. www.windsorwoodcare.com.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Art Designer: Young, sharp, intelligent art designer who can create and
put your ideas on paper, tee-shirts and
other. For more information please call
609-920-3518 during the hours of 10
a.m.-5 p.m. E-mail: [email protected]
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
www.v-yours.com.
Virtual Assistant assisting clients
worldwide. Reports typed, transcription,
E-mails, calendar mgmt, concierge
services & more. www.executivesonthego.com
[email protected] 800-745-1166
Your Perfect Corporate Image:
Princeton Route 1. Virtual Offices, Offices, Receptionist, Business Address
Service, Telephone Answering Service,
Conference Rooms, Instant Activation,
Flexible Terms. Call 609-514-5100 or
visit www.princeton-office.com
COMPUTER SERVICES
Computer Problems Solved!!:
Computer Group of Princeton: set-up,
repair, software installation, virus removal. Phone 609-896-2239 or email:
[email protected].
Computer Service: Computer repair,
computer training (offer senior discount), data recovery, free estimate.
Cell: 609-213-8271.
CLEANING SERVICES
CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL
Window Washing: Lolio Window
Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609-271-8860.
[email protected]
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Helmetta (Middlesex Co.): 31 Maple
Street. Big, raised ranch, full basement.
Roomy! Solidly built 1974, main level
+1800 sq. feet. Three-plus bedrooms, 2
baths, 2-3 car garage. Quick access Rt.
1, NJ Tpk, GSP, Rt. 130. Offered as-is by
owner but no major problems,
$300,000. Open House Friday, July 3,
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Details on Zillow.com
HOUSING FOR SALE
EAST WINDSOR
$216,900
Meticulously remodeled first floor 2 BR, 2 Bath condo in Windsor Mills.Updated kitchen with
new stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. New carpeting in bedrooms, wood
flooring in LR, DR, KIT and Foyer. Corner slate fireplace with hand-crafted mantle. Patio with
storage closet. Laundry Room in unit. Ceiling Fans. Immaculate condition. Close to Route US
#130, Rte. 1, NJ 535 and 571, NJ Turnpike Exit 8A.
Directions: Rte. #571, Rte. #132 or Old Trenton Road to Windsor Mill.
Turn eastward into condo complex. Follow road to the right, to the end to Bldg. #200.
Princeton Forrestal Village
112 Village Blvd. • Princeton, NJ 08540
Office: 609-951-8600 Ext. 144
Cell: 609-509-0777
CYRIL “CY” GAYDOS
REALTOR® ASSOCIATE
Email: [email protected]
www.CGaydos.ReMax-NJ.com
Each Office Independently Owned and Operated
Available Suites:
1,895 SF, 780 SF
Brokers Protected
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EOE “Staffing Success Begins Here” NO FEE
Write For You. Communications pro creates web copy, ads,
e-blasts,
sales
brochures,
newsletters, reports, presentations. Anne Sweeney PR. 732329-6629 www.annesweeneypr.com [email protected]
FINANCIAL
SERVICES
Bookkeeping services for
your bottom line: QuickBooks
ProAdvisor. Call Joan today at
Kaspin Associates, 609-4900888.
TAX SERVICES
Tax Preparation and Accounting Services: For individuals and small businesses. Notary, computerized tax preparation, paralegal services. Your
place or mine. Fast response,
free consultation, reasonable
costs. Gerald Hecker, 609-4484284.
TRANSPORTATION
Man with medium-sized
pick-up truck available for moving items both large and small.
Reasonable prices. References
provided. Call Galen M. Valley.
609-672-8365.
TRAVEL
Fast Paced & Growing Technology/
Security Consulting Firm
Based at Carnegie Center in Princeton, NJ: seeks a
part-time (20 hours per week) qualified assistant to work
on various office tasks. Must be proficient in Microsoft
Office Suite (Power Point, Word, Excel, etc.), have a
pleasant attitude, enjoy people, dress and act professionally. Candidate must be a self-starter who can work
with direction or on their own. Must be able to travel to
Norwalk, Connecticut for administrative training and
once-a-month meetings (all expenses paid). Must be
able to attend various trade shows in NJ-NYC-Philly area
up to 5 times/year (all expenses paid). Other duties
include: keeping Web-based time sheets and expense
reports, project management support, scheduling,
working with architectural & various clients directly.
We do some law enforcement work and background
checks are mandatory.
Interviews will be conducted
on July 6, July 7 and July 9
at Norwalk, CT corporate offices.
Call 203-838-4167 for appointment
and directions.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Tired of the run around with
online travel companies? Want
to speak with a real person and
not a computer? Plainsboro/Montgomery Travel is your
one stop travel resource. With
over 32 years experience we
provide travel arrangements,
weekend getaways, cruises, allinclusive Caribbean and customized European experiences.
We handle it all. Contact Jo Ann
at 908-431-1600 or E-mail
[email protected]
HEALTH
ISAGENIX — The Way to
Lose Weight: Ask me how. Lisa
Tatulli - 609-731-8666. / [email protected]
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.
CAREER SERVICES
Certified Professional Resume Writer, Licensed Career
Counselor: Assessments/job
search/career. Resumes/cover
letters. Guarneri Associates. [email protected].
866-8814055 toll-free.
Job Hunters: If you are looking for a full-time position, we
will run a reasonably worded
classified ad for you at no
charge. We reserve the right to
edit the ads and to limit the number of times they run. If you require confidentiality, send a
check for $4 with your ad and request a U.S. 1 Response Box.
Replies will be forwarded to you
at no extra charge. Mail or Fax
your ad to U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted,
12 Roszel Road, Princeton, NJ
08540. You must include your
name, address, and phone number (for our records only).
Experienced and Motivated
Office Assistant: seeks full-
HEALTH
INSTRUCTION
Skinny Jeans Feeling a Little Snug? Blast your fat and rock
your core with a fusion of jazz
dance, resistance training, Pilates, yoga, and kickboxing. With
the power to burn 350-500 calories per class, it’s not your momma’s workout. Jazzercise Class
Info and coupon at www.jazzplainsboro-windsors.com 609890-3252.
effective strategies and tools.
Contact us at 609.216-0441,
[email protected]
m, www.odysseycoaches.com.
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: 609520-0050. (Princeton off Route 1
Behind “Pepp Boys Auto.”)
MENTAL HEALTH
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.
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. 609-921-3572
INSTRUCTION
Home Health Aide Certification: Course Registration June 1
to June 30, 2009. Classes held
at Lawrenceville. Call CJ at 800899-9611. FIRSTAT Nursing
Services.
Keyboard lessons for kids
and adults. Learn a song per lesson!!. $40/Hour. Your place,
evenings and weekends. E-mail:
[email protected].
Lessons in Your Home: Music lessons in your home. Piano,
clarinet, saxophone, flute and
guitar. Call Jim 609-737-9259 or
609-273-5135.
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 Junction 609-897-0032. Hightstown
609-448-7170. www.farringtonsmusic.com.
Need a Life Coach? Are you
challenged by disorganization,
procrastination, time management, goal setting or attentional
issues? Our experienced, certified coaches can help you find
Piano lessons. All ages and
levels welcome. Experienced
professional with advanced degrees. Convenient Plainsboro
location. Call 609-378-5877.
SAT Mathematics Summer
Camp:
The
Lawrenceville
School. Week long camps
throughout June and July.
http://mathplotter.
lawrenceville.org/ mathplotter/
sat.htm (609)558-0722.
Tennis court around and
want to learn how to use it? Tennis lessons for beginners, kids,
and adults. $40/Hour. Email:[email protected]
WEDDING
SERVICES
Meaningful Civil Marriages:
Officiated by Rev. James McKenna. Call 609-306-2002. [email protected].
ENTERTAINMENT
Looking for a Different Kind
of Band to Play at Your Party?
Hall of Mirrors is a dynamic, original, rock band influenced by
classic rock, progressive rock,
classical and world music. The
group has performed at many
premier clubs in Mercer, Burlington and Bucks 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.
Music for Private Affairs and
Clubs: Call anytime. Will fit your
budget. 609-737-9259 or 609273-5135.
One Man Band: Keyboardist
for your wedding or party. Perfect entertainment. You’ll love
the variety. Duos available. Call
Ed at 609-424-0660.
MERCHANDISE
MART
Computer with XP: Good
condition. $100 with trade. Call
609-275-6930.
Sterling Silver: Towle “Legato” 4 piece placesetting service
for 8 with 8 extra teaspoons, plus
Scientist
(Analytical
Chemist)
Pharmaceuticals,
Ph.D (Organic-Analytical Chemistry), expert in HPLC method
development & validation, all
kinds of lab work, writing protocols, reports, stability program,
pharmaceuticals, analytical scientist or regulatory or QA (or any
other suitable position). Please
call Kumari at 732-841-4185 or
E-mail: [email protected]
MERCHANDISE
MART
sugar shell, butter knife and pie
server. Not monogramed. Perfect for the frugal bride or to supplement existing service. Kept
for best so nearly new. Prefer to
sell as a set. $1,250 or best offer
for all pieces. Compare to Replacements prices and save.
Call 609-720-0008 weekday
evenings or leave message.
GARAGE SALES
Saturday, June 27, 8-1: Great
Deals at Le Parc II Multiple Home
Yard Sales on Reed Drive, Rosewood and Woodbury Court.
MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob at 609-457-5501.
WANTED TO BUY
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.
Attention Business Owners:
Tired of running your business
and looking for an exit strategy?
You have options. We are looking
for a business to buy in Princeton/Mercer County. Call 831-7600007. Real Buyer — Not a Broker.
Wanted
Baseball
Cards/Memorabilia: Football,
basketball, hockey. Cards, bats,
balls, photographs, programs,
autographs. Highest prices paid.
908-596-0976.
OPPORTUNITIES
Free Internet Advertising:
What’s the catch? None. Run a
classified in U.S. 1 and let us
post it at no additional charge on
the Internet at www.PrincetonInfo.com. Call 609-452-7000 or
visit www.PrincetonInfo.com for
additional advertising opportunities in U.S. 1.
PERSONALS
Free Classifieds for Singles:
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.
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top-grade Twp.
materials.
Lawrenceville. Shingled split-level minutes from the train and
across the street from the fishing, boating, and recreation of
Princeton
Twp.
- Newly constructed. Sun., Oct. 14th, 1-4
Colonial Lake
Park.
Titusville. With winter views of the Delaware River, 2 bedrooms, and 1½ baths, this home boasts new windows, a new
Princeton
Twp.
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constructed.
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14th, 1-4
roof, new leaf
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system,
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constructed.
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fireplaces,
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charming
courtyard
patio.
$575,000
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Princeton Twp. In the Russell Estates, a delightful home with
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Lawrence Twp. With in-ground pool and tennis court,
Princeton Twp: On the banks of Carnegie Lake, this Lewis
Barber designed
home features
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constructed.
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Hopewell Twp. On 26 spectacular acres with pond, pool, and
a first floorTwp.
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home office.
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Boxwood Twp.
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Princeton
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tennis court,
stunning
marble and
Princeton
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Franklin. Twp.
Three-bedroom,
2½ bath, house
ready
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Sun., isOct.
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pool,
clubhouse,
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courts. Close to shopping, canal towpath. 609-921-1050
Not far from
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Large, constructed.
elegantly detailed
rooms
Princeton
Sun., Oct.
14th,with
1-4 an
impressive
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stone,
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granite
flooring.
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basement and quiet street.
$3,250,000
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Pennington
Borough.
a deep
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constructed.renovated,
Sun., Oct.on14th,
1-4 1.57
acre
lot,
this
three-bedroom,
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bath
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Colonial
offers endless possibilities, zoned both Residential
and Office$3,250,000
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$409,900
$499,900
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Princeton. Convenient commute to NYC.
609-737-7765
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Business. “Owner may be willing to hold mortgage.”
609-737-7765
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