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W
hen I was a Ph.D.
student studying entrepreneurship
one of the most influential articles I
read was by economist William J.
Baumol of Princeton University
and NYU. Entitled “Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive
and Destructive,” it basically suggested that a nation gets the type of
entrepreneurship it rewards. Countries that reward productivity-enhancing risk-taking richly encourage those with entrepreneurial inclinations to pursue those activities. Countries, in contrast, that reward other kinds of activities, such
as politicking, status-seeking
through religion or study, or worst
of all, counterproductive activities
like drug dealing and other forms
of corruption — tend to encourage
those with entrepreneurial talents
to pursue those sorts of activities,
to the detriment of more productive
entrepreneurship.
Baumol’s observation haunts
me as I peruse the extensive coverage of the frantically rushed efforts
to overhaul 17 percent of the nation’s economy in one fell swoop in
the form of a major change in how
medical care is allocated and paid
for. Without examining the merits
of the health aspects of the plan, I
wish to express grave concern with
this wholesale and ill-considered
redistributive move. Perhaps without intending to (or more likely
without having ever given it a
thought) the plan currently being
sped along by the House Democrats is going to fundamentally alter
what Baumol called the “structure
of incentives” that shape how entrepreneurs allocate their energies.
Let’s start with the basics: Under the House plan, medical care
would be paid for by a surtax on
those families with household income above $350,000 in 2011, a
surtax that can go to as high as 5.4
percent, in addition to the tax increases already scheduled to kick
in in 2011. Further, the plan would
impose mandatory health insurance coverage for employees on all
businesses with more than 25 of
them, or a fine of 8 percent of payroll. Employers with more than
$400,000 in payroll would basically have to pay at least 25 percent
above salary to hire an additional
person.
Research suggests that a great
many Americans with incomes
above $350,000 are entrepreneurs
and small business owners — in
many cases, they operate subchapter S corporations in which
profits are cashed out at the end of
each year and taxed at the individual rate. That money, which looks
like discretionary income to headline-hungry politicians, is often
plowed back into the business. It’s
not going for luxuries. In many cas-
es, it’s going for working capital,
inventory, marketing, and other
unglamorous business necessities.
So what does Baumol’s theory
tell us is likely to happen? Well, the
first predictable consequence is
that an awful lot of entrepreneurial
energy is going to be spent unproductively, as small business people
and those falling into the highertax categories spend their time not
producing new innovations but figuring out how not to fall into the
maws of increased tax and regulatory burdens. Following right on
The federal plan to
rewrite healthcare
could thwart entrepreneurship, leaving
us in a welfare state
without the benefits
even that offers.
that as a predictable consequence is
that those who are able to do so will
do business in such a way that they
do not fall into the higher-taxed
categories. Rather than pay individual rates, small businesses will
incorporate and pay the lower 35
percent corporate rate.
Further, get ready for the new
conglomerates — thousands of
businesses employing exactly 24.5
people, all doing business with one
another rather than falling foul of
the over 25 employee stricture.
And with small business growth
having led us out of most recessions in the past, get ready for this
sector to add jobs far more slowly
and with far greater caution than it
had previously. That is a big blow
to an economy that desperately
needs a vibrant and growing small
business sector.
At a more macro level, a huge
body of research points to the same
conclusion. The effects of higher
individual taxes on rates of entrepreneurship are, without an exception, negative. It is well accepted
and has been for decades that the
desire to have a vibrant entrepreneurial economy is at odds with the
desire to operate a welfare state,
due in large part to the way in
which welfare states allocate resources. When the upside to undertaking the risks of entrepreneurship decrease while the downside
of not doing much at all are limited
it becomes hard to justify making
the effort. If it is possible to live
quite a comfortable life without too
much bother, why take on the long
hours, the worry, and the
headaches of small business ownership?
You don’t need to take my word
for this. The following excerpt is
from an academic study written by
Magnus Henrekson in 2005, looking at the structure of incentives for
entrepreneurship in Sweden, probably the world’s best known welfare state. Here is what the author
concludes:
“Sweden, allegedly the most extensive of all welfare states, is the
object of the empirical analysis. It
is shown how key welfare state institutions tend to reduce economic
incentives both for opportunitybased and necessity entrepreneurship. Both aggregate economic
performance and data on firm
growth and direct measures of entrepreneurial activity are broadly
consistent with the identified structure of payoffs. A number of measures can be implemented to
strengthen entrepreneurial incentives within extensive welfare
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states, but the fact still remains that
an entrepreneurial culture and a
welfare state are very remotely related. As a result, the respective
cultures are unlikely to be promoted by a similar set of institutions.”
So here is the really chilling part
about the proposed tax hikes. The
Wall Street Journal on July 17, citing research by the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and
Development and the Heritage
Foundation found that the top average U.S. tax rate would hit 52
percent should the Obama budget
and House healthcare plan become
law. In some states, such as New
York and New Jersey, the rate
would be 56.92 percent and 57.07
percent, respectively. What’s the
marginal tax rate in Sweden?
56.44 percent.
All this and the U.S. taxpayer
would not enjoy the benefits of a
true welfare state — excellent, inexpensive, state-funded universities, ample unemployment benefits, child assistance benefits, and,
yes, government funded universal
health care.
Those of us, myself included,
who believe that it is entrepreneurship that drives economic vibrancy
should be doing everything in our
power to persuade the stewards of
our country’s well-being to stop
this train wreck in the making. Or
perhaps the Journal editorial writers said it best:
“The world is looking on, agog,
and wondering why the United
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McGrath, a West Windsor resident and professor at the Columbia Business School, is the author
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cent.
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record of quantifiable accomplish- that may offer less pay and less rements.
sponsibility than you may desire,
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and street smarts will get you keep you busy, and give you netthrough an interview. Myers ad- working opportunities while you
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your employer when you are work- Philadelphia. He was a magazine
art director and he worked in deing there.
Thinking that a recruiter will sign studios and advertising agenfind you a job. “No, no, no,” says cies, as well as doing freelance deMyers. “A recruiter is nothing sign work. In 1983 he started his
more than a vehicle or tool to lever- own graphic design business,
which he ran until 1992, when he
age.”
sold it and changed industries.
Thinking that a resume is the
Myers received his master’s in
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job search. “That’s a huge miscon- Temple in 1992. After graduation
ception that so many people have,” he was offered a position with
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with individuals, on career development, career transition and job
searches, as well as with companies that either need outplacement
services for laid off employees, or
are seeking advice on how to build
better productivity and retention
among high potential employees.
Myers transitioned from design
into human resources because he
always liked to help people with
their careers. “Even when I was in
the design business I was the one
who was always going to the colleges and giving lectures to the kids
about work in the field,” he says. “I
was always the one giving away
my time for free to look at young
peoples’ portfolios and telling
them how to fix their portfolios so
they could get a better job. I was always the one telling them the reality of what it’s like to work in the
design business versus what they
thought it was going to be like.”
Consequently, he found jobs for a
lot of people.
Myers decided to put his career
counseling expertise into book
form for two reasons. “One is that
all my clients were always saying,
you’ve got to take all your knowledge and put it into a book.”
The second reason was that he
foresaw the declining job market.
“Because I work in this field and
because I work with so many people in so many industries that are at
high levels, I saw the writing on the
wall,” he says. “I knew before most
other people did that we were going to head into a very bad job market. I thought that the timing was
right and that this information was
going to be more critical than ever
for all these people who needed
this help.”
He adds: “My sense is that this
recession is going to be much
longer and deeper than anyone
would like you to believe. And that
the job market will never go back
to anything resembling what it
used to be.
Myers calls the recession “a
complete game changer. It’s going
to take a very different skill set and
mindset. It’s going to require a
whole different attitude. It’s going
to require more flexibility and
adaptability on the part of every
employee. And it’s going to require
that each individual take more responsibility for their own career
success and stop relying on the employer to manage their career for
them.”
— J. Lee Jacobson
Tuesday, August 11
Forging Law’s
Most Basic Bond
A
ttorneys undergo exquisite
training. They devote thousands of
hours to memorizing thousands of
cases and teasing out any hint of
useful precedent.
But the number of training hours
spent learning how to interview
and effectively interact with
clients? Zero. Unlike medical
schools, law schools view the professional/client relation as something that just naturally, if mystically, flows. The result is often
blundered, obfuscated, and costly
miscommunication.
This relationship breakdown
cannot entirely be dropped in the
lawyers’ laps, however. Most
clients enter legal offices with the
no more preparation than is spent
getting ready to purchase a shirt. To
help set attorneys and clients on a
more productive course, the New
Jersey Continuing Legal Education Institute offers “Practical Advice for Interviewing and Choosing Clients.” This one-evening
seminar will be held on Tuesday,
August 11, at 5:30 p.m. at the New
Jersey Law Center in New
Brunswick. Moderator Steven
Menaker of Chasan Leyner &
Lamparello is joined by David
Dugan of Medford; Raymond
Londa of Londa & Londa in Elizabeth; Lynn Fontaine Newsome,
with Donahue, Hagan, Klein,
Newsome & O’Donnel; and Agnes
Rymer of Saiber in Newark.
From his three decades of litigation and personal dealings with all
levels of clients, Dugan brings a
renowned expertise in legal ethics.
After taking an admittedly scattershot selection of courses Dugan
emerged from Wheaton College
with a bachelor’s in social sciences
in 1959. From there, continuing his
thirst for fringe courses, he entered
Yale University Law School, bypassing courses in basic evidence,
for psychology in law and the like.
Upon graduation Dugan spent
three years during the Vietnam
Conflict in the U.S. Army’s Judge
Advocate General (JAG) Corps.
Dugan worked briefly in a
Newark-based private firm before
joining South Jersey Legal Services. Here, eventually becoming
SJLS’s director, he dealt with hundreds of clients, both litigating and
advising. Seven years ago Dugan
turned his talents to legal ethics full
time and opened his private practice in Medford. He wrote ICLE’s
“Professional Responsibility in
New Jersey: A Manual of the Law
of Ethics” and serves as an adjunct
professor at Rutgers University
Law School and NJICLE lecturing
on legal ethics.
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Deal with It: Steven
Menaker knows the
perils of bad communication between attorneys and clients.
Continued from preceding page
Client preparation. Remember
the phrase “billable hours.” It will
markedly focus your mind on concise legal interactions. Unfortunately, most clients enter their attorney’s office as if they were seeking medical aid, bearing only their
body and gaping wound. In truth,
seeking legal aid is more akin to
obtaining services from a venture
capitalist. The more thoroughly
and precisely you present your
problem, the more fruitful will be
the quality of help.
Whether you’re contacting an
old company retainer or making a
first-time acquaintance, think before you punch the number. State,
rehearse, and write down a cogent,
succinct version of your problem
before you call. “Secondly, ask
yourself what you really want out
of this situation,” says Dugan. Letting the attorney know if you want
this legal snare to just go away, to
find a compromise, or gain a
trouncing victory saves oceans of
time.
Often the initial phone contact is
free, providing attorney and client
and defendants, or two opposing
parties in a single case. But that is
only an initial platform, notes
Dugan. Attorneys cast a broad net.
They must refuse cases in which
they or family members or members of the firm receive benefits in
any way.
Reaching into the past, it is asa chance to see if the issue fits, and
sumed
that lawyers will build relawhether there is a compatibility.
tionships
and retain certain loyalThis is your time to ask questions
such as “Is this the kind of case you ties with clients, even if they no
often take?” You should, at this ear- longer are directly on the payroll.
ly stage, ask for a general prognosis This whole question of former
of outcome and discuss a fee client context might drift into gray
schedule. Also, check on availabil- areas, with ethics holding a stricter
ity. Can you contact this attorney code than actual law. In one 1998
online, after hours, or only at the Texas decision, one law firm representing a suit against a contracepoffice, from 9 to 5.
“And for heavens sake,” says tive company was disqualified
Dugan, “bring in every scrap of when it was learned that one of its
pertaining paper. If you are buying paralegals had formerly worked as
property, bring in the bill of sale, a condom distributor.
“To avoid going too wide on this
bank
agreeprocess,” says
ments, all of it. I
Dugan, “New
have had clients
Most
clients
enter
Jersey is now
who come rushone of several
legal offices with
ing to me having
states that albeen served pano more preparation
lows screening.”
pers, and leave
than
is
spent
getting
Referred to as an
the papers at
ethical or Chiready to buy a shirt.
home.”
nese
wall,
Once both atscreening
altorney and client
lows
the
law
have deemed the problem appropriate, and have found a basic com- firm to totally disassociate an indifort level, it still might not be time vidual attorney from a given case
to roll up your sleeves. To assure who might otherwise present a
the attorney is acting in your best conflict. “He can, of course still
interest, a strong code of ethics and function in the firm, he simply may
law have been laid down to protect not be a primary in that case,” explains Dugan.
against conflict of interest.
As a final method of allowing
Conflict of interest. “There is a the individual to connect with his
greater depth to the problems of chosen representation, clients are
conflicting interest than most peo- given the right to waive conflict of
ple realize,” says Dugan. Most po- interest in many cases. “It entails
tential conflicts deal with concur- an elaborate formula to make sure
rent clients or stem from past asso- that the client is aware of the full
ciations. Obviously, lawyers indi- consequences,” says Dugan, “but it
vidually or within a single firm is a very useful tool for all parties
may not represent both plaintiffs concerned.”
So To Speak: Todd
Royer knows that
good business and
good relationships
are inextricable.
As with all business connections
the attorney/client relationship
grows in trust and rapport with
time. Yet there is a bit of delicacy
here that makes a strong and comfortable bond more necessary than
other dealings. The fact is, selling
cattle or software really does not
entail the kind of trust that offering
up one’s most intimate feelings and
finances requires.
Because of this personal nature,
and their own vulnerability, clients
seek a lawyer as above reproach as
Caesar’s wife, and expect to save
their bacon from the legal fires.
Such matches can and do frequently occur, but only if both attorney
and client prepare, interview thoroughly, and treat each other with
utmost respect.
— Bart Jackson
Wednesday, August 12
Communication
And Better Business
W
hat does he want? What
are her problems?
“If you can’t answer these questions quickly and accurately, you
will lose the client,” says Todd
Royer, a research consultant for
corporations, author, and speaker.
Understanding business relationships is no different than understanding other relationships, and
just as with personal relationships,
understanding begins with the
emotions that are tied to verbal language, Royer says.
Royer, whose company, DiscoveryTech, is located in Montgomery, will speak at the next
Small Business Insight Lunch
sponsored by Team Nimbus NJ on
Wednesday, August 12, at 11:30
a.m., at Camillo’s Cafe in Princeton Shopping Center on North Harrison Street. The event is free, but
participants buy their own lunch.
For reservations contact Lorette
Pruden, at 908-359-4787 or E-mail
[email protected].
Royer has spent the last two
decades assisting the R&Dt departments of corporations throughout
the U.S. and Europe to strategize
and staff their teams. He has written one book, “Workination: Are
You Fascinated with Your Career,”
and is completing a second on how
to improve communication in business relationships.
In addition to his books, Royer
also writes a weekly online
newsletter, “Career Development
Weekly,” which is distributed on
three continents. Royer is a 1977
graduate of Brandeis University,
where he received a bachelor’s degree in economics.
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Promptly and correctly assessing people and their needs is one of
the keys to being successful as a
consultant, according to Royer. “It
doesn’t matter whether you are
working with the employees of a
large corporation or a sole proprietor business, people are the
same,” he says. “Every one of us
has an emotional language that
guides our words, what we say, and
what we feel. Because the way our
emotions connect with verbal language is universal, learning to read
emotional language is the most
successful way of analyzing personal and business relationships.”
In fact, he adds, if you cannot
read feelings you cannot meet,
much less exceed, your clients’ expectations. “You’ll always remain
just another consultant.
Don’t be the expert. “In many
business situations the consultant
takes the posture of expertise, but
that immediately puts the client in a
lower position,” Royer says. In
fact, giving the client the information they seek only confirms that he
or she is the inferior while the “expert” remains the superior.
While giving the client the information might seem like a good
idea, it is not, he says. “It makes it
difficult for the client to feel that
the consultant has exceeded their
expectations. Now the next time he
or she needs help they might call
you, because after all, you did give
them the answers they were looking for. But if you have just given
them the information, rather than
helping them to own that information, to make it their own, they will
never feel completely satisfied.”
That feeling of satisfaction leads
to a vulnerability in the relationship with the client that can eventually lead them to look for a new
consultant. “They’ll always be on
the lookout for someone better
than you, so when they hear a
friend say, ‘You should try so and
so, that consultant is really good,
he exceeded my expectations,’
they are ready to try the next person.”
Be an employee. Instead of approaching a client as an expert,
Royer suggests taking “the posture
of valued employee.” That means
looking at yourself as if you are a
senior executive in the client’s
company; you are a valued colleague who is expected to think independently.
This new attitude will help a
consultant develop an entirely new
type of relationship with the client.
“It means that you are brothers in
the battle with your client, neither
of you is inferior or superior, you
are a valued part of a team,” he
says.
Corporate crisis, personal value. All relationships are strengthened by crisis, Royer adds. “Relationships are formed when there
are significant and meaningful
challenges at hand,” he says. “The
ongoing crisis in business is profit,
how to grow the company.”
But consultants must remember
that while the logo on the top of the
paycheck might be that of a corporation, the real employer is a person, not a business. “While the
business’ crisis may be profit and
growth, your employer, the person,
is concerned with values,” Royer
says.
As a professional, a large part of
a consultant’s job is to observe and
see what kind of values each person he works with is searching for.
A few of these possible values include family relationships, time,
education, and personal growth.
“As a consultant you need to look
for the opportunity to help your
clients succeed at their goals, and
their goals are all about their values,” he says. “This is very different from helping the corporation to
grow.”
Reading the client’s emotions
means looking at the “negative
hurdles that are causing their troubles. Listen when they say the
words no, never, and not; these are
the things that are stopping them,
and these are usually tied to the
emotions,” he explains.
“Read the person, learn to see
what makes them click, then make
that an active part of how you approach solving the problem in their
business,” says Royer. The bottom
line is that if you can read the
client’s emotions, look at his or her
values and goals and tie these into
the problem in the business, you
will always exceed the client’s expectations.
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Banking on Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
O
ver the years the Route
1 area has had its share of successful food-based businesses created
and run by women. Sue Simpkins,
for example, established what are
now her Main Street eateries in
Kingston and Princeton back in
1984, and Princeton moms Kathy
Herring and Linda Twining have
been expanding their Twin Hens
line of all-natural potpies for years
now. Gabrielle Carbone, co-owner
with husband Matt Errico of the
Bent Spoon on Palmer Square,
Karen Child of Village Bakery in
Lawrenceville, Nancy Dince (with
business partner Dimitri St. Phard)
of LIV Water, and Cricket Allen
(with husband Brian) of Bot Beverages, all own successful food or
beverage businesses.
But they are the exceptions. The
failure rate of any small start-up in
the food industry is always high —
and climbs sky-high in times of
economic setback (a euphemism, I
admit, for today’s climate). So it is
striking that within the last year or
so a surprising number of femaleowned specialty food companies,
eateries, bakeries, and cookbook
by Pat Tanner
publishing and design firms have
managed to succeed. Each woman
took a different path and brought a
different set of skills to bear, and
every plate, package, box, book,
and sweet treat they concoct holds
a unique story. We’ve even included a female sommelier who,
though she doesn’t own her own
business, is enjoying indubitable
success in a traditionally maledominated professional arena in
the food and wine fields.
Sugar + Sunshine Bakery
B
y the time Gigi Burton
opened the doors to her Plainsboro
bakery, Sugar + Sunshine, a year
ago April, she had, by her own admission “over-planned and overanalyzed” every aspect of her business plan. And she doesn’t regret
one minute of that time. Her advice
to others contemplating starting up
a business? “Do all your research.
Every aspect of your plan, your operation, your expectations,” she
says. “A lot of people see an empty
storefront and take that as a sign
they should take the plunge. Some
would say I spent too much time
planning, but it turned out to be the
best thing I could have done. There
would have been a lot more pitfalls
along the way. I didn’t plan for the
horrible downturn in the economy,
but because of my over-analysis,
projections were very conservative. I had planned the worst case
scenario.”
It was a passion for baking that
prompted Burton to leave a successful career of 12 years at JP
Morgan Chase in New York, where
she was a marketing executive. “I
always enjoyed baking. I baked
chocolate chip cookies in college
and when I went back to visit, I was
always expected to bring them.”
Burton grew up in Altoona, PA, and
graduated from Penn State with a
B.A. in marketing and advertising.
“After college I got the job at
Chase, but still enjoyed baking on
weekends, so I enrolled in the pastry program at the Institute of Culinary Education, working fulltime
and attending classes until 10 at
night,” she says. After finishing the
program, she worked for Colette
Peters, a well-known New York
cake designer.
Let Them Eat Cake: Gigi Burton, foreground;
Jennifer Rall, rear left, Brittany Scheer, Ray
Burton, Shanna Corey, Matthew Rosenzweig,
Maggie Ford, and Carly Steele.
She and her husband, Ray, who
works for Met Life, have lived in
Plainsboro for 11 years. Burton
calls her husband “my early morning cookie baker, my evening mopper, and a weekend cashier.” When
the Plainsboro Village Center was
being built, she saw it as her opportunity. Her cute retro-pink and
chocolate-brown shop features a
Gigi Burton left a successful career as a
marketing executive
at JP MorganChase in
New York — to bake.
rolling collection of over 100 allnatural cupcakes, cheesecakes,
muffins, cinnamon buns, other
baked goods and drinks, including
Small World Coffee, and, by special order, Burton’s award-winning
Triple Chocolate Truffle Cake. The
Star-Ledger’s Munchmobile made
a surprise stop at the bakery recently, and the result was that Munchmobile maven Pete Genovese
wrote that he had “found cupcake
Nirvana.”
Burton attributes that happy outcome to “always making sure the
quality is there.” She has learned in
the last 15 months, she says, that
“it’s important to have the right people relating to the customers. It’s
critical to have people in customer
service positions who are friendly,
upbeat, smiling. They’re the first
line. We could have the best product
ever, but it will be overshadowed if
the service doesn’t match.”
That upbeat attitude must extend
to the kitchen, too. “When you bake
angry,” she believes, “it comes out
in the cupcakes.” She praises her
co-baker, Jennifer Rall, for helping
to put out the best possible product.
“We share the same philosophy,
which is, don’t even think about let-
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ting it cross the counter if it isn’t up
to our standard.”
The Burtons are considering
ways to broaden their reach beyond
the bakeshop. “But if we were to
open a second location and quality
suffers, that is the last thing we
want. We are looking for ways to
expand without adding a brickand-mortar site.” One possibility is
a cupcake truck, a concept that is
becoming popular across the country. “We could be at parks, farmers
markets, and events. It would be a
fun, smaller version of our shop.”
Canal House Studio
M
elissa
Hamilton
and
Christopher Hersheimer (yes,
Christopher is her given name) were
at the top of the food magazine and
cookbook publishing worlds when
they decided in 2007 to establish
their own studio in Lambertville,
where they specialize in food photography and styling and cookbook
design and writing, including their
own series of cookbooks. Hersheimer was one of the founders and
an executive editor of Saveur Magazine, where Hamilton ran the test
kitchen and served as food editor.
Together the pair has more than 30
years experience working with
magazines such as Metropolitan
Home, Food and Wine, Cook’s Illustrated, and Martha Stewart Living and on cookbooks by Julia
Child, Alice Waters, Mario Batali,
Jacques Pepin, Lidia Bastianich,
and other notables.
When Hersheimer and Hamilton decided to set up a design and
consulting business in a river town
in New Jersey away from the bright
lights of the big city, “even our
friends in the big publishing houses
told us ‘you can’t do this,’” says
Hersheimer. But their connections
paid off. Their client list includes
some of the biggest names in cookbook publishing. They have shot
five cookbooks for Lidia Bastianich (Knopf), including “Lidia
Cooks from the Heart of Italy,”
which they also designed. and just
finished shooting “The Country
Cooking of Ireland” by Colman
Andrews, due out this fall from
Chronicle Books, and “How to
Roast a Lamb” (Little, Brown) by
Michael Psilakis, a New York
restaurateur and one of the hottest
new chefs on the scene. They are
currently shooting “The Green
Kitchen” by Alice Waters, due out
next spring form Clarkson Potter
and are about to start shooting “The
Pleasures of Cooking for One” by
Judith Jones, senior editor and VP
at Knopf, renowned for putting
chefs on the map — she pulled Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of
French Cooking” out of a rejection
pile (and as an aside, also, at age
27, pulled Anne Frank’s diary out
of a rejection pile at a publishing
house in Paris).
As for their intent to self-publish, some said it was downright
foolhardy. “Up until now ‘selfpublishing’ has been a dirty word,”
Hersheimer says. “The thing is, we
know and have access to the [major
cookbook] editors. If we had taken
our idea to them we would not have
had creative control. So to break
through, we’re doing it on our own.
We don’t think self-publishing is a
dirty word.”
Volume I of “Canal House
Cooking” is just out, to rave reviews and brisk sales. The first in a
series of seasonal cookbooks their
Canal House Studio will issue three
times a year, it focuses on summer
recipes. Anthropologie in New
York carries the book and is closing
the store on Wednesday, August 19,
for a big book signing party. Next
up is the Fall/Holiday book, due out
in mid-October.
Melissa Hamilton is the daughter of Jim Hamilton of Hamilton’s
Grill Room in Lambertville, for
which she was the chef when it
opened 20 years ago. Her mother
had been a ballet dancer at the Metropolitan Opera. “Then she raised
us children, then bought a general
store in Vermont, where among
other things she pumped gas and
made baguettes. She eventually
sold the store but still lives in Vermont.” Melissa grew up in New
Hope and now lives in Stockton
with her husband, Michael Hagerty, an architect who works from his
Stockton studio, and two daughters, ages 18 and 13. Her siblings
include a sister, Gabrielle, who is
the owner/chef of Prune, the acclaimed restaurant in New York,
and a brother in publishing — one
of those who advised against selfpublishing.
After earning a BFA in painting
from Sarah Lawrence College’s
School of Visual Arts, Hamilton
thought she would make her living
in art. “Then I came to my senses,”
Chew on This: Melissa Hamilton, left, and
Christopher Hersheimer of Canal House Cooking.
Nora Schultz, above, of Naturally Nora’s.
she says. “After leaving the Grill
Room I did some sorting through
and decided to embark on what is
now called food styling. A local antique dealer friend put me in touch
with the food editor for Metropolitan Home,” who at the time was
Christopher Hersheimer. Her career
as a stylist — and the pair’s collaborations — took off. “‘Canal House
Cooking’ is really a combination of
all my talents,” Hamilton says.
Christopher Hersheimer grew
up in San Francisco. Her father’s
family was from Hong Kong, with
businesses throughout the Pacific
Rim. “We lived in Hawaii and Sydney [Australia] as well,” she says.
“My family entertained on a fun
and lavish scale, both high and low.
Here we were, an American family
of seven, traveling the Pacific Rim.
We’d eat in dives and we’d eat in
fabulous places.”
She attended San Francisco
State and the University of San
Francisco, but “jumped into life in
the ’60s and ’70s without earning a
degree. It was a very exciting time
to be in that area. A place like Chez
Panisse was very accessible: you
could eat there for something like
$3! You could say I ended up in the
food world by default.”
Eventually she landed in New
York helping a friend start a catering company. “It’s amazing how
casually things were done back
then. Our confidence was staggering. These days, young people are
so nailed down.” Hersheimer resides in Erwinna, PA, just across
the river from Frenchtown, with
her husband, Jim, an antiques dealer in Erwinna. They have two
grown daughters.
The two women agree on the
factors that have contributed to
their success with self-publishing,
as well as to their photography, design, and consulting work, which,
Hersheimer says, “allows us to be
masters of our own destiny in this
economy. We are passionate about
what we do. We ARE the people in
our book; this is how we cook; the
content is there. We face putting
meals on the table for our families
every day while working long
hours, like everyone.”
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Adds Hamilton, “You find yourself putting so much energy into a
project that, at the end of the day, you
want it to still please your aesthetic.
It was a conscious decision to go for
quality over quantity. It’s satisfying
to send something out into the world
and have people who have no connection to us mirror back what we
intended. This can be done.”
Naturally Nora
A
t last year’s Fancy Food
Show in New York I came upon a
booth with a perfectly nice couple
urging those of us wandering the
aisles to sample the mini-cupcakes
they had baked from their line of
all-natural cake and frosting mixes. I admit to being skeptical that
they would taste as good as homemade, as the pair claimed, or even,
for that matter, as good as standard
boxed cake mixes that contain artificial ingredients, preservatives,
and hydrogenated oils. Obviously,
I was won over to the Naturally
Nora line, or you wouldn’t be reading about it here.
Behind the concept are Princeton entrepreneur Nora Schultz and
her husband, Steve. In 2000 Nora
left her job at Campbell’s Soup,
where she had worked for five
years, marketing, she says, “everything from cream soups to canned
beans.” She went on to become a
partner in Rosetta, the marketing
firm headquartered at 100 American Metro Boulevard in Hamilton.
During this time she also enjoyed
baking with her two daughters,
now ages 11 and 8. “I began to notice that at all the birthday parties
they attended and all the block parties in our neighborhood, the cakes
were all made from mixes. Now,
these are great for saving time and
work, but I wasn’t happy about a
lot of the ingredients,” she says.
The particular favorite of one of
her girls was Pillsbury’s Funfetti,
which she says, “was at all the
kindergarten parties at the time. It
was what inspired me to create my
first Naturally Nora flavor.”
Steve Schultz subsequently left
his job with Colgate-Palmolive to
develop the company; with Nora
joining him full-time in 2008. The
line has expanded to include five
cake mix flavors and four frosting
varieties, all made without artificial flavors, colors, preservatives,
or hydrogenated oils. They are certified kosher and contain no soy or
dairy, although milk or some sort
of milk-like product is added during home preparation. The Naturally Nora line is distributed in 20
states — including at some major
supermarket chains like Acme in
New Jersey and online at amazon.com. Along the Route 1 corridor they are also carried by McCaffrey’s, Pennington Market, the
Whole Earth Center, and Whole
Foods.
“Our plan for this
year was to have our
product distributed
in a certain number
of states and we’re
currently ahead of
plan,” Schultz says.
“At this point, we
are focusing on getting brand recognition.” They are also
putting the finishing
touches on a new
product, brownies,
to be introduced in
September.
Schultz grew up
in Detroit, the child
of two lawyers. “I
was not inspired to
do the same,” she
says. Nor was her
younger brother, who works for a
state group that aids small businesses. “What did inspire me was
that my family had a little summer
place with a vegetable garden.”
The Schultz family has been a
member of what is now the Honeybrook CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) co-op in Pennington for many years.
After Harvard, where she majored in psychology, Schultz went
on to the University of Michigan
for business school. She and her future husband met in Chicago, when
she was just out of college. “I was
trying to get into marketing and
was working in an Orvis store. He
came in wearing a Boston Red Sox
Nicole Bergman
makes shortbread —
she used to be chief
of protocol for the
U.S. mission to the
United Nations.
hat and I was missing Boston and
we struck up a conversation. He
mentioned that he was in marketing and offered to make some connections.”
When asked how many hours
she devotes to her business,
Schultz laughs. “It’s all-consuming. I still bake in the evenings.
Even when I go to the grocery
store, I can’t help but be on the job,
perusing the competition.” She
says the biggest surprise for her
over the last 18 months has been
the quantity of unsolicited E-mails
and phone calls the company receives. “They say ‘thank you for
doing this.’I knew there was a need
for our product, but I didn’t know
how grateful people would be.”
Sweet and Savory:
Simply Nic’s shortbread comes in
lavender, rosemary,
and cardmomcandied ginger.
Simply Nic’s
I
was fortunate to come across
Nicole Wilkins Bergman’s Simply
Nic’s line of sweet-and-savory
shortbreads on its maiden voyage
last February at one of the Slow
Food winter farmers markets,
where they were an immediate hit.
Not least of all with me. I devoured
a two-pack of the lavender variety
before leaving the parking lot, then
ate the rosemary two-pack on the
ride home. Luckily, the third flavor, cardamom-candied ginger,
was still in the works, or I would
probably have devoured more.
Bergman lives in Princeton with
her husband, Robert Bergman,
who works independently in finance, and two sons. Before establishing Simply Nic’s, she was chief
of protocol for the U.S. mission to
the United Nations from 2000 to
2004. She left when her first son
was born in order to be a stay-athome mom. “I love to bake; it’s my
creative outlet,” Bergman says,
“and I had this sweet-and-savory
cookie recipe from my Dutch
mother-in-law, an amazing, effortless cook and baker. People would
go nuts over these. A friend finally
said ‘you’ve got to market these!’”
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Market Sector: Chocoholics
Alysia Welch-Chester, right, of Alysia’s
Brownies, got the idea for her business
when a friend asked her to bake a batch for
a chocoholic friend and offered to pay.
salt; and fresh rosemary, lavender,
or cardamom and candied ginger. A
chocolate version is in the works.
Bergman rents commercial kitchen
space from Christina Crawford of
the Wooden Spoon Catering Company on Andover Circle in Princeton. “Chris is amazing, and a recent
mentor who has taught me a lot.
She teaches her customers and
everyone who comes into contact
with her about food.”
Currently Bergman herself sells
her wares, in two and six-packs at
the Princeton farmers market (in
the lot next to Wild Oats) on Tuesdays and the Rutgers Garden market on Fridays. They are also carried by Cherry Grove Farm in
Lawrenceville and in Princeton at
the Whole Earth Center, Nassau
Street Seafood, and Green Design,
as well as by farms in Bordentown
and Doylestown, PA. She and her
husband, Robert, had a booth at the
East Coast Wine & Food Festival
in Hopewell in June. They sold out
both days, and were approached by
both Wegman’s and Whole Foods
about the possibility of doing business. “This is a product that’s almost marketing itself,” she says.
“The business is basically still just
me, and it has become a 40-hour-aweek job. Tuesdays I ship. Wednesdays I’m in the kitchen, as well
as a half-day on Thursday. Fridays
I make deliveries. But I can also
work until midnight, after my kids
have gone to bed.” Her sons are
five and two-and-a-half.
Bergman grew up in Chico, California, north of Sacramento,
where her father ran the medical
lab at the Enloe Medical Center.
“He had a creative side too,” his
daughter says. He had a landscape
design business until his death 19
years ago. Her mother was a stayat-home mom when Nicole and her
older sister were growing up and
for the last 10 years has worked in
real estate. “My mother was instrumental in teaching me the love of
cooking and baking, and the joy of
gathering friends and family to
share a good meal.”
After earning a B.A. in political
science with an emphasis in international relations from the University of California, San Diego, Bergman taught English in South Korea
and worked in the mayor’s office in
San Diego. She says that her expertise in diplomacy continues to
help her work with people. “It’s
wonderful to have a product that
tastes good and is fairly unique, but
meeting customers face to face, as I
do, calls for people skills. I was
scared to death the first time I went
out to sell my cookies. But you just
have to do it, to gain confidence to
do it again. If you love what you do
and put your heart and soul into it,
you’ll do well.”
brownies, she says, is that
she uses premium ingredients and makes every
batch to order. The original
triple-chocolate
brownie is the best seller
among the 17-and-counting versions she bakes,
with the various nut varieties second, and fruit varieties, including dried
cranberry and blueberry,
third. She makes them in
the kitchen of a church in
Trenton, where she has
lived since 2000.
After growing up in
Niagara Falls she says
“winters are much better
here. Plus, I love the diversity and the food.” She
was working at the headquarters of
what is now AT&T Wireless in the
Buffalo area, after studying communications at SUNY-Genesco
and was brought to New Jersey as
part of that job. “AT&T Cellular
One was being organized by a labor union. I got involved with the
negotiations, caught the eye of the
organizing company, and they
asked me to come to Trenton.”
Welch-Chester met her husband, Zachary, at a community
meeting in 2002. The couple is
very active in civic and non-profit
organizations. Zachary Chester,
community relations coordinator
for Capital Health, has tossed his
hat into the ring for Trenton City
Council in 2010. Welch-Chester
was a two-term elected Trenton/
Mercer County Committee-person. She serves on a number of
boards. including McCarter and
Passage theaters, the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, the
Trenton Area National Organization of Women (NOW), and the Junior League of Greater Princeton.
With more than 15 years of experience in sales, corporate America, organized labor, and the nonprofit sectors, Welch-Chester says
she draws upon her public relations
experience to promote Alysia’s
Brownies. “The customer service
piece as well as the ability to get the
word out through the use of media
and through social networking
have been key,” she says. “And being willing to give out samples!
This is a food business, after all.
You can’t just talk about it, customers must be able to come and
taste what the brownies are all
about.” She describes her brownies
as “more the moist, dense kind
rather than the cakey kind” and
jokes that the antioxidants in the
blueberry and cranberry brownies
“make them kind of a health food.”
Alysia’s Brownies
milia Haglund Sparatta
doesn’t own her own business, but
as general manager of the four-star
restaurant Elements in Princeton,
Alysia Welch-Chester of
Trenton has also parlayed a person-
al recipe into a business. “I’ve been
baking for friends and family for
years, for cookouts, dinner parties,
etc. Someone would be known for
making the best deviled eggs or mac
and cheese. My specialty was
brownies. Afriend asked me to bake
a batch for a chocoholic friend of
hers, and offered to pay. I thought,
maybe there’s a market for them.”
Welch-Chester started up in
earnest about nine months ago,
making brownies to order for individuals and for events and the business went online in May (alysiasbrownies.com). A local ice cream
shop stocks them for use in their ice
cream sundaes. What sets apart her
Emilia Sparatta,
Sommelier at Elements
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she is a key to its success. As sommelier, she is also a woman in a position that is still overwhelmingly
held by men. Add to that that she is
the de facto director of the restaurant’s wine program, and she is in
even more rarified company. Add
to that that she is just about to turn
28 and, well, you get the picture.
After two years studying psychology at Virginia Tech, Sparatta,
who had been working in restaurants since high school, says she
“realized being in the food business was better than going to grad
school.” She enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America in 2001,
graduating in December, 2002. “I
came out expecting to try my hand
at being a restaurant cook and seeing where things went from there,”
she says. Her first job was at the
famed Ryland Inn, where she started as a food runner and became assistant maitre d’ and assistant sommelier. It was at the Ryland that she
met her future husband, Joe, as
well as Scott Anderson, chef and
co-owner of Elements. Scott,
Emilia, and Joe all went on to work
together at the Lawrenceville Inn
and are together at Elements,
where Joe is sous chef.
Sparatta was born in Doylestown, PA, but the Haglund family
moved to Virginia when she was
nine. Her father, who was born in
Connecticut but went to high
school in Sweden, where his family was from, ran the American division of a company that produced
analysis equipment for beverage
laboratories. “My mother was
artistic,” Sparatta says, working in
interior design. The family had
four children, including Emilia’s
younger brother, Mattias, who
manages the bar at Elements.
Among her responsibilities at
the restaurant are running the wine
program, which can mean “making selections, managing the inventory, and working with the guys
as they develop menus to make
sure we have the right wines to
match.” She also deals with staff
health care and office issues, and
even works with contractors when
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Pop the Cork: Emilia
Sparrata, sommelier
at Elements.
the building needs work. Asked
why there are not more female
managers and wine directors in with her husband, Bob, which
high-end restaurants she says, “It’s opened on Main Street last Labor
a boys’ club in a lot of these places. Day. In fact, they have just added
Joe and I spent a lot of time work- dinners three nights a week to what
ing with David Bouley, for exam- had been a breakfast, lunch, and afple. He had virtually no women ternoon tea spot. This came about
working the floor in any capacity. as a result of customer inquiries.
The more well-known chefs have “We thought we’d give it a try,”
the old-school mentality and they Karen says, “with not much else
choose to work with people they going on around us these days.”
Finigan grew up in Cranbury,
have known for years and years. So
but lived elsewhere for the last 30
it makes some sense.”
She points out that one benefit of years or so, including Dublin, Irehaving her work as general manag- land. She and Bob met about 16
years ago when
er and Joe as
they were both
sous chef is that
Emilia Sparatta
working
for
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IBM.
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was
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some of the
Dublin
that
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and
many high-end
Bob Finigan,
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the
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that
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between
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be a professionr e s t a u r a n t ’s
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front-of-theand
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have
fashioned their
house and back-of-the-house. Her
cafe-cum-bakery
after
those in Ireadvice to women who would like to
follow in her footsteps? “Just rec- land and Europe. The Finigans live
ognize that this is a very emotional- less than a quarter mile from the
ly-driven business and that you’re Blue Rooster and often walk to
working with passionate people. work — Bob in the very early
It’s important to take a step back in morning hours; Karen, who runs
your dealing with the front staff and the dining room, later.
“Our philosophy is to serve
the kitchen staff and get the proper
fresh,
pure rustic country fare —
focus on what is best for the guest
simple but creative,” Finigan says.
and best for the business.”
The breakfast menu runs the gamut
from smoothies to an authentic full
Blue Rooster
Irish breakfast and the lunch menu
Bakery & Cafe
features stylish soups, salads, sandwiches, and more hearty fare. The
he news is, we’re busy,” dinner menu, she says, “represents
Karen Finigan says of the Cranbury not a departure but rather an expaneatery and take-out shop she owns sion of the range of what we do.” A
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A Little Piece of Ireland:
Karen Finigan of the
Blue Rooster Bakery &
Cafe in Cranbury.
daily frittata and dinner salads are popular now, in warm weather.
“I was fortunate to have found
people in the kitchen who can interpret what I call my non-chef talk and
translate it to the other cooks,” she
says and cites Lois Gullace, who has
been with the Blue Rooster since the
start, as expert in such translation.
The first year was spent, Finigan
says, focusing on producing a quality
product. “Now we’re spending more
time on figuring how to maintain a
balance between the quality I demand
and the cost of producing it in terms
of the time it takes to maintain that
quality. We started in the right place
and we’re building on that.” One area
that has been gaining in popularity
are private teas in the stylish, butteryellow dining room in this pretty Victorian erstwhile home.
From the start, the Finigans have
concentrated on giving back to the
community, holding fundraisers for
Cancer Care and Check Out Hunger
and stocking the SchoolHouse Kitchen line
of condiments, the profits for which go to education. “We want more than the business
part of this to work,” Finigan says. She was
especially pleased to have gotten a “phenomenal” reception at this year’s Taste of the Nation benefit. “People went crazy for our
mocha cheesecake and since then we’ve gotten a lot more people crossing Route 1 from
Princeton to dine here.”
For More
Information
Alysia’s Brownies, www.welchesters.com. Owner: Alysia Welch-Chester.
The Blue Rooster Bakery & Cafe, 17
North Main Street, Cranbury, 609-235-
7539. www.blueroosterbakery.com. Coowner: Karen Finigan.
The CanalHouse/Canal House Cooking, 6 Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609802-7997. www.thecanalhouse.com. Owners: Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hersheimer.
Elements, 163 Bayard Lane (Route 206),
Princeton,
609-924-0078.
www.elementsprinceton.com Emilia Sparatta, sommelier.
Naturally
Nora’s,
609-924-3934.
www.naturallynora.com. Owner: Nora
Schultz.
Simply Nic’s, simplynics.com. Owner:
Nicole Bergman.
Sugar + Sunshine Bakery, 6 Market
Street, Plainsboro Village Center, Plainsboro, 609-936-3777. Owner: Gigi Burton.
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Think Snow
Meeting, Outer Circle Ski Club,
Charlie Brown’s, Kingston, 212620-7479. www.outercircleskiclub.org. Discuss skiing, hiking,
tennis, rafting, camping, softball,
and happy hours. Open to age 21
plus. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Woody Poles, Doylestown Community Performing Arts Council, Chapman Park, East Road,
Doylestown, PA, 215-348-9915.
www.doylestownpa.org. Classical, jazz, R&B, rock, folk, soul,
reggae, funk, and gospel. Bring
blankets, chairs, and picnics. At
Central Bucks West High School,
375 West Court Street, if raining.
Free. 7 p.m.
Art
UFO Ghosts and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal Study
Group, Hamilton Township Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Pat Marcattilio facilitates monthly meeting.
Free. 7:30 to 11 p.m.
Art Show, Small World Coffee,
254 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-924-4377. www.smallworldcoffee.com. Art exhibit features
the works of Jordan Bruner, a
multimedia artist from Brooklyn.
On view to September 1. 6 a.m.
Art Show, Small World Coffee,
14 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-2715. www.smallworldcoffee.com. Art exhibit features
drawings by Princeton resident
Rory Smith, a graduate of the
School of Visual Aretsd in New
York City. Visit www.recsfx.com.
On view to September 1. 6 a.m.
Live Music
Drama
A Chorus Line, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m.
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
Frayn about a troupe of actors
presenting a farce. Through August 30. $29 to $53. 7:30 p.m.
Singin’ in the Rain, Plays-in-thePark, Capestro Theater, Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South, Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Film
Frenzy, County Theater, 20 East
State Street, Doylestown, PA.
www.countytheater.org. 1963
Hitchcock movie, the second-tolast one he directed. 7 p.m.
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “New Jersey: The
Movie,” written and directed by
Steve Chernoski, who will talk
about the film. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For
newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction and
dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
Literati
Readings and Workshops, Raritan Poets, East Brunswick Library, Two Jean Walling Civic
Center, 732-257-3088. www.ebpl.org. Free. 7 p.m.
We Don’t Do Mozart
Grammy Award-winners the Alfred James Band performs cello-driven
acoustic rock on Thursday, August 6, at the Arts Council of Princeton’s
summer music series at Princeton Shopping Center. 609-924-8777.
They also appear on Friday, August 21, at Grounds For Sculpture,
and on Saturday, September 26, at Triumph Princeton.
Good Causes
Volunteer Orientation Meeting,
HomeFront, 1880 Princeton Avenue, Lawrenceville, 609-9899417. www.homefrontnj.org. Information about volunteer opportunities. Register. 6 p.m.
Acoustic Jam Session
South Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Bring your instrument. All
levels. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers 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.
Red wines. 5 to 8 p.m.
Brewer’s Reserve Barrel Tappings, Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau Street, 609924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. Opening of Honeymoon
Braggot. 6 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Stress Factory Comedy
Club, 90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 800-GIVELIFE. www.pleasegiveblood.org. Gifts from
Stress Factory and New Brunswick Rocks. Register. 11:30 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m.
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Avalon Communities, 100
Avalon Bay Drive, Lawrenceville,
800-448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 2 to 8 p.m.
Meditation, East Brunswick Library, Jean Walling Civic Center,
732-390-6767. www.ebpl.org.
Quiet time to get away from it all.
Free. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Overeaters 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.
ma; Shigamitsu Tanaka, who was
living in Nagasaki. Solidarity
Singers present music of peace.
Origami instruction in crane folding. Floating of candles on the
pond. Bring picnic at 6 p.m. Program begins at 7 p.m. 6 p.m.
For Families
Drumming Circle, Plainsboro
Recreation Park Ranger Division, Schalks Meadow Park,
Parker Road, 609-799-0909.
www.plainsboronj.com. Drums
provided. Free. 6:30 p.m.
For Parents
History
Parent Anonymous Meeting,
Family Support Organization,
3535 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-586-1200. Share questions, concerns, problems, and
solutions about parenting. Also,
Special Ed Support Group.
Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembrance, Coalition for Peace Action, Institute for Advanced Study,
Olden Lane, Princeton, 609-9245022. peacecoalition.org. Annual
ceremony of remembrance and
hope to mark the anniversary of the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki on August 6, 1945, in
which 200,000 people lost their
lives. Speakers include Katsuyuki
Nigahisa, who was living in Hiroshi-
Job Hunting: Resumes, Resources, and Research, Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal
Plaza, Monroe, 732-521-5000.
www.monroetwplibrary.org. Presentation focuses on online tools
to help with resume writing, job
searches, job skills, and researching potential employers.
Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Lectures
Happy 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.
Arhythmia, Limelight, 812 North
Easton Road, Doylestown, PA,
215-345-6330. Jazz combo. 6 to
11 p.m.
Darla Rich Quartet, Fedora Cafe,
2633 Main Street, Lawrenceville,
609-895-0844. www.darlarich.com. Jazz vocals. BYOB. 7 to 9
p.m.
NJ Waterwatch Benefit Concert,
Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-9244377. www.smallworldcoffee.com. Red Hawk Fly, Dinner, Paella, Jac, and the Michael Kragh
Band. Donations invited. 7 to
10:30 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.
Mike Montrey Band, Harvest
Moon Brewery, 392 George
Street, New Brunswick, 732-2496666. 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Wonder Walk for Families:
Moonlight Adventure, Duke
Farms, 80 Route 206 South,
Hillsborough, 908-722-3700.
www.dukefarms.org. For families
with children in grades K to 6.
Register. $8; $20 per family.
Cloudy night date is Thursday,
August 6. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Socials
Meeting, Outer Circle Ski Club,
Charlie Brown’s, Kingston, 212620-7479. www.outercircleskiclub.org. Discuss skiing, hiking,
tennis, rafting, camping, softball,
and happy hours. Open to age 21
plus. 8 p.m.
AUGUST 5, 2009
Thursday
August 6
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Thinking
About Adoption?
Pop Music
Literati
Slightly Stoopid, PNC Bank Arts
Center, Holmdel, 732-203-2500.
www.livenation.com. Prices vary.
6 p.m.
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Ford R.
Myers, author of “Get the Job You
Want, Even When No One’s Hiring,” discusses his book. Myers,
the president of Career Potential,
divulges tips of career success.
Seating begins at 6 p.m. Booksigning follows. 7 p.m.
Drama
Summer Sings, Voices Chorale,
Music Together, 225 PenningtonHopewell Road, Hopewell, 609637-9383. www.voiceschorale.org. Open sing of Faure Requiem
and Cantique de Jean Racine.
Soloists include real-life couple,
Katherine Wessinger, soprano,
and Richard Bozic, bass. Bring
your own score or borrow one for
the evening. Ice cream social follows. Auditions for serious
singers with good reading skills
take place by appointment before
the sing. $5 donation. 7:30 p.m.
A Chorus Line, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 2 and 8 p.m.
The Underpants, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062.
www.princetonsummertheater.org. Steve Martin’s adaptation of
a German classic about a woman
who loses her underpants in full
view of the town. $20. 8 p.m.
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
Frayn about a troupe of actors
presenting a farce. $29 to $70. 8
p.m.
Singin’ in the Rain, Plays-in-thePark, Capestro Theater, Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South, Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Dancing
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
Patio at 502 Carnegie Center,
609-452-1444. Free. Noon.
The Alfred James Band, Arts
Council of Princeton, Princeton
Shopping Center, 609-924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Grammy award winners. Free. 6
to 8 p.m.
Music in the Park Summer Series, Monroe Township Cultural
Arts Commission, Open Grove
Gazebo, Thompson Park, Forsgate Drive, 732-521-4400. www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com.
The Andy Stein Blue Four with
jazz, blues, and country music.
Bring chair or blanket. Free. 6 to
8 p.m.
Summer Night Swing, Forrestal
Village, College Road West and
Route 1 South, Plainsboro, 609799-7400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Ray Rodriguez y Swing Sambroso and
Art Baron and the Duke’s Men.
Dance lessons, 7 to 8 p.m.; open
dance at 8 p.m. Behind Salt
Creek Grille. 7 p.m.
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.
Workshop Series, Infertility and
Adoption Counseling Center, 2
Tree Farm Road, Pennington,
609-737-8750. www.iaccenter.com. “Making the Decision to
Adopt” presented by Joni Mantell.
Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Classical Music
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Market
Capital City Market, Trenton
Downtown Association, State
Street Commons, East State between Warren and Broad streets,
Trenton, 609-393-8998. www.trenton-downtown.com. Music,
vendors, and historical tours. 11
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Food & Dining
Barrel Tapping, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union
Square, New Hope, 215-8628300. www.triumphbrew.com.
Opening of Apfelweizen. 6 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Caregiver Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, 196
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 800-883-1180. www.alz.org. 1 p.m.
Group Pilates Reformer, Menlha
Buddhist Center, 243 North
Union Street, Lambertville, 908347-2456. www.classicalpilatesbymyra.com. $90 for three week
series. 5 and 6:15 p.m.
Yoga, Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.lambertvillelibrary.org. Ogden Kruger presents gentle yoga with asanas,
breathing exercises,a nd simple
mantras. Bring a mat and blanket.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
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A concert to benefit The Foundation
of Morris Hall/St. Lawrence, Inc.
present an all new
Pop/Country/Folk: Christian Beach
performs on Wednesday, August 5, at
the acoustic showcase at KatManDu,
Trenton, 609-393-7300, and on Thursday, August 20, at Triumph Brewery,
138 Nassau Street, 609-924-7855.
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with special guests
Lisa Vroman
Sal Viviano
Debbie Gravitte
Saturday, October 3rd 8:00 pm
Patriots Theater at the Trenton War Memorial
Ticket prices range from $30-$
$75
To purchase tickets, call
800-955-5566, 609-984-8400
or visit www.tickets.com
For Patron Tickets and
sponshorship opportunities,
please call 609-896-9500, ext 2215
or email [email protected].
Saritha Regulapati, MD
Board Certified, Internal Medicine
Primary Care - Above 12 Years
USCIS Medical Exam
462 New Road • Monmouth Jct.
(Near South Brunswick YMCA)
Mon-Fri: 9 am-7pm • Sat: 9am-2pm
DoctorSaritha.com • 732-274-2557
Maximum Fitness, East Brunswick Library, Jean Walling Civic
Center, 732-390-6767. www.ebpl.org. “Designing Smart Workout” presented by fitness trainer
Eddie Camaroto. Create a smart,
optimal workout tailored for you
and designed to maintain a high
energy level. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
Workshop Series, Infertility and
Adoption Counseling Center, 2
Tree Farm Road, Pennington,
609-737-8750. www.iaccenter.com. “Making the Decision to
Adopt” presented by Joni Mantell.
Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
History
Lunchtime Tour, First Presbyterian Church, 120 East State
Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400.
www.trenton-downtown.com.
Tour the church, formed in 1712
and built in 1726, and its burial
grounds. Free. Noon.
Talk and Tour, Trenton Historical
Society, 35 East State Street,
Trenton, 609-396-4478. trentonhistory.org. Karl Flesch at the former Fred W. Donnelly & Son
clothing store for men. Free.
12:30 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Paper airplane workshop for ages
9 and older. 4 p.m.
For Families
Storytime, Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-7161570. www.bn.com. 1:30 p.m.
Hannah Montana Look-a-Like
Concert, Bounce U, 410 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609-443-5867. www.bounceu.com. Concert, inflatables, pizza, and drinks. $15.95. 6
to 9 p.m.
For Teens
Drop-In Program,
Princeton Public
Library, Witherspoon Street, 609924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Crafts, games,
improvisation, music, and poetry.
3:30 p.m.
Lectures
Help with Your Job
Search, East
Brunswick Library, Jean
Walling Civic Center, 732-390-6767.
www.ebpl.org.
Eileen Levine, a recruiter and
coach, presents information of
writing a standard resume, getting it out there, following up, and
networking both online and
through word of mouth. Free. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
How to Handle a Guitar, East
Brunswick Public Library, Two
Jean Walling Civic Center, 732390-6767. www.ebpl.org. Guitarist Matt Richards presents
skills and concepts he uses in his
own playing followed by a presentation on the 11-string glissentar.
Free. 7 p.m.
De-Clutter Club, South
Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Share organizing and
de-clutter tips together. 7 p.m.
Laser Concert
Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North
Branch, 908-526-1200. www.raritanval.edu. Best of Pink Floyd.
$6. 8:30 p.m.
Live Music
Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812
North Easton Road, Doylestown,
PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 p.m.
Aberdeen Alert, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 7 to 10 p.m.
Gentle Jazz, Nick’s Cafe 72, 72
West Upper Ferry Road, West
Trenton, 609-882-0087. www.cafe72nj.com. Al Oliver, sax and
vocals; and Gerry Groves, flute.
BYOB. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Tara Buzash Trio, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Jazz. 7:30
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.
Pontoon Boat Tours
Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer County Park Marina, West Windsor, 609-989-6540.
www.mercercounty.org. Search
for the flora and fauna in the lake
area. Binoculars for birding invited. For families and adults. 2 to
3:30 p.m.
Colleges
How to Pay Tuition, Mercer
County College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, 609-570-3311. www.mccc.edu. Financial aid assistance. Register online for noon, 2,
or 4 p.m. Noon.
Information Session for Health
Programs, Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North
Branch, 908-526-8872. raritanval.edu. Register. 6 to 8 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, BT Bistro, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-9403. Discount appetizers and drinks. 5 to 8 p.m.
Dinner, Yardley Singles, Carlucci’s 1633 Big Oak Road, Yardley,
215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Italian food. BYOB.
Register. 6 p.m.
Friday
August 7
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Bluegrass — with Vino
Mark Cosgrove & the Good Medicine Band, Crossing Vineyards
and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown
Road, Washington Crossing, PA,
215-493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Bluegrass featuring flatpicking guitar player. Rain
or shine. Bring a chair. Wine and
cheese available. Register. Concert only, $15. Buffet dinner and
concert, $25. 7 p.m.
Folk Music
Andy Cohen and Mindy Schmitt,
Folk Project, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy
Heights Road, Morristown, 973335-9489. www.folkproject.org.
Ragtime and blues. $7. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Family Concert, Community
Conservatory, 4355 County Line
Road, Chalfont, 215-340-7979.
www.communityconservatory.org. Bring picnic, chair, blanket.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
Mark Cosgrove & the Good Medicine Band, Crossing Vineyards
and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown
Road, Washington Crossing, PA,
215-493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Bluegrass featuring flatpicking guitar player. Rain
or shine. Bring a chair. Wine and
cheese available. Register. Concert only, $15. Buffet dinner and
concert, $25. 7 p.m.
Eric Mintel Jazz Quartet, Plainsboro Recreation, Municipal
Complex, 641 Plainsboro Road,
609-799-0909. www.plainsboronj.com. Jazz. Indoors if it rains.
Free. 7 to 8 p.m.
Pop Music
Incubus, PNC Bank Arts Center,
Holmdel, 732-203-2500. www.livenation.com. Prices vary. 8
p.m.
Art
Summer Art Show, Artworks, 19
Everett Alley, Trenton, 609-3949436. www.artworkstrenton.org.
Opening reception for the Get Set
summer camp art show. Refreshments. On view to September 20.
6 to 9 p.m.
Drama
A Chorus Line, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
AUGUST 5, 2009
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m.
20th Century, Center Playhouse,
35 South Street, Freehold, 732462-9093. www.centerplayers.org. Comedy adapted from the
1934 film. $24. 8 p.m.
There Goes the Bride, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy farce by Ray
Cooney. $27.50 to $29.50. 8 p.m.
The Underpants, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062.
www.princetonsummertheater.org. Steve Martin’s adaptation of
a German classic about a woman
who loses her underpants in full
view of the town. $20. 8 p.m.
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
Frayn about a troupe of actors
presenting a farce. $29 to $70. 8
p.m.
Singin’ in the Rain, Plays-in-thePark, Capestro Theater, Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South, Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Dancing
Outdoor Dancing, Central Jersey Dance Society, Hinds Plaza,
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Tango, swing,
ballroom, and Latin dancing. No
partner needed. Surface is
smooth stone. Free. 7 to 10 p.m.
Salsa Mambo Dance Class, Pennington Ewing Athletic Club,
1440 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing,
609-883-2000. www.peachealthfitness.com. Fundamentals and basics on how to
dance properly with your partner.
$15. 7:30 to 9:45 p.m.
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. $15. 8 to 11
p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to
11 p.m.
English Country Dance, Lambertville Country Dancers, Titusville United Methodist Church,
7 Church Road, Titusville. www.Lambertvillecountrydancers.org.
No partner needed. Beginners
welcome. $8. 8 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Dr. Deva
Khalsa, DVM, author of “Dr. Khalsa’s Natural Dog: A Holistic Guide
for Healthier Dogs.” Her discussions include a demonstration of
holistic dog food preparation
techniques. Seating begins at 6
p.m. Booksigning follows. 7:30
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.
Drum Circle
Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432.
www.relaxationandhealing.com.
No experience required. Drums
provided or bring your own. $15.
7 to 8:45 p.m.
History
Middlesex County Cultural
Commission, Cornelius Low
House, 1225 River Road, Piscataway, 732-745-4177. www.cultureheritage.org. “New Jersey’s Gilded Age: Opulence,
Struggle, and Innovation,” an exhibit focusing on the years of
1870 to 1899, when New Jersey’s
industrial growth was at its peak.
The exhibit spotlights education,
child labor, immigration, and
union movement. Through November 29. 8:30 a.m. to 4:15
p.m.
Kids Stuff
Young Artists Workshops,
Princeton Summer Theater,
Hamilton Murray Theater, 609258-7062. www.princetonsummertheater.org. “Acting
Through Voice and Movement”
focuses on tips and trips for creating a character with your body as
a tool. For ages 7 to 12. Register.
$30. 1 to 4 p.m.
Readers’ Theater Workshop,
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Theater games and scripts for
ages 9 to 12. 3:30 p.m.
For Teens
Teen Lock-In, South Brunswick
Library, 110 Kingston Lane,
Monmouth Junction, 732-3294000. www.sbpl.info. Spend the
night with teens at the library.
Games, movies, and food. Bring
a pillow and blanket. For grades 8
to 12. Register. Free. Pick up is
Saturday, August 8, at 7 p.m. 8
p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Family Theater
DL Hughley, The Stress Factory,
90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $35 to $37. 8
p.m.
Wid, Patrick O’Donnell, and
Kensel, Bucks County Comedy
Cabaret, 625 North Main Street,
Doylestown, 215-345-5653.
www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9
p.m.
The Wizard of Oz, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. $8. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Faith
Outdoor Shabbat, Har Sinai
Temple, 2441 Pennington Road,
Pennington, 609-730-8100.
www.harsinai.org. Bring food and
blanket. Grill available. Singalong led by Susan Sacks. Service at 6:30 p.m. Register. Free.
5:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Greater Hightstown East Windsor Improvement Project, Memorial Park.
www.downtownhightstown.org. 3
to 7 p.m.
Live Music
Happy 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.
Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812
North Easton Road, Doylestown,
PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 p.m.
The VooDudes, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Rain or
shine. $12. 7:30 p.m.
Hub City Stompers, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown. www.therecord-collector.com. $12. 7:30
p.m.
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Music on the Green:
Sundog performs on
Saturday, August 8, 2
to 4 p.m., on Palmer
Square. 609-9212333.
Bob Egan, Bowman’s Tavern,
1600 River Road, New Hope, PA,
215-862-2972. www.bowmanstavernrestaurant.com. Open mic
and piano. 8 p.m.
Arnie Baird, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Percussion Evening, Small
World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton, 609-924-4377.
www.smallworldcoffee.com. 8:30
to 10:30 p.m.
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.
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Kingston Greenways Association, D&R Greenway, 1 Preservation Place, Rosedale Road, 609750-1821. www.kingstongreenways.org. “The Songs of Insects” presented by Wil Hershberger, co-creator of the CD “Insect Concertos” and co-author of
“The Songs of Insects.” Insect
walk for ages 8 and up follows.
Register. $10. 6:30 p.m.
Singles
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.
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 65. $15. 8 p.m.
Drop In, Yardley Singles, Washington Crossing Inn, River Road,
PA, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 9 p.m.
Scrabble
Classics Used and Rare Books,
117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All skill levels
welcome. 6:30 p.m.
A Bug’s Life: On Friday, August 7, Wil Hershberger, recordist and co-creator of the CD ‘Insect Concertos,’ presents ‘The Songs of Insects,’ D&R
Greenway, One Preservation Place, off Rosedale
Road, followed by an insect walk in the Greenway
Meadows. Register at 609-750-1821. Herschberger holds a macro insect photography workshop on
Saturday, August 8, at the D&R Canal State Park
Headquarters, 145 Mapleton Road in Kingston.
Register at 609-514-2416.
Sports
Pop Music
Bicycle Tours, Duke Farms, 80
Route 206 South, Hillsborough,
908-722-3700. www.dukefarms.org. Seven-mile ride. Bring mountain bike and helmet. Register.
$10. 8 to 10 a.m.
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Harrisburg. $5 to $10.
7:05 p.m.
Saturday Night Fever, Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting Association, 54 Pitman Avenue, 800965-9324. www.oceangrove.org.
The Australian Bee Gee’s multimedia concert event recreates
the sounds, looks and energy of
the Brothers Gibb. $20 to $45. 8
p.m.
Saturday
August 8
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
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Imperial Weddings, Classics
Used and Rare Books, 117
South Warren Street, Trenton,
609-394-8400. Discuss wedding
planning with Robin Hallett-Mohammad of Imperial Wedding
Consultants. 2 to 4 p.m.
Classical Music
So Percussion, Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, 609258-4241. www.princeton.edu.
Percussion quartet in concert.
Free. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
International Summer Music Series, Liberty Village Outlets, 1
Church Street, Flemington, 908782-8550. 1 to 4 p.m.
Sundog, Palmer Square, On the
Green, 609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Free. 2 to 4
p.m.
Summer Concert Series, Morrisville, Williamson Park, Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA,
215-295-8181. www.morrisvilleboro-gov.com. Tri-County Band.
Bring a blanket or chair. Free. 6 to
8 p.m.
Sandy Zio Band, West Windsor
Arts Council, Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor, 609-9191982. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Blues, folk, and rock by singer
and piano player Sandy Zio. The
band presents songs from Zio’s
debut CD, “All That I Am.” Free
concert in “Celebrate Americana”
summer music series. Bring
chairs or blankets. Inside Panera
if raining. 6 p.m.
Art
Adult Workshop: Wood
Sampler, Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Five
sessions with Margareta Warlick.
Register. $135. 10:30 a.m.
Art Exhibit, Honig Gallery, 47
West Broad Street, Hopewell,
646-345-5538. New works by
painter Marilyn Honig. 11 a.m. to
5:30 p.m.
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6922. www.mcl.org. Opening reception for “National Parks of the American
West,” a photography exhibit featuring works of Gregg Dye. On
view to August 31. 2 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Bucks County
Gallery of Fine Art, 77 West
Bridge Street, New Hope, PA,
215-862-5272. www.buckscountygallery77.com. Opening
reception for an invitational exhibit featuring the art of the New Jersey Society of En Plein Air Artists
members. More than a dozen
artists display their paintings in
the gallery. On view to August 30.
5 to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Artists’ Gallery, 32
Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609397-4588. www.lambertvillearts.com. Opening reception for “Meanderings,” a shared exhibit featuring Jennifer Cadoff, pen and
ink works, and Gail Bracegirdle’s
watercolors. On view to September 6. 6 to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Riverrun Gallery,
287 South Main Street, Lambertville, 609-397-3349. Opening reception for “Plein Air” art exhibit.
On view to August 30. 7 to 9 p.m.
Drama
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
Frayn about a troupe of actors
presenting a farce. $29 to $70.
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Erin Jackson, Al Cassanova,
and Steve Trevalise, Catch a
Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, 609-987-8018,
www.catcharisingstar.com.
Reservation. $20. 7:30 and 9:30
p.m.
DL Hughley, The Stress Factory,
90 Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $35 to $37. 8 and
10:30 p.m.
Wid, Patrick O’Donnell, and
Kensel, Bucks County Comedy
Cabaret, 625 North Main Street,
Doylestown, 215-345-5653.
www.comedycabaret.com. $20.
9:30 p.m.
Fairs
Fuzzstock, Union Square, New
Hope, PA. Concert, art, silent
auction featuring Jared Polin, Jim
Marshall, Bob Krist, and J.P.
Flexner. Free. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Family Picnic, Indian American
Civic Forum, West Windsor
Community Park, Princeton-Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609273-1955. www.iacf.org. Family
and cultural gathering with activities for children and Indian desi
food. Indian music features songs
of the 1960s to 1980s. $10 per
family; $5 individual. 11:30 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m.
Highest Price Paid
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Food for the Soul: A Diversity
Celebration, Mt. Zion AME
Church, Carslake Community
Center, 209 Crosswicks Street,
Bordentown, 609-298-8930.
African American culture, soul
food, jewelry, art, music, and ethnic merchandise. Fashion show
features designs from around the
world. Lesley Gist Etheridge, author of “The Gist of Freedom is
Still Faith,” speaks. Noon to 6
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, 609-737-0058. 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. Arts, crafts, children’s
activities, culinary demonstrations, entertainment programs,
and wellness information. West
Windsor Arts Council presents
“Aboriginal Dream Time Painting,” a step back in time to create
animals in the Australian fashion.
John Henry Goldman and
StraightJazz combo perform. 9
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Product Cooking Demonstration, Miele Design Center, 9 Independence Way, Princeton,
800-843-7231. www.mieleusa.com. Register. Free. Noon.
Wine Tasting, Joe Canal’s
Liquors, 3375 Route 1 South,
Lawrenceville, 609-520-0008.
www.ultimatewineshop.com.
Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. coolvines.com. The
Origin of Malbec. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Farm to Table Dinner, Terra Momo Restaurant Group and Eno
Terra, Fernbrook Farms, 142
Bordentown Georgetown Road,
Chesterfield, 609-497-1777.
www.terramomo.com. Family activities include a grilling seminar
with chef Chris Albrecht, a wine
seminar with Carlo Momo, dinner
options from the grill, fresh produce from Fernbrook and other
area farms, an interpretive nature
hike centering on the farm’s
ecosystem, hayrides, outdoor
games, a visit to the farm animals, and evening s’mores
around a bonfire. Benefit for Fern-
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Early Americana:
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acoustic country
blues from the 1920s
to the '40s on Friday,
August 7, at Minstrel
Coffeehouse, Morristown. 973-335-9489.
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food, and the environment
through hands-on experiences.
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New Hope Chamber, New Hope,
215-862-9990. www.newhopechamber.com. More than 30 fine
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hors d’oeuvres, demonstrations,
exhibitions, and entertainment.
Candlelight guided walking
gallery tour begins at Main and
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Chan, beginner country two step
lesson with Carol Feldman followed by open dancing. No partner needed. $12. 7 p.m.
English Country Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne
Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 609-924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction and dance. $8. 7:30 to
11 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
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Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 4 and 8 p.m.
20th Century, Center Playhouse,
35 South Street, Freehold, 732462-9093. www.centerplayers.org. Comedy adapted from the
1934 film. $24. 8 p.m.
There Goes the Bride, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy farce by Ray
Cooney. $27.50 to $29.50. 8 p.m.
The Underpants, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062.
www.princetonsummertheater.org. Steve Martin’s adaptation of
a German classic about a woman
who loses her underpants in full
view of the town. $20. 8 p.m.
Singin’ in the Rain, Plays-in-thePark, Capestro Theater, Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South, Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
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History
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.
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers
from New Jersey include their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
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Peter Rabbit’s Garden, New Jersey Museum of Agriculture,
College Farm Road and Route 1,
North Brunswick, 732-249-2077.
www.agriculturemuseum.org.
Two-hour program featuring a
story from Beatrix Potter’s “Tales
of Peter Rabbit,” craft activity,
game, snack, and Peter Rabbit.
Register. $4. Noon to 2 p.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.
Honey Harvest, Howell Living
History Farm, Valley Road, off
Route 29, Titusville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. The
bee yard is open for visits from 1 to
1:45. Visitors should avoid wearing perfume, cologne, or hairspray.
Honey extracting and sampling
from 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. Visitors will
be able to help uncap and extract
honey, to taste and buy honey, and
see the inside of working hives.
Free. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monopoly Tournament, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. For
kids of all ages. 1 p.m.
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• Delicious taste
• Knowledgeable,
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delivery people
No More Alpo: Deva Khalsa of New Zealand
demonstrates holistic dog food preparation techniques and signs her book, ‘Dr. Khalsa’s Natural
Dog: A Holistic Feeding Guide for Healthier Dogs,’
on Friday, August 7, at Barnes & Noble MarketFair. 609-716-1570.
For Parents
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 800-5155205. www.kennethalbert.com.
Kenneth Albert presents the Right
Fit, a program designed to help
students and parents through the
college application process. Register. 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Mocha Moms, Tiffany’s Body Design Salon and Spa, 1678 Pennington Road, Ewing, 609-7517272. www.mochamoms.org. Unveiling of a reading nook with
books and magazine for girls and
publications for parents that support reading and literacy skills at
home. 2 p.m.
Programs for Kids With Autism
Spectrum Disorder, South
Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. “What to do Next” presented by Amy Perrine from
Autism NJ. Register. Free. 2 p.m.
Family Theater
Blue’s Clues Birthday Party,
Bristol Riverside Theater, 120
Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-7850100. www.brtstage.org. Family
show. $8. 11 a.m.
The Wizard of Oz, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. $8. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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The Wisdom of Lao Tzu, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. Modern
interpretation of Tao Te Ching
Chinese philosophy is presented
by Jonathan Chao, a lecturer for
Tao’s Culture. Free. 2 to 4 p.m.
Live Music
Think Fresh!
Ron Kraemer and the Hurricanes, Monroe Public Library,
4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe, 732521-5000. www.monroetwplibrary.org. Originals and blues.
Register. 2 p.m.
Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812
North Easton Road, Doylestown,
PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 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.
Presley and Melody, East
Brunswick Library, Jean Walling
Civic Center, 732-390-6767.
www.ebpl.org. Interactive music
concert for all ages. Free. 7 p.m.
The Buicks, The Record Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.therecord-collector.com. Bucks
County blues. $12. 7:30 p.m.
Tony M, Bowman’s Tavern, 1600
River Road, New Hope, PA, 215862-2972. www.bowmanstavernrestaurant.com. 8 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.
Stems and Seeds, Triumph
Brewing Company, 138 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-924-7855.
www.triumphbrew.com. $5 cover.
Must be 21. 10:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Mountain Hike, Stony Brook
Millstone Watershed, Sourland
Mountain Preserve, Somerset,
609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Explore plants and animals with Jeff Hoagland. Register. $5. 9:30 a.m.
Walk on the Wild Side, Duke
Farms, 80 Route 206 South,
Hillsborough, 908-722-3700.
www.dukefarms.org. Self-guided
nature walk. Free. 10 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Author Event, Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, Princeton Shopping
Center, 301 North Harrison
Street, Princeton, 609-921-6078.
www.brms.com. Sophie Glovier,
author of “Walk the Trails in &
Around Princeton,” a book that focuses on Princeton 25 miles of
preserved walking trails. Booksigning follows discussion. 3 to 5
p.m.
Family Nature Programs, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner
Road, Plainsboro, 609-897-9400.
www.njaudubon.org. “Do Butterflies Bite?” Register. $5. 3:30 to 5
p.m.
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Review: ‘There Goes the Bride’
C
losing the season on a
light-hearted note, Off-Broadstreet
Theatre is presenting a Ray
Cooney and John Chapman farce,
“There Goes the Bride.” Ending
the season with Cooney seems to
be a successful strategy: two years
ago Cooney’s “Run for Your Wife”
was the final production of the season, and a play Cooney wrote with
one of his sons will end the upcoming season. It should perhaps be
pointed out that ending the season
for the Off-Broadstreet Theater is
not quite as dramatic an event as it
is for some other theaters: “There
Goes the Bride” runs through Saturday, August 29; next season
starts on Friday, September 18,
with “A Nice Family Gathering,” a
play “about a man who loved his
wife so much he almost told her.”
“There Goes the Bride” is set in
London at the home of a bride on
her wedding day, and takes place
just about in real time. Judy Westerby, the bride, and her mother, Ursula Westerby, are ready to go to
the church, and the cars that will
take them are waiting, but the father, Timothy Westerby, an advertising executive, is late getting
home. And when he does get home,
he is so preoccupied by a campaign
idea that has just struck him — using 1920s flappers to advertise
women’s underwear — that he
finds it hard to turn his mind to the
wedding. The audience can easily
understand how he has already
managed to mess up many details
of the wedding, like forgetting to
reserve a hotel room for the
groom’s parents (they’re coming
from Australia) or order the flow-
ers. Also delaying the action is the
bride’s grandfather, who is having
trouble with a tight collar button,
and the bride’s grandmother, who
is having trouble with a tight
corset.
In the excitement, as people
come and go, the father hits his
head on a door and loses consciousness. When he comes to, he
imagines that the flapper from his
advertising campaign, Polly Perkins, is real. Of course the existence of a character that only he
and the audience can see opens up
all sorts of comic possibilities.
‘There Goes the
Bride’ is set in London at the home of a
bride on her wedding
day, and takes place
just about in real time.
Timothy and Polly also indulge in
some skillful 1920s dancing.
T
he bride keeps retreating to
her room in tears, the car drivers
keep asking when their passengers
are going to appear, and even the
minister calls from the church. The
groom’s father, just arrived from
Australia, appears at the door in the
second act, trying to figure out
what’s going on. His attempts to introduce some logic to the situation
are, of course, thwarted by the frantic attempts of the bride’s family to
hide the fact that the groom is ap-
parently marrying into a family
with a madman at the helm. Since
this is a farce, it of course has a happy ending, but just how it plays out
will be kept secret here.
“There Goes the Bride” brings
back to the stage several Off- Broadstreet veterans. Doug Kline, who
plays the grandfather of the bride, is
making his 22nd appearance at the
theater; Curtis Kaine, the father of
the groom, his 15th; Tom Stevenson,
Westerby’s old friend and business
partner, his 11th. Also a veteran,
though not a two-digit one, is Marilyn Mangone Stoddard, who plays
the bride’s mother. And in a truly unusual twist, the bride is played by
Stoddard’s actual daughter, Nicole
Stoddard. The two women look
enough alike to add a visual treat to
the play. Barry Abramowitz, the father of the bride, has appeared at
OBT in the last two seasons, and
Tappany Hochman, the character
who exists only in the father’s mind,
was the food critic who had no functioning taste buds in OBT’s previous
production, “Soup du Jour.” A newcomer to OBT is Virginia Barrie,
who plays the bride’s grandmother.
Robert Thick is responsible for
direction and design. As OBT regulars have come to expect, the direction is logical so that even in a farce
as zany as this, the audience can
follow quite easily. The set, the
London home of the parents of the
bride, is functional and attractive.
It is symmetrically set up, with all
the necessary furniture but not so
crowded that the characters are
constrained in their movement.
And of course a farce requires
doors — and there are plenty here.
Wedding Day Jitters: Doug Kline, standing left;
Tom Stevenson; Marilyn Stoddard, seated left;
and Virginia Barrie.
The costumes, designed by Ann
Raymond, find the men in standard
upscale wedding garb — morning
coats and cravats — but the details
in the women’s costumes often tell
you a great deal about the characters. Be sure to keep an eye out for
the hat the grandmother is wearing
to the wedding (having a mental
image of the Queen Mother in your
head won’t hurt).
— Barbara Westergaard
“There Goes the Bride”, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell.
Through Saturday, August 29.
Comedy farce by Ray Cooney.
Doors open for dessert an hour before curtain $27.50 to $29.50. 609466-2766 or www.off-broadstreet.com.
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ark Saltzman, the author of “The Tin Pan Alley Rag,”
has imagined a meeting between
two kings of American music: Irving Berlin (1888-1989) and Scott
Joplin (1868-1917). Saltzman, a
writer for “Sesame Street,” as well
as for films and theater, makes no
claim that such a meeting has been
documented or is known to have
taken place; however he has placed
the meeting within the realm of possibility. That possibility is considered quite entertainingly under the
direction of Stafford Arima (“Altar
Boyz”). It’s an amiable show that is
not unlike a primer on Berlin and
Joplin, as well as on the circa 1911
era that was set to define American
pop music. Michael Boatman as
Joplin and Michael Therriault as
Berlin are able to credibly personify
these unique musical immortals, a
primer in performance craft.
In the period prior to World War
I, Berlin and Joplin were renowned
and reigned supreme in their respective fields in an industry largely controlled by the music publishers along Manhattan’s 28th Street.
Joplin, who had cornered a portion
of the pop market with his ragtime
melodies, had a huge hit with
“Maple Leaf Rag.” Because he
was classically trained he was not
satisfied with his career and had a
hope of being recognized for his
classical compositions.
Berlin was riding high with
songs such as “When the Midnight
Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabama,”
“I Love a Piano,” and his most recent super hit “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” At the beginning of the
20th century the publishers’offices
were beehives of musical activity
churning out songs by both aspiring and established composers of
popular music. In a very amusing
early scene we get to meet some of
the considerably less talented but
always hopeful hacks as they plug
and perform their tortured rhymes
and formulaic melodies. Sheet music was the medium then and it
made fortunes for a few like Berlin.
“The Tin Pan Alley Rag” takes
place in one of these offices, whose
walls (as impressively designed by
Beowulf Boritt) have a way of
moving and transporting us efficiently to many other locations.
The dramatic conflict centers on
whether Joplin can convince
Berlin to put in a good word with
his publisher/partner, Teddy Snyder (Michael McCormick), that
might help him get his ambitious
and serious folk opera “Treemonisha” produced. And will Berlin be
able to get his head together and
write some serious music?
As you might expect in a show
about Berlin and Joplin, the songs
are recognizable, delectable, and
danceable, the latter particularly
graced by Liza Gennaro’s ragtimed choreography. The show
makes generous use of early Berlin
What If Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin Met?
Randy Aaron, foreground left, Idara Victor, Derrick
Cobey, Resena M. Hill, Erick Pinnick, and Mark
Ledbetter. Behind piano: James Judy, left,
Michael Therriault, and Michael Boatman.
songs, as well as Joplin’s folk ballet scores as a bridge for flashbacks
into their respective lives, but without the songs being consigned to
defining character.
A fine supporting cast of singers
and dancers often appears out of
the ether to enhance a song as well
as to play peripheral/multiple characters. Mark Ledbetter is standout
as a vaudevillian. Think of the old
bio film musicals like “Words and
Music” and “Till The Clouds Roll
By,” where the composer sat a piano and sang his song to the rich
producer or to his lover and the
scene would segue to the stage of a
theater or other location.
There are segues to different
places and Boatman and Therriault
are quite good at pretending to play
the two pianos. As each is seated at
This amiable show is
not unlike a primer on
Berlin and Joplin, as
well as on the circa
1911 era.
a piano (the keyboards faced away
from the audience), Joplin gives
the less musically sophisticated
Berlin a lesson in counterpoint
with “Play a Simple Melody,” a
joyously executed duet. Michael
Patrick Walker and Brian Cimmet
should be credited as the accomplished but unseen pianists.
T
herriault, who played Motel
in the last Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof,” is an immediately
engaging and lively Berlin — to
whom he bears a striking resemblance. His performance gracefully
distinguishes Berlin as a man conditioned by heartbreak but consumed
by a need to succeed. Boatman is
better looking than the serious and
impassioned Joplin, but his performance as the man who worked
his way up from being an itinerate
piano player in brothels to “King of
Ragtime” is very fine indeed.
While these titans of early
American popular music were neither rivals nor adversaries during
the heyday of the now legendary
Tin Pan Alley, they each had distinctly different long-term objectives. Berlin, the son of Russianborn immigrants, couldn’t read
music but he had drive, discipline,
and an incomparable talent for
writing hit songs. Although recognized as the most American of pop
composers, his early songs
(“Sweet Italian Love” and
“Moishe Sings an Irish Song”) often capitalized on ethnic humor.
There is a funny glimpse of that
early part of his career with Berlin
as a boastful and brash singing
waiter on the lower East Side.
These songs nevertheless catapulted him into the mainstream.
There is a touching moment in
the play in which Berlin sits alone
at the piano and attempts to complete a piece of music that would
stretch his talent. We can also see
how success at what he did best has
its rewards. Amazingly (and not
dealt with in this play), Berlin was
destined to write memorable musical scores for “Annie Get Your
Gun” and “Call Me Madam,”
among others that, if not as lofty as
an opera, could be said to be admirable expressions of his highest
musical ability.
There is poignancy and sharedgrief in the relationship between
these talented men when they become aware that each has suffered a
similar loss. Berlin’s first wife, the
vivacious Dorothy Goetz (Jenny
Fellner), died suddenly from typhoid fever contracted on their honeymoon in Havana, and Joplin’s
second wife, Freddie Alexander
(Idara Victor), a perky, well-educated woman with political aspirations,
died from pneumonia only eight
weeks after they were married.
Joplin, who suffered occasional
seizures due to an advanced case of
syphilis, died at the age of 49 in
1917. He didn’t live to see the first
professional production of “Treemonisha” by The Houston Grand
Opera in 1975, a production subsequently presented on Broadway
and earning a Tony nomination as
well as being awarded the Pulitzer
Prize in 1976. A short segment of
the opera is presented in a climactic
scene as an 87-year-old Berlin attends a performance. Joplin was to
achieve his greatest recognition,
however, when his ragtime music
was revived for the 1973 film “The
Sting.” Berlin was 101 when he
died in 1989. This show is a loving
tribute to the spirit of ragtime and
to two of the 20th century’s most
spirited composers. +++
— Simon Saltzman
N.B. There is no known family
tie between the author of the play
and the writer of this review.
“The Tin Pan Alley Rag,”
through Sunday, September 6,
Roundabout Theater Company at
the Laura Pels Theater at the
Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater, 111 West 46th
Street. $75 to $98. 212-719-1300.
The key: ++++ Don’t miss;
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Maybe you should have stayed
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Recessionista: Oh, the Things You Can Do with Bulk Produce
E
by Susan Van Dongen
ven on a stormy sum- ‘tailgate markets,’ as well as small
mer night with tongues of lightning farmers who come in from all over
practically right over your head the the state to supplement what they
faithful pull up to the docks of the grow.”
Tri-County Cooperative Auction
Another element of Tri-CounMarket on Route 33 West in East ty’s success has to do with why the
Windsor, trucks loaded with fresh auction was founded in the first
Jersey produce. Well-known to place — our shaky economy, and
chefs and farmstand owners in the the sheer need for people to acquire
area, the produce auction, a central food at a reasonable price. During
New Jersey tradition, has taken the Depression, the concept of the
place from July through October auction was a rural development
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday project, a way to help people feed
evenings — for more than 75 years. their families during hard times.
On this particular night, vehi- “Now here we are in tough times
cles labeled such as “C&P Bertoldi again and everybody needs food,”
Farms, Vineland,” “Giamarese Ballister-Howells says. “When
Farm, East Brunswick,” “De Wolf you’re trying to stretch your budgU Pick, New Egypt,” and “Hills- et, one of the best things to do is
boro Farm and Country Market” come to a place like the auction.
have brought cucumbers, water- You can buy a bag of 48 to 52 ears
melon, white peaches, yellow of corn for $15. Then you can share
peaches, donut peaches, cabbage, it with your friends and neighbors.
corn, potatoes, pickles, eggplant, Or, if you’re having a party or
beets, all kinds of tomatoes, nec- cook-out, it’s an economic way to
tarines, peppers galore, sunflow- have plenty of corn. It’ll also
ers, zinnias — you name it.
freeze. Now you’ve just fed your
Small-scale farmers, farmstand family for mere dollars instead of
owners, restaurateurs and even a what it costs to go out to eat. Also,
few members of the general popu- more and more people are saving
lation who like to buy produce in money by putting up their own
bulk (for parties, canning, freezing, peaches, preserves, and things, or
or sharing with neighbors) brave making their own tomato sauce,
the rain to get the best deal on pro- and buying in bulk at the auction is
duce so fresh much of it was proba- perfect for things like this.”
bly still in the ground 24 hours ago.
The success of the Tri-County
The sellers and potential buyers Auction also reflects the slow food,
wear jeans, t-shirts, baseball hats, locally grown movement. As opand work boots wet from the pud- posed to factory farmed and
dles that have sprung up from the shipped items, this produce is
Wednesday night downpour, and picked as close to perfection as can
someone has even brought their lit- be and sold right away. The highest
tle brown mutt for the big event.
nutritional values are locked in and
Tri-County has become a hub so is the best taste. One chef and
for farmers to bring in what they restaurateur who swears by the
grow in excess and buy what other freshness of the produce he has
farmers have too much of and then found at the auction is Jim Hayes,
offer it to the general public. This whose Bistro Soleil is right up the
diversity is what makes a great street from Tri-County (see U.S. 1,
farmer’s market, says auction man- July 15, “Cooking His Way
ager Pegi Ballister-Howells. “No- Through the Garden”). He says
body can grow it all.”
building a relationship with the
The action takes place in a simple farmers is an advantage for him,
wooden auction house, the original, and has allowed him to purchase
with benches to seat about 40 and some exceptional produce that he
sides exposed to the elements. An often puts on the menu the very
old floor fan has been turned off, be- next night.
cause what can fight 80 degree heat
“We talk about what’s good now,
and 100 percent July humidity? what’s coming in, if the rain has had
Above the auctioneer, an old bell is an effect on the taste, or if there’s a
rung at the opening and closing of high water content in it,” Hayes
the auction sessays.
“When
sion.
you talk to the
You hear the
farmer who is
The Tri-County
fast-paced patgrowing your
ter of Alfred
produce auction was
food, no one has
Finocchiaro,
a more intimate
started in the Depresthe seasoned
relationship
sion. ‘Now here we
auctioneer who
than that perguides the bidare in tough times
son. Most peoding, and that
ple know about
again
and
everybody
unmistakable
wine
—
needs food,’ says
sound evokes
whether it was a
something allmanager Pegi
good year for
American.
grapes — and
Ballister-Howells.
Smiling,
he
it’s the same
holds a waterconcept with
melon aloft one
food, to know
moment, and seems to have special whether there has been too much
fun with cucumbers the next. Tri- sun, too much rain. To get these inCounty, as many of the participants timate details from the farmers is
call it, is reinventing itself and, ac- quite helpful.”
cording to Ballister-Howells, is doing quite well this year, thanks to a
number of factors. “We’re under
peaking one morning after
new management and we also have an auction, Hayes notes that he
a board of directors who are very bought corn, sunflowers, and sevactive,” she says. “We all work to- eral kinds of squash the night begether to make the auction what it’s fore, including an oboe melon, “a
supposed to be and what the com- long squash that looks like a basemunity needs it to be. There is no ball bat,” he says.
reason for it not to thrive and we’re
Ballister-Howells says other
now moving in a positive direction. chefs who frequent the market in“Another aspect is, we realize clude Jim Weaver, executive chef
things change as time goes on,” she and owner of Tre Piani restaurant in
continues. “When the auction first the Princeton Forrestal Village, as
started, it was a large scale whole- well as chefs from Princeton-based
sale facility. But we have had to Terra Momo Restaurant Group.
shift gears — we can’t pursue suBallister-Howells, whose father
permarkets because we can’t fulfill sold produce for decades, is also a
their needs. Instead, we sell to a lot horticulture consultant, radio host,
of farm markets and people who do
S
and author of two books on gardening in New Jersey. She is in her second year managing the auction and
says there are a couple of new additions for Tri-County’s 2009 season.
This season, farmer members
will be given the opportunity to sell
directly to customers from their
trucks. Direct sales begin 5 p.m. on
auction nights and end promptly at
6:30 p.m., when numbers are
drawn for the auction to begin.
In addition, Tri-County is offering the public the opportunity to
participate in a Community Shares
Agriculture Project (CSA), where,
for $500 a season, families can purchase a crate full of fresh produce
each week for 20 weeks. Pick-up
day is Thursday mornings until
noon. Since the program began on
June 18, for each week that has
passed, the organization will reduce the fee by $25 to allow for late
members.
Ballister-Howells says Tri-County’s CSA is a win-win situation for
buyers and sellers. “You get a diversity of produce, and you support a
farmer in your community. I look
things over on Wednesday nights
and see who has what, and put together a crate of eight to 10 different
items. I like to have one sweet fruit
item in there — it’s been blueberries,
blackberries, and peaches, and now
we’re getting into the cantaloupes
and watermelon. We’ve also had
Swiss chard, rainbow Swiss chard,
bok choy, different lettuces, arugula,
zucchini, cabbage, golden beets —
all kinds of fresh Jersey produce at a
bargain price.”
The CSA has only added to the
colorful, chaotic, but also downhomey atmosphere of Tri-County.
There is something comforting
about it. This is not the mall, the big
box store, or a supermarket with a
Sam’s Club, Circa the Great Depression:
From top: New Jersey peaches, the real deal;
Philip Scotto waiting to sell his hot peppers; and
auctioneer Alfred Finocchiarro.
Photos: Pegi Ballister-Howells, manager, Tri-County Auction Assn
flat screen TV smack in the middle
of the produce section. It’s a
glimpse of a former time: these are
New Jersey farmers doing what
they do best, and often have done
for generations.
“I have a friend who equates it to
the movie ‘Brigadoon,’” BallisterHowells says. “It’s mostly a ghost
town during the rest of the year, but
for three nights a week in the summer, the Coop comes alive with
beautiful people and produce. It’s
total organized chaos for three
hours while we move $15,000
worth of produce. Then everyone
goes home and goes back to sleep.”
Tri-County Cooperative Auction Market, 619 Route 33 West,
East Windsor. Auctions start Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7
p.m. Come earlier for direct sales.
609-448-0193 or www.tricountycoop.net.
Membership for sellers at TriCounty costs $150 for the season,
and this year there are more than 55
active selling members. (An early
bird membership for those who
sign up before May 1 is $100.)
There is no membership fee for
buyers, but they pay a purchase
handling fee of $5 for nonmembers
and $3 for members.
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Singles
Speed Dating Social, Professional and
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Kingston, 888-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Rotation mixer and dance social.
Ages 35 to 65. Register. $30. 5:30 to 8
p.m.
Also, Summer Dance Party, Dance social. Ages 35 to 65. $15. 8 to 11:45 p.m.
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates, Princeton
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p.m.
Sports
Meet and Greet, Princeton National Rowing Association, Mercer Lake, 1 South
Post Road, West Windsor, 609-799-7100.
www.usrowing.org. Meet the U.S. national
team in conjunction with the World Championship trials. Athletes will sign autographs. Free. 11 a.m. to noon.
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront
Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-8326.
www.trentonthunder.com. Harrisburg. $5
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Italy,
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Summer in Northern Italy,
CoolVines, Camillo’s Cafe,
Princeton Shopping Center, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
Four-course wine dinner paired
with Italian regional cuisine. Birk
O’Halloran explains the pairings
selected. Register. $75. 6:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Carillon Concert, Princeton University, Grover Cleveland Tower,
Graduate College, 609-258-3654.
Concert on the fifth largest carillon in the country. Free. 1 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Neil and the Diamonds, East
Windsor Township, Etra Lake
Park, East Windsor, 609-4434000. www.east-windsor.nj.us. Neil
Diamond tribute includes “Sweet
Caroline,” “Cracklin’ Rosie,” and
“Song Sung Blue.” Raindate is
Sunday, August 16. 6 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Honig Gallery, 47
West Broad Street, Hopewell,
646-345-5538. New works by
painter Marilyn Honig. 11 a.m. to
5:30 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Coryell Gallery, 8
Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609397-0804. Opening reception for
the annual summer exhibition of
gallery artists featuring the paintings of Charles W. Ward. On view
to September 26. 3 to 7 p.m.
Dance
Music and Motion Dance Productions, Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. “The 9
Muses,” a new performance
piece. Raindate is Sunday, August 16. Free with park admission. 1 to 4 p.m.
Drama
A Chorus Line, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 2 p.m.
20th Century, Center Playhouse,
35 South Street, Freehold, 732462-9093. www.centerplayers.org. Comedy adapted from the
1934 film. $24. 2 p.m.
There Goes the Bride, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy farce by Ray
Cooney. $27.50 to $29.50. 2 p.m.
The Underpants, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062.
www.princetonsummertheater.org. Steve Martin’s adaptation of
a German classic about a woman
who loses her underpants in full
view of the town. $16. 2 p.m.
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
Frayn about a troupe of actors
presenting a farce. $29 to $70. 2
and 7:30 p.m.
Dancing
Benefit, Ewing Presbyterian
Church, 100 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-882-3673. www.ewing-
www.RadiantSpa&Salon.com
‘Celebrate Americana’: Sandy Zio
gives a free concert on Saturday,
August 8, at Nassau Park Pavilion,
West Windsor. 609-919-1982.
presfund.us. Salsa dance lesson
followed by social
dancing. $10 donation to save,
preserve, and restore the historic
landmark and
place of worship
since 1867. 8
p.m.
Comedy
Clubs
DL Hughley, The
Stress Factory,
90 Church Street,
New Brunswick,
732-545-4242.
www.stressfactory.com. $35
to $37. 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Faith
Summer Lectures, Stockton
Presbyterian Church, 22 South
Main Street, Stockton, 609-3970130. Explore the Old Testament
prophets and prophecies with Jeremy M. Hutton, Princeton Theological Seminary professor. 5:30
p.m.
Food & Dining
History
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers
from New Jersey include their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Living History Theater, Pennsbury Manor, 400 Pennsbury
Memorial Road, Morrisville, PA,
215-946-0400. www.pennsbudymanor.org. “The Yellow Fever and
Smallpox Epidemic of 1702.” $5.
1 to 4 p.m.
From Revolution to Relativity,
Historical Society of Princeton,
Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-921-6748.
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 Email [email protected]. $7. 2 p.m.
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Lawrenceville, 609-219-9300.
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herbs, meat, and poultry. 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Trenton Farmers’ Market, 960
Spruce Street, Lawrence, 609695-2998. www.thetrentonfarmersmarket.com. Farm vendors, food producers, wineries,
cooking demonstrations, and musical entertainment. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Summer in Northern Italy,
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various organisms that inhabit the
pond. For ages 6 to 10 with an
adult. Meet at the park service entrance off Church Road. Register.
Free. 1:30 to 3 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
A Division of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy
The New School for Music Study maintains
a totally non-discriminatory admissions policy.
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Harrisburg. $5 to $10.
1:05 p.m.
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A Dash of New Orleans Funk, a Pinch of Zydeco:
The VooDudes appear on Friday, August 7, at
Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton. 609-586-0606.
Softball Game, Outer Circle Ski
Club, Plainsboro Park, 609-7994674. www.outercircleskiclub.org.
Pick up game for adults over 21. 2
p.m.
Monday
August 10
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
See ‘Cool Hand Luke’
on the Big Screen
Cool Hand Luke, County Theater, 20 East State Street,
Doylestown, PA. www.countytheater.org. 1967 movie starring
Paul Newman. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony Chorus, 5000 Windrows Drive, Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony. New
members are welcome. 7:15 p.m.
Drama
Singin’ in the Rain, Plays-in-thePark, Capestro Theater, Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South, Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Film
Art on Screen, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Screening of “Frida.” 7
p.m.
Dancing
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.
Literati
New Jersey Writers’ Society
Meeting, West Windsor Library,
333 North Post Road, 609-7990462. 6:30 p.m.
Author Event, Chicklet Bookstore, Princeton Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street,
609-279-2121. www.chickletbooks.com. Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson, authors of
“The Winds of Dune.” Register for
ticketed event. 7 p.m.
Noodle Talk, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Inspiring discussions
led by Alan Goldsmith. 7 p.m.
Delaware Valley Poets, Barnes &
Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-716-1570. www.bn.com.
Corey Langer and John Baldwin
recite. Open mic follows. 7:30
p.m.
Health & Wellness
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 3 p.m.
Deep Asana Practice, Princeton
Center for Yoga & Health, 50
Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Andrew Reece presents the teachings of India and Tibet in a workshop series. Register. $30. 10:30 a.m.
Panic Relief, Lambertville Public
Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. www.lambertvillelibrary.org. “Overcoming
Circumstances, Past and Present.” Free. 7 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Cartoon Art Camp, Smudges
and Strokes, 4426 Route 27,
Kingston, 917-331-7466. Art
class for ages 8 and up. Through
Friday, August 14. Register. $175.
9 a.m. to noon.
For Grandparents
Grandparents Support Group,
Family Support Organization,
3535 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-586-1200. Register.
Free. 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Lectures
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 a.m.
Meeting, Princeton PC Users
Group, Lawrence Library, 2751
Route 1 South, 908-218-0778.
www.ppcug-nj.org. “Weird and
Wonderful Websites” presented
by Joel May. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
Monday Singer Showcase,
Stockton Inn, 1 Main Street,
Stockton, 609-397-1250. www.stocktoninn.com. Hannah Brady,
Ryan Whitman, Aimee Robidoux,
and Scott Sutherland. $10 cover,
$10 minimum. 7:30 p.m.
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Opportunities
The Arts
West Windsor Arts Council
seeks teaching artists and arts
teachers for weekend workshops
beginning in October. Send a resume with a focus on teaching experience, a written proposal for the
workshop, work samples, documentation, or publicity to West
Windsor Arts Council, Box 952,
West Windsor 08850 or E-mail
[email protected].
Deadline is Monday, August 31.
Visit www.westwindsorarts.org
for information.
Arts Council of Princeton offers classes for children, teens,
adults, and seniors in visual and
performing arts. Fall classes begin
Monday, September 21. Visit
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org
or call 609-924-8777.
Raritan Valley Community
College seeks singers and an accompanist for the RVCC Chorale
which performs choral music from
many countries. All voices and a
pianist are needed. Rehearsals are
Mondays, 7:15 to 10 p.m. Visit
www.raritanval.edu or call 908526-1200, ext. 8813. Auditions on
Monday, September 14 before 7:15
p.m.
Princeton Pro Musica is
scheduling auditions for volunteer
and professional choral singers beginning Monday, August 24. Call
609-683-5122 or E-mail [email protected].
Phillips’ Mill has a call for
artists in a 25-mile radius of New
Hope for the annual exhibition.
Registration and receiving of art
work is Friday, September 11, 2 to
7 p.m.; and Saturday, September
12, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit www.phillipsmill.org for registration
form and details.
South Brunswick Arts Commission seeks central New Jersey
artists in all visual media for “Celebrations,” a juried exhibit opening Monday, October 5. Call 632329-4000, ext. 7635 or E-mail
[email protected]. Deadline is Tuesday, September 1.
Straube Center invites poets,
playwrights, and writers to a sixweek exhibition beginning with an
opening reception for published
authors and their friends on Friday,
September 18, from 4 to 7 p.m., in
Pennington. The public is invited
to meet the writers and examine the
books and publications of popular
as well as lesser known authors in
different genres, including poetry,
drama, fiction, art, non-fiction, and
cookbooks. John A. Tredrea, feature writer of the Hopewell Valley
News, is the curator. E-mail [email protected] with the subject
line “Att: John A. Tredrea” for information.
Theater Resources Unlimited
seeks submissions for the ninth annual Tru Voices New Musicals
Reading Series. Deadline is Saturday, August 22. Shows selected
will receive staged reading on
Monday evenings in December at
the Players Theater, 115 MacDougal Street, New York City. Visit
www.truonline.org for guidelines
and applications. Deadline is Monday, August 31.
Bucks County College seeks a
poet laureate. Must be Bucks
County resident over 18 who has
not already served. Participants
must submit 10 original poems
with entry form available at www.bucks.edu. Deadline is Friday,
September 11.
lunch and dinner. Must be 13 years
old. Call Mary Ann Dobson at 609695-5456, ext. 114 or E-mail
[email protected]. Volunteer tutors area also
needed. Call Kelly Hansen at 609695-5456, ext. 107 or E-mail [email protected].
Manifestations of the Prodigal
Daughter, a non-profit faith-based
organization, seeks volunteer mentors for children ages 8 to 16 in the
Trenton area. Call 609-577-4249.
State House seeks volunteer
tour guides to introduce legislative
process, history, and architecture.
Must be available weekdays, be
able to climb stairs, and have good
public speaking skills. Training
sessions are held in September and
January. Contact Carol Rogers at
609-633-2709
or
E-mail
[email protected].
History
Middlesex County Cultural
and Heritage Commission invites
historical societies, chambers of
commerce, schools, scout troops,
and others interested in history to
nominate an historic site associated with an important event or period in history; persons or groups affiliated with the site associated
with New Jersey’s heritage; or
events reflecting cultural diversity
or contributions of women. For details and guidelines on the historic
marker criteria call 732-745-4489.
Washington Crossing Historic
Park announces final judging of
candidates for its George Washington contest on Sunday, September
13, 1 to 4 p.m. Candidates will recite a passage from Thomas
Paine’s Commonsense while in
uniform and answer questions
about the American Revolution
and George Washington. The chosen individual will portray Washington in a volunteer capacity at
park events. Call 215-493-4076 or
visit www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing.
Health
NAMI Center of Mercer
County offers a six-week program
for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents with mental
illness beginning Saturday, September 19. A 12-week program in
family-to-family designed for
adult family members of persons
with mental illness begins Thursday, September 10. Call 609-7998994 or E-mail [email protected].
For Kids
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County offers
“Eco-Adventures” for students entering fifth through eighth grades,
at the Earth Center, Monday to Friday, August 24 to 28, 9 a.m. to 2
p.m., South Brunswick. $110 includes materials, snack, beverages,
and a gift. Call 732-398-5261 or
visit
www.co.middlesex.nj.us/extensionservices.
Nominate
Princeton YMCA seeks nominations to recognize environmental
leaders. Apanel of volunteers makes
the final selection. Deadline is
Wednesday, August 5. Visit www.princetonymca.org or call Denise
Soto at 609-497-9622, ext. 209.
Volunteer Please
Available
Trenton Area Soup Kitchen
needs volunteers to help serve
Har Sinai Temple hosts a
Wednesday matinee club to attend
Broadway shows. $30 dues cover
administrative costs to purchase
tickets. Transportation not included. Call 609-730-8100 for information.
College Nannies & Tutors offers free enrollment for nanny
services or a free one-hour tutoring
sessions before school starts. Email
[email protected] or call 609-324-7600.
East Brunswick Library offers computer training, basics
through advanced subjects. Call
732-390-6767 or visit www.ebpl.org for schedule. $10 fee for noncardholders.
Singles
Princeton Elite Club invites
singles to apply for an invitation to
a happy hour on Thursday, August
6, from 6 to 9 p.m. E-mail
[email protected]
with a recent photo. Upon acceptance, full details including venue
location will be disclosed. Visit
www.princetoneliteclub.com for
information.
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Women’s Holistic
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Nutrition/Herbs • Stress Management
Weight Management/Body Composition
Individualized Menopause Assessments
Bio-Identical Hormones • Outpatient Gynecology
Functional Medicine/Genomics
Natural Approaches to Preventing
Breast Cancer, Heart Disease & Osteoporosis
Kathleen M. Thomsen, MD, MPH
Ask About Our Seasonal Detoxification Programs
Upcoming 4-Week Program
Medically Supervised • Body Composition Monitored
Group Support • Natural Foods Meals Served w/Recipes
Monday Evenings 6-8 pm Beginning July 13.
Call Office for Details & to Reserve Your Spot.
252 West Delaware Ave. • Pennington, NJ 08534
609-818-9700 • www.drkatethomsen.com
Faith
Dr. Sheryl Haber-Kuo, M.D.
Temple Micah is accepting religious school registration for grades
one to ten in basic Jewish education. Classes begin on Tuesday,
September 8. Visit www.templemicah.org for a registration form
and tuition information.
Congregation B’nai Tikvah
offers religious school for grades K
to second. Membership not required. Call 732-297-0295, ext. 21
or visit www.bnaitikvah.org.
Sharim V’Sharot, a 24-voice
Jewish choir, seeks new members
for concerts in Princeton, Philadelphia, and Lawrenceville. Auditions
will be held from Sunday, August
9, to Wednesday, September 30, in
Lawrenceville. For appointment
call Stephen Cohen at 609-3719036 or E-mail [email protected].
Har Sinai Temple invites you
to add your name to those sending
Jewish new year cards to the congregation. Send $25 to Hair Sinai,
2421 Pennington Road, Pennington, 08534.
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Suite 201 • Mercerville
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Movies
Confirm titles with theaters.
Aliens in the Attic. Sci-fi with
alien invaders. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Away We Go. Romantic drama
starring John Krasinski and Maya
Rudolph in search of a place to
raise their family. Montgomery.
Bruno. Comedy with Sacha
Baron Cohen. AMC, Multiplex.
Cheri. Romantic drama set in
France stars Michelle Pfeiffer and
Kathy Bates. Montgomery.
The Collector. Horror crime
film. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex,
Regal.
Food, Inc. Documentary about
food industry in the United States.
Montgomery.
Funny People. Comedy with
Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan.
AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
G-Force. Disney digital 3D
with animated guinea pigs in action. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
G.I. Joe:The Rise of the Cobra. Action directed by Stephen
Sommers. Opens Thursday, August 6. AMC, Regal.
The Hangover. Comedy about
a bachelor party in Vegas. AMC,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince. Daniel Radcliffe returns in the title role. AMC, Destinta, Garden, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
The Hurt Locker. War adventure set in Baghdad in 2004. AMC,
Montgomery, Multiplex, .
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Animation with voices of
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo,
Denis Leary, and Queen Latifah.
AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
In the Loop. Comedy about
war. Montgomery.
Julie & Julia. Comedy with
Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
AMC, Regal.
Luck. Drama about hockey in
1972’s Canada vs. Soviet Union
series. Regal.
Moon. Sci-fi with Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. Garden.
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Tuesday
August 11
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Belly Dance
Instead of Lunch
Belly Dancing Workshop, West Windsor
TaeKwonDo and Kickboxing Academy,
217 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609799-0088. www.wwtaekwondo.com. Register. $25. 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
My Sister’s Keeper. Drama
about a child with leukemia starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, and Alec Baldwin. AMC.
New York. Hindi drama about
the effects of 9/11. Regal.
Orphan. Horror with Peter
Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, and Isabelle Fuhrman. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
A Perfect Getaway. Thriller directed by David Twohy. Opens
Thursday, August 6. AMC.
The Proposal. Romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock and Ryan
Reynolds. AMC, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Public Enemies. Crime drama
with Johnny Depp and Christian
Bale. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Star Trek. Sci-fi with Kirk and
Spock. AMC.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.
Remake of adventure in the NYC
subways with Denzel Washington
and John Travolta. AMC.
Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen. Action with Megan Fox
and Shia LaBeouf. AMC, Destinta,
Multiplex, Regal.
The Ugly Truth. Romantic
comedy starring Katherine Heigl
Outdoor Concerts
Concerts on the Landing, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Donald “Pup” Bolding.
Free. Noon.
Pop Music
Crosby, Stills, and Nash, PNC Bank Arts
Center, Holmdel, 732-203-2500. www.livenation.com. Prices vary. 8 p.m.
Drama
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New
Jersey, F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael Frayn
and Gerard Butler. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Up. Disney animation with
voices of Edward Asner, Jordan
Nagai, Christopher Plummer, and
John Ratzenberger. AMC.
Whatever Works. Romantic
comedy with Larry David. MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex.
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.
about a troupe of actors presenting a farce.
$29 to $70. Symposium performance. 7:30
p.m.
Singin’ in the Rain, 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.
Film
International Festival, East Brunswick
Public Library, Two Jean Walling Civic
Center, 732-390-6767. www.ebpl.org.
Screening of “Slumdog Millionaire,” United
Kingdom. Free. 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Princeton Farmers Market, Pine and Nassau streets, Princeton, 609-924-8431.
www.princetonfarmersmarket.com. Produce, poultry, eggs, cheese, breads, baked
goods, flowers, and chef cooking demonstrations. Rain or shine. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Let’s Cook Together Cooking Camp,
Miele Design Center, 9 Independence
Way, Princeton, 800-843-7231. www.mieleusa.com. Culinary program for ages 5
to 10 with adult supervision. Register. $45.
6 p.m.
Gardens
Lingohocken Garden Club, Forest Grove
Church, 1856 Forest Grove Road, Forest
Grove, PA, 215-340-7677. www.lingohockengardenclub.info. Meeting. 12:30
p.m.
Fall Home Lawn Maintenance and Renovation, Master Gardeners of Mercer
County, 930 Spruce Street, Trenton, 609989-6830. www.mgofmc.org. Barbara J.
Bromley, Mercer County horticulturist,
shares tips on reseeding, fertilizing, and repairing damaged lawns. Register. $3. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
EVERY FRIDAY IN AUGUST
8:30 PM
FREE!!!
August 7th: Herbie The Love Bug
August 14th: It’s a MAD MAD MAD World
August 21st: Bed Knobs & Broomsticks
August 28th: Sandlot
Bring your own lawn chair
*** In the event of rain the movies will
be held in the food court
Mixed Level Hatha Yoga, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro
Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609-7507432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. $15.
10 to 11:30 a.m.
Open House, Sunny Health Center, 16
Seminary Avenue, Hopewell, 609-4661227. Free 15-minute massage. Register.
10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Belly Dancing Workshop, West Windsor
TaeKwonDo and Kickboxing Academy,
217 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609799-0088. www.wwtaekwondo.com. Register. $25. 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
For Families
Storytime, Barnes & Noble, MarketFair,
West Windsor, 609-716-1570. www.bn.com. 10:30 a.m.
Car Seat Safety Check, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609-7990462. Princeton HealthCare System conducts in the parking lot. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Lectures
Networking Meeting, Mercer Chamber,
Bordentown Chapter, Town & Country
Diner, Route 206 North, Bordentown, 609-
Rom-Com: Katherine
Heigl and Gerard Butler star in ‘The Ugly
Truth,’ now playing.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-683-7595.
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South,
West Windsor, 609-520-8700.
Montgomery Center Theater,
Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center
Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 609-371-8472.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
New Brunswick, 732-940-8343.
298-7373. “Future Plans for a Town Center
in Bordentown” presented by Barbara Allen
Woolley-Dimmon, township planner. 8 a.m.
Power Series: Public Relations, Creative
Marketing Alliance, 191 Clarksville Road,
West Windsor, 609-297-2235. www.cmasolutions.com. “Quality vs. Quantity”
interactive marketing seminar opens with a
presentation by Kaitlin Friedman, CMA’s
public relations manager. Register. Free.
8:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Princeton Macintosh Users Group, Jadwin Hall, A-10, 86 Washington Road, 609258-5730. www.pmug-nj.org. “Running
Your Mac Lean, Clean, and Mean” presented by Dave Hamilton, co-host of the Mac
Geek Gab podcast and CEO of BackBeat
Media. 7:30 p.m.
Laser Concert
Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908-526-1200.
www.raritanval.edu. Light Waves 2. $6.
8:30 p.m.
Live Music
George Sinkler, Limelight, 812 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-345-6330.
Piano bar with guest musicians and
singers. 7 to 11 p.m.
Sean Cox Band, Court Jester, 16 East
Main Street, Freehold, 732-462-1040.
www.jestersweb.net. 9:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Naturalist I Day Program, Mercer County
Park Commission, Baldpate Mountain,
609-989-6540. www.mercercounty.org. Explore the forest’s nooks, search for birds,
and spy animal evidence. For children entering grades 1 to 4. Register. $20. 9:30
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Singles
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles, Vince’s, 25
South Main Street, Yardley, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6 p.m.
Speed Dating, Cupid.com/PreDating,
Melting Pot Restaurant, 2 Bridge Street,
Red Bank, 732-206-0527. www.cupid.com/predating. Ages 32 to 42. Register.
$35. 7:15 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.
Wednesday
August 12
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Watch a Meteor Shower
Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer
Park Northwest, Cold Soil Road at Keefe
Road entrance, 609-989-6540. www.mercercounty.org. The Perseid Meteor showers, an
annual natural spectacle, are forecast to
AUGUST 5, 2009
peak between August 11 and 14.
Bring flashlights, lawn chairs, and
blankets. For families. Rain date is
Thursday, August 13. Free. 10
p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Bella Sorella, Doylestown Community Performing Arts Council,
Central Park, 425 Wells Road,
Doylestown, PA, 215-348-9915.
www.doylestownpa.org. Nova and
Susanna Jimenez, sopranos, and
Shinobu Kameyama, piano, present classical and contemporary
styles. Bring blankets, chairs, and
picnics. At Central Bucks West
High School, 375 West Court
Street, if raining. Free. 7 p.m.
Drama
A Chorus Line, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 2 and 8 p.m.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North Branch,
908-725-3420. www.rvccarts.edu. Student production. $5. 7:30
p.m.
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
Frayn about a troupe of actors
presenting a farce. $29 to $70.
7:30 p.m.
Singin’ in the Rain, Plays-in-thePark, Capestro Theater, Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South, Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Film
Movie Series for Seniors,
Princeton Senior Resource
Center, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, 609-4972484. Screening of “Gran Torino.”
Refreshments. Register. Free. 1
p.m.
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6922. www.mcl.org. Screening of “Coraline,”
2009. Free. 2:30 p.m.
High School Confidential!,
County Theater, 20 East State
Street, Doylestown, PA. www.countytheater.org. 1958 movie. 7
p.m.
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “Woodstock,” the
concert film made in 1970 that
won an Oscar for best documentary feature. The three-day festival in Bethel, New York, features
Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, and
Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Free. 7
p.m.
Dancing
Belly Dance for Beginners, Actor’s Dance Studio, 1012
Brunswick Avenue, Ewing, 609213-4578. Introductory class.
Free with registration. 7 to 8 p.m.
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For
newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction
and dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30
p.m.
Motorcycle Cruise
Allentown/Upper Freehold Municipal Alliance, Byron Johnson
Recreation Area, Ellisdale Road,
Allentown, 609-570-5376. www.ufadrugalliance.org. American
stock, metric stock, American
custom, antique, and people’s
choice trophies. Food, vendors,
door prizes. Rain date is Wednesday, August 19. Donations to benefit drug and alcohol prevention
programs invited. 5 to 9 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Hopewell Train
Station, 1 Railroad Place, Hope-
well, 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.
White wine. 5 to 8 p.m.
Italian Regional Cuisine: Sicily,
Eno Terra Restaurant, 4484
Route 27, Kingston, 609-4971777. www.enoterra.com. Fivecourse tasting with wine pairing
presented by chef Christopher Albrecht. Register. $80. 6 p.m.
Let’s Cook Together Cooking
Camp, Miele Design Center, 9
Independence Way, Princeton,
800-843-7231. www.mieleusa.com. Culinary program for ages 5
to 10 with adult supervision. Register. $45. 6 p.m.
Gardens
Summer Garden Problem Solving, Mercer County
Connection, 957 Route 33,
Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. Barbara Bromley, horticulturist for the Rutgers
Cooperative Extension of Mercer
County, talks about summer
stress on lawns and gardens.
Register. Free. 10:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m.
Farmer Twilight Meetings,
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey, Genesis Farm, 41A Silver Lake East,
Lambertville, 908-371-1111.
www.nofanj.org. “Designing a
Winter CSA” presented by Mike
Baki, the head grower, who will
talk about storage methods. Register. $15. 5 to 7 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Capital Health System,
750 Brunswick Avenue, Trenton,
800-GIVELIFE. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Blood Drive, New Jersey Blood
Services, Sandoz, 506 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 800-9332566. www.nybloodcenter.org. 9
a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Blood Drive, New Jersey Blood
Services, St. David’s Episcopal
Church, 90 South Main Street,
Cranbury, 800-933-2566. www.nybloodcenter.org. 1:30 to 7 p.m.
Overeaters 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.
History
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
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Hunger Pains: Feeding People
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the summer exhibit highlighting
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Street Friends Food Bank, Crisis
Ministry of Princeton and Trenton,
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Farmers Against Hunger and
America’s Grow-A-Row discuss
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Jersey. Register. $8. 6 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Young Playwrights, Princeton
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Informational Session, CASA
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abuse and neglect. Register online or by phone. 7 to 8 p.m.
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Summer Fiction Party
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Jazz & Blues
Jazz Concert, Princeton Public
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Outdoor Concerts
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
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Rackett, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton Shopping Center,
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Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
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www.brtstage.org. Compositions
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How It Works, Arts Council of
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MUSIC
PREVIEW
Wherein Lies the Center of New Jersey?
S
teve Chernoski, the
writer and director of “New Jersey:
The Movie,” says growing up in
Ewing made him unsure of exactly
where he was from. “Mercer County tends to be the most divided county in the state, in terms of cultures.
So I think that any of us who grow
up in Mercer County kind of always
have that identity complex — am I
north Jersey or south Jersey?”
This uncertainty inspired him to
make his latest film, “New Jersey:
The Movie,” a lighthearted look at
where New Jersey divides into
north and south. Chernoski spent a
year traveling to all 21 counties,
asking people where they thought
the dividing line is and testing out
some of his theories of north versus
south. He will speak about the
making the film at a screening on
Wednesday, August 5, at Princeton
Public Library.
Chernoski, who teaches ancient
history and political science to
sixth through eighth graders in
Millburn-Short Hills school district, acknowledges that getting
young people interested in local
history can be tough. But for him it
was a passion from an early age.
“I’m a history nerd,” he says. “The
smell of new atlases is one of the
most beautiful things to me in life.”
His father was a military lawyer
for the Navy and an attorney general for the state of New Jersey and
his mother was a history teacher. “I
got my love of history from my
mother,” he says.
Chernoski received his bachelor’s in history education from the
University of Dayton in Ohio in
1999 and moved to Upper Township in Cape May County to begin
his teaching career. In 2003 he received his master’s degree in genocide studies from Richard Stockton
College in Pomona, New Jersey.
He now lives in Maplewood, in Essex County.
While working on his master’s
degree, Chernoski made “Gibson’s
Passion,” a film about the controversies surrounding Mel Gibson’s
film, “The Passion.” It includes interviews with scholars, clergy, and
people leaving the theater. “I tried
to make it even-handed and get
both points of view,” he says.
“Then I was in the mood for something a little more fun.” “Gibson’s
Passion” is viewable on YouTube
at http://youtue.com/watch?v=BpwQ5h4b-Kw and was recently presented at a teachers conference at
Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Chernoski says that living in so
many different areas of the state is
what really gave him the idea to do
the documentary in the first place.
“Living in very, very, very far
south Jersey and living in north Jersey and growing up in central Jersey, it opens your eyes. It’s like,
wow, this place is so small, but it’s
so different.”
He gathered a group of Temple
University film school alumni to
by J. Lee Jacobson
help him make the movie, including producer Alena Kruchkova,
who also served as a camera operator; another cameraman, Adin
Mickle; and “our very amazing editor,” Andrei Litvinov. “I just surrounded myself with them. I was
the writer and director and I had the
history. They just followed along
and brought their amazing skills to
the table.” Chernoski spent about
$20,000 making the film. He depleted his savings and raised money with the help of friends.
What struck him most about the
differences among the places he
lived was the culture — the different accents, languages, sports,
speed of life — and speed of driving. He began to develop theories
of what made a place fall into north
or south Jersey. His overarching
theory is that there is no central Jersey. He acknowledges that the geographic division of the state into
north, central, and southern counties is accurate. But he thinks that
culturally, every place leans either
to the north or the south. “Each
place tips one way or the other
based on certain criteria that we
used. We used those criteria, as unscientific as it might be, to kind of
lean towns to one side or the other.
The line that we found splits counties even, including Mercer County.” This was no surprise to Chernoski, who finds the towns around
Trenton, such as Ewing and Hamilton and south Lawrence, very different culturally and economically
from West Windsor, Hopewell,
Lawrenceville, and Princeton.
H
e traveled the state to test
his theories, seeing which way different places leaned. He visited
every county and attended many
community events, including minor league baseball games, the
Cowtown Rodeo in Salem County,
and the New Egypt speedway.
Along the way, he asked people
where they thought the state divided, using their answers to draw a
“people’s line.” Along with the
people’s line, the film shows lines
drawn by the results of his various
theories. “So even if no one likes
the line we came up with in the
film, they can look at the people’s
line,” says Chernoski, “which split
Mercer County again.”
One of his most useful theories
was the sports divide. “There is no
hiding behind central Jersey in
sports,” Chernoski says. “You are
either a north Jersey New York fan
or you are a south Jersey Philadelphia fan. There were people like
myself who were split, but you
don’t find too many of us. So that
was a big one.” One teacher in the
film, who resides in Hamilton, says
that when she goes to her job in
West Windsor she see the sports
loyalties shift from Philadelphia to
New York/NJ.
Food was also an important cul-
Dividing Line: From
top: NewJersey’s center in Plumsted; New
York vs. Philly fans at
a chowder contest;
Steve Chernoski filming rolling derby girls.
At bottom, editor
Andrei Litvinov, left,
director Steve Chernoski, and producer,
Alena Kruchkova.
tural marker, such as whether people refer to ice cream toppings as
Jimmies or sprinkles, their sandwich as a hoagie or a sub, or their
convenience stores as 7-11s or
Wawas. “We would joke that in
Princeton, Hoagie Haven is the farthest north that the word hoagie
goes,” Chernoski says. “It isn’t true,
but it was close. Once you get into
Montgomery, you are really in sub
territory.” Princeton is also home to
one of the northernmost Wawas.
While Chernoski entered his research with certain theories to test,
new ones cropped up along the way.
“For instance, Taylor ham versus
pork roll was not on my radar in the
beginning,” he says. “But it kind of
evolved. Just talking to people, the
subjects give you their opinions and
you write them down and you say,
oh wow, I’m going to look into that.
You learn a lot on the way.”
One difference that surprised
him most was the fact that how
people buy a house differs whether
they are located in north or south
Jersey. “In north Jersey, they settle
at a lawyer’s office,” Chernoski
says. “In south Jersey, they do it at
title companies. It’s something left
over from a bygone era when south
Jersey people just did what Philadelphians did. My parents in Mercer County closed in a lawyer’s office. When I bought my house on
the shore in south Jersey, I closed at
a title company.”
He is showing “New Jersey: The
Movie” at festivals and hopes to
have it available on DVD by November. He is also working on a
book with photographer Christian
Lapinski, a photo tour of the state’s
dividing line.
He is still deciding between a
few ideas he has for future films.
Most likely, he says his next project
will either look into the Guido culture of the northeastern United
States or examine why three European countries that have little in
common with each other, did the
most to save the Jewish population
during the Holocaust.
“New Jersey: The Movie,”
Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Wednesday, August 5,
7 p.m. Screening followed by Q&A
with writer/director Steve Chernoski. Free. Visit www.stevechernoski.com. 609-924-8822 or www.princetonlibrary.org.
Director Steve Chernoski traveled New Jersey to find the perfect middle.
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tsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. has signed a
67,531-square-foot
long-term
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The deal, announced on July 22
by University Square’s property
management firm RXR Realty of
Short Hills, will give Otsuka the
top floor of the long-vacant office
building on Alexander Road at
Route 1. RXR did not reveal the
amount of the lease, but its website
lists space at University Square at
$36.50 per square foot.
Otsuka, which now occupies
18,500 square feet at 100 Overlook
Drive, would not comment on
whether the new lease is an expansion or a move. According to real
estate industry website Globe-
First Tenants: The long-idle University Square
office complex on Alexander Road at Route 1 will
house Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, a Japanbased firm that will occupy the building’s top floor.
Street.com, RXR president Todd
Rechler said Otsuka will be “consolidating and expanding its east
coast operations from two separate
existing facilities.” Otsuka also has
a location in Rockville, Maryland.
There is no word on an official
move-in date.
The deal is now official, and Otsuka must get formal approval
from West Windsor Township to do
construction work, such as painting, carpeting, and sectioning offices, in its new space.
The deal was not always certain
to go through. It had been reported
(including by U.S. 1 on July 8) that
the lease had been signed but that
lenders, nervous about giving out
money for tenant improvements,
were forestalling progress. David
Simson, part of the Newmark
Knight Frank team representing
RXR, said, however, that the
holdup had “nothing, nothing,
nothing to do with the lending.”
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AUGUST 5, 2009
BMS Acquires Princeton Biopharma
as a result of the sale. The site also states that
B
ristol-Myers Squibb announced on the deal will quell the $1 billion deficit to
July 22 that it will buy State Road-based bio- shareholders incurred by Medarex in recent
pharma firm Medarex for $2.4 billion, in a years.
The two companies had been working on
deal that nearly doubles the value of the latthe development of cancer drug ipilimumab,
ter’s shares.
Medarex, begun in 1987 to develop med- a Phase III research drug aimed at skin canicines to combat debilitating diseases by cer. For BMS the deal could re-establish the
conducting research on transgenic mice, drug maker as a preeminent source of antiwas trading at $8.40 a share when the market cancer medications.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the
closed on July 22. Shortly thereafter BMS,
the world’s 15th largest pharmaceutical sell- deal comes on the cusp of BMS divesting iter, announced that it would buy Medarex for self of non-pharmaceutical assets, such as
$16 a share. Medarex’s projected $300 mil- wound care, in favor of fortifying its portfolion in net cash and marketable securities at lio of specialty drugs. The deal also comes at
closing would be an asset acquired by Bris- a fortuitous time for BMS, as large biophartol-Myers Squibb, effectively making the mas worldwide are losing patent protections. Smaller firms, concentrating on more
purchase price approximately $2.1 billion.
BMS tendered its cash offer on July 27 focused areas, have made advances large
firms have been unable to match in recent
that will expire on Monday, August 24.
According to the Wall Street Journal, years, and working with smaller firms has
Medarex’s CEO, Howard Pien, passed up a been good for both sides. Larger firms get
$250,000 payout on the deal by selling access to specialty drugs, and small firms
34,000 shares of Medarex — through a trad- get the backing of research dollars.
BMS used this dying plan he began a year
namic in defending the
ago — a week before the
cost of the buyout, when
BMS offer doubled his
The acquisition of
in a statement it ancompany’s per-share valMedarex could re-esnounced, “Medarex repue. A loophole in trading
tablish the drug makresents what we’re looklaws would have allowed
ing for in terms of our
Pien to cancel that plan
er Bristol-Myers
‘string of pearls’ strateand cash in.
Squibb as a preemigy. This acquisition is
While Pien declined to
nent source of antianother important step
be interviewed, his acin our biopharma transtions
could
signal
cancer medications.
formation.”
Medarex’s desire to creAccording to a stateate a positive ethical buzz
ment by Medarex, Brisjust a few years after the
company’s original — and longtime — tol-Myers Squibb gains Medarex’s UlCEO, Donald Drakeman, and CFO Michael tiMAb Human Antibody Development SysAppelbaum resigned amid an investigation tem, which produces fully human antibodies
for multiple therapeutic areas, including iminto stock options.
According to Medarex’s April statement, munology and oncology; Medarex’s nextPien owned more than 435,000 shares then generation antibody-drug conjugate techand sold a small percentage of those before nology, a proprietary platform that could
the BMS deal. According to BNet, the busi- open new fields in oncology drug developness blog of CBS News, Pien will receive a ment; the rights to seven antibodies in clinibonus of $4.2 million and a 10 percent raise
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cal trials under Medarex’s sole
sponsorship and three other antibodies being co-developed with
other partners; the rights to preclinical assets in various stages of
development by Medarex, particularly monoclonal antibodies focused on oncology and immunology; full ownership of ipilimumab;
and royalties based on sales of
drugs Simponi, Stelara and Ilaris.
The exorbitant price of the deal
has stirred media outlets and industry watchdogs to claim how desperate large pharma is for new specialty drug pipelines. In favoring
growth through acquisition, big
pharma has sacrificed developing
its own lines of specialty drugs. In
the void, smaller, boutique-style
firms have made significant headway into this kind of research in the
past several years.
The deal comes on the heels of
Medarex’s announcement that the
company would receive “a milestone payment of an undisclosed
amount” from a licensing partner
in connection with clinical trials
for a diabetes and advanced kidney
disease medicine.
Whether the company will
move from 707 State Road or
whether there will be layoffs is not
yet known.
Medarex was started in 1987 as
an attempt to drum up new business for Clifton-based Essex
Chemical Corporation, where a
young attorney named Donald
Drakeman served as general counsel. Drakeman and some Dartmouth researchers with whom he
worked at the project bought
Medarex for an undisclosed sum
after Dow acquired Essex Chemical in a hostile takeover. In 1989
Drakeman fully left Essex for
Medarex, then ran the company for
nearly 20 years, building it into a
healthy company known for its research with transgenic mice able to
create fully human antibodies.
The company’s basic technology enhances the body’s normal immune response to the pathogens
that cause cancer, AIDS, and hepatitis. The technology, called “bispecific monoclonal antibodies,”
did not introduce foreign substances into the body, but instead
ramped up the body’s own ability
to fight back.
Drakeman graduated from Dartmouth in 1975 and earned his law
degree from Columbia in 1979.
Later Drakeman earned a Ph.D. in
religion from Princeton University,
all while running what started as a
one-man operation at 20 Nassau
Street. He attributed his broad
range to a fondness for what he
called “the interdisciplinary approach to things.”
Drakeman had been a history
major at Dartmouth before turning
to law on Wall Street. He left Millbank Tweed, “the stuffiest law firm
on the street,” in 1982 to join Essex, where he took the opportunity
to see how to run a company from
the inside. This was the same year
in which he started his religion
doctorate, which he continued pursuing full-time until 1989, when he
left Essex Chemical.
In 1991 Medarex emerged from
“the quiet period” required by the
Securities Exchange Commission
and made its $12 million initial
public offering of 2.3 million
shares. The company continued to
enjoy a spotless reputation until
about three years ago, when Drakeman resigned from Medarex after
an internal investigation into stock
options practices dating back to
1996. Board member Michael Appelbaum, a former CFO at
Medarex who also was one of the
Otsuka
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The Deal: Howard
Pien, above, CEO of
Medarex, presided
over the $2.1 billion
buyout from BMS.
Medarex’s first CEO
was Donald Drakeman, top. His wife,
Lisa, is CEO of GenMab, of which Medarex owns 5 percent.
original Dartmouth researchers, also stepped down. Medarex has
maintained that the company
found no specific wrongdoing, and
Drakeman and Appelbaum reportedly left of their own volition.
Drakeman was succeeded by Irwin
Lerner, the company’s chairman,
who acted as interim CEO until
Howard Pien was named to that
post in 2007.
Drakeman’s wife, Lisa Drakeman, who also holds a doctorate in
religious history from Princeton, is
CEO of Genmab on North Harrison Street. The biotech began as a
sister company to Medarex, based
in Denmark, but is mostly unaffiliated. Medarex still owns 5 percent
of GenMab, but GenMab does not
benefit from the BMS deal.
Both Drakemans declined to be
interviewed.
—Scott Morgan
Medarex (MEDX), 707 State
Road, Princeton 08540; 609430-2880; fax, 609-4302850. Howard H. Pien, president and CEO. Home page:
www.medarex.com
Genmab Inc. (GEN), 457 North
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lion incentive for Otsuka, according to the New Jersey Economic
Development Authority. “We
couldn’t do the signing until that
happened, and that’s the truth,”
Simson said.
If all goes well with the township, he said, he would expect Otsuka to move in during the first
quarter of 2010.
University Square, a 313,000square-foot office building that
went up more than four years ago,
has never been occupied. Unofficially it has become the symbol for
troubles in the commercial real estate market in Princeton. Some officials, worried that the five-story
granite-and-glass building with
hundreds of dormant parking
spaces would become a white elephant, even suggested that the
complex be used for overflow
parking for the Princeton Junction
train station. When a building sits
idle for a long time, Simson said,
rumors begin to fly. Now that Otsuka has signed, however, Simson
said the building should soon see
more tenants. He said Newmark is
in talks with at least five prospective tenants, including one “shakehands” deal to lease half of the second floor.
Whether the deal with Otsuka
signals a turnaround for the commercial real estate market here remains to be seen, but Simson said
that now that Otsuka has paved the
way, the building should live up to
its promise. “It’s been an uphill
battle, but the dominoes are finally
colliding the right way,” he said,
citing the economy and a tough
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country’s largest power companies, is over. It ended at a July 21
shareholders meeting, held at the
Princeton Hyatt Regency, just a
few minutes walk from NRG headquarters at 211 Carnegie Center,
when Exelon formally abandoned
its hostile bid minutes after NRG
shareholders overwhelmingly rejected Exelon’s rival slate of board
candidates.
“That’s the end of it,” Exelon
vice president Bill Von Hoene was
quoted as saying by Fortune magazine, shortly after NRG’s annual
meeting. “We’ve withdrawn our
offer.”
Exelon, already the nation’s
largest electric utility, was trying to
create what would have become
the nation’s largest electricity producer, and for a long time it looked
like it might succeed, but CEO
David Crane, a leading proponent
of nuclear energy, fought hard.
What made NRG attractive,
among other things, was its plan to
build the first new nuclear power
plant in America in more than a
generation.
Exelon launched its bid during
last fall’s global economic meltdown, offering NRG shareholders
a 37 percent premium. Crane and
NRG’s board opposed the deal
from the start, arguing that the offer
was too low.
But three factors ultimately
turned the tide of shareholder sentiment against the deal, Crane told
Fortune. One was NRG’s acquisition in early March of Houston
power company Reliant’s retail
business, which added value that
able for occupancy. In the deal, Otsuka was represented by Jane Moni
and Lori Gaffney of Triad Commercial Real Estate. Newmark
Knight Frank’s team of Simson,
Tom Romano, and Steve Tolcach
are leading the exclusive leasing
assignment on behalf of RXR.
— Scott Morgan
Contracts Awarded
Princeton Power Systems
Inc., 201 Washington Road,
Building 2, Princeton Junction 08550; 609-258-5994;
fax, 609-258-7329. Marshall
Cohen, CEO. Home page:
www.princetonpower.com.
Princeton Power, designer and
manufacturer of advanced power
electronics, was named one of five
companies nationwide to be
awarded part of a $6 billion Department of Energy project to develop major solar power projects.
Princeton Power’s share will be
about $2.8 million, and the company will work with Transistor Device Inc., a power technology developer based in Hackettstown, as
well as LaGuardia Community
who leads a staff of
240 at the firm’s
Carnegie Center
headquarters, has
successfully thwarted
a hostile takeover bid.
Exelon’s offer failed to take into
account. Second was Exelon’s
awkward admission last spring that
it was not nearly so well hedged
against fluctuations in energy
prices as analysts had believed.
Third was the dramatic rebound in
global markets, which boosted
confidence in NRG’s growth
prospects as a stand-alone company.
Shortly after the board meeting
ended Exelon’s quest to take over
NRG, the company announced that
its second quarter profit had more
than tripled from the year ago period. The company reported on July
31 that it had made $433 million, or
$1.56 a share, for the quarter ended
June 30, as compared with $127
million, or 48 cents a share, one
year ago. In the same time period
revenue rose 70 percent to $2.2 billion from $1.3 billion in the year
ago quarter.
The company said that improvements in profit came even as demand for electricity fell because of
the recession, unseasonably cold
weather in the Northeast, and low
natural gas prices.
Credit was also given to its acquisition of Reliant Energy’s retail
operations in Texas and the sale of
College in New York, Idyllwild
Municipal Water District in San
Diego, Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory in Plainsboro, Premier
Power, SPG Solar of Novato, California, and Spire of Bedford,
Massachusetts to lower manufacturing costs through integrated
controls for energy storage and to
develop new inverter designs.
The federal funding was given
to projects designed to advance the
next stage of development of solar
energy grid integration systems.
The projects ultimately seek to
maintain or improve power quality
and reliability, as well as return
economic value, while increasing
integration of solar technologies
into the U.S. electrical grid.
The announcement comes almost a year after Princeton Power
was named part of the federal Department of Energy’s Solar Energy
Grid Integration Systems, or
SEGIS, program to encourage the
development of low-cost, highperformance, alternative energy
systems.
—Scott Morgan
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customers, expand what we do,
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he Princeton Public Library’s community room was
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Williams has the track record
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In 2003 he organized a management buyout and proceeded to
transform ScopeMedical from a
small boutique firm to what is
billed as “one of Europe’s fastest
growing communications agencies, a leading provider of medical
education and marketing services
to the pharmaceutical industry.”
Among his customers in Europe
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GFK, Roche, and Novartis — all
about an hour’s airplane ride away
from his U.K. headquarters, near
London. But he was also working
with clients here, including Johnson & Johnson and Novo Nordisk
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leading provider of
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They have acquired scientific expertise in everything from cardiology, nephrology, and oncology to
psychiatry, diabetes, and pain management. “Clients value us because of our ability to offer the perfect combination of scientific understanding, first class project
management, and exceptional creative flair,” Williams says. “It is
this combination of skills that we
believe the U.S. pharmaceutical
and biotechnology marketplaces
will appreciate and be able to benefit from.”
In Europe, direct to consumer
advertising — touting pills on TV
and in magazines — is illegal.
Pharmas can communicate only
with doctors. But Williams found
the biggest change was one of
scale. “The customers are literally
a long way away, a five-hour flight.
In Europe you can fly between major capitals in an hour and a half.”
European markets may be geographically closer, but they require
different regulations, guidelines,
and licenses for each project because European Union agreements
don’t apply to drug development.
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work and planning to get it right for
as large a market as possible. For
online web programs, for instance,
you have to translate the website
and the labels for each market.” A
drug might be licensed for a particular use in one country but not in
another.
ScopeMedical has a tailor-made
system, called Paragon, which
identifies key physicians, known
as thought leaders. “It’s a matching
system, an expert directory of individuals’ publications, editorial
board memberships, and participation in scientific meetings. We
write the software, on behalf of our
customers, and they run it on their
intranets. At the international level,
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global database to identify the experts in a therapy area. We also
have a United States-specific expert directory.” Other companies
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football (the British soccer).
Williams started out with AstraZeneca, working in sales and
marketing. His first visit to Princeton, in 1998, was when he worked
for the now-defunct Oxford Clinical Communications.
“I had traveled all around the
United States, but I just really like
Princeton as a place. It is in the
pharma corridor, and it has the
right kind of character — a collegial atmosphere, good for association with a scientific business.”
Initially he lived at the Westin
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call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
the walking tour with the historical society, but I got one from Jan that covered
the different concert venues.”
In March he opened an HQ on the second floor of Princeton Overlook with
five people. “It has flexibility but we are
keen to have our own place with our own
name on the door,” he says.
He went to Samia Khoury at PNC
Bank for financial basics, and she introduced him to Kevin Kardos, of Paychex,
a payroll services firm. Kardos then introduced him to the Princeton Chamber,
where he tapped a chamber member for
his health plan. “When you come in and
don’t know anyone, a chamber membership is a great way to get introductions
quickly.” He also consulted with SCORE
(Service Corps of Retired Business Executives), which co-sponsored the April
workshop with the chamber.
With the goal of growing to 50 employees in Princeton within three years,
he is hiring editorial staff, studio staff,
and account directors. He is looking for
PhD-level medical writers who can develop content across all media. Some
London-based employees are moving
here, and all of them are excited about the
opportunity to spend a month or three
months working here.
Why 50 people? “You need a certain
scale to be effective,” he says. “With an
in-house creative studio, you are fully
self-supporting. With 20 people, you
know you can get your own finance department. In the agency business, as long
as you keep your company ethos the
same, and communicate, you get
economies of scale. With 50 people, we
have more slack in the model. People are
available to get a new piece of business,
and they can share projects.”
ScopeMedical Inc., 100 Overlook
Center, Second Floor, Princeton,
08540. 609-375-2135; fax, 609375-2001.
Fast Lane
Continued from page 37
Expansion
S
cience Oriented Solutions, a Publicis Strategic Solutions Group (PSSG) company, has relocated its headquarters from Kennesaw, Georgia,
to Lenox Drive to be nearer to
clients and its parent company.
“Science Oriented Solutions is now headquartered in
‘pharma country,’” Robin
Winter-Sperry, MD, president
of Scientific Advantage, which
has a partnership alliance with
Science Oriented Solutions,
said in a prepared statement.
Winter-Sperry added that
the move gives Science Oriented Solutions access to
PSSG’s chief compliance officer, Richard Lev, who “works
closely with us to ensure that
all of our healthcare interactions fully conform to applicable laws and regulations.”
Science Oriented Solutions
provides its clients with programs aimed at leveraging and
accelerating their clinical commercialization strategies. The
company recently formed a
strategic partnership with Scientific Advantage, a medical
affairs consulting, drug information, operations, and training firm.
Science Oriented Solutions, 2000 Lenox Drive,
Suite 100, Lawrenceville
08648;
609-671-3526.
Robin
Winter-Sperry,
president and CEO.
www.scienceorientedsolutions.com.
PSEG Power Cited
For OSHA Violations
T
he U.S. Department of
Labor’s Occupational Safety
and Health Administration cited PSEG’s Hamilton coal
power plant, located at 2512
Lamberton Road, for improper
lighting and a failure to ensure
employees wore seat belts
when operating bulldozers at
night. Both violations carry
fines totaling $57,500.
The investigation was
launched in January after an
employee, shoveling coal with
a bulldozer, fell into a “feeder
tube,” a large cylindrical drum
used for transporting coal
within the plant.
PSEG Power received a letter of notification of the alleged violations on July 20,
Leni Fortson, a Department of
Labor spokeswoman, said in
published reports.
Mike Jennings, a PSEG
Power spokesman, expressed
regret over the accident and in
published reports said: “We’ve
taken aggressive corrective action to prevent a similar accident from occurring in the future.”
All evening coal-shoveling
work with bulldozers has been
suspended at the Hamilton
plant, he said. Similar suspensions were temporarily in
place at the company’s two
other coal power plants in Jersey City and in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, but were lifted after additional safety training.
The plant has 125 employees and generates 755
megawatts.
AUGUST 5, 2009
Crosstown Moves:
CDSA to Hopewell
CDSA-Content Delivery &
Storage Association (formerly IRMA) (), 62 Snydertown Road, Hopewell 08525; 609-279-1700; fax, 609279-1999. Charles Van Horn,
president. www.contentdeliveryandstorage.com.
C
harles Van Horn isn’t giving up, but he is making allowances for reality.
The president of the Content
Delivery and Storage Association
recently moved his trade group’s
offices from Nassau Street to
Hopewell as part of a regrouping
effort in the wake of the decaying
CD and DVD industry. This regrouping involves a downsizing,
shrinking the seven-member staff
to four and moving to a lower-rent
office.
The regrouping is a direct result
of the impact of digital media, Van
Horn says. In 2001 Apple released
the iPod as a digital download device for music. Liberating listeners
from bulky cassette tapes and the
limits of compact discs, the iPod
did to CDs what CDs did to vinyl
albums in the late 1980s — they
consumed the music market and
rendered albums obsolete almost
overnight. In one device small
enough to fit into a shirt pocket
with room to spare, the iPod was
able to hold hundreds, even thousands of songs, compared to the
dozen or so that could fit onto tapes
and CDs.
Since then, Van Horn says, it has
been an ever-rockier road for
recorded media like CDs and
DVDs. DVDs, in fact, are suffering
from the onslaught of web-based
downloads and on-demand programming from cable and satellite
television providers.
The computer’s impact on
recorded media has one other dark
side, Van Horn says — piracy. The
Recording Industry Association of
As a representative
for manufacturers of
CDs and DVDs, CDSA
is concerned with all
manner of physical
disk or tape content.
America, the Washington, D.C.based advocate for the music and
recorded entertainment industries,
has been fighting a circular battle
for years with pirates offering bogus goods and illegal downloads.
Computer technology, the RIAA
states, makes it extremely easy to
create and package phony labels
and illegally copied CDs and
DVDs, and offer them up to a public that often does not know it is
buying a fake.
The CDSA is worried about
more than just music and movies.
As a representative for manufacturers of CDs and DVDs — formerly known as the International
Recorded Media Association —
CDSA is concerned with all manner of content that is put down onto
a physical disk or tape. And as legitimate companies simply advance technology and crooks unearth new ways to get their hands
on it for free, the dominance of
discs is waning sharply. “Every
day somebody comes out with a
new gimmick or a new box, or a
new app,” Van Horn says.
And on top of all this, he says,
the recession has not helped.
Van Horn accepts that the
change is largely organic; technology is simply making its next leap
forward. And he accepts that these
changes are out of his or CDSA’s
control. But he also says that CDSA is not going away, “not by a
longshot.” The group has formed
an advisory board and is in talks
with digital download service
providers in an effort to see where
and how a group like CDSA fits in,
he says.
Van Horn believes CDSA will
find its equilibrium, but that it first
must survive. “We have to get
through this,” he says. “So we need
to cut some overhead.”
— Scott Morgan
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...Freedom of Choice
West Windsor/571, Sale/lease
4,000 SF. 1 acre. Income-development potential.
KFY to 202 Carnegie
Korn/Ferry
International
(KFY), 202 Carnegie Center,
Suite 105, Princeton 08540;
609-452-8848; fax, 609-4529699. Richard M. Arons PhD,
managing director, Princeton
office. Home page: www.kornferry.com.
The international executive
search firm has moved its Princeton office from Roszel Road to
Carnegie Center.
William Barish [email protected]
Princeton Commerce Center
750-7000 SF, Immediate Occupancy
Just Off Route One at Meadow Road Overpass
Leaving Town
Komal Systems, 196 Princeton-Hightstown Road, West
Windsor 08550. Lakshmi
Reddy, president.
The IT staffing and web development firm Komal Systems appears to have left its office on
Princeton-Hightstown
Road.
Phone and fax numbers were disconnected, and 411 had no record
of the company in the state.
William Barish [email protected]
www.29emmons.com
Available - Near Train - 9300 SF
777 Alexander Park. Will Divide, Great Signage
Immediate Occupancy, Cafe On Site
William Barish [email protected]
New Construction - Medical/Retail
Pennington - Rte. 31
5,100 SF. Will Divide.
Al Toto [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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HOW TO ORDER
Phone, Fax, E-Mail: That’s all it takes
to order a U.S. 1 Classified. Call 609452-7000, or fax your ad to 609-4520033, or use our E-Mail address:
[email protected]. We will
confirm your insertion and the price. It
won’t be much: Our classifieds are just
50 cents a word, with a $7 minimum. Repeats in succeeding issues are just 40
cents per word, and if your ad runs for 16
consecutive issues, it’s only 30 cents
per word. (There is a $3 service charge if
we send out a bill.) Box service is available. Questions? Call us.
- Located in Cranbury, NJ
- Ideal location just off of Route 130, easy access
to Turnpike at 8 and 8A
- Skylight, exposed beams, full height windows
- Variety of private offices, conference and open plan
- Well suited for a wide range of office space users
- Call or email for more information and floor plan
Kevin D. Coleman, Exclusive Broker
609-921-8844 or [email protected]
Commercial Property Network, Inc.
We Have a Place For Your Company
WEST WINDSOR - 950-3200 SF
Office / R&D / Warehouse
OFFICES FOR SALE
Two story office condo (1850 sq.
ft.)in office complex in vicinity of New
Princeton Medical Center. S. Brunswick
with Princeton address and vicinity. Use
1 level and rent the other. asking
$375,000. Re/Max Princeton (609)4521887(Ali)/902-0709.
OFFICE RENTALS
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
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.
Kingston Professional office space
for rent. 700-1000 sq. ft. Parking available in the back. Located on Rte. 27 next
to Charlie Brown’s restaurant. Please
call 609-203-3717.
• Immediate Occupancy
• Flexible Lease Terms
• Ample parking
• Walk to restaurants
• Expansion potential
William Barish
[email protected]
609-921-8844
www.cpnrealestate.com
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.
★
Commercial Property Network, Inc.
We Have a Place For Your Company
Laboratories
& Research
Center
Princeton Corporate Plaza
with over 80 scientific companies
U.S. 1 Route 1 Frontage
New Laboratory Incubator #4
• Affordable & Immediate
• Occupancy Available
• Innovation/Flexibility
• Promoting the Scientific Community
PARK-LIKE CAMPUS WITH OVER 80 SCIENTIFIC COMPANIES
WALK TO HOTEL & GYM FACILITIES • CAFE ON PREMISES
GREAT LOCATION
IN RESEARCH
CORRIDOR
www.princetoncorporateplaza.com • 732-329-3655
Monroe Township: 450 square foot
stand alone building, across from Clearbrook, $825/month + utilities. 609-6558700.
Montgomery Knoll: Skillman address. CPA with 1,500 SF space wishes
to sublet 12’x12’ ground floor windowed
office. $500 to a CPA or attorney, $700
OFFICE RENTALS
OFFICE RENTALS
AREA OFFICE RENTALS
Princeton, Trenton, Hamilton, Hopewell, Montgomery,
Ewing, Hightstown, Lawrenceville and other Mercer,
Somerset & Middlesex Communities. Class A, B and
C Space Available.
For details on space
and rates, contact
www.WeidelCommercial.com
otherwise. Call or E-mail Henry at 609497-2929; [email protected].
ketFair). $495/mo plus share of utilties.
609-734-0004 or 609-977-7111.
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
609-737-3322
or
e-mail
[email protected] www.straubecenter.com
REAL ESTATE
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail [email protected]
Princeton - Heart of Downtown: single office with shared conference and
coffee rooms, parking available. Professional, non-therapeutic uses only with
low client traffic. Call 609-252-1111.
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 Junction: Prof. Office
space in highly visible spot near trains.
All utilities/maintenance included in rent,
except electric. Units from $450 to
$2330 per month. Call Ali at Re/max of
Princeton 609-452-1887 or cell 609902-0709.
Princeton Prof. Office Park, off
Route One. 600 sq. ft. Perfect for Law
Firm, CPAs, Consultants, Medical. Call
732-329-1601 for details.
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 Mar-
Survival Guide
Business Meetings
Continued from page 9
Recently renovated (5,280 SF
Building): Ideal for restaurant, banquet
hall, retail, professional offices or shipping and packing facility with a modern
4-BR apartment in the ‘Burg, Trenton,
close to Sovereign Arena, Thunder Stadium & Gov. buildings. Must see this terrific space with multiple possibilities - all
with ample gated on-site parking. Rent
all or parts of the 1st floor (3,600 SF) at
$13/SF & up or buy at $449,900. Call
ACTION*USA-Market Realtors 609883-7300.
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.
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Trenton: 70,000 sqft warehouse/light
mfg. 4000 sqft office. Ideal for distributors/re-packing. Sell or lease - option to
purchase. Owner anxious. 732-4330809. Century21 GPR Piscataway.
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.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
Carnegie Center: Elegant space in
landscaped office park with Princeton
address. Executive office with separate
entrance & inviting reception area with
spacious storage closet. 2-year sublet
$2,100 per month. 748 sq ft. Call Louise,
212-727-1444.
Hamilton Flex/WH: Need great
space at CHEAP pricing? Ready-to-oc-
South, [email protected].
908-218-0778.
tor Elaine Weinberg, the center
helps organizations determine
their training needs and then writes
grant proposals for them, at no cost
to the companies.
“Having well-trained employees increases the value of a company immediately,” Weinberg says.
“This is an opportunity to save the
bottom line by building a stronger
workforce.” For more information
about the Center for Training and
Development
visit
www.mccc.edu/services_ctd.shtml.
Wednesday, August 5
Tuesday, August 11
5 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, Trenton
Chapter, “Why Not Wednesdays?” networking, and announcement of Renaissance Ball
honorees, free. Trenton Marriott.
609-689-9960.
6 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Como Financiar Su Negocio en el Condado
de Mercer (How to Finance Your
Business in Mercer County)
Spanish Program,” free. Princeton Library. 609-771-2947.
7 p.m.: Monroe Library, “Three Rs
of Job Hunting: Resumes, Resources, and Research,” free. 4
Municipal Plaza. 732-521-5000.
Corporate Angels
Thursday, August 6
7 a.m.: LeTip Networking Group,
free breakfast. Clarion Hotel at
Palmer Inn. 609-243-7860.
8 a.m.: Mercer Chamber, Bordentown Chapter, monthly networking meeting, free. Denny’s, Route
130/206. 609-689-9960.
8:30 a.m.: Creative Marketing Alliance, “Public Relations for Business Owners and Marketing Executives,” free. 191 Clarksville
Road, [email protected].
609-297-2235.
5:30 p.m.: NJICLE, “Practical Advice for Interviewing and Choosing Clients,” Steven Menaker,
Chasan Leyner & Lamparello,
$149. NJ Law Center, New
Brunswick, . 732-214-8500.
6 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Como Iniciar
Su Pequeno Negocio de A-Z
(How to Start Your Business A-Z)
Spanish Program,” free. Mercer
County Connection, Paxson Avenue, Hamilton. 609-771-2947.
7:30 p.m.: Princeton Macintosh
Users Group, “Running Your Mac
Lean, Clean, and Mean,” Dave
Hamilton, co-host of Mac Geek
Gab podcast, free. Jadwin Hall.
609-258-5730.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, Networking and support, free. Parish Hall
entrance, Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609-924-2277.
Tektite Industries, a maker of
LED-based lighting headquartered
in Trenton, recently donated 83
LED bicycle lights to the Trenton
Boys ‘n’ Girls Club Bike Exchange, the Princeton Borough Police Department, and the Princeton
Township Police Department.
The lights, worth around $1,700
retail, will be sold with refurbished
bikes at the bike exchange, with the
money going to the Boys & Girls
Club of Trenton and Mercer County.
7 a.m. DBA Networking Group,
weekly networking, free. Americana Diner, Route 130, East
Windsor. 800-985-1121.
11:30 a.m.: Princeton Chamber,
“The Business Impact of Capital
Health’s New Construction,” Al
Maghazehe, Capital Health Systems, $50. Princeton Marriott.
609-924-1776.
Monday, August 10
7:30 p.m.: Princeton PC Users
Group, “Weird and Wonderful
Websites,” Joel May, free.
Lawrence Library, 2751 Route 1
AUGUST 5, 2009
COMMERCIAL SPACE
Continued from preceding page
cupy space with high ceilings and
docks/drive-ins. 1,800 to 15,000 sf Flex
units at UNDER MARKET rents. Must
see! Brian @ 609-731-0378 or [email protected].
Lambertville Office & Retail: Canal
studios. Attractive, creative exec offices
with tons of style in NY Style Mill Bldg @
low prices. Several bright spaces available
from 300-6,600 sf. Perfect for atty, studio,
prof, couns, web, massage, spa, bakery,
wellness. MUST SEE! Brian @ 609-7310378 or [email protected]
STORAGE
Storage Space two miles north of
Princeton: Great Road and Route 518.
http://princetonstorage.homestead.co
m/. 609-333-6932.
STUDIO SPACE
Studio space for classes, workshops, etc. 19 ft x 19 ft. space with lots
of natural light. $30 per hour. Kingston.
Call 609-468-1286.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Hamilton: Remodeled, immaculate,
3 bedroom, with finished basement, private yard. No pets. Available now. 609273-7186.
House for rent in Princeton: Short
walk to Princeton University, Choir College & Nassau Street. $2,300/month, 3
bedroom, 1.5 bath, off-street parking.
Wood floors down, new carpet up, CA,
W/D. 609-865-4966 phone/text.
Plainsboro: 3 bedroom ranch house
on wooded lot. Full basement and attic.
Central AC. Nonsmoking. $1790. 609683-1515
or
908-229-9056
or
www.tinyurl.com/nwxvxn.
Plainsboro Brittany townhouse near
Lenape trail & Morris Davison Park. 2
bdrms, 2.5 baths, finished loft w/skylight, fireplace, hardwood floors in living
rm/dining rm, large eat-in kitchen. Ample closets, all appliances, central a/c &
gas heat. Great school dist. Close to
NYC bus & train station. Tennis, pool,
tot-lot. Avail. 8/1. No pets, smoke free,
no water beds. $1850/mo. + utils. 609799-5941.
South Brunswick: Immaculate,
large, 2 bedrooms, living room, dining
room, kitchen, cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, washer/dryer, deck, pool,
private entrance. Great location. Offstreet parking. No pets, smoke-free.
$1350/month plus utilities. 732-2131060.
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CONDOS FOR RENT
Southampton, NY: Aug. 15 - LD,
3BR, Pool, CAC, Bike to ocean.
$3500/week. 908-566-5109.
OFFICE FOR LEASE
Lawrenceville: 1 BR, LR, DA condo
in very well kept complex and convenient location. Freshly painted and updated. end unit w/private porch/patio.
$1050
PM.
Re/Max
Princeton
(609)452-1887 (Ali)/902-0709.
INVESTMENT PROPERTY
Investment/Vacation Property for
SALE: Vermont condo with spectacular
views of Stratton and surrounding
mountains in the year-round resort area
of Manchester. 3 bedrooms+ loft. Low
taxes, fully furnished, a great get-away!
$359,000. [email protected].
CLEANING SERVICES
Window Washing: Lolio Window
Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609-271-8860.
902 Carnegie Center, Princeton
4,886 SF, 5,042 SF,
7,625 SF & 8,974 SF
Ewing Commerce Park,
101 Silvia Street, Ewing, NJ
10,864 SF
1060 State Road, Princeton
6,675 SF
Princeton Executive Center,
4301 Route One,
Monmouth Junction
1,350 SF, 3,879 SF, 5,027 SF & 5,892 SF
Lawrence Executive Center,
3120 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville
839 SF, 1,321 SF & 12,564 SF
101 Interchange Plaza, Cranbury
9,362 SF
104 Interchange Plaza, Cranbury
4,160 SF & 12,419 SF
North Brunswick Commerce Center
100 North Center Drive,
North Brunswick
2,472 SF, 5,007 SF & 8,589 SF
HOME MAINTENANCE
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:
609-216-3123.
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. 609275-6631.
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.
609-799-6093.
www.windsorwoodcare.com.
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DOWNTOWN PRINCETON-OFFICE
Nassau Street
1000-3800 SF - Sublease
- Central location,
block to Palmer Square
- Creative open plan,
huge window line
- Walk to Train Station
- Flexible lease term
William Barish
[email protected]
609-921-8844
www.cpnrealestate.com
Witherspoon
*14 Nassau
University Place
Washington Road
Commercial Property Network, Inc.
We Have a Place For Your Company
902 Carnegie Center • Suite 400 • Princeton, NJ 08540 • www.hiltonrealtyco.com
For additional information, contact Matt Malatich,
Mark Hill or Jon Brush at 609-9
921-6
6060
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Employment Exchange
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
JOBS WANTED
JOBS WANTED
Bookkeepers: Detail oriented. Organized. Comfortable with
emails and internet. Please send
resume
to
[email protected]
altors.
[email protected],
800-288-7653 x260, www.Wweidel.com.
will run a reasonably worded
classified ad for you at no
charge. The U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted
section has helped people like
you find challenging opportunities for years now. 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).
consulting. 7 years of experience
with YMCA youth programs.
Specialize in youth development, education/exam process
security & product integrity.
Seeking FT or PT employment
opportunity in related fields. If interested please contact Matthew
at 908-642-6201 or at [email protected].
Dog Groomer: Experienced.
Also a student to learn dog
grooming. Job guaranteed.
Princeton Junction location. 609897-9500. 609-477-4683.
Editor: Work from home and
proof federal court transcripts.
Will supervise a small team.
Work 25 hours per week during
business hours. Income to $35
per hour, plus bonuses. Must
have transcription experience, 4year college degree, and type 70
words per minute. Send resume
to [email protected].
Help wanted excellent pay,
work from the comfort of home.
For details & application send a
long stamped self-addressed
envelope to NDN DEPT NJ PO
Box 26 Bushkill, PA 18324.
Part-time needed for doggy
daycare/kennel in Lawrenceville.
Hard work caring for dogs and
cleaning. All shifts available. E-mail
[email protected].
Real Estate Sales: No Experience Needed, Free Training, License Info Available. Weidel Re-
Sales, Account Executives:
Ambitious and results driven. Excellent phone manners. Comfortable with emails and internet.
Organized. Huge potential.
Please
send
resume
to
[email protected]
Web Designers, e-commerce
architect, and programmers: All
levels, all areas. Please send resume and samples of finished web
sites to [email protected]
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 Worries? Let Dr. Sandra
Grundfest, licensed psychologist
and certified career counselor,
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two days. But I was lucky:
That practice accepted my
insurance, and our current insurance requires no referrals.
Obama talks about streamlining
medical record keeping. Here
again, I will pay a compliment to
our current system: It’s getting better. I no longer have to call my
neighborhood pharmacy, CVS, to
renew my Zocor, Plavix, Prevacid,
Niaspan, Metroprolol, or whatever
else I happen to be “on.” And now I
don’t even have to call the doctor’s
office now for the reauthorization
— CVS is doing that for me.
But information flow is one aspect of my otherwise excellent
medical care that I would like to
see improved. The orthopedist
needs the cardiologist to sign off on
the knee operations. I schlep the
paperwork to the cardiologist’s office, which then asks me when I
was last seen and what procedures
were done. Shouldn’t they know
that? At Princeton Radiology for
the MRI, the technician had no
source other than me for information on what kind of stents I have
and when they were installed.
Wouldn’t it be great if I could refer
them to a web-based database
where they could obtain all data
relevant to my health?
Zweena, a company based at 51
Everett Drive, is working on a system of web-based personalized
health records. But there are obstacles: formatting data from a wide
variety of sources, getting doctors
and medical departments to talk to
one another (emergency rooms are
said to be inefficient in getting
records to the main hospital), and
— of course — privacy concerns.
Here’s an idea: Allow individuals to opt out of any privacy protection in their pursuit of healthcare.
That’s right: No privacy. Put all my
records in one place, make them
accessible to anyone (especially to
all healthcare providers), and I will
deal with the fallout.
Why am I so cavalier? First because, unless you are Michael
Jackson, no one would care. Second because you can just look at a
corporations
because they
are afraid of
leaving the corporate healthcare safety net? (And how many
disgruntled spouses stay married
because they don’t want to give up
their health coverage and their favorite doctors?)
My patient rounds take me to
urologist Sidney Goldfarb, a
physician who has more than the
usual interest in politics (he ran for
Congress as a Republican in 1994).
I ask him about the proposed
healthcare reforms and he refers
me back to the column he wrote for
U.S. 1 in January of this year, when
readers offered their advice to the
incoming President Obama:
“We do need to replace our current health insurance system and
managed care disaster with a nonprofit private sector company to
transfer payments between patients and doctors,” Goldfarb
wrote. “This could be considered a
utility company, mutual company
owned by the enrollees, or a co-op.
The current insurance companies
operate with a profit margin of 14
percent and other overhead expenses that total 20 to 40 percent of
total premium dollars spent.”
Goldfarb continued: “A new
system would get rid of the adversarial billing that we and patients
currently experience. A new system should have the patient owning the policy, not the employer.
The employer still could subsidize
the costs of valued employees as is
done currently. This would make
the insurance transportable for life
and obviate pre-existing conditions. We could then emphasize
prevention which eventually
would save more money.”
“Malpractice and the fear of a
lawsuit on the part of doctors leads
them to practice defensively,”
Goldfarb wrote. “This cost can only be estimated, but approaches 20
to 25 percent. Most defensive medicine consists of expensive technology, such as MRI and CAT
scans. A better system would be
mandatory arbitration of all encounters with patients.”
I would have stayed longer to
chat with Goldfarb, but he had patients in the waiting room. And
back at the house I had another appointment notice from a physician:
The gastroenterologist announcing
that it has now been five years
since that colonoscopy and urging
me to schedule another. The medical merry-go-round — like the
talk in Washington — continues.
Richard K. Rein
[email protected]
62-year-old American male and
pretty much guess everything medically he has wrong with him or is
about to have wrong with him. And
if you can’t guess, just turn on the
television and take stock of the
commercials.
One downside is that you will
get flooded with E-mails trying to
sell you something. But hasn’t Viagra already, well, hardened us to
that possibility? Another potential
downside for a 62-year-old is that a
prospective employer might gain
Should small businesses worry about
an 8 percent charge
for healthcare? We
now pay 13.5 percent.
access to the records. But I suspect
62-year-old job hunters already
carry the burden of their age into
many interviews.
Given a freer flow of information, I believe a reformed healthcare system could also be a more
efficient system. E-mail communications with doctors and nurses
and schedulers would be helpful.
Some things are getting easier:
This year, five minutes after the
MRI on my knee, I was given a CD
to take to the doctor’s appointment.
So my plan, though not exactly a
paragon of efficiency, is not so bad.
And it connects me with a group of
highly skilled doctors and nurses
working in top-flight facilities.
And what does it cost? Critics of
“Obamacare” rail against the 8 percent levy that might be imposed on
business owners who don’t provide healthcare for their employees. Just three years ago a single
employee in our plan cost $399 a
month, or $4,788 a year. Now it’s
$562 a month or $6,748 per year —
an increase of 41 percent in that period. For a single employee making
$50,000 a year our company is now
paying an extra 13.5 percent in
health costs. And yes, it’s a high deductible plan so that these costs
could be worse.
If government will cover workers at 8 percent, that comparison
ought to encourage entrepreneurs,
not discourage them. In addition,
how many would-be entrepreneurs
remain stuck in the employ of large
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