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The End of Cheap Energy, page 4;
The Iconic Sounds of the 1940s, 23.
Up in the Air:
Music in the Afternoon:
Hanna Montana co-star Emily Osment
appears at the Balloon Festival in
Readington on Saturday, July 24.
The Alice Project performs on
Saturday, July 24, 2 to 4 p.m.,
on the Palmer Square green.
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egarding your July 14 cover
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in my March 30 posting on the AtFormer Bristol-Myers Squibb lantic’s blog (www.theatlantic.VP Dick Druckman’s Gold Medal com):
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(1987), the “real victims” of social
change have been the “mature,
sober” men and women whose experience was once admired, facing
“the demotion of the middle-aged
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Edward Tenner
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genarian of his profession. Listen
to Philip Johnson in the early
1990s. I.M. Pei is still going strong
at 83, Oscar Niemeyer (maybe a bit
slower) at 102. And think of Frank
Lloyd Wright and Buckminster
Fuller. Another superstar, Viktor
Schreckengost, who created the
first academic industrial design
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In fact, there’s a big list of articles and books on creativity in the
old. And while architecture is an
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enter during a real estate collapse,
intrepid young architects have always had unconventional alternatives. Responding to the Depression and sex discrimination, Tatiana Proskouriakoff became one
of the world’s greatest Mayanists,
reconstructing ruins with breathtaking renderings.
On the other hand, maybe the
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for human happiness today. And
there are good historical reasons.
As one of my undergraduate teachers, the historian Lawrence Stone
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This is a call to attention and action, as in “attention must be paid.”
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Energy Was Cheap –
Hope You Enjoyed It
E
nergy is cheap in the United
States, and we like it that way. But
although cheap energy has created
a comfortable lifestyle, it is not a
sustainable one. Rather, it encourages over-consumption of fossil
fuels that are rapidly disappearing.
The reason energy prices are so
low in the United States is that subsidies hide the true costs of fuels.
“We have, by some accounts, 250
different subsidies that apply to traditional energy sources that help
hold costs down,” says Stephen
Morgan, CEO of American Clean
Energy in Saddle Brook.
Because American consumers
do not pay for the full costs of the
energy we use, we consume the
world’s fossil fuels at rate much
higher than those of Germany and
other Western European countries
that began to tax energy in all
forms after the 1973 oil embargo.
“This drove up the price of energy,” says Morgan. “It significantly
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economies.”
This slow but steady increase in
energy prices over 35 to 40 years
had the consequence of driving
down energy consumption on a
per-capita basis. “Germany pays
four times as much as we do, on average, per kilowatt of electricity
and uses one-half to one-third of
what we use per capita,” says Morgan. “Price is the driver.”
Comparing energy prices and
energy use in the United States
with international averages yields
an even more sobering picture.
“The U.S. pays one-third to oneeighth of what other nations pay
per kilowatt hour for electricity,”
says Morgan. “The real price of
electricity in the U.S. at the end of
2007, inflation adjusted, is the
same as it was in 1960.”
As a result, the United States has
three to eight times the per-capita
consumption of the rest of the
world. “The amount of energy we
consume is huge,” says Morgan.
“We use 25 percent of the world’s
oil, and we benefit from having access to that oil at relatively cheap
prices — at the expense largely of
the rest of the world.”
Morgan is part of a New Jersey
Technology Council panel on
“What’s Next in Federal Energy
Policy?” on Wednesday, July 21, at
4 p.m. at Weiser LLP in Edison.
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One result of the high energy
consumption in the United States is
its effect on utilities, says Morgan,
who spent most of his career with
FirstEnergy and its affiliated companies. Utilities are legally required to build enough capacity to
serve peak demand, which lasts for
less than 100 hours per year and is
driven by a comfort issue — air
conditioning. “Utilities have to be
able to serve that peak demand, and
8,600 hours a year that capacity sits
idle,” he says. “It becomes an uneconomic investment that utilities
are required by law to make.”
A national energy policy that responds to issues of energy security,
fuel preference, and climate
change should take into account
the issues of artificially low prices,
over-consumption, and idle capacity. But Morgan says this is not
happening. “What’s lacking in this
arena is what is lacking in most of
our large policy decisions — we
don’t have a full fact base when we
start the debate,” he says. “We have
opinions and preferential outcomes — not ‘What is the problem?’”
So, what is the problem. With
no national policy, the United
States is stumbling along. “We
have de facto a system of state-bystate decision-making on the matter,” says Morgan. Policies enacted
at the state level range from doing
little or nothing to two states that
have enacted strong energy policies — California and New Jersey.
We need to take into account the
realities of the past four decades.
People who have been happily
consuming lots of cheap energy
will not give up the resulting
lifestyles in response to dire warnings of future consequences. Arguing that people should conserve because we are going to run out of oil
or because our climate will change
for the worse will not compel them
to modify their consumption
habits. These consequences are too
distant from their lives and the necessary changes are too expensive.
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Left to their own, suggests Morgan, people in the United States
will decide that it is cheaper to
waste energy than to remediate.
This in direct contrast to people in
Germany, who are conserving naturally because it is cheaper for
them to conserve than to waste energy.
What won’t work. What the
United States can’t do, says Morgan, is what Germany has easily
accomplished. Five or six years
ago it instituted an alternative technologies initiative, focusing mostly on solar energy. “It leveled what
amounts to a tax across the board,”
says Morgan. And because the
price was already so high, consumers barely registered the 5 percent or so across-the-board increase in electricity costs. The
price increase supports a feed-in
tariff — a premium paid by a utility to its consumers for excess power they generate from renewable
energy sources.
As a result, Germany, which has
the same solar radiation characteristics as New Jersey — similar
cloud cover and length of the winter season — today has 41 percent
of the world’s photovoltaic energy
installations.
But in the United States imposing a surcharge that would support
a similar feed-in tariff would mean
a $300 to $400 increase in electricity prices. Whereas Germans pay
about 44 cents per kilowatt hour,
the average price in New Jersey is
13 cents a kilowatt hour and instituting a feed-in tariff would mean
quadrupling people’s electric bills.
Consequently, the United States
is not in a position to expand the
building of alternative energy installations by increasing energy
prices. Citing the ugly results of
Maryland’s attempt a few years
ago to institute a 75-percent increase in the price of electricity,
Morgan says, “People won’t pay
exorbitant increases over a short
period. The only ways to drive alternative energy into the marketplace are policy initiatives, like tax
incentives.”
What might work. For the moment, Congress seems to be
stymied. “The Congress knows
these things, but the facts are overwhelmed by local points of view
and perspectives,” says Morgan. If
you are an oil-producing state, you
don’t want an increase in oil prices;
if you are coal producing, you do
not want taxes on coal and carbon
emissions.
Morgan suggests that our national policymakers instead follow
New Jersey’s lead and take Con-
National energy policy should consider
the issues of artificially low prices,
over-consumption,
and idle capacity
gressional action to establish a national renewable portfolio standard. In New Jersey, by 2020, 22.5
percent of all energy must come
from renewable sources like solar,
biomass, hydro, nuclear, and wind.
In New Jersey producers of
electricity have three options: (1)
providing the mandated portion of
energy from renewable sources;
(2) buying solar renewable energy
credits that are issued in the form of
a tradable certificate by the New
Jersey Board of Public Utilities; or
(3) paying an alternative compliance penalty.
New Jersey’s policy has developed in fits and starts, says Morgan. “But we’re one of the states
that has gotten it as right as it can
be, given the current fragmentation. What we really need is for the
federal government to impose a
similar program across the 50
states.”
Morgan suggests that policymakers go back to the core problem
rather than arguing about regional
preferences. “We live in a closed
biosphere,” he says. “All the energy forms of this planet are solar,
and I, as an engineer, believe that
the most direct conversion process
is the one that is the best.”
His company, American Clean
Energy, fits well into this scenario;
it is a New Jersey-based renewable
energy company focused specifically on developing solar photovoltaic developments for commercial customers.
Morgan was born in Illinois
farm country and moved to Ohio in
his teens. His parents were largely
blue collar and Morgan was the
first person in his family to go to
college.
After graduating from Ohio
State University with a bachelor of
science in electrical engineering in
1977, he went to work for FirstEnergy Corporation, headquartered
in Ohio.
During his nearly 33 years at
FirstEnergy Corporation, Morgan
worked in engineering, operational
management, and executive positions. He was president, CEO, and
chairman of the board at Jersey
Central Power and Lightfrom 2004
to 2009.
He became chief executive officer of American Clean Energy in
September, 2009. Through the
Center for Environment, Energy
and Economic Policy at the
Bloustein School at Rutgers University, Morgan was involved in
crafting the New Jersey Energy
Master Plan.
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American Clean Energy is focused on solar energy, the technology Morgan sees as having the best
opportunity to work. The kinds of
commercial solar installations his
company creates will also help
utilities — which may only deliver
electricity but not generate it — to
solve the issues of peak usage.
Luckily the hours of peak load in
the summer air-conditioning season are in the afternoon when solar
energy is at its maximum. Hence,
explains Morgan, putting solar
cells on commercial institutions
that need energy at peak times
solves this problem economically.
“Our standard of living has directly benefited from low prices of
energy, but it is unsustainable,”
concludes Morgan. “We can’t do it
forever and eventually we have to
solve this problem.”
What else might work. What
we need to do is to start including
“externalities,” those additional
costs to the broader society that are
not included in fuel prices, to bring
the true cost of traditional forms of
energy more in line with the costs
of renewable energy.
One example of is the mountain
tops in West Virginia that are removed to get at the coal underneath. “We don’t pay for the cost of
the loss of that mountain,” says
Morgan. “The same applies to
every traditional fuel source. We
have excluded those externalities
from the true cost of energy, and
that s why it’s so cheap.”
— Michele Alperin
Thursday, July 22
E-Health Records
T
he doctor who pulls out pen
and carefully takes notes while patients detail their physical ailments
is becoming a dinosaur. In the
wake of the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and
Clinical Health Act, which authorized incentive payments to clinicians and hospitals that use electronic health records to improve
care delivery, paper is fast finding
no place in the exam room.
With complex diseases and conditions in the hands of specialists
and hospitals, it becomes more and
more essential that all notes and
test results about a particular patient be widely accessible. To support the adoption of electronic
health records, the government is
giving incentive payments over 10
years of up to $27 billion through
Medicare and Medicaid to physicians who follow the standards for
“meaningful use” of electronic
health records as issued by the Department of Health and Human
Services.
To be considered “meaningful
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medications and allergies, smoking status, and current diagnoses.
They also must use clinical decision support software to enter clinical orders and prescriptions and
electronically report data on quality of care. And they must meet privacy and security standards.
Once doctors and hospitals develop electronic health records,
they will need to be able to share
them through health information
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within a region, community, or
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760 Alexander Road. Cost: $110.
For more information and to register, go to NJTC.org or call 856787-9700.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology is responsible for the
adoption of health information exchange technology nationwide.
The challenge ahead is that while
JULY 21, 2010
most hospitals have implemented
For the Record:
electronic health records, less than
Vikas Khosla says the
20 percent of physicians have done
success of an Eso.
health records system
Privacy. “If patients don’t feel
rests on our ability to
their information is being securely
stored and transmitted nationwide,
trust that it works.
they will opt out,” says Khosla.
“We need the involvement of patients and physicians and their ac- extension centers that will provide
ceptance to let data freely flow physicians with technological and
planning capabilities to implement
over the network.”
Laws about patient consent vary fully functioning electronic medby state. In some states, patients ical records.
Some states are well ahead of
may opt out of participating in
health information exchange ini- others in moving toward health-intiatives; in others they are in auto- formation exchanges. The leaders,
matically and must deliberately opt says Khosla, are New York, Massout. Patients will need to be educat- achusetts, Delaware, Indiana, and
ed about what happens to their per- New Mexico. “The common
sonal information to encourage thread in states ahead of the curve
is typically funding mandates that
their consent.
But security is a very real issue, are able to convince legislators and
says Khosla, and it is impossible to state government to invest in
stop breaches of personal health in- health information technology,” he
formation. The HHS website keeps says. Two years ago, for example,
a list of breaches that grows daily. New York passed a law to invest
But by addressing technical and $160 million statewide in health
physical security, Khosla adds, information technology.
New Jersey, he says, is probably
protection can improve. “We can’t
stop breaches from happening but in the middle of the pack. The
we can lower the risk and number Christie administration recently
of incidents by implementing a se- appointed Colleen Woods as
health information technology cocurity program,” he says.
Standardizing practices. Clin- ordinator. “She will be the one to
ical information systems in hospi- facilitate the activities among varitals and physician practices have ous stakeholders in New Jersey,”
been implemented in customized says Khosla.
New Jersey has also received
ways and must be able to speak to
each other. “The challenge of cre- federal funding for four health inating a health information ex- formation exchange organizations,
change is sharing information that and a New Jersey regional extenmay be stored in different forms in sion center by the Health Informadifferent places,” says Khosla. tion Technology for Economic and
“The goal of meaningful use is to Clinical Health Act.
New Jersey has put in place the
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or so. When
Khosla, the dethis is apcision to implement electronic healthcare records proved, funding from the federal
(EHR) software, which can cost as government should follow, includmuch as $25,000, is generational. ing approximately $12 million for
Whereas older physicians may feel the four health information exthat changes in their practices and change organizations and $23 milworkflow would be burdensome, lion for the regional extension cenyounger physicians are likely to ter.
Once health information exstart their practices with some form
of electronic health records in changes are in place, another
longer-term issue will come to fore
place.
Khosla offers an example of a — how to financially sustain the
doctor in Chicago with five offices effort. Funding may come through
who was pushed into electronic membership fees, grants, and
records by his office staff. “Before, paired compensation models, as in
they had to fax or send records by California, where some of the
courier, with less time to see the pa- largest payers have committed to
tient,” says Khosla. “Now he can participating, figuring that the imincrease the volume of patients and proved patient care that results will
increase revenues — not to men- be financially beneficial for them.
Khosla came to New Jersey
tion have a much happier office
from
India at age 6 and grew up in
staff.”
Newark
and Roselle. His father is a
Because physicians do not usually have the technical staff neces- retired photographer and his mothsary to adopt and implement elec- er is a retired banker; her last bank
tronic health records, the Office of was Wachovia, before the merger.
the National Coordinator for He graduated from Rutgers UniHealth Information Technology versity in 1990 with a double major
has established grants for regional in psychology and English.
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Khosla started his first business
with his brother, Computer Conductors, a network services consulting company dealing with network infrastructure like routers,
switches, and servers..
Having begun in the late 1990s
at Computer Conductors to build a
customer base of hospital companies that needed help on network
security and technological infrastructure, Khosla and his brother
started BluePrint in 2003. It now
has 44 employees.
“We have a core competency in
health information security, privacy, and compliance,” says Khosla.
“Relative to a health information
exchange, these are the founda-
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BY BARRY RABNER
PRESIDENT AND CEO
OF PRINCETON
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Why is University Medical Center at
Princeton relocating?
Our region has changed since the hospital’s
founding in 1919, and so has the practice of
medicine. By building a new hospital, medical
office building and skilled nursing facility,
Princeton HealthCare System (PHCS) can ensure
that we are able to continue providing the kind of
outstanding care we have delivered for generations,
while meeting the changing healthcare needs of
our region over time.
When will the new hospital and the new
Merwick be completed?
We expect the new hospital to open in early
2012. The new skilled nursing facility will open
in fall 2011.
Where is it located?
The hospital is located on Route 1, between
Scudders Mill Road and the Millstone River, in
Plainsboro, 2.5 miles from the center of Princeton
and 1.6 miles from Plainsboro Village. That
location is closer to 70 percent of our current
patients.
How big is the hospital?
630,000 square feet of interior space with 237
single patient rooms and the ability to expand to
approximately 360 single patient rooms. Plans
for the campus include a medical office building,
a health education center, a fitness and wellness
center, an acute rehabilitation center, a pediatric
pavilion, an assisted living facility and more.
What makes this hospital different?
It will be a 21st century hospital in every respect.
The patient rooms, for example, will not only be
state-of-the-art in terms of technology but will
also be designed to reduce the likelihood of falls
and infection, aid sleep, and increase privacy and
the quality of communication with the care-giver.
Nursing stations will be decentralized, keeping
caregivers just steps away from their patients at
all times. Spacious and flexible operating rooms
will accommodate today’s most sophisticated
technologies such as robotic surgical systems. An
enlarged Emergency Department will include
specialty areas to better serve children, the geriatric
community and people with behavioral health
needs. In short – we are committed to building one
of the finest regional medical centers in the United
States – and one of the greenest.
You mean it will be designed with the
environment in mind?
Yes. A sunlight-regulating exterior veil will
reduce energy needs while permitting abundant
natural light. An on-site, natural gas-fired
cogeneration plant will produce electricity at
double the efficiency of traditional generators.
We’ll even be producing electricity in our parking
lot, from arrays of photovoltaic panels. Perhaps
best of all, we’re returning the Millstone River to
the community as we create a 32-acre riverfront
public park on what for decades had been
privately-held industrial site.
Will my doctors be there?
The health care campus will include a Medical
Office Building (MOB) connected seamlessly
to the main hospital, giving patients easy access
to their physicians’ offices while enhancing the
continuity of care.
What will happen to the current campus?
The Witherspoon Street site is being sold and will
be redeveloped. Current plans call for a mixed-use
residential complex with an open plaza. From that
site, University Medical Center of Princeton has
provided generations of patients throughout the
region with high quality healthcare. The tradition
will continue at our new health care campus.
This is the first in an occasional series about
the relocation of University Medical Center
of Princeton to nearby Plainsboro. Future
columns will address issues such as access
and technology. For additional information, see:
www.princetonhcs.org/designforhealing.
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tions on which we can build a national
health information exchange network.”
Khosla’s brother is no longer with BluePrint, having spun off his own company providing information technology services to
small businesses. Khosla lives in Old
Bridge.
Although the costs are significant, the
benefits of a health information exchange
will be significant. Khosla suggests it will
decrease healthcare costs — for doctors,
hospitals, insurers, and the federal government — both by improving patient care, reducing doctors’ time with patients, and reducing the redundant costs of duplicated
tests.
“Improving patient care is probably the
greater cost saving,” says Khosla. “If we can
reduce the amount spent on patients for
healthcare, it will have an impact on the federal budget and the gross domestic product.”
— Michele Alperin
Tuesday, July 27
Putting the Partnership
In the Wedding Industry
N
o business is an island. And that may
be particularly true of the wedding industry,
where no one business can handle all of the
details needed to make a truly special day
for the bride to be.
There is the dress shop, the tuxedo store,
the caterer, the bakery, the reception hall, the
florist, the beautician, the jeweler, and the
limo service.
The list goes on, since there are dozens of
different businesses that can cooperate and
collaborate to make a great day for a bride
and groom, and great business for themselves.
It’s in the spirit of collaboration that traditional competitors have come together in recent years, to network not with the brides
and grooms, but with each other. The Bridal
and Special Events Industry event will be
held on Tuesday, July 27, at 6 p.m. at the
Trenton Marriott. Cost: free for up to two
representatives per company, with a $10
charge for additional representatives. Call
609-689-9960, ext.14.
“We want to give the attendees a chance
to meet fellow colleagues and other top professionals in the wedding industry to see
how they can collaborate with each other,”
says Erik Kent, one of the founders of
NJWedding.com, an online depot for wedding planning and consultation.
Along with NJWedding.com, other event
sponsors are Joe Tortorello from WeddingZone.net; David Ciccolella from WedAlert.com; Tom Chillemi from Brides.com;
Gary Paris from Contemporary Bride
Magazine; and Bill Lippolis from Bridal
Expo Inc.
Kent co-founded NJWedding.com with
his wife, Beth, and in fact their own wedding
was the inspiration for their business. “We
met while we were both at Rutgers and got
married in 1994,” he says. The two were
communications majors at the university,
and after college Erik got a job in marketing
while Beth worked in bookkeeping. But the
fun they had had planning their own wedding remained on their minds. “We wanted
to work together, we just weren’t sure how at
first,” he explains.
A trip to Boston in 1995, where two
friends were planning their own wedding almost exclusively using a new tool at the time
— the Internet — was the catalyst for an
idea. “We came home from that trip and
went online and registered the name
NJWedding.com,” he says. They officially
opened their business in 1996, at first using
the old-fashioned method of going door-todoor to businesses in Union and Essex counties to talk local businesses into advertising
online.
Cooperation, not competition. Today
there are about a half-dozen online and paper magazines devoted specifically to the
New Jersey wedding industry, but Kent isn’t
worried about the competition. “There are
about 50,000 weddings in the state of New
Jersey each year. There are so many businesses in the wedding industry that need to
advertise. That’s enough business to go
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July 21
enues parking lot, 609-298-0604.
www.cityofbordentown.com. Produce, foods, plants, crafts, soaps,
cooking demonstrations, entertainment, and educational programming. 4 p.m.
Health & Wellness
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Discover Peace Within
Dancing
Faith
Newcomers Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner
Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149.
www.americanballroomco.com.
$10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton,
609-924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction
followed by dance. $8. 7:30 to
10:30 p.m.
Tzofim Friendship Caravan,
Jewish Community Center,
Jewish Center of Concordia, 1600
Perrineville Road, Monroe, 609219-9550. www.jcctoday.org.
Song, dance, and stories in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish. Register. $18 to $25. 7 p.m.
Summer Workout Series, Can
Do Fitness Club, 121 Main
Street, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-514-0500. www.candofitness.com. Anti-aging. Register
at reception desk. Bring a towel
and water. Inside if it rains. Free.
8 a.m.
Discover Peace Within, Chicklet
Bookstore, Princeton Shopping
Center, 301 North Harrison
Street. Yoga in the Himalayan tradition with Acharya Girish Jha.
Register at [email protected]. First class is free. 6 p.m.
Healthcare Options for Seniors,
Mercer County Connection, 957
Route 33, Hamilton, 609-8909800. www.mercercounty.org.
Register. Free. 10:30 to 11:30
a.m.
Tarot, Planet Apothecary, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 732-4066865. www.planetapothecary.com. A ready of Tarot cards by
Jeanette Wolfe. $15. 4 to 5 p.m.
Caregiver Support Group, Buckingham Place, 155 Raymond
Road, Monmouth Junction, 732329-8888. www.buckinghamplace.net. For adult children of
aging parents facilitated by
Louise Donangelo, Alzheimer’s
Association. Peer support, resources, and tips on care giving.
Supper served. Register. Free. 6
to 8:30 p.m.
Holistic Weight Loss Seminar,
Harvest Moon, 206 Sandpiper
Court, Pennington, 609-4624717. Program focuses on cognitive, emotional, and behavioral
aspects of overeating. Register.
$40. 7 p.m.
Multi-Level Yoga Class, Onsen
For All, 4451 Route 27, Princeton, 609-924-4800. www.onsenforall.com. Explore the basic principles of alignment. Register. $15.
7 to 8 p.m.
Hot Yoga, Princeton Center for
Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609-9247294. www.princetonyoga.com.
Twenty-six seated postures practiced in a heated room. Increases
flexibility, improves circulation,
and reduces stress. $18. 7:30 to
9 p.m.
Food & Dining
Kids Stuff
Wine Regions of the World, Mercer College, West Windsor, 609570-3324. www.mccc.edu. “ABC:
Anything But Chardonnay” with
Bruce Smith. Register. $42. 6:30
to 8:30 p.m.
Artful Conversations: Pythagoras Revisited, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Artist and mathematician Stefanie Mandelbaum discusses harmony and balance in
art, math, and music. Informative
talk followed by a hands-on session in mobile-making. Bring a
calculator. Teens and adults only.
7 p.m.
Yoga in the Himalayan Tradition,
Chicklet Bookstore, Princeton
Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street. with Acharya Girish
Jha. Register at [email protected]. First class is free. 6 p.m.
Pop Music
Journeys of the Night, Bristol
Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Cabaret concert with Bethe B. Austin, John D.
Smitherman, and Demetria Joyce
Bailey with the BRT Band. $31. 2
p.m.
World Music
Summer Series, Mason Gross
School of the Arts, Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street,
New Brunswick, 732-932-7511.
www.masongross.rutgers.edu.
The Klezmatics present jazz and
punk accented Eastern European
Jewish music blended with Arab,
African, Latin, and Balkan
rhythms. Free. 8 p.m.
Cancellation
Willie Nelson and Family, Patriots Theater at the War
Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Country, standards, and gospel music from the
late 1950s to the present.
Drama
Arms and The Man, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey,
F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600.
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Wanna Be in a Rock Video?
The Princeton-based experimental garage rock band ‘Dinner’
(of Princeton Record Exchange and Small World Coffee fame)
gives a live concert — including a video shoot — on Friday, July 23,
at the Arts Council of Princeton. 609-924-8777.
www.shakespearenj.org. George
Bernard Shaw drama. $31 to $54.
7:30 p.m.
42nd Street, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street,
New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m.
The Servant of Two Masters,
Shakespeare Theater of New
Jersey, College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Carlo
Goldoni’s comedy on the outdoor
stage. $32. 8:15 p.m.
Film
Justice: What Is the Right Thing
to Do?, South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbpl.info. Film, discussion,
and refreshments to discuss ethical issues with a Harvard professor. Topics: “Mind Your Motive”
and the “Supreme Principle of
Morality.” Free. 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Student Film and Video Festival,
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Two-day program featuring films
submitted from throughout the nation. Intended for a teen and adult
audience. Free. 7 p.m.
International Film Festival,
South Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junc-
tion, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Screening of “Easy
Virtue.” Free. 7 p.m.
Film 101: American Cinema,
Trenton Film Society, Mill Hill
Playhouse, 205 East Front Street,
Trenton, 609-396-6966. www.trentonfilmfestival.org. Screening
of John Sayles’ “Lone Star” and
discussion. $5. 7 p.m.
Literati
Poetry Workshop, Delaware Valley Poets, Lawrence Public Library, Darrah Lane, 609-8829246. www.delawarevalleypoets.com. Visitors welcome. Bring 12
to 15 copies of your poem. Free.
7:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Shop Opening, One Simple
Wish, 183 Scotch Road, Ewing,
609-883-8484. www.onesimple-
wish.org. Shopping to benefit the
non-profit organization that grants
simple wishes to foster children
and impoverished families in New
Jersey. Custom jewelry, personalized greeting cards, shirts, and recycled cocktail, holiday, and prom
dresses. Celebration includes
tacos from Mariachi Mexican Grill
and virgin margaritas. 6 to 8 p.m.
Farmers’ Market
Wellness Wednesday, St. Francis Medical Center, Chambers
Street, Trenton, 609-599-6464.
www.stfrancismedical.com. Seasonal fruits and vegetables. 11
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Farmer’s Market, Bordentown
City, Farnsworth and Railroad av-
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$32
3-Course
Prix Fixe Dinner
Monday - Thursday
Does not include
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or drinks.
www.lahieres.com
Witherspoon St. ~ Princeton, NJ
609-921-2798
t all started when Theresa
Viggiano returned to New Jersey to
study at Rutgers New Brunswick,
where she soon will earn a Ph.D. in
sociology. Her specialty is aging
and mental health, and she has
been doing research in that field at
the university’s Institute for
Health. Having gone to college and
grad school at the universities of
Kentucky and Indiana (Purdue-Indianapolis), she says, “I got used to
open space and farmers markets.
When I came here, I just couldn’t
bring myself to live in an urban environment.” So she rented a farmhouse in Griggstown. Because the
farm had 100 acres attached, she
and her roommates decided to
plant a few tomatoes, and eventually found themselves with a successful farm stand on their hands.
Little did Viggiano realize that
that move would lead, in seven
short years, to a fledgling business,
First Field, which makes artisan
ketchup from organic New Jersey
tomatoes. Nor could she foresee
that she would be in partnership
with her husband of less than a
year, Patrick Leger, a certified financial analyst who is managing
partner in Giverny Capital Advisors on Nassau Street in Princeton.
Neither grew up in a farming environment — she spent part of her
childhood in Morristown and East
Windsor, and he lived in Montreal
until he was 10 — but with his financial skills and her scientific
background, their endeavor is
thriving. “I love what I do,” Leger
says, “but investing is a solitary
pursuit, as is medical research.
Gardening and making ketchup
takes us both out of ourselves.”
Before opening the Princeton
branch of Giverny, which is based
in Montreal, Leger worked for Steginsky Capital, also in Princeton,
for three years and prior to that was
with PricewaterhouseCoopers in
New York. He has an MBA from
Vanderbilt University and an undergraduate degree from McGill.
He is the youngest of three children
in a family that he says moved
around a lot. His father, a retired
electrical engineer in telecommunications, worked for Bell Labs in
the 1960s and his mother is a
homemaker.
The couple, both in their mid30s, met in 2005 through an online
dating service. “I was in academia,
which is not conducive to meeting
people,” Viggiano says. To which
July 21
Garwig is available to assist. Other needle crafters are invited.
Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
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For Parents
Breastfeeding Support, La
Leche League of Princeton,
Princeton Alliance Church, Scudders Mill and Schalks Crossing
roads, Plainsboro, 609-799-1302.
Information and support for mothers and expectant mothers. Babies are welcome. Free. 10 a.m.
Live Music
Like eating at “Nonna’s” house!
New Chef from New York’s R
Mulberry Street in “Little Italy”
R
John Henry Goldman, Labyrinth
Books, 122 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Jazz. Refreshments. Free. 5 to 8 p.m.
Trenton House Society with DJ
Tony Handle, BT Bistro, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. 9 p.m.
The Invitational, John & Peter’s,
96 South Main Street, New Hope,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Open Mic, Alchemist &
Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
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Unwind at the End of the Week
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www.ilovemarcellos.com
Summer Nature Programs, Mercer County Park Commission,
Baldpate Mountain, 609-9896540. mercercounty.org. Mountain hike and yoga. Bring yoga
mat and water bottle. Register by
E-mail to [email protected]. $12. 9:45 to 11:30 a.m.
Socials
Knitting Circle, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896922. www.mcl.org. For knitters
who already know the basics. Ann
She’s a Ph.D. candidate in sociology;
he’s a managing
partner in Giverny
Capital Advisors on
Nassau Street. Together, they make allnatural ketchup from
Jersey tomatoes.
Leger adds, “We were in two different fields. No longer can anyone
rely on just walking down the street
and meeting the person you want to
spend the rest of your life with.
And we’re not really bar people.”
At their wedding they served jams,
apple butter, and other canned
goods that they had put up the year
before. Soon after meeting, Viggiano got her future husband
hooked on farming, and in no time
they had so many tomatoes that
even after canning jars and jars of
sauce, there were still too many.
Thursday
July 22
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: For
Armchair Travelers
Author Event, Lawrenceville
Main Street, 2683 Main Street,
Lawrenceville, 609-647-1815.
www.Lawrencevillemainstreet.com. Denise Sherman, author of
“Destination: Paris and the
French Riviera.” Reception and
booksigning. Books will be available. 6 to 9 p.m.
Classical Music
Summer Stars Classical Series,
Ocean Grove Camp Meeting
Association, 54 Pitman Avenue,
800-590-4094. www.oceangrove.org. Di Wu on piano. $13.
7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
Patio at 502 Carnegie Center,
609-452-1444. Free. Noon to
1:30 p.m.
Summer Park Series, Monroe
Township Cultural Arts Commission, Thompson Park, Monroe, 732-521-2111. www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com. James
L. Dean Big Band with swing and
rock standards. Weather-permitting. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Summer Courtyard Concert Series, Arts Council of Princeton,
Princeton Shopping Center, 609924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Celtic Crossroads
perform. Free. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Since Leger’s French-Canadian
family had for years been making
their own ketchup, he thought he’d
try adapting the family recipe. “In
that part of Canada, using ketchup
on many dishes is traditional, including on things like holiday meat
pies. But it’s sweeter ketchup than
we’re used to here, often using apples as a base.”
They began by learning the science of preserving and making
shelf-stable products. “Canning is
a scary process,” Viggiano says. “It
took us a year to feel secure. We
made many trips to Lancaster
County to consult with the Amish
to learn about things like hot pack
and cold pack. We got the USDA
guide. Even so, you have to take into account that the pH — the acidity level of tomatoes — can change
from the beginning of harvest season to the end.” One important lesson they learned, she says, is that if
you know the source of your ingredients and you use good science,
safety can be assured, especially
with a naturally high-acid product
like ketchup. Heinz, for example,
has all their tomatoes grown for
them, enabling them to use an unsealed plastic screw-top on their
famous squeeze bottles.
L
eger and Viggiano began experimenting with recipes, using
different types of organic tomatoes
and playing with the amount of
vinegar, sugar, onion, spices, salt,
and canola oil, which now comprise the totality of the ingredients
in what is First Field Original Jersey Ketchup. It is sold in eightounce jars at the Whole Earth Center in Princeton and can be ordered
by E-mail via the business’s website, www.first-field.com.
Dance
Natya Sampradaya, Integral Yoga Institute Princeton, 613
Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction,
732-274-2410. www.iyiprinceton.com. “The Ever Flowing Tradition
of Bharatanatyam” presented by
Divya Nayar. The lecture and
demonstration focuses on the history and theoretical aspects of the
ancient South Indian classical
dance noted for its artistic and
spiritual significance. $15 suggested donation. Register. 7 to 9
p.m.
Drama
Les Miserables, Rising Stars
Voice Studio, Scottish Rite Hall,
103 Dunns Mill Road, Bordentown, 609-291-7440. risingstarsvoicestudio.com. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Misalliance, Princeton Summer
Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062. www.princetonsummertheater.org.
George Bernard Shaw classic.
$16. 8 p.m.
8 p.m.
stage. $32. 8:15 p.m.
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Can Do: Theresa
Viggiano and Patrick
Leger with jars of their
First Field ketchup
and relish.
In the early days they conducted
taste tests on friends, cousins, other
grad students — “anyone we could
get our hands on,” says Leger.
Their aim was neither to make a
gourmet ketchup nor an organic
version of Heinz, which they acknowledge has come to define the
taste profile of ketchup in the U.S.
They call their approach “seed
to spoon,” which includes growing
as many ingredients as they can.
They also want to bring the “sweet
and savory” taste of New Jersey
tomatoes back into ketchup.
Hence, less sugar — and certainly
nothing trendy like agave syrup —
and only locally grown organic
tomatoes. In addition to the traditional “paste” tomatoes, Romas
and San Marzanos, these include
sweeter Jersey varieties, such as
Rutgers or Ramapos. “Whatever
Rutgers comes out with, we give a
try,” says Leger. The couple currently grows about 200 tomato
plants from seed, often certified organic, seeking out those that do
well in the local climate.
As part of their research Viggiano and Leger uncovered a dissertation called “The History of
Ketchup,” which claims that tomatoes for the original Heinz ketchup
were grown in Bridgeton. “We are
tapping into this important part of
New Jersey history. No other
ketchup is being made in the state
today,” Viggiano says. After her
early years in New Jersey, her family, which includes three other siblings, moved to California and
Boston because her father, now retired, was vice president in chemical engineering with PepsiCo and
Breyers, among others. Her mother
has always worked for blood banks
and is currently quality control officer for one in Pittsburgh. But her
dad grew up in Jersey City, where
his Italian mother always kept a
vegetable garden and fruit trees,
and this is where Viggiano’s love of
farming and tradition stems from.
Once Viggiano and Leger had
settled on a recipe, the next step
was to find a health department-approved kitchen. “We asked around
at restaurants but no one had
space,” recalls Leger. “At the time,
the culinary school of Elijah’s
Promise (the New Brunswickbased non-profit that provides culinary education to underserved
communities) was just starting
their farm-to-table series. We
arranged a barter: they wanted us to
teach their people how to can and
preserve and we could use the
kitchen on weekends. They became instrumental in our start-up.
They were so trusting.” At this,
Viggiano shakes her head, recall-
ing how they had estimated that
they would need about two hours to
make a batch of ketchup. “I clearly
recall leaving the kitchen at 3 a.m.
Once, we even set the alarms off.
We would have four or five pots
going at once, with burns up and
down our arms.”
Lisanne Finston is executive director of Elijah’s Promise. She and
her staff take special pride in having partnered with First Field. “We
affectionately refer to Patrick and
Theresa as ‘the ketchup people.’
Sharing our facility was a way for
us to further the mission and vision
that fresh, local food is the best
way for us to combat hunger and
create healthy food options,” she
writes in an E-mail. “They produced food for our operation,
taught people how to preserve, and
continue to inspire us.”
The name “First Field” is a reference to the original field, from
among the several fields on that
100-acre farm in Griggstown,
where Viggiano planted the very
first tomato plants. Viggiano and
Leger have since moved to another
farmhouse further down Canal
Road, but a tenant farmer works for
them at the original site. “Plus,”
says Viggiano, “it refers to people’s first gardens, which are what
they cherish and connect with
above all others.”
First Field eventually outgrew
the Elijah’s Promise kitchen, and
these days the couple carts bushels
of tomatoes down to Rutgers’Food
Innovation Center in Bridgeton,
where they work primarily with
Bruce Masters, a quality assurance
specialist. “We want to be thoughtful about quality control,” says
Viggiano. “For every six or seven
batches we make, we are happy
with maybe three or four.” Important factors include maintaining an
exact pH level, scaling up the
spices, which can be disproportionate, and monitoring the consistency of the ketchup. “It can’t be
too sauce-like or it won’t stay on a
hamburger,” says Viggiano.
“The folks at the center have
given us invaluable advice,” Leger
says. One key piece was to skin and
seed the tomatoes (using a press
they had purchased on a trip to
Montreal) and then to freeze the
puree in giant tubs. “We could then
process the puree at a later time.”
Freezing turned out to be crucial
when last August’s tomato blight
hit the state. “We had no tomatoes
to process!” recalls Viggiano, “So
we used the puree we had frozen
the previous March.”
First Field ketchup is now
processed in giant 100-gallon kettles. These days Viggiano and Leger spend every hour of the growing
season on the business — when,
that is, they are not working at their
day jobs. “Scaling the business has
been an issue,” says Leger. The
couple have also reached the limit
of how many tomato plants they
can grow themselves. “We are in
the process of talking with other organic farmers to see what they have
as surplus so we can expand,” Leger says. Other flavors of ketchup
are in the works — Cumin-Chipotle should be out soon — and First
Field relish hit the Whole Earth
Center shelves the week of July 12.
Writes Leger in an E-mail update: “The relish is slightly more
textured and not the super-sweet
variety often found. It’s more vinegary, but still with a touch of sugar.
It’s made of different types of
green summer squash and cucumbers (both of which we grow),
onion, green pepper, organic sugar,
organic spices, apple cider vinegar,
and salt. The relish was another
way of preserving a bumper crop
and adding value to a vegetable
that isn’t usually preserved, especially since zucchini is another
highly seasonal item that people
can get overwhelmed with.”
The couple is also committed to
bringing back the traditional art of
home canning, or what they term
on their website, “bringing back
the full four-season cycle of sustainable agriculture.” Leger says
they are reaching out to other farmers “to see what they’re growing
and how we can preserve that.” His
wife adds, “People have lost the art
of preserving and canning. We can
fill that niche.”
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www.first-field.com.
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Beach Read: Ernessa T. Carter
appears on Thursday, July 22, at
Artworks, Trenton, to sign copies of her
Essence Book Club Pick and US Weekly Summer Beach Read, the story of an
ugly duckling growing up in small-town
Mississippi. Register at
[email protected].
Indulge yourself with three
hundred acres of breathtaking
vistas, attentive service,
and exemplary cuisine.
• Four Hour Reception
• Elaborate Displays
• One Hour Hot & Cold Butlered Hors d’oeuvres
• Four Hour Open Bar
• Champagne Toast
• Four Course Menu or Stations
• White Glove Service
• Personalized Maitre D’ Service
• Linen Choice
July 22
The Wedding Singer, Plays-inthe-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
Jericho National Golf Club Inc.
Newark Black Film Festival, New
Jersey State Museum, Auditorium, 225 West State Street, Trenton, 609-292-5420. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. Screening of “Still Bill” followed by a discussion. Free. 6 p.m.
Artist Visions Film Festival,
Lambertville Public Library,
Lambertville, 609-397-0275.
www.nickelodeonnights.org. Jet
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250 Brownsburg Rd • New Hope, PA 18938
215-862-8800
Fresh Made To Order Sushi
Freshness is what matters in Sushi.
Comparable in quality & freshness to the
finest restaurants in the area.
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well-prepared food and inexpensive prices.
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Service Available.
All food is cooked
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MARKETFAIR
609-897-7979 Fax: 609-897-1204
Mon-Thurs. 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 11am-7:30pm
Hands and Mark
Miklos in concert at
Lambertville Station
parking lot at 7 p.m.
screening of “The
Wild Swans” at 8:45
p.m., $15; Short
films by area filmmakers, Wachovia
Bank wall, 8:30
p.m.. 7 p.m.
Student Film and
Video Festival,
Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Two-day program
featuring films submitted from throughout the nation. Intended for a teen
and adult audience. Free. 7 p.m.
Late Thursdays, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu.
Screening of “Chinatown,” 1974,
Roman Polanski. Outdoors. Bring
your own seating. In McCormick
101 if it rains. Popcorn and soda
will be served. Free. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Summer Night Swing, Forrestal
Village, College Road West and
Route 1 South, Plainsboro, 609799-7400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Salsa presented by
Ray Rodriguez y Swing Sambroso. Dance lesson with Henri
Velandia from 7 to 8 p.m.; open
dance at 8 p.m. Behind Salt
Creek Grille. Free. 7 p.m. to 10
p.m.
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Viva Ballroom, 1891 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, 609273-1378. www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes followed by guided
practice. No partner necessary.
$12. 8 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Artworks, 19
Everett Alley, Trenton, 609-3949436. www.artworkstrenton.org.
Ernessa T. Carter, author of “32
Candles,” an Essence Book Club
pick. 6 to 8 p.m.
Author Event, Lawrenceville
www.Lawrencevillemainstreet.com. Denise Sherman, author of
“Destination: Paris and the
French Riviera.” Reception and
booksigning. Books will be available. 6 to 9 p.m.
Author Event, East Brunswick
Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, 732-390-6767. www.ebpl.org.
Matthew Solomon, author of
“Houdini, Magician of the Movies”
and a professor of media culture
at the College of Staten Island,
presents a talk about Houdini featuring illustrations, images, and
film clips. 7 p.m.
Spelling Bee
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro.
Match wits with your neighbors.
All ages. 7 p.m.
Good Causes
609-883-8484. www.onesimplewish.org. Shopping to benefit the
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cookies from Lovin Cookies and
open mic night featuring poetry,
music, and comedy. 6 to 8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Gilbert Gottfried, The Stress
Factory, 90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. Comedian
who has worked in television and
film. $22 to $24. 8 p.m.
Faith
Happy Hour, Tre Bar, Tre Piani
Restaurant, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 609-452-1515. www.trepiani.com. Free hors d’oeuvres. Drink specials. 4:30 to 7:30
p.m
New England Clam Bake,
Grounds For Sculpture, Rat’s
Restaurant, 18 Fairgrounds
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Lobster, shrimp, clams, clam
chowder, steamed mussels, and
desserts. Register. $39. 5 to 9
p.m.
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The Next Scorsese?
‘Girl in Glass,’ by
Melinda Morgan, is
among the films in
the seventh annual
Student Film & Video
Festival, Wednesday
and Thursday, July 21
and 22, Princeton
Public Library.
609-924-9529.
Farmers’ Market
Tzofim Friendship Caravan,
Jewish Community Center, Rider University, 2883 Lawrence
Road, Lawrenceville, 609-2199550. www.jcctoday.org. Song,
dance, and stories in Hebrew,
English, and Yiddish. Register.
$18 to $25. 7 p.m.
Princeton Farmers Market, Hinds
Plaza, Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-655-8095. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com.
Produce, cheese, breads, baked
goods, flowers, chef cooking
demonstrations, books for sale,
family activities, and workshops.
Rain or shine. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Food & Dining
Health & Wellness
Grand Opening, Princeton
Sports Bar & Grill, 128 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-921-7555.
www.princetonsportsbar.com.
Ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the transformation of the
former Sotto Ristorante, also
owned and operated by the
Carnevale and Proccacino families. Classic American bar food
with 15 flat-screen televisions
throughout the space. 11:30 a.m.
Group Studio Workout, Optimal
Exercise, 27 Maplewood Avenue, Cranbury, 609-462-7722.
Supervised cardio, core, strength,
and stretching. Register. $20. 6
a.m.
Spinning, Can Do Fitness Club,
121 Main Street, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 609-514-0500. www.candofitness.com. Register at reception desk. Bring a towel and
water. Free. 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.
Prenatal Yoga, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland
Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Class is designed to help
mothers-to-be prepare body,
mind, and spirit for birth and
motherhood. $25. 6 to 7:15 p.m.
Exploring Summer Solstice,
Planet Apothecary, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 732-406-6865.
www.planetapothecary.com. A
look at foods, colors, and scents
presented by Jeanette Wolfe.
$20. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
For Families
Nature Scavenger Hunt, Plainsboro Recreation Park Ranger
Division, Community Park,
Plainsboro, 609-799-0909. www.plainsboronj.com. Surprise ending. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.
For Teens
Live Music
Studio Scrawl, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. mcl.org. “Sport Journalism” for ages 12 to 18 presented
by Len Bardsley, a graduate of
Springfield College who interned
for the NHL Hartford Whalers and
Princeton University and was a
sportswriter with the Times of
Trenton for more than 15 years.
Register. Free. 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Edward Boutross, Santino’s
Ristorante, 240 Route 130
South, Robbinsville, 609-4435600. www.santinosristorante.com. Jazz vocal standards. BYOB. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Mouth of Wilson, BT Bistro,
3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. Rock. 9 p.m.
Singer Songwriter Showcase,
Triumph Brewing Company,
138 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. Hosted by Frank
Thewes of West Windsor. 9 p.m.
Lectures
QuickBooks Advanced, Joseph
Gormley, Mercerville Fire Company, 2711 Nottingham Way,
Hamilton, 609-936-9336. www.joegormleycpa.com. Register.
$99. Lunch and workbook included. 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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July 22
Tea Leaf Green, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union
Square, New Hope, 215-8628300. www.triumphbrew.com.
Register. 9:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Baldpate Mountain, 609-9896540. www.mercercounty.org.
Hike. Wear sturdy hiking shoes
and bring a water bottle. For
adults. Free. 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Tree Tour, Princeton Borough
Shade Tree Commission,
William Street parking lot.
Evening tour exploring urban
forestry presented by Jim Consolloy, a certified tree expert. He will
answer forestry questions and offer tips on home tree care. 6:30
p.m.
Politics
Freeholder Candidates, Mercer
County Republican Committee,
Rosa’s Ristorante, 3442 South
Broad Street, Hamilton, 609-5753397. Celebrate Russel Wojtenko
Jr.’s 40th birthday and Jim
Castelize’s 35th birthday. Register. $40; $75 per couple. 6 to 8
p.m.
Colleges
Paying for College, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896922. mcl.org. Learn about the
state of financial aid and get an
overview of key terms and the variety of financial aid available as well
as a timeline and tips to help navigate the process. Presented by
Kaplan Test Prep. Register. 7 p.m.
Singles
Happy Hour, Princeton Area Singles Network, BT Bistro, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor.
www.meetup.com/PrincetonArea-Singles-Network. Cocktails,
appetizers, and dinner available.
Register online. 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Dinner, Yardley Singles, The
Landing, 22 North Main Street,
New Hope, PA, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6 p.m.
Divorced and Separated Support Group, Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Hopewell, 609466-0758. www.hopewellpres.org. Register. 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Workshop for Better Health,
Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, 609689-1089. groundsforsculpture.org. Walk followed by “Ten Thousand Steps a Day: How Far Off
’70s Throwback:
Tea Leaf Green,
performing Thursday,
July 22, at Triumph
New Hope, conjures
the spirit of bands like
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and the Grateful
Dead. 215-862-8300.
the Mark Are You?” a discussion
presented by Stoneking Wellness
Center. Includes healthy refreshments and park admission. Register. $10 9:30 a.m.
Friday
July 23
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Wine for Yogis
Yoga and Wine, Romy Yoga, 26
Tamar Court, Lawrenceville, 732991-6607. romyyoga.com.
Vinyasa flow workshop with
Romy Toussaint followed by wine
tasting with Mark Censits of
CoolVines. Register. $50. For
ages 21 plus. 6:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Songs for a Summer’s Night,
Opera Project, Sand Castle Winery, River Road, Erwinna, PA,
908-268-1264. Opera arias and
duets by Don Sheasley, Steven
Snow, Raymond Foose, Gabrielle
Antonini, Lorenzo Corrado, Deborah Maher, and Sage DiPalma.
$20. 7 p.m.
Westminster Chamber Choir
and Choral Festival Chorus,
Westminster Choir College,
Richardson Auditorium, Princeton
University, 609-258-9220. www.rider.edu/arts. Mozart Requiem
and Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion with the Westminster Festi-
val Orchestra. Soloists include
Rochelle Ellis, soprano; Scott McCoy, tenor; and Mark Moliterno,
bass. Joe Miller conducts. $15.
7:30 p.m.
Faust, Opera New Jersey, McCarter Theater, 609-258-2787.
www.opera-nj.org. Gounod’s story about a man willing to trade his
soul for a second chance at youth
directed by Trevore Ross. In
French with supertitles. New Jersey Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Mark Flint. $35
to $110. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
Straight Drive, Folk Project, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21
Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489. www.folkproject.org. Bluegrass. $7. 8 to 11
p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Courtyard Concerts, Grounds
For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Animus presents Eastern
Mediterranean world fusion and
dance blended music. Rain or
shine. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100. brtstage.org. Cabaret concert with
Bethe B. Austin, John D. Smitherman, and Demetria Joyce Bailey
with the BRT Band. $31. 8 p.m.
Art
Artists Network, Lawrenceville
www.Lawrencevillemainstreet.com. Gallery features works by
area artists. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Thomas Sweet Ice
Cream, 1330 Route 206, Skillman, 609-430-2828. “Beautiful
New Jersey” presented by Darlene and John Prestbo of Skillman. He is a writer and editor with
works in pastels and oils. She is a
clinical social worker and photographer. On view to July 31. 1 p.m.
Drama
Cliffhanger, Off-Broadstreet
Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Suspenseful drama. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
Into the Woods, Actors’ NET,
635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. Musical by
James Lapine and Stephen
Sondheim. $20. 8 p.m.
Plaza Suite, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Neil Simon’s comedy
presented by the Yardley Players.
$14. 8 p.m.
Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062. www.-
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Let’s Try . . . Princeton Sports Bar
T
he change happened quietly
in a matter of just a few days: the
basement restaurant at 128 Nassau
Street that was home to Sotto Ristorante and Lounge until late June
was transformed into the Princeton
Sports Bar and Grill. The owners,
Rich and Joe Carnevale and John
and Tino Proccacini, are the same,
but sensing a surplus of fine dining
establishments and a recessiondriven demand for inexpensive, casual dining options, they rebranded
their restaurant as Princeton’s only
sports bar.
The restaurant’s cavernous
basement interior is not much
changed from its days as Sotto. As
you come down the stairs from
Nassau Street, there is a lounge
area to your left with the bar and
couches and a table seating area to
the right. The decor, of course, has
changed: the pale yellow walls
now feature sports action shots by
photographer Dick Druckman of
Gold Medal Impressions in Princeton Junction and more than a dozen
flat-screen TVs. The clientele, too,
is younger and more varied than at
Sotto, with several families,
groups of kids, and young and middle-aged couples filling the tables.
Though the TVs are everywhere, they are not overpowering.
The sound is muted, and even with
a mostly full restaurant on a Friday
night my friends and I were able to
have a comfortable conversation
over dinner and drinks. But rest assured: If you came to watch sports,
you’re practically guaranteed to
find the sport you want to watch.
From our dinner table I could see
baseball and boxing, and later on
from my vantage point on a couch
in the lounge area, I could see the
Yankees game on one TV and ESPN’s interminable Lebron James
coverage on another TV a few feet
away.
The menu is big, varied, and distinctly Princeton Universitythemed. Typical bar food — burg-
princetonsummertheater.org.
$16. 8 p.m.
8 p.m.
stage. $32. 8:15 p.m.
The Wedding Singer, Plays-inthe-Park, Capestro Theater,
Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South,
Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical.
Bring a chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Karaoke Dance, American Legion Post 401, 148 Major Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-3299861. Cake to celebrate birthdays. Free. 8:30 p.m.
Film
www.nickelodeonnights.org.
Rock poster art show in library’s
lobby. Photo tour presented by
Anthony Flamio to explore and
photograph the town at dawn,
6:30 to 9 a.m., $30. “Photographic Monograph” exhibition at
Panoply Books. Student Film
Festival at the library, 3 p.m.
Short films by area filmmakers,
Wachovia Bank wall, 8:30 p.m.
“The Bugs of Blackwood” by Andrew Piccirillo at Lambertville Station parking lot, 7:15 p.m. Screening of “The Iron Giant” in the parking lot at 8:45 p.m., $15. 3 p.m.
Dancing
Outdoor Dancing, Central Jersey Dance Society, Hinds Plaza,
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-945-1883. centraljerseydance.org. California mix dance.
No partner needed. Surface is
smooth stone. Free. 7 to 10 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.
The sports bar’s
menu is big, varied,
and distinctly
Tiger-themed.
ers, wings, and onion rings — is accompanied by Italian holdovers
from the restaurant’s previous incarnation as well as pricier American fare like ribs and steaks. I had a
Bicker Burger (onions, mushrooms, bacon, and blue cheese,
$11), named after the process some
of Princeton’s eating clubs use to
select members. A friend had ahi
tuna bruschetta ($11).
The orange-and-black colorcoded menu is divided between
house specialties (orange) and other items (black). Uniquely Prince-
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Soup Kitchen, College of New
Jersey, Ewing, 609-695-5456.
www.trentonsoupkitchen.org.
“Defying Gravity and Exploration
Into Your True Center of Power”
presented by Caroline Myss, author of “Invisible Acts of Power,”
“Sacred Contracts,” “Why People
Don’t Heal,” “How They Can,
Anatomy of the Spirit,” and “Entering the Castle.” Known for her
writings and seminars, she has
appeared on the Oprah Winfrey
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Register. $50 to $100. 7 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Ben Hague, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
tonian selections include the Cornel West (an open-faced sirloin
sandwich, $12), the Woodrow Wilson Burger ($9), the Prospect 10 (a
full rack of ribs, named after the
challenge of drinking a beer at each
of the 10 eating clubs in the same
night, $19), and the Jadwin and
Hobey Baker (specialty pizzas,
$11-12).
The food is decent, but it’s the
inexpensive beer that gives PSBG
its sports bar appeal. A pint, even of
Guinness, is only $5, and after 10
p.m. $1 Coors Light draughts are
available. During happy hour
(weekdays, 4 to 7 p.m.) there are $5
appetizers and wine, beer, and
mixed drinks for $2.50 in the bar
area.
Gone are the classy live music
and well-dressed servers from Sotto, replaced by, as one would expect in a sports bar, All Star Game
viewings and a T-shirt-clad wait
staff. It is a new atmosphere, to be
sure, and one that should appeal to
a wider swath of the Princeton
community.
— Sara Hastings
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Grill, 128 Nassau Street, 609-9217555, fax: 609 921 7556, www.princetonsportsbar.com. Monday,
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Rane's Guide For Dental Emergencies
O
ne of the common trends with dental emergencies is that, the quicker
you get treatment, the better longterm prospect it usually has. As more people are realizing the benefits of early treatment, emergency dental kits are becoming
quite popular. These kits contain a variety
of dental treatments for emergency situations and can be bought in pharmacies
and supermarkets. A dental repair kit is not
intended to perform permanent repairs.
However, it may help patch yourself up
enough to stop the pain, protect your teeth
and get professional treatment. Most kits
include materials that are milder than your
dentist would use. Therefore, they will only
stay in place for a short period of time.
However, your dental kits can be used effectively for temporary treatment in a number of different scenarios:
Toothache: you may have a toothache
caused by a cavity which you cannot see
or reach. Your dental kit will usually include
some clove oil and cotton wool. Clove oil
contains eugenol, a powerful natural pain
killer. Dilute it with some olive oil and soak
the cotton wool, then bite down on the cotton wool with your affected tooth. This
should help soothe the pain temporarily.
Losing a tooth: When you lose a tooth
the cavity can bleed quite heavily. Use the
cotton wool balls in the kit to staunch the
flow of blood. There is also some painkilling gel that can be used to soothe tender gums.
Losing a filling: A lost filling can make
your tooth immediately very sensitive to
hot and cold. Your dental kit will include
dental cement that can be used to cover
the cavity and prevent debris from getting
in that could cause pain.
Fracturing a tooth or losing a crown:
If the structure of your tooth is weakened
by decay, then the tooth can crack. This
can be painful and requires immediate
professional treatment. In your emergency
dental kit, you will find dental cement
which can be used to cover the broken
tooth and protect it from further damage
until you can get to your dentist.
Breaking a denture: This can be uncomfortable and embarrassing to manage
without them. An emergency dental kit will
include orthodontic wax that can help to
smooth the edges of damaged dentures.
Many people find it useful to keep an
emergency dental kit. Parents with young
children find it reassuring to be able to
help their child when they are suffering
from tooth pain. Teeth are most vulnerable
to decay from ages six to fifteen. This is
the time when we are most likely to suffer
from a toothache. Therefore, it makes
sense to keep a dental repair kit in the
home. People are also attracted to the
idea of dental repair kits when travelling.
When we go on vacation, we are all
used to having injections, taking malaria
tablets, mosquito repellent and travel insurance. However, how many of us think
about what we would do if there was a
dental emergency and we were a long way
from the nearest hospital? These kits are
also helpful for sports physicians, team
coaches and school nurses. Many of the
more serious dental traumas occur on the
sports field and immediate treatment can
often make the difference between losing
or saving a tooth. You do not necessarily
have to buy a branded dental repair kit
Here's a list to make your own dental
emergency kit, it's a great project for you
and your child to do this summer: Clove
oil, antiseptic mouthwash, cotton wool,
cotton gauze pads, pain relieving gel,
acetaminophen tablets (Tylenol), Ibuprofen tablets (Advil), dental examining
gloves, dental examining mirror, dental
tweezers, dental exploring point, q-tips,
dental wax, dental floss, temporary filling
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try to attempt what is known as DIY (do it
yourself) dentistry. In virtually every case,
this is ill advised.
Without professional care, the condition
of your teeth will deteriorate. If you have
already sustained damage to your teeth,
patching it up with a home kit is just a
short-term fix. You have not healed the
tooth. You have simply bought yourself
some time and, hopefully, eased the pain
while you wait for your dentist to see you.
If you treat your teeth at home as an alternative to visiting your dentist, you will more
than likely require more complex and expensive dental work in the future.
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Faith
Outdoor Shabbat, Har Sinai Temple,
2421 Pennington Road, Pennington,
609-730-8100. www.harsinai.org.
Weather permitting, Shabbat services
will be held outdoors. 7 p.m.
Farmers’ Market
Farmers’ Market, Downtown Hightstown, Memorial Park, Main Street. www.downtownhightstown.org. Produce, flowers, baked goods, and area vendors. 4 to
8 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Meditation Circle, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1, Lawrence
Township, 609-989-6920. www.mcl.org.
Register. 2:30 p.m.
Family Night Out, Can Do Fitness Club,
121 Main Street, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 609-514-0500. www.candofitness.com. Register. Free. 6 to 9 p.m.
Hatha Yoga: Spanda, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland Drive,
Suite 506, Skillman, 609-924-7294.
www.princetonyoga.com. Learn asanas
and pranayama in combination to build
overall strength, increase flexibility, and
aid in overall relaxation. $17. 6:30 to
7:45 p.m.
Yoga and Wine, Romy Yoga, 26 Tamar
Court, Lawrenceville, 732-991-6607.
romyyoga.com. Vinyasa flow workshop
with Romy Toussaint followed by wine
tasting with Mark Censits of CoolVines.
Register. $50. For ages 21 plus. 6:30
p.m.
Kids Stuff
Friday Night Live: Math Treasure Hunt,
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren
Street, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Go on a treasure hunt around
the library. Answer the math questions
correctly to win the booty. Ages 9 to 14.
Register. 7 p.m.
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Family Theater
Belly Fat?
The Little Mermaid, Bucks
County Playhouse, 70 South
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $8. 11 a.m.
and 1 p.m.
Alice in Wonderland, Somerset
Valley Players, Amwell Road,
www.svptheatre.org. Alice, the
White Rabbit, and the Mad Hatter
on stage. $10. 8 p.m.
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Happy Hour, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Wine available. 5 to 8 p.m.
Flashback Fridays, KatManDu,
50 Riverview Plaza, Waterfront
Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609393-7300. www.katmandutrenton.com. Buffet from 5 to 8 p.m.,
$5. DJs Bryan Basara and Davey
Gold with music from 1970s, 80s,
and 90s. 5 p.m.
Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk
Cafe, 2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995. Solo
jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Lights on the River, Pasha
Rugs, 15 Bridge Street, Lambertville, 609-397-5434. www.pasharugs.com. Fortune telling, Turkish
music, and a raki tasting of the
Turkish national drink. Sit on the
large handmade rug pillow, a gigantic cushion made from more
than 80 colorful vintage antique
rugs to watch the fireworks at
9:30 p.m. 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Liana Brooke Guberman, Rocky
Hill Inn, 137 Washington Street,
Rocky Hill, 609-683-8930. www.rockyhilltavern.com. Opera arias
performed by Hillsborough resident. Reservations suggested. 6
to 8 p.m.
Summer Wine and Music Series,
Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Karen Rodriguez
Ensemble with Latin jazz. Bring a
lawn chair. $15. Wine and cheese
available. Buffet dinner and reserved seating for concert, $25.
Register. Rain or shine. 7 p.m.
Animus, Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Rain or
shine. Register. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Kim Simmonds, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown, 609-3240880. www.the-record-collector.com. $18. 7:30 p.m.
Dinner, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street,
Call 609-924-2816 to sign up for the
Free Seminar— limited seating.
‘Desk of Questioning’: 'Shadow and Memory:
Ellis Island’s Unrestored Buildings,' featuring the
photography of Christopher Barnes, is on view at
the Morris Museum in Morristown through
Sunday, August 1.
On Thursday, July 22, 6:30 p.m., Dorothy Hartman, VP, planning &
programs, Ellis Island Institute, discusses the restoration project
that is underway to restore and use the 30 remaining buildings at
Ellis Island. Morristown. 973-971-3700.
609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Live concert and
video shoot with the Princetonbased progressive, garage rock
group. $8. 8 p.m.
Bob Egan, Bowman’s Tavern,
1600 River Road, New Hope, PA,
215-862-2972. www.bowmanstavernrestaurant.com. 8 p.m.
Arnie Baird, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. Acoustic
blend. 8 to 10 p.m.
Dr. Doz Band, BT Bistro, 3499
609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. Rock. 9 p.m.
Sourland Band, John & Peter’s,
Ghost in the Woods, Triumph
Brewing Company, 400 Union
Square, New Hope, 215-8628300. www.triumphbrew.com. $5
cover. 10 p.m.
Fireworks
Friday Night Fireworks, New
Hope Chamber, New Hope, 215862-9990. newhopechamber.com. Happy hour, food specials,
shopping until 10 p.m., and fireworks at 9:30 p.m., in both New
Hope and Lambertville. 5 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.
Dance and Social, Professional
and Business Singles Network,
Brookside Manor, 50 Bustleton
Pike, Trevose, PA, 610-384-5544.
www.PBSNinfo.com. Cash bar.
Ages 40 to 65. $15. 8 p.m.
Drop In, Yardley Singles, Washington Crossing Inn, River Road,
PA, 215-736-1288. Music and
dancing. Cash bar. 9 p.m.
Socials
Luncheon, Rotary Club of the
Princeton Corridor, Hyatt Regency, Carnegie Center, 609799-0525. www.princetoncorridorrotary.org. Register.
Guests, $20. 12:15 p.m.
Scrabble
Scrabble, Classics Used and
Rare Books, 117 South Warren
Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All
skill levels welcome. 6:30 p.m.
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Jersey Regional Coalition,
Princeton University, Frist Campus Center, Washington Road,
609-341-4701. www.plansmartnj.org. “Building One New
Jersey: State Planning for Inclusion, Sustainability, and Economic Growth,” an interchange with
PlanSmart NJ. Speakers include
Senator Stephen M. Sweeney,
Assembly Majority Leader
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president Verizon NJ; Timothy
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Consumer Affairs, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33,
Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. Information on
credit, home improvement, automotive, or Internet fraud. Register. Free. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting, Toastmasters Club,
Mary Jacobs Library, 64 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, 609306-0515. http://ssu.freetoasthost.ws. Build speaking,
leadership, and communication
skills. Guests are welcome. 7:30
p.m.
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July 24
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Indian
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Brunswick, 732-397-3619. www.kalamandirdanceco.com. Indian
contemporary dance production
focusing on nature is based on
Rabindranath Tagore’s poem
“Prithibhi.” Indian dinner included.
$25. 4:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Voice Recital, Westminster
Choir College, Bristol Chapel,
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Participants from the
CoOPERAtive program perform.
Free. 2 p.m.
Don Giovanni, Opera New Jersey, McCarter Theater, 609-2582787. www.opera-nj.org. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
International Summer Music Series, Liberty Village Outlets, 1
Church Street, Flemington, 908782-8550. La Mela presents concert. Weather permitting. 1 to 4
p.m.
Summer Music Series, Palmer
Square, On the Green, 609-9212333. www.palmersquare.com.
Alice Project performs. Free. 2 to
4 p.m.
Summer Concert Series, Mercer
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Review: ‘Misalliance’
I
find a lot of the early-to-mid
20th century British comedies to be
long on comedy and short on ideas;
they tend to be full of sparkling language and quotable, chuckle-inducing bon mots, but everything
gets wrapped up in a pretty bow
that’s all surface tension with no real thought behind it. Shaw’s never
been that kind of writer, though;
there’s always scandal and social
upheaval right there up front or just
under the surface. And there’s a lot
to like about “Misalliance,” playing at Princeton Summer Theater
through Sunday, August 1. The
trouble is that this play is the inverse of the above formula: long on
delicious ideas (and length in general), but a little on the short side
when it comes to genuine laughter.
You’ve got all the staples of
your standard English country
comedy: the play is set on a single
day in May, 1909, at the greenhouse of a country estate in Surrey,
which, in an interesting yet unexplained design decision, is filled
with curios and props of all sorts.
The estate is owned by a workingclass gentleman turned successful
underwear merchant (Bradley Wilson), who lives with his wife ((Dominique Salerno), and their two
grown children. Their kids appear
to fall into neat little boxes at first
— Johnny (Shawn Fennell) has a
little bit of the dumb jock about
him, and Hypatia (Veronica
Siverd) is both a cultured young lady and chafing at the boundaries in
which society has placed her. From
this point, it looks like we might get
something that looks like a Jane
Austen novel.
We don’t. Over the course of the
evening’s near-three hour length,
plot points are revealed and hinged
around a series of visitors, expected and otherwise. Lord Summerhays (Andy Linz) shows up, preceded by his developmentally arrested dilettante of a son, Bentley
(Daniel Rattner), who happens to
be Hypatia’s fiance. On the uninvited front we have a pair of adventurers who drop in via plane crash.
Yes, you read that right. A plane
crash ends act one. The two characters added are Bentley’s boarding
While there are
dazzling moments
and spirited conversations throughout,
it’s a tough evening
to sit through.
school chum and pilo, Joey Percival (Ben Taub, full of Dudley
Doright-esque charm) and the real
winner of the evening’s entertainment, Lina Szczepanowska (Rebecca Foresman), a Polish acrobatess and daredevil who steals the
heart of every man she meets with
her aggressive charm and eyebrow-raising S&M gymnastic antics. There’s also a gunman (the
genuinely funny and charming
Tyler Weaks) hiding in a Turkish
bath, ready to murder the family
patriarch.
So, quick checklist: British
wealth, garden drama, English
lords, adventuresome young lady,
plane crash, Polish acrobat, actionhero pilot, acerbic dilettante, Turkish bath, gun wielding maniac. On
those items alone, I’d be sold for
the madcap adventure one expects
when these elements are all put into play.
T
he disappointment comes in
that the final product is so much
less interesting than the parts that
comprise it. Shaw avoided head-on
scorn from critics in his day by
dubbing “Misalliance” a “debate”
instead of a play. And I can see
what he was trying to do — there
are a lot of heady ideas afoot, as
each character transforms into a
mouthpiece for a different perspective. We get treatises on the nature
of male and female power, the
plight of the working-class man,
the sanctity of marriage, the ridiculousness of marriage, age-appropriate courtship, foreign policy, the
pros and cons of socialism, masculinity, and even proper airplane
repair and maintenance. But it all
feels unfocused, as if a shotgun
were loaded with all of the hotbutton issues of Shaw’s time and just
fired at the stage.
The company does the best they
can with it, and there are certainly
standouts. Siverd is charming and
in firm control as Hypatia, and a
surprising relationship revelation
concerning her is one of the
evening’s true juicy bits of repartee
and surprise. Rebecca Foresman is
the true scene-stealer of the play, as
Lena is both a delight and a much
needed firecracker of energy and
verve.
Comedy in the Country: Veronica Siverd and
Daniel Rattner.
Ultimately, I find “Misalliance”
puzzling as a selection for PST’s
summer season. It’s a play that requires more than half the able cast
to play roles outside their normal
age ranges. What has the potential
to be an ambitious theater selection
ultimately has its suspension of
disbelief removed the moment we
see age makeup on the young actors. It becomes an ambitious college theater selection instead, and
the clear and present talents of this
company deserve better.
While there are dazzling moments and spirited conversations
throughout, it’s a tough evening to
sit through, especially in the increasingly-hot Hamilton Murray
Theater, where a choice has to be
made between making sure the actors are audible and running the AC
consistently. PST has chosen the
former, and the theater reaches uncomfortable levels of warmth by
the evening’s end. Which is a
shame; there’s fun and zany moments of joy and laughter near the
play’s conclusion, that are unfortunately snuffed out by the uncomfortably hot audience.
— Jonathan Elliott
“Misalliance,” Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray
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at West Windsor Library, 333 North Post
Road. Snacks provided. 609-799-0462.
July 24
Billy Walton Band, West Windsor Arts Council, Nassau Park
Pavilion, West Windsor, 609-9191982. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Rock and roll with Billy Walton, a
guitarist and vocalist; William
Paris of West Windsor on bass,
and Marcus Croan on drums.
Free concert in “..and the beat
goes on” summer music series.
Bring chairs or blankets. Inside
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BoConcept, the Danish furniture
store in Nassau Park, follows the
concert. Free. 6 p.m.
6th Street Quaternion, Blue
Point Grill, 258 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-1211. www.bluepointgrill.com. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
and 8 p.m.
Smokey Robinson, Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting Association, 54 Pitman Avenue, 800590-4094. www.oceangrove.org.
Motown. 8 p.m.
Art
Fine Art Workshop, Artists of
Yardley, AOY Art Center, 949
Mirror Lake Road, Yardley, PA,
215-860-7877. www.artistsofyardley.org. “Color Management”
with Dot Bunn. Bring your own
supplies. Register. $50. 9 a.m. to
1 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Dance
Songs of Nilad and Passion and
Fire, Silk City Summer Arts
Festival, Eastside Park, Paterson, 212-415-5500. www.silkcityartsfestival.com. “Songs of Nilad”
and “Passion and Fire” were choreographed by Marie Alonzo of
West Windsor will be performed
by Henri Velandia and Mira
Estaphanous, also of West Windsor; Nancy Musco of Plainsboro;
Kelsey Burns, Cathy Gonzales,
Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen, Rogerson St. Jean, Danielle Mondi,
Kevin Toft, and Danielle Mondi.
Picnics and blankets are welcome. Free admission. Raindate
is Sunday, July 25. Noon to 1
p.m.
Prithibhi, Kalamandir Dance
Company, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-397-3619. www.kalamandirdanceco.com. Indian
contemporary dance production
focusing on nature is based on
Rabindranath Tagore’s poem
“Prithibhi.” Indian dinner included.
$25. 4:30 p.m.
Drama
$16. 2 and 8 p.m.
2 and 8 p.m.
New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 4 and 8 p.m.
$29.50. 7 p.m.
Into the Woods, Actors’ NET,
635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. Musical by
James Lapine and Stephen
Sondheim. $20. 8 p.m.
Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
$14. 8 p.m.
stage. $32. 8:15 p.m.
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chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Dinner Theater
A Slaying in the Speakeasy,
Publick House, 111 Main Street,
Chester, 908-879-6878. www.theatertogo.com. Murder mystery
dinner theater performed by Theater To Go includes a four-course
dinner. Register. $49. 7 p.m.
Film
www.nickelodeonnights.org.
Wine tasting and architecture
tour, 1 p.m., $10. Screening of
“Gemini Rising” and meet Gina
Andreoli and Chris Marston at 2
p.m., $15. Screening of “Bela
Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart” at
3 p.m., $15. Upper Princeton
Swing Collective in outside concert at 5 p.m. The High Hearts in
concert at 6:30 p.m. Screening of
“When You’re Strange” at 7:30
p.m., $15. Short films by area
filmmakers at 8:30 p.m. 1 p.m.
Outdoor Movie Series, Plainsboro Recreation, Morris Davison
Park, Plainsboro, 609-799-0909
ext. 552. www.plainsboronj.com.
Screening of “Madagascar.” Bring
blankets and lawn chairs. Free. 7
p.m.
Dancing
and dance. $12. 7:30 to 11 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to
11 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Borders Books,
601 Nassau Park, 609-514-0040.
www.bordersgroupinc.com.
Deanna Pinns-Lawson and Stella
I. Williams, authors of “Independent Women.” Booksigning. 1
p.m.
Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-3948400. William Mackson discusses
his kids’ book, “The Hip Hop Catz
and the K9 Crew.” 2 p.m.
Good Causes
609-883-8484. www.onesimplewish.org. Shopping to benefit the
free coffee and donuts. 10 a.m. to
1 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Ben Hague, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com.
Register. $22. 7:30 and 9:30
p.m.
Nicole Rogers and Helene Angley, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-7168771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Music and comedy. 8 p.m.
Rodney Laney, The Stress Factory, 90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 732-5454242. www.stressfactory.com. $13 to
$15. 8 and 10:30
p.m.
Fairs
Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, Solberg Airport, Readington,
800-HOT-AIR9.
www.balloonfestival.com. More than 125
multicolored balloons
dotting the skies. Ascensions are wind
and weather-permitting at 6:30
a.m. and 6:30 p.m. $25. Emily
Osment in concert at 2 p.m.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers in concert at 8 p.m. 6
a.m.
Food & Dining
Product Cooking Demonstration, Miele Design Center, 9 Independence Way, Princeton,
800-843-7231. www.mieleusa.com. Register. Free. Noon.
Food Tastings, Nassau Seafood
& Produce, 256 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-0620. www.nassaustreetseafood.com. Free.
Noon to 2 p.m.
Summer Wine Faire, New Hope
Chamber, The Tuscany, 18 West
Mechanic Street, New Hope, PA,
215-862-9990. www.newhopechamber.com. Wine tasting, food,
and shopping. Rain or shine.
Register. $25 to $30. Must be 21.
Noon to 7 p.m.
Farmers’ Market
Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition, Jamesburg Presbyterian
Church, Gatzmer Avenue and
Church Street, 732-512-7417.
www.ilovejamesburg.com. Produce, non-profit organizations,
and specialty vendors. 9 a.m. to 2
p.m.
West Windsor Community
Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive
Parking Lot, Princeton Junction
Train Station, 609-577-5113.
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Produce, bakery
items, pizza, coffee, and other
foods and flowers. West Windsor
Arts Council, West Windsor Bike
and Pedestrian Alliance, and Yes,
We Can, a volunteer group that
collects food for the Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton.
West Windsor Arts Council’s community art show with artist Ken
Liao. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Trenton Fresh Farmers’ Market,
Crisis Ministry of Princeton
and Trenton, North Clinton and
North Olden avenues, Trenton,
609-396-9355. www.thecrisisministry.org. Produce, health
screenings, cooking demonstrations, and health and wellness
programs. Vendors will accept
food stamps. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Gardens
Planting a Wetland Meadow,
Master Gardeners of Mercer
County, 431A Federal City Road,
Pennington, 609-989-6830.
www.mgofmc.org. Program focusing on several varieties of native wetland and rain garden
plants presented by Nancy Putnam. Register. $3. 10 to 11 a.m.
Health & Wellness
Nia Dance, Functional Fitness,
67 Harbourton Mt. Airy Road,
www.nianewjersey.com. Register.
$17. 10 to 11 a.m.
Insight Meditation Open House,
Princeton Center for Yoga &
Health, 50 Vreeland Drive, Suite
506, Skillman, 609-924-7294.
www.princetonyoga.com.
Overview of insight meditation,
known in Asia as Vipassana, by
Beth Evard, founder of Princeton
Insight Meditation. Two short
meditation practice sittings. Free.
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
History
The Armory System, Washington Crossing State Park, 355
Washington Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville, 609-737-2515.
Stanley Saperstein presents a solo presentation as Isaac Coren,
director of the Carlisle Laboratory
during the Revolutionary War at 1
p.m. Visitor Center museum features Colonial and Revolutionary
War artifact. $5 per car. 1 to 4
p.m.
For Families
Cardboard Canoe Race, Plainsboro Public Library, Waters
Edge Park, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. All ages
are encouraged to enter as experience has proven that adults do
not have an advantage over
youngsters. Plainsboro Fire Department and Rescue Squad will
have crews in the water. 10 a.m.
to noon.
Evening Hayrides, Howell Living
History Farm, Valley Road, off
Route 29, Titusville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. Selfguided tours, picnic in the pine
grove, marshmallow roast, and
20-minute rides. Free. 5 to 8 p.m.
Family Theater
The Little Mermaid, Bucks
County Playhouse, 70 South
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $8. 11 a.m.
and 1 p.m.
Lectures
What Does Your Handwriting
Say About You?, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896922. www.mcl.org. Certified
handwriting analyst Cynthia Mernone will help you to understand
the inherent traits in yourself and
others, identified through handwriting. Register. 10 a.m.
Pakistan Lecture, Princeton Senior Resource Center, Suzanne
Patterson Center, 45 Stockton
Street, 609-924-7108. “Pakistan
Today” presented by Akhtar Shah,
a retired Pakistani military officer.
Register. Free. 1 p.m.
Live Music
Larry Tritel and Guy DeRosa,
Halo Pub, 5 Hulfish Street,
Princeton, 609-921-1710. Folk
and jazz. 7 to 10 p.m.
John & Carm, Halo Pub, 4617
Nottingham Way, Trenton, 609586-1811. 7 p.m.
Bigger Thomas, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown, 609-3240880. www.the-record-collector.com. $12. 7:30 p.m.
John Henry Goldman, Tre Piani,
120 Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4521515. www.straightjazz.com.
Jazz with Lisle Atkinson on bass,
Richard Wyands on piano, and
John Henry Goldman on trumpet.
7:30 to 11 p.m.
JULY 21, 2010
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Review: ‘Cliffhanger’
D
espite the temptation in
these troubled economic times to
play it safe and concentrate on
comedy-farces, Hopewell’s OffBroadstreet Theatre has chosen to
open its 26th season with a thriller,
James Yaffe’s “Cliffhanger,”
which dates from the 1980s. Yaffe
is perhaps better known as a novelist than a playwright, with a particular interest in Jewish themes. Audiences might be happy to learn,
though, that although “Cliffhanger” may be billed as a thriller —
and indeed one character is apparently dead before the first scene is
even over — the play has more the
flavor of a classic farce than it does
of a Hitchcock movie.
Henry Lowenthal, a retiring
ethics professor in the philosophy
department of an unnamed university, has been told by the university
president that he will be appointed
to a prestigious endowed lectureship and will be able to continue
teaching well past retirement age.
Despite the president’s support, the
plan is undermined by the current
head of the philosophy department,
leaving Lowenthal disappointed
and furious.
Lowenthal is clearly a good guy,
and his wife, Polly Lowenthal, is a
canny, pleasant, and intelligent
woman, obviously skilled at finding ways to solve problems that
minimize the accompanying strife
and stress. Her behavior suggests
this is not the first time she’s had to
do some fancy footwork on her
husband’s behalf. The new head of
the philosophy department, on the
other hand, is an outrageously obnoxious woman, lording it over
this man she’s displacing, thus
Though billed as a
thriller, the play has
more the flavor of a
classic farce than it
does of a Hitchcock
movie.
making his desire to behave like a
decent person harder to accomplish.
A
dding to Lowenthal’s stress
are the shenanigans of a spoiled
wealthy student who has failed
Lowenthal’s ethics course and insists that he deserves to have his
grade changed to a passing one
simply because of who he is. As
some of the action begins to get out
of hand, the characters are joined
by a police detective who senses
something fishy is going on. It
turns out, surprise, that the detective had also been a student of
Lowenthal’s.
The older characters are committed to ethical behavior, the
younger ones to opportunism. But
this does not prevent the older
characters from behaving unethically. Indeed, one of the paradoxes
the dialogue plays with is how unethical you can be if what you’re
doing is for the greater good.
To reveal any more of the plot
would destroy too much of the
play’s suspense — this is, after all,
supposed to be a thriller. But it
should be pointed out that as the
audience enters the theater to partake of Off-Broadstreet’s signature
coffee and dessert, what they see is
a striking large living room. The
handsome room stretches out to fill
the maximum width it can. A
Mozart symphony, played at low
volume, adds to the serenity. I’m
not usually a fan of background
music, but this becomes the music
that the Lowenthals listen to as the
play proceeds, and the choices
made here are definitely wise ones.
The setting prepares the audience
for the world they’re entering,
though certainly not for what’s going to go on in that world.
Bob Thick has directed and designed “Cliffhanger,” as always,
skillfully. Ann Raymond designed
the costumes efficiently and attractively, as always.
All but one of the actors are OffBroadstreet veterans. The professor is played by Doug Kline, here
taking on his 24th role with OffBroadstreet. (He has also served
Off-Broadstreet as a director — he
was responsible for last winter’s
“Bedside Manners.”) Kline does a
very good job of conveying his basic decency while fuming at the
way he’s being treated and resisting the temptation to behave immorally. His wife is played by
Mary Kemp, who has also appeared in many Off-Broadstreet
shows. She handles adroitly her
mission of being a nice person who
is trying to circumvent those who
aren’t so nice and who
might even consider waiving her moral standards a
bit to accomplish what
needs to be accomplished.
The policeman, Dave
DeVito, is played by Barry
Abramowitz, another veteran of several Off-Broadstreet productions. He is
skilled at being the niceguy detective, whose
work sometimes leads
him where he doesn’t
want to go. Vanessa Oates,
who has acted at OffBroadstreet a few times
before, is the nasty professor. The one newcomer is
Alex Angilella, the failing
student. One character I haven’t
mentioned who is critical to the
plot is Socrates; not only do his
ideas keep popping up in the dialogue, but the bronze bust that represents him and sits up center stage
in the foyer gets to play a role too.
— Barbara Westergaard
“Cliffhanger,” Off-Broadstreet
Theater, 5 South Greenwood Av-
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Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The theater opens for
dessert at 7 and at 1:30 p.m., respectively. Evening shows begin at
8 p.m.; matinees at 2:30 p.m.. 609466-2766 or www.off-broadstreet.com.
Redecorating: Doug
Kline (Henry Lowenthal) of Newtown, PA;
Vanessa Oates (Edith
Wilshire, the corpse)
of Hopewell; and Mary
Kemp (Polly Lowenthal) of Trenton.
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Opera Review: ‘Don Pasquale’
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he impact of a chamber
opera in a small space can be as
telling as a blockbuster in a large
arena. Opera New Jersey’s production of Gaetano Donizetti’s
farce “Don Pasquale” makes the
point. The performance in McCarter’s Berlind Theater on Saturday, July 17, was a perfect gem.
Every facet sparkled. Veteran ONJ
collaborator Michael Scarola directed the work. Set in 19th century Rome, the opera is sung in Italian and has English supertitles.
For the ears, the overture, with
curtain down, foretells the evening. Mark Laycock, conducting
members of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, promises a busy,
playful experience. Laycock for a
quarter century conducted the
Princeton Symphony Orchestra.
Under his leadership the opera orchestra played with musical lightness and propulsion. Solos for cello and bassoon declared the skill
and sensitivity of the instrumental
underpinnings before the action
began.
The curtain rises to reveal Don
Pasquale (Steven Condy), an old
bachelor, in bed, night cap and all,
awakening. (Patricia Hibbert designed the costumes.) In his 70s,
Pasquale has decided to marry in
order to disinherit his nephew,
Ernesto (Brian Anderson). Pasquale disapproves of Ernesto’s attraction for Norina (Ava Pine).
Malatesta, Pasquale’s doctor
and friend (Liam Bonner), suggests his sister, Sofronia, as a bride
for Pasquale. When Pasquale
meets Sofronia, he is rejuvenated.
The audience experiences his renewed youthful ardor as lighting
designer Ken Yunker bathes the
scene in the red glow of blood boiling.
Sofronia, however, does not actually exist. Malatesta has persuaded Norina to impersonate the supposed sister. After a mock wedding
mediated by a mock notary (Wesley Landry), Sofronia/Norina
teaches Pasquale a lesson by tormenting him. As Pasquale’s wife,
Sofronia is both spendthrift and
shrew. At one point, dressed in a
long hot pink off-the-shoulder
dress, she ties Pasquale to a chair
with her long hot pink scarf.
(Thanks, director Scarola and costume designer Hibbert.) Pasquale
is relieved when she decides to
leave him. As herself, Norina marries Ernesto. Pasqale gives his
blessing to the match.
Composer Donizetti’s writing
invites elegance and leanness. The
opera’s principals are the elemental
soprano (Norina — Ava Pine), alto
(tenor Ernesto — Brian Anderson),
tenor (baritone Malatesta — Liam
Bonner) and bass (Don Pasquale —
Steven Condy). With his bel canto
flourishes Donizetti presents multiple fire-and-ice opportunities. We
hear them in solo arias, in the many
splendid duets of the opera, and in a
quartet. Particularly notable are a
pre-Gilbert and Sullivan double
patter aria by Pasquale and Malat-
The Bachelor:
Steven Condy, left, as
Don Pasquale; Liam
Bonner as Dr. Malatesta; and Ava Pine
as Norina.
This production of
‘Don Pasquale’
makes the point that
the impact of a
chamber opera in a
small space can be
as telling as a
blockbuster in a large
arena.
Another change in texture
comes from the solo trumpet that
accompanies a solo aria by
Ernesto.
Laycock’s band helps out by
furnishing dramatic silences that
last for exactly the right amount of
time.
The star of the evening is the
sole woman in a principal role, soprano Ava Pine. She is a comely
Norina who floats across the stage.
Her vocal accuracy, emotion,
buoyancy, and appropriate movement are matched by her male colleagues.
Surprisingly, “Don Pasquale” is
not frequently performed. Maybe
it is a difficult piece. Opera New
Jersey makes it look easy.
— Elaine Strauss
“Don Pasquale,” Opera New
Jersey, Berlind at McCarter Theater. Sunday, July 25, 2 p.m.; Friday, July 30, 8 p.m.; and Sunday,
August 1, 7 p.m. 609-258-2787 or
www.opera-nj.org.
esta and a duet where Pasquale and
Norina trill simultaneously.
T
he performance takes advantage of the changing textures
that Donizetti wrote into the opera.
A cappella singing by the chorus of
servants provides a change of pace
and exemplifies on-target intonation, clean delivery, and rhythmic
accuracy. Keith Chambers is the
chorus master.
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Step Back in Time to the Iconic Sounds of the ’40s
I
by Anne Levin
t is an unforgettable image his grandfather the judge, who
that captured a surge of national played the clarinet. His sister is in a
joy. When President Harry Truman rock band. “But my parents are
announced, at 7 p.m. on Aug. 14, tone deaf,” he says. “I don’t know
1945, that Japan had surrendered to where this comes from.”
the World War II Allied forces, Life
Allen was a wannabe basketball
Magazine photographer Alfred player who thought he might go inEisenstaedt was in Manhattan’s to sports-writing when he realized
Times Square. He spotted a ran- he had a major vocal talent. He
dom sailor grabbing a white-clad went to the University of Michigan
nurse by the waist, bending her at Ann Arbor in 2000 and earned a
back in a passionate smooch. He degree in musical theater and
pointed his camera and shot.
voice; then got a master’s in acting
Eisenstaedt’s striking photo be- from the University of Washington
came an icon of its era. Sixty years in 2003. New York was next on his
later, the image inspired artist J. Se- agenda, and it wasn’t long before
ward Johnson to create “Uncondi- he was on Broadway in “The Light
tional Surrender,” a series of mon- in the Piazza.”
umental sculptures in his signature
Opera has also figured promirealistic style. One of these, 25 feet nently in Allen’s career. In 2009 he
high and cast
sang the role of
in bronze, was
Rodolpho in “A
installed last
View From the
‘Sinatra’s voice in the
April at the
Bridge” superearly years was very
corner
of
vised by comKlockner
poser William
light and lyrical, beRoad
and
Bolcom, and last
fore he smoked and
Sloan Avenue
February sang in
drank a lot,’ says
in Hamilton
the New York
To w n s h i p ,
Lyric Opera’s
Glenn Seven Allen.
near the 35production
of
acre Grounds
“Rigoletto.”
For Sculpture park Johnson found“I’m doing a lot of concert and
ed in 1992.
opera work, and that’s a huge
“Unconditional Surrender,” in change in the direction of my caturn, has become the inspiration for reer,” Allen says. “I did City Center
a musical celebration. On Thurs- Encores’ production of ‘Girl
day, July 29, Grounds for Sculp- Crazy,’ and now I’m doing opture’s Museum Building will be the eretta. But for me, singing and actsetting for a one-hour program of ing are closely related. The only
songs inspired by the World War II difference is style. I’m still telling
era and, more specifically, the ear- stories when I’m singing. That’s rely artistry of Frank Sinatra. The ally what it is — I have to tell a stoshow stars Broadway vocalists ry with my voice all the time.”
Glenn Seven Allen and Janine DiVita, and is presented by the
Springpoint
Foundation,
the
n recent years teaching has belargest provider of senior housing come another focus for Allen. He
in New Jersey, in conjunction with has worked with such luminaries as
the Laurenti Family Charitable Matthew Morrison (of “Glee”
Trust and Bloomberg LLP.
fame) and Kelli O’Hara, who coResidents of Springpoint’s sen- starred with Morrison in the Lincoln
ior communities are big fans of Center revival of “South Pacific”
Allen and DiVita. “They started and is about to return to the show afperforming for us two years ago,” ter a long maternity leave. “She can
says Joseph Claffey, Springpoint’s do anything,” Allen says of O’Hara.
senior vice president and chief “She was trained as an operatic sophilanthropic officer. “They’ve prano, and the role of Nellie Forbeen chosen not just because of bush is an alto. But Kelli’s not a
their talent, but also because of the snob. She just put her mind to it and
way they interact with the audi- used that really clear voice. She reence. Janine is a beautiful young la- ally knows what she is singing
dy, and Glenn is a personable, about. I like informed singers.”
handsome guy. Our residents have
As for tenor Morrison, Allen
loved the programs they’ve put to- says, “Everything comes easy to
gether for us.”
Matt. I’m envious of him. What he
While the July 29 concert is does naturally, I had to study for.
open to anyone visiting Grounds He’s an alien. There is Matt, and
For Sculpture and free with park then there are the rest of us.”
admission, seniors are a natural tarAnother student Allen is enget audience. The music on the pro- thused about is German opera
gram is from an era many of them singer Jonas Kaufmann, also a
remember well. For Allen, a 34- tenor. “He’s a tremendous actor. He
year-old tenor, however, the con- acts everything with his voice,”
cert is an opportunity to explore Allen says. “He has this freakish
music that has fascinated him for ability to create a darkness and a
over a decade. “This is a program baritone sound. I don’t know how
I’ve wanted to do for more than 10 he does it.”
years,” he says in a phone interAllen feels a connection to Sinaview from Annandale-on-Hudson, tra’s early work. “The crooning
NY, where he is appearing in the style is closer to opera than people
operetta “The Chocolate Soldier” realize,” he says. “It’s incredibly
as part of the Bard Summerscape legato, which means tied, or conarts festival. “I had been research- nected. It’s just very smooth and eling Sinatra. I didn’t know a lot egant.”
about his early years when he was
The fact that Sinatra collaborat‘the Voice’ and a matinee idol. He ed with famous bandleaders Harry
was a crooner who wore bow ties. I James and Tommy Dorsey led
liked that, and I really liked the mu- Allen to hire a trumpet player (and
sic. His voice was very light and pianist) to accompany him and Dilyrical, before he smoked and Vita at the upcoming concert. Didrank a lot. I wanted to do some Vita is a fellow graduate of the Unisort of show with that style and the versity of Michigan’s musical theenergy of the young Sinatra.”
ater program and appeared most reBorn and raised in East Lansing, cently as Betty Rizzo in the BroadMI, Allen is named for his grandfa- way revival of “Grease.”
ther, Judge Glenn Seven Allen Jr.
“Sinatra sang and they played
His mother is a writer and a teacher trombone, muted, which created
who was a serious long-distance the World War II sound,” Allen
runner in her youth. Allen’s father says. “I’ve always wanted to do it,
wasn’t present in his life as much as and then we found out that they
I
A Kiss Is But a Kiss:
J. Seward Johnson’s
‘Unconditional Surrender,’ above, is on
view at the corner of
Klockner Road and
Sloan Avenue in
Hamilton. Glenn
Seven Allen and
Janine DiVita give a
1940s-inspired
concert on July 29.
were looking for something, a program, to go along with the sculpture. So we felt it was the perfect
time to do the World War II show.
We’ve made very small orchestrations to evoke the era. The trumpet
gives it a kind of visceral feeling.”
Old favorites “Blue Skies” and
“I’ll Be Seeing You” will be on the
program along with “Praise the
Lord and Pass the Ammunition,” a
song called “Buddy on the Night
Shift” by Kurt Weill, and other
works.
For sponsors of the show, the
program is ideal. “They’ll be performing for just an hour in one of
the most easily accessible venues,”
says Claffey of Springpoint. “The
lighting is special. Most important,
we already know how talented
Glenn and Janine are.”
WWII Songbook Concert,
Springpoint Foundation, Grounds
For Sculpture, J. Seward Johnson
Center for the Arts, Hamilton.
Thursday, July 29, 3 to 4 p.m. In celebration of J. Seward Johnson’s
“Unconditional Surrender” sculpture, Glenn Seven Allen and Janine
DiVita of Signature Broadway Pops
present a concert of songs written
and performed during the historical
WWII era. 609-720-7304..
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JULY 21, 2010
July 24
Roe Ferrara and Steve, It’s a
Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609275-2919. www.itsagrind.com.
Old standards. 8 to 10 p.m.
Cafe Improv, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.cafeimprov.com. Music, poetry, and
comedy. Register to perform. $2.
9 p.m.
Splintered Sunlight, Triumph
Brewing Company, 400 Union
Square, New Hope, 215-8628300. www.triumphbrew.com. $5
cover. 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Family Nature Programs, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner
www.njaudubon.org. “The Joy of
Summer Stories” presented by
Corey Sperling in a program to
understand the natural world
through the eyes of the Native
Americans. Register. $5. 3:30 to
5 p.m.
Moonlight Walk, Whitesbog
Preservation Trust, General
Store, Browns Mills, 609-8934646. www.whitesbog.org. Three
to five mile walk with a guide.
Bring a flashlight. Register. $5.
July’s full moon is known as the
“Buck Moon.” 7 p.m.
Full Moon Hike, Delaware and
Raritan Canal State Park, Bulls
Island, 2185 Daniel Bray Highway, Stockton, 609-924-5705.
www.dandrcanal.com. One-mile
hike led by Stephanie Fox, the
park’s naturalist. Bring a flashlight. Register. Free. 8 p.m.
Singles
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
Princeton Area, 732-759-2174.
www.dinnermates.com. Ages 30s
to early 50s. Call for reservation
and location. $20 plus dinner and
drinks. 7:30 p.m.
Crafts
Knit n Stitch, Cafe Ole, 126 South
Warren Street, Trenton, 877-4728817. All skill levels welcome.
Free. Noon to 2 p.m.
African Bead Party, Princeton
Center for Yoga & Health, 50
Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. African food,
African Drumming with Sharon
Silverstein, and a presentation on
yoga teacher Kristen Boccumini’s
trip and work in Uganda. Roll
beads to create necklaces and
bracelets. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
Sports
New Jersey State Triathlon, CGI
Racing, Mercer Park, Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 856468-0925. www.cgiracing.com.
Olympic and sprint distances for
swim, bike, and run race. Outdoor
family activities. Bring your own
kayak or boat, fish. Pre-race
meeting for registered athletes at
7:15 a.m. Post race buffet, massages, raffles, live music, and
beer garden. Also July 25. 7:30
a.m.
Aikido Kokikai, HealthQuest,
310 Route 31 North, Flemington,
908-782-4009. Rick Goodman
presents a seminar and demonstration featuring weapons and
freestyle defense against multiple
attackers. Free. 2 to 4 p.m.
Sunday
July 25
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Wine Dummy — Cured
Dummies Guide to Wine Tasting, Crossing Vineyards and
Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Wine, cheese, fruit,
and instructions for savoring the
flavors. Register. $30. 2 p.m.
Classical Music
Summer Carillon Concert
Series, Princeton University, 88
College Road West, Princeton,
609-258-3654. www.princeton.edu. Claire Halpert on the fifth
largest carillon in the country.
Free. 1 p.m.
Don Pasquale, Opera New Jersey, Berlind at McCarter Theater,
609-258-2787. www.opera-nj.org.
2 p.m.
Organ Concert, Trinity Episcopal Church, 6587 Upper York
Road (Route 263 and Sugan
Road) Solebury, PA, 215-2975135. www.trinitysolebury.org.
Timothy Harrell, organist/choirmaster at Trinity, in a program including works by Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Sebatian Bach, Jehan Alain, Francois Couperin,
and Charles Marie Widor. The
recital is a benefit for Carversville
United Church of Christ, which recently suffered a devasting fire.
Free will offering. The organ at
Trinity was built by Martin Pasi
and Associates in Roy, Washington, and was installed in 2006. It
is a mechanical (tracker) action
organ of 29 stops and 33 ranks. 5
p.m.
Pop Music
p.m.
Art
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Drama
$29.50. 1:30 p.m.
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
$14. 2 p.m.
$16. 2 p.m.
2 and 7:30 p.m.
stage. $32. 8:15 p.m.
Film
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Screening of “The
Maid.” Free. 2 p.m.
‘Discovery’: ‘Beautiful New Jersey’ presented by
Skillman photographer Darlene Prestbo and her
husband, John, who works in pastels and oils,
through July 31, Thomas Sweet Ice Cream, 1330
Route 206, Skillman. 609-430-2828.
Fairs
Quick Chek New Jersey Festival
of Ballooning, Solberg Airport,
37 Thor Solberg Road, Readington, 1-800-468-2479. www.balloonfestival.com. Largest summertime hot air balloon and music
festival in North America featuring
125 hot air balloons from around
the world, fireworks, nighttime hot
air balloon glow, live concerts, interactive exhibits, amusement
rides, and hundreds of arts &
crafters and food vendors. Rick
Springfield in concert at 3 p.m.
$25. 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Food & Dining
Summer Wine Faire, New Hope
Chamber, The Tuscany, 18 West
Mechanic Street, New Hope, PA,
215-862-9990. www.newhopechamber.com. Wine tasting, food,
and shopping. Rain or shine.
Register. $25 to $30. Must be 21.
Noon to 7 p.m.
Dummies Guide to Wine Tasting, Crossing Vineyards and
Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Wine, cheese, fruit,
and instructions for savoring the
flavors. Register. $30. 2 p.m.
Farmers’ Market
Lawrenceville Main Street, 11
Gordon Avenue, Lawrenceville,
609-219-9300. www.LawrencevilleMainStreet.com. Vegetables,
fruits, flowers, herbs, meat, poultry, baked goods. Music, art, and
good causes. Kowop Band performance from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 9
a.m. to 2 p.m.
History
Garden Highlights, Pennsbury
Manor, 400 Pennsbury Memorial
Road, Morrisville, PA, 215-9460400. www.pennsburymanor.org.
Gardeners describe their work in
the summer garden. $7; children,
$4. 1 to 4 p.m.
Walking Tour, Historical Society
of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-6748. www.princeton-
history.org. Two-hour walking tour
of downtown Princeton and
Princeton University includes stories about the early history of
Princeton, the founding of the
University, and the American Revolution. $7; $4 for ages 6 to 12. 2
to 4 p.m.
Airport Rides, Princeton Airport,
Route 206, 609-921-3100. www.princetonairport.com. Get a bird’s
eye view of the Princeton area.
Weigh in pay 20 cents a pound,
minimum of $10 and maximum of
$25. Pilots are flight instructors or
commercial pilots. 3 to 6 p.m.
Family Theater
Live Music
Larry Tritel and Guy DeRosa,
Thomas Sweet Ice Cream, 1330
Route 206, Skillman, 609-4302828. larrytritel.com. Guitar, harmonica, and vocals. 1 to 3 p.m.
Trivia Night, BT Bistro, 3499
609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com.
David and Nick present. 7:30
p.m.
Outdoor Action
Friends of Hopewell Valley Open
Space, Washington Crossing
State Park, Titusville. www.fohvos.org. Help rid natural areas of
invasive plants. All tools provided.
Register by E-mail to [email protected] 1 p.m.
Family Nature Walk, Washington
Crossing State Park, Visitor
Center, Titusville, 609-737-0609.
Informal naturalist guided walk.
$5 per car. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Flea Market
Princeton Elks, Route 518, Montgomery, 908-359-5652. Table
space, $10 to $15. 9 a.m. to 2
p.m.
(609) 882-YOGA (9642)
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Also at: 405 Rt. 130 North, Lower Level
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OPEN HOUSE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 11 AM - 3 PM
Ewing location. Meet teachers, check out space, and register for classes.
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Special Offer for Ewing:
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Company has auditions for “Hansel
and Gretel” on Saturday, July 24, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Kelsey Theater, West
Windsor. All characters must sing.
Prepare one up tempo song and one
ballad. Bring a photo and resume
stapled together, sheet music, and
appropriate dance wear. All adult
roles will be paid (not teens and children). Must be six and up. Contact
Michael J. Pastorok at 215-7881336 for an appointment.
Playful Theater Productions
has auditions for “The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee on
Wednesday, August 18, 7 to 10
p.m.; and Saturday, August 21, 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. Must be 18 or older.
Bring a theatrical resume and a
headshot. Prepare a song from musical theater and bring sheet music.
Male actors auditioning for the role
of vice principal Douglas Panch
should prepare a one to three minute
comic monologue. Kelsey Theater,
West Windsor. Call 267-987-4113
or E-mail [email protected] to
schedule an appointment.
Playhouse 22 seeks to fill positions for the next season. Positions
include stage manager, set designer, lighting designer, sound designer, set construction, lighting operator, sound operator, costumer, properties management, and stage crew.
Submit a copy of a theatrical resume with contact information by
E-mail to [email protected].
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Mercer College now offers on- manello atSale
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Whole
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First Baptist Church, 125 South
JANUARY!
abroad programs. There are also Mainof
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Dorothea’s House offers Italian
Where quality still matters.
classes for adults and children; beginner, intermediate, and advanced
4621 Route 27, Kingston, NJ
levels; weekdays and Saturdays.
Steinert High School Class of
120 John Street, Princeton. Visit
www.dorotheashouse.org or call 1980 seeks fellow classmates for a
Monday-Friday 10-6; Saturday 10-5; Sunday 12-5
Gilda McCauley at 908-359-1564. 30th class reunion on Saturday,
Design Services Available. www.riderfurniture.com
November 27, at Trenton Marriott.
Contact Eric Clark by E-mail to
[email protected].
Vocal Lessons
PEAC Health & Fitness is collecting athletic shoes for needy
children in the community through
HomeFront. Please bring new
sneakers to 1440 Lower Ferry
Road, Ewing. Visit www.peachealthfitness.com or call 609883-2000 for information.
Trenton Area Soup Kitchen
seeks donations of backpacks,
pens, pencils, highlighters, crayons, spiral notebooks, pocket
folders, children’s scissors, rulers,
protractors, calculators, and other
school supplies. Deliver all items
to TASK between Monday, July
26, and Thursday, August 12. Call
Mary Ann Dobson at 609-6955456, ext. 114 for information.
Jersey Harmony Chorus offers women who love to sing to series of free vocal lessons on Monday evenings beginning July 26, at
20 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, at 7:15 p.m. Call Carole at
732-236-6803 or E-mail [email protected] for information.
Call for Art
Artworks seeks entries for
“Made in Metal,” a juried showcase featuring art made in metal.
Cash awards. Deadline is Sunday,
August 1. Visit www.artworkstrenton.org or call 609-394-9436 for
information.
Bucks County Gallery of Fine
Art is accepting entries for sculp-
Faith
$799
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Classes
Floor Model Sale - Entire Month of July
Rider Furniture
Reunion
609-924-0147
For the Young
Historic Fallsington offers a
three-day history program for girls
ages 8 to 11. Fulfills Girl Scout
special interest patch. 4 Yardley
Avenue, Fallsington, Pennsylvania. Register. $75. Call 215-2956567 to register.
Donate Please
Volunteer Please
New Jersey Blood Services
seeks volunteers to work blood
Here at the House of Music,
we teach lessons on all
instruments, including band
and orchestra instruments.
We carry accessories,
music books, rental instruments
and also do repairs.
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Pennington, NJ 08534
P: 609-730-0888
Health
Center for Disease Control offers the National Health and Nutritional Examination survey to determine health and nutritional status of the U.S. population. Close to
7,000 randomly selected residents
in 15 counties across the nation
have the opportunity to participate
in the latest survey. Mercer County
was selected as one of the counties.
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JULY 21, 2010
Clifford Adams’ Mission: Give Trenton Kids Instruments
M
by Kevin L. Carter
ost people may not
know the Trenton-born Ewing resident Clifford Adams as one of the
top trombonists around, but the
truth is that he is. Adams has been a
member of the top-selling jazz/funk/soul/pop group Kool and the
Gang since 1977, and he has had a
hand in many of the band’s most
important accomplishments.
It was Adams whose very brief
but expressive trombone solo highlighted the smooth and loving
“Joanna,” and he has also been in
the middle of the mix playing the
complex, funkier horn charts on
earlier, rawer hits like “Jungle
Boogie,” “Hollywood Swinging,”
and “Open Sesame.” Adams has also been responsible for many of the
band’s distinctive melodies and
horn arrangements.
Now, Adams, 57, is adding philanthropy to his activities and accolades. On Saturday, July 31, Adams
is headlining a free all-day show at
Cadwalader Park in Trenton. He
and Kool and the Gang bandmate
Michael Ray, a trumpeter, will perform, as well as performers such as
Grace Little, Dennis Rodgers, Instant Funk, Lady D, and others.
The show, and a fundraiser afterward, is to benefit Adams’
group, DRUMM (Developmental
Roundtable for the Upward Mobility of Musicians).
“All these people who are participating all learned how to play
music in Trenton,” Adams says in a
phone interview from a Kool and
the Gang tour stop in Dallas. “We
are all playing music now because
there were music programs in
place in the schools when we were
growing up. Now, in the middle
schools and elementary schools
there are no programs whatsoever.
The only time the kids can begin
learning how to play music is in
high school.”
That, says Adams, is not a great
situation. Kids do not have opportunities to learn to play instruments, and this is a hindrance in
their development. “There was a
band on every corner when I was
coming up in Trenton. If you can
get one band of young guys together in Trenton now, that would be a
surprise. That’s the travesty of
what’s going on right now.”
The goal of DRUMM, says
Adams, is to develop a community-based music program that will
be available to children from all
across Trenton. “Somebody has to
do something about it. We can all
sit and talk about how bad things
are, but that is not enough. Someone has to roll up their sleeves and
do something about it. The whole
community needs to get on board
and do stuff.” New Mayor Tony
Mack, says Adams, has pledged his
support. “This is an excellent thing.
We have to bring music back to the
city for the young kids in the
schools. There are lots of instruments in the schools, just sitting in
lockers. We have to pull these instruments out and get them into the
hands of these kids. We have to get
the kids off the streets and give
them something to do. Get them
playing music. Instead of them
having guns or drugs in hand, let
them have instruments.”
More than 33 years after joining
the band in 1977, Adams continues
to tour on a regular basis, mostly
abroad, with Kool and the Gang.
The band recently performed with
the San Diego Symphony, played
in front of 10,000 in Israel, in front
of 250,000 in Cuba in December,
and appeared in many other international shows.
“We’re all over the place,”
Adams says. “We were in Russia
Ewing resident
Clifford Adams has
been a member of the
top-selling jazz/funk/
soul/pop group Kool
and the Gang since
1977.
last year, Romania in November,
we were in Singapore and Japan, in
Tokyo and Osaka, sold out both
places. We were in Bangkok and
sold out there. Outside of the USA,
we’re getting a great reception. Despite not having a hit for more than
20 years, we have a great body of
work and we continue to get respect for that. Our music has survived the test of time. ‘Celebration’ is a really big song for us, that
gets a great reception everywhere,
so 30 years later, we’re still
workin’ it.”
Whether the band is playing in
Africa, Australia, Asia, or Europe,
says Adams, the audiences feel the
music. “Even if they don’t know
the (English) language, they feel
the actual music and the melodic
content. It strikes people, and it’s
become popular around the
world.”
Four of the original members of
the band — the Bell brothers
(Robert “Kool” Bell and saxophonist Ronald Bell, from Jersey
City),
saxophonist
Dennis
Thomas, and drummer George
Brown — continue to perform, as
do Adams and later veteran additions such as trumpeter Michael
Ray, keyboardist/trumpeter Larry
Gittens, and pianist Curtis
Williams.
Adams says the group’s experiences in Cuba were among his
most memorable. In December
several American groups performed in Havana, the first to perform there since the Obama administration relaxed restrictions of performers from America traveling to
Cuba as well as Cuban performers
playing the U.S.
“These people were crying,”
says Adams. “They knew our music so well, but they never thought
they’d get a chance to see Kool and
the Gang live because of the embargo.”
C
ubans, he says, know his
band’s music very well, and are
among the most musical people
overall he has ever encountered. “I
mean, this is a musical culture,”
says Adams. “They have kids who
go to school all day — 9 to 5, five
days a week — and just play music.
And they’re studying everything.
Classical, salsa, jazz, I mean, all
forms of music. They can read,
their reading level is very high. So
it’s a very musical place. They
awarded us one of the highest musical honors down there. We had a
ceremony, with the minister of culture, and they presented us with
this award, and we went into the
hospitals, donated supplies. It was
a kind of goodwill mission we were
on. As highlights of my career with
Kool and the Gang go, it was one of
the top experiences of my career.”
Kool and the Gang has been
around since 1964, when the Bell
brothers organized a jazz band with
high school friends. By the time
Adams joined the band in 1977, the
group had already had a series of
hits. Meanwhile, Adams, a native
of Trenton, had grown up near what
is now the Munoz Rivera School,
then the Lincoln School, and later
Junior High No. 5 on Montgomery
Street. He had been playing trombone with some of the top R&B
and jazz musicians since he was attending Trenton Central High,
from which he graduated in 1970.
His father, Clifford Sr., was a
mechanic and amateur clarinetist
who owned an auto repair garage
that had been opened by his own
father. Adams Jr. says his family’s
garage, Adams Auto Services, was
the first black-owned auto shop in
Trenton and one of the oldest
African American businesses in
the city. Clifford Adams Sr., now
86, sold the business and recently
retired; his son says the elder
Adams worked at the garage until a
couple of years ago. Adams’ mother, Evelyn, now 85, worked for the
state Department of Labor.
After graduating from Trenton
Central, he was discovered at the
Chambersburg
club
Fantasy
Lounge by jazz organist Charles
Earland. “I had only learned to play
five years before, and suddenly I’m
on the road and recording jazz albums,” Adams says. Three years
later, Adams, Gittens, and Ray
were on the road with the Stylistics,
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Kool Down: Clifford
Adams performs at a
concert to benefit his
nonprofit, DRUMM.
Photo: Philippe Levy-Stab,
Phoenix.
and later Adams went out again
with the Duke Ellington Orchestra
and Max Roach before joining
Kool and the Gang.
His work on “Joanna,” back in
the early 1980s, was a shift in the
emphasis of the band. Through the
‘70s, the group had found success
with jazz (“Summer Madness”),
funk (“Jungle Boogie,” “Spirit of
the Boogie”), and disco (“Open
Sesame”). By the following decade, however, Kool and the Gang
had moved into a much more pop
style, especially with the signing of
vocalist J.T. Taylor.
In 1984 Adams had collaborated
with Claydes Charles Smith on
“Joanna,” providing some of the
melody and chordal structure behind Smith’s tune as well as the title. “The whole bridge was a solo,
and what they did was take part of
my solo and put lyrics to it,” Adams
says. “Instead of it being a trombone solo for eight bars, they split
up part of my solo into vocals, and
that melody was part of that solo I
played.”
The song hit No. 2 on the Billboard charts. Also that year, according to music licensing firm
BMI, “Joanna” was the most heavily played song on radio. “I have a
BMI Award, most played song of
the year,” says Adams. “So for that
year, in America, more people listened to my solo than anything
else. When I look back on that, I
said, well, that’s a great accomplishment, to hear that I had recorded that song at 4 in the morning. So
many other Kool songs had sax solos, and I figured, why not change
it up a little with a trombone solo?
It worked.”
Trenton Musicians Reunion
and Health Extravaganza, Developmental Roundtable for the
Upward Mobility of Musicians
(DRUMM), Cadwalader Park,
Trenton and Trenton Elks Lodge,
42 Decou Avenue, Ewing. Saturday, July 31, 11 a.m. Performers
include Instant Funk, Clifford
Adams, Mike Ray, Dennis
Rodgers, Lady D, Trenton Jazz Ensemble, Good Company, Once
Again, Sandstorm, Grace Little,
and DRUMM Band from 11 a.m. to
7 p.m. Cabaret after party, 8 p.m. to
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Princeton Singles, Off Broadstreet Theater, Hopewell, 908874-6539. “Cliffhanger,” a suspenseful comedy. Register. $25.
1:30 p.m.
Trenton, 609-396-1776. www.barracks.org. Through Friday, July 30. Register. 10 a.m.
Colonial Camp, Pennsbury
Hands-on history, arts and crafts,
and games. 17th century chores,
writing with a quill pen, candle
making, and more. Reservations
required. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Leipzig String Quartet, Princeton University Summer Concerts, Richardson Auditorium,
609-570-8404. www.pusummerchamberconcerts.org. Chamber
concert featuring Haydn’s “Sunrise” quartet and Beethoven’s
“Harp.” Free tickets available at
the box office at 6:30 p.m. Doors
open at 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m.
Socials
For Families
Chess, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, 609275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. For advanced adult players.
1 to 5 p.m.
Family Math Night: Math Songs,
Plainsboro Public Library, 9
Van Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Need
help remembering the steps for
multi-digit multiplication? What
about the Pythagorean Theorem?
Family math sing along. 7 p.m.
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
Greenway Amphitheater at 202
Carnegie Center, 609-452-1444.
Free. Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Concerts on the Landing, Patriots Theater at the War
Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive,
Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Dick Gratton
and Bob Smith present jazz guitar
improvisation of popular and original standard jazz and blues
arrangements. Free. Noon to 2
p.m.
July 25
Singles
Sports
New Jersey State Triathlon, CGI
Racing, Mercer Park, Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 856468-0925. www.cgiracing.com.
Olympic and sprint distances for
swim, bike, and run race. Outdoor
family activities. Bring your own
kayak or boat, fish. Pre-race
meeting for registered athletes at
7:15 a.m. Post race buffet, massages, raffles, live music, and
beer garden. 7:30 a.m.
Monday
July 26
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
One-Act Drama
Chained to Freedom, Unitarian
Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 609-926-0386. A oneact play by Adam Bounville and
Russell Taylor documenting
Bounville’s journey into civil rights
activism for “queer equality.” $10
donation. 8 to 9:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 20 Schalks Crossing
www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony. Workshop series includes vocal lessons in four-part
harmony for women who love to
sing. New members are welcome.
Free. 7:15 to 9:30 p.m.
Blawenburg Band, Hopewell
Train Station, Railroad Place,
Hopewell, 609-924-2790. blawenburg.band.org. Concert featuring band music. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Red Horse Gallery,
Freehold Raceway Mall. Meet the
artist reception for VSA Arts of
New Jersey exhibit featuring the
works of Ann Crawford and students of Robyn Ellenbogen. On
view to September 17. Gallery
open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. 6 to 8 p.m.
Literati
Plainsboro Literary Group,
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Nibbles, conversation, and readings.
6:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Ask the Fitness Guy, Optimal
Bring your questions on getting in
shape or your specific program.
Register. 6 p.m.
Yoga Practice, Lawrence
Library, Darrah Lane and Route
1, Lawrence Township, 609-9896922. www.mcl.org. Register. 7
p.m.
Mixed Level Hatha Yoga, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health,
50 Vreeland Drive, Suite 506,
Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Achieve balance from within using breath,
movement, and mindfulness. $17.
7:45 to 9 p.m.
History
Summer Day Camp, Old Barracks Museum, Barrack Street,
Singles
Coffee and Conversation,
Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-716-8771. groversmillcoffee.com. Coffee, tea, soup,
sandwich, or dessert. Register at
www.meetup.com/Princeton-AreaSingles-Network. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. New Britain Rock
Cats. $9 to $12. 7:05 p.m.
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Art
Full Moon Tour and Dinner at
Rat’s Restaurant, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Threecourse dinner for two followed by
group tour lit by the full moon.
Register. $55 per person. 7 p.m.
The Boys in the Band: The Billy Walton Band
appears on Saturday, July 24, as part of the
West Windsor Music Series, Nassau Park
Pavilion, West Windsor. Bring blanket or
seating. Indoors if it rains. Reception at BoConcept store afterwards. 609-919-1982.
Tuesday
July 27
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Tame the Weed Monster
Ask the Gardener, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33,
Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. “Weed Control
Workshop” presented by Barbara
Bromley, Mercer County horticulturist. Register. Free. 10:30 a.m.
to noon.
Classical Music
Carillon Concert, Princeton University, 88 College Road West,
Princeton, 609-258-3654. www.princeton.edu. Concert on the fifth
largest carillon in the country.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
Choral Reading, Westminster
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Haydn’s “Lord Nelson
Mass” led by conductor Elizabeth
Schauer. Participants are invited
to bring their own score or use
scores provided. Free. 7:30 p.m.
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Movie Series for Seniors,
Princeton Senior Resource
Center, Spruce Circle, Princeton,
609-924-7108. Screening of
“Green Fingers.” Refreshments.
Limited parking. Register. Free. 1
p.m.
Fish ‘n’ Flicks, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Screening of “The End
of the Line,” free. Optional discussion with Michael Dimin of Sea 2
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Summer Night Swing, Forrestal
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Route 1 South, Plainsboro, 609799-7400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Swing music
presented by Jazz Lobsters.
Dance lessons by Greg Avakian
and Laurie Zimmerman from 7 to
8 p.m.; open dance at 8 p.m. Behind Salt Creek Grille. Free. 7 to
10 p.m.
Tuesday Night Folk Dance
Group, Princeton, 609-655-0758.
www.princetonfolkdance.org. Instruction and dancing. No partner
needed. Call for location. $3. 7 to
9 p.m.
Food & Dining
Princeton Eats: Cooking with
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Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
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Gardens
Ask the Gardener, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33,
Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. “Weed Control
Workshop” presented by Barbara
to noon.
Health & Wellness
Group Studio Workout, Optimal
Supervised cardio, core, strength,
and stretching. Register. $20. 6
a.m.
Body Combat Launch, Can Do
Fitness Club, 121 Main Street,
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro,
609-514-0500. www.candofitness.com. Register. Free. 9:30
to 10:30 a.m.
Also, Spinning. Register at reception desk. Bring a towel and
water. Free. 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.
Open House, Sunny Health Center, 16 Seminary Avenue,
Hopewell, 609-466-1227. Free
15-minute massage. Register. 10
a.m. to 8 p.m.
Caregiver Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, Clare
Bridge of Hamilton, 1645 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, 800-8831180. www.alz.org. 10:30 a.m.
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Nottingham Fire Company, 200 Mercer Street, Hamilton
Square, 800-733-2767. www.redcrossblood.org. 1:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Beginners Yoga Class, Onsen
For All, 4451 Route 27, Princeton, 609-924-4800. www.onsenforall.com. Basic instruction for
those who are new to yoga. Props
used, discussion of the basic principles of alignment. Register. $15.
6 to 7 p.m.
Vinyasa Flow: Soma, Princeton
Center for Yoga & Health, 50
Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Focuses on
moving through the poses slowly
and gracefully, linking one pose to
another. $17. 6 to 7:15 p.m.
Workshop, Linda D. Aldrich, 84
Pinewood Drive, Hamilton
Square, 609-584-8764. “Weight
Management.” Register. $15. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
History
Airport Tour, Princeton Airport,
Route 206, 609-921-3100. www.princetonairport.com. Guided tour
focuses on the daily operations of
the airfield as well as the past,
present, and future of the 99-year
old airport. Free. 10:30 a.m.
Historical Society of Princeton,
Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau
www.princetonhistory.org. Opening reception for “Recession Hits
Home: Unemployment in Central
New Jersey” summer exhibiton.
Tours for children available. Bring
one item to support business attire accessories for Dress for Success and Career Gear. On view to
August 22. 4 to 6 p.m.
Free Chamber Music:
The Leipzig Quartet
performs Haydn,
Webern, and Beethoven, Tuesday, July
27, Richardson.
609-570-8404.
Kids Stuff
Read & Pick on the Farm, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil
Road, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Story time,
craft activity, and fruit or vegetable picking. Register. $7. 9:30
and 11 a.m.
For Families
Yoga and Creative Movement,
The Infinite U, Center for Relaxation and Healing, Plainsboro,
732-407-2847. www.theinfiniteu.com. For families touched by
autism. Register. $42 per family.
5:15 to 6 p.m.
Newspaper Chair Competition,
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. 7
p.m.
Lectures
Annual Meeting, New Jersey
State Council on the Arts, New
Jersey State Museum, Trenton,
800-thearts. www.njartscouncil.org. Voting of grants and co-sponsored projects, election of officers, and review of highlights.
Register. 10 a.m. to noon.
Gardening Seminar, Mercer
County Connection, 957 Route
33, Hamilton, 609-890-9800.
www.mercercounty.org. “Weed
Control” presented by Barbara
to noon.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7 p.m.
Chris Harford & the Band of
Changes, BT Bistro, 3499 Route
1 South, West Windsor, 609-9199403. www.btbistro.com. 9 p.m.
Stereofidelics, John & Peter’s,
Outdoor Action
Casual hike to spot birds. Bring
binoculars. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
Family Night, Lawrence Nature
Center, 481 Drexel Avenue, Lawrenceville, 609-844-7067. www.lawrencenaturecenter.net. “The
Wonder of Wood” presented by
Dave and Nick Bosted. Rain or
shine. Free. 7 p.m.
Book Sale
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. $3 for
a bag. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Singles
Princeton Singles, Charley
Brown, Main Street, Kingston,
609-392-1786. Lunch. For ages
55-plus. Register. Noon.
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
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At the Movies
Confirm titles with theaters.
The A-Team. Action comedy
with Liam Neeson and Jessica
Biel. Regal.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. French film that traces the affair between Chanel and the composer in Paris in 1920, the year that
Chanel No. 5 was created. Montgomery.
Cyrus. Comedy with John C.
Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Marisa
Tomei. AMC, Garden, Montgomery, Multiplex.
Despicable Me. Computer-animated film about the world’s
biggest heist — to steal the moon
— starring Steve Carell. AMC,
Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
Dinner for Schmucks. Comedy with Steve Carell and Paul
Rudd. AMC, Regal.
The Girl Who Played with
Fire. Also known as “Flickan som
lekte med eiden.” Montgomery.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Also known as “Man som
hatar Kvinnor.” Montgomery.
Grown Ups. Comedy with
Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris
Rock, and David Spade. AMC,
Regal.
I Am Love (Io Sono l’amore).
Italian drama about a wealthy family set in the turn of the millennium. With Tilda Swinton. Montgomery.
I Hate Luv Storys. Bollywoodstyle big screen romance. Regal.
Inception. Action with Leonardo DiCaprio. AMC, Destinta, Garden, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.
Documentary about the comedienne and the entertainment industry. Montgomery.
The Karate Kid. Action remake with Jackie Chan. AMC,
Multiplex, Regal.
Knight and Day. Adventure
with Tom Cruise and Cameron DiYardley, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6
p.m.
Scrabbles
Borders Books, 601 Nassau
Park, West Windsor, 609-5140040. www.bordersgroupinc.com.
Meet in the cafe. All levels are
welcome. 7 p.m.
Sports
Cats. $9 to $12. 12:05 p.m.
Sports for Causes
5K Run, Princeton Athletic Club,
Rosedale Park, 424 Federal City
Road, Hopewell. www.princetonac.org. Run on the trails
with the nonprofit community running club. Register. $12 to $15.
6:30 p.m.
Wednesday
July 28
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Buddy Holley Redux
Midweek Music Series, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. Rave
On! presents music of Buddy Holly and early rock. Dancing encouraged. Free. 7 p.m.
az. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
The Last Airbender. Animated
adventure fantasy film by M. Night
Shyamalan based on TV series
Avatar: The Last Airbender. AMC,
Regal.
Mademoiselle Chambon. A
spark between a teacher and one of
her students’ fathers. Montgomery.
Mother and Child. Drama
about mothers and adoption with
Naomi Watts and Annette Bening.
Multiplex.
Predators. Action with Adrien
Brody. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Salt. Action with Angelina Jolie
and Liev Schreiber. Opens July 22.
AMC, Regal.
Solitary Man. Drama with
Michael Douglas and Mary Louise
Parker. AMC, Multiplex.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Fantasy adventure film starring
Nicolas Cage. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Standing Ovation. Music
video contest for teens. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex, Regal.
Toy Story 3. Animated sequel
with voices of Tom Hanks and Tim
Fantasy Adventure:
Nicolas Cage and
Monica Bellucci star
in ‘The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice,’ now
showing.
Allen. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Twilight Saga: The Eclipse.
Violent thriller returns with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325
Sloan Avenue , I-295 Exit 65-A, 609890-8307.
Destinta, Independence Plaza,
264 South Broad Street, Hamilton,
609-888-4500.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
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,
Classical Music
Film
Faculty Recital, Westminster
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. World premiere of “Ruminations: Six Poems of William
Bronk” presented by baritone Elem Eley, clarinetist Bruce
Williamson, and pianist Martin
Hennessey, also the composer.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
Justice: What Is the Right Thing
to Do?, South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbpl.info. Film, discussion,
and refreshments to discuss ethical issues with a Harvard professor. Topics: “A Lesson in Lying”
and “A Deal is a Deal.” Free. 1:30
to 3 p.m.
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Screening of “The
Maid.” Free. 7 p.m.
Film 101: American Cinema,
Trenton Film Society, Cafe Ole,
126 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-396-6966. www.trentonfilmfestival.org. Screening and
discussion. $5. 7 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Summer Series, Mason Gross
School of the Arts, Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street,
www.masongross.rutgers.edu.
Rutgers Jazz Faculty. Free. 8
p.m.
Drama
7:30 p.m.
The King and I, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m.
stage. $32. 8:15 p.m.
Dancing
Newcomers Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner
www.americanballroomco.com.
$10. 7 to 9 p.m.
followed by dance. $8. 7:30 to
10:30 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Open Mic Night, The Stress Factory, 90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-4242. stressfactory.com. $5 to $7. 8 p.m.
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would love to have an exciting, fun-loving, romance-filled escapade with that
special woman. If you are curious and
have something in common with me,
don’t let it get the best of you without giving me consideration. Box 236643
Jewish 62 devoted man - fluent in 6
languages, widower seeks: Jewish
beshert to save him from sin by keeping:
shabbos, kosher, purity? Box 236790
Well-known professional artist,
retied art educator, 70s, 6 ft, 180 lbs.,
grandfather of five girls. Enjoys theater,
musical programs, art exhibits. Photo
and phone number appreciated. Box
236262.
WOMEN SEEKING MEN
A good-looking woman, white, looking for a gentleman-type who is very
earthy as well. I am laid back, positive
love people, pets, laugh a lot, smile as
much as possible. I am a larger woman,
plus size, tall, attractive in my early 60s.
I am family-oriented with good moral
values. I am hoping to find a tall, white
man. I love the shore, quiet times, flea
markets, long drives, dining out. I have a
good sense of humor, am not materialistic, am real, honest, and affectionate.
July 28
Food & Dining
French and American Wines,
One 53, 153 Washington Street,
Rocky Hill, 609-921-0153. Wine
tasting and hors d’oeuvres. Register. $65. 6:30 p.m.
Farmers’ Market
Wellness Wednesday, St. Francis Medical Center, Chambers
Street, Trenton, 609-599-6464.
www.stfrancismedical.com. Seasonal fruits and vegetables. 11
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Farmer’s Market, Bordentown
City, Farnsworth and Railroad
avenues parking lot, 609-2980604. www.cityofbordentown.com. Produce, foods, plants,
crafts, soaps, cooking demonstrations, entertainment, and educational programming. 4 p.m. to
dusk.
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Discover Peace Within, Chicklet
Bookstore, Princeton Shopping
Center, 301 North Harrison
Street. Yoga in the Himalayan tradition with Acharya Girish Jha.
Register at [email protected]. First class is free. 8:15 a.m.
and 6 p.m.
Tarot, Planet Apothecary, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 732-4066865. www.planetapothecary.com. A ready of Tarot cards by
Jeanette Wolfe. $15. 4 to 5 p.m.
Caregiver Support Group, Alzheimer’s Association, Buckingham Place, 155 Raymond Road,
Princeton, 800-883-1180. www.alz.org. Light dinner provided.
5:30 p.m.
Creative Visualization, Mercer
College, West Windsor, 609-5703324. www.mccc.edu. “A Tool for
Positive Change.” Register. $25.
6:30 to 9 p.m.
Holistic Weight Loss Seminar,
Harvest Moon, 206 Sandpiper
Court, Pennington, 609-4624717. Program focuses on cognitive, emotional, and behavioral
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men. Photo please. Box 236082
Happiness is always in season: Attractive, single, Jewish female with red
hair, blue eyes, physically fit, non-smoker in her 60s. Seeking a single Jewish
male in his 50s or 60s who is 5’9” or taller
and is looking for friendship and/or a relationship. Blue collar Jewish men are a
plus and very welcome. Blue collar men
are very happy to see their woman at the
end of the day. Enjoy dining, dancing,
traveling, and exercise. Let’s make the
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and telephone number. Box 236797
SBF, early 30s, tall, attractive and
open-minded. In search of a summer
romance filled with fun, excitement, and
lots of laughs with a tall (5’9” and over),
attractive, white male 30-45 years old
looking for the same. I enjoy the usual
dining out, long walks in the park, etc.,
but would love to try something new.
Write back, let’s exchange ideas and
see what happens. Box 236774
My birthday wish: DWF, pretty, curvy
“Leo” ISO attractive, available white
male, n/s, 5’10 to 6’1, 38 to 55 years old.
Help me to celebrate my mid-August
birthday. I am hoping to meet someone
who is looking for a dating, romantic re-
aspects of overeating. Register.
$40. 7 p.m.
Multi-Level Yoga Class, Onsen
For All, 4451 Route 27, Princeton, 609-924-4800. www.onsenforall.com. Explore the basic principles of alignment. Register. $15.
7 to 8 p.m.
Hot Yoga, Princeton Center for
Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609-9247294. www.princetonyoga.com.
Twenty-six seated postures practiced in a heated room. Increases
flexibility, improves circulation,
and reduces stress. $18. 7:30 to
9 p.m.
History
Guided Tour, Drumthwacket
Foundation, 354 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. New Jersey
governor’s official residence.
Register. $5 donation. 10 a.m. to
2 p.m.
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Tour the restored mansion, galleries, and gardens before or after
tea. Register. $15. 1 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Birthday Bash, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Evening of birthday
celebrations. The Improvmania
Players impersonate their favorite
mathematicians. 7 p.m.
For Teens
Studio Scrawl, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. www.mcl.org. “Songwriting” for ages 12 to 18 presented by Kathy Moser, a songwriter,
performer, teacher, and social
artist who performs and tours nationally. Her work encourages
MEN SEEKING MEN
A very attractive-looking bi white
male, 49, clean, fit, and athletic. Looking to meet the friendship of a fun, fit
white male with a flexible daytime
schedule. All replies with phone number
will be answered. Box 236768
young people to find a place to
make a positive contribution to
their communities. Register. Free.
6:30 to 5 p.m.
Lectures
Medieval Reliquaries, Institute
for Advanced Study and
Princeton University, West Hall,
Einstein Drive, Princeton, 609734-8175. www.ias.edu. “Christianity in Miniature: A Look Inside
Medieval Reliquaries” presented
by Julia Smith, professor of Medieval history at the University of
Glasgow and a former member of
the school of historical studies at
the Institute. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Live Music
John Henry Goldman, Labyrinth
Books, 122 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Jazz. Refreshments. Free. 5 to 8 p.m.
Trenton House Society with DJ
Tony Handle, BT Bistro, 3499
609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. 9 p.m.
Open Mic, Alchemist &
Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Mountain hike and yoga. Bring
yoga mat and water bottle. Register by E-mail to [email protected]. $12. 9:45 to 11:30
a.m.
Knitting
Borders Books, 601 Nassau
Park, 609-514-0040. www.bordersgroupinc.com. Meet in the
cafe. 7 p.m.
Sports
Cats. $9 to $12. 12:05 p.m.
JULY 21, 2010
ART
FILM
LITERATURE
DANCE
DRAMA
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MUSIC
PREVIEW
Sixty Years Later, Still Tickling the Ivories
I
n 1950 co-founders Frances
Clark and Louise Goss discussed
what to call the school for piano
study that they intended to start. “I
remember the conversation,” says
Goss, during an interview in her
Stonebridge apartment. “Frances
said, ‘I think we should call it the
New School.’ I said, ‘But 10 years
from now it won’t be a new
school.’ And Frances said, ‘If it isn’t I won’t want to have anything to
do with it.’” Clark’s motto was obviously “Every day, another discovery.”
Clark and Goss’s New School
for Music Study in Kingston,
which struggles to stay small and
intimate, now enrolls 250 students
and has a teaching staff of a dozen
men and women. The school accepts both children and adults. No
auditions are required; enrollment
is on a first come, first served basis.
The New School kicks off its 60th
birthday year this year with a threeday celebration.
Tony Caramia opens the festivities with a jazz concert on Tuesday,
August 3, 7:30 p.m. Duo pianists
Ena Barton and Phyllis Lehrer perform four-hand music on Wednesday, August 4, at 8 p.m. Both concerts, which are free, take place in
Bristol Chapel on the campus of
Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Caramia, Barton,
and Lehrer have all participated in
the New School as faculty members.
Caramia’s program pays homage to Frederic Chopin, whose
200th birthday is being celebrated
this season, and includes Chopin
works, as well as several pieces
whose theme is “birthdays.”
Caramia is currently professor of
piano at Rochester’s Eastman
School of Music, where he is director of piano pedagogy studies and
coordinator of the class piano program.
Barton and Lehrer play works
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin,
Robert Schumann, Manuel Infante, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Barton is head of the piano department at the Westminster Conservatory and a member of the piano faculty of Westminster. Lehrer is professor of piano and director of piano pedagogy at Westminster.
A piano pedagogy seminar,
open to the public, takes place on
Wednesday, August 4, and Thursday, August 5, in the downstairs auditorium of Talbott Library at
Westminster Choir College. The
fee is $50. The presenters are piano
pedagogues who received their
training at the New School.
The New School is a division of
the Frances Clark Center, established in 2000, two years after New
School founder Clark’s death at
age 93 in 1998. Co-founder Louise
Goss, who is 22 years younger than
Clark, is chair of the center’s board
of directors. The mission of the
center is to extend the groundbreaking philosophy of music education developed at the New
School. The New School approach
by Elaine Strauss
is embodied in a graded series of
instructional books, the Frances
Clark Library, known as the “Music Tree.” Clark and Goss are coauthors.
A gracious hostess, Goss allows
me to rearrange the furniture in her
dining room to set up. Indulging
her taste for intimacy, she pulls up a
chair close to me and my computer
at the dining room table. Goss
speaks in entire paragraphs with
well-formulated sentences. She
makes virtually no false starts. She
takes credit for the name “Music
Tree.”
Why “tree,” I wonder. Goss
gives a single-word explanation.
“Growth,” she says. Her sense of
drama overcomes her fluency with
language.
Goss likes to set musical study
in the larger context of living. She
is convinced that living and learning require working out how the
whole and the parts relate, without
preconceptions. “I would like people to get excited about the fact that
the Music Tree is a holistic approach,” she says. “Good education in all fields needs to be holistic.
“The source for that idea came
through my college philosophy
teacher, who made a major impact
on my thinking,” Goss says. “He
was holistic, and promoted no particular philosophy. He didn’t like
labels. I majored in philosophy. I
also majored in music and English.”
B
y the time triple major Goss
entered Michigan’s Kalamazoo
College, she already had a substantial resume. Born in 1926 in Kalamazoo, she was 15 when the United States entered World War II.
“The music critic of the Kalamazoo Gazette was drafted while I
was a [high school] freshman, and
somehow the editor learned that I
had quite a lot of writing experience. He invited me to become the
new music critic,” she told Craig
Sale for an interview in Clavier
Companion’s November/December 2009 issue.
Because of the war, the Kalamazoo junior high schools lost their
music directors. “I was excused
from morning classes in my senior
year,” Goss told Sale, “and rode
around town on my bicycle, directing orchestras in our five junior
high schools. It goes without saying that I had no idea what I was doing, but somehow I managed to
keep discipline, polish some repertoire, and present spring recitals.
“I didn’t think about being a music critic at 14 and conducting at 17
as anything but fun activities,” she
tells me. “At the time I was not at
all impressed at what I was doing.
It didn’t come home to me until later.”
When she entered college, Goss
assumed that she would be a singer
and teacher of singing, she says in
her interview with Sale. “My musical mentors advised me that I needed to be a better pianist. They
shared the exciting news that
Frances Clark was coming back to
Kalamazoo College (Clark’s alma
mater) and that they would intercede with her to take me as her student.”
Reflecting on her early days
with Frances Clark, Goss tells me,
“Frances Clark, my pedagogy
teacher, who turned me onto my
life work, believed passionately in
the need for holistic music training.
She believed that music is for
everyone and is a basic part of the
curriculum because of all the many
ways in which it helps people grow.
“She was particularly interested
in the training of teachers. She had
bad training; I had bad training;
and all the people she was working
with had had bad training. So she
devised a program of teachertraining for pianists.
“Kalamazoo College did not
have a strong music program.
Frances thought it would be good
place to try her ideas. She was a
very persuasive person and was
able to talk the dean into experimenting with her ideas about piano
pedagogy. I and five other piano
pedagogy majors were in on this
from the beginning. Frances was a
very imaginative, stimulating
teacher who made you want to be
creative.
“Frances thought that using
groups would give her more children to experiment with. That way
she would gather more information
than she could in individual lessons. Then she realized that using
groups was a good idea intrinsically. Everything else children learn,
BFF, Long Before Facebook: Frances Clark, left,
and Louise Goss (also inset) sailing, circa 1950.
they learn in groups. She enabled
the children to feel free in criticizing each other. That criticism gave
them a lot of training. Also, groups
are more fun than private lessons.
So much of the nature of piano
study is private.”
I
n 1955 Westminster Choir
College invited Clark and Goss to
set up a program similar to that at
Kalamazoo. Five years later they
started the New School. “Our primary interest was in piano, whereas Westminster focused on choral
music and organ. We wanted to
work at the graduate level. When
Westminster began to offer a master’s degree in piano pedagogy and
performance, they invited us back.
Meanwhile, the New School was
not a degree-granting institution
either. We offered a certificate.
Probably dozens of certificates
were granted.”
The first location of the New
School was in Princeton, on Nassau Street, near the intersection
with Harrison Street. In 1970 its
10th anniversary year, the New
School moved to its present location, a house built in 1740, on
Route 27 in Kingston. “We were
looking for the right amount of
space, and a certain ambiance,”
Goss says. “When we drove into
the driveway with the realtor, I fell
in love with the place long before
the engine stopped.”
Goss taught at the New School
until a decade ago. “I stopped 10
years ago,” she says. “I barely can
get along without teaching. I play
piano for myself; I have bad arthritis.” As chair of the board of the
‘Starting piano study without the idea that you can very soon speak
piano would be discouraging,’ says New School founder Louise Goss.
Frances Clark Center, she exerts
her influence through her wisdom
and good judgment, rather than
through hands-on teaching.
Louise Goss offers up a summary of the philosophy embodied by
the New School. Even today, it is
provocative. Imagine how revolutionary it must have been more
than 60 years ago when Frances
Clark started her pioneering work
on piano pedagogy at Kalamazoo
College.
“The main contribution, I believe, is the fact that every aspect of
music and musical learning is
imbedded in the first lesson,” Goss
says. The aspects of music touched
on in that first lesson include becoming sensitive to beautiful
sound and learning that technical
exercises are subordinate to making music.
“Composition and improvisation are there from the beginning,”
Goss says. “In learning any new
language the greatest reward is being able to speak. Starting piano
study without the idea that you can
very soon speak piano would be
discouraging. Students use what
they have learned in the first lesson
to say something of their own,
something meaningful. Therefore,
music becomes their language.
“We offer a much broader concept than most approaches,” Goss
says. “The essence of music must
be available from the outset.”
Jazz Concert, New School for
Music Study, Westminster Choir
College, Princeton. Tuesday, August 3, 7:30 p.m. Pianist Tony
Caramia, Eastman School of Music. Free. 609-921-2900 or
www.nsmspiano.org.
Also, Concert, Wednesday, August 4, 8 p.m. Four-hand music
concert presented by Ena Barton
and Phyllis Lehrer on piano. Free.
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JULY 21, 2010
Inside the Private Clubs: Not So Private Now
I
f you want to conduct business at the Nassau Club in Princeton you’re going to have to do it
without a cell phone or laptop. The
club, located in a historic building
on Mercer Street, just off Nassau
Street, espouses a more subtle way
of doing business and does not allow cell phones or laptops in the
dining areas, which makes the atmosphere more conducive to conversation.
“Business is done in a social
way, through communication and
not with pressure,” says general
manager Stephen Pieretti. “It’s
more elegant, more cosmopolitan
this way. And people are engaged
in conversation on all subject matters.”
Carolyn Sanderson, a working
mother of three, a managing director in private wealth management
at JPMorgan Chase on College
Road East, and longtime member
of the Nassau Club, says she uses
the club as a convenient place to
meet specifically because of its location in the center of Princeton.
Encouraged by her colleagues to
join about 10 years ago, Sanderson,
who says she uses the club “all the
time,” especially likes to hold
breakfast and lunch meetings at the
club. “I find that in the Princeton
community, my fellow professionals really enjoy starting their workday early, so meeting for breakfast
is very convenient. The Garden
Room, the main dining room, is
very attractive and the tables are
well separated. You really feel that
you have the privacy to speak with
people, so you can have a real business meeting at a location that is
very accessible. They also have
by Susan Van Dongen
private rooms that are available for
different group meetings, and that
has been helpful.”
Sanderson notes that Pieretti,
who was named general manager
just under two years ago — and
previously served as a consultant to
the club — and the facility’s new
executive chef, Brian Dougherty,
have made a lot of positive
changes. “The general manager
has done a lot to re-invigorate the
club,” she says. “They’ve done a
nice job of improving the menu and
the quality of the food, and that’s
another reason I use the Nassau
Club all the time. It seems to check
every box. Over the course of time,
I’ve also done larger group meetings there. If I were to have a presentation, the club is very good for
accommodating speakers and doing banquets.
“For example, in April, we had
Robert Weiss and Barry Berger,
both managing directors
at JPMorgan, in to speak.
They gave a presentation
for about 35 of us,”
Sanderson says. “It was a
breakfast meeting and
well-attended. It was very
well-done, a successful
event for everything that
we were trying to do.”
As a testimony to the
value the Nassau Club offers working professionals, Sanderson has sponsored two
people so far this year for membership, with another potential sponsorship popping up just recently. “I had
a breakfast meeting at the club, and
as we were leaving, my client said, ‘I
love this club, I’d love to be a member,’” she says. “So I said, ‘I’d love
The Breakfast Club: At the Nassau Club (left),
Milton Charbonneau, above center, senior VP,
brokerage services, Cassidy/Turley, Somerset,
says a quick hello to Peter Ventimiglia, left, board
president, McCarter Theater and retired VP,
external affairs, Verizon New Jersey, and Carolyn
P. Sanderson, managing director, private wealth
management, JPMorgan Chase, 103 College
Road East.
Photo above: Frank Wojciechowski
to sponsor you for a membership.’
People are responding to the fact that
the facility has been redone recently.
It’s always been attractive and elegant, but it looks really fresh, and
people appreciate that.”
The Pennington resident says she
chose the Nassau Club for its loca-
tion as well as its privacy and joined current member propose you, and
expressly to entertain clients. Al- two other members each write a letthough she has used it for personal ter recommending you to the admisevents, the bulk of her use is professions committee. You meet with the
sional. “I have younger children, so admissions committee at their oncewhen we entertain, it’s usually at a-month meeting over a glass of
home,” Sanderson says. “I pay for wine, and in three weeks a commitmy annual membership myself, but tee vote takes place.”
Past members include Presiit’s quite reasonable — $1,000. It’s
been well worth it, and I say this dents Grover Cleveland and
Woodrow Wilson, whose portraits
from a personal standpoint.”
The Nassau Club is an example adorn the lounge. Framed letters
of a private club that 50 years ago written by both hang near the enmight not have given a journalist trance hallway. There are some 600
the time of day, let alone a tour, and resident members (living within 15
would not openly suggest it was to 20 miles of the club), and about
looking for members. But times 600 non-residents who live as far
have changed and “private” clubs away as Hawaii, according to
are more “public” than ever. Case Lahnston. It’s a diversified memin point: Cherry Valley Country bership that includes men and
Club’s chef routinely appears on women in business, various professions, and acadnational televieme. Although
sion, and when
not limited to
one of its mem‘Business is done in
college gradubers recently hit
ates, members
two holes in one
a social way, not
represent severin one round of
with
pressure,’
says
al hundred colgolf, the club isNassau Club general
leges around
sued a press rethe
United
lease.
manager Stephen
States,
includEstablished
Pieretti. ‘It’s more
ing a large numin 1889, the
elegant, more cosber of Princeton
Nassau Club
University
was originally
mopolitan this way.’
graduates.
located at the
Facilities incorner of Nassau Street and University Place. It clude six dining rooms, which can
moved to its present location at 6 accommodate up to 400 guests,
Mercer Street in 1903, in a house and guest rooms available to memconstructed in 1813-1814 by bers and their guests for overnight
Samuel Miller, the second profes- or long-term stays. There are a
sor to be appointed to the recently plethora of special events, such as
established Princeton Theological themed parties and banquets
Seminary. Miller’s wife, Sarah, (Seafood Evening, Jersey Fresh
was the daughter of Jonathan Dick- Evening, “Lobstah” Night, and
inson Sergeant, and her family had Bastille Day Buffet, for example),
previously owned the property. wine tastings, and group outings.
Sergeant was noted for being a “We also have a large variety of
member of the Continental Con- programs such as a chess club, a
gress and the Provincial Congress poker club, an investment club, a
backgammon group, and a bridge
of New Jersey.
The Nassau Club was once exclu- club,” Lahnston says. “Many prisively for men but has welcomed vate groups such as Rotary and the
women since 1990. “We are now Chamber of Commerce meet at the
running about 30 percent women as Nassau Club, as well.
“We also have continued our
new members this year,” says Alison
Lahnston, president of the club and speaker lunches on every Wednesformerly the director of planned giv- day from September to May,” she
ing, now retired. at the Peddie continues. “Some of our speakers
School, Explaining how member- have included Robert Hillier, J. Seship works, she says, “You have a ward Johnson, Shirley Tilghman,
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Hold the Phone:
Forsgate Country
Club, near right; and
the Bedens Brook
Club offer challenging
golf courses.
Chris Christie, Doug Forrester,
Freeman Dyson, and the former
Senator William Frist.”
General manager Pieretti says
with the economy the way it’s
been, clubs have had to become
more in tune with their members’
needs and wants. “It’s important
that a club touches its members in a
very positive way,” Pieretti says.
“The club experience is branded to
show consistency and recognition,
with recognition probably being
the most important asset.
“For example, people who go to
a restaurant say recognition is the
number one thing they wish to
achieve when they go out. All our
members are greeted by name, and
we know where they like to sit,
what they like to eat, where they’ve
been on vacation — all these things
bring a sense of belonging to the
club. We provide various other
things that they think are important, such as a table they are not
rushed away from or menus that
are done in an elegant way. That’s
why the club business is positioned
so well in these times: we are able
to meet the unexpressed wishes of
our members. This is what we’ve
done to ramp up the ‘member
touches,’ or member satisfaction.”
He recognizes the reality of the
weak economy of the last two years
and notes that dining clubs have
had an easier time than sprawling
golf clubs, with all their land to be
cared for. “We are a little more agile so we’re able to make changes
but still preserve the heritage of the
Nassau Club,” Pieretti says. “We
are one of the oldest, largest dining
clubs in the country, so we have a
very high bar, and we reach for
that.”
The initiation fee for a resident
member (one who regularly resides for more than 90 days per
year or has a place of business
within a 20-mile radius of the club)
is $2,650. Annual dues are $1,020.
The Nassau Club, 6 Mercer
Street, Princeton. 609-924-0580,
www.nassauclub.org.
Forsgate Country Club
R
ichard J. Malouf Jr., vice
president of the Malouf Auto
Group in North Brunswick, says
his impression of the Forsgate
Country Club is that it’s like an extended family. That “family” extends not only to guests he brings to
the golf course, but to other club
members who might become future clients. “When you become a
member, you meet people you
wouldn’t normally meet, people
you wouldn’t know otherwise, so
that helps to expand your network,” Malouf says. “You might
meet them in the Grille Room or
over appetizers and they’ll say,
‘what do you do, what line of business are you in,’ and the next thing
you know, they’re coming to your
place of business. They’re looking
for somebody to trust, someone to
talk to.
“If I had advice for someone
thinking of joining a club, I’d say,
that’s where it’s worth your while
— networking with other club
members, especially with a club
like Forsgate where they have hundreds of members,” he says. “Of
course, you have to weigh the pros
and cons, but as long as it’s smart
for their business, I would say club
membership really allows you to
reach out to people.”
A member for more than 16
years, Malouf was encouraged to
join Forsgate by his father. He says
he was not terribly interested in
golf, but when he got out of college, his father strongly advised
him to join and see what it was all
about. “He told me what a great
way it was to meet a lot of people,”
Malouf says. “We have a corporate
membership, it’s for the entire corporation to use. I’ve taken people
out who use our services, or, on the
other hand, we use their services.
For example, I go out with our bulk
oil clients or people who do our
payroll. We sometimes take our
employees out. And we take our
reps out, representatives for Ford
or General Motors, for example. To
me, Forsgate is phenomenal.
“It’s in a great location for us
and caters to everything we could
possibly want,” he continues. “To
me, it’s really the only country club
in central New Jersey that has
everything at your fingertips, and
the staff is great to work with. It has
two golf courses (the original
Banks course and the newer Palmer course), so if one is filled, you
can use the other. The courses and
facilities are always in beautiful
shape. There’s a new restaurant
called 37, which has modern
American cuisine, a bar and pub
area, a pool and recreation facilities, big ballrooms where they host
proms and sweet 16 parties, those
kind of affairs. We’ve not only had
business events there, we’ve also
had personal functions.”
Membership is most definitely
worth it, Malouf says. Sharing an
afternoon of golf or a round of
drinks “helps you get a better understanding of whom you’re working with,” Malouf says. “It’s easier
to do business with people you feel
comfortable with.”
He considers the club to be a
great marketing tool. “We can
build relationships, especially with
other members, and when you are
buying a service or product from
another member, you see these
people all the time, and you know
they’re going to take care of you.”
Established in 1931, Forsgate
began with Scottish immigrant
John Forster’s vision of a self-sustaining community for his employees, away from the grind of the city.
The co-founder of the insurance
company Crum and Forster, he first
looked over land in Monroe Township in 1913. He decided to build a
town, experiment with different
types of agriculture, and provide
entertainment for his friends and
relatives. The name Forsgate is a
combination of his name and his
wife’s family name, Gatenby.
In building the golf course,
Forster enlisted Charles “Steamshovel” Banks, who reproduced
many of Forster’s favorite golf
holes from his European golfing
tours. The Palmer course was originally created by Hal Purdy in 1961
but was redesigned in 1995 by the
Arnold Palmer Group and again in
2007 by Steven Kay.
The historic clubhouse features
the Highlands Ballroom, noted for
its floor-to-ceiling windows. The
Forsgate Sports Complex includes
an outdoor junior Olympic pool, a
children’s pool, and gym.
Membership director Carol
Rutherford says, while the average
holder of a golf membership is
male and in his mid-40s, with the
opening of the sports complex,
families and children have also
been enjoying what Forsgate has to
offer. “A golf membership automatically includes a spouse and
children under 24,” she says.
“Most of our members live within a
15 or 20-mile radius of the club,
and we mostly have CEOs of corporations, executives, business
owners, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals.”
For a golf membership, the current joining fee is $17,000, a porContinued on following page
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tion of which is a refundable deposit (if the member leaves the
club), and the monthly fees calculate to about $7,500 a year. (Forsgate does not offer an annual membership.) Different levels of membership include senior, sports, and
social memberships. Membership
is by application.
Forsgate Country Club, 375
Forsgate Drive, Monroe Township.
732-521-0700, www.forsgatecc.com.
TPC/Jasna Polana
‘I
use the membership for
business purposes, to entertain
clients and friends, and they appreciate the invitation,” says Jasna
Polana member Paul Shur. “They
look forward to going, to the overall experience, and that furthers my
business relationship with clients
and other people I bring.”
An attorney of 30-plus years,
specializing in commercial and finance law, Shur is with Sills,
Cummis and Gross, and splits his
time between the firm’s offices at
650 College Road East and New
York. He graduated with a bachelor’s in history from Rutgers in
1974 and earned his law degree
from Rutgers Law School in Camden in 1977.
Shur, an East Brunswick resident, says even in this economy his
membership at Jasna Polana is
worth the costs, and has been beneficial to his business for years.
“When I put together a foursome, I
go to great lengths to put together
groups of people I think will benefit
from the experience, and sometimes
the furthering of the relationship isn’t with me, but with someone else
in the foursome,” he says. “I have
established new relationships several times. People have done business with me, or introduced me to
someone else, or I’ve been introduced to people I didn’t know.”
Golf is a sociable game, with a
polite tradition of socializing and
networking, so it’s natural to be invited to someone else’s club and
experience their course. “When
you invite people to play golf at
your club and they have memberships at their own clubs, they reciprocate, and then I’m introduced to
even more people in that round of
golf,” Shur says. “So yes, I meet
new people, yes, I further relationships and then I also bring people
back to Jasna Polana, people I already have a relationship with. You
can never take for granted a business relationship. People have to
know that you respect and care
about them, and we show this by
playing golf and then spending
time afterwards.”
A Polish phrase that means
“bright meadow,” Jasna Polana in
Princeton came into existence in a
dramatic, almost operatic way. In
1983, the widowed Barbara Piasecka Johnson was left with a
massive neo-Classical villa on an
estate of almost 150 acres, when
her much-older husband, J. Seward
Johnson, died. The native of
Poland didn’t care to remain in the
United States but knew the rambling estate and lavishly decorated
home couldn’t go to waste. She decided a golf course would put the
land to its best use and would also
ensure that the integrity of the
house would remain.
Affiliated with the PGA Tour,
the Tournament Player’s Club
(TPC) network was hired to manage the club, and famed golfer
Gary Player was selected to design
the course. (The Johnson family
still owns the land.) Although it is a
relatively young course, Jasna
Polana is considered among the top
private golf courses in New Jersey,
with a challenging course orchestrated amidst rolling hills, hardwood trees, lakes, and ponds. Player, who is known for working with
the natural environment when designing, crafted a course that supports the habitat of the existing
land.
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A charter member of the
club, Shur says the golf
course is “an interesting
course and well-developed
for as young as it is, and it’s
remarkably well-maintained. I love being outside, and
I’ve taken to bringing my
son to Jasna Polana on
weekends. It’s such a comfortable environment.”
According to Peter
Angerame, TPC/Jasna Polana director of sales and marketing, there are several
types of memberships: golf
corporate, golf charter, and
social. A golf corporate
membership is a $95,000
initiation fee with 75 percent refundable, or $55,000
non-refundable; a golf charter membership is $80,000 with 75
percent refundable, or $45,000
non-refundable. Golf memberships include golf privileges, dining and lodging. A social membership is $12,000 and includes social
and dining privileges. Annual fees
are additional.
Shur holds a corporate membership. “That allows me to send
guests to the course without my being available to play. (My membership) helps me with my business
marketing.”
To become a member, Angerame says a potential member need
only call him to arrange a meeting.
No letters of recommendation are
required.
While Shur allows that the fees
are substantial, he says “other
clubs are much higher, $100,000 or
$200,000 for an initiation fee, and
then you pay dues on top of that.
But is it worth it? I would give a resounding ‘yes.’”
W
hat sets Jasna Polana apart
for Shur is the warmth and attentiveness of the staff. Despite the
palatial surroundings and size of
the venue, he says it’s a warm,
friendly place. “At Jasna, there’s an
effort by the management and firm
to be professional and to create a
very business-friendly environment,” Shur says. “They try to
make clients and guests feel welcome, and they can’t do enough for
me. The club house is immaculate
and well-maintained, Jasna has excellent dining facilities, and just in
general, it’s a real treat to go to this
club. Even for me, someone who
goes all the time, every time I’m
there, someone at Jasna does something special, goes out of their way.
“When I take clients for a round
of golf, it’s a whole day,” he says.
“I get E-mails back from them
thanking me effusively, saying
what a great time they had. You
don’t see this at every golf course.”
Golf is not the only attraction for
Shur, who has also hosted business
meetings at Jasna Polana. “My
clients come for the food and the
meeting (experience), and the people at Jasna do a great job with this
also,” he says. “When I first joined
the club, I only used it for business,
but now I’ve started to use it for
more personal reasons, like I said,
bringing my son. I think one of the
best things I’ve done was to join
Jasna, and I plan to stay as long as I
can.”
Angerame says that in the last
decade the demographics at Jasna
Polana have undergone a subtle
change. “When we first opened, we
attracted an older, high-end clientele,” he says. “Now in our 11th
year, we find that we have a
younger type of member, the average age would probably be in their
40s. It’s C-level executives (CEOs,
CFOs, etc.), as well as professionals — doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and financial professionals.
It’s a bit of a cliche, but we like to
say that Jasna Polana still possesses the ‘wow’ factor. But it’s also a
nice place to relax.”
The clubhouse occupies the
Johnsons’ former home, built in the
early 1970s by famed architect Wallace Harrison. The villa features luxe
interior details and appointments
such as antique flooring, 18th and
19th-century marble mantelpieces,
bronze casement windows, antique
tapestries, and 18th and 19th-century paintings from the Johnson’s collection of European works. At the
focal point of the Grand Foyer is a
suspended travertine stone staircase,
Flemish tapestries, and original
George II furnishings.
JULY 21, 2010
The estate also offers overnight
and meeting accommodations at
the Annex, a 10-room Georgianstyle mansion built in the early
1900s, adjacent to the 14th tee.
There, guests will find Persian rugs
and a decorative fireplace in each
room. The more modern Beata’s
House, built in 1987, has six rooms.
Jasna Polana’s landscaped
grounds include an orchid house, an
amphitheater, herb garden, and reflecting pool. Dining can be an experience that ranges from casual to formal to intimate, with the main dining
room suitable for upscale dining and
banquets or the Oak Room for a
Is Jasna’s five-figure
initiation fee worth it?
‘I would give a resounding yes,’ says
member Paul Shur,
an attorney.
more laid-back lunch or dinner.
Then there is the Wine Cellar, where
guests can enjoy a private dinner for
just 10 people, with a wine list numbering in the thousands.
Jasna Polana is also noted for its
environmental awareness and
stewardship and has strived to preserve and protect native wildlife
habitats as well as conserving natural resources. In recognition, Jasna
is certified as part of Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Systems by
Audubon International. The club
has been honored with numerous
environmental awards, including
the Golf Digest/Golf Course Superintendents Association of
America (GCSAA) Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards.
“We’re very supportive of the
community, and we like it here,”
Angerame says. He notes that
TPC/Jasna Polana is also known
for its charity, specifically its
Birdies for the Brave golf event,
which celebrated its fifth year last
October. The event will be held this
year on Monday, October 25. “100
percent of all charity money goes
to support men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he
says. “We’re always looking for
sponsors and players.”
TPC/Jasna Polana, 4519 Province Line Road, Princeton. 609688-0500, www.tpcatjasnapolana.com.
The Bedens Brook Club
E
stablished in 1964, the Bedens Brook Club, located between
Princeton and Hopewell and overlooking the scenic Sourlands, provides golf, recreational, and social
opportunities to its members in the
Greater Princeton Area. “At the
Bedens Brook Club, members enjoy a welcoming environment,
beautiful setting, and exceptional
facilities,” says Craig W. Campbell, general manager of the Bedens Brook Club, in an E-mail.
“We offer a challenging and meticulously maintained Dick Wilsondesigned, 18-hole golf course with
competitive and instructional programs for all skill and age levels
and no tee times. Our professional
tennis staff provides competitive
and recreational opportunities on
our five Har-Tru tennis courts.”
Amenities include four heated
platform tennis courts, pool and cabana, club house, and outdoor patios. Like many clubs, cell phone
use is strictly limited, with the exception of the pool cabana, the
parking lot, and the clubhouse
phone room.
The Bedens Brook Club is a private, member-owned club offering
a variety of membership categories
through invitation. Management
declined to state membership fees
for this article. The size of the club
is limited to ensure convenient access to all facilities at all times.
The Bedens Brook Club, 240
Rolling Hill Road, Skillman. 609466-2646, www.bedensbrook.com.
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exception of a few social memberships that remain available. We encourage prospective members to
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dining and social events, as well as
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Cherry Valley can celebrate one
for the record books: one of its
members, Donna Cortina, basketball and golf coach at Stuart Country Day School, accomplished the
near-impossible on Monday, July
12. As a guest in the TPC/Jasna
Polana summer member-guest
tournament, Cortina, a Skillman
resident and mother of three, aced
on the second hole, where she used
a gap wedge, and the 17th hole,
where she used an 8-iron.
“I checked on Google,” says
CVCC’s director of golf, Allan
Bowman, “and found that this has
only happened on four other occasions in history. The odds of making
two hole in ones during the same
round of golf are 67 million to one.”
Cortina’s feat comes directly on
the heels of fellow Cherry Valley
member and Bowman student Peggy Ference’s fine showing on national television where she competed in Golf Digest’s U.S. Open
Challenge at Pebble Beach alongside actor Mark Wahlberg, New
Orleans Saints quarterback Drew
Brees, and hockey legend Wayne
Gretzky. Ference is the regional
business director at Allos Therapeutics at 302 Carnegie Center.
Bowman says: “I wish I could take
the credit but, let’s face it, Peggy
earned her way to Pebble by winning a contest against 30,000 others.”
Cherry Valley has other stars in
its midst: executive chef Michael
Giletto (michaelgiletto.com) is
constantly on television and has
appeared on the Tyra Banks show,
Chopped, Iron Chef America, Ultimate Recipe Showdown, and
more. On Wednesday, July 21, he
can be seen on the Food Network’s
“24 Hour Restaurant Battle,” and
he just wrapped being a panelist on
“The Next Food Network Star.” He
recently created a five-course meal
for a wealthy family on “The Millionaire Matchmaker.”
“CVCC offers a range of membership categories starting at
$1,000 initiation fee for a social
member with no food minimum,”
Hurley says. “For a full privilege
membership, there is currently a
$10,000 initiation fee or an option
to pay $2,500 per year for five
years. Annual dues are additional,
and there is a waiting list for full
privileges. Membership is through
current member invitation, then
through recommendation by a
membership committee and the
board of trustees.”
Cherry Valley Country Club,
125 Country Club Drive, Skillman.
609-466-4244, www.cherryvalleycc.com.
Greenacres
Country Club
A
walk through the course at
Greenacres Country Club in Law-
renceville is like a tour of a botanical garden, with more than 150
species of flowers, plants, shrubs,
and trees. There are specimens
well over 100 years old scattered
throughout the property, as well as
those found from all over the
world.
The 6,400-yard course, designed by renowned golf course architects Devereux Emmett and Alfred Tull, is nestled among rolling
hills and natural wetlands.
The course was updated in the
1970s by George and Tom Fazio,
then in 1982 by Ryan Ault, and
more recently by Steven Kay.
Cherry Valley Country Club’s full but it
offers an ‘awaiting’
membership, which
allows prospects
some limited use of
the club while they
await an opening.
Greenacres was voted “club of the
year” in 2008 by the New Jersey
chapter of the National Golf
Course Owners Association.
Founded in 1938, the club has a
long tradition of and commitment
to the principles of family and fellowship. According to a press
statement, members share a common bond of social, civic, and
charitable responsibility.
The founders of Greenacres
Country Club felt so strongly about
giving back to their community
that the governing documents of
the club mandate that, in order to
be a member of the club, one must
make an annual donation to either
United Way or the Jewish Federation. In addition, the membership
of Greenacres supports a variety of
sports and civic organizations and
foundations, including the Susan
G. Komen Breast Cancer Race for a
Cure Foundation, the American
Cancer Society, and the Juvenile
Diabetes Foundation.
In addition to its golf course,
Greenacres offers a state-of-the-art
tennis venue with terraced spectator areas, an aquatic facility with
oversized pool, secure kiddie pool,
spa pool, and a fully equipped fitness area.
Dining is offered indoors or out,
and members and guests can enjoy
cocktails and appetizers in the living room lounge with mahogany
bar, casual lunch or dinner in the
Grill Room, or a more formal dinner in the main dining room.
Greenacres’ facilities also include a sun room with floor-toceiling windows and a grand ballroom with panoramic views of the
golf course. Management declined
to give membership fees.
Greenacres Country Club,
2170 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville. 609-896-0259, www.greenacres-cc.com.
Springdale Golf Club
L
ike the Nassau Club, Springdale is located in the heart of Princeton, nesled among the buildings of
Princeton University and Princeton
Theological Seminary near McCarter Theater. Established in 1895
by alumni, faculty, and undergraduates of Princeton, it is one of the oldest golf clubs in New Jersey.
The par 71 golf course, designed
by Gerard Lambet, dates from
1915 and was revised in 1926 by
William Flynn. The clubhouse,
originally a circa 1860 farmhouse
was a gift from the Princeton Class
of 1886 and in 2007, underwent an
extensive upgrade and renovation.
Springdale is a private club and
serves as the home course for the
Princeton University men’s and
women’s golf teams. The club includes a professional golf shop and a
state-of-the-art practice facility that
includes a short-game area and fulllength driving range. Management
declined to give membership fees.
Springdale Golf Club, 1895
Clubhouse Drive, Princeton. 609921-8790, www.springdalegc.com.
Pretty Brook
Tennis Club
O
ne area club that is decidedly not focused on business doings
is Pretty Brook Tennis Club, a
small, private club with a primary
focus on racquet sports. With a
strong sense of tradition, PBTC is
strictly for social purposes and discourages any business activity.
Cell phones, Blackberries and
PDAs, iPods, and other electronics
are not allowed.
An E-mail to one member, asking about the club, received the response “PBTC is a small, private,
members-only tennis and squash
facility. We do not allow photographs of the club or its facilities to
appear in news media and the facilities are completely off limits for
business meetings, the display of
business papers, cell phones, or any
BlackBerry or similar device. It is a
social club. Vis a vis your article,
we would prefer to have no reference to our existence. If you want to
print something, we do now have a
website with limited public information. We would best like to be
quoted as saying, ‘No comment.’”
Founded in 1929, the facilities
at PBTC include four outdoor HarTru tennis courts, one outdoor tennis hard court, one indoor tennis
hard court, two indoor squash
courts, two heated and lighted paddle tennis courts, an outdoor swimming pool and deck area with gated
baby pool and lawn, and a kids
pavilion for table sports. The historic clubhouse serves casual
lunches and social and athletic activities are offered year-round.
Pretty Brook Tennis Club, 229
Pretty Brook Road, Princeton. 609924-0062, www.prettybrook.com.
Available for Lease
Pennsylvania - Bucks County - Retail/Office/Prof
• The Gatherings 800-1,075 SF —
$1,200-$1,500/mo.
• Woodbourne Professional 100-1,925 SF —
$110-$2,000/mo.
• Hyde Park 2,696 SF — $19.50/SF/YR
Thompson Realty 609-921-7655
JULY 21, 2010
Life in the Fast Lane
T
he Bank of Princeton, a
community bank with branches in
Pennington, Hamilton, Princeton
Borough, and Princeton Township,
has acquired Philadelphia-based
MoreBank, which caters primarily
to Asian-American clientele.
According to a May letter to
Bank of Princeton’s shareholders,
the move is Bank of Princeton’s attempt to snare a piece of what has
proved to be a lucrative AsianAmerican market.
MoreBank, operated entirely by
Asians, will keep its name and be
run as a division of the Bank of
Princeton in Philadelphia and
Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
While Bank of Princeton’s
move follows the lead of Robbinsville-based Roma Bank, which
launched RomAsia in 2008 in an
effort to cash in on the growing
Asian-American population in
Middlesex County, Bank of
Princeton chairman Andrew Chon,
above right, says the acquisition
has been planned for some time.
A Korean immigrant himself —
Chon came over as a child when his
parents moved here to run “a little
mom-and-pop business” and give
their children a better life — Chon
says he is aware of the sizable
Asian-American population living
“in pockets” between New
Brunswick and Delaware. Short of
Hispanics, Asians are the fastestgrowing population sector in the
region, and a bank catering to that
population simply makes sense..
“We’re entertaining the idea of
Edited by Scott Morgan
opening branches [of MoreBank]
but we don’t know where specifically,” he says. Montgomery and
Somerset counties, however, are
on Bank of Princeton’s radar, as are
Hamilton and Edison, where RomAsia recently open it’s second
branch.
For now, Chon says, Bank of
Princeton and MoreBank, the latter
of which features tellers who speak
an array of Asian languages, will
concentrate on their stock-in-trade
— the local business community.
“We leverage a lot of money for
local business,” Chon says. Since
opening in 2007, he says, Bank of
Princeton has loaned roughly $200
million, almost all of it to businesses in Princeton and its immediate
surroundings. “We’re looking to
loan to local businesses, we’re just
trying to find the right local businesses to help.”
The Bank of Princeton, 183
Bayard Lane, Princeton
08542-3719; 609-921-1700;
fax, 609-921-8350. Andrew
Chon, chairman. www.thebankofprinceton.com.
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William Barish [email protected]
Princeton Commerce Center
750-7000 SF, Immediate Occupancy.
Just Off Route One at Meadow Road Overpass.
OFFICE FOR LEASE
Kingston, NJ - Route 27
2 Suites Available - 1000 SF and 1500 SF
Flexible Lease Terms
3 Minutes to Downtown Princeton
Contact: Al Toto, Senior Vice President
609-921-8844 • Fax: 609-924-9739
[email protected] • Exclusive Broker
www.29emmons.com
Available - Near Train - 9300 SF
777 Alexander Park. Will Divide, Great Signage.
Immediate Occupancy, Cafe On Site.
Plainsboro - Newly Renovated - 5800 SF
FOR SALE! 100% Occupancy, Office Professional.
Perfect for Owner/User/Investor.
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Commercial Property Network
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For more information and other opportunities, please
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Available for Lease
Princeton Township - Office/Retail
• 812 State Road (Rt. 206) 135-850 SF — $185-$1,200/mo.
Princeton Borough - Office/Retail
• 195 Nassau Street $600-$700/mo. Individual Offices
Princeton Junction - Office/Med/Prof
• 825-1872 SF — $1,250-$2,800/mo.
• Walk to Train Station 5 Minutes Max.
Lawrence Township - Office/Med/Prof - Lease or Condo Sale
• 2500 Brunswick Pike (Rt. 1) 422-1,600 SF — $465-$1,750/mo.
• Lawrence Office Park 650 to 6,000 SF — $900 to $8,000/mo.
• Condos for SALE from $150/SF
Rocky Hill - Office/Med/Prof - Lease or Condo Sale
• 1026 Rt. 518 500-9,700 SF — $1,400-$16,000/mo.
Hamilton - Office/Flex
• Whitehorse Commercial Park 600-2,500 SF — $700-$3,000/mo
• 2101 East State Street 3,300-9,900 SF
Bordentown - Retail/Office/Prof
• 101 Farnsworth 250-950 SF — $275-$1,000/mo.
• 102 Farnsworth 1,350-1,500 SF — $1,450-$2,850/mo.
• 3 Third Street 1,000-2,375 SF — $1,100-$2,500/mo.
Forsgate Exit A - Retail/Office/Prof
• One Rossmoor Drive 1,700-2,100 SF — $2,500-$3,000/mo.
Expansions
RomAsia Bank, 4287 Route 1 South,
Monmouth Junction 08852; 609-8978100; fax, 609-897-8138. Dominick
Mazzagetti, president and CEO.
www.romasiabank.com.
RomAsia, a bank catering to the AsianAmerican community in Middlesex County,
has named four new members to its advisory board in the wake of the grand opening of
its second branch in Edison last month.
Kris Kolluri, head of the state Schools
Development Authority; Nag Karaka, CEO
of the Penntex Group IT firm of Edison; Edison-based attorney Jimmy Hu; and Y.C.
Tsien, former executive director of the New
Jersey Chinese American Chamber of Commerce, were announced on July 9.
RomAsia opened its doors in Monmouth
Junction in 2008 as an offshoot of Roma Financial, based in Robbinsville. This is the
first satellite branch to open.
Roma Bank, RomAsia’s holding company headquartered in Robbinsville, completed its $14.7 million acquisition of Mount
Laurel-based Sterling Bank Monday.
The acquisition was announced in March
(U.S. 1, March 24), but the deal needed to be
finalized. On Monday, Sterling’s 10 branches in Burlington and Camden counties
opened as Roma branches, giving Roma 24
branches between Mercer and Camden
counties.
Sterling, which ran into trouble with spot
construction loans for individuals building a
house, was forced last year by the Federal
Reserve Bank of Philadelphia to boost its
loan loss reserves.
But while Roma reported a $2.6 million
profit in 2009, Sterling reported a loss of
$9.6 million.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
Sterling head nearly $379 million in assets
at year’s end and the two banks now hold
$1.7 billion in assets and $1.3 billion in deposits.
Thompson Realty 609-921-7655
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JULY 21, 2010
Tax Credit for Summer Childcare Expenses
W
orking parents: there is
hope. If you are working or looking for work and need arrange
for care of children under 13 during their summer break from
school, you could qualify for a
credit on next year’s tax return.
According to the IRS, the
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cost of day camp (expenses for
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Kavayah Solutions Inc., 5 Independence Way, Suite 180,
Princeton 08540; 609-9199797; fax, 609-919-9679.
Vivek Casula, president.
science, which he received from
NYIT in 1994.
.
Kavayah Solutions, an E-commerce and IT firm founded as Multiconnect by Vivek Casula in 2002,
has opened an office on Independence Way.
A 15-year veteran of the enterprise-software industry, Casula is
the former director of systems architecture for Thomson Peterson’s,
where he headed the company’s
strategic vision and technologyimplementation strategy.
He also managed several software development efforts, including an E-learning system for Peterson’s online courses.
Prior to joining Thomson Peterson’s, Casula held several technical, management consulting, and
client-engagement positions with
Thomson Consulting.
He holds master’s degrees in engineering physics and computer
VIA Pharmaceuticals, 101
College Road, Princeton.
www.viapharmaceuticals.c
om.
VIA, a San Francisco-based developer of drugs and compounds
that target inflammation in the
blood vessel wall, has moved its
College Road offices to Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. The firm can
be reached at 267-513-1789
www.kavayahsolutions.com
Leaving Town
Deaths
Joseph DeLorenzo, 94, on July
16. He was one of the founders of
DeLorenzo’s Tomato Pie in Trenton.
Dolores Dowd, 73, on July 16.
She was the budget and personnel
director for the New Jersey General Assembly.
Survival Guide
around for all of us. The industry
is so big, we work with each other,
not against each other,” he says.
A challenging time. Even with
all of the weddings taking place
yearly in New Jersey, the past two
and half years or so have been a
challenge for the wedding industry. Many couples have put off
their weddings because of the economic downturn, and those that
have continued with their plans
have been spending less. In 2009
the average price for a wedding
dropped $6,000, according to a report at CNNMoney.com.
But there is good news. Kent is
seeing an increase in the number
of weddings being planned this
year. “People are starting to
scramble to get contracts for a hall
in the next six months,” he says.
The catering hall is often the first
business a couple will contact.
They must reserve a date for the
location before moving on to book
other resources such as a DJ or
band.
Another piece of good news for
the industry is that the first of the
“echo boomers,” or Gen Y, that
large group of children born to the
baby boom generation, is now in
their late 20s and they are starting
to get married. That means an increase of weddings in the next
decade as more and more members of the generation comes of
age.
Social networking in the industry. One important thing for
people in the wedding industry to
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Office Condo for Lease
Montgomery Knoll, Tamarack Circle
1900 SF • Ideal medical setting
5 windowed offices • Bullpen
Reception • Bath
Private entrance • Ample parking
Call 908-281-5374 • Meadow Run Properties
Medical/Professional Office for Lease
Princeton, NJ - N. Harrison St.
2200 SF
(will consider subdividing)
Convenient to Current and New Hospital
dD
Contact – Phone: (609) 658-9259 - Debra
Fax: (609) 921-0775
Email: [email protected]
COMMERCIAL
DIVISION
PREMIER PROPERTY
Princeton Junction - User or Investor Opportunity. Two story masonry building containing 8 suites from 400 SF to 3000 SF FOR SALE.
PRICE REDUCED! Suites – 400, 600 and 1,269 SF available FOR LEASE.
OFFICE SPACE
Ewing Twp. - Medical office available for lease. – close to new Capital Health
facility – 2,200 SF.
Ewing - Premium finished 1300 SF office space, partially furnished, having
3 private offices and large clerical staff area, kitchenette and storage.
Favorable lease rates.
Ewing Twp. - Economical 1,200+/-SF suite with seven offices, reception,
secretarial area and 1/2 bath. For Sale or Lease.
Ewing - Office - Attractive 4 office suites. 620 SF to 1,368 SF. Close to I-95,
U.S. 1 & Princeton. LOW GROSS RENT.
Montgomery Twp. - Economical office suites, 550 SF, 204 +/- SF
& 211 +/- SF, which can be combined for 1,335 +/- SF. Lease. On 206.
North Brunswick - 3,315 SF single story building office/retail. Available
for lease.
Pennington - New construction. Suites available from 1,000 SF to 4,660 SF.
Still time to provide your input for interior finish.
Pennington - Two (2) suites available for lease. 1,584 +/- SF. Rt. 31 near I-95.
Princeton - Central business district, opposite library. Second floor, front,
single office with private bath. 312 SF.
RETAIL SPACE
Ewing - 2400 SF end cap retail. Located in a neighborhood shopping center
on the corner of N. Olden and Parkside. Available for lease.
Ewing Twp. - Ideal for food use. 1,000 SF to 2,000 SF available for lease
located in neighborhood shopping center.
Hamilton - 1,600 +/- SF and 1,200 +/- SF available in neighborhood
shopping center.
Montgomery Twp. - Just outside of Princeton on Route 206, 1200 SF for lease.
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Ewing Twp. - 2,500 SF clear span warehouse/shop. Lease.
Ewing Twp. - 4,530 SF shop/warehouse - sale or lease.
Hamilton Twp - Community Commercial zone. Allows retail and office use.
Located on a 4 lane highway close to 295. 2 lots, 1 with a residence
and 1 vacant. Being sold as a package.
Hamilton Twp. - 3,840 SF warehouse space available for lease.
Hamilton Twp. - 2000 SF building suitable for office or retail. Parking for 21 cars.
1 mile to full interchange of I-95. Available FOR SALE.
North Brunswick - 3,315 SF of space available for your use in this 8,315 SF
single story building. Office/retail, zoned C-1. Available for sale.
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Hamilton Twp - Community Commercial zone. Allows retail and office use.
Located on a 4 lane highway close to 295. 2 lots, 1 with a residence
and 1 vacant. Being sold as a package.
Hamilton Twp - Development opportunity includes Engineering drawings
for development of 15,200 +/- sf, 1.9 acres in Mercerville section.
Ewing Twp. - 2.07 acres FOR SALE in professional, research, office zone,
one mile south of I-95, Merrill Lynch facility and Capital Health’s new $400
million hospital. Ideal for medical group.
Lawrence Twp. - .2.28 +/- acres in professional office zoning.
West Amwell Twp. - 5.4 +/- acres zoned highway commercial, conceptual plan
with some permits for 15,592 +/- SF bldg.
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2 Route 31 South • Pennington, N.J. 08534
609-737-2077
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SALE/LEASE 2,820 Sq. ft. Prof. Office Bldg.
ASKING: $495,000
OWN W/ TENANT
3673 Quakerbridge Road - former law office. Buy w/ 1,000 sq. ft. tenant
in place or lease 1,820 sq. ft. in move-in condition. 14 car parking, great
highway signage. Available Immediately.
ALL REASONABLE OFFERS CONSIDERED.
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HOW TO ORDER
Call 609-452-7000, or fax your ad to
609-452-0033, or use our E-Mail address: [email protected]. 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.
OFFICE RENTALS
12 Roszel Rd, Princeton, NJ: Executive suites A-204. Vacant suite with access to internal common area available.
Internet Access. Call 609-720-0300 or email: [email protected].
186 Princeton-Hightstown Rd.
Windsor Business Park. Two small
suites of 915 & 1030 SF available immediately; please call 609-921-6060 for details.
192 Nassau St. Single office of approx. 400 SF. Available immediately.
Please call 609-921-6060 for details.
194 Nassau Street, 953 sq. ft. office
for lease. Also a 510 SF two-room suite
available. Reception area, three offices,
kitchen, storage, private restroom.
Please call 609-921-6060 for details.
1st Month FREE on select offices:
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.princetonoffice.com
East Windsor, Route 130: Office in
professional building: 240 SF @ $395.
Call 609-730-0575.
Large office available. Kingston
Professional Buildings, 4499 Rt. 27, Village of Kingston. Close to Princeton and
Rt. 1. Outdoor patio, quiet area. Ideal for
single practitioner attorney, accountant,
therapist, nutritionist and others. Utilities
and common area charges included
$975/mo. Please reply to: [email protected] or call 609-915-4095.
Lawrenceville: Psychotherapy/ Professional Service Office Space for Rent.
3rd Floor Office Suite in Lawrenceville, 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 at 267-391-7351.
Montgomery Knoll: Skillman address. CPA with 1,500 SF space wishes
to sublet 12’x12’ ground floor windowed
office. $400 to a CPA or attorney, $500
otherwise. Call or E-mail Henry at 609497-2929; [email protected].
Pennington - Hopewell: Straube
Center Office from virtual office, 12 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
• Immediate Occupancy
• Flexible Lease Terms
• Ample parking
• Walk to restaurants
• Expansion potential
William Barish
[email protected]
609-921-8844
www.cpnrealestate.com
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be aware of is that Geny Y brides
and grooms are internet-savvy.
Brides these days are sharing information with each other online.
“Parents aren’t paying as much as
they used to and the couples themselves are paying more and planning more,” Kent says. “They are
online looking for discounts and
sharing that information on the
wedding blogs,” he says.
The new emphasis on wedding
blogs and social media in the industry means that if a business does
a great job (or a terrible job) at one
wedding it will be discussed not
just by a few of the bride’s friends,
but possibly by thousands of brides
on an online wedding blog site, as
well. — Karen Hodges Miller
OFFICE RENTALS
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PENNINGTON. Furnished private office in a five-office suite. Fax, copier and
kitchen. $500/month. Call Frank at 609896-1125.
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 Junction: Prof. Office
space in highly visible spot near trains,
Princeton Hopsital, highways. Reasonable rents. Units from $450 to $6000 per
month. Call Ali at Re/Max of Princeton
609-452-1887 or cell 609-902-0709.
Princeton Office Space — Heart of
downtown up to 6 offices available with
shared conference, file storage and coffee rooms. Professional non-therapeutic
uses only with low client traffic. 609-2521111
Princeton Office Suite for Rent 134
Nassau Street. Excellent central business district location. 2,000 SF with reception, conference, plus five private offices and spacious office gallery. Weinberg Management, 609-924-8535,
www.weinbergmanagement.com
Princeton-Nassau Street: Sublet 24 rooms, 2nd floor, includes parking/utilities. Call 609-924-6270. Ask for Wendy.
Single story office building available. 2100 s.f. Kingston Professional
Buildings, 4499 Rt. 27, Village of
Kingston. Ideal for law firms, accounting
firms, other professional groups. Quiet
area, outdoor patio available. $23/s.f.
Email [email protected] or call
609-915-4095
COMMERCIAL SPACE
HAMILTON - WH/DIST/OFFICE
space at recession-busting prices!
15,500 SF @ $3,500/mo NNN! Private
BR, hi ceilings, loading dock, drive-in,
great location! Also other units from
3,000 SF to 30,000 SF. MUST SEE! Brian @ 609-731-0378 or [email protected]
Photo/Video Space The Photography Studio @ Studio City New Jersey is
now open. Trenton’s first movie studio
has a 1750sq ft. photo studio and a
10,000sq ft. film and video sound stage
with green screen available at the facility. Call for low intro rates. 609-278-2800.
Visit us online at: www.studiocitynj.com
Business Meetings
Wednesday, July 21
4 p.m.: NJTC, “What’s Next in Energy Policy? $50. Weiser LLP,
Edison. 856-787-8700.
WAREHOUSE/office space 7,200
sqft & 2,500 sqft new construction can
modify to your needs. Dayton location,
Cranbury address, 12 ft drive-in door.
Best deal around. Call Russ 732-3296991, email [email protected].
HOUSING FOR SALE
Special - Special - Special - Roosevelt - Just Reduced. Lost job and will
sacrifice this 4 BR home. NOW
$274,900 - will consider any reasonable
offer. Levinson Assoc. Realtors 609655-5535. Marketed by Mel Adlerman
609-655-7788 (Res.).
HOUSING FOR RENT
Hamilton Square: one bedroom, living room, dining area and kitchen on private treed lot near MCCC $773, heat included, available August. 609-5295891.
Princeton: Executive 5BR 2.5 bath
home on 2 acres, pool, woods, Herrontown area. Available immediately.
609-924-2809.
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CONTRACTING
Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Hauling/All Yard Work
from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
CLEANING SERVICES
Window Washing: Lolio Window
Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609-271-8860.
HOME MAINTENANCE
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repairs and carpentry. Practical approach, reasonable rates, local references — 32 years in business. 609-5321374.
10:30 a.m.: Professional Services
Group, weekly career meeting,
free. Mercer County One-Stop,
Trenton. 609-292-7535.
Tuesday, July 27
8:30 a.m.: NJTC, “Health Information Exchange,” $90. NJHA,
Alexander Road. 856-787-8700.
5:30 p.m.: NJ CAMA, “Summer
Networking Event,” $10. Princeton Sports Bar & Grill, 128 Nassau Street. 609-275-4123.
6 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Doing Business in Mercer,” free. Hightstown
Library. 609-771-2947.
7 a.m.: BNI Ivy League, weekly
networking breakfast, free. 100
Overlook Center. 732-960-1730.
8 a.m.: Plainsboro Business Partnership, “Nine Big Mistakes In
Saving for Retirement,” free.
Wyndham Conference Center.
609-240-6022.
6 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, Special
Events Industry Event,” free
Trenton Marriott. 609-689-9960.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, networking, free. Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609-924-2277.
Friday, July 23
Wednesday, July 28
Thursday, July 22
9 a.m.: PlanSmart NJ, “Building
One New Jersey, $100. Frist Center, Princeton University. 609393-9434.
7 a.m.: BNI West Windsor chapter,
weekly networking, free. Macaroni Grill. 609-462-3875.
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Do you have a dream
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I
were allowed to pass but
not dribble. The only exception was if one dribble
would allow a player to
attempt a shot.
More recently Goldman has
stepped up his performance schedule, building up a network of musicians who can also play with him at
private parties and corporate functions — “events that will support
me as a musician.”
This Saturday, July 24, at Tre Piani Goldman will appear with two
of the “historic jazz elders,”
Richard Wyands, 81, on piano, and
Lisle Atkinson, 69, on bass. Goldman is excited: “I’ve come from
the age of 17, not imagining that I
could ever play like these guys, to
actually performing with them. It’s
the full circle of a dream.”
My half hour has suddenly become an hour and a quarter. Am I
missing anything? Actually, yes. I
never did ask about Goldman’s Pilates training. I figure that will
have to wait.
Goldman and friends will appear Wednesday, July 21 and 28,
from 5 to 7:45 p.m. at Labyrinth
Books at 122 Nassau Street, and
Saturdays, July 24 and 31, from
7:30 to 11 p.m. at Tre Piani in Forrestal Village. www.straightjazz.com.
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Richard K. Rein
f you are interested in jazz music and
[email protected]
have not yet heard John Henry
Goldman, jazz trumpeter, then you sions of music composition and
are missing something. I stumbled performance techniques. On the
upon him a few Wednesdays ago in day my kids joined in, Goldman
the lower level of Labyrinth Books speaks about the challenges the
on Nassau Street. I recalled an arti- player of a B-flat instrument has in
cle five years ago about the trum- playing music written in the C
peter playing at the old Sunny Gar- scale and later about the improden restaurant. I had wondered vised solos that are a trademark of
then how that brassy instrument every jazz performance. “Think of
would play inside a quiet room. it as spontaneous composition,” he
says. The solo shouldn’t just be a
This was my chance.
Goldman makes it look easy. wild ride up and down the scale.
Accompanied by a drummer, key- Nor should it be a recitation of faboard player, and bass guitarist, he miliar riffs.
“It’s easy to stay in the comfort
works his instrument more like a
piano than a bugle. While he plays zone,” Goldman elaborates in our
in front of a dozen people or so an- interview. “The challenge is to be
other dozen come and go through spontaneous while still having a
the bookcases filling the rest of the compositional quality to what’s beroom — the bookworms are not at ing played.” Goldman gets into a
discussion of melodic and harmonall distracted by the hipcats.
A few weeks later I show up at ic references. I expect him to cite a
another quiet venue, Tre Piani in course at Berklee or Eastman or
Forrestal Village, with my boys some other college of music. But
Rick, 18, a trumpet player in his there is no college of music, no colhigh school band, and Frank, 16, a lege at all, as a matter of fact.
trombone player. At the intermission I introduce myself to Goldoldman’s unusual path to
man, and mention that my boys
play a little music as well. He talks professional jazz trumpet playing
briefly to them, discusses some began at age 6, when he was at the
software that enables a player to summer camp in Maine owned and
have musical accompaniment operated by his father and asked
while practicing alone, and then re- the bugler if he could try to blow
sumes his performance. At the end the horn. “I was hooked,” he said.
of the evening, as we are leaving, The Goldman household on Long
Goldman calls out to the two kids. Island was a musical place — his
Would they like to stop by older siblings were “wonderful piLabyrinth on Wednesday and sit in anists” — and young John Henry
(named after both his grandfathers)
for some songs? They say yes.
How is this going to work, I took naturally to trumpet.
But in the eighth grade another
wonder. I know that high school
loomed:
Basketball.
activities are a long way from pro- interest
fessional endeavors. And Goldman Though he is just shy of 5-foot-9,
has never heard my kids perform. I Goldman excelled and was elected
hold my breath and follow the boys captain of his team as a junior. In
into Labyrinth. Somehow it all 12th grade, however, Goldman
quit the team. “I devoted so much
works.
Now I have to find out not just time to it that it kept me from being
the secret to making a trumpet exposed to other things in life.”
He took trumpet lessons from
work in a quiet setting, but also the
Jimmy Maxwell,
magic that enables
who had played
a seasoned profeswith Jimmy Dorsional to bring
A seasoned prosey, Benny Goodsome young amafessional musiman,
and
the
teurs into the
cian brings some
Tonight Show band
group. I look up
in the Johnny Carthe 2005 article
young amateurs
son era. By the time
from the West
up on stage. Can
Goldman graduatWindsor-Plainsthis work?
ed from high school
boro News and
he had zero interest
discover
that
in attending colGoldman’s background also includes summer lege, but he felt confident that he
camp director, basketball coach, could be a professional trumpet
and Pilates instructor. I E-mail him player. However, he discovered a
and ask if I can interview him. I’ll major obstacle. “I wasn’t able to
only need a half hour, I promise. A stand in front of an audience.”
While his peers from the Class
few days later I meet him at his
house in West Windsor. First, I ask, of 1970 headed off to college,
could he have known that it was Goldman struck out on his own,
going to work out when he brought doing landscaping and other manuthe 16-year-old — sound as yet un- al labor and ending up in Warwick,
New York. There he discovered the
heard — up on stage?
Goldman, surprisingly, says he writing of the Russian mystic,
didn’t know how it would work George Gurdjieff, whose teachings
out. But he also didn’t worry about emphasized, among many other
it. “It’s taken me a long time to re- things, the value of physical labor,
lax enough to play my own music,” crafts, music, and group activity.
he says. “I’ve finally reached the (The basketball player may have
point where I don’t worry about connected with the trumpeter, I
whether or not it’s going to work. If think to myself.)
Goldman returned from WarFrank couldn’t play that first song,
I just would have asked him to pick wick to join his father in running
a melody he could play. We’d find the summer camp (a year-round
job) and moved with his parents
something.”
As for the volume of the horn in when they relocated to central New
a quiet setting, Goldman says that’s Jersey. By then he was married. He
solved by bearing in mind that and his wife, Martha, have two
“high volume is only relative to sons, now 30 and 28, and he credits
low volume. I’ve learned to play her with finally “giving me the
very softly. People can be eating at freedom to play music” in public.
Goldman also rekindled his ina table three feet from where I’m
playing and I can hear their conver- terest in basketball. In West Windsation. And the other musicians sor he founded a kids’ program
love it, too. We can hear each other. called the Basketball Club, which
My role is to accompany what’s sponsored games in which no
going on in the room, not be the scores were kept, no standings
maintained, and no parents were
center of attention.”
At Labyrinth the session occa- allowed to coach their children.
sionally gives way to brief discus- Players in the Basketball Club
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