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LONG LIVE, UMCP

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‘Slippery As Sin’ Premieres, 16; Chamber Open House, 35.
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have handled the communication
about this project any more poorly.
The school has gone so far as to reannual Summer Fiction issue, to be fuse to meet with residents on the
published July 25. As always we grounds that it “would not be proare encouraging readers of this ductive.”
We are eager to have a meaningnewspaper — people who work or
live in the greater Princeton busi- ful public dialogue on the project.
ness community — to submit their We strongly support the resolution
short stories, poems, or short plays. passed unanimously by West
As always, we remind you that Windsor’s Town Council and enthis is not a contest. We instead dorsed by Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh
hope to present a representative that requests a courtesy review of
sampling of what our creative col- the proposal before the township’s
planning board.
leagues produce —
We don’t need to be
when they are not
“presented to” again.
strapped to their ofBetween
We need a real discusfice desks cranking
The
sion of the plan that inout quarterly reports
cludes independent
or lab analyses.
Lines
experts.
And, as always,
A risky $40 million capital projwe urge you to include with your
submission a brief biographical ect involving the destruction of 67
sketch. Where you work and what acres of agricultural land deserves
you do are important to us. For a true public hearing.
This solar proposal is an impormore information on the issue, including the deadline, see the notice tant issue not just for our small
on page 26 of this issue. (Short an- block on South Post Road, but also
swer: Monday, June 11. E-mail to for the hundreds of West Windsor
and Mercer County residents who
[email protected].)
We look forward to reading your have signed a petition opposing the
work and eventually meeting you project.
Smarter Solar NJ encourages
in person at our writers’ reception
Mercer County and MCCC to rein August.
spect the township’s request for an
open discussion, and would welcome an opportunity to meet with
the county executive directly to explore the issues. To learn more
about our group, please visit
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marter Solar NJ is encourRichard Campbell
aged by Mercer County Executive West Windsor
Brian Hughes’ recommendation
that groundbreaking be delayed on
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Promoting Growth in Central NJ
Business Meetings
Preview
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Day by Day, May 16 to 23
Theater Review: ‘Are You There, McPhee?’
Theater Review: ‘Rent’
A Sinful Farce at Passage
Girls Night Out Comes to Palmer Square
Saving the Ellarslie, One Artwork at a Time
Opportunities
Crashing the Parties
At the Movies
U.S. 1 Singles Exchange
Animal Navigation: More Than Your Average GPS
Introducing UMCP at Plainsboro
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Company Index
Battelle Ventures, 37; CADDNJ Work First New Jersey Substance Abuse Initiative, 37; Capital
Health Walk-In Primary Care, 36;
College of New Jersey, 5.
Dynamic Air Quality Solutions,
38; Fornaro Francioso, 37;
Growth Partnership of Central Jersey, 4; Homewood Suites by
Hilton, 36.
Mercer Regional Chamber of
Commerce, 4; New Jersey Hospital Association, 34; NJ Department of Human Services, 34; NJ
Primary Care Association, 34; NJ
State Library, 38.
NJ Transit, 36; NNIT, 37; Novahill Partners, 38; NRG Energy,
30; Princeton HealthCare System,
28; Princeton Chamber of Commerce, 35; Young Professionals in
Healthcare, 4; ZS Associates, 4.
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We are having a graduation party at my house in June for my daughter
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No. Serving alcohol to minors in New Jersey is a disorderly person offense.
If someone is seriously injured due to an intoxicated minor from the party, there
may be criminal charges as well. Additionally, if one of the kids at the party
injures himself or someone else, you can be sued for the injuries caused and
medical expenses incurred. While there is a chance that you will not get caught,
if the party is loud and the police are called, the police will discover you are
serving minors. Additionally, if one of the parents of your daughter’s friends
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at the party, it is simply not worth breaking the law. Your daughter and her
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of New Jersey and includes pharmaceutical, bio-tech, hospitals,
consulting firms, and a wide variety of other careers and support industries.
It is often difficult, however, for
people working in one branch of
the healthcare industry to meet and
network with people in another
area. Elina Nalibotski and Rishika Samant are seeking to change
that with a new organization,
Young Professionals in Healthcare.
The group meets several times a
month in locations throughout the
area. The next meeting will be a
networking happy hour event on
Thursday, May 17, at the Tre Bar in
Forrestal Village, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Cost: free. To make reservations Email [email protected].
“The mission of Young Professionals in Healthcare is to provide
career, networking, and educational opportunities to professionals in
a variety of healthcare-related
fields,” explains Nalibotski.
Nalibotski and Samant formed
the organization in 2010 after
meeting at another networking
group. Nalibotski is an associate
consultant at ZS, based at 212
Carnegie Center, the largest global
consulting firm focused on sales
and marketing effectiveness. At
ZS, she works to improve sales
force effectiveness and deliver
marketing solutions to top pharmaceutical clients.
Prior to joining ZS, she held an
internship at BioEnterprise, an
agency designed to grow and attract investors for bioscience technologies in the Cleveland area. She
received her BS in molecular biology from Yale University in 2009.
While there, she helped discover
an interaction between two proteins involved in cell signaling
pathways. She was an active member of Yale Model Congress and the
Leadership Institute, bringing
speakers and business leaders on
campus to conduct leadership development workshops.
Samant is a supply optimization
analyst and demand planner at
Bristol Myers-Squibb. At BMS,
she works with marketing and financial representatives to determine unit forecast projections for
growth and key products in the
North American market.
Prior to joining BMS, she
worked at Genentech Inc. She
holds a B.A in biological sciences
from Columbia University. As an
undergraduate in 2009 she served
on the University Senate and the
Columbia College Student Council, where she worked with faculty
to promote educational initiatives
and to foster community relations.
Networking With Related Industries. Meeting, connecting, and
learning from people in every area
of healthcare is an important focus
for the organization.
“When Elina and I first met we
began talking about how difficult it
Meet & Greet: Elina Nalibotski, left, and Rishika
Samant founded the Young Professionals in
Healthcare for young people in the healthcare industry to meet and network with one another.
often is to meet people in related
fields,” Samant explains. Often,
she says, professional organizations are aimed at only a specific
segment of the healthcare industry,
such as biotech, medical doctors,
or nurse practitioners. As they discussed the problem, Samant and
Nalibotski decided the best way to
solve the problem was to start their
own networking group and open it
to all professions.
Young Professionals in Healthcare has quickly grown and now
has a mailing list of about 700 people. The organization charges no
dues or membership fees, though
there is often a fee for specific
events. They hold between two and
four events a month, ranging from
mixers and networking events to
educational speakers and benefits
for charity.
Attendance ranges from 40 to 90
people at any given event, according to Nalibotski, with mixers and
networking events usually attracting the largest crowds. They are
particularly proud of the wide variety of professions the group has attracted.
“Our members come from many
industries, including biotech/pharma, diagnostics, medicine, research, consulting, public health,
advertising, finance, and healthcare law,” says Nalibotski.
“We don’t want to restrict anyone. We want to be as open as possible. We think that is the greatest
advantage for people who attend
our meetings,” she adds. While
originally based in central New
Jersey, the organization is now at-
‘We don’t want to restrict anyone. We
want to be as open as
possible. We think
that is the greatest
advantage for people
who attend our meetings,’ says Nalibotski.
tracting members from Philadelphia to New York City.
Working With Charities.
Samant and Nalibotski felt that as
an organization made up of professionals in the healthcare industry, it
was important to support health-related charities.
They have hosted a fundraiser to
support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, participated in a
joint fundraiser with other organizations to benefit the Child Life
Program at the BMS Children’s
Hospital at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and plan
to assist other health-related nonprofit organizations in the future.
Educational Opportunities.
The group also hosts a series of educational events, featuring leaders
from academe and other sectors of
the healthcare industry.
The “fireside chats,” as they describe them, provide an intimate atmosphere for speakers and members to discuss topics such as the
future of pharma/biotech, innovations in healthcare delivery, and
healthcare reform and its impact on
consumers, payers, and drug manufacturers. Sessions are held at Infini-T Cafe at 4 Hulfish Street,
Princeton. The next event will be
Thursday, May 24, at 7 p.m.
Samant and Nalibotski have
been pleasantly surprised by the
success of their young organization. “Not only have we grown in
size, we’ve grown in the diversity
of the backgrounds of our members
and where they are from,” says
Samant. “When we started we
weren’t sure how the group would
be received, but in the past two
years it has become more successful than we ever thought it could
be.”
— Karen Hodges Miller
Partnering For
Growth In Central NJ
I
n an economic climate where
the savvy and well-prepared state
is the one likely to see healthy
growth in its business community,
the newest organization on the
block is the Growth Partnership of
Central Jersey, a nonprofit established by the Mercer Regional
Chamber of Commerce.
“The goal of the organization is
to support and promote expansion,
retention, and attraction of new
business entities in central New
Jersey,” says Robert Prunetti, interim executive director of the partnership and president and chief executive officer of the chamber.
“We also want to be sure that we
complement the efforts of our other
development partners: local and
state government and other planning and economic development
organizations,” he says.
Prunetti’s vision is to be the goto organization that provides regional resources and information
to businesses identified by organizations like the state’s Choose New
Jersey and other economic development entities as being interested
in a move to the state.
The resources he has in mind
will include not only the hard numbers a business will need to make a
decision but also a core of knowledgeable individuals who can help
with recruitment of businesses,
show them the area and specific
sites within it, and talk about resources available to them, for example, through the Economic Development Authority.
These resources will also support consultations with companies
thinking about leaving the state to
find out their concerns and provide
them with information and resources that might convince them
to stay put.
Others the partnership will support are professionals like real es-
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tate brokers and developers who have a Thursday, May 17, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the
Trenton Country Club. For information,
prospect looking to relocate.
Prunetti also envisions the partnership as contact Nicol Nicola at 609-689-9960, ext.
providing coordination among local and re- 22, or [email protected].
The study categorizes industries in four
gional organizations with planning and ecocategories, and Prunetti provides examples
nomic responsibilities.
“We want to pool together our resources of each:
so we can have one policy or strategy
Winning industries. These are base inamongst us so there are not different agen- dustries that are growing, doing well, and
cies that are inconsistent with one another,” can probably do even better: for example, fihe says. “When a company is looking at the nance and insurance.
area, we want to make sure that all hands are
“This area is creating a niche for financial
on deck. We want to be the organization that organizations,” says Prunetti. His feeling,
assists in providing that unified strategy.”
though more research is needed to be sure, is
Finally, the partnership will collect rele- that several issues are contributing to this
vant business and economic data from the growth: security issues; high quality of life
Federal Reserve, the Department of Labor, for individuals of high net worth; easy acand various business organizations, sharing cess to the Manhattan hub of the finance init with its members and people interested in dustry without having to commute daily; and
the area, as is already done with the cham- a capable work force.
ber’s central New Jersey Economic Bulletin.
Emerging industries. These up-andThe idea is to show how Central New Jercoming
industries may be feeding off some
sey compares with the
of our base industries.
state and the rest of the
One example is transnation.
portation, warehousing,
‘When
a
company
is
“This data would
and logistics, which is
save different businesslooking at the area,
growing particularly in
es and organizations the
we want to make sure
the Robbinsville, East
time of doing that reWindsor, and Monroe arthat
all
hands
are
on
search
themselves,”
eas that are right off the
says Prunetti, who
deck,’ says Prunetti.
interstate and the turnwould like to classify
‘We want to assist in
pike.
and categorize timely
Another area comprisproviding
that
unified
data on the economy,
es auxiliary healthcare inhousing, government,
strategy.’
dustries that have grown
consumers,
employup around pharma and
ment, and expertise of
hospitals, including labs,
central New Jersey’s employment base.
technical
services,
and bio and medical
Beyond providing statistics, the organization will also do feasibility and planning products.
Slipping industries. These are still
studies that may be necessary to attract varistrong but do not have the same market share
ous companies and industries to the region.
The first study, done by the College of that they once did. A prime example is eduNew Jersey, looks at the future of businesses cational services like testing and even pubin the metropolitan areas of New York, New lishing houses.
Prunetti says, “Education is one of our top
Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and which industries are growing and which are fading away. industries but in recent years there has been
The study also tries to clarify the elements a little slippage. This is a perfect example we
of Central New Jersey’s identity as a region want to examine further: is it temporary or
so that the partnership can develop strategies more systemic?”
to market its strengths. The study’s results
will be presented at a free reception hosted
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Time to Refinance?
I
nterest rates are down and
have been at historical lows in
recent years. So it may be
time to ask, should I refinance
my home mortgage now?
Many borrowers took advantage of lower interest rates at this
time last year when interest rates
were averaging just under 5 percent for a 30- year fixed rate
loan. Now interest rates are hovering under four percent. Time to
refinance? Or, refinance again —
if you already took advantage of
the 4-5 percent rates previously
offered?
There are a number of factors
to consider in making the decision to refinance a home mortgage. These include: the extent
to which your existing interest
rate will be reduced; the costs
associated with refinancing your
mortgage loan; the amount of the
balance on your outstanding loan
and its relationship to your
home's appraised value; and
how long you intend to remain in
your current home.
Be mindful that if you refinance for the same original loan
term as your existing mortgage,
e.g., 30 years, then you are starting all over again in terms of time
and the amortization of your
loan. This means that your new
payments will start out with a
higher interest component then if
you were ten years of payments
into a thirty year mortgage.
It is important to determine the
costs of any refinance. Mortgage
closing costs averaged $4,143 in
by Barbara Strapp
Nelson, Esq.
2011 as reported in the Wall
Street Journal on May 5, 2012.
To determine your closing costs,
add up the costs associated with
the refinance such as application
fees, points, appraisal fees, other
banks fees, title charges, attorney fees, recording fees, etc.
Then divide your mortgage closing costs by the amount you expect to save each month with
your new loan. This will give you
the number of months it will take
for you to recoup your costs incurred . If, for example, it takes
two years to recoup your closing
costs for a refinance, and you intend to move within a year, then
refinancing your home would not
be cost effective.
It is also important know your
equity position before refinancing. Keep in mind that your new
lender may require you to have
equity in your home of at least 20
percent of the appraised value. If
the values of the homes in your
area have fallen significantly, and
you have a high balance on your
mortgage, this could cause the
lender to approve a lower mortgage amount than what is needed to pay off your existing mortgage. This could mean that in order to refinance, you may need to
contribute additional funds from
savings to assist in paying off
your existing mortgage.
For those homeowners who
are "underwater", meaning the
value of their home is less than
the balance due on their mortgage, refinancing is generally not
a viable option unless they can
pay down a sufficient portion of
their existing mortgage from other funds to satisfy the equity requirements of a new lender or,
qualify for a governmental assistance program addressing this
issue.
Thus, refinancing must be
considered thoroughly to determine if it is an available option,
and if it is your best option. If it is
a good option for you, it can certainly help to reduce costs during
these difficult economic times.
Barbara Strapp Nelson is a
Shareholder in Stark & Stark’s
Residential Real Estate Group.
For questions, or additional information, please contact Ms. Nelson at [email protected].
Refinancing must be considered thoroughly to determine if it is an available option, and if
it is your best option. If it is, it can help reduce costs during these difficult economic times.
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Prunetti surmises that the source
of the slippage may have been the
downsizing of educational institutions over the last three to five
years and possibly some relocation
of educational support services,
but more research is required to
know for sure.
Trailing industries. These are
businesses that have been waning
over the last decade, such as real
estate and manufacturing. Though
more data is required to say for
sure, the fall in manufacturing is
not the fault of our region but likely is part of a larger economic
trend. “It may be an industry that
may not have much of a future, and
a decision to spend resources on
them may not be the wisest,” says
Prunetti.
Prunetti grew up in Trenton,
where his father was a postal worker and his mother, who immigrated
from Italy at age 14, worked in different factories, including a doll
and a cigar factory, ending up at
Trenton Folding Box.
Prunetti recalls a women’s day
celebration where he shared the
stage with Governor Christie
Whitman. After she had talked
about all the advances women had
made and their involvement in various professions, Prunetti thought
about his mother and took a different tack from the governor.
He told his audience: “It’s right
to celebrate these women, but let’s
not forget the women who came
before — maybe not professionals,
lawyers, doctors, or accountants,
but who paved the way for them.
They worked in factories while the
men were at war to keep the country going and so that the next generation had a better life.”
Prunetti graduated from the College of New Jersey with a bachelor’s degree in political science and
public administration, and he holds
a master’s in public administration
from New York University.
He served as county executive
from 1992 to 2004. In addition to
his roles with the chamber and the
partnership, Prunetti is president of
Phoenix Ventures, a Trenton-based
public affairs firm.
Prunetti concludes with one of
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Central Jersey more generally, facilitating growth in particular industry clusters.
“The whole theory behind industry clusters is bringing businesses together geographically that
can support and grow from one another, who share the need for a similar type of work force and maybe
access to transportation services. If
we make our area more attractive
to those types of firms, then we
should see growth in that industry
cluster,” he says.
— Michele Alperin
Business Meetings
Wednesday, May 16
5 p.m.: Princeton-Trenton Special
Libraries Association, “Protecting
Your Digital Footprint at Work,
Home, and On the Job: 20 Tips
on ID Theft in 40 Minutes,” Robert
Lackie, professor, Rider University. Register at [email protected]. $25. Rider University,
Lawrenceville.
Thursday, May 17
7 a.m.: BNI Top Flight, weekly networking, free to attend. Clairmont
Diner, East Windsor. 609-7994444.
7 a.m.: Central Jersey Business
Association, weekly networking
breakfast, free. Americana Diner,
East Windsor. 800-985-1121.
7:30 a.m.: Bartolomei Pucciarelli,
Business Getting Results,
Michael Pucciarelli. 2564
Brunswick Pike. 609-883-9000.
11:30 a.m.: Mercer Chamber,
Power Luncheon, “You ARE An
Everyday Leader,” “Broad Street
Bully” Bill Clement. $65. Stone
Terrace, Hamilton. 609-689-9960.
Noon: Women Interested In Networking, monthly luncheon, $20.
Every third Thursday. Villa Manino Restaurant, Route 130, Hamilton. 609-890-4054.
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4 p.m. Book Launch Party, “Behind
Every Successful Woman is Herself,” Bart Jackson, author.
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, Pennington. www.behindeverysuccessfulwomanisherself.blogspot.
com
4 p.m.: Secure@Home, Jewish
Family & Children’s Service of
Greater Mercer County, “Welcome to Medicare,” Mary
McGeary, state Medicare counselor. Free. Jewish Center of
Princeton, 435 Nassau Street.
609-987-8121, ext. 126.
5:45 p.m.: International Association of Administrative Professionals, “Eat That Frog! 21 Great
Ways to Stop Procrastinating and
Get More Done in Less Time,”
Marci Goldshlack. $35. Tessara’s
Restaurant, 812 Route 33, Hamilton. 609-627-7534.
6 p.m.: Young Professionals in
Health Care, Happy Hour. Register online. Tre Bar, 120 Rockingham Way, Forrestal Village.
6 p.m.: Executive Women of NJ,
“Salute to the Policy Makers
Awards Dinner,” Kay Koplovitz,
founder USA Networks, chairman
of the board Liz Claiborne. $600.
Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick.
6 p.m.: David Lerner Associates,
Career change seminar. Register
with Larry Maverick. Free. 221
Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village. 516-465-5851.
8 p.m.: ACM/IEEE, “Strange
Sounds in a Familiar World: An
Electronic Music Performance,”
Joo Won Park, Community College of Philadelphia. Reservations required. $25. Mercer County Park Boathouse Marina, West
Windsor. 908-582-7086.
Friday, May 18
8:30 a.m.: Human Resources
Management Association, Healthcare Breakfast Forum, “What is
Population Health Risk Management?” Andi Bauernshub, Business Health Services. $20. University Square, Suite 100, Board
Room. 609-883-6327.
10:30 a.m.: Professional Service
Group networking for unemployed professionals, free. Mercer County One-Stop Career
Center, Yard Avenue, Trenton.
609-292-7535.
12:30 p.m.: Greater Mercer TMA,
“Complete Streets: Changing
NJ’s Roadways for All Users.”
Register by E-mail to [email protected]. Princeton Library.
Saturday, May 19
8:15 a.m.: St. Gregory the Great
Networking Group, Support for
the job search process, every
third Saturday. 4620 Nottingham
Way, Hamilton. 609-448-0986.
Sunday, May 20
3 p.m.: Institute of Wonderful
Women Working for Empowerment, “Giving Back Stepping Forward” honoring Darlene McKnight, Amini Sababu, and Kemi
Ali. $20. Conservatory, 540 East
State Street, Trenton. 609-4662819.
Monday, May 21
Noon: Business Counseling and
Loan Workshop. Free. Raritan
Valley Community College,
Branchburg. 908-526-1200, ext.
8516.
4 p.m.: NJ State Chamber, “NJ Resources for Business Growth.”
Free. The College of New Jersey,
Social Science Building Atrium.
609-989-7888.
Tuesday, May 22
7 a.m.: Capital Networking Group,
weekly networking, free. New
England Financial 3 Independence Way. 609-434-1144.
8:30 a.m.: NJ State Chamber,
Breakfast with state Assembly
Majority Leader Lou Greenwald
and Minority Leader Jon Bramnick. Forsgate Country Club,
Monroe. 609-989-7888.
7 p.m.: Princeton PC Users
Group, monthly meeting. Free.
Lawrence Library. 609-333-6932.
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7:30 p.m.: Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Meeting. Guru Palace, 2215
Route 1 South, North Brunswick.
732-213-0095.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, networking and job support, free. Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609924-2277.
Wednesday, May 23
7 a.m.: BNI West Windsor chapter,
weekly networking, free. BMS
Building, Pellettieri Rabstein &
Altman, Nassau Park. 609-4623875.
8 a.m.: NJ State Chamber & SBA,
NJ Business Day Breakfast Seminar & Networking Expo, Free. Annual SBA Awards Luncheon, $85.
New Jersey Convention & Exposition Center at Raritan Center.
609-989-7888.
8 a.m.: NJ Alliance for Action, Annual Transportation Conference.
Speakers: Governor Chris
Christie; James Simpson, NJ
Transportation commissioner;
James Weinstein, executive director, NJ Transit; Ronnie Hakim,
executive director. $400. Trenton
Marriott, 1 West Lafayette Street.
732-225-1180.
10 a.m.: Somerset County Business Partnership, “Golf Clinic and
Lunch for Women in Business,”
$75. 360 Grove Street, Bridgewater, Neshanic Valley Golf Course,
2301 South Branch Road. 908218-4300.
12:15 p.m.: Kenneth Vercammen
Law, Wills and Estate Planning.
For CPAs, financial planners, insurance producers, nursing home
administrators, office on aging
personnel, senior club presidents,
and accountants. Free. 2053
Woodbridge Avenue, Edison.
732-572-0500.
7 p.m.: Open Door Publications,
“Tips and Tactics to Sell More
Books Today,” Karen Hodges
Miller, U.S. 1 writer and author of
“Sell Your Book! 100 Tips and
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DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, MAY 16 TO 23
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Film
Cinema: The Jewish Lens, Beth
El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-4434454. www.bethel.net. “Hollywoodism Part 2” in conjunction
with Jerusalem Online course that
features interviews with Hollywood personalities, film critics,
professors, and rabbinic scholars.
Register. $12. 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
May 16
Dancing
Newcomer’s Dance, American
Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149.
www.americanballroomco.com.
$10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction followed
by dance. $8. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Farewell, Cornel West
Princeton University Center for
African American Studies, McCarter Theater (Matthews), 91
University Place, Princeton, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org. “A
Bluesman in the Life of the Mind,”
a retirement celebration to honor
Cornel West, features musical
performances and spoken word
tributes. Speakers include Shirley
M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University; Toni Morrison and
Howard Taylor, Princeton University professors emeritus. Musical
performances by Princeton University Gospel Ensemble, Maude
Maggart, and Terence Blanchard.
Surprise guests and performances. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
The Doctor and the Chef Series,
Yardley Inn, 82 East Afton Avenue, Yardley, PA, 215-493-3800.
www.yardleyinn.com. “Using
Food to Balance Hormones: A
Tasty Way to Feel Like Yourself
Again” with Wendy Warner, M.D.
and executive chef Eben Copple.
Register. $50 includes three
course dinner. 7 p.m.
Health
Classical Music
Caregiver Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, RWJ
Center for Health and Wellness,
3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609-396-6788. www.alz.org. Free. 6 p.m.
Scarmolin Chamber Concert,
Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North Branch,
908-725-3420. www.rvccarts.edu.
“Musica Transalpina, Musica
Transatlantica,” presented by the
Madrigal Singers. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Wellness
Live Music
John & Carm, Fedora Cafe, 2633
Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609895-0844. 6 to 9 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Jester’s, 233
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown,
609-298-9963. www.jesterscafe.net. 6 to 9 p.m.
Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. Sign up at
6:45 p.m. 8 to 10 p.m.
Open Mic, Alchemist &
Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10 p.m.
Pop Music
The Dallas Brass, Hightstown
High School, 25 Leshin Lane,
Hightstown. “American Musical
Journey, a family concert, is a musical travelogue through American history. Benefit for the
school’s music program. $25. 7
p.m.
Rising Star
21-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Ariana Gillis, voted best
young performer at the 2010 Canadian Folk Festival, performs
Saturday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. at Concerts at the Crossing
at the Unitarian Church in Titusville.
Art
On Stage
Art Exhibit, Triumph Brewing
Company, 138 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-924-7855. www.colleenmaniere.com. “Deep Within the Soul,” a photography exhibit featuring the works of Colleen
Maniere of West Windsor continues. A percentage of sales benefit
pancreatic cancer research. 11
a.m. to 11:45 p.m.
Rent, Bristol Riverside Theater,
120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215785-0100. www.brtstage.org.
Jonathan Larson’s rock musical
about young artists and musicians struggling to survive and
create in New York City’s Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS, was adapted
from Puccini’s La Boheme. $30 to
$50. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Are You There, McPhee?, McCarter Theater (Berlind), 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. World
premiere of John Guare’s play focusing on a playwright sucked into the tangle of lives of a pair of
World Music
Dance
Julia and Carlos Lopez, Malaga
Restaurant, 511 Lalor Street,
Hamilton, 609-396-8878. www.malagarestaurant.com. Flamenco
dancing. $12 cover. 7:45 p.m.
Ballet in Cinema, State Theater,
15 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www.StateTheatreNJ.org. “Romeo and
Juliet” captured live at the Royal
Opera House. $22. 7 p.m.
abandoned children. Cast includes Paul Gross, Gideon Banner, John Behlmann, Jeremy
Bobb, Molly Camp, Patrick Carroll, Danny Mastrogiorgio, and Lusia Strus. Directed by Sam Buntrock. Pre-show talk 45 minutes
before the performance. $20 and
up. Happy hour. 7:30 p.m.
The 39 Steps, George Street
Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick, 732-246-7717.
www.gsponline.org. Fast-paced
comedy thriller adapted from Alfred Hitchcock’s film is directed by
Mark Shanahan. Actors include
Michael Thomas Holmes, Stacie
Morgain Lewis, Howard McGillin,
and Mark Price. $25 to $62. 8
p.m.
Dance for People with Parkinson’s Disease, DanceVision,
Forrestal Village, 116 Rockingham Row, Plainsboro, 609-5141600. www.danceforpd.org.
Dancers who trained with the
Mark Morris Dance Group and
Brooklyn Parkinson Group collaborate with DanceVision and
Parkinson Alliance to present a
movement class for people with
Parkinson’s disease and their
caregivers. Register. $10; $15
with a caregiver, spouse, or partner. 1 to 2:15 p.m.
Springtime Celebration and
Grand Opening, Center for Orthodontic Excellence, 61
Princeton-Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-799-4628.
www.coesmiles.com. Ribbon cutting ceremony with West Windsor
Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh at 5 p.m.
All proceeds benefit Kids4Kids of
Central New Jersey (www.kids4kidsnow.com). 3 to 7 p.m.
Community Yoga, Four Winds
Yoga, 114 West Franklin Avenue,
Pennington, 609-818-9888.
www.fourwindsyoga.com. Jill
Gutowski leads an all level class.
$5 benefits Global Seva India initiative to stop human trafficking. 7
to 9 p.m.
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Review: ‘Are You There, McPhee?’
D
uring his long and lauded career, John Guare has demonstrated an unquestionably distinctive talent for writing challenging
yet accessible dramatic literature.
Except for “Six Degrees of Separation” he has shown a preference for
telling stories that conspicuously
take detours from reality. From the
chaotic antics of a film maker and
his entourage on an iceberg off the
coast of Norway in the surreal
“Marco Polo Sings a Solo” to the
most recently produced Baroque
dalliances of a wealthy Mulatto in
1801 New Orleans in “A Free Man
of Color,” Guare has never compromised his essential dislike for
naturalism by taking his own path
toward the continental tendency
favoring magical realism.
But nothing he has written, including my favorite of his basketcase plays “The House of Blue
Leaves,” is likely to have prepared
you for the dementedly off-thewall doings and the dizzyingly outof-control characters that we are
confronted with in “Are You
There,
McPhee?,”
certainly
Guare’s most personally freewheeling and comically absurdist
latest play, as originally commissioned by the McCarter Theater
and Princeton University for its
world premiere.
Unfortunately, director Sam
Buntrock hasn’t done all that he
needed to do to bring a cohesive
shape to what is now an interestingly conceived but all too recklessly structured dark farce. Consequently you may think you need a
road map, a guide, and possibly an
analyst in the seat next to you to
help you keep up with it once you
by Simon Saltzman
get past the first admittedly rollicking hour. This may be Guare’s most
purposefully convoluted and preposterously contrived story yet.
Though buoyed with puppetry,
some of it fanciful and some of it
fearsome, the play carries an overabundance of digressive allusions
to old movies and classic children’s
literature. At two hours and 45 minutes, it is also egregiously long.
More than a little judicious pruning
is in order to keep our interest from
waning as the main character proceeds on his often humorous, if also self-serving journey from his
present to his past and back again.
You certainly can’t depend on
the formidable and frenetically
driven narrative to keep you
abreast, even as it is driven in full
This may be John
Guare’s most purposefully convoluted
and preposterously
contrived story yet.
throttle by the splendid Paul Gross
as Edmund Gowry (Mundie to his
friends), a playwright and the
play’s point-of-view character.
When egged on to regale his
friends with a story as a diversion
during a cocktail party, he gets the
inspiration to embroider/enhance a
personal experience that may or
may not be rooted in or recruited
from reality. As his story becomes
grounded in the decidedly demented distortions of his own memory,
Mundie finds himself, as did Alice
when she fell into the rabbit hole,
willing to submit to the sometimes
horrific, but also occasionally hilariously contrived conditions and
conventions provided by his experiences in an alternate universe.
It helps that Gross, who created
a well-deserved following as the
neurotic artistic director of a Canadian theater company in the TV series “Slings and Arrows” and recently appeared on Broadway in
“Private Lives,” is an attractive
leading man. He has the task of
dominating as well as dictating the
course of the play from its beginning to its end, sometimes breaking
the fourth wall. He careens (no other word for it) brilliantly through a
series of dream-like absurdist adventures — none of which appear
to conspire in his behalf but rather
define him as a victimized provocateur presumably in search of a
newly imagined self.
The play within the play, or story within the story, is set in Nantucket in the summer of 1975.
“Jaws” is playing at the local cinema and is the talk of the island
where Mundie had purchased an
income-producing rental property.
Notwithstanding the ongoing affair he is having with his lawyer’s
wife, now vacationing in Argentina, as well as one with an interim
tart, Mundie is summoned to the island by police who claim the house
is being used by child pornographers and is now a crime scene.
It won’t be much of a plot spoiler to reveal that everyone he encounters on the island, including
the detective, claims to have
played a role in a local production
of his last play, “The Structure of
Stars,” and that a woman has either
Who Is McPhee?: Paul Gross, left, Hope Springer,
Molly Camp, Matthew Kuenne, Gideon Banner,
and John Behlmann.
Photo by Michal Daniel.
been murdered or committed suicide in a home to which he has been
invited for dinner by a strange man
he met in a Nantucket bar. That
man is named McPhee and he carts
around an 11-pound live lobster (a
puppet, of course) in a basket.
What is Mundie to do when confronted by the shenanigans of two
incorrigible, drug-addled children
left in the care of an incompetent au
pair couple named Wendy and Peter while their irresponsible father
has gone off to make a film deal
with Disney? As it happens,
Mundie is also in the midst of negotiations to write a screenplay for
a proposed remake of the Hitchcock film “Suspicion” to be directed by Roman Polanski.
The play, like Mundie’s mind, is
also empowered by his memories
of children’s literature. The primary question it seems to pose is
whether Mundie is to be forever
trapped in this Never-Never land,
or will his desire to change himself
be strong enough to transform his
vision/version of his past and be
the key to his future. Nice work if
he can do it. I suspect that the play
would be better served if the children, who have much too much
stage time, were played by puppets, making them less deplorable
and potentially more delightful.
Though the other actors ably play
more than one character, they are
mostly defined by their caricatured
and cartoon-ish behavior. David
Farley’s impressive set includes a
brick wall, some fantastical as well
as conventional interiors that support the idea of two interlocking
worlds. The title of the play comes
from a nautical term, supposedly
used by sailors when they need to
diffuse what they perceive as impending danger. You might just
keep in mind another old expression, “Forewarned is forearmed.”
“Are You There, McPhee,”
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History
Guided Tour, Drumthwacket
Foundation, 354 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-683-0057. New
Jersey governor’s official residence. Register. $5 donation.
Noon to 2 p.m.
House Tours
Designer Showhouse and Gardens XVII, Junior League of
Greater Princeton, Priory Court,
124 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton, 609-771-0525. www.jlgp.org.
Spaces have been transformed
by interior designers and landscape architects. Proceeds benefit community programs. $25. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lectures
Luncheon Series, Successful
Women Connect, Eno Terra,
4484 Route 27, Kingston, 609924-1083. “Making and Keeping
Money” with Marguerite Mount,
vice president Mercadien Group.
Register. $20 includes lunch.
12:30 p.m.
Identity Theft, Princeton-Trenton Special Libraries Association, Rider University, Lawrenceville. princetontrenton.sla.org.
“Protecting Your Digital Footprint
at Work, Home, and On the Job:
20 Tips on ID Theft in 40 Minutes”
presented by Robert Lackie, professor at Rider University. Register by e-mail to [email protected]. $25. 5 p.m.
Safe Boating Course, Coast
Boating School, WW-P High
School South, 346 Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 732-2790562. www.coastboatingschool.com. Also Thursday, May 17.
Register. $65. 6:30 to 10 p.m.
Princeton Then and Now, Hickory Corner Library, 138 Hickory
Corner Road, East Windsor, 609448-1330. www.mcl.org. Photographic journey back in time with
Eve Mandel, curator of education
of the Historical Society of Princeton. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Princeton University Center for
African American Studies, McCarter Theater (Matthews), 91
University Place, Princeton, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org. “A
Bluesman in the Life of the Mind,”
a retirement celebration to honor
Cornel West, features musical
performances and spoken word
tributes. Speakers include Shirley
M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University; Toni Morrison and
Howard Taylor, Princeton University professors emeritus. Musical
performances by Princeton University Gospel Ensemble, Maude
Maggart, and Terence Blanchard.
Surprise guests and performances. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Painting Outdoors: ‘If I Had Ever Been Here Before’ by West Fraser. The juror for the exhibit ‘Images of New Hope’ opening Thursday, May 17, at
New Hope Winery offers a plein air workshop Sunday and Monday, May 20 and 21.
Singles
A Walk in the Park, Yardley Singles, Washington Crossing State
Park, Titusville, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Meet in
front of public restrooms in picnic
area. Weather permitting. Lunch
at It’s Nutts Restaurant. 6 p.m.
Divorced and Separated Support Group, Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 West Broad
Street, Hopewell, 609-452-8576.
www.hopewellpres.org. Register.
Free. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Thursday
May 17
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Wines for Spring
Spring Wine Tasting, Pure
Restaurant and Lounge, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-0770. More than 25
wines and passed hors d’oeuvres. Register by E-mail to
[email protected]. $55.
6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Faculty Series, Westminster
Conservatory, Niles Chapel,
Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. Trio
Brillante features Katherine McClure on flute, Melissa Bohl on
oboe, and Esma Pasic-Filipovic
on piano. Free. 12:15 p.m.
Live Music
Arturo Romay, Luchento’s, 520
Route 33, Millstone, 732-4464800. 6 to 9 p.m.
Open Mic Coffee House, Ewing
Arts Commission, 999 Lower
Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-8831776. ewingarts.weebly.com.
Open to performers who sing,
play a musical instrument, recite
poetry, tell stories, or perform
comedy. Performers must be 21
or older and provide their own
equipment. Register online. Free.
7 to 9 p.m.
Al Oliver, Nick’s Cafe 72, 72
West Upper Ferry Road, West
Trenton, 609-882-0087. www.cafe72nj.com. Gentle jazz featuring saxophone, flute, and vocals.
BYOB. No cover. 7:30 to 9:30
p.m.
Dick Gratton, Cedar Pub at
Cedar Gardens, 661 Route 33,
Mercerville, 609-587-0930. www.allaboutjazz.com. Solo jazz guitar. 8 to 11 p.m.
Tony DeSimone, Alchemist &
Pop Music
Gordon Lightfoot, State Theater,
Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www.StateTheatreNJ.org. Singer songwriter best known for “The Wreck
of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” “If You
Could Read My Mind,” and “Carefree Highway.” His new album,
“All Live,” a collection of songs
performed at Toronto’s Massey
Hall between 1998 and 2001, was
released on April 24. Lightfoot will
be inducted into the Songwriters
Hall of Fame in New York City on
June 14. $28 to $88. 8 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, New Hope Art
League, New Hope Winery, 6123
Lower York Road, New Hope, PA.
www.newhopeartleague.com.
First day for “Images of New
Hope,” an exhibition juried by
West Fraser, a former New Hope
resident. On view to June 3. Fraser presents plein air workshop on
Sunday and Monday, May 20 and
21. Register online. Noon to 5
p.m.
Distinguished Artist Series,
Artsbridge, Prallsville Mill, Stockton, 609-397-3349. www.artsbridgeonline.com. “Book Arts and
Sculpture” presented by Rocco
Scary, an artist and papermaker
from North Caldwell. 7 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street,
Doylestown, 215-340-9800.
www.michenerartmuseum.org.
“Egg Tempera: Then and Now,” a
lecture and demonstration, in
conjunction with “Mavis Smith:
Hidden Realities,” an exhibit featuring the art of egg tempera, a
process building up hundreds of
translucent layers created from
powdered pigment and egg yolk
mixed up fresh daily. Smith, a native of Trenton, is a Bucks County
resident. On view to May 20.
$12.50. Register. 7 p.m.
Art History Lecture Series,
Michener Art Museum, 138
South Pine Street, Doylestown,
215-340-9800. Register. $25 includes museum admission. 7
p.m.
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p.m.
Are You There, McPhee?, McCarter Theater (Berlind), 91 University Place, Princeton, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org.
World premiere of John Guare’s
play. Pre-show talk 45 minutes
up. Pride night. 7:30 p.m.
www.gsponline.org. Comedy
thriller based on Alfred Hitchcock’s film. $25 to $62. Post show
Marnie-tini party at Clydz, $55 includes party and show. 8 p.m.
Slippery As Sin, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, Front
and Montgomery streets, Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Drama
about a murder, a detective, and
trust. Written by David Lee White.
Directed by Adam Immerwahr.
The cast include June Ballinger,
Trent Blanton, Joniece AbbotPratt, Justin Jain, Brian Anthony
Wilson, and Greg Wood. Through
June 3. $25 to $30. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
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Ringling Brothers and Barnum
& Bailey Circus, Sun National
Bank Center, Hamilton Avenue
at Route 129, Trenton, 800-2984200. www.comcasttix.com.
“Dragons.” $25 to $80. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Dancing by Peddie Lake, 112
Etra Road, Hightstown, 609-4438990. Four-week dance class offering instruction by Candace
Woodward-Clough in swing, foxtrot, waltz, and Latin dancing. Beginners at 7:30 p.m.; intermediates at 8:30 p.m. Register. $56
per person. 7:30 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. vivatango.org. Class
and practice session. $12. 8 p.m.
Literati
Open Daily 12:30 to 4pm
Author Event, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896922. www.mcl.org. Cathy
Moore-Coleman, author of “Innocence Erased,” a self-published
book on the subject of child
abuse. She is a resident of Lawrenceville. Register. 7 p.m.
Author Event, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
Fireplace on second floor, 609924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Jon Gertner, author of “The
Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the
Great Age of American Innovation.” A journalist, he writes for the
Fast Company, the New York
Times, Money magazine, and
more. 7 p.m.
Comedy
Ladies Only Psychic Party,
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt
Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com. “The Stetson Experience,” an intuitive demonstration presented by Jon
Stetson, who has been
studying the mystic arts for
many years. He has been
seen on CBS, CNN, NBC,
PBS, and A&E, and has performed around the world for
royalty, presidents, Fortune
1000 and sports organizations. Stetson’s aim is to offer
insight and inspire the audience to empower and develop their own psychic skills.
Register. $22. 8 p.m.
Greek Festivals
St. George Church, 1200
Klockner Road, Hamilton,
609-586-4448. Annual festival
with classic Greek food, flea market, raffle, music, and dancers in
native costume. The pastry shop
features baklava (layered phyllo
with nuts and honey), galatoboureko (phyllo dough filled with
custard), kourambiedes (butter
cookies with powdered sugar),
cookies, and breads. Outdoor
grills serve up souvlaki and gyros,
and the Mezedakia Bar features
feta cheese stuffed grapevine
leaves. $2 admission. 5 to 10
p.m.
Food & Dining
Nutrition Program, McCaffrey’s,
Southfield Shopping Center,
www.mccaffreys.com. “The Truth
About Fat: The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly” presented by Jill
Kwasny, a registered dietitian.
Register by E-mail to [email protected]. Free. 1:30
p.m.
Spring Wine Tasting, Pure
Restaurant and Lounge, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-0770. www.pureprinceton.com. More than 25
wines and passed hors d’oeuvres. Register by E-mail to
[email protected]. $55.
6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Taste Wine Like a Pro, Crossing
Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Wrightstown Road, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
www.crossingvineyards.com. Get
the background, basics, and the
buzzwords. Register. $30. 7 p.m.
Calera Wine Dinner, Yardley Inn,
82 East Afton Avenue, Yardley,
PA, 215-493-3800. www.yardleyinn.com. Wind salmon, spring
lamb, and more. Register. $65. 7
p.m.
Farm Markets
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, workshops, music, and more. Rain or shine. First
day with music from the Gun
Power Falls band. 11 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Mystic Master: John
Stetson hosts the
Ladies Only Psychic
Party at Catch a Rising Star in the Hyatt
Regency on Thursday, May 17, at 8 p.m.
Health
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Johnson & Johnson, 1125
Trenton-Harbourton Road, Titusville, 800-733-2767. www.redcrossblood.org. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Screenings, Speech, Language,
and Literacy Consultants of
Princeton, 601 Ewing Street,
Princeton, 609-688-0200.
Screening of speech, language,
and literacy skills for all ages.
Register. Free. Noon to 2 p.m.
Caregivers Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association,
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, Plainsboro, 609987-8121. www.alz.org. 6:30
p.m.
Community Health Education
Series, Saint Peter’s Urgent
Care Center, 1378 Route 206,
Skillman, 609-497-597. www.saintpetershcs.com/urgentcare.
“Asthma in Children: The Signs
and the Causes” presented by
Archana Singh, M.D., chief of pediatric pulmonology and cystic fibrosis at the Children’s Hospital
at Saint Peter’s University Hospital. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Wellness
Teaching Training Program, Integral Yoga of Princeton, 613
Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction,
732-274-2410. www.integralyogaprinceton.org. First day of
training. Through Saturday, July
28. $2,810 includes instruction,
texts, manuals, supplies, and a
weekend retreat. 8 a.m.
Spring’s Bounty: Soups and Salads, Princeton Fitness and
Wellness Center, 1225 State
Road, Princeton, 609-683-7888.
www.princetonfitnessandwellness.com. Presented by Jane
Schwartz, outpatient and community education dietitian. Register.
$10. 6 p.m.
Just Breathe!
When you have Asthma, every breath matters.
Princeton Center for Clinical Research is currently enrolling
in a clinical research study for adults with Asthma.
18 years and over qualified participants
receive at no charge:
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Study-related testing & laboratory services
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15 Market Street ★ Trenton, New Jersey ★ (609) 989-3027
www.williamtrenthouse.org
The 1719 William Trent House Museum is owned, maintained and operated
by the City of Trenton with assistance from the Trent House Association and General
Operating Support Grants from the NJ Historical Commission, Department of State.
www.princetonclinicalresearch.com
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Blues Rocker: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
performs Friday, May 18, at 8 p.m. at the
State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick.
Psychic Development, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Practice developing your psychic abilities. Register. $30. 7 to 9 p.m.
Tai Chi, One Yoga Center, 405
Route 130 North, East Windsor,
609-918-0963. www.oneyogacenter.net. $18. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Hot Yoga, One Yoga Center, Ewing, 609-918-0963. www.oneyogacenter.net. Yoga in a 90 degree room presented by Suzanne
Allen. $18. 7:45 to 9 p.m.
House Tours
by interior designers and landscape architects. Proceeds benefit community programs. $25. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
For Families
Read and Explore, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, 609924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. “Farm Animals.”
Register. $5 per child. 9:30 and
11 a.m.
Lectures
Meeting, 55-Plus, Jewish Center
of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street,
609-896-2923. www.princetonol.com. “Fixing Gender: Legal Challenges for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People” presented by Kiki Jamieson, Institute
for Advanced Study. $3 donation.
10 a.m.
Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Dodds, 609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. “Georgian
Democratic Transformation: A
Test Case for the Post-Soviet
World” presented by Mikheil
Saakashvili, president of Georgia.
A musical presentation by the
Princeton Georgian Choir follows
the talk at a public reception in the
Shultz dining room. 4:30 p.m.
Career Seminar, David Lerner
Associates, 221 Rockingham
Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 516-465-5851. www.davidlerner.com. Information about career change. Register with Larry
Maverick. Free. 6 p.m.
Safe Boating Course, Coast
Boating School, WW-P High
School South, 346 Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 732-2790562. www.coastboatingschool.com. Register. $65. 6:30 to 10
p.m.
Meeting, ACM/IEEE, Mercer
County Park Boathouse Marina,
princetonacm.org. “Strange
Sounds in a Familiar World: An
Electronic Music Performance,”
Joo Won Park, Community College of Philadelphia. Reservations required. $25. 8 p.m.
Schools
Phusia Dance, Mill
Ballet School, 243
North Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-3977244. For women.
$18. 7:45 p.m.
Girls’ Night Out
Palmer Square, Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com.
Food samplings, live
music, prizes, and
more. Free general
admission to in-store
sales, discounts, and
promotions; one-time
access to Taste of the
Square tent, free parking, live music, and a
chance to win prizes. Register online. Rain date is Friday, May 18.
4 to 9 p.m.
Socials
Dinner and Meeting, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Tessara’s
Restaurant, 812 Route 33, Hamilton, 609-627-7534. www.iaapcentraljersey.org. “Eat That Frog!
21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in
Less Time” presented by Marci
Goldshlack. Register. $10 to $35.
5:45 to 9 p.m.
Happy Hour, Young Professionals in Health Care, Tre Bar, 120
Rockingham Way, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro. www.yphprinceton.com. Register online. 6
to 8 p.m.
For Seniors
Wellness Walk, Grounds For
Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way,
Hamilton, 609-689-1089. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Walk
followed by a discussion presented by Stoneking Wellness Center
and Springpoint Foundation. For
mature adults. Includes healthy
refreshments and park admission. Register. $10. 9:30 a.m.
Kosher Cafe West, Jewish Family and Children’s Service, Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village Road East, West Windsor,
609-987-8100. www.jfcsonline.org. Kosher meal and speaker for
ages 60 and up. “Evil: Who
Needs It?” presented by Cantor
Stuart Binder of Congregation
Beth Chaim. Register. $5. 12:30
p.m.
Secure at Home, Jewish Family
and Children’s Service, Jewish
Center, 435 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-987-8100. www.jfcsonline.org. “Welcome to
Medicare” for baby boomers age
63 and older focuses on Medigap
and Medicare Advantage plans,
who is eligible, when to enroll,
what it covers, what it will cost,
and more. Presented by Mary
McGeary, MSW, Medicare counselor with the NJ Department of
Health and Senior Services. Refreshments. Register. Free. 4 to 6
p.m.
Friday
May 18
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Free Art
Art Museum Day, Zimmerli Art
Museum, 71 Hamilton Street,
www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. Free admission. 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Global World Music Concert,
Princeton Theological Seminary, Miller Chapel, 609-4977760. www.ptsem.edu. The Oikos
Ensemble, a consortium of musicians about the country built
around the duo of Reverend Clifford Aerie and Dr. Christopher
Bakriges. In tribute to Thomas W.
Gillespie, the seminary’s fifth
president, who died in November.
A reception follows the concert.
Free. 7 p.m.
Schubert 9: The Great, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra,
Richardson Auditorium, Princeton
University, 800-ALLEGRO. www.njsymphony.org. Christoph Konig
conducts. Olga Peretyatsko, soprano. $20 to $82. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
Frank and Hank, Folk Project,
Morristown Unitarian Fellowship,
21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489. www.folkproject.org. Frank Sole and Henry
Nerenberg. Bill Griese opens. $7.
8 p.m.
Garnet Rogers, Princeton Folk
Music Society, Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane,
Princeton, 609-799-0944. www.princetonfolk.org. Garnet Rogers
began listening to country music
when he was six and was on the
road as soon as he was out of
high school. $20. 8:15 p.m.
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Folksy: Bill Griese, right, opens for Frank
Sole, above left, and Henry Nerenberg,
Friday, May 18, at the Folk Project, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, Morristown.
May 18
Live Music
Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk Cafe,
2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609896-5995. www.allaboutjazz.com. Solo
jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Music, Pizza, and Wine, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington,
609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Bob Tomlinson performs
acoustic classic rock. Wine by the glass or
bottle; brick oven pizza, and cheese platters are available. 6 to 9 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Villa Romanza, 429
Route 156, Hamilton, 609-585-1717.
www.villaromanzanj.com. 6 to 9 p.m.
Smash Palace, The Record Collector
Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, 609-324-0880. CD release party.
$12. 7:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, State Theater,
15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick,
732-246-7469. Blues and rock guitarist.
$25 to $60. 8 p.m.
Art
Art Museum Day, Zimmerli Art Museum,
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, 732932-7237. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. Free admission. 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Bucks County Artist Studio Tours, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street,
Doylestown, 215-340-9800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. Garber Studio
at Cuttalossa Farm. Transportation on
your own. Register. $40 includes tour and
refreshments. 10 a.m.
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art
Museum, Princeton campus, 609-2583788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
12:30 p.m.
On Stage
Man of LaMancha, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue,
Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical based on Dale
Wasserman’s play about Don Quixote.
$29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m.
Rent, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120
Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Jonathan Larson’s rock
musical about young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in
New York City’s Bohemian Alphabet City,
under the shadow of HIV and AIDS, was
adapted from Puccini’s La Boheme. $30
to $50. 8 p.m.
The 39 Steps, George Street Playhouse,
9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick,
732-246-7717. www.gsponline.org. Comedy thriller based on Alfred Hitchcock’s
film. $25 to $62. 8 p.m.
Company, Kelsey Theater, Mercer
County Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-5703333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Stephen
Sondheim’s musical about a bachelor’s
reflections of marriage vs. the single life.
Jim Petro of Hamilton portrays Bobby, the
focus of the show. His life is presented in
vignettes, all tied together by his 35th
birthday. Presented by Pierrot Productions. Opening night reception follows the
performance. $18. 8 p.m.
Are You There, McPhee?, McCarter Theater (Berlind), 91 University Place,
Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. World premiere of John Guare’s play.
Pre-show talk 45 minutes before the performance. $20 and up. After dark party. 8
p.m.
Slippery As Sin, Passage Theater, Mill
Hill Playhouse, Front and Montgomery
streets, Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Drama about a murder, a detective, and trust. Written by
David Lee White. Directed by Adam Immerwahr. $25 to $30. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
Circus, Sun National Bank Center,
Hamilton Avenue at Route 129, Trenton,
800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com.
“Dragons” production. $25 to $80. 10:30
a.m. and 7 p.m.
Family Series, Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North Branch, 908725-3420. www.rvccarts.edu. “Mur-Mur”
for ages eight and older. $25. 7 p.m.
The Spencers: Theater of Illusion, McCarter Theater (Matthews), 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. Theatrical production with illusions, lighting,
and music. $30 to $42. 7:30 p.m.
Spring Playfest, West Windsor Library,
333 North Post Road, 609-275-8901.
“Dollhouse Blues,” “The Book of Spells,”
“My Secret Admirer,” and “Cookie Crazy,”
four short children’s plays, performed. The
plays were all written and directed by
Michael Kerr, an area playwright who has
directed and produced plays at the library
since 2005. For ages eight and up. Doors
open 20 minutes before show time. Also
Saturday, May 19, at 3 and 8 p.m.; and
Sunday, May 20, at 3 p.m. Free. 8 p.m.
Film
Art 21, Urban Mission Cabinet, 400
Hamilton Avenue, Trenton. Screening of
the sixth season of “Art in the 21st Century,” a prime time national television series
focused on contemporary art. Episodes 3
and 4 will be shown in different screening
rooms. A discussion with Elise Mannella
and Lynn Lemyre follows. Free. 5:30 p.m.
Acme Screening Room, Lambertville
Public Library, 25 South Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-0275. www.acmescreeningroom.ticketleap.com. Screening
of “United in Anger: A History of Act Up” in
conjunction with New Hope Celebrates
and Gay Pride weekend. Act Up is a small
group of women that tried to change the
world. Director appearance at early performance. $8 to $10. 7 and 9 p.m.
Dancing
Jersey Jumpers, Central Jersey Dance
Society, Unitarian Church, 50 Cherry Hill
Road, Princeton, 609-945-1883. Swing,
jitterbug, and lindy hop. Lesson followed
by an open dance. Music by Phil Cosentino and the Boilermakers. $15. No partners needed. Beginners welcome. 7 p.m.
Friday Night Social, American Ballroom,
1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-9310149. $15. 8 to 11 p.m.
Folk Dance, Princeton Folk Dance,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton
Street, Princeton, 609-912-1272.Beginners welcome. Lesson followed by dance.
No partner needed. $5. 8 p.m.
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Review: ‘Rent’
L
by Jonathan Elliott
ike most of the millennials/echoboomers hovering around the age of 30, my
affection for musical theater was defined by
“Rent.” At 14, it was the first two-disc CD set
I’d received. I wore out both discs (and perhaps my stereo) listening to it over and over
again. Like “A Chorus Line” and “Godspell”
and “Hair” and “West Side Story” before it, it
became the defining sound of a generation of
theatergoers, transmogrifying the concept of
the rock musical and ascending to the realm
of the iconic. Between the ubiquitous imagery and persistent tours of the legendary
original production (playing, to this day, in
slightly altered form at off-Broadway’s New
World Stages), it’s hard to find a theatergoer
under the age of 40 without strong feelings
about Rent.
And Bristol Riverside Theater’s staging,
playing through June 3, certainly takes this
into account. Jose Zayas’ direction fluctuates
between slavish recreation of prior incarnations of the show and brief moments of original interpretation. When it works, it’s exhilarating and goosebump-inducing, and when it
doesn’t, it comes across as a third-or-fourthiteration carbon copy of a once-beloved
work. This is a production of “Rent” that
feels a little short on the careening momentum and energy necessary to achieve the arresting greatness the material requires. I can’t
deny, however, that even though this vision of
“Rent” feels like it’s running on a half-tank of
gas, it’s still got more than enough sparkle to
be worthy of consideration.
A reimagining of Puccini’s “La Boheme”
set against the boho background of the Alphabet City neighborhood of New York in
the early 1990s, “Rent” is an anthemic musical of AIDS, artists, commercialism, and
coming of age. Its writer/composer Jonathan
Larson designed it as a conversation about
his life and friends in his late 20s and early
30s; his tragic death from an aneurysm on the
eve of the show’s premiere became part of
the mythic propellant that drove “Rent” into
its monster hit status, and its triple crown of
the Drama Desk, Pulitzer, and Tony awards.
Rent wraps the pathos and panic of life as
a starving artist up with a contemporary,
throbbing rock sound, and that’s the soul of
its charm. And it’s there that this production
flounders a bit on its technical aspects. Keith
Baker’s music direction is even-tempered
and fine, but it seems out of sync between
band and singers, and lacking the just-thisside-of-chaos push to match the energy of
the material. Coupled with that, amplification issues were present throughout at the
performance I attended; much of the subtlety
in delivery is lost in a slow-on-the-take onand-off of microphones.
With that in mind, there are several members of the cast worthy of admiration. Brit
West’s Mimi is an incandescent firecracker,
grounded in her sly and desperate soulfulness. Tracie Franklin’s Joanne, a well-heeled
young lawyer recently sucked into this
There’s talent to be found
throughout this ‘Rent,’ and
it’s enough to make it fun to
watch.
whirlwind world of art and suffering through
an equally whirlwind relationship, is brassy
and full of an appealing blend of doe-in-theheadlights naivete and steely resolve. The
whole of the ensemble, in fact, is strong, in
an assortment of roles from riot cops to the
bemused parents of the main characters to a
ferocious, show-stopping bag-lady. And
Jamila Sabares-Klemm, as the newly Sapphic performance artist Maureen, is a charmer
through and through, a flirt who cares little
about the consequences of her actions until
the costs become apparent. Sabares-Klemm
also illustrates an interesting point of this
production: in the role that made a star out of
Idina Menzel (prior to “Wicked” and
“Glee”), she opts to go in a completely different direction, impish and coy where Menzel was erotic and edgy. While both held the
right amount of humor and humanity in their
roles, finding a new interpretation that works
brings a new life to this Maureen.
Carrying that through this production,
“Rent” is at its best when it finds ways to be
both true to the material and new in its interpretation at the same time — and its largest
missteps are found when it falls into overt
homage or recreations of the original production. Frustrated musician Roger (Mark
Willis Borum), and beleaguered documentarian Mark (James LaRosa) are written as
the heart and soul of Rent, and neither quite
soars to that height. Borum’s voice is welltrained and balanced, past the point of being
too controlled and polished for the role, and
LaRosa appears to attempt a third-generation caricature of the original interpretation
by Anthony Rapp; all the moves are there,
right down to the suburban upstate New York
twang in his voice, but there’s nothing to root
the role in, and it comes off as soulless. The
same holds true for Julian Alvarez’s angel, a
street-drummer by day and boisterous drag
queen by night. Alvarez has the high kicks
and looks down for the roll, but is, once again
in this production, missing that wellspring of
Rent: Julian Alvarez (Angel),
Mark Willis Borum (Roger),
Brit West (Mimi), and Carl
Nathaniel Smith (Ensemble).
energetic fire that brings with it authenticity
and emotion.
The counterpoint to all this comes when
Zayas returns to the source material and uncovers a gem; midway through act two.
Roger and Mimi’s duet “Without You” tracks
three of the show’s key relationships as reunions and pain come into play against one
character’s end-of-life event. Compared to
the original production, the staging is elegant, simple, and heartbreaking, and the
choice to strip down the orchestration and let
the moments of this beautiful piece play out
is astounding. I found my breath caught in
my chest, and wondered why the whole production couldn’t have been handled with
such care and insight. There’s talent to be
found throughout this “Rent,” and it’s
enough to make it fun to watch. There’s a
promise, though, of something more, and
that goes staunchly unfulfilled.
“Rent,” Bristol Riverside Theater, 120
Radcliffe Street, Bristol. Through June 3. $30
to $50. 215-785-0100 or www.brtstage.org
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arly in his life, playwright/actor/arts
administrator
David White remembers his parents taking him to the theater and to
the movies in their home town of
Saint Louis, Missouri. Most vivid
in his memory is the story of
“Frankenstein.” White laughs as he
had just told me that his folks took
him often to plays and movies that
were suitable to his age. “Frankenstein”? “Probably not appropriate,
but it stuck with me.”
He recalls a particular moment
in the movie when the monster is
feared to be in a chest of drawers.
When the woman opens it, he’s not
there, but comes crawling through
a window behind her. “I still remember that moment. It was so intoxicating; and look what I’ve just
written.”
He developed a love for the detective mystery movies of the ’30s
and ’40s. These early influences
are coming to full bloom with the
current production of his play
“Slippery as Sin” that plays at
Trenton’s Passage Theater Thursday, May 17, through Sunday, June
3. This is his second play produced
at Passage; his play “Blood” was
produced in 2009.
White sets the stage for “Slippery as Sin” as reminiscent of those
old mystery melodramas. “People
have gathered together in an old
dark house. There are secrets, an
inheritance, things like that.”
There is a visiting master detective
and perhaps a master criminal.
White adds, “And if he doesn’t
exist, why do we think he does?
Who is committing the crimes?
What is the nature of truth?” Lest
we think it’s too dark, he reminds
us that first and foremost it’s a
comedy, “a farce loaded with plot
twists.”
Director Adam Immerwahr
keeps him in check any time the
play gets a little preachy. “The kind
of twist on it is that it’s a parable for
contemporary American paranoia.
So the fears that people have in the
play are similar to the fears we
have now: losing a home, being
fired from a job, running out of
money. It takes place during the
Great Depression. The same anxieties are present today.”
As in the old films, the promises
of a logical approach to mystery
turn out to be a solution based on
biases, White explains. “In the end,
it’s always the fault of a minority.”
He began writing this play about
the time there was “all the hubbub
about Obama’s birth certificate and
the building of the mosque near the
World Trade Center site,” White
says. “At the time there was a lot of
rationalization for not trusting and
inventing your own truth to suit
your own set of beliefs.”
During one rehearsal, White arrived unnoticed to hear the director
telling the cast; “David thinks this
play’s about these big ideas, but I
don’t think he knows how funny it
is.”
White does know that farce is a
good delivery system for great
ideas. “It doesn’t hit you over the
head. One thing I’ve been doing
during the rehearsal process is cutting out the preachy meditation
stuff in favor of moving the plot
along. I hope that people will pick
up on this undercurrent. But it is a
morbidly funny play. There are all
kinds of ways to be murdered. It’s
very Edward Goreyesque.”
A special treat for the audience
is that Passage Artistic Director
June Ballinger will again take the
stage as one of the cast, the matriarch of the house who, to make financial ends meet, has turned to
Dramatic Duo: Director Adam Immerwahr, left,
and David Lee White, who have previously collaborated on ‘Trenton Lights’ and ‘Blood’ at Passage.
being a fake psychic while what
she really wants to do is have the
wherewithal to toss huge parties.
In real life both Ballinger and
White are kept busy running Passage Theater and its outreach programs, so it’s good therapy for their
artistic natures to get a little selfexpression time and revisit their
personal arts. White began his theater career as an actor. In fact, he
doesn’t remember when he wasn’t
into acting, beginning with grammar school. And he’s always written as well.
“In elementary school it was all
I thought about. I was in plays, I did
plays, I went to see plays at St.
Louis Rep. I loved seeing actors after the show come through the lobby in street clothes. I’d hang
‘It is a morbidly funny
play. There are all
kinds of ways to be
murdered. It’s very
Edward Goreyesque.’
around. The difference between
the real person and the character
was always such a mystery.”
He took acting classes for young
people and did theater in high
school and college. “If anything, I
focused so much on acting and went
through college (University of Missouri in Kansas City) and graduate
school (University of Pittsburgh)
lacking a certain intellectual curiosity,” he admits. Laughing, he continues, “I was one of those guys
who’d say, ‘Well, I don’t need to
learn anything else. I don’t need to
learn math, for god’s sake.’” He’s
doing lots of catch-up now as managing director at Passage.
B
ut he wrote his first fulllength play in college and saw it
produced in graduate school. “I
wrote it when I was 21, and it reads
like something written by someone
who doesn’t quite know how to
write what he wants to write.” He
moved to Chicago where acting
was his primary focus. “I’d write
for fun from time to time.” He
wrote articles for film magazines
and published a novel in 2007. The
tribulations of being an actor, always fighting for jobs, and working a “day job” to make ends meet
took their toll. He and his wife, Allison Demarco, decided to move to
New Jersey and live for a time with
her parents in Princeton while they
scoped out New York theater.
Not able to stay away, White
volunteered at Passage Theater to
help with the youth outreach program. This developed into a fulltime job, with Ballinger encouraging his writing. First he wrote short
plays for the teen classes, then
“June challenged me to write for an
adult audience.” He wrote some
one-act plays that they workshopped at Passage. “Then she said
‘Why don’t you try writing a full
length?’ That’s when I wrote
‘Blood.’” Recently he was thrilled
to see a second production of
“Blood” done at Dreamcatcher
Rep in South Orange.
White has been at Passage for 10
years and has directed programs
for young people as well as writing
plays for them. Nurturing comes
naturally to him. While he was in
graduate school, he and other students toured truncated versions of
Shakespeare plays to area high
schools. And his parents couldn’t
have been more nurturing of his
talent and career choices.
“They’ve always been very supportive. My parents came up to see
me perform while I was in college.
I thought they were going to have
the big discussion where they think
I should do something other than
theater. Instead they said, ‘We’ve
been talking and have decided that
life is too short not to do something
you love. It will be difficult and
you need to figure out how you’re
going to make a living, but we want
to support you.’ Not with money;
they couldn’t fund my theatrical
life indefinitely. They acknowledged that it would be difficult. But
I had their emotional support.”
The artistic bent of his family
comes mostly from his mother, an
English teacher who wrote poetry
and was also a photographer. The
nurturing of youngsters, from his
dad, who was a guidance counselor. Both are retired now. White’s
brother, Bradley Dean White, is a
singer/songwriter whose first CD
just came out. He also teaches music to kids.
The legacy continues. In August, 2010, he and his wife adopted
a little boy, Nicholas, now almost
two years old. When I talked by
phone with White, he had called
me from his car. “I am sitting here
talking to you in the parking lot of
the music class that I took him to
this morning. His grandparents
met me here and take him home, so
I can talk to you, then drive directly to work at the theater.” I guess
it’s never too soon to start that artistic journey with music classes.
Drums? Maracas?
“I’m glad I was a little bit older
when we got this child. Earlier, I
would have been thinking, this will
take away time and I’ll never become famous. I don’t have that
concern any more. Achild is a lot of
work and I don’t sleep, but it’s also
so much fun. The number one thing
in my life is to play with my kid.”
Slippery As Sin, Passage Theater, Front and Montgomery
streets, Trenton. Thursday, May 17,
through Sunday, June 3. 609-3920766 or www.passagetheatre.org.
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Continued from page 14
Karaoke Dance, American Legion Post 401, 148 Major Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-3299861. Free. 8:30 p.m.
Literati
Fireplace on second floor, 609924-9529.“The Crisis of Youth in
the Age of Disposability” presented by Henry Giroux, author of
“The Mouse that Roared: Disney
and the End of Innocence,”
“Stealing Innocence: Corporate
Culture’s War on Children,” and
“Education and the Crisis of Public Values.” 6:30 p.m.
Benefit Galas
Upstairs Downstairs Earth Ball,
D&R Greenway Land Trust,
Eastbrook Farm, Mountain View
Road, Princeton, 609-924-4646.
Cocktails on the tennis court and
dancing to music by Riverside
Bluegrass Band. Boots and country chic encouraged. Register.
$125. 6:30 to 11 p.m.
Comedy
Melvin George and Chad
Shapiro, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Comedy Night, HA Comedy Productions, Grovers Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-7168771. Doug Adler headlines. Helene Angley of West Windsor
hosts. Free. 8 p.m.
Fairs & Festivals
Greek Festival, St. George Greek
Orthodox Church, 1101 River
Road, Piscataway. Greek culture
and heritage, food, music, and
dance. $2. Shuttle from Rutgers
stadium. 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Greek Festival, St. George
Church, 1200 Klockner Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-4448. Annual
festival with classic Greek food,
flea market, raffle, music, and
dancers in native costume. The
pastry shop features baklava (layered phyllo with nuts and honey),
galatoboureko (phyllo dough filled
with custard), kourambiedes (butter cookies with powdered sugar),
leaves. $2 admission. 11:30 a.m.
to 11:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Pig Roast, Unionville Vineyards,
9 Rocktown Road, Ringoes, 908788-0400. Register. $75. 6 to 9
p.m.
Specialty Dinner, Salt Creek
Grille, One Rockingham Row,
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro,
609-419-4200. Winebow Portugal
dinner. Register. $79. 7 p.m.
Wellness
Qigong, Ruth A. Golush, Center
Plainsboro, 609-426-9693. Meditative energy exercises for balance. Register. $20. 10 to 11 a.m.
Lunch and Learn, Optimal Exercise, 27 Maplewood Avenue,
Cranbury, 609-462-7722. “Introduction to Qigong” presented by
Sangita Patel. Register. $10.
12:15 to 1 p.m.
Lunch and Learn, Optimal Exercise, 27 Maplewood Avenue,
Cranbury, 609-462-7722. “How to
Get in the Best Shape of Your
Adult Life Without Hurting Your
Back, Quitting Your Job, Or Getting Yelled at by a Gonzo Personal Trainer” presented by Bill DeSimone. Register. $10. 12:15 to 1
p.m.
Dance from the Inside, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health,
Orchard Hill Center, 88 Orchard
Road, Skillman, 609-924-7294.
Guided and free style dance with
Michal Ben-Reuven. No partner
or experience needed. Register.
$15. 7:30 p.m.
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Simpler Times: Abe Stryker, left, Charlie
Cruser, and Edward Terhune, in a photo from
1915 that is part of ‘Back to Blawenburg,’ a
series of speakers, tours, and exhibits at Blawenburg Reformed Church, 425 Route 518 in
Montgomery, on Saturday, May 19, from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Photo courtsey of Grace Terhune.
History
Lectures
Children’s Day, Rockingham Association, Historic Rockingham,
Route 603, Kingston, 609-6837132. Activities and demonstrations of 18th century life. Tour the
kitchen garden and historic house
museum. Country dance demonstrations and lessons, fiddle music, and more. Light refreshments. Rain or shine. Donations
invited. Noon to 5 p.m.
Movie Night, Kuser Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue,
Hamilton, 609-890-3630. Screening of “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
Bring a chair cushion or lawn
chair. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University,
Robertson Hall, Dodds,
609-258-2943. futureofchildren.org. “Working with
Children with Disabilities:
Tools for Parents and
Schools,” a conference organized by the Education
Research Section for parents and school administrators. Register. Free.
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Lunch and Learn, Greater
Mercer TMA, Princeton Library.
“Complete Streets: Changing New
Jersey’s Roadways for All Users”
discussion including case studies.
Refreshments. Register to
[email protected]. 12:30 p.m.
House Tours
124 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton, 609-771-0525. Proceeds
benefit community programs.
$25. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Star Watch
Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Simpson Observatory, Titusville, 609-7372575. Weather-permitting. Free. 8
to 11 p.m.
Schools
Socials
Beyond Hola, Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. Introduction to Spanish for adult English
speakers. 6:30 p.m.
Dinner, One Table Cafe, Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, 609-924-2277. www.onetablecafe.org. Casual dinner.
Register. Pay what you can. 6:30
p.m.
Singles
Dance Party, Steppin’ Out Singles, Radisson Crystal Ballroom,
50 Gibson Place, Freehold, 732656-1801. Ages 40 plus. $15. 8
p.m.
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Church, 545 Meadow Road, West
Windsor, 609-258-5343. “Songs
of the World” featuring the Grace
Notes, Quarter Notes, and SemiTones. Post concert reception for
Janet Perkins, the executive director since 1992, now retiring.
$22. 4:30 p.m.
Eastern Encounters, New
Brunswick Chamber
Orchestra, Crossroads Theater,
Brunswick, 800-838-3006. Program includes “Concerto for Pipa
with String Orchestra” and “Three
Film Scores” features the New
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New York Mix, Raritan River Music Festival, Old Greenwich
Presbyterian Church, Bloomsbury, 908-213-1100. www.RaritanRiverMusic.org. Duojalal,
a duo of Kathryn Lockwood on viola, and Yousif Sheronick on percussion. $25. 7:30 p.m.
Music from Across the Pond, Sinfonietta Nova, Prince of Peace
Church, 177 Princeton-Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-4624984. www.sinfoniettanova.org.
Works of Vaughan Williams, and
Elger. Ming F. Hsin solos on violin.
$6 to $15. 7:30 p.m.
Westminster Community
Chorale and Chamber Choir,
Westminster Choir College,
Bristol Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane,
Princeton, 609-921-2663. “Love
and Marriage” featuring wedding
anthems, Song of Solomon texts,
madrigals, and solos from popular music and Broadway. Devin
Mariman conducts. $15. 8 p.m.
Black Cat Habitat, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New
Hope, 215-862-5981. 3 to 6 p.m.
John & Carm, Halo Pub, 4617
Nottingham Way, Hamilton, 609586-1811. 6 to 9 p.m.
Music, Pizza, and Wine,
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46
Yard Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. John Barry Jazz Trio performs. Wine by the glass or bottle;
brick oven pizza, and cheese
platters are available. 6 to 9 p.m.
Ed Goldberg, Molto Bene Caffe
y Mercato Italiano, 57 North
Main Street, Cranbury, 609-6624193. Solo accordion. Note new
location. 6 to 9 p.m.
Dylan Tribute, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. 7:30 p.m.
The Grip Weeds, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown, 609-3240880. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Bob Orlowski, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
Easy listening. 8 to 10 p.m.
Folk Music
Art
Ariana Gillis and Victoria Vox,
Concerts at the Crossing, Unitarian Church, 268 Washington
Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-406-1424. With Katie
Chambers on cello. $20. 7:30 p.m.
Curator’s Walk, Grounds For
Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. Tour the
park with Tom Moran, chief curator and director of artistic development. Register. $20. 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gallery 14, 14 Mercer
Street, Hopewell, 609-333-8511.
www.photogallery14.com. “I Am a
Tree: Part 2,” a series of bronze
tone monochrome tree portraits
by photographer Frank Magalhaes. Noon.
Art Exhibit, DiGiovanni Photography Studio, 4577 Route 27,
Kingston, 609-924-4400. www.digidg.com. Opening reception
for “Connect,” a series of work
based on Michael Ciccotello’s
thoughts and experiences. He
has worked in a variety of media
including 3D animated motion
graphics, outdoor murals, and
paintings. On view through Sunday, May 20. Free. 6 to 9 p.m.
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Jazz Night, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street,
Doylestown, 215-340-9800. Appetizers, deserts, wine, and beer
in the new Edgar N. Putman
event pavilion. Concert by Amy
Banks begins at 8:30 p.m. Register. $48. 8 to 11 p.m.
Live Music
Printmaking Party, Sterling Creativity, 19 Main Street, Building
C, Robbinsville, 215-767-2845.
Create, network, and print. Register to [email protected].
$30. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Dance
85 George Street, New Brunswick, 609-984-8400. Gerald
Arpino’s “Confetti” and excerpts
from Douglas Martin’s “Romeo
and Juliet.” $35. 8 p.m.
On Stage
Jonathan Larson’s rock musical.
$30 to $50. 2 and 8 p.m.
thriller based on Alfred Hitchcock’s film. $25 to $62. Matinee is
open captioned. 2 and 8 p.m.
Are You There, McPhee?, McCarter Theater (Berlind), 91 University Place, Princeton, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org.
World premiere of John Guare’s
play focusing on a playwright
sucked into the tangle of lives of a
pair of abandoned children. Cast
includes Paul Gross, Gideon
Banner, John Behlmann, Jeremy
Bobb, Molly Camp, Patrick Carroll, Danny Mastrogiorgio, and
Lusia Strus. Directed by Sam
Buntrock. Pre-show talk 45 minutes before the performance. $20
and up. 3 and 8 p.m.
Man of LaMancha, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical based on Dale
Wasserman’s play about Don
Quixote. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m.
Company, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
www.kelseytheatre.net. Stephen
Sondheim’s musical about a
bachelor’s reflections of marriage
vs. the single life. Presented by
Pierrot Productions. $18. 8 p.m.
and Montgomery streets, Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Drama
about a murder, a detective, and
trust. Written by David Lee White.
Directed by Adam Immerwahr.
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Family Theater
Ringling Brothers and Barnum
& Bailey Circus, Sun National
Bank Center, Hamilton Avenue
at Route 129, Trenton, 800-2984200. www.comcasttix.com.
“Dragons” production. $25 to $80.
11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m.
Skippyjon Jones, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton
Road, West Windsor, 609-5703333. Musical based on Judy
Schachner’s book is presented by
Theaterworks USA. $10. 2 and 4
p.m.
Spring Playfest, West Windsor
Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-275-8901. www.mcl.org.
“Dollhouse Blues,” “The Book of
Spells,” “My Secret Admirer,” and
“Cookie Crazy,” four short children’s plays, performed. The
plays were all written and directed
by Michael Kerr, an area playwright who has directed and produced plays at the library since
2005. For ages eight and up.
Doors open 20 minutes before
show time. Also Sunday, May 20,
at 3 p.m. Free. 3 and 8 p.m.
Film
Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25
South Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.acmescreeningroom.ticketleap.com.
Screening of “Chely Wright: Wish
me Away.” $8 to $10. 7 and 9:05
p.m.
Dancing
Oldies Dance, Hightstown Engine Company, 140 North Main
Street, Hightstown, 609-4481908. The Jukebox Legens, Joe
Leo and Billy Sagarese, present
songs from the 1950s, ’60s, and
’70s. Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres. $25; $45 per couple. Must
be 21 or older. 7 p.m.
Milonga Tangazo, Central Jersey Dance Society, Suzanne
Patterson Center, 45 Stockton
Street, Princeton, 609-945-1883.
Lesson followed by social dance.
No partner needed. Refreshments. $12. 8 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-3948400. Wahida Clarke, author of
“Payback Ain’t Enough.” Noon.
Book Signing, Two Buttons, 62A
Trenton Avenue, Frenchtown.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “A
Home on the Range,” signs books
with proceeds benefiting Scholar
Match. The cookbook is based on
her great grandmother’s recipes.
The town celebration includes 12
area restaurants each preparing
one dish from the book with
snacks presented by area shops.
Also Sunday, May 20. 1 to 5 p.m.
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Princeton Airport
41 Airpark Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-921-3100
www.princetonairport.com
Painting - Interior & Exterior
Powerwashing
Station Gallery, Dandelion,
jaZams, Kitchen Kapers, Lace
Silhouettes Lingerie, Lindt, Lululemon Athletica, Luxaby Baby
& Child, Mediterra, The Papery,
Princeton Soup & Sandwich
Company, Salon Pure, Spruce,
Teresa Caffe, Thomas Sweet
In Our Voices: Fiction Readings
by Local Writers, West Windsor
Arts Council, 952 Alexander
Road, West Windsor, 609-7161931. Writers include Elizabeth
Madden-Zibman of West Windsor, the organizer of the event
and one of the original members
of the arts council. Other readers
include Tisha Bender, Lisa Dale,
Elisheba Haqq-Stevens, Roisin
McLean, and Raquel Penzo. Refreshments. $6. 3 to 5 p.m.
Good Causes
Used Medical Equipment Drive,
First Presbyterian Church of
Cranbury, 22 South Main Street,
Cranbury, 609-530-1513. Contributions of wheelchairs, walkers,
canes, crutches bath and shower
chairs, grab bars, portable ramps,
tray tables, and unopened boxes
of medical supplies, will be donated to You ReSource, a non-profit
organization in Ewing. Rain or
shine. 9 a.m. to noon.
Twilight in Fallsington, Historic
Fallsington, 4 Yardley Avenue,
Fallsington, PA, 215-295-6565.
Wine, beer, treats, and music.
$35 benefits the historic village. 5
to 8 p.m.
Oldie’s Night, Italian-American
Heritage Center, 2421 Liberty
Street, Hamilton, 609-631-7544.
Music from the ’50s and ’60s, a
twist contest, best dressed contest, prizes. Dinner buffet. Music
by Jade. BYOB. Register. $35.
5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
More Than Skin Deep, Villagers
Theater, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset, 732-873-2710. Musical revue to raise awareness and to
benefit the Foundation for
Ichthyosis & Related Skin Types
(FIRST). Cast include Mimi Francis and Francine Mondi of North
Brunswick, Danielle Fiorello of
Somerset, JC Gibriano of
Franklin, Denise Jobes of West
Belmar, Patrick McGlone of Somerset, Jared Picone of Edison,
Sheila Telo of Hamilton, and Tim
Walton of Somerset. $20. 8 p.m.
Benefit Galas
Benefit Gala, State Theater, 15
Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7469. Michael Feinstein performs selections from
the great American Songbook
with his five piece band. Register.
$29 to $115 for concert only. Gala
tickets for $650 include premium
orchestra seats at the concert, reception, and dinner dance. 5 p.m.
Save the Ellarslie, Ellarslie,
Trenton City Museum, Cadwalader Park, Trenton, 609-9893632. www.ellarslie.org. Gala and
live art auction to purchase fine
art while helping to put the museum back on track. Cocktails,
wine, hors d’oeuvres, and silent
auction. MC and guest auctioneer
is Samuel Frisby, Mercer County
board of chosen freeholders.
Black tie optional. $125; $200 per
couple. 7 to 10 p.m.
Chocolate, Urban Grace Winberie’s, Yankee Doodle Tap
Room, and Zoe.
Palmer Square Sixth Annual
Girls Night Out. Thursday, May
17, 4 to 9 p.m. Rain date: Friday,
May 18. RSVP: www.palmersquare.com.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $21.50. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Far and In Between, JW Actors
Studio, Tre Piani Restaurant,
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro,
609-452-1515. www.jwactorstudio.com. Musical guests Lucy
Wood and Mike Diao. Performance by JW Actors Studio’s improv comedy troupe featuring
members of the studio’s advanced improv workshop including Claudia Stoy, Matt Frawley,
Flowy Norton, Peter Vaco, Collin
Foran, Judy DeClement, Adam
Elga, and Erin Lee. Jody Wood, a
professional actor for close to 30
years, has run the studio since
2006. Register. $30 with $15 applied to food and drinks. 8 p.m.
Fairs & Festivals
Renaissance Faire, West Windsor Lions Club, Mercer County
Park, West Windsor, 609-7996448. Annual family fair that
recreates the world of Renaissance knights and damsels with
re-enactors, archery, fencing,
weapon demonstrations, crafters,
horsemanship, musicians, and
games. Vendors selling leather
products, homemade soap, and
jewelry. Food includes medieval
style options. Benefit for Lions
Club charities. $7 adults; $3 children 5 to 12. Also Sunday, May
20. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Greek Orthodox Church, 1101
River Road, Piscataway. www.stgeorgepiscataway.org. Greek
culture and heritage, food, music,
and dance. $2. Shuttle from Rutgers stadium. 11 a.m. to 11:45
p.m.
Church, 1200 Klockner Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-4448. Annual
festival with classic Greek food,
flea market, raffle, music, and
dancers in native costume. The
pastry shop features baklava (layered phyllo with nuts and honey),
galatoboureko (phyllo dough filled
with custard), kourambiedes (butter cookies with powdered sugar),
leaves. $2 admission. 11:30 a.m.
to 11:30 p.m.
Craft Fairs
Arts and Crafts Festival, South
Brunswick Arts Commission,
South Brunswick Community
Center, 124 New Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-666-8911.
$2 donation. Refreshments available. Indoors. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where Green Meets Quality
Owner Operated. Licensed & Insured. Working in Your Town for Over 40 Years.
“Professional Painting Pays!...in many Ways.”
A Princeton business for over 40 years.
JULIUS GROSS PAINTING &
HOME IMPROVEMENT CO.
220 Alexander Street • Princeton, New Jersey 08540
www.juliushgrosspainting.com • [email protected]
609-924-1474
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Faith
Bible Study for Men, Princeton Alliance
Church, 20 Schalks Crossing Road,
Plainsboro, 609-799-9000. “Iron Sharpens
Iron,” an informal group for men only to
read the Bible and discuss topics based on
scripture. 8:30 a.m.
Food & Dining
Candlelight Dinner, Buds & Bowls, 2691
Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-0569.
Eight course dinner prepared by chef Betsy
Hunt. Register. $75. 7 p.m.
Food and Wine Pairing, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown
Road, Washington Crossing, PA, 215-4936500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Multicourse tasting menu, private tour, and tips
on pairing. Register. $65. 7:30 p.m.
Farm Markets
West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Parking Lot, Princeton
Junction Train Station, 609-933-4452.
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Produce, flowers, baked goods, and music.
Music by the Billies. West Windsor Bike &
Pedestrian Alliance. Food drive. Blood
pressure screenings. Storytime and crafts
for children. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Gardens
Knowing Native Plants, Bowman’s Hill
Wildflower Preserve, River Road, New
Hope, 215-862-2924. “Focus on Ferns.”
Register. $20. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
History
May in Montgomery, Van Harlingen Historical Society, Blawenburg Reformed
Church, 425 Route 518, Montgomery, 609466-0141. www.vanharlingen.org. “Back To
Blawenburg: Tall Tales and Then Some” includes speakers, exhibits, tours, art, and
memorabilia. Optional lunch for $5. Rain or
shine. $15 includes a keepsake program
with historic images. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Open House, Historic Fallsington, 4 Yardley Avenue, Fallsington, PA, 215-295-6565.
Self guided tours of the Stagecoach Tavern,
the Burges-Lippincott House, and the
Moon-Williamson Lob House. “A Quaker
Presence” living history program presented. Demonstrations of spinning and openhearth cooking. Noon to 4 p.m.
Guided Tours, Historic Society of Hamilton, Historic John Abbott II House, 2200
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-581-3549.
Tours of the historic home. Donations invited. Noon to 5 p.m.
Civil War and Native American Museum,
Camp Olden, 2202 Kuser Road, Hamilton,
609-585-8900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers from New
Jersey including their original uniforms,
weapons, and medical equipment. Diorama of the Swamp Angel artillery piece and
Native American artifacts. Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Annual Meeting and Program, William
Trent House, 15 Market Street, Trenton,
609-989-0087. “Traditional Celtic Tales”
presented by David Emerson. Refreshments. 1 to 3 p.m.
Intimate Henry Tours, Mercer Museum,
Pine and Ashland streets, Doylestown,
215-345-0210. Experience a side of Henry
Mercer not typically seen. $12. 1:30 p.m.
House Tours
American Red Cross, Central Jersey
Donor Center, 707 Alexander Road, West
Windsor, 800-448-3543. 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
American Red Cross, Lambertville New
Hope Rescue, 70 Alexander Avenue, Lambertville, 800-733-2767. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Designer Showhouse and Gardens XVII,
Junior League of Greater Princeton, Priory Court, 124 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton, 609-771-0525. Spaces have been
transformed by interior designers and landscape architects. Proceeds benefit community programs. $25. Also “Stogies, Steak,
and Scotch,” an event for men only, from 7
to 9 p.m., $75. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Mental Health
For Families
Normalizing Bipolar, IFC Individual and
Family Counseling, 20 Nassau Street,
Suite 119, Princeton, 609-558-1445. “A
Blueprint for Understanding and Managing
Bipolar Disorder and the Bipolar Personality” presented by Libby Zinman Schwartz.
Register. Free. 1 p.m.
Parent and Me, Tiger Hall Play Zone, 53
State Road, Princeton, 609-356-0018.
www.tigerhallkids.com. Two hours of craft
and play. Art supplies included. Bring lunch
or order-in. For ages up to 8. $8; $14 per
family. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
May Fair, Waldorf School, 1062 Cherry Hill
Road, Princeton, 609-466-1970. www.princetonwaldorf.org. Festival with live music,
children’s activities, food, craft vendors, and
an open house. Dance around the May pole,
music by Sarah Donner, refreshments by
Naked Pizza, activities in a fairy tea house, alpacas and clothing from Swallow Hill Farm,
ride a zip line, and wooden toys. Free admission. Rain or shine. Food and activities are
priced separately. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Camp Open House, Stony Brook Millstone
Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington,
609-737-7592. Nature and environmental
summer day camp for boys and girls entering grades one to nine. 1 to 4 p.m.
Spring Skies, Raritan Valley College,
Planetarium, College Center, North Branch,
908-526-1200. Observe constellations,
planets, and learn how to observe the transit of Venus. $6. 7 p.m.
Laser Concerts, Raritan Valley College,
Planetarium, College Center, North Branch,
908-526-1200. Show features music by
artists such as the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, OK Go, and Metallica. 8 p.m.
Blood Drives
Wellness
Daddy Boot Camp, Princeton HealthCare
System, Hamilton Area YMCA, Suite 100,
Hamilton, 888-897-8979. Parenting and
hands-on-skills for fathers-to-be. Register.
$25. 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Todd Tieger, Plainsboro
Library, 9 Van Doren, Plainsboro, 609-4398656. All levels. Free. 10 a.m.
Animal Communication, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro
Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609-7507432. www.relaxationandhealing.com.
Learn how to understand and communicate
with your animal friends. Register. $25. 11
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Insight Meditation Open House, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, Orchard
Hill Center, 88 Orchard Road, Skillman,
609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com.
Two short meditation practice sittings for
beginners and experienced meditators.
Presented by Beth Evard. Register. Free.
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Jazz Night: Amy Banks performs Saturday, May 19, at
8:30 p.m. in the Michener
Museum’s event pavilion.
Lectures
War Photography, Hamilton Library, 1
Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Way, 609-5814060. www.hamiltonnjpl.org. “Edward Steichen and World War II Navy Photography”
presented by Gary Saretzky. Free. 11 a.m.
Lecture in Song, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “American
Pop Standards” presented by Fred Miller, a
pianist, singer, and narrator, focuses on
Johnny Mercer, a lyricist, composer, singer,
and recording executive. 3 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Spring Bird Walk, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, River Road, New Hope,
215-862-2924. www.bhwp.org. Bring your
binoculars. Register. Free. 8 to 10 a.m.
Bird Walk, D&R Greenway Land Trust,
Dry Run Creek Trail, 609-924-4646. www.drgreenway.org. Walk with Jim Amon, director of stewardship. Register. 8 a.m.
Family Walk, Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, Kunkel Park, King George Road,
Pennington, 609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. For all ages. Register. Free. 8:30
to 9:30 a.m.
Back to the River Canoe Trip, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed, Griggstown
Causeway, Hopewell, 609-737-7592.
www.thewatershed.org. For adults and older teens. $25 to $50. 9:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m.
Princeton Canal Walkers, Turning Basin
Park, Alexander Road, Princeton, 609-8960546. Three-mile walk on the towpath. Bad
weather cancels. Free. 10 a.m.
Pond Exploration, Mercer County Park
Commission, Mercer Meadows, 197
Blackwell Road, Pennington, 609-8836606. www.mercercounty.org. For families
with children age six and up. $4. 11 a.m.
Open House, Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road, Hopewell,
609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org.
Summer camp information for ages 3 to 16
and their families. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Family Nature Programs, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner Road, Plainsboro,
609-897-9400. www.njaudubon.org. “The
Birds Are Back in Town.” Register. $5. 3:30
to 5 p.m.
Bird Walk, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer Meadows, Pole Farm, Federal City Road, Pennington, 609-883-6606.
www.mercercounty.org. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Ghost Tour, Princeton Tour Company,
Witherspoon and Nassau streets, 609-9023637. www.princetontourcompany.com.
$20. 8 p.m.
Politics
Meeting, Green Party of Mercer County,
855 Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, 609-3101672. 10 a.m.
Marc’s Place Coffee House, Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War, Reformed Church, 19-21 South 2nd Avenue,
Highland Park, 908-783-8880. www.againstendlesswar.org. “Indonesians
Seeking Asylum: Why Am I a Deportation
Priority” discussion. Screening of “Broken
Asylum,” a documentary by Kelly Bates,
New School University. Donations invited.
7:30 p.m.
Schools
Open House, The Lewis School, 53 Bayard Lane, Princeton, 609-924-8120.
www.lewisschool.org. Open house for alternative education program for learning
different students with language-based
learning difficulties related to dyslexia, attention deficit, and auditory processing.
Pre-K to college preparatory levels. Summer study available. 10 a.m.
Open House, SciCore High School, 125
Railroad Avenue, Suite 5, Hightstown, 609448-8950. www.scicore.org. Information
about challenging students, hamburgers
and hotdogs. Free. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Performance, Pennington Dance, Main
Street and Curlis Avenue, Pennington, 609737-7596. www.penningtondance.com.
More than 50 dancers ranging in age from
4 to 17 perform in conjunction with Pennington Day. Noon.
Shopping News
Flea Market, Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, 237 North Harrison Street,
Princeton, 609-921-8972. Register for a
space, $15. Rain or shine. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sports for Causes
5K Run and Dog Walk, Attitudes in Reverse, Mercer Park, East Area, West Windsor. www.attitudesinreverse.org. 5K run begins at 9 a.m. Dog walk begins at 10 a.m.
Therapy Dog International, Canine Good
Citizen evaluations, Ask the Trainer, Blessing of the Animals, massage for dogs,
Heavenly Hound demonstrations, Maverick
Pet Partner nutrition advice, and more. The
event was inspired by Miki, a pomeranian
who has been educating youth about mental health awareness and suicide prevention. The organization was created by the
family of Kenny Baker, a young man who
battled anxiety and depression for many
years before committing suicide. Register
online. 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Power Walk, Dress for Success Mercer
County, Merrill Lynch, 410 Scotch Road,
Hopewell, 609-587-8298. www.dfspowerwalk.org/mercercounty. Warm up, cool
down, children’s activities, prizes, music,
and entertainment. Rain or shine. Register.
$25. 8:30 a.m.
5K and Family Fun Run, CASA, Princeton
Pike Corporate Center, Lawrenceville, 609434-0050. www.casamercer.org. Benefit
for children of Mercer and Burlington counties. 9 a.m.
Paws Walk, Hightstown Animal Welfare
Committee, Association Park, Park and
Grant streets, Hightstown, 609-371-7040.
One mile dog walk with post walk activities
including a pet idol contest, vendors, rescue groups, snacks, and games. Benefit for
committee to address feral cats with an ongoing TNR (trap, neuter, release) program;
adoption services; help with injured animals, educational outreach programs; and
education to area scouting groups and
classrooms on the value of caring for animals and the TNR program. Rain or shine.
Vendors fee is $35. E-mail [email protected] for information. 10:30 a.m. to 2
p.m.
Sunday
May 20
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
A Taste of the 1500s
Renaissance Faire, West Windsor Lions
Club, Mercer County Park, West Windsor,
609-799-6448. Annual family fair that recreates the world of Renaissance knights and
damsels with re-enactors, archery, fencing,
weapon demonstrations, crafters, horsemanship, musicians, and games. Vendors selling
leather products, homemade soap, and jewelry. Benefit for Lions Club charities. $7
adults; $3 children 5 to 12. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Classical Music
Baroque Music, Highland Park Recorder
Society, Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-236-0775.
“The Music of Dance: Baroque Suites to
the Sweet & Saucy Tango” concert directed
by Minju Lee features dance music spanning four centuries. Presentations by the
Germantown Country Dancers in English
and colonial costumes accompanied by the
Practitioners of Musick; and the iHope Children’s Choir conducted by Christina Suh
and accompanied by Jang-Gu, a Korean
percussion instrument. All of the musicians
and dancers present a finale of “La Folia
Variations” by Arcangelo Corello, arranged
by Lee. $10. E-mail [email protected] for information. 3 p.m.
Schubert 9: The Great, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 800-ALLEGRO. www.njsymphony.org. Christph
Konig conducts. Olga Peretyatsko, soprano. $20 to $82. 3 p.m.
MAY 16, 2012
Saving the Ellarslie,
One Artwork at a Time
J.S.Bach, Princeton Pro Musica,
Richardson Auditorium, Princeton
University, 609-683-5122. www.princetonpromusica.org. Farewell
concert for Frances Fowler Slade,
founder and artistic director. Mass
in B Minor by Bach. Soloists include Mary Ellen Callahan, soprano; Alyson Harvey, mezzo-soprano; Robert Petillo, tenor; and
Kevin Deas, bass. $25 to $55. 3
p.m.
Choral Concert, Christ Church,
5 Paterson Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-6262. www.christchurchnewbrunswick.org.
“God is Gone Up” with guest
soloists and orchestra. John
Sheridan directs. $15 donation. 4
p.m.
Concert, Cordus Mundi, St.
Mary’s Church, Burlington, 215862-3982. The male a cappella
group presents. $15. 4 p.m.
Spring Concert, Princeton Girlchoir, Princeton Presbyterian
Church, 545 Meadow Road, West
Windsor, 609-258-5343. www.princetongirlchoir.org. “Songs of
Eternity” featuring the Concert
Choir, Ensemble, and Cantores.
Post concert reception for Janet
Perkins, the executive director
since 1992, now retiring. $22. 4
p.m.
Spring Concert, Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, Nicholas
Music Center, Rutgers, New
Brunswick. www.yocj.org. Harold
Robinson, principal bass with the
Philadelphia Orchestra since
1995, performs with the Symphonic Orchestra. He presented a
master class with the orchestra in
March. All ensembles perform.
$15. 7 p.m.
Eric Houghton, Westminster
Choir College, Bristol Chapel,
101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. “A Life
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Art For Sale: Among the artworks on
auction at the May 19 gala will be ‘Red
Eldorado’ by Pearl Mintzer, below left,
and ‘Sturgeon’ by Kate Graves.
A
rt lovers have the unique opportunity on Saturday, May 19, to
help preserve a beloved event at a
cultural landmark by purchasing artwork from respected regional artists.
For more than 28 years the Trenton City Museum’s marquee annual
event has been the Ellarslie Open, a
major exhibit held each spring. In
2011, for example, the museum displayed a retrospective of Lambertville-based
artist
Paul
Matthews’ work (U.S. 1, March 16,
2011).
The story changed in 2012, however, when the event was canceled
because the museum’s director was
laid off. The Trenton Museum Society then hired Bob Sands as interim
director and is now hosting the Save
the Ellarslie Open fundraiser to support the hiring of a permanent parttime director. (For information
about the position visit http://ellarslie.org/about/news/tms_director.htm)
On May 19, a gala a live auction
will be held featuring the works of nearly 30 artists. Mercer
County Freeholder Sam Frisby will be the guest auctioneer.
Other artwork will be part of a silent auction.
Among the artists whose work will be auctioned off are Al
Aronson, Gail Bracegirdle, Tom Chesar, Jeanne Chesterton,
Brendon Connors, Susanne Pitak Davis, Morris Docktor,
Natalie Featherston, Kate Graves, Bill Hogan, Tom Kelly,
Mary Leck, Ron LeMahieu, Paul Matthews, Pearl Mintzer,
Timothy Parris, Janet Purcell, Louis Russomanno, Robert
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Sakson, Steve Smith, Marie Sturken, Susan Winter, Idaherma Williams, and Gloria Wiernik.
And take note: the Ellarslie, with or without the gala, is
worth a visit. The mansion, part of the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, was built as a residence in
1848 and has served as a museum since 1978. It is located
within 100-acre Cadwalader Park, which was designed by
Frederick Law Olmsted –– best known for designing
NewYork City’s Central Park.
Recovered” featuring chamber
music by conservatory composer
Houghton. Kenneth Ellison on
clarinet and Eric Houghton on piano. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
Jazzy Sundays, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Maggie Worsdale performs
Cabaret. Wine by the glass or bottle; brick oven pizza, and cheese
platters are available. 2 to 5 p.m.
Joga Jungle, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Pop Music
Blawenburg Band, Hopewell
Valley High School, 259 Pennington-Titusville Road, 609-9242790. www.blawenburg.band.org.
Concert includes two overtures, a
film score, two rhapsodies, selections from an operetta, a Latin
dance, a salute to our armed
forced, and several marches by
Sousa. Aaron Vanderweele, a
guest, presents a euphonium solo; Loras Schissell, the conductor
of Virginia Grand Military Band,
conducts. Reception with Dixieland music and refreshments
follows the concert. Free. 3 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, DiGiovanni Photography Studio, 4577 Route 27,
Kingston, 609-924-4400. www.digidg.com. Open house in conjunction with “Connect,” a series
of work based on Michael Ciccotello’s thoughts and experiences. He has worked in a variety
of media including 3D animated
motion graphics, outdoor murals,
and paintings. “This group of work
continues my exploration of connection with objects, imagination,
and experiences,” he says.
“These three ideas invite a conversation with the viewer through
color, design, and imagination.”
Ciccotello will be painting outside,
weather permitting. Free. 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street,
Doylestown, 215-340-9800.
www.michenerartmuseum.org.
“Offering of the Angels: Treasures
from the Uffizi Gallery,” the exhibition features examples of art created between the 15th and 17th
centuries in Florence, Italy. On
view to August 10. Register. $15
for timed ticket. 12:30 p.m.
Memory Drive Community History Program, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
Plainsboro, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Opening
reception for “Historical Plainsboro Photographs,” a gallery exhibit. “Memory Drive,” created in
conjunction with the exhibit, requests memories from residents.
Index cards will be available to
write a memory or recollection of
the “old” Plainsboro. “Faces of
Plainsboro” developed by Donna
Senopoulos provides residents
with an opportunity for visual selfexpression. “Voices of Plainsboro” developed by Julie Donaldson provides residents to share
and preserve their life stories.
Recordings and workshops will
begin in the fall. 2 to 4 p.m.
Gallery Talk and Highlight Tour,
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-2583788. artmuseum.princeton.edu.
Free. 2 p.m.
Sunday Spotlight Tours, Zim-
Save the Ellarslie Open Gala and Live Art Auction,
Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, Cadwalader
Park, Trenton. Saturday, May 19, 7 to 10 p.m. Gala and live
art auction to purchase fine art from regional artists while
helping to put the museum back on track. Cocktails, wine,
hors d’oeuvres by Chambers Walk, and silent auction. Black
tie optional. $125; $200 per couple. 609-989-1191 or
www.ellarslie.org.
merli Art Museum, George and
Hamilton streets, New Brunswick,
732-932-7237. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. Informal introduction to the museum presented by a museum guide. Free
with museum admission. 2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton, 609-9240580. Reception for “Thoughts on
Paper,” an exhibit featuring handmade paper by Anita Benarde of
West Windsor. On view to June
30. 3 to 5 p.m.
Dance
85 George Street, New
Brunswick, 609-984-8400. www.arballet.org. Gerald Arpino’s
“Confetti” and excerpts from Douglas Martin’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
$35. 2 p.m.
25th Anniversary Showcase,
Kalamandir Dance Company,
Levin Theater, George Street,
New Brunswick. Classic dance
demonstration, two classical
dance dramas, and the debut of
“Rise,” an original Indian contemporary dance protection based on
May Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise.”
$15. E-mail [email protected] for reservations. 3
p.m.
On Stage
thriller based on Alfred Hitchcock’s film. $25 to $62. 2 and 7
p.m.
Company, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
www.kelseytheatre.net. Stephen
Sondheim’s musical about a
bachelor’s reflections of marriage
vs. the single life. Presented by
Pierrot Productions. $18. 2 p.m.
Are You There, McPhee?, McCarter Theater (Berlind), 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. World
premiere of John Guare’s play focusing on a playwright sucked into the tangle of lives of a pair of
abandoned children. Cast includes Paul Gross, Gideon Banner, John Behlmann, Jeremy
Bobb, Molly Camp, Patrick Carroll, Danny Mastrogiorgio, and Lusia Strus. Directed by Sam Buntrock. Pre-show talk 45 minutes
up. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
create in New York City’s Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS, was adapted
from Puccini’s La Boheme. $30 to
$50. 3 p.m.
and Montgomery streets, Trenton,
609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Drama about a murder, a detective, and trust. Written
by David Lee White. Directed by
Adam Immerwahr. $25 to $30. 3
p.m.
Community Without Walls On
Stage, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Learning,” an intergenerational performance of
monologues and skits focusing on
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Audition
Villagers Theater has auditions
for “Spring Awakening” on Monday and Tuesday, May 28 and 29,
6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Teens ages 13 to
19 may audition with written consent of a parent or guardian. The
show will not contain nudity. Also
needed are an adult man and an
adult woman. Four ensemble members will be cast to sing in the pit,
the audience, or act as an understudy. www.villagerstheatre.com.
Watercolor Painting
William Trent House Museum
offers watercolor painting classes
in the garden by Ruth Councell on
Saturday, June 2, 9, 16, and 23,
from 10 a.m. to noon. Each session
will feature an indoor lesson and
time in the garden to explore
learned techniques, including
drawing, washes and glazes, color
theory, composition, and more.
Open to adult students, any level of
expertise. Students must provide
their own supplies; list will be provided upon registration. Register.
$50. E-mail [email protected] or call 609-9890087. Checks may be mailed to
Trent House Association, 15 Market Street, Trenton 08611.
Reunion
Princeton High School Class
of 1972 is holding its 40th reunion
on Saturday, October 13, at the
Nassau Inn, 10 Palmer Square
East, Princeton. Contact Lois McKee at [email protected], call 609-213-9593, or
visit phsclassof72.clanteam.com.
Call for Runners
Educational Testing Service
and YWCA Princeton will host
the eighth annual Firecracker 5K
Run/Walk on Tuesday, June 26 to
benefit the YWCA Princeton Bilingual Nursery School, beginning at
community-services.org; or contact Sheila Williams at 609-3948847, ext. 104, or [email protected].
Opportunities
6 p.m. Runners, walkers, families,
and corporate or organizational
teams are invited. This year’s race
is dedicated to the memory of
“Miss Patti” Preston, who founded
the nursery school.
Awards will be given to winners
in age-group categories: first, second, and third place, in five year increments through 80 plus. Winning
corporate and organizational teams
will receive special recognition in
the post-race award ceremony. Participants will receive T-shirts, while
they last. Music by Sound Choice
DJs, refreshments, raffles, and family activities. Rain or shine. $20 to
$25. Visit www.ywcaprinceton.org/firecracker5k for application,
register at www.active.com, or call
609-497-2100, ext. 333.
For Teens
Arts Council of Princeton is
accepting enrollment for the fourth
annual rock camp for ages 7 to 17,
beginner to advanced. Call 908230-6079 for information.
Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra has auditions on Monday,
May 21, and Tuesday, June 12, at
Montgomery High School, Skillman. Strings, winds, percussion,
and brass welcome. Visit www.gpyo.org or call 609-683-0150.
SoundWaves Teen Music Jam
and Open Mic is looking for high
school singers, musicians, and
bands. The next open mic is Friday,
May 25, at 7 p.m., at the Virginia
Napurano Cultural Arts Center,
522 Rosemont-Ringoes Road,
Sergeantsville. Any style of music
is welcome. Piano, drum kit, and
amps are provided. If you need accompaniment, the teen house band,
MIXX, will provide backup. Walkons are welcome, but sign-ups are
preferred.
E-mail
[email protected] or find
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the various way s in which people or all
ages learn something new. Community
Without Walls is an organization offering
friendship and support to seniors who wish
to remain in their own homes. Free. 3 p.m.
America Rising: Voices of Today, Bristol
Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street,
Bristol, 215-785-0100. www.brtstage.org.
“The Champagne Spy.” Light supper followed by staged reading. Register. $15. 5
p.m.
Family Theater
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
Circus, Sun National Bank Center,
Hamilton Avenue at Route 129, Trenton,
800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com.
“Dragons” production. $25 to $80. Noon
and 4 p.m.
Spring Playfest, West Windsor Library,
333 North Post Road, 609-275-8901.
www.mcl.org. “Dollhouse Blues,” “The
Book of Spells,” “My Secret Admirer,” and
“Cookie Crazy,” four short children’s plays,
performed. The plays were all written and
directed by Michael Kerr, an area playwright who has directed and produced
plays at the library since 2005. For ages
eight and up. Doors open 20 minutes before show time. Free. 3 p.m.
Film
International Film Festival, South
Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane,
Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Screening. Bring your own refreshments. Free. 2 p.m.
Acme Screening Room, Lambertville
Public Library, 25 South Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-0275. www.acmescreeningroom.ticketleap.com. Screening
of “Chely Wright: Wish me Away.” Dramatic
reading by Alliance Repertory Theater
Company follows. $8 to $10. 5 p.m.
“MIXX SoundWaves House
Band’’ on Facebook. Performers
are free; all other teens are $5, and
adults are $10. Free refreshments.
For Singers
Bucks County Choral Society
is holding its annual spring auditions for new singers for the upcoming 40th anniversary season.
There are openings in all sections
for singers with prior choral experience and good music reading
skills. Highlights of the season include Verdi’s Requiem, Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, and Rutter’s Gloria. Visit www.buckschoral.org or
call 215-598-6142.
Donate Please
Art All Night seeks funding to
bring the artists from AbOmInOg
Intl. Arts Collective to this year’s
event on Saturday and Sunday, June
16 and 17. The campaign aims to
raise the $4,000 necessary to transport their massive portable furnace
and metal crafting equipment to the
event site. The campaign has until
Sunday, May 20 at 7:54 p.m. to raise
the remaining funds.
“The live iron pour was one of
the most dynamic art demonstrations at the 2010 event,” says Cathy
Campbell, the event director.
“When we learned about the costs
AbOmInOg Intl. Arts Collective
absorbed that year in order to be
here, we knew we wanted to find a
way to minimize their financial
output this year.” Visit www.artworkstrenton.org.
Fish for Free
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat
Commission offers free fishing
and other outdoor activities on
Memorial Day, Monday, May 28,
at Delaware Canal State Park in
Yardley, PA. Family fishing programs and loaner rods, tackle, and
bait will be offered from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. at the Black Rock Road area
of the park. Fish-for-Free Days allow anyone to legally fish. No fishing license is required. All other
fishing regulations apply. The second Fish-for-Free Day is Labor
Day, September 3. Visit www.fishandboat.com/fishforfree.htm.
Anti-Bullying
Jewish Family and Children’s
Service offers a private screening
of the film “Bully” on Thursday,
May 24, 6 p.m, at AMC Theater in
Hamilton. Parents, teachers, and
professionals are welcome. There
will be post film discussion group
about recognizing and reducing
bullying. Register. $10.
Keep Cool
Mercer County will team up
with Medi-Cool Program to offer
free air conditioners to qualified
senior citizens and those with disabilities. Seniors age 60 and older
with a documented health condition and who meet income requirements can receive a voucher that
entitles them to a free air conditioner. Residents 18 years or older who
have a disability may also qualify.
All applicants must provide proof
of residency, proof of income, prescriptions, and proof of assets. Registrations must be done in person.
Catholic Charities and Rise will
screen applicants for eligibility
through Friday, June 8, provide a
voucher for an air conditioner, and
arrange for clients to pick up the
unit at 1125 George Street, Building R, Trenton. The air conditioner
units will be distributed only on
June 12, 13, and 14 from 8 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. Contact Anna Vasquez at
609-443-4464 or avasquez@rise-
Call for Art
Monmouth Museum invites
photographers to enter the juried
photography exhibition with work
that represents contemporary photography. Must be 18 and up. Artwork will be considered through
digital jpg submissions on a CD
with a maximum of two per artist.
Selected artwork must be wired,
framed, and ready to hang. Must be
less than seven feet. $20 per piece.
Deadline is Friday, July 27. Items
may be for sale. Visit www.monmouthmuseum.org.
Reading Skills
Rutgers University Division of
Continuing Studies will offer
eight different reading skills programs for 4-year-olds through
adults. Fees vary by program level.
Sessions begin the weeks of June
18 and July 24. Programs are in
Ewing, Princeton, and Mercerville.
Reading programs for younger
students can build comprehension.
Students can learn the phonics and
fluency skills they need to become
strong readers. Programs for older
students and adults are geared toward improving comprehension,
study skills, vocabulary, and speed
reading. The skills taught in the
classes reinforce the importance of
reading for pleasure and developing a lifelong love of books. Call
888-201-2448.
Health
Capital Health offers a new
walk-in primary care office at 625
Farnsworth Avenue in Bordentown. No appointment needed to
see a board certified physician or
nurse practitioner. Visit capitalhealth.org/walkinbordentown or
call 609-298-2005.
Painting a Story: ‘Integrated,’ by Michael Ciccotello,
whose two-day exhibit opens
with a reception Saturday,
May 19, from 6 to 9 p.m. at DiGiovanni Photography Studio
at 4577 Route 27 in Kingston.
Literati
Book Signing, Two Buttons, 62A Trenton
Avenue, Frenchtown. www.twobuttons.com. Elizabeth Gilbert re-published her
great-grandmother’s 1947 cookbook, “At
Home on the Range” by Margaret Yardley
Potter, and the town celebration includes
12 area restaurants each preparing one
dish from the book with snacks presented
by area shops. Gilbert signs copies of the
cookbook with proceeds benefiting Scholar
Match. 1 to 5 p.m.
Good Causes
Taste of the Nation, Share Our Strength,
Tre Piani Restaurant, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 877-26TASTE. www.tasteofthenation.org/princeton. The annual gourmet
food and wine tasting event showcasing the
culinary talents of more than 30 upscale
area restaurants. The entire ticket price
goes to fight hunger among some 35 million
Americans. Proceeds benefit HomeFront,
Isles, Mercer Street Friends Food Cooperative, and the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
$85. New venue and time. 2 to 5 p.m.
Bubbly and Bling, One Table Cafe, Wilson
Loft, 240 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-2277. www.onetablecafe.org. Sterling
silver jewelry party. Benefit for Dawn of
Hope. 3 to 5 p.m.
Fairs & Festivals
Greek Festival, St. George Church, 1200
Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-586-4448.
Annual festival with classic Greek food, flea
market, raffle, music, and dancers in native
costume. The pastry shop features baklava
(layered phyllo with nuts and honey), galatoboureko (phyllo dough filled with custard),
kourambiedes (butter cookies with pow-
dered sugar), cookies, and breads. Outdoor grills serve up souvlaki and gyros, and
the Mezedakia Bar features feta cheese
stuffed grapevine leaves. $2 admission. 12
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Renaissance Faire, West Windsor Lions
Club, Mercer County Park, West Windsor,
609-799-6448. Annual family fair that recreates the world of Renaissance knights and
damsels with re-enactors, archery, fencing,
weapon demonstrations, crafters, horsemanship, musicians, and games. Vendors
selling leather products, homemade soap,
and jewelry. Food includes medieval style
options. Benefit for Lions Club charities. $7
adults; $3 children 5 to 12. 10 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Greek Festival, St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 1101 River Road, Piscataway. www.stgeorgepiscataway.org. Greek
culture and heritage, food, music, and
dance. $2. Shuttle from Rutgers stadium.
Noon to 8 p.m.
Faith
Friendship Circle, Mercer Friends, Princeton area, 609-683-7240. www.mercerfriends.com. Cooking time for Jewish adults
with special needs. Register. 6 p.m.
Original Mind Zen Sangha, Fellowship in
Prayer, 291 Witherspoon Street, Princeton.
www.originalmindzen.com. Zen meditation
and Buddhist services. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
MAY 16, 2012
At left, Peg Forrestal, left, of
Janssen; and Deborah Osgood, Family Guidance Center
board president.
Above, Chris and Shu-Shu
Costa. Chris is an attorney with
Hartsough, Kenny, Chase &
Sullivan in Hamilton, and Shu
Shu is the admissions director
at Princeton Friends School.
Michael Klein, left, the immediate past
president of the Family Guidance Center
board of trustees; and Princeton residents Katie and Aiden Redmond.
Above, Lou Toboz, left, an associate with Callaway
Henderson and Family Guidance Center trustee;
Denise Gilroy, a special education consultant in
Princeton; Family Guidance Center director Mark
Lamar; and Pennington resident Sarah Gregg, a
board member.
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At right, Lillian Hernandez, left,
sales manager for Wells Fargo
in Princeton, and former first lady Mary Jo Codey.
CRASHING THE PARTIES
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Michener gala committee member Audrey Long of New
Hope-based Audrey Long Interior Design, left; her husband, Bob Long; Ron Unterberger; and his wife, gala
committee member Dr. Vail P. Garvin, also executive
director of the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce.
Photos by Natalie Wi, Allure West Studios
rowdsourcing, some experts say, is the wave of the future.
Wikipedia could not exist without it, and many online news outlets rely
on it for photos and eye-witness reports. As it turns out, crowdsourcing
works for parties, too. U.S. 1’s party crashing team can’t make it to
every party it gets invited to, but thanks to some intrepid photographers
who did make it out, we now know what we missed.
Above, Janssen Pharamceuticals played host to the Family Guidance
Center’s annual fundraiser on Thursday, April 19. At left and right, the
Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA, welcomed 220 guests to its new
Edgar N. Putnam Event Pavilion on Friday, April 20, for the “Night at
the Uffizi” preview gala. And below, the Arts Council of Princeton held
its seventh annual Pinot to Picasso art and wine fundraiser on Friday,
April 27, at the Technology Center of Princeton.
Beth Beans Gilbert, left, of Fred Beans Family of
Dealerships; her husband, former Michener Museum
Trustee Chris Gilbert, of Doylestown; Robert Welch,
former Michener Museum Trustee and gala committee
co-chair; and his wife, Amy Welch, of New Hope.
In attendance at Pinot to Picasso were, from left: ACP Board and Event Committee member Cindi Venizelos and ACP Founding Director Anne Reeves; event co-chair and owner of Viburnum Designs
on Nassau Street Ashling O’Brien (second from left) with her right hand woman, Claire, left, and Elizabeth and Phillip Wey; Ifat Shatsky and mayoral candidate and Township Committeewoman Liz
Lempert; and ACP Board President Timothy M. Andrews, Lisa Wang, and Travis Monahan. Photos by Emily Reeves
Food & Dining
Breakfast, Bordentown Elks, 11
Amboy Road, Bordentown, 609947-4560. Eggs, pancakes,
French toast, bacon, and more to
benefit the special children’s committee’s projects. 8:30 to 11 a.m.
Dummies Guide to Wine
Tasting, Crossing Vineyards
and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown
Road, Washington Crossing, PA,
215-493-6500. Wine, cheese,
fruit, and instructions for savoring
the flavors. Register. $30. 2 p.m.
Wellness
Classes, Onsen For All, 4451
Route 27, Princeton, 609-9244800. Introduction to yoga at 9:15
a.m. Gentle yoga at 10:25 a.m.
Multilevel yoga at 11:30 a.m. Register. $15 each. 9:15 a.m.
Yoga and Zumba, Downtown
Performing Arts Center of Lambertville, 54 Mt. Airy Village
Road, Lambertville, 609-3973337. www.downtownpac.com.
Vinyasa flow yoga incorporates
breath with movement for all ages
and levels from 11 a.m. to noon.
Zumba dance to international music from 12:15 to 1 p.m. Both
classes are taught by Suzanne
Slade. $5 per class. 11 a.m.
Wine Tasting and Yoga, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Wrightstown Road, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
www.crossingvineyards.com.
Vinyasa yoga class for all levels
followed by a wine tasting and private tour. Bring a yoga mat. Register. $35. 11:30 a.m.
Women’s Self Discovery Circle,
Music Together, 225 Hopewell
Pennington Road, Hopewell, 908208-4453. Reflection and introspection expressed through personal writing that is not shared
with others. Register. 1 to 4 p.m.
5Rhythms, Integrative Breath,
Princeton Friends School, 470
Quaker Road, Princeton, 609-
468-2354.“Stillness” presented by
Nancy Genatt, $25. Integrative
breathwork with Stavros Vrahnos
follows for $10. Register. 3 to 6
p.m.
Meditation Retreat, Authentic
Yoga Tradition, Princeton, 732642-8895. www.authenticyogatradition.com. Dinner follows.
Register. $75. 4 p.m.
Book Launch, Open Door Publications, Netherfield Gallery, 11
East Bridge Street, New Hope,
PA, 609-620-0188. www.opendoorpublications.com. Dr.
Kevin Kita, a chiropractor from Titusville, launches his new book,
“Healing Journeys: Stories of
Mind, Body, & Spirit.” Kita tells the
stories of six patients and their
journey to health combing his
knowledge of chiropractic and
other techniques to offer a look at
the mind and body connection.
Booksigning. 4:30 p.m.
History
Guided Tours, Historic Society
of Hamilton, Historic John Abbott
II House, 2200 Kuser Road,
Hamilton, 609-581-3549. Tours of
the historic home. Donations invited. Noon to 5 p.m.
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers
from New Jersey including their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Open Hearth Cooking, Pennsbury Manor, 400 Pennsbury
Memorial Road, Morrisville, PA,
215-946-0400. www.pennsburymanor.org. “Swedish Foodway
Traditions.” The Swedes were
some of the earliest settlers of
Pennsylvania. The cooks will
compare Swedish and English
traditions at the hearth. 1 to 4
p.m.
History Night, Kuser Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue,
Hamilton, 609-890-3630. “The
Kusers’ of Hamilton Township”
presented by Tom Glover. Register. Free. 1:30 p.m.
Walking Tour, Historical Society
of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.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.
Trolley Talk, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896920. www.mcl.org. “Trolleys in
the Lawrence Landscape: 1899
to 1940” presented by Dennis
Waters, Lawrence township historian and library commissioner. An
illustrated talk to trace the development of the trolley lines in
Lawrence and explore the rise
and fall of the popular mode of
transportation. 2 to 5 p.m.
House Tours
by interior designers and landscape architects. Proceeds benefit community programs. $25. Last
day. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For Families
Open House, Rambling Pines
Day Camp, Route 518, Hopewell,
609-466-1212. www.ramblingpines.com. Parents and children
may tour the facility and meet
staff members. Camp program for
ages 3 to 15 and a teen program
for grades 7 to 10. Register. 1 to 3
p.m.
For Parents
Schools
Parents Through International
Adoption Group, Infertility and
Adoption Counseling Center, 2
Tree Farm Road, Pennington,
609-737-8750. www.iaccenter.com. Register. Free. 10 to 11:30
a.m.
Open House, Princeton Latin
Academy, Route 518, Rambling
Pines, Hopewell, 609-924-2206.
www.princetonlatinacademy.com.
K to 12 co-educational private
school with full day kindergarten
and after-school care. Noon to 1
p.m.
Playhouse Acting Academy,
Playhouse 22, 721 Cranbury
Road, East Brunswick, 732-2543939. www.playhouseactingacademy.org. “Developing Your
Child’s Acting Talent” presented
by Melissa Leshchanka, a
teacher with Playkids at the acting
academy. Register. $20. 7 p.m.
Lectures
Star Trek and Science Fiction,
USS Avenger, North Brunswick
Library, Hermann Road, North
Brunswick. www.ussavenger.org.
Discuss current science fiction on
television. Meeting for members
of area Star Trek and science fiction fans. All interested persons
are welcome. E-mail
[email protected] for information. 2 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Baldpate Mountain Hike, Washington Crossing State Park,
Niederer’s Pond, Church Road,
609-737-0609. Pre-teen to adult.
Wear hiking shoes and bring a
water bottle. Register. Free. 1:30
to 4 p.m.
Politics
Women’s Rights, Princeton
Community Democratic Organization, Suzanne Patterson
Center, 1 Monument Place,
Princeton, 609-647-7961. www.princetondems.org. “The War on
Women and the Politics of 2012”
panel discussion with Elizabeth
Armstrong, associate professor of
sociology, Princeton University;
Shelby Knox, director of Women’s
Rights Organizing for Change
and the subject of the documentary “The Education of Shelby
Knox;” and Ruth Mandel, director
of the Eagleton Institute of Politics
at Rutgers, Moderated by Leslie
Gerwin, associate director of the
program in law and public affairs
at Princeton University. Free.
7:30 p.m.
Singles
Sociable Singles, Etz Chaim,
Monroe Township Jewish Center,
11 Cornell Avenue, 609-6555137. Discussions, socializing,
and refreshments. For ages 50
plus. $5. 1 to 4 p.m.
Picnic, Yardley Singles, Washington Crossing Park, Titusville,
215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Bring a wrapped gift
for the silent auction. Register.
$20. Rain or shine. 1 p.m. to 5
p.m.
Socials
Afternoon Tea, Institute of Wonderful Women Working for Empowerment, Conservatory, 540
East State Street, Trenton, 609466-2819. www.wonderfulworkingwomen.org. “Giving Back
Stepping Forward” honoring Darlene McKnight, Amini Sababu,
and Kemi Ali. Benefit for minority
women in health care training to
receive assistance with transportation, books, respite child
care, clothing for children, and
food. Register. $20. 3 p.m.
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Live Music
May 20
Barry Peterson, Karla’s Restaurant, 5
West Mechanic Street, New Hope, PA, 215862-2612. Repertoire includes swing, rock,
and requests. Register. 7 to 9 p.m.
Sports for Causes
5K Fun Run and Walk, Run-2-Read, Mercer
County Park East, West Windsor. A day of
fitness and health to benefit Plainsboro Public Library. Bring new or used books to donate. The event is organized by Shweta
Ravichandar in conjunction with her Girl
Scout Gold Award project. $5. E-mail [email protected] for information. 7:30 a.m.
Hair of the Dog 5K, Silver Decoy Winery,
610 Windsor-Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-213-7132. www.hairofthedog5k.com. 5K and pet expo benefits area pet rescue organizations including Tri-State
Weimaraner Rescue and Res-Q-Pets.
Chesterfest from noon to 5 p.m. in vineyard
with music, beer kegs, and wine tasting.
Rain or shine. Register to run. $25 to $35.
$10 admission includes a tasting glass. 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Rock and Walk, Tears Foundation,
Bradley Beach boardwalk. www.thetearsfoundation.org. Benefit for the nonprofit organization to assist bereaved parents with financial expenses of final
arrangements and emotional support services. Rivka Milchman and Marybeth Stoddart, who have both lost children, were chosen as area representatives. Walk and/or
rock in a rocking chair. Sponsorships welcome. Register online. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Film
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never
Dies”, Fathom Events, AMC in Hamilton,
Multiplex in East Windsor, and Regal in
North Brunswick. www.fathomevents.com.
Screening of the fully staged recorded performance of “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Register. $13.50. 7:30 p.m.
Literati
Friends of the Library Annual Meeting,
West Windsor Library, 333 North Post
Road, 609-799-0462. The agenda includes
introducing the new officers and directors of
the Friends and the awarding of the Jan
Trenholm Scholarship winners. Also to be
honored is Kaija Greenberg, West Windsor
Library’s branch manager, who is retiring at
the end of May. 7:30 p.m.
Gardens
Gardening Program, Garden Gate Garden Club, Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, 2688 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-883-6644. “Drought Tolerant Gardening in New Jersey” presented by Barbara J. Bromley, Mercer County’s horticulturist. Refreshments. 7 p.m.
Wellness
Monday
May 21
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Play Ball
Trenton Thunder, Waterfront Park, 609394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com.
Akron. $11 to $27. 7:05 p.m.
Classical Music
Rehearsal, Voices Chorale, Music Together, 225 Pennington-Hopewell Road,
Hopewell, 609-924-7801. www.musictogetherprinceton.com. Register. 7:30 p.m.
American Cancer Society, Princeton
HealthCare System, Breast Health Center, 300B Princeton-Hightstown Road, East
Windsor, 888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org. “Look Good, Feel Better,”
a program about beauty techniques to help
combat the side effects of cancer treatment. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Workshop with
Terry Lynch. Register. $22. 7 p.m.
Gentle Yoga, Heart to Heart Women’s
Health Center, 20 Armour Avenue, Hamilton, 609-689-3131. Gentle alignment-focused class includes elements of breathing, basic yoga postures, and meditation
techniques. Register. $15. 7 to 8 p.m.
Farewell: Frances Fowler
Slade’s last concert as
Princeton Pro Musica’ s artistic director takes place Sunday, May 20, at 3 p.m. in
Richardson Auditorium.
Book Sale
Hamilton Public Library, Municipal Drive,
Hamilton, 609-581-4060. Benefit for new
computers, children’s programs, and equipment. 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in. Register at
http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Single Mingle, Eclectic Events, Whole
Foods Market, 3495 Route 1 South, West
Windsor, 516-466-0212. www.eclecticeventsinc.com. Appetizers, beverages, games, a scavenger hunt, and
prizes. Benefit for Stony Brook Millstone
Watershed. Register online. $25. 7:30 p.m.
Socials
Meeting, Women’s College Club of
Princeton, All Saints Church, 16 All Saints
Road, Princeton, 609-732-0912. “New Jersey Women Who Made a Difference” presented by Gail Hunton. Refreshments.
Free. 1 p.m.
Stamp Collecting, Coryell’s Ferry Stamp
Club, Washington Crossing United
Methodist Church, 1896 Wrightstown
Road, Washington Crossing, PA, 215-5987534. Program followed by auction. 8 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder, Waterfront Park, 609394-3300. Akron. $11 to $27. 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday
May 22
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Save the Tigers
Tiger Preservation, Unitarian Universalist
Congregation, 50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609-924-1604. www.uuprinceton.org.
“Sundarban Tiger Reserve: The Myth and
the Reality” presented by Rajan Chakrabarti,
professor of history, Vidyasgar University,
West Bengal India. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
George Sinkler, Limelight, 812 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-345-6330.
Piano bar. 6 to 11 p.m.
Pop Music
Princeton Brass Band, Hamilton High
School West, 2720 South Clinton Avenue,
Hamilton, 609-631-4168. www.hornetbands.org. British brass band. $10 benefits
the band program. 7 p.m.
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden Statesmen,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
Plainsboro, 888-636-4449. Men of all ages
and experience levels are invited to sing in
four-part harmony. Free. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Art
logo, website,
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Arts Council,
952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, 609716-1931. Reception for art by students
from Maurice Hawk School. On view
through May 31. 5:30 to 7 p.m.
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Before Jumping In, Theater Now, Mill Hill
Playhouse, 205 East Front Street, Trenton.
www.facebook.com/theaternow. Staged reading of new play by Eli Keehn and directed by
Daniel Tobin. Three characters embody the
thoughts of a recently single 26 year old man
alone at a party. $10 includes post performance discussion and refreshments. 8 p.m.
Film
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Book to Film, Lawrence Library, Darrah
Lane and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6922. Screening of “Doubt,” 2008.
Refreshments. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Princeton Public Library,
65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-9529.
James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould, authors of “Nature’s Compass: the Mystery of
Animal Navigation,” on how animals navigate without instruments or training. 7 p.m.
Good Causes
Meeting, Allies, 1262 Whitehorse-Hamilton
Square Road, Hamilton, 609-689-0136.
For adult volunteers with hobbies or interests to share with adults who have developmental disabilities. Register with Linda Barton. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Faith
Dinner Meeting, Hadassah TrentonLawrence, Runway Restaurant, 1100 Terminal Circle Drive, West Trenton, 609-6585034. New officers installed. Register. 6 p.m.
Health
Screenings, Speech, Language, and Literacy Consultants of Princeton, 601 Ewing Street, Princeton, 609-688-0200. Register. Free. Noon to 2 p.m.
Mental Health
Defenseless Intimacy, Wright Life Coach,
Nassau Inn, 10 Palmer Square, Princeton.
www.wrightlifecoach.com. Martha Wright
presents a workshop about relationships,
patterns, sharing, and creating conversations that promote change. Wright has
been a motivational trainer and life coach
for more than 20 years. Register online.
$30 to $35. 7 to 9 p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, Princeton PC Users Group,
Lawrence Library, 2751 Route 1 South,
609-423-6537. Free. 7 p.m.
Smart Talk, State Theater, 15 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7469.
Andie MacDowell. Register. $25 to $65.
7:30 p.m.
Tiger Preservation, Unitarian Universalist
Congregation, 50 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 609-924-1604. “Sundarban
Tiger Reserve: The Myth and the Reality”
presented by Rajan Chakrabarti, professor
of history, Vidyasgar University, West Bengal India. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Just a Hike, Mercer County Park Commission, Baldpate Mountain, Pleasant Valley Road, 609-883-6606. Free. 9 a.m.
Schools
Panel Presentation, Princeton Learning
Cooperative, 16 All Saints Road, Princeton, 609-851-2522. “Outside the Box: Living and Learning without School” includes
a panel of teens and young adults currently
in or recently graduated from college who
were homeschooled for high school. Q&A
follows. Free. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Singles
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles, Vince’s, 25
South Main Street, Yardley, PA, 215-7361288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6
p.m.
Socials
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru
Palace, 2215 Route 1 South, North
Brunswick, 732-213-0095. 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Memoir Writing Workshop, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1, Lawrence
Township, 609-989-6920. Introductory
course for seniors. Facilitated by Maria
Okros. Register. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder, Waterfront Park, 609394-3300. Akron. $11 to $27. 7:05 p.m.
MAY 16, 2012
U.S. 1
At the Movies
Mainstream Movies
Confirm titles, dates, and times
with theaters.
21 Jump Street. Action comedy
with Jonah Hill and Channing
Tatum. Destiny.
American Reunion. Comedy
sequel of 1999 film. AMC.
The Artist. Silent film set in
Hollywood, 1927. AMC, Montgomery, Multiplex.
Battleship. Action adventure
with Liam Neeson. Opens Thursday, May 17. Regal.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Drama with Judi Dench and
Bill Nighy about senior citizens retiring to India. Garden, Montgomery.
The Cabin in the Woods.
Bloody horror directed by Drew
Goddard. AMC, Destiny.
Chimpanzee.
Documentary
about a young chimp is narrated by
Tim Allen. AMC, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Crooked Arrows. Lacrosse
competition between a Native
American high school and a prep
school. Opens Thursday, May 17.
AMC.
Damsels in Distress. Comedy
about college girls directed by
Whit Stillman. MarketFair.
Dark Shadows. Tim Burton
thriller based on the television series stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas
Colins. AMC, Destiny, Garden,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Darling Companion. Diane
Keaton and a rescued dog. Montgomery.
The Dictator. Sasha Baron Cohen humor. AMC, Regal.
First Position. Documentary
featuring the Young American
Grand Prix ballet competition.
Montgomery.
The Five Year Engagement.
Romantic drama with Jason Segal
and Emily Blunt. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Footnote. Foreign drama about
a father and son. Montgomery.
The Hunger Games. Sci-fi action based on the novel by Suzanne
Collins. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex.
Lockout. Sci-fi with Guy
Pearce. AMC.
Wednesday
May 23
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: New Film
Earthwork, County Theater, 20
East State Street, Doylestown, PA,
215-345-6789. www.newhopefilmfestival.com. Screening of “Second-Story Man,” Philadelphia filmmaker Neal Dhand’s debut feature
film. Q&A with Dhand following the
film. $9.75. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
David W. Jacobsen, Fedora Cafe,
2633 Main Street, Lawrenceville,
609-895-0844. 6 to 9 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Jester’s, 233
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown,
609-298-9963. 6 to 9 p.m.
Open Mic, Alchemist &
Art
Art Exhibit, Gratz Gallery, 68
South Main Street, Doylestown,
Love Never Dies. Wednesday,
May 23. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
The Lucky One. Romantic drama based on novel by Nicholas
Sparks stars Zac Efron. AMC,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Marvel’s The Avengers. Sci-fi
action with Robert Downey Jr.
AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Metropolitan Opera: Gotterdammerung. Saturday, May 19.
AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Metropolitan Opera: Met
Opera Ring Cycle. Wednesday,
May 16. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Mirror Mirror. Comedy about
Snow White and her seven friends
stars Julia Roberts. AMC.
Monsieur Lazhar. Foreign drama about a teacher. Montgomery.
The Phantom of the Opera.
Wednesday, May 21. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
Animated with voices of Hugh
Grant and Selma Hayek. AMC,
Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
The Raven. Thriller about
Edgar Allan Poe stars John Cusack.
AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Safe. Thriller with Jason
Statham. AMC, Destiny, Multiplex,
Regal.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
Comedy with Emily Blunt and
Ewan McGregor. Multiplex.
Think Like a Man. Romantic
comedy directed by Tim Story
about four men who use a book to
save their love lives. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Comedy: Sacha
Baron Cohen is ‘The
Dictator,’ now playing.
The Three Stooges. The Farrelly brothers return Moe, Larry, and
Curly to the big screen. AMC, Destiny, Multiplex.
Titanic 3D. Remastered version
of the film coincides with the 100th
anniversary of the disaster. AMC.
Vicky Donor. Bollywood. Regal.
What to Expect When You’re
Expecting. Comedy about starting
a family with Cameron Diaz and
Jennifer Lopez. Opens Thursday,
May 17. AMC, Regal.
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On
the 7th Day. Drama with Blair Underwood. AMC.
Wrath of the Titans. Action
with Liam Neeson as Zeus. AMC.
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325
Sloan Avenue, I-295 Exit 65-A, 888262-4386.
Destiny 12, 2465 South Broad
Street, Hamilton, 609-888-1110.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-683-7595.
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South,
Montgomery Center Theater,
Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center
Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 609-371-8472.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
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Have a sense of humor; I can easily
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Since then I am all by myself, no one in
my life, but of late I am feeling lonely at
times. I am a very nice person, kind and
quiet and loving. I am an Evangenlist
and I love the Lord with all my heart. I
pray every day that the Lord will find a
very nice person for me and I believe he
will. I am 5’2”, very hard working, and
love to work. I am a very good cook. Box
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love
Never Dies,” Fathom Events,
AMC in Hamilton, Multiplex in
East Windsor, and Regal in North
Brunswick. www.fathomevents.com. Screening of the fully staged
recorded performance of the sequel to “The Phantom of the
Opera.” Register. $13.50. 7:30
p.m.
Dancing
Newcomer’s Dance, American
Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149.
$10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. Instruction followed by
dance. $8. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
Literati
Fireplace on second floor, 609924-9529. Hugh Howard, historian and author of “Mr. and Mrs.
Madison’s War: America’s First
Couple and the Second War of Independence.” 7 p.m.
Writing Workshop, WriteHook,
Homewood Suites, 3819 Route 1
South, Plainsboro, 609-3720548. www.4-west.com. “How to
Write Kick-Ass Characters” presented by Scott Morgan, president of WriteHook and author of
“Character Development from the
Inside Out.” Free. 7 p.m.
Good Causes
Bike Night, Allentown/Upper
Freehold Municipal Alliance,
Byron Johnson Recreation Area,
Ellisdale Road, Allentown, 609570-5376. www.ufadrugalliance.org. American and metric bikes.
Music, food, and beverages. Rain
date is Wednesday, May 30. Donations to benefit drug and alcohol prevention programs invited.
Free admission. 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Wellness
Dance for People with Parkinson’s Disease, DanceVision,
Forrestal Village, 116 Rockingham Row, Plainsboro, 609-5141600. Dancers who trained with
the Mark Morris Dance Group
and Brooklyn Parkinson Group
collaborate with DanceVision and
Parkinson Alliance to present a
movement class for people with
Parkinson’s disease and their
caregivers. Register. $10; $15
with a caregiver, spouse, or partner. 1 to 2:15 p.m.
Crystal Singing Bowls, Center
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Janis
Alber Groppi presents a rejuvenating sound experience. Register. $22.50 7 p.m.
Community Yoga, Four Winds
Yoga, 114 West Franklin Avenue,
Pennington, 609-818-9888. Jill
Gutowski leads an all level class.
$5 benefits Global Seva India initiative to stop human trafficking. 7
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.
Group tours are available. Register. $5 donation. Noon to 2 p.m.
For Families
Playgroup, Moms Club of Hamilton, Hamilton area. E-mail [email protected] for
information about group activities
and location. 10 a.m. to noon.
Lectures
Wills and Estate Planning, Kenneth Vercammen Law, 2053
Woodbridge Avenue, Edison,
732-572-0500. www.active.com.
For CPAs, financial planners, insurance producers, nursing home
administrators, hospital and nursing home social workers, Medicaid workers, office on aging per-
Summer Fiction
sonnel, senior club presidents,
and accountants. Refreshments
and brochures included. Register.
Free. Bring a canned food donation for the St. James Food Bank.
12:15 p.m.
Skywarn Storm Spotter
Training, Mercer County,
Dempster Fire Training Center,
350 Lawrence Station Road, Lawrenceville, 609-799-8868. www.mercercounty.org. For residents
interested in learning how they
can be a significant help to first
responders and other authorities
during severe storms. Basic class
is 9 a.m. to noon. Advanced class
is 1 to 3 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to take both courses.
Spotters usually stay close to
home and relay reports to the
weather service about the severity and type of storm or weather
event. Must be 17 or older. Bring
at least one form of governmentissued photo identification. Register by E-mail to [email protected] or phone. Free.
7 to 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Annual Meeting, Kingston
Greenways Association,
Kingston Fire House, Heathcote
Road, Kingston, 609-750-1821.
www.kingstongreenways.org.
“Scenic Byways” presented by
Cynthia Bloom-Cronin, a landscape designer and coordinator
of the NJ DOT Scenic Byway program. Refreshments. Free. 7:30
to 9 p.m.
Schools
Nursery School Open House,
Princeton YWCA, 50 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, 609-4972100. www.ywcaprinceton.org.
Parents and children may tour the
classrooms, meet the teachers,
and receive information about the
program for ages 2 to 6. 10 a.m.
to noon.
Sports
Trenton Thunder, Waterfront
Park, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Akron. $11
to $27. 7:05 p.m.
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Short Stories & Poems from
the readers of U.S. 1
U.
S. 1 Newspaper extends its annual invitation to all writers and
poets to present original short fiction, short plays, or poetry
for our special issue to be published on Wednesday, July 25.
This is an opportunity to have your work published
in hard-copy form and to be recognized in public for your effort.
To participate in the U.S. 1 Summer Fiction issue, submit your
previously unpublished short story, play, or poem.
Please: No more than one entry per category per writer.
Submissions should not exceed 2,000 words (if longer please
indicate sections that may be deleted for space requirements).
All work must be received no later than Monday, June 11,
by mail to U.S. 1 Newspaper, 12 Roszel Road, Suite C-205,
Princeton 08540; by fax to 609-452-0033, or as an E-mail message
to [email protected]. Poetry should also be accompanied
by a hard copy. Authors retain all rights.
Preference will be given to central New Jersey writers whose work
addresses a theme or place relevant to the greater Princeton business
community. Submissions from children are not encouraged.
Important: Be sure to include a brief biographical summary
with your submission, along with your name, address,
and daytime phone number.
Our writers' reception and publication party will be held in August at
a place and date to be announced. All are welcome.
Questions?
E-mail [email protected] or call 609-452-7000.
Issue Date: Wednesday, July 25 • Deadline: Monday, June 11.
MAY 16, 2012
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Animal Navigation: More Than Your Average GPS
B
irds are drawn to the
Goulds’ spring garden. Created
over the 37 years that they have
lived in Princeton, it is lush with
flowering shrubs, hellebores,
woodruff, begonias, peonies, and
irises. The first hummingbird of the
year flits up to the feeder that Jim
Gould, a professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology at Princeton
University, and science writer Carol Grant Gould put out in expectation of the bird’s arrival.
The Goulds’ latest book: “Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of
Animal Navigation” looks at the
astonishing ability of animals from
tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds
and even tinier Monarch butterflies
to gray whales and numerous bird
species to journey long distances,
describing the internal clocks, calendars, compasses, and maps that
allow them to do so. The authors
discuss their book on Tuesday,
May 22, at 7 p.m. at Princeton Public Library.
The book explains why such animal abilities are so amazing to humans, whose brains don’t have a
built-in navigational module. Humans can walk in a straight line
through a forest, but only if given
both landmarks and the sun. “If you
test this out in the desert where
there’s the sun but no landmarks, or
on a cloudy day in the forest where
there are landmarks but no sun, people walk in circles,” says Jim Gould.
“Nature’s Compass” shows that
the size and direction of the circle
are specific to the individual. Some
people do tight right hand circles,
others do very open left hand circles, but without the combination
of both landmarks and sun everyone walks in a circle. Having taken
part in some of these experiments,
Carol Gould attests that humans
rarely believe the results. The closest thing we humans have to a navigational module is GPS, but then
you have to have a smart phone.
“Nature’s Compass” also looks
at the effects of habitat destruction
and global warming on migratory
paths. Animals migrate because of
past climate change, so the question is whether current change is
unusually fast. Is it too fast for natural selection to keep up with? And
are there still places where migrating birds can stop to rest and feed?
For a curlew that flies 7,000 miles
non-stop this isn’t a worry, but for a
sparrow that flies a couple of hundred miles between rest stops,
habitat loss can be devastating.
The Goulds, who come originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, bring almost 40 years of research into aspects of animal behavior to bear on
such questions. They’ve been married since 1970, when Carol was 21
and Jim was 23. They met when
Jim was home for Christmas from
the California Institute of Technology where he was an undergraduate studying biology. Carol was an
undergraduate at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
“Meeting Carol was the turning
point of my life,” says Jim. “She
was beautiful, smart, and funny, and
if you’re going to spend your life
by Linda Arntzenius
with someone, funny is important.”
The couple saw a few movies together, wrote to each other from college, and soon made plans to marry.
“I thought Jim was amazing, so
smart and so sophisticated, at least
he seemed so to me. He talked
about academic stuff and it just
blew me away, besides, he was
very good looking,” recalls Carol.
Jim Gould has been an outdoorsman all his life. His father was an
engineer, and his mother taught
second grade. Before his family
moved to the big city of Tulsa, he
lived in the small town of Hominy.
“It was supposed to be Harmony,”
Jim explains, “and it was Harmony
Mission to the Osage, but when it
was registered as a town the name
was misspelled, and so it’s been
Hominy ever since.” There he hunted and fished and explored — “latent” learning that would later influence his choice of career.
Once married, the Goulds
moved to New York City. Carol enrolled at New York University for a
Ph.D. in Victorian literature (her
thesis was on William Makepeace
Thackeray), and Jim went to Rockefeller University, then the best
place for animal behavior. The subject had become his passion after
serving in the U.S. Army Signal
Corps in Germany for a couple of
years and after reading Konrad
Lorenz’s influential book “King
Solomon’s Ring.” Lorenz, the famous Austrian zoologist who
shared the Nobel Prize in 1973, is
well-remembered for his highly
readable adventures with the geese
he raised by hand and which imprinted on him. First published in
English in 1952, it is still in print.
W
hen Jim got a job offer
from Princeton University they
settled in Princeton Township.
Their two children, Grant, born in
1977, and Clare, born in 1980,
went to Princeton Day School.
Grant is an MIT graduate and computer scientist working for Oracle.
Clare went to Princeton University
and now has her own tutoring business, Bright Tiger Tutoring, for
grades 6 and up. When Carol finished her degree, she transitioned
into a career as a science writer.
“As the result of marrying a field
biologist, I learned a lot of science,”
she says. “And I realized that if I
wanted to see Jim, I had to get involved.” They spent the first year of
their marriage studying whales in
Patagonia after a honeymoon of
camping across Canada. “We read
Jane Austen all the way,” says Jim.
Reading together is a habit the
couple maintains to this day, listening to recorded books: detective
stories by Sue Grafton or Scottish
novelist Alexander McCall Smith,
whom they enjoyed hearing speak
at the Princeton Public Library recently. They also enjoy McCarter
Theater events and classical music
All Natural: Jim and Carol Grant Gould, with the
work of a beaver along Lake Carnegie. They have
just published their 10th book on animal behavior.
at Richardson Auditorium. For
recreation, they hike along the
D&R canal, in Smoyer Park, and
along the Delaware River.
Having picked up biology on
field trips, Carol, whose father was
a petroleum engineer while her
mom looked after the family, took a
job as a laboratory technician at the
university and took courses in biology. The Goulds’ first collaboration was a biology textbook:
“Ethology: The Mechanisms and
Evolution of Behavior.” To satisfy
their publisher, the book’s cover
shows a cute family of cheetahs.
“Back then you couldn’t select
from digital archives, you had to
search through thousands of slides,
and this warm and fuzzy image was
extremely hard to find,” Jim recalls. “Cheetahs are solitary animals so a group shot is rare, most of
the slides were of cheetahs asleep
or covered in gore, so this was a
lucky find,” he laughs.
Together the Goulds have written 10 books. Carol also wrote a biography of William Beebe, the first
person to go down into the deep
ocean in the “Bathysphere,” an undersea vessel he invented with Otis
Barton. Beebe, who inspired James
Cameron’s undersea explorations
of the Titanic, was fun to write
about, says Carol. “The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist” is among the
complete Gould collection that includes translations into Chinese,
Turkish, and other languages.
In 2007 their “Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of
Intelligence” was a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for
science and technology. The cover
of the Chinese version shows an ot-
ter in a yellow hard hat. Had the
Goulds been consulted before it
was printed, they could have pointed out that the otter pictured is not
the otter who famously builds
lodges but rather a sea otter, who
doesn’t build anything.
Over the years Jim has become
the world expert on bee communication. He’s also become allergic to
their sting. “I’ve retreated from
them, you might say,” he laughs.
Currently he is interested in the
mechanisms and logic of mate
choice: why females choose one
male over another. “That’s always
intrigued me,” he says, citing the
influence of his thesis advisor Donald Griffin, who discovered bat
echolocation, worked on bird navigation, and pioneered interest in
animal cognition.
According to Gould, Griffin was
regarded as a heretic when he first
started publishing on animal planning and thinking because his terminology seemed to imply consciousness. Now his work is accepted and it is thought that planning and thinking need not imply
consciousness in animals, and by
extension, according to Gould, in
humans. “It seemed at first that animals were a lot smarter than we had
thought, but now it looks as though
humans are not nearly as smart as
we thought. There’s a part of the
brain that does this route planning
(the hippocampus) and it has nothing to do with conscious thought.”
The evolutionary biologist
Gould is not saying that humans
don’t have conscious thought but
rather that the list of things once
thought to be uniquely human has
gotten shorter. People started asking
if animals “map read.” The question
Jim and Carol Grant Gould’s book, ‘Natural Compass,’ explains
why animals’ navigation abilities are more advanced than humans’.
was once taboo, but now the list of
things that animals do automatically
has grown. “As far as animal intelligence goes, so much depends on
how questions are framed,” he says.
“If you focus on echolocation, bats
come out as extremely intelligent;
humans not so much.”
“Even human language is facilitated by innate mechanisms,”
claims Gould. “We think of language as the most complex behavior, and yet everybody learns language and pretty much at the same
time as everyone else. In fact, it’s
hard to stop it. The average six-yearold is learning 25 words a day; we
are sponges designed to do this.”
The instinct to learn might well
be the subject of the Goulds’ next
book. “We tend to think of learning
as a great human achievement, but
it seems to be pretty well programmed, which is why it’s easy to
learn some things and not others,”
says Jim. “Children pick up language effortlessly, but addition and
multiplication have to be taught.
Some complicated things are easy
to learn and some simple things are
difficult to learn. Why?”
Jim Gould and Carol Grant
Gould, “Nature’s Compass: The
Mystery of Animal Navigation,”
Princeton Public Library Community Room, 65 Witherspoon Street.
Tuesday, May 22, 7 p.m. www.princetonlibrary.org or 609-9249529.
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FOR REAL: PRINCETON HOSPITAL AT PLAINSBORO
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hen Barry Rabner,
president and chief executive officer of the Princeton HealthCare
System, started planning for the
new $522.7 million state-of-the-art
hospital to replace the existing one,
he insisted on a process that used
evidence-based design, which uses
research to learn how a built environment can affect health outcomes, rather than basing the design on existing facilities.
“One would think that with
5,000 hospitals in operation in the
country, there would be a really
clear understanding of which design features work best, but there
isn’t,” he says. When research was
either nonexistent or insufficient,
the decision making was guided by
experience, instinct, and the desire
to start with the most up-to-date
health equipment.
One important decision in the
area of energy efficiency and sustainability was whether the air handling system should be designed to
use 100 percent fresh air as a way
of controlling infection — rather
than recycling a percentage of the
air, as almost all existing hospitals
do. Research suggested that fresh
air was effective in controlling infections in the emergency room but
said nothing about the rest of a hospital.
Using its clinical judgment, the
design team decided to go with 100
percent fresh air in the entire hospital because retrofitting later would
be far too expensive, and the hospital is committed to doing research
going forward on this decision’s
impact to add to the body of knowledge.
by Michele Alperin
To start, the design team articulated a set of guiding principles that
were hung on the wall at every design meeting. “These were based
on the understanding that a building is more than a container,” says
Rabner. “It is not simply holding
people and things. If designed
properly, it can help you achieve
very important organizational
goals.”
The team’s goals included reducing infections, errors, and falls;
improving clinical outcomes, patient outcomes and satisfaction,
and privacy and confidentiality;
and lowering operating costs.
To get through the 1,200 pieces
of research relevant to the design of
the new hospital, one group was responsible for reviewing every
piece of research and testing questions and decision-making against
it. Whenever the team faced a difficult or costly decision, this group
would share the relevant research.
“Some things were easy enough
that they were integrated into the
design, and sometimes the research
suggested a direction but wasn’t
conclusive,” says Rabner. “The
challenge is that we had to make a
decision now, understanding that
we never will be able to retrofit
some of the solutions, that if we
don’t do it now, we’re never going
to.”
In addition to academic research, the hospital used focus
groups with patients early on to determine what they needed to do and
to test design ideas and goals, and
then later to see if the hospital was
delivering what patients wanted.
This process propelled an intricate decision-making process that
yielded answers regarding how to
structure space; what equipment to
install, where to put it, and how to
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make the whole building sustain- room as well as simulations, for exable; and even how to select art that ample, of code blue emergencies,
to ensure that equipment and staff
would promote healing.
Four examples that exemplify were where they needed to be.
And indeed this mockup enhow this process worked are the interior design of patient rooms, the abled further tweaking of the deselection of art that promotes heal- sign, from small changes like the
ing, and the decisions to make all placement of the track for the currooms serving the same function tains around the bed, to large ones
identical and to have only single like moving the bathroom to the
other side of the room.
rooms.
They also changed how nurses
Looking to stop the spread of infection and decrease falls, room get supplies. Now each room has a
design began with the creation of supply closet customized to the
mockup rooms from plywood and needs of a particular patient, with
doors opening to
Styrofoam to
the room as well
understand baas to the hallsic logistics
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positioned,
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would funcnurses
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spend more time
givers would
with patients,
get
around,
and where family members would which nurses want to do,” says Cacare for the patient or stay ma.
To stop the spread of infection,
overnight. This stage yielded more
than 300 changes to the existing the sink was positioned just inside
the door so that staff members can
design.
The design team then took an wash their hands prior to examinunusual second step. “Princeton ing a patient. To limit falls if a
went one extra step and said, ‘Let’s woozy patient gets out of bed withbuild a room on one existing floor out requesting help, the bathroom
and let patients and nurses use the is off the wall nearest the patient’s
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chair of the Center for Health De- from the bed to the bathroom.
In a small study comparing the
sign, and a New Haven, Connecticut-based designer specializing in new room with existing ones for
patients with hip and knee replacehospital interiors.
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ments, the new room outperformed
the old one on every variable.
There were no falls or infections,
nursing care was rated better
though the actual nurses were the
same, and pain medication was
used less often.
The process of selecting art began by having a committee of people from the art community, with
Cama’s help, pore through the research, which suggested that a connection to nature reduces stress and
anxiety, and that this in turn creates
a better environment for healing.
Indeed patients in much of the
building have views of the outdoors, but a similar effect can be
obtained elsewhere through art that
reflects nature. “We are genetically
predisposed to back ourselves up
against some protection and be
high on a hill and overlook the savannah where the predators are
coming from,” says Cama. “That’s
why people love mountains or the
beach, with long views of nature.”
These nature pictures — which
might include flowers, trees with
leaves, pleasant nature scenes, or
nonthreatening animals — are in
patient rooms as well as waiting
rooms where patients might be
anxious about meeting a physician
or waiting for the results of some
test.
Regarding the decision to make
all rooms with the same function
— general medical and surgical
rooms, emergency department,
neonatal, intensive care — identical, Rabner says, “The research
clearly indicates that the more variability in design, the more likely it
was for staff to make mistakes.”
In patient rooms, for example,
all the switches, outlets, gases, and
suction are in the same location,
which means, says Rabner, that it
takes no practice to know what
items are in the room and where
supplies are stored. Similarly, any
shared equipment, for example, a
“crash cart” used if a patient is in
distress or other emergency supplies, is stored in exactly the same
way at the same location on every
floor.
Regarding
single-patient
rooms, the research suggests that
with only one patient in a room, not
only do infections go down, but the
quality of the communication between the patient and the caregiver
improves, which in turn reduces errors. That makes sense, says Rabner, because when other people,
whether roommates or their visitors, are listening, patients are
more likely to edit themselves and
be less complete when talking to a
nurse or doctor.
Additionally, because in some
cases they could not successfully
match patients in double rooms,
due to sex or type of illness, the old
hospital typically had 15 to 20
empty beds when the hospital was
“full.” Being able to fill all beds in
the new hospital will actually help
cover the cost of the bigger building, says Rabner.
But perhaps the most fascinating results of the evidence-based
design process are the technologies, large and small, that should
help the new hospital to effectively
and efficiently promote healing
while running a safe, cost-effective, environmentally friendly,
technologically up-to-date operation.
Cogeneration
E
lectricity, heating, and
cooling in a single package. The
smacking-new technological gargantua that comprise the cogeneration plant — designed, built,
owned, and operated by NRG Energy of Carnegie Center— provide
the hospital with electricity, steam
for heating, and chilled water for
cooling. What is particularly impressive about the facility, beyond
the technologies it comprises, are
its built-in redundancies, environmental sensitivity, and integration.
The hospital’s primary source of
electricity is a spinning turbine that
is fueled by natural gas compressed to a pressure of 300 pounds
per square inch. The turbine turns
the generator, which produces 4.6
megawatts of electricity, enough to
power about 3,680 homes.
Gas turbines, however, have a
byproduct — very hot exhaust —
similar to that of a jet engine. “You
see in a jet engine that nobody ever
stands behind it, because the ex-
haust is 900 degrees,” says Rabner.
Whereas in big municipal power
plants this hot exhaust usually goes
up the smokestack into the atmosphere, yielding only 30 to 35 percent efficiency, NRG Energy’s cogeneration plant is able to use this
energy that would otherwise go to
waste.
“In a co-generation plant you
capture the heat and use it to produce steam that is used for purposes of sterilizing equipment and
heating the building,” says Rabner.
“You are using waste to do something important.”
The exhaust is funneled into a
heat recovery steam generator,
where it is used to transform water
into steam at a pressure of 125
pounds per square inch that is
pumped through the hospital to
heat it.
As the heat is used in the hospital, the steam condenses back into
water, about 85 percent of which is
recovered and pumped back to the
plant. There it must be heated to
227 degrees before it can go back
into the steam generator, thereby
completing the cycle. Any additional outside water must be softened before entering the steam
generator.
If, during the winter months, the
steam generator does not produce
sufficient steam to heat the hospital, three gas-fired boilers are on
hand to increase steam output.
The cogeneration plant is also
responsible for cooling the hospital. Water is chilled by three huge
chilling units, each with a capacity
of 1,000 tons of water; they function somewhat like refrigerators
except that they are cooling water
rather than air.
These chillers, whose compressors use a non-chlorofulorocarbon
refrigerant, typically run in the
evening and overnight when electricity is cheaper to chill water for
the 1 million-gallon thermal energy storage tank. The tank is then
discharged during the day when
electricity prices are higher.
The chilling plant also has a
700-ton absorption refrigeration
unit that is designed to use any unfired exhaust steam from the cogeneration plant to achieve significant efficiencies.
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Latest & Greatest: The 3T MRI, above, and the
TrueBeam linear accelerator, right, one of only
200 such machines in the world, are part of the
line-up in the radiology department.
Energy recovery system. The
hospital also has an energy recovery system, whereby fresh air entering the hospital takes advantage
of the heat or coolness of air leaving the hospital. In the summer
when the hot fresh air entering the
hospital needs to be cooled, it first
passes over fins that are carrying
cooler air that has already made its
way through the system and will be
exhausted into the atmosphere.
The cooler air that is exiting
cools the entering hotter air, which
is further cooled by chilled water
from the cogeneration plant, then
dehumidified, filtered, and sent
through the building to cool it. In
the winter the very cold air entering
from outside passes over the exiting warm air and then is further
warmed by hot steam from the
plant.
A field of photovoltaic cells.
Separate from the cogeneration
plant, the hospital also has created
a field of solar voltaic cells to produce an amount of electricity for
the hospital equal to that needed for
1,500 houses.
Though this will provide only a
small percentage of the hospital’s
power usage, Rabner sees three
benefits. First, it provides some redundancy. Secondly, it will help reduce the hospital’s carbon footprint. Third, it will reduce operating costs. “We are doing the right
thing by our patients, by the environment, and for the business.”
Radiology
MRI and CT and PET scanners. “The radiology department is
being built from the ground up with
a wide array of new technology and
new facilities that are going to allow us to meet patient needs and
provide outstanding care more efficiently,” says Dr. David Youmans,
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The cool water is piped to the
hospital’s air-conditioning system.
Though the cooling system is important in the summer, the hospital
has lots of equipment that needs
cooling year round, for example,
the information technology room.
Redundancy for these systems is
critical, and the system provides
different kinds. “There will never
be another case like LA of a hospital without power,” says Joey
Bowser, an operator of the cogeneration plant. “In a hotel if you lose
power it’s not a big deal; if it’s in an
ER or an operating room, you don’t
want to lose power.”
To ensure a constant electrical
supply, the gas turbine runs in parallel with the electrical grid. The
hospital is fed by redundant electrical feeders to bring in electricity
from the PSE&G grid. Though only one is necessary to run the hospital, both will be on all the time so
that if one fails, the load will switch
automatically to its twin.
As a second level of backup, the
plant has three two-megawatt generators, which are capable of providing more backup generation
than what is produced by the primary turbines. One of the generators alone could run the whole hospital as well as the cogeneration
plant. The generators run on diesel
fuel, which is stored in two 40,000gallon underground tanks.
To save energy, the plant’s
chillers, pumps, fans, and powergeneration equipment can function
at variable speed levels rather than
just in the two extreme modes of on
and off. As a result, their level of
functioning can be adjusted to
closely match energy output requirements, thereby creating significant energy savings.
The cogeneration plant is run to
adapt to energy market conditions,
ensuring that the hospital receives
the lowest-cost electricity.
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It also delivers radiation with 10
times the precision and up to four
times faster than other radiosurgery systems. On the ceiling of
the room are panes of glass sporting cherry trees backed by blue
skies and puffy white clouds.
Its giant gray arm sits in a room
with three-foot walls, made of concrete and lead, and a door heavy
enough to guard Fort Knox.
Though it is only one of 200 such
devices in the world, it was so
much better than the current tech-
nology that the decision was easy
to make.
“It is better because it damages
less healthy tissue, requires fewer
treatments, and each treatment requires less time,” says Rabner.
“When you are starting from
scratch, you get to make those decisions.”
3T MRI Unit. The new 3T magnetic resonance imagining unit
sends out a magnetic impulse that
makes the body’s hydrogen ions
resonate. Deriving information
from this hydrogen hum, the MRI’s
complex software generates a
clearer digital image than is available on older machines. The new
The operating room
is connected to a
computer-controlled
vacuum tube system
that runs throughout
the hospital.
state-of-the-art unit is also flexible
and can change the way it sends out
and listens to magnetic pulses and
can stack new pulses on top of the
original ones to tease out certain
kinds of information.
The unit can also be used to design different protocols to investi-
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gate bodily processes in specific
sites like the liver or kidney.
Patients undergoing MRIs on
older machines have often felt
claustrophobic inside the machine
because the magnet covered most
of their bodies and there was little
wiggle room. Though the doctors
would try to calm them with music,
it didn’t always work.
“If people are nervous enough
and they are fidgety, their movement interferes with the picture,”
says Youmans. The new MRI unit
has an open architecture that is
more user-friendly: the area that
covers a person’s body, the “bore,”
is shorter and has more space between a person’s skin and the inside of the tube.
One particularly exciting use of
this new MRI is in evaluating the
heart. Youmans says, “Because of
the speed and sophistication of this
magnet, we will be able to do evaluation of both the anatomy and the
function of the heart.”
128-slice CT Scanner. The
new, state-of-the-art 128-slice CT,
or computerized tomography,
scanner is like a fancy X-ray machine that rotates and takes a bunch
of pictures by sending out several
beams simultaneously from different angles.
It then uses powerful computer
software to produce a very clear
image. Because it is able to take
more image “slices,” the result is
less distortion and a smoother,
clearer image. Youmans compares
it to high-definition television visa-vis older models.
Not only does the new device allow faster and more precise scanning in general but it offers particular benefits for cardiac evaluation.
Working with dye introduced intravenously rather than the conventional approach of squirting
dye through the groin, it does its
work in less than 45 seconds and
the result is a three-dimensional
picture of the heart.
Ultrasound equipment. The
new ultrasounds also allow threedimensional reprocessing. As
Youmans explains, “With one
sweep of the ultrasound wand, you
get data that can be reproduced in
three dimensions.”
Nuclear medicine. The new
technologies will also aid nuclear
medicine, which involves injecting
a liquid with a low level of radiation into a vein and then using special cameras to detect where the radioactivity gathers. In a positron
emission tomography, or PET,
scan, the radioactivity attaches to
sugar molecules, and the scanner
can see if they are gathering in unusual places and thereby identify a
tumor.
The new PET scanners have a
CT scanner built in, which allows
precise pictures from the CT scan
to be superimposed on the PET
scan. By combining the information from the two scans, physicians
will be able to look at both function
and anatomy simultaneously and
hence be able to direct therapy
more precisely. Formerly physicians had to look at the two scans
separately.
The radiology department also
has a treatment arm, interventional
radiology, which uses imaging as a
means for guiding therapy. One example is the treatment for uterine
fibroids called uterine artery embolization; this is a minimally invasive surgery whereby the physician blocks tiny vessels that lead to
the fibroids, thereby starving them
and causing them to die.
For certain tumors in the liver,
kidney, and lungs physicians use
microwaves during minimally invasive surgery, and improved
equipment enables them to visualize these organs more clearly and
quickly.
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rooms, physicians doing these procedures will be able to use the same
pre- and post-operative rooms for
their patients as do other surgeons.
Youmans says, “The coordinated
care regimen is the same as for all
other surgery. This allows things to
be more consistent and efficient,
which always translates to better
care.”
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The air in the operating room
changes 27 times an hour, coming
down through large panels in the
ceiling and leaving through special
vents closer to the floor. And
there’s more, as Rabner explains.
“In the operating room, before the
air enters the room, it goes through
another HEPA filtration system in
the ceiling that further cleans the
air — to same degree you find in a
pharmaceutical manufacturer.”
The operating room also has a
closed-circuit television system,
and cameras in the operating room
can be controlled robotically so
that residents, students, and others
can view the surgery remotely.
Heim will be able to download
films of all his surgeries from a
video archive to make sure his motions were efficient during surgery.
he new operating rooms,
which are twice the size as in the
old hospital, exude the feeling of
science fiction. Doctors are surrounded by computer screens that
hang from the ceiling on articulating arms and can be custom set for
each physician to view, for example, CT, PET, or other images or an
enlarged view of the operation in
progress, and to monitor anesthesia during surgery.
With pretty much all the equipo maximize the amount of
ment suspended from the ceiling
except the operating table and the time nurses spend with patients renurse’s control table, large pieces quires minimizing the time they
of equipment can be moved more spend “hunting and gathering” —
easily, the staff is safer, and the going around the building looking
room can be cleaned faster. The for supplies.
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physician can control lighting,
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screens by voice. The operating room that stores disposables,
room is connected to a computer- linens, and drugs, which will be
controlled vacuum tube system, stocked by non-nursing personnel
about 8 inches in diameter, that from a door in the hallway. A computerized materials-management
runs throughout the hospital.
After doing a biopsy, a doctor system will maintain records on
can quickly send the tissue to a what is needed, what has been
pathologist via the vacuum tube used, and what has been stocked in
system for analysis; the surgeon the supply cabinet.
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he New Jersey Hospital
Association, based on Alexander
Road, has released findings from a
two-year project studying the
problem of people using hospital
emergency rooms for non-emergency care. NJHA believes the information can help deliver better
care, reduced department costs,
and shorter waits.
According to NJHA, more than
one-third of emergency department care is for non-emergency
conditions that would be treated
more appropriately — and more
affordably — in a doctor’s office or
clinic.
In New Jersey alone, emergency
department use increased 27 percent between 2000 and 2010. And
more than $400 million a year is
spent on avoidable emergency department visits, according to the
National Association of Community Health Centers.
The Community Partnership
For Emergency Department Express Care and Case Management
is a two-and-a-half-year demonstration project conducted by
NJHA’s Health Research and Educational Trust, the state Department of Human Services, and the
New Jersey Primary Care Associa-
sion is central to patient communication with the hospital. The patient needs to be able to read off the
television to order meals, to send
messages to nursing and to housekeeping, and to read medical information — not to mention entertainment via the Internet, movies, and
television shows.
The food ordering system is integrated with the limitations on a
patient’s diet. Rabner says, “The
menu is as diverse as your limited
diet will allow, but it won’t allow
you to select foods that are contraindicated.”
Once the patient orders, the
computer sends a message to dietary services, which prepares the
meals and sends them up to a patient’s room — when the patient
wants it, within a half hour of ordering. “It works like a restaurant,
but it is not just an amenity,” says
Edited by Bill Sanservino
tion (NJPCA) that studied the issue
of non-emergency cases turning up
in hospital emergency departments.
Newark Beth Israel Medical
Center and Monmouth Medical
Center served as the pilot sites, in
tandem with their local health centers — the Newark Community
‘This is one of those
scenarios in which
doing the right thing
for the patient also
can produce savings
in healthcare costs,’
says NJHA President
and CEO Betsy Ryan.
Health Center and the Monmouth
Family Health Center. Key conclusions:
The capacity and accessibility
of the state’s primary care system
— particularly for Medicaid patients — are insufficient; primary
care solutions are needed especially for behavioral health and mental
health patients; and relationships
among healthcare providers are
Rabner. “It allows us to be sure
people are not getting food they
shouldn’t, and that people will get
food when they’re hungry. That’s
important because nutrition is important. Delivering it at prescribed
times isn’t good enough.”
Nurses notify the computer
when they administer a painkiller,
and the computer tells the television to ask patients every 20 minutes to rate their level of pain, using
a series of faces from smiling to
frowning. If a patient rates the pain
as “poor,” then the television will
ask a nurse to come to the room for
a consult.
The television also elicits other
types of feedback; for example, under a category titled “Rate Your
Hospital Experience,” is the question: “How are your nurses doing
listening and explaining things to
you?” If the response is not
“great,” but “not good,” or simply
“okay,” the nurse will check in
with the patient.
key to improving care coordination
and patient education.
“This project is all about patients — making sure they get the
right care in the right setting,” said
NJHA President and CEO Betsy
Ryan. “But this is one of those scenarios in which doing the right
thing for the patient also can produce savings in healthcare costs.
It’s a win-win.”
The project, which ran from
September, 2008, to April, 2011,
tested a model for providing alternate non-emergency services to
patients who came to the emergency department with non-urgent
primary care needs.
The model used an “express
care process,” in which patients
who came to the emergency department with a non-emergency
situation were assessed by a clinician and provided the appropriate
services.
Then the emergency department
staff took extra steps to refer the
patient for a follow-up visit with a
primary care provider, or if the patient had no regular physician, immediately scheduled an appointment at the partnering health center. The emergency department
staff also educated the patient on
Because the television also
works with the iPhone, family
members with pictures of children
or grandchildren can press an icon
to display those pictures on the
screen. Similarly, a physician with
an iPad can access an x-ray digitally off the in-house system, touch an
icon, and display that x-ray on the
television screen, dragging a finger
across the iPad screen to direct the
patient to a particular spot on the xray.
The television can also supply
more esoteric information: for example, the hospital librarian can
send a patient information in Spanish on rehabilation after a joint replacement, via the television
screen.
Managing Light
B
ecause natural light has a
positive impact on healing and rate
of recovery, reduces stress, and
helps people remain oriented, the
building faces south so that 90 percent of patient care areas are lit naturally. Light sensors in most rooms
ensure that only as much artificial
light as necessary is used, based on
the amount of natural light entering.
But the challenge is that a lot of
heat accompanies this sunlight,
and the solution is horizontal
shades on the exterior and interior
of the building’s south side that
work like an awning to reduce the
direct light and the amount of heat
generated. Further, the engineers
set the shades at an angle that maximizes the amount of light in December and minimizes it in August.
The players involved in the creation of the new hospital come
from very different backgrounds.
David Youmans, the chief of radiology, graduated from Stanford
in 1985, served four years in the
U.S. Navy, and then spent a year
doing medical research at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at
the University of California, San
Francisco. He received his M.D.
from the University of California,
San Diego, in 1994 and completed
his diagnostic radiology residency
at Washington University in St.
Louis.
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the appropriate site of care for various healthcare needs and the importance of having a “medical
home” for primary care needs.
In addition, case managers stationed at both of the hospitals’
emergency departments and health
centers coordinated services and
arranged transportation and support services.
The sites also identified repeat
emergency department users,
tracked compliance with follow-up
care, and assisted with referrals for
specialty care.
Throughout the project, the initiative stressed communication between the hospitals and health centers, supported by mutual electronic systems that could schedule appointments and coordinate care.
“The NJPCA considers this to
be one of the most timely projects
that we have been involved in,”
said President and CEO Kathy
Grant Davis. “This was about making sure that patients have a medical home in a primary care setting
and that hospital emergency rooms
are not being used to serve this purpose.
“The federally qualified health
centers in New Jersey will now
continue the best practices learned
during this project. Patients will be
He then moved to Yale University, where he was an instructor in
diagnostic radiology and a fellow
in vascular and interventional Radiology. While in New Haven he
was also an attending physician in
the department of radiology at the
Veterans Administration Hospital
in West Haven. He has been an attending radiologist at University
Medical Center at Princeton and a
member of Princeton Radiology
Associates since 1999.
Cama grew up in New Haven,
Connecticut, where her parents
were first-generation Americans.
Her father, a World War II veteran,
left high school to enlist, and in the
military trained as a machinist.
When he returned stateside, he
went into business for himself and
eventually owned several franchises for Napa auto part stores. His
mother, who had an associate degree, probably in secretarial sciences, helped his father manage the
business finances and raised four
children.
After earning a bachelor of science in interior design at the University of Connecticut, Cama graduated in the middle of a recession.
Though she was moving in the direction of graduate school in architecture, her mother noticed an ad in
the newspaper about a job at the
hospital.
She took it, forgot about grad
school, and 29 years ago started her
own firm that designs hospitals nationwide. She partners with architectural firms and healthcare facilities to work with architectural
teams and is known as a strong proponent of evidence-based design.
Rabner’s parents were Holocaust survivors who came to the
United States after five years in a
displaced-persons camp following
the war. “Their lives were so disrupted, and then they came here to
build a new life, but what they were
really trying to do was build a life
for their kids,” says Rabner. “It was
so important to them that you fulfill
their dreams, it tends to keep you
focused and drives you to do the
best you can so you don’t let them
down.”
He grew up in Passaic, and one
might say that he began his career
in healthcare during high school,
when he was an orderly in a nurs-
The Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce is holding an open house at its new location at 182 Nassau Street,
Suite 301, on Thursday, May 17,
from 3 to 6 p.m.
The chamber is holding the
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This event is free, and light food
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given educational information that
helps them determine when to use
the emergency room and when to
use their primary care provider.
The goal is to reduce overall health
care costs by utilizing settings that
are proven to be less costly.”
According to NJHA, the project
and its interventions yielded
progress toward the goal of promoting “medical homes” and appropriate sites of care and in reducing the use of emergency departments for non-emergency conditions.
Recommendations
resuling
from the project that would take
advantage of the model in the future include:
• Consumer outreach is needed to
educate the general public about
the importance of using emer-
ing home. But his health-care roots
really go back to his mother, who
was a nurse for 60 years, first in the
Russian Army and then at several
hospitals in New Jersey, including
Passaic General, Barnert Hospital
in Paterson, and Daughters of Miriam in Clifton.
His father worked in a bakery as
a deliveryman and in a warehouse
for a company that manufactured
electric light components. His education had been interrupted by the
war, and in the camp he had been
‘People will get food
when they’re hungry.
Delivering it at prescribed times isn’t
good enough.’
trained as a draftsman, with the
idea that he would immigrate to Israel, but Rabner’s parents ended up
coming instead to the United
States.
Rabner graduated from the University of Maryland in 1974 with a
bachelor of science in zoology and
chemistry and then spent a year
studying French language and philosophy at the Sorbonne. In 1977
he completed a master of public administration, focused particularly
on health administration, at Rutgers.
From 1976 through 1978, he
was an instructor and project manager at Boston University’s Henry
M. Goldman School of Graduate
Dentistry in the department of public health and community dentistry.
In 1979 he began as director of
program development at the 152bed Moss Rehabilitation Hospital,
where he was promoted to vice
president of administration and
program development in 1982,
vice president of operations in
1984, and then served from 1986 to
1992, as executive vice president
and chief operating officer, directing the clinical care, marketing, education, and human resource departments.
From 1992 through 1998, he
was president and chief executive
officer of the 143-bed Bryn Mawr
Rehabilitation Hospital in Pennsylvania, and during the same peri-
Last month the chamber
moved from its office at 9 Vandeventer Avenue, where it had
been headquartered since 2005,
to the new Nassau Street location, doubling its size to 2,000
square feet.
Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, 182
Nassau Street, Suite 301,
Princeton 08542; 609-9241776; fax, 609-924-5776.
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gency departments only for true
emergencies.
Federally qualified health centers must promote their services
competitively, making the availability and quality of their services known to all populations.
Medicaid HMOs must increase
their involvement and the network of primary care providers.
Policy changes are needed to
create economic incentives for
patients to use primary care sites.
Poor and low-income patients
are more inclined to go to emergency departments, where care
is effectively “free,” rather than
pay the sliding-scale fees at
health centers.
od was president of Rehabilitation
Affiliates in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
In 1997 he moved to the Jefferson Health System, which comprised nine acute-care hospitals,
three rehab hospitals, three longterm care facilities, a psychiatric
hospital, and several ancillary corporations. From 1997 through
1999, he was senior vice president
of strategic planning, and from
1996 to 1998, senior vice president
of the nonacute services division.
He then moved to one of Jefferson’s member systems, Main Line
Health in Wayne, Pennsylvania,
where he served as its senior vice
president as well as president of
Main Line Hospitals, Main Line
Affiliates, and Main Line Extended Care from 1998 to 2001, and
then as chief executive officer.
Rabner has been president and
CEO of Princeton HealthCare System since 2002. Commenting on
the design process that started in
2003 and involved an estimated
10,000-plus individuals, Rabner
says, “It’s a remarkable process
and for me personally it is the highlight of my professional career. We
spent $522.7 million to create this
facility, and I think we will redefine how care is delivered.”
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Pennington - Two (2) suites available for lease. 1,584 +/- SF. Rt. 31
near I-95.
RETAIL SPACE
Ewing Twp. - 1,000 SF up to 2,000 SF available for lease located
in neighborhood shopping center. Close to New Capital Health facility
and 1-95.
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
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10 exam/treatment rooms plus large offices. One mile south of Capital
Health’s new hospital – FOR SALE.
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2 or 3 units. 45 x 100 paved and fenced parking lot included. Available For
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Burlington City - Bed & Breakfast, real estate and business at the
Delaware River Promenade. Five guest suites and 2 bedroom owner
suite. Totally restored.
LAND
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zone, one mile south of I-95, Merrill Lynch facility and Capital Health’s
new $400 million hospital. Ideal for medical group. REDUCED!
Lawrence Twp. - 2.28 +/- acres in zoned office. Also good for day care
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Homewood Suites Helps Get Out The Word
P
articularly for small
businesses and solopreneurs, getting the word out without busting
the bank is often the single biggest
obstacle to growth.
On the other end of the spectrum
are large, multi-national companies with resources to spare —
companies like Hilton and International Hotels & Resorts, which operates the Homewood Suites at
3819 Route 1 South. These giants
often talk about social responsibility and giving back, but there is not
always tangible, long term evidence of it happening.
Mary Ann Kowalchek, the
general manager at Homewood,
and Sharyn Tiersch, the hotel’s
sales and marketing manager, believe that the best way for their
company to give back is by providing a measure of its stock-in-trade
— hospitality.
Kowalchek and Tiersch have
put together the Knowledge Broker program at Homewood’s
Princeton location as a means and
place for members of the community to connect with their audiences, customers, and clients in a
professional setting, at no cost.
While it might on the surface
seem that Homewood is merely
providing a location to host events,
it is more than that. Knowledge
Broker is a program open to just
about any idea — business, artistic,
or otherwise — that exposes presenters to a captive, usually business-heavy audience. In fact, this
reporter will be speaking at several
upcoming events (see list below).
Homewood, after all, is an extended-stay hotel, meaning that
travelers are usually not the “pop in
for a weekend” sort.
They are business travelers in
town for several days, sometimes
• Connectivity between hospital
emergency departments and
community
primary
care
providers is essential.
• This study was unable to demonstrate total cost savings due to inadequate cost data from the community health centers. Future pilots should incorporate a more
comprehensive cost impact
analysis.
“The project and its findings
provide valuable information to
help improve care coordination for
New Jersey patients and ultimately
achieve the goals of healthcare reform: improved care at reduced
costs,” said the NJHA in a press release.
“The Department of Human
Services has made great strides developing emergency department
alternatives,” said DHS Commissioner Jennifer Velez. “As the state
advances medical home and accountable care organization pilot
programs, an administrative services organization (ASO) for behav-
by Scott Morgan
several months, working on projects.
This captive audience of business travelers often comprises
high-level individuals from all
kinds of international companies.
The only “payment” Homewood ask for, Kowalchek says, is
for presenters to allow at least 10 of
the hotel’s guests to sit in on the
presentation for free and to allow
the guests who do not want to come
to the meeting room to watch the
presentation on the hotel’s internal
television channel. You can charge
for your event, and Homewood
will not take a cut.
Homewood will also promote
Homewood does not
want snake oil salesmen, nor does it want
inherently controversial ‘platform’ presentations, such as political stumping.
your presentation (and product or
service) to its guests. You provide
the hotel with some promotional
materials — cards, brochures, or
anything else — and the staff, including Kowalchek herself, will
make sure the guests are informed
about upcoming presentations.
Tiersch even pitches upcoming
events when she goes out on sales
calls and says she has managed to
drum up a lot of interest in the program.
Though new, the idea has already attracted the attention of several businesses, small to large, in
the Princeton region. Speakers
ioral health and payment reform,
I’m confident we’ll see improved
coordination of care that effectively changes patient behavior and reduces unnecessary emergency department visits.”
New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA), 760 Alexander
Road, Box 1, Princeton
08543-0001; 609-275-4000;
fax, 609-452-8097. Elizabeth
Ryan, president & CEO.
www.njha.com.
Bus Route Connects
Princeton & UMCP
A
new bus line between
Princeton Borough and the University Medical Center at Princeton’s
new hospital on Route 1 in Plainsboro has been launched by NJ
Transit.
The new line — route 655 —
will provide weekday access to the
new hospital when it opens on
Tuesday, May 22, and will be traveled by five buses.
have included Hilary Murray, the
director of marketing and sales at
Buckingham Place Adult Day Care
Center on Raymond Road, and
Jennifer Smith, who operates
Growth Potential Consulting in
Middlesex County. Upcoming
speakers include:
• “Character Development,” Scott
Morgan
author/journalist,
Wednesday, May 23, 7 p.m.
• “Transformational Leadership,”
Jennifer Smith, life coach. Tuesday, June 5, 7 p.m.
• “The Art of Communicating
Like a Reporter,” Scott Morgan,
author/journalist. Tuesday, June
12, 7 p.m.
• “Solar Energy Options,” Keith
Bernard, Real Goods Solar.
Tuesday, June 19, 7 p.m.
Kowalchek says Homewood is
working with the American Boychoir School, Terhune Orchards,
and other well-known Princetonarea businesses on getting presentations and events scheduled.
Do and don’t. Kowalchek and
Tiersch say the subject matter,
company, and style of presentation
can be just about anything.
Kowalchek will vet whatever presentation is pitched to make sure
that the presenter is valid and honest, and to make sure there is no inappropriate content.
Essentially, Kowalchek says,
Homewood does not want snake
oil salesmen, nor does it want inherently controversial “platform”
presentations, such as political
stumping. In general, she says, the
only qualification is that presentations offer value to the community
and audience.
Kowalchek and Tiersch have
kept qualifications purposely open
The cost for the line is $1.50
one-way (65 cents to transfer) or
$48 per month, and features five
stops: Princeton Shopping Center;
Nassau Street at Palmer Square,
the Dinky Station; the hospital, and
Scotts Corner Road at Ravens
Crest Drive in Plainsboro.
The weekday-only buses will
operate every 40 minutes from 6
a.m. to 6 p.m., and every 75 to 80
minutes until midnight.
New in Town
Capital Health Walk-In Primary Care, 625 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown 08505;
609-298-2005. Al Maghazehe, president and CEO.
www.capitalhealth.org.
Capital Health has opened Capital Health Walk-In Primary Care
on Farnsworth Avenue in Bordentown.
The location is a no-appointment-needed walk-in office. The
practice includes Dr. Jessica Codjoe, medical director of the WalkIn Program at Capital Health, Dr.
Elyse Carty, Dr. Maria Lugo, and
Dr. Laura Riggins — all board certified in family medicine. Dr. Yancy L. Van Patten and Nurse Practitioner Suzanne Nawrock are also
available to see patients.
“We realize that situations arise
when you are not feeling well and
you need to seek professional care
outside of a regularly scheduled office appointment,” said Al Maghazehe, president and CEO of Capital Health. “If you want to get the
medical attention you need but
your condition isn’t serious
enough to warrant a trip to the
emergency room, our center is here
to help.”
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Mutual Benefit: Homewood
Suites’ Mary Ann Kowalchek
helped put together a program to
provide a free venue for local
speakers.
and even a little vague in order to
offer a blank slate for presenters.
And some of the ideas that have
been
pitched
(and
which
Kowalchek and Tiersch are excited
about seeing come to fruition) include art showings, fiction writing
workshops, and even someone
who will lead a presentation on
crafting sushi to music.
W
hen it comes to art, Homewood offers its “wall of art” (a 19foot display wall that will display
works for at least seven days) in its
main hallway, so that every guest
coming in will have to walk past it,
Kowalchek says. Arriving guests
will receive information about the
product or service being displayed
that evening.
Tiersch says the hotel wants to
focus on the arts as much as business ideas because though Homewood’s clientele is mainly business
travelers, sometimes people just
want to do something different
from work. A guest might be unfamiliar with the area and learn that
there is an art show or a crafts presentation downstairs and want to
check it out.
The reason this whole thing is
being offered for free, Kowalchek
says, is because Homewood wants
to be part of the community and it
wants to help businesses grow.
There are plenty of venues, but so
few of them are affordable for
everyone to be able to book a twohour block. Presenters can use the
meeting room between the hours of
2 and 4 p.m., or between 7 and 9
p.m., Monday through Thursday.
Lead-time for booking is about
three weeks.
The new office joins Hamilton
Physicians Group as Capital
Health’s two primary care practices offering walk-in availability.
The hours at the Bordentown office
are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
NNIT, 650 College Road East,
Third Floor, Princeton 08540;
609-955-4949. Jonas Dan
Jorgensen, general manager. www.nnit.com.
Danish IT consultant NNIT has
opened an office in Forrestal Center.
“NNIT is one of Denmark’s
leading consultancies in IT development, implementation, and operations,” says the company website. “With roots in the pharmaceutical industry, we supply services
that meet the industry’s highest requirements for quality and standardization.”
The company is owned by Novo
Nordisk — also headquartered in
Denmark with offices in Forrestal
Center. NNIT has about 1,700 employees in offices worldwide including Switzerland, Germany, the
Czech Republic, China, and the
Philippines.
Crosstown Moves
Battelle Ventures LP, 100
Princeton South, Suite 150,
Ewing 08628; 609-921-1456;
fax, 609-921-8703. Mort
Collins, general partner.
www.battelleventures.com
Battelle Ventures moved from
103 Carnegie Center to 100 Princeton South in Ewing.
Battelle Ventures and its affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Part-
The program at the
Princeton
Homewood
location is the
first of its
kind in the
c o m p a n y,
Kowalchek says. She got the idea
about a year ago while on vacation
and found a few things to do
through the hotel where she was
staying. “I thought, ‘why can’t I do
this is my hotel?’” she says.
And then Kowalchek hired Tiersch, an old friend with whom she
worked years before. “We figured
that if we could do a bit more for
the community — because so
many people are without much of
an advertising budget — we can
help them break through the wall,”
Tiersch says. “And what we’ve
learned from our guests and from
the community is, the community
does want to take part in [a company’s] growth.”
Kowalchek, born and raised in
New Jersey, started her career path
in hospitality and service when she
was in high school and worked as a
waitress. She earned her bachelor’s
in hotel and restaurant management from Fairleigh Dickinson and
started her career in hotels in the finance end.
She was the controller for Prime
Hospitality from 1984 to 1994,
then took her first steps in management. She has managed hotels for
10 years and has worked for Starwood, Hyatt, and Alliance Hospitality. She took over as general
manager at Homewood last April.
Tiersch, who also grew up in
New Jersey, studied hotel and motel management at the Hill Insti-
ners, based in Knoxville, TN,
manage a combined $255 million
to invest in early-stage technology
companies. The two funds invest
in the areas of health and life sciences, energy and environment,
and security.
Fornaro Francioso LLC, 98
Franklin
Corner
Road,
Lawrenceville 08648; 609584-6104; fax, 609-5842709. Richard D. Fornaro.
www.fornarofrancioso.com.
Law firm Fornaro Francioso has
relocated from 2277 Route 33, in
the Golden Crest Corporate Center, Hamilton, to 98 Franklin Corner Road, Lawrenceville, as of
April 30.
The firm practices in numerous
areas including: corporate and
business; banking and commercial
finance; residential and commercial real estate; land use and development; business transactions and
litigation; utilities and regulated
industries; government and administration; labor and employment;
construction law and litigation;
general litigation and collections;
and municipal court.
NCADD-NJ Work First New
Jersey Substance Abuse
Initiative, 360 Corporate
Boulevard,
Robbinsville
08691; 609-689-0599; fax,
609-689-0595. Eric Diamond,
manager.
www.ncaddnj.org.
The NCADD-NJ Work First
New Jersey Substance Abuse Initiative moved from 1675 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road in Hamilton to 360 Corporate Boulevard in
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- Immediate
occupancy
tute. She started her professional
life in insurance and met
Kowalchek at Prime Hospitality 20
years ago. She calls Kowalchek
“my mentor.” Tiersch worked her
way up from front desk clerk
through management and sales in a
10-year span, she says, because
Kowalchek taught her well.
Tiersch briefly operated her
own business after she had taken
care of her grandparents. Her company assisted families in placing
seniors in care facilities. She came
back to hotels and hospitality, joining Homewood last year.
With their new twist on the community room, Kowalchek and
Tiersch says they see a great deal of
potential and are unashamed to
state that businesses of all sizes
should consider the Knowledge
Broker program a genuine opportunity to build a name and brand
recognition, and to share expertise.
“We all struggle with where we
can fit into our communities,” Tiersch says. “We looked and thought,
right here where we work, we can
help.”
Homewood Suites by Hilton,
3819 Route 1 South, Plainsboro 08536-; 609-720-0550;
fax, 609-720-0551. Mary Ann
Kowalchek, general manager. www.homewoodsuites1.hilton.com
- 5000/SF office
★
- 5000-15,000/SF,
flex, recreation
- Flexible lease
terms
William Barish, [email protected]
609-921-8844 Cell 609-731-6076
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Robbinsville, where it already has
offices.
The non-profit organization,
founded in 1982, focuses on the
prevention and treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence for
individuals, families, and communities.
Novahill Partners LLC, 34
Chambers Street, Second
Floor, Princeton 08542; 609921-6120; fax, 609-9216119. Michael E. Doyle, managing director.
Novahill Partners, a private investment banking firm, moved
from 32 Nassau Street to 34 Chambers Street.
The company provides corporate finance advisory services to
public and private companies, and
also private equity clients for midmarket sized transactions.
With alliance advisory partners
in London and Frankfurt, the firm’s
primary focus is on providing financial advisory services, including merger and acquisition advice,
for both healthy and underperforming situations. It also provides
consulting services on restructuring and corporate strategy projects.
Chute Chosen As
New State Librarian
T
he New Jersey State Library
has chosen Mary L. Chute, pictured at right, as the next state librarian.
Chute, the deputy director for libraries at the Institute of Museum
and Library Services (IMLS) in
Washington D.C., will assume the
post in July.
“The thing that energizes me the
most is the collaborative role of
this position and working with
New Jersey’s extraordinary library
community and other stake holders
to help the state thrive,” said Chute.
“The New Jersey State Library is
well positioned to help shape policy, address regional and national
issues, and still see the impact our
work has on the communities we
serve.”
A former state librarian of
Delaware, Chute was selected after
a national search conducted by
Thomas Edison State College and a
search committee comprising
members of the state library community.
“Mary is a dynamic leader with
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expertise working on local, state
and national levels,” said George
A. Pruitt, president of Thomas Edison State College. “The search
committee recognized that Mary’s
extensive background will enable
her to shape and communicate a
compelling vision for New Jersey’s library community.”
During her 28-year career,
Chute has worked in public libraries, state library administrative
agencies and, for the past 10 years,
with the IMLS, the primary source
of federal funding targeted at
building the capacity of the nation’s libraries and museums. At
the institute, she served as a senior
leader focused on program analysis and development, strategic
planning, financial administration,
national policy development, and
partnerships.
Chute joined IMLS in 2002 and
served as acting director from 2005
to 2006. Prior to joining the institute, she served as director and
state librarian of the Delaware Division of Libraries, where she promoted the extension and improvement of statewide library services
through community outreach, library automation, new technologies, and resource sharing.
Chute earned her undergraduate
degree from the University of
Michigan and earned a master of
arts in art history from Boston University and a master of library sciences from Simmons College.
Chute succeeds Norma Blake,
who is retiring as state librarian in
July. Chute says she wants to leverage the strengths of the state’s libraries to help maximize the latest
technologies despite challenging
economic conditions.
“Libraries are truly anchors in
our communities that provide access to knowledge and lifelong
learning through our collections,
our services and our relationships
with civic and business organizations,” said Chute. “Enhancing this
incredible infrastructure and building on our collective strengths will
enable libraries to improve the
health of New Jersey and make the
region stronger.”
New Jersey State Library, 185
West State Street, Box 520,
Trenton 08625-0520; 609278-2640; fax, 609-2782652. Norma Blake, state librarian. www.njstatelib.org.
BROKERS PROTECTED
Dynamic Air Quality Solutions, 5 Crescent Avenue,
Princeton Business Park,
Building A-5, Box 1258,
Princeton 08542-; 800-5787873; fax, 609-924-8524.
Duke
Wiser,
president.
www.DynamicAQS.com.
Environmental
Dynamics
Group has changed its name to Dynamic Air Quality Solutions. The
Rocky Hill-based company is the
provider of residential and commercial air cleaning, heating, and
cooling services.
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HOW TO ORDER
Fax or E-Mail: That’s all it takes to order a U.S. 1 Classified. Fax your ad to
609-452-0033 or E-Mail [email protected]. We will confirm your insertion and the price. It won’t be much:
Our classifieds are just 50 cents a word,
with a $7 minimum. Repeats in succeeding issues are just 40 cents per
word, and if your ad runs for 16 consecutive issues, it’s only 30 cents per word.
(There is a $3 service charge if we send
out a bill.) Questions? Call us at 609452-7000.
OFFICE RENTALS
186-196 Princeton-Hightstown Rd.
Windsor Business Park. Only two
suites remaining, 1686 & 1689 SF available immediately, please call 609-9216060 for details.
Center of Hightstown - Newly renovated building. Only 2 stores left - 1st
floor 2,180 sq. ft., 2nd floor 2,160 sq. ft.
Very low rents - excellent for retail or offices. Call Mel Adlerman 609-655-7788.
Class A Princeton office to share.
On-site parking, 2 Offices and 1 cubicle.
Internet and utilities included. Kitchen,
conference room, copiers available to
share. E-mail [email protected] or
call 609-658-8889 for more information.
OFFICE FOR LEASE
Ewing Township - 1900 SF
Reception • 3 Large Offices • Conference Room
Kitchen • Storage • Bull Pen Area • First Floor Location
Also Available: 1,558 SF –– 4 Offices & Reception Area
Rent Includes All Utilities • Free Rent Available
Contact: Al Toto, Senior Vice President
609-921-8844 • Fax: 609-924-9739
[email protected] • Exclusive Broker
East Windsor, Route 130 professional building. 3-room suite with bath.
Ample parking. Two entrances. Subdivision possible. Near banks, shops,
restaurants. Possible for light mfg.
880SF, $750 monthly. Call 609-4260602.
Kingston Professional Office: Single office available for immediate sublease. Beautifully appointed. Shared
conference/waiting room, free parking,
utilities included. First month free. Ph:
609-683-7400.
MEDICAL
OFFICE
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Health Campus. 2,200 square feet $12/SF
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space, individual signage, conference
rooms, copier, Verizon FIOS available,
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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 - 253 NASSAU #201
Luxury 1-Bedroom Apt. Featuring All
Amenities, Great Light, Central Downtown Princeton Location $2,250 per
month. Undercover Parking Available.
Weinberg Management 609-924-8535.
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ROUTE 1 MONMOUTH JUNCTION
at Wynwood Drive. Six room suite in
professional building. $12 per sq. ft. plus
utilities. Will fit-out to suit. 609-5296891.
BUSINESS FOR SALE
Chinese buffet business for sale in
prominent Hamilton. Call Anne Russell
at 609-216-2800.
RETAIL SPACE
Lawrenceville storefront for rent:
Two floors, 1,500 SF at 25 Texas Avenue. $1,800 per month. Great location
for any business. 609-306-5145.
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Unique Rental Space zoning (I3), ordinance passed for retail and recreation
activities, ample parking all utilities, one
1200’, one 2000’, one 2500’ one 3600’,
and one 10,000. Located at 325 and 335
New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call
Harold 732-329-2311.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
Commercial space/store fronts, 3
units each 1,500 sq. ft., parking, West
Trenton. Buy or lease. call Gary: 609306-8147.
HAMILTON & LAMBERTVILLE 300
to
50,000
SF
Office/WH/Flex/Showroom/Studios.
Amazing spaces in extraordinary buildings! Low rents / high quality units with
all you need! Brian @ 609-731-0378,
[email protected].
STORAGE
902 Carnegie Center, Princeton:
Clean, dry, humidity controlled storage
on Route 1 in West Windsor. Spaces
start at 878 SF. Please call 609-9216060 for details.
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SF (divisible) storage/warehouse space
available immediately. Please call 609921-6060 for details.
HOUSING FOR SALE
Condo for sale in Lawrenceville
Square Village: Newly remodeled, all
appliances included. First floor, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Asking $179,500.
609-259-2575.
CONTRACTING
Alex Drywall! Drywall and taping,
complete wall repair, interior-exterior
painting. Power washing. Free Estimates. Reasonable prices! Call: 732979-0716.
Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Hauling/All Yard Work
from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Reasonable prices for quality
work: TeamPannon Construction LLC.
provide complete solution from smallest
to the largest job, from basement to the
attic. Call for free estimate: 732-7423801.
CLEANING SERVICES
House cleaning by Polish woman
with a lot of experience. Excellent references. Good price. Own transportation. Please call Barbara: 609-2734226
Mila’s Cleaning Service: Reliable,
affordable home & office cleaning. Many
years of experience. References available. Call 609-620-0849. Ask for Mila.
Monica’s Cleaning Service. Highest
quality, reasonable prices, free estimates. 609-577-2126.
Window Washing and Power
Washing: Free estimates. Next day
service. Fully insured. Gutter cleaning
available. 609-271-8860. References
available upon request. 30 years experience.
HOME MAINTENANCE
A Quick Response Handyman: will
give you a free estimate for electrical,
plumbing, painting, repair or other project around your house. Please call 609275-6631
Amazing
house
painting.
Interior/exterior. Wallpaper removal,
deck & fence refinishing, powerwashing, stucco/aluminum siding (painting).
Licensed and insured. Owner operated.
Free estimates. 215-736-2398.
For all your refrigeration, heating, air
conditioning, plumbing or handyman
needs, and much more. Call Mac. 609851-6552. macsrepairservice.com.
robthehandyman- licensed, insured, all work guaranteed. Free Estimates. We do it all - electric, plumbing,
paint, wallpaper, powerwashing, tile,
see website for more: robthehandym a n . v p w e b . c o m
[email protected],
609-2695919.
Rototilling: Is your garden ready for
spring? I will make your soil smooth as
silk. Soil amendments available upon
request. 609-584-6278
SPRING YARD MAINTENANCE:
Clean up, mulching, mowing, trimming,
planting and more. Call or Text: 609 7221137.
MAY 16, 2012
HOME MAINTENANCE
TRANSPORTATION
Sump Pump Failed? How can you survive
when your sump pump fails or the power is out?
Want to avoid a flooded basement? For a low cost
plan, please call 609-275-6631.
Personal Driver seeking to transport commuters, shopping trips, etc. Modern, attractive car.
References
provided.
E-mail
to
[email protected] or call 609-331-3370.
DECKS REFINISHED
HEALTH
Cleaning/Stripping and Staining of All Exterior Woods: Craftsmanship quality work. Fully insured and licensed with references. Windsor
WoodCare. 609-799-6093. www.windsorwoodcare.com.
Massage and Reflexology: The benefits are
beyond what we even fathom. Experience deep relaxation, heightened well-being, improved health.
Holistic practitioner offering reflexology, Swedish
and shiatsu massage. Available for on-site massage at the work place, etc. Gift certificates, flexible
hours. Call Marilyn 609-403-8403.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Having problems with life issues? Stress,
anxiety, depression, relationships. Free consultation. Working in person or by phone. Rafe Sharon,
Psychoanalyst 609-683-7808.
COMPUTER SERVICES
MUSIC SERVICES
Computer problem? Or need a used computer in good condition - $80? Call 609-275-6631.
Solo Steel Drummer for Hire: For additional information, go to www.bryantpercussion.biz.
GRAPHIC ARTS
MERCHANDISE MART
Graphic Design Services: Logos, Newsletters,
Brochures, Direct Mail, etc. Reasonable rates. Fast
turnaround. Call 732-331-2717 or email
[email protected] www.kathysmythdesign.com
1966 Live Action TV series Batmobile Replica
Only 2,500 made, retails $250, now $180. Also
comic books, variant covers, action figures. Send
me your wants. E-mail [email protected],
848-459-4892.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Tenor or Bass Trombone Needed: Collegebound player needs to buy one of each to take the
place of high school loaners. If you have one gathering dust please E-mail [email protected].
ADULT CARE
Best At Home Senior Care Non Medical home
care services. Experienced and professional home
care staff to help you in your home. Individualized
services at your own pace. We are available 24/7
@ 1-888-908-9450. www.mybestseniorcare.com
CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL
[email protected]
UNIQUE LANDMARK BUILDING
AVAILABLE
10,000 - 40,000 SF
MENTAL HEALTH
Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle
your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs.
Many services available. Reasonable rates. Work
done at your office or mine. Call Debra @ 609-4486005 or visit www.v-yours.com.
Accounting and tax services for individuals,
families, and businesses; free initial consultation
in home or office; CPA, 30 years experience in
healthcare, small business and other areas of accounting. 908-907-3702, e-mail [email protected]
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GARAGE SALES
Moving Sale, May 19 and 20, 8am to 1pm: Oil
paintings by a New Hope artist. Serious inquiries
only, please. Women’s clothing, costume jewelry,
pocket books, shoes, odds and ends. 57 Rockleigh
Drive, Route 31, Ewing.
Multi-Family Garage Sale in West Windsor:
Galston Drive, Dunbar Drive, Huntly Drive, Darvel
Drive, Conover Raod. Saturday, May 19, 8 a.m. - 1
p.m. Raindate Sunday, May 20.
CLASS A LOCATION
AMPLE PARKING
CIRCULAR ENTRANCE
1 MILE TO PRINCETON
BELOW MARKET RATE
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Employment Exchange
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
JOBS WANTED
JOBS WANTED
Client Assistant Part time position in East Windsor. Start out
working 10 hours per week with
potential 20 hours after training
period. We require mature individuals with strong organizational and communication skills.
Business computer knowledge,
bookkeeping experience are desirable. Please email resume
with salary requirements and references to: [email protected].
position available for laboratory
Biochemist at BS/MS level in
gold diagnostic applications.
Make and characterize conjugates using spectral & chromatographic tools and develop diagnostic tests. Please no agencies
or headhunters. Send email to
[email protected]
Two hairdressers needed for
Hamilton Square location. Immediate opening. With following
only. Excellent offer. 609-2592575.
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08540. You must include your
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magazines and newsletters and
editing medical publications. I
am currently working in retail, but
it’s not for me, though I have
gained much transferable experience, particularly in display and
visual merchandising through
my jobs. I am open to opportunities in many fields, as I am a
quick learner and proficient at
doing research. My passion,
however, is in the creative arts
and publishing. Start-ups welcome. I tend to generate lots of
ideas! Help my start my next (and
last) career: e-mail me at [email protected].
Landscaping
company
needs help - preferably with experience and drivers license.
Mercer County area. Call 609
722-1137 for information and interview.
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you how you can earn the extra
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609-918-1511.
Property Inspectors: Parttime $30k, full-time $80k. No experience, will train. Call Tom,
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Unlimited Income! No Experience needed! Contact Weidel
Today! Hamilton: Judy 609-5861400,
[email protected];
Princeton: Mike 609-921-2700,
[email protected].
Servers and deliverers and
needed for restaurant in Pennington
Shopping
Center.
Please inquire: 917-215-1404.
Transcriptionist: Work from
home 30 hours/week during
business hours. Some overnight
work. Must have 4 year college
degree, type 70 words/minute
and have lots of transcription experience. E-mail resume to
[email protected].
CAREER SERVICES
Attention
parents
and
young adults: Young adults are
you stuck? Do you have young
adults who are “Stuck”? Would
like to explore career/education
options, but have no idea where
to begin? Licensed/Certified
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Grundfest, licensed psychologist
and certified career counselor,
help you with your career goals
and job search skills. Call 609921-8401 or 732-873-1212 (License #2855)
JOBS WANTED
Job Hunters: If you are looking for a full-time position, we
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• Systems technology for savings up to 25%
• 3 to 5 month build-out for lower loan costs
• In-house custom plan design included
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motivated to exceed your expectations. Box 238109
For hire: creative, loyal,
trustworthy,
dependable,
adaptable professional looking for employment in a creative field. I have a background
in writing for national consumer
INSTRUCTION
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Lessons in Your Home: Music lessons in your home. Piano, clarinet, saxophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Math, Science, English, ACT & SAT
Tutoring: Available in your home.
Brown University-educated college pro-
Job needed: A very pleasant,
honest lady available for nanny
position or caring for elderly that
are ambulatory. Will do light
housekeeping, prepare simple,
healthy meals, run errands with
use of your car. Princeton only or
within a few miles of Princeton.
Excellent local references. 609651-5711.
Nanny/Elder Care Available
for Princeton or Nearby: Parttime or full-time. Ambulatory elder care. Retired RN. Excellent local references. 609-651-5711.
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INSTRUCTION
fessor. Experienced with gifted, underachieving and learning-disabled students. Web: http://ivytutoring.intuitwebsites.com Call Bruce 609-371-0950.
SAT MATH SUMMER PREP
COURSE At The Lawrenceville School.
Prepare to excel. Registration is now
open. For more information visit
http://bit.ly/SummerSAT or call 609558-0722.
Music Lessons: Piano, guitar, drum,
sax, clarinet, F. horn, oboe, t-bone,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin, cello, banjo,
mandolin, harmonica, uke, and more.
$28 half hour. School of Rock. Adults or
kids. Join the band! Princeton 609-9248282. Princeton Junction 609-8970032.
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Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
Hamilton Twp., 609-890-0142. Our retail outlet is open Saturdays 10 to 4:00,
or by appointment.
Best cash paid for saxophones Call
609-581-8290, e-mail [email protected].
Buying all coins and currency: I am
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medals, and related items. Call 609581-8290,
e-mail
[email protected]. www.mymilitarytoys.com
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Exchange, 12 Roszel Road, Princeton,
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and forward all replies to you ASAP.
People responding to your ad will be
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MAY 16, 2012
I
licit ideas, and creating
development plans. I
figure I’m doing OK by
that measure. Another
lists five qualities of a
remarkable boss. One of those
qualities jumps out at me:
“To some of your employees,
especially new employees, you are
at least slightly famous. You’re in
charge. You’re the boss. That’s
why an employee who wants to
talk about something that seems inconsequential may just want to
spend a few moments with you.
“When that happens, you have a
choice. You can blow the employee
off or you can see the moment for
its true importance: A chance to inspire, reassure, motivate, and even
give someone hope for greater
things in their life. The higher you
rise the greater the impact you can
make — and the greater your responsibility to make that impact.”
On a few occasions recently I
have walked away from the responsibility, and buried my head in
a 5,000-word article instead. Forgetting to turn off the electricity at
the lake can ruin a refrigerator.
Losing your patience at work can
cost you a productive employee.
Maybe I should get help with the
management, and concentrate on
the editorial.
Just saying. Or am I just asking?
Richard K. Rein
t’s one of those
days. I’m feeling betwixt and between, a little of this
and a little of that. I’m a man whose
job is to ask questions and get answers and who — on this day —
finds that every answer just leads to
another question.
It’s a birthday, one that’s neither
a big one nor a small one. It’s not
one of big-whatever “ohs,” but it is
one where the new card in the mail
is for Medicare, not AARP.
If it were one of the big whatevers, I would have an easy handle
for a column. I’ve used the same
headline for the last three major
milestones: “Sex After 40 (50) (60)
— What Works, What Doesn’t.”
The headline has topped an appropriately numbered list of life’s little
lessons, most of them shamelessly
stolen from friends and family.
None of the observations has anything to do with sex, other than to
illustrate another lesson of life —
that you should never let the facts
get in the way of a good headline.
Five years from now the alliteration would work well for another
“What Works, What Doesn’t”
headline. But this year it’s another
matter. I don’t have the headline,
and I don’t even have the facts that
might get in the way. Instead I have
all those questions that lead to answers that create more questions.
Am I losing it? I don’t think so, I
answer. But then I ask, what is it
that I might be losing? Some people get to this point and wonder if
they are losing their minds. Some
people do, I don’t. Not yet, at least.
This past weekend I drove up to
the summer cottage, determined to
get the water running before June. I
failed to get the water running, but
at least managed to get a few other
issues straightened out, and then
departed. An hour after leaving,
too far away to turn back, I had that
second thought: Did I turn the electricity off?
The next day, impatient at my
lapse of memory, I E-mailed my
neighbor, and asked if he would
take a peek inside. He did. The circuit breaker was indeed off. Still I
had no memory of doing it.
So am I losing “it?” No, I have
an excuse. Because I couldn’t get
the pump operating, my entire
close-down routine was thrown
off. It was a one-of-a-kind event
that triggered a malfunction in my
autopilot system.
But another question: What if
“it” turns out to be not my mind,
but my patience? That would be
bad, very bad, is the answer, which
in turn would prompt the question:
What should I do about it?
I have extolled the virtues of patience before in this space. In the
early, dark days of freelance writing, the sign above my IBM B
Model electric typewriter proclaimed the top three critical elements to success — 3. physical
health; 2. mental health; and 1. —
drum roll, please — patience.
Patience has been the safety net
that has prevented all sorts of other
failures from turning into permanent disasters. In the early days of
freelancing I would plan day trips
to New York, where I would make
the rounds of editors and publishers, flogging the ideas that I somehow had to turn into cash to keep
the mortgage ($213.76, at one
point) and health insurance paid.
Some days would not go well,
and I would simply turn on my
heel, and ride back to Princeton, reminding myself I had to be patient.
Patience was the secret sauce in
my father’s prescribed method of
opening stubborn jars. Get a grip
on it, turn it, and then hold the pressure. The duration of the force applied was just as important as the
force itself. But most people, of
course, would give the jar a twist,
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lose patience, and give up. In a
business setting you run into a lot
of stubborn problems — some take
more than a quick twist to solve.
Here at the office I have taken a
certain pride in maintaining my
equilibrium. People yell and I try
not to yell back. But recently I have
surprised myself in a few situations
by snapping back at some of my
colleagues. It’s surprising to me
that I can patiently read through a
Another season begins and a veteran
wonders if he has lost
a step (or two).
5,000-word article, painstakingly
circling words that might be replaced by another word. But in another moment I can be impatient
after five seconds of a discussion
about a management issue.
Someone in the office shows me
some Inc. magazine columns. One
lists the five things a great boss
never does, including annual performance reviews, meetings to so-
U.S. 1
Sale, Lease-Purchase/Princeton address
A very cool & creative place
3BR, 2.5 baths--Sale or Lease, Lease Purchase Option – Princeton
address, Hopewell Schools/Taxes – 1.3 acres, wrapped in trees, freshly
painted, New Gas heat system, 2 car garage – Open floor plan, wide
pine floors, 2 fireplaces, 2 patios – New windows, hardy siding, newer
roof – Brick and beam walls, 2 story wall of glass – 10 minutes to
Nassau Street & 195, 3 minutes to Hopewell Boro – Asking $529,900
or $2375/month, long term lease/purchase option.
Brokers protected, owner is RE Broker.
[email protected] or 609-731-6076
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Lawrenceville $599,900
9 North Field Ct
Best value in Kingsbrook! 5 BR, 3 BTH custom
colonial on cul-de-sac. Gourmet kit, finished basement, paver patio & inground pool. Dir: Rt. 206
To Cold Soil Rd. to R on Registry then R on
Ashleigh then L on North Field.
Hopewell Twp $399,000 New Price!
7 Cleveland Rd. West
This classic ranch-designed home offers plenty
of privacy, a lg. beautifully-landscaped lot on a
cul-de-sac street. Renovated through out. Dir:
Carter Rd. to Cleveland Rd. West.
609-921-2700
609-921-2700
Lawrence Twp. $249,000
719 Mayflower Ave. - New Price!
Charming on the outside! Spacious on the
inside!Offering NEW renovations from Top to
Bottom (roof, windows, doors, kitchen, bath,
waterproofed basement, gutters, chimney & liner
and so much more!) Welcome Home! Brunswick
Ave (North) to Mayflower.
609-921-2700
ID#5986740
East Brunswick $220,000
238 Palombi Court
Fresh-Unique-Exciting Society Hill TH! Updated
kit w/newer cabinets and peninsula counter.
LR w/brick FP and HW floors. Two large BRs and
laundry rm up. Paver patio faces woods for private
BBQ's. Dir: Rt 535 to Congress, R Village, R
Palombi
609-586-1400
ID#6014050
ID#6042996
ID#5741402
OPEN SUN. 1-4 PM
NEW LISTING
MORE LIVING SPACE THAN MEETS THE EYE.
Hamilton $194,900
117 Josiah Lane
Hickory Model in Locust Hill. LR w/double sided
fireplace, bookshelves, crown molding, chair rail.
2nd BR w/windows on 2 sides and B/I window
seating. Kit w/breakfast bar plus sunroom addition. Dir: Yardville Ham Sq to Locust Hill Blvd,
R Allison, L Burholme to Josiah.
609-586-1400
ID# 6012751
Princeton Jct. $494,900
19 N. Mill
Expanded Cape. Lg. open LR & DR areas,
Kit. w/maple cabinets and a new wall oven.
Full finished basement & 2 car garage.
3 minutes to the Train Station and close
proximity to shopping and major arteries.
609-586-1400
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Hamilton $149,900
22 Annabelle Ave.
Have your tenant help pay your mortgage!
2 Family home w/separate entrances and utilities.
2nd flr. 1BR apt. w/a NEW kit/bth/carpet 1st fl.
NEW kit! Full bsmt, W/D. Great investment!
609-586-1400
ID#6045820
ID#6044438
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Hamilton $317,000
1 Pintinalli Dr.
Fabulous Location! Steinert school district. 2 Story
Colonial on a 1/3 Acre treed corner lot. 3 BR,
2.5 BA. FR with FP. Rear Deck has a 17' x 15'
screened in room.
609-586-1400
ID6048957
Hopewell $107,930
199 Hopewell Wertsville Rd.
Vinyl sided townhouse style condo near the
heart Of Hopewell Boro. 1 BR, 1.5 BTHS, SS
appliances, front porch, 1 car att. Garage, C/A,
next to Preserved open space. Brand new
Moderate Income.
609-921-2700
ID#6022419
Hamilton $299,900
230 George Dye Rd.
Well maintained 3 BR, 2 full BTH Ranch in
Steinert School District. Hardwood flrs., marble
countertops, center island, SS appls., plenty
Storage. Fin. BSMT & 1 car garage.
Hamilton $235,900
27 Fallview Ct
Lovely End Unit in the Woodlands at Hamilton.
Nice open layout with 3 bedrooms & 3 full baths
and priced to sell.
609-921-2700
609 586-1400
NEW PRICE
NEW PRICE
Allentown $469,900
6 Bunker Hill Dr.
This beautiful home in the 55+ Four Seasons
of Upper Freehold Community. Overlooking a
pond beautiful decor & has many upgrades. Live
the country club life.
609-586-1400
ID#6039561
Lawrenceville $570,000
5 Foxcroft Dr.
Great Value, Princeton address! Spacious 4 BR
Cape in Lawrence with dramatic great room, private
garden with deck, patio and pool for outside entertainment. Just minutes to town, trains and I-95.
609-921-2700
ID#5911521
ID#6048937
ID#6045768
Rocky Hill $660,000
16 Toth Lane
This six bedroom home offers, state-of-the-art
kitchen, Granite counters, custom moldings,
custom baths, skylights & greenhouse.
Ewing $415,000
30 Malaga Drive
Custom built 4BR Ranch with 2 kitchens, 3 full
bathrooms, full basement, 3 car garage and
in-law-suite. Maintenance free stone exterior.
609-921-2700
609-586-1400
ID#6020489
ID#6025660
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Scotch Run Condos, Ewing Twp
15 Kyle Way – 2 BR, 2 B , FP, Private Patio
$174,900.
68 Kyle Way – 2 BR, 2 B, FP, Balcony
$175,000. Dir: I 95 to Scotch Road, Right
on Kyle.
Hopewell
$339,999
56 Temple Court. Over 55 Four Seasons
Community-3BR 2 Bath w/Full Basement.
Never mow the lawn again or shovel snow!
DIR: Van Brunt To Have To Foster To 2nd
Temple - Corner Lot.
Hopewell Twp
$208,000
51 Pennington Lawrenceville Rd. Just outside of Pennington beautiful ranch ready
to move into. LR hw fl with fp 3beds and
2 baths. DIR: Blackwell Rd to Pennington
Lawrenceville Rd, between S Main and
Blackwell.
South Brunswick
$499,900
3 Lavender Drive. Princeton Walk!
Exquisite finished bsmt with wet bar,
upgraded eat in kit with granite counters,
1st floor library, nice deck with scenic
landscaping. MUCH MORE! Rt. 1 or 27 to
Promenade Blvd. to Princeton Walk Blvd.
to left on Lavender.
Pennington Office 609-737-9100
South Brunswick Office 732-398-2600
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$475,000
Classic colonial loaded with upgrades!
Beautiful 4bd/2.5ba home offers lush
landscaping, private back.
Princeton Office 609-921-2600
Princeton Junction Office 609-750-2020
Spacious 4BR 2.5BA open floorplan, main
floor master suite and study, situated on
3 beautiful acres on a private cul-de-sac
minutes from Princeton.
Montgomery Twp/Skillman
$950,000
Spectacular custom home on premium lot!
Countless upgrades, high-end finishes
& designer details abound! This grand 5
bedroom, 5 full bath colonial.
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$136,500
126 Chinnick Ave. Nice 2BR, 1BA in
Hamilton Lakes. Newer roof, updated BA,
back yard with shed. Ideal starter home.
Dir: Klockner To Magowan To Chinnick.
NE
Robbinsville
Pristine! Feels like new! Great
to own this 5 br 2.5 bath 6
town center colonial that has
lived in.
$449,900
opportunity
year young
been gently
Princeton
$549,999
Semi-detached 3BR 1.5BA home w/ more
to offer than its wonderful ‘Boro’ location.
Beautiful kit; butler’s pantry; built-in book
shelves; patio; garage.
Princeton Junction
$850,000
Wonderful 4BR home w/ pvt rear yard,
pool & gazebo. Walkout bsmt w/full BA,
entertainment area & fpl. Upstairs living
areas are equally impressive.
So. Brunswick
$289,900
Location, location! 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath
townhouse, full basement, wooded lot,
lg mst ste.
West Windsor
$810,000
Beautiful Hunter’s Run col. 5 BRs, 3 full
BAs, 2 gas fpls, inground pool, patio with
hot tub, custom kitchen with granite counters & stainless appliances.
West Windsor
$830,000
Sunny Contemporary on desirable wooded, cul-de-sac. This sunlit home features
hw fls & 2 firepls.
West Windsor
$589,900
Motivated sellers! Fantastic new price!
You’ll love the spacious rooms and layout
in this classic colonial in the heart of
West Windsor. 5 BR’s 2.5 BA.
South Brunswick Office 732-398-2600
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Princeton
$949,000
Custom 4BR, 3BA Constitution Hill home.
KIT w/Viking Stve, Bosch D/W; Sub-Zero
frig; granite cntrs; bsmt; 2-car gar; deck w/
views of pond.
NE
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