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Henriques,
senior financial
writer for the
New York Times,
speaks on
Bernie Madoff
at the Princeton
Chamber’s
Thursday,
January 5, lunch
at the Marriott.
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NJSO’s ‘Fire’ with Music, 30; NRG Takes Stadium Solar, 35.
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WHAT MATTERS — IN JUST SIX WORDS:
H APPY N EW Y EAR
SHANA TOVA U’METUKAH
At a Rosh Hashanah sermon, a Princeton rabbi challenged
her congregants to compose their own six-word memoirs,
to capture the profound elements of their life
in a single concise statement.
From the Jewish New Year of 5772 to the new year of 2012,
we offer these and other reflections:
The six-word memoirs — page 31.
A few observations from an 86-year-old
(with more promised in four years) — page 33.
One E-Greeting card that did not get deleted — page 33.
EVERYONE HAS A STORY
– WHAT’S YOURS?
Annie Tucker, associate rabbi of the Jewish Center of Princeton,
says it wouldn’t be fair to ask others for a six-word memoir without
offering one of her own: ‘Who says women can’t be rabbis?’
For more on Tucker and her path to the synagogue, see page 32.
And U.S. 1 editor Richard K. Rein, who invites readers
to submit their six-word memoirs to [email protected],
also offers his own (with some elaboration), page 39.
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To the Editor:
Asperger’s Provides
A Different View
Richard K. Rein
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ployment unless I take delivery
jobs using my vehicle, which doesn’t pay enough money to override
the depreciation of the vehicle and
to be able to support myself. Therefore, I have been cursed.
Maybe in my next life I will find
people who value my knowledge.
Until that time comes, being born
with Asperger’s has been a curse;
because I can’t do things that other
people take for granted; even
though I am not mentally retarded
and I am not physically disabled.
Daniel Rappoport
Holly House, Princeton
Editor’s ntoe: The writer earned
an MBA in market research in
1980 from Baruch College. Now
61, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at age 51.
he coverage of the relocation of the Eden Institute (U.S. 1,
December 14) was very good. I
was pleasantly surprised by the
coverage of Asperger’s Syndrome.
I would disagree with the remark
that it is viewed by those who have
it as “a gift, not a curse.” I have the
disability. If it is a gift, then how
am I being rewarded in a way that
the vast majority of people are not?
Does this make my career path less
difficult? Just the opposite. My
friends who are physically disabled have a better chance of getting hired than I do. There are studies showing how much higher the
unemployment rate is among all
disabled people than the general
population.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD of
One characteristic of the people
with Asperger’s is rigid hand Trustees and the staff of the Histormovements. This leads to tasks be- ical Society of Princeton, I would
ing performed at a slower speed. like to thank everyone in the
Therefore, I can’t qualify for the Princeton community who supjobs or I am ridiculed
ported our two major
on the job by being
fundraisers: the
Between 2011
called “Speedy.” EmPrinceton Antiques and
ployers like my work
The
Fine Art Show and the
ethic but they will fire
House Tour. Our mission
Lines
me due to lack of
is to preserve, collect,
speed. Therefore, I
and interpret Princeton’s rich histohave been cursed.
Another characteristic is a fasci- ry through innovative exhibitions
nation with maps. People are and programs — and we could not
amazed by my knowledge of succeed without your help.
We would like to recognize the
roads. But this doesn’t lead to emhard work of our Steering Committee, who planned and executed this
year’s Antiques Show, led by
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Company Index
Aetna, 9; Billtrust, 36; Bohrens,
9; Creative Marketing Alliance, 8;
CytoSorbents, 35; D&R Greenway, 8; Fox Rothschild, 9; Heartland Payment Systems, 36; Institute for Advanced Study, 4; Integra
LifeSciences, 36; International
Flavors & Fragrances, 36; John
Milner Associates, 4; Johnson &
Johnson, 35; McGraw-Hill Federal
Credit Union, 9; Mercadien, 9;
MISTRAS Group, 35; Nassau Inn,
9; NJ Communications, Advertising, and Marketing Association, 8;
NRG Energy, 35; Orchid Cellmark,
35; Princeton Battlefield Society,
4; Princeton HealthCare System,
7; Princeton Regional Chamber of
Commerce, 6; Princeton University Faith and Work Initiative, 34;
Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital Hamilton, 9; Rutgers, 5;
Siemens Corporate Research, 35;
SVM E-Marketing, 8; Synthes, 35;
The College of New Jersey, 8; The
Jewish Center of Princeton, 31;
Trenton Computer Festival, 8;
Trenton Titans, 9; VaxInnate, 35;
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Letters to the Editor
Continued from page 2
berg, Dorothy Plohn, and Anita
Trullinger. For the seventh year
running, the Nierenberg Family
and Princeton Airport graciously
hosted the Show. We are grateful to
our Show Sponsors including:
Baxter Construction, Honda of
Princeton, Leapfrog Advancement, Shepherd Foundation/Bovenizer Family, Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty, Knight
Architects LLC, PNC Bank &
PNC Wealth Management, Rago
Arts and Auction Center, Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital, Wilmington Trust, Dumont &
Watson Attorneys, Mercadien,
Mills + Schnoering Architects,
Princeton Orthopaedic Associates,
Saul Ewing LLP, Viburnum, Antiques and Fine Art Magazine,
Bucks Life Magazine, Design NJ
Magazine, Packet Publications,
Princeton Magazine, and the Magazine Antiques.
HSP also thanks all those who
made the 2011 House Tour a success. First, the owners of the five
homes that offered such a delightful exploration of Princeton’s dynamic domestic architecture. The
tour would never happen without
our House Tour Committee, our
House Tour Chair David Schure,
House Captains Colleen Hall,
Nancy Henkel, Pete Peters, Shirley
Satterfield, and Merlene Tucker,
and over 80 docents. We also owe a
very special thank you to Wanda
Gunning.
Our lead sponsors, N. T. Callaway Real Estate and Glenmede,
have our thanks, as do our other
House Tour funders including:
Viburnum, T. Jeffery Clarke Architect, Garden Makers Landscaping,
HMR Architects, Infini-T Cafe &
Spice Souk, Knight Architects,
Lasley Brahaney, Van Note-Harvey Associates, Candice Walsh of
N. T. Callaway, Woodwinds Associates, Julius H. Gross Painting,
and our special sponsor for 2011,
the Princeton Area Community
Foundation, which honored us
with a generous grant for the
House Tour.
Finally, we would like to extend
our heartfelt gratitude to everyone
who participated by volunteering
time, purchasing tickets, buying
antiques, or supporting us in any
way. We are blessed to be stewards
of the history of such a vibrant, caring community!
Erin Dougherty
Executive Director,
Historical Society of Princeton
A Home, Finally, For
A Homeless Friend
I
want to give everyone an update on our wonderful, Miss H
(U.S. 1, September 28, 2011). I am
pleased to let everyone know that
after a bit of a difficult time we
were able to get Miss H. into her
hotel room on December 12.
She is settled in very comfortably. Some of your donation money went to buying her some microwave dishes to cook in and other items she needed from WalMart. She also needed a new cart
that she uses to put her important
belongings in and to use to stabilize her when she walks distances.
Ace Hardware in the Princeton
Shopping Center gave $20 off just
for her. My thanks goes to the owner of Ace Hardware.
Several different organizations
have approached me trying to find
permanent residency for her. I finally see what the problem is.
These people show up out of
nowhere and — I mean no disrespect — I know from the childhood
that I have had that it takes a long
time for me to build trust. These
people, who I am sure have Miss
H’s best interest at heart, need to
understand you just can’t pop up
out of the blue and expect her to
trust you. I spend hours with her.
I’ve earned her trust.
I think the system needs to do
some revamping of its approach to
schizophrenic and mentally ill
people and realize time needs to be
spent with them. How can anyone
possibly expect a woman who has
been pretty much all alone for 20
years to change at this point?
My goal is for her to be able to
stay in this hotel for the rest of her
time on this planet. There are plenty of corporations and people out
there who can help this wonderful
little woman have the comfort of
bed without going through the insane bureaucracy that she would
have to go through to have a place
to live. That’s why I ask you to
please continue to donate.
Suzanne Newman
Please mail checks payable to
Suzanne Newman at 1330 Route
206, Suite 103-110, Village Shopper, Skillman 08558. Newman is a
Princeton-based massage therapist. Visit her website at www.gotcherback.com or call her for
references at 609-683-1608. She
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the money has been spent.
INSIGHTS & ARGUMENTS
ESSAYS & SOLILOQUIES
INTERCHANGE
WAR STORIES: 1777-1945
The
Chrysanthemums
I
t was the last week of August, 1945. World War II had just
ended a few days earlier, with the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. On
August 19, I had witnessed the
Japanese informal surrender on Ie
Shima, a small island just west of
Okinawa where I was based.
I was a Fifth Air Force navigator
and our crew was assigned to fly
General MacArthur’s Honor
Guard to Japan, prior to his arrival
in Yokohama later that day. Anxiously, unsure of what lay ahead,
we landed in Atsugi at a Japanese
fighter base just south of what was
left of Yokohama after the repeated
bombing.
We were greeted by an elderly,
civilian Japanese man. I say “elderly” since I’d just had my 20th birthday in July. He introduced himself
in fluent English, as Mr. Toda, informing us that he would be our interpreter. He was dressed in a white
linen suit, welcoming us with a
bouquet of beautiful, large yellow
chrysanthemums.
After dispensing with the brief
military matters, I had a chance to
speak privately with Mr. Toda, and
asked how he had learned to speak
English so fluently. He told me he
and his family had in lived in Portland, Oregon, for a few years prior
to the war. He had worked for the
U.S. office of a company in the import/export industry.
Somewhat hesitantly, he told me
his young children had complained
Battle of Princeton –
Plus 235 Years
T
his week marks the 235th
Anniversary of the Battle of
Princeton on January 3, 1777, a
seminal event in world history. The
week before the battle, General
Washington had obtained a map,
known now as the Cadwalader
Spymap, showing how he could
move the Continental Army into
Princeton without being detected.
With the Continental Congress
running out of money, commissions of many soldiers also were
running out on December 31. After
defeating Hessian troops on December 26th in the first Battle of
Trenton, Washington’s army became embroiled in a second battle
at Assunpink Creek. To try to keep
his army together, on December
31. General Washington gave an
extra $10 pay to those who would
stay a few weeks beyond the end of
their commissions.
On January 2, General Cornwallis and his large professional army
arrived in Trenton. Thinking that
he had Washington cornered he decided to finish the battle the next
day. That night, leaving bonfires
and a small group to make noise,
Washington managed to move his
army out of Trenton, marching all
night in freezing temperatures,
reaching Princeton via a circuitous
route. Somewhat delayed, he
marched his army of about 5,500
soldiers up the unguarded Saw
Mill Road as dawn was breaking,
hoping to initiate a surprise attack
War Requiem
We fertilize the fields of foreign lands.
We eulogize with tears and folded hands.
We memorialize with solemn psalms of sorrow.
We grease the guns,
Beget more sons,
We send them forth today to die tomorrow.
- Robert McHugh
This poem appeared originally in the 2011 U.S. 1 Summer Fiction
issue.
repeatedly of being teased by their
schoolmates because of their Asian
appearance and awkward English.
After several discussions, the family decided to return to Japan in
1939. His oldest daughter, Martha,
asked to remain in the U.S. to complete her education. She planned to
attend Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. When I told
him my sister, Aileen, was currently a student there, his eyes filled
with tears. He asked if I could have
my sister contact his daughter. The
family had been out-of-touch since
the start of the war. He wanted his
daughter to know that the family
had survived the B-29 bombings
after moving to the mountain region outside Yokohama. I told him
I would certainly relay his request
in my next letter home, and did so.
I never saw Mr. Toda again.
After numerous flights recovering allied POWs from their confinement camps in Japan, Korea,
and China, I returned to my Trenton, New Jersey home in 1946. My
sister told me that Martha Toda had
graduated from Smith in 1945 and
that she had been unable to contact
her.
Fast-forward 50 years later to
July, 1995, when I had an opportunity to return to Japan. I learned
from the Smith College Alumnae
Directory that Martha Toda had
married and was living in Renton,
Washington. Fortunately, I was
able to phone her. I related the
whole story and that I would be flying to Japan and wanted to renew
my friendship with her father. Sadly, she told me the family had reunited, but that both parents had
died in 1975.
I did return to Japan but, unfortunately, was unable to renew our
WWII brief encounter. However,
my memory of Mr. Toda and his
yellow chrysanthemums lives on.
— Robert McHugh
The writer, a 1943 graduate of
Trenton Central High School and a
1950 graduate of Princeton University, served in both World War II
and the Korean War. He was
prompted to submit this story after
reading the memoir of Pearl Harbor in the December 7, 2011, issue
of U.S. 1. McHugh’s story, in turn,
prompted our editor to reprint his
poem, above.
against the Princeton Garrison of
about 1,500.
In 2010 John Milner Associates
(JMA), under a federally funded
commission from the Princeton
Battlefield Society, completed a
study of 175 original accounts of
the battle, including records of the
British Court Martial of Cornet,
Henry Evatt. Dr. Robert Selig, a
multilingual American Revolution
historian working with JMA, analyzed these accounts and drew
from them physical features that
could be used to map the progression of the battle. Using the Geographical Information System
(GIS) and the Global Positioning
System (GPS), JMA mapped and
analyzed these data points along
with the topography and viewsheds of the battle area. Maps of
the progression of the battle were
then overlaid with the archaeological evidence.
While much work remains to
map the exact location of the now
lost Saw Mill Road, and to confirm
new information about the first
phase of the battle leading to the
defeat of General Mercer’s
brigade, all scholars who have
carefully studied the Battle of
Princeton have concluded that
Washington’s winning counterattack took place on property just to
the east of what is now Princeton
Battlefield State Park. The evidence is overwhelming.
Today, without walking the
sloping topography of the Battlefield and understanding the dynamics of the counterattack, you
cannot appreciate what happened
that day, a day when — if the Continental Army had not prevailed —
the American Revolution almost
certainly would have been lost, and
George Washington would have
been hunted down and hanged.
Just as the Battle of Normandy
cannot be understood without seeing the topography of Normandy
Beach, this pivotal moment in history can’t be memorialized by a
sign or a monument, but must be
experienced by walking the battlefield. Saving the property where
the counterattack occurred is not a
matter of whether an organization
might be a good neighbor. It is a
question of meeting the requirements of Princeton’s Master Plan
to preserve the town’s vital historic
resources, as the best and highest
use. As a willing seller, funds can
be obtained to purchase the property and put it into the public domain.
What is the alternative for the
Institute for Advanced Study,
whose faculty, we are told, just
cannot afford to live in the neighborhood immediately around the
IAS? There are several, but one
that I find compelling is the establishment of a mortgage subsidy
program, similar to that of Princeton University’s, which would allow faculty to choose the neighborhood and home of their choice and
enjoy the benefits of gaining equity
in their homes. I invite faculty with
or without a subsidy to check out
my own wonderful neighborhood,
only about 10 minutes from the
IAS Campus.
— Dan Thompson
The writer is a member of the
Princeton Battlefield Society and a
resident of Dempsey Avenue in
Princeton.
JANUARY 4, 2012
Thursday, January 5
ices, White says. Job seekers
should bring hard copies of their
resumes, and business attire is
strongly recommended.
White also recommends candidates bring a pen, paper, and folder
for holding their resumes and papers and an ample supply of attractive, printed resumes to give to employers. No photocopying services
will be available.
Employers and candidates can
find additional information including directions, parking instructions, resume submissions, career
day tips, and a roster of employers
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Rutgers Serves Up
A Career Fair
Bernie Madoff:
The Inside Story
SURVIVAL
GUIDE
EDITOR:
SCOTT MORGAN
[email protected]
R
utgers University will host
its annual free New Jersey Collegiate Career Day on Thursday, January 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
at the student center in New
Brunswick for college graduates or
those soon to be.
According to Richard White,
director of career services at Rutgers, more than 160 companies are
lined up to recruit collegians,
whether they attended Rutgers or
any other college. All degree levels
and academic majors are welcome.
White also says that with the hiring
picture looking better now than any
time in the past two years, the outlook for young job seekers is improving.
Employer representatives will
meet with entry-level and experienced candidates for internships
and full-time jobs in numerous
fields, including accounting, engineering, financial services, government, information technology,
health, marketing, and social serv-
W
hen the cuffs snapped shut
on financial wizard Bernard L.
Madoff on December 11, 2008, the
trust and invested savings of undetermined thousands utterly vanished. Sixty-five billion dollars —
more than the gross national product of Tanzania — had been entrusted to the man who had employed history’s greatest Ponzi
scheme.
From major funds and financial
houses, down through individual
investors, ripples of loss fanned
across the globe. It had all been paper profit. All feeding old investors
promises with the deposits of new.
All a fraudulent fiction.
Today Madoff spends his days
within the walls of the Butner,
North Carolina, federal correctional complex, filling out his centuryand-a-half sentence for fraud. He
communicates to few on the outside, one person being Diana Henriques, senior financial reporter
for the New York Times, with
whom he still regularly swaps ELife After Madoff:
mails.
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investigative journalist at the
Henriques speaks to
Times who has three Pulitzer Prize
nominations to her credit, has been
the Princeton Regionfollowing Madoff since before his
al Chamber of Comindictment. She was the first remerce about Bernie
porter to gain an interview with
Madoff on Thursday,
him after his arrest. Her definitive
biography, “The Wizard of Lies —
January 5.
Bernie Madoff and the Death of
Trust,” has been optioned by HBO
for a movie project, perhaps with
Henriques’ Princeton Chamber
Robert De Niro as lead.
talk is in many ways a homecomTo present members the inside ing. Following graduation, Henstory on Madoff, the Princeton Re- riques plunged into Garden State
gional Chamber of Commerce has politics, covering state and local
invited Henriques to speak at its government for the Trenton Times
monthly luncheon. She will present until 1986. She researched her first
“Beyond Bernie Madoff — Fallout book, “The Machinery of Greed:
From History’s Biggest Fraud” on Public Authority Abuse and What
Thursday, January 5, at 11:30 a.m. to Do About It,” in 1982 while a
at the Princeton Marriott Hotel and senior fellow at Princeton UniverConference
sity.
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strong encouragement. Attending
Winner of countless awards,
George Washington University, Henriques was most gratified by
she reported for the campus paper her 2004-’05 Pulitzer-finalist seuntil her graduation in 1969. “Just ries in which she exposed financial
imagine being a young reporter, in exploitation of young U.S. soldiers
the nation’s capital, covering the by insurance and investment firms.
first march on the Pentagon and the As a result of her articles, more
death of Martin Luther King,” says than 7,000 military families have
Henriques, recalling her initiation. received compensation.
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Her other books include “Fidelity’s World: The Secret Life and
Public Power of the Mutual Fund
Giant” and “The White Sharks of
Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans
and the Original Corporate
Raiders.”
For Henriques, Bernie Madoff
was more than the greatest fraud
story ever told. “When I learned
that it was Bernie’s own son Mark
who initially reported his father to
the FBI, and later committed suicide, I realized that here was a
tragedy of Shakespearean proportions,” she says.
Who? Bernie Madoff, more
than any of his exhaustively hyped
character traits, was a brilliant financier and investment trailblazer.
Arriving on Wall Street in the
1960s, he soon found a way to lure
penny stock investors into overthe-counter trades by offering legal
rebates to retail houses. This treeshaking of market protocols
“earned Bernie many enemies early on,” says Henriques.
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Ten Key Measures To Protect Your Website
nquestionably, the Internet continues to grow at
an ever-increasing rate.
Yet, whether hiring a professional web development team or
building a web site from within
using a CMS platform, few startups and individuals take the time
and invest the resources to insulate themselves from legal liability or protect their intellectual
property from theft. The following
is a brief outline of the absolute
basics to follow when creating a
web site.
1. Incorporate Proper Legal
Documentation. All sites need
to establish rules governing site
owner conduct. A customized,
site-relevant Terms of Use is certainly critical. A well considered
Privacy Policy is also incumbent
— it is the site's formal statement
as to how the site and its operators collect and use personal information gathered from its
users.
2. Determine What You Own
(and what you don't). As content is added to your site, it is essential to determine whether or
not you have the legal right —
through ownership or license —
to use that content. If you don't
have a right to use it, then don't
use it.
3. DMCA Procedures. If your
site allows users to upload content, you better have a proper
DMCA policy and procedure in
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place. The DMCA, short for the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
of 2003, provides a "safe harbor"
provision for web site owners
who take the requisite legal action when claims of copyright infringement are lodged against
the site for improper use of content.
4. Utilize "White Hat" SEO.
Some may claim secret formulas
that will magically boost your
search engine rankings, but
don't fall for such "black hat" tactics. Attempting to unfairly manipulate Google, Yahoo!, Bing
and their ilk to obtain higher organic search engine rankings
can cause serious problems —
such as de-listing, the death
knell of your site. Do SEO right.
And remember, there is no substitute for relevant, timely and
well written content.
5. Protect Personal Information. All personal information
should be properly protected and
kept confidential pursuant to the
site's Privacy Policy. At the very
least, personal information
should never be disclosed or distributed to a third party without
the individual's express authorization.
6. Disclose Endorsements.
In late 2009, the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) issued new
endorsement and testimonial
guidelines. If you have any interest of any kind concerning any
product or service in which you
provide an endorsement or testimonial, you absolutely must disclose that interest.
7. Disclaim (and disclaim).
People will do just about anything. Always anticipate that
someone will interpret your message to an unreasonable degree,
and when a problem occurs,
blame you. Make sure your site
makes the appropriate legal disclaimers.
8. Protect the Back End of
the Site. If you are not the only
person who has access to the
back end of your site, various
precautions should be implemented. All individuals who have
access to the workings of the site
should be required to sign NonDisclosure or Confidentiality
Agreements (NDAs) and Assignments.
9. Monitor Comments. Flaming, trolling, phishing, and any
other conduct and content that
fail to contribute to the site in a
meaningful and positive way
should not be tolerated. Monitor
your site's comments and contribution content and delete anything that is disparaging or demeaning to other visitors or that
simply fails to add value to your
site.
10. Protect Your Intellectual
Property. Your site will necessarily comprise various forms of
intellectual property (IP). Copyright and trademark registration
should be pursued for the most
effective protection. More recently, courts have come to recognize that the "look and feel" of a
website may be a matter of trade
dress protection. Consult an appropriate legal expert for further
information as to how to perfect
your rights in your web site's IP.
Richard A. Catalina Jr., of
counsel, is an Intellectual Property, Internet and Technology
lawyer at Szaferman, Lakind,
101 Grovers Mill Road, Lawrenceville, NJ, 08648. He can be
reached at 609-275-0400.
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themselves from legal liability and protect their intellectual property from theft.
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was one of the primary developers
of the after-hours trading market.
“When the New York exchange
closed, Madoff opened and began
trading the stocks around the
world,” says Henriques. “As a reporter, I found this extremely valuable.”
Seeking to get a handle on oil
stock fluctuations immediately after the launch of the Gulf War, she
called Madoff’s trading desk and
found the prices around the world,
which helped her make the correct
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morning after.
As an individual, Madoff was,
as Henriques puts it, “an absolute
antithesis of the Ponzi fraudster.
He was quiet, reserved, never
pushy. He seemed more impressed
by you than you were with him.”
This personality, as much as anything, totally disarmed federal and
exchange regulators with whom
Madoff became so cozy throughout his career. Further, while shying away from one-on-one consultations, he exuded a sense of calm
and confidence that gave his words
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psychology,” says Henriques, “I
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young Bernie lived through his father Ralph’s disastrous financial
career.
Leaving a job with Everlast,
Ralph launched his own sporting
goods firm that quickly cratered,
then followed it with a second,
whose $90,000 debt and bankruptcy brought a lien against the family
house. In his third venture, Gibraltar Securities, the elder Madoff became a finder, linking up startups
with funders. This too crashed
when the firm failed to file an annual report. If it came between facing this kind of failure and living a
lie, the latter might well seem
preferable.
“Even when I talked with him in
prison,” says Henriques, “Bernie
continued the denial, insisting that
it would have all kept working, that
he was just getting tired of the
whole thing.”
How? In 1920 Italian immigrant
Charles Ponzi began luring investors from Maine to New Jersey
with promises of 50 percent returns
on their money within 45 days.
While his actual investments could
not possibly fulfill these promised
returns, everything kept floating
along swimmingly as long as Ponzi
had a steady stream of depositors
literally stuffing money into his
pants pockets. But by the time it hit
the big Boston markets, Ponzi’s
scheme ran for less than a year before the crash and his arrest.
Madoff had learned from history. First, he had an excellent, legitimate cover. Madoff Investments
kept making reputable trades both
in New York and London, while
Bernie and cronies on the 17th
floor of mid-Manhattan’s Lipstick
building ran an entirely separate
operation, tucked neatly inside.
Second, instead of promising returns too wildly grand to be true,
Madoff proffered consistent returns, a few points above the market.
“He kept coming in only a point
or two above, sometimes even below market standard,” says Henriques. “But he offered consistency.” The returns were always there.
And for a conservative fund or
non-profit this proved very attractive.
But beyond the stats, it was the
man himself who convinced even
the most cautious investors to trust
his methods. His scrupulously
managed image was the ideal lubricant. Everyone seemed drawn
in. Clients ranged from major mutual funds, such as Fairlield Greenwich Advisors and Ascott Partners,
to foreign institutions, such as
Bank Medici and Banco Santander, universities and individuals, such as Fred Wilpon, owner of
the New York Mets.
When? “It’s difficult to say exactly when Madoff ceased to invest
the funds and turned to the Ponzi
method of repayment,” says Henriques. Some claim it began as early as the 1970s, but Henriques’
analysis places it in the mid ’80s.
Much of Madoff’s proposed formula of investing was simultaneously matched by the legitimately
operating Gateway Fund. Madoff’s fund began deviating wildly
in its return around 1986. “After
that, the fact that he was cheating
people becomes obvious,” she
says.
Where? “Why don’t you ask
him where the money is?” people
kept pestering Henriques when she
was about to interview Madoff in
prison. “I never did, of course,” she
says. “This man is the prince of
liars. He certainly is not going to
tell me, a reporter, where his stash
lies.”
Henriques also is convinced that
neither Blackbeard nor Madoff
ever stored up any vast treasure in
the Caribbean. Some original investors did indeed receive the
promised returns. Client Jeffry Pi-
cower netted more than $7 billion
that since his death has been turned
over to the settlement fund for other investors.
Some wealth lay in the Madoff
family possessions, including wife
Ruth’s 10.5-carat engagement ring
and a pair of Madoff’s bedroom
slippers that Sotheby’s auctioned
for several thousand dollars.
But the real wealth, most investigators feel, got distributed from
new clients to old. An endless
source of juggled cash kept streaming out, to keep the scheme alive
and flowing. That’s the trouble
with fictional profits.
The moral. Three years later,
Henriques does see a glimmer of
hope. The romantic image of the
con man has been totally shattered.
That vagabond Robin Hood fraudster that Paul Newman and Robert
Redford celebrated so exquisitely
in the 1973 movie “The Sting” has
taken a chilling dose of reality. No
one is romanticizing Madoff. Both
media and public opinion have
wrapped him in every possible
cloak of villainy. No one aspires to
his game.
Further, it certainly may be argued that the tangible symbol of
Madoff gave form and shape to the
culture of corporate corruption that
has infected many of our financial
institutions of late. Today thousands individuals sustain the effort
to occupy Wall Street and other financial capitals in hopes of developing a corrective dialogue between the 99 percent and the 1 percent. Perhaps Madoff is the price
we had to pay for that dialogue.
— Bart Jackson
Friday, January 6
EAPs: Counseling For
Troubled Employees
T
here are two things wrong
with employee assistance programs (EAPs). One is that employees don’t know anything about
them, the other is that supervisors
don’t know how to tap into them.
According to Carolyn McCann, a community relations representative for Princeton HealthCare System, companies set up
EAPs to provide workers with
company-sponsored counseling
services, but often do not understand the value of the resource.
And often, when EAPs are tapped
into, it is so late in the game that
minor issues require major repair.
On Friday, January 6, Princeton
HealthCare will launch a monthly
luncheon program intended to help
companies and employers understand the value of what they have.
The series will feature presentations on various health and counseling topics on the first Friday of
each month, beginning at 12:30
p.m. at the PHCS Community Education and Outreach Office at 731
Alexander Road. The sessions are
free and lunch is provided, but registration is necessary. E-mail
[email protected] for
more details.
The program, says McCann,
will stress prevention and will feature topics such as dealing with difficult employees, workplace violence, and managing drug and alcohol abuse issues for supervisors.
Monthly sessions will be conducted by PHCS workers who regularly present on-site seminars to
employees on topics such as conflict resolution, stress management, and balancing work and family. The series’ opening salvo will
be an introduction to an EAP and
its benefits.
EAP is “confidential, short-term
counseling for employees and family members,” paid for by the employer, McCann says. Programs
are intended to help employees
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through tough times at work or
home, but they also are supposed to
offer ways for employees to get
more out of their work day. If a
problem is serious, such as substance abuse or addiction, company supervisors are supposed to refer employees toward external
help.
But EAPs are not often talked
about in companies, McCann says.
In some cases it is because of the
stigma people attach to counseling.
But in a lot of other cases, she says,
managers and supervisors do not
tap into the programs until it comes
down to the point of firing someone. Supervisors simply do not
know how to recognize signs of
Employee assistance
programs help people through tough
times at work or
home, but they can
also offer ways for
them to get more
out of their work day.
trouble with an employee until it
escalates into something obvious,
such as aggression.
Valerie Salico, Princeton
HealthCare’s EAP program manager, says behaviors such as excessive tardiness, withdrawal, or excessive absenteeism are clear —
and early — signs of trouble ahead.
Princeton HealthCare’s EAP programs provide tools supervisors
need to recognize these behaviors
in employees and provide preventative intervention.
By the time a company is ready
to fire someone for problem behavior, McCann says, it’s often too late
for the company and the employee
to settle the situation easily. “It
costs big money to fire someone
and hire someone new,” she says.
And the employee, already angry,
is now angry and rejected.
PHCS provides its services via a
yearly contract that allows companies to tap into PHCS’s array of
counseling resources. Generally,
Salico says, the most common reason employees tap into an EAP is
general stress, whether at home or
at work. Many people need help
balancing work and home lives,
and many seek counseling regarding how to deal with a co-worker.
But PHCS’s counselors see people
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struggling with marriage or legal
problems too, as well as those contending with depression or anxiety.
“Really, people call us for everything,” Salico says.
Part of the thrust behind the program, McCann says, is to show
companies how an EAP can be
good for business. A happier employee is a more engaged employee, and any employee that can be
reached before trouble brews is far
less likely to become disruptive (or
even destructive) to the company.
“We want this to be more about
prevention,” McCann says. “Too
often when people find out about
us I hear ‘I wish I would have
known sooner.’”
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speakers for its seventh annual “Information Technology Professional Conference” on Friday, March 9,
at the College of New Jersey.
The conference provides a series of 55-minute talks relevant to
IT professionals, and program
chair David Soll is asking potential
speakers to submit a one-paragraph abstract for a talk to him at
[email protected] by Monday, January 9. Full-paper submissions are
not necessary, but a one-paragraph
bio and a digital photograph of
yourself should be included with
the proposal.
Suggested presentation topics
include (but are not limited to):
IT Management, such as how
to build, maintain, and motivate an
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or attracting students to IT;
Professional
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such as career planning, hot jobs in
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Application
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such as SharePoint 2010, developing custom web parts, freeware in
production application development, or managing multi-vendor
application development projects;
Infrastructure, such as networking and integration, managing viruses, SAN vs. NAS, exchange and mobile devices, managing spam, biometrics, or nextgeneration storage;
Manufacturing computer systems, such as the future of realtime performance management,
computer validation methodologies, or batch process reporting.
More information on the IT Professional Conference can be found
at http://princetonacm.acm.org/tcfpro.
The 37th annual Trenton Computer Festival will be held at the
College of New Jersey on Saturday, March 10.
Tuesday, January 10
Advertising In The
Age of New Media
I
f you aren’t in the advertising
industry, you might think that the
world of marketing and communications still looks like the one
shown on the popular cable television show, “Mad Men” — glamorously dressed men and women
making deals over three-martini
expense account dinners and working for large agencies with dozens
of employees.
Those days are gone, says Ed
McLaughlin of SVM E-Marketing in Somerset. An agency no
longer needs to have dozens of em-
McLaughlin will discuss his concept of
the ‘distributed
agency’ — the shift
from physical environments to digital
work spaces.
ployees and a beautiful office setting to impress and woo a client.
“We used to use our offices as a
showcase for our talents,” he says.
“An advertising agency needed a
beautiful, creative office to say
‘see how creative we are?’ These
days, it’s likely we will never even
meet our clients in person.”
There is no way to put your finger on one main reason for the
changes that have taken place in
the marketing and communications industry in the past decade.
The rise of the Internet has led to
different types of marketing, which
has in turn led to different types of
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talks about changes
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communications
industry on Tuesday
January, 10.
McLaughlin will be part of a
three-person panel exploring the
“New Tools and Environments for
Creative Professionals” at the NJ
Communications,
Advertising,
and Marketing Association on
Tuesday, January 10, at 6 p.m. at
D&R Greenway, Johnson Education Center, One Preservation
Place. Cost: $35 non-members.
Visit www.NJCAMA.org.
The panel will focus on new
tools and technologies that are
changing the way agencies and
freelancers approach creative
work and deliver results to their
clients. The panel will be moderated by Matt Kulcsar, interactive
designer at Creative Marketing Alliance on Clarksville Road. Brian
Crooks, executive creative director at Influence Interactive, an online agency, and McLaughlin will
be the speakers.
Crooks, formerly the creative
director at Razorfish, is a 20-year
campaign design veteran who has
created interactive media campaigns for Nestle, Dove, Sallie
Mae, Neiman Marcus, and General
Motors. He will discuss how the
need for creative professionals to
be “free to think and have access to
the information that drives original
thoughts,” and the “convergence of
the physical and digital – the space
in which ideas can percolate and
where information, observation,
and insights are the coin of the
realm.”
McLaughlin will discuss his
concept of the “distributed
agency,” a term he uses to describe
the shift from physical environments to digital work spaces and
how to use Internet-based tools to
do collaborative, creative work.
McLaughlin studied computer
science at Temple University in the
early 1990s but left before completing his senior year. He began
his career working for several different companies as a software engineer and computer programmer,
including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was
director of IT. Yet he found himself
drawn more to the creative side of
business than the technical.
He co-founded SVM E-Marketing in 1995 to “help industrial marketers leverage the web to generate
sales leads, strengthen relationships with customers, and measure
the return on marketing investments,” he says. He has executed
countless online marketing initiatives with organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to non-profits.
The shift to online marketing.
“If you are in the marketing business today, you are, by default, an
online marketer, whether you want
to be or not,” says McLaughlin.
These days consumers consistently
check out products, services, and
brands online before making a decision to buy.
This means that every company,
no matter how large or small, no
matter what product or service,
JANUARY 4, 2012
must use online marketing as part
of its strategy for reaching the customer. And, McLaughlin adds, that
means much more than just having
a website to showcase your business, as it did just a few years ago.
“The higher the price point, the
longer the consumer thinks about
the purchase before making it,” he
says. For many large-ticket items
the lead time between beginning to
research a product and purchasing
it is as much as 12 months. “This
means that the challenge for creatives is how to help a company not
just explain its product, but to become part of the conversation
about it, through video, through social media, and through images and
text. Our clients expect us to help
them adapt and choose from a host
of media choices that didn’t even
exist three years ago.”
To make it even more challenging, today’s choices may not be relevant three years from now. The
podcast, for example, was the hot
new way to market just a few years
ago. While not exactly obsolete, it
has moved to the background as
other, newer techniques have overshadowed it.
The new challenge. “How to
create the message and disseminate it is no longer the challenge,”
says McLaughlin. “Today’s challenge is to capture the conversation
— to find out who is talking, how
they are conversing, and make ourselves part of that conversation.”
It is, he adds, a very different
skill from “pitching a reporter” a
story idea, or even just disseminating the information. Truly capturing the conversation for a client
these days takes a wide variety of
skills and “is beyond the reach of
most small agencies.”
But that does not mean that the
small agency — even if it is as
small as one person — cannot compete. In fact, according to
McLaughlin, the small agency is in
a unique position to compete more
effectively for a large marketing
campaign. “The antidote is not
more people, it is more technology,” he says.
Changing technology equals
changing work structure. “A few
years ago technology changed the
way creatives produced our products,” McLaughlin says. Graphic
arts, for example, changed from a
field in which the artist primarily
drew by hand to one in which he
created on a computer.
But today technology is changing not just the way we produce the
product, but the way we work and
collaborate with others, the way we
find our customers, and the way we
work and relate with creative professionals and customers.
“No one can know it all anymore,” McLaughlin says. “Each
person or agency needs to choose a
core competency — the one area
where they will excel,” says
McLaughlin. But that does not
mean that they can only offer a
client one part of a whole marketing package. No client wants to
work with one agency for social
media, another for graphic arts, a
third for branding strategies, and
others for website development,
analytics, and media planning and
buying.
Instead, each marketing agency
or professional needs to develop a
network of other agencies and professionals with expertise in each of
these areas.
The distributed agency. Tools
such as GoToMeeting.com, Joinme.com, Skype, Dropbox, and
Basecamp.com enable people to
easily and in real time collaborate
with co-workers and clients all
over the world. “We no longer need
to have all of the services in-house.
We can pick the right brain power
to work on a particular project,”
McLaughlin says. To do this, the
creative professional no longer can
be “just a graphic artist,” or “just a
marketing analyst.” Now she must
become a “creative technologist,”
says McLaughlin.
This person is not an expert in
each of the various technologies,
but instead “knows how the technology works, understands what
the client needs and can bring together the right set of people to
make it happen, make it work and
make it look great,” he says.
— Karen Hodges Miller
Corporate Angels
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etna, the insurance company with an office at 3 Independence
Way, has given Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
$23,000 to fund its Shapedown
program. Shapedown is a free, 10week program offered four times a
year for young people between the
ages of 8-18, in an effort to quash
childhood obesity.
McGraw-Hill Federal Credit
Union has raised $1,386.43 for the
Children’s Miracle Network, a
non-profit organization dedicated
to saving and improving children’s
lives by raising funds for children’s
hospitals.
The employees of Fox Rothschild’s Lenox Drive office recently purchased gifts for 50 children
served by the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey. The gifts include coats, gloves, hats, pajamas,
books, and toys.
The Trenton Titans recently
donated 400 teddy bears to Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital
Hamilton to help lift spirits over
the holidays.
As part of a planned renovation,
Nassau Inn recently donated 50
rooms worth of gently used furniture to HomeFront. Bohrens Moving and Storage supplied the
trucks and manpower for the move.
Mercadien, an accounting firm
based on Quakerbridge Road in
Hamilton, raised $700 during its
recent Toys for Tots campaign. The
money went toward the purchase
of more toys.
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Way, Hamilton. 609-448-0986.
Thursday, January 5
7 a.m.: Central Jersey Business
Association, weekly networking
breakfast, free. Americana Diner,
East Windsor. 800-985-1121.
7 a.m.: BNI Top Flight, weekly networking, free to attend. Clairemont Diner, East Windsor. 609799-4444.
8 a.m.: Round Table Referral Network, weekly morning networking, free. Klatzkin & Co., Whitehorse-Hamilton Square Road.
609-454-4659.
9 a.m.: Rutgers, New Jersey Collegiate Career Day, free and open
to the public. Call ext. 613. New
Brunswick campus. 732-9327084.
11:30 a.m.: Princeton Chamber,
Monthly Membership Luncheon,
“Beyond Bernie Madoff,” Diana
Henriques, New York Times, $65.
Princeton Marriott. 609-9241776.
7 p.m.: Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals,
“Power Hour” featuring Asma Kasuba, Johnson & Johnson, on
work/life balance, $15. Shahi
Palace, Lawrenceville. 888-4211442.
Friday, January 6
8:30 a.m.: Coffee Club, “Coffee
Club” networking, every first Friday, free. RSVP required. Edward
Jones, Foxmoor Shopping Center, Robbinsville, [email protected]. 609-4480004.
10:30 a.m.: Professional Service
Group, weekly career meeting,
support, and networking for unemployed professionals, free.
Mercer County One-Stop Career
Center, Yard Avenue, Trenton.
609-292-7535.
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Too little information to make decisions?
Too few clear paths?
Helping you move ahead with confidence
on strategic and marketing directions.
Monday, January 9
5:30 p.m.: HRMA of Princeton,
“Wellness Programs and Your
Employees,” PHS Mobile Health
Solutions, $60. Salt Creek Grille.
609-844-0200.
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Market Entry, Inc.
609-799-8898
WBE/SBE certified [email protected]
Tuesday, January 10
7 a.m.: Capital Networking Group,
weekly networking, free. New
England Financial 3 Independence Way. 609-434-1144.
8 a.m.: Mercer Chamber,
Hopewell chapter breakfast, $25.
Mizuki Asian Bistro, Pennington.
609-689-9960.
11:30 a.m.: Venture Association of
New Jersey, Monthly Workshop,
$55 Marriott Hanover, Whippany.
973-631-5680.
5 p.m.: Somerset County Business Partnership, “Opportunity
Knocks,” networking, $30. Adult
Day Center of Somerset County,
Bridgewater. 908-218-4300.
6 p.m.: NJ CAMA, “New Tools For
Creatives,” Matt Kulcsar, Creative
Marketing Alliance, Brian Crooks,
Razorfish, $35. D&R Greenway.
www.NJCAMA.org
6:15 p.m.: Princeton Macintosh
Users Group, Q&A followed by
speaker and meeting, free. Computer Science Building, Princeton
University. 609-258-5730.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, networking and job support, free. Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609924-2277.
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Wednesday, January 11
7 a.m.: BNI West Windsor chapter,
weekly networking, free. BMS
Building, Pellettieri Rabstein &
Altman, Nassau Park. 609-4623875.
1 p.m.: Team Nimbus, “Small
Business Insight,” monthly lunch
talk, every second Wednesday,
free. Camillo’s Cafe, Princeton
Shopping Center. 908-359-4787.
6 p.m.: MCCC, “Back to School
Night for Adults,” free. West Windsor campus, [email protected].
609-570-3311.
Thursday, January 12
11:30 a.m.: Mercer Chamber,
Greater Route 1 chapter luncheon, “What Are You Doing for
Your Business to Prepare for
70,000 Visitors?” Marc Edenzon,
CEO of Special Olympics, NJ,
$55. Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
609-689-9960.
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ART
FILM
LITERATURE
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PREVIEW
DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, JANUARY 4 TO 14
For more event listings visit
www.princetoninfo.com. For timely updates, follow princetoninfo at
Twitter and on Facebook. Before
attending an event, call or check
the website before leaving home.
Want to list an event? Submit details and photos to [email protected].
PREVIEW EDITOR:
JAMIE SAXON
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Mel Leipzig
Celebrates
Mothers
Wednesday
January 4
‘Lyn and Her Sons'
by Mel Leipzig, from
‘Mothers,’ a solo
exhibit opening
Friday, January 6,
at the Silva Gallery
of Art at the
Pennington School,
112 West Delaware
Avenue, Pennington.
609-737-8069.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Beating
the Winter Blues
Seminar, Your Journey Center,
Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Pennington,
609-737-2610. “When Winter is
S.A.D” presented by Jodi O’Donnell-Ames focuses on ways to
recognize seasonal affective disorder and learn ways to alleviate
the sadness. Register. Free. 7
p.m.
Classical Music
The Met: Live in HD, Metropolitan Opera, Check movie listings.
www.metoperafamily.org.
Screening of “Rodelinda.” 6:30
p.m.
kitchen, dining out safely, recipes,
and shopping tips. Register. Free.
7 to 8 p.m.
Live Music
Wellness
Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk
Cafe, 2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995. www.allaboutjazz.com. Solo jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Open Mic, Alchemist &
Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555.
www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10
p.m.
Yoga for New Students, Four
Winds Yoga, 114 West Franklin
Avenue, Pennington, 609-8189888. www.fourwindsyoga.com.
Bring mat, water, a blanket, and a
towel. Register. Free. 5:45 p.m.
Seminar, Your Journey Center,
Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Pennington,
609-737-2610. “When Winter is
S.A.D” presented by Jodi O’Donnell-Ames focuses on ways to
recognize seasonal affective disorder and learn ways to alleviate
the sadness. Register. Free. 7
p.m.
World Music
Julia and Carlos Lopez, Malaga
Restaurant, 511 Lalor Street,
Hamilton, 609-396-8878. www.malagarestaurant.com. Flamenco
dancing. $12 cover. 7:45 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Plainsboro Public
Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
Plainsboro, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. First
day for “Flippables and More,” an
exhibit of colorful organic acrylic
paintings by Tatiana Sougakova,
a Plainsboro resident. She created the term “flippables” to describe her paintings that can be
hung in any position and still look
right. She presents an interactive
challenge at the opening reception on Sunday, January 8, from 2
to 4 p.m. On view to January 31.
10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Art After Hours, Zimmerli Art
Museum, George and Hamilton
streets, New Brunswick, 732-9327237. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. Explore galleries in-
cluding a tour of “Abstraction in
Sculpture,” a jazz concert with the
Vanessa Perea Band, and the art
of paper cutouts and design. Arts
and performance. $6. 5 to 9 p.m.
On Stage
Gypsy, Bristol Riverside
Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street,
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Tovah Feldshuh stars as Mama Rose in musical by Jule Styne, Stephen
Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents.
$40 and up. 7:30 p.m.
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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. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Jon Edwards, chess
master, author of “Sacking the
Citadel: The History, Theory, and
Practice of the Classic Bishop
Sacrifice,” and webmaster of
Chess is Fun (www.queensac.com). He has taught chess to
more than 1,500 students in 30
years. 7 p.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Holiday trees decorated
by area business and organizations. $6. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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.
Gardens
Canceled
Meeting, Central Jersey Orchid
Society, D&R Greenway Land
Trust, Johnson Education Center,
1 Preservation Place, Princeton,
609-924-1380. www.centraljerseyorchids.org. “Zygos and Lycastes” presented by Dick Doran.
Refreshments. 7:30 p.m.
Living History Program, New
Brunswick Public Library, 60
Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-745-5108. www.lmxac.org. Bruce Tuckers portrays
Lieutenant Commander William
N. Jeffers, a midshipman circa
1840 who commanded several
ships. The USS Jeffers, built in
Kearney, was at the invasion of
Sicily, D-Day, and took part in the
landings at Okinawa. 12:15 p.m.
Health
Gluten-Free Living, Mercer Free
School, Ewing Library, 61 Scotch
Road, 609-403-2383. mfs.insi2.org. Topics addressed include
safe foods, hidden sources of
gluten, how to gluten-proof your
Lectures
UFO Ghosts and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal Study
JANUARY 4, 2012
Group, Hamilton Township Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Discussion
about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, crop circles, poltergeists, channeling, and government cover-ups facilitated by Pat
Marcattilio. Free. 7 to 10 p.m.
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Outdoor Action
Winter Winds, Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus Mill
Road, Pennington, 609-7377592. www.thewatershed.org.
For preschoolers with an adult.
$15. 1 p.m.
BEGIN WELLNESS IN 2O12 AT ONSEN FOR ALL
MASTER MASSAGE
Schools
Apple Classes, Creative Computing, 423 Wall Street, Princeton, 609-683-3622. www.creativecomputing.com. “iPhoto.”
Register. $39. 2 to 3 p.m.
Singles
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.
Awe-inspiring massage allowing our master therapists to combine
their best techniques to promote overall wellness.
90 minutes $165.00
GLOW
Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Lose Weight?
Author and former U.S. 1 contributor Nancy B.
Kennedy will speak about her weight loss book,
‘How We Did It: Weight Loss Choices That Will
Work for You,’ Wednesday, January 4, at the Train
Station, 4 Railroad Place, Hopewell Borough.
609-466-1625.
Socials
Wednesday Night Out Series,
Hopewell Public Library,
Hopewell Train Station, Railroad
Place, Hopewell, 609-466-1625.
Nancy B. Kennedy, author of
“How We Did It: Weight Loss
Choices that Will Work for You,”
and a resident of Hopewell. 7
p.m.
Meeting, NJ Ski and Snowboard,
Dublin Square, 167 Route 130,
Bordentown, 609-424-0710.
www.njskiandsnowboard.com.
7:30 p.m.
Meeting, Outer Circle Ski Club,
Chili’s Restaurant, Route 1 South,
West Windsor, 609-799-4674.
www.outercircleskiclub.org. Open
to adults interested in ski trips,
hikes, picnics, and game nights.
New members welcome. 8 p.m.
Thursday
January 5
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
The Importance
of the Family Dinner
Family Table, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Bringing Families Together Through Dinner” presented by Janet Giles of Baby Bear’s
Porridge includes ideas for easy
meal prep, menus, planning, and
dinner time solutions. 7:30 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
The Shirazette Experiment, New
Brunswick Jazz Project, Makeda, 338 George Street, New
Brunswick, 732-640-0021. www.nbjp.org. Drummer Shirazette
Tinnin with her quartet. $5 minimum. No cover. 7:30 p.m.
Art
Wonders of Winter, Grounds For
Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Photography workshop. Continues January 12, 19, and 26. Register.
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
On Stage
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
$40 and up. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. [email protected]. Class and practice
session. $12. 8 p.m.
Comedy
History
Comedy Night, Joe Delong Presents, Maestro 206, 150 Route
206, Hillsborough, 908-202-1322.
facebook.com/joedelongcomic.
Open mic for newbies to pros to
present a seven minute routine.
Prizes for the two funniest
comics. No cover. Register by Email to [email protected]. 7 to
10 p.m.
Food & Dining
Family Table, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Bringing Families Together Through Dinner” presented by Janet Giles of Baby Bear’s
Porridge includes ideas for easy
meal prep, menus, planning, and
dinner time solutions. 7:30 p.m.
Health
Public Speaking, Mercer Free
School, Lawrence Community
Center, 609-403-2383. Program
to enhance communication effectiveness. Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Exercise and Weight Loss,
Princeton Fitness and Wellness Center, 1225 State Road,
Princeton, 609-683-7888. www.princetonfitnessandwellness.com. Introduction to the eightweek program for people who
want to lose a minimum of 50
pounds. Register. Free. 7 to 8
p.m.
Wellness
towel. Register. Free. 9:15 a.m.
and 5:45 p.m.
Kids Yoga, Yoga Above, 80 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-6131378. www.yogaabove.com. For
ages 6 to 12. $16. 4:15 to 5:15
p.m.
Fasting and Cleansing Workshop, Lawrence Library, Darrah
Lane and Route 1, Lawrence
Township, 609-989-6920. www.mcl.org. Jennifer Collins talks
about detoxifying your diet. Register. 7 p.m.
Experience the Gains of Exercise and Weight Loss, Princeton HealthCare System, Princeton Fitness & Wellness Center,
Princeton North Shopping Center,
1225 State Road, Princeton, 888897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org.
Panel discussion kicks-off an
eight week weight loss program
for individuals who want to lose a
minimum of 50 pounds. Exercise
benefits presented by T.J. Marvel
and Sharon Casper; surgical
weight loss options discussed by
Robert E. Brolin, M.D.; and motivation presented by Donna De
Mild, a certified professional life
coach. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
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with vitamins A & C. This treatment will hydrate, brighten,
and calm even the most sensitive skin.
60 minutes $125.00
CHILDREN’S YOGA SERIES
Tuesdays from 4 to 5pm
Four week Session for $60.00
Children ages 5 - 12 are invited to discover YOGA!
Registration required, space is limited.
Session starts 1/17/12
609-924-4800 . www.onsenforall.com . [email protected]
Onsen For All . 4451 Route 27 at Raymond Road . Princeton, NJ 08540
Lectures
Meeting, 55-Plus, Jewish Center
of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street,
609-896-2923. www.princetonol.com. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Everybody’s Protest Novel,
Everybody’s Racist Novel” presented by Barry V. Qualls, professor of English and vice president
of undergraduate education at
Rutgers, and author of “The Secular Pilgrims: The Novel as Book
of Life.” $3 donation. 10 a.m.
Luncheon Meeting, Princeton
Chamber, Princeton Marriott,
100 College Road East, Plainsboro, 609-924-1776. www.princetonchamber.org. “Beyond
Bernie Madoff: Fallout from History’s Biggest Fraud” presented by
Diana B. Henriques, senior financial writer, The New York Times.
Register. $65. 11:30 a.m.
Schools
Beyond Hola, Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. wwwlambertvillelibrary.org. Introduction to
Spanish for adult English speakers focuses on essential conversational skills. 6:30 p.m.
Phusia Dance, Mill Ballet
School, 243 North Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-7244. For
women of all ages. $18. 7:45
p.m.
Winter Market
The Conservatory, 540 East
State Street, Trenton, 609-8582279. theconservatorynj.com.
Boutique art and cultural center
features art, crafts, food, and a
rummage sale. Noon to 7 p.m.
Friday
January 6
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Help the
Children in Africa
Benefit Concert, Invisible Children, Hamilton Manor, 30 Route
156, Hamilton, 609-635-1835.
Musicians include Tintori & Witherspoon, AJ Toro, Radio Fiction,
Chris Lopez, and the Call Out.
Benefit for a non-profit organization whose goal is to end Africa’s
war and stop the abduction of
children for use as child soldiers.
Cash bar. All ages. E-mail
information. 6 p.m.
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he year 2012 heralds a
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Boychoir — its 75th. As if that isn’t
news enough, a new president and
CEO has been named for the
school, and the school is orchestrating its move into the new
Princeton Center for Arts and Education, a joint enterprise with the
French American School of
Princeton and the Wilberforce
School, at the former St. Joseph’s
Seminary in Plainsboro.
Dean Orton has been named president and CEO of both the American
Boychoir School (ABS) and the
Princeton Center for Arts and Education (PCAE) by the boards of both
institutions. Orton began his new
role effective January 1.
Orton brings leadership, management skills, and development
experience to ABS and PCAE.
Most recently Orton was the senior
vice president of media services
and chief development officer of
Connecticut Public Broadcasting.
Orton was at the forefront of rebuilding station facilities as it transitioned to digital broadcasting and
expanded its educational mission.
He led a team of 60 in the areas of
content, network operations, development, and community engagement. Additionally, he took a
leadership role in building the new
20,000-square-foot
Journalism
and Media Academy for middleand high-school students in Hartford. He is a graduate of Buena
Vista University in Iowa.
“We welcome Dean Orton and
his family to the American Boychoir School and look forward to a
long and successful collaboration
January 6
Classical Music
Meeting, Piano Teachers’
Forum, Jacobs Music, Route 1,
Lawrence, 609-921-1510. $10.
8:45 a.m.
Folk Music
John Forster and Tony
DeSantis, Folk Project, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21
Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489. www.folkproject.org. $7. 8 p.m.
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Live Music
Cafe, 2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995.
www.allaboutjazz.com. Solo jazz
guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Wine and Music, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road,
Pennington, 609-737-4465.
www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Carol Heffler
plays jazz. Wine by the glass or
bottle available. 6 to 9 p.m.
Acoustic Jam Series, Risoldi’s
Market and Cafe, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609586-5751. Jim Gaven and Don
Lee. 6 p.m.
Mike & Ashley, Buffalo Grill,
3710 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-345-8020. www.mikeandashleyduo.com. Eclectic
mix of standards, blues, folk, and
rock. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Open Mic Night, West Windsor
Arts Council, 952 Alexander
Road, West Windsor, 609-7161931. http://openmicssignup.weebly.com. Register online. $5
cover. 8 p.m.
Pop Music
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supporting the mission of ABS
while advancing the Princeton
Center for Arts and Education into
a thriving community for students
and audiences who value the arts
and humanities,” says Chester
Douglass, chairman of the board of
the American Boychoir School.
The American Boychoir is the
only non-sectarian boychoir school
in the nation; the choir is regarded as
the nation’s premier concert boychoir. Boys, in grades four through
eight, reflecting the ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity of the
United States and the world, with
both U.S. and international students,
pursue a challenging musical and
academic curriculum at the school.
The school was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1937, and has been located in Princeton since 1950.
“This is an exciting time to be
joining both of these organizations,” Orton says. “The American
Boychoir, a national treasure.
PCAE, as a new organization, presents untold potential for the greater
Princeton community.”
Orton will also lead the new
Princeton Center for Arts and Education, which promotes the growth
and sustainability of independent
schools and arts organizations.
PCAE facilitates the sharing of
campus buildings among these organizations, which retain their autonomy and governance. This
groundbreaking institution is believed to be the nation’s first such
shared campus of independent
schools at the elementary and middle school levels.
Robert L. D’Avanzo, chairman
of the PCAE Board, notes that Or-
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Toad the Wet Sprocket, State
Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick, 732-246-7469.
www.StateTheatreNJ.org. Alternative rock band from the 1990s.
$25 to $45. 8 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Silva Gallery of Art,
Pennington School, 112 West
Delaware Avenue, Pennington,
609-737-8069. www.pennington.org. First day for “Mothers,”
an exhibit of paintings by Mel
Leipzig. Closing reception is
Thursday, February 2, from 6 to 8
p.m. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 12:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Art Way Gallery,
Princeton Alliance Church, 20
Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-734-6546. www.artwaygallery.org. Opening recep-
Cultural Education:
Dean Orton
ton was selected after a nationwide
search assisted by the Catherine
French Group of Washington,
D.C., a premier arts leadership
search firm. “Dean was chosen
from an impressive field of candidates with vast experience in the
arts, management, and fundraising,” D’Avanzo says. “From this
national field, our search committee believes that Dean brings the
perfect mix of experience to lead
these two organizations.”
The American Boychoir School,
PCAE’s lead resident organization
and its only boarding school, will
move to the Plainsboro campus in
August, 2012. PCAE is already
home to the Wilberforce School
and the French-American School
of Princeton.
For more information visit
www.pcae.org.
tion for “Seen and Unseen,” a
photographic exhibit featuring the
works of Deborah Land and Jeff
Currie. Snow date is Friday, January 13. On view to January 21. 5
to 8 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gallery 14, 14 Mercer
www.photogallery14.com. Opening reception for “Barbershop and
Beauty Parlor Paintings of Ghana
and Mali,” an exhibit by David
Miller. On view to February 18.
Meet the photography on Sunday,
January 8, from 1 to 3 p.m. 6 to
8:30 p.m.
Gallery Exhibit, Peddie School,
Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown,
609-490-7550. www.peddie.org.
Opening reception for “Midwest
Filipino,” an exhibition of photographs by Daniel Ballesteros. On
view to February 2. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Dance
On Pointe Lecture Series, American Repertory Ballet, Princeton
Ballet School, 301 North Harrison
Street, Princeton, 609-984-8400.
www.arballet.org. “The Music of
Romeo and Juliet” presented by
Sion Morrison, a professor at
Princeton University. Free. 5:15
p.m.
On Stage
Broadway Bound, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. The third play of Neil
Simon’s autobiographical comedies recalls growing up in New
York. $29.50 to $31.50 includes
dessert. 7 p.m.
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
$40 and up. 8 p.m.
Film
Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25
South Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.acmescreeningroom.ticketleap.com.
JANUARY 4, 2012
Screening of “My Reincarnation.”
In English, Italian, and Tibetan
with English subtitles. $15. 7 and
9:15 p.m.
Dancing
Friday Night Social, American
$15. 8 to 11 p.m.
Good Causes
Benefit Concert, Invisible Children, Hamilton Manor, 30 Route
156, Hamilton, 609-635-1835.
Musicians include Tintori & Witherspoon, AJ Toro, Radio Fiction,
Chris Lopez, and the Call Out.
Benefit for a non-profit organization whose goal is to end Africa’s
war and stop the abduction of
children for use as child soldiers.
Cash bar. All ages. E-mail
information. 6 p.m.
Dinner and Country Barn Dance,
Montgomery Special Education
PTA, Princeton Elks, 354 Route
518, Blawenburg, 908-868-3916.
Dancing with DJ Dave Kim. Cash
bar. Register. $15. 7 p.m.
Comedy
Coleman Green, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8
p.m.
Faith
Epiphany Service, All Saints’
Church, 16 All Saints’ Road,
Princeton, 609-921-2420. Noon.
Food & Dining
ABCs of Wine Tasting, Crossing
Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Wrightstown Road, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
www.crossingvineyards.com.
Wine tasting, instruction, and
learning materials presented by
David Mino. Register. $20. 7 p.m.
Wellness
and 5:45 p.m.
Qigong, Ruth A. Golush, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-426-9693. www.ruthagolush.com. Meditative energy exercises for balance. Register. $20. 10 to 11 a.m.
Pilates Mat Class, Holsome
Holistic Center, 27 Witherspoon
www.holsome.com. $14. Noon.
Teen and Pre-Teen Yoga, Yoga
Above, 80 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-613-1378. www.yogaabove.com. For ages 12 to 17.
$16. 4:15 to 5:15 p.m.
Pathwork, Volition Wellness Solutions, 182 Tamarack Circle,
U.S. 1
Backyard Broadway:
Diana Petras of
Plainsboro stars with
Russell Fischer from
the cast of Broadway’s ‘Jersey Boys,’ in
‘Broadway Comes to
Robbinsville,’ Monday,
January 9, Robbinsville High School.
www.brownpapertickets.com (keyword
Russell Fischer).
Skillman, 609-688-8300. www.volitionwellness.com. Are you
identified with your ego or your real self? Discussion with Mary Elliott. Register. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
History
For Families
Cat Show, Central Jersey Cat
Fanciers, Sheraton Hotel, Parsippany, 570-807-0406. ticama.org/cj. Three-day regional show
features close to 250 cats in 20
rings. Pedigree cats include Bengals, Sphynx, Maine Coons,
Siamese, Orientals, Ragdolls,
Persians, plus household pets
and kittens. Judging takes place
in seven rings. Vendors with gift
items and cat-related supplies.
Homeless pets for adoption. $8. 3
to 9:30 p.m.
Mr. Ray, Forrestal Village, College Road West and Route 1
South, Plainsboro, 609-7997400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Family concert. 6:30
to 7:30 p.m.
Winter Market
The Conservatory, 540 East
State Street, Trenton, 609-8582279. theconservatorynj.com.
Boutique art and cultural center
features art, crafts, food, and a
rummage sale. Noon to 7 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Non-denominational
support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Drop-In, Yardley Singles, The
Runway, Trenton Mercer Airport,
Ewing, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Music
by Rick and Kenny, dancing, and
cash bar. 9 p.m.
Socials
Drum Circle, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6920.
www.mcl.org. Practice facilitated
by drummer Ange Chianese.
Bring your own drum, shakers,
gongs, bells, or other percussion.
Refreshments served. Register.
4:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Movie, Princeton Senior Resource Center, Suzanne Patterson Building, 609-924-7108.
www.princetonsenior.org.
Screening of “The Lincoln
Lawyer.” Popcorn will be served.
Register. Free. 1 p.m.
Sports
Advance Auto Parts Monster
Jam, Sun National Bank
Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue,
Trenton, 800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com. $15 to $47. 7:30
p.m.
Saturday
January 7
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Help Celebrate the YWCA’s 90th
90th Birthday Bash, YWCA
Princeton, 59 Paul Robeson
Place, Princeton, 609-497-2100.
www.ywcaprinceton.org. Contests, arts and crafts, and birthday
cake. Free. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Science Lectures
Science on Saturday, Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory,
Forrestal Campus, Route 1 North,
Plainsboro, 609-243-2121. www.pppl.gov. “Out of Africa: Genetics
and Human Migrations” presented by Gyan Bhanot, department
of molecular biology, biochemistry, and physics at Rutgers University. Register on site beginning
at 8:15 a.m. For students, parents, teachers, and community
members. Photo ID required. Series is coordinated by John DeLooper, Ronald Hatcher, Kathleen Lukazik, and Deedee Ortiz.
Free. 9:30 a.m.
LEARN ENGLISH
ESL CLASSES
Evening Classes • Free Textbooks
Scholarships Available
In-Person Registration
Thursday, January 26, 2012
7-8 p.m. at Princeton High School
More information:
www.princetonadultschool.org or 609-683-1101
or www.facebook.com/princetonadultschool.
Thursdays
Jan. 12, Feb. 9,
Mar. 8, Apr. 12
11am to 5pm
Princeton Public Library
Community Room
65 Witherspoon Street
Winter Princeton Farmers & Crafters Market
vegetables ❄ cheeses ❄ fruits ❄ honey ❄ breads
desserts ❄ eggs ❄ chickens ❄ pickles
gift baskets ❄ lovely crafts
www.princetonfarmersmarket.com
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JANUARY 4, 2012
January 7
Classical Music
Benefit Concert, Westminster
Conservatory, Williamson Hall,
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Benefit concert for the
Dr. H. Korkina Scholarship Fund
for dedicated Westminster students. The program features work
by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt,
Mendelssohn, Shubert, and
Brahms. Musicians include Julian
Edgren and Ben Wulfman of
Princeton High School; Farshad
Tahvildar Zadeh of Oberlin Conservatory; Alex Ge of Montgomery High School; and Molly
Zhu of West Windsor-Plainsboro
High School North. They have
previously showcased their talents at venues including Carnegie
Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher
Hall, and the Kimmell Center. Reception follows in Thayer Lounge.
Silent auction of unique crafted
jewelry pieces. Free admission,
donations invited. 5 p.m.
The Hero’s Fire, New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra, State
Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick, 800-ALLEGRO.
www.njsymphony.org. Wagner’s
“Wotan’s Farewell” and “Magic
Fire Music;” Scriabin’s “Prometheus: the Poem of Fire;” and
Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.”
Jacques Lacombe conducts.
Yevgeny Sudbin on piano. $20 to
$85. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Market and Cafe, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609586-5751. Alexis Schulz and
Sandy Zio. 1 p.m.
Cafe, 2667 Main Street,
Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995.
guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Jung Wombats plays classic
rock — especially Elvis Presley.
Wine by the glass or bottle available. 6 to 9 p.m.
Jon Herington Band, The
Record Collector Store, 358
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown,
609-324-0880. www.the-recordcollector.com. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Scott Langdon, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. Acoustic originals and covers. 8 p.m.
Best of Pink Floyd Laser Concert, Raritan Valley College,
Planetarium, College Center,
North Branch, 908-526-1200.
www.raritanval.edu. $6. 8 p.m.
Black Cat Habitat, Small World
Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-4377.
www.smallworldcoffee.com.
Acoustic original indie pop rock. 8
to 10:30 p.m.
Charles Laurita Band, John &
Peter’s, 96 South Main Street,
New Hope, PA, 215-862-5981.
www.johnandpeters.com. Rock,
blues, and funk. 9 p.m.
Art
Altered Books Workshop,
Grounds For Sculpture, 126
Sculptors Way, Hamilton, 609586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Register. 10:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tots on Tour, Grounds For
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. For
ages 3 to 5. Listen to a story, become park explorers, make original works of art. One adult must
accompany each child. Register.
Free with park admission. Rain or
shine. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Highlight Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2 p.m.
Alternative Rock:
Toad the Wet Sprocket, who first came on
the scene in the ’90s,
performs on Friday,
January 6, at the
State Theater in
New Brunswick.
732-246-7469.
On Stage
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
$40 and up. 2 and 8 p.m.
Broadway Bound, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. The third play of Neil Simon’s autobiographical comedies
recalls growing up in New York.
$29.50 to $31.50 includes
dessert. 7 p.m.
Film
with English subtitles. $15. 7 and
9:15 p.m.
Dancing
Salsa Sensation, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Lesson
followed by social dance. No partner needed. Refreshments. $12.
7 p.m.
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Literati
Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-3948400. Aida Pastrana Perez, author of “Internal Wounds,” from
noon to 2 p.m. Todd C.C. Evans,
author of “Mojo,” from 2 to 4 p.m.
Noon.
Comedy
Gary Delena, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, West Windsor,
609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $21.50. 7:30
and 9:30 p.m.
Faith
Faith in a Complex World Sermon Series, Princeton United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, 609-9242613. www.princetonumc.org.
“Where Faith and Politics Meet”
with informal worship, fellowship,
and refreshments. 5 p.m.
Wellness
towel. Register. Free. 8 and 9:45
a.m.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Todd Tieger,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren,
google.com/site/toddtiegertaichichuan. All levels. Free. 10 a.m.
History
Festival of Trees, American Hungarian Foundation, 300 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, 732846-5777. www.ahfoundation.org. “International Friendship,” is
theme for the annual seasonal
JANUARY 4, 2012
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K
Lace Silhouettes Lingerie: Debunking Bra Myths
aren Thompson, founder
of Lace Silhouettes Lingerie, opened her first
store in Peddler's Village, Bucks
County in 1988 knowing she
wanted to create something
unique: real lingerie for real
women. In 2000, Thompson was
presented with an opportunity to
expand her business into Princeton, NJ. Her purpose was to create a shopping experience that
would focus on the customer,
"our guest," and their individual
needs.
Although bras are an everyday part of a woman's wardrobe,
many of us have heard rumors
that turn us away from styles that
could be perfect for our body
types. Karen Thompson wants to
help you get the facts about what
you should really be wearing, so
she has compiled a list of some
of the most popular myths about
bras and shapewear.
Myth: Molded bras make
you look bigger
Fact: This is one of the most
popular misconceptions but the
fact is that molded cup bras are
not padded bras. They simply
provide a lining under thin or tight
shirts to avoid show through.
Some styles even provide more
support than unlined bras, helping you look smaller!
by Gina Leta
Myth: Shapewear is uncomfortable
Fact: When wearing the correct size of shapewear you
should not feel like you are suffocating! While some styles have a
higher level of compression than
others, you should never feel as
though you cannot breathe. Instead, you should look and feel
great because shapewear is the
perfect way to slim down in seconds, and can make you look up
to 10 pounds slimmer. It targets
problem areas by slimming the
tummy, waist, rear, and thighs. It
is perfect under everyday clothing or under special occasion attire.
Myth: You only need one
good bra
Fact: You don't want to wear
the same bra every day because
it will stretch out and decrease
the life of the bra. We recommend that every woman has a
bra wardrobe containing six essential bras. You want to have
four everyday bras, three nude
and one black, along with a
racerback bra and a strapless
bra. Once you build your bra
wardrobe with these essentials
you will have the correct bra for
just about every outfit you own!
Karen Thompson, owner,
Lace Silhouettes Lingerie
Now that you have the facts
about bras and shapewear call
for personalized bra fit appointments for you, a family member,
and a friend! Walk-ins are welcome.
Visit one of our three locations:
Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ
(next to The Bent Spoon): 609688-8823
Peddler's Village, Lahaska,
PA: 215-794-3545
Washington St. Mall, Cape
May, NJ (Across from the Ugly
Mug): 609-898-7448.
Also visit us online at
www.lacesilhouetteslingerie.com
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Facts: molded cup bras are not padded bras; the right size shapewear is not
uncomfortable; and every woman’s wardrobe should have six essential bras.
festival with display holiday trees
from 11 different countries, a
Menorah, and “Hungarian Masterworks from Impressionism to
Modernism,” the main exhibit. $5
donation. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
by area business and organizations. $6. Noon to 4 p.m.
For Families
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Historical Society of
Princeton, Updike Farmstead,
354 Quaker Road, Princeton,
609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Tour “Picturing
Princeton” photography exhibit on
view through January 14. 10 a.m.
90th Birthday Bash, YWCA
Princeton, 59 Paul Robeson
Place, Princeton, 609-497-2100.
www.ywcaprinceton.org. Contests, arts and crafts, and birthday
cake. Free. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Open House, Abington Lines
Model Railroad Club, 2066 Second Street Pike, Richboro, PA,
215-598-7720. Large and dramatic railroad features a twotrack mainline that is more than
1,000 feet in length. Free admission. Noon to 4 p.m.
Planetarium, New Jersey State
Museum, 205 West State Street,
Trenton, 609-292-6464.
www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “Laser Nutcracker Spectacular 3D” with other seasonal favorites. $5. 1 and 3 p.m.
Winter Skies, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908-526-1200.
www.raritanval.edu. $6. 7 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Knowing Native Plants, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve,
River Road, New Hope, 215-8622924. www.bhwp.org. “Basics of
Plant Identification.” Register.
$20. 10 a.m.
Walking Tour, D&R Canal Watch,
Turning Basin Park, Alexander
Road, Princeton, 201-401-3121.
History walk along the canal from
Princeton to Carnegie Road, a
5.5 mile distance. Carpools will
be arranged to allow transportation back. Bob Barth, a canal expert, narrates. Free. 10 a.m.
Freezing Cold Hash Run, Rumson Hash House Harriers, 2053
Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, 732572-0500. active.com. Non-competitive three to five-mile group run
in Edison woods on an off-road
course laid out with baking flour
through woods, grass, swamp,
and marsh. No fee, no awards, no
recorded times. A sense of humor
is a must. Must be over 21 to participate. $20 day of event. Pre-register for $15 and receive a free
shirt and open bar admission beginning at 7:30 a.m. 10 a.m.
Full Moon Hike, Lawrence Nature Center, 481 Drexel Avenue,
www.lawrencenaturecenter.net.
Walk the woods for a one hour
hike with a volunteer naturalist.
Boots recommended. Hot chocolate and cider after the walk. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Schools
Open House, The Lewis School,
53 Bayard Lane, Princeton, 609924-8120. 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, Princeton Friends
School, 470 Quaker Road,
Princeton, 609-683-1194. princetonfriendsschool.org. 1 to 3 p.m.
Singles
Regional Cultural Event, Professional and Business Singles
Network, Kimmel Center, 300
South Broad Street, Philadelphia,
PA, 610-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Reception at 5:30 p.m.;
lecture at 7 p.m.; “Beethoven’s
Fifth,” a concert by the Philadel-
phia Orchestra at 8 p.m. Register.
$55. 5:30 p.m.
Sports
Coaches Workshop and Vendor
Exhibition, New Jersey Youth
Soccer, NJ Convention Center,
Raritan Center, Edison, 973-9413605. www.njyouthsoccer.com.
Workshop for coaches, administrators, and parents of youth soccer programs. Vendors offer
equipment, apparel, trophies, and
photographs. Play Zone for ages
9 and 14 with players from the
Red Bull Street Team and NJ SkyBlue, $15. 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Advance Auto Parts Monster
Jam, Sun National Bank
Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue,
Trenton, 800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com. $15 to $47. 2
and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday
January 8
JUNCTION
BARBER SHOP
33 Hightstown Rd., Princeton Jct.
ELLSWORTH’S CENTER (Near Train Station)
Hrs: Tues - Fri: 10am - 6pm
Sat: 8:30am - 3:30pm
609-799-8554
GRAND OPENING SPECIAL!
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Meet
Gypsy Rose Lee’s Son
Erik Preminger, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
Street, Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Gypsy Rose
Lee’s son shares intimate home
movies and shares personal information. In conjunction with
“Gypsy.” Register. 7:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Opera in Cinema, State Theater,
15 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www.StateTheatreNJ.org. “Cendrillon”
captured live at the Royal Opera
House. $22. 2 p.m.
Live Music
www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Darla and Rich play jazz.
Wine by the glass or bottle available. 2 to 5 p.m.
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JANUARY 4, 2012
FROM HELPING HANDS, 1990 . . .
DECEMBER 19, 1990
U.S. 1
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A Hot Meal: Connie Mercer, left, greets a woman and her child at their motel room.
At right, Mercer talks to three young children.
G
With no red tape & zero overhead, Connie Mercer
& the Exchange club mobilize to help the homeless.
iving, we
are reminded at this
time of year, can take a multitude of forms.
Schoolchildren are asked to bring in “mittens
for poor kids.” The Marines gather “Toys for
Tots.” The Salvation Army rings its bells and
fills its kettles. And everyone donates to
Christmas food baskets to be distributed by
public welfare departments.
. . . TO
A
by Barbara Figge Fox
It almost started by accident and it has
grown up like the children’s game of Farmer
in the Dell, with each new volunteer getting
excited about The Cause and asking someone
else into the circle of givers –– people who
give not just the quick and easy gift, cash,
but also time and energy and emotional support for others truly less fortunate.
LETTER
TO THE
To the Editor:
U.S. 1 a Catalyst
For HomeFront
T
wenty-one years ago U.S.
1 published a “Helping Hands”
article [see above] about me and
the Exchange Club, a group of
volunteers I led. We gathered
and delivered food baskets to
families living in “welfare
motels” on the Route 1 corridor.
It was a very positive article and
had a very positive impact on all
of us.
I can’t really explain it, but
your article triggered a period of
change and expansion that continues to this day. The Exchange
Club became HomeFront, a
large, multi-service non-profit
corporation. It went well beyond
feeding the hungry. It developed
programs providing affordable
housing, education, job skills,
and a host of other services. It
sought to break the cycle of
What Mercer saw were
the kids who put faces on
homeless statistics which
number the homeless people in New Jersey at between 20,000 and
30,000 people. Mercer began helping on a
small scale, first with clothing.
“One day Connie came by our room to
bring clothes,” says Sharon Woods, 34, who
had been living in one of the low-budget
motels on Route 1 with her three teenage
children.
EDITOR, 2012
poverty that creates homelessness and hunger — and passes it
from one generation to the next.
Last year HomeFront saved
7,000 families from the pain of
homelessness.
Today some 1,200 volunteers
put in over 46,000 hours a year
in
HomeFront
programs.
Walking through our warehouse
recently I saw a mountain of
plastic bags in our Santa’s
Workshop that brought a very
merry Christmas morning to
2,600 children who would otherwise have had no Christmas at
all. Santa’s elves filling bags in
the workshop came from ETS,
Bloomberg, and TYCO.
In any event, I wanted to
thank you for that article of so
many years ago. I do not think
that it magically created all this,
but it started something. From
the beginning HomeFront has
been the work of a growing
group of helping hands. My
thanks to them all.
Connie Mercer
Executive Director, HomeFront
U.S. 1 thanks Connie Mercer and HomeFront
for their generous acknowledgment
of our small role in their great success.
And we salute our many readers who have pitched in
to support worthy organizations
profiled in our annual Helping Hands issue.
JANUARY 4, 2012
U.S. 1
Touch Up Your Smile for the New Year!
• Snap-On-Smile
• On visit veneer
• Discounts Available for Sr. Citizens
• Walk-In Cleaning/
Walk-In Emergencies
• 1 Visit Root Canal-Endo
• Zoom Bleaching-Whitening
• Laser, Plastic Gum Surgery
• No Drill Fillings, Air Abrasive
• Tooth Colored Fillings
• Invisalign, Braces
• Implants - Tooth
Replacements
• Extractions - Oral Surgery
• Bridge Work/Crowns
• Habit Control, TMJ
• Snoring Appliance
• Orthodontist
Marjan Habibian D.D.S.
January 8
World Music
Winter Songs V, Capital Singers,
St. Mary’s Cathedral, 151 North
Warren Street, Trenton, 609-6200160. capitalsingers.org. The
Capital Singers of Trenton and
the Trenton Community Singers
will be joined by world-renowned
harpist Elaine Christy in a program of seasonal music with
Spanish influence. $18; $15 in advance; $12 senior and children
under 12 years of age. 4 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gallery 14, 14 Mercer
www.photogallery14.com. Meet
the photographers of “Barbershop and Beauty Parlor Paintings
of Ghana and Mali,” an exhibit by
David Miller. On view to February
18. 1 to 3 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gourgaud Gallery,
23 North Main Street, Cranbury,
609-395-0900. www.gourgaudhist.htm. Opening reception for
“Winter Light” featuring work in
oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor,
photography, and collage. On
view to January 30. “Celtic Tea” is
the theme of the reception and includes Celtic teas, cake, and a
bagpiper. On view to December
31. 1 to 3 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Plainsboro Public
Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro.
Opening reception for “Flippables
and More,” an exhibit of colorful
organic acrylic paintings by Tatiana Sougakova, a Plainsboro
resident. She created the term
“flippables” to describe her paintings that can be hung in any position and still look right. She presents an interactive challenge at
the reception and one of the attendees will go home with one of
her paintings. 2 to 4 p.m.
Sunday Spotlight Tours, Zimmerli 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.
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 3 p.m.
On Stage
Broadway Bound, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. The third play of Neil Simon’s autobiographical comedies
recalls growing up in New York.
$29.50 to $31.50 includes
dessert. 1:30 p.m.
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
Art Reception and a Royal Cake: ‘Winter on
the Farm’ by Daniel Turner Thomas, watercolor,
from ‘Winter Light,’ on view through Monday,
January 30, at Gourgaud Gallery, Cranbury
Town Hall, 23-A North Main Street. A Celtic tea
reception takes place Sunday, January 8, 1 to 3
p.m., including Prince William’s chocolate cake
from the Royal Wedding. 609-395-0900.
$40 and up. 3 p.m.
Also, Erik Preminger, Gypsy
Rose Lee’s son, shares intimate
home movies and shares personal information. In conjunction with
“Gypsy.” Register. 7:30 p.m.
Film
with English subtitles. $15. 5 p.m.
Dancing
Ballroom Blitz, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Unitarian
Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 609-945-1883.
www.centraljerseydance.org.
Rumba crash course with Eileen
Farrell followed by social dance
party at 8:30 p.m. No partner
needed. $12. 7 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Leah Ingram, author
of “Suddenly Frugal: How to Live
Happier and Healthier for Less.” 2
p.m.
Faith
Friendship Circle, Mercer
Friends, Princeton area, 609683-7240. www.mercerfriends.com. Cooking time for Jewish
adults with special needs. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
Food & Dining
Pairing Wine and Chocolate,
Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. “How Sweet It Is” includes wine tasting and a personal box from Naked Chocolate.
Register. $35. 2 p.m.
Wellness
towel. Register. Free. 9 and
10:45 a.m.
Yoga and Zumba, Downtown
Performing Arts Center of Lambertville, 54 Mt. Airy Village
Road, Lambertville, 609-397-
3337. 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
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
Vinyasa yoga class for all levels
followed by a wine tasting and private tour. Bring a yoga mat. Register. $35. 11:30 a.m.
Full Moon Meditation, Authentic
Yoga Tradition, www.authenticyogatradition.com. Yoga in the Himalayan tradition with Acharya
Girish Jha. Register. Donations
benefit charities. 10:30 p.m.
History
by area business and organizations. $6. Noon to 4 p.m.
Festival of Trees, American
Hungarian Foundation, 300
Somerset Street, New Brunswick,
732-846-5777. www.ahfoundation.org. “International Friendship,” is theme for the annual seasonal festival with display holiday
trees from 11 different countries,
a Menorah, and “Hungarian Masterworks from Impressionism to
Modernism,” the main exhibit. $5
donation. On view to January 29.
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JANUARY 4, 2012
Theater Review: ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’
I
n the event that you missed
seeing the incomparable sit-down
comedy/raconteur/political observer, social activist/dramatic entertainer Mike Daisey earlier this season when he turned his sights on
the empire built by Steve Jobs, you
are getting a second chance. The
Public Theater is bringing him
back for a repeat engagement beginning Tuesday, January 31,
through Sunday, March 4.
Whether or not you have read
the recent biography on Jobs, you
should grab this opportunity to get
a fresh but also troubling perspective of the man who was able to
“make people want things they
didn’t know they needed.” Told
from a well-researched as well as
from a personal adventure, “The
Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve
Jobs” is one of the best of Daisey’s
serio-comic lectures: number 16 if
I’ve counted correctly.
Except for the fact that Daisey is
a large man with a large round face
who perspires profusely and uses a
black handkerchief to wipe his
brow as his main prop, his delivery
is mostly from a chair behind a
table upon which are notes that he
flips over but doesn’t really use.
His presentation is emphatic and
dynamic, carefully calculated and
calibrated, under the expert direction of his wife, Jean-Michelle
Gregory, to keep you attentive
even as you are entertained.
Notwithstanding the carefully documented facts and figures that
plump up the text, it is his caustic
opinions and uncompromised observations about his revered and
notably rebellious subject that give
his lecture its snap and crackle.
Evidently no amount of laudatory and salutary commentary from
others about the late Steve Jobs,
whether it be his contribution to advancing technology or his concession to outright profiteering, was
about to sway or deter Daisey from
his course of action: to steer clear of
prevailing sentiment and dive directly into the belly of the beast —
the Foxconn Technology Group’s
enormous manufacturing center in
Shenzhen, China, where Jobs insinuated himself as a businessman.
With the help of an interpreter, he
gained access and observed first
hand the appallingly inhumane
Mike Daisey dives directly into the belly of
the beast: Jobs and
Foxconn Technology.
working conditions that are the
norm for thousands of Chinese
workers. He was able to get interviews with a few of the workers,
many in their teens and younger,
who turn out the gadgets we have in
our pockets and on our desks.
Whether it was the stories he
heard about the number of suicides
reported at Foxconn or the more
numerous reports about the permanent crippling of fingers and hands
from repetitive activity, Daisey
certainly knew there was a provocative primary story as well as a
number of perplexing underreported stories behind an industry created by a uniquely brilliant man with
a vision. Most of us don’t think or
care about how things are made
and by whom and at what cost. We
only know or want to know that
they are affordable and that they do
the job. Daisey did want to know
more, certainly after reading articles about Foxconn and, indeed,
China’s formidable role in mass
production for the mass-consuming world market.
Apparently, all the imposing
Daisey needed to get his story was a
colorful aloha shirt and a few scraps
of paper in lieu of business cards to
worm his way inside the awesome
plant with its posted guards and security safeguards. Believe it or not,
the experience for him as well as it
is for us is good for quite a few
laughs. Don’t think that this is purely a hatchet job on Jobs or the monster corporation that he founded,
but rather an eye-widening glimpse
into what it took for the unconventional Jobs to regain his status after
being ousted from his own company and coming back stronger and
with more at stake than before.
D
aisey’s admiration for what
Jobs accomplished is as unqualified as is his awe for the innovative,
sometimes purposefully self-defeating products about which he
mines plenty of humor. Keeping
the poignant plight of the Chinese
workers in his sights, he also gives
an edge to the funny, almost ironical, side of his adventure, one that
takes its place alongside such previous acclaimed monologues as
“The Last Cargo Cult” (the effects
of American materialism on the natives of a remote South Pacific Island who live at the base of a vol-
cano), and “21 Dog Years:
Doing Time at Amazon.com”
(living the American dream
as a dot.com millionaire).
You can feel he is stretching his two-hour story about
Jobs and Apple a bit with a digression about Microsoft.
But you can’t beat Daisey as a
story-teller or (in this instance) as a critical observer
of an incredible man and of
the entire Apple family. You
should know that he makes
no attempt to single out Apple as the sole villain when it
comes to the U.S.’s outsourcing policies.
If we are, as Daisey infers, in
somewhat of a rut by being persuaded/forced to use products in
our daily life that are being made in
far away places by over-worked,
underpaid people in factories run
by a misalliance of corporate profiteers, he is also indirectly making
us re-think about how future technology might also proceed in a
more ethical world society, but not
necessarily to the exclusion of the
“i” society. I did notice a certain
hesitancy of many in the audience
to not immediately grab for their
iPhone, iPod, or iPad during the applause at the end. Perhaps it was in
deference to a terrific and informing performance that was worth
thinking about before the urge to
text took over.
At the end of Daisey’s bio in the
program it says, “He recently premiered his 24-hour monologue
“All the Hours in the Day,” an epic
story that spans the globe, at the
TBA Festival in Portland, Oregon.” I would hope that a “get on
Apples to Apples:
Mike Daisey deconstructs Steve Jobs.
Photo: Stan Barouh
and get off” pass comes with the
purchase of a ticket. When and if it
comes to New York, the ticket
should also give the holder the option to digress at will.
Note: This review was written
during the original run of “Jobs.” It
is great to be able to share my enthusiasm now that it is returning.
+++
— Simon Saltzman
“The Agony and the Ecstasy of
Steve Jobs,” Tuesday, January 31,
to Sunday March 4, Public Theater,
425 Lafayette Street, New York.
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January 8
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.
For Families
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Planetarium, New Jersey State
Museum, 205 West State Street,
Trenton, 609-292-6464. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org.
“Laser Nutcracker Spectacular
3D” with other seasonal favorites.
$5. 1 and 3 p.m.
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.
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.
Italian Renaissance, Dorothea’s
House, 120 John Street, Princeton, 609-924-8275. www.dorotheashouse.org. Veronica White
presents a talk about a collection
of art by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, a 17th century Italian
baroque painter known as Guercino. White, a graduate of Princeton University, received her doctorate from Columbia University,
where she now teaches. Bring a
refreshment to share in the reception following the presentation.
Free. 5 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Winter Lecture Series, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve,
River Road, New Hope, 215-8622924. www.bhwp.org. “Bucks
County Vernal Pools.” Register.
Free. 2 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Chapin School,
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton,
609-986-1702. www.chapinschool.org. Pre-K to grade 8. 2 to
3:30 p.m.
Shopping News
Winter Market, The Conservatory, 540 East State Street, Trenton, 609-858-2279. theconservatorynj.com. Boutique art and cultural center features art, crafts,
food, and a rummage sale. 2 to 5
p.m.
Ideas for the 99 Percent: Leah Ingram, author
of ‘Suddenly Frugal: How to Live Happier and
Healthier for Less,’ speaks on Sunday, January
8, at 2 p.m., at Princeton Public Library.
609-924-8822.
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Classical Music
Rehearsal, Voices Chorale, Music Together, 225 PenningtonHopewell Road, Hopewell, 609924-7801. www.musictogetherprinceton.com. Register. 7:30
p.m.
Faith
School of Christian Vocation
and Mission, Princeton Theological Seminary, Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Princeton,
609-497-7963. www.ptsem.edu.
“Leveraging the Strengths of the
Small Church” seminar. Register.
$60 includes lunch. 8:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
Health
Monthly Meeting, Compassionate Friends, Capital Health System, 1445 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Hamilton, 609-5168047. www.tcfmercer.org. Meeting to assist families toward the
positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any
age and to provide information to
help others be supportive. 7:30
p.m.
Wellness
Benefit Concert, Pond Road
School, Robbinsville High
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Broadway’s “Jersey Boys” with
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Pond Road Knights chorus.
Songs from Broadway and beyond to benefit the school’s drama and music programs. $15. 7
p.m.
and 5:45 p.m.
Personal Growth and Self Discovery Workshop, Spiritual
Gathering, Lawrence Community Center, 295 Eggerts Crossing Road, Lawrence, 520-6092430. Healing, meditation, and
discussion presented by Phyllis
Johnson. Free. 6:30 to 8:30
p.m.
Art
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Art Exhibit, Princeton Day
School, The Great Road, Princeton, 609-924-6700. www.pds.org.
First day for “Say It With Flowers,”
an exhibit by Lily Stockman featuring recent paintings botanical
art and flower pressing as well as
digital photographs of flowers in
rooftop gardens in urban areas.
Artist’s reception on Saturday,
January 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. On
view to February 2. 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Meeting, Historical Society of
West Windsor, Schenck House,
50 Southfield Road, West Windsor, 609-799-1278. Meeting and
program. “Stories About Our
Flag.” 7 p.m.
Pop Music
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Matinee, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1, Lawrence
Township, 609-989-6922.
www.mcl.org. Screening of
“Moliere,” 2007. French with English subtitles. Register. Free. 2
p.m.
Literati
Poetry Reading, South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane,
Monmouth Junction, 732-3294000. www.sbpl.info. Gina Larkin
and John Larkin read followed by
open mic. 2 to 4 p.m.
Poets at the Library, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, Fireplace on second floor,
609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Joint reading series
for Delaware Valley Poets and
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JANUARY 4, 2012
NY Theater 2011: The Really Good, Good, and Really Bad
by Simon Saltzman
W
ith great joy and a
distinct sense of privilege, I am
able to share my overview of the
New York theater scene during
2011. May I respectfully submit
that this list of 10 best, including
some less than the best, and even a
few of the worst plays and musicals
that I have seen on and off Broadway (around 150) during 2011 reflects my definitely partial but always uncompromised personal
opinion, all based, of course, on arbitrary artistic values and a plethora of subliminal biases.
Certainly the sheer number of
shows that I have both enjoyed and
been subjected to have collectively
shaped and sharpened my perspective. They have all, whether they
are closed now or still running, exposed and defined the gap between
excellence and mediocrity and
sometimes even more definitively
between the invaluable and the intolerable.
For the first time in years, two
new musicals created a buzz and
made headlines that extended way
beyond the pages of the arts sections.
“Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark”
and “The Book of Mormon” dominated all print publications and electronic media this year. The sheer
amount of excitement and interest
generated by these two controversial
(for very different reasons), highprofile musicals gave Broadway a
boost that could be measured both in
terms of money and patronage.
Just as the web-spinning highflying comic book hero SpiderMan managed to finally land safely
at the Foxwoods Theater on June
11 after more than six months of injurious, calamity-ridden previews
(setting a record for number of previews) that also included major
script
re-writes,
directorial
changes, and the pre-opening firing of the musical’s major
creator/collaborator Julie Taymor,
an intrepid pair of Mormon missionaries in “Book of Mormon” arrived intact without injury, and unscathed by the surprisingly negligible protestations of the Mormon
Church of the Latter Day Saints.
Though three of the top 10
shows of the year were produced
Off Broadway, there were more
Off Broadway shows that merited
being on the “nearly the best” list.
The Tony and other major awards
organizations have already recognized the artistic value of some of
the shows that made the lists below.
They qualified for awards by opening before the June cut-off. The
Broadway season officially begins
Critic’s Choice: Clockwise from above: a
scene from ‘War Horse’; ‘Other Desert Cities,’
with Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach; and
‘Sons of the Prophet’ with Chris Perfett, left,
and Yusef Bulos.
in June and ends in May. Other
shows have since opened and
brought to a close a year that will be
noted for significant rise in attendance as well as a more steep increase in ticket prices despite general economic woes (an ongoing
saga of our times).
That “The Book of Mormon”
makes it on the list of 10 Best does
not mean that the entertaining, visually awesome “Spider Man: Turn
Off the Dark” is without merit, only
that there were 10 shows listed alphabetically below that were, in my
opinion, better. The sad part is that
most shows, unlike films and with
few exceptions, don’t have a very
long shelf life except those that are
taped for the archives at the Lincoln
Center Library for the Performing
Arts. (You can make an appointment and request to see a show that
you missed.)
My list in alphabetical order
comprises shows that opened on
Broadway and Off Broadway during 2011. Those still running have
an asterisk preceding the title.
1. “The Bengal Tiger at the
Baghdad Zoo.” Robin Williams
was terrific as a philosophical tiger
whose spirit roams the streets of
Baghdad after he is shot in a zoo by
a marine during the American invasion of Iraq. This haunting, satirical play by Rajiv Joseph had plenty
to say about the random cruelty of
war, but did it in a way that made us
think about the victims on both
sides of life and death, and amazingly with bursts of humor.
2. “The Blue Flower.” The Second Stage produced this beautifully incremented multi-media confluence of truth and fantasy, art and
history. As conceived and composed by married-to-each other
collaborators Jim Bauer (music
and lyrics) and Ruth Bauer (book),
it was staged as a living collage of
human intimacy and abstracted expressionism to romanticize the reimagined lives of German expressionists Max Beckman and Franz
Marc, the German Dada artist Hannah Hoch, and the Nobel Prizewinning physicist/chemist Marie
Curie.
3. * “The Book of Mormon.”
You will either laugh until it hurts
or be stunned into silent submission by the sheer unbridled audacity of this high-spirited musical by
collaborators composer Robert
Lopez (“Avenue Q”) and Trey
Parker and Matt Stone (creators of
TV’s “South Park”). The plot,
which concerns two young missionaries who are sent to convert
the people of a Uganda village
whose lives are imperiled by marauders, is as wittily irreverent as is
the score. You can find it, even if
you can’t find tickets, at the Eugene O’Neill Theater.
4. “Good People.” If it wasn’t
for non-profits like the Manhattan
Theater Club, there would be a serious shortage of good new plays on
Broadway, probably like this one by
David Lindsay-Abaire (winner of
the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for “Rabbit
Hole”). About childhood friends
from South Boston who meet in
adulthood, one now a successful
doctor (Tate Donovan), the other
(Tony Award-winner Frances McDormand) living a hardscrabble
life, the play focused on their renewed relationship and how being
good isn’t always reflected in the
way our lives turn out.
5. “The Lyons.” Apparently after reading the script of Nicky Silver’s new play, Linda Lavin quickly made the decision not to return
with other original cast members in
the Broadway move of “Other
Desert Cities.” She made the right
choice and received accolades as
the viper-tongued mother in this
blistering dark comedy about a
family trying to connect after the
death of the father. Mark Brokaw
directed Silver’s best play in years.
6. “The Motherf—ker with
the Hat.” A gutsy gift from the
LAByrinth Theater Company’s coartistic director and playwright
Stephen Adly Guirgis, this brilliantly written (and directed by Anna D. Shapiro), beautifully acted
(Bobby Cannavale, Chris Rock,
Elizabeth Rodriguez, Annabella
Sciorra, Yul Vazquez) drama was
about people on the lower rung of
society who, although messed up
by sex, drugs, and alcohol, were
seeking redemption. It should have
won the Tony for Best Play (“War
Horse” took the prize).
7. “The Normal Heart.” Larry
Kramer’s heart-wrenching, angerpropelled play about the pleas by
the activists to get the New York
City bureaucrats to address and respond to the AIDS crisis in America between 1981 and 1984 was
originally produced and presented
at the Public Theater in 1985, and
revived and lauded there again in
2004. But this 2011 Broadway production with a dynamic cast (that
included film star Ellen Barkin in
her award-winning Broadway debut) under the direction of Joel
Grey and George C. Wolfe seemed
more passionately ferocious in its
resolve, especially in the light of
the “don’t ask, don’t tell” and gay
marriage debates.
8. * “Other Desert Cities.”
Stockard Channing, Judith Light,
Thomas Sadoski, Stacy Keach, and
Rachel Griffiths (best known for
TV series “Six Feet Under” and
now making her Broadway debut)
are collectively terrific in Jon
Robin Baitz’s tantalizing play
about a wealthy California family
that is are forced to come to terms
with a rebellious daughter, the author of a revealing, soon-to-be-published tell-all book. This play,
which is a safe bet to win the Best
Play Tony Award this spring, was
originally presented in a limited engagement a year ago Off Broadway
by the Lincoln Center Theater. It is
now having an open-ended commercial run under the auspices of
Lincoln Center Theater. Booth Theater, 222 West 45th Street.
9. “Sons of the Prophet.” There
is no comedy like a dark one, and
we can thank the Roundabout Theater Company for producing
Stephen Karam’s acclaimed play
about a Lebanese family coping
with medical mysteries, gay siblings, and nutty employers. It will
surely end up a prize winner when
it comes time for those awards organizations like the Drama Desk
and Outer Critics Circle to honor
the best of Off Broadway.
10. * “War Horse.” Nick Stafford’s wonderful adaptation of
Michael Morpurgo’s novel, about a
young man who won’t be deterred
from finding the adored horse he
raised and conscripted into the cav-
alry during World War I. You can’t
help but be carried away by the story’s unabashed sentimentality as
well as by the incredible puppetry
and scenic design. Lincoln Center
Theater is presenting this play with
music, the winner of the Best Play
Tony Award that was originally
staged in the U.K. at the National
Theater.
Close to the Best
1. “The Cherry Orchard.” A
new dimension was given to the
Chekhov play directed by Andrei
Belgrader with an all-star cast including John Turturro and Diane
Wiest, as produced by the Classic
Stage Company.
2. “The Whipping Man.” This
original and gripping play by
Matthew Lopez was about a former
black slave who returns to the deserted Richmond home of his
wealthy Jewish masters where the
family’s wounded son has also returned.
3. * “Venus in Fur.” This is the
scarily funny play about sex and
domination by David Ives that catapulted Nina Arianda to stardom
Off Broadway. The Roundabout
Theater Company returned it to
Broadway earlier this season for a
limited run. It will resume a commercial run on Broadway at the
Lyceum Theater beginning in February.
4. “Private Lives.” A delightful
revival of the Noel Coward comedy starring Kim Cattrall (of “Sex
and the City” fame) and Paul
Gross. Music Box Theater.
5. * “Sister Act.” This musical
version of the 1992 film is great fun
and a revelation being much better
than the film. Broadway Theater.
6. “Bonnie & Clyde.” Despite
those many critics who always
seem to be out gunning for com-
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Theater at Its Best:
Clockwise from near
right: ‘The Book of
Mormon,’ with Rema
Webb, left, Andrew
Rannells, and Josh
Gad; Kate Jennings
Grant, left, and Linda
Lavin in ‘The Lyons’;
and Tracie Thomas
and Dule Hill in
‘Stick Fly.’
poser Frank Wildhorn, this was an
exciting and ambitious musical
version of the lauded 1967 film
about the Depression Era’s most
notorious lovers/criminals.
7. * “Stick Fly.” This enjoyable,
well-written soap-opera-ish comedy-drama by Lydia R. Diamond is
about a wealthy African-American
family gathering at their home on
Martha’s Vineyard. Cort Theater.
The Unforgivably Bad
1. * “On a Clear Day You Can
See Forever.” The talented Harry
Connick, Jr. must have been put in
a trance by the director and stays in
one throughout this boring, ill-conceived revival of Lerner and Lane’s
1965 musical. St. James Theater.
2. * “Lysistrata Jones.” A lot of
very talented young performers
sing, dance, and dribble basketballs exuberantly through this vulgar, idiotic modernized version of
the ancient Greek anti-war satire.
Walter Kerr Theater.
3. * “Relatively Speaking.” A
relatively embarrassing evening of
three barely tolerable one-act
comedies contributed by Woody
Allen, Elaine May, and Ethan Coen. Brooks Atkinson Theater.
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JANUARY 4, 2012
January 9
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.
Socials
General Meeting, Italian American Festival Association, Heritage Center, 2421
Liberty Street, Hamilton, 609-631-7544.
italianamericanfestival.com. Seeking volunteers for the September festival. 7 p.m.
Postcard Collecting, Washington Crossing Card Collectors, Union Fire Hall, 1396
River Road, Titusville, 215-598-7534.
www.wc4postcards.org. “The Making of the
WC4 Show Cards” by Steve Cohen. Auction follows. 8 p.m.
For Seniors
Opera Video Series, Princeton Senior Resource Center, Suzanne Patterson Building, 609-924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. Screening of “I Pagliacci” and
“Cavalleria Rusticana.” Carol King introduces. Bring a lunch. Dessert and beverages provided. Register. Free. 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday
January 10
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Young Spenders
Consuming Kids, Princeton Learning
Cooperative, Paul Robeson Center for the
Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-851-2522. www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Screening of “Consuming
Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood,”
a film focusing on the growth of child marketing through psychology, anthropology,
and neuroscience to transform American
children into a powerful demographic. $5. 7
p.m.
In the Galleries: ‘Rattan
Barbershop, Timbuktu,
Mali’ by David H. Miller,
opening Friday, January 6,
6 to 8:30 p.m., Gallery 14,
14 Mercer Street, Hopewell.
609-333-8511.
Miller is a featured artist in U.S. 1's
2012 wall calendar, available free
at our offices, while supplies last.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road,
www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden Statesmen,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
Plainsboro, 888-636-4449. www.menwhosing.org. Men of all ages and experience
levels are invited to sing in four-part harmony. The non-profit organization presents at
numerous charities. Free. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Present Day Club, 72 Stockton
Street, Princeton, 609-924-1014. First day
for “Seeing the Light,” an exhibit of paintings and photography by Meg Brinster
Michael. Opening reception on Friday, January 20, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. On view to
February 24. 10 a.m.
Author Event, Princeton Public Library,
65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. Kenneth Slawenski, author of “J.D. Salinger: A Life,” speaks
and signs copies of his book to mark the official launch of the paperback edition of his
biography of the author of “The Catcher in
the Rye.” 7 p.m.
teer advocates to learn about training beginning in October. Court Appointed Special Advocates is a non-profit organization
committed to speaking up in court for the
best interests of abused and neglected children who have been removed from their
homes. Register. 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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.
Good Causes
Health
Information Session, CASA of Mercer
County, 1450 Parkside Avenue, Suite 22,
Ewing, 609-434-0050. www.casamercer.org. One-hour session for potential volun-
Home Care and Hospice Counseling,
Mercer County Connection, 957 Route
Literati
33, Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. Register. Free. 10:30 a.m.
Caregiver Coffee and Dessert Hour,
Buckingham Place, 155 Raymond Road,
Monmouth Junction, 609-426-1545.
www.buckinghamplace.net. Resource
workshop for busy caregivers. Facilitated
by Louise Donnangelo, a resource specialist. Supervised activities for family member.
Register. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
Wellness
Yoga for New Students, Four Winds
Yoga, 114 West Franklin Avenue, Pennington, 609-818-9888. www.fourwindsyoga.com. Bring mat, water, a blanket, and
a towel. Register. Free. 9:10 a.m. and 5:45
p.m.
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JANUARY 4, 2012
Vinyasa Yoga, Grounds For
Hamilton, 609-586-0616.
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Workshop. Register. 10:30 a.m.
to noon.
$16. 4:15 to 5:15 p.m.
Lectures
Engaged Retirement, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Wills and
Estate Planning” presented by
William Isele, attorney, Archer
and Greiner. 7 p.m.
Science Lectures
Meeting, Amateur Astronomers
Association of Princeton, Peyton
Hall, Ivy Lane, Princeton University. www.princetonastronomy.org.
“How Novae and Type Ia Supernovae Are Connected” presented
by Michael Shara. Free. 8 p.m.
Schools
Consuming Kids, Princeton
Learning Cooperative, Paul
Robeson Center for the Arts, 102
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-851-2522. www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Screening of “Consuming Kids: The
Commercialization of Childhood,”
a film focusing on the growth of
child marketing through psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American
children into a powerful demographic. $5. 7 p.m.
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, PA, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6 p.m.
Separated and Divorced Support Group, St. Gregory
Church, 4620 Nottingham Way,
Hamilton, 609-658-6455. Call or
E-mail [email protected]
for more information. Free. 7:30
p.m.
Socials
Public Speaking, Breakfast
Toastmasters Club, Town and
Country Diner, 177 Route 130,
Bordentown, 732-631-0114.
Members meet to deliver and
evaluate prepared and impromptu speeches in an effort to improve as speakers and leaders.
7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732213-0095. www.plainsbororotary.org. 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Memoir Writing Workshop,
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6920. www.mcl.org. Introductory course for seniors to reflect on a significant life
experience and put it on paper.
Facilitated by Maria Okros. Register. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday
January 11
Singles
Grand Opening Social, Professional and Business Singles
Network, Mangia Bene Italian
Grill, 250 Route 202, Flemington,
610-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Cocktails and conversation
for ages 40-plus. Sharp casual attire. Register. $12 to $18. 6 to 9
p.m.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Girls’ Night Out
An Evening of Beauty, Princeton Dermatology, 800 Bunn Drive, Suite 201, Princeton, 609924-1033. www.princetondermatology.com. Demonstrations by
Kathleen Rossy, M.D. and Robyn
Notterman M.D.; goodie bags of
skin care products, drinks, hors
d’oeuvres, and discounts on
products and services. E-mail [email protected] to register. 6 to 8 p.m.
Classical Music
The Met: Live in HD, Metropolitan Opera, Check movie listings.
www.metoperafamily.org.
Screening of “Faust.” 6:30 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Roseanna Vitro Quartet, New
Brunswick Jazz Project, Hyatt,
2 Albany Street, New Brunswick,
732-640-0021. www.nbjp.org. No
cover. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Jazz Vespers, Princeton University, Chapel, 609-258-3654.
www.princeton.edu. Jazz Vespers Ensemble and members of
the Chapel Choir. Free. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
www.itsagrind.com. Register.
6:45 p.m.
Open Mic, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555.
www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10
p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Chapin School, 4101
Princeton Pike, Princeton, 609924-7206. www.chapinschool.org.
Opening reception for “Birds and
Beast,” an exhibit of recent paintings by Charles David Viera featuring bird and animal images. “I
have reached a compromise between my academic training and
my expressionist instincts,” he
says. “My style has varied over the
years and I will continue to experiment with paint in the future.” On
view to January 27. 5 to 7 p.m.
A Stitch in Time: Sammi Nguyen of Group Hug
Quilts, who was featured in U.S. 1, June 22, 2011,
opens a solo show Friday, January 6, 7 to 9 p.m.,
at Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street.
609-924-4377. Photo: Richard D. Bergeron
Girls K-12 Ş Co-ed Pre-School/JK
Creating the Building Blocks of the Future
Join Us
for an
Open
House
Sunday, Jan. 8, 1 - 3 PM
Girls K-12
and Thursday, Jan. 19, 9 - 11 AM
Co-ed Pre-School/JK
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January 11
Dance
Moved by Music, Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, 609258-1500. www.princeton.edu. A
dance and music performance inspired by works of Bach, Handel,
Beethoven, Ravel, and Bartok.
Created by composer Barbara
White and choreographer Kate
Weare presented by Princeton
Atelier students. 8 p.m.
On Stage
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
$40 and up. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Elephants Graveyard, Princeton
University, Lewis Center, 185
Nassau Street, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu. A play set in
1916 about a circus elephant.
$12. 8 p.m.
Film
Film, Princeton Public Library,
65 Witherspoon Street, Fireplace
on second floor, 609-924-9529.
www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “Call and Response”
with accounts from Cornel West,
Madeleine Albright, and other political and cultural figures, about
the 21st century slave trade. The
documentary reveals that in 2009,
slave traders made more money
than Google, Nike, and Starbucks
combined. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Newcomer’s Dance, American
$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. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Faith
Adult Education, Congregation
Beth Chaim Pre-School, 329 Village Road East, West Windsor,
609-799-9401. www.bethchaim.org. “Comparative Religions” presented by Cantor Stuart Binder.
Refreshments. Free. 10 a.m.
Health
An Evening of Beauty, Princeton
Dermatology, 800 Bunn Drive,
Suite 201, Princeton, 609-9241033. www.princetondermatology.com. Demonstrations by
Kathleen Rossy, M.D. and Robyn
Notterman M.D.; goodie bags of
skin care products, drinks, hors
d’oeuvres, and discounts on products and services. E-mail [email protected]
to register. 6 to 8 p.m.
Wellness
Yoga and Meditation, Authentic
Yoga Tradition, Holsome Holistic
Center, 27 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 732-642-8895. authenticyogatradition.com. Yoga in the
Himalayan tradition with Acharya
Girish Jha. Register. 9 a.m.
and 5:45 p.m.
Self Esteem, Pathwork, Unitarian
Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 908-625-2238. philawww.pathwork.org. A discussion
based on the Pathwork lectures
led by Amy Rhett. Register. Free.
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.
Hared Flesher, Van Harlingen
Historical Society, Mary Jacobs
Library, 64 Washington Street,
Rocky Hill, 609-924-7073. vanharlingen.org. Screening of “The
Farmer and the Horse,” a documentary by Jared Flesher, a journalist who writes about energy,
agriculture, and the environment.
Register. Free. 7 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
Lunch and Learn, Princeton
Jewish Center, 435 Nassau
“Welcome to Your Child’s Brain”
presented by Sam Wang, co-author of “Welcome to Your Brain”
and “Welcome to Your Child’s
Brain,” includes the principles that
operate in adapting and learning.
He talks about sleep disorders,
language learning, gender differences, and autism and offers advice on when to worry and when
not to worry. Wang earned his
PhD at Stanford School of Medicine and is an associate professor
of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton University.
Bring a dairy lunch. Coffee, tea,
and cookies provided. Free.
Noon.
Meeting, Princeton Photography
Club, Johnson Education Center,
D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1
Preservation Place, Princeton,
732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org. Refreshments and
networking followed by program
presented by Larry Fink, a professional photographer who has had
solo shows at Museum of Modern
Art, Whitney Museum of Modern
Art, and the Musee de L’Elysee in
Switzerland. 7 p.m.
Schools
Open Classroom, Wilberforce
School, 75 Mapleton Road,
www.wilberforceschool.org.
Christian school from kindergarten to eighth grade. Children
are welcome. 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Apple Classes, Creative Computing, 423 Wall Street, Princeton, 609-683-3622. www.creativecomputing.com. “Computer Maintenance.” Register. $39. 2 to 3
p.m.
Art Opening: ‘Coral Palm’ by Deborah Land,
above left, and ‘Forbidden Exit’ by Jeff Currie,
from ‘Seen and Unseen,’ a duo exhibit on view
through Saturday, January 21, at Art Way Gallery,
Princeton Alliance Church, 20 Shalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro. An artists reception takes place
Friday, January 6, 5 to 8 p.m., 917-748-6411.
Colleges
Information Session, Raritan
Valley Community College,
Flemington Public Library, 908253-6688. www.raritanval.edu. Information about degree and certificate programs, transfer to a
four year college, tuition options,
online courses, and accelerated
programs. Free. 5 to 7 p.m.
Singles
Divorced and Separated Support Group, Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 West Broad
Register. Free. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
For Seniors
Kosher Cafe East, Jewish Family and Children’s Service, Beth
El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-9878100. www.jfcsonline.org. Lunch
and program “Wish You Could Tell
Your Life Story?” For ages 60 and
up. Register. $5. 12:30 p.m.
Thursday
January 12
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Whole Food Rx
Book Launch, Princeton Public
Fireplace on second floor, 609924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Logical Miracles,” edited by Dorothy Mullen, is a collection of stories by people in the
Suppers programs who found
their personal solutions by experimenting with whole food. The
groups work with people with
food-related challenges, depression, anxiety, learning issues,
obesity, diabetes, and problems
with alcohol. 7 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Jon Di Fiore, New Brunswick
Jazz Project, Makeda, 338
George Street, New Brunswick,
732-640-0021. www.nbjp.org.
With Rich Perry and Joe Mags. $5
minimum. No cover. 7:30 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Opening
reception for “Location of Place,”
an exhibit featuring various methods and approaches taken by
photographers in remembering
and documenting space, places,
and geographic locations. Panel
discussion with photographers at
7 p.m. Free. 5 p.m.
Late Thursdays, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. An evening at
the museum features a screening
of “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning.” Free. 7
p.m.
On Stage
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
$40 and up. 7:30 p.m.
$12. 8 p.m.
Film
Foreign and Independent,
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6922. www.mcl.org.
Screening of “Human Resources
Manager,” 2010. Hebrew, English, and Romanian with English
subtitles. Register. Free. 6:30
p.m.
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. [email protected]. Class and practice
session. $12. 8 p.m.
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16 Ways To Cope With Stress In 2012
ould you like less stress
in 2012? Here are 16
suggestions.
1. Recognize the Signs of
Stress: The sooner you spot the
signs, the sooner you can stop
the stress. Common signs are: a
pounding heart, sweaty palms
and brow, tension at the back of
your neck or in the pit of your
stomach, a headache (often the
feeling of a tight band across
your forehead), a backache, irritability, pacing the floor, wringing
your hands, and fatigue.
2. Determine Priorities: You
cannot do everything well. So,
learn to do a few things well, instead of many poorly.
3. Drop Unrealistic Expectations: Drop excessive use of
words like "must" and "should"
from your vocabulary. Pick up
words like "no" and recognize
your limits. Not being 150% involved does not mean being
lazy.
4. Talk to Yourself: Analyze
whether your thinking is dominated by ideas that filter out your
positives and accentuate your
negatives, blowing out of proportion mistakes which you may
have made.
5. Talk to Others: Express vs.
Suppress your feelings. Be assertive and sensitive vs. being an
explosive volcano or someone
who silently seethes, until the inevitable sarcastic snipe oozes
out on the victim.
6. Give in Once in a While:
Make allowances for the fact that
you could be wrong; avoid being
obstinate and defiant.
by the Rev. Peter K. Stimpson
7. Tackle One Task at a
Time: Deal with the most urgent
tasks first; partialize the big
loads, remembering the old joke,
"How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time."
8. Take a Breather: 5 minutes
“off” can lead to most of your day
being "on". Take a walk or just
step away from your desk, instead of making yourself "stand
there and suffer".
9. Deep Breathing: A simple
relaxation exercise is to sit still
for a few minutes and breathe
deeply, not so dramatic that anyone can notice, just so that you
feel relaxed and more under control.
10.Meditation: Deep breathing can be combined with focusing upon one idea or object so as
to slow your mind down, and focus on one thing vs. many.
11. Join a Support Group: If
your extended family is geographically distant, try to make
friends with whom you can be
yourself, or join a support group,
whether at your church, synagogue, or civic group. Even a
Men's League at a Golf Club or
Bowling League can help relieve
some stress by giving you relaxation + friends.
12. Exercise to Relax: A routine of walking, jogging, or any
regular exercise program can
work off pent-up frustration. If
you are able to, try to alternate
between weight-bearing and aerobic exercises, always after preliminary stretching exercises.
Open Daily 12:30 to 4pm
13. Massage: A regular massage may be too expensive, but
consider treating yourself to a
massage when under a great
deal of stress.
14. Try Helping Others: Focusing on the troubles of others
may put yours in perspective.
15. Develop a Hobby: A new
interest can get your mind off an
old problem; woodwork, kite flying, gardening - whatever you
like.
16. Pray: I saved the best for
last. Try daily prayer, meditation,
or reading scripture to show you
the meaning of your life.
TCS
22 Stockton Street
Princeton
609-924-0060
www.trinitycounseling.org
Facebook.com/Trinity
CounselingService
Wellness
Schools
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Douglas
Preston and Lincoln Child, authors of “Gideon’s Corpse” present discussion and book signing.
Preferred seating with book purchase. 7 p.m.
Book Launch, Princeton Public
Fireplace on second floor, 609924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Logical Miracles,” edited by Dorothy Mullen, is a collection of stories by people in the
Suppers programs who found
their personal solutions by experimenting with whole food. The
groups work with people with
food-related challenges, depression, anxiety, learning issues,
obesity, diabetes, and problems
with alcohol. 7 p.m.
and 5:45 p.m.
Art and Healing for Those
Touched by Cancer, Princeton
HealthCare System, 253 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 888-8978979. www.princetonhcs.org. Explore the healing power of creative expression with Cynthia Bydlinski, art and healing facilitator.
Register. Free. 10:30 a.m.
Kids Yoga, Yoga Above, 80 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-6131378. www.yogaabove.com. For
ages 6 to 12. $16. 4:15 to 5:15
p.m.
Understanding Your Thyroid,
Princeton HealthCare System,
Hamilton YMCA, 1315 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Suite
100, Hamilton, 888-897-8979.
www.princetonhcs.org. Discussion on the thyroid gland and its
function with Ned M. Weiss, M.D.,
an endocrinologist and internist.
Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Beyond Hola, Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. wwwlambertvillelibrary.org. Introduction to
Spanish for adult English speakers focuses on essential conversational skills. 6:30 p.m.
Phusia Dance, Mill Ballet
School, 243 North Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-7244. For
women of all ages. $18. 7:45
p.m.
Comedy Night, Joe Delong Presents, Maestro 206, 150 Route
206, Hillsborough, 908-202-1322.
facebook.com/joedelongcomic.
Open mic for newbies to pros to
present a seven minute routine.
Prizes for the two funniest
comics. No cover. Register by Email to [email protected]. 7 to
10 p.m.
Farm Markets
Winter Market, Princeton Farmers Market, Princeton Library, 55
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-356-0558. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com. Farmers and
crafters with winter produce,
cheeses, honey, bread, desserts,
and more. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Public Speaking
Mercer Free School, Lawrence
Community Center, 609-4032383. Program to enhance communication effectiveness. Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Lectures
Consumer Affairs, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33,
Hamilton, 609-890-9800.
www.mercercounty.org. Discuss
credit, home improvement, automotive, and Internet fraud with
the chief of the Mercer County
Consumer Affairs Commission,
Free. 11 a.m.
Lunch Meeting, New Jersey Association of Women Business
Owners, KC Prime, 4160
Quakerbridge Road,
www.njawbomercer.org. “Getting
Paid and Making Payments.”
Register. $30. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m.
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.
Photographic A rt
Literati
Comedy
15 Market Street ★ Trenton, New Jersey ★ (609) 989-3027
Colleges
Open House, Raritan Valley
Community College, 14 Vogt
Drive, Bridgewater, 908-2536688. www.raritanval.edu. For
prospective students interested in
career, trade, and technical training programs. Meet with members of the RVCC faculty and discuss academic programs. Workshops on the admissions
process, financial aid, and transfer opportunities. Register. 5:30
to 7:30 p.m.
Shopping News
food, and a rummage sale. Noon
to 7 p.m.
Socials
Dinner and Meeting, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Italian-American Cultural Center, 2421 Liberty
Street, Hamilton, 609-627-7534.
www.iaap-centraljersey.org. “Ten
Tips for Communicating with Your
Boss” presented by Nicole
Rodeghiero, Office Team. Note
change of location. E-mail
information. Register. $25. 5:45
to 9 p.m.
Barbershop and
Beauty Parlor
Paintings of
Ghana and Mali
David H. Miller
Youssou Barbershop, Bamakao, Mali,
David H. Miller
January 6 February 18
Opening reception:
Friday, January 6
6-8:30 p.m.
Meet the artist:
Sunday, January 8
1-3 p.m.
Peace Brothers, Ghana, David H. Miller
aA
14 Mercer Street Hopewell, NJ • Hours: Saturday & Sunday: 12 - 5
www.photogallery14.com • 609-333-8511
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The Writer Behind ‘Catcher in the Rye’:
Kenneth Slawenski, author of ‘J.D. Salinger:
A Life,’ speaks on Tuesday, January 10,
at Princeton Public Library. 609-924-8822.
Continued from previous page
Friday
January 13
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Drama
for Eve Ensler Fans
Necessary Targets: A Story of
Women and War, Playhouse 22,
721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, 732-254-3939. playhouse22.org. Drama by Eve Ensler.
Through January 22. $12. 8 p.m.
Classical Music
Best of Playing with Fire, New
Jersey Symphony Orchestra,
War Memorial, Trenton, 800-ALLEGRO. www.njsymphony.org.
Selections from Offenbach, Weber, Gounod, Offenbach, Berlioz,
and Dompierre. Jacques Lacombe conducts. $20 to $60.
7:30 p.m. See story page 30.
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Westminster Community Orchestra, Westminster Choir
College, Princeton High School,
Walnut Lane at Franklin Avenue,
609-921-2663. www.rider.edu.
Ruth Ochs conducts. $15. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
Southside Johnny and the Poor
Fools Acoustic Jam, Concerts
at the Crossing, Unitarian
Church, 268 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville,
609-406-1424. www.concertsatthecrossing.com. Southside
Johnny (John Lyon) and his new
acoustic band featuring musicians John Conte on bass, Tommy Byrnes on guitar, Jeff Kazee
on organ and percussion, and
Soozie Tyrell on violin and fiddle.
$20. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Trenton2Nite, Trenton Downtown, South Warren and
Lafa-yette streets, 609-393-8998.
www.trenton-downtown.com. Music, art, games, and activities.
Visit website for full list. Most are
free. 5 p.m.
Cafe, 2667 Main Street,
guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. John & Carm play classic
rock. Wine by the glass or bottle
available. 6 to 9 p.m.
Market and Cafe, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609586-5751. Bob Orlowski. 6 p.m.
Soundwaves Teen Talent Showcase, WDVR-FM, Cultural Center, 522 Route 604, Sergeantsville, 609-397-5991. www.wdvrfm.org. Food available. $10. 7
to 10 p.m.
Fridays Unplugged, Crossing
Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
Acoustical music. $10. Wine and
cheese available. 8 p.m.
Jann Klose and Meg Wilkinson,
Puck, Printer’s Alley, Doylestown,
PA, 215-348-9000. www.pucklive.com. All ages. $10. 8 p.m.
B.D. Lenz, Pure Restaurant and
Lounge, 3499 Route 1 South,
www.pureprinceton.com. Funky
jazz trio. 9 p.m.
Art
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 12:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
www.westwindsorarts.org. Opening reception for “Recyclone,” an
exhibition featuring works by Eva
Mantell, Ina Brosseau Marx, and
Eric Schultz. Artists’ talks at 5
p.m. “Restoration of Antiques and
Reuse” by Marx on Thursday,
January 26, at 7:30 p.m. Demonstration and lecture by Mantell on
Sunday, February 12, at 1:30
p.m. On view to February 29. 4 to
7 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Alfa Art Gallery, 108
Church Street, New Brunswick,
732-296-7270. www.alfaart.org.
Opening reception for “On Tour,”
a group exhibition featuring photography. On view to February 3.
6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
On Stage
dessert. 7 p.m.
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
$40 and up. 8 p.m.
The Pirates of Penzance, Kelsey
Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy presented by PinnWorth Productions. $18. 8 p.m.
The Convert, McCarter Theater
(Berlind), 91 University Place,
Princeton, 609-258-2787.
www.mccarter.org. World premiere of Danai Gurira’s new play
set in the region that would become Zimbabwe circa 1895. Directed by Emily Mann. $20 to
$60. 8 p.m.
721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, 732-254-3939. www.playhouse22.org. Drama by Eve Ensler. Through January 22. $12. 8
p.m.
$12. 8 p.m.
Film
Screening of “The Whale.” $8. 7
and 8:35 p.m.
Film Series, West Windsor Arts
Council, West Windsor Library,
North Post Road, West Windsor,
609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org. Screening of “Born
Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red
Light Kids,” 2004. Documentary
in English about the children of Indian prostitutes and their experiences as budding photographers.
Refreshments. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Dancing
Friday Night Social, American
$15. 8 to 11 p.m.
Dance Jam, Dance Improv Live,
All Saints’ Church, 16 All Saints’
www.danceimprov.com. Lightly
guided dance improvisation with
live music and refreshments. $15.
8 to 10 p.m.
Benefit Galas
Gala Concert, Concordia Chamber Players, Cradle Valley Farm,
Solebury, PA, 215-297-5972.
www.concordiaplayers.org. “La
Revue de Cuisine” is an evening
of rarely heard music by Bohuslav
Martinu in a narrated presentation
featuring Linda Kenyon. A country
setting with a French flair gourmet
dinner. Register. $150. 7 p.m.
Comedy
Cal Verducci and Chris Johnston, Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt
Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
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At the Movies
Confirm titles, dates, and times with theaters.
The Adventures of Tintin 3D. Animated
adventure by Steven Spielberg. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. Family animated comedy begins
on a cruise ship. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Arthur Christmas. Animation with voices of Hugh Laurie and James McAvoy. AMC,
Multiplex, Regal.
The Artist. Dark drama about a silent
movie star circa 1927. Garden, Montgomery.
Beauty and the Beast. Re-release of the
1991 version with 3D effects. Opens Friday,
January 13. AMC.
Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think. Film
documentary of a live stage performance.
Opens Wednesday, February 1. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
A Dangerous Method. Biopic about Carl
Jung and Sigmund Freud stars Keira Knightley as the patient. Montgomery.
The Darkest Hour. Thriller directed by
Chris Gorak. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
The Descendants. George Clooney in a
drama film based on the novel by Kaui Hart
Hemmings. AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
The Devil Inside. Opens Thursday, January 5. AMC, Regal.
Don 2. Action film produced in India.
Multiplex, Regal.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Teamwork by Daniel Craig and Rooney
Mara. AMC, Garden, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live Featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Tuesday, January 31. AMC,
Regal.
Happy Feet Two. Animation with voices
of Elijah Wood and Robin Williams. AMC.
Hugo. Family film directed by Martin
Scorsese. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
J. Edgar. Biodrama with Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover. AMC.
Joyful Noise. Opens Friday, January 13.
Regal.
Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl. Hindi comedy.
Regal.
Metropolitan Opera: Faust. Wednesday, January 11. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Metropolitan
Opera:
Rodelinda.
Wednesday, January 4. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Metropolitan Opera: The Enchanted
Island. Saturday, January 21; and Wednesday, February 8. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Action with Tom Cruise. AMC, Destiny,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Muppets. Family film with Amy
Adams and Jason Siegel. AMC, Destiny,
Multiplex, Regal.
My Week with Marilyn. Michelle
Williams portrays Marilyn Monroe. AMC,
Montgomery, Regal.
New Year’s Eve. Film about couples and
singles in New York stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Biel, and Ashton Kutcher. AMC,
Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Food & Dining
Singles
The Brunello Boys Dinner,
Catherine Lombardi, 3 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick,
732-828-4444. www.stageleft.com. Five course dinner with
farmers from Tuscany. Register.
$149. 8 p.m.
Wine Tasting for Singles, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
Register. $10. 7 p.m.
Divorce Recovery Seminar,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. “Dealing with Your ExSpouse.” Non-denominational
support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Wellness
and 5:45 p.m.
Qigong, Ruth A. Golush, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
www.ruthagolush.com. Meditative energy exercises for balance.
Register. $20. 10 to 11 a.m.
$16. 4:15 to 5:15 p.m.
Lectures
English Conversation Class for
ESL, West Windsor Library, 333
North Post Road, 609-799-0462.
Informal discussion of language,
culture, and daily living with
Richard Peterson, the reference
librarian. Skills stressed include
pronunciation, accent, vocabulary, and fluency. 1:30 to 2:15
p.m.
Schools
Lunch and Learn, Wilberforce
School, 75 Mapleton Road,
www.wilberforceschool.org. “Social Media” interactive discussion
on school-age issues. Lunch provided. Christian school from
kindergarten to eighth grade.
Register. 12:15 p.m.
Shopping News
food, and a rummage sale. Noon
to 7 p.m.
Socials
Meeting, Successfully Speak Up
Toastmasters, Pellettieri, Rabstein, & Altman, 100 Nassau Park
Boulevard, Suite 111, West Windsor, 732-631-0114. ssu.freetoasthost.ws. Members deliver
and evaluate prepared and impromptu speeches. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
For Seniors
Brown Bag Discussion, Princeton Senior Resource Center,
Suzanne Patterson Building, 609924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. “Veteran’s Programs”
presented by Visiting Angels
Home Care focuses on benefits
for home care, residential care,
eligibility, and application procedures. Register. Free. Noon.
Sports
Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink,
609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Colgate, $10. 7 p.m.
Trenton Titans, Sun National
Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-341-1100.
www.trentontitanshockey.com.
Hockey vs. South Carolina. $11
and up. 7 p.m.
Saturday
January 14
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: A HandsOn Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, Grounds For
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Robert Downey Jr. in title role. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Sitter. Comedy with Jonah Hill.
AMC, Regal.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,
Part I. Thriller sequel with Kristen Stewart
and Robert Pattinson. AMC.
War Horse. Jeremy Irvie portrays a
young man in search of his horse in Europe
during World War I. Based on the book and
stage production. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
We Bought a Zoo. Family comedy with
Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. AMC,
Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Young Adult. Charlize Theron portrays a
writer of teen literature who returns to her
hometown. AMC, Montgomery, Multiplex,
Regal.
There’s Your Boy: Tom
Cruise stars in ‘Mission
Impossible: Ghost Protocol,’
now playing.
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325 Sloan Avenue, I-295 Exit 65-A, 609-890-8307.
Destiny 12, 2465 South Broad Street,
Hamilton, 609-888-1101.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-683-7595.
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-520-8700.
Montgomery Center Theater, Routes 206
and 518, Rocky Hill, 609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center Plaza, 319
Route 130 North, East Windsor, 609-371-8472.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South, New
Brunswick, 732-940-8343.
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. groundsforsculpture.org. Paper cutting
workshop for adults at 11 a.m.
noon. Demonstration of Chinese
calligraphy from 1 to 4 p.m. 11 a.m.
Science Lectures
Science on Saturday, Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory, Forrestal Campus, Route 1 North,
Plainsboro, 609-243-2121. www.pppl.gov. “What is the Universe Expanding Into? And Other Perfectly
Reasonable Questions” presented
by David Goldberg, department of
physics at Drexel University. Register on site beginning at 8:15 a.m.
For students, parents, teachers,
and community members. Photo
ID required. Series is coordinated
by John DeLooper, Ronald Hatcher, Kathleen Lukazik, and Deedee
Ortiz. Free. 9:30 a.m.
Classical Music
Mozart, Princeton Public
Fireplace on second floor, 609924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Mozart Masterpieces”
presented by Catherine Sprague
is a 90 minute multi-media lecture
featuring Mozart’s important
works. 3 p.m.
Back to School Night
for Adults
Information Session
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6PM
The Conference Center at Mercer
Learn about what we have to offer this spring!
For more information, call 609.570.3311
or email [email protected]
The Center of Continuing Studies
Mercer County Community College
1200 Old Trenton Road
West Windsor, NJ 08550
www.mccc.edu/ccs
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Opportunities
I
t doesn’t seem possible at any
time, but especially at the holidays,
for a nonprofit that feeds and provides work-training and support
services for the needy to suffer its
own devasting crisis. But that’s
what happed when Crisis Ministry of Trenton and Princeton
suffered a fire at its Trenton site on
December 16. Its entire food
pantry was burned and the offices
were deemed uninhabitable.
Dave Davis, senior pastor of
Nassau Presbyterian Church, the
church that helped found the Crisis
Ministry, sent a widespread E-blast
and E-newsletter, and donations of
food and money started coming in.
Postings on Facebook and Twitter
reached even farther into the community, according to Sarah Unger,
head of communications and development at the Crisis Ministry.
Donations have come in from myriad churches, businesses, and individuals.
The organization lost an estimated 30 tons of food. Donations
of non-perishable food and personal care items may be delivered to
the McDade Building, 640 South
Broad Street, Trenton; Mercer
County Connection, Route 33 at
Paxson Avenue, Hamilton; and the
Mercer County Park Commission,
197 Blackwell Road, Pennington.
Visit www.thecrisisministry.org or
call 609-921-2135 for information.
Volunteer Please
Womanspace seeks volunteers
for its Domestic Violence Victim
Response Team (DVVRT) and
Sexual Assault Support Services
(SASS) Advocate Team. Team
members respond to area police
stations or hospitals and meet with
victims to provide them with support, information, and referrals.
January 14
Composers Concert, Opera Project, Saint Andrew’s Church, 50
York Street, Lambertville, 908268-1264. “The Love Elegies of
Sulpicia” by Rick Tocce, a Lambertville resident, performed by
Nicole Guberman, soprano; Dan
Kujala on cello, and Richard
McIntyre on piano. “Celebration,”
a one act opera by Richard Mcintyre, features Alejandra Garrido,
soprano; Steven Snow, tenor;
Don Sheasley, baritone; and
Alyssa Lehman, mezzo soprano.
“Long, Too Long, America” by
Carny Block was composed in
commemoration of the victims of
9/11. $15. 8 p.m.
Calling All . . . Boys
For Field Hockey
Qualifications include the ability to communicate well with others, being a good listener, and
maintaining confidentiality. Interested persons must be 18 years of
age or older, as well as a resident or
employee in the Mercer County
area with a valid driver’s license,
available transportation, and the
ability to attend trainings and meetings. Volunteers may not have either a criminal history or prior history as a defendant in a domestic
violence or sexual assault-related
matter. Interested persons must
submit to a background investigation, including fingerprinting.
Bilingual individuals (especially those fluent in Spanish, Polish,
and American Sign Language) are
encouraged to apply. Volunteers
are also required to be fluent in
English.
Volunteers will receive more
than 80 hours of training on topics
including the law, sensitivity to the
needs of victims and their children,
and how to provide appropriate responses at a very critical time.
Trained volunteers must be available to respond to calls two to four
shifts per month. The next training
begins in March. Visit www.womanspace.org for an application.
Deadline is Monday, January 30.
For more information contact
Heidi Mueller at [email protected] or Alison Daks at [email protected], or call 609-3940136.
CASA for Children of Mercer
and Burlington Counties seeks
volunteers to advocate for children
who have been removed from their
homes due to abuse and neglect. Informational sessions will be held at
1450 Parkside Office, Suite 22,
Ewing, on Tuesday, January 10,
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Also from 5:30
to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Janu-
ary 18; Thursday, February 9; and
Wednesday, February 15.
More than 30 hours of training
are required to be a child advocate
for one child or a sibling group.
Spring training will be held in
April. For more information or to
register visit www.casamercer.org
or call 609-434-0050.
New Jersey Blood Services
seeks registered nurses with CPR
certification to volunteer in donor
rooms in New Brunswick and
Scotch Plains. Contact R. Jan Zepka by E-mail to [email protected] or call 732-616-8741 for
information.
Duke Farms offers a certification program to become a Rutgers
environmental steward. The 60
hours of classes include land and
water stewardship practices, environmental public advocacy and
leadership. An additional 60 hours
of volunteer work is needed to receive certification. Weekly classes
begin Tuesday, January 10, from
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Visit
www.dukefarms.org or call 908243-3602 for information and registration.
Jazz & Blues
Alexis P. Suter Band, The
Record Collector Store, 358
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown,
609-324-0880. www.the-recordcollector.com. $22. 7:30 p.m.
Kim Yarson, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing
www.itsagrind.com. Acoustic originals. 8 p.m.
Laser Rock Concert, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908526-1200. www.raritanval.edu.
$6. 8 p.m.
B.D. Lenz, Small World Coffee,
14 Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-924-4377. www.smallworldcoffee.com. Funky jazz trio. 8:30
to 10:30 p.m.
World Jazz, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
http://openmicssignup.weebly.com. Contemporary ethno jazz
music with Phylllis Chapell and
Stora. $20. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Market and Cafe, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609586-5751. Sandy Zio. Noon.
www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Hopewell Valley Vineyards’
Jazz Ensemble plays. Wine by
the glass or bottle available. 6
p.m. to 9 p.m.
Brunch for Cause
Princeton Community Works
presents Brunch at Home on Sunday, March 25, to benefit the
Princeton Senior Resource Center.
The brunch basket includes bagels,
quiche, smoked salmon, fruit,
cider, and more for $37.50. The
basket is delivered to the recipient’s home by 9 a.m. Visit
www.brunchathome.org, call 609924-7108, ext. 20, or E-mail [email protected] for information or orders.
Art
Art Exhibit, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street,
Doylestown, 215-340-9800.
www.michenerartmuseum.org.
First day for “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
W
hile central New Jersey
parents may think of field hockey as a girls sport, that’s not the
case everywhere. In fact, internationally more boys than girls
play field hockey. It’s the other
way around only in the United
States and Canada.
Closer to home the Tiger
Field Hockey Club is looking for
boys to participate in two indoor
field hockey programs. One pro-
For Dancers
Roxey Ballet has auditions for
“Cinderella” on Saturday, January
14, Canal Studios, Lambertville.
Ages 4 to 6, 3 to 3:30 p.m.; ages 7 to
10, 3:30 to 4 p.m.; ages 11 to 13, 4 to
4:30 p.m.; and ages 14 to 18, 4:30 to
5 p.m. Audition fee is $30. Participation fee (if chosen) is $175. Performances will be held May 12 and
13 in Flemington. Dancers must
register 30 minutes before the
scheduled audition. Dancers who
dance on pointe should be prepared. Male dancers should prepare
to partner. Dancers who do not have
a driver’s license must have one
parent present. E-mail [email protected] or call 609-397-7616.
Pennington Dance offers a
four-week contemporary dance
workshop taught by Jenny Gladney. The class meets on Tuesdays,
January 24 and 31, February 7 and
14, at 7:30 p.m., at Cyrus Lodge,
131 Burd Street, Pennington. $112.
Dancers should have a foundation
in contemporary dance, ballet,
jazz, or modern technique. Contact
Nancy Warner at [email protected] or call 609-7377596 for information. Deadline to
register is Friday, January 6.
of Trenton, is a Bucks County resident. On view to May 20. $12.50.
Gallery talk on Sunday, January
22, at 3 p.m. “Egg Tempera: Then
and Now,” a lecture and demonstration, on Thursday, May 17, 7
p.m. 10 a.m.
Chinese New Year, Grounds For
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Paper
cutting workshop for adults at 11
a.m. noon. Demonstration of Chinese calligraphy from 1 to 4 p.m.
11 a.m.
Highlight Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2 p.m.
Artists Network, Lawrenceville
Main Street, 2683 Main Street,
www.lmsartistsnetwork.com. Art
gallery reception. Refreshments.
4 to 7 p.m.
Art Exhibit, JB Kline Gallery, 25
Bridge Street, Lambertville, 609397-7026. Opening reception for
“Music Month,” an eclectic collection of photographs, acrylics,
drawings, painted instruments, illustrated children’s books, and
objects d’art with music and musicians as the theme. Guest artist is
When it comes to your teeth,
nothing is as important as experience
Melvin S. Babad, DMD
Fellow, Academy of General Dentistry
Fellow, American Society of Dental Aesthetics
Diplomate, American Board of Aesthetic Dentistry
Fellow, International Academy of Dental Facial Esthetics
Fine Dentistry Since 1975 • 1941 S. Broad Street • Hamilton, NJ
Most Major Dental Insurance Accepted
609-396-9491
grams, primarily instructional, is
designed for students in grades
2-5. The other program is for students in grades 6-9 looking to
play in games. Older players
who have played basketball,
soccer, lacrosse, or ice hockey
may find that the experience of
those sports will be a benefit in
playing field hockey.
Girls also are welcome to participate in the Tiger Field Hockey Club. All sessions will take
place in Mercer County on Sunday afternoons, January 8
through February 5. Details are
available at www.TigerHockeyClub.com.
Montgomery Recreation offers ballroom dance lessons on
Wednesdays, February 8, 15, 22,
and 29, at Otto Kaufman Gym, 356
Skillman Road, Skillman. Candace
Woodward-Clough presents the
basics of partner dancing a fox trot,
waltz, and swing for beginners at
7:30 p.m. Advanced dancers study
rumba, meringue, cha-cha, mambo, samba, and tango at 8:30 p.m.
$95 per couple. Call 609-466-3023
to register.
For the Young
One Yoga & Wellness Center
offers yoga classes for ages 11 to
15 on Thursdays, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m.
405 Route 130 North, East Windsor. Call 609-918-0963. $16 per
class or $100 for eight class session.
Har Sinai offers a program of
rhythm and music for children,
ages 6 to 14 months. Wednesdays,
9:15 to 10 a.m., at 2421 Pennington
Road, Hopewell. Sessions begin
Wednesday January 4 and March
14. Contact Magda Reyes by Email at [email protected] or call
609-730-8100.
photographer Catherine Sebastian of Woodstock, New York. Married to singer songwriter John Sebastian she has photographed
musicians for 40 years. Musical
attractions will be featured during
the month. On view to January
30. 6 to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Princeton Day
School, The Great Road, Princeton, 609-924-6700. www.pds.org.
Artist’s reception for “Say It With
Flowers,” an exhibit by Lily Stockman featuring recent paintings
botanical art and flower pressing
as well as digital photographs of
flowers in rooftop gardens in urban areas. On view to February 2.
6 to 8 p.m.
On Stage
Bristol, PA, 215-785-0100.
$40 and up. 2 and 8 p.m.
Damn Yankees, Raritan Valley
Community College, Route 28,
North Branch, 908-725-3420.
www.rvccarts.edu. Musical comedy about a baseball fan in the
1950s. $37 and $47. 2 p.m.
dessert. 7 p.m.
The Pirates of Penzance, Kelsey
Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy presented by PinnWorth Productions. $18. 8 p.m.
The Convert, McCarter Theater
(Berlind), 91 University Place,
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Film
Screening of “The Whale.” $8. 7
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Literati
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6 p.m.
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Winter Farmers Market, Slow
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Art Exhibit, Historical Society of
Princeton, Updike Farmstead,
354 Quaker Road, Princeton,
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Princeton” photography exhibit.
10 a.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Historical Society of Princeton,
Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker
Dream bags are filled with treats
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Digital Photographs, Monroe
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Plaza, Monroe, 732-521-5000.
www.monroetwplibrary.org. “Uploading and Editing Photos” includes organizing and sharing
photos using Flickr and Picnik.
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FILM
LITERATURE
DANCE
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MUSIC
PREVIEW
It’s Elemental: NJSO Ignites Fire & Light
T
he New Jersey Symphony Orchestra ignites novel attractions for concertgoers in its 2012
winter festival, which runs in central Jersey venues from Saturday,
January 7, to Sunday, January 22.
Taking fire as its theme, the NJSO
presents an extravaganza consisting of three programs. In addition
to musical depictions, myth and
metaphor play a part. Visual effects
enhance the programs. Dancers
and actors add their ardor. Craftspeople show wares in which fire
plays a part. Environmentalists and
community leaders radiate their
fire-based concerns.
Music director Jacques Lacombe leads all three programs. A
multi-year approach to the January
festival that draws on elemental
forces was his brainchild. The musical depiction of water, along with
non-musical spillovers, gave coherence to the festival in January,
2011. This year fire provides the
spark.
The NJSO performs in several
different venues but the first program, “The Hero’s Fire,” takes
place in central Jersey on Saturday,
January 7, at New Brunswick’s
State Theater. It brings fulfillment
to a dream of visionary composer
and mystic Alexander Scriabin.
Scriabin associated pitches with
particular colors. His music is, on
the whole, dissonant without being
harsh.
For his Symphony No. 5, subtitled “Prometheus: The Poem of
Fire,” Scriabin envisioned color
projections to accompany the music and wrote a part for what he
called a “color organ.” Scriabin
himself participated in the first performance of the piece in 1911,
playing the part he wrote for conventional piano. The debut performance took place without color
organ.
Veteran lighting designer Al
Crawford joins others who have attempted to make up for inadequate
technology a century ago. Using a
full-size 88-key Yamaha electronic
keyboard, Crawford has linked
notes on the keyboard to lights corresponding to Scriabin’s color
scheme for pitches.
Crawford plays the light-producing keyboard onstage in NJSO
performances of “Poem of Fire.”
The lighting designer, who is the
son of jazz pianist Chip Crawford,
says in a phone interview from his
New York office, “Piano is in my
blood.”
Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, whose
specialties include Scriabin’s music, performs the part that Scriabin
wrote for acoustic piano on a conventional concert grand. Igor
Stravinsky’s “Firebird” and music
from Richard Wagner’s “Die
Walkuere” complete the program.
The second program, “Best of
Playing with Fire,” turns allegorical with musical depictions of
characters who made deals with the
devil. It takes place Friday, January
13, in Trenton’s War Memorial.
by Elaine Strauss
The final, third program of the
festival, “Fire: Light and Legend,”
culminates in a presentation based
on Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Creatures of Prometheus,” which adds
ballet, narration, and lighting effects to the composition. Choreographer Francesca Harper, lyricist
Murray Horwitz, and lighting designer Al Crawford enlarge the
scope of Beethoven’s score in the
newly commissioned production.
The concert includes a reading of
Kaija Saariaho’s cello concerto,
“Notes on Light” with Anssi Karttunen, the Finnish cellist for whom
Saariaho wrote the work. It opens
with Franz Josef Haydn’s Symphony No. 59 (“Fire). In central New
Jersey the concluding program
takes place Friday, January 20, at
Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium, and Sunday, January 22, at
New Brunswick’s State Theater.
L
ighting designer Crawford
contributes to two of the three programs. His experience with the
Alvin Ailey Dance Company furnished him with ample parallels for
the NJSO projects. Lighting director for Ailey since 1998, Crawford
has produced the lighting for the
company in 48 states and more
than 60 countries.
He is a man who enjoys the demands of diverse novel challenges.
“For Scriabin’s ‘Poem of Fire,’ I
was asked to implement the ‘color
organ’ that Scriabin imagined
would be played with the piece. He
clearly had more vision than capability, and my goal is to honor his
dream while embracing modern
technology and bringing in my sensibility of the music.
“For the Beethoven piece,
‘Creatures of Prometheus,’ it will
be much more about story telling,”
Crawford continues. “Compared to
the Scriabin, lighting the Beethoven is relatively tame.”
In the creative stretch required
for both of these non-traditional
projects, Crawford maintained
close touch with NJSO music director Lacombe. “One of the main
things we wanted to accomplish
was to use light as another instrument in the orchestra. We wanted to
make a bold statement and to avoid
some wimpy presentation like just
lighting up the piccolo in the corner.
“For the Scriabin I wanted a
lighting design that had a dynamic
similar to the ‘Poem of Fire’ —
something with the same contours
in light that the piece has in sound.
My lighting is a composition. I
have found light to be a perfect
medium for me personally.
“Scriabin leaves a lot of unanswered questions,” Crawford says.
“That’s gold to me. It gives me an
opportunity for my esthetic to
come forward. Everyone’s concept
of purple is different, the same as
are concepts of how a particular
color relates to the color that comes
before or after. The colors must
flow or be jagged appropriately. A
lighting system can be staccato and
rhythmic or soft and legato. It depends on what the music is doing
and on what I see in the score.”
Crawford now knows the Scriabin work intimately. “I listened to
the point that it’s natural to my ears.
Beyond that, I’ve learned the piece
to the point that I can play the color
organ with the score. That was my
goal. It’s a big honor for a lighting
designer to do something of this
sort with a large orchestra like the
NJSO. It’s very special to me.”
Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, who
performs in the Scriabin “Poem of
Fire,” remained outside the loop in
preparations for lighting the piece.
His first experience of Crawford’s
lighting would come at an NJSO
rehearsal. But he has vivid memories of exposure to Scriabin. In a
telephone interview from his London home, Sudbin says, “Scriabin’s music is dangerous. You
don’t know how it affects you until
afterwards. His music is like a
drug. You feel good while you’re
working on it. You don’t notice that
you’ve become addicted.”
Sudbin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1980. His parents,
both pianists, met at the St. Petersburg conservatory. The family fled
to Berlin in 1990, when Yevgeny
was 10. “We had to leave like visitors, and make it appear that we
were coming back. When he was
17 he left for London on his own,
and completed his education there.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from the Royal Academy
of Music.
“Not only were Scriabin’s ideas
ahead of the technology,” Sudbin
says, “Scriabin was ahead of humanity. He regarded himself as the
messiah. Maybe he was manic-depressive. His ideas were incredibly
different from other Russian contemporary composers. He believed
Come On, Baby, Light My Fire: An example of Al
Crawford’s lighting design, above left, at a gala at
NJPAC featuring Christine Ebersole; and pianist
Yevgeny Sudbin. Crawford photo: Zakaria Al-Alami
that he could fly if he jumped high
enough; he believed that he could
walk on water.”
Pianist Sudbin calls “Poem of
Fire” “very intense.” He labels it
“dark and full of mysticism.” The
harmonies, he says, are “satanic. It
has an amazing impact on audience
and performer.”
Sudbin offers no advice on how
to approach the piece. “Listeners
don’t need advice,” he says. “The
piece should affect everyone immediately. There is no need to listen many times. There is something
raw and primal about it. The audience should just let things happen,
and see how they work out.”
As a basis for “Poem of Fire”
Scriabin devised a six-note chord,
known as the “mystic chord” with
intervals larger than the intervals in
conventional chords — the notes
are A, D#, G, C#, F#, and B. “The
effect of the chord ranges from
purely sensual to extremely dark,”
Sudbin says. “It can sound innocent and floating, depending on
how Scriabin puts it together.”
The piano is a team player in this
piece, according to Sudbin. “It’s
not like a concerto. It’s more a symphony. The piano is integrated into
the orchestra. The piece is a massive organism where the piano is
one part of it, rather than having a
prominent solistic role.”
T
o some extent it is possible
to pinpoint the means by which the
music suggests the idea of fire. “Vibrations,” Sudbin suggests. “Tremolos,” he adds. “A lot of trills.
There is a heroic element with
horns and other winds.”
Sudbin considers the piano part
quite difficult technically. “Scriabin was a great pianist. He had
small hands, but his left hand was
very developed. His later pieces
are difficult for the left hand. They
‘A lighting system can be staccato and rhythmic or soft and legato.
It depends on what the music is doing and on what I see in the score,’
says guest NJSO lighting designer Al Crawford.
have a lot of jumps. Scriabin had a
good ability to spread his hand.
That’s clear in the piece. But the
main challenge is musical — to
convey the mood.”
After recording all of Scriabin’s
solo piano works (a prize-winning
disc on the Swedish label BIS),
Sudbin reports, “I didn’t want to
have anything to do with Scriabin. I
became almost mentally ill. I became too consumed by the music.
It was hard to become normal
again. The music is so intense. It is
difficult to stay mentally completely stable with those unstable chords
around you. You always have to
keep a distance to maintain your
balance. I overcame my exposure
to Scriabin by stopping playing for
a while.
“I like to stop playing for a period each year to regenerate,” says
the pianist. “After Scriabin I had to
stop for several weeks.”
The Hero’s Fire, New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick. Saturday, January 7, 8
p.m. Wagner’s “Wotan’s Farewell”
and “Magic Fire Music;” Scriabin’s “Prometheus: the Poem of
Fire;” and Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” Jacques Lacombe conducts.
Yevgeny Sudbin on piano. $20 to
$85. 800-ALLEGRO or www.njsymphony.org.
Best of Playing with Fire, War
Memorial, Trenton. Friday, January
13, 7:30 p.m. Selections from Offenbach, Weber, Gounod, Offenbach,
Berlioz, and Dompierre. Jacques
Lacombe conducts. $20 to $60.
Fire: Light & Legend, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. Friday, January 20, 8 p.m., and
the State Theater, 15 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick. Sunday,
January 22, 3 p.m. Haydn’s “Fire;”
Saariaho’s “Notes on Light;” and
Beethoven’s “The Creatures of
Prometheus.” Jacques Lacombe
conducts. Anssi Karttunen on cello.
$20 to $82. A talk, “Hero as Myth:
Prometheus Unveiled,” takes place
at 7 p.m. at Nassau Presbyterian
Church before the Princeton concert and at 2 p.m. before the New
Brunswick concert.
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WHAT MATTERS — IN JUST SIX WORDS
The article below has been
adapted from a Rosh Hashanah sermon delivered to mark the Jewish
New Year 5772.
by Rabbi Annie Tucker
T
his - sermon - is - six words - long.
Well, it’s actually 2,048 words
long but it’s about the power of
capturing the profound in the concise, about encapsulating nothing
less than the fullness of one’s entire
life experience in just six simple
words.
Think it can’t be done?
Chef Mario Batali’s six-word
autobiography reads “Brought it to
a boil, often!”
Comedian Jon Stewart’s memoir proclaims “Well, I thought it
was funny.”
And a nine-year-old with a terminal illness captured her brief existence by writing, “Cursed with
cancer, blessed with friends.”
Almost makes Twitter and its
What’s Your Story?
(In Six Words)
U.S. 1 invites readers to
share their own six-word
memoirs for publication in a
subsequent edition. Please
send your memoir, along with
your professional or business
affiliation to our editor:
[email protected].
A rabbi issues a new year’s challenge to her congregants:
Find the center from which you derive your joy and meaning.
140-character limit look unnecessarily generous, yes?!
A literary folktale holds that the
six-word genre was born when
Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to create a story of this
length. His response? “For sale:
baby shoes, never worn.” Some
call this brief tale Hemingway’s
best work while others dismiss it as
mere urban legend. Either way, the
six-word narrative soon arrived on
the literary scene and it’s been here
to stay ever since [recently given a
boost by an online story telling
journal, Smith Magazine —
www.smithmag.net].
“I still make coffee for two,”
writes Zak Nelson, not the elderly
widow one might expect but rather
a newly single 20-something with
a caffeine addiction.
“Was rebellious teen. Now raising one,” writes a woman named
Michelle.
“I’m my mother and I’m fine,”
confesses K. Bertrand cheerfully.
Perhaps these brief autobiographies don’t tell us the full story, but
they certainly tell us enough.
Of course, there’s nothing particularly magical about the number
six, although it is interesting to note
how many significant axioms and
expressions fit this quaint paradigm. Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheynu Adonai Echad [which translates as “Hear, O Israel, the Lord
our God, the Lord is one”], the central creed of Jewish belief, manages to convey the ethical
monotheism that is at the heart of
our tradition in just a few short
words.
This synagogue’s tagline, “The
Jewish Center of our lives,” also
distils the essence of our community and the significance we hope it
will hold for each of us to one brief
sentence fragment. In 1987 President Ronald Reagan made history
in just six words during his speech
Six words may have
the power to change
the course of human
history. More importantly, they have the
power to change the
course of our own
lives.
at the Brandenburg Gate when he
uttered the now iconic: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Six
words have the power to change
the course of human history.
So why my newfound obsession
with the six-word narrative? This
literary form may be charming and
clever, expedient and absolutely
in-keeping with the zeitgeist of
short medium communication ushered in by Facebook and Twitter,
but that’s not why I suddenly find it
so compelling. Rather, I think that
the six-word narrative can be a
powerful tool in helping us work
towards teshuvah, the spiritual return that is at the heart of the High
Holiday season. Six words may
have the power to change the
course of human history. More importantly, they have the power to
change the course of our own lives.
Rabbi Shamai Kanter, the now
retired rabbi at Congregation Beth
El in Rochester, New York, tells the
story of biking one summer in a
section of rural countryside when
he suddenly passed a large sign
outside the local church with an unusual message. “If you are headed
in the wrong direction, God allows
U-turns,” the billboard proclaimed
and this message has stuck with me
ever since.
Teshuvah is often thought of as
turning back from undesirable
things — bad habits or patterns of
behavior, broken relationships or
interpersonal dynamics, spiritual
apathy or distance, a feeling of
God’s absence. But I prefer to think
of teshuvah as a turning towards
rather than a turning away — making that sacred U-turn back in the
direction of wholeness and blessing, to the place where we are our
best and most fully actualized
selves and accordingly attract the
best and most fully actualized parts
of others.
Teshuvah is returning to our
center, our core, the place from
which we derive joy and meaning,
satisfaction and connectedness. To
rediscover that place, particularly
if we have not been there in quite
some time, can take a good bit of
work.
One of my favorite metaphors
for teshuvah comes from Dr.
Rachel Naomi Remen, family
physician and author of the won-
For New Year: Rabbi
Tucker of the Jewish
Center of Princeton
says six-word memoirs can help us see
to the core.
derful book “Kitchen Table Wisdom.” Remen describes teshuvah
through the words of a colleague
who explains his efforts to stay
grounded and true to himself, to
find his spiritual center, with the
image of musicians in an orchestra
beginning to tune their individual
instruments moments before the
concert begins. The conductor may
ask the oboist to sound an “A” and
initially there is cacophony and
chaos as the various parts of the ensemble try to align themselves with
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A mother’s six-word memoir: ‘Was rebellious teen. Now raising one.’
moves closer and closer in tune the
clamor diminishes, and when all
instruments play in perfect pitch
together there is a moment of deep
relief and of homecoming.
“This is how it feels to me,” Remen quotes her colleague as saying. “I am always tuning my orchestra. Somewhere deep inside
there is a sound that is mine alone,
and I struggle daily to hear it and
tune my life to it. Sometimes there
are people and situations that help
me to hear my note more clearly;
other times, people and situations
make it harder to hear. A lot depends on my commitment to listening and my intention to stay coherent with this note. It is only when
my life is tuned to my note that I
can play life’s mysterious and holy
music without tainting it with my
own discordance, my own bitterness, resentment, agenda, and
fears.”
How very good it feels when we
are living in harmony with this one
special note! The High Holidays —
with their time for reflection and
introspection, family and community — can serve for us as a giant
tuning fork, helping us to recalibrate to that one place that is all our
own, the unique note from which
our fullness and our strength flows.
The words of the machzor (prayerbook), the music of our liturgy, the
themes of these sacred days, the
strength that comes from being
near our loved ones and our community, the sense of time’s passing
and another year gone by — all of
these combine to sound that initial
A, helping us to push aside cacophony and chaos and move us instead
towards teshuvah — return to our
own spiritual center.
Teshuvah is about better connecting with others and during the
10 days between now and Yom
Kippur we will try to repair
strained relationships, to ask for
forgiveness from those we have
wronged, and to grant forgiveness
to those who have wronged us. But
perhaps most importantly teshuvah
About the Author: Annie
Tucker was raised in Lexington,
Massachusetts, one of two children of a cardiologist father and
accountant mother. A graduate of
Penn, where she majored in psychology and Jewish studies, Tucker received a master’s in Jewish
education from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2001. She was
ordained in 2006.
“Judaism has always been a
core value in our home and both
my parents and my brother have
been extraordinarily supportive of
my religious journey,” says Tucker, the associate rabbi at the Jewish
Center of Princeton. “I tend to
think about my becoming a rabbi
more in those terms — an evolving
process over time rather than in
terms of one epiphany moment, although there were definitely some
very strong influences along the
way — my family, my synagogue,
a Jewish overnight camp that I attended for many years, etc.”
Asked to elaborate on her sixword memoir — “who says
women can’t be rabbis?” — Tucker says she has “not personally experienced much resistance or discrimination. But there are still
parts of the Jewish world that do
not ordain women as rabbis or afford them equal access to ritual
participation. Even in more liberal
communities, the job market also
remains difficult for women, especially those seeking senior or solo
rabbi positions (as opposed to assistant/associate roles).”
is about better connecting with
ourselves. Once we re-claim our
spiritual core we will be better
equipped to confront the complexities and challenges of our lives
with all the best parts of ourselves.
So how do we begin this process
of teshuvah, of reclaiming our one
special note? This is where I believe the six-word memoir can perhaps begin to help us.
I am grateful to my friend and
colleague, Rabbi Micah Peltz,
whose words and ideas helped
form pieces of this sermon, and I
am especially grateful to his congregants at Temple Beth Shalom in
Cherry Hill. Some years ago, after
Rabbi Peltz also gave a sermon inspired by the six-word narrative, he
challenged members of his community to write their own short autobiographies as part of an exercise
designed to help individuals reflect
on their lives and ultimately move
towards teshuvah.
To write any memoir — but especially one characterized by such
economy of words — requires a
person to think deeply about who
she is at her core, to consider the
very questions that are at the heart
of true return. What pieces of one’s
life would a six-word memoir capture? What questions might it
raise? How would these words reflect one’s family and one’s relationships? One’s work and one’s
passions? One’s connection to
community and to the Jewish people?
To write a memoir one must reflect on his past — Where did I
come from and how did I get here?
— and perhaps, also, to imagine his
future — What will come next for
me? What are the hopes and
dreams I have yet to still realize?
Above all, to write a memoir one
must be reflective about her present: What meaning do I find in life?
How do I relate to the important
people in my world? Who do I
most wish to be? These, of course,
are also the questions that can help
us make the sacred U-turn that is
teshuvah.
I would like to share with you
some of the Temple Beth Shalom
memoirs and I imagine you will be
as moved by them as I was:
“Born in hope after unimaginable horror.”
“Standing for Israel, first and always.”
“British, American, but overall,
a Jew.”
“Daughter,
wife,
mother.
Blessed times three.”
“Good health, family and
friends. L’chaim!”
“College romance, marriage,
children, grandchildren. Alone.”
Many display optimism and
courage in the face of adversity:
“Abused. Working to make others better.”
“Unexpected life. Unexpected
loss. Changing expectations.”
“Learning to live, preparing to
die.”
And many present personal
mantras or maxims for good living:
“Do not break the unbroken
chain.”
“The Golden Rule says it all.”
“Attempting daily to understand
myself better.”
Reading these memoirs, I think
we can begin to hear the one special note to which each of these individuals is best tuned. We can start
to see the spiritual center that gives
each life purpose and meaning.
I would like to close with a story,
my most favorite one — in fact —
about teshuvah and how best to
achieve it. It comes from the
midrashic collection Pesikta Rabbati and tells of a king who had a
son he loved very much. When the
son was a young man, he ran away
from home. He traveled further and
further from his father’s kingdom
and had many experiences and discovered many new things. But after a while, he began to miss home.
His friends said to him, “Go
back, for surely your father misses
you a great deal.”
But the son replied, “I have gone
too far and do not have the strength
to travel the whole way home by
myself.”
So he sent his father a note and
the reply came back immediately.
His father wrote, “Come back as
far as your strength will take you,
and wherever that place is, I will
meet you.”
It can be quite hard to find our
way back home, to make the UTurn, to rediscover our one special
note, to reach that place of wholeness and blessing where we are our
best and most fully actualized
selves and accordingly attract the
best and most fully actualized parts
of others. Luckily, however, we do
not have to travel the distance entirely on our own. Our friends and
family, our community, our tradition, and our God are all there to
help us along the way.
I conclude with six final words
to help us all get started on the
process of teshuvah: There’s no
time like the present!
Shana Tova U’metukah — a
very good and sweet new year to
all!
P
ost Script: At the conclusion of her sermon, Rabbi Tucker
invited congregants to compose
their own six-word memoirs.
“I have been touched and inspired by the submissions received
as I’m sure you will be,” she noted
when she presented them in a subsequent sermon. “I share with you
the memoirs of this community, the
words that give our lives meaning,
purpose, and direction, that help to
tell the story of our trials, celebrations, and journeys. May these
short messages continue to motivate us, to center us, and to help us
to work towards being our very
best selves.”
Among the submissions:
“I had challenges, and overcame
them.”
“Passion, beauty, laughter, love
above all.”
“Chance favors prepared minds
and hearts.”
“Lifetime searching for me.
Maybe found.”
“Feminism, Judaism, family.
Combine, stir. Oy.”
“Ancient scroll speaks for the silenced.”
“Can’t wipe off same dust
twice.”
“My story: Writer, editor, professor, fablungit.”
“Always wanting more . . .
somehow never enough.”
“Working to make the world
better.”
“Bimah fright; parasha smooth;
whadda rush!”
“Another chance to get it right.”
“Blessed. Loving husband/children. Professional satisfaction.” —
Marsha Tucker [the rabbi’s mother].
Editor’s note: The rabbi said
that she wouldn’t ask others to do
what she wouldn’t do herself, so
she included her own six-word
memoir:
“Who says women can’t be rabbis?”
JANUARY 4, 2012
‘College romance, marriage, children, grandchildren. Alone.’
A Few Observations,
But More to Come
by Bill Roufberg
I
am 86. When I am 90, I will
have more to say.
1. Don’t rely on experts to predict the future.
2. Most men want sex. Most
women want romance.
3. Nature causes floods; winds;
fires; earthquakes; and pregnancies — without attributing it to
God’s behavior.
4. Why do people pray? To
change God’s mind?
5. The brain refuses to accept its
eventual death.
6. You cannot please everyone;
especially yourself.
7. Often, circumstances make it
difficult to be nice.
8. Every person is unique.
9. Each of us has secrets we dare
not share.
10. Democracy fails when I replaces We.
11. Humans want to be loved or
admired or respected or tolerated.
But every human needs to be recognized.
12. It only takes one dictator to
make millions suffer.
13. In politics, it is who you
know, not what you know.
14. A six foot handsome male
shall succeed. A shapely beautiful
female will succeed.
15. You lose an argument when
you personally attack your opponent.
16. Never sign a contract without reading the small print and
consulting an expert.
17. We once accepted slavery.
Now, we still accept wars.
18. Freedom without some regulation leads to chaos.
19. Each generation is too removed from the past to learn from
it.
20. You either create wealth or
marry into it.
21. In a global economy, politics plays a greater role than economics.
22. No pension. No health insurance. No secure investments.
All add up to no retirement.
23. Life can be dangerous. A
person acting immorally or unethically is not acting illegally.
24. There are millionaires in
Russia’s communism. There are
millions of poor in America’s capitalism.
25. When a company fails it
merges with another company until it becomes too big to fail.
26. Technology has become so
advanced that it becomes difficult
to depict fiction from non-fiction
in all forms of communication.
27. The function of business is
to sell you something. The function of credit cards is to make the
sale.
28. Humans are equally creative
and destructive. In the last 70 years
I have witnessed five major wars,
two economic disasters, unabated
crimes. At the same time, marvels
in space exploration, medicine,
art, music, food, light, heat, travel,
communication, and civil rights.
Roufberg, now retired, was a
history teacher at Princeton High
School. He has contributed poems
and essays to the U.S. 1 Summer
Fiction issue.
An E-Greeting Escapes Deletion
by David W. Miller giving, please choose a local chari-
T
rue confessions. I delete
most electronic greeting cards
without opening them. They take
time to download. I’m in a hurry.
Too many unanswered E-mails in
my in-basket. I look to see who
sent it, just before my right pinky
finger comes down on the “delete”
key.
But this time, amid deleting a
deluge of corporate Christmas and
holiday season E-cards, I stopped
mid-delete. “Wait, what?” I said to
myself. I was stunned by this one’s
brevity and message. Here’s all it
said:
Dear David Miller,
It’s the time of year to share the
warmth and joy of the holiday season with friends, family, and communities. Because we are a different kind of company, we’ve decided to do holiday gift giving differently this year. In the true spirit of
ty you’d like to support, and we’ll
make a holiday donation in your
name. Click here to make your selection.
Happy holidays!
North Highland
What? No coupon for me to buy
myself something? No promotional gadget or thumb drive emblazoned with a company logo? What
kind of holiday greeting was this?!
It’s about We not Me. So I
clicked on the link, and it led me to
a choice of three local charities, including a food bank to help feed
the homeless. I selected one to receive “my” gift. So struck was I by
this creative and generous gesture
— and so fitting with the true spirit
of Christmas and the holiday season — that I E-mailed the CEO and
one of his top executives, who are
friends, to thank them for this different kind of gift.
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‘Unexpected life. Unexpected loss. Changing expectations.’
The Back Story. After a few Emails back and forth, they quickly
gave credit to the source of the
idea. Soon my research assistant
was interviewing the VP of North
Highland’s Denver office, who had
come up with the idea. We learned
that traditionally each regional
consulting office signed and
mailed beautiful holiday cards to
clients. But this year the employeeowned company sought a more
sustainable way to send holiday
messages, coupled with their long
tradition of philanthropy and community service.
After much brainstorming, it
was agreed that each one of the
company’s 20 regional offices in
the U.S. would chose two or three
charities to support. Then each regional office sent an E-mail to their
clients asking them to choose one
of the pre-selected charities they
would like to support, and North
Highland would make a donation
in the client’s name.
Brevity Helps: In a
sea of E-mail holiday
greetings, Miller was
surprised to find one
that reminded him of
the ‘real reason for
the season.’
Response? Client reactions to
this innovative approach to “sharing the warmth and joy of this holiday season” has been nothing short
of amazing. At last count a remarkable 29 percent of recipients have
responded, choosing a charity in
their region to receive the North
Highland donation. Many heartfelt
responses from grateful clients
have been received. The initiative
not only redirected funds from the
annual holiday mailing to help local people in need, but it also
helped them engage their clients in
the community.
To be sure, thousands of companies give both time and money to
charities throughout the year, and
North Highland’s holiday campaign is only a part of their overall
yearly corporate giving. And at a
time when many non-profits are
struggling (according to a recent
study from the Nonprofit Research
Collaborative, nearly 60 percent of
non-profits experienced flat or declining donations last year), every
individual and corporate contribution matters.
True Confessions. I sometimes
find myself awash in consumerism
during this special time of the year,
and forget the ancient meanings of
Hanukkah (a time of “rededication”) and Christmas (celebrating
the birth of Jesus). Who’d have
thought a business holiday campaign would remind me of the real
reason for the season?
Merry
Christmas,
Happy
Hanukkah, and season’s greetings
to all.
About the author: David W.
Miller, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Princeton University’s
Faith & Work Initiative (U.S. 1,
April 7, 2010).
A 1979 graduate of Bucknell
with the dual major in business and
German, Miller joined Midland
Bank, becoming director of securities, and maintained that position
when Midland was bought by the
HBSC Group. He was transferred
to London for eight years, first as
head of international mergers and
acquisitions for State Street Bank,
then later as a partner in a private
equity firm.
After 16 years in banking and
corporate management, Miller felt
a new calling. Miller, a Catholic,
says the desire for change came
gradually. “It was not a crisis in my
career or negating of the past,” he
says. “Rather, it was a new, added
direction in my life.” He returned
to academe, taking a master’s of divinity and Ph.D. in ethics from
Princeton Theological Seminary.
After teaching at Yale’s business
and theological schools, Miller and
his wife, Karen, a former lawyer
and law school professor, returned
to Princeton and launched the Faith
& Work Initiative.
He is author of “God at Work”
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
and president of the Avodah Institute (www.avodahinstitute.com),
which helps business leaders integrate the claims of their faith to
their work.
For more information visit
http://faithandwork.princeton.edu
or http://faithandworkblog.com
Six final words to help us all get started:
‘There’s no time like the present!’
JANUARY 4, 2012
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On the Move
Grant Award
Siemens Corporate Research
Inc. (SI), 755 College Road,
Princeton Forrestal Center,
Princeton 08540; 609-7346500; fax, 609-734-6565. Silvano Dall’Asta, acting president. www.usa.siemens.com.
Siemens Corporate Research,
based at 755 College Road East,
has received a share of nearly $7
million in Department of Energy
(DOE) funding for research aimed
at reducing the cost of electric vehicle chargers by 50 percent.
Siemens will study smart charging capabilities to help ensure that
electric vehicles enhance, rather
than strain, the existing electrical
grid capacity, according to U.S.
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ),
who helped secure the funding.
Siemens will work to redesign
its current electric vehicle supply
equipment and charging stations in
residential areas to enable flexible,
intelligent control of charging, so
that power quality and service reliability are maintained on the local
distribution grid.
Four projects were selected
from across the nation. Two — including Siemens — will focus on
improving electric vehicle chargers that attach to consumers’
homes.
The other two projects will focus on chargers used at commercial
and public locations to charge large
numbers of vehicles, including
fleets of commercial delivery vehicles.
Acquisitions
Orchid Cellmark Inc. (ORCH),
4390 Route 1 North, Princeton 08540; 609-750-2200;
fax, 609-750-6405. Thomas
A. Bologna, CEO. www.orchid.com.
The deal by Laboratory Corp.of
America Holdings to buy DNA
testing company Orchid Cellmark
Inc. for $85.4 million has been
completed. Announced in April,
the deal puts Laboratory Corp. in
control of more than 86 percent of
Orchid Cellmark’s stock — about
26 million shares (U.S. 1, April 13,
2011).
LabCorp, a DNA identity testing firm based in North Carolina,
operates 38 testing centers in the
United States. According to the
company, the acquisition of Orchid
Cellmark will strengthen its brand
name in DNA testing and establish
LabCorp in the U.K., where Orchid
Cellmark has contracts with police
agencies. It has not been announced whether Orchid Cellmark
will remain in Princeton.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), 1
Johnson & Johnson Plaza,
New Brunswick 08903; 732524-0400; fax, 732-2140332. William C. Weldon,
chairman & CEO. www.jnj.com.
Switzerland-based orthopedics
maker Synthes has approved its
sale to Johnson & Johnson for
$21.3 billion, which — if finalized
— would be J&J’s largest acquisition.
U.S. and European regulators
need to green light the deal (the European Union Commission has until April 2 to do so), but according
to J&J, the acquisition should be
settled by summer.
Synthes is Europe’s top name in
the traumatic injury repair market,
and J&J stands to double its resources in spinal care products. According to the Associated Press, the
deal also stands to create Switzerland’s new richest man — Hansjorg Wyss, who owns 40 percent
of Synthes.
Contracts Awarded
NRG Energy Inc. (NRG), 211
Carnegie Center, Princeton
08540-6213; 609-524-4500;
fax, 609-524-4501. David
Crane, president and CEO.
www.nrgenergy.com.
NRG Energy, based at 211
Carnegie Center, will provide solar
power to MetLife Stadium, home
of the New York Jets and New York
Giants football franchises.
Under the agreement, NRG will
design, install, and operate a custom solar power generating system
that will encircle the top of the stadium. Called “Solar Ring,” the installation will have the ability to
display team colors and other displays for concerts and college
games.
Solar Ring will be made up of
approximately 1,500 individual
panels and will be able to generate
nearly 25 times the amount of electricity needed to power the integrated LED lighting and display
system, according to NRG. The
panels will be assembled into 52
modules that will be raised to the
top level of the stadium and bolted
into a steel superstructure that also
will provide shelter from rain and
snow.
Construction is expected to begin in the spring and be completed
by August. NRG also will provide
all additional electricity for the
82,500-seat stadium starting in
June. The amount of the contract
was not disclosed.
MISTRAS Group Inc. (MG),
195 Clarksville Road, Princeton Junction 08550; 609-7164000; fax, 609-716-0706.
Sotirios J. Vahaviolos Ph.D.,
chairman and CEO. www.mistrasgroup.com.
MISTRAS Group, which develops technology to help monitor the
structural integrity of energy, industrial, and public infrastructure
projects, has received a multi-year
contract to provide traditional and
advanced non-destructive evaluation services in connection with the
Plant Vogtle nuclear generation
station in Waynesboro, Georgia.
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the first new nuclear units awarded
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decades. The amount of the contract is undetermined so far; the
units are scheduled to begin commercial operation in 2016.
CytoSorbents Inc., 7 Deer
Park Drive, Suite K, Monmouth Junction 08852; 732329-8885; fax, 732-3298650. Phil Chan, CEO.
www.cytosorbents.com.
CytoSorbents, which develops
medical devices aimed at removing toxins from the bloodstream,
has received a U.S. Army grant to
test its product for military field
and trauma surgeries. The army
will give CytoSorbents $100,000
over six months with the option for
an additional $50,000. The con-
Here Comes the Sun: Carnegie Center-based
NRG Energy will bring sustainable solar power to
MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Jets and
New York Football Giants.
tract paves the way for CytoSorbents to refine its product before it
submits for a $1 million army grant
later this year.
VaxInnate, 3 Cedar Brook Drive, Cedar Brook Corporate
Center, Suite 1, Cranbury
08512; 609-860-2260; fax,
609-860-2290. Thomas Hofstaetter, president and CEO.
www.vaxinnate.com.
VaxInnate, a biotech firm that
develops proprietary vaccines for
seasonal and pandemic influenzas,
has granted South Korean biotech
CJ CheilJedang Corporation an ex-
clusive license to manufacture, develop, and commercialize VaxInnate’s recombinant seasonal and
pandemic flu vaccines there. The
agreement also includes a non-exclusive license to market the vaccines in certain Southeast Asian
countries, excluding China.
According to the agreement,
CheilJedang will fund clinical development and licensing of the
vaccine in South Korea and 10 other countries. The agreement includes countries with a collective
population of 650 million.
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and is expected to add nearly $12
million annually to WithumSmith+Brown’s revenue. Terms of
the deal were not disclosed.
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VaxInnate will transfer the technology required to develop and
manufacture the vaccines. Financial terms of the agreement include
an upfront fee, clinical and regulatory milestone payments, and royalties on sales, but the amount of
the contract was not disclosed.
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Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (IART),
313 Enterprise Drive, Plainsboro 08536; 609-936-3600;
fax, 609-275-5363. Peter Arduini, president and CEO.
www.integra-ls.com.
Integra LifeSciences, which develops medical devices for spinal
disorders and soft tissue damage,
has named Peter Arduini its president and CEO, replacing longtime
CEO Stuart Essig. Essig will serve
as chairman of the board, taking
the place of Richard Caruso, the
company’s founder and only chairman until now. Caruso will remain
as a director of the company.
Arduini has been the president
of Integra since he arrived in 2010.
He also has been the COO. Before
joining Integra, Arduini was president of medication delivery at Baxter Healthcare of Illinois. Before
that he worked for General Electric
Healthcare for 15 years, mostly in
management. He earned his bachelor’s in marketing from Susquehanna University and a master’s in
management from Northwestern.
Essig had been at the helm of Integra for 14 years, during which
time the company grew from $15
million in annual revenues to $733
million, and from 130 employees
to more than 3,300.
Arduini officially took over on
January 3.
New CEO: Peter
Arduini has been
named president
and CEO of Integra
LifeSciences
Legal Maneuvers
Heartland Payment Systems
(HPY), 90 Nassau Street,
Second Floor, Princeton
08542; 888-798-3131; fax,
609-683-3815. Robert Carr,
CEO. www.heartlandpaymentsystems.com.
After three years in a legal
bramble, Heartland Payment Systems, the credit card payment processing firm based at 90 Nassau
Street, can say good-bye to all but
one lingering claim resulting from
a major security breach that put
hundreds of millions of dollars in
jeopardy.
A U.S. District judge in Texas
has thrown out all but a single
claim against Heartland, which in
2009 announced that its security
system had been breached, exposing 130 million credit and debit
card numbers to cyber-criminals.
Dozens of suits were filed around
the country, including those by
nine banks asking for Heartland to
pay damages.
The lone remaining complaint
stems from Florida, where Heartland remains accused of violating
that state’s Deceptive and Unfair
Trade Practices Act, a bank-led
class-action suit. Heartland wanted
the case dismissed, saying that only consumers can bring forth
claims under the law.
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), 150 Docks
Corner Road, Dayton 08810;
732-329-4600; fax, 732-2746550. www.iff.com.
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a Dayton-based developer of food flavorings, will pay
$40 million to the France-based V.
Mane Fils, related to IFF’s selling
and marketing of products with the
cooling additive monomenthyl
succinate.
According to the settlement,
Mane has held patents on the additive since 1998, yet IFF has sold its
Cooler 1 product using the chemical. IFF has agreed to cease selling
and marketing Cooler 1 products
and to ensure that its use of monomenthyl succinate in IFF’s upcoming Cooler 2 line will meet levels
agreed upon by both parties.
Expansions
WithumSmith+Brown,
5
Vaughn Drive, Suite 201,
Princeton 08540; 609-5201188; fax, 609-520-9882.
Leonard H. Smith CPA,
shareholder
in
charge.
www.withum.com.
CPA firm WithumSmith+Brown has merged with New Yorkbased EisnerLubin in a deal that
adds 50 people — including nine
partners — to Withum’s ranks.
The merger also expands With-
Billtrust, 100 American Metro
Boulevard, Suite 150, Hamilton 08619; 609-235-1010;
fax, 609-235-1011. Flint
Lane, president. www.billtrust.com.
Billtrust, which provides automated invoicing and statement systems for small and medium-sized
businesses, has moved its headquarters from Cranbury to the
American Metro Center in Hamilton.
According to the company, the
move was sparked by an expanded
range of services and a larger staff.
The company’s overall staff size
increased by 30 percent in 2011,
largely due to the acquisition of Invoice Connection of Carlsbad,
California, this past fall.
Billtrust CEO Flint Lane said
the move is “more than just a matter of adding desk space. There are
more acquisitions on the horizon,
and we have a very aggressive plan
for organic growth in 2012.”
Last April Billtrust expanded its
billing distribution network by
adding new facilities in Texas, California, Oregon, Florida, Illinois,
and Toronto. The company also has
a new New Jersey operations center at 11 South Gold Drive in
Hamilton.
Deaths
Donald Hujber, 37, on December 24. He was an arborist at
Princeton University.
Lorraine Gaire, 71, on December 23. An early employee at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, she co-developed some of the
company’s tools for testing and
program design.
Maryann Cifelli, 68, on December 22. She was an assistant
manager at Roma Savings Bank.
Lawrence Stevenson, 74, on
December 21. He was the proprietor of Stevenson’s Tire Sunoco on
Lawrence Road.
Anthony Bianculli, 86, on December 21. A former mayor of
Rocky Hill, he was a longtime mechanical engineer and manager at
RCA Corp. Post-retirement he operated a consulting business and
provided technical services to
Siemens Corp.
Evelyn Landau, 94, on December 21. She, along with her late
husband, founded Landau’s of
Princeton.
William Backes, 71, on December 20. He was the senior partner of the law firm of Backes &
Backes in Pennington.
Edward Bullock, 31, on December 20. He was a security officer at Capital Health System in
Hopewell.
Richard Kilby, 63, on December 19. He was a property manager
and developer who managed the
construction of many projects in
the state, including the banquet hall
of the Cranbury Inn.
Sin-I Cheng, 89, on December
6. An emeritus professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, he
made critical early advances in
rocketry and helped develop modern computational approaches to
aerodynamics.
Thomas J. ‘TJ’ LePrevost, 54,
on December 31. He was a building and fire inspector with Robbinsville Township.
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STORAGE
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HOUSING FOR SALE
For Sale: Princeton Borough
Queenston Commons townhouse.
Completely renovated, very chic! Twobedrooms, 2.5 baths, full basement with
attached garage. Asking $560,000. By
appointment only. Call Gayle Ciallella,
Broker Associate, Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty, 732-2597794.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Lawrenceville. 2BR, K, LR, washer
and dryer. Private entrance and parking.
Available immediately. No pets, smoke
free. $1230/mo. Call 609-477-2537 or
609-477-3586.
PRINCETON BORO MODERATE
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dishwasher, washer/dryer in unit, pets
821 Alexander Road @ Princeton Junction Train Station
3,500–22,488 square feet of prime ofﬁce space is now available at Princeton’s
most accessible building. 821 Alexander Road is situated in the heart of Princeton
ofﬁce market with immediate access to Princeton Junction Train Station.
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Monument signage for 11,000 SF or more
Quality furniture available
Custom interiors
Fitness room and showers
Solid, local ownership
Quality tenant base
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New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call
Harold 732-329-2311.
interior painting
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HOUSING FOR RENT
allowed no smoking, $850/month plus
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609-924-1474
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609.921.6060
[email protected]
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Mall Marketing Promoter: Greet and
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Flexible hours. Call 888-292-6502 Ext.
86 for W. NJ/PA. Ext 84 for Central & S.
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Marketing person wanted. Tech &
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garage. Large treed lot. Central air, gas
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Princeton Ranch: 3 BR, LR, FR, DR,
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from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call
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Interstate Commercial Property
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- Restroom & Breakroom Supplies Snow Removal. Serving all of Mercer
County 800-766-9751.
CLEANING SERVICES
Maryam’s Cleaning - Residential
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and New Jersey areas. 215-779-1371.
Monica’s Cleaning Service. Highest
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HOME MAINTENANCE
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COMMERCIAL SPACES FOR LEASE
LAWRENCE - 5,000 sq. ft. office can be subdivided.
Will renovate to your specs.
EWING - 800-2,000 sq. ft. in professional park, near Rt. 31 and TCNJ.
1,000 sq. ft. office space near Lawrence border. First month free.
HAMILTON - 650 sq. ft. office/retail at signaled intersection.
1,250 - 5,000 sq. ft. office ideally suited for many uses.
550 sq. ft. office in high profile building
1,160 sq. ft. medical space in high profile building near Applebees.
FLORENCE - 2,000 to 12,000 sq. ft on Rt. 130 at NJ Turnpike entrance.
HOPEWELL BORO - 1,250 sq. ft. office/retail in center of town.
PENNINGTON - 400 sq. ft. office building at Pennington Circle.
DOYLESTOWN, (CHALFONT) PA - 2,000 sq. ft.
Ideal for office or medical. Near PA Turnpike
BUILDINGS FOR SALE
EWING - 6,300 Sq. ft. multi-tenant
office building. Great upside
potential. Reduced for quick
sale - $395,000.
LAWRENCE - 11,000 sq. ft.
multi-tenant office building
(2 bldgs). Ideal for
user/investor. $1,250,000
JOBS WANTED
Property Inspectors: Part-time
$30k, full-time $80k. No experience, will
train. Call Tom, 609-731-3333.
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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.
tact Preeti, certified CDT/MLD & massage therapist. 609-610-9620 or
[email protected].
ophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Part-Time Electricity Sales Will
Train. 732-501-2937.
Project Coordinator: Work from
home and learn court transcription. Fast
turnaround work. Requires 30 hrs/wk
during business hours. Supervise a
small team. Must have 4 year college
degree, supervisory and transcription
experience and type 70 words/minute.
No exceptions. Send resume to
[email protected]
BUSINESS SERVICES
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 @ 609-448-6005 or visit www.vyours.com.
GRAPHIC ARTS
Graphic Design Services: Logos,
Newsletters, Brochures, Direct Mail,
etc. Reasonable rates. Fast turnaround.
Call
732-331-2717
or
email
[email protected]
www.kathysmythdesign.com
FINANCIAL SERVICES
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]
TAX SERVICES
Tax Preparation and Accounting
Services: For individuals and small
businesses. Notary, computerized tax
preparation, paralegal services. Your
place or mine. Fast response, free consultation, reasonable costs. Gerald
Hecker, 609-448-4284.
SALES - REAL ESTATE Need a
Change? Looking to get a RE License?
We take you by the hand to ensure your
success and income! FREE Coaching!
Unlimited Income! No Experience needed! Contact Weidel Today! Hamilton:
Tom
609-586-1400,
[email protected]; Princeton: Mike
609-921-2700, [email protected].
Massage and Reflexology: The
benefits are beyond what we even fathom. Experience deep relaxation, heightened well-being, improved health.
Holistic practitioner offering reflexology,
Swedish and shiatsu massage. Available for on-site massage at the work
place, etc. Gift certificates, flexible
hours. Call Marilyn 609-403-8403.
Oriental Massage Therapy: Deep
tissue, Swedish, Shiatsu, Reflexology
by experienced Therapists, Princeton
Junction off Route 1. Call 609-514-2732
for an appointment.
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to learn cause, care, and cure. Find
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and study skills. 35 years experience.
University of Pennsylvania. Judy 609865-1111; 215-321-8888.
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Lymphedema Therapy: For help
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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.
Hightstown
609-448-7170.
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ENTERTAINMENT
One Man Band: Keyboardist for your
party. Perfect entertainment. Great variety. Call Ed at 609-424-0660.
Wedding band looking for longterm players: piano, guitar, bass - only
serious musicians wanted. Call Jim 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
MUSIC SERVICES
Keyboardist Needed: For rock band
in Robbinsville, NJ. Original material
and covers (heavy on progressive rock).
Some influences: Pink Floyd, Rush,
Yes, Genesis, Marillion, Camel, Tangerine Dream. Must be willing to practice
weekly on Sundays, 3-6 PM. 21 or over,
please. If interested, please call Vaughan at 609-259-5768.
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$250, now $180. Also comic books, variant covers, action figures. Send me your
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JANUARY 4, 2012
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The idea for assigning a story on the Rutgers students presento this week’s
ing a plan for the
[email protected]
cover began in November
Dinky train through
when an E-mail arrived from Rabbi Anthe Princeton University campus
nie Tucker of the Jewish Center of Princeton. It was came when I stumbled across some drawings while I
one of a series that — I imagine — she sends to those was delivering U.S. 1 to an architect’s office on Nasof us in the media as well as to members of her congre- sau Street. Sweet.
gation and other interested souls.
And enlisting former Princeton University computI had received other E-mail messages from the rab- er guru Ira Fuchs to write about his working relationbi, on subjects ranging from the disruptions of Hurri- ship with Steve Jobs was inspired by reading Pam
cane Irene to the serendipitous moments of summer Hersh’s column in the Princeton Packet — one longtravel to the struggle for human rights. The November time journalist informing another. Thanks, Pam.
message was interesting, but it was a New Year’s serSome of the rewarding stories have been for our “op
mon — for Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish New Year ed” page. I answered the phone one day and heard
of 5772. But to me the new year was 2012, and it was Suzanne Newman ask for publicity for her campaign
coming January 1. In the meantime I had other things to find a winter home for a homeless woman living at
on my mind.
a Route 1 strip mall. With a little encouragement,
But that was then. A few weeks ago was now, and
Newman wrote a column detailing
we needed a cover theme for this New
her efforts and ultimately raising the
Year issue. I re-read Tucker’s sermon
money necessary to move “Miss H”
and — to put it in three words instead My life in six words?
from the sidewalk to a motel.
of six — I was hooked. Pretty soon I I’ll tell you, but
My most satisfying moment as a
was fitting the sermon into the space
chronicler involved not a story but
please
allow
me
a
litbeginning on page 31 of this issue,
an image. The moment came as we
and working on my own six-word tle elaboration.
were preparing our Summer Fiction
memoir, finally coming up with
issue in July. Five days before the
something I hoped would speak to my
deadline we realized that we had no
faithful readers — that’s you — as well as to myself:
cover image for the issue. We had a lead story — actu“Chronicling your stories; still creating mine.”
ally three stories, written by members of a writers’
As Rabbi Tucker says, the whole point of this six- group who had all started with an identical premise,
word memoir is to try to get to the essence of who you about a haunted house in Cape May. We also had, by
are. So I will elaborate. My own story is evolving, as a complete coincidence, a poem by a man who had been
father, a friend, a partner, and I am happy that I am still on an artists’ expedition to Cape May.
I re-read the poem, noted the name of the artist who
creating it.
The other part of my memoir — the role of report- led the expedition, and figured if anyone might have a
ing other people’s stories — is more established. painting that captured the Cape May atmosphere it
While I hope that role will continue for a long time, I would be her. Barbara Cox not only had paintings of
can also look back at a great ride. The U.S. 1 part of Cape May houses, she had several of houses that were
that began more than 27 years ago with me starting the alleged to be haunted. The chronicler of your stories
newspaper as an outlet for my own stories. After years now got to be an exhibiter of your art.
The icing came just last week, when I received a
facing the rejection slips that all freelance writers deal
with, I saw a way out: Create my own paper, and dare hand-made Christmas card from Barbara Cox, a watercolor print of a winter scene (see below) and a
the editor to reject anything I submitted.
The reality turned out to be something different. I cheerful note about the “happy mystery” of how her
was soon printing far more stories by other people than painting ended up on the cover of U.S. 1:
by myself. And I soon found great satisfaction in help“I love teaching adults and it seems something
ing other people take the kernel of an idea and turn it wonderful happens along the way — enough to keep
into their own full-blown story. As I look back on the me on this road of art. Never know who I will meet in
cover images of the past year I take some extra satis- the teaching process or who will buy the completed
faction from several of them:
painting.
“Being able to write the story is
A January cover story on the trials and tribulations
of caregivers began as an advertising feature, the kind as vibrant as the colors in the paintof story that most working journalists look down on. ings. Thank you again for the joy
Maybe because everyone my age (and me included) and U.S. 1. Everyone reads it,
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