Adriene Presti of Pennington`s Dahlia flower shop

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Adriene Presti
of Pennington’s
Dahlia flower
shop puts the
bloom on her
exhibit for the
Philadelphia
Flower Show.
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To President Obama
on the great recession of 2009. We
at U.S. 1 can help narrow the range
of possibilities. We maintain that
t 9:31 p.m. on Tuesday,
the great recession began some- February 24, you stated to the
time between September 10 and world that there should be “no new
November 12 of 2008.
drapes and no private jets.” And
Here’s our logic. On Wednes- for the umpteenth time in the last
day, September 10, we published a month our elected officials have
cover story on Blue Star Jets, a pri- further decimated a necessary invate airline company with a busy dustry that has already seen a 50
sales office on Nassau Street in percent reduction in year over year
downtown Princeton. The compa- flight time. The economic downny provided jet service to people turn has hurt me badly, as it has
who clearly had more money than hurt countless others. I got killed
time — if you wanted to get away on our family’s investments. I lost
for a few days in the sun and not most of our retirement funds to
waste precious time at airport banks and businesses that you now
check-in counters and baggage give my taxpayer dollars to. I’ve
claims, then Jet Blue was for you. seen my income drop substantially
The message was that, if you had to in the last six months.
ask how much it cost (into the sixBut I can take it. I’m an Amerifigure range), then probably you can who came from little and has
couldn’t afford it.
worked hard for 30 years.
We printed the story,
There is always opportuand no one uttered a
nity, especially when
Between
peep. In mid-Septemyou’re motivated. And I
The
ber, if that’s how you
do support you 95 perwanted to spend your
Lines
cent of the time. Here’s
money, that was fine.
where I have a hard time:
Then came NovemI’ve been available to those in
ber 12, and our cover story on Kim need of a private jet 24/7/365 for
Clearwater and her husband, Jim five years. Others have been doing
Weaver, who had forsaken their it for 50 years. We are not near as
suburban lifestyle and taken up wealthy as our clients you stereopermanent residence in the type. I was on a vacation when RiHeldrich Hotel in downtown New ta was hitting Texas. Vacation for
Brunswick. The story drew me has meant changing my locaprotests from readers clearly re- tion to a different setting with my
senting the apparently carefree family while I still need to provide
lifestyle.
24/7 access. I had just settled into
Something changed since Sep- our shore rental and my phone
tember 10. And now private jets rang. A woman was crying on the
are the hot button. As Howard other end of the phone and told me
Moses of Blue Star Jets points out that her last surviving child was in
the following open letter to the harm’s way. She had already lost
President, the negative talk begins two kids and couldn’t bear any
ironically in the Oval Office, with more. If I could move her daughter
the No. 1 passenger on the ultimate
private jet, Air Force One:
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Coaching, 45; Amicus Therapeutics, 38; Blue Star Jets, 2; Chapman Associates, 45; CMC Americas Inc., 44; Dahlia Flowers, 40;
Dennigan Cahill, 6; Drinker, Biddle
& Reath, 6; Cognos Corporation,
45.
Healthcare Providers Direct,
44; Heartland Payment Systems,
38; Isles, 6; Johnson & Johnson
Consumer Products, 6; Lorraine
Davis Employment, 39; Mercer
County College, 2; NRG, 6.
Pb Consulting, 8; Philadelphia
Flower Show, 40;Philadelphia
Horticultural Society, 40; PNC
Bank, 6; Princeton BMW, 6;
Princeton Regional Chamber, 5;
Princeton University, 6; Sallie
Mae, 5; Scheide Fund, 6: YWCA
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your meetings because you must
fear the repercussions of being
seen using Air Force One. You
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That would be abusive. But you
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I am trying to survive in this
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corporate aviation client after the
other. Hangars are empty. The
Fixed Base Operator, a 50-plus
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delisted on the stock exchange. No
commercial carrier is in place. And
the local flight school through our
community college is about to be
shuttered. Everyone fears being the
CEO photographed coming off a
private jet today.
I stick it out because who else
will be willing to wake up at 3 a.m.
when a heart becomes available
and the 12-year-old awaiting transplant only has three hours to get to
the hospital 400 miles away? How
will he get there when all the operators and brokers of private jets are
forced to close? My conscience
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that call. Does yours?
Yes Mr. President, those private
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with our economy. Well, maybe
not all that is wrong.
Howard Moses
The writer describes himself as
“the sleepless managing partner”
of Blue Star Jets LLC, a broker of
private jet charter at 182 Nassau
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repayments have dwindled, and
Sallie Mae, just as mortgage
lenders and major banks, faces decreased revenues. Calls of incompetence and corporate greed have
been leveled, and amidst it all Terracciano strives to haul Sallie Mae
into back ink and keep its reputation afloat.
To explain where Sallie Mae
stands and how it got there, the
Princeton Regional Chamber of
Commerce has invited Terracciano
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Thursday, March 5, at 11:30 a.m. at
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“I don’t know why the financial
press began calling me ‘Tony the
Tiger,’” says Terracciano. “Pert takes a tough man to rescue haps it was the maniacal pace. But
billion dollar banks, but Anthony when you know the right thing to
Terracciano, (a.k.a. “Tony the do, it becomes frustrating to do it
Tiger”) has made a career of doing slowly.” A native of Bayonne, Terjust that. And since January, 2008, racciano attended St. Peter’s Colserving as the chairman of the lege, earning a bachelor’s in ecoboard for the sagging Sallie Mae nomics. Then, disdaining the well
Fund, Terracciano seems to have worn MBA track, he took a master’s at Fordshouldered the
ham Universimost difficult fity in philosonancial
chal‘I don’t know why the
phy
while
lenge of his life.
financial press began
teaching at a
The
SLM
high school.
calling me Tony the
Corporation,
“Banking and
commonly
Tiger,’ says Terracphilosophy
known as the
ciano. ‘Perhaps it was
are a lot closer
Sallie Mae Fund,
than
most
the maniacal pace.’
is the nation’s
people
think,”
f o r e m o s t
he says.
provider of colUntil then, Terracciano always
lege savings and loans programs.
Managing $180 billion in loans to assumed he would be a teacher, but
more than 10 million student and following his service in the U.S.
parent customers, it has become a Army, he emerged as an ex-lieuvital fixture in both our fiscal and tenant with a wife, child, and a
need for income. Beginning with
educational systems.
As the current recession drives JPMorgan Chase, he rose rapidly
incomes down and debts up, loan from credit officer to vice chair.
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The Tiger: Anthony
Terracciano, Sallie
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speak at the Marriott
Princeton Hotel on
Thursday, March 5.
During the 1980s, as president of
Mellon Bank, he began a series of
rescue operations that proved both
his name and his value. Since then
he has served as CEO of First Fidelity Bancorporation; president of
First Union (later Wachovia,) and
chair of Dime Bancorp. He currently shares leadership of Sallie
Mae with board vice chair and
CEO, Albert Lord.
Banking blunders. “An awful
lot of people have difficulty when
it comes to evaluating the quality
of decisions.” says Terracciano. He
likens the current fiscal debacle to
the events in the Greek classic
“Oedipus Rex.”
“You could see people making
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disastrous.” One of the major problems he cites is quarter-to-quarter
thinking. Financial leaders needed
to literally keep a portfolio of their
decisions and review it. They did
not keep such executive records
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Corporate greed? Oh yes, Terracciano admits it played its part in
our current crisis — along with the
greed for houses and business
loans beyond the repayment abilities of consumers and business
people. Everybody was simply
pursuing his own self interest.
However, when systems of selfinterest cross the line into greeddriven scams, caveats are strongly
required. For Terracciano, the most
effective guide to safe investing remains the basic principle: Make
people explain their ideas clearly,
so it sounds right. “If a guy can’t
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the right questions and not understanding into what they were placing their money.
The Sallie Mae part. “A key
challenge is resolving the public’s
misconception that Sallie Mae and
mortgage lenders Freddie Mack
and Fannie Mae are all in the same
heap of trouble. They are not,” insists Terracciano. While all three
are quasi-government agencies,
their operations and holdings differ
noticeably.
Formed in 1972 as a government enterprise, Sallie Mae became an independently traded
company (SLM) in 2004. It buys
up student loans from original
lenders, manages them, and provides financing to state studentloan agencies.
Fannie Mae, founded in 1938,
and its little brother Freddie Mac,
purchase or guarantee up to 60 percent of our nation’s home mortgages. They amass a large and extremely liquid fund of mortgage
backed securities through these
purchases. Investors include major
pension funds, insurance companies, and even foreign governments. Yes, your home might actually be partially owned by the
Egyptian government.
The burst of the housing bubble,
among other things, caused the
failure of mortgage kings Freddie
Mac and Fannie Mae. The inability
of the recessed nation to repay its
student loans is what is still sending shivers through Sallie Mae’s
timbers. Yet in the fallout, SLM has
also come in for its, some say, very
justified criticism.
Regaining confidence. Long
before the recession and the repayment lapses, and long before Terracciano came on board, the public
was taking a long look at Sallie
Mae and not liking what it saw. Accusations that Sallie Mae was bribing universities to push higher interest loans hit the press, and hit
home with many students.
Further claims of incompetence
and mismanagement have been
piling up. Websites have blossomed on which students air grievances about payments being taken
but not applied to their loans. Percentage points, others say, have
mysteriously been raised in the
middle of the payback periods.
Is it possible that an institution
can be simply too big to manage itself properly? This is a question
Terracciano and the new leadership of SLM Corporation will have
to address, and address quickly.
Perhaps more than any other nation, America puts its hopes in its
children. We are a nation of immigrants, most of whom have sacrificed a fair amount on our shores,
striving to improve the lot of their
sons and daughters.
We will not take kindly to our
children’s education funds being
handled any way other than absolutely scrupulously. We deserve
it. We depend on it. And hopefully
Terracciano and Sallie May can
continue to make these educational
dreams a reality.
— Bart Jackson
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welve women from area
businesses, organizations, and educational institutions will be honored at the 26th YWCAPrinceton’s
Tribute to Women awards dinner
on Thursday, March 5, beginning
at 5:15 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency.
Cost: $125. For further information, call Jenn Attridge at 609-4972100, ext. 333, or visit Princeton
www.ywcaprinceton.org.
The tribute program was established to honor women who have
made significant contributions to
their professions and community
in executive, entrepreneurial, professional, educational, and elected
roles. Candidates are nominated by
managers, colleagues, and peers in
the workplace and in the community, and were judged on academic
achievement, professional responsibility,
community
service,
demonstrated leadership, mentoring, ability to communicate ideas,
special projects or accomplishments, and commitment to the
YWCA’s mission to eliminate
racism and empower women.
Honorary chair of this year’s
awards is Bridgette Heller, global
president of baby care for Johnson
& Johnson. Heller joined Johnson
& Johnson in 2005, where she develops and implements growth
strategies. Previously she worked
for 18 years at Kraft Foods. She recently became chair of the national
youth organization Girls Inc. and
has joined the advisory board for
African American studies at
Princeton University.
This year’s honorees are:
Harriet Bryan, a community
volunteer from Skillman. Bryan
has spent years advocating for low
and moderate income housing, and
her work on the League of Women
Voters Housing Committee and
Princeton Community Housing led
to the building of Princeton Community Village, Elm Court, Griggs
Farm, and most recently the expansion of Elm Court.
Mia Cahill, managing partner of
Forrestal Village law firm Dennigan Cahill. Cahill guides clients
through difficult divorce processes
in a positive way, equalizes the balance of power between spouses as a
matrimonial mediator, and works
compassionately in domestic violence matters. She holds many professional memberships, and since
2006 has been a member of the
Princeton Regional School Board.
Janet Smith Dickerson, vice
president for campus life at Princeton University. Dickerson, a member of the president’s cabinet, is responsible for campus programs
and services, and works with several university directors. Previously she was vice president for student affairs at Duke University,
and a dean at Swarthmore College.
She is an elder of Witherspoon
Street Presbyterian Church, and
president of the central NJ chapter
of the Links, Inc., a civic organization focused on friendship and
service.
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YWCA Women Honored: In the front row are
Karen Jezierny, program chair, left, and honorees
Elizabeth Johnson, and Deborah Poritz. Back
row, are honorees Judith Scheide, left, Mia Cahill,
Denise Wood, Janet Smith Dickerson, Meredith
Moore, and Cynthia Ricker. At right is Brigette
Heller, honorary chair of this year’s awards.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and
African studies at Princeton University. Harris-Lacewell has written books, academic research, and
newspaper articles across the
country, and has provided expert
commentary on U.S. elections,
racial issues, religious questions,
and gender issues for numerous
media outlets around the world.
She was a regular contributor on
NPR and theroot.com, and she
keeps a political b log entitled “The
Kitchen Table.” She travels extensively and works on behalf of local
and national efforts for justice.
Elizabeth Johnson, COO of
Isles in Trenton, a nonprofit community development and environmental organization with the mis-
sion to foster more self-reliant
families. A plant biologist by training, she started the Isles’community gardening program, now the
most extensive in the state. She
serves on the Trenton Board of Education, the Mercer County Open
Space Board, and the Trenton
Downtown Association Board.
She also is an advisor to Leadership Trenton.
Meredith Moore, senior vice
president of communications at
NRG Energy in Carnegie Center.
Moore is responsible for overseeing media and public relations,
charitable giving, employee communications, special events, and
marketing programs. She also
helped create NRG’s Global Giving charitable initiative, which
benefits community partners
throughout New Jersey and in the
other regions served by NRG. She
also serves on the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors.
Susan Nettesheim, vice president of product stewardship for
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chairs the Women’s Leadership
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and traveled extensively throughout her career, she has a great appreciation for diversity and the value of different perspectives.
Deborah Poritz, attorney at
Drinker, Biddle & Reath on College Road East. Poritz, New Jersey’s first female attorney general
and a retired chief justice, has
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Cynthia Ricker, vice president
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banking relationship manager,
supporting not-for-profit and commercial clients in the Princeton
area. She is the face of PNC in the
community, and as such has earned
hundreds of accolades from her
clients in all aspects of their business transactions. Outside of the
bank, she is treasurer of Womanspace, on two committees for the
Susan G. Komen Central and South
Jersey Affiliate for the Cure, and is
active in her church.
Judith Scheide, philanthropist
and community volunteer, of
Princeton. Scheide, often called
“Princeton’s silent hero,” has lived
in Princeton for more than 30
years, and served in the development office of Princeton University as associate director of campaign relations and annual giving.
She married Bill Scheide in 2003,
and the two are co-presidents of the
Scheide Fund, which has given its
support to countless agencies and
organizations in the Princeton area.
Denise Wood, vice president of
Princeton BMW/Mini on Route 1.
Wood started her career at a time
when only 2 percent of car dealerships were owned by women. For
more than a decade she has hosted
the “Ultimate Drive,” a unique
fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation, which
she notes is an opportunity to sensitize men to the need for support of
and encouragement to breast cancer survivors. She also has been involved with the Arthur Ashe Tennis
Program, which helps inner city
children learn and enjoy tennis.
The Fannie E. Floyd Racial
Justice Award, named for the wife
of former Princeton Township
mayor Jim Floyd and social activist in Princeton who died in September, will be given out for the
first time this year. Floyd’s husband will accept the award, which
will be given to women who have
made a distinguished contribution
to racial justice over the course of a
lifetime.
Karen Jezierny, director of
public affairs for Princeton University will chair this year’s program. Jezierny is responsible for
the development and implementation of Princeton’s state government relations. She was founding
director of the University’s Policy
Research Institute on the Region,
known as PRIOR, and served in
many other capacities during her
20-plus years with the university.
She has worked extensively in
the state government, most recently serving as assistant treasurer under Governor Jim Florio. She was
named by Governor Christie Whitman to serve as a founding member
of the state’s Council on Local
Mandates, a post that she held for
six years. Jezierny also has held
volunteer positions in many local
organizations, including 20 years
with the Breast Cancer Resource
Center. She is a former tribute honoree.
This year’s lead sponsor is Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products
Company. Other sponsors include
benefactor sponsor NRG Energy,
Bracco Diagnostics, Covance,
Janssen Pharmaceutical, PNC
Bank, and the Times of Trenton.
Friday, March 6
Repairing America’s
Rotting Roads
T
he open road is dying. Not
fortunate enough to suffer a single
cataclysmic blow, the nation’s web
of transportation — highways,
bridges, rail lines, metro transit —
is instead slowly rotting away.
The problem with this “slow,
painful deterioration over a long
time,” says Mortimer Downey,
chairman of Pb Consult Inc. in
Washington, D.C., is that it gives
the government and the people a
long time to put off repairing infrastructure. And as is happening right
now, the ground is literally wasting
away under our wheels.
Downey will be the keynote
speaker at the Woodrow Wilson
School’s “Transportation and Infrastructure Issues for the Next
Decade” forum, held by the
school’s Policy Institute for the Region (PRIOR) on Friday, March 6,
at 8 a.m. in Dodds Auditorium. To
register for this free forum visit
www.princeton.edu/prior.
The PRIOR forum will feature
three panels discussing an array of
transportation and infrastructure
issues. The forum also features an
address by Anthony Coscia,
chairman of the board for the Port
Authority of New York/New Jersey.
Downey, who served as deputy
secretary of transportation in Bill
Clinton’s administration, was part
of the Obama transition team in
charge of evaluating the state of
federal policy on all aspects of
transportation. While Downey
calls the experience “a good assignment because we just got to ask
all the questions,” he wonders
about the answers. He is optimistic
that the problem can be solved, especially with Barack Obama having a commitment to infrastructure. “How he’ll come up with the
money I don’t know,” Downey
says. “He promised something, so
he’ll have to come up with a way to
do it.”
The money. It is not as if the
federal government has ignored
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the problem. In 2005 the latest version of the
oft-revamped Transportation Equity Act —
in this case SAFE-TEA — allotted nearly
$265 billion to fixing crumbling roads, rusting rail lines, and fracturing bridges.
And the money was used, Downey says.
And used properly. But it wasn’t enough to
hold on for the life of the bill. SAFE-TEA
expires in September, but the fund ran dry a
full year before it was supposed to. This past
September the Bush administration signed
an $8 billion bailout for infrastructure,
which is, as Downey puts it, simply helping
the system limp along until the bill expires.
The reason the well went dry is not due to
mismanagement, Downey says, it is because return on investment was grossly
overestimated. The Bush administration
passed SAFE-TEA with the belief that tolls,
gas taxes, ticket taxes, and other forms of
revenue would be enough to keep money
liquid. As it turns out, the rise in gas prices
and the increased costs of travel kept people
from driving. And, as in all ripple effects, the
fact that people did not leave the house started to affect businesses — fewer travelers
meant less revenues into vacations, entertainment, and retail, causing operations to
scale back and fewer trucks to roll.
When the financial markets collapsed last
September the revenue stream from transportation went with it. With expected money
missing from the equation, the only thing to
do was bail out the system.
The problem. Counter to a popular perception that throwing money at a problem
will not work, Downey says that this is one
avenue of the economy that has shown such
action does indeed work. Downey sees the
overall problem as twofold — first, we are
not reinvesting in our current transportation
system at any level, from inner cities to the
federal highway system, and second, we are
not investing in the future of the system.
This fix-it-as-it-comes approach has gotten us into trouble and threatens to keep us
there. But the overarching problem is mired
in its own ubiquity. Unlike almost every major issue, transportation and infrastructure
are suffering across the entire spectrum.
Downey, in fact, refuses to proclaim one
area of transportation to be the most in need.
“It’s all of the above,” he says. “It’s high-
On the Road: Mortimer
Downey, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation from
1993 to 2001, is the keynote
speaker at a forum hosted
by the Woodrow Wilson
School on Friday, March 6.
ways, its inner city transit, congestion in our
metropolitan areas. It’s all of it.”
The closet Downey comes to picking the
most critical area is when he acknowledges
the potentially calamitous state of the nation’s bridges. A bridge failure, he says, is
the most serious event given the destruction,
he admits. “But if you let it go, everything
can get to that level.”
Downey backs up his assertion that forking over money will help by pointing out a
success he had when he was executive director and CFO of the New York Metropolitan
Transportation Authority in the 1980s. At
the time the New York City’s subway system
was in terrible shape. The city invested $20
billion into the problem — another $50 billion has been invested since — and the system is in no immediate trouble.
Silver linings. All is not lost, so long as
action is taken, Downey says. And he actualContinued on following page
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ly sees the totality of the infrastructure problem as a blessing. Since it
affects everybody it should be easy
to fix. Regardless of some rankling
over how much money New York
gets in federal aid — a fluid number, but one that invariably works
out to give the state a higher percentage of federal money than it
gets through its gas tax, and an issue that particularly frustrates
Texas legislators crying foul —
there is little to argue.
However, those issues that directly affect everyone will directly
cost everyone, and that is where ire
brews. The good news, Downey
says, is that there are options. But
they will all still cost you.
Primarily there is the president’s
interest. Though President Obama
has yet to release the figures, President-elect Obama claimed it
would be “the single largest new
investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the
federal highway system in the
1950s.”
Other plans are less ambitious.
The Bush administration looked
deeply into private sector partnerships with public agencies, and
Downey expects the Obama administration to follow suit. There is
also the mileage tax — a proposal
to charge drivers a per-mile contribution to go toward infrastructure.
Though shot down by Obama, the
president has announced “road
pricing” (which Downey admits is
“not much different” from mileage
taxes — as part of his grand design
to rebuild infrastructure.
Downey also points out the success California has had in funding
its own infrastructure projects.
There, portions of the sales tax go
toward road improvements. The
optimism in Downey’s message
comes from the fact that such a tax
cannot be levied without public
support — in California it takes a
two-thirds majority in a public referendum to greenlight such a plan.
It resonates with people, Downey
says, because “people see that they
get X, Y, and Z for their money and
they say, ‘I’m for that,’” he says.
Downey grew up in New England and graduated from Yale in
1958 with a bachelor’s in political
science. He received a master’s degree in public administration from
New York University in 1966.
Downey began his career with
the Port Authority of New York
(now the Port Authority of New
York/New Jersey), where he
served in several positions. In the
1970s he became the first transportation program analyst for the
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on the Budget and later
was named to the Department of
Transportation as assistant secretary for budget and programs by
the Carter administration. In 1981
he took over the MTA in New York.
Downey served as President
Clinton’s deputy secretary of transportation through both terms, making Downey the longest-serving
person to ever hold the post.
— Scott Morgan
Business Meetings
Wednesday, March 4
2:30 p.m.: NJ Bankers, “Checks &
Holds for Tellers,” $500. Call ext.
611. Webinar,
[email protected]. 908-2728500.
5 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, Trenton
Chapter, “Why Not Wednesdays?” networking, free. KatManDu, Trenton. 609-689-9960.
6 p.m.: Insurance Women of Mercer County, monthly business
meeting, featuring Patricia McGlone on Fraud & Policy Rescission, $23. Freddies Tavern, Rail-
road Avenue, Trenton. 800-2230534.
6:30 p.m.: FDU, “Saudi Arabia in
its Region and in the World,” H.E.
Khalid Abdalrazaq Al-Nafisee,
permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations,
free. Madison campus, [email protected]. 973443-8876.
8 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, “Breakfast Club” meeting,” $35 Quakerbridge Mall. 609-689-9960.
Thursday, March 5
7 a.m.: DBA Networking Group,
weekly networking breakfast,
free. Americana Diner, East
Windsor. 800-985-1121.
8 a.m.: Mercer Chamber, Robbinsville chapter, “How to Grow
Your Business by Using the Energy (Chi),” Ruxandra Barb, IDS Associates, free. Roma Bank, Route
33. 609-689-9960.
9 a.m.: Dale Carnegie Institute,
“Strictly Business: The Dale
Carnegie Immersion Seminar,”
free. Somerset Courtyard by Marriott. 609-324-9200.
11:30 a.m.: Princeton Chamber,
“Some Reasons for the Current
Banking Financial Crisis,” Tony
Terraciano, Sallie Mae, $45.
Princeton Marriott. 609-9241776.
2:30 p.m.: NJ Bankers, “The New
TARP: Market Turmoil, Capital Investments, and the Obama Administration,” $500. Call ext. 611.
Webinar, [email protected].
908-272-8500.
6 p.m.: ACG New Jersey, “Doing
Business in the State of New Jersey as America is at a Crossroads,” Steve Kalafer, free. Westin Hotel, [email protected].
877-224-6667.
6 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “How to Start a
Business, A to Z,” free. TCNJ.
609-771-2947.
7 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Creative Techniques in Marketing,” $19. Register at www.sbdcnj.com. Telecourse. 609-771-2947.
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7 p.m.: State Bar Foundation,
“Starting and Succeeding with a
New Business,” free. NJ Law
Center, New Brunswick. 800FREE-LAW.
Friday, March 6
8:30 a.m.: HRMA, “Eight Step
Staffing Process,” Mary Anne
Kennedy, $20. Bethke Board
Room, 212 Carnegie Center. 609844-0200.
2:30 p.m.: NJ Bankers, “Regulation O - Lending to Insiders,”
$500. Call ext. 611. Webinar,
Monday, March 9
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their families, and Busy Professionals.
10:30 a.m.: Professional Services
Group, weekly “Career Beacon
Workshop and Guest Speaker,”
free. One Stop Career Center,
Yard Avenue, Trenton. 609-2927535.
5:30 p.m.: HRMA, “Legal Ways to
Reduce Health Costs,” $60. Hyatt
Regency, [email protected].
609-844-0200.
7:30 p.m.: Princeton PC Users
Group, Lawrence Library, 2751
Route 1 South, [email protected]. 908-218-0778.
Tuesday, March 10
7:45 a.m.: Venture Association,
“Business Conference and Expo:
A Learning and Networking Opportunity,” JJ Ramberg, MSNBC,
$55. Marriott, East Whippany.
908-917-9900.
9 a.m.: SkillPath Seminars, “Workshop for Personnel/HR Executives,” $359. Holiday Inn. 800873-7545.
11:30 a.m.: Venture Association,
“There’s Growth Funding Available In New Jersey,” $55. Marriott, East Whippany. 908-9179900.
11:30 a.m.: Mercer Chamber,
Hamilton Chapter, “State of the
Township Address,” Mayor John
Bencivengo, $55. Nottingham
Ballroom. 609-689-9960.
2 p.m.: SeniorNet, “Clean Up Your
Computer and Make It Run Like
New,” David Shinkfield, free. 999
Lower Ferry Road. 609-8825086.
2:30 p.m.: NJ Bankers, “Training
Secrets from the Pros,” $500. Call
ext. 611. Webinar,
6 p.m.: Business Marketing Association, “Innovate to Generate
Sales,”$70. The Imperia, Somerset, [email protected].
6:30 p.m.: Mercer County Connection, “Welcome to Medicare,”
free. Route 33 and Paxson Avenue, Hamilton. 609-890-9800.
7 p.m.: State Bar Foundation,
“Landlord-Tenant Rights,” free.
NJ Law Center, New Brunswick.
800-FREE-LAW.
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All events are subject to
last minute changes or cancellations. Call to confirm.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, free.
Parish Hall entrance, Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609924-2277.
7:30 p.m.: Princeton Macintosh
Users Group, “Running a Successful E-Commercial Program,”
David Mason, free. Jadwin Hall.
609-258-5730.
Wednesday, March 11
7 a.m.: BNI-Thunder, weekly
breakfast meeting, free. McCaffery’s, West Windsor. 609-5299330.
Noon: Princeton University, Lunch
‘N Learn: “Princeton Broadcast
Center: First Cuts,’ David Hopkins, free. Frist Center. 609-2582949.
Noon a.m.: Mercer County Connection, “Taking Charge of Your
Job Search, free. Route 33 and
Paxson Avenue, Hamilton. 609890-9800.
1 p.m.: Princeton Public Library,
Data bytes, free. Witherspoon
Street. 609-924-9529.
5:30 p.m.: Middlesex Chamber,
Business After Hours. $40. Stress
Factory, New Brunswick. 732745-8090.
6:30 p.m.: Mercer County College,
“Introduction to Pharmacovigilance,” eight-session course led
by Lourdes Frau, $960. West
Windsor campus. 609-570-3311.
7 p.m.: Sustainable Princeton,
Sustainable Princeton Community Plan workshop, free. Suzanne
Paterson Center, 1 Monument
Drive. 609-924-5366.
7 p.m.: ASMP, “I Stink at Negotiating,” for photographers, $60.
Unique Photo, Fairfield.
www.asmp.org.
Thursday, March 12
7 a.m.: DBA Networking Group,
weekly networking breakfast,
free. Americana Diner, East
Windsor. 800-985-1121.
8:30 a.m.: ICREW, “Finding Funding in this Difficult Market.” $95
Woodbridge Hilton. 609-5856871.
9 a.m.: SkillPath Seminars, “The
Administrative Assistants Conference,” $179. Clarion Hotel at
Palmer Inn. 800-873-7545.
11 a.m.: NJ Bankers, “The New
TARP: Market Turmoil, Capital Investments, and the Obama Administration,” $500. Call ext. 611.
908-272-8500.
11:30 a.m.: NJAWBO, networking
lunch, $30 KC Prime, Quakerbridge Road. 609-275-5418.
2:30 p.m.: NJ Bankers, “Remote
Deposit Capture — New FFIEC
Guidance,” $500. Call ext. 611.
Webinar, [email protected].
908-272-8500.
3 p.m.: Princeton Chamber, Annual Mercer County Economic Summit, $35. MCCC Conference
Room, West Windsor. 609-9241776.
4 p.m.: New Jersey Entrepreneurs
Forum, $30. Commercialization
Center, North Brunswick. 908789-3424.
7 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Communicating for Success,” $19. Register at
www.sbdcnj.com. Telecourse.
609-771-2947.
7 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Landlording
101,” $19. Register at www.sbdcnj.com. Telecourse. 609-7712947.
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Art Imitates Art
'Cast of Hedda Gabler,' a painting by Mel Leipzig inspired by a 2008 production
at Mercer County Community College, is on view through September 6 in a
solo exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum. More art listings on page 26.
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Wednesday
March 4
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Biting Your
Nails About College?
College Bound, Pennington Ewing Athletic Club, 1440 Lower
Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-8832000. www.peachealthfitness.com. “Why is it so hard for a good
student to get into a top college?”
presented by Don Betterton, a financial aid and admissions expert
and a former member of the
Princeton University admissions
committee. Register. Free. 7:30
to 8 p.m.
Classical Music
Jazz Vespers, Princeton University Chapel, Washington Road,
609-258-3654. Free. 8 p.m.
World Music
Architecture
Mick Moloney: Traditional Irish
Music, Song, and Dance, Middlesex County Cultural Commission, North Brunswick High
School, Raider Road and Route
130, 732-745-4489. www.cultureheritage.org. Irish folk music on
fiddle, guitar, and concertina.
Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Imminent Domains Lecture Series, Princeton University
School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium, Princeton, 609-2583741. www.soa.princeton.edu.
“Cognitive Models for Co-Existence in Reference to Metabolists”
presented by Norihiki Dan, Nirihiko
Dan and Associates. Free. 6 p.m.
Art
Drama
Art Exhibit, Buck’s Cafe, 25
Bridge Street, Lambertville. “Yesterday’s Tomorrow,” a visual journey through the historical town of
Lambertville, featuring photography by Catherine DeChico.
Art Exhibit, New Jersey State
Museum, 205 West State Street,
Trenton, 609-292-6310. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org.
“Artist as Curator: Mel Leipzig,”
selected works by Leipzig in the
second floor fine art galleries.
Leipzig is curator of a concurrent
exhibition at the museum. On
view to September 6. 11 a.m.
The Devil’s Music: The Life and
Blues of Bessie Smith, George
Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-2467717. gsponline.org. Angelo Parra’s play with music stars Miche
Braden. Directed by Joe Brancato.
For mature audiences. Through
March 29. $28 to $66. 8 p.m.
Film
Trenton Film Society, Cafe Ole,
126 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-396-6966. www.trentonfilmsociety.org. Screening of
“Compulsion,” 1959. $5. 7 p.m.
PREVIEW EDITOR:
JAMIE SAXON
[email protected]
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For
newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Literati
Readings, Princeton University,
Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Sharon Olds reads selections from her work. Reception
and booksigning follow. 4:30 p.m.
Readings and Workshops, Raritan Poets, East Brunswick Library, Two Jean Walling Civic
Center, 732-257-3088. www.ebpl.org. Free. 7 p.m.
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Camera Club, South Brunswick
Arts Commission, South Brunswick Library, Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
“Pictures You Love to Hate: Issues in Contemporary Color Photography” presented by Joel Morgovsky. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
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66 Witherspoon St., Princeton
Across from the Princeton Public Library
609-683-8323 Open 7 Days
Like eating at “Nonna’s” house!
Annual Book Sale, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post
Road, 609-987-9644. Paperbacks, cookbooks, CDs, videobooks, and software. Most books
are $1 for hardbacks and 50
cents for paperbacks. 10 a.m. to
9 p.m.
Volunteer Orientation Meeting,
HomeFront, 1880 Princeton Avenue, Lawrenceville, 609-9899417. www.homefrontnj.org. Information about volunteer opportunities. Register. 6 p.m.
Faith
Soup Supper and Program, All
Saints’ Church, 16 All Saints’
Road, Princeton, 609-921-2420.
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartet” led by
Al Kleindienst. 6 p.m.
Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street,
Princeton, 609-924-2277. www.trinityprinceton.org. “The Kingdom of God: Why is it Such a
Mystery” presented by Elaine
Pagels, author of “The Gnostic
Gospels,” “The Origin of Satin,”
and “Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.” 6:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
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206 Farnsworth Avenue • Bordentown • 609-298-8360
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Cleansed for Life, Isagenix, Hyatt, 102 Carnegie Center, West
Windsor, 609-799-5512. “Nutritional Cleansing Forum” presented by Jennifer Smith, an exercise
physiologist. Register. $10.
Rescheduled from February due
to weather. E-mail [email protected] for information. 6:30 to 8
p.m.
Ageless Living Workshops,
Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432.
www.relaxationandhealing.com.
“Biomechanics for Balance and
Flexibility” presented by Dr.
Gonthar Rooda and Danute Audenas-Corcoran. $20. 7:30 to 9
p.m.
For Families
Family Concert, Barnes &
Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-716-1570. www.bn.com.
Ernie and Neal with their band.
4:30 p.m.
For Parents
Special Ed Support Group, Family Support Organization, 3535
Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton,
609-586-1200. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
College Bound, Pennington Ewing Athletic Club, 1440 Lower
Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-8832000. www.peachealthfitness.com. “Why is it so hard for a good
student to get into a top college?”
presented by Don Betterton, a financial aid and admissions expert and a former member of the
Princeton University admissions
committee. Register. Free. 7:30
to 8 p.m.
Lectures
Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 609258-3000. www.wws.princeton.edu. “Cheney Rules: What the
Obama White House Can Learn
from the Angler” presented by
Barton Gellman, author of “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.” 4:30 p.m.
Insurance Women of Mercer
County, Freddie’s Tavern, Railroad Avenue, West Trenton, 609883-5699. Cocktails, dinner, and
talk. “Fraud and Policy Rescission” presented by Patricia McGlone. Register by E-mail at [email protected]. $23. 5:30 p.m.
A Female Version of Crosby, Stills, & Nash:
The Refugees, made up of three Grammy Award
nominees and winners, appear on Friday, March
6, at the Record Collector, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.the-record-collector.com.
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
The economy in Princeton discussed in free assembly format.
6:30 p.m.
UFOs, Ghosts, and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal
Study Group, Hamilton Township
Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Pat Marcattilio facilitates monthly meeting.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
732-296-7270. www.alfaart.org.
Opening reception for “The
Essence of Nature,” an exhibit of
large format, abstract works by
John Hawaka. On view to March
25. 7 to 11 p.m.
Drama
Woodcock Watch, Stony Brook
Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus
Mill Road, Pennington, 609-7377592. www.thewatershed.org.
For families and adults. Register.
Free. 6 p.m.
Master Class, Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn,
973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Terrence McNally’s play with
music about opera diva Maria
Callas. $56 to $84. Conversation
series at 6:30 p.m. in the mezzanine. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. www.gsponline.org.
Angelo Parra’s play with music
stars Miche Braden. Directed by
Joe Brancato. For mature audiences. Through March 29. $28 to
$66. 8 p.m.
Sea Marks, Mason Gross School
of the Arts, Philip J. Levin Theater, New Brunswick, 732-9327511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Romantic drama about two
young people. $25. 8 p.m.
Salmonpeople, Passage
Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse,
Front and Montgomery streets,
Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Written and
performed by Peter Donaldson.
$35. 8 p.m.
Schools
Film
Open House, Lawrence Day
School, 510 Lawrence Square
Boulevard South, Lawrenceville,
609-588-5770. www.lawrencedayschool.com. For ages two
months to eight years. 5 to 7:30
p.m.
Selections from the Black Maria
Film Festival, Princeton University, Lewis Center, 185 Nassau
Street, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Princeton Public Library, Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
Screening of “Glass: A Portrait of
Philip in Twelve Parts.” 7 p.m.
Live Music
MJSA, Crown of India, 660
Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro,
609-275-5707. Variety music. 7
to 9 p.m.
Flamenco Dancing, Malaga
Restaurant, 511 Lalor Street,
Hamilton, 609-396-8878. www.malagarestaurant.com. Julia and
Carlos Lopez perform. Spanish
and Portuguese cuisine. Register.
$12 cover. 8 p.m.
Beatles Night, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 9 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Thursday
March 5
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Brain
Food for Wine Lovers
Stag’s Leap Dinner, Elements,
163 Bayard Lane, Princeton, 609924-0078. www.elementsprinceton.com. Five-course tasting
menu paired to showcase Stag’s
Leap wine cellars. Register. $225.
6 p.m.
Classical Music
Recital, Princeton University,
Taplin Auditorium, 609-258-4241.
www.princeton.edu. Works by
Bach and Stravinsky performed
by Steven Kim on violin. Free. Reception follows. 8 p.m.
Jazz at Cafe Vivian, Princeton
University, Frist, 609-258-4241.
www.princeton.edu. Free. 11:30
p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Alfa Art Gallery, 108
Church Street, New Brunswick,
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
www.theblackcattango.com. $10.
9 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. A conversation with
Peter Brooks, author of “Henry
James Goes to Paris;” and Sophie Gee, author of “The Scandal
of the Season.” 5:30 p.m.
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Michael
Davis, author of “Street Gang:
The Complete History of Sesame
Street.” 7 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Newgrange
School, 526 South Olden Avenue, Hamilton, 609-584-1800.
www.thenewgrange.org. 9:30 to
10:30 a.m.
MARCH 4, 2009
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Let’s Try...DeLiteful Foods and Cafe
F
The Finest Cuisine of Spain and Portugal
or most people, finding a
mouth-watering snack or simply
ingredients for a healthy meal is as
easy as walking into any neighborhood supermarket. But for others,
who have allergies, special diets, or
are trying to lose weight, dining out
and food shopping can be a constant challenge as they are always
on the watch for ingredients that
may make them sick, trigger a reaction, put on weight, or bring on
an allergic response. For these people a trip to the supermarket or a
restaurant is more likely to inspire
dread.
Items on their shopping list
might be bread without gluten for a
child with celiac disease, a lowcalorie candy bar, or a two-point
Weight Watchers entree for a
spouse who’s trying to keep to his
New Year’s resolution, or diabetesfriendly foods for adults with a
sweet tooth who can’t have the
cookies, cakes, and candies they
love.
DeLiteful Foods and its sister
cafe in Glendale Plaza in Lawrenceville offer a culinary answer
to these predicaments. The store
and cafe are managed with the expert guidance of Ronnie Staffenberg, a retired special education
teacher, who owns the store with
her husband, Drew.
On a recent visit I was back on a
pseudo-Weight Watchers diet, using an old booklet inherited from
my sister — because my doctor had
just told me to lose five or 10
pounds in an effort to avoid blood
pressure medication. I was already
starting to experience the feeling of
constant starvation that inevitably
accompanies diets after age 50, and
my mother, who struggles with
Type 2 diabetes, was with me.
A couple of weeks prior to visiting DeLiteful Foods, I had taken
the leap into diet mode — cutting
out sweets and subtracting out as
much other starch as I could. I had
even made a double-recipe of a
Weight Watchers cabbage tomato
soup from an Internet recipe — it
was tasty enough (as tasty as you
might expect for a zero points dish)
but it took real work to make (especially if you include buying the ingredients). At the DeLiteful Cafe, I
found a similar soup ($3.25 a cup,
$4.25 a bowl) — and someone else
had done the work — and I also
tasted a delicious, creamy broccoli-cheddar cheese soup (one
point for 1 1/4 cup, same price).
At the cafe I also sampled the
vegetarian chili (2 points a cup,
same price as soup) and the creamy
Waldorf pasta salad (3 points for a
3/4 cup, $5.95), both well prepared. The cafe has a homelike
feel, with wrought iron round tables and grillwork chairs with rattan seats. A cheery pink-striped
apron hangs on the wall, along with
a framed saying, “Laughter Is the
Music of the Heart.”
Breakfast features both standard
bagels and specialty ones with
about half the calories and few
carbs — either alone or as part of a
sandwich with eggs and choice of
cheeses and meats. And for customers who can’t face the morning
without a sweet nosh, the choice is
one- or two-point fruit crepes for
$4; high-fiber, two-point muffins
in 10 flavors for $1.50; or a threepoint low-fat Danish for $1.50.
In addition to soups, the lunch
menu offers a range of salads — including both curried and standard
chicken, a Greek side, and others
— as well as the usual range of
sandwiches and wraps, veggie
burgers, and hot dogs. Breads
come in regular, lite, and gluten-
For those on a
restricted diet or who
just want to eat
healthier, many items
are availabe to sample before you buy.
free varieties, and stars on the
menu indicate dishes that are entirely gluten free.
D
esserts looked mouth-watering: fruit pies, cheesecake,
chocolate mousse, and brownies
came in at two points, with key lime
pie topping out at three. The winner
in the low-calorie category is a cafe
favorite — a vanilla/ chocolate
twist frozen yogurt dessert with only eight calories an ounce, which
means you can consume up to 12
ounces and use up only a single
Weight Watchers point.
To look for a snack for myself, I
stepped into the store. I tend toward more natural foods but couldn’t help noticing the two-point
chocolate chip mint and pumpkin
spice cookies. I successfully
passed those over, however, and
swooped down on Figamajigs,
which were sweet but could satisfy
my chocolate addiction as well.
This ingenious fig bar with chocolate coating (only 130 calories), did
the trick: the fig functioned like a
recondite chocolate, creating the illusion that the entire bar was actually chocolate.
The store’s 1,400 products can
feel a little overwhelming, but similar items are grouped together, and
Staffenberg is there to guide customers to what they want. My
mother, who was about to drive
down to Washington to visit
health-compromised friends and
wanted to bring along a gift, found
a decorative bag of goodies that included La Nouba Chocolate Hazelnut Spread ($5.79), made with premium Belgian chocolate, with sugar alcohols but no sugar and only
108 calories per tablespoon serving; La Nouba Belgian Coffee
Waffles ($5.98) at 43 calories per
cookie; gluten-free Mariposa Almond Biscotti ($9.79) at 110 calories each; and gluten free, soda
style Glutano Crackers (four
crackers are 125 calories).
As I wandered through the store,
I saw products that would sooth the
harried frenzy of shoppers concerned about their own health and
that of their families. I envisioned a
child with celiac disease happily
snacking on gluten-free products
like pizza-flavored breadsticks,
Wizards cookies, and New Morning Cocoa Crispy Rice and EnviroKids Gorilla Munch breakfast
cereals. Diabetics might satisfy
their urges for sweetness with
Walden Farms calorie-free jams at
$4.49 a jar or jazz up their diets
with low-carb products like a sugar-free pancake and waffle mix at
$4.79; Carba-Nada noodles at
$5.99, and the Extend bars designed for diabetics.
And for the tubbies among us,
always on the lookout for that elusive food that is both satisfying and
low calorie, there are frozen foods
like the four-point eggplant rollatini at $6.49 and the six-point chicken cacciatore at $7.39; maybe that
box of low-carb, high-fiber macaroni and cheese at $3.79; and the
American Fries I found among the
tasting treats on the flower cart in
the middle of the store, which go
for $1.69 a bag, cost two Weight
Watchers points, and are indistinguishable from crispy “fries” with
an authentically ketchupy taste.
Realizing that it can’t compete
with grocery stores on price,
Deliteful Foods carries among its
1,400 products mostly what is not
available in area supermarkets, and
Staffenberg mentions that Whole
Foods sends over customers in
search of gluten-free products.
Staffenberg got the idea for
DeLiteful Foods one day when she
stopped at a similar store in North
Jersey — and decided she could do
a much better job. She opened her
store about two-and-a-half years
ago and the cafe last summer.
— Michele Alperin
DeLiteful Foods and Cafe,
Glendale Plaza, 4040 Quakerbridge Road, Lawrenceville, 609586-7122, [email protected], www.DeLitefulFood.com.
Hours: Monday through Wednesday, and Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday,
noon to 5 p.m.
Flamenco Dancing featuring Julia & Carlos Lopez
1st & 3rd Wednesdays. Reservations required.
Lunch
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Yes, He’s Even Been on the Sopranos:
Comedian Rob Falcone comes to Catch a Rising
Star at the Hyatt Princeton on Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7. 609-987-8018.
March 5
Youth Arts Month, West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional
School District, Plainsboro Municipal Building, 609-716-5100.
www.ww-p.org. Opening reception for student artwork on display
in three locations. Organized by
Sandy Bonasera, WW-P art coordinator, the exhibit includes more
than 300 pieces. Music by Grover
and Community middle school
student groups. 5 to 7 p.m.
Good Causes
Chinese Accupressure
& Professional Massage
c Herbal
Foot Medicine
c Back rub, Foot Rub
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c Deep Tissue Technique
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Gift
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Available
for the
Holidays!
164 Nassau St., 2nd floor, Princeton, NJ
609-252-9900 • cell 718-813-3827
Open 7 days a week 10am - 10pm - No appointment needed!
9 p.m.
Tribute to Women Annual
Awards Dinner, YWCA Princeton, Hyatt Regency, Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-4972100. www.ywcaprinceton.org.
Honorees include Harriet Bryan,
community volunteer; Mia Cahill,
managing partner, Dennigan
Cahill; Janet Smith Dickerson,
vice president for Campus Life,
Princeton University; Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor
of Politics and African Studies,
Princeton University; Elizabeth
Johnson, COO, Isles; Meredith C.
Moore, senior vice president of
communications, NRG Energy;
Susan Nettesheim, vice president
of product stewardship, Johnson
& Johnson Consumer Products
Company; Honorable Deborah T.
Poritz, of Counsel, Drinker, Biddle
& Reath; Cynthia Ricker, vice
president, PNC Bank; Judith
Scheide, philanthropist; and
Denise E. Wood, vice president,
Princeton BMW/Mini. Register.
$125. 5:15 p.m.
Food & Dining
Catering Showcase, Chez Alice,
Mountain Lakes House, 57 Mountain Avenue, Princeton, 609-5865050. www.chezalice.com. Annual showcase featuring chefs, coordinators, vendors of photography, music, wine and spirits, floral, and rental. Complimentary
tastings of foods and pastries.
Register by E-mail at [email protected]. 5 to 8 p.m.
Stag’s Leap Dinner, Elements,
163 Bayard Lane, Princeton, 609924-0078. www.elementsprinceton.com. Five-course tasting
menu paired to showcase Stag’s
Leap wine cellars. Register. $225.
6 p.m.
Austrian Wine Pairing Dinner,
CoolVines, Za Restaurant, 147
West Delaware Avenue, Pennington, 609-924-0039. www.coolvines.com. “American Gasthol,” a
six-course dinner paired with Burgenland wines of Gunter
Triebaumer. Register. $85. 7 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, 1 Hamilton
Health Place, Hamilton, 800-4483543. www.pleasegiveblood.org.
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Caregiver Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, 196
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 800-883-110-. www.alz.org. 1 p.m.
Tarot and Your Inner Wisdom,
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432.
Register. $35. 7 p.m.
Lectures
Grant Information Session,
Princeton Area Community
Foundation, 15 Princess Road,
Lawrenceville, 609-219-1800.
www.pacf.org. Guidelines about
the community foundation’s overall grant making process and priorities. Register. Free. 9 a.m.
55-Plus, Jewish Center of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street, 609-7372001. www.princetonol.com. “Understanding America’s Immigration Crisis” presented by Douglas
Massey, sociology professor at
Princeton University. 10 a.m.
Race and Real Estate Conference, Princeton University,
Friend Center 101, 609-2583000. www.princeton.edu.
Screening of “Home,” a film about
a Newark family, followed by a
discussion with the film’s director,
Jeffrey Togman, Seton Hall University professor. Register. Free.
4:30 p.m.
Princeton University, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 609258-3000. www.wws.princeton.edu. Melissa Draper and Aaron
Luoma, co-authors of “Dignity
and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization.” 4:30 p.m.
Political Philosophy
Colloquium, Princeton University Center for Human Values,
127 Corwin Hall, 609-258-3000.
www.princeton.edu/values.
Danielle Allen, Institute for Advanced Study. 4:30 to 6:15 p.m.
Legal and Financial Planning,
Lawrenceville Main Street, Sun
National Bank, Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-4200. LawrencevilleMainStreet.com. “Leaving a Legacy: Retirement Planning, Charitable Giving, and Elder
Law” workshop. $15 per family or
individual benefits Lawrenceville
Main Street. Register. 7 p.m.
Asian American Theology and
Ministry, Princeton Theological
Seminary, Mackay Campus Center, 609-497-7990. ptsem.edu.
“Building the Momentum: Dr. Sang
Hyun Lee’s Contributions and
Their Prospects” presented by
Reverend Roy I. Sano, professor
emeritus of theology and Pacific
and Asian American ministries at
Pacific School of Religion in
Berkeley, California. Free. 7 p.m.
Ernest Zedillo, Princeton University, McCosh 10, 609-2583000. www.lectures.princeton.edu. “Latin America: 200 Years of
Solitude” presented by the former
Mexican president, an economist
who now directs Yale University
Center for the Study of Globalization. Free. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Gentle Jazz, Cafe 72, 72 West
Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton,
609-882-0087. www.cafe72nj.-
com. Al Oliver, vocals; and Gerry
Groves, flute. 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
Straight on Red, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Jazz fusion and
blues. 7 p.m.
John Bianculli Trio, JL Ivy, 378
Alexander Road, Princeton, 609921-1113. www.jlivy.com. No cover. 8 to 11 p.m.
Barnaby & Phineas, Alchemist &
Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Friday
March 6
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Home Improvement
New Jersey Home Show, New
Jersey Convention Center, 97
Sunfield Avenue, Edison, 800635-3976. www.showoffice.com.
Home improvement, remodeling,
interior designs, furnishings, landscaping, gardening, and green
homes. $10. Through Sunday,
March 8. 3 to 9:30 p.m.
Music
Piano Teachers’ Forum, Jacobs
Music, Route 1, Lawrence, 609921-1510. “Improvisation: A Tool
for Players and Teachers,” Jane
Buttars. $10. 9 a.m.
Lunch Concert Series, First
Presbyterian Church of Trenton, 120 East State Street, Trenton, 609-396-1712. www.old1712.org. Emily SensenbachGopal, organist, St. Paul’s UCC,
New Brunswick. Soup and sandwich luncheon follows concert.
Donations invited. 12:15 p.m.
Open Rehearsal, American Boychoir, Princeton, 888-BOYCHOIR. www.americanboychoir.org. Resident training choir. Register. Free. 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Princeton University Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2584239. www.princeton.edu/utickets. Concert features winners of the annual concerto competition, Jessica Anastasio, Jeffrey Hodes, and Holger Straude.
Directed by Michael Pratt. Senior
Wittstruck leads a performance of
Bedrich Smetana’s poem, “The
Moldau. $18. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
Charlie Zahm and Bill Kelly, Folk
Project, Morristown Unitarian
Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights
Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489.
www.folkproject.org. $7. 8 p.m.
Art
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. www.princetonartmuseum.org. “Classical Form in Present Tense: Paintings by Arnold Chang” presented
by Michael Hatch, student, Department of Art and Archaeology.
Free. 12:30 p.m.
MARCH 4, 2009
Drama
Good Causes
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs,
Actors’ NET, 635 North Delmorr
Avenue, Morrisville, 215-2953694. www.actorsnetbucks.org.
Through March 15. $20. 8 p.m.
$66. Opening night. 8 p.m.
The Wiz, Kelsey Theater, Mercer
County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, 609-5703333. www.kelseytheatre.net.
Multi-cultural production of the
musical retelling of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” with a rock
score and modern libretto by
Charlie Smalls. Through Sunday,
March 15. Opening night reception to meet the cast and crew follows the performance. $16. 8
p.m.
Midlife, the Crisis Musical, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. $27.50 to $29.50 includes dessert. 8 p.m.
Salmonpeople, Passage
Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Written and
performed by Peter Donaldson.
$35. 8 p.m. See story page 20.
A Streetcar Named Desire,
Princeton University, Berlind
Theater at McCarter, 609-2582787. www.princeton.edu. Tennessee Williams’ drama presented as a creative senior thesis production by Princeton senior,
Shannon Lee Clair. Directed by
Tracy Bersley. $15. 8 p.m.
Under the Bed and Behind the
Curtain Playing with Communism, Theatre Intime, Hamilton
Murray Theater, Princeton University, 609-258-1742. www.theatreintime.org. “The Bedbug,”
by Vladimir Mayakovsky and “The
Unveiling” by Vaclav Havel. Presented by the department of Slavic Languages and Literature. $10.
8 p.m.
Benefit, American Heart Association, Stony Brook Sew & Vac,
630 Marketplace Boulevard,
Hamilton, 609-585-6990. All day
sew-a-thon to create quilts for the
Go Red for Women benefit on
May 18. Register. 10 a.m. to 6
p.m.
5 p.m.
Film
Project Reemployment, Jewish
Family and Children’s Services
of Greater Mercer County, Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village Road East, West Windsor,
609-243-0390. www.jfcsonline.org. Register. $50 for four sessions and two personal assessments by a certified career counselor. 9 a.m. to noon.
Robertson Hall, 609-258-3000.
www.princeton.edu. Panels
“Home,” 9 a.m.; “Neighborhoods,”
11 a.m.; “Public Space,” 2:30 p.m.
Keynote speaker, Patricia
Williams,” presents “House
Proud” at 4:30 p.m. Register.
Free. 9 a.m.
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Register. Free. 11:30
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Art Talks, Princeton University,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Colum P. Hourihane, Index
of Christian Art and Archaeology,
New Jersey Film Festival, Scott
Hall 123, College Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-932-8482. www.njfilmfest.com. “Slumdog Millionaire,” 2008; “Bonnie & Clyde,”
1967.” $10. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Rob Falcone, Catch a Rising
Star, Princeton Hyatt, 102
Carnegie Center, 609-987-8018.
8 p.m.
Bob Nelson and Terry Reilly,
Bucks County Comedy
Cabaret, 625 North Main Street,
Doylestown, 215-345-5653.
www.comedycabaret.com. $25. 9
p.m.
Home Show
interior designs, furnishings, landscaping, gardening, and green
March 8. 3 to 9:30 p.m.
Faith
Kid’s Quest, Princeton Presbyterian Church, 545 Meadow
Road, West Windsor, 609-9871166. www.princetonpresbyterian.org. For pre-K to fourth
grade. Register. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
String of Pearls, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 50 Cherry
Hill Road, Princeton, 609-4300025. www.stringofpearlsweb.org. Shabbat services led by Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum. 8 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Drum Circle for Adults, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com.
Drums provided or bring your
own. Register. $15. 7 p.m.
Lectures
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Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. $15. 8
to 11 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to
11 p.m.
English Country Dance, Lambertville Country Dancers, Titusville United Methodist Church,
7 Church Road, Titusville. www.Lambertvillecountrydancers.org.
No partner needed. Beginners
welcome. $8. 8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
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For
Women Only
LEARN
TO
KEEP YOUR ANGER...
• From Undermining Your Relationships
• From Upsetting Your Emotional Balance
• From Damaging Your Self-Esteem
Learn to Stop Hurting!!!
Just Jazz: The Pat
Pratico Quartet will
perform on Friday,
March 6, at South
Brunswick's Jazz
Cafe in the South
Brunswick Municipal
Complex, 540 Ridge
Road. 732-329-4000,
ext. 7635.
When you are struggling with life’s problems,
call on the experts - each other.
Because sometimes the best help
for a woman …. is another woman.
FOR WOMEN ONLY! is a ten-w
week women’s
group that can help you get past your past.
Limited to 5 women!! Advanced
registration mandatory. Group starts
MARCH 24, 2009, at the
Anger and Relationships Institute in
Princeton, NJ.
609-5
520-0
0200.
email: [email protected], or visit
www.angerandrelationships.com.
MADDIE BLOMGREN
Princeton University, presents
“Pilate in Early Christian Ireland:
Reinterpreting the Evidence.”
4:30 p.m.
Princeton Jewish Center, 435
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-2782. “Water and Peace in
the Middle East: Crisis and Opportunity” presented by Gidon
Bromberg, director of Friends of
the Earth: Middle East. Q&A and
reception follow the talk. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Dick Gratton and Jim McDonough, Chambers Walk Cafe,
2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville,
609-896-5995. Jazz. 6 to 9 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Sotto 128
Restaurant and Lounge, 128
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-7555. www.sotto128.com.
Spanish guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
Briz, Hopewell Playground Project, Hopewell Train Station, 5
Railroad Place, Hopewell, 848469-6143. hopewellplayground.com. “An Evening of Neil Young
Songs” presented in a one-man
acoustic production to benefit the
playground. $15. 7 p.m.
Open Mic, Chicklet Bookstore,
Princeton Shopping Center, 301
North Harrison Street, 609-2792121. chickletbooks.com. For poets, musicians, and comedians.
Register with John Harrity at 908963-0142. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Anger Specialist
Official Opening Saturday, March 21
Separate Cigar Tasting/Sampling (Smoking) Room
Premium Cigars • Pipes • Tobacco • Humidifiers • Hookahs
Hookah Tobacco • Charcoal • Lighters • Imported Cigarettes
Smoking Accessories • Gifts
Rt. 1 South, Mercer Mall (next to Olive Garden)
Lawrenceville, N.J. • 609-936-1400 • E-mail: [email protected]
Wills & Estate Planning
Mary Ann Pidgeon
Pidgeon & Pidgeon, PC
Attorney, LLM in Taxation
600 Alexander Road
Princeton
609-520-1010
www.pidgeonlaw.com
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March 6
FRIENDS OF THE WEST WINDSOR LIBRARY
Book Sale
*Opening Night: Tues., March 3 , 6-9 p.m.
rd
*Admission charge for non-members
FREE ADMISSION:
Wed. March 4th
Thurs. March 5th
Fri. March 6th
Sat. March 7th
10:00 am - 9:00 pm
10:00 am - 9:00 pm
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun. March 8th
12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Box & Bag Day
Proceeds Benefit the West Windsor Library
Sale: 333 North Post Rd.,
Princeton Jct., 609-799-0462
After Hours, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Three part harmonies
of eclectic music. 7:30 p.m.
The Refugees and Lisa
Bouchelle, The Record Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. the-recordcollector.com. $17. 7:30 p.m.
Jim Gaven and Friends, It’s a
Grind, 4 Schalk’s Crossing Road,
Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Jazz Cafe, South Brunswick
Arts Commission, South
Brunswick Municipal Complex,
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. Pat Pratico
Quartet presents swing, Latin,
and ballad. $5 includes refreshments. 8 p.m.
Disgruntled Sherpa Project, 2nd
Coming Band, Even Man Out,
and Catus, All Call Inn, 214 Weber Avenue, Ewing, 609-8829729. $5. 9 p.m.
Ernie White and Tom Reock,
Sotto 128 Restaurant and
Lounge, 128 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-7555. sotto128.com. Acoustic rock. 9 p.m.
Late Night Series, Mercer County Community College, Studio
Theater, Communications Building, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3524.
www.latenightseries.com. “Bring
on the Alt-Rock” featuring Beyond
Visible. 10 p.m.
Benefit for the Park: Edna's Kin — Dan Koontz,
bass, left, Warren Koontz, guitar, and Andrew
Koontz, fiddle (also Princeton Parks Alliance's
president and Princeton Borough Council president) — perform on Sunday, March 8, at the Arts
Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, to
benefit Harrison Street Park. Also performing is
Riverside featuring local arborist Bill Flemer.
for beginners focuses on learning
about performing eight famous
characters. Register by E-mail at
[email protected].
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Singles
Woodcock Walk, Delaware &
Raritan Canal State Park, 145
Mapleton Road, Kingston, 609924-5705. www.dandrcanal.com.
Arlene Oley, NJ Audubon volunteer, and Stephanie Fox, the
park’s naturalist, lead a dusk walk
to search out the sites and
sounds of the woodcock. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
Princeton Singles, Friendly’s
Route 206 North, Rocky Hill, 908359-6076. Breakfast for ages 55plus. Register. 9 a.m.
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Support group for
men and women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Drop-In, Yardley Singles, The
Runway, Mercer Airport, Ewing,
215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Dance music, cash
bar, no cover. 9 p.m.
Schools
Scrabble
Commedia dell’Arte Workshop,
Mercer County Community
College, Studio Theater, Communications Building, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3524. www.latenightseries.com. Hands-on workshop
Classics Used and Rare Books,
117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All skill levels
welcome. 6:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
nual gala begins with a candlelight reception with cocktails, hors
d’oeuvres, and Colonial music followed by a procession to the Masonic Temple led by the Old Barracks Fife and Drums Corps. An
18th century Colonial dinner created by Wendy Moyer, the museum’s historical interpreter, features foods by Marsilio’s, Terhune
Orchard, Crossing Vineyards,
and River Horse Brewery. Silent
auction and dancing with music
by Johnny Pompadour and the
Full Grown Men. Black tie, period,
or military dress are invited. Register. $200. 5:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Saturday
March 7
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Party Like It’s 1776
Capital Ball, Old Barracks Museum, Barrack Street, Trenton, 609396-1776. www.barracks.org. An-
Versailles: The Mardi Considine
Spring Concert, Dryden Ensemble, St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, 301 North Main Street,
Doylestown, PA, 609-466-8541.
www.gemsny.org. Life at the court
of Louis XIV with music of Marais,
Couperin, Rebel, and SainteColumbe. $15 to $35. 7:30 p.m.
Piano History, Westerly Road
Church, Princeton Theological
Seminary, 64 Mercer Street,
Princeton, 609-613-2356. Franz
Mohr, author of “My Life with the
Great Pianists,” shares his adventures touring the world with
Horowitz, Rubenstein, and Gould.
A native of Germany, Mohr was
the chief technician with Steinway
Pianos for 30 years. Pianist
Karen Burgman plays works by
Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt. $10
donation. 7:30 p.m.
Holistic Women’s
Health Care
Nutrition/Herbs • Stress Management
Weight Management/Body Composition
Individualized Menopause Assessments
Bio-Identical Hormones • Outpatient Gynecology
Functional Medicine/Genomics
Natural Approaches to Preventing
Breast Cancer, Heart Disease & Osteoporosis
Kathleen M. Thomsen, MD, MPH
Women’s
Health & Wellness
252 West Delaware Ave.
Pennington, NJ 08534
609-818-9700
www.drkatethomsen.com
MARCH 4, 2009
A Twist on Oz: Cast
members in the Wiz,
opening on Friday,
March 6, at Kelsey,
include: Sasha
Alexandria (front) as
Dorothy, Lynn Baskin
as Scarecrow, left,
Nick Pecht as Tinman,
and Jamel Taylor as
Lion. 609-570-3333.
Rafael C. Castro, M.D., P.A.
Board-Certified in Internal Medicine
• Primary Care Physician
for Patients 15 Yrs.
and Up
• Thorough and
Personalized Care
Russian Passion, New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra, State
Theater, New Brunswick, 800-ALLEGRO. www.njsymphony.org.
Rossen Milanov conducts. Arabella Steinbacher on violin. Program features works of Glazunov,
Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. $20
to $82. 8 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Princeton University Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2584239. www.princeton.edu/utickets. Concert features winners of the annual concerto competition, Jessica Anastasio, Jeffrey Hodes, and Holger Straude.
Directed by Michael Pratt. Senior
Wittstruck leads a performance of
Bedrich Smetana’s poem, “The
Moldau.” $18. 8 p.m.
• New Patients Welcome
Most Insurances Accepted
Saturday and Evening Hours Available
Rafael C. Castro, M.D., P.A.
Princeton Professional Park
601 Ewing Street
Suite C-18 • Princeton
609-924-1331
Art
Art Exhibit, Princeton University
Art Museum, Princeton campus.,
609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. First day of “Outside In: Chinese and American
and Contemporary and Art.” On
view to June 7. 10 a.m.
Art Exhibit, Bucks Gallery of
Fine Art, 201 South State Street,
Newton, PA, 215-579-0050.
www.bucksgalleryoffineart.com.
First day for “The Landscape
Show.” On view to March 30. 11
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus., 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Ellarslie, Trenton
City Museum, Cadwalader Park,
609-989-3632. www.ellarslie.org.
Opening reception “Made You
Look! The Art of Deception,” an
exhibit by Deborah Raven, Eric
Schultz, and Natalie Featherton.
On view to April 19. 7 p.m. to 9
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Twist, 84 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-454-3057.
www.twist-yogurt.com. Opening
reception for “Sublime Colors,” an
exhibit of paintings and collages
by Elina Lorenz of Princeton. 7 to
9 p.m.
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Dance
Rider Dance Ensemble, Rider
University, Yvonne Theater, Lawrenceville, 609-896-7706. www.rider.edu. “Rider Dances for All
Ages” includes dancers from elementary, middle, and high schools,
as well as college, Rider alumni,
and professional dancers in the
area. Benefit for the program’s
scholarship funds. Performances
feature Dance Power, the National
Dance Institute’s Trenton Educational Dance Institute Project;
ARBW, Princeton Ballet’s pre-professional training program; and
American Repertory Ballet’s
Dance Power. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Drama
$66. 2 and 8 p.m.
Through March 15. $20. 8 p.m.
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MARCH 4, 2009
Planet Earth, a Salmon’s Eye View
H
ere is a story:
In the Pacific Northwest, a man
named Cyrus Jackson is employed
as a salmon taxi at the local dam.
The dam has made it impossible for
the salmon to swim back upstream
after spawning; Cyrus’ job is to
load ’em up at the bottom and
dump ’em out at the top.
He has no particular specialized
education; he’s just a blue-collar
worker. But he has a natural curiosity about the land and water that
surrounds him, and he knows how
to ponder questions. And he wonders how the salmon got in this fix.
As Cyrus says, “You got to put
your toe in the river somewhere.”
Actor/storyteller Peter Donaldson, who has been described as
“one part Robin Williams, one part
Garrison Keillor,” created the
character of Cyrus about five years
ago for his one-man show, “Salmonpeople,” which has toured the
Pacific Northwest. The show
makes its East Coast debut on
Thursday and Friday, March 5 and
6, at the Passage Theater Company
in Trenton, and kicks off the company’s Seventh Annual Soloflights
Festival, comprised of four weeks
of nine one-person shows.
Donaldson lives in Mercer Island, WA, with his wife of 26 years,
a biochemist. They have two children: Oliver, 23, who is training to
be an opera singer, and Alexandra,
22, who is in culinary school and
wants to own and run a sustainable
cafe.
The salmon has a unique and
honored place in the history of the
Northwest, and “Salmonpeople”
traces that history and looks at the
damage that has been done to the
by David McDonough
natural habitat there. It asks hard
questions about where we all are in
our relationship to the world
around us. But this is no polemic; it
is a humorous, inventive, poignant,
and at times raucous look at man
and fish, and what binds us together. Donaldson blends storytelling,
cartography (at one point, Cyrus
tries to memorize and chart every
watershed in the Salmon Nation;
you’ll have to see the show to find
out if he succeeds), music, sound,
and lighting to create a unique and
entertaining evening.
Part Robin Williams,
part Garrison Keillor,
Peter Donaldson’s
Cyrus is a blue-collar
philosopher and environmentalist.
In a phone interview Donaldson
cites as his heroes Garrison Keillor
and Hal Holbrook in his one-man
show as Mark Twain. He then adds
two more names: his grandfather,
Lauren Donaldson, a world-renowned expert on salmon who
taught at the University of Washington, and his father, Jack, who directed fish and wildlife agencies in
Oregon and the Columbia River
basin for two decades.
B
ut that didn’t make Donaldson’s journey towards this story inevitable. He describes growing up
in Washington, and says, “I never
really got the science. I avoided it
because I didn’t get it — until I was
paying my way through college by
working in Alaska in a co-op fisherman’s hatchery in an old cannery
site. We had to go out and get some
brood stock. I stood in a wild
Alaskan salmon stream where
there were more fish than water,
and that’s when I got it — these
huge things, with no room for anything but their purpose. I really began to feel how small I was and
how big this system was, and that
visceral experience gave me that
sense.”
His storytelling abilities had
been fostered by his mother, a children’s librarian, who read to her
son since day one. “All kinds of
facts and concepts get attached to
the stories we know and love and
trust. And that’s the beginning of
me as a storyteller,” says Donaldson.
Donaldson earned a bachelor of
fine arts in painting and a bachelor’s in art education from the University of Washington, and while
he loved it, it wasn’t enough.
“Painting was wonderful, the smell
and the colors. But when it was finished, it was hung on a wall, and it
was done. I began to realize
through theater and dance that the
colors and my palette — these
juicy colors — were actually
words, text, dialogue, poetry,
movement, lighting, sound, music.
And of all the art forms, drama
drew me as the largest palette.”
After a teaching stint, he moved
on to children’s theater, and began
to put his theories and ideas to
work. He calls it “10 years of theatrical therapy. We didn’t do
Broadway stuff for kids; we looked
Water World:
Actor/storyteller
Peter Donaldson
uses humor to
ask hard
questions about
our relationship
to the world.
at fairytales and myths and wrote
our own shows. It coincided with
the era in which Joseph Campbell
[and his heroic myth theories] became popular. I cut my teeth on story structures and storytelling purpose, which is that we are all living
in a story and we can write our own
story, because somebody is going
to.”
That sense of structure served
him well when it came to putting
“Salmonpeople” together. He
learned how to draw an audience
in, and how to keep them enthralled, whether he was playing to
fifth graders or their grandparents.
“It starts with me, Peter, on a
bare stage, putting on my hip boots
and talking about my dad and
grandfather, and then I let the audience know that I have this friend,
Cyrus, who never went to college
but is kind of a blue-collar philosopher, and you’ll know him because
he will be wearing that hat over
there. And then I go out and leave
them with Cyrus. It’s very simple
and very sophisticated storytelling.
It weaves people in, like Garrison
Keillor does so well, where you
might start off thinking, ‘This is
kind of boring,’ and the details, especially the sensory details, give
you what you want and allow the
imagination to work.”
The overlying story of the show
is citizen stewardship. As Donaldson says, “The story we’ve been
living, the industrial economy, just
can’t sustain itself. The new story,
the sustainable economy, will be
richly rewarding, possible for
everyone, when we figure out
green jobs. It’s exciting, but we’re
in transition, so you can’t just bash
people over the head with that.”
“Salmonpeople” isn’t just a theater piece; it’s part of an overall
campaign. Donaldson works with
schools and community groups in
each town that he enters, setting up
forums, talking to coalitions, passing on what he has learned and encouraging us all to take control of
what we have taken for granted.
Says Donaldson: “It’s really crucial to develop the campaign part.
I’ve become not just a catalyst but a
cross-pollinator. I learn what’s
working in terms of sustaining initiatives in each town and pass on the
best of those ideas when I talk to the
chamber of commerce or city council or school district. I don’t feel that
much difference between being a
professional actor and a storyteller
in front of a Rotary Club. If I can get
that Rotary Club to lean into the story like the fourth graders, then I will
have communicated. They also
could be pissed off. If I come in as
an environmentalist or agitator
from the city, none of this works.
But if I come in as another curious
citizen-steward and I’ve picked up
some interesting things along the
way about what towns are doing,
that’s not a lecture, it’s a strategic
story. It must be promoted in a careful way.”
Art doesn’t usually present solutions, but if it’s good art, it asks
questions, even if they are just
blowing in the wind. Cyrus Jackson asks the questions. Says Donaldson: “That’s what makes good
theater, I found, after lots and lots
of re-writes. He has no soapbox,
because he just doesn’t know
enough.”
Donaldson does wonder if the
theme of the salmon, so familiar to
the many audiences he has performed for in the Northwest, will
resonate as well here in the East.
But after five years, he has gotten
to familiarize himself with most
audience reactions. “I know I totally have them when there are several moments in the show when there
is total silence. And you can see the
faces, and see that they have no desire to change the channel. If the
audience has some laughers, the
whole thing tilts towards the fun of
the show. If there are philosophers,
then we settle in to more of a whispered exchange. Either way, the
mechanics are the same; there are a
hundred sound and lighting cues I
have to hit correctly.”
Donaldson has written 14 plays,
and tours in another one-man
show, “Leonardo daVinci.” He admits that the success of “Salmonpeople” and his work in consulting about sustainable living is
taking up a lot of time. He’s not
complaining. Just don’t call him a
man with a cause. He’s still standing in the middle of the stream, still
asking questions, still writing his
story.
“I don’t feel cause-bound,” he
says earnestly, “I feel a sense of purpose. There’s something important
that my skills call from me; that is,
to pay attention to the story we have
been living — 150 years of industrial economy. And the story before
that — the gift economy of native
peoples. And the story before that
— nature’s economy of perfectly
adequate exchange of gifts and resources. The culmination here is to
face forward and say, ‘How am I
supposed to live?’. So that’s the ultimate story. I don’t really feel like an
activist, I just feel active. I am standing in the middle of my story, making personal choices.”
Salmonpeople, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, Front and
Montgomery streets, Trenton.
Thursday and Friday, March 5 and
6, 8 p.m. Written and performed by
Peter Donaldson. Co-sponsored by
D&R Greenway, Friends of the
Marsh, New Jersey Conservation
Foundation and Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association. $35;
15 for members. 609-392-0766 or
www.passagetheatre.org.
MARCH 4, 2009
March 7
Musical. $16. 8 p.m.
Mary Cleere Haran, Passage
Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Collection of
story and songs about New Jersey songwriters and collaborators. $20. 8 p.m.
Film
1967.” $10. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Masquerade Ball and Workshops, Rutgers University, 130
College Avenue, New Brunswick,
732-932-8204. www.rutgers.edu.
Dance social for all ages focuses
on ballroom and Latin American
dancing. Costumes and masks
invited. No partner required. Twohour workshop for rumba and tango with Brian Nash begins at 5:30
p.m. Carmen Valverde presents a
workshop for beginning dancers
at the same time. Dance, $15;
workshop, $15. 5:30 p.m.
California Mix, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Unitarian
Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road, 609945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. West Coast swing
workshop and practice followed
by dance and social. No partner
needed. $12 each. 6 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB. $15. 8 to
11 p.m.
Literati
cents for paperbacks. Minikin the
Clown presents face painting and
entertainment from 10 a.m. to
noon. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-3948400. Shobhan Bantwal, author
of “The Forbidden Daughter,” discusses and signs copies of her
book about gender-selective
abortions in India. 2 to 4 p.m.
Good Causes
Capital Ball, Old Barracks Museum, Barrack Street, Trenton, 609396-1776. www.barracks.org. Annual gala begins with a candlelight reception with cocktails, hors
d’oeuvres, and Colonial music followed by a procession to the Masonic Temple led by the Old Barracks Fife and Drums Corps. An
18th century Colonial dinner created by Wendy Moyer, the museum’s historical interpreter, features foods by Marsilio’s, Terhune
Orchard, Crossing Vineyards,
and River Horse Brewery. Silent
auction and dancing with music
by Johnny Pompadour and the
Full Grown Men. Black tie, period,
or military dress are invited. Register. $200. 5:30 p.m.
Scholarship Gala, Mercer County College, Hyatt, Carnegie Center, 609-570-3607. www.mccc.edu. A black-tie gala to raise
funds for student scholarships.
Silent auction featuring original
artwork, dinner, and dancing. Jill
Whelan from “Love Boat” entertains. Awards for Faridy Veisz
Fraytak architectural firm,
Janssen, a division of Johnson &
Johnson; and Richard Kisco,
owner of La Fleur Flower Shop.
Rainbow and Stars Gala, Riverside Symphonia, HollyHedge
Estate, 6987 Upper York Road,
New Hope, PA, 609-397-7300.
www.riversidesymphonia.org. An
event of cabaret honoring Bob
Egan. Dinner, dancing, silent and
live auctions. Black tie. $175. 7
p.m.
Beef Steak Dinner, South
Brunswick Library, South
Brunswick Senior Center, 732329-4000. www.sbpl.info. All-youcan-eat filet mignon, beer, and
soda. Register. $45. 7 p.m.
Gala, Beth El Synagogue, 50
Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, 609-443-4454. www.bethel.net. Register. 7:30 p.m.
The Magic of the Beatles, Family
& Community Services of Somerset County, Nicholas Music
Center, 85 George Street, New
Brunswick, 732-356-1082. www.fcssomerset.org. The music,
sounds, and costumes presented
by former members of the original
Broadway production, “Beatlemania.” Benefit for programs focusing on family, mental health, and
addictions services. $35. 8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Spins Nitely, Chip Chantry, and
Bill Chiang, Bucks County
Comedy Cabaret, 625 North
Main Street, Doylestown, 215345-5653. www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9:30 p.m.
Home Show
interior designs, furnishings, land-
OUR CAPITAL CITY’S
PREMIER HISTORIC SITE
Guided Tours Daily - 12:30p.m. to 4:00p.m.
Family Fun
Saturdays!
March 14th at 2 p.m.:
Russian Passion:
Violinist Arabella
Steinbacher solos with
the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in an
all-Russian program
on Saturday, March 7,
at the State Theater in
New Brunswick . 800ALLEGRO.
Root Cellars and Ice Houses
and for the children,
12:30 to 4 p.m.
Colonial Toys and Games!
Ample Free Parking
15 Market Street, Trenton, New Jersey 609-989-3027
www.williamtrenthouse.org
The 1719 William Trent house Museum is owned, maintained and operated by the City
of Trenton, Dept. of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture, Division of Culture
in cooperation with the non-profit Trent House Association with assistance
from the NJ Historical Commission, Dept. of State.
scaping, gardener, and green
March 8. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Faith
Musical Meditation, Krishna
Leela Center, 13 Briardale Court,
Plainsboro, 609-716-9262. www.krishnaleela.org. Kirtan, meditation, and discussion. 5 to 5:45
p.m.
Food & Dining
Wine Tasting and Appreciation,
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46
Yard Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Presentation by Sergio Neri, vintner, and Anthony
Dell, educator. Register. $35.
6:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
T’ai Chi Class, Princeton Public
Library, Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.com. Todd Tieger presents.
Free. 10 a.m.
Tinnitus Self-Help Group, First
Presbyterian Church, 100 Scotch
Road, Ewing, 609-883-0203. Discuss Zounds hearing aids. 10
a.m.
Personal Ecology, Center for
Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Design your life and well-being. $35.
11 a.m.
Nutrition Workshop Series, In
Balance Center for Living, 230
South Branch Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-4949. www.inbalancecenter.com. “Why Diets
Don’t Work” presented by Csilla
Bischoff. $25. Noon to 1:30 p.m.
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March 7
History
House Tour, Lawrence Historical Society, Brearley House,
Meadow Lane, Lawrenceville,
609-895-1728. www.thelhs.org.
Free. 10 a.m.
His Majesty’s Troops: The
Founding of Pennsylvania,
Washington Crossing State
Park, Washington Crossing Historic Park, Route 32, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-4076.
www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing. Experience the details
of 18th century military life with
musket firing, drilling, and open
hearth cooking demonstrations.
Tours available. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For Families
Maple Sugaring, Howell Living
History Farm, Valley Road, off
Route 29, Titusville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. Program features making and tasting
homemade maple syrup (and
pancakes). Activities include
syrup making, flour milling, butter
making, and pancake sampling.
Sap gathering at 10:30 a.m. and 3
p.m. Tree tapping demonstrations
at noon and 2 p.m. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Dolls Day Out, Mercer Museum,
Pine and Ashland streets,
Doylestown, 215-345-0210.
www.mercermuseum.org. Tea
party with doll fashion show, dollmaking craft, and tour. Four seatings. Register. $12. 10:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Open House, Frogbridge Day
Camp, 7 Yellow Meeting House
Road, Millstone, 732-786-9050.
www.frogbridge.com. 11 a.m. to 3
p.m.
For Parents
Mothers’ Market, Central Jersey
Mothers of Multiples, Reynolds
Middle School, Hamilton. www.cjmom.org. Sale of gently used
children’s items. Also, sale of
“Family Favorites,” a compilation
of favorite recipes by group members featuring kid friendly and allergy sensitive sections, $10 or
three for $25. E-mail [email protected] for information.
Free admission 8 a.m. to noon.
Family Theater
Chicken Little, Somerset Valley
Players, Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-7469. www.svptheatre.org. Family show. $10. 1
and 4 p.m.
Lectures
Minority Teacher Job Fair, WWP Board of Education, John
Witherspoon Middle School, 217
Walnut Lane, Princeton, 609-7165000. Bring at least 13 copies of
your resume and PRAXIS scores.
Register at www.njschoolsjobs.com. Call Alicia Boyko at 609716-5000 for more information.
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Robertson Hall, 609-258-3000.
www.princeton.edu. Panels “Money” at 9 a.m.; and “Future of Urban Housing Issues” at 10:45
a.m. Register. Free. 9 a.m.
Comedy
Rob Falcone, Catch a Rising
Star, Princeton Hyatt, 102
Carnegie Center, 609-987-8018.
7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Live Music
Larry Tritel, Thomas Sweet Cafe,
1330 Route 206, Skillman, 609430-2828. www.larrytritel.com.
Guitar and vocals. 9 a.m. to
noon.
Jazz Improvisation Workshop,
Arts Council of Princeton, 102
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Gerry Hemingway and members of his quartet
is open to high school
and college age musicians with some
fundamental experience playing in a
group format and advanced players.
Acoustic instruments
are ideal, but electric
guitarists and
bassists may want to
bring their amps. Also
open to listeners curious about improvisation. Demonstration,
discussion, and an
opportunity for some
participants to interact musically with
members of the quartet. Register. Free. 4
to 6 p.m.
Studio Trip and At
Daybreak, Hamilton Lanes,
1200 Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609585-2400. $8 includes one free
game of bowling. 5 p.m.
Indie Music Night, Griggstown
Pavilion, 373 Bunkerhill Road,
Princeton, 609-672-1813. www.sarahdonner.com. Free. 6 to 9
p.m.
Arturo Romay, Sotto 128
Restaurant and Lounge, 128
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-7555. www.sotto128.com.
Spanish guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Country and Bluegrass Music
Show, WDVR-FM, Lambertville
Assembly of God Church, 638
Route 518, Lambertville, 609397-1620. www.wdvrfm.org.
Heartlands Hayride Band. $10.
Food available. 6 to 8 p.m.
609-275-5707. Variety music. 7 to
9 p.m.
John Bianculli Trio with Jackie
Jones, Delta’s Restaurant, 19
Dennis Street, New Brunswick,
732-249-1551. www.deltasrestaurant.com. 7:30 p.m.
Singer Songwriters in the
Round, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-716-
Ladies, This Is Kickboxing for the Real World:
Princeton Academy of Martial Arts, owned by Rick
Tucci, above right, at 14 Farber Road in Princeton, celebrates its 22nd anniversary on Saturday,
March 7. A women's self-defense workshop takes
place from 3 to 3:30 p.m. 609-452-2208.
8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Four performers with a wide
variety of music. 7:30 p.m.
Gerry Hemingway Quartet, Arts
Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Jazz concert presented by Gerry
Hemingway, a composer and percussionist from Plainsboro who
has performed throughout the
world. Band members include
Herb Robertson on trumpet,
Ellery Eskelin on tenor saxophone, Mark Helias on electric
bass, and Hemingway on drums.
$15. 8 p.m.
Jazz Is, It’s a Grind, 4 Schalk’s
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 8
to 10 p.m.
Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon,
the Plurals, and the Loose
Roosters, All Call Inn, 214 We-
ber Avenue, Ewing, 609-8829729. $5. 9 p.m.
The Hub-Kings, Doll’s Place, 101
Patterson Street, New Brunswick,
732-828-9196. Going away party
and celebrity roast for Robert
Jones, a singer songwriter moving to the west coast. 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Land Conservation Rally, New
Jersey Conservation Foundation, Hyatt, New Brunswick, 908234-1225. www.njconservation.org. Continental breakfast, workshops, lunch, roundtables, and
entertainment. Keynote address
by Charles Jordan, board of directors of the Conservation Fund.
Register. $95. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Weed Patrol, Bowman’s Hill
Wildflower Preserve, River
Road, New Hope, 215-862-2924.
MARCH 4, 2009
bhwp.org. ”Introduction to Invasive Species.” Register. 9:30 a.m.
Getting Ready for the Bluebirds,
Plainsboro Recreation Park
Ranger Division, Plainsboro
Community Park, 609-799-0909.
www.plainsboronj.com. Program
to attract bluebirds to your yard
and keep them coming back year
after year. Register. Free. 1 p.m.
Moonlight Walk, Whitesbog
Preservation Trust, General
Store, Browns Mills, 609-8934646. www.whitesbog.org. Bring
water and a flashlight. Register.
$5. 7 p.m.
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Photographic Art
On the Street
NYC, 2008
by Marty Schwartz
and
Joanna Tully
“Expectation” by Marty Schwartz
Politics
Presentation Series, West Windsor Republican Club, West
Windsor Municipal Building, West
Windsor, 609-468-9871. www.wwgop.org. “New Jersey’s Affordable Housing Policies and Their
Impact on Local Communities”
presented by Shirley Bishop, former executive director of the NJ
Council on Affordable Housing.
The new rules effective in December resulted in an increase of
close to 219 affordable units in
West Windsor. Q&A follows. Free.
10 a.m.
Town Meeting, U.S. Representative Rush Holt, East Brunswick
Senior Center, 1 Jean Walling
Civic Center Drive, 609-7509365. www.holt.house.gov. Discuss issues affecting the community include Social Security, economic development, health care,
hometown security, and education. 2 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Princeton Junior
School, 90 Fackler Road, Lawrenceville, 609-924-8126. www.pjs.org. Pre-school through grade
five, summer and vacation programs. 1 to 3 p.m.
Singles
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
Princeton Area, 732-759-2174.
www.dinnermates.com. Call for
reservation and location. $20 plus
dinner and drinks. 7:30 p.m.
Professional and Business Singles Network, Holiday Inn, 100
Independence Way, Monmouth
Junction, 888-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Dance and social. Cash bar. $15. 8 p.m.
Sports
Open House, Princeton Academy of Martial Arts, 14 Farber
Road, West Windsor, 609-4522208. www.pamausa.com. Adult
and children’s martial arts demonstrations from around the globe,
women’s self defense workshop,
refreshments. Free. 1 to 5 p.m.
The Original Harlem Globetrotters, Sovereign Bank Arena, 81
Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 800298-4200. www.comcasttex.com.
$16 to $132. 7:30 p.m.
Sunday
March 8
Daylight Saving Time begins.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
An Artful Retreat
Art and Soul: Paint Your Heart
Out, Volition Wellness Solutions, 842 State Road, Princeton,
609-688-8300. www.volitionwellness.com. Art retreat combines meditation, movement,
painting, and journaling. Lunch included. $99. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Classical Music
Organ Recital, Central New Jersey American Guild of Organists, Lawrenceville School, Edith
Memorial Chapel, Lawrenceville,
609-921-7458. Classics of organ
literature presented by Justin
Hartz, Ronald Hemmel, Kathleen
Milly, Eric Plutz, Greg Russell
Smith, John A. Stokes, and Mark
Williams. Free. 3 p.m.
Hungarian Arias, New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, Hun-
Show Continues
garian American Athletic Club,
233 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, 732-249-6999. www.newbrunswickchamberorchestra.org.
Music by Brahms, Lehar, and
Jeno. $20. Optional pre-concert
brunch and post-concert reception. 3 p.m.
Princeton Singers, Princeton
Public Library, Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. Preview of
the choir’s upcoming concerts. 3
p.m.
Sunday Musicale Series, Steinway Musical Society, Jacobs
Music, 2540 Brunswick Pike,
www.princetonol.com/groups/steinway. “The First Century of
Jazz at the Piano” presented by
Philip Orr. Recital and reception
benefits the scholarship program.
$18. 3 p.m.
Gospel Music, Doylestown Second Baptist Church, Route 202,
Second Baptist Mass Choir led by
Esther Dinkins. Free will offering.
4 p.m.
Versailles: The Mardi Considine
Spring Concert, Dryden
Ensemble, Trinity Church,
Princeton, 609-466-8541. www.gemsny.org. Life at the court of
Louis XIV with music of Marais,
Couperin, Rebel, and SainteColumbe. $15 to $35. 4 p.m.
Choral Reading, Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, Unitarian Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 609-466-4479. www.princetonol.com/groups/psma.
Bach’s Cantatas 4 and 106. $15
includes vocal score and refreshments. No audition. 4 p.m.
Vespers and Concert, Christ
Church, 5 Paterson Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-6262. www.christchurchnewbrunswick.org.
Dan Lippel on classical guitar.
Free. 6 p.m.
Family Concert, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, Princeton
Alliance Church, 20 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 732580-3979. www.bravuraphil.org.
“Melding of the East and the
West” features Yi Yang, Chinese
guzheng master, the chorus, and
the symphony orchestra. Works
by Zhan Hao and Tchaikovsky.
$15 to $25. 7 p.m.
Folk Music
Carlene Carter, Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission,
Monroe Township High School,
1629 Perrineville Road, 732-5214400. www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com. Country rock
singer presents country and rock.
She is daughter of June Carter
Cash and Carl Smith, and the
stepdaughter of Johnny Cash.
$20. 2 p.m.
World Music
Celtic Harp, Lambertville Public
Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. www.lambertvillelibrary.org. “Two Sides of
Celtic” presented by Grainne
Hambly and William Jackson,
harpers from Ireland and Scotland. Register. Free. 2 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Straube Center, 100
and I-108 Straube Center Boulevard, Pennington, 609-737-3322.
www.straubecenter.com. Reception for “Chris Carter Figures.” On
view to April 24. Meet the artists
on Sunday, March 15, 2 to 4 p.m.
Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday
Do the Low Dribble:
The Harlem Globetrotters come to
Sovereign Bank
Arena in Trenton on
Saturday, March 7.
800-298-4200
Through
March 15th
“Cynic” by Joanna Tully
609-333-8511
14 Mercer Street • Hopewell, NJ
Saturday & Sunday • 12 - 5
and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 1 to 4
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Artists’ Gallery, 32
Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609397-4588. www.lambertvillearts.com. Opening reception for “Madness,” an exhibition exploring
chaos, passion, and general
craziness. The collection of traditional and contemporary arts is on
view to April 5. 2 to 6 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus., 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free.
2 p.m.
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. www.princetonartmuseum.org. “Classical Form in Present Tense: Paintings by Arnold Chang” presented
by Michael Hatch, student, Department of Art and Archaeology.
Free. 3 p.m.
www.photogallery14.com
Dance
Rider Dance Ensemble, Rider
University, Yvonne Theater, Lawrenceville, 609-896-7706. www.rider.edu. “Rider Dances for All
Ages” includes dancers from elementary, middle, and high
schools, as well as college, Rider
alumni, and professional dancers
in the area. Benefit for the program’s scholarship funds. Performances feature Dance Power, the
National Dance Institute’s Trenton
Educational Dance Institute Project; ARBW, Princeton Ballet’s
pre-professional training program;
and American Repertory Ballet’s
Dance Power. $10. 3 p.m.
Drama
Musical. $16. 2 p.m.
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Review: ‘You’re Welcome, America’
‘Y
ou’re
Welcome
America: A Final Night with
George W. Bush”
Those who can divorce themselves for 85 minutes from whatever feelings of rage and loathing
they may have in regards to George
W. Bush might find a chuckle or
two in Will Ferrell’s scarily accurate impersonation of the past United States President. The talented
Ferrell, whose comical bits and
skits on Saturday Night Live expanded to major comedy film roles
(“Elf,” “Blades of Glory,” “The
Producers”), is once again collaborating with SNL writer Adam
McKay (who directed Ferrell in
“Talladega Nights: The Ballad of
Ricky Bobby”). McKay is now
serving as director of this extended
piece of comical shtick about the
man who can take credit for our
country’s imploding economy, increasing unemployment, disintegrated international support and
respect, the fostering of torture, ignoring human rights and devaluing
a citizen’s right to privacy.
With that said, and acknowledging that Bush is a target as easy to
hit as was Sarah Palin for that current SNL star Tina Fey, “You’re
Welcome, America” creates an image of a likeable dunce, whose only flaw was that he was put in
charge when he should have been
put in a harness and muzzled. Actually, he was put in a harness in that
famous if ludicrous photo op that
was promoted to proclaim that major fighting in the Iraq war was
over. Ferrell actually makes an impressive entrance descending out
of the rafters in full harness into
what he calls “the faggy theater
district.”
That there is room to laugh even
a little at the clueless, self-serving,
misguided, egotistical, and monumentally inept borderline illiterate
that Ferrell personifies is a commendable achievement. Sustaining
the Texas drawl, the cowboy countenance, and the goony grin
throughout a monologue that gives
us a rundown of his life (“When
wings take dream”), Ferrell forgoes most of Bush’s more famous
hiccups in speech. Give Ferrell
credit for avoiding most of the
grimmer realities of a life ill-spent
That there is room to
laugh even a little at
the clueless, selfserving, misguided,
egotistical borderline
illiterate that Ferrell
personifies is a
commendable
achievement.
and giving Bush a faux autobiographical platform on which to define himself (no need to give examples) and share memories of family
as well as his Yale days, including
his membership in the secretive
Skull and Bones Society.
Ferrell gets closer to the funny
bone with Bush giving us a totally
moronic explanation for his unex-
plained AWOL from the Air National Guard in 1972 to 1973. In
fairness, Ferrell’s material avoids
critical condemnation and mostly
presents Bush with an air of affectionate condescension. Unfortunately, most of the fictional material in Ferrell’s showcase is rather
thin and too often just ridiculous,
particularly Bush’s awkwardly enthusiastic participation in a couple
of atypical sexual adventures.
This is a Bush, however, who
makes no bones about his executive deficiencies, lack of intellectual prowess, or his preparedness for
the job of President. His stint as
Texas governor is given short shrift
as he moves on to his two terms as
President where even his social and
political blunders are cheerily admitted and tossed off as nothing
more than oops. It’s impossible not
to laugh at the pathetic way Bush
responds to the botched job of FEMA-Katrina director “Brownie.”
Because so many of Bush’s reallife quotes defy comprehension, a
series of rear projections (by Lisa
Cuscuna and Chris Cronin) displayed behind designer Eugene
Lee’s patriotic setting keep us informed with the words “True” or
“Actual Quote.”
Not quite as funny or as titillating as it should be is a Bush fantasy
of himself with a hot and writhing
Condolezza Rice (Pia Glenn), who
slithers around him seductively in
his oval office. Aside from Glenn’s
terpsichorean maneuvers, there are
the robotic moves of Patrick Ferrell
(Will’s brother), as a Secret Service
Operative, to keep our attention
while Ferrell makes a few costume
changes. You have to credit any comedian who can mine humor from
such a shameful, disgraceful legacy. Ferrell goes to great lengths to
present Bush simply as a fool who
is in over his head rather than as a
misguided, if idealistic, leader
driven by principals and ethics.
This apparently helps the audience
to respond with appreciative
laughter.
Near the end of the performance, Bush plays a game with the
audience in which he gives nicknames to people after they shout
out their profession. It’s a somewhat childish digression that
works well enough as padding but
packs little punch. Whether the
larger audience that will see a telecast of the show over HBO will react as favorably as a live audience
is questionable? Certainly Bush’s
closing question: “Am I the worst
president of all time?” is not going
to inspire those in their easy chairs
March 8
$66. 2 p.m.
Mary Cleere Haran, Passage
Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Collection of
story and songs about New Jersey songwriters and collaborators. $20. 3 p.m.
$20. 6 p.m.
Twelfth Night, McCarter Theater,
91 University Place, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. Shakespeare comedy directed by Rebecca Taichman. Co-produced
with the Shakespeare Theater
Company of Washington, DC.
Through March 29. $15 to $15.
7:30 p.m.
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and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6922. Screening of
“To Catch a Thief,” 1955. Register. 2 p.m.
1967.” $10. 7 p.m.
Bushwhacked: Our
critic says Will Ferrell’s impersonation is
‘scarily accurate.’
at home to respond quite as demonstrably as a live audience. A set-up
has someone in the audience hurl a
pair of shoes at Ferrell. Try that one
at home.++
— Simon Saltzman
“You’re Welcome America: A
Final Night with George W.
Bush,” through Sunday, March 15,
but may extend as the show is
breaking box-office records at the
Cort Theater, 138 West 48th Street.
$116.50. 212-239-6200.
The key: ++++ Don’t miss;
+++ You won’t feel cheated; ++
Maybe you should have stayed
Good Causes
Road, 609-987-9644. Bag and
box day. 12:30 to 4 p.m.
Home Show
$10. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Faith
Har Sinai Temple, 2441 Pennington Road, Pennington, 609-7308100. www.harsinai.org. Purim
carnival. Costumes invited. 10
a.m. to noon.
Purim, Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road,
www.adathisraelnj.org. “Ain’t Misbe-haman,” an original musical
comedy for all ages. 11 a.m.
Human Trafficking Addressed,
Hamilton Baptist Church, 3752
Nottingham Way, Hamilton, 609587-8585. Discussion with victims of labor exploitation in Northern Thailand. Worship, lunch, and
talk. 11 a.m.
Adult Lenten Forum, All Saints’
Church, 16 All Saints’ Road,
Princeton, 609-921-2420. “When
Did We See You” presented by
Reverend Elly Sparks Brown.
11:30 a.m.
Purim Carnival, Kehilat Shalom,
253 Belle Mead Griggstown
Road, Belle Mead, 908-359-0420.
kehilatshalomnj.org. Games,
crafts, pizza. $5 per child; $15 per
family. 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Eating Ethically: Theology and
Ethics of Land Use Series, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0103. www.nassauchurch.org. “Remembering the Land:
Reading the Bible Through Agrarian Eyes” presented by Ellen F.
Davis, Duke Divinity School. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
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Review: ‘Mid-Life: The Crisis Musical’
B
ob and Jim Walton’s
Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical,”
playing through Saturday, April 4,
at Off-Broadstreet Theater, began
life at “The New York Music Theater Festival,” the same workshopdriven summer event that gave us
Broadway’s “[title of show]” and
upcoming “Next to Normal.” It
speaks to the diversity of the current writing in American musical
theater that these three drastically
different plays can launch out of
the same festival.
As presented by Off-Broadstreet, “Mid-Life!” seems to have
some indecisive elements in the
script, albeit with bright moments
sprinkled throughout the evening.
Two-dozen numbers poke fun at
the aging process while attempting
to offer some insight and commiseration to the whole ordeal. If you
can think of a chagrin-worthy element of getting older, it’s in there.
We’re privy to Carsonesque skits
on memory loss, doctors’ visits
(male and female), infidelity, prescription medication, biological
clocks, fading virility, taking care
of elderly parents, empty nesting,
not-so-empty nesting, retirement
fears — and that’s just the short list.
The evening is presented as a collection of skits, each with a different troubling issue presented. Occasionally, director Robert Thick
finds a moment where the material
and cast combine in a moment of
sharp irony worthy of Saturday
Night Live, like when Todd Reichart gives us a list of possible
cholesterol medication side effects
that includes everything and the
kitchen sink.
Sweet Revenge: Cheating or jealous husbands
beware – these ladies get even! Vanessa Oates
of Hopewell, left, Susan Fowler of Newtown, and
Susan Blair of Philadelphia.
I can’t decide if the material itself needs more work, or if a
greater helping of the aforementioned nudge-and-wink irony
would have bound the evening better into a more cohesive package.
As it stands, it’s an evening of musical sketch comedy — with every
sketch, the actors reboot into a new
set of characters with slightly different problems. It’s hard to find a
lifeline to carry us through the
Two-dozen numbers
poke fun at the aging
process while
attempting to offer
some insight and
commiseration to the
whole ordeal.
piece, but the good news with this
sort of construction is that if one
number is not to your taste, the next
one offers an entirely different
style and fresh start.
W
hile I found the tone of the
writing a bit uneven, the six actors
(Susan Blair, Susan Fowler. Todd
Gregoire, Steve Murin, Vanessa
Oates, and Todd Reichart, with
Timothy Brown on piano) possess
some lovely voices and give it their
all. “Mid-Life!” is at its best when
it approaches aging from a per-
spective of genuine fear and anxiety — it adds an element of truth
that lets us attach to it a bit, as in the
legitimately funny and relevant
“Mid-Life Translator.” When the
sketches drift towards BorschtBelt style groaners, everything
tends to fall a little flat, including
“Another Trip to the Doctor,”
which features every terrible euphemism you can think of for the
dreaded prostate check. And then
there are these rare moments of the
bizarre, as in “He Got What He Deserves,” a revenge fantasy of
women scorned, where one of the
unfortunate wandering gentlemen
gets caught in a compromising situation involving a sheep. Weird?
Sure. Funny? Depends on your
context.
“Mid-Life!” is enjoying more
than a dozen productions nationally right now, with two blockbuster
open-ended runs on top of that.
And the near-capacity crowd on
opening night sure seemed to be
having a great time. There’s clearly
an audience that loves it, and that’s
saying something.
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of “Mid-Life!,” (and could that be
because I’m only 27?) I’m confident that there will always be another show in the season that will
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Openings
Artists’ Gallery, 32 Coryell Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-4588. www.lambertvillearts.com. Sunday, March 8, 2 to 6
p.m., opening reception for “Madness,” an
exhibition exploring chaos, passion, and
general craziness. The collection of traditional and contemporary arts is on view to
April 5.
Gallery hours are Friday to Sunday, 11
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Bucks Gallery of Fine Art, 201 South
State Street, Newtown, PA, 215-579-0050.
www.bucksgalleryoffineart.com. Saturday, March 7, first day for “The Landscape
Show.” On view to March 30.
Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday and
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday,
noon to 5 p.m.
Ellarslie, Trenton City Museum, Cadwalader Park, 609-989-3632. www.ellarslie.org. Saturday, March 7, 7 p.m.,
opening reception for “Made You Look!
The Art of Deception,” an exhibit by Deborah Raven, Eric Schultz, and Natalie
Featherton. On view to April 19.
Also, “A Toy Story: Seven Decades of J.
Chein and Company, New Jersey Toymaker.” The company, founded in 1903, produced lithographed and stamped metal toys
including figures of Popeye, Krazy Kat,
Mickey and Minnie Mouse, transportation
toys, and banks. Visit from Santa Claus. On
view through March 22. Also, “A Taste of
Trenton.” On view to March 15.
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3
p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.
Gallery 14, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, 609-3338511. www.photosgallery14.com. Friday, March 20, 6
to 9 p.m, opening reception for joint show by photographers Tasha O’Neill and Jeffery Yuan. On view
through April 19. Also, “On the Street: NYC, 2008”
featuring the works of Marty Schwartz and Joanna
Tully; and “Portraits: Mannequins as Mirrors” by Valerie Chaucer-Levine. On view through March 15.
Gallery 125, 125 South Warren Street, Trenton,
609-989-9119. www.gallery125.com. Friday, March
13, 6 to 9 p.m., opening reception for “Threads,” a
group show of paintings, artwork, and original clothing. On view through May 2. Also, “A Feast for the
Eyes.” On view through March 7.
Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday noon to 6 p.m.;
and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Gallery at Mercer County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-5703588. Wednesday, March 18, 5 to 7:30 p.m., opening
reception for Mercer County Artists 2009, a juried
group show. The juror is Kristen Accola, former artistic director/curator at the Hunterdon Museum of Art
and current director/owner of Accola Contemporary, a
gallery in New York City. On view through April 9.
Princeton Windrows, 2000 Windrows Drive,
Princeton, 800-708-7007. Monday, March 9, 5 to 6:30
p.m., opening reception for “Emotions,” a selection of
paintings by Monroe Township resident Carl Frankel
generated by the spirituality and culture of street
scenes and everyday life in Israel, as well as reflecting
the emotions in sports. Frankel is now semi-retired
from a 40-plus year career in the fashion industry in
New York and has been painting professionally for
several years.
Princeton University Art Museum, 609-2583788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Saturday,
March 7, first day of “Outside In: Chinese and American and Contemporary and Art.” On view to June 7.
Also, “Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon’s
Savants.” On view to May 10. “Myth and Modernity:
Ernst Barlach’s Images of Faust and Nibelungen” features works by the German sculptor, printmaker, and
playwright including woodcuts depicting scenes from
“Faust” and drawings from “Nibelungen.” On view to
June 7.
Open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m.
Queenstown Gallery, 24 West Broad Street,
Hopewell, 609-466-0817, www.thequeenstowngallery.com. Saturday, March 21, 5:30 to 8 p.m., opening
reception for “Reflections of Memories,” a solo exhibit of paintings by Jerry Farber of Hamilton. On view
through May 9.
Rider University Art Gallery, Bart Luedeke Student Center, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, 609-8955588, www.rider.edu/arts. Thursday, March 12, 5
p.m., opening reception for “Ellen K. Levy Selected
Works,” Tracing parallels between biological and cultural evolution, Levy casts a critical eye on humanity’s
place in the early 21st century and explores the interrelationships among art, science, and technology.
Artist’s talk on Thursday, March 26, 7 p.m.
Art — and Frozen Yogurt: ‘Gwenndalynnes,’ above, watercolor by
Chris Carter, reception Sunday,
March 8, 1 to 4 p.m, Straube Center, Pennington. Below: ‘Blooming
Tree’ by Elina Lorenz of Princeton,
from a solo show opening with a
reception on Saturday, March 7, 7
to 9 p.m., at Twist, the new frozen
yogurt shop at 84 Nassau Street.
Straube Center, 100 and I-108 Straube Center
Boulevard, Pennington, 609-737-3322. www.straubecenter.com. Sunday, March 8, 1 to 4 p.m., reception for
“Chris Carter Figures.” On view to April 24. Meet the
artists on Sunday, March 15, 2 to 4 p.m.
Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
Twist, 84 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-454-3057.
www.twist-yogurt.com. Saturday, March 7, 7 to 9
p.m., opening reception for “Sublime Colors,” an exhibit of paintings and collages by Elina Lorenz of
Princeton. On view to March 31.
Open Monday to Thursday, noon to 10 p.m.; Friday
and Saturday, noon to 11 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 9
p.m.
In the Galleries
American Hungarian Foundation, 300 Somerset
Street, New Brunswick, 732-846-5777. ahfoundation.org. “Hollosy: 40 Year Sculpture Retrospective
with Paintings and Drawings.” On view to March 22.
MARCH 4, 2009
Inspired by ‘Christina’s World’? ‘Dreams of Fields,’ above, by
Carl Frankel, opening with a reception on Monday, March 9, 5 to
6:30 p.m., Princeton Windrows, 2000 Windrows Drive, Plainsboro. Right: ‘Figment’ by Andrew Werth from ‘Madness,’ a duo
show with Grace Bracegirdle, reception on Sunday, March 8, 2
to 6 p.m., at Artists’ Gallery, 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville.
Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday,
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.
Artful Deposit Gallery, 201 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown, 609-298-6970.
www.theartfuldeposit.com. “Winter, A
Group Show” features 18 artists including
Gennady Spirin, Joseph William Dawley,
and Mel Leipzig. On view to March 8.
Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777, www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. “Beyond the Document: Color Field Photography.” Through
April 4. “Faculty Spotlight: Bruce Berenson. Through April 4. Video Lounge:
Michael Paul Britto’s “Dirrrty Harriet Tubman.” Through April 4. “Terrace Project:
Harry Gordon.” Through June 27.
Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson
School, Princeton University, 609-497-2441,
www.princeton.edu/bernstein. “Bought and
Sold: Faces of Modern Day Slavery,” photographs of Kay Chernush. On view through
March 27.
Buck’s Cafe, 25 Bridge Street, Lambertville, 609-397-7026. “Yesterday’s Tomorrow,” Catherine DeChico’s color photography series is a visual journey thorugh
the historical town of Lambertville. On view
through March. Open daily from 6:30 a.m.
Bucks County Community College,
Hicks Art Center Gallery, 275 Swamp Road,
Newtown, PA, 215-504-8531. www.bucks.edu/gallery. First day of “Music as Muse,”
an exhibit featuring visual art inspired by
jazz and classical music. Opening reception
on Wednesday, February 4, from 5 to 7 p.m.
On view to March 11. Gallery hours are
Monday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon.
Capital Health System, 433 Bellevue
Avenue, Trenton, 609-394-4153. www.capitalhealth.org. Show featuring the works
of Robert Sussna. On view to March 20.
Chapin School, 4101 Princeton Pike,
Princeton, 609-924-7206. www.chapinschool.org. “The Streets of Trenton,” works
by Louis Russomanno of Trenton. On view
to March 6. Open during school hours.
Coryell Gallery, 8 Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0804. “Shadows of
Time.” On vew to March 15.
Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
D&R Greenway, Preservation Place,
Rosedale Road, 609-924-4646. www.drgreenway.org. “Just Below the Surface: Water,” a spotlight on water in human life at
many levels emphasizing the connection between land preservation and water quality
featuring the fourth juried photography
show by Friends of the Marsh. On view to
March 13.
Open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
desChamps Gallery, 7 Lambert Lane,
Lambertville, 609-397-2100. www.deschampsgallery.com. “Looking North,” recent works by Philip Carrol. On view to
March 30.
Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday,
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Fleetwing Gallery, 12 North Main
Street, Lambertville, 609-460-4369, www.fleetwinggallery.com. Paintings by Jenny
Sparkles.
Gilmore Cafe, 118 South Warren Street,
Trenton, 609-396-1969. “Facing the
World,” an exhibition of 24 paintings by
Katie Hector of Lawrenceville. On view to
March 5.
Gourgaud Gallery, 23 North Main
Street, Cranbury, 609-395-0900. www.gourgaudhist.htm. “My Eden,” the art of Diana Ornberg. On view to March 29.
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds
Road, Hamilton, 609-689-1089. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Juried exhibition
by amateur photographers. Amanda Means,
this year’s juror, is a black and white printer.
On view to April 26.
Also, outstanding student achievement in
contemporary sculpture award exhibition
presented by the International Sculpture
Center. Works of sculptors Allan Houser and
Michael Naranjo featured. By invitation. On
view through April 26.
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Grounds For Sculpture, Toad Hall
Shop, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, 609689-1089. www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Exhibit by Amanda Means featuring photography. This year’s “Focus on Sculpture” juror, her work explores the duality of the city
and nature. On view to April 5.
Lawrenceville School, Gruss Center of
Visual Arts, Lawrenceville, 609-620-6026.
www.lawrenceville.org. “Coupling and
Driftsteel,” an exhibit of the sculpture and
photography of Bruce Lindsay. On view to
March 4. Gallery hours Monday to Saturday,
9 a.m. to noon.
Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine
Street, Doylestown, 215-340-9800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. “Lynne Allen: Native Dreams and the Hyena.” On view
through April 5. “Shifting Ground: Investigations in Contemporary Art” featuring contemporary landscapes by Paula Chamlee,
Alan Goldstein, and Paul Matthews. Also
“Lucid Dreaming,” an exhibit of dreamlike
imagery by contemporary artists. On view
through April 12.
Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10
a.m. to 4:30 pm.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Monmouth Museum, Brookdale Community College, Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, 732-747-2266. www.monmouthmuseum.org. “Voices of Today’s Children: Through
Their Art” presented in conjunction with “The
Exhibit: AJourney to Life” featuring suitcases,
scrapbooks, maps, artifacts, and video of
Holocaust survivors in a multi media interactive exhibition co-presented by the Holocaust,
Genocide, & Human Rights Education Center
at the school. On view to March 25.
Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
“Picturing Princeton 1783: The Nation’s
Capital.” The largest exhibition ever assembled at Morven, with more than 70 portraits,
and archival documents, decorative art, and
historic artifacts that tell the story of Congress’ five-month stay in Princeton in 1783.
New Hope Sidetracks Art Gallery, 2A
Stockton Avenue, New Hope, 215-8624586. www.nhsidetracks.com. “Beyond the
Shadow...” featuring a display of paintings
by Robert Steven Koffler of Philadelphia.
Conversation with the artist is Saturday,
March 14, 6 to 9 p.m. On view to April 12.
New Jersey State Museum, 205 West
State Street, Trenton, 609-292-6464. “Mel
Leipzig: Selected Works.” On view through
September 6. Also, “Artist as Curator: Mel
Leipzig,” works drawn primarily from the
State Museum’s collection of 19th and 20th
century figurative paintings. On view
through September 6.
Princeton Day School, The Great Road,
Princeton, 609-924-6700. www.pds.org. Architecture exhibit. Through March 6. Open
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Princeton University, Milberg Gallery,
Firestone Library, 609-259-3000, www.princeton.edu. “Beauty and Bravado in
Japanese Woodblock Prints: Highlights from
the Gillett G. Griffin Collection.” On view to
June 7. A lecture on Japanese prints will be
given by Julie David, professor of art history,
University of Pennsylvania, on Sunday, May
3, 3 p.m. Reception follows.
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Princeton University, Lewis Center, 185
Nassau Street, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Senior thesis exhibition featuring
the paintings of Maggie O’Toole and Ruthie
Schwab. On view to March 13.
Rutgers University, Douglass Library
Galleries, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick,
732-932-9407. “The Culture of Right, the
Rights of Culture” featuring works of Jenny
Polak. Through March 9. Gallery talk by Polak on Thursday, February 19, at noon.
Gallery hours Monday to Thursday, 8:30
a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
South Brunswick Arts Commission,
549 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, 732329-4000. www.sbtnj.net. “Structured for
Life: From Sheds to Skyscrapers” exhibit.
On view to April 3.
University Medical Center at Princeton, 253 Witherspoon Street, 609-497-4069.
www.princetonhcs.org. Exhibition of pastels by Grace Previty Johnston. On view
through March 10. Proceeds from the show
benefit the maternal child health programs at
the medical center.
Gallery is open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
VSA Arts of New Jersey, Red Horse
Gallery, Freehold Raceway Mall, 732-7453885. www.vsanj.org. Belpanno and Kasey
Tararuj in collaboration with exhibits by
artists with disabilities. On view to April 3.
Zimmerli Art Museum, George and
Hamilton streets, New Brunswick, 732-9327237. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
“Collective Actions Archives.” On view to
April 12. “Selections from the Limited Editions Club: A Contemporary Prints and Photographs Donation in Honor of Ralph
Voorhees.” On view to July 5. “A Parallel
Presence: The National Association of
Women Artists, 1889-2009.” On view to
Best in Show: 'The Woman
Within (Paris Forum),' 2008,
by Lionel Goodman, won
Best in Show at 'Focus on
Sculpture,' Grounds for
Sculpture's annual juried
amateur photography show.
On view through April 26.
April 12. “Into the Garden: Painted Paper
Constructions by Takayo Noda.” On view to
July 5. “Selections from the Claus and Nina
Gruen Collection of Contemporary Russian
Art.” On view to July 31.
Open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.; weekends noon to 5 p.m. Closed
Mondays all year; Tuesdays in July. Closed
during August.
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March 8
Food & Dining
Dine with the Winemaker, The
Grape Escape, Fiddleheads
Restaurant, 27 East Railroad Avenue, Jamesburg, 609-409-9463.
www.thegrapeescape.net. Tom
and Nancy Nye from Grape Escape present wines from the
hands-on winery in Dayton. Register. Pay only for courses ordered by the eclectic menu. 6 to 8
p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, Plainsboro Public
Library, 641 Plainsboro Road,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Mini medical exam including cholesterol test. Babysitting provided. 10 a.m. to 3:30
p.m.
Art and Soul: Paint Your Heart
Out, Volition Wellness Solutions, 842 State Road, Princeton,
609-688-8300. www.volitionwellness.com. Art retreat combines meditation, movement,
painting, and journaling. Lunch included. $99. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Shamanic Journey, Center for
Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Using
the steady beat of a drum, participants are guided in a visual journey with ancient music, therapeutic Reiki, and essential oils. $35. 2
to 5 p.m.
Yoga and Meditation, Let’s Do
Yoga, 15 Jewel Road, West
Windsor, 732-887-3561.
letsdoyogagmail.com. Multi-level
yoga class with meditation. Beginners are welcome. Bring mat
and blanket. $15. 5 to 6:30 p.m.
History
His Majesty’s Troops: The
Founding of Pennsylvania,
Washington Crossing State
Park, Washington Crossing Historic Park, Route 32, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-4076.
www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing. Experience the details
of 18th century military life with
musket firing, drilling, and open
hearth cooking demonstrations.
Tours are free in honor of Charter
Day. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Charter Day, Pennsbury Manor,
400 Pennsbury Memorial Road,
Morrisville, PA, 215-946-0400.
www.pennsburymanor.org. Celebration of the granting of the
Charter of Pennsylvania to
William Penn in March of 1681 at
his 17th-century, reconstructed
plantation home. Colonial craftspeople dressed in period clothing
demonstrate open hearth cooking, soap making, beer brewing,
blacksmith, flax processing, and
chair caning. Tour the Manor
House. Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Family Theater
Chicken Little, Somerset Valley
Players, Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-7469. www.svptheatre.org. Family show. $10. 1
and 4 p.m.
Lectures
Star Trek and Science Fiction,
USS Avenger, North Brunswick
Library, Hermann Road, North
Brunswick. www.ussavenger.org.
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.
Live Music
Mountainview, Thomas Sweet
Cafe, 1330 Route 206, Skillman,
609-430-2828. www.larrytritel.com. 10 a.m. to noon.
Dick Gratton, Bistro Soleil, 173
Mercer Street, Hightstown, 609443-9700. Solo jazz guitar. 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Rats Restaurant,
Grounds for Sculpture, 16 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, 609584-7800. www.ratsrestaurant.org. Spanish Latin contemporary
jazz guitar with brunch. Register.
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Contemporary Chinese-American Art: ‘Fish’ by
Zhang Hongtu, 1985, from ‘Outside In,’ opening on
Friday, March 6, 7:30-9:30 p.m., with an after
hours event, free and open to the public, Princeton
University Art Museum. Symposium on Saturday,
March 7, with the six artists, Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50, Princeton University. Photo: Bruce M. White
Jerry Topinka, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com.
Jazz brunch. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
About Me, About You, Exit 4, and
Shadowplay, Hamilton Lanes,
1200 Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609585-2400. $8 includes one free
game of bowling. 4 p.m.
Benefit Concert, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Edna’s
Kin and Riverside bands perform
to benefit Harrison Street Park rehabilitation project. Members of
Edna’s Kin include Andrew
Koontz, Princeton Borough Council President, Warren Koontz, and
Daniel Koontz, and Bowen Dermont with bluegrass and country
blues. Riverside, an acoustic
string band, features Bill Flemer,
Jerry Steels, David Olsen, Steve
Hendershott, and Emma Morrow.
$35. 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
Dancing
Oldies Night, Hillbilly Hall Tavern and Restaurant, 203 HopWertsville Road, Hopewell, 609466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com.
Dance or sing the night away with
DJ Don. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Agony/Ecstasy Cabaret, Stockton Inn, 1 Main Street, Stockton,
609-397-1250. www.stocktoninn.com. Exploration of the ups and
downs (and in betweens) of life in
funny and not-so-funny moments
in life through song and stories
presented by vocalists Jan Baldwin and Keith Nielsen. Pam
Sharples on piano. $15 cover,
$10 minimum. Register. 7:30
p.m.
Arnie Baird, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Outdoor Action
Maple Sugaring, Washington
Crossing State Park, Washington Crossing State Park
Nature/Interpretive Center, 609737-0609. Participatory demonstration of the procedures of
home maple sugar production.
Register. Free. 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Singles
Princeton Singles, Bistro Soleil,
173 Mercer Street, Hightstown,
609-799-0442. Brunch for ages
55-plus. Register. Noon.
Socials
Fashion Show and Luncheon,
The Contemporary, Cedar Gardens, Route 33, Mercerville, 609581-7302. “All You Need Is Love”
presented by Journey Productions. Register. $40. Noon.
Chess
Plainsboro Public Library, 641
Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. For
advanced adult players. 1 to 5
p.m.
Sports
Princeton Lacrosse, Princeton
Stadium, Princeton University,
609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Manhattan. $8 to $10.
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Monday
March 9
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Teen on a Mission
The Education of Shelby Knox,
HiTops, Princeton Public Library,
Witherspoon Street, 609-6835155. www.hitops.org. Screening
of a documentary focusing on a
15- year-old who took on the city
of Lubbock, Texas, to fight for
comprehensive, fact-based sex
education in the public schools.
Knox will be honored at the gala
on May 8. Free. 7 p.m.
For the Munchkins:
Dora the Explorer
comes to the State
Theater in New
Brunswick on Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 10 and 11.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 5000 Windrows Drive,
Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Windrows Forrestal
Village, 2000 Windrows Drive,
Plainsboro, 800-708-7007. www.-
princetonwindrows.net. Reception for “Emotions,” an exhibit by
Carl Frankel, a Monroe resident,
featuring paintings and drawings
reflecting emotions. He is a member of the Trenton Artists Workshop Association, the Arts Council of Princeton, and the Monroe
Township Cultural Commission.
Open to the public. Register.
Free. 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Film
Second Chance Film Series,
Princeton Adult School, Kresge
Auditorium, Frick Chemical Building, Princeton University, 609683-1101. www.princetonadultschool.org. “Standard Operating
Procedure,” USA, 2008. $6. 7:30
p.m.
Faith
www.adathisraelnj.org. Chinese
buffet. Register. $14. Costume
parade, reading of the Megillat,
and performance by the Odessa
Klezmer Band begins at 7 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
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Purim, Har Sinai Temple, 2441
Pennington Road, Pennington,
609-730-8100. www.harsinai.org.
“A Beatles Purim” presented by
the Not Quite Ready for Prime
Time Players. 7 p.m.
Eating Ethically: Theology and
Ethics of Land Use Series, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0103. www.nassauchurch.org. “Valuing Land: The Biblical
Case for a Local Economy” presented by Ellen F. Davis, Duke Divinity School. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
For Parents
Mothers of Preschoolers,
MOPS, Princeton Alliance
Church, 20 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-799-9000.
www.mops.org. “A Christian Approach to Yoga” presented by Linda Domino. Free. Child care
available for $5. 9:30 a.m.
Lectures
Because Politics Matters Series,
Eagleton Institute of Politics,
191 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, 732-932-9384. www.eagleton.rutgers.edu. “A Scarlet
Knight on the GOP Front Line”
presented by Mike DuHaime, former political director of the Republican National Committee. Reception and program. Register.
Free. 5 p.m.
New Jersey Writers’ Society,
West Windsor Library, 333
North Post Road, 609-799-0462.
Meeting. 6:30 p.m.
Kalmia Club, 39 York Street, Lambertville, 609-397-9110. www.kalmiaclub.org. Lambertville Area
Education Foundation presentation. 7:15 p.m.
Meeting, Princeton PC Users
Group, Lawrence Library, 2751
Route 1 South, 908-218-0778.
www.ppcug-nj.org. “Twitter: What
is it and How to Use it Effectively”
presented by Ron Graham, who
has worked in aerospace engineering and a robotics start-up.
Twitter, a social networking tool,
allows users to answer the question “What are you doing?” Free.
7:30 p.m.
History
Black History Celebration, Morven, 609-497-7324. Program featuring “Benjamin Rush,” father of
American medicine, founder of
the Abolitionist movement in the
Colonies, and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and
“Marcus,” a slave born at Morven,
educated as one of Annis Boudinot Stockton’s children, and
trained as a medical assistant to
Dr. Rush. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Early Birds, Mercer County Park
Commission, Roebling Park,
609-989-6540. www.mercercounty.org. Casual hike. Bring
binoculars. Free. 7 a.m. to 8:30
a.m.
Politics
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Dodds Auditorium, 609-2582943. www.princeton.edu. The
Richard Ullman Lecture Series
presented by David Mayhew, Yale
University. 4:30 p.m.
Singles
Professional and Business Singles Network, Bonefish Grill, 335
Route 18, East Brunswick, 888-
348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com.
After work social for ages 40 to
65. $15. Cash bar. 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in to enjoy the
War of the Worlds theme, gourmet desserts, soups, gelato, and
full espresso bar. Also, retail section full of fresh roasted gourmet
coffees, gourmet teas, gift baskets, mugs, and gourmet candies.
Contact www.meetup.com/Princeton-Area-Singles-Network for more information. 6:30
to 8 p.m.
Sports
Fly Tying Demonstration, Ernest
Schwiebert Trout Unlimited,
Pennington Fire House, Bromel
Place, Pennington, 609-9843851. www.esctu.org. “Trout Fishing in Eastern PA” presented by
Ben Turpin, president of the
Delaware River Club. Free. 6
p.m.
Tuesday
March 10
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
O Thou, a Bit o’ the Bard
91 University Place, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. Preview
performance of Shakespeare
comedy directed by Rebecca
Taichman. Co-produced with the
Shakespeare Theater Company
of Washington, DC. Through
March 29. $15 to $15. 7:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Rehearsal, Princeton Recorder
Society, Kingston Presbyterian
Church, Main Street, 908-3364011. www.princetonrecorder.org. Rainer Beckman conducts.
All recorder players and their
guests are welcome. No charge
for first time visitors. 7:30 p.m.
New York Virtuoso Singers,
Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, 609-258-4241. www.princeton.edu. Showcase of new
works by graduate students and
faculty composers Anne Hege,
Laine Fefferman, Chris Tignor,
and Scott Smallwood. Free. Reception follows. 8 p.m.
Drama
$66. 8 p.m.
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Best Picture:
‘Slumdog Millionaire’
screens Friday
through Sunday,
March 6 to 8, at the
New Jersey Film Festival. njfilmfest.com
Dancing
Country Line Dancing, Hillbilly
Hall Tavern and Restaurant,
203 Hop-Wertsville Road, Hopewell, 609-466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com. Instruction throughout
the evening. 7 p.m.
Salsa Dance Lessons, International Arts Collaborative, Arts
Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-333-0266.
iartsc.org. Jose (Papo) Diaz instructs both levels. No partner necessary. Intermediate at 7 p.m. Beginners at 8:30 p.m. $20. 7 p.m.
Literati
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Book talk and discussion with Tony Rothman, author
of “Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry.” 5:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Gala, Brain Injury Association of
New Jersey, Marriott, 1401
Route 10 East, Hanover, 800669-4323. www.bianj.org. Paul
Anzano, Hopewell mayor and a
partner of Pringle, Quinn, Anzano
law firm, will be recognized for his
effort to obtain the enactment of
the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund.
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March 10
Longbeard Contest, Alchemist
& Barrister, 28 Witherspoon
www.theaandb.com. Guest bartender is Brian Archie Frascella.
Benefit for William E. Baker Family Trust. 9 p.m.
Faith
www.adathisraelnj.org. Purim carnival. 4:30 p.m.
Kirtan, Yoga Above, 80 Nassau
cremoneyoga.com. Call and response chanting with Daniel Johnson on tabla and voice, Karttikeya
on keyboard. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Gardens
Lingohocken Garden Club, Forest Grove Church, 1856 Forest
Grove Road, Forest Grove, PA,
215-340-7677. www.lingohockengardenclub.info. Creative Memories workshop by Crystal Eckenroad. Bring three photographs of
a related subject. 12:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Sunrise Yoga, Holsome Holistic
Center, 27 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-279-1592. www.holsome.com. Lauren
Swanekamp presents. Free. 6
a.m.
Yoga Class, Chicklet Bookstore,
Princeton Shopping Center, 301
North Harrison Street, 609-2792121. www.chickletbooks.com.
Girish presents a two-hour class.
$25. 8:15 a.m.
Cross, Body Tech Fitness, 80
Lambert Lane, Lambertville, 800448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. Noon to 6 p.m.
Community Yoga, Holsome
Holistic Center, 27 Witherspoon
www.holsome.com. Lauren
Swanekamp presents. Free.
Noon.
Cross, 707 Alexander Road,
www.pleasegiveblood.org. Walkins are welcome. Tuesday to
Thursday, 12:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. 12:30 to
7:30 p.m.
Meditation Class, Plainsboro
Public Library, 641 Plainsboro
Road, 609-977-0399. www.srcm.org. Shri Ram Chandra Mission
presents a free class in raja yoga
meditation. Register. Free. 7 to 8
p.m.
Princeton YWCA, Library, 59 Paul
Robeson Place, Princeton, 609497-2100. www.ywcaprinceton.org. Trichotillomania (compulsive
hair pulling) support group for
women. E-mail [email protected] for information. Free.
7:30 p.m.
Wellness Education
Foundation, East Brunswick Library, 2 Jean Walling Drive, 732238-2944. “Demystifying Fibromyalgia: What’s It’s All About?
presented as a community lecture. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
For Families
Dora the Explorer, State
Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick, 732-246-7469.
www.StateTheatreNJ.org.
“Search for the City of Lost Toys.”
$15 to $45. 10:30 a.m. and 6
p.m.
For Parents
Special Education Parent Training Series, Family Support Organization, 3535 Quakerbridge
Road, Hamilton, 609-586-1200.
“Creating Your Master Plan: The
Parent as Project Manager.” Register. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
For Teens
Yoga for Teens, Integral Yoga Institute of Princeton, 613 Ridge
Come to the Cabaret: Baritone Keith
Nielsen and soprano Jan Baldwin explore
the ups and downs and in-betweens of life in
their new cabaret, ‘Agony/Ecstasy,’ Sunday,
March 8, the Stockton Inn. 609-397-1250.
Road, Monmouth Junction, 732274-2410. www.integralyogaprinceton.org. $15. 5:45 to 7:15
p.m.
Lectures
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org\plainsboro. Register. Free. 11:30
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Art Talks, Princeton University,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Painter Chris Martin talks.
Free. Noon.
Computer Tips and Tricks, Ewing SeniorNet Computer Literacy Center, 999 Lower Ferry
Road, 609-882-5086. www.ewingsnet.com. “Clean Up Your
Computer and Make it Run Like
New” presented by David Shinkfield. Free. 1:30 p.m.
Exploring Art as Knowledge, Institute for Advanced Study and
Princeton University, Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein Drive, Princeton, 609-734-8175. www.ias.edu.
“Sovereign Power, Death, and
Monuments” presented by Zainab
Bahrani, Columbia University. 5
p.m.
Princeton Macintosh Users
Group, Jadwin Hall, A-10, 86
Washington Road, 609-2585730. www.pmug-nj.org. “Running a Successful E-Commercial
Program” presented by David J.
Mason, Fast Teks On-Site Computer Services. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
John Bianculli Trio, Witherspoon Grill, 57 Witherspoon
www.jmgroupprinceton.com. 6:30
to 10 p.m.
Politics
Woodrow Wilson
School, Princeton
University, Robertson
Hall, Dodds Auditorium, 609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu.
The Richard Ullman Lecture Series presented by David Mayhew,
Yale University. 4:30 p.m.
Singles
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6
p.m.
Socials
Men’s Circle, West Windsor, 609933-4280. Share, listen, and support other men and yourself. Talk
about relationship, no relationship, separation, divorce, sex, no
sex, money, job, no job, aging
parents, raising children, teens,
addictions, illness, and fear of aging. All men are expected to commit to confidentiality. Call for location. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
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. Hot
Kosher meal for ages 60 and up.
Floral demonstration by Patty
Kraws, Country Florist and Gifts.
Register. $5. 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday
March 11
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Instant Parenting
Raising Kids in an Age of Instant
Everything, Hopewell Valley
Municipal Alliance, Hopewell
High School, Pennington, 609737-0120. Michael Osit, author of
“Generation Text: Raising WellAdjusted Kids in an Age of Instant
Everything” and a licensed psychology with more than 30 years
experience working with children
and adolescents. “Between texting, E-mail, gaming, instant messaging, and online commerce, the
world of today’s kids is one of
constant interaction through
which they have almost instant
access to everything from information to merchandise to other
people.” Signed books available
for purchase. 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Classical Music
After Noon Concerts, Princeton
University Chapel, Washington
Road, 609-258-3654. Free. 12:30
p.m.
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the full listing schedule.
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Infertility and Adoption
mester or a school year. Host families provide room, board, and a Counseling Center offers a workhome environment. Area students shop designed to help professionmay apply to visit Brazil, England, als, parents, and kids from birth to
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www.aspect- cuss their family stories. Saturday,
foundation.org or call Rosanna March 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
609-924-0147
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Mon-Fri 10-6 • Sat 10-5 • Sun 12-5
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Good Causes
Original Soupman of Princeton has a “feed the hungry” fund to
benefit Trenton Area Soup
Kitchen. A Soupman tee-shirts is
free with a $10 donation. $1 donation gets your name on a kettle to
hang in the store. 30 Palmer Square
East, Princeton. 609-497-0008.
The store’s goal is to raise $500 by
April 11.
Lawrence High School is holding a pizza and pasta fundraiser on
Leonardo’s II, 2021 Route 1,
Lawrence, on Monday, March 16,
from 5 to 10 p.m. Buffet supper is
$15 per person. Call Mary Ann
O’Brien at 609-584-1236 to register.
Har Sinai Temple seeks volunteers to prepare, serve, sponsor, or
clean up in connection with its annual contribution to the “Lord’s
Table” meal served at Trenton’s
Church of the Sacred Heart on Sunday, March 22, from 11:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. Contact Mary Kirsch by
E-mail at [email protected].
Health
$799
$1199
Student Exchange
Kelsey Theater offers Tap
Dancing for Theater to give actors
the basic steps to perform in musical theater. Tuesdays from March
10 to May 19, 6 to 7 p.m. Tap shoes
are required. Must be 12 or older.
$100. Call Tracy Antozzeski at
609-570-3566 or E-mail [email protected].
Drama
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Sheila Kohler and Wang
Ping read selections from their
works. Reception and booksigning follow. 4:30 p.m.
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. James M. McPherson, author of “Abraham Lincoln:
A Presidential Life.” 5:30 p.m.
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road,
Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For
newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Literati
Readings, Princeton University,
$1399
For Dancers
Kelsey Theater has auditions
for Through Our Eyes, an original
musical about how special needs
individuals see the world. Tuesdays, March 10 and 12, 5 to 7 p.m.;
and Saturday, March 14, noon to
3:30 p.m. The 30 roles will be comprised or men and women from 13
to 65. Prepare a song from a Broad-
Dancing
$899
Rider Furniture
Center for American Women
and Politics offers “Ready to Run
Campaign Training for Women”
on Saturday, March 21, at Douglass Campus Center in New
Brunswick. Call Jean Sinzdak at
732-932-9384, ext. 260 or E-mail
[email protected] for information and registration.
Trenton Film Society, Cafe Ole,
126 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-396-6966. www.trentonfilmsociety.org. Screening of
“Scandal,” 1989. $5. 7 p.m.
King Set
The Entire Month of March!
Audition
Film
Full Set
It’s All on Sale!
Politics
$15 to $15. 7:30 p.m.
973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Terrence McNally’s play with
music about opera diva Maria
Callas. $56 to $84. 7:30 p.m.
$66. 8 p.m.
$649• Dining Room
Faith
Noontime Concert Series,
Doylestown Presbyterian
Church, 127 East Court Street,
www.dtownpc.org. Amy Lloyd on
flute. In conjunction with Lenten
art show, “The Love and Mercy of
Christ: Peace and Justice.” Bring
your lunch. Cookies, tea, and coffee served. Free. Noon.
Soup Supper and Program, All
Saints’ Church, 16 All Saints’
Road, Princeton, 609-921-2420.
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartet” led by
Al Kleindienst. 6 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Disability and the Law, Eden
Family of Services, Clayton
Center, 2031 Old Trenton Road,
www.edenservices.org. “Understanding Medicaid, SSI, and Other Important Entitlements.”
Autism training session presented by Hinkles, Fingles, and Prior
law office. Register. Free. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m.
Ageless Living Workshops,
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432.
“Ageless Skin” presented by Dr.
Gonthar Rooda and Danute Audenas-Corcoran. $20. 7:30 to 9
p.m.
For Students
Knights of Pythias offers a
public speaking contest for high
school students on Tuesday, March
24, at 7:30 p.m. at the American
Legion Post 314, 39 Lanning
Street, Trenton. Register with Larry Kalb at 732-920-7503. This
year’s topic is “Resolved, that the
United State shall extend educational benefits similar to those under the GI Bill to secondary school
graduates who voluntarily serve in
a government sponsored, non-military program for the welfare and
health of people in need in the
United States and abroad.”
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At the Movies
NJ FilmFest
“Slumdog Millionaire,” 2008;
“Bonnie & Clyde,” 1967, Scott
Brunswick, 732-932-8482. www.njfilmfest.com.$10.Friday
through Sunday, March 6 to 8. 7
p.m.
Mainstream Movies
Confirm titles with theaters.
Billu Barber. Bollywood. Regal.
The Class (entre les murs).
Francois Begaudeau story about a
teacher in Paris. Garden, Montgomery.
Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Romantic comedy with Isla Fisher
and Hugh Dancy. AMC, Marketfair, Multiplex, Regal.
Coraline 3D. Family drama
with Dakota Fanning and Teri
Hatcher. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex, Regal.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Drama starring
Brad Pitt as a man who starts aging
backwards. AMC.
Delhi-6. Bollywood. Multiplex,
Regal.
Doubt. Meryl Streep and Philip
Seymour Hoffman in drama based
on stage play. AMC.
Echelon Conspiracy. Action
with Shane West and Martin
Sheen. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex,
Regal.
Fired Up. Comedy stars
Nicholad D’Agosta. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Friday the 13th (2009). Re-
make of the original horror. AMC,
Destinta, Multiplex, Regal.
Frost/Nixon. Drama based upon Nixon’s last days in office.
Montgomery.
Gran Torino. Action film with
Clint Eastwood. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
He’s Just Not That Into You.
Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, and Scarlett Johansson in
pseudo comedy about relationships. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Hotel for Dogs. Family comedy
about two kids who rehome stray
dogs. AMC, Destinta.
The International. Thriller
with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts.
AMC, Destinta, Marketfair, Multiplex, Regal.
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. Concert film of
the 2008 “Burning Up” concert
tour and documentary footage on
the lives of the three brothers.
AMC, Regal.
Milk. Sean Penn portrays Harvey Milk, the first opening gay
man elected to public office in the
U.S. AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Comedy
with Kevin James. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Pink Panther 2. Comedy
with Steve Martin. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
A Powerful Noise. Documentary about women in BosniaHerzegovina, Mali, and Vietnam.
AMC, Regal.
Push. Sci Fi with Colin Ford.
AMC, Destinta.
From the Classic
Graphic Novel:
‘Watchmen’ opens on
Friday, March 6.
The Reader. Romantic drama
with Ralph Fiennes and Kate
Winslet. AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
Revolutionary Road. Drama
with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate
Winslet. Montgomery, Multiplex.
Slumdog Millionaire. Dev Patel in drama about a teenage orphan
on a game show. Filmed in Mumbai. AMC, Garden, MarketFair,
Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
Street Fighter: Legend of
Chun-Li. Action film set in
Bangkok. AMC, Destinta, Regal.
Taken. Thriller with Liam Neeson. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Twilight. Thriller about a vampire and a young girl. AMC.
Two Lovers. Romantic drama
with Joaquin Phoenix and
Gwyneth Paltrow. Garen.
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to
Jail. Comedy. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Uninvited. Horror with
David Strathairn. Destinta.
Waltz with Bashir. Documentary about an Israeli Army mission
in the 1980s. Garen.
Watchmen. Drama with Billy
Crudup and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
AMC, MarketFair, Regal.
The Wrestler. Drama about retired wrestler stars Mickey Rourke
and Marisa Tomei. AMC, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
March 11
History
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Tour the restored mansion, galleries, and gardens. Tea before or
after tour. Register. $15. 11:15
a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Archaeological Institute of
America, Princeton University,
Frist, Room 302, 609-258-3786.
www.princeton.edu. “Roman
Paintings at the Temple of Luxor
in Egypt” presented by Susan H.
Auth. Reception follows talk.
Free. 5:30 p.m.
For Families
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325
Sloan Avenue , I-295 Exit 65-A, 609890-8307.
Destinta, Independence Plaza,
264 South Broad Street, Hamilton,
609-888-4500.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South,
Montgomery Center Theater,
Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center
Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 609-371-8473.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
Dora the Explorer, State
Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue,
www.StateTheatreNJ.org.
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$15 to $45. 10:30 a.m. 2 and 5
p.m.
Family Concert, Barnes &
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Two of a Kind. 4:30 p.m.
Open House, Kiddie Academy,
201 Carnegie Center Drive, West
Windsor, 609-419-0105. 4:30 to
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other people.” Signed books
available for purchase. 7 to 9:30
p.m.
Lectures
Genealogy, Ewing Library, 61
Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-8823130. Introduction to genealogical research by Central Jersey
Genealogical Club. Register. 7
p.m.
More Than a Concert Lecture
Series, Princeton Adult School,
United Methodist Church, Nassau
and Vandeventer streets, Princeton, 609-683-1101. “Folklore, Village, Life, and Nationalism” presented by Julian Kuerti, assistant
conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Register. 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, Princeton Photography Club, Johnson Education
Center, D&R Greenway Land
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Princeton, 732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org. “Detours
in Photography” presented by
Ernestine Ruben. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Comedy
Comedy Hypnosis Show,
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by Pete Hummon, founder and
president of the university’s Hypnosis Workshop, an on-campus
organization dedicated to the
teaching and practicing of hypnotism. Free. For information write to
[email protected]. 8 p.m.
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Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. 10
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group begins on Thursday,
March 5, 7:30 to 9 p.m., at
Hopewell Presbyterian Church,
80 West Broad Street, Hopewell.
The facilitator is Jill Young-McMurchie, MSW, MDiv, who
says, “the purpose of the group is
threefold — mutual support
from other who are recovering
from a divorce or separation; educational and personal growth;
and social.” Register by calling
609-213-9509.
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Recovery Program, at Princeton
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Princeton. Each month there are
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The Richard Ullman Lecture Series presented by David Mayhew,
Yale University. 4:30 p.m.
Tom Rush, Patriots Theater at
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Princeton, 613 Ridge Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-2742410. Kirtan. Bring a blanket or
cushion. $20 and $25. 7 p.m.
Drama
973-376-4343. Terrence McNally’s play with music about opera
diva Maria Callas. $56 to $84.
Conversation series at 6:30 p.m. .
2 and 7:30 p.m.
War of the Worlds and The Lost
World, Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North
Branch, 908-725-3420. $25 and
$30. 7 p.m.
$15 to $15. 7:30 p.m.
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. Angelo Parra’s play
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Directed by Joe Brancato. For
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From Plainsboro to Lucerne, Switzerland
W
hen Plainsboro resident and jazz musician Gerry Hemingway looks at his basement studio, full of musical instruments,
electronic equipment, and recordings of music from all over the
world, he feels a sense of satisfaction that the evidence of a lifetime
of playing, studying and teaching
is right there for him to see, and to
hear.
But then he feels a bit of panic.
“What am I going to do with all this
stuff?” he says.
Why the panic? Because come
early fall, the jazz percussionist
and composer will be moving to
Lucerne, Switzerland, where he
will become a professor of music at
Hochschule Luzern. Hemingway
says his wife, Nancy, and 16-yearold son, Jordan, will not move right
away, and that all three are excited
but at the same time very ambivalent. And he is worried because
there is no way he will be able to
ship all of that music to Europe. “I
may have to get rid of some of this.
And I don’t want to,” he says.
Hemingway will appear with his
quartet on Saturday, March 7, as
part of the Arts Council of Princeton’s Jazz at the Robeson Center
series. In addition to Hemingway
on drums, the quartet consists of
Kermit Driscoll on bass, New
Brunswick native Herb Robertson
on trumpet, and Ellery Eskelin on
tenor sax. Prior to the concert, the
quartet holds a jazz improvisation
workshop for high school and college age musicians.
Hemingway’s imminent departure to Switzerland brings a slight
bit of urgency to his preparation for
this concert. “For me, this event is
significant, because I have had
very few chances to show my students, and the community in general, just what it is that I do,” he says.
Hemingway, born in 1955 in
New Haven, is a trim, youthful 53.
He comes from a prominent, musical family. And yes, he is one of the
Hemingways. “I believe I am the
fifth cousin, twice removed, of
Ernest Hemingway,” he says. His
father, Louis, was a Yale graduate
who had studied composition with
Paul Hindemith, was for years a
member of the New Haven Symphony’s board of directors. Gerry
enjoys telling stories of how his
older brother found some of their
father’s compositions in their
home, transcribed and arranged
them and surprised their then-ailing father with the opportunity for
him to conduct his beloved orchestra playing his work. Gerry’s mother, Ruth, was a concert pianist, and
his maternal grandfather, John
Cochran, graduated from Princeton University.
The Hemingways live just off
Plainsboro Park and near the
Wicoff School. Son Jordan is a junior at West Windsor-Plainsboro
High School North. His wife, Nancy, is a movement therapist and
manual therapist. After living in
New York and its environs, the
couple wanted to find a more childfriendly place to live after Jordan
by Kevin L. Carter
was born. “We set up shop in Hackettstown, which was OK, but rather
isolated,” Hemingway says. Then
his in-laws, who had moved to
Jamesburg, suggested the couple
look at West Windsor and Plainsboro, largely for the school district.
“The school Jordan was in was not
measuring up to its reputation, and
money was getting cut from its arts
programs,” he says. “So we decided to come here, and take a look.
We liked the fact that Princeton
University was here, and we
thought this made sense. We had
better access to New York via the
train.”
Hemingway’s current quartet
has more or less been together
since 1998. As with many jazz musicians, Hemingway has the blessing, or curse, depending on your
perspective, of performing as
much or more abroad, primarily in
Europe, than he does in his own
country. He formed this group to
try to concentrate on working and
playing in America.
“In a kind of unconscious reduplication of something akin to the
Sonny Rollins quartet, or maybe
some of the Ornette (Coleman)
vibe,” he says, “I went with this
two-horn, bass, and drum setup,
which is different from my quintet,
which although pianoless, was
more harmonically based. In
essence I wanted to switch up my
approach to a little bit more hardhitting stuff.”
H
emingway is a prolific,
peripatetic percussionist and composer. He operates in so many
spheres and worlds that he can
hardly keep up with all of them. He
has received fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts
and has presented commissioned
works in jazz and classical music.
He is a veteran of the bands of Anthony Braxton, Reggie Workman,
Anthony Davis, and Cecil Taylor
and has appeared on 100 recordings as a leader and sideman. He
has worked in so many different
configurations (solo, duo, trio, several different quartets and quintets,
larger ensembles) that categorizing
his work is all but impossible. That
can sometimes hurt Hemingway
and others like him, because often
music like his is not considered
“accessible” or “commercial.” As a
result, most of his discs have been
released by small, independent labels, most often European ones.
“The way the machine works
here is if you don’t go with some of
the big guns, if you don’t manage
to work out something with one of
them, it is difficult to get the promotional push that puts you in a
much more visible position,” says
Hemingway. “In Europe, on the
Jazz International:
Mark Helias, left, bass
(Kermit Driscoll will be
the bassist on March
7); Gerry Hemingway
(also right), drums;
Herb Robertson,
trumpet; and Ellery
Esklein, tenor sax.
other hand, our music is very welldistributed, generally speaking,
and does garner a larger amount of
attention.” Many jazz artists, says
Hemingway, who are traditional,
creative, progressive, or avantgarde find themselves in a “high
art” category, “where it’s more
about the quality of the art than the
commercial success of it. That is
the kind of strata that I find myself
circulating in, and I’m OK with
that. I’m going to be in the art category from here to eternity, and
that’s how it’s going to be.”
As his son Jordan (now establishing himself as a photographer)
grew up, Hemingway and his wife
became more active in the community and their circle of friends and
acquaintances began realizing
what he did for a living. They began asking him to teach music to
their children. “I enjoyed teaching
young guys. Sometimes they could
barely play or hold a stick. Most
people who teach kids like that find
it so boring, almost an imposition
— they just do it for the money. But
I love it. I find kids who try to figure out how to use their brain in this
way fascinating.
“I am a lone voice for a lot of
these kids,” continues Hemingway, who explains that although
the school-based music education
in this area, especially in West
Windsor-Plainsboro, is good, jazz
isn’t often part of it. “They come
down here and it’s not just about
learning about how to play the instrument. I’m pulling down CDs
and turning them on to stuff. ‘You
ever hear Roy Haynes? Check out
this Chick Corea record. Check out
Rahsaan (Roland Kirk). Check out
this. Check out that.’ Sometimes I
blow their minds. And I love that.”
In addition to his private students Hemingway now teaches
jazz history and world music history at the New School in Manhattan.
“It’s not like a job to pay the bills
for me, it’s a job I have a lot of feeling for. I enjoy it almost as much as
performing, and I do love performing.”
W
hile Hemingway loves
teaching, he sees ironies in his being chosen for the position in
Switzerland. He had never earned
as much as a bachelor’s degree,
though he had audited classes at
Yale for years. It turns out Hemingway had applied for a position at
another institution, he says, but had
not made the cut. But a faculty
member at Hochschule Luzern
found out about it, and one day
Hemingway received a letter in the
Gerry Hemingway, a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowhips, is
a prolific, peripatetic percussionist and composer. He operates in so
many spheres and worlds that he can hardly keep up with all of them.
mail offering him the position.
“I have put together a body of
work and I have shown that I am an
effective teacher, musician, and
composer,” says Hemingway. “But
I am totally self-taught. I have the
knowledge. But I don’t have the
paper.”
Gerry Hemingway Quartet,
Arts Council of Princeton, 102
Witherspoon Street. Saturday,
March 7, 8 p.m. Jazz concert presented by Gerry Hemingway, a
composer and percussionist from
Plainsboro who has performed
throughout the world. Band members include Herb Robertson on
trumpet, Ellery Eskelin on tenor
saxophone, Mark Helias on electric bass, and Hemingway on
drums. $15. 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Also, Jazz Improvisation
Workshop, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street. Saturday, March 7, 4 to 6 p.m. Gerry
Hemingway and members of his
quartet. Open to high school and
college age musicians with some
fundamental experience playing in
a group format and advanced players. Acoustic instruments are ideal,
but electric guitarists and bassists
may want to bring their amps. Also
open to listeners curious about improvisation. Demonstration, discussion, and an opportunity for some
participants to interact musically
with members of the quartet. Register. Free. 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
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Edited by Kathleen McGinn Spring
micus
Therapeutics
Inc. has suspended a midstage
study of its developing Pompe disease treatment after two patients
suffered what were described as serious side effects. Amicus’ stock
dropped nearly 1/3, to just over $8,
after the announcement was made
on Friday, February 27.
Two of the children of Amicus
CEO John Crowley suffer from the
rare fatal disease. Pompe, a progressive disease, affects respiratory function and muscles, including
the heart. Crowley has devoted
himself to finding better treatments
for the disease since soon after his
children, Patrick and Megan, now
pre-teens, were diagnosed with the
disease. Megan was just 15months-old and Patrick was 5months-old. Doctors held out no
hope, and the Crowleys soon
learned that not only was there no
cure, but that the disease was so
rare that there was little research
being directed toward finding one.
Crowley quit his job as a financial consultant and invested himself and his life savings in a
biotechnology start-up company.
In just over a year, Novazyme
Pharmaceuticals, went from an endowment of $37,000 to $27 million, and was sold to Genzyme
soon thereafter for $137.5 million.
Crowley’s children began receiving treatment developed by Genzyme in 2003.
Crowley went on to found Amicus, which has grown to 120 employees, and is focused on finding
cures for rare genetic diseases. The
treatment Crowley’s company has
developed for Pompe would be a
step forward, says COO Matthew
Patterson, in that it would be an
oral dose rather than the multi-hour
infusion that is now administered
to Pompe patients, and that causes
serious side effects. The company
hopes that it would also be more effective.
Patterson says that the two patients whose conditions caused the
Phase II study of the treatment to
be halted suffered muscle weakness. The next step, he says, will be
“to work with the doctor caring for
the patients.” The company’s science team will then “think about
what we’ve learned” and will most
likely propose an amended treatment to the FDA, the agency that
regulates pharmaceutical trials.
That amendment most likely
would be a decreased dose, he says.
Patterson says that there is not
yet a timeline for resuming the trials. “The whole situation is preliminary,” he says. “It takes time. But
we hope to get the trail re-started
soon.”
Asked how disappointed Crowley is in the trial interruption, Patterson says “John has learned to
Happy Ending?:
John Crowley, CEO
of Amicus Therapeutics, has had a setback in finding a cure
for a disease that afflicts his own children.
balance his personal situation with
the needs of the company. He’s disappointed, as we all are, but he understands it is what happens.”
Patterson emphasizes that the
Pompe treatment is just one of
three Amicus products, and is the
one that is in the most preliminary
stages. The company is working on
treatments for two other rare diseases. They are Amigal, for Fabry
disease, and Plicera, for Gaucher
disease. Amigal is soon to start
Phase III testing, and Plicera is in
the middle of Phase II.
The story of Crowley’s quest to
find a cure for his children is the
subject of a book, “The Cure: How
a Father Raised $100 million and
Bucked the Medical Establishment
in a Quest to Save His Children”,
by Wall Street Journal reporter
Geeta Anand. The book is being
made into a movie with the working title “Crowley”. According to
IMbD, the Internet movie database, casting is largely complete.
Actors who have signed on include
Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser,
and Keri Russell. Filming is to be-
gin in early-April. Patterson says
that Crowley and his wife, Aileen
Crowley, have been involved in
shaping the movie.
Amicus
Therapeutics,
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Cedar Brook Drive, Cranbury
08512; 609-662-2000; fax,
609-662-2001. John F. Crowley, CEO. www.amicustherapeutics.com.
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meet obligations under a loan for
which the shares were pledged as
security, according to a statement
the company released on Monday,
March 2.
Heartland, which processes
payments for nearly 250,000 businesses, reported on January 20 that
hackers had achieved access to
some of its data. Since then banks
across the country have been announcing that their customers’ accounts were compromised. Many
banks have re-issued credit and
debit cards, and credit thieves have
been caught using the data, embedded on new cards, to make purchases.
Carr said that the proceeds of
the loan were used to refinance prior loans. The balance of the common stock of the company owned
by the Carrs, approximately 4.3
million shares, continues to be
subject to pledges under the loan,
and it is likely that additional
shares will be sold. The stock has
been trading at just about $5, down
from a one year high of over $27.
“I am extremely disappointed
about this involuntary sale of my
stock,” Carr said in a prepared
statement. This forced sale is precipitated by the mix of extraordinary circumstances confronting
Heartland and the recent drop in its
stock price. Unfortunately, I had
no ability to stop the sales by my
lender. Together with my wife, I
have been one of the company’s
largest shareholders since its inception, and I acquired additional
shares of stock in 2006 as an expression of my confidence in the
company’s potential. This sale initiated by my lender does not in any
way reflect my view of the company’s value and future performance
potential. My confidence in Heartland remains strong, and I am enthusiastic about reestablishing my
ownership position in the company over the months and years to
come.”
Company spokesperson Joe
Hassett says that Carr plans to
keep investing in his company.
Heartland Payment Systems
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609-683-3815. Robert Carr,
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Recession Leads
To Reassessment
A
fter a rough January and
February, Lorraine Davis has decided to celebrate. “I ran my own
successful business for 25 years,”
says Davis, owner of what was
Cranbury-based Lorraine Davis
Employment Inc. “How many
people can say that?” So Davis is
taking her husband out for a nice
dinner. The celebration won’t rival
the $4,000 bash she threw in October for her 60th birthday — “kids,
horses, bands!” It will be quiet, but
important nonetheless.
“It’s a change of attitude,” she
says. “I was grieving the loss of my
business. But now I’m looking
ahead.”
Davis, who grew up in Fords,
started working in the recruiting
industry in 1973. After 11 years
she had built up a base of clients
and she saw that it was a lucrative
business. She opened her own
business on February 26, 1984,
choosing that date to honor her
mother’s birthday one year after
her mother’s death.
Davis prospered, changing with
the times and devising strategies to
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time it’s different. “I’ve been
through three recessions,” she
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Italian Summer Blooms at Philly Flower Show
Y
by Kathleen Spring
ou can leave winter behind, forget
your money woes, and, if you hurry, be in
Italy before dark. The Philadelphia Flower
Show, the nation’s oldest and largest flower
show, is going all Italian this year.
Travel for less than an hour, and you will
find yourself enjoying a fragrant virtual tour
of Roman gardens, Tuscan hills, Venetian
canals, Alpine landscapes, and Milanese
fashion boutiques.
The flower show is a yearly production of
the Pennyslvania Horticultural Society
(PHS), the nation’s oldest horticultural society. PHS brought spring to Philadelphia winters by staging America’s first flower show,
back in 1829. The show, which takes place in
the Philadelphia Convention Center now
through Sunday, March 8, fills 10 acres of
space with elaborate floral tableau set in meandering paths overhung with trees in full
bloom and a riot of bright, fragrant flowers.
A big deal in many ways, the annual
flower show attracts 250,000 people each
year and brings in some $30 million to
Philadelphia through ticket and merchandise
sales, and also through hotel rooms, restaurant meals, and all the other activities on
which the show’s visitors spend money
while they’re in town for the event.
This year an area florist, Adriene Presti,
owner of Pennington’s Dahlia, is contributing to one of the main displays at the show. A
flower show veteran — she won a top award
for the central feature in 2002 show — Presti
is familiar with what it takes to participate in
the annual event.
She worked for months on just one part of
this year’s Milanese exhibit, which was designed and put together by the American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD). Her contribution is a unique wall hanging. “It’s layers and layers of natural threads and fibers,
preserved skeleton leaves, rose petals, beading, and buttons,” she says, naming just
some of the elements that went into the 3foot by 6-foot wall hanging.
After being transported to the show in the
back of her Tahoe, the floral art was hung in
a window of the Milanese fashion display.
While Presti has taken the lead in designing
Philadelphia Flower Show exhibits in the
past and has been involved to one extent or
another for 12 years, this exhibit was designed by her best friend, Ron Mulray, owner of the Philadelphia Flower Company on
Academy Road in Philadelphia.
A call to the shop one week before the
show turned up the information that “Ron is-
n’t here. He’ll be gone for two
weeks.” Would he be calling in for
messages? “Probably not.”
Reached on his cellphone, Mulray
was in the midst of pre-flower show
craziness — tons of mulch, dozens of
trucks, armies of power tool wielding
carpenters and electricians — and
loving every second of it. “All I have
ever wanted to do is to work with
flowers,” he says. He has this in common with Presti. Although she studied
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More than Bulbs:
Visitors to the
Philadelphia Flower
Show, some 250,000
of them, enjoy flowers
in all of their varieties
and in dozens of
imaginative settings.
Adriene Presti (facing
page), owns Dahlia, a
flower shop in Pennington. She worked
on the Milanese couture exhibit on this
page. And yes, the
shoes are all made of
flowers.
interior design at FIT in New York,
she says that “I have always
worked in flower shops. Always.”
Mulray began his work with flowers at age 11. “I sold roses on Vine
Street,” he says. For Presti, a career
in the floral world also began in the
pre-teen years.
Now the mother of a two-yearold boy, Quinn, she spent her own
childhood in Bucks County. Her
father, Louis Presti, has just retired
from NJN, where he produced and
directed documentaries, many of
them about New Jersey. Among the
Emmy-award winning director’s
films are “On the Run”, a film
about runaway children, “In the
Barnegat Bay Tradition”, and “My
Pine Barrens Land”. After a nearly
40-year film career, Louis Presti is
now a part-time flower deliverer
and enthusiastic babysitter. His
wife, Cynthia Presti, a former
caterer and Commodities Corp.
employee, is also helping out at her
daughter’s shop.
Presti’s husband, Scott Brennan, helps out with building the
flower show sets and does some
work in the shop. Also on the team
is Bubbles, a very social orange
and white cat who came to the shop
as a struggling farm cat and stayed
on to become an exuberant greeter.
The family is assisted by about five
employees, a number that goes up
or down as wedding season peaks
and wanes.
A lifelong love of flowers ties
Presti and Mulray together, and
both revel in the total floral immersion that is the Philadelphia Flower
Show. “In the years that you are in
charge, you live there,” says Presti.
The week before the show, when
everything takes shape, is a dusty,
dirty, noisy — and totally glorious
— experience. The flowers, really,
are the least of it at this stage. They
will come later, just before the
show is set to begin. The pre-show
week is all about construction. “It’s
a huge, huge undertaking,” she
says. “There are backhoes, people
moving dirt.”
Everywhere in the cavernous
convention center there are the
sounds of hammering, sawing, and
drilling. All labor is union, says
Presti, rolling her eyes just a bit.
“You’re not allowed to lift a hammer, to move a board.” It can be
frustrating, she says. But, the wife
of a finish carpenter, she understands.
The budget for mounting a major exhibit, provided by the
Philadelphia Horticultural Society
(PHS), is substantial. The budget
for her 2002 central feature was
‘People can’t afford
to go to Italy this year,
but they can afford a
ticket to the flower
show,’ says Alan
Jaffe of the Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society.
$250,000, Presti says. She guesses
that the smaller exhibit in which
she is participating this year will
have a budget that is more like
$30,000 to $40,000. Mulray, asked
the exact figure, demurs, saying
that the PHS does not like to release budget details. Alan Jaffe,
spokesperson for PHS, does not to
name figures either, but he says
that his organization does subsidize exhibitors.
Jaffe, reached by phone just two
days before the show’s grand opening, says that preparations for this
year’s show went smoothly.
“There was some worry beforehand,” he says. Most of the tropical
flowers and plants for the show’s
exhibits are grown in Florida, he
explains, and there was some fear
that the state’s unusually cold winter would keep them from reaching
their peak in time. But their growers did manage to deliver the tropicals in perfect shape.
Jaffe doesn’t think that the recession will have much of an impact on attendance. It might even
help.
“People can’t afford to go to
Italy, but they can afford a ticket to
the flower show,” says Jaffe. “After a miserable, cold winter, it’s
something to look forward to.” He
says that the Italian theme was chosen because of the tremendous diversity of landscapes in that country. “You have Alpine rock gardens,” he says. “You have the Italian Riviera, Venice, Milan. You
have opera, art, food.”
New for this year is an Italian piazza. “There will be music, food,
and shopping,” he says. “Dozens
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ing food, clothing, and homewares
that you can’t get in the Philadelphia area — or anywhere in the
country.” This year for the first
time there will also be a wine shop
at the show.
In addition to the elaborate exhibits for which the flower show is
known, Jaffe says that there is a
large and growing competitive art
category. Included is a popular
pressed flower category. Artists
working in this medium come from
all over to compete. But the flower
show draws an especially large
number of floral artists from China
and from Japan.
The PHS website, at philadelphiahorticulturalsociety.org, is
chock-a-block with tips for making
the most of the show — take Amtrak and get a 20% discount, wear
comfortable shoes, bring a sweater
(the flowers like it cool), turn your
camera’s flash off unless you’re
going for a close-up shot. Asked for
his number one tip, Jaffe says that
visitors should give themselves
plenty of time to enjoy the show.
“It’s big,” he says, “and this year it
is bigger than ever.” A one-day
ticket is good for the entire day,
which stretches into the late
evening on most days. Visitors are
free to come and go. There will be
refreshment stands, but it is also
possible to spend a few hours in
Italy, go out to a favorite French or
Thai restaurant — or the to Reading Market, which is right across
the street — and then to go back to
enjoy more of the flower show.
Going to the flower show is
more than an escape from winter. It
is also a way to enrich Philadelphia’s environment and children.
PHS uses about $1 million from the
show’s proceeds to help fund
Philadelphia Green, an organization that works to establish com-
munity gardens, plant trees, and
educate young people. Money
comes in through admissions — at
$22 to $28 a person, less for children. It is also raised through sponsorships and from the 150 vendors
who sell everything from garden
tools to botanical art at the flower
show.
Working on the framework for
the Milanese fashion exhibit a full
week before the first visitors crowd
into the show, Mulray says that he
could have gone two ways in capturing the essence of Milan in flowers. “We could have been figurative,” he says. That option would
have involved having designers
create an feel for the spirit of the
city in an impressionistic way. But
Mulray went in another direction.
“Milan is the capital of Italy’s fashion industry,” he says. “We decided
to go literal with it.” The exhibit he
designed is all about fashion, it’s
couture is practically wearable.
“There are four different designers making dresses,” Mulray says
in an interview during the early
stages of the run-up to the show.
“There are 20 pairs of shoes, 16
handbags, 10 to 15 sets of jewelry.”
One dress is made of branches and
sticks, another of dried flowers, a
third of fresh flowers. Each set of
jewelry includes a floral interpretation of a necklace, a bracelet, earrings, and in some cases a broach.
In addition to the couture, there are
15 to 20 “cutting-edge art pieces by
people like Adriene,” he says. Contributors to the Milan exhibit, and
to the central feature of which it is a
part, come from across the country
and from around the world. The
Milan exhibit alone used the talents
of 11 floral designers, 20 floral
artists, and 25 volunteers.
“In the week before the show
we’re here day and night,” says
Mulray. “It’s non-stop, and I love
it. I’m lucky to get up every morning and do work that I love.”
The hard lifting is over when the
show opens, but the work is far
from over. Exhibitors stay close
throughout the show. “We greet the
public. We watch for any problems,” say Presti. The exhibitors
try to discourage visitors from
picking, falling into, or otherwise
molesting the flowers. This is a
largely impossible task, she says,
but staying close does help. Exhibitors generally do so, and are on
hand to answer questions about the
blossoms in their displays.
B
ut when the long show day
ends, at 9:30 p.m. on most days, the
work is far from over. “We go in the
middle of the night to check water
levels,” say Presti. “We replace any
broken flowers.” Maintenance is
big, she says. “They give prizes for
maintenance.”
Breathe deeply: The calendar says spring is still
weeks away, but, more reliable than the groundhog, the Philadelphia Flower Show promises that
winter will soon be over.
Halfway through the show, says
Presti, all of the flowers in all of the
exhibits are thrown away and replaced with new flowers.
Many of the flowers come from
abroad. Presti says that flowers
from Holland are nearly guaranteed to arrive in perfect condition.
But “nearly guaranteed” is not
enough. Not for the biggest flower
show. “I order back-ups,” she says.
“I’ll have local and Dutch. I’ll use
whichever comes in better.” This
caution springs from the year that
her flowers arrived with broken
stems. But, interestingly, she doesn’t worry all that much about what
most people would think of as the
biggest challenge of a very-earlyMarch flower show — getting a
huge variety of glorious flowers in
full bloom in the dead of winter.
“There are flowers. We can always find flowers,” says Presti.
“We’re pretty flexible. If we can’t
find one kind of flower, we’ll use
something else.” She can’t recall a
single flower calamity in all her
years of exhibiting at the show.
There have been other crises, however. “The year I chaired the central
feature I got a call at 6 a.m.,” she recounts. “A piece of the exhibit had
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collapsed. Someone had watered
too much.”
The marathon that is the flower
show, an eight day event preceded
by one solid week of work, can pay
dividends other than the pride of
creation and the pleasure of being
surrounded by like-minded people.
Presti says that she has frequently
won business as a direct result of
her participation. The best way for
a floral designer to achieve this,
she has found, is to give presentations. This year there are dozens.
There are presentations on how to
care for specific flowers — daffodils, African violets, orchids,
roses, cacti. There are also presentations on caring for young trees,
hardscaping in the garden, forcing
bulbs, flower arranging, and attracting birds to gardens.
Among the presentations in the
Gardener’s Studio section of the
flower show is “Great Gardens for
a Green Lifestyle.” This is a popular topic in the flower world right
now. Asked about the biggest
change she has seen in her work as
a florist, Presti says right away that
there is a growing shift to green —
not the color, but the movement.
“I’m seeing brides who want an
eco-friendly wedding,” Presti says.
Weddings are a big part of her business, so Presti has already become
an authority on the subject. She has
identified overseas growers who
“provide a good environment for
the workers and use different methods of growing that are environmentally friendly.
“I have vases made of recycled
glass,” she adds, “and tablecloths
made of natural fibers.”
In addition to weddings and other large events, Presti does corporate work, placing fresh vases of
flowers on reception desks every
Monday. Among her clients, until a
very recent budget cut-back, was
the Drumthwacket Foundation, the
non-profit group that restored the
governor’s mansion, curates its
public rooms, and keeps it looking
its best. Presti confides that Governor Corzine is partial to lilies and
fragrant flowers (he may now have
to go to the flower show to smell
them), and that her floral shop is
“bi-partisan.” She did the flower
arrangements for Christie Whitman’s daughter’s wedding, and has
gotten along well with all of
Drumthwacket’s tenants — save
one. “Dina McGreevey was always
complaining about something,”
she says.
Presti’s business did not feel the
recession until last fall, but she
says that it has already started to
pick up. “Valentine’s Day was just
about what I expected,” she says.
“It was on a Saturday, and when it’s
on Saturday, people go out to dinner. They like to send flowers to offices, not to homes.” This makes
sense, as a big part of receiving a
big bouquet of roses is showing it
off to workmates. So Valentine’s
Day was a little slow. But it seems
that, recession/depression or no,
people are still getting married.
Presti’s calendar is full of wedings.
She is finding, however, that “people are shopping around more.”
All-in-all, the business that
Presti started 10 years ago is doing
well. Presti thinks that flowers,
luxury that they may be, can provide an outsized lift in tough economic times. She predicts that
when everything is tallied, the
Philadelphia Flower Show will
turn out to be a big success this
year. “I have no concern that it will
be hurt by the recession,” she says.
“It’s uplifting.”
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Getting There: The flower
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Hours: The show is open from
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March 4, through Friday, March 6.
It is open from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
on Saturday, March 7, and from 8
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Tickets: Tickets are $22 if purchased in advance. They are available online through Ticket
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4000-16,000/SF
Al Toto - [email protected]
www.112Titusmill.com
West Windsor, 13,000/SF Sale or Lease
Fast Lane
says. “But none of them were like
this one.”
Asked the reason she shut her
doors, she says: “Look at the name
of my business. Do you see the
word ‘employment’? Nobody is
hiring.”
Davis specialized in filling administrative assistant jobs when
she started her business. But, she
says, that job title began to disappear when computers appeared on
the scene, and it became nearly extinct “when bosses learned how to
use them.”
With her bread-and-butter job
placement assignments all but
gone, Davis developed a whole
new specialty. Her agency morphed into an employment service
for the financial service industry.
She placed traders, accountants,
and back office workers for small
to mid-size financial firms. She
ticks off a partial client list — Watermark, Willow Bridge, Caxton.
There is no hiring going on in their
industry, she says, adding that
some companies in that category
are “just trying to keep their doors
open.”
After months of very little business, Davis, who had weathered
severe downturns in the past, decided it was futile to remain in
business. “Every day I was open, I
was shoveling money out the
door,” she says.
Davis, already researching her
next move, says that it made more
sense to do so at home. She’s looking into job recruiting for “green”
industries as one possibility.
“I’m 60,” she says, “but I’m not
old. I’m energetic. I ride an 1,800pound horse. I want to work.”
Bowed a bit, but optimistic,
Davis cuts a phone interview short
to go ride her horse, Harley.
Lorraine Davis Employment
Inc., 13 North Main Street,
Cranbury.
THE DAILY PLAN IT
www.dailyplanit.org
A Complete Office, Conference & Copy Center
with a Prestigious Princeton Address
Flexible Packages to Suit Your Office Needs
Whether you are looking for full time or part time
or virtual office, the DPI has a solution for you.
Prices start from
as little as $75
1st Month RENT FREE WITH ONE YEAR LEASE!
William Barish - [email protected]
Princeton, 1750/SF, Office Condo
6 Private offices, conference room,
Reception area - corner unit - 12 Roszel Road
Al Toto - [email protected] - reduced price $299,000
Sale, Income Property,
Ideal for Owner User - 8A/Jamesburg
Kevin Coleman - [email protected]
For more information and other opportunities, please
call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
For more information or a tour contact Steve at
609-514-9494 or email [email protected]
Leaving Town
Healthcare Providers Direct
Inc. (HPRD), 376 96th Street,
Stone Harbor 08247; 609919-1932. Norman Proulx,
CEO. Home page: www.healthcareprovidersdirect.com.
Norman Proulx, whose company has a 10-minute blood-prick test
for AIDS, moved his five-person
firm out of 3371 Route 1 South, at
Lawrence Commons, on February
27.
Proulx majored in accounting at
Boston College, Class of 1969, and
has an MBA from Boston University. After heading such companies
as
Gillette,
Scripto,
and
Williamson Blades, he entered
New York’s venture capital scene.
He took over Gynetics, the company with the “morning after” contraceptive, after it had run the Food &
Drug Administration gauntlet and
sold it in 2004. Now Healthcare
Providers Direct has 12 rapid diagnostic tests on the market and is developing a couple more in clinical
trials.
His home office now overlooks
the water and is near to the Stone
Harbor Golf Club, the 40th most
difficult club in the nation. (With a
7.9 handicap, Proulx can now play
year-round.) The move is also convenient for two other family members in the business: his wife, Janet,
and his son, Jeff. They take care of
the business angles and outsource
the regulatory efforts.
A drop of blood and a 10-minute
wait can reveal if a patient has
AIDS. The test sells to doctors for
about $8 and is sold only in the
United States. Proulx declines to
say how many test units he sells a
year. “We do pretty well,” he says.
CMC Americas Inc., 666
Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro.
Home page: www.bri.com.
CMC Americas has left its
Plainsboro Road offices. The software company, which changed its
name from Baton Rouge several
years ago, has specialties in data
warehousing and networking services.
Phones at its offices have been
disconnected. A message on its
website reads “domain name is
MARCH 4, 2009
currently parked.” There is no forwarding information.
Chapman Associates, 475
Wall Street, Princeton Home
page:
www.chapmanusa.com.
Merger and acquisitions firm
Chapman Associates has closed its
Wall Street office. A representative
at Chapman’s headquarters, in
Schaumberg, Illinois, confirms
that the one-person office is gone.
Chapman, founded in 1954, specializes in mergers involving midmarket companies, which it defines as businesses with more than
$3 million in gross revenue.
The company representative
was unable to provide information
on why the Princeton office had
been closed.
Cognos Corporation (COGN),
1 Independence Way, Princeton 08540-6621. Home
page: www.cognos.com.
Cognos, the software developer
that was acquired a year ago by
IBM for $5 billion, appears to have
left its offices on Independence
Way.
IBM no longer lists New Jersey
among its collection of offices
worldwide. Forty employees
worked from the Princeton office.
Last August, eight months after
the acquisition was finalized, the
Massachusetts Ethics Commission
began investigating Cognos over a
pair of state contracts (totaling
about $17.5 million) and some alleged payoffs involving assistants
of the state speaker. As of December the federal government has
joined the investigation.
IBM, which did not own Cognos when the contracts were made,
has refunded the money and is cooperating with the state investigations.
Crosstown Move
Correction
Action International Business Coaching, 5 Almond
Court, West Windsor 08550;
609-375-2387; fax, 609-3752001. Marshall Calman, principal. www.actioncoaching.com/marshallcalman.
Marshall Calman, who opened a
central New Jersey branch of Action International Business Coaching, has moved his offices from
Overlook Drive to Almond Court.
Calman, who gives talks on
business practices, often makes the
point that every business has challenging times. “In challenging
times business owners need new
strategies to get back to growth,”
Calman says.
A 1980 graduate of Roger
Williams University in Rhode Island, where he earned a bachelor’s
degree in electrical and computer
engineering, Calman earned an
MBA from Farleigh Dickinson
University in 1989. He joined the
Action International franchise after spending 20 years in the corporate world
In a Fast Lane article in the February 25 issue, we incorrectly implied that just one Gloria Nilson
GMAC office, the location on
Alexander Road, has been acquired. In fact, according to a company press release, “the former 16
company-owned offices will now
become franchised offices of
GMAC Real Estate.”
Gloria Nilson GMAC Real Estate, in turn, has been has been purchased by SCS Realty Investment
Group LLC, a firm led by 40-year
real estate veteran Dick Schlott.
As part of the agreement, Gloria
Nilson GMAC Real Estate will
continue to operate under that
name and will become a franchisee
of GMAC Real Estate, owned by
Brookfield Residential Property
Services.
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OFFICE CONDOS - Lawrenceville
1100-20,000 SF
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William Barish [email protected]
Helene Klein, 60, on February
26. She was a vice president at
Merrill Lynch for nearly 20 years.
Available - Near Train - 9300 SF
777 Alexander Park. Will Divide, Great Signage
Immediate Occupancy, Cafe On Site
Princeton Commerce Center
2950 SF, Immediate Occupancy
Just Off Route One at Meadow Road Overpass
www.29emmons.com
Office/Professional - Cranbury
700-21,000 SF. Forsgate Drive/Route 32,
Jamesburg. Various divisions possible.
Kevin Coleman [email protected]
Commercial Property Network
609-921-8844 • www.cpnrealestate.com
For more information and other opportunities, please
call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
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COMMERCIAL
PROPERTIES
& BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SALE OR LEASE
JUST
LISTED!
Just Listed - Hamilton Twp. - 4,100 Sq. ft. store/showroom & warehouse. Located on active corner near
295/195. Now being used for home improvement business/construction. Single-family home also available
w/extra commercial lot. Priced right: $539,900.
JUST
LISTED!
Just Listed - Center of Robbinsville - Route 526/Main St. - 2½-story colonial in prime location w/use
approval for professional offices. Excellent for small office use or in-home office. Priced right: $495,000.
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HOW TO ORDER
Phone, Fax, E-Mail: That’s all it takes
to order a U.S. 1 Classified. Call 609452-7000, or fax your ad to 609-4520033, or use our E-Mail address:
[email protected]. We will
confirm your insertion and the price. It
won’t be much: Our classifieds are just
50 cents a word, with a $7 minimum. Repeats in succeeding issues are just 40
cents per word, and if your ad runs for 16
consecutive issues, it’s only 30 cents
per word. (There is a $3 service charge
if we send out a bill.) Box service is available. Questions? Call us.
OFFICE RENTALS
Bordentown City: Office suites in historic converted coal/lumber yard. 600 SF
$750/mo. two rooms. 900 SF $1125/mo.
three rooms. 1800 SF $1950/mo. six
rooms. All suites have bright windows,
OFFICE RENTALS
OFFICE RENTALS
AREA OFFICE RENTALS
Princeton, Trenton, Hamilton, Hopewell, Montgomery,
Ewing, Hightstown, Lawrenceville and other Mercer,
Somerset & Middlesex Communities. Class A, B and
C Space Available.
For details on space
and rates, contact
www.WeidelCommercial.com
some have hardwood floors and high
ceilings. All have private entrances, private bathrooms, individual signage,
parking. Please call George 609-2982062, [email protected].
Cranbury Village: 1 person private
office in professional building. Shared
waiting room. Parking. $500/month utilities included. 609-655-3493.
East Windsor, Route 130. 1 or 2 person private office in professional building. Shared waiting room. Ample parking. High visibility. $375 monthly. Call
609-730-0575.
Hightstown: Office (333 sq. ft.), shop
(667 sq. ft.) combination, HVAC for office, bathroom, plenty of parking. Perfect for small contractor or distributor.
No fabrication allowed. $900 per month
plus utilities. Call 609-448-6628.
Monroe Township, 450 SF building, across from Clearbrook, behind Accountant’s Building. $850/mo. 609-6558700.
JUST
LISTED!
JUST LISTED - HAMILTON TWP. BEAUTY SALON - Prime location. Right off 295 w/large corner parking lot & large
3-BR apt. on 2nd flr. Priced right: $424,900 w/all equipment included. Modern/perfect condition.
JUST
LISTED!
NEW LISTING - ROUTE 130, EAST WINDSOR DEALERSHIP/RETAIL BLDG. - Sale/lease. 12,450 SF auto sales &
service. 8,450 SF service, 2,700 SF showroom, 1,300 SF office. Possible redevelopment opportunity. Other uses incl.
auto parts store, restaurant, bank, day care, pet shop, paint or liquor store, appliances, strip ctr. Equipment included.
Just Listed - Trenton/Lawrence Twp. Line - 4,000 Sq. ft. warehouse w/office w/14 ft. ceiling. 1 acre of fenced
storage. Perfect for construction, transport. co., or auto body shop.
YOUR OFFICE IS WAITING! Hamilton Twp. Office & 2 apartments. Approx. 1400 SF. 5-room w/2 entrances & 2
full tile bathrooms. Located a few blocks from 195/295 in growth area. Available immediately. Listed at only
$295,000.
Hamilton Twp. Prime corner location w 4 stores and 2 2-BR apts. Great location for deli, pizza or other retail uses.
$695,000.
For more information call
Bonanni Realtors 609-586-4300
Montgomery Knoll: Skillman address. CPA with 1,500SF space wishes
to sublet 12’x12’ ground floor windowed
office. $500 to a CPA or attorney, $700
otherwise. Call or email Henry 609-4972929; [email protected].
Pennington - Hopewell: Straube
Center offices from virtual office, 25 to
300 square feet and office suites, 500 to
1,700 square feet. From $100 per
month, short and long term. Storage
space, individual signage, conference
rooms, copier, Verizon Fios available,
call
609-737-3322
or
e-mail
[email protected] www.straubecenter.com
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
Available for Lease
Princeton
Parking Available for All Sites
• 195 Nassau Street - 212 to 230 SF - Office, Parking, Nr. Prin. Univ.
• 812 State Road - 182 to 580 SF - Office
• 50 Hightstown Road - 680 to 810s SF - Office
Lawrence Township
• 2500 Business Route 1 - 375 to 1,464 SF - Office
• 168 Franklin Corner Rd. - 550 to 5,282 SF - Office - Parklike Setting
Pennington
• 55 Route 31 - 8,000 to 12,000 SF Warehouse/Flex - Will Divide
Hamilton
• 2101 East State St. - 3,300 SF (Flex)
• 127 Route 206 - 350 to 2,660 SF - Office
Monroe Township
• One Rossmoor Dr. (Nr. Exit 8A) - 508 to 6,952 SF - Office
Bordentown
• 3 Third Street - 1,978 to 2,008 SF - Office - Parking Available
• 101 Farnsworth Ave. - 340 to 1,054 SF - Office
• 4 W. Park St. - 630 SF - Office
Middletown Twp., PA - Near Oxford Valley Mall
• 1723 Woodbourne Road - 327 to 2,087 SF - Office
Penns Park, PA - Between New Hope & Newtown
• 2324 Second Street Pike - 800 to 1,750 SF - Office/Retail
Doylestown, PA
• 400 Hyde Park - 2,215 to 2,750 SF - Office
Thompson Realty 609-921-7655
MARCH 4, 2009
OFFICE RANTALS
COMMERCIAL SPACE
CONTRACTING
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or email [email protected]
dio, prof, couns, web, massage. MUST
SEE! Brian at 609-731-0378 or [email protected].
from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Princeton - Heart of Downtown:
single office with shared conference and
coffee rooms, parking available. Professional, non-therapeutic uses only with
low client traffic. Call 609-252-1111.
Princeton - Montgomery Commons: 1660 (+/-) sq. ft. office space for
lease. Prestigious mailing address.
High speed Internet available. Prime location. Excellent visibility. Building 8
units 821 and 822. Immediate occupancy. Raider Realty. 908-874-8686.
Princeton Area Office for Lease.
Unionline Building in downtown
Kingston, 1000SF, new construction,
great light, generous parking. Weinberg
Management 609-924-8535.
Princeton Junction: Prof. Office
space in highly visible spot near trains.
All utilities/maintenance included in
rent, except electric. Units from $450 to
$2330 per month. Call Ali at Re/max of
Princeton 609-452-1887 or cell 609902-0709.
Princeton Professional Park, off
Route One. 600 sq. ft. - Furnished. Perfect for Law Firm, Medical, CPAs, Consultants. Call 732-329-1601 for details.
Princeton- 192 Nassau St. Two single offices available for lease. 251 SF &
404 SF. Can be leased individually or
combined. Please call 609-921-6060 for
details.
Princeton- Research Park Rt. 206
opposite Princeton Airport. 878 SF four
room office & 919 SF open space with
small kitchenette, please call 609-9216060 for details.
Princeton-Nassau Street: Sublet 13 rooms, 2nd floor, includes parking/utilities. Call 609-924-6270. Ask for Wendy.
Temp Office Space, Cranbury:
250sf furnished private office and/or
workstations. Includes VOIP phones,
fax, printing, internet, conference room,
administrative services and kitchen
amenities. Seconds from 8A interchange. $1200/month and $300 per
workstation. Call 609-642-4118.
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Unique Rental Space zoning (I3), ordinance passed for retail and recreation
activities, ample parking all utilities, one
1200’, one 1500’, one 6,250’, one 2500’
and one 3600’. Located at 325 and 335
New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call
Harold 732-329-2311.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
HAMILTON WAREHOUSE - Call the
“Flexperts”! 700 to 100,000 SF WH/
Dist/ Showroom/ Ofc/ Shop/ Mfg/ Studio. Units Avail. CHEAP RENTS! Creative modern recycled new sunny
spaces. Great locations, immediate occupancy. Hi ceilings, load docks, drive
ins. 700 sf office @ $945. 2,000 sf @
$1595. 4,000 sf @ $2595. 7,000 sf @
$2,900. 16,000 sf @ $7,900. Other
sizes available. ASK ABOUT OUR
$.99/SF SPECIAL DEAL! MUST SEE!
Brian @ 609-731-0378 or [email protected]
Lambertville Office - Bright, creative
spaces with tons of style at low prices:
300 SF @ $495/mo.; 600 SF @ $695
and 1500 SF @ $1995. Perfect for stu-
Nassau Street Storage Space: 1227
SF and 2671 SF basement storage.
Clean, dry, secure space. Call 609-9216060 for details.
Office/Retail: 2 store fronts, 1 secure
outside display area. Will divide. Main
Street, Kingston. Sale or lease. Owner
financing. Available January 2009. 609903-5590.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Bordentown, furnished, suitable for
one person. Sitting room and kitchen
combined. Bedroom and bath. Private
entrance. Central AC, wall to wall carpeting. $775/mo. + security and electric.
609-298-4730.
Graf Avenue, Lawrenceville: NJ
house 2/2 with a full basement, shed in
the backyard and 3 car parking spaces
out off the street. House is fresh renovated and minimum energy costs. No
pets, non-smoking. Available from 3/10.
Call 239-673-9383.
Hopewell 2 Bedroom Apartment
(Princeton charm without the congestion): 2nd floor convenient location
near shops and restaurants. Newly renovated. Washer/dryer. $1200 + utilities.
Call 609-306-9333.
Lawrence Twp. House for Rent: 3
BRs, 1 1/2 Bath, LR/DR, Kitchen, full
basement, off-street parking, great
neighborhood / schools. $1400 pm 609902-0709.
Townhouse for Rent: Princeton
area/Montgomery Woods. Open and
Roomy 2 BR ,Loft,2 1/2 Bths,
W/D,DW,Garage,Montgomery school
dist. $2000/mnth + utilities. 1 1/2 mnth
sec. dep. no pets, smoke free. 908-9308924
ROOM FOR RENT
Somerset - Large Furnished
Room: Clean, very quiet. Cable, light
kitchen,
nonsmoker.
$450/month.
$50/month for the garage. Convenient
to Routes 1 and 287. 732-828-4106.
REAL ESTATE SERVICES
Baml Foreclosures Free list of
Homes for Sale: FREE daily list by
email with photos. www.theforeclosuredeals.com RE/MAX Tri County
CONTRACTING
Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Hauling/All Yard Work
CLEANING SERVICES
Cleaning Lady Available: Excellent
references, affordable prices, days,
evenings and weekends. Serving Plainsboro, Princeton, W. Windsor and Skillman areas. Please call Sandy 609-7997319 or [email protected].
Patty’s Cleaning Service: Serving
Plainsboro,
the
Windsors,
the
Brunswicks, and Brandon Farms since
1978. Thorough, honest, and reliable.
Free estimate. 609-397-2533.
SCRUBADUBDUBResidential/
Small business. cleaning, free estimates,
affordable prices, references, once/ bimonthly/weekly. Bonded/ Insured. Proprietor Jody Daly 609-213-5755.
HOME MAINTENANCE
Handyman: House call for electrical,
computer service, project or chores
around the house. No job is too small.
Reasonable rates! Call 609-275-6631.
Interior Painting: Professional work
and craftsmanship. Small jobs okay. Brian 882-5457.
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Time for a Change?
Commercial Space
for Lease
Buildings for Sale
Ewing
Lawrence
• 6,300 sq. ft. multi-tenant
office bldg.
Great upside potential.
Reduced $495,000.
• 5,000 sq. ft. Will renovate
to your specs.
Ewing
• 800-2000 sq. ft. in professional
park. Near Rt. 31 & TCNJ.
• Near Lawrence Border.
1,000 sq. ft. 1st month FREE.
Trenton/Lawrence Border
• 12-unit apartment
money-maker. $725,000.
Hamilton
• 630 sq. ft. across
from Applebee’s. Great location.
• 2,025 sq. ft. Newly renovated.
Ideal for many uses.
• 1,000 sq. ft. retail on Rt. 33.
Florence
• 2,000 to 17,000 sq. ft.
on Route 130 at NJ Turnpike.
Will renovate to your specs.
Bensalem, PA.
• 500-1,950 sq. ft. Near
Neshaminy Mall & PA. Turnpike.
Real Estate
Management Services
Hopewell Boro
• 1,400 sq. ft. office/retail.
7 Gordon Ave.
Lawrenceville
Pennington
• 275 sq. ft. 2-room suite
at Pennington Circle.
609-896-0505
BUSINESS SERVICES
Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs. Many
services available. Reasonable rates.
Call Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit
www.v-yours.com.
COMPUTER SERVICES
Computer Problems Solved!!:
Computer group of Princeton: set-up,
repair, software installation, virus removal. Phone 609-896-2239 or email:
[email protected].
COMMERCIAL
DIVISION
PREMIER PROPERTY
MS Access Development: We build
custom business processes to streamline and control day-to-day tasks of running a business. No upfront payments
and Fee Estimates. Contact Michael @
(609) 462-8388 Email: [email protected]
PHOTOGRAPHY
We are professional photographers, available for any events: weddings, bridal showers, baby showers,
birthdays, sweet sixteens, etc. Starting
from $300. [email protected]
or 732-821-2695.
OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE
MONTGOMERY KNOLL CONDO
Tamarack Circle - off Route 206
1900 sf - Will Subdivide
5 Large Offices + Reception + Baths
Wheelchair Accessible
Ample Parking - Quiet Setting
Call 908.281.5374
Meadow Run Properties, LLC
Bordentown Twp. - Investor, user/owner opportunity 22,300SF office building with Triple A location in Bordentown
Twp. High traffic count. Call for details.
OFFICE SPACE
Ewing - Office - 7,000 +/- SF, medical office building available for sale.
Ewing - Office - Attractive 4 office suites. 620 SF to 1,368 SF. Close to I-95, U.S. 1
& Princeton. Favorable lease rates.
Ewing Twp. - Shared space in existing 1st floor medical office.
Hopewell - Ideally located, offering high visibility on the main street of Hopewell
Boro. 1,250 +/- SF 1st floor office and/or retail space. Available for lease.
Montgomery Twp. - Economical office suites, 550 SF, 204 +/- SF & 211 +/- SF,
which can be combined for 1,335 +/- SF. Lease. On 206.
Pennington - Two (2) suites available for lease. 1,584 +/- SF. Rt. 31 near I-95.
Plainsboro - 400 +/- SF office space in professional office park.
Trenton - Totally renovated 2850+/-SF office bldg. available for Sale.
6 Offices, large reception and kitchen.
RETAIL SPACE
Ewing Twp. - Ideal for food use. 1,000 SF to 2,000 SF available for lease
located in neighborhood shopping center.
Hamilton - Two (2) units available or sale in neighborhood center on Rt. 33. 2,377
+/- SF each or 4,755 +/- SF combined. Retail or office.
Hamilton - 1,600 +/- SF and 1,200 +/- SF available in neighborhood
shopping center.
Hightstown - Lease - 1,000 SF in busy shopping center.
Trenton - 6,000 +/- SF to 24,000 +/- SF available for lease.
Close to government buildings and courthouse. Large show windows.
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Branchburg Twp. - Sale or lease warehouse/shop space. 350 SF to 50,000 SF.
Ewing Twp. - 8,800 +/- SF for lease. Warehouse or office.
Hamilton Twp. - 3,840 SF warehouse space available for lease.
North Brunswick - Investment property. 8,300 +/- SF building with three tenants. 100% occupied.
Trenton - 5,395 +/- SF. Sale or lease. 1,600 +/- SF 3-bedroom apt., a 500 +/SF beauty salon and 3,295 +/- SF 1st floor space. Ready or you.
LAND
Lawrence Twp. - .2.28 +/- acres in professional office zoning.
South Brunswick - .75 acre located on the northbound jug handle of Route 1
and Major Road. All utilities. Available for sale.
West Amwell Twp. - 5.4 +/- acres zoned highway commercial, conceptual plan
with some permits for 15,592 +/- SF bldg.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Hamilton Twp. - Profitable pet and pet supply store located in active shopping
ctr. Business only for sale.
Montgomery Twp. - Barber shop business for Sale, having three (3) chairs and
one (1) wash station in the Montgomery Shopping Center.
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Trenton - 2-family building near downtown, government buildings & courthouse.
Weidel Realtors Commercial Division
2681 Main Street • Lawrenceville, N.J. 08648
609-737-2077
CCIM
Individual Member
Certified Commercial
Investment Member
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AVAILABLE FOR LEASE
MARKETING SERVICES
Write For You. Communications pro
creates web copy, ads, e-blasts, sales
brochures, newsletters, reports, presentations. Anne Sweeney PR. 732329-6629 www.annesweeneypr.com
[email protected]
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bookkeeping for your bottom line.
QuickBooks certified user. Call Joan today at Kaspin Associates 609-4900888.
TAX SERVICES
Individual And Business Tax
Preparation: E-filing, Quick response.
Sobha Mandava CPA, 609-651-0201.
[email protected].
PENNINGTON BUSINESS PARK
55 ROUTE 31, PENNINGTON, NJ
PERSONAL SERVICES
8,000 to 12,000 Sq. Ft.
Flex/Warehouse/Office
1.5 Miles North of Pennington Circle
Transporter: Retired professional,
30 years local driving experience, will
safely drive your car to business, medical, shopping, airports. If no license,
senior citizen, unable to drive, call 609773-0459.
Thompson Realty 609-921-7655
What Does 2009 Have in Store? Ask
the cards. I do meaningful tarot card
PERSONAL SERVICES
ENTERTAINMENT
readings for individuals or parties. Call
609-203-0526.
Mercer, Burlington and Bucks Counties.
Hall of Mirrors has opened for Spiraling
(an ensemble led by keyboardist Tom
Brislin of: Yes, Debbie Harry’s solo
band, Meatloaf, and Camel), and has
performed with the Gerry Hemingway
Quintet, Lisa Bouchelle, and Sharon Silvertein. Please call Vaughan at 609259-5768 for inquiries. Respectable
charities only, please.
TRANSPORTATION
Man with a full sized car available
for pre-scheduled trips. Commuters
and small to medium sized moving jobs.
References available upon request.
Galen M. Valley. 609-672-8365.
HEALTH
A-1 Body Massage: Route 206,
Princeton. Telephone: 609-921-7889.
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.
Massage By Marina: Soulful, nurturing, eclectic and caring. Four hands.
Cell 609-468-7726, 609-275-1998.
The Best Chinese Massage Therapy: Treatment for: Headache, nerves,
neck pain, shoulder pain, sciatica and
more. 947 State Road, Princeton. Call
609-688-1848.
MENTAL HEALTH
WOODSIDE AT THE OFFICE CENTER
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Having problems with life issues?
Stress, anxiety, depression, relationships... Children and adults. Free consultation. Working in person or by
phone. Rafael Sharon, Psychoanalyst
609-683-7808.
INSTRUCTION
Lessons in Your Home: Music lessons in your home. Piano, clarinet, saxophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Suites of Approx. 800, 909 & 1,818 (Fully Furnished) Sq. Ft. Available
Modern, One-Story Office Buildings
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Park-Like Setting
609-799-0220
Math, Science, English & SAT Tutoring: Available in your home. Brown
University educated college professor.
Experienced with gifted, under-achieving and learning disabled students. Free
initial consultation. Call Bruce 609-3710950.
Music Lessons - Farrington’s Music: Piano, guitar, drum, sax, clarinet,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin. $28 half
hour. School of Rock. Join the band!
Princeton 609-924-8282. Princeton
Junction 609-897-0032. Hightstown
609-448-7170. www.farringtonsmusic.com.
Need a Life Coach? Are you challenged by disorganization, procrastination, time management, goal setting or
attentional issues? Our experienced,
certified coaches can help you find effective strategies and tools. Contact us
at 609.216-0441, [email protected], www.odysseycoaches.com.
Science and Math Tutoring: Biology, Chemistry, Algebra, Geometry.
Taught by college professor. 17 years
experience. Recipient of two national
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ENTERTAINMENT
Real Estate
[email protected]
New Jersey Rock Band Available
for Benefit Concerts: Hall of Mirrors is
a dynamic, original, rock band influenced by classic rock, progressive rock,
classical and world music. The group
has performed at many premier clubs in
BILLBOARD
New Jersey Rock Band Available
for Benefit Concerts: Hall of Mirrors is
a dynamic, original, rock band influenced by classic rock, progressive rock,
classical and world music. The group
has performed at many premier clubs in
Mercer, Burlington and Bucks Counties.
Hall of Mirrors has opened for Spiraling
(an ensemble led by keyboardist Tom
Brislin of: Yes, Debbie Harry’s solo
band, Meatloaf, and Camel), and has
performed with the Gerry Hemingway
Quintet, Lisa Bouchelle, and Sharon Silvertein. Please call Vaughan at 609259-5768 for inquiries. Respectable
charities only, please.
AUTOMOTIVE
2005 Toyota Corolla LE Sedan: One
owner. Power windows and locks. 6 CD
Changer. Brakes installed no more than
6 months ago. Retail value for $11k.
Selling for $9k or best offer. Call 908392-3231.
MERCHANDISE MART
Computer with XP: Good condition.
$100. Call 609-275-6930.
MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob
at 609-577-3337.
WANTED TO BUY
Business Wanted: Private individual
looking for a business to buy in the
Princeton/ Lawrenceville/ Mercer County area. Prefer B2B, but will consider
any profitable small business or turnaround opportunity. Frank 831-7600007.
Wanted - Baseball Cards/Memorabilia: Football, basketball, hockey.
Cards, bats, balls, photographs, programs, autographs. Highest prices paid.
908-596-0976.
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PERSONALS
Free Classifieds for Singles: And
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mail us your ad, address it to U.S. 1 Singles Exchange, 12 Roszel Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540. Include your
name and the address to which we
should send responses. We will assign
a box number and forward all replies to
you ASAP. People responding to your
ad will be charged just $1. See the Singles Exchange at the end of the Preview
Section.
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Route 31 - Pennington
Retail/Medical Space For Lease
1640 N. Olden Ave.
at the Corner of 5th St.
2500 SF with a 2500 SF
basement. Recently renovated,
decorated. Kitchen/Bath/Upscale
Home Improvement Center
that went out of business
with most displays in tact.
It has a large fenced-in side
yard and a parking lot.
Al Toto, Senior Vice President: 609-921-8844 • [email protected]
Exclusive Broker
609-392-0092
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Resume to [email protected].
Fast Paced & Growing Technology/Security Consulting firm Based at
Carnegie Center in Princeton, NJ:
seeks a Full Time or Possible Part Time
(3 days per week) Qualified Assistant to
work on various office tasks. Candidate
must be proficient in Microsoft Office
Suite (Power Point, Word, Excel, etc.).
Must have a pleasant attitude & enjoy
being around people. Must dress and
act professional. Candidate must have
some
understanding
of
Marketing/Sales. Candidate must be a
self starter who can work with direction
or on their own. Must be able to travel to
Norwalk Connecticut for administrative
training and once a month meetings (all
expenses paid). Successful candidate
must be able to attend various trade
shows in NJ-NYC-Philly area up to 5
times a year (all expenses paid). Other
duties will include: keeping web based
time sheets and expense reports, writing proposals, Project Management
support, scheduling, working with Architectural & various clients direct. We do a
fair amount of Law Enforcement work
and background checks are mandatory.
Candidate must be able to work 40
hours per week from 8:30AM TO 5PM
Mon-Fri. Paid holidays & vacation.
Health Care benefits and 401k are also
offered (full time only). Salary is dependent on experience. All ranges considered. We are an equal opportunity employer. [email protected]
Full-Time Nanny Wanted for Immediate Start in Plainsboro Home. Call
732-371-8045.
Part-time Receptionist, Lawrenceville Chiropractor’s Office: Professional, friendly candidate must be detailed, multi-task, enjoys a fast-paced
environment. Fax resume if you are an
individual with professional and caring
qualities. Hours: M - Th 4:45 p.m. - 8
p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Fax resume:
609-912-1908; call: 609-912-0440.
Princeton Racquet Club needs a
part-time permanent person from 6:30
a.m. to 2 p.m. for the Saturday and Sunday shift. Must be willing to sub on weeknights if needed. Need a take charge responsible person with some computer
knowledge. Duties include answering
phones, taking and entering registrations and helping customers at the front
desk. Prefer a person with strong communication skills and problem solving
ability in order to resolve any issues that
may occur. Please send email to [email protected] or stop
by the club to fill out an application at 150
Raymond Road, Princeton NJ, 732-3296200.
Thai Hostess/ Chef wanted for
Princeton Restaurant: 609-356-8913
or [email protected].
CAREER SERVICES
Career Coach to 2 Major Outplacement Firms: Coach and provide winning resumes/ cover letters. Karen
Tombacher 609-987-8717.
Certified Professional Resume
Writer, Licensed Career Counselor:
Assessments/job search/career. Resumes/cover letters. Guarneri Associ-
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ates. [email protected]. 866-8814055 toll-free.
Marketing position in Mercer County. I
have several years of experience and
proven business contributions in a corporate office environment, including:
marketing, budget management, events
management, customer service, executive administration and new business
development. I also have strong timemanagement, project management, analytical, verbal, written, multi-tasking, interpersonal, communication, organizational, presentation, negotiating and
troubleshooting skills. Email [email protected], or call 732-8048475.
Job Worries? Let Dr. Sandra Grunfest, licensed pscyhologist and certified
career counselor, help you with your career goals and job search skills. Call
609-921-8401 or 732-873-1212 (License #2855)
JOBS WANTED
Job Hunters: If you are looking for a
full-time position, we will run a reasonably worded classified ad for you at no
charge. We reserve the right to edit the
ads and to limit the number of times they
run. If you require confidentiality, send a
check for $4 with your ad and request a
U.S. 1 Response Box. Replies will be
forwarded to you at no extra charge.
Mail or Fax your ad to U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted, 12 Roszel Road, Princeton, NJ
08540. You must include your name, address, and phone number (for our
records only).
Business Operations / Project
Manager (PMP): High energy manager
/ leader with a great story that can help
you manage and improve your business
- Although my degree is in Computer
Science, I was once chased down the
street by angry drivers during a fraud investigation, and worked with unions to
get rid of problem employees. I started
my career as a programmer and have
enjoyed steady progression, becoming
a successful manager, and finally the
Operations Manager / Director for a
$10M bottled water manufacturer and
distributor. I have strong experience in
programming, IT management, networking, sales management, department management, inventory, customer
service, business development, and a
reputation for getting things done. I believe in Kaizen (continuous improvement). Email [email protected]
or call Cliff at 908-296-7532.
Marketing Professional with Marketing Degree in search of a full-time
Painting Pricing
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220 Alexander Street • Princeton, New Jersey 08540
www.juliusgross.com • [email protected]
609-9
924-1
1474
Meeting Planner/ Non-Profit Administrator: Experienced award-winning Event and Meeting Planner and
Non-Profit Administrator with over 13
years of experience in the non-profit
field seeking a position with a non-profit
or corporate organization. My background includes development, production and marketing of major events, golf
outings, tours, meetings and seminars,
membership development and retention
and chapter administration. I can support your organization in meeting its financial goals in this challenging time.
[email protected]
Multi-disciplined executive and attorney with leading edge experience in
management principles, policy development and implementing business plans.
Improves quality and reduces expenses
in: corporate services, facilities management, real estate, legal contracts/
agreements, construction, supply chain
management for purchasing, office
services, loss prevention/ security, crisis
management and travel services. Possesses strong leadership and interpersonal skills and an ability to partner with
internal stakeholders and external customers. Contact [email protected] 609-936-9224.
Program Management Professional overseeing projects with budgets in
excess of $5M. Strong advocate of standardized Project Management methodologies with background in developing
and deploying Project Management Offices (PMO) and best practices. Management includes supervising technical
staff, strategic planning, and new business development. Team builder with
proven ability to function effectively at
executive levels. Demonstrated success in communication, staff development, account & client relationship management. Diverse industry project experience supporting both the public and
private sectors. Enthusiastic, creative
leader able to motivate professional
technical staff to meet all deadline on
time and in budget. Additional background in ITIL and Six-Sigma deployment. Please contact Gary at 609-5813730 or [email protected].
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Medical/Office
Plainsboro Village Center, Schalks Crossing & Scudders Mill Rd.
Plainsboro, NJ
SF Available 1,000 to 20,000 ■ Mixed Use ■ Town Center
Development ■ Newly Constructed Building, Elevator Service
Close proximity to new Princeton Medical Center
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101 Poor Farm Road, Princeton, NJ
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Completely Renovated ■ 3 Sides of Windows
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832 Ridgewood Ave., North Brunswick, NJ
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2936 Route 1, Lawrence, NJ
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200 Whitehead Road, Hamilton, NJ
Sports and Entertainment Factory
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