Princeton`s Business and Entertainment Weekly
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Princeton`s Business and Entertainment Weekly
Unemployment Meets Faith, page 4; Gifts for Foodies, 16; Dickens in the Present, 33; Fulfillment Firm Fills Up, 39. Indie Pop Meets Folk Rock: Hamilton native Sharon Kenny debuts her new CD in a November 28 concert at Hamilton Manor. Event listings page 12. 25, MBER 2009 Business Meetings 9 Preview 12 Opportunities 27 PRST STD Singles 32 U.S. POSTAGE PAID Jobs 42 Permit No. 199 Contents 52 Princeton, NJ 08540 VE © NO Good Book or E-Book? Monsignor Walter Nolan of St. Paul’s in Princeton faces the same dilemma as the rest of us when sorting out the latest digital devices. Doug Dixon sizes up new products, including the Amazon Kindle, pictured here, and its new rival, the Barnes & Noble Nook. Page 34. Monsignor Nolan, who already links to his parishoners via his BlackBerry, Blackberry, finds the Kindle, well, tempting. PHOTO BY FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Princeton's Business and Entertainment Weekly Jamie Saxon reports, page 37. Telephone: 609-452-7000. Fax: 609-452-0033 Home page: www.princetoninfo.com 2 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 While it may seem hard to believe that we are almost one Richard K. Rein Editor and Publisher Jamie Saxon Preview Editor Scott Morgan Business Editor Lynn Miller Events Editor Sara Hastings Special Projects Craig Terry Photography Barbara Figge Fox Senior Correspondent Vaughan Burton Production Bill Sanservino Production Manager Diana Joseph-Riley Martha Moore Account Executives Lawrence L. DuPraz 1919-2006 Founding Production Adviser Stan Kephart – Design1986-2007 Michele Alperin, Elaine Strauss, Joan Crespi, Simon Saltzman, Euna Kwon Brossman, Bart Jackson, Pat Tanner, Richard J. Skelly, Doug Dixon, LucyAnn Dunlap, Kevin Carter, Anna Soloway Contributors U.S. 1 is hand delivered by request to all businesses and offices in the greater Princeton area. For advertising or editorial inquiries call 609-452-7000. Fax: 609-452-0033. Or visit www.princetoninfo.com Copyright 2009 by Richard K. Rein and U.S. 1 Publishing Company, 12 Roszel Road, Princeton 08540. people who were all too familiar with the topic — fellow small business owners who felt they could decade into the new millennium, it have written the same article themis nevertheless true. And the 2009 selves and were glad that someone calendar on the wall — as well as had done it. We were also surprised at how that 2010 calendar we are preparwell our readers know us after all ing for the printer — confirms it. About that 2010 calendar: We these years. In the November 18 isare still entering dates into our sue we reported on the opening of events database, not just for the some affordable housing units in coming year but also for the com- Princeton Borough. Sandra Pering weeks. It is never too late to tell sichetti, executive director of us about an event, or to add details Princeton Community Housing, to an event already submitted. At sent the following E-mail: the very least we can add the infor“Congratulations on 25 years of mation to our website, princetonin- U.S. 1! In these days of shrinking fo.com, which is updated daily. print media, it is quite an accomBut if you want your event to be plishment. considered for inclusion in the “Also, I loved the juxtaposition hard-copy wall calendar, to be dis- of placing the Leigh Avenue (aftributed Christmas week, now is fordable) ribbon cutting article the time to speak up. E-mail with both the $4.35 million house [email protected]. sale and the Palmer And while we are on Square units. We have the subject of calenbecome a community of Between dars, we will remind economic extremes and The everyone of the blindthis one page says it peringly obvious: U.S. 1 fectly! Keep doing what Lines will be closed Thanksyou are doing — the pagiving Day, but open per is a real asset to the communion Friday, November 27. ty.” A postscript to our 25th anniverReaders have obviously caught sary issue on November 11. We on to most of our tricks. But that’s have continued to get E-mails, probably a good thing. phone calls, and even old-fashAnother especially satisfying ioned hand-written notes congratulating us on our relative longevi- letter came from the mailroom suty. We were surprised at how many pervisor at Dow Jones’ South readers had obviously slogged all Brunswick campus from 1983 to the way through Richard K. Rein’s 2003. Now retired, Jerry Welsh 5,000-word reminiscence. The wrote: “WOW! 25 years? It seems most appreciative seemed to be like only yesterday I started getting requests from all over the campus for the latest U. S. 1. You’ve come U.S. 1 WELCOMES leta long way! My congratulations!” ters to the editor, corrections, Without the support of lots of second thoughts, and critipeople in mailrooms and at recepcisms of our stories and tion desks across the corporate columns. E-mail your landscape, we at U.S. 1 would not thoughts directly to our edihave made it to age 25. This Thurstor: [email protected]. day we know whom we should thank. INSIDE Survival Guide 4 Where Unemployment Meets Faith The Changing Face of Health Benefits Scott Morgan: The Executor’s Last Lessons Reviewing the All-Important Business Plan Business Meetings Best Bets 4 5 6 8 9 10 Holiday Gift Guide 11 Preview 12-33 Day by Day, November 25 to December 3 Pat Tanner Theater Review: ‘The Royal Family’ Theater Review: ‘Three Mo’ Divas’ Theater Review: ‘A Moon to Dance By’ The Newark Museum Pulls Out Its Earliest Collection Life 101: Where Do We Start? Opportunities At the Movies U.S. 1 Singles Exchange Charles Dickens: Four Generations Later Fast Lane 39 Jobs Classifieds 12 16 19 20 21 23 25 27 31 32 33 40 42 For advertising or editorial inquiries, call 609-452-7000. Fax: 609-452-0033. Mail: 12 Roszel Road, Princeton 08540. E-Mail: [email protected]. Home page: www.princetoninfo.com © 2009 by Richard K. Rein. For articles previously published in U.S. 1, for listings of scheduled events far into the future, consult our website: www.princetoninfo.com. Company Index Amazon.com, 34; Archos, 34; AT&T, 34; Barnes & Noble, 34; BlackBerry, 35; Capacity, 39; Delaware River Basin Commission, 40; Delaware Valley United Way, 40. Firmenich, 40; Google, 34; GPSEG, 40;Karcher Associates, 8; Key Financial , 5; La Cie, 38; Lansing, 38; McCarter Theater, 40; Microsoft, 35; Motorola, 36. NexMed, 39; NJ Symphony, 40; Novatel, 35; OmniComm, 39; Omnivest, 39; Optima, 38; PD/LD, 39; PDQ Press, 40; Plantronics, 38; Princeton School District, 40; ProFACT Proteomics, 40. Rider University, 40; Sprint, 34; Strayer, 39; StrikeForce Technologies, 40; TESC, 39; Total Administrative Services, 5; Trinity Church, 4; Verizon, 35. We bring over 30 years of experience, and provide you with advice you can trust. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Family Law Civil Rights/Employment Litigation Real Estate and Business Litigation Criminal Law/Municipal Court Mediation and Arbitration of Divorce, Family and General Civil Disputes ❖ 2009 NJ Supreme Court Certified Matrimonial Specialist ❖ 2007, Legend of Dispute Resolution Award, NJ State Bar Association ❖ 2006-2009, Best Lawyers in America ❖ 2007, Top Mediators in New Jersey, NJ Biz Magazine ❖ 2005 Special Recognition Award for Legislative Advocacy, NJ State Bar Association ❖ 1999 A.D.R. 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We are now accepting most dental insurance plans Call our office and we will optimize your coverage. 1941 S. Broad St. Hamilton NJ Corner of S. Broad & Chambers Sts. Melvin S. Babad, DMD Fine dental care since 1975 609-396-9491 www.melvinbabaddmd.com e all have pictures in our minds of the unemployed, but for most of us, the important part of the picture is that the unemployed person doesn’t look like us. Yes, we know in our heads that unemployment hits white collars just as often as it does blue. Those of us who feel safely employed are sure that somehow, if we were in their situation, things would be different. We would not be out of a job for six months, nine months, a year. Our credentials are better. We have better connections. We would just work harder. It won’t happen to us. The Jobseekers group, which meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 22 Mercer Street, helps dispel that notion. The group has been meeting weekly, except when Christmas and New Year’s fall on Tuesday, since it was founded in 1982. There is no cost for meetings and reservations are not necessary. For more information call Trinity Church at 609-924-2277. The first thing you notice when entering a Jobseekers meeting is that everyone there really does look just like you. They are middle-income, middle aged, and come from all types of careers. There are engineers, CPAs, academics, business analysts, pharmaceutical researchers, and corporate lawyers. It’s not too surprising in New Jersey, a state with one of the highest percentages of college graduates in the nation, that everyone in the room has at least one degree. In fact, several had more than one masters or Ph.D. A common topic of conversation is “dumbing down” the resume. “I’ve taken two degrees and 20 years of experience off my resume,” reports one participant. “Did it help?” he is asked. “No,” he admits. “I’m still being told I’m over qualified.” Joe Levy, one of the facilitators for the group, is also unemployed. A systems engineer and management consultant, he first joined the group as a client in 2003. When Jobseekers founder, Niels Nielsen, died, Levy and a few other alumni stepped in and became facilitators for the group. He has been committed to the group ever since, even when he has had full-time employment. While Levy has been out of work before, this time it is different, he says. New Jersey has seen its share of mergers, corporate takeovers, downsizing, and layoffs in the past, but this time the number of people being laid off and the variety of industries affected is much more widespread. R. Greg Wheeler, one of the participants in the group, explains that the tasks of searching for a job and keeping up your spirits are in- Working On It: Greg Wheeler, a frequenter of Jobseekers, says networking with other unemployed folks is vital. terrelated. “I’m an engineer. Maybe that’s why I approach both as a system,” he explains. Wheeler received his masters in electrical engineering in 1980 from Clarkson University in New York. He has worked for several companies, large and small, over the years. He’s been a project manager, a director of new product development, and a vice president. He holds several patents. His last job was as director and senior customer programs manager for Motorola. “I’m really good at putting together high performance teams, working with smart people to take a project from the concept stage all the way through production,” he explains. Wheeler is a single father with four children, three of whom are still in college. A long-time resi- NOVEMBER 25, 2009 dent of the area, he has lived in Mercer County for the past 22 years. Luckily, he says, that gives him equity in his home. While so far he has been able to continue the tuition payments for his children, he has decided that he will put his home on the market if that becomes the only way to keep his children in school. “One of the most difficult things to do is keep up your spirits while seeking a job,” says Wheeler. “It affects so many areas of your life. First and foremost, the sense of self-esteem we feel from having a job is taken away. Second, it is often difficult to measure success during the job search. Finally, there is the knowledge that you are not providing for your family, and the embarrassment of suddenly having to seek unemployment or other assistance.” Your unique process. “There is no manual out there that gives a step-by-step process that you can follow and guarantee you’ll have a job at the end,” says Wheeler. Understanding that fact helps keep up a person’s spirits in the early phases of a job search. “The first thing you have to do is develop your own process,” he says. That can include networking, making phone calls, developing several resumes, each tailored to a particular type of job. The second thing to do: “Acknowledge that it’s tough,” Wheeler says. Take care of yourself. Wheeler and many of the other participants at the Jobseekers meeting recommend exercise as an important way to keep up your spirits. “Exercise every day if you can, but at least three or four times a week,” says Wheeler. Not only will exercise help keep you in good shape physically and mentally, exercising with others at a gym, or just something as simple as organizing a walking group, gets you out with other people. After years, maybe even decades, of spending every day with co-workers, the loneliness of being at home can be difficult for many people. Set daily goals. Finding a way to measure your progress is important in many ways, Wheeler says. “It can be difficult to get away from worrying about the job search. You go to bed at night thinking about, you wake up in the morning thinking about it.” Setting specific goals — making 10 phone calls, completing and uploading an online resume, attending a networking meeting — makes it easier to stay calm, knowing you have accomplished something specific in your search for a job. “Once you’ve done that you can relax for an hour and watch a TV show or go to a movie and know that you’ve done something positive for your search,” he says. Network. Networking is one of the most important parts of any job search. There are several types of networking that anyone seeking a job should do. Networking with others who are also looking for work is invaluable. There are several groups in the area besides Job- seekers, and it never hurts to attend several of them. While it might seem counter-intuitive to network with others who are also looking for work, Wheeler says that other job seekers can help you navigate the ropes of unemployment benefits and the search for new training, or give you tips on businesses that are hiring. Knowing others who are in the same boat as you is also one of the best ways to keep up your spirits. You should also be networking trade groups in your industry. “Make sure you that some of your networking includes groups where most of the people are employed,” says Wheeler. These are the people ‘One of the most difficult things to do is keep up your spirits while seeking a job. It affects so many areas of your life.’ who might be looking to hire someone. Get a career coach. “Career coaching is a rather new industry that has sprung up because so many people are unemployed,” says Wheeler. Many career coaches have been unemployed themselves at some time and “understand the ropes.” They can also help you develop a process, explain the details of using websites such as Monster.com, set goals, and give accountability. There are a wide variety of job coaches with a wide variety of price ranges, says Wheeler. One of the most important things to keep in mind, says Wheeler, Levy, and others who have been unemployed more than once, is that the job market will turn around. Being ready when that happens means that you will have a head start on finding that new job. — Karen Hodges Miller Wednesday, December 2 The Changing Face Of Health Benefits A s health benefits have evolved over the last 32 years, Robert Dash of Key Financial Group has been in the thick of it — implementing employer health plans. He started 32 years ago, when most companies still offered a base plan of Blue Cross for hospital expenses and Blue Shield for physician expenses in the hospital. As technology advanced, Blue Cross/Blue Shield added Rider J to cover the expenses of new tests and treatments, for example, radiation. Eventually major medical was added to Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage to reimburse for doctor visits and lab work done outside of hospitals. Employees were allowed to go to any doctor or hospital and would submit a claim form for reimbursement. The insurance company would reimburse according to a chart of “usual, customary, and reasonable charges” — still used today for out-of-network expenses; the doctor would then bill the patient for the remaining balance. Over the last two decades managed care — whether in the form of HMOs, preferred provider organizations, or point of service plans — has largely replaced its predecessors. Managed care brought with it a significant change in the healthcare system. Physicians sign a contract with the insurance carriers requiring them to work within the plan design and accept the co-pay and the negotiated discounted rate as payment in full. “It was the first link that connected the health insurance industry with the medical profession,” says Dash. Dash is worried that managed care has completely disconnected consumers from the real costs of healthcare. When he asks people whether they know what a doctor charged for a particular service, they are clueless. All they seem to know about is the size of their copay, which is not all that surprising, since 92 percent of the claims filed in this country are filed in network and the individual is only responsible for the co-pay. Dash will speak on “The Changing Face of Health Benefits,” for the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants on Wednesday December 2, at 8:15 a.m. at the Holiday Inn, 195 Davidson Avenue, Somerset. Other speakers are Jack Hippen, vice president of sales for Total Administrative Services Corporation, and Lisa Otto, regional sales director in New Jersey and New York for the same company. Cost: $40. Visit www.njscpa.org. What really interests Dash is how to run the system more efficiently, and he prefers a consumerdriven approach built on consumer awareness of healthcare costs. “When, as a consumer, was the last time you bought any kind of product or purchased any service without knowing the price?” he asks. Furthermore, people usually do not buy something until they have competitively shopped enough to know they are getting a decent deal. But none of these basics apply in the managed care arena. Although managed care did bring together the medical community and the health insurance industry, says Dash, what it has failed to accomplish is controlling and managing costs. 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Katherine K ish, Presiden t NJBiz Top 50 Wo in Business men Too many changes coming too fast? Too little information to make decisions? Too few clear paths? Helping you move ahead with confidence on strategic and marketing directions. Market Entry, Inc. 609-799-8898 WBE/SBE certified [email protected] ductibles. These plans can reduce costs for business owners without necessarily raising them for employees. The components are twofold: High deductibles. These reduce claims costs for the insurance company and premiums for the employer. Deductibles, says Dash, go back to the original intent of health insurance, which is coverage that protects employees and their families from catastrophic health costs. “A consumer-driven health plan is really one that operates like most insurance operates,” he says. “If you own a car, you have insurance with a deductible.” The deductible, explains Dash, keeps smaller “nuisance claims” away from the carrier, which has to pay the same handling and processing expenses for any claim, regardless of size. Because the deductible is set at a threshold where a statistically large number of people never exceed it, carriers have a reduced amount they have to pay out. These factors lower the cost to the carrier, which passes the savings on to the employer. This can reduce premiums by 25 to 40 percent in comparison to managed care. Taxes. Using the tax code, employers can pay all or part of the employee’s deductible cost. The high deductible is great for the employer, who pays a reduced premium, and for the health insurance industry, which has reduced numbers of claims. But what about the employee whose potential out-of-pocket exposure has gone way up? 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Any money the employer contributes toward the employee’s unreimbursed expenses is tax free for the employer. Section 105 offers two options for the employer. With a health savings account, the employee has an account similar to a 401k to which the employer contributes money. If employees get sick and incur expenses, their expenses will be reimbursed, but they get to keep whatever money they do not use for medical expenses. The incentive for employees, says Dash, is to be more aware of costs and not to run to doctors unnecessarily. “We are trying to educate consumers to become more knowledgeable and conscious of costs and how to manage those costs as they relate to their own family and health,” he says. The health reimbursement arrangement is a plan whereby the employer reimburses employees for unreimbursed medical expenses. Whether employers contribute all or just 80 percent of the deductible, they have reduced their fixed costs, which are the premiums, and recognize a potential cost, the amount of the reimbursement. Dash recently created a health reimbursement account for a firm with 40 employees that reduced the employer’s gross costs by $104,000. Looking at the worst case scenario of reimbursing the entire deductible for every employee, the employer’s maximum liability was $48,000. These plans, of course, need to be qualified plans, with appropriate documentation and government sign offs. Dash comes from a blue collar background in Elizabeth. His father started off as a milkman, moving from Brooklyn to Elizabeth because Dash’s grandfather and uncle were in the same business. His father founded the Dash Box Company, which made and mended the wooden cases that housed glass milk bottles; Dash helped out in the business. Eventually his father started to buy and manage property. “I attribute most of my success to my blue collar values: make more and spend less,” he says. Dash saw himself as a street kid growing up, but at Thomas Jefferson High School, a public high Continued on page 8 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Scott Morgan A n advantage of being the baby of the family is getting to learn your lessons from watching everyone screw up. The flipside is, you’re the go-to guy when it hits the fan. In the last year of her life, my mother (who had me when she was almost 40) repeatedly told me that God had sent me to her so late in life because he knew she’d need me when she got old and sick. Not that I mind, but he could have called me about it. By nature of the fact that I a) was the one who lived closest and b) actually survived my parents, which two of my four siblings did not, I got to play grown up when my mother named me her executor. Don’t worry, I won’t rehash all that again. If you’re interested, feel free to refer to the June 10, 2009, issue of U.S. 1. Instead, I will give you the last set of lessons I learned from being an executor, which essentially is a list of jobs I would like to do less than I would like to tongue-clean my house. Attorney. My first college degree was an associate’s in criminal justice from Mercer County Community College. Being half the size of every criminal on Earth, however, I ditched plans to be a cop and entertained thoughts of going to law school. Had my criminal law teacher not scowled at me in a discouraging way, I might have given it a shot. By now I would have paid somebody to just shoot me. Despite that I get paid to find grammatical problems, I am not really a details guy. Minutiae irks me. And attorneys are entirely about the minutiae. Though there are approximately 6.84 trillion details to an estate transaction, details are impish. They like to break from the herd, spread out among every piece of paper in creation, and hide among galaxies of unimportant information. And they know that if you miss just one, its buddies will soak you in Vaseline and drag you into the prison yard. One positive is that I have developed a profound respect for attorneys and their per-hour rates. Stay strong, brothers! I’ll be glad to cut you a check next time. Finance pro. I figured out years ago that I couldn’t count to 21 without taking off my pants, so I always knew I didn’t have it in me to have a financial career. Taking for granted that I actually could do math, though, I still couldn’t handle its inflexibility. See, as a writer, if I put a period in the middle of this sentence, it’s a mistake that everyone will get over. But depending on where I put a period in this — 7500 — your Being the baby means having a great window to the future, but experience is just as enlightening. check will either make you really happy or really mad. I can’t live with that kind of pressure. As it is I’m already waiting for some number groupie to tell me that it’s not called a period when you’re dealing with numbers. Real estate agent. I call my real estate agent at least four times a week, at all hours. I don’t even call my wife four times a week, and I love her. Real estate people never seem to be off the clock, and that offends me greatly. I can make more money, I can’t make more time. So I don’t see the up-side of having your job follow you around on a wireless network. And knowing the kind of whiny crap I call my agent about at various hours (because she said I could) leads me to believe I’d last about two days before I started ending all my calls with words like “yourself.” Events planner. I’m good at getting things together, though much of my efficiency comes from the fact that my mother’s side of the family is all Italian women. Quarter horses do not move as fast they do through a phone chain. But I’m fairly capable of pulling stuff together. I just freakin’ hate it. No two people ever have the same schedule, and no one seems willing to get together unless there either is a dead body involved or free food. Ideally, there’s both, and you just tell your aunt the time and place and let the Italian phone chain take over. Remove the Italian women and Belly Fat? the buffet table, though, and coordinating people is about as fun as a beard of killer bees. Insurance agent. Need I say more? Mover. Seriously, need I say more? General handyman. My dad passed on his carpenter/handyman genes to two of my brothers. Whatever was left blew up in fragments in my hands, so I’m hit-or-miss when it comes to handywork. Preparing the house for a new set of residents has been ghastly. And my parents’ house was in fantastic shape. But decades have a way of weathering paint and scuffing baseboards and developing new electrical codes that outdate what you have in the house. I’ve spent seven months helping my brother (and my wife) patch, paint, buff, cut, re-fit, tighten, and trim things I never knew we even had. I’m a writer. I like my lifting to be confined to my coffee mug. U.S. 1 R O B I N N A L LY A D V E R T I S I N G & D E S I G N ADVERTISEMENTS • ANNUAL REPORTS • BROCHURES CATALOGUES • CORPORATE IDENTITY • DIRECT MAIL INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA • PACKAGE DESIGN PHOTO SHOOTS • P.O.P. 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At the University of Connecticut, where Dash met his wife, he majored in psychology and minored in sociology. “In sales and marketing, I use psychology and sociology every day of my life,” he says. “I attribute my success in sales to my understanding of the human mind, how personalities are formed, and what made us the way we are.” Dash and his wife have two children: Kevin, 25, who lives in Florida, and Nicole, 13. What Dash describes as his first real job was as a management trainee at Allstate Insurance Company. Although it taught him lots of basic business skills, he could see that he was not meant for corporate life. Even a move to a new office in Long Island with a nice raise was not enough to change his mind. One day when he was out on a job interview he was lost in the parking lot at Roosevelt Field, a big shopping mall in Garden City, and was approached by a couple of distinguished-looking men in three-piece suits. One of the men said to him, “You look lost. Are you looking for a job?” “I was a young guy looking around for addresses,” Dash recalls, “and the next thing you know I was selling life insurance for Phoenix Mutual. I had never sold anything in my life.” Dash stayed with Phoenix from 1977 to 1985. Realizing that he liked selling insurance and was good at it, he decided he did not want to be a career agent, but rather to meet and develop clients and find them the right carrier with the right product. He moved back to New Jersey and opened Robert Dash Insurance, which later became Key Financial. —Michele Alperin Business Plans Under Review W hen it comes to starting a business, it’s a matter of basic math: solid business plan + available financing options = show me the money. However, many new entrepreneurs underestimate the time it takes to develop a detailed busi- A business plan is the one thing lenders always ask for, so you have to put in the work and do it well. ness plan and effectively present it to potential lenders and investors, according to Karen Karcher of Karcher Associates in Chester, who says, though the equation seems simple, it still takes hard work and effort to ensure the numbers add up. Karcher will present “How to Obtain Financing and Business Plan Review” on Wednesday, December 2, at 6 p.m. at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg. Participants will receive a business plan critique, as well as advice and guidance from a financial institution representative. The seminar is free, but registration is required. Call 908-719-1027, or visit www.raritanval.edu. A business plan “is the one thing lenders always ask for,” Karcher says. “So you have to put in the work. It takes time to really do it well. The business plan makes you think through all aspects of your business. The business plan stares you in the face, holds you accountable, and helps you set goals and achieve them.” Karcher grew up in West Orange, where he father was a salesman and her mother was a homemaker. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Montclair State University and initially worked as a chemist, but she enjoyed business more. She then earned her M.B.A. in finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Karcher accepted a position with AT&T, where she was assigned to create a new business unit. “That meant putting a business plan together in order to have it be approved by the executives. After three times, we got final approval, and we created the AT&T Universal Card.” Karcher also oversaw a data center and created a plan that helped turn the business around in less than a year, taking it from the red to the black by merging centers to reduce operating costs. In 2001 she started her own business, which focuses on strategic business and marketing planning. She has also worked with Raritan Valley Community College’s Small Business Development Center since 2002, offering one-on-one counseling and teaching various seminars. “I love it because I get to meet all different types of people and learn about all different types of industries,” she says. Planning your business. Just as job seekers must have resumes, en- 25 YEARS AGO THIS PAPER STARTED WITH ONE SIMPLE THOUGHT: The new development on Route 1 wasn’t just creating traffic jams; it was also a community that deserved a newspaper of its own. WHAT BRIGHT IDEA DRIVES YOUR BUSINESS? Share the Eureka moment or defining thought that has helped your business thrive. As a sponsor of our 25th annniversary Survival Guide issue to be published Wednesday, January 6, you can take your place among the leading thinkers of the U.S. 1 business community. For more information contact Sara Hastings: 609-452-7000 or [email protected] Our writers are available to help you focus your thoughts — reserve space early.* 25 Years Later We Still Have Stories to Tell — Make Yours One of Them * For as little as $250, or even less for U.S. 1 contract advertisers. 25 Y EARS Y OUNG NOVEMBER 25, 2009 It’s All You: Karen Karcher says business plans are what focus you and what hold you accountable. trepreneurs must have business plans. Lenders and investors review businesses plans to determine how successful a venture will be, so the plan must be detailed, organized, and succinct, Karcher explains. “It’s sort of like a guide or a road map to get from Point A to B to C to D,” she says. “It keeps you accountable, and it’s a reference point and keeps you on track. It helps business owners make decisions and see how those decisions affect their business.” “Businesses that have business plans grow a lot quicker and are a lot more successful,” she adds. “You don’t want to do things that aren’t getting you where you want to go. If it’s not working, you need to take that step back and make changes.” Writing a solid business plan. According to Karcher, a solid business plan should include several components, including a description of the business, outline of the target audience, marketing ideas, organizational structure, operating plan, overview of the competition, your industry experience, and your current clients or contracts. “Discuss your business success so far and show that people are willing to buy from you,” Karcher says. “You need to really define your target market so you can market effectively, and you need to look at your competition and figure out how you’re going to compete. If you don’t know who your competition is, you’re not going to be able to differentiate your business.” Another essential component, Karcher says, is financial, both cash flow and potential for return on an investment. “Lenders are going to look into the financial to make sure they are realistic. They want to make sure they’re going to get their money back. You need to forecast your cash flow and show that it’s a positive. When you’re out of cash, you’re out of business.” Show me the money. The most common sources for financing, particularly for start-up businesses, are banks, credit unions, venture capitalists and angel investors, Karcher says. “Networking is still key,” she says. “It’s all about getting people excited about your business. That’s where the business plan comes in. And you had better know what you’re talking about. You can’t wing it.” It’s always important to do that research piece and make sure that you’ve done some due diligence on your target market and your goods or services and that you can show you’ve gotten some traction by having clients,” she adds. Other financing options, Karcher says, include a microloans and Small Business Administration loans. Microloans are typically offered for $35,000 or less through community nonprofit programs; SBA loans are typically between $100,000 and $2 million, and the organization guarantees 90 percent of the loan to the lending bank. “The purpose of the SBA loan is to encourage banks and credit unions to loan to small business,” Karcher explains. “It’s a safeguard for the bank because they want to make sure they get that money back.” While it might be more difficult to obtain financing during the country’s current economic tur- moil and credit crunch, Karcher says the down market actually provides an excellent learning opportunity for entrepreneurs, particularly those working on a business plan. “You have to understand the economy and how it will affect your business, and how you’re going to manage through the good times and the bad times,” she says. “You’re going to see the highs and lows of the economy, and you need to figure out now how to handle the highs, even growth, and the lows. You have to look at all the pieces of the puzzle.” —Kristin Boyd Business Meetings Saturday, November 28 10 a.m.: We Are BOOST, “Beanwood Networking & Grand ReOpening,” free. Beanwood Coffee, Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, [email protected]. 609-379-2885. Monday, November 30 10:30 a.m.: Get Hired Today!, Weekly meeting for unemployed professionals, $5. Center for Relaxation, 635 Plainsboro Road. 609-750-7432. Tuesday, December 1 7 a.m.: LeTip Networking Group, Tuesday Morning Networking, free breakfast. Clarion Hotel at Palmer Inn. 609-243-7860. 7:30 a.m.: Amper, Politziner & Mattia, “Your Annual Financial Checkup,” Robert Bechtel, Magyar Bank, $15. Call ext. 8516. RVCC, North Branch campus. 908-526-1200. 8:30 a.m.: Business Development Academy, “Financial Modeling and Forecasting,” David Wanetick, $595. IncreMental Advantage, 609-919-1895. Continued on following page U.S. 1 9 10 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Continued from preceding page 9 a.m.: NJICLE, “Civil Mediation Training,” four-sessions with Robert Marguiles, $850. NJ Law Center, New Brunswick, [email protected]. 732-2148500. 12:30 p.m.: Keller Center, “How to Write an Effective Business Summary,” Greg Olsen, free. Friend Center, [email protected]. 609-258-3979. 5 p.m.: NJICLE, “Intro to Chancery Practice,” Paul Rowe, $169. NJ Law Center, New Brunswick. 732-214-8500. 7:30 p.m.: Jobseekers, Networking and support, free, Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609924-2277. Wednesday, December 2 8 a.m.: Mercer Chamber, “Breakfast Club,”, $35 Chauncey Conference Center, 666 Rosedale Road. 609-689-9960. 8:15 a.m.: NJ Society of CPAs, “The Changing Face of Health Benefits,” $35. Holiday Inn, Somerset. 973-226-4494. 9 a.m.: NJICLE, “2009 Elder Law College,: Donald McHugh, $179. NJ Law Center, New Brunswick, 732-214-8500. 5 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, Trenton Chapter, “Why Not Wednesdays?” networking, free. Baldassari Regency, Morris Avenue, Trenton. 609-689-9960. 5:30 p.m.: Princeton Chamber, “Business Leadership Awards Gala,” $200. Jasna Polana, Lawrenceville. 609-924-1776. 6 p.m.: RVCC, “How To Obtain Financing and Business Plan Review,” Karen Katcher, free. North Branch campus. 908-218-8871. Thursday, December 3 7:30 a.m.: Bartolomei Pucciarelli, Business Getting Results, Michael Pucciarelli. Free for firsttime attendees. 2564 Brunswick Pike. 609-883-9000. 7:45 a.m.: Middlesex Chamber, “The New Normal — Preparing for Recovery,” Dennis Bone, Verizon, $45. Sheraton Hotel, Edison. 732-745-8090. 8 a.m.: Mercer Chamber, Robbinsville Chapter, monthly breakfast meeting and networking, free. Roma Bank Headquarters, Route 33. 609-689-9960. 9 a.m.: Lane4 Management, “Thriving on Pressure: Mental Toughness for Real Leaders,” Graham Jones, free. Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Witherspoon Street, [email protected]. 609-7598929. 6 p.m.: RVCC, “Networking: A Professional and Personal Necessity,” Vicki Lynne Morgan, $40. North Branch campus, [email protected]. 908-218-8871. Friday, December 4 8:15 a.m.: NJ Society of CPAs, “Annual Tax Seminar,” $145. MCCC Conference Center, West Windsor. 973-226-4494. 8:15 a.m.: NJ Society of CPAs, “Bankruptcy: What CPAs Need To Know,” $35. Holiday Inn, Somerset. 973-226-4494. 10 a.m.: Princeton University, “2009 Princeton Sports Symposium,” Ben Sturner, Leverage Agency, keynote, $50. Friend Center, [email protected]. . 11:30 a.m.: NJ SBDC, “Success Awards Luncheon,” $75. Forsgate Country Club. 800-4321565. Saturday, December 5 8:30 a.m.: NJICLE, “2009 Child Custody Symposium,” Stephen Ceci, Cornell University, $229. NJ Law Center, New Brunswick, [email protected]. 732-214-8500. 10 a.m.: We Are BOOST, “Healthcare Career Fair,” free. Be Loved Church, 471 Parkway Avenue, Trenton, [email protected]. 609-466-2819. PAMPER TO PERFECTION AT RADIANT SPA & SALON T his holiday season, treat a loved one to a day of guilt-less guilty pleasure with one of Radiant Spa & Salon’s luxurious holiday gift packages. The Radiance package offers a manicure, pedicure, mini-facial, makeup, and hair styling all for only $195. Or, look good and feel good with the Holiday Blisspectacular package. For just $299, get a spa manicure and pedicure, makeup, and hair styling, and relax with a one-hour facial and one-hour massage. The special lady in your life will feel like a queen for a day with a holiday gift from Radiant Spa. But if these packages aren’t for you, Radiant Spa Salon offers a wide variety of other services. Get a gift card today to be used toward skin care treatments, PCA correc- LET FRED ASTAIRE LEAD YOU ONTO THE FLOOR hy just watch “Dancing W with the Stars” when you can be the one danc- ing? This holiday season give the gift of dance at Fred Astaire Dance Studio. No partner or experience required: People of all ages and abilities can enjoy learning American ballroom and Latin-style dance in the studio’s fun atmosphere. Gain confidence and get a great workout while having a ball with Fred Astaire’s professional instructors. Gift certificates come in any denomination for group or private lessons and make a perfect gift for anyone on your list. Conveniently located in Princeton Shopping Center, the Fred Astaire Dance Studio offers an energetic and B estB ets tive peels, hair extensions, massages, or any of the spa’s other offerings. Radiant Spa is easily accessible from Route 1 in Lawrenceville and pairs the energy of a hair salon with the serene setting of a spa. Custom hair styling and spa treatments are available to every customer, and the small staff prides itself on creating a warm, welcoming, and enjoyable atmosphere. Stop by today to see the endless holiday gift possibilities Radiant Spa Salon offers. Radiant Spa, 25 Texas Avenue, Lawrenceville. 609-637-9600. www.RadiantSpaSalon.com See ad, page 19. exciting environment with chic decor, a state-of-theart light and sound system, and a full-sized ballroom. You learn from the best at Fred Astaire. Fred Astaire cofounded the company, and his curriculum of dancing fundamentals, style, and grace shapes the studio’s teaching. Today’s topnotch, international staff consists of award-winning, competitive dancers with as much passion for teaching as for dance. Fred Astaire has taught countless individuals to dance the “Fred Astaire Way.” Add a loved one to that number by giving the gift of dance today. Fred Astaire Dance Studio, 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton. 609-921-8881. www.fredastaireprinceton.com. See ad, page 30. NEW BALANCE: MADE BY THE HOME TEAM 93 fans are fanatical with 9 good reason. First, the 993 is made in America. More than that, fans love the superior comfort, style, and fit of the 993. The 993 is available in men’s sizes 7-16 B, D, 2E, and 4E widths and women’s sizes 5-13 2A, B, D and 2E widths. Come in and speak with our knowledgeable staff and get properly fitted for your New Balance footwear needs at the independently owned and family operated New Balance Princeton concept store, open seven days a week. New Balance Princeton, 439 Nassau Park Boulevard, Princeton. 609-720-0103. www.newbalance.com. See ad, page 22. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Holiday Gift Guide Get Ready For the Holidays With Koi SpaSalon uy a Koi SpaSalon gift B card for that special person on your list or pamper yourself with a massage, skin treatment, or new haircut with color to look your best for the holidays. Gift cards are available online at Koispa.com or by visiting Koi SpaSalon at 125 Main Street in Princeton Forrestal Village. Koi SpaSalon takes pride in having a caring, skilled, and knowledgeable staff, which provides its clients with the most beneficial therapeutic and aesthetic experience, using the best products available. Koi SpaSalon’s comprehensive menu of services includes varied massage, skincare, nailcare, makeovers, tanning and waxing services. The salon also offers complete hair care services for men and women including haircuts, styling, coloring, perm and straightening, as well as men's cuts and beard trims. Koi SpaSalon offers spa parties, a unique health and beauty opportunity for groups. Spa parties are a perfect way to celebrate any occasion. Koi SpaSalon can help you celebrate a bachelorette or bridal party, wedding day preparation, pre-prom, milestone birthday, job promotion, graduation, family reunion, employee recognition, team building, or final exam prep party. PRINCETON AIRPORT’S GIFT OF ADVENTURE hen you are looking for a gift that will alW ways be remembered, try giving an Introductory Flying Lesson from Princeton Airport. Whether the person has expressed an interest in learning to fly or you just wish to give a gift of adventure, an Introductory Lesson is fun for people of all ages and gender. The airport is open every day from 8 until dark year round when the certificate can be redeemed by appointment. An FAA-certified flight instructor will demonstrate the preflight inspection of the airplane to insure air worthiness. Then the person will be seated in the left seat of the airplane with the instructor Koi SpaSalon customizes each party to fit your group's needs. For more information, call and speak with a spa party coordinator. Koi SpaSalon, 125 Main Street, Princeton Forrestal Village. 609-720-0099. www.koispa.com in the right seat. Both will have their hands and feet on the controls. The instructor will talk the student through the take-off. For $69 the person will be in the air about 20 minutes and for $159 the person will be in the air for one hour. The time in the airplane will count toward a license if the person decides to pursue a pilot’s license. Either way, your gift will always be remembered. There are many other suggestions for those who are licensed pilots or for those who wish to become one. Check the website. To order a gift certificate, call Princeton Airport at 609-921-3100; visit the airport between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.; or order from the website: www.princetonairport.com under “SCHOOL.” See ad, page 15. U.S. 1 11 At Landau: Real Harris Tweed andau Princeton is proud Lshops to be among a handful of in the United States of- fering authentic Harris Tweed jackets, woven in four different go-with-anything cloths (each Tweed contains up to 20 different colors). Renowned for its quality, warmth, and durability, Harris Tweed is the only fabric in the world governed by an act of Parliament. The Harris Tweed Authority monitors all production. Every 50 meters of fabric is inspected and stamped, by hand, with the ORB found in every genuine Harris Tweed garment. Every jacket contains a reference number, which traces the jacket fabric back to the original crofter, and every jacket comes with real leather buttons and a mahogany hanger. Harris Tweed was born in 1846 on the remote Scottish Isle of Harris. The original fabric was like no other; dyed, spun, woven, and finished by hand. Since then the crofters of the Western Isles of Scotland have woven this magical cloth (in Gaelic, “The Big Cloth”) in their homes. Available in men’s sizes 38 short through 50 long and originally $750, they are now available for the Landau Holiday Special price of $399. Give a gift that will keep giving for the next 30 years, a real Harris Tweed! Landau’s of Princeton, 102 Nassau Street, Princeton. 609-924-3494. www.landauprinceton.com See ad, page 22. 50 Percent Off All Watches At Princeton North Diamond in the new and remodeled Princeton North Shopping Center, the big-name watches are on sale for the holidays: Rolex, Patek Phillipe, Citizen, Cartier, Movado, Heuer. Stop by to get a great deal on a timeless timepiece today! Princeton North Diamond, 1225 State Road, Princeton. 609-924-9400. See ad, page 28. 12 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 ART FILM LITERATURE DANCE DRAMA MUSIC PREVIEW DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, NOV. 25 TO DEC. 3 Wednesday November 25 IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Trim Your Tummy Tribal Belly Dance Class, One Yoga Center, 405 Route 130, East Windsor, 267-266-0297. www.tribalbellysryle.com. Level two, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Level 1, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. $16. 7:15 p.m. 32,000 Points of Light The annual Palmer Square tree lighting takes place on Friday, November 27, 4:45 p.m., with the Princeton High School Choir, Holiday Brass, and of course, Santa. Rain, snow, or shine. 609-644-3489. Painting by Kathy Moralda, owner of Cranbury Station Gallery, 25 Palmer Square East hibition and sale featuring works of Princeton artist Thomas George including brush and ink drawings, abstract oil paintings, watercolors, and the last remaining pastels of the Institute Pond series. Through Thursday, December 31. 9 a.m. Pop Music Drama An Evening with David Johansen, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Songs from the New York Dolls, his solo records with Buster Poindexter, the Harry Smiths, and covers. $25. 7 p.m. 3 Mo’ Divas, Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org. Musical journey featuring Laurice Lanier, mezzo soprano; Nova Y. Payton, soprano; and Jamet Pittman, soprano. Blues, jazz, soul, gospel, opera, and Broadway. $40 to $65. 7 p.m. The Producers, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m. Art Art Exhibit, PNC Bank, 2 North Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215862-1525. www.pnc.com. Exhibit of works by the late Jack Rosen, a photographer who documented decades of life in New Hope, includes photographs of Pearl Buck and George Nakashima. On view to January 31. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Exhibition and Sale, Princeton Area Community Foundation, 15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, 609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. Ex- Dancing Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m. To List An Event Send listings for upcoming events to U.S. 1 Preview ASAP (it is never too early). Deadline for events to appear in any Wednesday edition is 5 p.m. the previous Thursday. You can submit press releases to us by E-mail at [email protected]; by fax at 609-452-0033; or by mail to U.S. 1, 12 Roszel Road, Princeton 08540. Ephotos (300 ppi or above) should be addressed to [email protected]. We suggest calling before leaving home. Check our website, princetoninfo.com, for up-to-date listings, cancellations, and late listings. Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountry- dancers.org. Instruction and dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m. Comedy Clubs Jim Norton, The Stress Factory, 90 Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $46. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Faith Interfaith Prayer Service, Clergy of Lawrence Township, Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, 609-888-7909. “Many Stories, One God, One Town” features a collection of written stories and art pieces expressing the cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity in Lawrence. Canned food collection for the neighborhood pantry. Light refreshments. Donations invited. 7:30 p.m. Food & Dining Fall Tasting Series, Blue Point Grill, 258 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-921-1211. www.bluepointgrill.com. Prix-fixe fourcourse dinner for two. Register. $95. 5 p.m. PREVIEW EDITOR: JAMIE SAXON [email protected] Health & Wellness Mixed Level Yoga, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. $15. 5:25 to 6:35 p.m. Tribal Belly Dance Class, One Yoga Center, 405 Route 130, East Windsor, 267-266-0297. www.tribalbellysryle.com. Level two, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Level 1, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. $16. 7:15 p.m. Live Music Bob Shetzline, Limelight, 812 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-345-6330. Piano bar. 6 to 11 p.m. William Hart Strecker, Salt Creek Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-419-4200. 6 to 9 p.m. Clifford Adams Jazz Organ Trio, The Record Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.the-recordcollector.com. $12. 7:30 p.m. Among Criminals and Avra, All Call Inn, 214 Weber Avenue, Ewing, 609-882-9729. Free. 9 p.m. Lisa Bouchelle, Mike Matisa, and Dino Colarocco, Sotto 128 Restaurant and Lounge, 128 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-7555. www.sotto128.com. 9 p.m. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Could Mr. Ed Do This? Zensational, pictured with assistant trainer Kim McCarthy, is among the ‘horse artists’ in the online auction of Moneigh paintings — abstract paintings created by horses — starting Sunday, November 29 on eBay to benefit ReRun, a Thoroughbred racehorse adoption organization in Helmetta. Visit http://stores.eBay.com/The-ReRun-Shop. Museum Shop Holiday Boutique, Zimmerli Art Museum, George and Hamilton streets, New Brunswick, 732-9327237. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. Gift merchandise including woodblock prints, raku pottery, jewelry, and children’s books. Benefits museum programs. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; and Wednesday, December 2, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Singles Dance Party, Steppin’ Out Singles, Crystal Ballroom, Radisson, 50 Gibson Place, Freehold, 732656-1801. www.steppinoutsingles.com. Ages 40 plus. $15. 8 p.m. Thursday November 26 Thanksgiving. IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Burn Calories for a Cause Turkey Trot, Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, 609924-2277. www.trinityprinceton.org. 5K fun run walk on a scenic route through Mercer Street neighborhood that was home to Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, Woodrow Wilson, and Grover Cleveland. Benefit for the Crisis Ministry food pantry. Bring a canned good. Register. $30. 8 a.m. Drama The Producers, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m. Dancing Salsa Dancing, HotSalsaHot, Princeton YWCA, 69 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, 609-6517070. www.hotsalsahot.com. Three levels of class instruction plus social practice, $20. Only social practice, $7. 6:30 p.m. 13 Mediterranean Grill & Pizzeria 609-799-8900 Fax: 609-799-8819 5 Schalks Crossing Road Plainsboro, NJ We Deliver to Businesses & Residences Book Your Holiday Party Early! Let Us Cater Your Holiday Party M: 10am- 9:30pm T, Wed, Th: 10am - 10pm F: 10am - 11pm S: 3pm - 11pm Sun: 11:30am - 9:30pm Any Order $100 or Over Photo: Kathy Maher The Mixxtape, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m. DJ Darius, BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-9199403. www.btbistro.com. 10 p.m. Detour, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union Square, New Hope, 215-862-8300. www.triumphbrew.com. $5. 10 p.m. DJ Rocky, Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. $5. 10:30 p.m. U.S. 1 10% Off www. Positano Plainsboro.com Faith Community Thanksgiving Service, Princeton Clergy Association, Princeton University Chapel, 609-258-3000. Bring a nonperishable food item for the Crisis Ministry food pantries in Princeton and Trenton. 11 a.m. to noon. Fresh Made To Order Sushi Freshness is what matters in Sushi. Comparable in quality & freshness to the finest restaurants in the area. Live Music Tom Adams, Salt Creek Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. 6 to 9 p.m. Chris Harford and the Band of Changes, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m. Friday November 27 Teriyaki Boy can’ t be beat for its combination of well-prepared food and inexpensive prices. —Princeton Living $ 20 Sushi selections from 2.29 Choose from Teriyaki, Tempura, Udon or Combos & Platters. Over Take-out & Catering Service Available. All food is cooked to order in 100% vegetable oil. MARKETFAIR 609-897-7979 Fax: 609-897-1204 Mon-Thurs. 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 11am-7:30pm MARCELLO’S TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS EVE SEVEN FISH DINNER PLEASE MAKE RESERVATIONS IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Artful Gifts Sauce for the Goose, Arts Council of Princeton, Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-924-8777. Opening reception for the annual arts and crafts sale featuring paintings, drawings, ceramics, glasswork, holiday ornaments, greeting cards, photography, jewelry, hats, and scarves. Through December 21. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 4:30 to 7 p.m. Folk Music Battle of the Folk Projects Bands, Folk Project, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489. $7. 8 to 11 p.m. Art Holiday Studio Tour, Covered Bridge Artisans, The General Store, Sergeantsville, 609-3971535. Self-guided tour of mixed media artist studios featuring pottery, paintings, stained glass, hand-spun yarn, leather bags, baskets, and decorative boxes. Maps available online. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sidewalk Sale, Farnsworth Gallery, 134 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, 609-291-1931. Matted and framed liitededition prints by photographer David Simchock. Special one-day-only discounts. Meet the artist. 1 to 9 p.m. Continued on following page 14 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 November 27 Continued from preceding page Dancing Latin Class, Actor’s Dance Studio, 1012 Brunswick Avenue, Ewing, 609-213-4578. Register. $15. 7 to 8 p.m. Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-9310149. www.americanballroomco.com. $15. 8 to 11 p.m. Dance The Nutcracker, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org. American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School present the Tchaikovsky holiday classic with choreography by Graham Lustig and sets and costumes by Zack Brown. $35 to $45. 1 and 4:30 p.m. Drama Gilbert Gotttfried Saturday, 11/28, 8pm $25, $35 plus 2-Drink min. ONE SHOW ONLY! For Tickets visit www.catcharisingstar.com or call 609-987-8018 Hyatt Regency Princeton • 102 Carnegie Center The Thing About Men, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Romantic musical comedy based on Doris Dorrie’s screenplay features Todd Reichart, Allison Quairoli, Barry Abramowitz, Tom Stevenson, and Pam Jorgensen. $27.50 to $29.50. 7 p.m. The Addams Family Murder Mystery, Peddler’s Village, Routes and 202 and 263, Lahaska, PA, 215-794-4000. . Interactive show by Without a Cue Productions. $47.95. 7:15 p.m. The Producers, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m. Bon Bons and Sugar Plums: American Repertory Ballet company member Rachel Jones in Spanish Dance from Graham Lustig’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ Friday and Sunday, November 27 to 29, McCarter Theater. 609-258-2787. Photo: Eduardo Patino A Moon to Dance By, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. www.gsponline.org. Jane Alexander, Robert Cuccioli, and Gareth Saxe in Thom Thomas drama about Frieda Weekley, the widow of D.H. Lawrence. $28 to $78. 8 p.m. On the Town, Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn, 973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Musical by Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins devoted to celebrating New York City. Directed by Bill Berry. Featuring Harriet Harris, Brian Shepard, Jeffrey Schecter, and Tyler Hanes. $25 to $92. Conversation series at 6:30 p.m. 8 p.m. Film Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25 South Union Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. www.nickelodeonnights.org. Screening of “Fados,” a musical performance film. Portuguese with English subtitles. 2007. $5. 7 p.m. and 8:40 p.m. Comedy Clubs Aries Spears, The Stress Factory, 90 Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $24. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Tom Whitely, Lawrence Mullaney, Christine Fanelli, and Matt Faison, Bucks County Comedy Cabaret, 625 North Main Street, Doylestown, 215345-5653. www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9 p.m. Craft Fair Sauce for the Goose, Arts Council of Princeton, Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Opening reception for the annual arts and crafts sale featuring paintings, drawings, ceramics, glasswork, holiday ornaments, greeting cards, photography, jewelry, hats, and scarves. Through December 21. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 4:30 to 7 p.m. Faith Ten Commandments Hike, Central NJ Council, Boy Scouts of America, East Brunswick Jewish Center, 511 Ryders Lane, East Brunswick, 609-419-1600. www.cnjescouting.org. Four-mile hike to various different religious institutions in the area. Register. $9. 8 a.m. Tree Lighting Palmer Square, On the Green, 800-644-3489. www.palmersquare.com. Princeton High School Choir, Holiday Brass, and Santa. Strolling musicians from 6 to 8 p.m. Rain or shine. Free. 4:45 p.m. Food & Dining Holiday Wine Trail, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. $5 includes etched wine glass and six wine samples. Noon. to 5 p.m. Health & Wellness Deep Release, Yoga Above, 80 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609613-1378. www.yogaabove.com. Hot yoga followed by long, slow, and deep class. Register. $30. 6 a.m. Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Susan Sprecher Studio, 23 Orchard Road, 609-306-6682. www.yogasusan.com. $15 walk-in. Discounted class cards available. 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. History Book Sale, Hunterdon County Historical Society, 114 Main Street, Flemington, 908-7821091. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njhunter/hchs.htm. American history books focus on local, state, and American tops. $1 to $100. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. American History, Mercer Museum, Pine and Ashland streets, Doylestown, 215-348-9461. www.mercermuseum.org. Culinary historian Susan Plaisted roasts fish and fowl while discussing the living quarters of a Lenape village. $9 museum admission. Noon. Kids Stuff Drop and Shop, Bounce U, 410 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609-443-5867. www.bounceu.com. Four-hour sessions for children ages 6 and up. Pizza available. Register. $15.95. 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Family Theater Disney Live, Sun National Bank Center, Hamilton Avenue at NOVEMBER 25, 2009 U.S. 1 WAREHOUSE SALE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ONE DAY SALE SATURDAY December 5, 2009 7:00am to 4:00pm SPECIAL LOW HOLIDAY PRICES Hair Dryers, Curling Irons, Hair Accessories, Small Kitchen Appliances And Much More!!! Route 129, Trenton, 800-2984200. www.comcasttix.com. $29 to $66. 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. A Christmas Story, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Family drama based on Jean Shepherd’s 1983 movie. $14. Reception with cast and crew follows performance. Holiday gift drive for Toys for Tots in the lobby. Raffle to win the leg lamp begins. 7 p.m. Lectures Meeting, Toastmasters Club, Mary Jacobs Library, 64 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, 609306-0515. http://ssu.freetoasthost.ws. Build speaking, leadership, and communication skills. Guests are welcome. 7:30 p.m. A New Spin on Holiday Green: Tour the official residence of the Governor to view the ‘EverGreen,’ eco-friendly themed holiday decorations, Wednesdays, December 2, 9, and 16, and Sunday, December 13. Register at 609-683-0057. Live Music Happy Hour, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Eric Dabb presents jazz guitar. Brick oven pizza and wine available. Free admission. 5 to 8 p.m. Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk Cafe, 2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995. Solo jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m. Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 p.m. ALL ITEMS WARRANTEED DIRECTIONS: NJ Turnpike to Exit 8 Bear right after Toll Rt. 33E one mile, right on Milford Rd. Go 3/4 mile, follow Warehouse Sale Signs ITEMS ARE OF FIRST QUALITY, OVERSTOCK, DISCONTINUED, OR SLIGHTLY DAMAGED Art Stephano, Salt Creek Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-419-4200. saltcreekgrille.com. 7 to 10 p.m. Mother Redcap, The Record Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. the-record-collector.com. $12. 7:30 p.m. DJ Spoltore, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Music from the 1960s to present by West Windsor singer. 8 p.m. Continued on following page Astronaut Jacket* $49.95 Jr. Bomber Jacket* Starting at $44.99 A must have for your future aviator *12 months and up Town & Country Diner Bakery Bar Served with Your Choice of House Salad, Caesar Salad, Cup of Soup, Fresh Baked Bread & 2 Side Items (unless specified) Natural Calve’s Liver $13.99 $9.99 Grilled Pork Tenderloin $16.99 $9.99 N.Y. Strip Steak $14.99 $9.99 Twin Chicken Shish Kebobs $15.99 $9.99 Topped with Onions and Served with Au Jus. 10 oz. Cooked to Perfection – Just the Way You Like It! Served with Onion rings. Visit Princeton Pilot Shoppe Marinated with Herbs & Served with Onions, Mushrooms & Peppers. Served over Rice Pilaf & with 1 Veg. (On the skewer.) Broiled Sea Scallops $18.99 $9.99 Broiled Mixed Seafood Cakes $14.99 $9.99 Fresh Fillet Jersey Blue Fish $13.99 $9.99 Stuffed Broiled Flounder $17.99 $9.99 Fried Flounder $16.99 $9.99 Tilapia Bruschetta $15.99 $9.99 The airport is open every day from 8:00 until dark year round when the certificate can be redeemed by appointment. An FAA certified flight instructor will demonstrate the pre-flight inspection of the airplane to insure air worthiness. Then the person will be seated in the left seat of the airplane with the instructor in the right seat. Both will have their hands and feet on the controls. The instructor will talk the student through the take-off. Hawaiian Ham Steak $12.99 $9.99 Breast of Chicken Parm $13.99 $9.99 For $69 the person will be in the air about 20 minutes and for $159 the person will be in the air for one hour. The time in the airplane will count toward a license if the person decides they wish to pursue a pilot’s license. Either way, your gift will always be remembered. There are many other suggestions for those who are licensed pilots or for those who wish to become one. Check the website. Classic Mediterranean Style Calamari $14.99 $9.99 Veal Cutlet Parm $15.99 $9.99 Where we have 1000s of gifts starting at $3. Wild Caught, Tender Mixed Sizes. Served En Casserole with Lemon & Butter Sauce. www.princetonpilotshop.com This Holiday Give An Introductory Flying Lesson $69 & up When you are looking for a gift that will always be remembered, try giving an Introductory Flying Lesson from Princeton Airport. Whether the person has expressed an interest in learning to fly or you just wish to give a gift of adventure, an Introductory Lesson is fun for people of all ages and gender. To order a gift certificate, you can call Princeton Airport at 609-921-3100; visit the airport between the hours of 8:00am – 6:00 p.m.; or order from the website www.princetonairport.com under “SCHOOL”. Open 7 Days: 8 am til 6 pm PRINCETON AIRPORT 41 Airpark Rd. Princeton, NJ, 08540 609-921-3100 www.princetonairport.com (in bar on All Day Every Day! All Year Long! Served with Mushrooms, Garlic & Spices. Served over Rice Pilaf & with 1 Veg. Gift Certificates Available HOUR HAPPYY DAY R EVE m-5pm 11a ly) Three Delicious Cakes Served with Champagne Sauce for Dipping. Broiled, Served with Drawn Butter & Lemon. Stuffed with Seafood, Served with Butter Sauce & Lemon. Lightly Fried, Served with Cocktail & Tartar Sauce. *Broiled + $6.99. C O M B Topped with Our Bruschetta Topping. Served over Rice Pilaf. 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Wedding Specials: FREE Groom’s Tuxedo, plus $30 off each member of the wedding party. Group Discounts for all Corporate Events MarketFair Mall, 3535 US Route 1, Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 452-0921 www.chazmatazz.com “Proud Sponsor of Post Prom Activities for Local High Schools” Pat Tanner I love giving food-related gifts almost as much as I enjoy receiving them. Here are some of my favorites for the 2009 holiday season. Give a cooking class. I suggest a one-day class in the art of cheese making from a top practitioner: Eran Wajswol of Valley Shepherd Creamery in Long Valley, Morris County. Route 1 denizens are familiar with his cheeses from the many seasonal farmers markets he participates in, including Lawrenceville and Princeton. Classes are held once a month from April through November, with students returning 90 days later to pick up their fully aged two-pound wheel of cheese. Classes fill up fast. In fact, a few in 2010 are already sold out or near capacity. www.valleyshepherd.com. ($155) Support area cookbook authors. The first volume of “Canal House Cooking” from Lambertville’s Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hersheimer was issued last summer and has been garnering praise and notice, big time, ever since. Call these modest but elegant books a seasonal recipe collection, as the authors do, or call it a serialized cookbook, as the editors of Saveur magazine do; they’re winners either way. The second issue, just out, contains simple but irresistible fall and holiday recipes. Can winter/spring be far behind? www.thecanalhouse.com. ($19.95 per book or $49.95 for a yearly subscription of three books) Help someone on your list create a personal cookbook. When Lorraine Bodger’s “Cook Up a Cookbook” kit arrived unbidden on my doorstep, I scoffed. In these days of simplified desktop publishing, I reasoned, who couldn’t put together a binder or spiral-bound book of favorite recipes. Once I delved inside, however, I began to appreciate that it takes a bit more thought, organization, and commitment than most of us realize — and that some well-thought-out professional advice goes a long way towards producing the best version of whatever cookbook may be floating around in our heads. The kit contains tools for organizing, personalizing, preserving, and sharing recipes — even advice on how to take food photos. ($21.95 list price) Give a gingerbread house kit you can’t mess up. Really. I came across the Gingerhaus line of allin-one kits at last summer’s Fancy Food Show and immediately knew they were for people like me, whose fantasies outdistance her November 27 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m. Choice Society, Tre Piani, 120 Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-452-1515. www.choicesociety.ning.com. Hip hop, reggae, and pop music. Drink specials, hors d’oeuvres. $5 admission. 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Rainbow Fresh, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union Square, New Hope, 215-8628300. www.triumphbrew.com. Tribute to Led Zeppelin. $5. 10 p.m. Dogg Driven, Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. $5. 10:30 p.m. Continued from preceding page Phil Mazzara and Chris, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 8 p.m. John Bianculli Trio with Jackie Jones, Christopher’s, Heldrich Hotel, 10 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-214-2200. www.theheldrich.com. 8:30 p.m. La Violencia, the Royal Blues, and Sourland Band, All Call Inn, 214 Weber Avenue, Ewing, 609-882-9729. Free. 9 p.m. Guy Peterson Trio, BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. Classic rock. 9 p.m. Little Big Thing, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New Hope, A portion of the sales of Small World Coffee benefits the Princeton School Garden Cooperaitve. skills. The genius here is that you bake the pieces on a sturdy cardboard template that has tabs. You mix the dough (included, and developed with the King Arthur Flour people), cut out the flat panels, flip them over, and bake. The kits include icing and decorations, which you apply to the baked, flat panels, and then assemble via the tabs. Gingerhaus kits are available at surlatable.com and kingarthurflour.com, but the best price I could find for the full-sized, deluxe house is at www.amazon.com. ($19.95). The Whole Foods chain carries an all-natural version of the smaller gingerbread chalet. Design high-style fused-glass tableware. If you haven’t yet dis- Schools Alumni Game, North Brunswick High School Soccer Alumni Association, North Brunswick Park, 130 South, North Brunswick, 732470-6973. Annual Men’s and women’s soccer alumni games. Contact Patrick Fowler at [email protected] for information. 11 a.m. Retail Therapy Midnight Madness, Liberty Village Outlets, 1 Church Street, Flemington, 908-782-8550. www.premiumoutlets.com. 12:01 a.m. to 10 p.m. Trunk Show, A Place to Bead, 41 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-921-8050. Glass artisan James Bielenberg presents glass beads, silver beads, silver pendants, and finished jewelry. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Indoor Farmers Market, Woodsedge Wools Farm, 78 Bowne Station Road, Stockton, 609-397-2212. www.alpacasllamaswoodsedge.co. Area farm- covered that Red Green Blue, the drop-in arts and crafts studio at 4 Hulfish Street in Princeton, is not for kids only, I encourage you to take a look at the examples of some very stylish, very adult, and very useful plates, platters, and bowls of fused glass on display. They are really fun to make. I should know: to celebrate my birthday one year, 10 of my best buddies and I each made a custom sushi plate. I suggest giving a gift certificate for two so the recipient doesn’t have to go alone. If you’re lucky, your recipient will choose you. 609-683-5100. (Prices start at $19.95.) Give locavore coffee beans. OK, so coffee doesn’t grow in New Jersey, or anywhere near. But the blend of beans created specially for Princeton’s Elements restaurant by Small World Coffee is as local as you can get. The blend of beans from Java, Sumatra, and Guatemala was personally selected by the Elements staff, after numerous “cuppings” at the Small World roasting facility in Rocky Hill. Besides being served at the restaurant, one-pound bags of the blend are sold at both Small World locations (14 Witherspoon and 254 Nassau) and online at smallworldcoffee.com ( $13.95 per pound). Best of all, a portion of the sales is donated to the Princeton School Garden Cooperative. I told you it was local. Support a local restaurant. While I’m on the subject of great area restaurants such as Elements, what dining out devotee do you know who wouldn’t appreciate a gift certificate to a favorite eatery? Likewise, it’s hard for me to imagine any restaurant in the area that wouldn’t be happy to oblige. Keep in mind that especially during these tight times our independent, locally owned restaurants need and deserve our support. ers, foods, and crafts. $2 donation to benefit Slow Food Central New Jersey. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Singles Singles Night, One South Rustic Grill, 4095 Route 1 South, South Brunswick, 732-355-1030. Happy hours for singles 35 and up. DJ by Music Express begins at 10 p.m. Free food. Cash bar. No cover. 4 p.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. Singles Professional and Business Singles Network, Yardley Country Club, 1010 Reading Avenue, Yardley, 888-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Dance party and social. Cash bar. Jacket and tie. Ages 40 to 65. $15. 8 p.m. Drop-In, Yardley Singles, The Runway, Trenton Mercer Airport, Ewing, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Music, dancing, and cash bar. Register. 9 p.m. Socials Scrabble, Classics Used and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All skill levels welcome. 6:30 p.m. For Seniors Mercer County Widows and Widowers, Knights of Columbus, 1451 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-585-3453. Dance social. $8. 7:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 U.S. 1 Saturday November 28 IN THE SPOTLIGHT: One Lump or Two? The Nutcracker Children’s Tea Party, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Holiday treats with costumed dancers from American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School’s holiday classic. $45; children, $30. Performance tickets sold separately. 11 a.m. World Music Russian Music, East Brunswick Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, 732-390-6767. ebpl.org. Oleg Kruglyakov on balalaika and Terry Boyarsky on piano present Russian folk music, romances, dances, and classical music. 7 p.m. Art Holiday Studio Tour, Covered Bridge Artisans, The General Store, Sergeantsville, 609-3971535. www.coveredbridgeartisans.com. Self-guided tour of mixed media artist studios featuring pottery, paintings, stained glass, hand-spun yarn, leather bags, baskets, and decorative boxes. Maps available online. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Art Exhibit, Artists’ Gallery, 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609397-4588. www.lambertvillearts.com. Coffee and conversation in conjunction with “A Room with Two Views,” a shared exhibit featuring works by Alla Podolsky and Doug Sardo. On view to December 6. 1 to 3 p.m. Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2 p.m. Dance The Nutcracker, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School present the Tchaikovsky holiday classic with choreography by Graham Lustig and sets and costumes by Zack Brown. $35 to $45. 1 and 4:30 p.m. Nutcracker, Roxey Ballet, College of New Jersey, Kendall Hall, Ewing, 609-397-7616. www.roxeyballet.com. Holiday tradition. $14 to $50. 1 and 4 p.m. Drama 3 Mo’ Divas, Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org. Musical journey featuring Laurice Lanier, mezzo soprano; Nova Y. Payton, soprano; and Jamet Pittman, soprano. Blues, jazz, soul, gospel, opera, and Broadway. $40 to $65. 3 and 8 p.m. The Producers, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 4 and 8 p.m. The Thing About Men, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, Rock the Night Away: Mother Redcap appears on Friday, November 27, at the Record Collector, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.therecord-collector.com. Photo: Ed Farmer. 609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Romantic musical comedy based on Doris Dorrie’s screenplay features Todd Reichart, Allison Quairoli, Barry Abramowitz, Tom Stevenson, and Pam Jorgensen. $27.50 to $29.50. 7 p.m. The Addams Family Murder Mystery, Peddler’s Village, Routes and 202 and 263, Lahaska, PA, 215-794-4000. Interactive show by Without a Cue Productions. $47.95. 7:15 p.m. Film Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25 South Union Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. www.nickelodeonnights.org. Screening of “Fados,” a musical performance film. Portuguese with English subtitles. 2007. $5. 7 and 8:40 p.m. Dancing Ballroom Class, Actor’s Dance Studio, 1012 Brunswick Avenue, Ewing, 609-213-4578. Register. $15. 2 to 8 p.m. Argentine Tango Social Dance, Central Jersey Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Road, Princeton, 610297-2649. www.centraljerseydance.org. Intermediate lesson on technique for dancing in small spaces with Guillermo Elkouss and Vittoria Natale. Open dancing follows. No partner needed. All levels welcome. Refreshments. $12. 7:45 p.m. Ballroom Dance Social, G & J Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14, Hillsborough, 908-892-0344. gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm. Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to 11 p.m. Literati Author Event, JaZams, 25 Hulfish Street, Palmer Square, 609924-8697. www.jazams.com. Patrick McDonnell, creator of “Mutts” comic strip, presents his two newest books, “Wag!” and “Guardians of Being.” He will also Just for Kix: Patrick McDonnell, creator of ‘Mutts’ comic strip, presents his newest books, ‘Wag!’ and ‘Guardians of Being,’ Saturday, November 28, JaZams, 25 Palmer Square East. 609-924-8697. do an illustration presentation. Books and comic collections will be available for purchase and signing. 3 to 5 p.m. Author Event, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Jeff Markowitz, author of “It’s Beginning to Look at Lot Like Murder” discusses his latest mystery. 3 to 4 p.m. Good Causes Brunch with Santa, Children’s Home Society of New Jersey, Notre Dame High School, 601 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, 609-882-0363. www.chsofnj.org. “Snowflakes and Friends,” an original Christmas play; games, and refreshments. Crafts and gifts may be purchased. Register. $5. 9:30 a.m. and noon. Comedy Clubs Gilbert Gottfried, Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, 609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Reservation. 8 p.m. Aries Spears, The Stress Factory, 90 Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $24. 8 and 10:30 p.m. Catering, delicatessen, scrumptious sandwiches A Princeton institution for more than a century 180 Nassau Street, 609-924-6269, fax 609-924-5442 www.coxsmarket.com Continued on following page 17 18 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 November 28 Continued from preceding page Terry Gillespie, Lawence Mullaney, Christine Fanelli, and Matt Faison, Bucks County Comedy Cabaret, 625 North Main Street, Doylestown, 215345-5653. www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9:30 p.m. Holiday Events Forrestal Village, College Road West and Route 1 South, Plainsboro, 609-799-7400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Horse and wagon rides, strolling carolers, stilt walker dressed as a toy soldier, holiday art project for all ages. Photos with Santa from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.; DanceVision presents excerpts from the Nutcracker at 3 p.m.; movie classics screened at 4 p.m. Cameras invited. Free. 3 to 6:30 p.m. Old Fashioned Tree Lighting, Downtown Bordentown Association, Farnsworth Avenue and Crosswicks Street, Bordentown, 609-298-6970. www.downtownbordentown.com. Trinity Methodist Church Praise Band, sing-along, Santa, and tree lighting. 5 to 6 p.m. Food & Dining Farmer’s Market, Riverbank Arts, 19 Bridge Street, Stockton, 609-397-9330. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ‘You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out’: The Pennington Players present 'A Christmas Story,' opening Friday, November 27, at Kelsey Theater. Pictured: Steve Decker (Morrisville, PA) as the grown-up Ralph and Jason Wilks (Princeton Junction) as young Ralphie (holding an official Red Ryder Air Rifle).609-570-3333. Holiday Wine Trail, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.- com. $5 includes etched wine glass and six wine samples. Noon to 5 p.m. Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com. 2 to 5 p.m. Health & Wellness Blood Drive, American Red Cross, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saint, 901 Canal Pointe Boulevard, West Windsor, 800-GIVELIFE. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Meet and Greet Open House, HiTops, 21 Wiggins Street, Princeton, 609-683-5155. www.hitops.org. Open house for health center focusing on health services for ages 13 to 26 including sports physicals, prevention visits, mental health screening, eating disorder screening, smoking cessation, reproductive health care, and breast health. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mixed Level Yoga, Holsome Holistic Center, 27 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-279-1592. www.holsome.com. $15. 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Susan Sprecher Studio, 23 Orchard Road, 609-306-6682. www.yogasusan.com. $15 walk-in. Discounted class cards available. 9:30 to 11 a.m. Yoga for Teen Athletes, Simply Yoga, 4437 Route 27, Kingston, 609-895-1481. Register. $15. 1 to 2:30 p.m. Agama Yoga, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Intermediate series with Andrew Reece. Register. $35. 2 p.m. History Holiday Festival of Trees House Tours, Pearl S. Buck House, 520 Dublin Road, Perkasie, PA, 215-262-0100. pearlsbuck.org. Through Thursday, December 31. Closed on Mondays. $8. 10 a.m. For Families Thanksgiving on the Farm, Howell Living History Farm, Valley Road, off Route 29, Titusville, 609-737-3299. www.howellfarm.org. Horsedrawn hayrides or sleighrides. Wreaths, flour, honey, doorhangings, and handmade items for sale. Sale of sleighbells, brass and nickel plated bells, and bell ornaments benefits the farm’s restoration projects. Donations of canned goods for area food banks are invited. 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Planetarium Shows, New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, 609-292-6464. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “The Laser Nutcracker.” $6. 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Continued on page 20 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 U.S. 1 19 Review: ‘The Royal Family’ T he George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber 1927 play “The Royal Family” has returned triumphantly to Broadway in a Manhattan Theatre Club production. The play is said to have been summarily disowned by the Barrymores, the ennobled theater family whose lives appeared to have been satirized. With satirical tongue-incheek, the authors, in turn, claimed they never heard of the Barrymores. Nevertheless, the comedy that is assuredly about a theater family of similar stature prompted a less than amused Ethel Barrymore to retaliate some 15 years after the play’s opening. Her response to Kaufman, when asked to appear at a World War II benefit was, “But I’m going to have laryngitis that night.” Perhaps the esteemed matriarch of the Barrymores didn’t take kindly to criticism about her family, but the rest of us can hardly keep from laughing at the lines and many flippant bon mots that punctuate the fast and often funny dialogue. Perhaps it is a moot point whether or not the Barrymores themselves inspired this delicious play about the Cavendishes, a family of indomitable actors with insufferable egos. Happily, everything this observer saw on the stage was a splendid celebration of the theater and its often dotty and only occasionally disciplined disciples. A splendid company, under the direction of Doug Hughes, has fully captured the extravagantly familial flavor at the core of the play and fully resurrected a proper dynasty of theatrical dinosaurs. Radiant SPA & SALON This production is not only graced with the presence of Rosemary Harris as family matriarch Fanny Cavendish, but each member of the ensemble appears as if they have been literally commanded to carry the mantle of a great or even near-great tradition. Not incidentally, Harris played the role of Fanny’s daughter, Julie, in the 1975 Broadway revival (a co-production with McCarter Theater, where the revival originated). Things look bright and busy as the curtain rises on set designer John Lee Beatty’s resplendently I was awed by Jan Maxwell, as daughter Julie, who tosses off gems such as ‘Midnight isn’t as kind to me as it used to be.’ decorated evocation of the Cavendishes’ New York City residence. What could be more fun than starting off a romp with a flustered maid (Caroline Stefanie Clay) and an almost giddily servile butler (played by the inspired and definitely over-qualified David Greenspan) coping with the incessant ringing of doorbells and telephones, the intrusion of luggagehauling porters, a physical trainer in action, and the entrance of the Deans — Herbert (John Glover) and Kitty (Ana Gasteyer) — a pair of battling married actors? Both Glover and Gasteyer are to be com- mended for performances that are a brilliant testament to fearless abandon. If you love the theater, its lore and its loonies, you can expect to be swept away by the sheer ebullience of “The Royal Family’s” excesses. If the plot appears, in these less conspicuously adoring days, as uncompromisingly addled as are the characters entrusted to it, the text is brilliantly assured. To be sure, the very royal and redoubtable Cavendish family can be depended upon to put on a show, if only for themselves. F anny Cavendish, the ailing queen mother of the Cavendishes, valiantly ignores the fact that she is cued for her final exit speech. But Fanny is a matriarch in control to the last. Reigning in a manner that could hardly be called imperious, Fanny makes sure she retains her star-status even among the scenestealing assortment of her offspring. With a flair for earthy resonance, Harris assumes a regality that commands attention rather than awe. I was, however, awed by Jan Maxwell, as daughter Julie, who tosses off gems such as “Midnight isn’t as kind to me as it used to be,” 20% Off * Gift Certificates ❄ Coming Soon! ❄ Air Brush Tanning by SunFX® — Used by all the “Hollywood Celebrities.” Call Today to Schedule Your Appointment. 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Tony Roberts is admirable as the unflappable Oscar Wolfe, the Cavendish’s theatrical manager and Larry Pine brings a refreshing restraint to the general chaos as Julie’s long-term millionaire suit- Family Ties: Jan Maxwell, left, Kelli Barrett, and Rosemary Harris. or. Not to be overlooked are the florid flourishes that costume designer Catherine Zuber has lavished upon the 1920s costumes. ++++ — Simon Saltzman The Royal Family,” through Sunday, December 13, Manhattan Theater Club at Samuel J. Friedman Theater, 261 West 47th Street. $57.00 to $111. 212-239-6200. The key: ++++ Don’t miss; +++ You won’t feel cheated; ++ Maybe you should have stayed home; + Don’t blame us. 20 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 00 9 1-2 43 45 Complete Musicianship at the Piano for All Ages & Stages R 2 9-9 0 6 J • .org N n, no sto spia g n Ki .nsm • w 27 t. ww Review: ‘Three Mo’ Divas’ REGISTER NOW FOR WINTER Register Now for Fall Classes! CLASSES! 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Trent Jewelers 16 Edinburg Rd. at 5 Points • Mercerville, N.J. 584-8 8800 609-5 F irst there was the Three Tenors, then Three Mo Tenors twho sang their way through selections from the vast vocal musical repertoire of the past 400 years. Now enjoy Three Mo Divas, who are exercising their right to show off their extraordinary voices in concert and in a show that left the audience opening night at Crossroads Theater cheering, whistling, and applauding in approval. Touring on and off, here and there across the country since 2004 but with various singers, this show, which Marion J. Caffey conceived, choreographed, and directed with a light-hearted touch, is now in New Brunwick through Sunday, December 6. It is a grand and glorious concert that should satisfy everyone who loves terrific singing and is able to feel the excitement that is stirred by this grand company. The program warns us that “Due to the extraordinary vocal demands of the show, the singers rotate the operatic program.” So, let me be clear that as a dynamite starter all three divas — Laurice Lanier, Nova Payton, and Jamet Pittman — chime in on a gloriously concerted version of “Quando m’en Vo from La Boheme. This is followed by Pittman’s ravishing singing of “Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur. If there is anything to prove after that it is how adept these divas are at singin’ the blues, Broadway, soul, spirituals, and the gospel repertoire. Dressed in sparkling black dresses, then in more formal attire in the second half, the divas are as often disposed to compliment and play off each other as they are given an individual spotlight. Distinctly different in physical type, these so- November 28 Continued from preceding page Family Theater Frosty and Rudolph, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. $8. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Nutcracker Children’s Tea Party, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Holiday treats with costumed dancers from American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School’s holiday classic. $45; children, $30. Performance tickets sold separately. 11 a.m. A Christmas Story, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Family drama with Pennington Players. $14. 2 and 7 p.m. ‘Extraordinary Voices’: Jamet Pittman, left, Nova Payton, and Laurice Lanier. Photo: Jim Bush pranos can also be appreciated for the differences in their vocal range and timbre. To everyone’s delight, they also express plenty of attitude as well as their own distinctive personalities throughout the program. The trio is backed up by six superb musicians, including the group’s outstanding Russian-born conductor/pianist, Annastasia Victory. I es- This show left the audience opening night at Crossroads Theater cheering, whistling, and applauding in approval. pecially enjoyed seeing how she didn’t let her long bangs that kept flopping over her eyes disturb her virtuoso playing. I don’t like to play favorites but Lanier, a mezzo soprano with a very husky but resonant voice, would often begin a song with a note from so deep down inside of her that I’m sure none of us have ever heard it before. She provides some of the most thrilling vocal work in the blues category I’ve ever heard, including “God Bless the Child,” “Downhearted Blues,” and “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” In contrast, Payton is a smaller bundle of dynamite but her bright, clear lyric soprano pushed the rafters up a few feet singing “Defying Gravity” from the Broadway musical “Wicked” as well as with “Sum- Lectures Camera Club, South Brunswick Arts Commission, South Brunswick Community Center, 124 New Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. Free. 7 to 9 p.m. Live Music Acoustic Road, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Classic rock. Brick oven pizza and wine available. $15. 5 to 8 p.m. Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 p.m. Country and Bluegrass Music Show, WDVR-FM, Women’s Club, 43 Park Avenue, Flemington, 609-397-1620. www.wdvrfm.org. Heartlands Hayride Band. $10. Food available. 6 to 8 p.m. Cafe Improv, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon mertime” from Porgy and Bess and “My Funny Valentine,” all from the Broadway catalogue. Emphasizing her gift as a dramatic soprano Pittman sang with intense feeling the aria “Your Daddy’s Son” from “Ragtime.” She also moves as easily from the jazzy inferences of “Solitude” to the rhythm and blues beat with “Everything Must Change.” An homage to the Andrew Sisters (“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”) led the way to “Seasons of Love,” from “Rent,” and the title song from “Little Shop of Horrors,” all of which proved how easily you can get from Hollywood to Broadway. There are about 34 songs in the two hour show, with some pop tunes reduced to a single chorus in a “Medley of Memories.” Be assured that these three divas will create for you a memory of an exceptional entertainment, one that includes the perhaps obligatory gospel number (“Sweeping Through the City”) that had everyone converted, at least for the moment. To be sure, we can see the glory in these three voices and in the great music that should make us all give thanks. One disappointment: The program states that Lanier would sing “Mon Coeur S’Ouvre A’ Ta Voix” from “Samson and Delilah.” She didn’t. If and when she does, I’ll make it my business to come back down to Crossroads Theater just for that. — Simon Saltzman Three Mo’ Divas, through Sunday, December 6, Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $40 to $65. 732-5458100. Street, 609-924-8777. cafeimprov.com. Music, poetry, and comedy. Register to perform. $2. 7 p.m. William Hart Strecker, Salt Creek Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. Concert. 7 to 10 p.m. Franklin Alison Orchestra, Salt Creek Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7 to 10 p.m. Riverside Traveling Band, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 8 p.m. Dave Allikas, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. Comedy songs for all ages presents songs from his CD, “Songs You Wish You’d Written,” a look at modern life from a different angle. Free. 8 to 10 p.m. Continued on page 22 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 U.S. 1 21 Review: ‘A Moon to Dance By’ I don’t know what exactly brought Franz Lehar’s 1905 operetta “Die Lustige Witwe” (translated from the German as “The Lusty Widow” but more commonly known in the English-speaking world as “The Merry Widow”) to mind as I was watching Thom Thomas’s immensely entertaining play, “A Moon To Dance By,” now playing through Sunday, December 13, at George Street Playhouse. But I can attest to with assurance that Lehar’s adored heroine doesn’t hold a candle to Thomas’s heroine. When it comes to the joyous containment of lust and/or merriment, Jane Alexander wins hands down in her sensually ripe portrayal of Thomas’s real-life Germanborn heroine and widow Frieda Lawrence (nee von Richthofen). Yes, Frieda was the cousin of the German pilot known as “the red baron”) but more famously known as the mistress and then wife of author D.H. Lawrence and the inspiration for the women in his novels (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Women in Love, Sons and Lovers, etc.) Frieda was married to Ernest Weekley, a professor at Nottingham University, when she deserted him and her 12-year-old son, Monty, and his two sisters in 1912 to be with Lawrence. But Thomas’s play is only indirectly concerned with Frieda’s relationship with Lawrence, whom she married in 1914 shortly after her divorce. It focuses on her affair with Angelo Ravagli (Robert Cuccioli), her devoted and much younger but just as hot-blooded Italian lover, and also with her long-estranged, stiff-necked, British-raised 39-year-old son Monty Weekley (Gareth Saxe). What a combustible and contrasted trio they make in a play that speculates very perceptively about a meeting between these otherwise very real people. Lawrence, who died in 1930 at the rather young age of 45, actually initiated and encouraged Frieda’s affair with Angelo after he had become impotent. The play takes place at the Lawrence ranch near Taos, New Mexico. The year is 1939. Monty, now married with children, has come from England to effect if not a reconciliation then a personal coming-to-terms with his mother Affecting a slight German accent, Jane Alexander is near to heartbreaking in this role. as well as with his long pent-up feelings of hate and abandonment. War clouds are forming and there is the possibility that Frieda and her Italian lover, officially aliens, will be under the scrutiny of the allies. H owever scorned by Victorian society for her behavior, Frieda remained, however, true to her nature, being in a virtual state of perpetual ecstasy for living life as she wanted and for loving whom she pleased without regrets. Has the time at last come when she might be able to re-bond with the nevertheless openly hostile and resentful Monty? And is her fulfilled impassioned life with Angelo threatened by separation because of the impending war? The playwright considers this episode in Frieda’s life at a time that is ripe for speculation and marked by uncertainty. Middle-aged Frieda is as ferociously committed to her passions in middle age as ever and we see her as an unapologetically sensuous and free-spirited woman. Alexander, who first shot to prominence and received a Tony Award in 1968 for Broadway’s “The Great White Hope,” is unquestionably seductive in the role. Alexander’s distinguished career subsequently on stage, in films, and on TV is also notable for being married to “The Great White Hope” director Ed Sherin. Sherin is at the helm again and has inspired a performance by Alexander that (as the title infers) is as luminous as the moon that shines above the three emotionally volatile people in designer Stephanie Mayer-Staley’s lovely patio-on-the-desert setting (atmospherically lit by Andrew David Ostrowski). Affecting a slight German accent, Alexander is near to heartbreaking as she tries to break the ice with Monty by furtive embraces and earnest explanations for her desertion. Even more exciting to watch is the way Alexander responds in kind to Angelo’s rages and then playfully lures him into submission with her beckoning charm. Saxe, who recently portrayed Hamlet for the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, uses a refined British accent to support Monty’s rigidity and his seemingly inflexible nature. But Monty’s armor is bound to be cracked, and through Saxe’s complexly revealed portrayal, we see the full force of his unleashed anguish. Notwithstanding that Angelo is the most levelheaded and humor-endowed of the three, the mustachioed Cuccioli affords us the opportunity to see the good-looking lover as a stabilizing force and as Frieda’s equal in all t ul d A Of Mothers and Sons: Gareth Saxe and Jane Alexander. things pertinent and passionate. With its bracingly portrayed, welldefined characters within a literate and lilting text, “A Moon To Dance By” is a good bet for life above and beyond New Jersey. The play received its East Cost premiere in February of this year at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. This production is having its New Jersey premiere. — Simon Saltzman “A Moon To Dance By,” through Sunday, December 13, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $37.50 to $71.50. 732-846-2895 or www.GSPonline.org. November 2009 Playtime Boutique Ladies’ Night Specials Give Thanks for Luxurious Skin! Come in & Receive Your FREE Gift! 11/3 - Deluxe Body Scrubber 11/10 - Bath Crystals 11/17 - Spa Naturals Freesia Bath & Shower Gel 11/24 - Spa Naturals Gardenia Body Lotion While supplies last. Visit Our Website: playtimexxx.com 732-985-1872 • 321 Rt. 1 S. • Edison, NJ Must Be 18 Years or Older. AARP & militar y discounts available. 22 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 November 28 Continued from page 20 DJ Tone Capione and DJ Mo, All Call Inn, 214 Weber Avenue, Ewing, 609-882-9729. Free. 9 p.m. Sharon Kenny, Hamilton Manor, Cellar, 30 Route 156, Hamilton, 609-581-6782. www.myspace.com/sharonkenny. Concert of the Hamilton native’s debut album, “Pianocentric.” A graduate of Nottingham High School, she is the musical director for “Tony N Tina’s Wedding.” $10. 9 p.m. DJ Davey Gold, BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. 10 p.m. Splintered Sunlight, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union Square, New Hope, 215-8628300. www.triumphbrew.com. $7. 10 p.m. The Unoriginals, Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. $5. 10:30 p.m. Outdoor Action Greenway Walks, D&R Greenway, The Rawlyk Farm, 609-9244646. www.drgreenway.org. Walk led by Bill Fawlyk. Register. Free. 9:30 a.m. Book Sale Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Hardbacks, $1; paperbacks, 50 cents; miscellaneous media and art at bargain prices. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Farmers Market Indoor Farmers Market, Woodsedge Wools Farm, 78 Bowne Station Road, Stockton, 609-397-2212. www.alpacasllamaswoodsedge.co. Area farmers, foods, and crafts. $2 donation to benefit Slow Food Central New Jersey. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Singles Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates, Princeton Area, 732-759-2174. www.dinnermates.com. Ages 30s to early 50s. Call for reservation and location. $20 plus dinner and drinks. 7:30 p.m. Dance Party, Steppin’ Out Singles, Days Hotel, 195 Route 18, East Brunswick, 732-656-1801. www.steppinoutsingles.com. Ages 40 plus. $15. 8:30 p.m. Socials Knit n Stitch, Classics Used and Rare Books, 117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All skill levels welcome. Ages 8 and up. Noon. Anniversary Networking and Grand Re-Opening, Beanwood Coffee Shop, 222 Farnswoth Avenue, Bordentown, 609-3241300. www.beanwood.com. Personal, social, and business networking. Ribbon cutting at 1 p.m. Live performances throughout the day. Food drive to assist area needy families. Menu sampling. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday November 29 IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Chinese Acrobats Cirque Shanghai Bai Xi, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Chinese acrobatic stage performance. $27 to $52. 7:30 p.m. Classical Music LEGRO. www.njsymphony.org. James Gaffigan, conductor; and Eric Wyrick, violin, present works of Mozart and Schumann. $20 to $82. 3 p.m. Sunday Musicale Series, Steinway Musical Society, Jacobs Music, 2540 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, 609-434-0222. www.steinwaysocietyprinceton.org. Pauline Yang presents works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Brahms, and Granados. Recital and reception benefits the scholarship program. $18. 3 p.m. Sunday Evensong Series, Christ Church, 5 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-6262. www.christchurchnewbrunswick.org. Andrew Filippone, trumpet. Vespers and concert. Free. 4 p.m. Art Holiday Studio Tour, Covered Bridge Artisans, The General Store, Sergeantsville, 609-3971535. www.coveredbridgeartisans.com. Self-guided tour of mixed media artist studios featuring pottery, paintings, stained glass, hand-spun yarn, leather bags, baskets, and decorative boxes. Maps available online. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2 p.m. Dance The Nutcracker, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School present the Tchaikovsky holiday classic with choreography by Graham Lustig and sets and costumes by Zack Brown. $35 to $45. 1 and 4:30 p.m. Mozart’s Jupiter, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, State Theater, New Brunswick, 800-AL- Continued on page 24 ‘Blue Tango’: Cartoonist, playwright, and author Jules Feiffer gives a free talk on Wednesday, December 2, 4:30 p.m., at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. Open to the public. www.princeton.edu/arts. PURE. CASHMERE. LUXURY. GIFT. 1-SIZE FITS EVERYONE 2-PLY PURE CASHMERE 20 GORGEOUS COLORS. Holiday Special Orig. Now $275 $225 A LANDAU GIFT IS SOMETHING SPECIAL! Holiday Sale Hours Monday-Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. OPEN SUNDAYS: 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. • NOVEMBER 25, 2009 U.S. 1 23 The Newark Museum Pulls Out Its Earliest Collection W hat better way to mark 100 years in the museum business than to trot out your very best. That’s what’s happening in Newark, where the eponymous museum has installed a lavish array of vases, bowls, and other fine ceramic vessels to celebrate the occasion. In the process, the remarkably beautiful display, drawn almost exclusively from the museum’s internationally renowned holdings, also makes material note of this state’s long history as an international pottery center. “100 Masterpieces of Art Pottery, 1880-1930” tracks the notion of ceramics as art from the Gilded Age of the 1880s to its evolution into studio pottery by the outset of the Great Depression. The assembled works, which are the product of one of pottery’s most creative eras, are on view through Sunday, January 10. “One hundred years ago, pots were art,” says exhibition curator Ulysses Deitz, senior curator and curator of decorative arts. “The vase was the ideal art object because, while still ‘functional,’ it could be admired purely for its beauty. Artistic pots were also more accessible to the public than paintings and sculpture — the perfect kind of art for the newlyfounded museum in 1909.” Newark was one of the earliest museums to consider ceramics as a serious art form, according to museum director Mary Sue Sweeney. The exhibition functions nicely as a celebration of that institution’s pioneering role. “Each of these objects was purchased as a work of art,” says Deitz. As such “100 Masterpieces,” a generous sampling of works made by the people whose creative enterprise translated pottery into a fine art, reveals the aesthetic potential of this workaday medium. Deitz points out that the exhibition essentially “exemplifies the Arts and Crafts Movement in America.” And, with almost 20 percent of the featured works produced in New Jersey, the collection serves an easy-to-take reminder of this state’s role as a center for the production of fine ceramics. People have been making pots in New Jersey for some 4,000 years. By 1000 B.C., local Woodland people were using pots to cook their food. Pottery was made in Burlington when we were still a British colony. And in the years following the Revolution the area surrounding Perth Amboy became a major center for the production of stoneware jugs. In Princeton, the neighborhood surrounding Nassau and Harrison streets — now known as Jugtown — was home to several potteries. Recent archaeological digs and records indicate potters were at work in villages all over the state. By the late 19th century, Trenton had become a leading ceramics center. Charles Fergus Binns, the English-born potter who became known as the “Father of the studio pottery movement,” whose work is included in the Newark exhibition, and who helped stage the first museum exhibitions, had his American beginnings as director of the Trenton School of Technical Science and Art. Moreover, when it came to the establishment of pottery as art to be taken seriously, much of the earliest energy in this country came from the Newark Museum. The range and quality of the permanent collection, and of this exhibition, is the fruit of the pioneering work of John Cotton Dana, Newark’s founding director. The collection began with an exhibition in 1910, one year after the museum by Helen Schwartz was founded. Dana began to acquire pots, made exhibition pottery available for sale to support the artists, and staged a series of exhibitions that drew wide attention to the medium. The featured vessels in the display connect the viewer with those early days. “Out of the 110 works in this exhibition, 75 were purchased when they were new,” says Deitz,” noting that many of the others were also purchased new by donor families. Over time the museum’s holdings became the best documented and one of the most comprehensive pottery collections in this country. Exhibited as a collection only twice in the past 25 years, in 1984 and 1994, the current exhibition remains in the landmark category. “We’re the only museum in the United States who can do a show like this says Deitz, warning viewers, “if you don’t see it now, it may be a long time before there is another chance.” The exhibition functions as a chronology of the potters’ art. Beginning with Victorian roots, it travels through time, making note of china painters, the minimalist art pot, and painterly and sculptural art pots. In the process, the viewer is introduced to the notable potters and potteries that shaped the genre, and the rich and varied surfaces that they produced. A generous sampling of Fulper, some Lenox, and works from Clifton, and Ott and Brewer, along with smaller potteries such as Metuchen’s Volkmar, contribute to a strong New Jersey presence. On Friday, November 27, at 12:30 p.m., at the museum’s Thanksgiving Family Festival, visitors will be able to watch a potter ‘One hundred years ago, the vase was the ideal art object because, while still ‘functional,’ it could be admired purely for its beauty,’ says senior curator Ulysses Deitz. making a ceramic vessel on a wheel. There will also be a search for buried treasure, ancient storytelling, and a 2 p.m. performance by Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. N ewark Museum also turns the spotlight on an important area pottery with “The Lenox Legacy: America’s Greatest Porcelain, 1889-2005,” on view through through July, 2010. From its founding in Trenton in 1889 as the Ceramic Art Company, to the closing of its last New Jersey factory in 2005, Lenox made some of the finest porcelain produced in the United States. Since 1918, it has also been the source of official White House china. Examples of three presidential services (Wilson, Truman, and Reagan) are on display. Also included are unique handenameled porcelain vases and dinner plates, minutely detailed porcelain figurines, and modern designs. In a more contemporary voice, the museum is also featuring a display of minimalist, painterly work in stoneware and porcelain by Toshiko Takaezu, the internationally noted potter who lives and works in Hunterdon County. In addition to the Newark Museum exhibit, you can go to Parsippany to view a modest but representa- Porcelain Palette: From top: covered jar in the ‘Persian’ style, 1890, Royal Crown, Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Works, Derby, England; vase with twisted base, molded porcelain with crystalline glaze, 18941900, Valdemar Engelhardt for Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; bowl with mottled blue-violet glaze, 1917-18, Byrdcliffe Pottery, Woodstock, New York; and ‘Effigy’ bowl with ‘blue of sky and blue matte’ glazes, 1914, Fulper Pottery Company, Flemington, New Jersey. tive sampling of some of the best of Arts and Crafts pottery in period setting at Craftsman Farms, the house museum which was home to Gustav Stickley (stickleymuseum.org). Installed as they would have been when Stickley lived there are some three dozen vessels from some of the best known potteries of the period: among them Byrdclyffe, Greuby, and Saturday Night Girls, as well as Clifton (Newark) and Fulper (Flemington/Trenton). Ellarslie, the Trenton City Museum in Cadwalader Park, has a permanent gallery installation of Trenton-made pottery. In additon, Fulper and Stangl ware, made in Flemington and Trenton, will be the featured attraction in the museum’s upcoming exhibit, “Utility and Artistry: Works of the Stangl and Fulper Potteries,” from December 3 through May 2, 2010. Exhibition curator Peter Miessner says the exhibition will function as a trip through ceramic time, taking viewers through the history of the pottery, from its inception as Hill’s Pottery Manufactory in 1815, through its evolution into Fulper in the 1860s, and of course, the full run of Stangl.” He says that one of his goals is to encourage enthusiasm for the genre, “ for viewers to go home with a sense of awe and wonder at the beauty of Stangl and Fulper.” Starting with Fulper’s stoneware, the exhibition will progress to the Vase-Kraft line with inclusions from the pottery’s early and later periods and a sampling of extremely rare carnival ware. Some of Stangl’s little-seen work, including its very first line, called Fulper Fayence, will also be on view as well as another introduced in 1926 called Fulper-Stangl, and some handmade art ware. Miessner will give a lecture and tour of the exhibit on Sunday, January 10, at 2 p.m. The Pottery Society of Trenton offers a close look at pottery made in that city. Their website (potteriesoftrentonsociety.org) offers a vast amount of historical information and a self-guided tour of Trenton sites with notable art tile installations. On Saturday, April 17th, 2010, PSOT will sponsor a public symposium, “Staying Alive: The HillFulper-Stangl Pottery in a Changing Marketplace,” at the New Jersey State Museum Auditorium, to be followed by a reception and viewing of the exhibit at Ellarslie. 100 Masterpieces of Art Pottery, 1880-1930, Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark. On view through Sunday, January 10. 973-596-6550 or www.NewarkMuseum.org. 24 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 November 29 Continued from page 22 Nutcracker, Roxey Ballet, College of New Jersey, Kendall Hall, Ewing, 609-397-7616. www.roxeyballet.com. Holiday tradition. $14 to $50. 1 and 4 p.m. Drama The Thing About Men, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Romantic musical comedy based on Doris Dorrie’s screenplay features Todd Reichart, Allison Quairoli, Barry Abramowitz, Tom Stevenson, and Pam Jorgensen. $27.50 to $29.50. 1:30 p.m. The Producers, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 2 p.m. 3 Mo’ Divas, Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org. Musical journey featuring Laurice Lanier, mezzo soprano; Nova Y. Payton, soprano; and Jamet Pittman, soprano. Blues, jazz, soul, gospel, opera, and Broadway. $40 to $65. 3 and 7 p.m. Holiday Festival of Trees House Tours, Pearl S. Buck House, 520 Dublin Road, Perkasie, PA, 215-262-0100. www.pearlsbuck.org. $8. Noon to 3 p.m. Faith Theology on Tap, Princeton Theological Seminary, Fridays, MarketFair, West Windsor. Discussion of the crossroads between life and theology led by Josh Scott. Geared to young adults. Email [email protected] for information. 7 p.m. Food & Dining Farmer’s Market, Riverbank Arts, 19 Bridge Street, Stockton, 609-397-9330. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Holiday Wine Trail, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. $5 includes etched wine glass and six wine samples. Noon to 5 p.m. Pairing Wine and Chocolate, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road, Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Wine and chocolate tasting and learning materials. Register. $35. 2 p.m. Health & Wellness Tango Class, Actor’s Dance Studio, 1012 Brunswick Avenue, Ewing, 609-213-4578. Register. $15. 4 to 8 p.m. Yoga and Meditation, Let’s Do Yoga, 15 Jewel Road, West Windsor, 732-887-3561. [email protected]. Multi-level yoga class. Beginners are welcome. Bring mat and blanket. Register. $12. 5 to 6:30 p.m. Holiday Events History Tree Lighting, New Hope Chamber of Commerce, Logan Inn, 215-862-9990. www.newhopechamber.com. Tree lighting, musical entertainment, Santa and Mrs. Claus, cider, hot chocolate, and chestnuts. Bring a new, unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots and monetary donations for the Salvation Army. Free. Rain or shine. 5:30 p.m. From Revolution to Relativity, Historical Society of Princeton, Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Classic walking tour of downtown Princeton and Princeton University includes stops at Nassau Hall, University Chapel, Woodrow Wilson’s homes, and Einstein’s residence. Register by phone or E- Dancing mail [email protected]. $7. 2 p.m. For Families Planetarium Shows, New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, 609-292-6464. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “The Laser Nutcracker.” $6. 1 and 3 p.m. Family Theater The Nutcracker Children’s Tea Party, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Holiday treats with costumed dancers from American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School’s holiday classic. $45; children, $30. Performance tickets sold separately. 11 a.m. A Christmas Story, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Family drama with Pennington Players. $14. 2 p.m. Cashore Marionettes, Raritan Valley College, North Branch, 998-725-3420. www.raritanval.edu. “Simple Gifts” at 2 p.m. “Life in Motion” at 7 p.m. $25 each. 2 p.m. Cirque Shanghai Bai Xi, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609-9848400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Chinese acrobatic stage performance. $27 to $52. 7:30 p.m. Lectures Intro to Online Social Networking, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609-7507432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Basics of using connections to enhance business and professional contacts. $10. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Difficult Questions Roundtable, Westerly Road Church, 25 Westerly Road, Princeton, 609924-3816. www.westerlyroad.org. Roundtable discussions concerning life, faith, suffering, evil, and Christianity, discussed by Pastor Husband and Wife Artists: ‘Star Dog’ by Barbara Grossman, from ‘Cajori/Grossman: Forming the Figure,’ a duo exhibit with her husband, Charles Cajori, on view through Sunday, December 6, Rider University Art Gallery. 609-896-5033. Matthew Ristuccia, Westerly Road Church; Rajan Matthews, Chuck Hetzler, and David Ward. Lecture, buffet dinner, and discussion. Register. 6:30 p.m. Live Music 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. Tom Glover, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union Square, New Hope, 215-862-8300. www.triumphbrew.com. Irish and cover tunes. 1 to 4 p.m. Scott Rednor, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 3 p.m. Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 p.m. Continued on page 26 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Life 101: Where Do We Start? B efore he published “Tuesdays with Morrie” in 1997, Mitch Albom was just one sports journalist and columnist among others. But with the publication of this reflection on his weekly visits with his former college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease, Albom was transformed into a popular author whose books sold in the millions. “Tuesdays with Morrie” was not written with fame in mind but rather to help his old mentor pay his medical bills and maybe to work through Albom’s own feelings about life’s end. “It was supposed to be a small book,” says Albom in a phone interview from Rochester, New York, where he was on a book tour, “but it became very popular and changed the course of my life — having an opportunity to see somebody who is dying in front of you and teaching you lessons about what is important in life.” The warm reception of this book led to more books by Albom addressing spiritual questions. In 2003 he published “5 People You Meet in Heaven,” a novel about a man who awakens in heaven where his earthly life is explained to him by five people who had changed the course of his life. In 2006 he followed with “For One More Day,” a novel about a mother and a son that explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? These books all became successful television movies, with “Tuesdays with Morrie” and “For One More Day” produced by Oprah Winfrey. His latest book, “Have a Little Faith,” moves back to the personal realm, exploring the relationships he developed with two very different religious leaders, his childhood rabbi, Albert Lewis, and the pastor of a struggling African American church, Henry Covington. He interweaves the two men’s tales, the questions he poses for them, and the different roles that faith plays in each of their lives. He reads from his work and has a signing on Wednesday, December 2, at the Glazier Center in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Despite being actively involved in the Jewish world through his college years, Albom had never really developed an adult understanding of the role religion can play in a person’s life. He writes, for example, “I saw religious customs as sweet but outdated, like typing with carbon paper.” His one remaining religious practice was a leftover from childhood — a oncea-year visit to his parents on the High Holidays to attend services at his old synagogue. When he began his conversations with Lewis, Albom’s preconceived notions about what a spiritual leader must be like were also leftovers from his youth. For example, he put his rabbi way up on a “holy man” pedestal and was a little startled when he turned out to be, well, a human being. Albom also did not realize that clergy could truly value religions other than their own, and expresses surprise at the wise advice Lewis offered him: “You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say we don’t know everything.” The friendship between Lewis and Albom grew out of an unusual request. After Albom spoke at his childhood synagogue, Lewis invited Albom to give the eulogy at his funeral. Albom agreed, but only on the condition that he would be able to get to know Rabbi Lewis as a man. That he did, and Albom came to love Lewis as a wise and gentle person whose strength was his ability to connect with other people. Albom’s book is, more than anything, a tribute to Lewis’s humanity. The two men met often over the ensuing eight years, chatting about all manner of theological conundrums: whether God exists, why bad things happen to good people, why God allows wars, what is the source of true happiness, and what positive role religious ritual can play in a person’s life. In fact, it was one of Lewis’s teachings that pushed Albom to reach beyond himself to try to understand a different culture and religion — through a Christian man of faith. In chapters interspersed with those about Lewis, Albom traces the life of Henry Covington from the early death of his father into a life of crime and drugs that ironically landed him with a seven-year prison sentence for a murder he did not commit. After he was released, In writing ‘Have a Little Faith,’ Albom had to throw out his preconceived notions of what a spiritual leader must be like. Covington got a job and married his long-time girlfriend, but soon the tragedy of losing his first child, born prematurely, pushed him into drug dealing again, and eventually he started taking drugs himself. A ccording to Albom, Covington found his way back to Jesus after he miraculously escaped being killed after a desperate hold-up at gun point of two drug dealers. He eventually became a pastor to the homeless, the addicted, and the poor through the I Am My Brother’s Keeper Ministry, a formerly fancy Detroit church that was now close to ruin. Covington, through his own faith, was able to give his parishioners what they needed to survive and, with the help of articles Albom wrote, to begin fixing the huge hole in the church’s ceiling as well. Albom was born in 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey, but after a short sojourn in Buffalo, New York, his family settled in Oaklyn, New Jersey, near Philadelphia. Albom says he has always been creative. He yearned to be a cartoonist as a child and after teaching himself to play the piano, focused on establishing himself in a musical career. After getting a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Brandeis University in 1979, Albom moved to New York, performed for several years in Europe and America, and wrote and recorded several songs. “I was a piano player and a song writer, doing the starving artist thing in New York,” he says. But he was not really succeeding and decided to try something else that was creative, but less dependent on luck and more on hard work. So he volunteered to work for a local weekly, the “Queens Tribune.” Realizing that he had some apti- Lisa D. Arthur, DMD, PA V by Michele Alperin U.S. 1 V Implant, Cosmetic and General Dentistry For Children and Adults. 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People have always been my interest — profiles of people and individual stories of people, as opposed to games.” After freelancing for Sport magazine and other publications, Albom was offered his first full-time job — as a feature writer and eventual sports columnist for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel in Florida. In 1985 Albom moved to Detroit to become a sports journalist for the Detroit Free Press, where he still writes a column. He has published several anthologies of his sports columns. Albom also hosts a daily talk show on WJR radio and appears regularly on ESPN Sports Reporters and SportsCenter. Through the friendships he captures in “Have a Little Faith,” Albom came to understand that his charitable activities were really the outlet that gave expression to his spiritual yearnings. Over the last decade or so, he has founded four charities, whose missions range from helping disadvantaged children get involved with the arts and encouraging volunteerism to funding shelters for the homeless and helping faith groups who care for the homeless to repair the spaces in which they carry out their work. For Albom, then, his latest book opened the door to an adult understanding of the role religion or “faith” was actually playing in his own life. “It has taken away a lot of my cynicism towards faith and reintroduced me to the way one can lead a faithful life,” he says. “It’s not just about attending services and saying prayers; it’s about caring for your fellow human beings, taking care of them when they need help — that is being faithful.” Author Event, Jewish Learning Academy, Glazier Center, Newtown, PA. Wednesday, December 2, 7:30 p.m. Mitch Albom, the author of the internationally acclaimed “Tuesdays with Morrie,” talks about faith and introduces his new book, “Have a Little Faith.” $36 and $54 with a book. 215-4979925. Lisa D. Arthur, DMD Committed to your dental health and appearance. Building enduring relationships in a compassionate environment. 609-586-6688 www.lisaarthurdmd.com University Office Plaza II 3705 Quakerbridge Road, Suite 203, Hamilton, NJ 25 26 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 November 29 Continued from page 24 Holiday Specials Atomic Age, John & Peter’s, 96 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m. Hair Removal: Upper Lip..................$74 Underarm..................$74 Bikini Line.......From $109 Lower Legs...........$224 Chin.......................$74 Sideburns..............$74 Book Sale Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Stuff a bag for $3. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Farmers Market Gift Certificates Available www.mylasercenters.com Woodlands Facial Treatments: Acne.....................$109.00 Professional Building Rosacea.................$109.00 256 Bunn Drive PhotoFacial.............$149.00 Suite 3A Face Lifting, Wrinkle......$249 Princeton, NJ & Fine Line Reduction 609-477-0700 25% OFF Consultation First Treatment Offer expires 12/9/09. Offer expires 12/9/09. Singles Etz Chaim Sociable Single Seniors, Monroe Township Jewish Center, 11 Cornell Avenue, 609655-5137. Discussions, socializing, and refreshments. $5. 1 to 4 p.m. All prices based on purchase of package. Prices may vary based on consultation. Offer expires 12/9/09. FREE Indoor Farmers Market, Woodsedge Wools Farm, 78 Bowne Station Road, Stockton, 609-397-2212. www.alpacasllamaswoodsedge.co. Area farmers, foods, and crafts. $2 donation to benefit Slow Food Central New Jersey. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. FREE Skin test Socials Offer expires 12/9/09. Chess, Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. For advanced adult players. 1 to 5 p.m. Monday November 30 RALPH LAUREN • ELLEN TRACY • ESCADA Saturday, Nov. 14th through Monday, Nov. 30th THANKSGIVING SALE Our Deep Discounts Include: Selected Evening Wear and Jewelry (New arrivals not included) 1378 Route 206, Village Shopper Skillman, NJ 08558 • 609-924-2288 M-F 10-6; Thurs. 10-7; Sat. 10:30-5 • Consignments by appointment DONNA KARAN • LOUIS FERAUD • MONDI LAGERFELD • CHLOE • JAEGER ARMANI • CHANEL • HERMES IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Re-Wire Your Brain for the Holidays Stress Relief for the Holiday Season with Five Easy Tools, Neuro-Enhancement Strategies, Princeton Pike, 609-9180089. www.neuro-enhancement.com. “Whole Brain Learning with Application NLP” presented by Jeff Schoener. Register at [email protected]. $25. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jazz & Blues Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Too, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Free. 8 p.m. Are You My Mother? ‘Cats’ by the late photographer Jack Rosen, from a solo exhibit on view through January 31, PNC Bank, 2 North Main Street, New Hope. 215-862-1525. 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. Dance Nutcracker, Roxey Ballet, College of New Jersey, Kendall Hall, Ewing, 609-397-7616. www.roxeyballet.com. Holiday tradition. $14 to $50. 10 a.m. Drama Frankie & Johnnie, Center Playhouse, 35 South Street, Freehold, 732-462-9093. www.centerplayers.org. Staged reading and discussion of drama by Terence McNally. Free. 8 p.m. Dancing 238-2944. “Pain Solutions: Without Drugs or Surgery” presented by Dr. Matthew Speesler and other therapists. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m. History Ceremonial Groundbreaking, Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Celebrate the launch of construction. Register. 10 to 11 a.m. Lectures Meeting, Get Hired Today!, Center for Relaxation, 635 Plainsboro Road, 609-588-8874. www.meetup.com/gethiredtoday. For unemployed professionals. $5. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Live Music 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. Dave Allikas, The Court Tavern, 124 Church Street, New Brunswick, 732-545-7265. Comedy songs for all ages presents songs from his CD, “Songs You Wish You’d Written,” a look at modern life from a different angle. Free. 10 p.m. Literati Politics Plainsboro Literary Group, Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Nibbles, conversation, and readings. 6:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Dodds Auditorium, 609-258-2943. www.princeton.edu. Kenneth Liberthal speaks. Free. 4:30 p.m. Health & Wellness Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Susan Sprecher Studio, 23 Orchard Road, 609-306-6682. www.yogasusan.com. $15 walk-in. Discounted class cards available. 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. Clare Bridge Brookdale Senior Living, 1645 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Hamilton, 609-5864000. www.brookdaleliving.com. “Caring for Your Loved One with Alzheimer’s and Dementia” presented by Cecilia Bertrone, geriatric nurse practitioner, who will present an overview of the disease and its treatment. Dinner included. Register. Free. 6 p.m. Workout 101, Optimal Exercise Studio, 27B Maplewood Avenue, Cranbury, 609-490-7710. Workshop featuring the equipment found in most commercial health clubs. Register. $20. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wellness Education Foundation, Metuchen Library, 480 Middlesex Avenue, Metuchen, 732- Singles Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Register at www.meetup.com/PrincetonArea-Singles-Network. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday December 1 World AIDS Day IN THE SPOTLIGHT: How to Save a Life Blood Drive, American Red Cross, College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, 800-448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Opportunities Arts Nominations VSA Arts of New Jersey seeks applications for arts achievement and Dare to Imagine Awards programs. The achievement awards are presented to students with disabilities who are classified, 14 to 21 years old, not to exceed 12th grade, who show outstanding achievement in and commitment to an art form. Education in the arts awards are presented to educators and administrators for establishing high quality arts programs for classified students. Dare to Imagine awards recognize adults who have made a positive difference in the life of a person or persons with disabilities. Deadline for nominations and applications is Monday, January 11. Call for Submissions Lawrence Library seeks original works of a staged reading, 10 minutes in length, for up to five characters. Six plays will be chosen for the second annual One-Act Play Festival, on Saturday, April 24. Deadline is Sunday, December 20. E-mail to Ann Kerr at [email protected]. World Languages Mercer County Library System offers Mango Languages online language-learning system to patrons with a valid library card. Courses are offered in French, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL for Polish speakers, and ESL for Spanish speakers. Visit www.mcl.org, click on electronic resources/ home office languages, and enter the barcode on the back of your library card. Call 609-9896923 for information. Scholarships Eden Institute offers $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors who are planning college majors and future careers in special education or related disciplines. Visit www.edenautismservices.org for application. Deadline is Friday, April 9. Good Causes Howell Farm seeks contributions for an auction to benefit the restoration of the farm’s Henry Phillips House. The auction will be held Saturday, November 21. Contact Danielle Hougton at 609-7373299 or E-mail [email protected]. Alexia’s Belly Dance and Beyond is hosting Zumba for a Cure to benefit the Rally Foundation’s childhood cancer research. Sign up for any five zumba classes and the registration goes to Rally Foundation. Classes, an energetic dance workshop based on Latin and other world dance styles, are at the Drum & Dance Learning Center, at Avalon Road and Quakerbridge Road, Lawrence. Visit www.drumdancecenter.com or call 609-324-7383. Can Do Fitness is collecting food items including canned meats, fish, chili, fruit, vegetables; peanut butter; and boxed meals, to benefit the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. 121 Main Street, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro. Through Monday, November 30. PEAC Health & Fitness is collecting new, unwrapped toys for Jazz & Blues Dancing Rutgers Jazz Ensemble, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. $10. 8 p.m. Tuesday Night Folk Dance Group, Riverside School, Princeton, 609-655-0758. Instruction and dancing. No partner needed. $3. 7 to 9 p.m. Art Holiday Exhibit, Gold Medal Impressions, 43 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609606-9001. www.goldmedalimpressions.com. Photographer Richard Druckman features a limited number of collection-quality photographs from Super Bowls, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Yankees, Mets, Nets, Devils, Flyers, Rutgers, Georgetown, and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and South images. Through December 20. Call for hours. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Drama A Moon to Dance By, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. www.gsponline.org. Jane Alexander, Robert Cuccioli, and Gareth Saxe in Thom Thomas drama about Frieda Weekley, the widow of D.H. Lawrence. $28 to $78. 8 p.m. Health & Wellness Gentle Therapeutic Yoga, Susan Sprecher Studio, 23 Orchard Road, 609-306-6682. www.yogasusan.com. $15 walk-in. Discounted class cards available. 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. Open House, Sunny Health Center, 16 Seminary Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-1227. Free 15-minute massage. Register. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. World AIDS Day Observance, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, 215-340-9800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. A candlelight vigil starts at Starbucks Coffee, 10 North Main Street, Doylestown, and ends at the museum, where visitors are invited to a special Children’s Gallery exhibit, “The Gift of Giving VIII,” and panel discussion, “The Next Generation of HIV/AIDS: The Youth Crisis.” Free. Advance registration required. 6 p.m. Continued on following page U.S. 1 27 Dr. Sheryl Haber-Kuo, M.D. underprivileged children. Bring a toy for ages newborn to 16, from Saturdays, November 21 to December 12. Visit www.peachealthfitness.com or call 609-883-2000. 1440 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing. Call for Artisans Robbinsville High School seeks crafters and artisans for Cutting Edge Arts and Crafts Fair on Saturday, March 20, at 155 Robbinsville Edinburg Road, Robbinsville. Applications accepted through Monday, February 1. Call 609-448-5466 for information. Reflexology Planet Apothecary offers a 200-hour certification course in reflexology, January to June, Forrestal Village. $2,100 includes seminars, textbooks, tutorial lessons, and sample supplies. Contact Wendy Young at [email protected] or visit www.planetapothecary.com. Board Certified in Internal Medicine • Medical Preventative Maintenance • Treating Men & Women from 15 yrs to 100 + • New Patients Welcome Most Insurances Accepted Monday evening hours available Tt Cranbrook II Professional Building 2312-2314 Whitehorse-Mercerville Rd., Suite 201 • Mercerville 609-586-9566 28 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 CUSTOM DESIGNS • CARTIER December 1 Continued from preceding page Happy Thanksgiving History Get in the Spirit of Giving & Sharing Public Tour, Cottage Club, 51 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, 609-921-6137. www.princeton.edu/~cotclub. Tours of the Georgian Revival clubhouse built in 1906. Past members include James Forrestal ‘15, F.Scott Fitzgerald ‘17, Jose Ferrer ‘35, Governor Brendan T. Byrne ‘49, Senators William W. Bradley ‘65, and William Frist ‘74, John McPhee ‘53, and A. Scott Berg ‘71. The club is in the New Jersey and National registers of historic places. Free. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ❖ diamond studs ❖ diamond engagement rings ❖ diamond pendants remounts & updates to rings & other jewelry orlando, the “Go to” guy in princeton for aLL YOUR JEWELRY NEEDS WE BUY GOLD, DIAMONDS, SILVER & COSTUME JEWELRY WE PAY CASH OPEN 7 DAYS Princeton North Diamond Co. GOLDSMITHS • SILVERSMITHS • GEMOLOLOGIST 609-924-9400 AT THE PRINCETON NORTH SHOPPING CENTER Rt. 206, 1225 state road • Princeton, NJ 08540 Handicap accessible • Se habla Espanõl DAVID YURMAN • CITIZEN Lectures ESTATE JEWELRY TIFFANY • ROLEX custom jewelry design work by orlando Computer Tips and Tricks, Ewing SeniorNet Computer Literacy Center, 999 Lower Ferry Road, 609-882-5086. www.ewingsnet.com. “Should I Upgrade to Windows 7?” presented by David Soll, Omicron Consulting. Free. 1 p.m. Thunderbird Alumni Association, Nassau Inn, Tap Room, 10 Palmer Square, Princeton, 609-933-1621. www.thunderbird.edu. Networking and social. Free. 6 to 8 p.m. How to Screen Nannies and Babysitters, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-586-7757. www.mcl.org. Presentation by Ronald J. Coughlin, president of the New Jersey Violence Prevention Institute. Register. Free. 7 to 8 p.m. Gadget Guru, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Douglas Dixon of Manifest Technology presents the hottest digital devices, gadgets, and accessories. Free. 7 p.m. Workshop, Rider University, Memorial 310, Lawrenceville. http://osgw.wordpress.com. “Graphic Design Techniques” workshop presented by John Lemasney, an artist, sculptor, designer, technologist, writer, poet, and manager of Instructional Technology at Rider University. Register. Free. 7 p.m. In My Hometown: Sharon Kenny, a Hamilton native, debuts her CD ‘Pianocentric’ with a concert on Saturday, November 28, at Hamilton Manor, 30 Route 156, Hamilton. 609-581-6782. John Bianculli Trio with Jackie Jones and Jon Peretz, Bensi Restaurant, The Shoppes at North Brunswick, 787 Shoppes Boulevard, North Brunswick, 732-9931300. www.bensirestaurants.com. No cover. 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Outdoor Action Princeton Ski Club, Romeo’s Restaurant, Plainsboro, 732-329-2067. princetonski.org. Get acquainted social. Register. 6 p.m. Politics Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Robertson Hall, Bowl 016, 609258-2943. www.princeton.edu. Mickey Edwards speaks. 4:30 p.m. Live Music Colleges Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 7 p.m. Focus on Career Success, Mercer County College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, 609-5703311. www.mccc.edu. 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Issue Dates (Choose the four that work best for you): November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16, 22* Deadline: ASAP, or November 13 issue For more information contact: Diana Joseph-Riley or Martha Moore 609-452-7000 Princeton’s largest circulation community newspaper *special Tuesday publication. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Wine, Unplugged: Acoustic Road plays classic rock on Saturday, November 28, at Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington. 609-737-4465. IN THE SPOTLIGHT: O Tannenbaum Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. Galleries adorned for the holidays by area businesses and garden clubs. $5. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Classical Music Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, 732-932-7511. “Shostakovich 5.” Kynan Johns conducts. $25. 8 p.m. Spectrum Concert, Princeton University Chapel, Washington Road, 609-258-3654. “Harp Extravaganza,” a recital featuring the students of Elaine Christy. Free. 8 p.m. Art Art Exhibit, PNC Bank, 2 North Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215862-1525. www.pnc.com. Exhibit of works by the late Jack Rosen, a photographer who documented decade of life in New Hope, includes photographs of Pearl Buck and George Nakashima. On view to January 31. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Exhibition and Sale, Princeton Area Community Foundation, 15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, 609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. Exhibition and sale featuring works of Princeton artist Thomas George including brush and ink drawings, abstract oil paintings, watercolors, and the last remaining pastels of the Institute Pond series. Through Thursday, December 31. 9 a.m. Architecture Down the Garden Path Lecture Series, Princeton University School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium, Princeton, 609-2583741. www.soa.princeton.edu. “The New Landscape of Collaboration,” Shane Coen, Minneapolis. Free. 6 p.m. Drama 3 Mo’ Divas, Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org. Musical journey featuring Laurice Lanier, mezzo soprano; Nova Y. Payton, soprano; and Jamet Pittman, soprano. Blues, jazz, soul, gospel, opera, and Broadway. $40 to $65. 10 a.m. 29 Holistic Women’s Health Care Nutrition/Herbs • Stress Management Weight Management/Body Composition Individualized Menopause Assessments Bio-Identical Hormones • Outpatient Gynecology Functional Medicine/Genomics center for continuing studies with programs in business and management, health careers, and computer literacy. 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday December 2 U.S. 1 Natural Approaches to Preventing Breast Cancer, Heart Disease & Osteoporosis On the Town, Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn, 973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Musical by Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins devoted to celebrating New York City. Directed by Bill Berry. Featuring Harriet Harris, Brian Shepard, Jeffrey Schecter, and Tyler Hanes. $25 to $92. 7:30 p.m. Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Shakespeare comedy with Steve Wilson, Elena Shaddow, and Daniel Stewart. $34 to $50. Preview. 7:30 p.m. The Producers, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m. A Moon to Dance By, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. www.gsponline.org. Jane Alexander, Robert Cuccioli, and Gareth Saxe in Thom Thomas drama about Frieda Weekley, the widow of D.H. Lawrence. $28 to $78. 8 p.m. Betrayal, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Harold Pinter drama. $25. 8 p.m. Little Faith.” $36 and $54 with a book. 7:30 p.m. Kathleen M. Thomsen, MD, MPH Health & Wellness Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Susan Sprecher Studio, 23 Orchard Road, 609-306-6682. www.yogasusan.com. $15 walk-in. Discounted class cards available. 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. Escape Through Meditation, East Brunswick Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, 732-3906767. www.ebpl.org. Volunteerled meditation session. Free. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tribal Belly Dance Class, One Yoga Center, 405 Route 130, East Windsor, 267-266-0297. www.tribalbellysryle.com. Level two, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Level 1, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. $16. 7:15 p.m. Women’s Health & Wellness 252 West Delaware Ave. Pennington, NJ 08534 609-818-9700 www.drkatethomsen.com Continued on following page * NOV. 29, 2009 DEC. 2 6, 2009 Dancing Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m. Literati Author Event, Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Joyce Carol Oates, author of “Little Bird of Heaven,” reads from her new novel of erotic romance, tragic violence, and ghosts of the past. 5:30 p.m. Authors Night, Princeton Area League of Women Voters, Princeton Township Municipal Building, 400 Witherspoon Street. Authors Mimi Schwartz, “Good Neighbors, Bad Times”; Letitia Ufford, “The Pasha”; and Scott Sipprelle, “The Golden Dog.” Dessert. 7 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. Author Event, Jewish Learning Academy, Glazier Center, Newtown, PA, 215-497-9925. Mitch Albom, the author of the internationally acclaimed “Tuesdays with Morrie,” talks about faith and introduces his new book, “Have a JUNCTION BARBER SHOP new low prices 940 IS BUY • SELL • TRADE NEW and USED CAMERAS 654 Nassau Park Blvd. • Princeton, NJ 33 Hightstown Rd., Princeton Jct. 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Past members include James Forrestal ‘15, F.Scott Fitzgerald ‘17, Jose Ferrer ‘35, Governor Brendan T. Byrne ‘49, Senators William W. Bradley ‘65, and William Frist ‘74, John McPhee ‘53, and A. Scott Berg ‘71. The club is in the New Jersey and National registers of historic places. Free. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stroller Strides, Historical Society of Princeton, Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Walking tour of Princeton for moms, dads, grandparents, caregivers, and their tiny tots. Town and university sites. $7. 10 a.m. Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Galleries adorned for the holidays by area businesses and garden clubs. $5. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Also, Tour and Tea. Tour the restored mansion, galleries, and gardens. Tea before or after tour. Register. $15. 11:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Holiday Open House, Drumthwacket Foundation, 354 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. Tour of the official residence of the Governor of New Jersey featuring “EverGreen,” an eco-friendly theme created by garden clubs throughout the State. Register. $5 donation. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For Parents Special Ed Support Group, Family Support Organization, 3535 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-586-1200. Free. 6 to 8 p.m. Man Trouble: Milo (Barry Abramowich, near right) and Cindy (Pam Jorgensen, far right) probe the waters of a possible relationship as a disdainful waiter (Tom Stevenson) looks on in Off-Broadstreet's ‘The Thing About Men,’ through Saturday, December 19. 609-466-2766. Lectures Volunteering, Princeton Senior Resource Center, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609-924-7108. “Building a Resume for an Encore Career,” a workshop designed for people who are planning to retire from one career, for retired people, and currently unemployed seniors. Register. Free. 7 to 8:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 At the Movies Confirm titles with theaters. 2012. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal. Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. Also known as “The Amazing Story Of Strange Love,” a Bollywood romantic comedy. Multiplex, Regal. Amelia. Drama about the life of Amelia Earhart. AMC, Multiplex. An Education. Drama with Peter Sarsgaard and Emma Thompson. Montgomery. Astro Boy. Animated family film. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex. Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Bloody sequel. AMC. The Box. Thriller with Cameron Diaz. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex, Regal. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant. Suspense with John C. Reilly. Destinta. Couples Retreat. Comedy about four couples. AMC, Multiplex, Regal. Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Animated holiday film. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal. The Fourth Kind. Thriller about alien abductions. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex, Regal. Law Abiding Citizen. Thriller with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex, Regal. London Dreams. Hindi film. Regal. Men Who Stare at Goats. Comedy about war with George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. AMC, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal. Michael Jackson’s This is It. Documentary of Jackson’s last days. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex, Regal. Live Music Free Sheep With every Perfect Sleeper Purchase Fine Quality Home Furnishings at Substantial Savings Twin Set $649• Dining Room Full Set King Set • Bedroom • Occasional Belvedere Firm Addison Set Up • Custom Made Twin Set Twin Set Full Set Full Set Upholstery Removal King Set King Set • Prints and Promise Vera Wang Pillow Top Crystal Vera Wang Euro Top Accessories Twin Set Twin Set • Leather Furniture Full Set Full Set King Set King Set • Antique Furniture Repair & Refinishing $799 $1199 $899 $1399 Sofa & Recliner Sale Whole Month of JANUARY! Paranormal Activity. Sci-fi thriller. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex, Regal. Pirate Radio. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy in film about rock and roll in the 1960s. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Drama. Garden, Montgomery. Saw VI. Thriller with Tobin Bell. AMC, Destinta. A Serious Man. Drama with Richard Kind portraying a man in 1967. Montgomery. The Stepfather. Thriller with Sela Ward and Dylan Walsh. AMC, Destinta. Twilight Saga: The New Moon. Opens Thursday, November 19. AMC, Destinta, Garden, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal . Where the Wild Things Are. Family film based on Maurice Sendak’s book. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex. Zombieland. Comedy thriller with Woody Harrelson. AMC. New Tricks: ‘Old Dogs’ opens on Wednesday, November 25, starring Ella Bleu Travolta, left, Conner Rayburn, Robin Williams, and John Travolta. 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 Street, Princeton, 609-683-7595. MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-520-8700. Montgomery Center Theater, Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill, 609-924-7444. Multiplex Cinemas Town Center Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East Windsor, 609-371-8472. Regal Theaters, Route 1 South, New Brunswick, 732-940-8343. Classical Music Why Kiss Another Frog This New Year’s Eve?, Neuro-Enhancement Strategies, Princeton Pike, 609-918-0089. www.neuro-enhancement.com. “Recognize Your Perfect Mate” presented by Jeff Schoener. Register at [email protected]. $25. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Politics For Seniors Meeting, South Brunswick Republican Committee, Pierre’s, Georges Road, Dayton. www.sbgog.org. Visitors are welcome. 7 p.m. Legal Services, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33, Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. Legal services for Mercer County resident age 60 plus. Power of attorney, wills for small estates, living wills, social security, Medicare problems, consumer matters, tenants’ rights, and bankruptcy. Register. Free. 10 a.m. to noon. Afternoon Concert, Princeton University Chapel, Washington Road, 609-258-3654. Free. 12:30 to 1 p.m. Holiday Concert, Princeton Theological Seminary, Miller Chapel, Princeton Theological Seminary, 609-497-7890. www.ptsem.edu. Handbell concert features one of the world’s largest handbells, on loan from Malmark, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of handbells. Free and open to the public. 8 p.m. Museum Shop Holiday Boutique, Zimmerli Art Museum, George and Hamilton streets, New Brunswick, 732-9327237. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. Gift merchandise including woodblock prints, raku pottery, jewelry, and children’s books. Benefits museum programs. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Socials Central Jersey Mothers of Multiples, Hamilton Library. www.cjmom.org. Meeting for mothers with twins, triplets, and more. E- Thursday December 3 IN THE SPOTLIGHT: An 18th Century Christmas Holly Nights, Pennsbury Manor, 400 Pennsbury Memorial Road, Morrisville, 215-946-0400. www.pennsburymanor.org. Candles, luminaria, and torches illuminate William Penn’s 43-acre historic plantation for Holly Nights, a family celebration with music, carol singing, bonfires, hot mulled cider, and historic crafts demonstrations. Guided tour of the manor house by candlelight. $9. 5:30 to 9 p.m. Fall Extravaganza! It’s All On Sale! Rider Furniture 4621 Route 27, Kingston, NJ 609-924-0147 Monday-Friday 10-6; Saturday 10-5; Sunday 12-5 Design Services Available. www.riderfurniture.com Rafael C. Castro, M.D., P.A. Board-Certified in Internal Medicine • Primary Care Physician for Patients 15 Yrs. & Up • Thorough and Personalized Care • New Patients Welcome We Listen! Most Insurances Accepted Saturday and Evening Hours Available Spanish & Tagalog spoken. mail [email protected] for information. 7 p.m. Singles Open House, Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North Branch, 908-253-6688. www.raritanval.edu. Information for adults including transferring old credits earned from other colleges and universities, CLEP exams, and other lifetime learning options. Register. 6 p.m. 31 Rider Furniture No , Gimmicks e Hassle Fre ! Shopping Eric Daab Trio, BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. Jazz guitar. 8 to 11 p.m. John Bianculli Trio with Jackie Jones and Jon Peretz, Bensi Restaurant, The Shoppes at Flemington, 100 Reaville Avenue, Flemington, 908-788-5400. www.bensirestaurants.com. No cover. 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Colleges U.S. 1 Jazz & Blues Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Schare Recital Hall, New Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Free. 8 p.m. Pop Music That’s Amore: Dean Martin & Friends Holiday Special, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. $25 to $65. 7 p.m. Winter Musicale, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100. www.brtstage.org. Holiday music. Through Sunday, December 20. $29. 8 p.m. Art Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. princetonartmuseum.org. Highlights of the collections, new acquisitions, and special exhibitions. Free. 3 p.m. Continued on following page Rafael C. Castro, M.D., P.A. Princeton Professional Park 601 Ewing Street Suite C-18 • Princeton 609-924-1331 32 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 SINGLES Jr. and Full-size Jr. Sets and Full-size Sets 609-924-8282 609-448-7170 609-387-9631 609-897-0032 PRINCETON HIGHTSTOWN BURLINGTON www.farringtonsmusic.com PRINCETON JCT Helping our Patients Return to a Full & Active Life St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center is a comprehensive physical rehabilitation hospital that offers all the therapies and specialty medical programs you need to help you to return to a full and active life. • 166-bed facility dedicated solely to physical rehabilitation • Acute, Subacute and Brain Injury rehabilitation located within one facility • Board certified physiatrists, physicians specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation, direct all rehabilitation programs • State-of-the-art 23,000 sq. ft. Outpatient Health Center St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center 2381 Lawrenceville Road Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-2024 fax 609-844-0648 www.slrc.org 609-896-9500 MEN SEEKING WOMEN WOMEN SEEKING MEN SEEKING FRIENDS I am a widower for six years:, in my 70s, NR, NS, grandfather of five girls (ages 6-13). 6’, 178 lbs, a well-known professional artist and retired art educator (teacher, supervisor). I enjoy art exhibits, music, and dance programs, films, theater, reading (history, art, and sports buff), quiet time at home. I walk about 45 minutes per day. Box 236262. Sgt. Pepper - Caught your eye ... As you can surmise, I am an avid Beatles fan along with most oldies. I am 58 youthful, a kind person with many interests. You must love dogs and animals. You must be a kind, caring person. I would like to hear about you. Linda, Box 236243 Conventions (Computer, Scifi, Fantasy, etc), Window shopping in New Hope, PA., and many other things. I also like to visit the UK, when I can. If you’re interested or know of a group, let me know... I am looking to stay close to my age group, if possible. (Mid 20s thru late 40s). Box 236239 Very youthful, attractive, DF, 5’4”, brunette, fun-loving — loves to laugh, dance, oldies, good music, theater, concerts, good movies, good healthy eating in and good restaurants dining out. 62, look 10 years younger. Recent clear photo appreciated. Ages 55-72. Box 236259 Professional, bright, single attractive female with a fun-loving personality wishes to meet intelligent, kind, earthy, peaceful people of both genders, ages 50-70, for friendship, going to social events. Please be honest, sincere, and genuine. Non-smokers and nonheavy drinkers. Positive outlook — enjoy dancing, the arts, laughing, good times, good restaurants. Prefer Princeton-area friends or nearby. Be healthy, mentally and physically, wholesome, cultured, refined, decent human beings. Box 236259 WOMEN SEEKING MEN Hi Guys, Want to be with a good, decent, caring, loving woman, someone who will make you feel like you are alive and have a reason to live again? When is the last time you felt you had a reason to wake up? Well I’ll make that change. I’m a tall senior citizen, 63 years young, looking for someone who is like I am. I have blue eyes, dark hair, and am fullfigured and love life. Pets, smiling, laughing, and enjoying living, but life hasn’t been feeling that way, so that is where you come in. Together we could start a new beginning. I am nice to know, down-to-earth, and real. And I’ve been told a number of times I’m attractive. So what do you say? Write me back and let’s talk. White men only. Please include your phone number and I’ll call you. Thank you for your time. You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Box 236268 Petite, fit, Jewish lady, 60, active, bright, college-educated, down-toearth, enjoys life. World traveler, lover of the arts, seeks a down-to-earth JPM, a gentleman, age 60-75 for companionship, and friendship. Love the Phillies and the Eagles, AC, good conversations, and sense of humor. Box 236273 December 3 Continued from preceding page Art Exhibit, Ellarslie, Trenton City Museum, Cadwalader Park, 609-989-3632. Opening reception for “Utility and Artistry: Works of the Stangl and Fulper Potteries.” On view to May 2. 6 to 8 p.m. Art Exhibit, Red Horse Gallery, Freehold Raceway Mall. Meet the artist reception for VSA Arts of New Jersey exhibit featuring the works of Kasey Tararuj, who has been living with a disability for eight years. On view to January 8. Gallery open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 6 to 8 p.m. Late Thursdays, Princeton University Art Museum, Campus, 609-258-3788. Extended hours to Where is my cowboy? Hi! SWF who enjoys country music and men who are well-behaved, groomed, handsome — and think with their heart. Looking for a white, down-to-earth gentleman between 48-57 with a sense of humor. I want to be swept off my feet. Waiting to hear from you. You won’t be sorry! Box 236231 Looking for a relationship: I’m a 47 year old with brown hair and brown eyes, 4’11” short. I like movies, long walks, and going to the gym a lot. I’m looking for someone to be with, talk to, and watch TV with. I can also cook. I live in Monmouth Junction, NJ. SEEKING FRIENDS 35-year-old White Male seeking social group or friend in the Mercer County area (willing to stretch out of this area, if needed), who share similar interests with me. I am into D&D, Movies, explore the special exhibitions and collections. Many evenings feature film screenings, musical performances, and activities. Free. 7 to 10 p.m. Dance Dance Plus Fall, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Works by faculty choreographers. $25. 8 p.m. Drama The Producers, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m. HOW TO RESPOND How to Respond: Place your note in an envelope, write the box number on the envelope, and mail it with $1 cash to U.S. 1 at the address above. HOW TO ORDER Singles By Mail: To place your free ad in this section mail it to U.S. 1, 12 Roszel Road, Princeton 08540, fax it to 609-452-0033, or E-mail it to [email protected]. Be sure to include a physical address to which we can send responses. 3 Mo’ Divas, Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org. Musical journey featuring Laurice Lanier, mezzo soprano; Nova Y. Payton, soprano; and Jamet Pittman, soprano. Blues, jazz, soul, gospel, opera, and Broadway. $40 to $65. 8 p.m. A Moon to Dance By, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. www.gsponline.org. Jane Alexander, Robert Cuccioli, and Gareth Saxe in Thom Thomas drama about Frieda Weekley, the widow of D.H. Lawrence. $28 to $78. 8 p.m. Betrayal, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Harold Pinter drama. $25. 8 p.m. The Miser, Princeton Shakespeare Company, TBA, 609258-1500. www.princeton.edu/psc. Moliere. $10. 8 p.m. Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Shakespeare comedy with Steve Wilson, Elena Shaddow, and Daniel Stewart. $34 to $50. Preview. 8 p.m. Crime and Punishment, Theatre Intime, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University, 609-2581742. www.theatreintime.org. Based on Dostoyevsky’s novel. $12. 8 p.m. Dancing Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 609-273-1378. www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes followed by guided practice. $10. 8 p.m. Literati Author Event, Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Theodore Cross, author of “Waterbirds,” a book featuring photographs taken in Alaska, Texas, Siberia, and South Pacific. The Princeton resident, now 85, began photographing in midlife. 5:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 ART FILM LITERATURE DANCE DRAMA U.S. 1 33 MUSIC PREVIEW Charles Dickens, Four Generations Later V ery jolly transatlantic laughter interrupted my conversation by phone to London with Gerald Charles Dickens, the great, great grandson of the famous Charles Dickens. So much laughing, it’s hard to imagine him playing the role of Scrooge. But he does, along with the other characters so familiar to all of us from the holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol — Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, old Fezziwig, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet-to-Be, plus at least 20-something more in his one-man show, which takes place on December 12, at Villa Victoria Academy Theater in West Trenton. Dickens recreates all these characters with a minimum of costume adjustments and a few props. He has performed here in America on a number of occasions, following the lead of his great great grandfather, who famously read “A Christmas Carol” to U.S. audiences in 1867. Gerald Dickens first stepped forward with his own performance in 1993 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the book’s first publication. “It wasn’t my idea but I was asked to do a reading for a charitable event. I just used the version that Charles Dickens had used himself, one he had edited down from the original story to a workable length script.” Of course he had always known about his famous ancestor. But just imagine, as a young boy on a Sunday afternoon watching a story on television, maybe “A Tale of Two Cities” or “Oliver Twist” and at the end, “There was my name on it. It was incredible.” This is how the progression goes: Gerald’s father, David, was in publishing; his father, Gerald, was an admiral in the Royal Navy; his father, Henry, was a lawyer; and his father was Charles Dickens. Since that first performance, Gerald Dickens’s enactment of the famous Christmas tale has become a cottage industry with performances at theaters, schools, art and literature festivals, and even on cruise ships. Many are the feature of a charitable event. The December 12 performance at Villa Victoria Theater benefits the Foundation for Student Achievement — “whose mission is to provide an exceptional Catholic education for the students of the Diocese of Trenton.” Christmas has always had a special significance for Gerald Dickens. He remembers as a child of five or six listening to his father and his uncle sharing duties reading the family treasure, “AChristmas Carol,” to him and his cousins. It was part of their seasonal ritual. “I could tell you absolutely everything that would happen on Christmas Day at our home. It always followed the same pattern — just like the Cratchit family. And we always had turkey and Christmas pudding. Mum would set it on fire with flaming brandy. If she could carry it into the dining room and all around the table without the flames going out, that foretold a very special year ahead.” Christmas time also marked the eureka moment when Gerald decided to become an actor. When he was around seven years old, his school put on a holiday pageant, a nativity play told from the point of view of the animals outside the stable. “I was a very shy young boy and didn’t want to talk much, but everyone in the school had a part. I was cast as a rooster. My parents were given the job of making my costume so my dad built a this huge rooster 20 times the size of the other animals.” When young Gerald made his entrance in the play, the audience burst out laughing. He immediately decided: “This is it. This is the life.” From then on, he tried to get into every school play and did, then ex- by LucyAnn Dunlap panded to local theater. He’s been acting ever since. He went to college in Kent for two years where, although it wasn’t a theater school, he studied drama. He admits, “I didn’t have a spectacular academic career.” Again, he is laughing. Giving up on academia, he performed with a theater troupe in England. “We did a lot of comedy, but aimed for some variety as well, performing some musicals, a little Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, as well as some things we wrote ourselves.” Almost everything he does now is Dickens related. “I’d love to act in some other things as well. But this is where I am now, maybe later.” He is 46 years old. There’s time. In addition to “A Christmas Carol,” he performs other Dickens projects including one-man shows of “Mr. Dickens Is Coming,” “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Sketches by Boz.” “My goal with ‘A Christmas Carol’ is to make sure people have a good time. I try to not make it too serious, something to be revered. It’s just a good story. When the audience comes at the beginning they’re coming to see a show. At the end, they’re part of a show. That’s what I try to achieve. Everybody is traveling through this story together. “I have a different take on Scrooge. The important thing about him is that he has to be recognizably the same character at the end as he was at the beginning. You can’t have a complete villain at the start who turns out to be a saint. You have to have the same man 12 hours later — that’s the span of the story. In the early stages there has got to be this glimmer that he can change. And at the end there has to be a glimmer that he is still a very harddriven person. He is above all an incredible business man. He’s got a successful finance business in the leading world economy at that time. So he must have been quite clever. He can’t just be a cartoon character for the story to really work.” R ecently Gerald took his 10-year-old son Cameron to see the new Disney movie of “A Christmas Carol.” He says, “It’s a story he loves and has seen performed many times. His opinion of the film was not exactly favorable. Cameron Dickens will surely carry on the family tradition. In an article written by Bruce Weber for the the New York Times in 1998, when Gerald Dickens was making one of his first forays in a performance schedule in the United States, he quoted the artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis regarding the message of “A Christmas Carol.” “By the end, Scrooge has come ‘round to believing we must have, if not socialism, then a great deal of social democracy. It’s fascinating that audiences embrace a notion from a 19th-century British writer. If a 20th-century American writer said the same things, he’d be viewed as left-wing fringe.” Charles Dickens’s writing spoke to his concerns about the social ills of England in his time. However, there are a lot of Scrooges still among us, Wall Street wheelers and dealers who are now finding the finger of guilt pointed at them as the world struggles with the economic downturn. Gerald Dickens says, “‘A Christmas Carol’ was exceedingly relevant when it was written. That’s why it was so successful.” Then, with a somber tone totally erasing all the previous laughter, he adds, “Today is it unbelievably relevant to do.” (He stresses the word unbelievably.) “We haven’t actually moved on at all.” In his writing, Dickens dealt with many different issues. But thinking of today, Gerald wonders what his great great grandfather would make of it all. On a brighter note, “A Christmas Carol” is generally noted to be the number one fundraising event for schools and non-profit the- ‘I have a different take on Scrooge. The important thing about him is that he has to be recognizably the same character at the end as he was at the beginning.’ Strictly Victorian: Gerald Charles Dickens is the great, great grandson of Charles DIckens. aters in America. I think Charles Dickens would be pleased by that. A Christmas Carol, Diocese of Trenton, Villa Victoria Academy Theater, 376 West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton. Saturday, December 12, 7 p.m. One man show featuring Gerald Charles Dickens of London to perform in his great-great-grandfather’s classic tale. Benefit for Foundation for Student Achievement. Register. $25. 609-4067400 or www.dioceseoftrenton.org. 34 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 If the Wish List is an E-List, Think Small & Portable M aybe you can’t take it with you, but with today’s portable digital devices you can come awfully close — from business documents to personal media collections. And with wireless connectivity to news and messages, it’s like you never left any of it behind. So are you checking out portable devices for this holiday season? The Consumer Electronics Association (www.ce.org) hopes so, and its annual holiday survey of consumers shows that electronics continue to be hot with consumers. Last year’s holiday season was clobbered by the collapsing economy, and the CEA sees consumers still being frugal, projecting that total spending on holiday gifts will rise about 4 percent this year, to $764 per household, still down from $882 in 2007. But 29 percent of that gift spending will be on consumer electronics products, up 8 percent from last year. The CEA is projecting a 6-percent growth rate in CE unit sales for fourth quarter 2009, compared to the 6.3 percent loss last year. This growth will be driven by computers and audio/video equipment — especially portable devices. Meet the Author: Technology writer Doug Dixon speaks on the latest gadgets and digital devices on Tuesday, December 1, at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library. 609-924-8822. by Douglas Dixon The CE product holiday gift wish list — devices that people want to receive — is similar to last year’s, but with new portable devices entering the top 10 lists for both adults and teens. The wish list for adults: notebook PCs, portable media players, flat panel TVs, video game systems, digital cameras, E-readers, iPhones, Blu-ray disc players, desktop PCs, and smartphones. The teen wish list has even more emphasis on portable devices, with portable media players at the top, mobile phones at number four, portable game devices at seven, and another new category, netbooks, at number nine. Topping the list of CE products people are planning to give as gifts echoes these trends, so people might actually be getting the gifts they want. The CEA reports that several trends have emerged for holiday shopping. There’s more focus on CE products at mass merchants (like Wal-Mart) instead of electronics stores, an effort to spread out the “Black Friday” peak with earlier and ongoing deals, and an attempt to raise consumer spending by offering low-end and higher-functionality products, as well as through aggressive bundling of related products. E-Book readers and more. Portable media players and handheld gaming systems are fine for quick web browsing, but the threeinch screens are not great for extended viewing, especially if you are reading text. So E-Book readers like the Amazon Kindle feature six to nine-inch screens, closer to The Whole World At Hand: Cell phones have evolved into all-encompassing communications devices. Clockwise from top left, the Archos 5, Apple iPhone, and Motorola Droid. the experience of reading an oldfashioned paper book (www.amazon.com/ kindle). The Kindle with the six-inch screen sells for $259 and holds some 1,500 books in the size of a tablet. The larger Kindle DX, for $489, has a 9.7-inch screen and holds 3,500 books. The recently announced Barnes & Noble Nook is a bit thicker and heavier than the Kindle but adds a 3.5-inch color touchscreen display below the E-Ink screen for control and navigation, a microSD slot for expansion storage, and a replaceable battery. Selling for $259, it’s based on the Google Android platform (www.nook.com). To expedite your purchase, and avoid the pain of having to sync books though a PC, the Kindle and the Nook include a built-in cellular modem (with Sprint and AT&T data service, respectively) that can connect directly to the bookstore servers to browse and download titles to preview and buy. The service comes with the device; there’s no additional monthly charge. The Nook also adds Wi-Fi for faster access, with free service at Barnes & Noble stores. One drawback with E-Book readers, however, is the E-Ink “electronic paper” display, where the dark “ink” dots drawn on the page remain until the display is rewritten — unlike LCD displays, which need power to remain lit and therefore are turned off when not in use. As a result, the Kindle can run on its battery for four days, or two weeks with the wireless turned off. But once you have an intelligent portable device with a large display and wireless service, it can perform other useful functions. So while the Kindle and Nook are not suitable for motion video, action games, or color images, they do have some general player features, including displaying PDF files, playing audiobooks and music, and even basic web browsing, albeit best for text-centric sites. Amazon reports that the Kindle NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Books and Movies: PSPgo, near right, and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the hot-selling E-book reader. is the bestselling item across all 5 GB monthly allowance (5 cents product categories on its website. per MB overage). Or you can pay But like songs and movies on as you go with a DayPass plan at iTunes and apps on the iPhone, the $15 for 24-hour access. real action is in the online store. As Netbooks for mobile. Yet anof November Amazon offers more other approach to finding computthan 360,000 books in the U.S. er-like functionality in a relatively Kindle Store, including 101 of 112 inexpensive portable device is, of New York Times bestsellers, as course, to use a computer. But you well as more than 90 U.S. and in- pay a premium for squeezing high ternational newspapers and maga- tech components into lightweight zines. laptops like the Apple MacBook Barnes & Noble has more than a Air, which starts at $1,499 million titles available. (www.apple.com/macbookair). Both Amazon and Barnes & NoInstead, consumers are turning ble are extending services from E- to a new category, the netbook, Book devices to PCs (and Macs) which is easy to carry and easy to and other portable devices, includ- connect to the Internet. They have ing the iPhone, iPod touch, and larger screens than pocket devices BlackBerry. Amazon automatical- plus a full keyboard, but trade for ly syncs your bookmarks and last lower performance and capacity. page read across devices so you Netbooks typically run Windows can continue reading on what ever XP or Linux, with your favorite device is handy at the moment, and typical applications, and are great Barnes & Noble supports “digital for basic document editing, web lending” of titles to friends across access, and E-mail. They’re also the different platforms. great for playing web videos but reIf, however, you are looking for ally are not designed for activities a Nook for Christmas, you’re al- like 3D games or video editing. ready too late. Barnes & Noble has Netbooks are typically a third to sold out of the reader and will not one half the size of traditional lapship them again until January 4. tops, and weigh around two to four Mobile broadband. As you be- pounds. They have smaller discome used to enjoying wireless plays, 7 to 10 inches, with adequate connectivity, you’ll also become memory (1 GB) and storage (more more aware of the limitations of like 10 to 100 GB). They typically Wi-Fi — fighting to hold on to a use the Intel Atom processor, detable at the cofsigned speciffee shop, or findically for moing yourself desConsumer electronics bile use with perately cruising low power, have come to this – through town low heat, and entire libraries, datelooking for a lower speed ( hotspot. books, record collecwww.intel.If you want to com). tions, maps, and be connected But the stereo systems in one anywhere and “net” part of anytime, you palm-sized gadget. netbooks is can instead take about connecadvantage of all tivity, so they those cellular phone towers scat- have Wi-Fi built in and typically altered across the country and sign so support mobile broadband servup for mobile broadband service. ice. However, this requires yet anYou basically are buying another other service contract with a cellucell phone with associated data lar carrier. Some carriers offer disservices, except the cellular con- counted netbooks, like they disnection is embedded in a smart- count other mobile phones, as long phone or laptop or other peripheral, as you sign up for a long-term servsuch as a card for your laptop. ice plan. The best of both: Mobile WiSmartphones: Doing It All. If Fi. The Novatel MiFi 2200, avail- you still want to take it all with you able from Verizon Wireless and in a pocket-potable device, then Sprint, takes this idea one step fur- you really need a smartphone. But ther by converting cellular broad- what is a smartphone? It’s phone band service into a Wi-Fi hot spot plus Internet, connectivity and (www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/m storage, text and multimedia, and obilebroadband/?page=prod- more, all in one multi-tasking deucts_mifi). Just turn it on, and it vice. serves as a Wi-Fi router, supporting These devices are no longer priup to five simultaneous wireless marily defined as phones — neiconnections, including laptops and ther the Apple iPhone nor the Veriother portable devices. Getting on- zon Droid have dedicated phone line couldn’t be easier — any Wi- keys. Instead you place calls from Fi device can now be connected your contacts list and answer on the anywhere. touchscreen display. The MiFi is tiny and light and is More generally, smartphones powered through the USB port, or are Internet communications deits battery for up to four hours of vices, with text messaging, instant active use, 40 hours on standby. It’s messaging, E-mail, and now visual available from Verizon Wireless voice mail. And they are PC refor $99 with a two-year service placements for Internet access, plan. with more devices adding Wi-Fi However, while the cellular car- for enhanced web browsing and riers offer “unlimited” service downloads, plus built-in GPS for plans for voice calls and even some location-based maps and services. smartphones, they are not thrilled Smartphones are expected to be about offering bottomless data media players — the iPhone service for computers — users through iTunes, and others in less could swamp the mobile network integrated ways — as well as meby watching streaming video or dia recorders with cameras and midownloading files all day. As a re- crophones. Plus the Internet consult, the Verizon mobile broadband nection opens up streaming media data plans for the MiFi have serv- playback and uploading your own ice caps, starting at $39.99 per media to share online. month with a 250 MB monthly alHowever, some smartphones lowance (and then 10 cents per MB have less emphasis on serving as overage), or $59.99 a month with a personal digital assistants, with U.S. 1 35 Laboratories & Research Center Princeton Corporate Plaza with over 80 scientific companies U.S. 1 Route 1 Frontage New Laboratory Incubator #4 less focus on features like managing tasks and notes, or integration with desktop Outlook data. Smartphones have also outperformed mobile phones even in this difficult economy. According to research from Canalys, global smartphone shipments grew 4 percent over the year, to 41.4 million units (www.canalys.com). 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ADA compliant. $750 per month, Includes electric, A/C, and heat. 1 MONTH FREE WITH A 2-YEAR LEASE Call 609-466-1296 36 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Continued from preceding page are actually clearly differentiated for different target markets. Each has significant lock-in that will not make it easy for users to switch platforms on a whim. At a high-level view: — The iPhone syncs with your desktop iTunes media library and is moving online with MobileMe; — The Windows Mobile platform syncs with the familiar Windows desktop environment and is getting more touch-friendly; — The BlackBerry integrates with enterprise back-end business systems and is adding multimedia for more personal uses; — The Android platform syncs with the Google online “cloud” services and is adding business support; — The new Palm Pre/WebOS platform is a re-think of the smartphone interface, and helps users bridge and integrate across multiple online services. These mobile devices are also developer platforms, so the push for signing up developers to build third-party application software has now extended from the desktop (remember Windows vs. Macintosh?) to portable environments. The next step in convergence is all about the “apps.” Apple’s strength is not just in the sexy hardware. Its products also come with dual ecosystems around the iPhone and iPod touch, the desktop integration with the iTunes Store to organize and purchase music, movies, and TV shows, plus the wireless integration with the iPhone App Store to download free and inexpensive software applications to customize your device (www.apple.com/iphone/appstore). Apple already has more than 100,000 applications available. More than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 2 billion apps. Competitors like Microsoft, Google, and Palm are developing their own app stores but are far behind. S o the Apple iPhone continues to define the category for smartphones. It was upgraded in June to the iPhone 3GS, with improved speed and performance, hands-free voice control, and a higher-res 3 megapixel autofocus camera that now records video. It’s a little bigger then the iPod touch and is available with 16 GB for $199 and 32 GB for $299. Microsoft also updated its smartphone platform in October to Windows Mobile 6.5, now rebranded as Windows Phone in case the PC connection was not clear enough (www.windowsphone. com). Windows Phone is available on a wide variety of hardware designs from many manufacturers, with tools like Office Mobile to edit your documents, Media Player Mobile for playing music and video, and Internet Explorer Mobile for web browsing. In addition, the new Microsoft My Phone service syncs your phone data to the web so it is backed up and accessible if you lose your phone or upgrade to a new model (http://myphone.microsoft.com). Plus, you can use it to find a misplaced phone, forcing it to ring, locating it on a map, or even wiping it remotely if it is truly lost. While Windows Mobile 6.5 is a step toward making the Windows Phone platform more touch-friendly, the underlying tools still retain the Windows desktop feel with small menus and controls, so the phones still include a stylus. The latest innovation in the smartphone market, however, is the Verizon Wireless Droid smartphone from Motorola, which shipped in November (www.droiddoes.com). This is the first phone based on the updated Google Android 2.0 mobile phone software platform (www.android.com). It’s priced at $199 from Verizon, with a new two-year agreement. The Droid is a thicker, heavier phone designed as a slider phone with a full QWERTY keyboard, a large 3.7-inch display at significantly higher resolution. There also is a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. Droid includes integrated Wi-Fi for fast communications and browsing and GPS for locationaware searching and mapping — including free real-time turn-byturn Google Maps Navigation. The Android 2.0 platform also supports fully integrated voice search and real multi-tasking. For example, applications download quietly in the background as you continue using the device. The Android platform is focused on sync-ing to your life online in the Google cloud, with Gmail and Google Contacts and Calendar. Version 2.0 also extends to more traditional business uses (multiple accounts, Exchange support). However, the Droid is missing common functionality that will be expected by people interested in switching from PDA phone platforms like Windows Mobile and Palm. Particularly glaring are the absence of out-of-the-box support for sync-ing desktop data and files (as in Outlook and Office documents), and limited media player support, with no built-in support for managing and sync-ing media as we’re used to from iTunes. Convergence. This year all that talk about “convergence” has real- Save & Charge: The future promises limitless data and innovative ways to power the devices that deliver it. Top, Duracell’s MyGrid recharges phones without a direct plug-in; The iamaKey ties immense storage capacity to a small unit. ly come to fruition in portable devices, but at an entirely new level: the introduction of apps — hundreds of thousands of them, available to customize your device, many even for free. Your portable device could be a stand-alone multi-function powerhouse, but it’s actually being more entangled with integration with other data and services and app marketplaces. This is good news for consumers in terms of choosing and customizing the one device that can do it all. And it’s good for manufacturers and service providers, encouraging you to lock-in to their platforms as you become more enamored with specific apps and connected to their services. The lock-in is further strengthened to the extent that you buy copy-protected content, from Ebooks to music to videos, that might be no longer accessible on your future platforms. So it’s no longer just a question of which device, it’s also a question of which services — which ecosystems — make sense for you. Desktop sync-ing with Outlook / Exchange, media management and purchases through iTunes, and/or interfacing online with the Google cloud? It’s your data, your life, your interests, that you can organize, carry, and access wherever and whenever you need them. Wireless Internet for personal media players. Clearly, portable media players have retained their broad popularity, as they have extended from MP3 music players, to video players, to even more multifunction devices. And portable devices are going wireless with Wi-Fi connectivity, with more open support for accessing information and media over the Internet, instead of having to download and sync from a PC. The Apple iPod Nano is the exemplar of a small video player, in an amazingly sleek and colorful package. But the new Nano, introduced in September, breaks Apple’s image of simplicity by piling on advanced features previous Continued on page 38 Now Available At the U.S. 1 Office! U.S. 1 Directory 2009-’10 The newly updated U.S. 1 Directory is the prime source for reaching businesses throughout central New Jersey. You can buy the Directory for just $18.95 at the U.S. 1 office or by Priority mail for $23.95. 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Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications told the Associated Press that the church is “learning to use the new technologies primarily as a tool or as a means of evangelizing, as a way of being able to share its own message with the world.” Less than a month later the Vatican announced a deal with Google, which owns YouTube, giving the Pope his own YouTube channel. According to digitaljournal.com, viewers can watch the Pope pontificate at various church events. At about the same time Monsignor Walter Nolan, right, the 76year-old pastor at St. Paul’s Catholic Church on Nassau Street, was tiring of going through cell phone after cell phone, thanks to the chewing frenzies of his chocolate lab puppy, Toby. When his phone contract was up, Nolan says, “I figured with all the running around I do, I’d do much better with a BlackBerry.” Now he’s plugged in 24/7 and can check his two E-mail accounts wherever he is, and just as importantly, check his two favorite sports websites, ESPN and the Mets. He also checks the daily news bulletins and Catholic News USA headlines. As a member of a national priest conference, he uses his BlackBerry to “swap thoughts” with other priests. A self-described collector of stories, Nolan often tucks away stories he has read on his BlackBerry, perhaps to be used later in a homily or sermon. For Nolan, who rises at 5:30 a.m. every day (often having been called in the middle of the night to attend to a sick or dying parishioner), life can be hectic: “I’ll be at a big meeting on Friday, then hop a plane to South Carolina to be part of an ordination of a priest I know, then fly back Saturday night to do two masses at St. Paul’s, then I’ll be in a car to Manalapan to be part of a friend’s installation as a pastor. I could not be comfortable doing that without the BlackBerry.” Last year — for Catholics, the year of St. Paul — Bishop John Smith of the Trenton diocese invited Nolan and several other priests on a 10-day trip to Turkey and Greece to follow St. Paul’s steps and visit historical sites pertaining to the saint. “I used it more or less as a retreat,” says Nolan. “The nice thing was that my staff could get a hold of me, ask any question they wanted to. It was almost like I wasn’t even gone, in terms of making decisions. I set meetings up. I didn’t miss a beat.” On the trip he took full advantage of his Blackberry’s international capabilities and also texted back and forth with colleagues and parishioners — and his sister, who lives in their hometown of Jersey City. When he returned he put all his photos of the trip on a digital photo frame, which automatically scrolls through the photos, on the side table in his office. Just last week, one of his parishioners, a member of Jasna Polana, finally convinced Nolan to join him in a round of golf, after bug- ging him for ages. “I don’t normally like to take time away from here, but I could do that [because of the BlackBerry].” It turned out that on that day, Nolan was in the middle of handling a crisis with a parishioner and had several phone calls and E-mails out to people to help. “Around about the 16th hole — case solved, situation resolved.” Nolan grew up in Jersey City, where his father was a steam fitter and his mom stayed at home. 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He uses a GPS and his BlueTooth in the car and sets the alarm on his BlackBerry to make sure he leaves for meetings and appointments on time. There’s a camera set up in the choir loft and the church videotapes a mass each weekend and sends it to the Princeton Care Center, a nursing home. “We now have a website — everything’s on that website — and we’re thinking about more things, maybe putting homilies and sermons on Facebook and Twitter.” He says young people are so used to E-mail, for example, that they barely even use the phone anymore. “I’ll get an E-mail from someone who wants to get married and then two weeks later they call and say, ‘When’s our first appointment?’” Nolan might not have an E-mail address for God in his BlackBerry’s address book, but he came up with something just as good. A couple of Christmas Eves ago, Nolan hatched the brilliant idea of having someone call him in the middle of the children’s service, when all the children are gathered up front. 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You also can download and stream music over Wi-Fi, and download games and other applications. The new Zune now supports digital HD Radio. However, the “HD” in the name actually is for the new support for downloading HD video — although viewing the video in full HD requires a separate AV Dock accessory connected to your HDTV. The new Zune is a bit bigger and heavier and is available with 16 GB for $219 and 32 GB for $289. And there’s the Apple iPod Touch, also refreshed in September to its third generation. This is basically an iPhone without the phone (or camera), with a 3.5-inch touchscreen display good for browsing the web over Wi-Fi (www.apple.com/ipodtouch). It’s still pocket-sized, with 8 GB for $199, 32 GB for $299, and the new 64 GB for $399. Once you’re using these devices for significant web browsing, a larger display can help replace your laptop, at least on some trips. For example, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, introduced in November, has a 4.8-inch touchscreen display, so you get a much better view of web pages (www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5it). It’s available with 32 GB of flash memory for $379, and with a hard drive with 160 GB for $399 or up to 500 GB for $499. Handheld Game Systems. While media players have evolved into wireless web devices and are adding downloadable applications for fun and gaming, there is another class of devices that is converging from a different direction — portable game systems like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP families that are also portable media players with wireless access. The new Sony PSPgo has a 3.8inch display that slides to access the PSP gaming controls, in a smaller size than the previous PlayStation Portable designs. It’s priced at $249 (www.us.playstation.com/PSP). The dual-screen Nintendo DSi is smaller than the PSPgo, but features two 3.2-inch screens plus two low-res cameras, and is priced at $169 (www.nintendodsi.com). These systems have built-in WiFi and support web access, but are obviously more focused on wireless gaming with others. But the real value in wireless is to link you with the associated Sony and Nintendo online stores for buying media and games. Handheld game systems are for more than just the kids — if you’re an gamer dreading a long plane flight, these devices go beyond media players to offer commercial game titles and dedicated gaming controls that can make your trip pass much more quickly. Accessories for Portable Devices B luetooth Headsets. Since smartphones are so much more than a phone, it’s a shame to hold them up to your face to talk when you could be checking your calendar at the same time. So get yourself a Bluetooth headset and keep talking without tying up your hands. Today’s Bluetooth headsets have very impressive noise reduction capabilities, using dual microphones to separate your voice from the background, wind screens for outdoor use, and sophisticated digital signal processing. You actually can stand near a noisy fan, running water, or between trains, and your caller will hear only your voice, even sounding fairly natural in not too hostile conditions. And you’ll typically find that you no longer need to hold the headset in place with an earloop, or with an earplug rooted in your ear canal — new earbud designs have an attached loop that gently nestles into the folds of your outer ear for a more comfortable fit. You can choose from a broad array of designs, from fun to functional, compact to more accessible. For example, the Aliph Jawbone Prime features an “invisible” button design with a subtle texture, in vivid “Ear Candy” colors as a lifestyle statement for all-day users ($129, www.jawbone.com). The Jabra BT530 has a straightforward design with clearly marked controls that are great for occasional users ($79, www.jabra.com). The Plantronics Discovery 975 with boom mic extension to get closer to your voice includes a protective case that doubles as a booster battery for long road trips ($129, www.plantronics.com), while the Plantronics Voyager PRO has a retro over-ear design with boom mic and the electronics in a pod behind the ear, for comfortable longterm use in an office or on the road ($99). Sharing your music and videos. These portable devices make great personal media players but aren’t so useful for sharing the fun. They have tiny speakers and small screens that are les visible off-angle. Even a laptop is not good for viewing by more than a few people. So carry your own pocket-size projector like the second-generation 3M MPro120 Pocket Projector. This projects an image from 8 to 50 inches diagonal (up to 3 1/2 feet away). At 10 to 12 lumens it’s bright enough to see in the light and includes a built-in speaker. You can hook up to a laptop (with VGA), analog video (component A/V), or to iPods with a separate cable ($349, 3mmpro.com). The similar Optima PK102 Pico Projector adds internal memory to store photos and videos ($249, www.optomausa.com). You also can boost your audio with portable speakers. For example, the Altec Lansing Orbit Speaker is a cylinder around 3 3/8 inches wide and is available with an audio connector, or in a USB version for laptops ($39 / $49, www.alteclansing.com). LaCie USB/FireWire Speakers provide 1 watt each of stereo sound for laptops in a curvy design powered over USB or FireWire ($29-$79, www.lacie.com). Even power goes wireless. Our increasing dependence on portable gadgets has a downside — all the different power adapters and cables required to keep them charged. More devices now use USB as a standard connector for data interfacing and power, which at least reduces the need to drag along custom connectors. Listen Here: The Altec Lansing Orbit Speaker packs a huge audio punch in a little package. Of course, there are three USB connectors — full-size (on laptops), mini (on some players and phones), and micro (on Bluetooth headsets), so you’ll need cables for each. But with USB wall adapters and car adapters, as well as USBbased portable batteries, things are getting at least a little simpler. Yet if everything else is going wireless, why not power? We’re not talking about pulling energy out of the air, or beaming voltage around. The idea is that you can just sit your device down on the table and it charges, without the muss and fuss of wires and connectors. Sound good? Well, we’re not quite there yet, but several companies are on the path. The first products have a charging mat that you plug in the conventional way, plus compatible sleeve adapters that you attach to your portable devices. They also include universal adapters with micro USB interfaces. Powermat (www.powermatusa.com) uses magnetic induction technology, so your device snaps into position on the mat. The Wildcharge system, available as the Duracell MyGrid, uses conduction technology with direct contact (www.duracell.com/us/mygrid). These typically charge at the same rate as the device’s own charger. And no, they don’t spark if you put metal on them, or fry you if you touch them. Of course, these products use incompatible technologies, so there will be a shake-out period in the market as the companies push to get their technology built directly into portable devices. Someday we’ll expect everything from conference room tables to kitchen counters to supply power. Portable storage and the cloud. All these devices depend on flash memory to provide storage that is lightweight and relatively inexpensive for significant capacity. Many also provide a memory card slot for additional storage, with postage-stamp SD cards for cameras and fingernail microSD for phones and players. Memory cards also come in more expensive higher-speed versions, but these are only needed if your device requires such performance, for example for recoding HD video or shooting bursts of highres photos. And the new SDXC (eXtended Capacity) format promises even higher capacities, up to 2 terabytes. Another portable device, the USB “thumb” drive, has replaced floppy disks and CDs as convenient portable storage for backup and sharing. New “system in package” technology has squeezed all the electronic components into a single miniaturized sealed unit, so USB drives like the Verbatim Tuff’N’-Tiny can fit 8 GB in half the size of an SD card (around $29, www.verbatim.com). Or to carry your storage more conventionally, the LaCie iamaKey is a standardsize metal key with a USB interface on the end, holding up to 32 GB for $99 (www.lacie.com). NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Life in the Fast Lane C apacity LLC, an order fulfillment firm based in North Brunswick’s warehouse and distribution hub, is growing and consolidating in one fell swoop. On November 19 the company announced that it had signed a twoyear lease for the entire facility at 1101 Corporate Road. The 130,275 square-foot warehouse, built in 1980, sits on 11 acres. Arlen Fish, Capacity’s CFO and one of its four founders, said the deal shores up space for the company’s growing business, directly next to where it opened its doors in 2000. Capacity is not moving, it is just consolidating its three buildings into a contiguous space. Fish said the move allows Capacity to grow in the future without having to move. Just a few years ago Capacity had fewer than 150 workers, counting full-time and temporary help. Today the company employs more than 40 full-time and 150 temps daily. Fish credits the doddering economy with allowing his company to grow. In such an economy, he said, companies re-think their outsourced warehouse space and try to streamline their operations. Capacity leases four warehouse facilities, all in the North Brunswick area, typically to companies in need of maximizing warehouse space. A typical example is the company’s first client, NetGrocer.com, which had a warehouse with 30foot ceilings, but was only utilizing eight feet. According to co-founder and chief strategic officer Tom Campbell, the Capacity consolidated NetGrocer’s inventory and leased out the remaining space to others. Such refinements come part and parcel to a bad economy, but Fish said that Capacity’s business has improved for good reasons too. “We cater to small and mid-size companies. Occasionally one of them breaks out and moves beyond that size, and that fosters our growth too.” In general, Capacity is set up to serve clients that, at the low end, ship half a dozen items to consumers every day and ship a few orders a week to businesses, Campbell said. Its speciality is “pick and pack” business, where individual items are received from a vendor and sent, often just one, or several, at a time to consumers or to boutiques. “People use us as a cost-savings measure,” said Fish, a former senior associate with JP Morgan Chase, who earned his bachelor’s in accounting from Wisconsin and his MBA from NYU. Scott Belfer, Lou Belfer, and Mindy Lissner of CB Richard Ellis represented the sublandlord.John Maloney of CB Richard Ellis represented Capacity. Capacity LLC, 1112 Corporate Road, Monmouth Junction 08852; 732-745-7770; fax, 732-745-0450. Jeff Kaiden, CEO. www.capacityllc.com. Grants Received Thomas Edison State College, 101 West State Street, Trenton 08608-1176; 888442-8372; fax, 609-9848447. George A. Pruitt, president. www.tesc.edu. TESC, which specializes in distance learning, has received a $250,000 grant from the federal Department of Education to expand the ways in which college Edited by Scott Morgan courses are delivered. The school will use the two-year grant to integrate cloud computing — Internetbased applications that can be accessed anywhere at any time — into its course system, and lessen technical issues for students. The school expects to develop 40 new courses, configured for delivery via flash drives, by 2011. TESC introduced flash drive, which allows students without steady access to a computer to finish assignments offline and link up to submit them. College president George Pruitt said the grant allows TESC to deliver its courses to students “all over the world, even where broadband Internet access is limited.” TESC has hundreds of students who live in remote rural areas and who serve abroad in the military. Pruitt said the college is developing a second-generation of flash drive-based courses that use cloud computing technologies to store course content for mobile students. The goal is to develop programs that can be accessed on the students’ schedules. Henry van Zyl, the college’s vice provost of directed independent adult learning, said the grant will make the school “able to reach a level of flexibility and access that is unprecedented, and that goes beyond recreating the online experience in an offline setting.” PD/LD Inc. (Photo DiodeLaser Diode), 30-B Pennington-Hopewell Road, Pennington 08534; 609-5647900; fax, 609-564-7901. Vladimir Ban, president. www.pd-ld.com. PD-LD, a Pennington-based developer of photonics and diode technology, has received a $495,000 grant from the Edison Innovation Clean Energy Fund to develop a Raman solar analyzer, which will be used to improve the manufacturing of solar cell panels and evaluate existing panels to ensure optimum efficiency. The analyzer will evaluate solar cell materials in solar cell panels and assess their structure, composition, and uniformity. PD-LD plans to develop the analyzer over the next 18 months Acquisitions NexMed (USA) Inc. (NEXM), 89 Twin Rivers Drive, East Windsor 08520; 609-3718123; fax, 609-426-9116. Vivian Liu, CEO. Home page: www.nexmed.com. NexMed, a developer of transdermal and topical drugs, announced on November 23 that it will acquire San Diego-based contract research organization BioQuant for $21.1 million by year’s end. NexMed is the developer of Alprox-TD and Femprox creams for ED and female sexual arousal disorder, respectively. Bio-Quant conducts research for in vitro and in vivo drug discovery, as well as pre-clinical development services. The deal is expected to give NexMed a revenue generator and outlet for its testing. Bassam Damaj, co-founder of Bio-Quant, will become CEO of NexMed, replacing Vivian Liu. Liu, who became NexMed’s CEO in 2007, will stay on as executive vice president, and lead the business development and licensing efforts for the firm’s clinical programs. Mark Westgate will remain as NexMed’s CFO. The deal is awaiting NexMed shareholder approval. New in Town Strayer University, 3150 Brunswick Pike, Suite 100, Crossroads Corporate Center, Lawrenceville 08648; 609-406-7600; fax, 609-7718636. Michael Volpe, campus dean. www.strayer.edu. The national college, with more than 70 campuses catering to working adults, has opened a campus in Lawrenceville. The school offers bachelor’s degree programs in high demand technical and business fields such as accounting and information systems, plus an MBA program. The campus’ dean is Michael Volpe, a human relations and communications professional who began his career as an assistant manager and training manager at Chemical Bank in 1982. Volpe, who holds a bachelor’s in American history and a Ph.D. in communications from Temple, plus a master’s in classics from Penn State, has worked as a consultant and customer service professional at more than a dozen companies. OmniComm Systems (OMCM), 1100 Cornwall Road, Suite 111, Monmouth Junction 08852; 732-960-2820. Ken Light, general manager. www.omnicomm.com. OmniComm Systems, the Florida-based developer of data capture software for the pharmaceutical and bioscience industries, has opened an office in Monmouth Junction. According to Ken Light, general manager, the facility will offer training, project management, software development, customer care, and consulting services. The location, says Light, puts the company equidistant from Rutgers’ New Brunswick campuses and Princeton University. “This office gives us access to the broad pool of clinical research and technology professionals,” he says. Light is a graduate of SUNY Binghamton, where he received his bachelor’s in accounting in 1980. He also holds a master’s in computer science from Fairleigh Dickinson. A veteran of the lifesciences industry, Light has also held positions at BusinessEdge Solutions and Oracle. OmniComm is the developer of TrialMaster, a software that allows clinical trial sponsors to collect, send, and analyze patient histories, dosages, and adverse events. Name Changes Omnivest Group, 47 Hulfish Street, Suite 210, Princeton 08542; 609-986-1007; fax, 609-921-1731. Tom Sowanick and Frits Besselaar, copresidents. Home page: www.omnivestgrp.com. Clearbrook Partners, a wealth management firm for high-net worth clients that was once part of Clearbrook Financial, is now an independent firm with a new name. OmniVest split from Clearbrook Financial at 600 College Road East in March, but has kept the same personnel, according to service manager Ruby Schmidt. Frits Besselaar and Tom Sowanick are co-presidents of the firm. Besselaar holds a bachelor’s in international relations from the University of Richmond and a master’s in real estate development and finance from Columbia. In 1991 he Continued on following page U.S. 1 ...Freedom of Choice West Windsor/571, Sale/lease 4,000 SF. 1 acre. Income-development potential. William Barish [email protected] Princeton Commerce Center 750-7000 SF, Immediate Occupancy Just Off Route One at Meadow Road Overpass William Barish [email protected] www.29emmons.com Available - Near Train - 9300 SF 777 Alexander Park. 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Hamilton: 1,895 SF office space for lease, consisting of four offices, conference room, two work stations and reception area. Close to RWJ University Hospital and Capital Health Systems. Please call 609-924-8100 for details. Montgomery Knoll, one two-window office for rent. Check www.he-realty.com for more info. Pennington - Hopewell: Straube Center offices from virtual office, 25 to 300 square feet and office suites, 500 to 2,400 square feet. From $100 per month, short and long term. Storage space, individual signage, conference rooms, copier, Verizon FIOS available, call 609-737-3322 or e-mail [email protected] www.straubecenter.com Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail [email protected] Princeton - Psychotherapy Office: Available Mondays. Large office (20 x Continued from preceding page founded Princeton Investment Advisors to invest the assets of his family, which founded one of the first pharmaceutical contract research organizations in Princeton. Sowanick, who also is the firm’s CIO, once served as CIO of the Private Client Group at Merrill Lynch, where he also was in charge of global macro research. He earned his bachelor’s in economics and literature from American University, and pursued graduate studies in economics from the same school. Crosstown Moves ProFACT Proteomics, 1 Deer Park Drive, Monmouth Junction 08852; 732-246-1190; fax, 732-246-3118. David Golub, CEO. www.profactproteomics.com. ProFACT Proteomics, an earlystage cancer drug developer, has moved from the EDA’s Commercialization Center for New Technologies to Deer Park Drive. The company applies proprietary proteomics technology — the large-scale study of proteins — toward the development of therapeutics, diagnostics, and medicines principally for cancer. ProFACT was founded in 2004 by David Golub, former CEO of LigoChem Inc.; COO Matthew Kuruc, former president of Affinity Technologies who holds a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Rutgers; and Swapan Roy, the firm’s chief science officer. Leaving Town PDQ Press, 43 Princeton-Hightstown Road, Princeton Junction; 609-799-2800.. 15), elegantly furnished, in prof office building at 1000 Herrontown Road. $250/month. Contact: Dr. Washton, [email protected], 917-699-7882. Princeton Junction: Prof. Office space in highly visible spot near trains. All utilities/maintenance included in rent, except electric. Units from $450 to $2330 per month. Call Ali at Re/max of Princeton 609-452-1887 or cell 609902-0709. Princeton Prof. Office Park, off Route One. 600 sq. ft. Fully furnished and equipped. Perfect for professional organizations, shared use considered, $995. Call 732-329-1601 for details. Quaint professional building in Lawrenceville: 600 sq. ft. office on first floor; private entrance, ample parking, Lawrenceville-Pennington Road. Please call 609-896-1442/e-mail [email protected]. Single-room ground floor office in Princeton, Nassau Street, for sublease by primary lessee. 13x8 feet overall, partially furnished if desired by renter. Available immediately. $400/month. Ralph at 609-529-9027. CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL [email protected] Commercial printer PDQ Press has merged with Fenn Four Press and moved its operations to Philadelphia. The Princeton Junction telephone number still works. Deaths Richard Feldman, 66, on November 21. He was a podiatrist for 30 years with offices in Philadelphia, Hamilton, and Ewing. Vincent Fanelli, 43, on November 21. He was a chemist at Firmenich from 2000 to 2005. James Crowley, 79, on November 18. Crowley worked in the administrations of presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and was chief executive of the Delaware Valley United Way. Constantine Pavlides, 62, on November 17. He was the founder of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group, a networking group that meets at the Princeton Hyatt, and former CEO of StrikeForce Technologies in Edison. Richard Albert, 63, on November 17. He served as supervising engineer of the Delaware River Basin Commission from 1975 to 2000. In 2000 he became restoration director for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. He also ran Albert Scientific, which markets a stream pebble classification tool.. Warren Simmons, 82, on November 15. A retired executive for R.H. Macy & Co., he served on the boards of McCarter Theater, the New Jersey Symphony, the Blairstown Project, and the Dean’s Advisory Board at Rider. Ward Campbell, 56, on November 12. He was a science teacher in the Princeton School District and an environmental project manager for brownfield redevelopment in New Jersey. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 U.S. 1 Classifieds OFFICE RENTALS Sublease Large Private Office. In Princeton Commerce Center (near MarketFair). $495/mo plus share of utilities. 609-734-0004 or 609-977-7111. SUBLEASE: Princeton Forrestal Village, 2,300 sq. ft., furnished, available immediately entirely or willing to share, George 310-924-1696. Wellness Center of Bordentown: 7x10.5 SF space for rent. Call for details. 609-903-6762 or 609-324-2900. BUSINESSES FOR SALE NEWTOWN/YARDLEY, PA: Fine, custom art gallery. 18 years established. Dixie Curtice, Broker/Sales Associate, Weidel Realtors, Cell: 215-499-4629. PRINCETON PREMIER Art/Photo/Frame Shop, turn-key, highvolume, ideal location. Financing. Dixie Curtice, Broker/Sale Associates, Cell: 215-499-4629. INDUSTRIAL SPACE Unique Rental Space zoning (I3), ordinance passed for retail and recreation activities, ample parking all utilities, one 1200’, one 2000’, one 2500’ one 3600’, and one 10,000. Located at 325 and 335 New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call Harold 732-329-2311. COMMERCIAL SPACE HAMILTON FLEX WAREHOUSE Hard to find small flex spaces at CHEAP pricing. 1800 - 15,000 SF. Fresh new spaces in great location @ Rte 1/295/95. High ceilings/loading docks/drive-in. Brian @ 609 731 0378 or [email protected]. HAMILTON OFFICE- 2,000 sf loft office for $1795/mo plus utilities! Skylights, windows, lots of light, open floor plan, great location. Also, 500-2,100 SF of first-floor space. WILL NOT LAST must see! CHEAP! Brian @ 609 731 0378 or [email protected]. LAMBERTVILLE RETAIL / OFFICE / FLEX. Several spaces available from 500 - 4,000 SF. Prime location, tons of parking, bright storefront spaces with upgrades throughout at BARGAIN lease rates! MUST SEE! Brian @ 609 731 0378 or [email protected]. Princeton address at Carnegie Center. Executive office with separate entrance. Inviting reception area with spacious storage closet. Beautifully landscaped office park. 15-month sublet. $1,700 per month. 748 sq ft. Contact: Louise Gray, 212-727-1444. STUDIO SPACE Studio space in Wellness Center for classes, workshops, groups, etc. 19 ft. x 19 ft., high ceiling, lots of natural light. $30 per hour. Kingston. Call 609468-1286. HOUSING FOR RENT Country Setting: 1 possibly 2-bedroom apartment for rent. Duplex. Newly renovated. Internet cable ready. $1,100 per month. Call for appointment: 732207-8373. Princeton Ranch: 3 BR, LR, FR, DR, office, laundry, A/C. Remodeled, great location, Littlebrook School. $2,750/best offer. 973-683-1113. Two bedroom apartment. W/D. Very convenient to Princeton Junction train station and Route 1. Located on Washington Road. $950 plus utilities. Available 12/15. 609-252-1111 or 609-9158787. REAL ESTATE SERVICES Buy Bank-Owned Properties: Free list with photos and strategies to save money. www.seizedpropertycheap.com. RE/MAX Tri County. INVESTMENT PROPERTY Investment/Vacation Property for Sale: Vermont condo with spectacular views of Stratton and surrounding mountains in the year-round resort area INVESTMENT PROPERTY of Manchester. 3 bedrooms+ loft. Low taxes, fully furnished, a great get-away! $290,000. [email protected]. CONTRACTING Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Hauling/All Yard Work from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call 609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135. CLEANING SERVICES House & office cleaning. Princeton, Hopewell, W. Windsor areas. References, free estimates. Barbara: 609394-5934 or 609-933-6701. Office & Home Cleaning. Professional cleaning, no job is too small! Background check available. Call 908635-4992 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. Quality Commercial Cleaning: We offer great office cleaning, good rates and most of all, good quality of work. We are insured and bonded. For a free estimate, please call Lidia, 609-989-7799. Window Washing: Lolio Window Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609-271-8860. HOME MAINTENANCE Handyman: Electrical, plumbing, any projects around the house. 609-2756631. Man With A Van Service: Pick-up and delivery service, small local moves, and light hauling. Serving Mercer County and nearby areas 7 days a week. Reliable, courteous and professional service at reasonable rates. Call: 609-512-7248. BUSINESS SERVICES Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs. Many services available. Reasonable rates. Work done at your office or mine. Call Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit www.vyours.com. Unique Virtual Assistance: We offer services to streamline your business chaos, virtually. www.uniquevirtualassistance.com. 1-877-472-8817. Virtual Assistant assisting clients worldwide. Reports typed, transcription, E-mails, calendar mgmt, concierge services & more. www.executivesonthego.com [email protected] 800-745-1166 Your Perfect Corporate Image: Princeton Route 1. Virtual Offices, Offices, Receptionist, Business Address Service, Telephone Answering Service, Conference Rooms, Instant Activation, Flexible Terms. Call 609-514-5100 or visit www.princeton-office.com COMPUTER SERVICES Any problems with computer, network, Internet? Repair, install, on-site services. Call 732-710-7416 any time. Computer Service: Computer repair, computer training (offer senior discount), data recovery, free estimate. Cell: 609-213-8271. FINANCIAL SERVICES Bookkeeping Services for Your Bottom Line: QuickBooks ProAdvisor. Call Joan today at Kaspin Associates, 609-490-0888. TAX SERVICES Tax Preparation and Accounting Services: For individuals and small businesses. Notary, computerized tax preparation, paralegal services. Your place or mine. Fast response, free consultation, reasonable costs. Gerald Hecker, 609-448-4284. U.S. 1 41 WEST WINDSOR - 950-3200 SF HEALTH Office / R&D / Warehouse 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 609-4038403. Massage Therapy: Upscale, classy est. staff. Enjoy our hot pack service, an oasis for your soul and spirit. Enjoy the deep tissue and healing touch of our friendly, certified massage therapists. Call: 609-520-0050. (Princeton off Route 1 Behind “Pep Boys Auto.”) Wellness Center of Bordentown: Stressed over the holidays? Treat yourself to a therapeutic massage. Gift certificates available. $10 off first-time clients! 609-324-2900. MENTAL HEALTH 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 ADHD Coaching- Reach your fullest potential. Adults challenged by problems of focus, attention, impulsivity, disorganization, starting and completing tasks, time management, forgetfulness, procrastination. Our experienced, certified Princeton-area coaches can help you find effective strategies and tools. Call Homer Mullins at 404-387-1400 or [email protected]; http://www.odysseycoaches.com. Continued on following page • Immediate Occupancy • Flexible Lease Terms • Ample parking • Walk to restaurants • Expansion potential William Barish [email protected] 609-921-8844 www.cpnrealestate.com ★ Commercial Property Network, Inc. We Have a Place For Your Company 42 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Richard K. Rein So what’s the excuse this time? It can’t be raking leaves — we know that from last time .We suspect it might have something to do with that 25th anniversary reception held Tuesday night at Tre Piani restaurant. We can only hope that the boss took advantage of the moment to thank all the readers who attended in person. And we will take this opportunity to thank the rest of you, who make this all possible. Home for Sale - Princeton address Employment Exchange HELP WANTED JOBS WANTED Loan Originators Needed: $3,000$5,000/Month potential income. No experience needed - full training provided. No license required - earn while you learn. Work toward ownership - part time/full time. Call today 1-800-7897943. the people we have helped. 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). Looking for Part Time waiter for Indian restaurant in Princeton NJ, daily 69 p.m., call 646-596-5456. Property Inspectors: Part-time $30k, full-time $80k. No experience, will train. Call Tom, 609-731-3333. Real Estate Sales: No Experience Needed, Free Training, License Info Available. Weidel Realtors. [email protected], 800-288-7653 x260, www.weidel.com. CAREER SERVICES Job Worries? Let Dr. Sandra Grundfest, licensed psychologist 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 3BR, 2.5 baths. Cool, creative & very unique home in mature Nelson Ridge Community, off Cherry Valley & Carter. Wrapped in trees, stone drive, new 4BR septic, new 20 year hardy-plank siding, windows, recent roof. Both sides w/brick & beam exterior. Home conveys barn-like impression, 2-car garage. Interior w/brick & beam/2 sides, wide plank HW floors throughout. 2-story LR w/floor to ceiling glass wall, open plan main floor, 2 story brick FP, 2nd FP in great room. Bluestone patio, yard filled w/ varied plantings, 2nd natural stone & boulder patio area. Clearly not a typical home, ideal for couple, creative singles/pairs or more. Wonderful neighborhood w/children, quiet street, great access to P-ton & surrounds. Flexible terms: Sale, Lease, Lease-purchase, Home-sale contingency OK, flexible occupancy, Brokers protected, owner is licensed realtor. Asking $575,000 or $2500/month. Contact [email protected] or 609-731-6076 It’s Time! Power Wash & Repaint Exterior Before Winter Interior & Exterior Painting Owner-operated, highest quality work for over 40 years in the Princeton area. Julius H. Gross, Inc. 609-924-1474 www.juliushgrosspainting.com • [email protected] Time for a Change? Commercial Space for Lease Lawrence • 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. Buildings for Sale Ewing • 6,300 sq. ft. multi-tenant office bldg. Great upside potential. Reduced $495,000. Trenton/Lawrence Border • 12-unit apartment money-maker. $690,000. Hamilton • 2,000 to 12,000 sq. ft. on Route 130 at NJ Turnpike. Will renovate to your specs. Real Estate Management Services Hopewell Boro • 1,400 sq. ft. office/retail. Pennington • 400 sq. ft. 2-room suite at Pennington Circle. Continued from preceding page ESL Tutor - All Ages / Levels: Improve your English! Speak and write better — learn grammar, pronunciation, and American expressions. Experienced ESL Professor. Excellent references. 609-658-6914. Lessons in Your Home: Music lessons in your home. Piano, clarinet, saxophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135. Math, Science, English & 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. Seeking a full-time office administration/clerical/bookkeeping position. Experienced in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Quick Books, contract/bid preparation/administration, NJ prequalifications, and contract vendor system. Notary public. Team player, reliable, dependable, able to work independently and multi-task. Resume and references available upon request. Please contact 609-356-3600. ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANDISE MART Disc Jockey. Ambient DJ Service provides customized music and entertainment services for corporate, formal and family events. Please contact us at 609-672-1270 or [email protected]. www.ambientdj.com. Firewood: 609-577-9739. Seasoned. 1/4, 1/2, and full cord deliveries. Gather ‘Round the Piano and Sing Your Favorite Carols: Pianist available for your holiday party. Song sheets included. 609-924-8591. I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob at 609457-5501. Live drawings (caricatures). Attraction for birthdays, meetings etc. Princeton, Lawrenceville area. Richard Druch - artist: 609-532-3676, [email protected]. One Man Band: Keyboardist for your wedding or party. Perfect entertainment. You’ll love the variety. Duos available. Call Ed at 609-424-0660. Princeton Music Connection. All styles of live music for Weddings, Private & Corporate Holiday Parties. 609936-9811. www.princetonmusic.com. SAT and ACT Tutoring — Reading, Writing, Math: Boost your scores with outstanding private instruction by experienced college English professor and high school math teacher. Let us help you succeed! Reasonable fee. Many excellent local references. 609-6586914. Mayco Golf Supplies(an Amazon affiliate store): For the finest golf supplies and accessories visit our website at www.maycogolfsupplies.com. Fax: 609-860-5260. CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL 7 Gordon Ave. Lawrenceville 609-896-0505 Lidia Pilarska 823 Pine Street Trenton, NJ 08638 609-610-0333 advertising agencies who has recently transitioned to the creative side. Tactical content experience includes web, brochures, ads, Power Point presentations (including design capabilities), direct response, white papers, ghostwriting, PR releases, etc. Contact [email protected] or call 609-4604195. 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 609897-0032. Hightstown 609-448-7170. www.farringtonsmusic.com. Science and Math Tutoring: Biology, Chemistry, Algebra, Geometry. Taught by college professor. 17 years experience. Recipient of two national teaching awards. Discoverygenics 609581-5686. I can take care of your house this winter! Do you have plans to travel for a long time? Maybe you own a house in a warm destination and you would feel more comfortable to leave knowing that someone is taking care of your house and your pets? My name is Lidia, I am 35, I don't smoke. I don't have kids nor pets. I have a good driving record and no criminal history. I run my own business and I am myself a house owner in New Jersey. I can provide you with business and personal references. I can take care of your house and pets in exchange for living in your house during your absence. If you have any questions feel free to call me. Senior Copywriter: A highly strategic, professional copywriter seeking fulltime or freelance-to-fulltime position. Deep experience in healthcare professional, patient and consumer marketplaces. Expert in development of targeted, action-oriented and emotion-based copy promotion. Former senior pharmaceutical marketing director and senior vice president for two major healthcare SPORTS ADOPTION Adopting your newborn is our dream. Endless love, secure future awaits your baby. Beverly & Jeff 1-800971-3212 Exp. Pd. MERCHANDISE MART Dell Laptop with Windows XP: $120, cell phone 609-213-8271. ✦ Experience ✦ Honesty ✦ Integrity Florence • 500-1,950 sq. ft. Near Neshaminy Mall & PA. Turnpike. INSTRUCTION [email protected] • 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. Bensalem, PA. Job Hunters: If you are looking for a full-time position, we will run a reasonably worded classified ad for you at no charge. The U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted section has helped people like you find challenging opportunities for years now. We know this because we often hear from Experienced and cheerful caregiver seeking employment. Experienced with all age groups as well as pets. I speak English, Russian, and other languages. I have a background in physical therapy. Call Rita at 609-213-0510. Alternate number: 609-883-6267. HELP WANTED Sales & Rentals STOCKTON REAL ESTATE ...A Princeton Tradition 32 Chambers Street • Princeton, NJ 08542 1-800-763-1416 • 609-924-1416 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WANTED TO BUY Wanted - Baseball Cards/Memorabilia: Football, basketball, hockey. Cards, bats, balls, photographs, programs, autographs. Highest prices paid. 908-596-0976. OPPORTUNITIES Business Opportunity: Take over a fully operating beauty salon in a populated area, equipped with all new fixtures and interior decor. Please call 609289-7667 to inquire. Help local charities when you shop online. You shop, we give! http://shopdonate.com. Why not have a DEBT free holiday? Work at Home United is an honest home-based biz. No MLM, no RISK. We do not sell, stock, or deliver any product. Free training and website. Must love talking to people and able to work at least 15-20 hours a week. www.WAHU4ME.com. PERSONALS Free Classifieds for Singles: To submit your ad simply fax it to 609-4520033 or E-mail to [email protected]. If you prefer to 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. HOW TO ORDER Call 609-452-7000, or fax your ad to 609-452-0033, 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. NOVEMBER 25, 2009 U.S. 1 What’s Happening Today in Princeton, NJ? Visit the one website in town that’s based on real reporting, and is updated daily, or more often as events dictate. Just visit princetoninfo.com & click Events in the upperrighthand corner Quick Searches 11/03/2009 11/03/2009 Read the results: See details about date, time, location, and contact info and a brief description of the event Browse events: Choose the categories and dates that interest you, or read through all of our listings There’s more: Click the More button at the end of a listing to see a feature story related to that event 43 44 U.S. 1 NOVEMBER 25, 2009