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Vol. LXV, No. 31
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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Vol. LXV, No. 31
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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 (Photo by Emily Reeves)
THE CAR AND THE WALL: The trajectory of a large Cadillac sedan ended with a collision into a brick wall of the Spring Street Garage. (Photo by Herb Abelson)
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Details about the identity of the driver who lost control of his Cadillac and crashed into a wall of the Spring Street Garage after crossing Hinds Plaza are slowly emerging.
The University Medical Center at Princeton has a buyer. Princeton Healthcare System has announced an agreement with AvalonBay Communities, Inc. to purchase the hospital building on Witherspoon Street and nine houses owned buy PHCS on Harris Road.
Borough Council has made it official: It opposes Princeton University’s proposal to move the Dinky station.
At a special meeting last Thursday night, the Regional Planning Board continued an ongoing discussion about the arts and transit zoning proposed by Princeton University. No vote was taken at the three-and-a-half-hour session.
Due to a heat wave that peaked at 104° on July 22 and overall persistent warmth, July ranked as the ninth warmest across New Jersey since records began in 1895,” according to the Office of the N.J. State Climatologist. “The 72.2° average temperature was 2.8° above the 1971-2000 mean. Remarkably, nine of the past sixteen months have ranked in the top ten for warmth. Only December 2010 and January 2011 had below-average temperatures during this period.”
If a plan presented to Princeton Borough Council last week were to be realized, streetcars or light rail would carry passengers between Princeton Junction station and Nassau Street. Three stops would be made along the route, which would run on the track currently used by the Dinky, veering off through the former Grover Lumber property and then connecting to Alexander Street and up into town.
Kyle Hagel is fighting for a spot in the National Hockey League — literally.
Dustin Sproat ’06 has walked away from hockey once before.
After playing three sports at West Windsor-Plainsboro High, Kristin Appelget was looking to try something new athletically when she came to the University of Notre Dame in 1989.
Jason Carter is getting in the trenches to better coach the Princeton Youth Sports team this season in the Princeton Recreation Summer Men’s Basketball League.
“It is dated, incredible, quite outside acceptable dramatic screen material ... Its two characters are neither appealing nor sympathetic enough to sustain interest for an entire picture ... Both are physically unattractive and their love scenes are distasteful and not a little disgusting. It’s no bargain at any price. No amount of rewriting can possibly salvage this dated yarn.”
The judgment above was rendered by a mercifully unnamed script writer at RKO, one of several studios that decided not to take a chance on C.S. Forester’s 1935 novel The African Queen.
It is hard to argue with the choral music of Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn rediscovered and popularized the music of J.S. Bach, and his own oratorios were key in the evolution of the amateur choral society tradition and the now worldwide movement of choral festivals. Like many 19th century composers, Mendelssohn wrote works for festive town occasions, and the 1840 400th anniversary of Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press (and its subsequent influence on the Protestant Reformation) gave the choral field a Festgesang — a one-movement strophic piece for brass and men’s chorus — and a Lobgesang, a full choral symphony. As part of their continuing summer collaboration, Opera New Jersey (ONJ) and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) brought these two pieces together (apparently a rare occurrence) last Thursday night in Richardson Auditorium. Led by conductor Mark Laycock, who has been on hand conducting Opera New Jersey’s Barber of Seville, Thursday night’s concert brought Mendelssohn’s dramatically-crafted choruses and melodic solo writing to a sold out and very appreciative house.