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Vol. LXIV, No. 49
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Happy Holidays!
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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Vol. LXIV, No. 49
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Happy Holidays!
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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 (Photo by Emily Reeves)
MUSIC MAN: A beatific Santa serenades Saturday’s holiday gathering at the Princeton Shopping Center while Snowy schmoozes. Kids reveal their favorite seasonal songs in this week’s Town Talk.
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The Regional Planning Board of Princeton is poised to decide whether or not it endorses Dinky improvements during its scheduled open public meeting this Thursday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Township Municipal Complex. The Circulation Committee met on Monday to discuss the resolutions it will be proposing to the Planning Board.
Annual reports from Fire Commissioner Edward J. Greenblat and Princeton Senior Resource Center (PSRC) Executive Director Susan Hoskins highlighted Monday’s Township Committee meeting.
The last independently owned and operated pharmacy in Princeton closed quietly last week, with the awning reading “Forer Pharmacy” removed by the next day. A sign in the window explained that it had been sold to the national pharmacy chain CVS.
“These are not deadbeats,” said HomeFront Director of Mission Advancement Anita Hanft describing the residents of that agency’s Family Preservation Center in Ewing. “These are people who are trying to build a life.”
The future has arrived for Princeton University with the debut of its new iPrinceton application for mobile phones.
The Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s observation that “the new typography is a simultaneous experience of vision and communication” is aptly quoted in the exhibit “New Student Work: Photography, Sculpture, Graphic Design” in the Lucas Gallery at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. This eye-catching, thought-provoking show which is free and open to the public has, unfortunately, a short run; it opened on December 1 and closes on December 9.
Ian Hummer got into a groove early on last Sunday as the Princeton University men’s basketball team hosted Saint Joseph’s.
The prospect of hosting winless Rider University last Sunday didn’t figure to get the blood racing for the Princeton University women’s basketball team.
Olivia Mucha has struggled to develop consistency as she has gone through her first few months with the Princeton University women’s ice hockey team.
John was an artist. Why would anyone kill an artist?Yoko Ono
I searched out the quote about John Lennon when I realized that this review would be appearing on the 30th anniversary of the day he died, December 8, 1980. John was drawing long before the genesis of the Beatles. His early heroes were James Thurber, Lewis Carroll, and Ronald Searle, and he once admitted to Dick Cavett that at age 15 he began “thurberizing” his art. While his two books may not qualify as graphic novels, they belong somewhere in the story of the genre, as well as being among the best-selling illustrated books of our or any time.
Two grande dames preside over the two one-acts comprising Tennessee Williams’ passionate, intensely psychological Garden District, first seen Off-Broadway in 1958. These two classic Williams characters, modeled in part on the playwright’s mother, are narcissistic, domineering, ferociously loving, and fiercely controlling matriarchs. Long-since-faded southern belles, women of wealth and power, they struggle frantically to preserve their veneer of purity, gentility, beauty, and civility amidst the dark passions and human strivings of daily life. They wage desperate battle to sustain their power through the ravages of time and circumstance.
Westminster Choir College is understandably renowned for its choirs, but not everyone is interested in a choral career. The opera program at the college has produced a number of fine singers in recent years, many of whom are forging careers in the national and international arena. Representatives of current voice students presented a “Winter Opera Gala” this past weekend at the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center, showing off some very talented singers who study with Westminster faculty.
“My work is making people happy. I can offer someone with something that is really good-tasting and healthier for them, and very satisfying.”
“You look as if you washed your hair in moonlight!”
That comment was directed to a Chelsea Crimpers client who recently treated herself to a series of highlights, creating, according to the above observer, a lovely glow.