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Vol. LXIV, No. 50
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Happy Holidays!
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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Vol. LXIV, No. 50
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Happy Holidays!
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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 (Photo by Emily Reeves)
ONCE UPON A TIME there was an Upper Pyne and a Lower Pyne, Tudor twins from 1896 gracing either side of the Nassau-and-Witherspoon heart of Princeton. Upper Pyne was razed in 1963. Lower Pyne, thankfully, still stands. Intended to provide space for shops at the street level, dormitory rooms for undergraduates in the stories above, the buildings were designed by architect Raleigh C. Gildersleeve on the model of 16th-century houses in Chester, England.
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The Regional Planning Board of Princeton expressed its unanimous support for the Dinky at its meeting last Thursday night, voting in favor of continued and improved rail service between Princeton and Princeton Junction.
A recent meeting of the Circulation Committee of the Princeton Regional Planning Board dealt in part with turning lane closures along Route One that have been proposed by the state.
Borough Council considered local traffic concerns at their meeting last week as members of the Traffic and Transportation Committee as well as the Princeton Joint Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee detailed their recommendations for municipal approval.
The mayors of both municipalities were present at the Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting last week to hear President Katherine McGavern thank them for their support over the past year. Along with other board members, Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman and Township Mayor Bernie Miller also received copies of Library Director Leslie Burger’s annual report to Borough Administrator Bob Bruschi and Township Administrator Jim Pascale describing the year’s accomplishments and goals for 2011.
“I’ve put off retiring five times,” said Princeton Recreation Department Director Jack Roberts in a recent interview. “Now is the time.”
Introducing him as “the original Stanley Fish” at last week’s Lewis Library event, Law and Public Affairs Program Director Kim Lane Scheppele acknowledged the guest speaker’s lengthy list of titles, many accomplishments (he is a Milton scholar), and reputation as a provocateur (among his essays is one on the Randy Newman song, “Short People”). As if that wasn’t enough, he is currently a regular contributor to the New York Times’s “Opinionator” blog.
Coming from the middle of South Dakota to central New Jersey has been an eye-opening experience for Matt Farris, a freshman forward with the Princeton University men’s hockey team.
Sasha Sherry and her teammates on the Princeton University women’s ice hockey team were determined to get off to a hot start last Friday as they hosted Syracuse.
Over the past few years, the Princeton High boys’ basketball team has utilized its athleticism and an up-tempo style to become a force in local hoops circles.
The world is changing Your heart is growingfrom ”Cartwheels”
Listen to songs like “Mother Rose,” “Cartwheels,” “Peaceable Kingdom,” and the title track from Patti Smith’s 2004 album, Trampin’, and you begin to understand what helped the so-called “punk icon” or “godmother of punk” find her way to the heart of her National Book award-winning memoir, Just Kids (Ecco paper $16). These are the songs of a loving, knowing, abiding mother, daughter, lover, wife, and, above all, undaunted artist/poet/storyteller devoted to keeping the promise she made to Robert Mapple-thorpe. Remembering their last conversation in a note to the reader included along with 15 additional pages in the handsome, recently released paperback edition, she quotes Mapplethorpe as if she and he were one voice in her consciousness: “I told him I would continue our work, our collaboration, for as long as I lived. Will you write our story? Do you want me to? You have to he said no one but you can write it. I will do it, I promised, though I knew it would be a vow difficult to keep.”
It was fitting that for its winter concert, the Princeton University Orchestra chose music of a 20th century Russian composer torn between two careers featuring another 20th century Russian native also equally at home in two performing careers. For the orchestra’s performance on Friday night (the concert was repeated Saturday night) conductor Michael Pratt chose a concerto and symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, who divided his early career between that of pianist and composer. Joining the orchestra for this set of performances in Richardson Auditorium was Ignat Solzhenitsyn, who has maintained a dual career between the piano and the podium. Mr. Solzhenitsyn was the featured soloist in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1 in c minor and led the ensemble in Shostakovich’s Symphony No.8, also in c minor. The concerto seemed second nature to Mr. Solzhenitsyn and he proved equally at home in the monumental symphony.
No holiday gift is more welcome and valued than a lovely piece of jewelry. It will last and be a continual remembrance of the sentiments of the gift-giver.
When you step into the charming Lisa Jones boutique at 16 Witherspoon Street, you immediately feel at home. It is light and inviting, with creative displays, including beautiful Christmas ornaments suspended from the ceiling. Acrylic icicles, birds, and beautiful Christmas balls add to the appealing lightness of the shop.