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Vol. LXIII, No. 8
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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Vol. LXIII, No. 8
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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 (Photo by E.J. Greenblat)
IN THE STYLE OF BEARDEN: Maria Evans (at rear) is helping children construct collages in the style of Romare Bearden during the Arts Council’s Black History Month celebration at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts.
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Princeton Regional Schools (PRS) Superintendent Judy Wilson said she would be “shocked” if any of the money allocated in the Federal government’s recently approved economic stimulus package “landed in our coffers.” Speaking at a recent Board of Education budget workshop, she described the flat budget scenario the PRS administration is anticipating for 2009-2010.
Continuing the discussion about the 2009 budget, last Tuesday’s meeting of Borough Council focused on capital projects and debt management. Neighbors advocating for the rehabilitation of Harrison Street Park were also in attendance.
Collaborative projects involving the Engineering Department and the Sewer Operating Committee dominated Monday evening’s Township Committee Meeting.
The Princeton Public Library’s actual 2008 expenditures of $4,655,934 came within a few dollars of the $4,679,327 originally budgeted.
Though no formal action was taken during last Thursday’s Regional Planning Board meeting, Bob Hillier of Hillier Properties LLC, explained his proposal for building 143 units of housing for residents aged 55 and over on Princeton Ridge for an informal review of the concept plan.
Speaking about her life and career in a lecture last Thursday entitled “Are You Who We Think You Are?” at McCosh Hall on the University campus, Glenn Close quipped that the title query “is a very tricky question to ask somebody, especially someone who has spent the last 30 years pretending to be someone else.”
It is a class whose members made their presence felt the day they hit the field for the Princeton University women’s lacrosse team.
It seemed like old times as Pete Carril held court last Saturday evening at Caldwell Lounge.
As it played last weekend to wrap up the regular season, the Princeton University women’s hockey team had to come through on the road in order to earn home ice for the upcoming ECAC Hockey playoffs.
Scene: A filled-to-capacity classroom at a large midwestern university. The teacher enters wearing his raincoat like a cloak, sidles over to a row of windows and lowers the Venetian blinds, further dimming an already dark winter day one immemorial year on the cusp of the sixties. Disposing of his raincoat cloak with a sinister flourish, he advances to the blackboard, picks up a piece of chalk, tilts his craggy face at a sly angle, grinning over his hunched shoulder at the overflow student audience as he intones, in a husky, theatrically intense Virginia accent that already has the groupies in the front row swooning, “Today we are going to talk about — Edgar … Allan … Poe.”
“The myth is a public dream,” explains the earnest therapist to the audience and to a bewildered, whining Phaeton, who has just wrecked his father Apollo’s sun chariot. “Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.”
The Richardson Chamber Players presented its final concert of its Vienna: Baroque series on Sunday afternoon, focusing on music performed at the Imperial Court during the 17th century. This final concert, featuring pianist Jennifer Tao, violinist Sunghae Anna Lim, flutist Judith Pearce, and cellist Alberto Parrini, treated the audience in Richardson Auditorium to a trio each by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven, all composed within twenty years of one another but very different in style and texture.
Creamy, rich, and scrumptious!
Walking through Luxe Home Company’s charming, spacious showroom is a pleasure. The expanse of windows allows the space to be filled with light, enhancing the impressive array of furniture and accessories.