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Keira Knightley Stars in Adaptation of Tolstoy’s Tale of Forbidden Love
First published between 1873 and 1877 as a series of installments in a literary magazine, Anna Karenina is a more than one thousand page opus about the ill-fated affair between…
At Play With C.K. Williams: A Shape-Shifter Breaks for the Goal
For the long hard slog through the eight years of the Bush presidency, it helped to have Paul Krugman’s Op Ed columns in the New York Times, and Frank Rich’s…
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Presents Enthralling Violinist in Richardson Auditorium
This season, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has had a sponsorship partnership with Novo Nordisk, the Copenhagen-based pharmaceutical company. Given the location of Novo Nordisk’s home base in Denmark, it was…
Mythological Figures Fight the Boogeyman in Enchanting Adventure
When the Boogeyman (Jude Law) hatches a diabolical plan to eliminate the dreams of sugarplums dancing in tykes’ heads and to steal baby teeth that were left under their pillows…
Area Exhibits 11/28/12
Art for Healing Gallery, University Medical Center of Princeton, Route 1, Plainsboro, is showing watercolors by Joel Popadics through January. Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, presents “Patterns & Meaning:…
The Fountain and the Top Hat: Woodrow Wilson’s Star-Crossed Quest
I have the uncomfortable feeling that I am carrying a volcano around with me. My salvation is in being loved. —Woodrow Wilson, from a letter to Ellen Axson When I…
Seascape Is Exquisite Backdrop for Spiritual Survival Tale
Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma) was raised in the Hindu faith before converting to Catholicism and Islamism all on his own. The 16-year-old’s parents reacted differently to the changes in the…
Investing in “Breaking Bad” — A Matter of Life and Death
I believe in Walter White, his family and his friends. They aren’t just objects of interest and curiosity and occasional sympathy …. I actually care deeply about whether they live…
Theatre Intime Revives 1966 Thriller, “Wait Until Dark”; Resourceful Blind Woman Battles Three Deadly Criminals
If, after Halloween and Hurricane Sandy, you still have an appetite for breathtaking moments and frightening drama, for tense periods of waiting and surprisingly long stretches of darkness, then Frederick…
Portraying Princeton History and More, Jean Lareuse Embraces Past and Present
Artist Jean Lareuse was born in 1926 to Catalan parents in French Guiana, Africa, and while his career has been international in scope, he has left his particular stamp on…
