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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Princeton Ballet School, the educational arm of American Repertory Ballet, has found a permanent home on the fourth floor of Crossroads Theatre, a home that is perfect for an institution with deep roots in the city. The school has two other studios, in the Princeton Shopping Center and in Cranbury, but its New Brunswick location has changed several times recently. It was located at 80 Albany Street for almost eighteen years, and then moved briefly to New Brunswick High School before settling at Crossroads, in the heart of New Brunswick's theatre district.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Thinking in Pictures (1995)
Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin’s memoir is one of the first about living and thriving with autism. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a professor of Animal Sciences at the University of Colorado. In her own words, written before her later books with a co-author Catherine Johnson (Animals in Translation, 2005; Animals Make Us Human, 2009), we are given a straightforward look at the stark realities of the disorder from childhood and long journey out of her inner prison.

Sunday, January 31, 2010
Playwright Daniel Beaty is a soft-spoken, polite and gentle man, but his passion for people is fierce.  Daniel believes passionately in the power and grace of mothers . . . . that children should have fathers . . . . that people should treat themselves and each other with dignity and respect.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Alfa Art Gallery kicked off its second year anniversary on January 29 with “The Caged Bird Sings,” a jam session featuring six musicians in a cage – for 24 hours with only meal and bathroom breaks.

Dancers added a visual aspect to the music at the opening, and juxtaposed it to the works of the rest of the artists, which they used as props in their routines.

The unifying idea was Albert Einstein's claim that "everything in life is a vibration," as interpreted by local experimental musician Michael Durek.

Monday, February 8, 2010

During the opening minutes of any film festival there's always an electricity in the air. The directors, the screenwriters, and the actors are a little tense and a little excited and it was no different at the third annual Teen Film Festival sponsored by the Highland Park Public Library.

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