Content about New York City

When filmmaker Ian Cheney moves to New York City and discovers skies almost completely devoid of stars, he wonders what we lose when we lose the night. The film spans a journey to America’s brightest and darkest corners.
Astronomers, cancer researchers, ecologists and philosophers provide glimpses of what is lost in the glare of city lights. Blending a humorous, searching tone with poetic footage of the night sky, what unravels is an introduction to the science of the dark and an exploration of the human relationship to the stars.
 

Eva Mantell loves teaching art.  “When students aren’t expecting to come up with anything good, and they are engaged and surprised by what they’ve created, it feels great. I find it very energizing.”

Mike Carnevale and Mary Fritschie love tea and want you to love it too. It was their love of tea and spices that led them to open infini-T Café and Spice Souk in Palmer Square.

Welcome to the 4th annual Trinity Princeton Turkey Trot!

Run or walk in the Trinity Church Turkey Trot, a family friendly 5K event, to support the following charities:

The Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton
Urban Promise - Trenton
Housing Initiatives of Princeton

There will be homemade pies and other prizes, as well as pre- and post- race refreshments. All pre-registrants will receive full color performance running shirts, while supplies last.

Author Clifford Zink, a local historian, spent years researching his book about the family who designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge with wire rope manufactured in their Trenton mills. The Roebling operation employed generations of immigrants in Trenton and in Roebling, a company town. The book begins with the family’s beginnings in Germany and ends with the adaptive re-use of the Roebling factories today. Community Room

In the newly-published book, Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein, Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific Princeton author, reveals aspects of the impulse that keeps her writing, often for 12 hours a day when working on a first draft, as well as the thinking and dreaming in which she immerses herself when preparing a novel.  “It’s an intense and ineffable experience which is difficult to talk about,” says Oates, who doesn’t begin to write until she has “the whole thing in my head like a movie.”

April is National Poetry Month and in Princeton this means a new issue of U.S.1 Worksheets, the (now) annual poetry journal of U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative.  Last Sunday, April 3, the community room of the Princeton Public Library was packed to capacity, as poets gathered to celebrate the arrival of Volume 56 of U.S.1 Worksheets, featuring the work of 98 local and regional poets.

Experts To Discuss Future of Wikileaks and the Implications for National Security, Foreign Policy and The Right To Know in a Democracy

The Woodrow Wilson School Presents a Public Affairs Lecture to be held in New York City:

"The Future of WikiLeaks: What Happens Now?"
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
6:00- 7:45 p.m.
Princeton Club of New York

a discussion with:

Barton Gellman '82:
Pulitzer Prize winner; contributing Editor at Large, Time magazine; senior research fellow, Center on Law and Security, New York University

Amb. Daniel Kurtzer:

Sponsored by the Princeton Recreation Department-
The American Folk Art Museum
Show will be held at the historic Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue
in New York City(between 66 & 67 Streets)

Date:  March 29, 2011
Time: 9 am – 4pm
The Trip will depart/return at the Mountain Avenue & Route 206 parking lot.

Fee: $37.00
Includes Motor Coach and Tour of the Exhibit
Deadline for making payment: February 21, 2011

WOW!! The Great "Boilermakers" Band and one of the Best Balboa/Lindy instructors, Paolo Pasta Lanna!!! Coming in January!!! WOW!!!

Yes, the Boilermakers! And Yes, Paolo Pasta Lanna!
Both are coming in January to Jersey Jumpers, check the info. below!

FEATURING:
From New York City: Paolo Pasta Lanna!!!
7:00pm – 7:30pm - Balboa (Basic)
7:30pm – 8:30pm - Lindy (Beginners/Intermediate)

Playwright and Princeton resident Charles Evered, a former ACP Reeves Artist-In-Residence, will be on hand to celebrate the publication of his new play "Class"---which is being released by Broadway Play Publishing Inc of New York City. Professional actors will read selected scenes, and Charles will speak about the journey of the play. Copies of the play will be available for sale and signing. Free. For more information on Charles: www.CharlesEvered.com.

Leslie-Bernard Joseph, Dean of Students at Coney Island Prep, tells about his sixth grade student who, unable to answer any questions on a quiz, had simply written “I need help” instead of an answer. Joseph keeps the note in his office to remind himself of his mission as a teacher.

Joseph - a 2006 Princeton alumnus – was part of a panel discussion titled “Education as the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time,” which discussed educational reform in the United States and the role of undergraduates in the reform movement.

Swingadelic (June 17) is the New York City Metropolitan Area’s greatest “little big band” that
delivers the traditional big band music of Ellington, Basie and Sinatra, mixed with the soulful
sounds of Ray Charles. They add swingin’ Sixties grooves to come up with the most listenable
and danceable music for any occasion. Swingadelic has released 4 CDs and has provided
music for film soundtracks and appeared on regional TV and radio shows worldwide.