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high kicks and high jinx: princeton’s triangle club BY LINDA ARNTZENIUS
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ON THE COVER: “Winter Wonderland,” by Victoria Gebert, 16. She is an 11th grade
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It’s the season for gift giving and we have an article revealing the shopping lists of notable people in Princeton. Find out who is busy shopping and who is hoping to receive classic gifts from local stores such as cashmere socks from Landau’s, Thomas Sweet chocolates, Black Squirrel t-shirts, toys from JaZams, or bow ties from Brooks Brothers. Gifts from Princeton merchants are always well received and help keep our local economy healthy. If you are planning a Holiday party, consider contacting one of the talented Chefs profiled in this issue. If you prefer to cook for your guests, you will enjoy reading the seasonal recipes they have shared with us. You might also consider serving a local brew with “a little attitude” from River Horse Brewery. In our story, you will learn about how they create different brews, including their winter ale called “Belgian Freeze,” which is based on Bumble, the abominable snow monster from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Chris Walsh, co-owner of River Horse, likes to think globally but act locally by cross promoting with independent businesses such as bent spoon and Rojo’s Roastery... a clever way to spread good cheer!
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There are many local holiday traditions, including Princeton’s Triangle Club, which is the topic of a story in this issue. You will discover that there is more to this famous comedy troupe than its entertaining all-male kick line. For example, it’s interesting to learn that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote lyrics for three shows and Joshua Logan wrote and acted in three productions before going on to coauthor and direct South Pacific.
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Keeping with tradition, our Holiday cover is the first place winner of the Princeton Magazine Student Art Contest. Congratulations to Victoria Gebert, an 11th grader from Princeton High School, for her winning design titled “Winter Wonderland,” a sculptural interpretation of a wintery gown using recycled materials. It’s such a pleasure to acknowledge Victoria’s art by featuring it on our cover! Read this month’s Art Scene to see the second and third place winners. Many thanks to all the enthusiastic young artists who participated.
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In closing, I want to let you know that we at Witherspoon Media Group are celebrating the one year anniversary of our New York publication, Urban Agenda: New York City. Although still young, Urban Agenda already has it’s own traditions. Last November, we featured a vintage Bergdorf Goodman Holiday window on the cover. This year, our cover is graced by a Barney’s New York window, designed by Simon Doonan, and inspired by Andy Warhol’s portrait of Liza Minnelli. On behalf of Bob and Barbara Hillier, and the entire staff at Witherspoon Media Group, I would like to wish you all a very happy and healthy holiday! Kind regards,
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Whether you are a die-hard advocate of “shop ‘til you drop” buying, or you believe that “tis the gift to be simple,” this season of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Winter Solstice celebrations is, for most people, a time of gift giving and getting. Those who favor giving lavishly may be interested to know that a Swiss Musical Starship is available at Hammacher Schlemmer for a mere $31,500. If your sensibility tends more toward the modest or politically correct, financial contributions in someone’s honor to just about any non-profit organization (including those mentioned below) are welcome indeed. It may be wise to keep in mind, though, that young children may not always appreciate the significance of such gifts; one longtime Princeton resident who made a donation to Heifer International in honor of her grandson can still recall his plaintive wail, “Grandma gave me a water buffalo for Christmas.” In a completely unscientific survey, Princeton Magazine asked several local figures about their holiday season predilections.
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It should come as no surprise that Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert professes to “love shopping downtown, especially over the holidays, “because the streets are always so beautiful.” Lempert is likely to buy books as presents, and she appreciates “the great selection” at Labyrinth. Since her youngest daughter recently took up baking as a “serious” hobby, Lempert also anticipates a stop at
Kitchen Kapers, where she’ll buy the budding chef some baking supplies. “The indoor winter farmers market at the Library often has wonderful things to give as gifts— like honey, candles and local crafts,” she adds. Lempert, who will soon be celebrating one year as the first mayor of consolidated Princeton, doesn’t let us in on what she hopes to receive for the holidays. Another Princeton resident who prides herself on shopping local is HiTOPS Executive Director Elizabeth Casparian. “I always buy my husband and sons sweaters or shirts at Landau’s, which is also where my mother-in-law has a standing order for their cashmere blend socks,” says the head of the Princeton-based adolescent health and education center. Gift cards “to almost any place on Palmer Square” dependably please Casparian’s teen-age daughter, and games “recommended by JoAnn” at JaZam’s keep visiting cousins happy. Casparian’s daughter, incidentally, will be taking Princeton Black Squirrel t-shirts to her host family during a semester-long stay in China. What would Casparian like for Christmas? “I always hope that I will find a Small World gift card, a little box from Hamilton Jewelers, and some organic dark chocolate from Whole Earth in my stocking,” she reports. Another fan of JaZams is Princeton University Community and Regional Affairs Director Kristin S. Appleget. “My favorite gifts to buy are those for my nephew and four nieces, and I never go wrong when
I pick something great for them from JaZams,” she says. The best gift for Appleget is “time spent with friends and family during the holidays.” JaZams gets a third mention when Princeton Public Library Director Leslie Burger reports that she will visit the Palmer Square toy store to pick up “some carefully chosen books and a few toys” for her toddler grandson. The rest of her list is relatively simple. “Now that my children are adults we downplay the Hanukkah gift-giving so there is not a whole lot of gift purchasing going on with me,” she observes. In lieu of shopping, she prefers to think about the end-of-year “gifts” she will give to her choice of organizations.
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The holiday season is nothing if not a time for family traditions; one uncle is responsible for the Hanukkah potato latkes, while an in-law can be counted on to provide seasonal music. Palmer Square Management LLC Vice-President David Newton’s family is no different. His mother, who passed away in 2011 “during the holidays,” always showered the men in the family with “an abundance” of clothes; ties, shirts, sweaters, pajamas, sports jackets, socks etc. “Now that she is not with us the role of primary gift provider in the area of dress clothes and accessories has been passed to me,” reports Newton. “I restrict most gift purchases to merchandise found on Palmer Square.” Newton describes his own gift requirements as “modest,” although he allows as how “a Post Office,
Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert is likely to buy books as presents from Labyrinth and baking supplies from Kitchen Kapers for her youngest daughter. JM Group President Jack Morrison gets special flower arrangements at Viburnum or Flower Express for his wife’s birthday on December 22. Others enjoy jewelry from Hamilton Jewelers.
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One longtime Princeton resident made a donation to Heifer International, a global nonprof nonprofit with the goal of ending poverty and hunger in a sustainable fashion. Other ideas include organic dark chocolate from Whole Earth and the ever popular request: reques toys from JaZams.
in need of redevelopment, would be nice.” Princeton Senior Resource Center Director Susan Hoskins strikes a pragmatic note as she describes typical gift giving in her family. “Our big gifts for the holidays are often very practical, like health insurance for our older son, cell phone minutes for the younger one, and new tools for my husband.” She is quick to add, though, that after the useful stuff is taken care of, she likes “to wander around town to get a few unexpected extras.” Those who want to make Hoskins happy this year should know that she would love airfare to California, new furnishings for her sun porch, and a Kindle charger. “Wouldn't it be great if we would find a gift certificate for ‘Peace and Understanding’ in our stockings,” muses Shirley Satterfield, a longtime Princeton resident, who serves, among a number of other roles, as historian of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood and the African American community in Princeton. Like a number of other respondents, Satterfield talks about the particular satisfactions of buying for younger members of the family. “I find items for my granddaughter and for friends who enjoy my different kinds of gifts,” she says. Her sources? “I like to find unusual gifts in some of the unique mail order magazines that I get.” As for herself: “I have so much ‘stuff’ that I can’t think of a thing that I would want.”
“My holiday season has always been a very busy time for our family with Nassau Street Seafood and the restaurants,” says JM Group President Jack Morrison. “My shopping habits for the past 30 plus years are predictable, local, and usually accomplished in one or two quick trips in town.” Morrison has the drill down pretty much to a science. “I always start with chocolates from Thomas Sweet for my family and everyone in the office.” Then he picks up assorted gift cards from stores like Rouge, Pins and Needles, Ann Taylor, Lululemon, and Landau’s. His wife, who celebrates her birthday on December 22, gets special attention with flowers from Viburnum or Flower Express “and a spa treatment for my darling.”
Eclectic and Beautiful
Princeton University Art Museum Director James C. Steward is not shy about mentioning the “great blown glass from the Museum Store” that he (and, hopefully, others) will purchase to give as gifts this season. Steward’s other local favorites include the Farmhouse Store for buying housewares, and Dandelion for jewelry purchases. “I usually focus on finding one-of-a-kind, handmade objects of quality to give: blown glass, or turned wood bowls, or wovens,” he says. Some off-season purchases may be made ahead of the holidays, when Steward travels to Maine, a favorite destination. “I might shop ahead at Swans
Island for a throw or a scarf to give, or Madder Root for tea towels or things for the table.” Immediate gratification for Steward would be “a double-sided bow tie, or a bottle of American red from the Corkscrew.” Delayed gratification might include “a gift certificate that's about sharing an experience, like a meal at Annisa in New York, or a weekend at The Old Inn on the Green in the Berkshires.” As much as Jeff Nathanson, executive director of the Princeton Arts Council, tried to think of other responses, he has to admit that his “favorite thing about holiday season shopping is the Arts Council of Princeton’s ‘Sauce for the Goose’ holiday art sale. “I’m always amazed at the range and variety of art and craft items from ceramics to jewelry to fine art prints,” he notes. “It’s a very unique and fun way to buy gifts for the holidays and supports local working artists and the Arts Council.” This year, Hanukkah, which usually more or less coincides with Christmas, fell on the same day as Thanksgiving, a coincidence that hasn’t occurred since 1888. It will happen again in 2165. The Winter Solstice occurs on December 21 or 22. Christmas, of course, always falls on December 25. Kwanzaa is celebrated every year with a week long celebration of African American culture, from December 26 through January 1. Happy holidays, everyone!
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ow is the time of year when an allegedly endangered species called The Book comes enormously into its own, making those handy, battery-dependent little doodads called Nooks and Kindles look like sophisticated playthings. What a difference, to unwrap and open and hold in your hands the weighty reality of a big, handsomely/ beautifully/lavishly illustrated volume you can feel the substance and texture of, something, say it again, to be held in both hands. It lends the gift a kind of majesty, like an offering placed on the altar of the occasion. This year’s offerings cover a sweeping range of art forms and include handsome works by local artists, as well as ones accompanying major exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Guggenheim.
trade in Latin America; Chinese textiles in Portugal; Japan and the textile trade; “Silks along the seas” in Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran; the European response to textiles from the East; and dyes and the dye trade. “Blue-Resist Panel,” the cover illustration for Interwoven Globe shown here unmarred by its removable title, is an example of the “every picture tells a story” aspect of the volume. The editor’s intriguing account of this “resist-painted and printed and indigo-dyed furnishing fabric” begins by admitting that it has “frustrated several generations of American textile historians” and “has been the subject of conferences, book chapters, and numerous articles.” Somehow the mystery fabric found its way from “probably India” to the American market in the mid-18th century. PAINTING: THE MYSTERY OF MAGRITTE
TEXTILES: VISUAL THRILLS
“Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800,” the Met’s new show, has been getting raves, notably from Roberta Smith at The New York Times, who eschews the integrity of artspeak, claiming there are “enough visual thrills and historical insights to knock your socks off.” This year’s “staggering overview of more than three centuries of art, commerce, craft and cross-cultural fertilization” may be “even more outstanding than usual.” The exhibit runs through January 5, while the book published by the Met and distributed by Yale University Press ($65) under the same title puts “one of the great art experiences of the season” between covers forever. Edited by Amelia Peck, who offers a history of trade textiles at the Met and an essay on The East India Company textiles for the North American market, the 350-page volume includes a multi-author assortment of introductory essays on Indian textiles; textile traditions and
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Speaking of mystery, another no less stunning work of publishing art accompanying a major new exhibit is Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 (Museum of Modern Art $65). After alluding to the ubiquity of René Magritte (“an artist we practically can’t avoid. The pipe; the giant eye; the choo-choo in the fireplace”), The New York Times’ Holland Cotter admits the survey is “good solid fun, because Magritte is solid and fun.” One of the favored artists for designers of rock album covers (the painting on the book’s front cover is The Secret Double, from 1927), Magritte was born in Belgium, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. When he was in his early 20s he married his model Georgette Berger, whom he had known since he was 13. They were together until his death in 1967. Of his habit of juxtaposing unrelated objects, he said, “It is a union that suggests the essential mystery of the world. Art for me is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery.” On view at MoMA through January, the exhibit will move to Houston’s Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, both of which collaborated with MoMA in producing the exhibition and catalogue, which is co-authored by Stephanie D’Alessandro and Michel Draguet and edited by MoMA’s senior curator of painting and sculpture, Anne Umland.
accompanies the exhibit at the Guggenheim scheduled to run through January 5, 2014. Devoted to Motherwell’s works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s, the book reexamines the origins of the artist’s style and his encounter with the papier collé technique that he described in 1944 as “the greatest of our discoveries.” It was at Peggy Guggenheim’s early urging, and under the tutelage of émigré Surrealist artist Matta, that Motherwell first experimented with the technique. He recalled years later: “I might never have done it otherwise, and it was here that I found . . . my ‘identity.’” In addition to focusing on Motherwell’s early career with Peggy Guggenheim, the book features approximately 60 works and four essays that delve into other artists’ engagements with collage in the first half of the twentieth century; Motherwell’s underlying humanitarian themes during World War II; his materials; and a reassessment of his work in the collage medium. PHOTOGRAPHY: LOCAL COLOR
Emmet Gowin, who taught photography at Princeton University from 1973 to 2009, is the subject of a self-titled collection (Aperture $65), with text by Keith F. Davis, Carlos Gollonet, and Gowin. Those familiar with Gowin’s work will find images of the subjects he’s best known for, his wife and family, landscape and aerial photography of Mount St. Helens, the American West, the Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, Japan and the U.S. As the cover portrait of his wife suggests, Detail of Edith, Danville (Virginia) 1963, he’s chosen to highlight the human side of his work. In a hand-written letter from May 1967, when he was 25, Gowin wrote, “From the beginning, I wanted to make pictures so potent that I would not need to say anything about them.” His choice of this beautiful image of his wife at the dawn of their relationship suggests that of all the portraits of her, some of which are rigorous, stark, and sometimes unflattering in their intimacy, the face on the cover comes closest to the essence of the woman he fell in love with. Gowin has described his portraits of Edith as “agreements” they made with each other: “My attention was a natural duty that could honour that love.” Sacred Spaces—Turkish Mosques and Tombs (Quantuck Lane Press $54.92) is the work of another longtime Princeton resident, photographer Mary Cross. Introduced by Peter Brown, the
MOTHERWELL’S COLLAGES
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages (Guggenheim $45), text by curator Susan Davidson, with Megan Fontanella, Brandon Taylor, and Jeffrey Warda
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“beautifully produced” book that Labyrinth Books co-owner Dorothea von Moltke calls a “labor of love” visually celebrates over twenty mosques and tombs built from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Istanbul, Bursa, and Edirne. Among the photographer’s other books are Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth, in which her images were accompanied by Frances Fitzgerald’s text, and Morocco: Sahara to the Sea, with an introduction by Paul Bowles.
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Terry Wood’s Farmhouse Modern (Stewart, Tabori and Chang $45) is the third installment of the farmhouse-style series created by designer Woods and photographer Kindra Clineff. The book profiles farmhouses in the Northeast that blend traditional and modern elements. Fans of Woods’s previous books will recognize the breadth of farmhouses profiled and the locales, from Vermont to Maine to New Hampshire. Known for celebrating imperfections, Woods designs homes filled with warmth, texture, and light, pairing the clean lines and industrial feel of modern design with the rustic, hand-forged, and natural elements of more traditional design, or, as a notice in atHome magazine puts it, “The gorgeous Northeast farmhouses ... blend a traditional, cozy feel with modern elements.” THE LIBRARY AS ARCHITECTURE
What better way to conclude a column celebrating beautiful books than with a volume devoted to the buildings that house them? The Library: A World History (University of Chicago Press $75) by James W.P. Campbell with photographs by Will Pryce, contains spectacular images of the architecture of libraries around the world, from the dome of the Library of Congress to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to the ancient ruins of the library of Pergamum in modern Turkey, and back to the future for libraries in the Electronic Age.
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nce again Princeton Magazine is delighted to feature student artwork on the cover of this holiday issue. The First Place winner of our Wintertime in Princeton Cover Art Contest was submitted by an 11th grade student at Princeton High School, Victoria Gebert, 16. For her submission, “Winter Wonderland,” Victoria constructed a stunning gown using recycled materials. Second Place this year goes to Jackie Eschbach, 11, a 6th grade student at Auten Road Intermediate School in Hillsborough. Jackie’s “The Winter Day” is a color pencil drawing with a dash of snowy white paint. This year’s runner up is Emily Yang’s charcoal drawing, titled “My Day at Princeton.” Emily, 14, is a 10th grader at Hillsborough High School. Congratulations to Victoria, Jackie and Emily and thank you to all who submitted their original artwork. AREA EXHIBITS
Historical Society of Princeton at Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street: We ♥ Princeton: Stories from the Street, an interactive look at Nassau Street, Paul Robeson Place, University Place and Einstein Drive and what they reveal about the people, places and events that make up Princeton’s history. For more information, call 609.921.6748 or visit: www.princetonhistory.org. Morven Museum & Garden at 55 Stockton Street: Festival of Trees, Morven’s holiday tradition for which the museum is decorated for the holidays with trees adorned by local businesses, garden clubs, and nonprofits. November 28 through January 6, 2014. Also, The Age of Sail: A New Jersey Collection through spring 2014. For more information, hours and admission, call 609.924.8144 ext.106 or visit: www.morven.org. Drumthwacket, the official residence of the Governor of New Jersey, at 354 Stockton Street is open weekly on Wednesdays for regular guided tours and is decorated for special Holiday Open Houses from 11AM to 1:30PM on December 4, 8, 11 and 15; reservations are required; $5 suggested donation. For more information visit: www.drumthwacket.org. Princeton University Art Museum on the University campus: The Itinerant Languages of Photography traces historical continuities from the 19th century to the present by juxtaposing archival images from Spain, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico with those of contemporary photographers, through January 19, 2014. New Jersey as Non-Site examines more than 100 works by sixteen artists around the themes of ruin, cooperation, and displacement, through January 5, 2014. For information and hours, call 609.258.3788 or visit: http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/exhibitions. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick: Diane Burko: Glacial Perspectives through July 31, 2014. For admission and hours, call 732.932.7237, ext. 610 or visit: www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
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A companion exhibition marks the 75th anniversary of the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, where Ms. Kelly made her stage debut. Local Mill Makes Good: Celebrating 75 Years of American Theater at the Bucks County Playhouse runs through March 2, 2014. For more information, hours and admission, call 800.595.4849 or visit: www.MichenerArtMuseum.org. Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street, Philadelphia, Pa: Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis, inspired by Fernand Léger’s 1919 painting The City, a cornerstone of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection, through January 5, 2014. For more information, hours and admission, call 215.763.8100, or visit: www.philamuseum.org.
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Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton: Edwina Sandys: Provocative and Profound paintings; William Knight: Out of Context sculpture; also a retrospective of public and studio work by internationally acclaimed artist Athena Tacha, Sculpting With/In Nature (1975-2013). For more information, visit www.groundsforsculpture.org.
FURTHER AFIELD
James A. Michener Art Museum at 138 South Pine St., Doylestown, Pa: From Philadelphia to Monaco: Grace Kelly Beyond the Icon continues through January 26, 2014.
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library at 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Del: Yuletide at Winterthur holiday tours of the historic 175 room mansion and former home of Henry Francis du Pont. November 23, 2013 through January 5, 2014. Also tours and exhibitions highlighting craftsmanship and scholarship: Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience, through January 5, 2014; Costumes of Downton Abbey, designs from the award-winning television series, from March 1, 2014 through January 4, 2015. For more information, hours and admission, visit: www.winterthur.org. Longwood Gardens at 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, Pa: Seasonal events and spectacular indoor and outdoor garden displays with an annual Garden Railway of G-scale model custom trains traveling in and out of bridges, tunnels, and special water features (weather permitting) through January 12, 2014. For more information, hours and admission, call 610.388.1000, or visit: www.longwoodgardens.org.
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The impossible rarely is— Just ask her. In 2000, Leigh Morlock graduated from Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton. Today, she lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where she’s changing the way business is done— in a part of the world where business is often done poorly.
Driving Innovation in Cambodia Leigh is dedicated to collaboration and innovation. She began her career as a theater director in NYC, then worked in fashion at LeSportsac. With a background in fostering design teams—fueled by her desire to see the world and a commitment to social action—in 2009 Leigh moved to Siem Reap, Cambodia. She co-founded BASIK 855, an organization that helps local artisans market and sell their products—using business as a tool to combat poverty.
The BASIK Principle BASIK 855 produces local handmade bold textiles and chic accessories. The company pays employees fair living wages and offers benefits they wouldn’t receive in garment factories. A simple, yet innovative and life-changing principle in Phnom Penh, BASIK 855 also does business with like-minded partners.
A Global Perspective In just three years BASIK 855 has grown from artisans working in their own homes to a centralized weaving center with 60+ wholesale clients and international media recognition. Faced with a funding roadblock, Leigh used her social media saavy to launch an online Kickstarter campaign, raising tens of thousands of dollars. This enabled BASIK 855 to further impact the local community with the release of their autumn collection.
Leigh Morlock, Stuart Class of 2000, is a boundary pusher and possibility evangelist
Educating Confident Leaders Stuart is an independent K-12 school founded in 1963 just for girls. We believe that in developing the mind, body and spirit together, Stuart educates young women leaders who grow up to think critically, creatively and ethically. Our challenging curriculum takes advantage of the way girls learn in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math—as well as the arts, humanities and athletics. Stuart graduates go on to become confident, intelligent and articulate leaders for positive change in our world.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 4 pm, Richardson Auditorium Rossen Milanov, conductor Princeton High School Choir
Tickets: $40 Adults, $25 students General Admission Group discounts available This concert is generously sponsored by:
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Fantasia on “Greensleeves� My Heart is Inditing On the Beautiful Blue Danube Sleigh Ride
Plus, the annual carol sing-along and more!
Broadway POPS! 10th Anniversary Concert Presents
Michael Feinstein Saturday, February 8, 2014 8 pm, Richardson Auditorium Tickets: $90, 70, 55, 35 Call: (609) 497-0020 Visit: www.princetonsymphony.org Email: info@princetonsymphony.org
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Monday, November 18 7:30PM Celebrated stage and screen actor Kevin Kline performs his one-man show designed to focus on Shakespeare from the actor’s point of view at McCarter Theatre. His tribute includes excerpts from Hamlet, Henry V, As You Like It, Richard III, and others. Kline’s honors include an Academy Award (A Fish Called Wanda) and two Tonys (On the Twentieth Century and The Pirates of Penzance).
Friday, November 22 6:30PM “Musical Geographies” concert with violinist Lara St. John and pianist Martin Kennedy. Part of the Institute for Advanced Study’s Edward T. Cone Concert Series (also on Saturday, November 23). 7PM Princeton University men’s hockey vs. Quinnipiac at Hobey Baker Rink at Princeton University.
Saturday, November 23 10AM-5PM YWCA Princeton Crafters’ Marketplace featuring over 130 artisans. Held at John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton.
Sunday, November 24 2:30PM Community Hanukkah Celebration featuring the musical group, The Klez Dispensers; Arts Council of Princeton. 8PM NBC late-night comedian Jimmy Fallon and Comedy Central political satirist Stephen Colbert come together for a live comedic performance; New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark.
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Wednesday, November 27 7PM Annual production of The Nutcracker at McCarter Theatre featuring the American Repertory Ballet and local children actors. This year, ARB is celebrating 50 consecutive years of Nutcracker productions in New Jersey (runs through November 30).
5-7:30PM Festival of Trees Holiday Party at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton. Enjoy an evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and merrymaking while viewing the museum’s thirteen galleries, all decorated for Christmastime.
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Thursday, November 28
5-6PM Hanukkah Celebration at Princeton’s Palmer Square Plaza (North) in front of Mediterra.
11AM Community Thanksgiving Day Service at the Princeton University Chapel.
Friday, December 6
Friday, November 29 10AM-5PM Covered Bridge Artisans Studio Tour through Hunterdon County. Continues through December 1. 4:45PM Annual Palmer Square Christmas Tree Lighting in downtown Princeton.
Saturday, November 30
12-5PM Opening day for the “Sauce for the Goose” Holiday Sale held at the Arts Council of Princeton. The sale showcases the work of regional artists (runs through December 21). 6PM 40th Annual Tree of Light Celebration and Lewis Choir holiday concert at The Lewis School of Princeton. There will also be gourmet food, beverages, and a silent auction. All proceeds benefit The Lewis School’s Annual Fund.
Noon-3PM Strolling Holiday Entertainment and Santa Meet and Greet in Princeton’s Palmer Square. Occurs every Saturday and Sunday afternoon through December 22.
7:30PM McCarter Theatre’s A Christmas Carol returns for the holiday season (runs through December 29).
8PM Tony Bennett performs at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City.
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Sunday, December 1 10AM-3PM Bring your favorite cat or dog to Cutter’s Mill Pet Store at the Princeton Shopping Center to take a picture with Santa (also on December 15).
8PM Visit the restored and festively decorated historic homes of Trenton’s Mill Hill neighborhood at the 47th Annual Mill Hill Holiday House Tour. Some 20 homes will open their doors to the public for this traditional event, which begins at Artworks, 19 Everett Alley and South Stockton Street. www.trentonmillhill.org.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 11AM-5PM Holiday Festival at the Princeton Shopping Center featuring performances by the Princeton University Tigertones, food tastings, gingerbread house decorating, and both a Christmas tree and Menorah lighting in front of McCaffrey’s main entrance. 5PM The Princeton University Glee Club performs a high-energy holiday concert at Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10 8PM Enjoy the magic of the holiday season with a performance by the all-female musical quartet, Celtic Woman. The program will include songs from Celtic Woman’s chart-topping Christmas albums, as well as new material; State Theatre of NJ, New Brunswick.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 8PM The Vienna Boys Choir performs Austrian folk songs and Christmas classics; State Theatre of NJ, New Brunswick.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 7PM Boheme Opera NJ celebrates Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th birthday with a free concert at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton Township.
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8PM Cirque Éloize melds dance, acrobatics, circus, and theater together for their production of Cirkopolis; New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Newark. 8PM “An Evening of Readings and Carols” featuring musical performances by members of the Westminster Choir College at Princeton University Chapel (also on December 15).
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 4PM The American Boychoir performs at Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 11 7PM Under the direction of Jacques Lacombe, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven’s 7th and 8th Symphonies; Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank.
MONDAY, JANUARY 20 1-4PM Martin Luther King Jr. Day Art Workshop at the Arts Council of Princeton. The Historical Society of Princeton will help to bring Dr. King’s values to life through puppet shows and art activities.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22
2PM Princeton Brass Band Holiday Concert featuring traditional British music and holiday favorites; Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University.
7PM Jay Z brings his Magna Carter World Tour to the Prudential Center in Newark.
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1PM Reenactment of General George Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River. Related activities from 11AM-3PM at Washington Crossing Park in Washington Crossing, Pa.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29 11AM “Festival of Lessons and Carols” featuring local chorales at the Princeton University Chapel.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 8PM New York Knicks vs. Miami Heat at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.
11AM Opening day for the “500 Years of Italian Master Drawings” at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibit will feature more than 1,000 drawings by Italian artists Luca Cambiaso, Guercino, Carpaccio, Michelangelo, Modigliani, and Giambattista Tiepolo (runs through May 2014).
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 7PM Princeton University women’s basketball vs. Harvard at Jadwin Gym in Princeton.
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Cambridge has it Footlights, Harvard, its Hasty Pudding Club, and Princeton has its Triangle Club, a musical comedy troupe like no other. This month Princeton Triangle Club brings Zero Gravitas to McCarter Theatre, a characteristically irreverent take on the George Clooney and Sandra Bullock film. Don’t expect high drama. Expect singing space-pirates, over-emotional robots, and of course, that famous all-male kickline.
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ow in its 123rd year, the Princeton Triangle Club is the oldest collegiate musical comedy troupe, and the only co-ed collegiate troupe, in the country to take an original studentwritten musical on a national tour every year. After premiering at McCarter Theatre, Zero Gravitas will go on the road for the holiday season. The list of past productions is a trip down memory lane and a tour of the social, cultural and political change of more than a century, from the late 19th through the 20th and into the 21st. Besides poking fun at student life, examinations and eating clubs, Triangle has tackled war protests, political scandals, and women’s rights with a playful mix of satire and undergraduate irreverence. Think Gilbert and Sullivan and the Three Stooges with a dash of Monty Python. Absurd plots, elaborate costumes, fanciful scenery, jokes and topical references. Witness titles such as: The Pirates of Pennsnec in 1898; The Tiger Smiles in 1930; High Sobriety in 1965; Future Schlock in 1972; Bermuda Love Triangle in 1993; 101 Damnations in 1998; The Blair Arch Project in 1999; This Side of Parody in 2002; A Turnpike Runs Through It in 2007, which also saw the premier of Whitman Can’t Jump. In recent years, University luminaries have been on the receiving end with Cornel West Side Story in 2009-10 and last year’s Shirley You’re Joking, Mrs. Tilghman! Although the Triangle Club officially began in 1891, it had its precedents. According to The Long Kickline: A History of the Princeton Triangle Club by Donald Marsden ’64, undergraduates staged
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what might today be called a re-enactment of the Battle of Princeton on the centennial, January 3, 1877. It is believed to have been the first major outdoor community pageant in the nation. Two years later, the short-lived Young Apollo Club put on a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular H.M.S. Pinafore. Then, in November, 1885, undergraduates staged Oliver Goldsmith’s comedy of manners, She Stoops to Conquer. The first show in true Triangle tradition of original musical comedy was Po-ca-hon-tas in 1891. A huge hit, it went on to play the Trenton Opera House. But plans to take the show to New York City foundered because the University administration feared that “church people would feel that Princeton was going theatrical.” One can almost hear the “Egads” of mustached Victorian worthies. It would not be the first time that students and administrators would be at odds over Triangle activities. Po-ca-hon-tas was revived in 1898 but it wasn’t until 1901 that a Triangle show made it to New York City. The following year, they toured as far as Pittsburgh and in years to come they would regularly go all the way to Chicago. In the original Po-ca-hon-tas program (the one shown here, of the later 1898 production, is from the collection of the Historical Society of Princeton), the show is described as “an original aboriginal erratic operatice semi-civilized and demi-savage extravaganza, being a per-version of ye true and wonderrefulle historie of ye renowned Indian princesse/ In Three Acts and Five somewhat similar scenes/ with one act slipped in incidentally to take up time” and with “jokes dug up and resuscitated, ground out and tied together.”
THE LONG KICKLINE
Joshua L. Logan ’31, who wrote and acted in three Triangle Club productions before going on to co-author and direct South Pacific, writes in the preface to Marsden’s history, that one of the club’s main values is that it offers “a rare opportunity for undergraduate expression of vocal and visual outcries against the establishment and poetic outbursts in celebration of life and young love.” Its members have the chance to experiment in play—and song-writing, acting, singing, dancing, playing instruments, and designing and constructing scenery and costumes. It was “the proving ground for talent that is still permitted to fumble; it is a place to sing, to do pratfalls, to thumb one’s nose at authority, to test the last liberties of adolescence, to taste the true wine of being an American.” In other words, it was a perfect training for the real business of show-business. Logan went on to a successful Broadway stage and film career as a writer, producer and director, including credits for Mr. Roberts and Paint Your Wagon, among others. Like the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, which spawned some of the U.K.’s best-loved comic writers and actors—David Frost, Michael Frayn, Germaine Greer, Jonathan Miller, Trevor Nunn, Peter Cook, most of the Monty Python team including John Cleese, as well as Douglas Adams, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Sasha Baron Cohen, to name but a handful— Princeton’s Triangle Club was the first step toward fame for numerous authors, composers and actors. By his own account, Logan enrolled at Princeton precisely because of the Triangle Club. F. Scott
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(Opposite) Tree’s Company, Forest’s a Crowd (2012-13) (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski). (Below) The cover of the program for the revival of Po-ca-hon-tas; or the Gentle Savage, performed May 25, 1898, at Taylor Opera Trenton. (Courtesy of the Historical Society of Princeton).
Fitzgerald ’17 had hopes of becoming president of the troupe but left Princeton before this could happen. Long before he authored This Side of Paradise or The Great Gatsby, he wrote lyrics for three shows between 1914 and 1917, including the 1914-15 Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! A publicity shot in Marsden’s book shows him sporting an off-theshoulder gown and a wide brimmed hat. A major aspect of the early productions, in the years before 1969 when the university first admitted women students, was that all the parts were played by men as was the practice with British and American allmale institutions at that time. Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! was enormously successful and played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music before traveling to ten other cities en route to Chicago. There were no women in Triangle productions save for a few who appeared in the 1920s. Three took part in the 1922 production of George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple. They were not, however, members of the University. It wasn’t until A Different Kick (1968–69) that the first female undergraduate joined the cast. The following year, six women were among the 17-member cast of the controversial Call a Spade a Shovel, which was unabashedly against the war in Vietnam and incited a storm of alumni protest in response—at one performance the entire audience walked out. If you’re curious about the Club’s name, it derives, according to Marsden’s citation of V. Lansing Collins Princeton Past and Present, from a couple of local walks: the Big Triangle from the University on Nassau to Stockton Street and then along that part of Quaker Road that follows
the Stony Brook back up to the campus by way of Princeton Pike or Mercer when it’s close to town; and the Little Triangle, which is the same route except for cutting to Mercer from Stockton via Lover’s Lane. These walks were once popular with students and one of the few amusements available to them during the “dull” winter months when football practices were over. Among the club’s famous alumni are novelist Booth Tarkington, who graduated in 1893. Almost a century later, in 1981, Triangle celebrated his contribution with a spring show Bold Type, based on his novel, A Gentleman from Indiana. Tarkington went on to author The Magnificent Ambersons. Iconic designer Russel Wright, a 1921 graduate, became the home furnishing doyen of his day. Composer Brooks Bowman ’36 gained his chops during his stint with Triangle. His now standard song, “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” still brings in royalties for the Club. Before it was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong, it was featured in the 1935 show, Stags at Bay. Famed screen actors Jimmy Stewart ’32, and José Ferrer ’34 came through what Marsden calls the Club’s first Golden Age when Triangle nurtured future Broadway and Hollywood performers. Performances were then put on in the brand new McCarter Theatre, constructed to replace The Casino that had burned down on January 8, 1924. McCarter opened on February 21, 1930, with The Golden Dog. The next year’s The Tiger Smiles, 1930-31 written and directed by Logan as “a biting but warm satire of Princeton and the club system,” received a great deal of press coverage. One headline read “Tiger Smiles
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Store Trek (2009) (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
Proves Princeton’s Best Show.” The production was described as “a boys will be girls concoction” that New Yorkers would enjoy when it came to the Metropolitan Opera House. More recent alumni include Wayne Rogers ’56 who played Trapper John in M.A.S.H. and the respected historical biographer A. Scott Berg ’71, the author of Lindbergh and Wilson. Television writer David E. Kelley ’79 went on to success with Ally McBeal and Nicholas Hammond became the small screen’s Spider Man. And as anyone in Princeton will tell you, the model and actress Brooke Shields ’87 took part in Triangle Club productions. UPS AND DOWNS
Like all long-lived institutions Triangle has suffered highs and lows. The Pursuit of Priscilla (1913-14) was performed in Washington with President and Mrs. Wilson attending and then hosting a reception for the players at the White House. Before becoming president of the country, Wilson had been president of the University from 1902 until 1910. During the early 1920s, New York performances took place at the Metropolitan Opera House. Throughout the mid-thirties, in spite of the Depression and criticism about poor acting, worse singing and “excessive drinking,” Triangle continued to tour. World War II silenced its activities, however, and McCarter Theatre was leased to the military. The first post-war show, Clear the Track, opened in December 1946 and went on a seven-city tour. Media exposure resulted in WNBC-TV broadcasting the 1948 show All
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in Favor, the first college show to appear on the television. The score of Too Hot for Toddy (1950–51) was recorded, and members of the cast appeared on The Kate Smith Show and Ed Sullivan’s The Toast of the Town. Club productions would appear on The Ed Sullivan Show from 1950 to 1957. Puns of Steel (2000–2001) became the first Club show to record its score on a CD. In the summer of 1960 and again in 1962, Triangle toured U.S. Army bases in Europe, performing Breakfast in Bedlam (1959–60) and Tour de Farce (1961–62). Today, Triangle puts on a Freshman Week show in September, a McCarter show in November, tours in December or January, and then mounts a spring show in late April or early May, and then reprises the McCarter fall show in June. As Josh Logan said, “The Triangle Club, smiling like a basketful of cats, lives on as though it had nine-times-nine lives.” Zero Gravitas is at the McCarter Theatre, November 15 and 16 at 8PM., November 17 at 2PM. For tickets, call 609.258.2787 or visit: www.mccarter.org The Long Kickline [A History of the Princeton Triangle Club] by Donald Marsden is available for reference in the Princeton Room of the Princeton Public Library.
Godspell 1977 (Courtesy of the Historical Society of Princeton); Threepenny Opera (Courtesy of the Historical Society of Princeton)
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DESIGNING AN A Last April, bulldozers began their work on the biggest construction project in the history of Princeton University. At nearly 22 acres, the $330-million Arts & Transit complex is larger than the original Princeton campus. It has been on the boards since 2006, when trustee Peter Lewis, class of ’55, donated $101 million toward a major creative and performing arts initiative announced by then University president Shirley M. Tilghman.
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N ARTS CAMPUS The development of arts and academic buildings has sparked its share of controversy. Lawsuits trying to prevent aspects of the project related to the move of the Dinky train station are still pending. But the municipality of Princeton gave the green light last December, and construction is underway. By fall of 2017, the buildings for the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of Music are scheduled to open along with the public plaza that connects them to McCarter Theatre.
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What McCoy will talk about is Holl’s expertise in academic, theater and music buildings, as well as his career-long exploration of “a certain poetic of space,” as McCoy describes it. “He’s incredibly fascinated and skillful at the experience of an individual moving through space. He’s written books about this, and all of his work is an exploration of it. And that’s one of the beauties of experiencing the Princeton campus. It has a magical quality.” In an interview via e-mail, Holl said that this process figures in his design for the three buildings and public plaza of the Lewis Center for the Arts. “The site drops 20 feet from the campus at the north to the transit plaza of the south,” he said. “This offered some exciting opportunities for choreographing the way people move across the site, enter, and experience the building. “First,” he elaborated, “we designed a gentle, wide exterior stair, modeled after Michelangelo’s Campidoglio in Rome, to bring people from the transit plaza up to the campus level. Second, we treated each of these levels as a ground floor, with its own highly visible public entries. The transit plaza entry level opens into a forum that will serve as a public gathering space and a very large lobby for the performance spaces, which are all at this level. Third, at the upper arts plaza level we created a main entry into each of the three buildings, and
designed a large public stair connecting each of these entries down to the forum. The idea is that there are many fluid, porous relationships between these two ground floors, that we integrate the three main volumes into a single building.” The University’s theater, dance and music departments will all have teaching, performance, and studio spaces within the complex, and the visual arts department will have a large gallery space. Each building is designed to have its own distinctive character. “Our aim is for the architecture to fuse these separate departments by creating visual relationships into and between departmental spaces,” Holl said. “We hope this will create new potentials for collaboration between the different disciplines. One architectural strategy we have used is to place openings and windows that offer unexpected views into each of the performance spaces.” The buildings are placed around a public plaza that is open to the south, “in an open embrace toward the new Transit Plaza and the Alexander Street corridor beyond,” Holl said. While Holl and Joy are involved in separate segments of the project, there is collaboration between the two. “Steven wrote an introduction to Joy’s work monograph,” said McCoy. “They see the world in ways that are similar but they are also very different. The fact that they know each other was
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The relocated Dinky station and Wawa market are targeted for a summer 2014 unveiling. The café and restaurant planned for the old Dinky station buildings should be serving patrons by summer 2015 and spring 2017, respectively. When it came time to select the architects for this ambitious undertaking, it didn’t take long for the University’s administration to hire internationally known Steven Holl, who is designing the arts and academic buildings and the public space; and award-winning Rick Joy, who is charged with the new Dinky train station and Wawa market. Joy’s Arizona-based firm is also renovating the old train station buildings, following preservation consultations with the Princeton architecture firm Mills + Schnoering. “We always have a process where the University architect’s office, working with the executive vice president or president, has a conversation about who we know to be most capable,” said Ron McCoy, Princeton University Architect. “Then we invite them to come for an interview. Typically, I’ll invite three firms for each of these projects.” McCoy declined to name the others that were in the running. “We’d love to work with all of them,” he said. “Rarely do we get to interview one we don’t want to work with. So it isn’t really fair to talk about which ones didn’t get the job.”
In this architectural rendering, Steven Holl’s Lewis Center for the Arts is at left, and the existing McCarter Theatre is across University Place, in the background. To the right are the old Dinky station buildings, renovated by Rick Joy to accommodate a restaurant and café, with outdoor seating.
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An aerial view of how the Princeton University campus should look when construction of the Arts & Transit project is complete shows new buildings in tan shades, and older buildings in gray. Steven Holl’s Lewis Center buildings are in the middle, while Rick Joy’s triangular-shaped Dinky station and adjacent Wawa market are at lower right. The Dinky canopy runs to the right of those buildings, and a bike shelter is on the other side of the swath of green. The former Dinky station buildings that will become a restaurant and café are at rear right.
almost a coincidence. What we were looking for was a professional respect and a kind of ability to know their place in the scheme of things. We didn’t want the train station building to try and be overly heroic. We wanted it to be modest, but noble, for the public. The ability to experience a whole neighborhood is a great bonus, and it comes from the respect between the two of them. They compare notes. Each knows what the other is doing.” Joy said Holl’s project was fairly well developed before he began designing the train station and Wawa buildings. “So our projects are developed more in response to his,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Having said that, Steven and I are friends and have met several times and commented on each other’s designs, all for the better.” For Joy, whose principal output has been private residences, studios, and a luxury resort, participation in the Arts & Transit complex represents the first public project of his career. The challenge, he said, is to design buildings “that are new and fresh while remaining devoted to the cultural spirit of the place. Before we became involved, the master plan was showing a simple NJ Transit waiting room attached to the Wawa. Upon visiting the campus, I was struck by the generosity of the beautiful gothic study halls at each of the dorm colleges. We want to offer the same
generosity to Princeton and Princeton University and offer a beautiful gothic ‘Transit Hall’ and transit plaza as a gateway to the town and university.” Inside the waiting room of the station, Joy said, “we have designed wooden benches on the south with the visitor’s back to the warming sun, and benches on the north side shielded from the cold by the massive walls. The Wawa has a large corner entry off the transit plaza with an arcade that links to the train canopy.” Joy’s design for the station pulls its northeast corner out to the centerline of Blair Walk, making it 40 feet high as a beacon for finding the station from Alexander Street and the campus. A large, round bench will be within the station, but outdoors. “We’re hoping people will say, ‘Meet me at the bench,’ he said. “We’ve strived to make the plazas and station a great public place to hang out, with lots of seating inside and out. We’ve allowed the train to come into the public plaza past the hall, so the spirit of the old Dinky line is more present. This move allows for a north plaza, which can be used as a small farmers market, among other events, and the northern doors of the transit hall can be opened up to allow for its participation in such events.” McCoy is enthusiastic about Joy’s design for the Wawa convenience store, which is part of a mid-Atlantic chain. “It will be the most beautiful
Wawa in the world,” he said. What appealed to him, and the selection committee, about Joy was “his focus on timeless beauty of architectural space and form,” McCoy said. “It’s very pure, but he has an uncanny ability to slightly tweak on a local vernacular and that goes to space, form, material and craft. He’s profoundly skilled in the materiality of buildings and the quality of light, as is Steven.” In the old station buildings, which will become a restaurant and café managed by the Terra Momo restaurant group, the bathrooms in the north building will be upgraded and modernized. What was the waiting room will become the café. “Our plan is to preserve it almost exactly as it is,” said McCoy. “In the south building, what was used for luggage storage will be a restaurant with an addition that almost doubles the size.” McCoy acknowledges those who have protested the transformation of the old Dinky station and the move 460 feet south of it to a new one as “a small, vocal group of opponents,” he said. “But throughout the [approval] process, even they have stood up and recognized the quality of what is being done. What I hope for is that people will realize that these are buildings that really contribute to the beauty of the community, the arts, and the whole experience of arriving at Princeton.”
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Although Mont Tremblant is active year-round, the Alpine-like Village really comes alive during the winter months when snow is proliferous and winter activities range from downhill skiing to ice climbing to sled dog racing. Just remember to pack the right winter gear. The average high temperature during the month of January is only 19°F, with evening temperatures regularly dipping to negative 10°F. Skiers should also take into consideration that Tremblant is a large mountain with a high degree of wind chill. At any given time during the day, the sun will shine on only one face of the mountain, making the opposite face sometimes 10 to 15 degrees cooler. It is recommended that winter visitors invest in a jacket that is appropriate for temperatures as low as negative 25°F. Waterproof gloves, boots, hats, face masks, eyewear and scarfs are also a necessity. Ideally, no skin should be exposed when enjoying the outdoors in Northern Quebec, as frostbite can develop in as little as 30 minutes. If you easily tire of being outside in such biting temperatures, fear not—there are plenty of rewarding indoor activities, as well. Tremblant’s most recent addition is a world-class casino, accessible by gondola and located only 10 minutes from the Village center. Casino de Mont-Tremblant is nestled within a rustic setting, but the interior environment is anything but Spartan. Akin to the best casinos found in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, Casino de Mont-Tremblant is equipped with hundreds of gaming tables, including a well-frequented “high rollers” section. The Casino is worthy of a day-trip even if you aren’t a roulette
player. Come for the live polka music and shots of Caribou, a French Canadian cocktail of wine and booze spiked with maple syrup. In such a cozy setting, skiing becomes almost secondary. Another luxurious Tremblant option is to partake in the spa culture that abounds at places like Scandinave Spa or Spa sur le Lac. Scandinave Spa is owned by two former NHL hockey players who promise to revive your sports weary muscles with their Swedish massage. The age-old Finnish tradition of heating up the body in a steam bath followed by a dip in an icy river is the preferred treatment at Scandinave. Said to promote circulation and to help rid the body of toxins, this Northern European treatment will leave you with a cherubic glow. A second option, Spa sur le Lac, is located inside of Hotel du Lac, where treatments range from Swedish Therapeutic Massage to Seaweed Body Wraps to Raindrop Massage. If you grow restless of the pampered life, pay a visit to The Activity Centre du Mont Tremblant. The Mountain Sport School readily guides groups through the favored Canadian pastime of ice fishing on a frozen lake located only a few minutes from the Village. Certified Quebec Mountain Guides will teach guests an array of ice climbing techniques along the foot of the slopes at Mont Tremblant and guided snowmobile trips will get your adrenaline racing as you drive through boreal forest trails that wind through the Upper Laurentians. A perfect option for families with young children is the horse drawn sleigh ride. These storybook sleigh rides
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are led by a driver who promises to serenade you with Quebecois folk songs. Mug after mug of hot chocolate and wool blankets are also provided. If you’ve fantasized about living in a Jack London novel, don’t miss your chance to partake in a Mont Tremblant dog sledding excursion. Arranged through the Activity Centre located in the Village, the physically challenging dog sledding event will have guests direct their own sleds along a two hour ride over varied, forest terrain. Professional mushers will teach everyone important commands, beyond the well-known “mush!” so that they can skillfully handle turns, dips, and rises along the wooded passageways. The frenetic barks emitted by the husky dogs combined with the lonely landscape makes for an extremely memorable experience and will have you singing Mon Pays (“My Country”) by Quebec poet and nationalist, Gilles Vigneault. “My country is not a country, it is winter/ In the white ceremony/Where the snow marries the wind…” After a busy day in the Great White North, food will surely be on your mind. One of the dishes most associated with Quebec is poutine, which is, simply put, a bed of hot French fries covered in gravy and cheese curds. Poutine is available at almost any casual establishment in the Village and will satisfy you after a full day of skiing. An essential Quebec breakfast consists of crepes and most are on the sweet side. Creperie Catherine is one of the most frequented breakfast spots in the Village. Their house specialty is crepe with sucre
a la crème. The crepe with maple butter is also a sure bet, since the maple syrup is guaranteed to be local and supremely fresh. In terms of dinner options, regional Quebec cuisine tops the list. Some of the best options include C’est la Vie, Restaurant La Savoie, Gibiers de la Diable, and Restaurant le Windigo at the Tremblant Resort. Expect hearty dishes with a focus on local products and produce like French cheeses, cured meats, and all things maple related. Tourtiere, a traditional Quebecois meat pie, is very popular. The filling varies, but usually includes minced pork, beef or wild game. Other foods associated with old Quebec include pea soup, baked beans, lamb, and maple syrup pie. Before leaving Tremblant, be sure to try tire sur la neige, a sweet treat that is available at most sugar shacks. These well touristed maple sugar outfits are found in high concentration throughout the Laurentians. Tire sur la neige is a taffy formed by pouring piping hot maple sap directly onto fresh snow. The end-result is a chewy taffy that is fun and delicious to eat. In the spirit of indulgence, why not stay at one of Tremblant’s well-known luxury hotels? Elysium at Legendes, Hotel Quintessence, Le Westin Resort & Spa, Fairmont Tremblant, Escale du Nord, and Elysium at Panache are all centrally located and will provide a comfortable place to rest your head after a fun-filled day at Mont Tremblant.
Travel Details: To get there, fly directly into Montreal-Trudeau International Airport from Newark International or JFK Airports. A 40-minute charter bus ride will take you from the Airport to the Resort. You can reserve a seat on the shuttle by emailing transfer@mtia.ca or calling 819.275.9099. Tourisme Mont Tremblant, www.tourismemonttremblant.com Tremblant Ski Resort Official Site (including lodging and dining recommendations), www.tremblant.ca Casino de Mont Tremblant, www.casinoduquebec.com/mont-tremblant/en
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et’s say you had a bad day—your favorite yoga teacher pulled an Eat, Pray, Love and bailed to Bali, or you want to throw your smartphone out the window because you just can’t get a handle on the 410th level of Candy Crush Saga and your seven-year-old nephew already texted you that he did. You need cheering up. You need a guy friend, someone who won’t monopolize the conversation. You meet at your favorite bar. He knows you’re a vodka girl and expects you to order a cosmo. But this friend is a serious beer guy and you want to play nice. You decide to throw caution to the wind and have a beer. But hell if you know what to order. If your guy friend were Chris Walsh, co-owner of River Horse Brewery, you’d be in good hands. He’d ask you, “What kind of beers do you like? Do you like hoppy beers?” You might smile like you have some idea of what he’s talking about, but he wants to play nice too so he says helpfully, “Hoppy is what gives beer a bitter aftertaste. Do you like malty beers?” If you’re still just smiling, trying to remember if you set your DVR for The Voice, he’ll take the reins, order two very different styles of beer, see which one you like, and then he’ll drink the other one. And then he’ll probably drink out of your glass too. “It’s a strange culture,” Walsh says, referring to the art of craft beer. And the “your glass is my
glass” thing? “It’s normal.” Walsh and business partner Glenn Bernabeo acquired River Horse Brewery in Lambertville in 2007 and last summer moved to bigger digs a stone’s throw from Trenton Airport at 2 Graphics Drive in Ewing. (If you’ve been to Metro Grill on Scotch Road—where all the flight attendants for the corporate and private jets go for the buffalo-style calamari and the Metro burger with caramelized onions—you’re right around the corner from River Horse.) Walsh and Bernabeo met at Berwind, an investment management company in Philadelphia, where they ran the banking part of the operation, mopping up and selling middle market and manufacturing companies in financial distress. “We were exposed to a lot of mistakes people make,” said Walsh. When Berwind wanted to get out of that side of the business, they gave it as severance to Walsh and Bernabeo. “We sat next to each other and ate lunch together every day for seven years,” Walsh says. They decided it was time to sell. The buyer was a bank and Walsh, who had previously worked for GE Capital, found himself back in the position of being owned by a bank. “It wasn’t gonna work.” One day, Bernabeo called Walsh into his office. On his screen was the offering memorandum for River Horse. Bernabeo said, “Here’s what we’re gonna do.”
Walsh says his greatest takeaway from GE was the company’s famous entrepreneurial spirit. During the 1990s, Walsh job-hopped through five of GE’s 28 businesses, including a one-year stint in Ireland leasing commercial aircraft to sub-Saharan companies. “Although it was a massive company with huge resources, GE was very entrepreneurial. The culture was, ‘If there’s a problem, fix it, if there’s a better way, do it the better way.’ The guy complaining at the water cooler was the outlier.” The financial part of turning River Horse around was home turf, “but the other half was the opportunity to give it some personality,” Walsh says. “We thought we knew a lot about beer. But we didn’t. We’re not brewers.” They didn’t need to be. They could hire brewers. What they brought to the table in addition to their entrepreneurial spirit and finance chops was their own experience—as beer drinkers. “We approach everything from a consumer point of view,” Walsh says, “from what happens when you step into a Joe Canal’s. That’s how we make our decisions.” They started with the first thing you see when you look at those bottles of beer on the wall: the label. River Horse’s signature packaging features a hippo (hippopotamus comes from the ancient Greek for “river horse”). “The old packaging was extremely artistic but not commercially viable; it had a lot of layered
(OPPOSITE) Owner, Chris Walsh next to a 40 Barrel Fermenter. (ABOVE) Special Ale: American Amber Ale, bottled and ready to be packaged.
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graphics,” Walsh says. “The old hippo was an artistic hippo; some people thought it was a pig. So our river horse has a little attitude. It’s a bold looking hippo, it makes me laugh.” Jon Loudon, an independent graphic artist in Philadelphia was the Tim Gunn of the hippo’s makeover; illustrator Bruno Guerreiro brought Loudon’s concepts to life. “When appropriate we have funny names and different hippos,” Walsh says. As they began to refresh the beer styles, the hippos took it up a notch. The brewery’s double IPA, a hoppy beer, is called Hop-A-Lot-Amus. Its American pale ale is called Hop Hazard. The hippo on the Summer Blonde beer label is in a bikini. “She’s quite unsightly with lipstick and back fat.” The hippo for the winter ale Belgian Freeze label is based on Bumble, the abominable snow monster from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. “I cut and pasted his image and sent it to Jon and Bruno,” Walsh says. River Horse distributes all over the mid-Atlantic, from southern Connecticut to the Lehigh Valley and eastern Pennsylvania. “New Jersey is our biggest market, New York City, number two, and the five counties around Philadelphia, number three,” Walsh says. “We look at New York and Philly as our bookends—with eight and a half million people in between.” You can get your own fix of hippo ’tude at any
number of hot spots. You can find them at the always-sold-out Washington Crossing Brewfest, held each spring, and the Atlantic City Seafood Festival in September. Blogging about this September’s Big Brew Beer Festival in the Morristown Armory, The Blue Collar Foodie singled out River Horse’s Hipp-O-Lantern Imperial Pumpkin Ale and Special Ale.
Walsh says the ultimate goal is to be the best brewery in New Jersey. “We want to be at every party. We want to have something for everybody.” River Horse also partners with restaurants for beer dinners. At The Inn at the Hawke in Lambertville, Hop Hazard was paired with house made potato chips, chipotle ketchup and roast garlic aioli, Special Ale was served with chanterelle and lobster mushroom flatbread pizza, Hop-A-lot-Amus accompanied sliders poivre, Tripel Horse helped wash down poached egg and asparagus crostini, and Hipp-O-Lantern was chased with cinnamon and
praline beignets. Sometimes the dishes include River Horse beers as an ingredient. The brewery does Tap Takeovers at restaurants throughout New Jersey: recent invasions include Vagabond Kitchen and Tap House in Atlantic City, The Office Beer Bar & Grill in Cranford and the Taphouse Grill in Wayne. And wherever there’s a River Horse event, there’s a River Horse brewery staff member. “It’s our best marketing tool—to meet the people who are your end customer,” Walsh says. Between appearing at events, visiting client stores and his nearly three-hour round trip commute from Glen Mills, Pa., where his teenage son attends the same high school he went to (an older son is in college), Walsh’s second home is his car. A year ago, he bought a Prius. When he went in for his one year checkup—with the odometer clocked in at 37,000 miles—the Toyota guy looked at him and deadpanned, “Of all the customers I’ve sold a Prius to, you’re the one who needs it most.” Like a good Prius driver, Walsh thinks global and acts local. The bent spoon in Princeton has made several ice cream flavors with River Horse beer including Hipp-O Lantern paired with local, organic pumpkins and traditional pie spices, and a combo of River Horse's wort (liquid beer before it's fermented) and candied malt. The brewery has used Lambertville-based Rojo’s Roastery coffee beans to add dimension to its Oatmeal Milk Stout. Last
(LEFT) Head Brewer, Chris Rakow discusses the day's schedule with Brewer, Dan Quakenbush. (TOP) Grain used during the brewing process is collected and sent to local farmers. (BOTTOM) Sampling the day’s brews.
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February Walsh created a Valentine’s Day variety case, which normally holds four different bottles of beer, by changing out one slot and filling it with chocolates from The Chocolate Box in Lambertville; it will be a staple item in the Ewing location gift shop. A holiday variety case featured cheese from Di Bruno Brothers, a staple of Philadelphia’s Italian Market. The brewery is involved with charity events on a regular basis. In October alone, River Horse was a sponsor of the James Beard Foundation's Taste America dinner in Philadelphia to benefit Greener Partners; has donated beer to the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Harvest Dinner at Duke Farms; and on Halloween enjoyed the spotlight as the featured craft beer at Jersey Strong Week (to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims) at J.B. Winberie's in Princeton. While River Horse fans were frothing at the bit waiting for the brewery to open to the public, they posted photos of themselves wearing River Horse tee shirts everywhere from Machu Picchu to Ningbo, China on the brewery’s Facebook page, which boasts nearly 7,800 friends and counting. The brewery opened for tours in November. The spacious tasting room is painted the perfect hippo-gray (Benjamin Moore “Shaker Gray”) with high-topped tables, a growler filling station—a
growler is a craft beer drinker’s best friend, a 64-ounce refillable brown glass bottle—and a gift shop. The vibe at River Horse is always hopping, no pun intended. The staff of beer oompa loompas clocks in every day at 6AM in a space that can best be described as Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory for the 21+ set. A graffiti-style floor-to-ceiling mural by Green Villain, a Jersey City-based creative studio, adds urban energy. “The idea was to give an industrial looking space some personality,” Walsh says. “One wall is all branded stuff; the other represents Mother Earth, the vehicle by which beer is made.” When you visit the brewery, you’ll see that, just like Violet Beauregarde’s three-course blueberry gum, River Horse beer is crafted on a scientifically calibrated cross between a theme park ride and a spa getaway. The fun begins in the mill room, where the grain is cracked, then “mashed” with hot water in the 620-gallon mash kettle. After what is best described as a grain “rain shower” in the lautering tun, which separates the mash into wort (unfermented beer) and the residual grains, the wort sinks into a lovely “hot tub”—the boil kettle—where it’s sterilized in a rolling boil and the hops and spices are added. As one River Horse brewer put it, “That’s were all the love is.”
After “whirlpooling” to remove any solid particles, an initial cool-down in the wort chiller, a bunny slope turn through the equivalent of a giant Brita filter, and an après-ski aperitif in the glycol chiller (you can’t add yeast to hot water), the almost-beer chillaxes into its fermented state in huge stainless steel jacketed vessels that look like giant upside down pencils. The ride’s not over until the beer gets “capped and crashed”—brought down to 32 degrees—and “conditions” for a seven-day stay-cation before some spa-mation in the CO2 tank’s bubble bath. Now officially beer, it gets kegged or bottled, labeled and hand-packed into boxes by actual people in a lineup exactly like the I Love Lucy candy factory episode. This good beer is made with love—and music. The staff keeps their juju going with tunes played at club-level volume—a genre-busting mix of Johnny Cash, Gov’t Mule, Snoop Dogg, Slayer, Dave Matthews and everything in between. If it sounds like a party, it is. Walsh says the ultimate goal is to be the best brewery in New Jersey. “We want to be at every party. We want to have something for everybody. If you’re an uber-beer geek, we’ll talk alpha, acidity and mouth feel. If you’re new to craft beer, you’re welcome too.” That’s music to a vodka girl’s ears.
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Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer, Canal House Cooking
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Christopher Hirsheimer is a home cook, writer, photographer, and co-founder of Canal House, whose facets include a publishing venture and culinary and design studio. Before starting Canal House in 2007 in Lambertville, New Jersey, Hirsheimer was one of the founders of Saveur, where she was executive editor. She co-wrote the award-winning Saveur Cooks series and The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market Cookbook (Chronicle Books, 2006). Melissa Hamilton is a home cook, writer, painter, and co-founder of Canal House. She previously worked at Saveur as the test kitchen director, and was its food editor for many years. Christopher and Melissa currently publish Canal House Cooking, for which they collaborate on all the writing, recipes, photography, design, and production. They were the recipients of the 2013 James Beard Foundation award in the General Cooking category for their cookbook, Canal House Cooks Every Day (Andrews McMeel, 2012) and were nominees for their Bon Appétit video series, “The Seasonal Cooks”, as well as 2013 IACP nominees for Photography and Food Styling. They write a column for Bon Appétit, “The Seasonal Cooks.” Their daily blog, Canal House Cooks Lunch, has thousands of daily followers interested in what these two have cooked up that day. To see more, visit their website, thecanalhouse.com. Their newest book, Pronto, offers many tempting holiday desserts, including these two.
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Josh Falzone, Verve
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Josh Falzone trained under Craig Polignano for two years at Bernards Inn after studying for his degree at the Culinary Institute of America. As he heads into his fourth year at Verve in Somerville he continues to focus on balancing flavors, textures, and temperature. “Finding new ingredients, methods, and combinations to entertain our guests is my passion,” he says. Here he shares with readers a recipe based on his grandmother’s Thanksgiving butternut squash pie, which she served with ice cream but which, he recalls, was never too sweet. Falzone is particularly fond of that combination because the texture and flavor of the dessert offers the same balance he strives for in all his cooking. As he concentrates on perfecting the restaurant’s menu, desserts in particular, he has created a roasted apple bread pudding, which Verve serves with its own homemade dulce de leche ice cream. Like his grandmother’s treat, the bread pudding tastes more of cinnamon and apples than sugar and is complemented by the ice cream served with it. The result is two components that not only go together but that need each other for a perfect balance.
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Neil M. Mayoros, Trenton Country Club Neil Mayoros has been the Executive Chef at the Trenton Country Club since 2010. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia Restaurant School, with an Associate degree in Culinary Arts. Previously he was the Executive Chef at Duane Morris, The Guggenheim Museum, The Rusty Scupper, and the Executive Sous Chef at the United Nations. He also served as the Executive Pastry Chef at Jasna Polana. The members of the Trenton Country Club trust him to serve the freshest possible ingredients with each meal. He, in turn, appreciates them and his surroundings, saying “It’s great to work where people enjoy innovative cuisine whether they are in the formal dining room or spending a day at the pool.” He lives in Hamilton with his wife and three children. Some of his favorite pastimes include small game hunting for pheasants with his two sons and dog, Grady, a German Shorthair Pointer. He also enjoys fishing for trout at the Pohatcong Fly Fishing Club, where he is currently the President. These two fall recipes feature the fresh vegetables he likes to serve at the club.
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Scott Anderson, elements and Mistral
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Co-owner and Executive Chef of two of Princeton’s finest restaurants, Scott Anderson has been called one of the most progressive chefs in America and named a James Beard Award Semifinalist. His talent has drawn both local and national media attention. Opinionated About Dining ranked elements among the top 25 restaurants in the nation, while earlier this year the New Jersey Star-Ledger dubbed it “the most significant restaurant in the state.” In its Best Restaurants issue two years ago, Esquire’s John Mariani placed Anderson “in the vanguard of modern global-American cuisine.” Although he is a native of the Garden State, Anderson spent part of his childhood in Japan, and the exposure to foreign tastes and ingredients left a lasting impact on the way he cooks. The self-taught chef began his professional career as a line cook at Baystreet Grill in Edison. He later joined the Princeton-based Terra Momo Restaurant Group and spent the next six years with them, working his way up until he helmed the kitchen at Nova Terra in New Brunswick. When offered a line cook position with Chef Craig Shelton at the famed farm-to-table Ryland Inn in Whitehouse Station, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with this acclaimed New York chef. Under Shelton’s tutelage, he quickly rose to Chef de Cuisine and gleaned an appreciation of progressive cooking techniques to draw out the purest flavors from ingredients and to plate them in a way that visually complements the dishes. In October 2008, Anderson was ready to venture out with his own distinctive concept, and he partnered with Steven Distler to open elements. Inspired by seasonal locally sourced ingredients, which he accents with global flavor nuances, Anderson continually improvises. He dubs his style of cuisine “interpretive American,” skillfully creating a snapshot of the modern culinary scene by incorporating aspects of farming, foraging, curing and fermenting, whole animal butchery, and modernist techniques. Here, he offers readers an appetizer for holiday meals but it would be delicious at any time.
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Bruce Lefebvre, The Frog and The Peach
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Bruce Lefebvre, Executive Chef and owner of the restaurant, began cooking at age 10 with his sisters when they would sift through their mother’s New York Times Cookbook for “breakfast friendly” recipes to prepare while their parents were asleep on Saturday mornings. Eternally curious and always bold, young Lefebvre was known for trying everyone’s food at the table and seasoning tomato sauce and soup at the stove behind his mother’s back. While his friends worked on fishing boats and golf courses, his first job was as a dishwasher at The Yankee Clipper on the oceanfront in Sea Girt. It was not until he graduated from Wake Forest University with a bachelor’s degree in English that he found his calling while on a summer trip across the country. Upon returning to the East Coast, he enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America. Lefebvre did his externship for the Buckhead Life Group in Atlanta, whose properties include The Buckhead Diner, 103 West and the Atlanta Fish Market. The day after graduating from the CIA, Bruce started working at The Frog and The Peach. After two years he left to further his career in New York City, working for Charlie Palmer at Aureole and training at Daniel and Lespinasse. He then returned to The Frog in 2000 and became Executive Chef in 2001. He has the utmost respect and appreciation for Betsy Alger and Jim Black, the founders and long-time owners of the restaurant, for giving him his first “big break” and eventually selling The Frog to him last year. His spare time is spent eating and exploring with his wife and three children, and hanging with his esteemed crew at the restaurant.
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arbara Boggs Sigmund was the first woman to be elected as mayor in Princeton. She served as Princeton Borough Mayor from 1983 until her death from cancer in 1990. Born in 1939 into one of the nation’s most recognized political families, Sigmund had politics in her blood. She was the daughter of Democratic Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana and Corrine “Lindy” Boggs, who held the post of Congresswoman from New Orleans for some 20 years. Sigmund grew up in Louisiana and spent almost every day of her childhood playing in offices and buildings that were visited by officials of the state and country. After attending Manhattanville College, she served as a letter writer for John F. Kennedy and then went on to launch her own political career. For a brief period she taught at the Stuart Country Day School in Princeton. In 1972, she won a seat on Borough Council. Three years later she became a Mercer County freeholder. Her political career seemed to be on the up and up and she decided to run in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Within a few months of that decision, however, in March of 1982, a melanoma was discovered behind her left eye. The eye had to be removed. And yet within hours of surgery, Sigmund was at a fundraiser for her Senate position. Although she ultimately lost the Senate race, her campaigning had done wonders for her reputation in Princeton and she was elected to
lead the Borough. With characteristic aplomb, she attended mayoral events sporting an eye patch that matched her outfit. When she entered the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1989, her campaign slogan was: “I’ve got my eye on New Jersey.” As mayor, Sigmund immediately set to work improving the rail system and leading an effort to “Save the Dinky.” Sigmund’s cancer was five years in remission in 1987 when she decided to run in the Democratic gubernatorial primaries, only to learn two year’s later that the cancer had spread. In an interview on New Jersey Network in February 1990 Sigmund said: “One of the great release and relief systems I have developed with the metastasis of this cancer is to write poems.” Tucked away in the Princeton Room of the Princeton Public Library (for reference only) is a small gem of a book. An Unfinished Life: Diary of a Fatal Illness and Other Works contains poems by Ms. Sigmund that reveal her indomitable spirit, including one titled “Losing an Eye.”
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When she entered the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1989, her campaign slogan was: “I’ve got my eye on New Jersey.” Barbara Boggs Sigmund died on October 10, 1990. She is remembered as the driving force behind Womanspace, the leading non-profit in Mercer County that helps individuals and families dealing with domestic violence or sexual abuse. Sigmund’s “can do” attitude inspired the Womanspace annual Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award. Each spring since 1995, the award has been given to “a woman of distinction who exemplifies the legacy of Womanspace founder and event namesake and women like her who inspire others to greatness.” Its first honoree was Ms. Sigmund’s younger sister, the ABC political reporter Corrine “Cokie” Boggs Roberts. Recipients have been, among others: artist Faith Ringgold; sports coach C. Vivian Stringer; broadcaster Nancy Snyderman; legal correspondent Nina Totenberg; NJN news anchor Kent Manahan; and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Anna Quindlen. Among its services today, Womanspace provides 24-hour hotlines, crisis intervention, emergency shelter, counseling, court advocacy, and housing to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Each year the organization draws attention to the issue of domestic violence and sexual assault with a Communities of Light event in which lit candles line the streets of Princeton and towns throughout central New Jersey. This year’s event is scheduled for Monday, December 9.
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onductor Jacques Lacombe is currently in his fourth year as Music Director of The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. A native of Cap-dela-Madeleine, Québec, Canada, Mr. Lacombe is a triple-threat musician—trained as singer, organist and conductor. Currently Music Director of two orchestral ensembles and guest conductor of orchestras and opera companies worldwide, he is among the leading conductors of his generation. Mr. Lacombe’s career has included serving as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Music Director of both orchestra and opera of the Philharmonie de Lorraine and Associate Conductor of the Orchestre lyrique de région Avignon Provence. Mr. Lacombe’s 2013-14 season will include regular appearances with his principal ensembles—The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières in Québec— conducting several operas in Europe and numerous international orchestral guest conducting invitations. Mr. Lacombe and his wife Janet have homes in both New Jersey and Montreal. What was your music education and training when you were young? My first contact with music was in elementary school classes, including singing in the choir and playing recorders and Orff instruments. When I was ten, we moved to a house with a piano in the basement, and at age eleven I began piano lessons. I became a member of a boys’ choir in my hometown of Cap-dela-Madeleine (Les Petits Chanteurs de la Maîtrise du Cap) and I was an assistant organist at the church. I started studying organ while a member of Les Petits Chanteurs, and I became music director of the choir at age eighteen. I directed the choir for three years until I left to study conducting in Montreal and then studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. My childhood musical background has definitely shaped my career as a conductor. It was an invaluable experience singing in a choir and performing with orchestras and small musical ensembles. Some of the members of the boys’ choir were professional musicians, and to have these individuals as role models was a great inspiration. Who is your favorite composer and why? There are so many composers that I like – right now I’m conducting Poulenc (“Dialogues des Carmélites” in Nantes, France) and obviously I love French music. I also like Mahler and Strauss, but my appetite is too
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big to pick just one composer. I like to work in music with colors, and with the orchestrations of the late 19th and 20th centuries, but I need the classics as well. Has the role of the conductor changed over the years since you began your career? I don’t feel the conductor’s role has changed, because I have always felt from the beginning that as a conductor I was a musician among musicians. Perhaps fifty years ago there was more of a distance between conductor and musicians, but I never felt this approach. My approach is much more directed to the musicians with a feeling of exchange and trust—this seems to be the style of modern conductors. I always find that when you are the head of an artistic organization such as an orchestra, even in Europe, you are the trademark of that organization and the spokesperson, therefore you need to be in contact with the community. With my style of artistic leadership, I always try to connect with community and create partnerships with different people in specific communities. I’ve done that in France and Canada, as well as in the United States, and I find that it makes things easier. Having grown up in Canada, how does music education in the United States compare with Canada? I have seen many different systems in the schools of both countries, and the United States faces the same challenges as Canada, especially in public schools. Our society places so many different roles on schools these days that the arts in general, and music in particular, tend to be challenging. I think this is something we should be worried about, because I think music education can serve younger generations. It is an art form that opens imagination and really improves concentration and a sense of working together and with others, but it is often expensive, and schools in both Canada and the United States often look at numbers and where to save money, which is a short-term vision. Has your artistic vision for The New Jersey Symphony changed since you began four years ago? Our vision has continued to grow. An orchestra is like a big boat, and since the repertory is so big, four years with an orchestra is fairly short. What we started when I became conductor has taken time to develop. We are finding unusual ways to present music, including
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neglected repertoire and collaborations with theaters, lighting designers and other non-musical organizations and individuals. We continue these collaborations because this direction is part of the future in the music business in general. Many orchestras are exploring collaborations with other art forms and moving away from standard traditional concert structure. Have there been any surprises in your four years with The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra? It has been a great journey to build a relationship with the musicians. I knew that it was a top organization, and we understand one another so well, things can move a lot faster. The Orchestra is extremely quick at learning new repertoire, and the players are good at performing in many different styles—a rare quality I appreciate in the Orchestra. How much traveling do you do each year for conducting and is there a favorite place you love? Too much traveling! The last three seasons I have pretty much taken the summer for myself, unless there is something really exceptional taking place. Once the season starts, it just rolls, so I try to take the summer and be home. I am conducting three operas this year; operas tend to take a big part of the calendar, as I am in one place for a month. Being music director of two symphonies plus guest conducting, the season starts in September and goes non-stop until mid-December, and picks up again in January. As for places we love, we like Paris, and since I regularly guest conduct in Berlin, we go there a lot. Our home in the summer is in Montreal, and that is where we spend our summers. Do you have a favorite food or wine? Among many other things, we like foie gras. I cook mostly during the summer and try to improve my skills by trying new recipes in French or Asian cuisine and vegetarian recipes, as well as fish on the barbecue. As for wine, Janet likes French chardonnay, and we also like the Italian wines. With the myriad of diverse restaurants in New Jersey, the Lacombes have had no trouble finding new culinary delights over the past four years and can be spotted at restaurants around Princeton, as well as NJSO’s other venue communities.
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