Don’t miss the WOAC’s holiday boutique

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Arts Council’s annual Holiday Boutique will be open for business on Saturday, Dec. 2, and Sunday, Dec. 3, with vendors filling the West Orange Arts Center on Valley Road. Residents will be able to get a jump on their holiday shopping, while also getting a chance to browse […]

‘Party with a Purpose’ raises $12,000 to celebrate Collum’s birthday

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Saturday, Nov. 18, South Orange Village President Sheena Collum hosted her annual birthday party with the South Orange and Maplewood community and announced that more than $12,000 was raised by 200 donors in two weeks to tackle food insecurity at Columbia High School. “I think many of us often take […]

‘Songs of Peace and Joy’

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Come enjoy “Songs of Peace and Joy” at the Bloomfield Chorale Holiday Concert and Carol Sing on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. at Watchung Presbyterian Church, 375 Watchung Ave. in Bloomfield. Sacred music, holiday favorites and carols from different lands will be featured. Light refreshments will follow. Advance discounted tickets are […]

The Bohemian Modigliani

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor, was born in Italy but spent most of his tragically short life in France among his avant-garde peers: Severini, Brancusi, Soutine, Gris and Picasso. He is known for portraits and nudes in a contemporary style characterized by the elongation of faces and figures. Award-winning art history education […]

Wallerstein Foundation funds playwriting residency for Canterbury Village seniors

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Premiere Stages, the professional theater in residence at Kean University in Union, recently announced its second playwriting residency for senior citizens, funded by the Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric Life Improvement. Based in West Orange, the Wallerstein Foundation’s primary mission is to support qualifying not-for-profit organizations that assist elderly individuals to remain […]

Kelly Bishop in the Catskills, Stars Hollow and S. Orange

By Lauren Machalany / Correspondent SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The television series “Gilmore Girls” was a hit for Warner Brothers. The small, fictional town of Stars Hollow, Conn., accompanied by its quirky inhabitants, ruled television in the early 2000s, and then gained the attention of a younger audience through its present-day streaming on Netflix. A show […]

Romantic-era piano music

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Janet Armuth Wolkoff will perform selections from Romantic piano literature, including works by Schumann, Brahms and Chopin at a classical piano music appreciation show held by the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School on Thursday, Nov. 30, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Room C237 at Columbia High School. In between pieces, Wolkoff will […]