WEST ORANGE, NJ — At the NCJW/Essex annual Installation and Awards Evening on Wednesday, May 30, at Cedar Hill Country Club in Livingston, West Orange resident Patti Nathan received the Hannah G. Solomon Award and West Orange resident Penny Sherry received the NCJW/Essex Service to Section Award. The Hannah G. Solomon Award is presented by […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School presented The Gus & Thelma Sickles Lifelong Learners Award to South Orange Public Library Director Melissa Kopecky and Maplewood Memorial Library Director Sarah Lester at its annual meeting on May 21 in recognition of their dedication to lifelong learning. Kopecky has been the director of the South […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Although mostly unheralded, Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the 20th century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements; when abstract expressionism and pop art were all the rage, she painted […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s philosophy can be summed up in this quote: “A picture must be an amiable thing, joyous and pretty — yes, pretty! There are enough troublesome things in life without inventing others.” Renoir’s joie de vivre made him one of the most beloved impressionist painters. On Thursday, April 26, from 7 […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School will present its Eva Samo Lecture on Wednesday, April 25, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Columbia High School’s Black Box Theatre, 17 Parker Ave. in Maplewood. Colorism or color bias — the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — In a year when the United States men’s national team will miss out on the World Cup for the first time since 1986, join the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School and discover the story of how three boyhood friends helped the USA qualify for its first appearance in 40 years. John Harkes, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — More of an attitude than a genre, film noir began in Hollywood in the 1940s — though it wasn’t named until the French critics rediscovered it in the 1950s. Full of rain-swept streets, femme fatales and doomed heroes, film noir continues to influence filmmakers today. On Monday, April 2, from 7:30 to […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School Children’s Summer Program offers more than 100 classes in creative arts, music, science and sports. For the first time, registration is online. Students get to choose their own classes — there are five periods in a day — and the day can be as […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — In one of the most shocking and infamously haunting incidents in art history, Vincent Van Gogh, consumed with paranoid delusion, sliced off his left ear. After a relatively short hospital stay, he returned to the Yellow House but could not maintain his mental equilibrium. A South Orange-Maplewood Adult School class on Thursday, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, join the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School and author CC Minton, a West Orange resident, to hear the story of “Daddy’s Greek Potato Pie” on Saturday, March 3, from 9 to 10:30 a.m at Columbia High School, 17 Parker Ave. in Maplewood. Students in kindergarten through fourth […]