Central Jersey Entertainment News

Local music, restaurants and arts stories from The Times of Trenton

• A world of singing to benefit Crisis Ministry
Mezzo-soprano Joan Waite will present a program titled "Travel the World in Song" 3 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton.

• Best of both worlds
For 20 years, Pete Best barely played the drums.

• Brothers raise a stink in 'Dirty Socks' at Kelsey
It will be a clash between a neatness nut and a slob as Mercer County Community College's Kelsey Theatre begins its Kelsey Kids Series with "The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks" 2 and 4 p.m. tomorrow on the West Windsor campus.

• Community of two weaves city with country
Trenton City Museum director Brian O. Hill has an uncanny way of pairing artists for the museum's two-person exhibitions. He's done it again with "City Scapes and Country Ceramics," featuring paintings by Eric Fowler and ceramics by Sharon Kingsbury.

• Marsalis' musical vision is as pure as his tone

• Recreating Spanish, Sephardic cultural traditions
The Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre and the Arts Council of Princeton will present "La Petenera The Sephardic Connection" 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center's Trego Biancosino Auditorium, 151 Moore St., Princeton.

• Simon's coming-of-age play never grows old
Times change; people don't.

• Simple setting, homey recipes
The Maria Rosa restaurant is far enough out in the country that it's easy to do a double-take the first time you drive past.

• Trenton downtown celebrates 'Women in Jazz'
The monthly Trenton2Nite festivities will place a special spotlight on female musicians tonight with its second an nual "Women in Jazz" festival at four locations in downtown Tren ton.

• Horoscope reading dictates O'Mara's future
When Jason O'Mara was a struggling actor in Lon don he improvised a recipe that saw him though the lean times.

• Kinnear recognizes
Greg Kinnear didn't want to play a simple hero. So he chose to play Bob Kearns.

• JL Ivy Restaurant and Bar
Most privately owned res taurants are a reflection of the owners' tastes, either in decor or the dishes they serve.

• Glover leads 'Bare Soundz'
Tony Award-winning tap dancer Savion Glover will present "Bare Soundz" with fellow hoofers Marshall Davis Jr. and Maurice Chestnut 8 p.m. Thursday at McCarter Theatre in Princeton.

• Taking hold of the reins again
In "Appaloosa," a community lives under threats of violence from a man they can't capture or control. So they bring in tough- talking hired guns, and when the fellows say they're going to need a lot of draconian new laws, the town fathers push them through.