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Why should we listen to him?

Is it time to take to the streets?

Is there any hope for us?

Chris Hedges rails against liberal Democrats, Princeton University, mainstream media, & wealthy suburbs.

Richard K. Rein reports, page 11.

What’s next on Wiggins?

Artistic Transitions

Pia de Jong

A consultant is looking at traffic, parking, and pedestrian crossings for the RobesonWiggins-Hamilton corridor.

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A painter shows her ‘Concussion Diaries,’ and McCarter’s Emily Mann moves on from her administrative role.

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Tuning in to the carillon: It is above all a firm message sent to the heavens, loud and clear.

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LEADING OFF More plans considered for Hamilton-Wiggins

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f you loved the idea of that bicycle lane temporarily installed last year on Wiggins Street and Hamilton Avenue, then you will be interested in the latest news about that stretch of roadway posted by walkableprinceton.com.

If you hated the idea of that bicycle lane, you also will be interested in the latest post by walkableprinceton.com.

The report refers to a study now underway of traffic, safety, and mobility issues on the 1.1-mile length of Paul Robeson Place, Wiggins Street, and Hamilton Avenue from Bayard Lane to North Harrison Street. As the town explains on its website, www.princetonnj. gov, the study will “examine potential improvements including pedestrian and school crossings, intersection improvements, traffic calming, on-street parking, and bicycle facilities.”

As walkableprinceton points out, the town is trying to strike a balance among 1.) motorists passing through town, 2.) residents who live on those streets, 3.) people who park their cars along this corridor, and 4.) bicyclists and pedestrians. One alternative that could satisfy groups 2, 3, and 4 is “to return Wiggins Street to something more like a normal residential street.”

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To do that, the walkable advocates suggest “an alternative approach” that “would reduce traffic congestion along the route, create space for safe cycling facilities, and maintain on-street parking.” That approach would require turning all or part of that corridor into one-way sections. In one possible proposal cars could proceed east on Wiggins Street between the Public Library and Vandeventer Avenue or possibly Moore Street. On the other side of that point, traffic could proceed west.

Where they meet they would be funneled up to Nassau Street.

Currently the Robeson-WigginsHamilton corridor is a convenient bypass for some motorists trying to skirt traffic on Nassau Street. If this change were implemented, walkableprinceton says, “out-of-town drivers are likely to adjust their routes in the long-term to avoid the area.”

The consultant, WSP USA, based locally at 2000 Lenox Drive in Lawrence, will be undertaking “data gathering, community engagement, analysis of intersection performance and safety issues, and concept development and testing,” according to the municipality.

“Local residents, businesses, and community members are invited to participate in the study.” E-mail engineering@ princetonnj.gov or call 609-921-7077.

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n an unusual, contested election at the Board of Education’s annual reorganization meeting, Beth Behrend was elected president and Greg Stankiewicz vice president. Two other board members were also nominated: Bill Hare for president and Deb Bronfeld for vice president. Behrend received seven votes and Stankiewicz received six from the 10-person board.

Two candidates have announced they will run for town council in the 2019 election. Michelle Pirone Lambros has served on the Zoning Board, the Merchants Association, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Arts Council. Her newest venture, Princeton Promotions, will launch Princeton Restaurant Week March 10 through 17.

Adam Bierman, a Princeton native with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international affairs from Rutgers, has served as union steward for the Communications Workers of America. He hosts two shows on Princeton TV. In a move expected to cost $800,000 a year or more, Princeton Council is considering the conversion of the fire department from all-volunteer group to a combination of volunteers and fulltime, paid firefighters.

To the Editor: ‘Dinky’ alternatives

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hank you for your report in the January Echo on the Dinky’s history and the future of transit connections between Princeton and West Windsor, and for your profile of Ralph Widner, who has thought deeply about this subject long before the most recent Dinky service interruption.

Typically when people argue for one transit technology or another — whether in Princeton or elsewhere — their reasoning depends on all sorts

GOT PROPANE?

of ideas that their favored technology symbolizes for them. But because the symbolism of each technology differs from person to person, arguments become mired in misunderstanding.

To counteract this potential for mutual misunderstanding, in thinking about the future of transit between Princeton and West Windsor, I suggest (and to a certain extent plead) that we think about the area’s transit needs functionally and quantitatively before ever thinking about specific technologies needed. How frequent should service be? What places should be connected? What, and whose, travel purposes should be served? What capacity does the service need? What hours should service be available?

In communities organized around transit (as opposed to communities that sprawl and then ask transit to perform impossible tasks), growth is organized around high-quality transit service, with the result that transit is valuable, valued, and well-used.

With the end of life of New Jersey Transit’s Dinky rail cars looming, a campus growth plan in progress, and new housing development obligations in play, Princeton, Princeton University, and West Windsor have a historic opportunity to organize future growth around a transit spine that would connect many types of people with many things they need to do — in ways that advance local sustainability, provide access to economic opportunity, and lend support for economic innovation. And I would argue for Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab that this is a chance to advance their strategic self interest while benefiting their host communities.

In follow up to the Echo’s excellent report, I would hope that the institutions and communities whose futures are bound up with one another would find a way in 2019 to establish a proactive vision for their collective futures

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together, starting with the question of how they intend to be connected.

Nat Bottigheimer White Pine Lane Bottigheimer, former director of planning at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, is currently New Jersey director for the Regional Plan Association.

Would NJT allow someone else to run the Dinky?

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he story in the January Echo — “Is the Dinky best for the Dinky line?”

— deserves comment. Yes, Dinky service needs improvement, and yes the new station could use some do-able improvements such as holders for paper schedules, improved handicapped accessibility, more flexible seating arrangements, and the relocation of the historic exhibit into the new station complex so that kids can see it without going into a bar.

But let’s step back and reflect on the institutional environment that has gotten us this far. Significantly, despite the negativity surrounding the Dinky there has been and continues to be private sector interest, the best possible vote of confidence in its future. To be clear, yes, there are people willing to put their money where their mouth is: for example, I am aware of an investor group with extensive railroad experience in-

terested in operating the Dinky service with purpose-built equipment, along with additional stops and increased frequency. But they are not interested in investing in a political quagmire, and such initiatives will continue to go nowhere as long as the basic question of NJT’s governance stands in the way.

So, let’s take the Governor at his word, that change at NJT is coming, and let’s make that change work to our benefit. While not presuming to speak for the entire Princeton community, I remain a loyal Dinky rider and feel compelled to ask: NJT, if you are not prepared to operate the Dinky as it should be, could you please step aside and let someone else try?

Yina Moore Former Mayor, Princeton Borough

Merchants to Council: Consider parking changes

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n collectively reviewing the current parking plan, we want to propose a set of improvements that would honor the intent of the new plan — as articulated by Mayor Lempert in a recent meeting — to serve first and foremost as a tool for economic development of Princeton’s vital downtown.

It appears that difficulties with the technology (including the important issue of refundability and credit card minimums) are already being ad-

dressed, which is very welcome.

We feel it is wise not to propose other partial fixes in haste, but rather to take another comprehensive look. Our proposal makes permitted employee parking integral to the plan and suggests lower, progressive rates as well as better solutions to loading zones, while beginning to address how such changes could honor the current budget.

Progressive parking rates (in place of current 2-hour parking): For hour 1, $1.50; hour 2, $1.75; hour 3, $2.25.

The progressive structure incentivizes turn-over, an ambition of the parking overhaul for the downtown.

The third hour is essential so customers don’t need to choose, for instance, between a meal and shopping. Council recently cited data that shows that the average parking duration is under two hours, an index that the 3-hour period would allow for a longer stay for some without leading to too many spots being taken up for too long. For a 3-hour period, the rate would come to $5.50 as opposed to $6.75 at the current flat rate. We suggest the following to help offset any shortfall: Raise the 10-hour meters from $.75 to $1 an hour.

Begin metered parking at 8 a.m. instead of 9.

Raise the Dinky daily parking from $4 to $5 per day.

Charge tour buses parked in town a

sizable, to be determined fee. (While you’re at it, maybe charge idling buses an environmental surcharge.)

Permitted employee parking: Your e-mail and statements at the January 14 meeting suggest that permitted employee parking in walking distance is being taken seriously as part of the current revisions. That said, there are two immediate steps we recommend: 1.) It is our understanding that the Franklin lot is owned by the town and sits empty. It could and should be opened for employee parking immediately. We suggest a $30 monthly fee per spot for some additional revenue.

2.) Do not convert free parking to bike-lanes: this does little to change the nature of the bike-ride into town and it artificially pits workers against environmentalists.

We welcome this moment as one of bringing more stakeholders into the process and hopefully of coming up with more ideas and creative solutions.

It is in that spirit that we submit our proposal and are ready to make time for future meetings as necessary.

This letter to Council was submitted

by Jessica Durrie, Joanne Farrugia, Jon Lambert, Mimi Omiecinski, Cliff Simms, Dean Smith, Dorothea von Moltke, and Jack Morrison on behalf of the Princeton Merchants Association.

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REAL ESTATE Recent transactions

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he following listings of residential home sales are based on public records and tax files. The number in parentheses after the closing price indicates the amount it was above or below the original listing price.

21 Forester Drive. Seller: Matthew Feuer and Carol Blum. Buyer: David Mizrahi and Melissa Larrazabal. Splitlevel in Riverside. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $885,000 (-$30,000).

35 Knoll Drive. Seller: Kenneth Kostenbader Trust and Kehe Living Trust. Buyer: John and Meytal Higgins.

Split-level in Riverside. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths. $950,000 ($51,000).

145 Ewing Street. Seller: Anne Daniel. Buyer: Brooke Brown. Twostory traditional. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $745,000 ($54,000).

24 Murray Place. Seller: Westmoor Partners. Buyer: Matthew and Britain Truppo. Three-plus-story Colonial.

4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. $1,385,000 (-$10,000).

49 Wiggins Street. Seller: Katherine Fleming and Ben Dor Zvi. Buyer: Alexander Mogilever Trust and Mog 401K Trust. Two-story Traditional. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $585,000 (-$14,000).

57 Gordon Way. Seller: Helen Gorenstein. Buyer: David and Gyulnara Seneko. Townhouse in Queenston Common. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $600,000 (-$20,000).

42 McComb Road. Seller: JeanValery Martin and Emamanuelle Boshet. Buyer: Sara and Justin Bojarski. Townhouse in Campbell Woods. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $735,000.

28 McComb Road. Seller: Maria and Hugo Simao. Buyer: Liang Huan.

Townhouse in Campbell Woods. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $720,000 ($45,000).

5 Greenview Avenue. Seller: FiveSeven Greenview LLC. Buyer: Martha Ehmann Conte. Contemporary twin. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $850,000 (-$15,000).

64 Leigh Avenue. Seller: David and Pamela LeBeaux. Buyer: Cara Eastman and Andrew Skey. Single-family Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. $526,000 ($28,000).

65 Palmer Square West Unit A. Seller: 65 Palmer Square West LLC. Buyer: Barnds Living Trust. Condominium. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $999,000 (-$96,000).

230 William Livingston Court.

Seller: Nikie Shi. Buyer: Li-Kang Chen and Ji Jiang. Townhouse in Griggs

Farm. 3 bedrooms, 2.2 baths. $515,000 (-$14,000).

852 Kingston Road. Seller: John and Grace Park. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. $1,000,000 ($151,000).

244 Hawthorne Avenue. Seller: Anna Murzhenko. Buyer: Jean Wilson.

Ranch. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $662,500 (-$62,500).

732 Princeton-Kingston Road.

Seller: Ted McKnight. Buyer: Guangming Ling and Qing Xue. Two-story Cape Cod. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths. $560,000 (-$50,000).

68 Wiggins Street. Seller: Wiggins Street 1 LLC. Buyer: Susan Beshel.

Condominium. 3 bedrooms, 2.2 baths. $860,000 (-$39,000).

359 Christopher Drive. Seller: Brittany and Sidharth Kerkar. Buyer: Sayuri Metz and Dominique Laurent. Two-story Colonial in Ettl Farm.

5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths. $1,475,000 (-$115,000).

209 Nassau Street. Seller: 209 Nassau Street LLC and Krog Versaci Properties. Buyer: James and Galina Peterson. Two-story Victorian. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. $1,210,000 ($60,000).

110 Montadale Drive. Seller: John and Ilene Chunko. Buyer: Igor Rodnianski. Two-story Contemporary.

64 Leigh Avenue sold for $526,000.

4 bedrooms, 3.2 baths. $1,250,000 (-$49,890).

37 Jefferson Road. Seller: Franz and Amy Klein. Buyer: Ashley and Shannon Pereira. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $1,175,000 (-$84,000).

707 Kingston Road. Seller: Erika and Richard D’Andrea. Buyer: Errol and Anne Lord. 1.5-story Cape Cod. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $589,900 (-$95,100).

19 Lytle Street. Seller: Nancy Feldman. Buyer: Velma and Dina McEwen.

Two-story Colonial. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. $420,000 (-$25,000).

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B I - M O N T H LY N E W S F R O M C A P I TA L H E A LT H After an initial meeting with Dr. Chung, participants begin one of two diet options in which “real” food is either replaced entirely by or balanced with high protein/ low carb meals (depending on individual nutrition requirements).

Both diets are flexible enough to accommodate the individual needs of each participant.

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2019 WEIGHT GOALS For anyone struggling with obesity, the thought of achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle can sometimes seem impossible. To help break harmful eating patterns and establish lasting routines for long-term health, Capital Health’s Metabolic & Weight Loss Center, located at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell, offers surgical and non-surgical options for safe, healthy weight loss results that last a lifetime.

“Our comprehensive approach is what makes the Metabolic & Weight Loss Center unique,” said DR. JOOYEUN CHUNG, medical director of the Center.

“By addressing the medical, behavioral, and nutritional issues related to obesity, we come to understand each candidate not just as a patient, but as a person.”

A Serious Commitment In addition to leading the Metabolic & Weight Loss Center, Dr. Chung is a fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon who specializes in diagnosis and treatment of metabolic disorders. As one of the most experienced bariatric surgeons in the region, she works with her expert team to carefully evaluate each candidate for weight

loss surgery. Those who are cleared for surgery receive personalized care from a team that includes Dr. Chung, a psychologist, and a registered dietitian.

The Center offers the full complement of weight loss surgeries, including sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass. Depending on which option is chosen, weight loss surgery works by either changing the anatomy of your stomach or the way your body absorbs nutrition. After surgery, patients and their team at the Center continue to work together to achieve and maintain healthy weight goals.

Change Your Routine, Change Your Life For those who do not fall within surgery guidelines or are looking for a non-surgical alternative to weight loss, the Center also offers a Medical Weight Loss Program, a protein-based meal replacement plan that is strictly monitored by Dr. Chung and her team. Replacement foods include protein bars, shakes, pudding, and soups that are part of a larger system of lifestyle changes — nutrition education, physical activity, behavior modification and group support — all of which change your relationship with food.

“Our program is all about personal accountability, which is the key to long-term success,” said Dr. Chung. “Participants are required to visit our dietitian once a week for ongoing support and a weekly supply of meal supplements. They also meet with me once a month to review lab tests to monitor their ongoing progress.”

After they achieve their weight goals, participants gradually swap out replacement products with real food and implement the eating patterns and fitness techniques they learned during the program.

Before and Ever After When it comes to losing weight safely, there is no easy way out, but patients at Capital Health’s Metabolic & Weight Loss Center never have to go through it alone.

Long after replacement meals are finished and recovery from surgery is complete, they continue to receive support that helps sustain a lifetime of good health.

Call 609.537.6777 today or visit capitalhealth.org/weightloss to sign up for one of our upcoming free information sessions.

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invasive breast surgery, including skin-sparing and nipple-sparing mastectomies. Certified in hidden scar breast cancer surgery, Dr. Mustafa completed fellowship training in breast surgical oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. She completed her surgical internship at Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine, New York NY, and her general surgery residency at Montefiore Medical Center- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Dr. Rose Mustafa (right) will be joining Dr. Lisa Allen (left) in February as part of the Capital Health Surgical Group – Breast Surgery practice. Call 609.537.6700 to make an appointment.

NEW BREAST SURGEON Adds Expertise to Capital Health Center for Comprehensive Breast Care In February, Dr. Rose Mustafa, a fellowship trained breast surgeon who specializes in surgical care for benign diseases and cancer, will be joining the Capital Health Center for Comprehensive Breast Care, located at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell.

that our patients will now have additional expertise to rely on with Dr. Mustafa joining our team,” said Dr. Lisa Allen, a fellowship trained breast surgeon and medical director of the Capital Health Center for Comprehensive Breast Care.

“Our Center uses a collaborative approach, which means that patients benefit from the combined knowledge of our medical team when it comes to their care. I’m very pleased

Dr. Mustafa’s clinical background includes the most advanced surgical treatment options for breast cancer with breast reconstruction techniques and minimally

“I’m thrilled to join the team at Capital Health that believes, as I do, that the best way to treat breast disease is to treat the person who has it. Not the patient, the person. I look forward to adding to the already impressive level of care being provided in such a warm, supportive environment,” said Dr. Mustafa.

Dr. Mustafa will be joining Dr. Allen as part of the Capital Health Surgical Group – Breast Surgery practice, located in Suite 505 in the medical office building inside Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell. Both surgeons will also be seeing patients at their new Lower Makefield office this spring.

To make an appointment, call 609.537.6700 or visit capitalsurgical.org/ breastsurgery for information.

A bout Our C E N TE R FO R C O M P R E H E N SI VE B R EA S T C A R E Our Center for Comprehensive Breast Care offers a complete range of personalized, breast care programs and services — from advanced diagnostics and genetic testing to leadingedge cancer care — all at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell. From cancer to cysts, abscesses, lesions, breast pain and other breast-related disorders, you’ll be cared for by a multidisciplinary team that collaborates closely to develop your plan of care.

Depending on the nature of your problem, your team could include a breast surgeon, radiologist, medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, plastic surgeon, financial navigator, nutritionist, rehabilitation services, and more.

every phase of treatment, at no additional cost.

Your navigator, a specially trained oncology nurse, will be your central point of contact to guide you, answer questions, help you better understand your diagnosis and treatment options, coordinate with your physicians, set up your health care services, and provide ongoing support through our Survivors Program and support groups.

A personal breast health nurse navigator is by your side from an initial diagnosis through

Call 609.537.6767 or visit capitalbreast.org to learn more.

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Our Center is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program of the American College of Surgeons, for achieving excellence in providing the highest quality cancer care.

FEBRUARY is

AMERICAN HEART MONTH

DO MEN & WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENT SIGNS/SYMPTOMS OF HEART ATTACK?

KNOW THE SIGNS OF A HEART ATTACK AND WHAT TO DO IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS HAVING ONE.

If you or a loved one is experiencing the signs of a heart attack, call 9-1-1.

This puts you in contact with a trained dispatcher who will tell you what to do and sends an ambulance to your location. When the ambulance arrives, treatment begins in your home and the emergency department is prepared for your arrival at the hospital. Because your symptoms may get worse, driving yourself is a bad idea.

The Chest Pain Center at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell is accredited by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and the American College of Cardiology. This means the Center meets high standards for diagnosing and treating cardiac emergencies, such as heart attacks.

When someone is having a heart attack, time to treatment is critical. Capital Health’s pre-hospital alert system allows ambulance patients to be tested in their homes and mobilizes an interventional team at the hospital if there is evidence of a heart attack, saving time for an initial EKG test or faster bedside blood tests for troponin, a protein that enters the blood stream during a heart attack.

If you or a loved one is having a severe heart attack caused by prolonged restricted blood flow due to a clot or ruptured plaque, Capital Health’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab is ready to provide an emergency stent placement.

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After you or your loved one has recovered, your last step is preventing another heart attack or heart-related illness. The Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, located at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell, offers a team of physicians, nurses, exercise physiologists and registered dietitians who provide individually prescribed education and exercise.

All program candidates are interviewed prior to entering the Cardiac Rehabilitation program, which allows a team to develop and implement a personalized care plan. Participants include those who have experienced:

… Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) within the past 12 months

… Coronary artery bypass surgery … Current, stable chest pain (angina pectoris)

… Heart valve repair or replacement … Angioplasty or stenting to open

SYMPTOM

MEN

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Chest Pain

Crushing, center of chest

Pressure, tightness, ache, stomach pain, sweating

Shortness of breath

With or With or before before pain, pain, common may occur

Sweating

With cold, clammy skin, Similar to men may occur

Arm Pain

Pain, numbness

Similar to men

Back, Neck, Jaw Pain

May occur

More common than in men

Stomach Pain

May occur

Extend to abdomen or only abdomen

Indigestion

May occur

2x’s more likely than men

Anxiety

May occur

Mistaken for panic

Fatigue

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Flu-like symptoms

Dizzy/ Lightheaded

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blocked coronary arteries

… Heart or heart-lung transplant surgery

… Stable, chronic heart failure Talk to your doctor about participating in cardiac rehabilitation.

Visit capitalhealth.org/cardiacrehab for more information.

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART: A Conversation About AFib Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | 6 p.m.

Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell, NJ PURE Conference Center Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is an irregular heartbeat that can cause heart palpitations and shortness of breath. As the most common type of heart arrhythmia, it affects millions of people in the United States and can increase your risk for heart attack and stroke. Join DR. HARIT DESAI, interventional cardiologist at Capital Health – Heart Care Specialists, for a discussion of symptoms, risk factors, and treatment options to help you manage your condition.

If you or someone you know is experiencing these signs and symptoms, call 9-1-1.

Sign up for this event today by calling 609.394.4153 or visit capitalhealth.org/events.

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UPCOMING EVENTS Unless otherwise noted, call 609.394.4153 or visit capitalhealth.org/events to sign up for the following programs.

UNDERSTANDING HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY Monday, March 11, 2019 | 6 p.m.

Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell NJ PURE Conference Center Hip and knee replacements are common procedures, but if you’re the one considering surgery, you need to make an informed decision. Join DR. ARJUN SAXENA from Trenton Orthopaedic Group at Rothman Institute for a discussion of surgical options that are available to help you maintain your active lifestyle.

NATIONAL SLEEP AWARENESS WEEK OPEN HOUSE Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | 4 – 7 p.m.

Capital Health Center for Sleep Medicine Tour our state-of-the-art facility, meet our specialty-trained staff, and learn how we help resolve the full range of sleep disorders in adults and children. Light refreshments and door prizes will be available. For more information, call 609.584.5150.

TREATING GERD (ACID REFLUX) AND BARRETT’S ESOPHAGUS Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | 6 p.m.

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At the ramparts with Chris Hedges Princeton resident Chris Hedges’ new book, ‘America: The Farewell Tour’ paints a grim caricature of our country.

Trouble is that sometimes the portrait is all too real.

By Richard K. Rein

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et’s assume you’re a good liberal, mindful of social and economic justice, climate change, the environment, expanded voting rights, gerrymandering, affordable housing, food waste, mass incarceration, foreign imperialism, and displaced persons across the world, from the Middle East to Mexico.

You’re probably a good white liberal, as well, but you have black, Hispanic, and Muslim friends, and you work hard to include them in your social events and work affairs.

You supported Hillary in 2016, even if you had hopes for Bernie in the beginning. You may have participated in the Women’s March on Washington the day after the inauguration, and you may have worked with Princeton Marching Forward, the group that was part of the Blue wave in the 2018 Congressional elections. Now you are excited by the prospects of Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Sherrod Brown, Kamala Harris, and more to come.

And you may want to attend — busy schedules permitting, of course — the tribute on Tuesday, February 26, at Labyrinth Books for the late James H. Cone, a longtime professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary and the author of the new posthumously published book “Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian.” Discussing Cone’s life and his work will be Elaine Pagels, Princeton professor of religion and the author of “Why Religion?,” and Chris Hedges, journalist, Presbyterian minister, and the author of 11 books, including three New York Times bestsellers and, most recently, “America: The Farewell Tour.”

Hedges’s work teaching prisoners has opened his eyes to some of the great social costs of our mass incarceration system. His “American Fascists” pilloried the mega-ministers that we have always suspected of being frauds. If you are a good white liberal, you might even want to spend some extra time with Hedges, if for no other reason than to get some fiery talking points for your progressive-liberal causes.

Or maybe not. “I don’t really like liberals,” Hedges says. He pauses for effect of his audience of one, this reporter.

“White liberals particularly.”

I meet Hedges at Small World Coffee for a fast-paced interview. He has to run from my interview to a phoner with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to promote a week-long book tour he begins in another day or two.

He will be back in town in time to attend the opening of the off-Broadway play, “The Catonsville Nine,” featuring

his wife, the achave always been tress Eunice Wong, marginalized.” Publiand dramatizing cations like Ramparts the story of Father (which lasted from Daniel Berrigan 1962 to 1975) are and other anti-war gone. “The role of the protesters who alternative media has broker into a draft vanished.” board in 1968 and Also gone are set records on fire. the public televiBerrigan baptized sion shows from the the youngest child 1970s that were venof Hedges and ues for such radicals Wong. as James Baldwin, Hedges might Malcolm X, and Annot hang out in liberal circles. You gela Davis. “The media has locked out might say he runs in radical circles, and the critics. That’s why you don’t see it,” he wouldn’t argue, though he might Hedges continues. “But in traveling all emphasize that he does not condone over the country I’ve had great crowds, violence, even by protesters. people are hungry. They are figuring it So what is the problem with liberals, out.” and white liberals in particular? HedgOK, I decide, let’s not have the homees, sipping coffee with soy milk (he and town media lock Hedges out. I do some his wife are vegans), elaborates. research and — via an intermediary (he Liberals rarely challenge the root doesn’t like to give out his e-mail adcause of a problem, Hedges says. “Rathdress) — request an interview. er they challenge particular excesses or abuse of that power, without challengt turns out it’s not just liberals that ing the system itself. Also they have Hedges doesn’t like, it’s also a lot of a habit of using whatever cause they liberal positions and institutions that embrace as a source of self-exultation. most of us take for granted.

So as someone out of a tradition of the Democrats are better than Republeft wing church as represented by the licans, right? Not much. Ralph Nader, Berrigan brothers, Dorothy Day, and whom some might recall for his third Martin Luther King, I have very uneasy party candidacy in 2000 that helped relationships with liberals.”

George Bush win the White House, is I do not normalseen by Hedges as ly take on stories a close friend who about political phi- ‘Liberals have a habit “has fought the losophies. The idea abuses of corporate of trying to explain of using whatever power longer and a left-leaning, Marx with more integrity cause they embrace quoting, socialist than anyone else political philoso- as a source of selfin the country,” as pher-activist to an Hedges writes in exultation.

I don’t audience of Prince­ the new book. tonians who prob- really like liberals, Obama, the ably know far more president that looks about all that than I white liberals better and better do, is not exactly apto many of us, is particularly.’ pealing. But I turn to Hedges the man up in late Novemwho signed the Naber for a reading of tional Defense Authorization Act, or “America: The Farewell Tour” at Laby- NDAA, The law authorized the presirinth Books. It is a full house, and dur- dent (and future presidents) to detain ing the Q&A, Hedges is asked: “Why terrorists indefinitely, even if they were aren’t more people speaking up about not apprehended on an actual battlethese issues?” field. With the assistance of Princeton His answer: “They won’t give you the attorneys Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, platform.” Hedges complains about the the case known as Hedges v. Obama ultra-liberal MSNBC and the New York found its way to the Southern District Times Book Review, where his posi- of New York, where the judge ruled tion was never given a fully rounded the counter-terrorism provision unview. “What liberal elites hate the most constitutional. “The Obama adminisis when you call them out, when you tration freaked out,” Hedges says. The challenge their motives and intentions,” government successfully appealed, and he says. “People who take that position

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Hedges petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case but it declined.

Hedges blames Democrats as much as Republicans for Trump. “The left often dismiss Trump supporters as irredeemable racists and bigots, ignoring their betrayal and suffering. Condemning all those who support Trump is political suicide,” Hedges writes.

But what about Elizabeth Warren?

“She is not an exception,” Hedges tells me at Small World. “Yes, she has called for more regulation of the corporate state, but the country is being disemboweled by a military that absorbs half of all discretionary spending. Warren has done what liberals do, setting up the Consumer Finance Review Board, which is a good thing. But our problems are greater than a few tepid reforms.”

The way to shake up the system, Hedges says, is never through violence.

“Doing exactly what the French are doing on the streets might be the only way to put pressure on the system. It isn’t going to be by voting for Elizabeth Warren.” In other words, put on the yellow vests and storm the barricades (but keep it non-violent).

The media? We can all agree that the commentary division of Fox News is the real enemy of the people, while CNN and MSNBC, etc., continue to follow the truth, wherever it may lead, can’t we? No, we can’t, says Hedges, who puts all the networks in the same corporate kettle. “The news now is just another version of the Jerry Springer show. CNN is raking in billions.” And the more money the cable networks bring in, he charges, the more they want to continue this “burlesque.”

Local papers, Hedges says, “have turned into glorified ad sheets, writing about the new ‘den of tranquility’ or whatever the hell some advertiser wants.” (I silently cringe, and refrain from pointing out that all local papers could use more advertisers, not fewer.)

Hedges adds, “journalists are supposed to be troublemakers, not publicists.”

On one point we do agree: “Independent newspapers are dying left and right. With all the flaws of journalism, which I know very well, you used to have someone covering the police, the courts, city hall. That’s gone. With this oversight gone, it opens up more possibilities of abuse of power.”

Princeton University, while not perfect, has moved far along, correct?

Hedges refers to statements he made at an “Occupy Princeton” rally in December, 2011. “Most of the people who sit See HEDGES, Page 12

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on boards of universities such as Princeton, half of them probably should sit in jail. The president is paid so much and only based on how much money that is brought in to the university.”

Half of the trustees sitting in jail, really? Well, Hedges says, offering a slight smile, “maybe I was being a little tongue in cheek.”

But the students, you wonder, surely the students are the hope for the future, aren’t they? As Hedges said back in 2011, and reaffirms as his position today, “It is heartbreaking to see my students go into the financial sector, because they do not take the freedom to be their own person.” The Princeton student body, and others like it, are “the pool by which corporations draw their class of system managers, people who function to perpetuate its the system.

It’s why you get Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan coming to recruit at Princeton.

But what you are going to end up being is some midlevel system managers who never see sunlight, who look broken physically and psychologically. If you have read about the culture of Goldman Sachs, it’s like a fraternity house hazing to winnow out anyone with a sense of autonomy.”

But isn’t the gig economy turning all those entrenched establishments on their head, opening the door for entrepreneurs in all fields? Hedges doesn’t think so, as he wrote in a March 25,

2018, column at Truthdig that exposed the harsh realities for traditional taxicab drivers as well as for the challengers from Uber and Lyft: “The corporate architects of the new economy . . . intend to turn everyone into temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits, a reality they plaster over by inventing hip terms like ‘the gig economy.’”

Surely Princeton, the town, is a bubble of enlightenment in this dark, Hedgian view of the world. Aren’t we an urbane community of the creative class, the kind of people who can truly help shape a better world? Hedges rejects that view. It’s actually fewer than 1 percent — the oligarchs — who control the rest of us. The seemingly privileged people in Princeton are in fact just the managers working for the oligarchs.

“The anomie is rippling across society and creating diseases of despair,” he says. “The pathologies that I write about in the book are also present in Princeton. There are people clinging to the margins of life in the community.”

In “America: The Farewell Tour,” Hedges quotes his friend — and fellow Princeton resident — Michael Gecan, co-director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, the largest network of community-based organizations in the United States and the author of “Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action.”

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“The decline of the local press, along with civic and church organizations, has played a large part in our disempowerment,” Gecan argues. “We have lost connection with those around us.

We have retreated inward and do not understand the corporate structures of power that wreak havoc on our lives.

This is by design.”

Hedges quotes Gecan: “Everywhere the tightly-knit world of dozens or so

‘Mega-pastors have all the characteristics of Donald Trump. If there is one difference I would say the sexual proclivities of megapastors are probably kinkier than Trump’s.’ blocks — where workplace, church, neighborhood, recreation, tavern, and political affiliation were all deeply entwined — have given way to exurban enclaves, long commutes, gathered congregations, matchmaker websites, and fitness clubs filled with customers who don’t know one another. A world where local news was critically impor-

tant and closely followed — often delivered by local publishers and reporters and passed along by word of mouth — has been replaced by the constant flow of real and fake news arriving through social media.”

When Hedges goes to New York, he often takes the 9:10 train, after all the regular Wall Streeters, IT professionals, and other management workers have departed. The men in suits at that hour, Hedges believes, are often men who have been dismissed from their jobs and are now searching for a new position. “Yes, that anomie is here, but it’s been hidden through the relative affluences of Princeton.”

I’m not ready to accept that dark view of mid-morning commuters — a lot of them might just be enjoying flexible work schedules. But I am less tempted to argue when Hedges compares the drug usage in Princeton with that of nearby Trenton. “In Princeton there are just as many drugs — and of higher quality — than there are in Trenton. But police aren’t going to knock down the doors in Princeton at 2 o’clock in the morning as they are in Trenton or Camden. We have criminalized poverty. The hypocrisy is best seen when white kids who use drugs are juxtaposed with black kids who use drugs.”

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as we have pursued our liberal causes), and what makes him stay here? “I couldn’t afford Manhattan,” he says. “I had kids. For the kind of work I do I need a large research library. Firestone Library is an essential resource. It has a cultural life. McCarter Theater, even though I would like to see a little less of plays like ‘Mousetrap.’ I can easily get to New York. My agent is there, and Simon & Schuster, the publisher.”

At the late November booksigning at Labyrinth, Hedges elaborates about another reason he likes Princeton. “I’ve been traveling almost nonstop since August 26. This is my favorite event because I can walk here from my home.

Labyrinth is a great asset to the community. I travel all over;, one of the most depressing things is seeing the loss of bookstores that I used to love.”

He went to the New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. He reported from the Middle East; from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, covering the war there; and from Paris, covering Al Qaeda in Europe and the Middle East. In 2002 Hedges was part of a New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on global terrorism.

Hedges’ career at the Times was controversial. Several of his articles were based on sources — including the now infamous Ahmed Chalabi — that who turned out to be stoking American intervention in Iraq. Nevertheless, Hedges became an early and outspoken critic of the war, and that position may have caused him more serious problems with the Times. In May of 2003 Hedges was booed off the stage several minutes into a commencement address edges grew up in Schoharie at Rockford College in Illinois. His County, New York, near Albany. contention: “We are embarking on an His mother was an English professor occupation that, if history is any guide, in the state college system. “She was the will be as damaging to our souls as it intellectual of the family,” he says. “My will be to our prestige and power and sense of reading and writing came from security.” The Times decried the speech as “public remarks that could underher.”

His father was a World War II veter- mine public trust in the paper’s imparan who became a Presbyterian minister tiality” and issued a reprimand. Hedges with anti-war views. His father, dressed soon left the Times and began writing in clerical collar, took young Hedges for the online TruthDig.com.

In one of his early books, “War is a along to anti-war protests and civil rights marches. After graduating from Force that Gives Us Meaning,” Hedges the Loomis Chaffee School in Con- refers to Sophocles’ “Antigone.” When necticut, where he founded an under- Hedges appeared for a reading at the ground newspaper that got him placed Unitarian Church of All Souls on Lexon probation, Hedges enrolled at Col- ington Avenue in Manhattan, a progate, also in upstate New York. His duction of “Antigone” was being refather, influenced by the discrimina- hearsed nearby. The director had asked tion visited upon his brother, Hedges’ the actors to read Hedges’ book as part uncle, who was gay, urged him to start of their preparation, and a few of them an LGBT chapter at Colgate, which he attended his reading. One was Eunice did. Hedges recalls going through a Wong, now Hedges’ wife.

Hedges already had two children cafeteria line, paying for his food, and then hearing the cashier dismiss him from his first marriage. He and Wong as a “faggot.” The heterosexual Hedges have two more. Father Dan Berrigan officiated at the got an early lesson in baptism of the how different people ‘Atheists offer a youngest.

Berare treated. rigan asked all After earning a Utopian belief the people at the degree in English ceremony to pick from Colgate in system that is as an attribute that 1979, Hedges rethey would like to ceived a master of self-delusional as that see imbued in the divinity degree from offered by Christian child as she grew Harvard. Frustrated up. Berrigan went with the disconnect fundamentalists.’ first and chose a between Harvard sense of humor.

Divinity School Having heard and the real world, Hedges attempted to follow an unorth- the story, and having been exposed to odox path to ordination as a minister, as Hedges’ dark view of the world, I have a journalist covering the wars in central to ask: “Was Berrigan saying that the America. “But this was a call the church old man couldn’t be counted on to pass was unwilling to recognize at the time,” along a sense of humor?”

Hedges offers a slight smile. “I have Hedges writes in a statement of faith published at www.elizabethpresbytery. a sense of humor. I have a public and a org. “My father understood. When the private persona.”

Since coming to Princeton most committee that approved ordination told me that they did not ordain jour- of us have only seen the public Chris nalists, my dad, who was waiting in the Hedges.

In 2007, shortly after the publicaroom outside, put his arm around me and as we walked outside said: ‘You are tion of his book, “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on ordained to write.’”

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America,” Hedges delivered a lecture at Princeton University. A journalist for firstthings.com, Ryan T. Anderson (a 2004 Princeton alumnus and now a nationally known conservative thinker at the Heritage Foundation), gave this account: “The audience was shocked. Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, delivered a Princeton University lecture on the religious right so appalling that even his supporters were embarrassed. One university administrator apologized that Hedges was ‘so reductionist and offensive,’ promising that she wouldn’t have invited him had she known. A dean said Hedges’ ‘behavior was disappointing to everyone and did not reflect the intentions of the sponsors.’ Maybe he was just having a bad day? He wasn’t.”

In fact, Hedges continues to be unabashedly critical of the Christian right.

“I found their mega-churches cultish,” he tells his audience at Labyrinth. “It’s a system of propaganda. They lure you in, break you down.” For those of us who wonder how these prominent preachers can be so unrelenting in their support of the serial philanderer and con-man-in-chief, Hedges has an answer: “Mega-pastors have all the characteristics of Donald Trump. If there is one difference I would say the sexual proclivities of mega-pastors are probably kinkier than Trump’s.”

Atheists shouldn’t get smug at this point. In his 2008 book, “I Don’t Be-

lieve in Atheists,” Hedges asserts, as he said in an interview that year with Salon magazine, that the atheists “offer a utopian belief system that is as selfdelusional as that offered by Christian fundamentalists. For example, they believe that the human species is marching forward, that there is an advancement toward some kind of collective moral progress — that we are moving towards, if not a utopian, certainly a better, more perfected human society.

That’s fundamental to the Christian right, and it’s also fundamental to the New Atheists.”

In 2013 Hedges was one of the plaintiffs in a Bruce Afran-led lawsuit appealing the Planning Board decision to allow the university to move the Dinky train station to make room for its Lewis Center for the Arts. Today, after the Dinky has been moved and the Lewis Center constructed, Hedges is not a fan of the resulting arts center. “It’s architecturally atrocious,” he says. Hedges says he considered Lewis, who died in 2013, a friend. “He really did care about the arts, but I am not sure that he wanted a building. I know he wanted to use his money to give employment to artists who are finding it extremely difficult to make a living.” (A university press release announced when Lewis was still alive stated that a new physical center was one of several objectives of his philanthropy.)

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tion, but Hedges is not deterred. “The university wields out-of-control power in this town,” he says. “There’s never an excuse for not challenging injustice and out-of-control power.”

When the Princeton Charter School applied to expand in 2017, Hedges and several other residents, as well as the school superintendent, appeared at a Council meeting to oppose it.

“Expansion!” he says now. “The charter school shouldn’t exist. The charter school in Princeton is atrocious. It’s educational apartheid. Yes, students of Asian descent are represented, but other people of color are not represented.

People with learning disabilities are not represented, in the same way as people who are poor, in the same way as people for whom English is a second language are not represented as they are in the public schools.”

The public school system, he continues, “is one of the crown jewels of our democracy. If I had more time I would organize against it[the Charter School].

That thing should be shut down. It’s appalling that Princeton parents support it.”

Hedges’ “Farewell Tour” visits pockets of despair from coast to coast.

There’s a bondage and sadism “course” in the Mission District of San Francisco, and a tour of the mind-numbing slot machines at Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, reported before Trump

set his eyes on the White House. Hedges portrays Scranton, PA, as the epitome of industrial decay. Since I know a little bit about Scranton, I push back, and tell Hedges I think a turnaround is already in motion.

“We’ll see,” he says.

But for all those visions of hell he portrays, the reporting from inside prison walls is the most depressing to me. During his time in Princeton and working under the auspices of Princeton University and more recently Rut-

Of all the dark corners of America that Hedges presents, none is more grim, to me, than the prison system. gers, Hedges has taught college classes to inmates at various prisons, including East Jersey State Prison in Rahway and the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. A class in urban history that Hedges taught in 2013 in Rahway formed a writing cooperative and wrote a play called “Caged,” which held its world premier last May at Passage Theater in Trenton.

The play offered a glimpse of the world most of us will never see. A chap-

ter in Hedges “Farewell Tour” provides another view. In New Jersey the prisons are not private, but many of the operational systems, like food services and the telephone system “have become billion-dollar industries,” Hedges says.

“The lobbyists are making sure that recidivism rates remain high. They are exacting money from the most vulnerable and poorest in our society. What angers me most about the phone system is that the phone is often the only way children can connect with their incarcerated parent.”

As he reports in “America: The Farewell Tour,” the rules in some prisons now “prohibit families from sending packages to prisoners, forcing prisoners to rely exclusively on prison vendors.” Some prisons charge for infirmary visits, dental appointments, and for guard-supervised visits to a relative on their deathbed. “Mass incarceration is the civil rights issue of our time,” says Hedges.

For all his dark views and unrelenting criticism of beliefs some of us may hold near and dear, Hedges does not appear to have any sworn enemies in town. The crowd at Labyrinth seems to consist entirely of fans. The acknowledgments in his latest book include Rev. Karen Hernandez, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Trenton; Princeton lawyers Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran; historian Sam Hynes, a neighbor of Hedges, Celia Chazelle, the mother of filmmaker Damien Cha-

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zelle but more importantly a volunteer teacher in the prison system; June Ballinger of Passage Theater and former tech CEO turned Trenton real estate developer Michael Goldstein; and Labyrinth’s Dorothea von Moltke and Cliff Simms, who once helped Hedges sneak several boxes of books into a state prison for inmates eager to learn.

Among this group I sense many liberals and even a few “corporatists.” And while he considered the late Peter Lewis a friend, Hedges must have distanced the man from his company, Progressive Insurance, which has faced its own share of negative publicity and class action suits from unhappy customers.

I drill into Google to find something unflattering about Hedges (other than the predictable stuff from the right).

There are charges of plagiarism, stemming from what appear to be unguarded moments of cutting and pasting from other sources and from failing to distinguish his original reporting from that of another reporter being quoted by him. In a few cases a simple mea culpa would have satisfied his critics, but none was forthcoming. But I find no instances of made-up characters to advance an ideological agenda — a worse act in my opinion.

And then there is an incident that occurred just a year ago — the kind of conflict that can cause bitter recriminations and enduring grudges in a town like Princeton. Hedges’ wife, Eunice Wong, was taking their two rescue

greyhounds for a walk when they met Advanced Study, both were hauled off painkillers. The report said that prosup with a neighbor, walking her very in a police car. ecutors in Connecticut and New York small dog, a Bichon Shih Tzu mix.

In short, as much as you might dis- were considering criminal fraud and Wong warned the neighbor that she agree with and be offended by Hedges racketeering charges. “This is essentialwas not sure how the greyhounds, both on any number of issues, you might not ly a crime family,” a lawyer representon leashes, might react. The neighbor find him so disagreeable in person. ing Suffolk County said, “drug dealers moved her dog away but then, thinkin nice suits and dresses.” ou might even discover that some ing the greyhounds had moved on, put Hedges brings up climate change at of his seemingly hyperbolic con- the Labyrinth event and again at Small the small dog down on the ground. The greyhounds suddenly reversed direc- tentions are borne out by facts. I take a World. “We are facing the probable extion and attacked, killing the smaller second look at the account of the con- tinction of the species, given our utter dog. servative journalist Ryan Anderson, refusal to change our relationship with Wong appeared in Princeton court. clucking over Hedges’ appearance at the planet that sustains life,” he says.

With the neighbor at her side, she the Princeton panel on the religious “Look at what’s already happening. Clipleaded guilty, paid an $800 and right in WILL 2007. To how far out mate change is happening faster than he curb by 7:00 a.m.

• NO ITEMS IN fine, PLASTIC BAGS BE show COLLECTED agreed to keep a muzzle on the dogs Hedges’ views were, Anderson quotes during future walks. The neighbor said Hedges’ own words: “If the Christian she wasn’t looking for justice, she was Fascists win, then labor unions, civil- ‘The charter school in looking for safety. Neither party want- rights laws, and public schools will be ed the greyhounds to be euthanized. abolished. . . . And all those deemed Princeton is atrocious.

The Hedges apparently handled the insufficiently Christian will be denied It’s educational matter as considerate neighbors would. citizenship.

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world within two decades.” The report referred to a series of scientific papers “suggesting that scientific estimates of the effects of a warming planet have been, if anything, too conservative.”

In a chapter on “Hate” in “The Farewell Tour,” Hedges visits the enclave near Binghamton, NY, known as Islamberg, a community of Muslim Americans who moved from urban areas to more peaceful surroundings. Hedges warns that alt-right and militia groups, duped by right-wing media into believing that Islamberg is really an evil cult of violent and radical Muslims, are stockpiling weapons and ammunition for an impending race war. As this issue was going to the printer in late January, authorities announced the arrests of four young men in a town near Rochester, including two eagle scouts, charged with assembling weapons and bomb making materials intended to be used in an attack on the Islamberg residents, described by a State Police commander based nearby as “positive, solid members of the community.”

Is there hope? “I don’t share America’s mania for hope,” Hedges says. “People want hope as a way not to confront the realities.” Realities, he says, are “a downer.”

In other words, we’ll see.

I think back to the words used by Dorothea von Moltke in her introduction at Labyrinth: “Would that Chris Hedges were wrong more than he is right. He would wish it, as well.”

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THE ARTS

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Terri Riendeau’s ‘Effloresce.’

any hospitals have art galler- tistic energy went into making photogies because having art on the raphy, writing poetry and weaving, but walls can be a source of dis- I had always considered painting off limits. The concussion eliminated my traction and comfort for patients and silly, self-imposed restraints, and paintthose visiting them. But the act of cre- ing turned the disaster into discovery. ation can also be a part of the healing “My limited faculties when I started process. That is part of the story behind painting freed me from spending any “The Concussion Diaries,” an exhibit time thinking about why I was paintorganized by the Arts Council of Princ- ing and what I was trying to say with eton currently on view at Princeton my work. Two of my paintings, CharPublic Library. lottesville and Categoría Cinco (Maria) The artist is Princeton resident Terri are direct responses to current events, Riendeau, a 1983 Princeton University but the others are explorations of techalumna who has worked in the Admis- nique, color and form. Asking myself sion Office there for the past 30 years. now about the why and the what, I am In college she studied Slavic languages reminded of a talk I went to by the phoand literatures, but she also dabbled in tographers Laura McPhee and Virginia photography. That hobby became pro- Beahan. In response to a student who hibitively expensive in the early years asked about pursuing a career in art, of post-college life, but the impulse to one of them said, ‘If you don’t need to create art was still there and rose to the make photographs, you won’t.’ I am still surface following finding my way a health crisis. In as a painter, but an artist statement ‘My limited faculties I can say for cerRiendeau writes: tain that I need to “I suffered a seri- when I started make paintings.” ous concussion in painting freed me from The paintings April 2017. Alice fell in the library exdown a rabbit hole; I spending any time hibit were first just fell on the floor. shared via the Inthinking about why I The doctors forbade stagram account ‘reading, screens of was painting and what @Laundrini, any sort, and comwhere Riendeau’s plex thinking.’ For I was trying to say.’ partner, Shelley the first four months Krause, helped I couldn’t even listen her document to music. I wondered if I might go bon- not only her paintings but also her rekers — and then I wondered if that was turn to photography. On Riendeau’s complex thinking. Without the capac- website, www.nightwalkstudio.org, she ity for the usual distractions, I found notes that they took doctor-recommyself in a quiet world of color and mended walks at night, when the light composition. In some ways my sensory would not bother her eyes, and occaexperience was stripped down, but in sionally stopped to shoot photos with other ways it was heightened. On the her phone. daily walks required for my recovery, Riendeau appears for an artist talk at I noticed every detail of spring in New the library on Monday, February 4, at 7 Jersey — leaves unfurling, vines encir- p.m. She will be joined by artist Robert cling, the patterns in moss — with a Dimatteo, whose exhibit “The Periodic piercing intensity.

Table of Elements” is also on view. Both “At the suggestion of a friend I start- exhibits continue through June 8. ed painting . . . At various points my arwww.artscouncilofprinceton.org.

16 Princeton Echo | February 2019

From the bookshelf: Linguistic paradoxes; ‘Fault Lines’ behind Trump Digital’s discrete ‘charm’

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wo Princeton history professors have set out to answer a question much of the population has been asking since November, 2016: What happened? Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer, both specialists in 20th century American political history, take a long view in seeking answers in “Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974,” published in January by W.W. Norton.

Kruse and Zelizer posit that while the election of Donald Trump was shocking, the societal changes and divisions that led there — what they call “fault lines” — had been forming since the 1970s.

“The sources of division are not entirely obvious,” the authors write in their introduction. “Indeed, as we will show, during the past four decades, the country actually seemed to be coming together in some significant ways. In the marketplace, in the spread of social norms and in the propagation of popular culture, disparate parts of the nation were becoming less and less dissimilar.

For all the talk of a deeply divided nation, pollsters found that many issues that were contentious in the political arena, such as LGBTQ rights and women’s rights, were much less so outside the confines of Washington, DC.” But, they continue, “the forces of division were persistent and powerful, often rooted in institutional forces that moved the nation in destructive directions. The rebellions and discord of the 1960s led to widespread disillusionment and cynicism about the viability, or even the value, of national consensus and unity. As the country moved on from the tumultuous decade, national leaders rebuilt institutions that privileged division, competing views, and fragmentation.”

Kruse and Zelizer discuss and sign their book on Thursday, February 28, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 101 of Princeton University’s Friend Center at the corner of William and Olden streets.

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wo more Princeton professors — one in psychology and the other in computer science — have books coming out in early February, both published by the Princeton University Press.

Adele Goldberg, a psychology professor who specializes in cognitive linguistics, has written “Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions.”

In it she addresses the paradox of “partial productivity”: why and how native speakers of a language know not to use certain expressions, even though their meaning is perfectly clear, and even though a grammatically identical expression with slightly different words could be perfectly correct.

As Goldberg explains: “We might confess that someone is driving us crazy (or bananas or insane), but we know that it would sound odd to complain that someone is driving us angry.”

English speakers, she writes, will know there is something not-quite-right about “driving us angry,” but might not be able to explain why it is wrong but still will fully understand the sentiment the speaker is trying to convey.

“How is it,” Goldberg asks, “that native speakers know to avoid certain expressions while nonetheless using language in creative ways?”

The book — intended for an academic audience — delves deep into the formulation of utterances: how do we learn the meanings of words, how do we learn to combine those words in meaningful ways, and how does our memory process these formulations?

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en Steiglitz, a professor emeritus of computer science, has written “The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital.”

In an introductory section titled “To the Reader” — whom he describes, ideally, as “interested in science generally, perhaps computers in particular, but is

Exit, administrator; enter, writer & director

cCarter Theater announced last month that Emily Mann, its artistic director for nearly 30 years, would step aside at the end of the 2019-’20 season. As the driving force behind McCarter’s transformation from a respected but somewhat predictable regional company to Tony-winning theater introducing new and diverse playwrights and actors, Mann’s departure is a milestone. But, she emphasizes, it is not a retirement.

In an interview posted on americantheatre.org, she explains: “I am stepping down from McCarter so I can do more work. I’m letting go of the administration of the theater, but I want to be able to be writing more, to be directing more, to be free to follow all kinds of new paths. I’m not even sure yet what opportunities are going to be coming my way, but I’m opening myself up to the universe to have it come to me for a little while.”

In the meantime she is planning a themed final season — “Signature Emily” — and has not let her day job get in the way of her desire to write. “Gloria: A Life,” Mann’s new play about feminist icon Gloria Steinem is running offBroadway at the Darryl Roth theater through March 31.

Iris Dorbian, a reporter for the Clyde Fitch Report, a website devoted to the nexus of arts and politics, interviewed Mann about “Gloria” in October. Their exchange is reprinted below with permission from www.clydefitchreport. com.

Iris Dorbian: How did you get involved with this project?

Emily Mann: About four years ago, I got a call from [actress-producer] Kathy Najimy who said, “We’re thinking of doing a play on Gloria Steinem’s life. It’s a commission from Lincoln Center. Gloria and I would love for you to write it.” It took me all of two seconds to say yes. They had gone to [producer] Daryl Roth first, and it was Daryl who said, “Let’s take it to Lincoln

Center.” We started a wonderful collaboration with [artistic director] Andre Bishop and Anne Cattaneo, the dramaturg there.

I started to research, meet with Gloria, and write.

ID: How much of Steinem’s life does it cover?

EM: A good part of it. It’s only an hour and 20 minutes long.

She’s 84 years old now. It covers the long line from childhood to now. We spent a lot of time on the 1970s.

ID: What did you use for source material?

EM: I spent two long interviews with Gloria and started to read everything she published in terms of books. I went online and looked at articles. I spent a lot of time diving into this rich and amazing life, and public life. What was wonderful is that later she wrote more personally. Meeting with her she also shared a lot of personal information.

ID: So this is an honest portrait that accurately depicts Steinem’s flaws?

EM: Warts and all. Gloria knows that by sharing your story not only can you heal but you can help others. You’re not crazy and you’re not alone and then you find new ways to go on. A lot of people don’t know the harder things that Gloria has had to live through and she’s had to come through the other side. The whole play is this one talking circle.

ID: What is that?

EM: In ancient cultures, it’s the Gandhian way of making political change. Mahatma Gandhi affected change by sitting in a circle, talking and reaching consensus. It’s also sharing what’s going on and moving forward. All of the great social movements started with talking circles. The feminist movement is a great example of it. People would get up and say what’s happening and others would respond

not technically trained” — he explains the book’s purpose: “The machines we call computers have reshaped our lives, and may in the end transform humanity itself. The revolution is based on just one idea: build devices that store and manipulate information in the form of discrete bits.

My aim is to explain why this seemingly simple idea is so powerful.

“It happens without trying that in pinpointing the virtues of the discrete, digital form, questions arise about the limits of the spectacular progress in technology we’ve seen in the past half century. Computers are cramming more components into smaller spaces, operating faster and faster. Can this go on forever? Computer programs are

getting more clever. Are there problems that will always be beyond the reach of computers? Will computers become more clever than we? Will they replace us?

“At the end of this book, we return to the opening theme and pose a further fundamental question: Will digital computers always be superior to analog computers, which use information in continuous, nondiscrete form, or is there some ‘magic’ that remains hidden in the analog world, beyond the reach of the digital computer? The human brain uses both digital and analog forms of information — is Nature keeping some secrets to herself about the ultimate nature of human computation?”

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and help them move forward.

ID: During your research, what surprised you most about Steinem?

EM: How funny she is! How warm she is. How well she listens. She someone’s who understands what deep listening is. It’s one of her greatest strengths. That was huge for me to discover. The other thing was her mother had a nervous breakdown when she was little and how important that relationship was in terms of her wanting to save other women from her mother’s fate. Gloria grew up from 11 to 17 taking care of her invalid mother in a working-class neighborhood in Toledo, in a house that was condemned, with little heat and with rats.

ID: Was there a central challenge to create this play?

EM: Once Gloria decided she wasn’t going to play herself, the question was, “What is the event?” When Diane Paulus came on board, she said what we needed was an ensemble to play the story. I had a play that was a simple sharing, like Springsteen On Broadway.

It was now activated to scenes and en-

semble, so it’s become very different.

It’s morphed into a whole new theatrical experience, and that’s been thrilling and very hard. But a complete joy to do.

ID: How did Diane Paulus and Christine Lahti get involved?

EM: I’ve been a great admirer of Diane. I suggested her, and both Daryl and Andre were excited by that idea — she came on when we were at Lincoln Center. We did a workshop. Then Christine Lahti came on when we were doing the production. She’s also one of Gloria’s great friends. She’s so right for it, and she so wanted to do it. It’s thrilling to be a woman with an all-women production. It’s all women in the cast, women designers, female producers, a female playwright and director.

ID: What do you want the audience to come away with when they see the play?

EM: I’m hoping they will find in Gloria’s life an inspiration for them to become active and that no life is easy. Gloria’s deeply human. She is flawed, like all of us. She’s no more or less flawed than you or I, and the play shows her struggles. She’s gone through a lot in her life and she’s made a great contribution. I’m also hoping that in the second act when they have a talking circle, we’ll get people to be active in this dark time.

For more on “Gloria: A Life”: www. gloriatheplay.com.

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Friday February 1 The Niceties, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter. org. Zoe, a black student, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her thesis about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution. Through February 10. 8 p.m.

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The Midtown Men, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www. mccarter.org. Four stars from the original Broadway cast of “Jersey Boys.” 8 p.m.

Saturday February 2 Confronting Childhood, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton. edu. Work by Diane Arbus, Ruth Bernhardi, Lewis Carroll, and more. Through Sunday, June 9. 10 a.m.

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2/14 • Black Poetry: A Gala Reading

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IAS Film Series: Crisis and Critique, Street. www.nj23.eventbrite.com. Works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and more. $15- Wolfensohn Hall, Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive. library.ias.edu. Films $50. Register. 1:30 p.m. exploring the discourse on crisis, followed by Historic Princeton Walking Tour, Baindiscussion. Free. Register. 4 p.m. bridge House, 158 Nassau Street. www.

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Wednesday February 6

2/16 • Jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon

writer discusses “Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science.” 7 p.m.

Friday February 8

Andy Borowitz, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. The comeGreat Minds Salon: The College Cam- dian and humorist presents “Make America pus: Frontier of American Judaism, The Not Embarrassing Again.” 7:30 p.m.

Jewish Center Princeton, 435 Nassau Street. Rabbi Julie Roth presents. $5. 8 p.m.

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Westminster Choir College Faculty Recital, Bristol Chapel. Pieces by Schumann, Mahler, Rorem, and Berger. Free. 3 p.m.

Tea and Tour, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. A docent-led tour of the museum African Elements in American Music for followed by tea and refreshments. RegistraWinds, Hillman Performance Hall, West- tion required. $22. Weekly on Wednesdays 1 minster Choir College. Members of the wind p.m. department perform the music of Kay, Still, The Impact of the Past, Institute for Ellington, Schuller, and more. Free. 3 p.m.

Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, PlainsPhiladelphia Gay Men’s Chorus, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road, 609-924-1604. www.uuprinceton.org. Standards, Broadway classics, and more. 3 p.m.

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Artists Robert DiMatteo Reading by Layli Long Soldier and Jacob and Terri Riendeau discuss their work that is Shores-Argüello, Lewis Arts Complex, 120 on display at the library. 7 p.m.

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Medical Education is in Trouble, 55-Plus Inside the Cairo Geniza, The Jewish CenClub, The Jewish Center of Princeton, 435 ter Princeton, 435 Nassau Street. www.theNassau Street. Jacob Sage presents. $3 donajewishcenter.org. Discuss the largest cache tion suggested. 10 a.m. of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. 7:30 Audra Wolfe, Princeton Public Library, p.m.

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EVENTS, continued from page 19 Time Capsule, 1970: Robert Rauschenberg’s Currents, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Calvin Brown presents followed by reception. 2 p.m.

Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink. www.goprincetontigers.com. Brown. 7 p.m.

Saturday February 9 Posing and Gesture Workshop, Erdman Conference Center, 20 Library Place. www. princetonphotoworkshop.com. Frank Veronsky presents. $179. 10 a.m.

Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink. Yale. 7 p.m.

Sounds of Spain, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street. www.nasBlack Maria Film Festival, James Stewsauchurch.org.

Performances by Marvin art Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street. www. arts.princeton.edu. Screening of five diverse, Blickenstaff, Kristin Cahill, Jason Gallagher, Angela Triandafillou Jones, Kairy Koshoeva, award-winning, short films. 7:30 p.m. and Allison Shinnick, with special guests Eva The Pirates of Penzance, McCarter Kastner and Trevor Thornton. 2:30 p.m.

Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787.

Swan Lake, McCarter Theater, 91 Uniwww.mccarter.org. Presented by New York’s versity Place, 609-258-2787. Presented by Gilbert & Sullivan Players. 8 p.m. the State Ballet Theatre of Russia. 3 p.m.

Sunday February 10

Richardson Chamber Players, PrincSunday Book Brunch Featuring Ayesha eton University Concerts, Richardson AudiHarruna Attah, Princeton Public Library, torium, 609-258-2800. $15. 3 p.m.

65 Witherspoon Street. Author discusses Barry Schneier, Princeton Public Li“The Hundred Wells of Salaga.” 11 a.m. brary, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924Dark Money, Unitarian Universalist 9529. The photographer talks about “Bruce Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Springsteen: Rock and Roll Future.” 3 p.m.

Road. www.lwvprinceton.org. Documentary Florence in Italian Cinema, Dorothea’s screening. 2 p.m.

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2/15-2/17 • ‘Gatz’

2/16• Variant 6 at All Saints Church

House, 120 John Street. www.dorotheashouse.org. Francesco Pascuzzi presents. Free.

5 p.m.

Thursday February 14

Winter Concert, Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir College. www.rider.edu/arts.

Westminster Community Chorus. $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. 7 p.m.

Toast of the Town Evening Walking Tour, Princeton Tour Company, Princeton University Store, 116 Nassau Street. www. princetontourcompany.com. Learn about famous Princetonians, plus a glass of Prosecco at Mistral. $25. Register. 5 p.m.

Monday February 11 Poets at the Library, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-9249529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Irene Willis and guest readers. 7 p.m.

Tuesday February 12

Valentine’s Day

Black Poetry: A Gala Reading, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. www.blackpoetry.princeton.edu. Readings by Elizabeth Alexander, Kwame Dawes, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Haki Madhubuti, Harryette Mullen, Sonia Sanchez, and Kevin Young. Free. 7 p.m.

Racial Literacy in the Context of DomiBlack Voices Book Group, Princeton nation and Progress, Princeton Adult Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609School, Princeton High School, 151 Moore 924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. “An Street. www.princetonadultschool.org. Pre- American Marriage” by Tayari Jones. 7 p.m. sented by Joy Barnes-Johnson. 8 sessions.

Gabriel Kahane, Princeton University Register. 7 p.m.

Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, 609-258New Jersey Originals: Technological 2800. Vocalist and composer. 7:30 p.m.

Marvels, Odd Inventions, Trailblazing Characters, and More, Princeton Public Friday February 15 Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924Gatz, McCarter Theater, 91 University 9529. Linda J. Barth speaks. 7 p.m.

Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org.

Jewish Center Women presents: Israeli Dancing, The Jewish Center Princeton, 435 Nassau Street. www.thejewishcenter. org. Join Vera Galleid for 90 minutes of Israeli dancing. Register. $12. 7:30 p.m.

Eight-hour performance of “The Great Gatsby,” including two intermissions and a dinner break. $25-$150. Also February 16 and 17. 2 p.m.

Princeton Men’s Basketball, Jadwin ModernMedieval Trio of Voices, Tap- Gymnasium. www.goprincetontigers.com. lin Auditorium. music.princeton.edu. New Harvard. 7 p.m. works by Princeton University students and Walt Michael, Princeton Folk Music Sofaculty. 8 p.m. ciety, Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, 609-799-0944. www.princetonfolk.

Wednesday February 13 org. $20. 7:30 p.m.

Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture, Library Music Live: Songs from Mendel Princeton University Library. “Black GirlMusic Library, Lewis Arts Complex, 120 hood in the Nineteenth Century,” presented Alexander Road. Live performance of music

by Nazera Sadiq Wright. Free. 4:30 p.m. from the locked collection. 7:30 p.m.

Princeton University Concerts with GaLa Double Inconstance, Princeton Unibriel Kahane, Princeton Public Library, 65 versity Art Museum. By L’Avant-Scene Witherspoon Street, 609-924-9529. SingerFrench theater workshop. Free. 8 p.m. songwriter Gabriel Kahane participates in a moderated conversation. 7 p.m.

Saturday February 16 Dianne Reeves, McCarter Theater, 91 I’m With Her, McCarter Theater, 91 UniUniversity Place, 609-258-2787. “Be My Val- versity Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter. entine” program. 7:30 p.m. org. The trio of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Jazz Vespers, Princeton University Cha- and Aoife O’Donovan performs. 7:30 p.m. pel. music.princeton.edu. Service of poetry, Men’s Basketball, Jadwin Gymnasium. music, and meditation. Free. 8 p.m.

Dartmouth. 7 p.m.

2/19 • Katherine Van Dell Fall and Decline, Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 16 All Saints’ Road. www. contemporaryundercurrent.com. Variant 6 performs a world premiere by Greg Brown. $20 suggested donation. 7:30 p.m.

2/21 & 2/26 • Grand Homes & Gardens

2/24 • Lidia Bastianich at Dorothea’s House

Princeton Men’s Basketball, Jadwin Redistricting Reform for a Fairer New Jersey, Maeder Hall. www.lwvprinceton. Gymnasium. www.goprincetontigers.com.

Cornell. 8 p.m. org. Public forum. 7 p.m.

What is Princeton Doing to Be Climate Saturday February 23 Resilient?, Princeton Public Library, 65 Trompe L’Oeil Workshop, Morven MuWitherspoon Street. sustainableprinceton. seum and Gardens, 55 Stockton Street.

Jazz Vocal Collective, Richardson Audi- org. Community discussion. Free. 7 p.m. www.morven.org. Bring acrylic paint, brushtorium, 609-258-9220. music.princeton.edu. es, and a gessoed masonite panel. $65. RegThursday February 21 Featuring Nnenna Freelon. 8 p.m. ister. 10 a.m.

Westminster Conservatory at Nassau, Sunday February 17 Gainsborough’s Family Album, PrincNiles Chapel, 61 Nassau Street. www.rider. eton University Art Museum. artmuseum.

Westminster Conservatory Showcase edu/wcc. Free admission. 12:15 p.m. princeton.edu. Exhibit featuring work by Concert, Richardson Auditorium, 609The Importance of Place in Japanese Thomas Gainsborough. Through Sunday, 258-9220. tickets.princeton.edu. $15. 3 p.m.

Art, Princeton University Art Museum.

June 9. Presentation by James Steward at 5 Guest Recital, Taplin Auditorium. music. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Mai Yamaguchi p.m. followed by reception. 10 a.m. princeton.edu. Tessa Romano, mezzo-sopra- presents. 5:30 p.m.

Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink. www. no. 3 p.m.

Briallen Hopper, Princeton Public Ligoprincetontigers.com. St. Lawrence. 7 p.m. brary, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924Monday February 18 Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, 9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. The author The Women’s College Club of Princ- discusses “Hard to Love,” her debut collection Richard Auditorium. An 80-minute compoeton, All Saints Episcopal Church, 16 All of essays, with English professors Bill Gleason sition full of Rossinian quirks, humor, charm Saints Road. www.wccpnj.org. David Mulford and Rebecca Rainof. 6 p.m. and sincerity. Free. 7:30 p.m. presents “Jimmy Carter: Peanut Farmer to Farruquito, McCarter Theater, 91 UniGrand Homes and Gardens, Morven President.” Free. 1 p.m.

Museum and Gardens, 55 Stockton Street. versity Place, 609-258-2787. Grandson of Robert McGreevey, Princeton Public www.morven.org. Kate Markert discusses flamenco founder El Farruco. 8 p.m.

Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924- the Hillwood Estate Museum and Garden.

Piano & Violin Recital, Miller Chapel, 9529. Author discusses “Borderline Citizens: $15-$60. Register. 6:30 p.m.

Princeton Theological Seminary. Xiaofu Zhou The U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Politics of CoReligion and Conflict Across the Globe: on violin and Yuan Ping on piano. $30. Purlonial Migration.” 7 p.m.

Is There a Remedy?, The Jewish Center chase tickets via Eventbrite. 8 p.m.

Princeton, 435 Nassau Street, 609-921Tuesday February 19 Princeton Men’s Basketball, Jadwin 0100. www.thejewishcenter.org. Presented Gymnasium. Harvard. 8 p.m.

Expert Eye: Jewelry, Historical Society by Professor Peter Ochs. $5. 7:30 p.m. of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Ensemble Three, Taplin Auditorium. Sunday February 24 Road, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory. www.music.princeton.edu.

New works by Lost Then Found, Princeton United org. With Rago director of jewelry Katherine Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventer Avenue, Van Dell. Appointments required for apprais- Princeton students and faculty. 8 p.m.

609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org. als. $5. Noon.

Friday February 22 Church musical for children. 10 a.m.

Schubert Octet for Wind and Strings, Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink. www.goAudrey Welber, Princeton University Princeton University Concerts, Richardson princetontigers.com. Clarkson. 7 p.m.

Chapel. music.princeton.edu. Music of the Auditorium, 609-258-2800. www.princetoCelebrating the Music of Nathanial gospel and jazz traditions. Free. 11 a.m. nuniversityconcerts.org. 6 and 9 p.m.

Dett, Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir ColJoint Recital, McCarter Theater, 91 UniScreening and Discussion: “Free CeCe!”, lege. www.rider.edu/arts. Featuring Clipper versity Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.

Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Erickson, Rochelle Ellis, and the Westminster org. Bass-baritone Eric Owens, tenor LawStreet, 609-924-9529. Documentary on the Jubilee Singers. 7:30 p.m. rence Brownlee. 3 p.m. controversial imprisonment of trans woman Jordi Savall & Hesperion XXI, McCarter and LGBTQ activist CeCe McDonald. Discus“Get Ready for Mardi Gras” with GorTheater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. don James, Princeton Public Library, 65 sion follows. 6:30 p.m. www.mccarter.org. Music inspired by the Street, 609-924-9529. www.

Wednesday February 20 1992 French film “Tous les matins du monde.” Witherspoon princetonlibrary.org. Trumpeter and vocalist Topics & Trends in Education, Lewis 8 p.m.

Gordon James and his band. 3 p.m.

band performs its innovative blend of folk, jazz, and world music. $10. 3 p.m.

Lidia Bastianich, Dorothea’s House, 120 John Street. www.dorotheashouse.org. The television host, cookbook author, and restaurateur discusses her memoir, “My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food.”

Proceeds benefit Princeton High School students. $75. Register. 5 p.m.

Monday February 25 Engaged Retirement: Financial Basics for the 50+, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-9529. Jeanette Yu of AARP discusses financial issues for those 50. 7 p.m.

Tuesday February 26 James Cone Tribute, Princeton Public Library, Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street.

609-924-9529. Elaine Pagels and Chris Hedges pay tribute to James Cone and discuss his posthumously published book “Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian.” 6 p.m.

Grand Homes and Gardens, Morven Museum & Gardens, 55 Stockton Street. www.morven.org. Bill Thomas discusses the Chanticleer Garden. $15-$60. Register. 6:30 p.m.

Jamie Bernstein, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-9249529. The daughter of composer Leonard Bernstein discusses her book “Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing up Bernstein.”

7 p.m.

Paddy Moloney and the Chieftains, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Irish music and dance. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday February 27 Keller Center at Princeton University, Maeder Hall, 609-258-3979. commons.princeton.edu/kellercenter. Innovation Forum competition featuring three-minute elevator pitches for $30,000 in venture funding prize money. 3 to 6 p.m.

Thursday February 28

Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih, PrincSchool of Princeton, 53 Bayard Lane, 609Organ Concert: Around the World in 20th Anniversary Celebration, Klez eton University Concerts, Richardson Au924-8120. www.lewisschool.org. Seminar on Eight Compositions, Princeton University Dispensers, Richardson Auditorium, 609- ditorium. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.

“Memory and Attention.” Register. 1 to 2:30 Chapel. music.princeton.edu. Organ reper258-9229. tickets.princeton.edu. Klezmer org. Music for cello and piano. 8 p.m. p.m. toire from eight countries. Free. 8 p.m.

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Korean BBQ comes to town bulgogi (marinated beef), chicken, breaded chicken (katsu), spicy pork, he success of the Chipotle Mexi- tofu, shrimp tempura, and Spam, and can Grill revolutionized Tex- you can choose from among white, Mex cuisine in America. Din- fried, and kimchi-fried rice. ers responded to the restaurant chain’s There are several default combinafast-casual, assembly-line menu, where tions, or you can create your own mix they could watch staff make their bur- of rice, protein, and toppings. LA Style ritos and burrito bowls as they dictated comes with chicken on a bed of white rice with lettuce, corn, tomato, cilantro, what did and didn’t go into them.

Slowly but surely, we’re starting to lime juice, Asian vinaigrette, and smoky see the Chipotle model applied to other KBG sauce. KBG Style has bulgogi, red cuisines. Piccolo Pronto, which opened cabbage, kimchi, pickled cucumbers, in the College of New Jersey’s Campus bean sprouts, and KGB sauce on a bed Town in 2016, uses it to serve pizza and of kimchi fried rice. Other toppings pasta. And last fall more restaurants include pickled cucumber, fried egg, cheese, and sour opened with the cream. same idea, includThere are also ing KBG Korean At KbG Korean bbQ a few side items BBQ and Grill at on nassau Street available, includ180 Nassau Street. ing fries ($6.95), It is the latest res- customers can finemandoo (fried taurant to establish dumplings, 5 for a location first in tune their meals to suit $6), and soonNew Brunswick their palates and not doobu (spicy tofu before making its soup, $9.95 to way down Route ruin their diets. $11.95), as well as 27. chicken tenders Although there and wings offered are a number of Asian fusion restaurants in the area with Korean dishes with eight different sauces, including on their menus, including Nassau Su- citrus pepper and mango habanero.

It’s easy to see the appeal of the KBG shi across the street and Soonja’s Cafe down on Alexander, KBG is the first in concept. Portions are generous, and Mercer County to call itself a Korean customers can readily fine-tune their meals to suit their palates. Calorie BBQ restaurant.

Like Chipotle, KBG’s menu is small, counters can put together a dish that and so is the restaurant: there are just wouldn’t ruin their diets. A heaping a handful of seats that often fill up for bowl or a stuffed burrito plus some lunch, leaving take-out your only re- wings or fries should fill any empty alistic option at times. The main at- stomach, and with so many toppings tractions are bowls of rice, lettuce, or to choose from regulars would find it cabbage topped with proteins, veggies, difficult to grow bored with the menu. and condiments ($8.45 to $10.95), or KBG, 180 Nassau Street, open from tacos or burritos ($9.95) stuffed with 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. www.eatkbg. the same ingredients. Proteins include com.

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here’s no better way to end hump day than with a relaxing glass (or two) of wine. Add in some snacks and interesting conversation, and you have the Peacock Inn’s new Wednesday afternoon wine tastings.

From 4 to 6 p.m. the bar transforms into a vineyard-style tasting room, and representatives from different wineries present a tasting including information on production, different varietals, and food pairings. The cost is $24 per person, which includes fruit, cheese, charcuteries, crackers, and crudites.

Upcoming featured wines include Signarello Estates cabernet sauvignons on February 6; Tattinger champagnes on February 13; and Brewer Clifton pinot noirs and chardonnays on February 20. For details: www.peacockinn. com or 609-924-1707.

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FINE DINING BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT Valentine’s Day is around the corner and you really really want to impress your date, huh? Or are you just in the mood for a classy dinner with white table clothes, candles and all, but just can’t seem to find where all of the upscale places seem to hide? Fret no more. We found 5 of the fanciest, shmansiest and classiest restaurants in Princeton that are sure to impress any company you bring along. Now all you have to worry about is which fork to use. Bon Appetit!

1. AGRICOLA EATERY 11 Witherspoon St, Princeton 609.921.2798 • jammincrepes.com

“This is hands down the best restaurant in the area. The food is eclectic,in season, and always consistent. It’s one of my favorite places for a celebration or just a fun night out. The cocktail list is always rotating too. One of the best parts of Agricola is the ability for them to create such intricate meals while obtaining all their ingredients from local vendors.

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2. THE PEACOCK INN 20 Bayard Lane, Princeton 609.924.1707 • peacockinn.com

“We’ve been to every restaurant numerous times in Princeton, and this one is by far the top of the list. What a lovely dining experience with wait professionals attentive and helpful.

The food was delicious and the atmosphere was relaxing and comfortable. I loved my cocktail version of an Old Fashioned with a huge cube of ice adding to the sensual pleasure of the masterpiece of a drink” – Maulik M, Monroe

“A perfect gem nestled in the heart of Hopewell - a phenomenal dinner...The menu seems somewhat seasonal, so I look forward to coming here again and again, to see what each season brings!”

– Robin G, Princeton

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businesses is the concept of design thinking.

Design thinking is a solutions-based approach to problem solving, which is increasingly being embraced by enBy the Princeton Merchants trepreneurs. But you don’t start with a specific problem, you start with a topic Association area. Do you need, for example, to crehat question is at the center of the ate a service? For whom? Moms? Single Princeton Merchants Associa- people? Travelers? tion’s Tuesday, February 19, member meeting. We’re pleased to open the uellstrunk says the design thinkfloor to experts from the startup coming process builds on these munity, including our keynote guest, parameters and generates questions Cornelia Huellstrunk, executive direc- that challenge — or maybe disrupt? — tor of the Keller Center at Princeton ingrained and assumed ways of thinkUniversity. She and other panelists ing. The aim is to empathize with cuswill share insights into start-ups and tomers by thinking through what they entrepreneurialism. want and need, rather than just handSo what makes startups different ing them something irrelevant. from small businesses? After all, ev“No one wants to create a solution ery business needs funds to get off the for a problem no one has,” Huellstrunk ground, right? And they all have some says. form of customer interaction.

Startups use the analytics they cull But there are some key differences from design thinking and apply them between small businesses and startups. to real issues they face; and many of Small businesses like retail shops or those issues apply to small businesses. restaurants tend to be more about di- A restaurant and a social media comrect customer service; interactions be- pany both want to get the best talent on tween real people that run on passion their payrolls, right? and interpersonal relationships with But when it comes to attracting talcustomers. ent, startups can Starts-ups, on the teach small busiStartups use the other hand, tend nesses a lot, espeto be businesses cially if that small analytics they cull for which tech is business is looking the product. These from design thinking to attract younger businesses can start workers. Startups and apply them to small, but they tend tend to focus on to try to create enadults and real issues they face; younger tirely new industry usually offer a less models; to disrupt hierarchical enviand many of those or revolutionize the ronment to work issues apply to small in than long-estabway people live their lives. In the process lished businesses. businesses. startups often have Companies like to awaken customer Google famously demand for their ditch the fancy titles product or service. and cubicle farms in favor of a more fun They need to identify innovative ways vibe, right down to their famous slide in which to connect with the end user. at its headquarters. If small businesses This all gives startups a distinct cul- want to have that youthful, playful vibe, ture that many local merchants find they need to focus on how younger fascinating. Small business owners, like workers think about and interact with so many of our PMA members, really work the way startups do. want to know more about the tools, Of course, small businesses have a lot processes, and mindsets that start-ups to teach young startup entrepreneurs have embraced — and about oppor- too. Understanding how to not create tunities for partnership between PMA a solution for a problem no one has members and area startups. comes from knowing people, face to This is becoming more important by face. That’s why so many of our memthe day as tech continues to be an ever bers have worked with Princeton Unibigger part of life and the customer versity to help budding tech entrepreexperience. And that means that even neurs understand the basics of running mom-and-pop shops on Main Street a business, from building a vision to need to understand how to engage creating the best customer experience customers and potential customers in possible. more innovative ways. In the era of EThe Princeton Merchants Associacommerce and online consumption, tion knows that the best relationships small brick-and-mortar businesses in business go both ways. And we welnow find themselves in an increas- come opportunities to partner with ingly competitive environment and are our community and our future game called to innovate. changers.

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PARTING SHOT

The sounds of heaven

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ime in the Netherlands sings,” wrote the Italian Edmondo De Amicis in 1874 in his book “Olanda,” referring to the sounds of the omnipresent carillons that accompanied him on his journey through Holland.

Princeton has its own version. At regular times, the fourth University Carilloneur, Lisa J. Lonie, climbs the 197 stairs of the Collegiate Gothic Cleveland Tower and starts to pound 20 tons of bronze bells with her fists and feet. A tsunami of sound pours out over the quiet town. Closing windows and doors makes no sense. Everyone in the widest range of earshot is recruited into her audience.

To quote Bertus Aafjes: “The whole sky is saturated with sound in an instant. It grumbles, it thunders, it hails, it clatters and suddenly there is another burst of sound.” The firmament is played, nothing less. Think of music as an atmospheric phenomenon.

Rhapsodic is not the first word that comes to mind when you think about the carillon. It is above all a firm message sent to the heavens, loud and clear.

God created man puny and mortal, but man responds with timeless compositions that even the Creator does not imagine. And with the volume knob

By Pia de Jong set on 10. Like an ecstatic puppeteer, the carilloneur pulls the strings that animate the sounds of the heavens.

The carillon tower is close to our house, part of the university’s picturesque graduate college that is rich with Harry Potteresque trappings. The PhD students are housed here, at a suitable distance from the undergraduates. In this pastoral environment they can focus on their dissertations, free of distractions. Except from the carillon, which is silent only at examination time.

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ell towers have run like a heartbeat through my own life. On the market square in my Dutch home town, Roermond, the carillon sounded above the shouts of the merchants. At the top of the Dom Tower in Utrecht I gave my college graduation party, when the guests held their hands as the bells rang.

In Amsterdam I lay in my bed at night and tried to distinguish the sounds and melodies of the different churches and the Royal Palace on Dam Square.

For a while we lived in the neighborhood near the very loud Western Church. Our neighbor, who, incidentally, did not shy away from using his power saw for hours on Sunday morn-

Illustration by Eliane Gerrits

ings, was so annoyed by the bells that he started a petition to silence the carillon. Shouldn’t the clock care if people wanted to sleep? The reaction was predictable. When you arrive at the Western, you arrive at the church that Anne Frank heard and wrote about.

His movement failed.

The carillon in Princeton also has a loyal fan base. During the warmest concert season, people from all over the world come to listen every Sunday.

They sit in the grass on their quilts or bring their own folding chairs. They all look up at the confident tower from which both Bach and the Beatles sound.

There is, how could it be otherwise, a clear Dutch touch to this American carillon. A clock has been cast in AarleRixtel. It is not uncommon for a guest carilloneur from the Netherlands to visit and play. And recently Princeton’s Lisa Lonie played the carillon in my home town of Roermond. In my imagination, I could hear the bells ringing out over the ocean. The firmament carries far.

Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. Her bestselling memoir, “Charlotte,” was published in 2017 in the U.S. She can be contacted at piadejong. com.

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ESTABLISHED SALON FOR SALE IN EWING. Owner relocating, serious inquiries only. Call 609-434-1300 ask for Maria.

COMMERCIAL WASHER AND DRYERS FOR SALE. Various sizes.

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