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Lights, Camera, Trenton

Filmmakers like Tony Catanese, above, are keeping the capital city in the public eye.

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Key changes in the Trenton music scene, 6; African American beauty at the State Museum, 10.

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First Fridays on Front and Warren back on calendar

City Museum ready to reopen Ellarslie Open

he African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County (TAACCMC) in partnership with 1911 Smokehouse and City of Trenton’s Department of Recreation, resumes its monthly Capital City First Friday events on Friday, May 6.

The free event that has attracted thousands of participants since its start in 2017 will take place at the corner of Front and Warren Streets from 5 to 10 p.m.

Set from May until September, each First Friday will be themed and involve local talent and businesses.

Previous First Fridays have featured live bands, spoken word artists, cultural dance performances, DJs, arts and crafts, children’s activities, and even a fashion show/preview for Trenton Fashion Week.

Limited vending opportunities remain for local businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations as plans for exciting activities in 2022 are being finalized. More information: www.TAACF. com or 609-474-4073.

he Trenton City Museum’s annual Ellarslie Open juried art show invites artists to submit artwork through Thursday, May 12, via its online Call for Art. Walter Wickiser, of Wickiser Gallery in New York City, will jury the 2022 show.

Artists may submit up to six works, with a maximum of two from any of the 10 primary judging categories. Complete instructions, timeline, and entry link are found at www.ellarslie.org. The top award, Best In Show Overall, carries a prize of $1,000. Best In Show in 2021 was awarded to Mikhail Gubin of New York City.

Showcasing contemporary work by established and emerging artists from across the region and beyond, the Ellarslie Open has developed into the area’s premier annual juried exhibition since it began in 1983. In 2021, out of 619 entries, it exhibited 136 diverse works of art by artists from greater Trenton, across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, and beyond. The 2022 show will open June 25 and remain on view

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through October 2. Details about exhibition events will be announced.

Walter Wickiser’s career as an art dealer formally began in 1990 in Soho, New York, when he became the first director of the first gallery to be established in the United States from mainland China. This led to establishing his primary direction as a gallery director to exhibit work by American and AsianAmerican painters, as well as artists from China, Japan, and Korea. The focus of the Wickiser Gallery is to create a visual dialogue between various cultures and remind viewers of the ability of art to transcend cultural boundaries.

Since 1993 Wickiser Gallery has worked with the U.S. State Department and Art for Embassies Program. Wickiser’s artists have exhibited in the U.S. Embassies in Seoul, Moscow, Manila, Qatar, Bucharest, and Cypress, to name a few. Since 2003 The Wickiser Gallery has exhibited at dozens of International Art Fairs including Art Aspen, Art Busan, Art Hamptons, Art Miami, Art on Paper, Art Toronto, Houston Fine Art Fair, LA Art Show, and the Seattle Art Fair.

Wickiser Gallery has received numer-

ous reviews in ArtNews, Art In America, Art and Antiques, the Washington Post, Tampa Bay Times, and the Huffington Post. Work by many of its artists have been exhibited at American museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the High Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the New Britain Museum of American Art. The Trenton City Museum is housed in Ellarslie Mansion, an 1848 Italianate Villa in the heart of Trenton’s historic Cadwalader Park, which was designed

by Frederick Law Olmsted. Ongoing and rotating shows explore Trenton’s history and culture and showcase contemporary regional fine arts.

Museum hours are Friday and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. There is no admission charge, but donations in support of the museum’s mission and programs are appreciated.

For more information on Ellarslie Open 39, visit www.ellarslie.org or contact exhibits@ellarslie.org or call 609989-1191.

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ayor W. Reed Gusciora noted the following after the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation (CCRC) April 20 vote to issue a Notice to Award the Sale of the former State Division of 930 Spruce Street, Lawrence, NJ 08648 |Main Line: (609)-989-6522 Taxation building to TerraCycle US, LLC : (609)-278-2713 | NJ BoardofElections@mercercounty.org and proceed with the negotiation of a 930Fax Spruce Street, Lawrence, 08648 |Main Line: (609)-989-6522 Purchase and Sale and Redevelopment Fax : (609)-278-2713 | BoardofElections@mercercounty.org Agreement (PSARA).

“I’m gratified that the CCRC took the initial step to seek new owners for the Taxation Building. And I’m especially pleased to see that TerraCycle would be keeping their operations in Trenton and moving their headquarters downtown,” said Mayor Gusciora. “I’m hopeful for a successful negotiation that will begin to draw on the untapped potential of our downtown area.”

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by NJM Insurance Group, have announced the 2022 schedule as they return to defend their inaugural league championship with 40 home games at Trenton Thunder Ballpark. The six-team futures league works in conjunction with Major League Baseball as a top collegiate summer league that showcases draft-eligible players leading into each summer’s Amateur Draft The MLB Draft League expanded the league schedule to 80 games, providing fans with 40 chances to come watch the Thunder at Trenton Thunder Ballpark during the 2022 season.

The Thunder open the home portion of their schedule with a six-game homestand starting on Tuesday, June 7, against the Williamsport Crosscutters.

That is the first of three long homestands throughout the season, with the final home game coming on Sunday, August 28 against the Frederick Keys. The MLB Draft League’s All-Star break will also take place from Sunday, July 17, to Thursday, July 21.

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activity it will potentially generate for the city.”

The Treasurer noted that a number of steps must still be taken before negotiations can commence and the sale can be finalized. Governor Phil Murphy must now approve or veto CCRC’s board minutes before the board’s action is final.

Treasury must consent to the disposition of the property. After the approval process and negotiation of the agreement are completed, the official award to TerraCycle US, LLC and the final PSARA must also be approved by the CCRC Board prior to execution.

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Trenton music groups make key changes in staff and names

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renton’s Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey has hired a new executive director. In fact, it’s its first executive director. And with more than 20 years’ experience in arts management, Kate Mulligan would seem like a sound choice.

But then when you hear her talk about her other passion — she’s an award-winning equestrian jumper — you soon realize you’re listening to a champion with a drive for excellence.

Mulligan has held the executive reins of several organizations, including Princeton Pro Musica and Trenton Children’s Chorus. She has overseen the merger of the chorus with Trenton Music Makers to form a new entity, Capital Harmony Works. And she has revitalized a therapeutic equine facility in Hunterdon County, Riding with HEART, again becoming the organization’s executive director.

Mulligan took up her position on January 31. She and her family make their home in Frenchtown, where they live on a 70-acre farm — enough land to accommodate their collective passion for horses. There are 20 horses on the farm.

“Horses are a very important, big part

Kate Mulligan is the first executive director of the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey. of our lives,” she says. “It takes a lot to compete.”

Her older daughter, 12, is a polo player.

Her younger daughter, 9, is a show jumper. Her husband, Mark, has a polo team.

She recalls being obsessed with horses as a child. “Nobody else in my family rode,” she says. “I grew up pretty close to a county stable, where luckily it was

$10 a lesson, and that included the horse rental and everything. I got my first job working in a barn when I was 12, and just worked my way up the ranks, until I competed internationally, and have done quite a bit, up to the grand prix level.”

But she has also always been rooted in music. “I was singing as soon as I could talk. My mom was a jazz vocalist when I

was a child, and one of my aunts graduated from Westminster Choir College.

On my father’s side, everyone was a musician and a teacher.”

Holidays and summer vacations included an hour of band practice, with arrangements written by her grandfather.

Participation was mandatory.

“I grew up listening to music being practiced and performed. I studied voice, piano, and trombone, briefly. The family band consisted of flute, tuba, saxophone, trumpet, and trombone, with grandparents, parents, and cousins all participating. Growing up, I performed in choirs and as a soloist, singing both classical and jazz repertoire.”

She found she also had a good head for practical matters, starting a dog-walking business at 12, managing a restaurant at 16, and renting rooms out in college so she had a free place to stay.

“At Westminster, I decided that I wanted to do more than just perform,” she says. “I wanted to support arts organizations so that they could thrive.”

She earned a B.A. from Westminster in arts management and marketing, and then went on to collect an M.B.A. from Rutgers in nonprofit arts management and marketing.

She and her husband first met at West-

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through its annual kite-flying festival that is perfect for entertaining more than just families. Guests can make, bring or choose a kite to use while country music, pony rides, games and other activities round out the day.

Animal lovers looking to observe Terhune’s sheep shearer cutting fleece off of the animal may do so on Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m. while other farm creatures, including dwarf Nigerian goats, donkeys, and bunnies, mill about leisurely.

If that “shear” amount of fun activities are not enough, for the adults in attendance, the Wine Orchard is open with Terhune’s 18 varieties of wine available by the glass, tasting flights, and in slushies. Light fare will be available for everyone, as well as apple cider donuts and three varieties of apple cider made from the orchard’s own fruit. Children under three are complimentary and parking is free.

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eration of the Mount family to farm in the central New Jersey area. “It’s just a fun way to celebrate the renewal season.”

The Mount family has a long lineage dedicated to owning, and running, the farm for more than 45 years, according to Tannwen Mount. The 250-acre property is open all year long, but the warmer months are where the Mount family’s expertise gets to shine.

As part of those plans, Terhune’s Winery Weekend Music Series will see local musicians playing out in the wine orchard, where Mount hopes that their “historic” apple trees will be ready in time for the full visual experience. Reservations are not required.

On Mother’s Day weekend in particular, the lively tunes are set to continue, but mothers will receive $2s off of Terhune’s tasting flights. Mount said that while the orchard is a family friendly place, their goal for May 8 is to help mothers take it easy.

Then, the owner of Terhune, Pam Mount, is set to run her free annual herb and garden class on Saturday, May 14, to help attendees recognize the timely importance of preparing their gardens.

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other things. We like to share our knowledge with everyone and everyone, after a long winter, is ready to get out and about and get their gardens ready,” Tannwen Mount said.

Terhune’s pick-your-own crop is also back on as soon as their asparagus pokes its head out of the ground, which is set

to happen in early May. The farm grows 46 different crops in total, and about a dozen of them are offered in this “handson experience of being their own farmers,” as Tannwen Mount noted. A full list of what crop is next to pop up, from strawberries to pumpkins, can be found via updates on their social media.

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Dog days are far from over at this award-winning winery, which is set to feature live music and food trucks every weekend in May. On Mother’s Day, there will be music by local rock band Spoondrift from 1 to 5 p.m., as well as Lobster Rolls and More, a seafood-oriented food truck.

Working Dog is only for those 21 and older and does not take reservations.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs, pop-up tents, umbrellas and/ or blankets. Outside food, except for pizza and large hoagies, is allowed, and Working Dog has a list of suggested pairings at their website, workingdogwinerynj.com/our-wines. No outside beverages are permitted. Dogs are allowed outside on leashes only.

Wine from Working Dog is featured at Mercer County locations such as Padrino’s Bistro & Italian Steakhouse in Hamilton, Chambers Walk Cafe & Catering in Lawrenceville, and Villa Mannino in Bordentown.

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46 Yard Road, Pennington. Mother’s Day Brunch, Sunday, May 8, 11 a.m. $38.95 each adult plus gratuity ($46.74) and tax; $13.95 each child 10 and under plus gratuity ($16.74) and tax. Reserve by May 4. Regular Business Hours: Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Friday to Saturday noon to 8:30 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m. 609-737-4465 or www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

80 Old York Road, Ringoes. Mother’s Day Weekend Celebration Friday through Sunday, May 6 to May 8, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Regular Business Hours: Saturday to Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday 11:30 to 9 p.m. www.oldyorkcellars.com.

Hopewell Valley Vineyards’ menu for this brunch features their famous ricotta pancakes, brick oven breakfast pizzas, baked goods and more. Wine, mimosas and bellinis will be available for purchase.

Children under two are complimentary.

Old york Cellars offers cabanas that can be reserved to enjoy your wine and food.

Unionville Winery 9 Rocktown Road, Ringoes. Release weekend Saturdy and Sunday, May 14 and 15. Open noon to 5 p.m. daily. Wine tastings are $20 per person. 908-788-0400 or www.unionvillevineyards.com.

It’s release weekend for the newest edition of Unionville Winery’s three Rhône-inspired wines, the Hunterdon Mistral Series, which have a uniquely French background. General manager

John Cifelli explained that the inspiration came from the term for the intensely frigid, powerful wind that travels through Southern France to the coastland.

“The mistral is a wind that blows through the [Rhône] River Valley every spring, and so we named this collection of wines after the wind,” Cifelli said. The force gives grapes grown during the fierce weather a unique advantage. By

ridding the sky of clouds and the cooled vines of insects, the grapes are less likely to rot, making for a delicious, prized wine.

Tastings are by appointment at noon, 2, and 4 p.m. Guests can enjoy à la carte lunch options made-to-order by Skillman cafe Blawenburg Bistro, and there will also be live guitar music with singersongwriter James Popik on Sunday.

Mingling Spanish cuisine and luxury wine, Old York Cellars prides itself on its diversity, continuing that trend for Mother’s Day weekend. Anthony Rossi, director of B2B & partnerships, recommends that anyone looking to spend the holiday in style make reservations for Old York’s array of wine tasting experiences supplemented by live music acts and numerous culinary options.

For $55, the “Special Mother’s Day Platter & Wine” features an artisan board of Spanish chorizo, serrano ham, gouda and manchego cheese, olives, almonds and grapes. A pair of wine-infused cupcakes from BAM Desserts will be served in two flavors — chocolate with red wine, and vanilla with Old York’s Riesling wine.

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cally doing a live cooking paella demo on our patio. There’s music playing, people drinking wine and sangria. It’s a really nice vibe,” Rossi said of the experience, which also includes live music until 9 p.m.

There is wine and live music on Fridays, Saturdays and Memorial Day. Other events include wine and comedy nights on Saturdays, May 7 and 21, as well as the virtual Foreign Language Educators of NJ Wine Tasting Experience on May 13 to raise funds for senior scholarships. Tasting kits are $80 each.

Wine from Old York Cellars is featured at Mercer County restaurants such as Delorenzo’s Pizza in Hamilton and Local Greek in Princeton.

Old York’s online Mother Day’s gifts consist of wine or sangria gift box collections, wine-infused products, and other unique options like customized labels for wine at $20 per bottle.

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While Laurita Winery’s Mother’s Day Brunch is sold out, there will be one of the winery’s signature food truck festivals, SpringFest, on Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22. With fireworks on Saturday night, live music, and a free souvenir Laurita wine glass, the weekend can be used to spoil anyone, especially mothers.

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The musical acts for Sunday, May 8, are rock singer-songwriter Josh Zuckerman, followed by the Mike Viscel OneMan Band, from noon to 6:30 p.m.

As part of its regular ensemble, “Chef José’s Wine and Tapas Experience” features Spanish tapas created by Old York’s Chef José Diaz in a “treat for the senses” available weekends at 2 p.m. for $40 per person.

“Chef José’s Six Course Pairing Experience” highlights Diaz’s “old world style” of Spanish cooking, taking guests through the courses and explaining “how the unique components of the food and wine create epicurean harmony,” as stated on the Old York website. The menu includes tapas, entrees, desserts and wine, available on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m. for $70 per person.

The “Wine, Charcuterie and Chocolate Experience” features artisan meats and cheeses, as well as chocolate truffles, on weekends at 12:30 p.m. for $30 per person.

In addition to these tastings, weekend table reservations are open from Friday to Sunday. Old York has cabanas, available for weekday and weekend reservations. The cabanas can seat up to six people as they look over the vineyard, warmed by a fire pit, and guests at both the tables and cabanas may order from the winery food menu. Table reservations are $20 per person, and cabanas are $30 per person. $15 of each purchase is allocated towards credit for purchases while visiting the winery.

Beginning in late May, there are also plans to have “Paella on the Patio” every Friday night from 5 to 7 p.m.

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Cream Ridge Winery 145 County Road 539, Cream Ridge.

“Mom-Mosas,” Saturday, May 7, noon to 6 p.m., and Sunday, May 8, noon to 5 p.m.

Free admission. Regular Business Hours: Monday to Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m. www.creamridgewinery.com.

On Mother’s Day, kick back with a bubbly cocktail of Cream Ridge Winery’s sparkling Riesling and Seyval wine blend, Sparkling Personality, and tart orange juice. The last call is 30 minutes before closing.

Every weekend in May, like many of the wineries featured, Cream Ridge has live music, their performers playing from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, then 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. For more sweet treats, Waffle Cabin Monmouth County Food Truck will be serving up hot Belgian waffles made with sugar pearls all of Sunday.

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For groups of six people and more, Cream Ridge requests patrons to call ahead, but otherwise, reservations are not required. Outside food is allowed, but no outside alcohol is permitted. Attendees are welcome to bring their own setup of chairs, tables, tents, etc. to get comfortable as they take in the 14 acres of vineyard. *** For other wine trails and Mother’s Day events throughout New Jersey, the Hunterdon Wine Trail goes across the county’s five wineries, which includes two of the Ringoes locations featured in this article — Beneduce Vineyards, Mount Salem Vineyards, Old York Cellars, The Federal Twist Vineyard and Unionville Vineyards — for what the Garden State Wine Growers Association calls “the ‘Napa Valley’ of New Jersey.” Tomasello Winery in Hammonton also has a Mother’s Day Brunch on May 8.

Regardless of if you visit these New Jersey wineries sometime in May or for Mother’s Day, there is little to “wine” about, as this part of the state certainly knows how to keep the celebration going.

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In recent years, the vegan movement has grown considerably, with new restaurants popping up every day as more and more people take to the lifestyle.

“When we first signed the lease for this place there was an article in Forbes about how the vegan movement was blowing up and we didn’t even think that would be a thing. We just wanted to do what we were doing!” says Francesca Avitto, co-owner of Lady and the Shallot. “When this place first opened, there wasn’t another vegan place from here to Princeton. We just want to see more healthy places and more vegan places open.”

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“We have people from all different walks of life, we have old retired people trying to watch their health and then the young generation who’s gonna change the world, it’s amazing to see the different demographics that come in because it’s all over now,” Avitto says.

Before Lady and the Shallot opened, it would have been difficult to find a vegan restaurant near the Mercer County area.

Now, places like the Trenton Farmers Market is overflowing with healthy eating options that include two vegan restaurants: The Lady and the Shallot and the Savory Leaf Café.

Lady and the Shallot came onto the scene in 2018. Founders Francesca Avitto and Kate Wnek looked to make plant-based comfort foods that not only tasted good, but also made you feel good.

It wasn’t always their goal to open up a vegan restaurant though. That came out of the blue on one fateful evening.

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she was 17, and went vegan five years ago. Kate decided to become vegan at the same time. “It was a big turnaround for me, I grew up eating everything, so it was hard for me to stop. But over time we just went with the flow,” she says.

The pair had a catering events company seven years ago, when they weren’t vegan. They cooked upscale catering, and did intimate dinner parties where they cooked in clients’ kitchens in the Princeton area.

“It was pretty cool, but it wasn’t as rewarding as making people feel healthy,” Francesca says.

They still do catering, and while at first their goals for the future were more along the lines of world domination, with locations everywhere making everyone in the world healthy, they have scaled those back a bit to something more realistic. Right now, their big future plan is to go all in on their sauces and to get them sold in stores.

“We really want to do a sauce line,”

Francesca says. “We’re really into our sauces, we think they’re really good, our customers love them. We started selling them and we want to do them wholesale to get them in really good supermarkets and have everyone able to eat a very healthy, limited-ingredient sauce,” Francesca said.

For a long time, the lack of vegan restaurants made it very difficult for people to adopt the lifestyle. “It was very hard to be vegan back then in 1997, you had to either go into Manhattan or cook it yourself! So that was the only thing that stopped me from being fully vegan,” Francesca says.

That same challenge is what led Eduardo Calderon to open up his vegan restaurant, Savory Leaf Cafe, at the Farmers Market back in 2019. For over a decade before opening, Eduardo had been a vegan and always struggled with finding healthy options.

Authentic and flavorful food has always been important to him, and it was

the idea of making good healthy food for good souls to enjoy.

“I’ve been a vegan for about 15 years now, and it was always difficult to find something to eat, so I kinda like, as a joke, said I’m going to open up my own place.

But it actually made sense, so that’s how it came about, out of necessity but it was actually a good opportunity,” Calderon says.

When it came to his vegan lifestyle, there wasn’t an overnight change where he stopped everything in favor of going vegan. It unfortunately came from some food poisoning that would end up changing his life forever.

“I got sick really bad one time from some cold cuts I had had, and from that point, I had stopped eating poultry and then a few months later just only fish and vegetables and then slowly taking one thing out,” he says.

Calderon worked in computer development for 15 years and finance for 20 years before deciding to switch careers again.

He wanted more control over his career, and found that in the restaurant industry.

As for where he learned how to cook, it’s a passion that he has been practicing and perfecting his entire life. Spending his childhood surrounded by food in a home where he was always cooking, he took to it naturally.

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Left: tacos from Lady and the Shallot. Right: ribs from Savory Leaf Café. Both of these vegan restaurants are in Trenton Farmers Market. (Facebook photos.) fortunate to have been raised in a home where we always were cooking,” he says. “My dad always used to say my last name, Calderon, was for someone who was always cooking!”

Calderon wanted to bring the flavors he grew up with into the vegan industry.

“What I wanted to do was take a lot of the foods that I enjoy already normally and take out all the other stuff, but keep the flavor still in there,” Eduardo said.

This all started with Savory Leaf’s signature dish, the vegan ribs. From there on out, all of the recipes were created by Calderon and his partner, Chris. They

even go as far as to make their own “cold cuts” for the sandwiches.

“My partner Chris and I came up with everything, It started off originally our main thing was ribs, and then we started looking into other kind of foods we could turn vegan, and we came up with it all ourselves,” Eduardo said.

One thing that makes Savory Leaf cafe different is the experimentation in their recipes. Calderon is determined to not let anything go to waste and wants to make the most of what he has, turning it all into something for people to enjoy.

“Right now something that we’re mak-

ing is pork sliders using banana peels. We make banana bread here, and I was seeing a pile of peels and I started researching and seeing what other people were doing and I started using it and it became a hit!” Eduardo said.

Savory Leaf Cafe also has a food truck.

“People were asking if we could cater here, and from there I got the idea that it would be easier if we had some sort of vehicle to transport stuff around and cook in,” Calderon says.

Calderon wants to continue growing the business. “We’re in the process now of expanding into another location in the Mercer area, keeping this one as well, but in a more commercialized environment to test it out in the open outside of the farmers market,” he says.

Calderon is from Florida. He has been in the Trenton area for over 20 years. “My daughter moved here (for college), so I just kind of followed her up, and she finished school here and moved away and now I’m kind of stuck here! But I like the area a lot. It’s been very nice,” he says.

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To learn more about women’s health services at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, call 732.745.8600 or visit saintpetershcs.com/womenshealth

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Paragon Sport Spine & Wellness Resources for Pelvic Health Most of us have heard the term pelvic floor, but do you know what it is and what it does?

The pelvic floor is everything inside the bowl of the bony pelvis. It contains the pelvic organs, the pelvic floor muscles and connective tissue, and all the nerves and blood vessels that supply these structures. The pelvic floor muscles have four main functions: they control your bladder and bowel continence, assist in sexual function, stabilize your pelvis, and provide support to the pelvic organs.

How prevalent is pelvic floor dysfunction and what are common conditions that people seek treatment for?

Some studies have found that more than a third of individuals who identify as a female have pelvic floor dysfunction — so chances are you or someone else you know suffers from this.

You may not think you have pelvic floor dysfunction but do any of these scenarios sound familiar?

• Do you have to cross your legs when you sneeze or avoid running and jumping activities due to leaking urine?

• Do you avoid long car rides or restrict fluid intake in fear of not making the bathroom in time?

Or do you urinate frequently (>10x/day or >1x at night)

• Do you have pain with use of tampons or have pain with intercourse?

• Do you have pain in your pelvic region — genitals, perineum, rectum or tailbone?

• Do you feel like you cannot completely empty your bowels or bladder and have to go back soon after to try again?

What does treatment consist of?

If you experience any of these symptoms a visit to a qualified pelvic floor therapist is recommended. The evidence for pelvic floor therapy is strong. There have been multiple studies and reviews published that demonstrate grade A evidence for pelvic floor rehab as a first line treatment for most of the aforementioned conditions.

Your treatment will be individualized to your specific presentation and goals utilizing a full body approach. Treatment consists of patient education, strategies, and removal of negative barriers to recovery in addition to specific therapies that many include internal release, pelvic repositioning strategies, pelvic floor muscle down training and relaxation, pelvic strengthening exercises, bladder retraining, biofeedback, and core/ hip strengthening.

In addition, Paragon Sport Spine & Wellness offers a full host of orthopedic rehabilitation services including physical & occupational therapy, chiropractic, and acupuncture for most all musculoskeletal aches and pains. For more information, visit www.paragonssw.com or call us at 609-686-2050.

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Dr. Patel specializes in the treatment of back pain, neck pain, joint pain, and facial pain as well as cancer-related pain. While training across the country with leaders in pain management, Dr. Patel acquired advanced skills in innovative spinal cord and peripheral nerve interventions/ablation, fracture repair through vertebral augmentation, state-of-the-art regenerative therapy, and both ultrasound-guided and X-ray guided procedures. He is an active member of several pain societies and has presented several times at national anesthesiology and pain medicine conferences.

Dr. Patel grew up in New Jersey and is excited to return to the area and help serve his community.

Having experienced a sports injury to his spine that required extensive rehabilitation and ultimately spinal injections, he understands what it means to be a patient in pain. Dr. Patel takes great pride in his gentle bedside manner and believes in spending time with his patients in order to fully understand their pain condition, develop an individualized treatment plan, and help regain functionality. His goal as a pain management doctor is to bring expert, comprehensive, safe, and effective pain care to as many patients as possible.

The practice offers an extensive range of non-surgical treatments for a broad spectrum of musculoskeletal disorders. It aims to help patients avoid surgery by embracing a variety of traditional and alternative solutions to long-term pain and using minimally invasive techniques to deliver effective treatments. While their particular focus is on orthopedic

Dr. Ronak Patel MD care for back and neck pain, the Regenerative Spine and Pain Institute providers have expertise in treating conditions as varied as arthritis, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), peripheral neuropathy, and migraines.

The innovative, multimodal approach of Regenerative Spine and Pain Institute targets the source of chronic pain wherever possible, using regenerative medicine methods such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP), stem cell, and exosome injections. These natural, biological therapies use the patient’s healing cells in concentrated form to stimulate faster and more vigorous healing of damaged and diseased tissues.

Other treatments available include viscosupplementation for knee pain, peripheral nerve stimulation and spinal cord stimulation, physiotherapy, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, epidural injections and joint injections containing steroid medication, an extensive range of nerve blocks, and radiofrequency ablation. Dr. Patel is also a certified prescriber of medical marijuana under the State of New Jersey’s Medicinal Marijuana Program.

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Dr. Patel specializes in the treatment of back pain, neck pain, joint pain, and facial pain as well as cancer-related pain.

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NJ Heart & Vascular Care Kintu Sanghvi MD’s Message for Mother’s Day The women in our lives are so busy taking care of their husbands, their kids, their parents while still using their skills and intelligence in their career that they often ignore their own health. Women present very differently with cardiovascular conditions in comparison to men.

Females with severe heart artery blockage (CAD) do not typically present with the classic angina or chest pain, but present with rather atypical symptoms, particularly with shortness of breath on exertion.

First, they commonly ignore these symptoms and then commonly blame it on lack of exercise or weight gain.

This leads to missed diagnoses and translates into increased suffering. It was my privilege to take care of one such mom, daughter, and wife: Arlette Brown.

Here is her story in her own words: “I was pretty fit till my mid 40s. At that point, work pressures increased, and at the same time as my parents’

health started to decline. And my son was a high level hockey player — I didn’t want to miss anything.

An only child, I’m blessed that my husband and son were a huge help and support, but I got the all-hour phone calls when things weren’t going well.

My mom had first stent in her early 60s, bypass in mid 60s, congestive heart failure at 70. She passed at 77, in 2018.

At that point my 83-year-old dad was worn out from caring for my mom. His physical health wasn’t bad, but he was mentally drained, easily overwhelmed, had early dementia, and took everything out on me. At this point I think I started to get symptoms of high blood pressure that I ignored.

He spent most weekends with us till we finally convinced him to move closer to us in an assisted living facility.

I was fortunate to be able to work from home during COVID, but this ended up being 10-12 hour days sitting. When I tried to work out, I had no energy. I started to get winded just going up a flight of stairs and

by February of this year had a few incidents leaving me completely winded and had what I now realize

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I reached out to my primary care doctor and was quickly referred to Dr. Sanghvi. I was evaluated with utmost attention to the details. I was investigated methodically in a stepwise fashion and diagnosed with a severe 90 percent blockage in my proximal left anterior descending artery (also described as the widowmaker).

This was successfully opened with a stent, in a minimally invasive procedure going through my wrist artery, and I was discharged home the same day after a few hours. Dr. Sanghvi kept me well informed at each step with extensive details.

I felt better immediately and am looking forward to re-focusing on a healthier heart lifestyle. I thought I was strong enough to overcome genetics…not so much!

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Medical Acucare, is board certified After taking the time to get to know in Internal Medicine and Obesity her patients well, she runs compreMedicine. She works in the central hensive and tailored lab tests, recomNew Jersey area and draws on over mends lifestyle modifications suitable 10 years of clinical experience in for the individual, and offers persontreating a variety of medical condialized treatment plans that help her tions. Throughout her practice, she patients to restore their balance and discovered that conventional medical vitality. treatments are effective in managing Advocating Cardiovascular most acute conditions — like a broken bone or a stroke — but often fall short Health. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. It in improving chronic diseases. is well known that high cholesterol, hyThis motivated her to pursue adpertension, and diabetes put individuvanced training in Acupuncture and als at risk for cardiovascular disease.

Functional Medicine. Now, she comHowever, patients with chronic inflambines the best of conventional medimation are also at much higher risk of cine, functional medicine, and acuheart attack and stroke. puncture to identify the root causes Dr. Geng has a wealth of experiof her patients’ chronic issues and ence treating conditions that can pooptimize their health and wellness. tentially lead to systemic inflammation Promoting Women’s Health. Dr. including obesity, gut dysbiosis, and Geng has a deep understanding of the various autoimmune diseases. Medi-

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Tackling Weight Loss. Since many health issues stem from unwanted weight gain, Dr. Geng takes a holistic approach to assisting in weight loss and alleviating metabolic dysfunction. She focuses on helping people to discover the root causes behind their unwanted weight gain, whether it is unhealthy eating habits, hormonal imbalance, chronic inflammation, or insulin resistance.

Medical Acucare also maintains collaborative partnerships with local and remote health coaches and nutritionists to help our patients form healthy habits, rebuild their confidence, and sustain their weight loss long-term.

Acupuncture. While acupuncture is well known for treating back pain, neck pain, and osteoarthritis, it is also highly effective in reducing the frequency of tension headaches and migraines. Moreover, there is a growing body of evidence that shows acupuncture can trigger the release of beneficial hormones, including endorphins.

For more than five years, Dr. Geng has been using acupuncture to treat

Dr. Qingdi Geng neck and back pain, weight loss, indigestion, urinary incontinence, insomnia, and anxiety. Since acupuncture rarely has major side effects, like prescribed medications or surgeries, it is a great option for people who want to take a more natural and less invasive treatment approach.

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After practicing practicing ininaalegendary academic teaching hospital for After legendary academic teaching 11 years in New Jersey, acquiring experience of over 10,000 hospital for 11 years in New Jersey, acquiring experience cardiovascular publishing multiple publishing research of over 10,000procedures, cardiovascular procedures, articles, book chapters, and training over 100 cardiologists, multiple research articles, book chapters, and training Dr. Sanghvi has opened NJ Heart & Vascular Care to over 100 cardiologists, Sanghvi has opened NJ and provide what is missing: ADr. personalized, compassionate Heart & Vascular Carecardiovascular to provide what missing: comprehensive tertiary careislocally with A easy personalized, compassionate, and comprehensive access.

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Endometriosis can be found on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, the outer surface of the uterus, the lining of the pelvic cavity, the vagina, the cervix Endometriosis Treatment and other parts of the body including with Robotic Precision the bowel, bladder and rectum.

Saint Peter’s University Hospital Symptoms include inflammation and has long been acknowledged as scar tissue that can cause pelvic a leader in women’s health for its pain and infertility. Sometimes the nationally recognized obstetrical endometrial tissue binds organs and gynecological care, including together or grows into the ovaries or the diagnosis and treatment of blocks fallopian tubes. Endometriosis endometriosis. Dusan Perisic, MD, may be found in up to half of women FACOG, the director of Minimally with significant pelvic pain or painful Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Saint periods and up to 70 percent of Peter’s and the associate program women with infertility. director of the hospital’s Obstetrics To treat endometriosis, women and Gynecology Residency Program, can undergo robotic surgery where is skilled in treating endometriosis endometriotic lesions are excised, through robotic-assisted surgery via endometriotic cysts are removed from the da Vinci® Surgical System. the ovaries and scar tissue in the Endometriosis is a disease of pelvis is broken and removed. With the women’s reproductive system. this type of conservative surgery, It occurs when endometrium — the women can gain relief while also tissue that lines the uterus or womb retaining their fertility. Endometriosis — grows outside of the uterus on can also be treated with a robotic other organs of the body. More than hysterectomy, where the uterus is five million women in the U.S. have removed. Robotic surgery can also endometriosis. While it can occur be used to remove the fallopian tubes during the teen years and in any and ovaries, eliminating the disease. woman who still has a menstrual The da Vinci Surgical System period, it is most common in women in puts a surgeon’s hands at the

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controls of a state-of-the-art robotic platform, enabling them to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with unmatched precision.

It is a sophisticated robotic platform designed to expand the surgeon’s capabilities and offer a minimally invasive option for major surgery.

The surgeon makes small incisions in the patient to introduce miniaturized instruments with wrist-like movements and a high-definition 3D camera.

Seated at the da Vinci console, Dr. Perisic views a magnified, highresolution 3D image of the surgical site. At the same time, state-of-the-art robotic and computer technologies scale, filter and seamlessly translate Dr. Perisic’s hand movements into precise micro-movements of the wristed instruments. The system cannot be programmed, nor can it make decisions on its own. All movements are performed by the surgeon at the console.

Women who undergo robotic surgery for endometriosis experience less pain and less bleeding and can expect to go home the same day and return to work in one week.

To learn more about gynecologic surgery at Saint Peter’s, visit

Dusan Perisic, MD, FACOG, the director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Saint Peter’s University Hospital. saintpetershcs.com/gynsurgery. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Perisic, call 732-339-7762.

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Music happenings

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he Candlelight Lounge in Trenton will present Trenton jazz saxophonist James Stewart on Saturday, May 28, from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Stewart, born in 1957, started out playing in the Trenton area in the local funk and R&B bands from 1974 to 1978 before joining avant-garde saxophonist Sam Rivers and his big band in 1979.

From the 1980s and 90s, he was a New York-area freelancer and played in bands for singer George V. Johnson, saxophonist Frank Foster, and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim. In addition, he plays on his own and has been a member of the Sun Ra orchestra since 2010.

Other May performers at the Candlelight are saxophonist Gene Ghee, May 7; saxophonist Lars Haake, May 14; and vocalist Michelle Beckum, May 21.

Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, Trenton. All performances run

minster in their mid-teens. Then they met again a few years later, singing in Salzburg, Austria, when Kate was in her senior year. The couple will celebrate their 20th anniversary in July.

Mark holds a master’s degree from Juilliard in opera. He also runs a redevelopment company, VM Development Group, based in Easton, Pennsylvania.

“It has nothing to do with music at all,” Mulligan says, “but he also has a love for old buildings and rehabbing things.

So he buys these old mills that are abandoned and then tries to save as much as possible, the original floors and the original walls and the original staircases, and repurposes them for apartments and commercial space.”

Mulligan herself ran a film festival in Easton for a few years, for which short films were selected by committee and projected outside, onto the wall of one of the buildings. “We had V.I.P. tickets and bands and a DJ and all kinds of stuff,” she says. “Initially, it was a way for the city to attract interest to the site, because it was just falling-down buildings and weeds that were four-feet high, and nobody had done anything with the property since the ’60s.”

Mulligan is a lifelong resident of New Jersey. For the past 22 years, she has lived in Hunterdon County.

Her three-year stint with Princeton Pro Musica came after her graduation from Westminster and before she moved on to Rutgers. More recently, she was executive director of Trenton Children’s Chorus for four years. In 2019 she arranged for a performance at the White House.

Bearing the family’s musical torch into the next generation, her daughters were also with the chorus, prior to the out-

Conductor Alicia Brozovich, front, with members of the LOTUS Project. from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. $20 cover and $10 minimum drink order, free buffet. www. candlelighteventsjazz.com.

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he LOTUS Project presents “Keeping Vigil” at Artworks Trenton on Sunday, May 15, at 4 p.m.

Coordinators for the Trenton-based organization say the concert reflects contemporary social currents and features “multiple works centered around the themes of hope, commemoration, and remembrance” and includes music by Sergei Rachmaninov.

Artworks Trenton is located at 19 Everett Alley, Trenton. Tickets are free, but a $25 suggested donation per ticket is asked to help the organization pay for venues and musicians.

For more organizations, go to www. thelotusprojectnj.org.

Members of the Trenton Children’s Chorus in performance. break of COVID-19.

In her last 15 months in the position, Mulligan worked with Carol Burden at Trenton Music Makers to merge the two organizations. The plan finally came to fruition on February 16. Mulligan’s

ment, marketing, and communications, has also moved to the Capital Philharmonic, becoming its outreach coordinator. All other youth music-related positions have been retained.

“Trenton Music Makers has an or-

‘It just really made sense for the two of them to come together as one organization,’ Mulligan says of Trenton Music Makers and Trenton Children’s Chorus. ‘I was moving on to a new project, and it was the right time.’ move to the Capital Philharmonic eliminated any possibility of redundancy, and Carol Burden is now executive director of the organization’s combined forces, now known as Capital Harmony Works.

Alicia Brozovich, formerly Trenton Children’s Chorus’ director of develop-

chestral program for kids, and Trenton Children’s Chorus has a choral program for kids, serving the same community with an almost identical mission,” Mulligan says. “It just really made sense for the two of them to come together as one organization. I was moving on to a new

project, and it was the right time.”

Mulligan continues to act as a merger coordinator, one day a week, as plans for Capital Harmony Works continue to evolve. One priority is locating a space large enough to accommodate everything.

In the meantime, the Capital Philharmonic board must be breathing a sigh of relief. “They’re going from eight years as a fully volunteer organization,” she says.

“Some of the board members were basically working a full-time job running the orchestra. They were just ready to have somebody else take it over and help them into what will be the next chapter in the orchestra’s future.

“We did get $150,000 from the governor. He announced that there will be money in the budget for next year, and I think we’ve got a lot of exciting things coming up. We’re planning to do at least one concert this summer that will be in Hunterdon County. Our tentative plans for next year include a concert in Somerset County. So we’re going to be doing some run-outs. I think that you’re going to see us around more, doing a chamber concert series, trying to do some things maybe during lunch time in the Capitol Building downtown, and really trying to get ourselves out there in new ways.”

For more information on the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, visit www. capitalphilharmonic.org.

The new Capital Harmony Works presents “Music Everywhere,” Social Profit Center at Mill One, 1 North Johnston Avenue, Trenton, Thursday, May 19, 6 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.capitalharmony.works.

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Lights, Camera, and Trenton

By Dan Aubrey

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The above noted connection to the Hurst-produced film is that the fictional Kane was based on Hurst and his attempt to mold Davies into a star.

While not a film, Welles’ infamous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast — one of the most famous broadcasts in history — also cast Trenton and the New Jersey State Police as the first responders to the invasions of Martians landing in nearby Grovers Mill.

t’s a cold and cloudy Trenton morning, and after the shout of “action,” I’m being slammed by a brick and kicked by a group of punk-protestors.

But, according to the filmmaker Tony Catanese, I deserve it.

After all, I am part of a ring of evil bankers who just ripped off the world and are gleefully counting our ill-gotten gains in front of a state building on South Broad Street. renton via the “Trenton Makes” Well, not really. The bankers and punks bridge also makes a guest appearare area residents who showed up after Catanese, aka Tony Goggles, put out a ance in influential German-born film call for volunteer extras for his new film. director Fritz Lang’s 1954 film “Human And with a why-not attitude, I an- Desire.” It occurs at the film’s conclusion swered the call, put on my black suit, and with the main character played by popushowed up that Sunday morning to have lar mid-20th century actor Glen Ford sita Styrofoam brick land on my freshly ting back in a train crossing the Delaware shaved head.

River.

And while I didn’t know what the film’s After years of waiting, Trenton gets its name or plot was, I knew what was im- big break as the central locale in Trenportant — that Catanese is serious and ton-born producer, writer, and actor Amy talented in what he does and is helping Robinson’s 1983 biographic slice of life to continue Trenton’s presence in film — “Baby It’s You.” one that goes back to the big silent film Directed by New Jersey filmmaker featuring the capital city, “Janice Mer- John Sayles, the film takes viewers back edith.” to 1966 Trenton, when a young collegeBased on the romantic Revolutionary bound Jewish girl becomes smitten with War novel about a young “beautiful reb- a fellow Trenton High male student, a el’s” interaction with historical figures, Frank Sinatra-worshiping would-be singthe 1924 film produced by newspaper er who goes by the nickname “Sheik” (as mogul William Randolph Hurst was cre- in the condom brand). ated as a vehicle for his paramour, MarThe film’s title comes from the name ion Davies. of the hit song by the era’s popular girlThe film’s big moments include the re- group the Shirelles. The soundtrack also enactment of George Washington cross- includes an anachronism: the then-new ing the Delaware River and the ensuing songs by Bruce Springsteen. And while Battle of Trenton, where Meredith has not of the period, the songs certainly been captured by accent the homethe British and is grown New Jersey under the watch of flavor.

Tony Catanese is serious the ill-fated Colonel The film works Raul. as a time capsule and talented in what Yes, it’s outdated that helps viewers he does and is helping and creaky, but it see a Trenton that is also fun to see once was — before to continue Trenton’s Ye Olde Trenton the Jewish and come alive and presence in film — one Italian populations catch noted film comoved away and that goes back to the median W.C. Fields into the suburbs. It as a drunken Britalso deals with isbig silent film featuring ish soldier (see the sues of the sexual the capital city, ‘Janice entire film on Younorms of the day Tube). with the reputaMeredith.’

Historic Trenton tions and hopes also has a cameo of young women moment one of the dashed by young men trying to prove most critically acclaimed films of all time their masculinity through sexual con(and one that has an ironic connection to quests. the previously mentioned film).

With scenes of now vintage cars drivIn Orson Welles’ 1941 “Citizen Kane,” ing over the Trenton Makes Bridge and the news reel opening recounts the life scenes of Trenton (shot elsewhere), it’s of newspaper mogul Charles Foster Kane a nostalgic trip to a city existing now in and shows Kane and his bride leaving fading memories. Check it out on www.

Trenton town hall, where they just got dailymotion.com/video/x5kosz9

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renton is also the location for the 2012 film “One for the Money.”

It’s based on the first of writer Janet Evanovich’s bestselling series of novels featuring the exploits of the plucky Trenton-born lingerie saleswoman-turnedbounty hunter Stephanie Plum. It stars Katherine Heigl.

Although the books are spiced with Trenton attitude, this film’s “Joisy” seems canned and the proceedings routine, making one think the filmmakers should have stayed in New Jersey rather than using Pittsburgh as Trenton’s stand-in.

“The Crossing” is the 2000 television film of George Washington’s gambit of crossing the Delaware River on Christmas Day to surprise attack the Hessian army in Trenton and reverse a series of loses for the Revolutionary Army.

Variety called the A&E production featuring Jeff Daniels as Washington a “nobly executed but flawed look at the Revolutionary War’s most celebrated event.

Not focused enough on the lingering effects of the journey, the cable web’s ambitious telepic gets high marks for effort

Trenton filmmaker Tony Catanese, top, is working on a film about a ring of evil bankers, who are pictured above counting their ill-gotten gains on set on South Broad Street. only. Viewers who know little about the expedition will appreciate the simplistic history lesson, but demanding audiences may want something that resonates with more significance.”

And while the review pretty much says everything, it is worth watching to see the recreation of the battle and goings on in 18th-century Trenton — something far different from those in “Janice Meredith.”

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everal other films and filmmakers with Trenton ties also deserve mention — although they both give a nod to Trenton’s less attractive features.

The 1989 comedy “The Dream Team” features a group of mental patients from the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital who escape during a trip to New York City. “The Hurricane,” with Denzel Washington

playing the lead character in the real-life story of Paterson boxer Ruben “Hurricane” Carter’s false conviction of murder, shows Carter waiting at the State Prison in Trenton. And the Jersey Devil flick “The 13th Child” opens up on West State Street and gets scary when it takes viewers into the New Jersey State House.

A good number of Trenton natives left town to make films in Hollywood. Among those are Zalman King (aka Zalman Lefkovitz), “9 ½ Weeks” and “Wild Orchards”; William Mastrosimone, “With Honors” and “Extremities” (based on his play); Michael Cristofer, “The Shadow Box” (based on his play) and “Original Sin”; Marc Behm, “Charade” and the Beatles’ film “Help!”; and Ntozake Shange, “For Colored Girls” (based on her celebrated stage work).

However, they and a score of Trentonborn performers and writers mainly kept Trenton out of sight.

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ut with new technologies making filmmaking easier, local filmmakers are discovering that Trenton is a muse that keeps delivering.

For example, take Catanese’s Trentonset “Girls Just Want to Have Blood,” accepted as part of the New Jersey Film Festival under its unabashedly politically incorrect original name, “Teenage Bloodsuckin’ Bimbos.”

“For the time and budget we had, I can’t believe we pulled it off. I look at the film and can’t get over it,” says Catanese about the quality of the film during a past interview.

He says the origin of the film stems from his making movies at age 15 in his Groveville (Hamilton Township) home he shared with his construction worker dad and supermarket employee mom.

After graduating from Steinert High School in 1998, he wasn’t interested in going to college but signed up for a few local classes and wrote a letter to Troma Films in New York City — the independent makers of the “Toxic Avenger,” “The Class of Nuke ‘Em High,” and other low-budget favorites.

Troma invited him in and gave him a

hands-on education on low-budget filmmaking with duties ranging from production assistant to wardrobe manager.

They also gave something you don’t learn in college. “From Troma I learned how to do things with what we have and make it work — that’s the key to low-budget or no-budget filmmaking. You need to get it done.”

Eventually Catanese returned to the Hamilton-Trenton area, sold drums at Russo Music, began playing drums with the Trenton band Honah Lee, started working with Exit 7A Creative Services, and began a series of B-horror films, including the 2015 film “Sodomaniac.”

IMDb (the Internet Movie Data Base) describes the film as “a group of degenerate serial date rapists” who “have the tables turned on them when a masked killer begins to hunt them down one by one and killing them in the most painful,

‘I love this city,’ Catanese says of working in Trenton. ‘There’s energy and things happening.

Just being in Trenton influences me. I couldn’t do what I do if I were somewhere else.’ degrading way possible.”

“We had an idea that we thought would kick the door open with ‘Sodomaniac,’” says the director. “But it was very niche audience. So I thought, let’s make a movie that is broader. And I thought, ‘Vampires!

Everyone likes that.’ So I tried to make a broader (audience) movie, but it’s still a little weird. The point was to make a movie that we could sell and reach a broad audience. But it’s still a niche audience.”

Another successful element is the film’s soundtrack — mainly of music

Trenton’s history in the film industry includes Fritz Lang’s 1954 film ‘Human Desire,’ which concludes with the main character played by popular mid-20th century actor Glen Ford sitting back in a train crossing the Delaware River, left, and the 1924 film ‘Janice Meredith,’ which includes a depiction of the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. from the Trenton region. “I wrote the whole movie to ’80s rock, then I was thinking I’m in a band, so I hit up my friend Drew Russo — drummer in the area metal band Midnight Hellion — who knows everything about ’80s music.”

The result was pulling in music from successful and artistically strong Trenton-area bands to replicate the ’80s sound. “The big thing was finding the right bands that fit the tone,” he says.

Then Jim Smith, the Hamilton-born electronic composer and owner of the music company TEEEL, took a liking to the project and allowed access to his work.

The result, says Catanese: “We basically got the perfect soundscape we wanted. I’m really happy how that came all together — I like it better than what I had hoped to use. I was really happy.”

In addition to his work at 7A, Catanese is the film festival coordinator for NJ Horror Con in Atlantic City and the drummer for Trenton band Honah Lee. Assessing his work, Catanese says, “We make B-movies, but I like people to say, ‘That was a lot better than I thought it would be.’”

Another Trenton filmmaker is Jeff Stewart.

As longtime area film reviewer and writer Joyce Persico wrote for the CNS, Stewart was born in Trenton but moved from one town to another growing up, from Wrightstown, to Bordentown, Manhattan and, in 2001, Mill Hill.

He attended Northern Burlington Regional High School and studied at New York University and Temple University for degrees in filmmaking and creative writing.

He describes himself as “a child of the 80s” who inherited a love of movies from his late father, Otis, who gave him an old VHS camera when Jeff was two.

It inspired him to become a filmmaker and, he adds, “I’ve never been without one since.”

“I was raised as much by television and movies as I was by my parents,” he once stressed. But before he established himself as founder of A Different Path Films, Stewart took an assortment of jobs, including one as a janitor at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, comic book writer, professional photographer, and a radio show host.

Having grown up the city, Stewart knows what longtime residents miss and fear. Much of the beauty of the downtown is lost in a swirl of crumbling housing and dangerous streets that empty after State House workers go home. He’s not oblivious to the hard truths, just eager to point out that there is a viable arts community ready and able to turn things around, either through street art or events It’s a spirit Catanese shares. “I love this city. There’s energy and things happening. Just being in Trenton influences me.

I couldn’t do what I do if I were somewhere else. I’d never get anything done if I were in New York” — not to mention creating a scene for a writer to get smashed with a brick on a Sunday morning.

For more on Catanese and his D.I.Why? film company, visit www.facebook.com/diwhyfilms. For info on Jeff Stewart and his A Different Path production company, go to www.adifferentpathfilms.com.

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State Museum exhibit highlights African American beauty

By Dan Aubrey

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osing Beauty in the African American Culture” is the first new exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

Organized by Deborah Willis, chair of department of photography and imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the traveling exhibition features more than 200 works by 51 artists and complements Willis’ 2009 book of the same name.

The exhibition explores the ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, video, fashion, and advertising.

As the curator notes, “Through the history of Western art and image-making, beauty has been idealized and challenged, and the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture.”

Indeed, “beauty” has become controversial in contemporary art because of its argued relationship to structures of power.

And, here, the curator says the exhibition aims to challenge “the relationship between beauty and art by examining the representation of beauty and different attitudes about aesthetics.”

The viewing is organized into three sections. The first is “Constructing a Pose,” designed to examine the “interplay between the historical and the con-

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temporary, between self-representational and imposed representation, and the relationship between subject and photographer.”

Organized in no discernible manner, poses reflects swath of social history.

Vintage works include African American photographers Thomas Askew’s circa 1899 “African American Woman,” a profile of a young woman with coiffed hair wearing a neck cover; and Robert S. Roberts circa 1920s “Woman Wearing White Apron,” a lean early-middle aged woman comfortably gazing at the viewer.

While the more contemporary works featuring music and film stars such as Michael Jackson and Denzel Washington are familiar and expected, the photographs of everyday life and everyday people are the stuff that evokes the spirit of the show. A few examples include the young woman who appears to begrudgingly accepting the photographer’s invitation to pose in Lola Flash’s 2003 “Karisse, London, from (Sur)passing” and the showy display offered in Bayete Ross Smith’s 2006 “Prom Night — Hi de Ho Man, from the Pomp & Circumstance: First Time to Be an Adult Series.”

The second section, “Body & Image,” Willis says has the intent to explore “the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been constructed and framed through the body.”

Her choices use a variety of approaches to bring subjects into environments where “everyday citizens reinvent themselves” and to explore self-portraiture and ideas of beauty both in front of and behind the camera.

She also says they reflect a historic cultural shift when the “Black is beautiful” concept took hold, and more and more images of Black models were featured in advertisements in magazines and billboards all over the country. Album covers, advertising images, and documentary photographs of celebrities were seen as reflecting desire; these images were targeted to a market where the consumer idealized and modeled the new look: beautiful, glamorous, stylish, and most of all desirable.”

Included in the section are several sharp, black-and-white, time-capsule-like images by New York-based photographer Anthony Barboza, the 1970s images “Couples from the Harlem Series” and “Toukie Smith, Model, New York,” and the 1980s “Marvin Hagler, Middle Weight Boxing Champion, New York City; NYC-based Ifetayo Abdus-Salam’s boldly colorful 2005 “Self-Portrait as Pam Grier from the American Exotic Series”; Jamaican-American feminist artist Renee Cox’s large glossy reinterpretation of French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ “1814 Grand Odelisque,” the

Thomas Askew’s circa 1899 ‘African American Woman,’ a profile of a young woman with coiffed hair wearing a neck cover.

2001 “Baby Back from American Family,” replacing the white female nude with a Black woman with red high heels; and two images by Senegalese-based Omar Victor Diop inspired from historical 18thcentury European works.

The final section, “Modeling Beauty & Beauty Contests,” invites viewers to consider “the ambiguities of beauty, its impact on mass culture and individuals, and how the display of beauty affects the ways in which we see and interpret the world and ourselves.”

Black and white images range from Philadelphia photographer John Mosley’s 1960s bathing suit photo “Four Women, Atlantic City” to Trinidadian New York State-based Gerard Gaskin’s 2005 “United” (State to State Ball),” featuring gay men and transgender women in a beauty pageant. Color images include West Africa-born Mangue Banzima’s 2016 “Today’s Man,” a work that coolly engages with its composition and connection to title and theme.

With beauty and posing being the thread that connects all three units, the divisions among sections are blurred, and viewers will find images between specified areas, but it doesn’t mar the desired effect to simply demonstrate the range of history and expression.

“I was always interested in storytelling,” the Philadelphia-born and raised Willis says in an interview elsewhere about her work.

As the daughter of a tailor father and beautician mother continues, “I knew

Clockwise from above, Lola Flash’s 2003 ‘Karisse, London, from (Sur)passing,’ Philadelphia photographer John Mosley’s 1960s bathing suit photo ‘Four Women, Atlantic City,’ and Anthony Barboza’s 1970s-era image ‘Toukie Smith, Model, New York.’ early on that I wanted to be a photographer, based on my father’s interest in it and the images I saw in books by (Life Magazine and fine art photographer) Gordon Parks and (New York-based fine art photographer) Roy DeCarava. So at the Philadelphia College of Art I ended up studying photography.”

She continued her studies at Pratt and then worked as a curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem and the Smithsonian. “I asked my professors in college why there were no Black photographers in our history books; my first major project, which has become a lifelong project, was to look for Black photographers. As a result of that, I started organizing exhibitions. I still make photographs myself, but it was important to me mainly to curate shows and to introduce people to Black photographers who are missing from our larger history.”

In many ways, the current show and the book are related to the following statements she shares. “I grew up watch-

ing women who believed in their work and ideals. They were church women and woman who sang at clubs, but also too, in just watching men who visited my father, who had fancy cars and believed in themselves. These were people who looked at their lives outside of the ridiculed imagery. They were men who were dignified and full of pride.”

And “when someone feels good about themselves they reflect it in their behavior and desire to please themselves and other people. As a spectator, looking at someone that has a sense of self, feeling good — a walk, a look in the eye — well, it sounds corny, but there’s this wonderful sense of beauty. Inner beauty is not something to be dismissed, because it relates to reflective beauty.”

Posing Beauty in the African American Culture, New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton. Through May 22. Tuesdays through Sundays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Free. 609292-6464 or www.nj.gov/state/ museum.

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