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ayor W. Reed Gusciora recently established the largest public safety advisory committee in New Jersey, empowering 11 prominent members of the community to formalize the engagement process between city departments, community stakeholders, and the residents of Trenton.

“One mayor cannot do this alone. Two people, a mayor, and a police director, can’t do this,” Gusciora said in a press conference at City Hall. “We must do this together. It’s going to take all of us. It’s going to take our police team, yes. But it’s also going to take our health team, our inspections team, our housing and fire and recreation teams.”

Known as the CHANGE (Citizens’ Health And Neighborhood Growth Engagement) Committee, its members will issue a public safety advisory report every six months so that the administration, City Council, and other agencies like the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office and Trenton Public Schools can formally receive community feedback to inform decisions.

“It’s going to take community partners from the state, from Mercer County, and from inside our city — maybe even from City Council,” Gusciora said. “But most of all, it’s going to take the engagement of our citizens. These remarkable citizens have offered their time and dedication as members of the inaugural CHANGE Committee. They are the leaders we need to start the discussion.”

The focus of the committee, laid out in the executive order, includes: Policies and Procedures; Leadership, Talent, and Recruitment; Use-of-Force Tactics and Less-than-Lethal Weaponry; and Community Relations and Partnerships The 11 members of the CHANGE Committee are: Charles Boyer, Jonette Smart, Kenneth Miles, Pearlie AmesMurray, Phillip Bonaparte, Rachel Cogsville-Lattimer, Regina ThompsonJenkins, Robert Donaldson, Rosa Lewis, Rosa Rosado, and Timothy Jordan.

The external agencies providing liaisons to the CHANGE Committee are: Offices of Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, State Senator Shirley Turner, and Assembly Representatives Verlina Reynolds-Jackson and Anthony Verrelli; Trenton Public Schools; Trenton Housing Authority; Mercer County Office of the County Executive, Commissioners, and Prosecutor’s Office.

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Family project tips the sweetness scale on South Broad Street

By Dan Aubrey

T

he Trenton Ice Cream Parlor’s — aka TIP’s — South Broad Street brown brick facade is embellished by a black and white awning, signage based on the Trenton Makes Bridge design, and a parkette with seating.

Inside is a bright ordering area with light walls, images of Trenton and family members, seats, and rows of brightly colored ice cream behind the gleaming glass counters.

Uniting the two is a story co-owner Eric McRoy is ready to dish out.

“I am a lifelong Trenton resident,” he says.

Well, mainly Trenton. McRoy was born in Fort Dix to a military dad and a German-born mother.

When they separated, he and his mother came to Trenton and lived on Walnut Street.

McRoy then hopscotched through a variety of public and private schools: Cook Elementary, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Notre Dame High School, and finally graduating from Trenton Central High.

He studied at the University of Vermont and earned degrees at Hampton University and Lincoln University, then returned to the Trenton area to “get to work.”

That came through the County of Mercer, where he worked as a social worker “training and getting people independent.”

After he retired in 2018, he sold real estate. But that changed. “Now, all my energies are with the ice cream parlor my wife (Mimi Hailemichael) and I designed,” he says.

Well, not exactly.

The original came from their daughter, Hannah, who created it under unusual

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Mimi Hailemichael, above left, son Yoseph, daughter Hannah, and husband Eric McRoy are the family behind Trenton Ice Cream Parlor, whose South Broad Street facade is pictured at right. circumstances.

Hannah is autistic and nonverbal.

“When she was 12 in her art class, she made a diorama of an ice cream parlor and brought it home,” McRoy says. “She built the chairs and the window treatments, selected the color she wanted, and, on the tables, did the ice cream and desserts.”

The design later became a prototype for their future.

McRoy says that as a parent of a disabled child, “You wonder, ‘What can I do? What can I do to make my child’s life easy?’

“My wife and I were talking. And we were looking at the ice cream parlor she built and said, ‘That’s it!’ It was something she could do, she and her two brothers.”

McRoy’s choice for the Trenton location was easy. “We owned the building.

We bought it 10 years ago. The building used to be a doctor’s office. We kept the original closet where the doctor used to keep the medicine. That’s where her artwork is.

“We didn’t know anything about it, but a woman who visited told us of the (building’s) history and how she used to take care of the doctor’s daughter, who was also named Hannah.

“We didn’t know that that the building had hidden qualities — a building of healing.”

They also didn’t know that the district’s

zoning that wouldn’t allow the original plan: a window counter and waiting area.

However, the zoning allowed them to use the entire first floor for serving and seating, and the couple dove into “a lot of planning.”

And while it was all inspired by Hannah’s design, McRoy admits that they embellished it. “The great thing about having a computer is that we got ideas from around the world, but it all goes down to Hannah’s design.”

After months of planning and making an effort to use Trenton businesses, TIP opened in March, 2020.

McRoy says, “We had our grand opening. It was ribbon cutting and art event.

That was Saturday.”

The following Monday, Governor Phil Murphy ordered the state to close in order to contain COVID-19.

“A lot of people felt bad for us,” says McRoy. “But we owned the building and had (an upstairs) tenant. We didn’t pay rent and we owned everything inside. So we could close for 18 months.”

After seeing people getting vaccinat-

ed, testing the market, and hearing that mask restrictions had been rescinded, McRoy and Hailemichael reopened on April 20, 2022, to “the same appreciation that we started with.”

Looking back, McRoy says that the initial reaction from associates and neighbors was that it was a poor decision to invest in an ice cream parlor on a street that has seen its share of neighborhood decay.

However, he adds, “an interesting thing happened. The block started changing, the community started hanging around the ice cream parlor. People throw things in the garbage now. People are taking pictures. It’s been like a shining star to have the parlor there.

“The really interesting thing is we see a lot of parents come in with children with special needs — and if you’re a parent of a child with special needs, you’re not invited to places with other children.

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Podstock looks to put Trenton on the digital media map

By Rebekah Schroeder

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odStock’s name might have started as a play on the musical festival Woodstock, but while a chorus of eager attendees could be just as melodic at the upcoming Trenton conference headed by New Jersey’s only podcast hosting company, New Pod City, the idea has evolved into an informational networking event nearly four years in the making.

New Pod City, owned and founded by Frank and Christina Sasso, provides services in areas like consulting, promoting, social media branding and more — all while giving podcasters access to their recording studio at 247 East Front Street.

This year’s PodStock is the first of its kind, with the title thought of by NPC’s president, Will Foskey. Held at Trenton’s Masonic Temple on Saturday, June 11, from noon to 6 p.m., the day includes presentations by speakers and panelists, Q&A sessions, and numerous workshops. PodStock’s afterparty then takes place until 11 p.m. between Peace and Warren streets on Front Street, the block behind the Masonic Temple.

Sasso explained to the Trenton Downtowner that beginners and experienced professionals alike can interact, learn,

and connect at the event. Tickets are $99 and can only be purchased online at PodStock’s website, PodStock.us.

The creation of Foskey, who was profiled in the Trenton Downtowner last September, PodStock is another sign of progress as he navigates his position as a “liaison” between clients and Sasso.

Foskey’s term as president began in August, but New Pod City officially announced him as stepping into the role in September of 2021, where he has been, and continues to be, active until August 31, 2022. He wants to fight for both sides, he explained in an interview, to find “pleasant mediums, and better ways, that [the podcasters and NPC] can all be able to win together — even if it’s nothing more than just providing some more marketing and promotion.”

Foskey is a native of Trenton, with his passion originating from a work study program in the television studio at Trenton Central High School, where he taped events. After exploring rapping and music journalism, he opened his own photography and filmmaking business, 78 Ways Studio, before adding podcasting to the mix.

Now he has been attending conferences, organizing PodStock, and working with Sasso to help facilitate the growth of

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It was at one of those industry events in Nashville this past August that Sasso and Foskey came to a conclusion.

At a panel for “Charlamagne Tha God,” a radio host and television personality who founded the Black Effect Podcast Network, the two took note of the session’s content. Foskey recounted that when iHeartRadio approached Charlamagne Tha God for the opportunity to have said network, he hired his friend to be president, delegating those responsibilities to her.

“I’m sitting next to Frank, we’re both listening to that,” Foskey remembered, the two able to meet Charlamagne outside of the hotel through connections.

“That energy on a day that I was supposed to leave, but I decided to stay another day in Nashville, ended up turning into being able to come back home and having that conversation” with Sasso, who was equally enthused to make it happen.

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ut PodStock had already been a blip on the radar since 2019, when Foskey, during a Trenton Fashion Week event, explained his concept of bringing people together for podcasting to the Sassos. Then, in a later car ride epiphany

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that. We started out to build a safe place, and by doing this an extraordinary thing has happened in our community. It made us realize that it is bigger than us. This is something we didn’t plan.”

McRoy says other customers include parents giving their children a reward for their report cards, people traveling the state to visit ice cream shops, and Grounds For Sculpture visitors who find the place on a web search and head over.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, teenagers and families arrive in bursts to gaze at the offerings of hard ice cream purchased from a variety of vendors, including Arctic Ice Cream in Ewing, and the eight soft ice cream flavors that are custom made on the premises. That includes mint and salted caramel.

Hannah is on hand, but, as McRoy says, the 17-year-old “may say hi to you, she may serve you, she may wave goodbye, but one thing she’ll always do is look at the pictures you have on the phone.”

After scanning through the images on my Android, Hannah leaves me with her mother, who shares more about the family journey.

Hailemichael left her native Ethiopia on a diversity visa to come to stay with relatives in Trenton, joined an Orthodox church in the city, and met her husband

next to Frank, Foskey thought of the perfect name.

A pandemic, delays, and several other conferences later, they picked a date for the 2022 event. PodStock is not only sponsored in part by Shure, a microphone and audio electronics company, but supported by Kevin O’Leary, or “Mr. Wonderful,” a businessman on Shark Tank who also filmed a promotional video for New Pod City.

“To create and to be able to put PodStock on in Trenton, New Jersey, it’s just valuable, and it’s beautiful,” Foskey said.

Podcasters often travel nationally to similar events, so Foskey said this was a way for them to travel to a new destination, this one fully “stocked” with a lineup befitting a podcasting version of the namesake event.

The Nashville trip was pivotal, Foskey said, because individuals there are speaking at or sponsoring PodStock, showing the importance of “building those relationships” but on New Jersey’s terrain.

“There’s already an extraordinary podcasting conference that’s happening on a year to year basis,” he said. “We just want to be able to possibly be a pipeline to that conference.”

Foskey views PodStock as “a cousin or little brother” to other conferences. when she was waiting tables at Pete’s Steakhouse.

Married now for 20 years, she says they lived on Second Street for years before moving to other Trenton locations.

They also started a shop in Morrisville and a real estate business.

And while they currently live in Cream Ridge, she and her husband attend church in Trenton and maintain several Trenton properties. She also notes that her daughter and first of three sons, Solomon, were born in Trenton (another son, Yoseph, was born in Freehold).

Upbeat as the upbeat slogans on the shop’s walls, Hailemichael says she looks forward to some new food items over the summer including baked cookies, popcorn, and hot dogs with a special sauce that she’s concocting.

Echoing her husband’s enthusiasm, Hailemichael says the street seems to be changing, thanks to a combination of the City of Trenton addressing quality of life problems and a growing Latino population taking ownership.

“I want Trenton to be a place for people to come and enjoy. Anyone can come here,” she says about the shop. “But at the end of the day, it’s Trenton.”

TIP, 960 South Broad Street. Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. (summer hours to be announced). www.trentonicecream.com.

“Our message this year is about ambition, and being ambitious, because that’s really what we’re doing to even try to produce an event like this — in an area where it’s completely unexpected.

Trenton will be on the map in podcasting because of PodStock, and they will learn about New Pod City because of PodStock,” he said. “We’re bringing the best and brightest people in the podcasting industry. As far as the networking and the different hosting companies that are coming down, I think it’s important for everyone to understand [that] what we’re doing at New Pod City with PodStock is sharing the love of the culture,” Foskey said. “These are companies that we’re not scared of. We’re proud to be standing side to side with [them].”

That moment of standing on the same stage together recognizes everyone’s passion and drive, Foskey continued, as well as being exemplary of how podcasting has historically risen in the mainstream to become a formidable force. A decade or two ago, people who wanted to create stories encountered more obstacles in monetizing their work.

“You were literally doing it for the love of podcasting. We want people to remember that even though hundreds of millions of dollars are being dumped into this industry, especially over the past three years, the pandemic did something with podcasting — it just lit a rocket, because everyone was home,” he said. “It changed their lives, and those numbers grew because now you’re working from home, now you need something to listen to, and you’re finding these podcasts communities that you can dive into.”

Just like the 17 shows currently under the New Pod City network, these options can stretch across categories and scope, discussing everything from comic books to religion. In acknowledgment of that, PodStock’s keynote speaker, Rob Greenlee, a longtime veteran of the industry and VP of Podcast Content & Partnerships at Liberated Syndication (sometimes referred to as “Libsyn”), is talking about the history of podcasting.

“WebTalk World Radio Show,” which Greenlee hosted and founded, debuted on XM satellite radio in 2004. It is often referred to “as the first broadcast radio program in the world to begin podcasting,” according to his website. He was inducted into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame in 2017.

“He actually reached out to us,” Foskey said, having run into Greenlee in Los Angeles. “For Rob to reach out to us with this small little event that we’re putting together, and for him to be driving down from the New England area to speak at our event, and seeing that he’s willing to [do] whatever we need, just let him know — it’s humbling.”

According to Foskey, Greenlee’s focus will be on helping people “understand

that the success that’s happening in podcasting now, the Joe Rogans and all these different people signing these multimillion dollar deals? It’s not overnight.

Having [Greenlee] to lead in that type of conversation as a primer, we’ll be able to set off for the rest of the day.”

Other speakers include Christine Blackburn, a comedian and the host of the “Story Worthy” podcast who will be moderating, as well as hosting, all of PodStock.

Travis Chappel is the founder of Guestio, a booking marketplace for podcasts, while Todd Cochrane, the CEO of Blubrry, is set to present statistics on how to generate income from past successes and demographic information.

Charles Riddle, a trademark lawyer, is the founder of Esquire Trademarks. He will be talking about how podcasters can own their name, and therefore their business, giving the audience universal, professional knowledge beyond podcasting.

RØDE, a company that makes microphones, mixers, and other audio production equipment, is involved with PodStock in multiple ways. The brand is funding a raffle that gives attendees a chance to win one of their equipment packages (estimated at a $1,500 value), and Ryan White, a RØDE product specialist, will be running a workshop.

White will set up the laptop, Foskey explained, to teach people how to quickly and economically download free software, purchase microphones or any other necessary tools, then record a podcast with ease.

“I think that’s going to be so important and pivotal to people that are watching, because maybe there’s some folks that’s thinking about getting in, and they have no clue what the initial investment would be,” Foskey said, the notion of costly studio charges usually preventing people from pursuing podcasting. Now, someone can use a computer, phone or any other connective device to accomplish that same feat.

W

hile traveling to distant conferences can be expensive, Foskey wanted to ensure that cost would not be a barrier to accessing PodStock’s resources. But with talent, dreams and plans at stake, Foskey encourages podcasters to still “get out there — share your ideas and energy with people.”

“This is something anyone can do. It just takes consistency and it takes knowhow. What we provide is bringing that experience to you on day one, so that you know you can get the best out of what you’re trying to accomplish,” Foskey said.

Of those traveling, he noted that “they’re speaking because of this idea that we came together to put in place,” whether they are coming from San Francisco, Vegas, or Toronto. “We have all of

these different folks converging… that’s a lot of belief.”

Also on the lineup is a New Pod City panel for those who started with or migrated to the platform to share their experiences. PodStock is still looking for panelists, especially women, to speak at the event.

As a way of reaching interested students, the “Future of Podcasting” initiative is a complimentary ticket program, again thought of by Foskey, realized from his personal desire to shape local futures.

“It’s near and dear to my heart.

I created it for students, because when I went to Trenton Central High School, I was in a work study program and a TV studio,” he said, covering football games or other events. “But I didn’t go to college for it, because I didn’t really see the bridge.”

“We know that everyone can’t afford to attend a workshop, and sometimes the people who need to be at a workshop the most are the ones who can’t afford it. They’re the ones who need to see that those opportunities are out there,” Foskey said. George Bundy, a friend of Foskey’s with BRS Media Inc., dedicated $5,000 to the “Future of Podcasting” sponsorship to fund tickets for at least 20 high school and 30 college students.

“It was really one of the things that’s on my mind, more than most of the things that we’re doing leading up to PodStock, because I just want to make sure that the kids get to see this,” Foskey said.

1911 Smokehouse BBQ is supplying the food and drinks at the after party.

Christina Sasso, knowing there were other events hosted in Trenton on the same Saturday, invited these organizations to participate in the celebration, too.

“Because we’re a united community here in Trenton,” Christina Sasso said, “We wanted the other events happening in the city on June 11 to use our after party as their after party.”

That genuine camaraderie, and sense of community, is “really the Trenton I want to live in,” Foskey said. “We have to do things in this city that we want for ourselves…if more people do what they love to do, and more folks find that love and they connect to it, then you get the city, you get the town that you deserve.”

Frank Sasso, a former animator and UFC fighter, has welcomed Trenton as his second home since opening NPC in 2010. When NPC unveiled its studio in 2020, the pandemic happened, but their business “more than tripled,” according to the founder.

Frank Sasso has his own slew of podcasts, notably hosting “Trenton Waves” with wife Christina, where the couple talk to local figures to disprove misconceptions of the state capital city by showing the real, bustling community under-

Frank Sasso, left, and Will Foskey have planned Trenton’s first Podstock conference, set for June 11. neath the assumptions.

Foskey’s main focus, on top of New Pod City, is on making sure PodStock goes as planned, regardless of how many professional podcasters the conference inspires.

“If you’re coming to the event just to be able to either network with other people or to gain knowledge, that’s really what this first year of PodStock is about. We’re mainly doing this for people that are just thinking about getting into podcasting, because everyone is trying to find what their next thing could be in life. That’s the beauty of life,” Foskey said. “All knowledge is relevant.”

“Maybe you come out of the event wanting to be something else, but now you have information, you have people that you know, because you networked.

If I didn’t network at any of these places that we went to, we wouldn’t have the people that are flying in. So we’re a testament to that. Come to PodStock and network. Meet us. Meet everybody who’s there, because you never know where your next opportunity is going to come from,” he added.

Foskey is constantly soaking up new knowledge, sharing it with others as a way to not just live in the moment, but accomplish feats as a company — even if Foskey maintained that the first year of being president is typically reserved for “getting your feet wet,” few can say they put together an event like PodStock through sheer tenacity and Trentonian resolve.

PodStock, Masonic Temple, 100 Barrack Street. Saturday, June 11. Conference: Noon to 6 p.m. After Party: 5 to 11 p.m. $99. podstock.us.

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For example, take the return of the Princeton Festival. In addition to this major regional multi-arts event surviving the pandemic-induced hiatus that had upset other such events around the state and nation, it actually used the opportunity to deepen its community and artistic roots by merging with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.

The result is the continuation of an annual series of high quality classical concerts and opera that opens with a presentation of Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.” It will be performed by Storm Large, a musician, actor, and writer who has performed vocally with national orchestras, funk singer George Clinton, and pop musicians k.d. lang and Rufus Wainwright. The presentation occurs on Friday, June 10.

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rary American composer Derrick Wang’s “Scalia/Ginsburg,” inspired by two operaloving, ideologically opposed Supreme Court justices, and Mozart’s comic “The Impresario,” with the title character dealing with the demands of two divas, Saturdays, June 11 and 18, and Sunday, June 12; a “Stephen Sondheim Tribute,” Wednesday, June 15; and a full production of 20th century British composer Benjamin Britten’s comic opera “Albert Herring,” Friday and Sunday, June 17 and 19. Other musical offerings presented at Morven Museum and Trinity Church in Princeton include concerts featuring jazz, Broadway hits, and choral music. 609-258-2787 or www. princetonfestival.org

More Summer Sounds The Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts returns with a fourpart series of free events at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. The lineup starting in mid-June is as follows:

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Diderot String Quartet (with musicians based in New York and Chicago) presents a “Legacy of the Fugue” program featuring the “Art of the Fugue” by Bach and Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13, by Felix Mendelssohn, Sunday, June 26, at 2 p.m..

Manhattan Chamber Players present the Piano Quartet in E flat major, K.493

by Mozart; Serenade in C Major for string trio, Op. 10, by Ernst von Dohnányi; and the Piano Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 47,

by Robert Schuman, Friday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m.

Zodiac Trio (an internationally known group founded by students at the Manhattan School of Music) performs music by Astor Piazzolla, Igor Stravinsky, George Gershwin, Béla Bartók, and others, Thursday, July 21, at 7:30 p.m. www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts.org *** The Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, the New Jersey Symphony

Orchestra and Princeton University program dedicated to the creation of new music through a week-long collaboration involving composers and orchestra, returns to the Princeton University Campus on July 17 and culminates in a public performance at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton on Saturday, July 23, at 8 p.m. www.njsymphony.org/institute *** Celebrating more than 25 years of community recitals, the Princeton University Carillon at the Graduate School on College Road West will again host a season of Sunday summer concerts for the surrounding community, 1 p.m., July through Labor Day. This year’s series, “When Music Meets the Sky,” is as follows: July 3, Geert D’hollander, Lake Wales, Florida; July 10, Paul Stelban, Philadelphia; July 17, Wade Fitzgerald, Philadelphia; July 24, Hunter Chase, Washington DC; July 31, Anna Kasprzycka, Gdansk, Poland; August 7, Claire Janezic (New Colleague Recitalist), Rochester, New York; August 14, The Treblemakers – Lisa Lonie & Janet Tebbel, Philadelphia; August 21, Cast in Bronze – the Tower Show; August 28, Princeton Carillon Studio Members; September 4, Robin Austin, Philadelphia.

Community members are invited to

bring blankets or lawn chairs to the Cleveland Tower and listen to the free presentations, held rain or shine. www.princeton.edu/gradschool/studentlife/ residential/gradcollege/directions. *** Westminster Choir College’s annual CoOPERAtive returns for its three-week intensive program for opera performers and free programs for the public. The program starts on Sunday, July 3, and concludes with a final concert on Friday, July 22. A work in progress at press time, the schedule, venue site, and ticket information will soon appear at www.rider.edu/ events.

Jazzing It Up The region’s largest arts center and a small Trenton jazz spot are reaching high notes with the following offerings: McCarter Theatre’s “Jazz in June Festival” gets back in the groove after a two-year pandemic-related hiatus and is offering three weekends of concerts by top-notch musicians.

Joshua Redman —- an award winning saxophonist with a jazz pedigree (noted Bay area saxophonist father and dancer mother), more than 20 albums, and a score of Grammy nominations — arrives with his

Dee Dee Bridgewater performs June 24 at McCarter Theater in Princeton. trio on Friday, June 10, at 8 p.m.

Christian Sands Quartet is led by an up-and-coming jazz artist who has been appearing at the Kennedy Center, Newport Jazz Festival, Village Vanguard, Blue Note, and other jazz centers around the world.

Saturday, June 11, 8 p.m.

Helen Sung Quartet, led by an award winning pianist and composer, has also

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Jazzmeia Horn arrives to demonstrate why the New York Times called her “among the most exciting young vocalists in jazz, with a proud traditionalism that keeps her tightly linked to the sound of classic figures like Nancy Wilson and Betty Carter, but a vivacity of spirit and conviction that places her firmly in the present.” Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m.

Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap bring together two legendary performers —- Grammy and Tony Award-winning vocalist and the Grammy-winning pianist — for a night of solid jazz and artistry. Friday, June 24, 8 p.m.

The Tyshawn Sorey Sextet is led by a Newark-born musician and composer who the New Yorker magazine called “an extraordinary talent who can see across the entire musical landscape.” Saturday, June 25, 8 p.m.

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cool evenings of hot sounds that hop with pop: Chivalrous Crickets Concert, the East Coast-based American group formed in 2018 that specializes in performing traditional Irish, English, Appalachian, popular, and early classical music on historical and orchestral instruments makes a stop at the West Windsor Arts Council, Saturday, July 9, at 7 p.m. $30 to $35. www.westwindsorarts.org *** Mercer County Parks Summer Concerts turns the county’s festival grounds in West Windsor into an entertainment center starting in early July and continuing through August with the following lineup — all set from 6 to 9:30 p.m.

R&B Night: Earth Wind & Fire Tribute, Friday, July 8; Dance Night: Epic Soul, Friday, July 15; Morris Day, Friday, July 22; Rock Night: Frontiers - The Ultimate Journey Tribute Band Friday, July 29; Soul Night: The Sensational Soul Cruisers, Friday August 5; Latin Night: Funk Salsa Urban, Friday, August 12; R&B Night: Grace Little, Friday, August 19; and Rock Night: Best of the Eagles, Friday, August 26.

There is also the Latin Night: Kombo Latino, set for Sunday, July 17, 2 to 6 p.m.

Mercer County Park, West Windsor.

$5 to $10. www.mercercountyparks. org or mercercountyparks.org/#!/ festival-grounds-events

Summer Stages Summer theater is becoming a big thing in the region, thanks to the following presenters and groups: Music Mountain Theater, the Lambertville community theater company, is presenting a summer series of the following Broadway favorites: “Godspell,” May 27 to June 12, “La Cage Aux Folles,” June 17 to July 3; and “In The Heights,” July 8 to 24. Performances set for Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m.

1483 Route 179, Lambertville. $23 to $25. www.musicmountaintheatre.org *** Kelsey Theater, the longstanding theater venue at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor, continues its partnerships with area theater groups to provide the following offerings: Shakespeare 70’s production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” June 10 through 19, and The Yardley Players’ rendition of the Broadway musical “Oliver!,” July 7 through 17.

Shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. $18

to $20. 609-570-3333 or www.kelseyatmccc.org. *** American Repertor y Ballet, the region’s professional ballet company is concluding its current season with “Movin’ + Groovin’,” an evening of world premieres by three contemporary choreographers.

The program includes ARB and American Ballet Theater dancer Claire Davison’s work inspired by music by Fleetwood Mac; Madison Ballet’s artistic director Ja’ Malik’s “Moving to Bach”; and New York choreographer and Juilliard School creative associate Caili Quan’s piece inspired by how the body is affected during sleep.

New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, Friday, June 3, 7 p.m., Saturday, June 4, 8 p.m., and Sunday, June 5, 2 p.m. $25 to $45. nbpac.org/movinandgroovin *** Princeton Summer Theater will return to the Hamilton-Murray Theater at Princeton University with a schedule of three full-length shows. First up is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” adapted

by Simon Levy, June 24 through 26 and June 30 through July 3. Following is Ken Ludwig’s “The Fox on the Fairway,” July 8 through 10 and 14 through 17. And the

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SUMMER, continued from Page 6 season concludes with Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67,” July 22 through 24 and 28 through 31. www.princetonsummertheater.org

Secret Gardens And don’t forget about your tickets to visit hidden summer gardens with the following: Hidden Gardens of Lambertville, an annual event celebrating its 24th year, is organized by the town-based Kalmia Club, a women-led civic organization that takes its name from a flower. Attendees have up to the night before to register and then pick up their official walking-tour map at the clubhouse at 39 York Street. $21. Saturday, June 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. kalmiaclub. org *** Set in the town created by the famed bridge-building company, the self-guided Roebling Garden Tour of this historic town originally populated by numerous immigrant workers starts at the Roebling Museum, 100 2nd Avenue, on Saturday, June 18, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. www.eventbrite. com/e/roebling-museum-garden-tourtickets-153549102499 ***

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‘Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter’ at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton features work by the Philadelphia ceramicist, performance artist, and educator.

The Bordentown Historical Society’s annual garden tour, featuring more than 21 gardens in the historic Colonial small city, is set for Saturday, June 25, 11 to 5 p.m. $20 ($18 for members). bordentownhistor y. org.

Summer Galleries The region’s museums and cultural organizations are also providing opportunities to get out with friends and families — or maybe even to head out alone to take a new look on life.

Mor ven Museum & Garden in

Princeton. “Ma Bell: The Mother of Invention in New Jersey” features original historical artifacts pertinent to the many discoveries, products, and fields of work that comprised the Bell System in New Jersey from the 1920s to around 1984, when the Bell System monopoly divestiture created the seven “Baby Bells” known as the Regional Bell Operating Companies.

55 Stockton Street, Princeton. Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $8 to $10. 609-924-8144 or www.mor ven. org. *** The New Jersey State Museum. Jaw Dropping World of Sharks uses specimens and artifacts from the museum collection to examine focus on the 400-millionyear history of our seaside neighbor. Also on view are “Written in the Rocks: Fossil Tales of New Jersey,” a showcase of fossils and New Jersey dinosaurs, and “American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection,” featuring the work of important American and New Jersey artists.

205 West State Street, Trenton. Tuesdays through Sundays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Free; donations requested. 609-2925420 or www.statemuseumnj.gov. *** Grounds For Sculpture. “Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter” highlights work by the Philadelphia ceramicist, perfor-

mance artist, and educator. Lugo references traditional European and Asian decorative art, historically displayed as luxury items in wealthy homes. His surface treatment is a mixture of traditional design, graffiti, and portraiture, often including the faces of those that history leaves out, focusing his representation on icons from BIPOC contemporary culture and history, as well as more personal works that point to his and his family’s personal experiences. On view through January 8, 2023.

80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Timed entry required, $20. www.groundsforsculpture.org. *** The Princeton University Art Museum is operating two Princeton galleries while the main campus museum building is closed for construction.

The Art on Hulfish space’s current exhibition is “Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age.” The exhibition of work by a global and intergenerational group of contemporary artists who explore the evolving role of video and photography in an era of digital communication and social media is on view through August 7.

11 Hulfish Street, Princeton. Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Free.

Art@Bainbridge, on Nassau Street, presents “Body Matters / Martha Friedman,” a presentation of two new series of sculptures by the Princeton University faculty member and multi-media artist that were inspired by classic Egyptian, Greek, and Roman works and practices, and 20th century drawings of brain structures and nerves, through July 10.

158 Nassau Street, Princeton. Tuesday and Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. artmuseum.princeton.edu. *** Arts Council of Princeton. “Interwoven Stories: The Final Chapter” continues the community-based narrative stitching project created in March, 2016, by that year’s artist-in-resident Diana Weymar.

The artist engaged community participants in stitching a fabric notebook and using needle and thread to share stories and memoires. After several other “chapters” of work, more than 300 pages of stories will be on view. Free. June 4 through July 2.

102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org or 609-924-8777. *** West Windsor Arts Council. “By the Light of Day” is an exhibition featuring

work by plein air artists working only in daylight. Still in development at press time, the show opens with a free reception on Friday, July 15 (time to be announced), and is on view through August 27.

952 Alexander Road, West Windsor. www.westwindsorarts.org.

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Mediterranean chain restaurants are the new Five Guys.

First came Mamoun’s Falafel, a Greenwich Village-based chain, on Witherspoon Street in Princeton, followed over the next few years by Texas-based Zoe’s Kitchen in Lawrence and D.C.-based The Simple Greek, in Hamilton.

It is safe to say that the pace of growth in the sector is increasing. Last year, The Halal Guys (Manhattan) joined Zoe’s in Mercer Mall.

Already this year, two more Mediterranean chains are poised to enter the fray: Taïm Mediterranean Grill, in Princeton Shopping Center, and Mezeh Grill, in Hamilton Town Center. Taïm, like Mamoun’s and The Halal Guys, is based in New York, while Mezeh started out as a mall food court spot in Maryland before quickly setting out to expand throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

Left: cauliflower shawarma pita from Taïm Mediterranean Grill. Right: mixed shawarma platter from Gyro King Grill in East Windsor. (Facebook photos.)

One factor in the proliferation of Mediterranean franchises is its apparent adaptability of the cuisine to the Chipotle-style fast-casual restaurant model. All of the restaurants mentioned, with the exception of Mamoun’s, take the fastcasual approach.

The definition of Mediterranean cuisine can be a little hazy — not that long ago, many Italian restaurants took to calling themselves Mediterranean because of the oft-touted benefits of the Mediterranean diet — but most of the restaurants feature a range of dishes generally

associated with Greek, Turkish, and Middle Eastern cuisine.

Taïm, like The Simple Greek, will offer a variety of featured flavors in either a pita or a bowl, plus your choice of condiments. Taïm bowl options include hummus, rice, couscous, lettuce or a combination of two, topped with one of roasted meatballs, roasted chicken, cauliflower “shawarma,” beets and carrots, eggplant sabich, falafel or Impossible kabobs.

Toppings include pickles, olives, chickpeas, almonds, avacado, baba ghanoush, feta, egg and fries, plus a variety of sauces including harissa and tzatziki. Dishes are served with Israeli salad, pickled cabbage and tahini.

Mezeh Grill takes the same approach, offering meals, offering a base of a pita, flatbread wrap or bowl with greens or rice, topped with a protein of chicken or steak shawarma, chicken kabob, shredded lamb, lamb or veggie kefta, or falafel.

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The restaurants are both “opening soon,” with Taïm looking to open possibly by the beginning of June and Mezeh sometime after that. But if you are hungry for some shawarma now, you don’t have to wait until then. Gyro King and Grill, a strictly local chain, is open now on Route 130 in East Windsor.

Gyro King, which opened in March and which also has a location in Kendall Park, offers Pakistani specialties including shawarma, kabobs, bihari, chicken tikka, and of course, gyros. Most dishes are served either in a wrap, a pita or over rice.

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Lawrence spot takes Polish cuisine to the Maximus

Eastern European cuisine may be said to have been as underrepresented as Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine in Central New Jersey over the years.

But while falafel lovers may rejoice over the wealth of choices they now have, lovers of bigos and borscht must be content that Maximus Polish Cuisine Empire, the new restaurant in Lawrence Shopping Center, brings our grand total of Eastern European restaurants in the area to four.

Blue Danube, on Adeline Street in Trenton, has been a mainstay for many

years, and Barbara’s Hungarian Restaurant in Ewing has been a more recent success story. Rozmaryn, on North Olden Avenue in Trenton, has long been the only dedicated Polish restaurant in the area.

But Maximus has earned solid reviews since opening in March.

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Princeton Ballet School, the official school of American Repertory Ballet, nurtures dancers of all ages, providing them opportunity to develop their technique and artistry in a rewarding environment.

The Princeton Ballet School Summer Intensive (ages 13 and up) attracts students from all over the globe to study with distinguished and inspiring faculty. Princeton Ballet School holds auditions throughout the United States and accepts video auditions from national and international students for the advanced program.

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Princeton Ballet School also offers fun and rewarding Children’s Summer Courses, beginning with Hand-in-Hand classes for 3-year olds to explore the world of rhythm and dance. All levels of classes for children ages 4-12 are offered throughout the Summer, no previous dance experience required!

Children’s Ballet Camp is a week-long program for ages 4-8 which introduces young children to all aspects of classical ballet, from learning ballet technique to rehearsing choreography to performing in an informal setting.

Each day includes a ballet class, an art lesson, a reading component, and a choreography class. On the last day children perform a short ballet which parents are welcome to attend.

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The program features: Claire Davison’s “Time Within A Time,” set to the music of Fleetwood Mac; Ja’ Malik’s “Moving to Bach,” set to Bach’s Sonata for Violin Solo No.1; and a new work by Caili Quan, inspired by an eclectic music mix ranging from Boban Marković Orchestra to Gabriella Smith’s “Carrot Revolution” performed by the Aizuri Quartet.

Inspired by songs from the legendary band Fleetwood Mac, Time Within Time reflects on recent years and how it might feel to return to a place, such as a theater, studio, workplace — or to each other. “I am thrilled to be returning to ARB as the dancers are a dream to work with: talented, eager, passionate and willing to play. And, the music of Fleetwood Mac is unbeatable,” says Claire Davison.

Davison currently dances with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). Her choreographic credits include One of Us (2019) for Boulder Ballet and Por Ti for Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s 2021 Summer Festival. In 2021, Davison was also the selected choreographer for New York Theatre Ballet’s Lift Lab.

Newly appointed artistic director of Madison Ballet, Ja’ Malik has been called a “choreographer to watch” by The New York Times. Describing his piece “Moving to Bach,” Malik says he was “inspired by both the dancers of ARB and Bach’s beautiful Sonata for Violin Solo No. 1.”

Malik previously danced with North Carolina Dance Theater (now Charlotte Ballet), BalletX, Ballet Hispanico, in addition to working with Camille A. Brown (For Colored…at the Public Theater), Juel D. Lane, and College Dance Collective among others.

Caili Quan is a New York-based choreographer and a creative associate at The Juilliard School.

Her new piece for ARB is inspired by how the body is affected during sleep. “Sleep gives us a place to recover, but it is also where our minds choose memories to keep. It also allows us space to reminisce and dream,” she says. “The music for the

work is an eclectic mix that made me want to move, but also felt like a soundtrack to our dreams.”

Quan danced and choreographed for BalletX, and has created works for The Juilliard School, Nashville Ballet, and others. Her short documentary called Mahålang weaves familial conversations of her Chamorro Filipino upbringing on Guam with scenes from BalletX's Love Letter, and was shown at the Hawai’i International Film Festival, CAAMFest, and the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center.

Ticket information: Movin’ + Groovin’ will be performed at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center: Friday, June 3, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, June 4, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, June 5, at 2 p.m.

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L.E.A.D. FEST Coming to Mercer County Park June 24 to July 4 Carnivals and state fairs are beloved summer traditions. There’s no better place for the whole family to enjoy rides, food, music and fun than at 2022 L.E.A.D. FEST events. Bigger and better than ever, this year’s events include five carnivals and an 11-day State Fair taking place from June 24 to July 4 at Mercer County Park Fairgrounds, 1638 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor Township.

Presented by L.E.A.D. (Law Enforcement Against Drugs and Violence), L.E.A.D. FEST events benefit the organization’s programs and related initiatives. L.E.A.D. provides the leadership, resources and management to ensure law enforcement agencies have the means to partner with educators, community leaders and families. The Allentown-based nonprofit’s programs help to deter youth and adults from drug use, drug-related crimes, bullying and violence. L.E.A.D. is committed to reinforcing the mutual respect, goodwill and relations

between law enforcement and their communities.

“The L.E.A.D. State Fair saw its biggest year ever in 2021 with more than 50,000 attendees. We hope to hit a new milestone in 2022,” said Nick DeMauro, L.E.A.D. executive director. “Funds raised at our carnivals and the State Fair are important to L.E.A.D.’s mission, allowing us to make our programs more accessible to a greater number of youngsters in the communities we serve. We couldn’t be more excited to bring five amazing events to New Jersey this year. Our goal is to create family-friendly, community-based events that are fun for everyone while at the same time promoting anti-drug and anti-violence activities in the state.”

The jam-packed State Fair promises something for everyone.

Along with free nightly musical entertainment, attendees can look forward to two premiere concert events and some exciting new additions, including a Business and Craft Vendor Tent on the weekends.

The State Fair will be open Monday through Friday from 5 to 11 p.m., and weekends and July 4 from 1 to 11 p.m.

Favorite fan attractions include Robinsons Racing Pigs, the alwayspopular pie eating contest, a petting zoo, educational puppet Granpa Cratchet and Cowtown U.S.A., an allday exhibit that contains an old-time creamery where patrons participate in preparing a cow for milking by hand.

The State Fair’s midway provider, Reithoffer Shows, will ensure there’s plenty of delicious food, carnival games and prizes, and rides for children and adults alike — from a first-class Kiddie Land to superspectacular thrill rides and everything in between.

Along with a daily lineup of live entertainment, this year’s State Fair includes two premier country concert events: the Roots & Boots Tour featuring Sammy Kershaw, Aaron Tippin and Collin Raye with Tequila Rose on June 26 beginning at 4 p.m., and Southern Rock Fest featuring the Marshall Tucker Band, Kentucky Head Hunters and Southern Steel on July 2 starting at 3 p.m.

Gate admission is $5 on weekdays and $8 on weekends. General admission, ride tickets, Mega Passes and reserved seating for the Roots & Boots Tour and Southern Rock Fest can be purchased in advance online

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L.E.A.D. FEST carnivals bring the fun to five different locations throughout the Garden State this summer. General admission, ride tickets and Mega Passes for all carnivals can be purchased in advance online at theleadfest.com.

The carnival schedule is as follows: Westfield Garden State Plaza (One Garden State Plaza, Paramus) from May 26-30; June 1-5; and June 8-12. Hours are Wednesday through Friday from 5 to 11 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and Memorial Day from noon to 11 p.m. Midway will be provided

by Reithoffer Shows. “This year, our Paramus event starts on Memorial Day weekend,” DeMauro said.

“Attending the carnival that weekend is a great way to have fun and usher in the start of the summer season.”

Voorhees Town Center (2140 Voorhees Town Center, Voorhees Township) from June 2-11. Hours are Monday through Friday from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday from 1 to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 8 p.m. Midway provided by Amusements of America.

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and folksongs and a variety of smaller pieces for string instruments and voices. t’s summer in the city. And thanks to The centerpiece of the concert by the two the city’s cultural organizers, musi- Trenton groups is the “Requiem for the cians, and artists, Trenton is the place Homeless” by active contemporary comwhere a variety of special events will poser Frank La Rocca, a California resident whose Ukrainian immigrant grandappeal to an equal variety of tastes.

It literally heats up with Taste Tren- parents settled in Trenton in the early ton. The Capital City’s self-guided Res- 20th century. Suggested Donation, $35 taurant Crawl returns with more than 30 per ticket, with all funds directly given to restaurants participating and offering the Ukrainian relief efforts. The event is at opportunity to sample foods from Costa St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, 335 Rica, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Adeline Street, Trenton, Saturday, June Poland, and Guatemala as well as African 11, 6 p.m. thelotusprojectnj.org.

Artworks Trenton’s “The Souls Shot American and BBQ classics. The going is easy. Pay $10 to join, pick up a wristbands Portrait Project,” developed with Moms Demand and maps at ArtAction, uses art to works Trenton, 19 as means to bring Thanks to the city’s Everett Alley, head an end to gun vioout, and chow down. cultural organizers, lence. The project The event is set for works with families Friday through Sunmusicians, and artists, of victims to create day, June 10 through Trenton is the place portraits to honor 12. Get more details the souls shot and at www.tastetrenwhere a variety of bring an awareton.com. ness the individuals Mill Hill Garden special events will lost through gun Tour, now in its 31st appeal to an equal violence. It will be year, will showcase showing with anothover a dozen various variety of tastes. er Artworks exhibisized gardens and tion, “The Potential private sanctuaries Project: 21 Stories of in this historic Trenton neighbor with roots to founding of Trenton.” Developed by Trenton-based the city. Tickets are $20. Saturday, June multimedia artist and activist Bentrice 11, noon to 5 p.m. To learn more, go to Jusu, the project employs storytelling, visual art, photography, and digital media trentonmillhill.org/events.

The LOTUS Project and Capital Phil- to start to honor the stories and lives of harmonic of New Jersey present “O Vos those lost to violence, and to imagine our Omnes,” a works whose text uses the community healing. In addition to Jusu’s Christian Passion Week Tenebrae vigil 21 portraits of people lost to violence, service — marking the darkest time of the exhibition also includes original pothe year in Christian spirituality. Addi- etry, soundscapes, dance, documentary tional selections include Ukrainian art film, and an original song and music

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Clockwise from top left, the LOTUS Project presents ‘O Vos Omnes’ on June 11; the Jersey Fresh Jam returns August 27; Bentrice Jusu leads Artworks’ ‘Souls Shot Portrait Project’ opening June 18; and Carl Bartlett performs at the Candlelight Lounge, June 4. video by Trenton rapper Big Ooh! Street.

The opening event includes area artist Ras painting a live-painting a portrait of Se’Quoya Bacon-Jones, a nine-year-old girl whose recent death shook the Trenton community. Both free exhibitions open on June 18, 6 to 8 p.m. and are on view through July 16. Artworks Trenton, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, 609-394-9436. www.artworkstrenton.org.

The Trenton City Museum presents its annual “Ellarslie Open,” an exhibition developed in the early 1980s that has grown into a summer event that attracts

thousands of submittals from artists working in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. This year’s juror is Walter Wickiser of the Walter Wickiser Gallery in New York City. The show opens on June 25, with VIP Reception and Awards ceremony, 1 to 5 p.m., followed by a Sunday, June 26, Public Reception and Gallery Talk with the Juror, 1 to 4 p.m. Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park, Trenton. Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m., Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Free. 609-989-3632 or See SUMMER, Page 15

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CAPITAL HEALTH EARNS TOP SCORE IN HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION’S 2022 HEALTHCARE EQUALITY INDEX Capital Health Regional Medical Center and Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell recently announced their individual “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader” designations in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 15th anniversary edition of the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey of health care facilities on policies and practices dedicated to the equitable treatment and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees. A record 906 health care facilities actively participated in the 2022 HEI survey, and 496 of those earned an “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader” designation.

“Administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the Healthcare Equality Index survey is an important benchmark,” said Dr. Eric I. Schwartz, vice president of Community Health and Transformation and executive director of Capital Health’s Institute for Urban Care. “This designation demonstrates our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion for the communities we serve and the support we provide for our employees.”

The HEI evaluates and scores health care facilities on detailed criteria falling under four central pillars, including foundational policies and training in LGBTQ+ patient-centered care, LGBTQ+ patient services and support, employee benefits and policies, and patient and community engagement. In the 2022 report, an impressive 496 facilities earned HRC’s “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader” designation, receiving the maximum score in each section and earning an overall score of 100. Another 251 facilities earned the “Top Performer” designation with scores between 80 and 95 points and at least partial credit in each section. With 82% of participating facilities scoring 80 points or more, health care facilities are demonstrating concretely that they are going beyond the basics when it comes to adopting policies and practices in LGBTQ+ care.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people.

Through its programs, the HRC Foundation seeks to make transformational change in the everyday lives of LGBTQ+ people, shedding light on inequity and deepening the public’s understanding of LGBTQ+ issues, with a clear focus on advancing transgender and racial justice.

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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT NAMES CAPITAL HEALTH A HIGH PERFORMING HOSPITAL FOR THE BEST HOSPITALS FOR MATERNITY Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell, home to the most complete maternity facility in the Greater Mercer County, New Jersey area, was named among the best in the nation for maternity services, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals for Maternity list. Capital Health is one of 15 hospitals in New Jersey and the only hospital in the Greater Mercer County area to earn this recognition. This is the first time U.S. News has published a list of Best Hospitals for Maternity.

health analysis at U.S. News & World Report. “The hospitals we’ve recognized as High Performing meet a high standard in caring for patients with uncomplicated pregnancies.”

To be recognized among the Best Hospitals for Maternity, Capital Health’s Maternity Services Program excelled on multiple quality metrics that matter to expectant families, including complication rates, C-sections, whether births are scheduled too early in pregnancy, and how successfully each hospital supports breastfeeding. Only one-third of the hospitals evaluated for maternity care earned ‘High Performing’ status, the highest ranking U.S. News awards for that type of care.

The Maternity Services Program at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell makes up the most complete maternity facility in the area. From routine deliveries to high-risk needs, staff at the Josephine Plumeri Birthing Center at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell provide a full range of prenatal, obstetrical, postpartum, and neonatal care options to make sure new families have the greatest chance for healthy beginnings. The designated Regional Perinatal Center provides neonatal care, as well as in-house coverage by obstetricians, midwives, neonatologists, perinatologists, and anesthesiologists 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To learn more, visit capitalhealth.org/maternity.

“All families deserve to be informed on how hospitals perform on key indicators of quality, which is why U.S. News has compiled and published a trove of maternal health data from hospitals across the country,” said Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of 12Trenton Downtowner | Health Headlines by Capital Health

“We’re extremely proud to be the only hospital in the region to earn recognition from U.S. News & World Report for our Maternity Services Program,” said Al Maghazehe, president and CEO of Capital Health. “For the outstanding teams at our Josephine Plumeri Birthing Center, it is a validation of their commitment to providing the highest level of care to expectant mothers. More importantly, it assures new and growing families that we’ll get them off to the healthiest and safest start possible.”

DON’T DELAY: Call 911 If You Suspect a Stroke While the fear of contracting COVID-19 has encouraged compliance with stay-at-home orders and social distancing, front-line employees at Capital Health and across the country are seeing an alarming trend of people hesitating to call 911 and delay necessary treatment for time-sensitive emergencies like stroke.

“When it comes to treating stroke, we always say ‘time is brain,’ which means that the sooner we can treat you, the better chance we have at a successful outcome,” said DR. DUSTIN ROCHESTIE, director of the Stroke Program at Capital Health. “At Capital Health, we have safety procedures in place to protect you from infection, while making sure you get the immediate, lifesaving stroke care that you need.”

The Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center at the Capital Institute for Neurosciences is a major referral center for the treatment of all types of neurovascular diseases, including cerebral aneurysms, strokes, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), cavernous malformations, carotid artery and vertebral artery atherosclerotic disease, intracranial stenosis as well as Moyamoya disease.

The only Joint Commission certified Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center in the region, located at Capital Health Regional Medical Center (RMC) in Trenton, continues to provide safe emergency stroke and neurovascular services 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week during the current health crisis.

“As soon as you call 911, our prehospital alert system allows our team in the hospital to prepare for your arrival, saving valuable time to treatment,” said Dr. Rochestie. “Your call could also activate our Mobile Stroke Unit, which can be co-dispatched with basic and advanced life support service to provide safe, immediate care at your location before you even arrive at the hospital.”

CONTROLLABLE RISK FACTORS FOR STROKE There are steps you can take right away to lower your risk. Get started by talking to your primary care doctor to learn about stroke screenings and how you can treat or manage controllable risk factors such as: … Physical inactivity/ … High blood pressure obesity/poor diet … High cholesterol …

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If someone shows any of these symptoms, even if the symptoms go away, call 911 immediately. Check the time so you’ll know when the first symptoms appeared.

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IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS EXPERIENCING SIGNS OF A STROKE, CALL 911.

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MERCER GASTROENTEROLOGY JOINS CAPITAL HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP Regional practice adds to growing team of gastroenterology specialists Mercer Gastroenterology, a comprehensive practice offering a full range of gastroenterology and hepatology services, has joined Capital Health – Gastroenterology Specialists, part of Capital Health Medical Group’s growing network of specialty care providers. Although the practice name will change, patients will continue to receive the same trusted care that has been offered in Central New Jersey and Bucks County for almost 50 years.

The team of board certified physicians and nurse practitioners who have joined Capital Health – Gastroenterology Specialists includes Drs. Armen Simonian, Jyoti Bhatia, Ravinder Dhillon, and Douglas Weinstein and advanced nurse practitioners Kasia Quirus and Suzanne Ahde. They join colleagues Drs. Mark Saxena, Michael Itidiare, Waseem Butt, Cynthia Edirisuriya, and Om Amin and nurse practitioners Lisa Costello and Maribel Martinez, with office appointments now available in Hopewell Township (Two Capital Way, Suite 487, Pennington, NJ 08534), Bordentown (100 K Johnson Boulevard, Suite 201, Bordentown, NJ 08505), and Newtown (3 Penns Trail, 2nd floor, Newtown, PA 18940).

“As Mercer Gastroenterology, we have had a great working relationship with Capital Health for many years,” said Dr. Armen Simonian, a fellowship trained gastroenterologist and partner with Mercer Gastroenterology (now Capital Health – Gastroenterology Specialists).

“It’s exciting to now have all of these talented providers under one banner and offer the most comprehensive range of services to our patients.”

Capital Health – Gastroenterology Specialists specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of general diseases of the digestive system for those who live in the Bucks and Mercer County areas.

Their goal is to diagnose any gastrointestinal disease that may be affecting the digestive tract, control the symptoms, improve quality of life, and when possible, eliminate the disease.

Call 609.528.8884 to schedule an appointment (press 2 to be directed to the Hopewell Township office) or visit capitalgastro.org to learn more.

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Celebrating baseball at the NJSM

‘T

he Baseball Vase” at the New Jersey State Museum is a handy way to celebrate baseball in the Capital City — especially as the Trenton Thunder begins its season.

Actually one of two twin vases, the porcelain Baseball Vase was created in Trenton by Isaac Broome for the Ott & Brewer Company and displayed at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.

The vase’s model was an actual Trenton baseball player, pitcher Al Van Horn.

The success of the vase was noted by Edwin Atlee Barber’s 1893 book “The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States.” As Barber writes, “One of the most spirited designs of the series is the base-ball vase, which was suggested by Brewer and worked out by Broome. It is suggestive throughout, in all of its harmonious design, of the American national game. From a pedestal rises a gradually tapering vase, of which the lower portion is formed of a series of bats banded together by a strap, while the upper portion is embellished with figures of ball-players in low relief. The cover represents a base-ball, surmounted by the American eagle, and around the projecting ledge of the base are arranged three players [a pitcher, a striker, and a catcher] in lifelike attitudes. The modelling is faultless and the figures are full of action.”

After the exhibition, one of the vases

became part of John Hart Brewer’s personal collection until it was donated to the New Jersey State Museum. Brewer presented the other to the National Baseball League in 1887.

The league, in turn, awarded the vase as the trophy to that year’s championship winner, the Detroit Wolverines, and it eventually became part of the Detroit Historical Society.

The two were brought together twice since. Once for the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989 exhibition on American porcelain and again for the New Jersey State Museum’s 2015 show “Pretty Big Things” — focusing on New Jersey innovations.

As NJSM curator Nicholas P. Ciotola noted about Trenton pottery and the vase, “At the turn of the 20th century, Trenton led the nation in ceramics production due to its prime location along railroad, canal, and river networks, as well as its proximity to anthracite coalfields and the wealthy markets of major East Coast cities. Its nearest competitor, East Liverpool, Ohio — the self-styled pottery capital of the world — may have rivaled Trenton’s output of utilitarian wares. New Jersey’s capital city, however, also claimed the distinction of producing two of the most-heralded icons of decorative American ceramics: Isaac Broome’s baseball vases.

“Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and with past experiences in marble sculpture, portrait painting, and architectural terracotta, Broome envisioned a wide range of pieces crafted in Parian porcelain — a medium that appealed to the artist for its unglazed, marble-like qualities reminiscent of Renaissance sculpture.”

Broome’s reputation was such that another work at the Centennial — and now also in the New Jersey State Museum collection — was enthusiastically reviewed by the previously mentioned Barber with the statement, “This alone would be suffi-

cient to place (Broome) in the front ranks of American sculpture.”

The artist is buried at Trenton’s Riverview Cemetery.

New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton. www.state.nj.us/ state/museum.

For more information on the Trenton Thunder’s 2022 schedule, go to www. milb.com/trenton.

— Dan Aubrey

The African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County organizes First Friday art openings and street events.

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www.ellarslie.org Jersey Fresh Jam is a regional one-ofa-kind festival developed in a partnership with Trenton street artist Leon Rainbow and graffiti-loving Trenton company TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky. The annual free event that takes its name from the state’s Jersey Fresh produce campaign attracts regional, East Coast, and even national and international graffiti artists and musicians. Saturday, August 27, noon to 7 p.m. The Jersey Fresh Jam, TerraCycle Complex, 121 New York Avenue, Trenton. Free. www.jerseyfreshjam.com.

And let’s not forget the Levitt AMP Trenton Music Series in Mill Hill Park.

While the pandemic has slowed finalizing the schedule of free weekly concerts, Trenton Downtown Association organizers are promising to pick up the pace and volume very soon. So, stay informed by going to concerts.levittamp.org/trenton.

Meanwhile, the beat goes on with some of the important weekly and monthly cultural events.

Candlelight Lounge, one of the last “real deal” jazz joints anywhere, has a hot summer line up for its weekly Saturday afternoon gigs: saxophonist Carl Bartlett

Isaac Broome’s Baseball Vase is on view at the State Museum in Trenton.

Jr; June 4; pianist Farid Baron, June 11; organist Akiko June 18; saxophonist Joe Ford June 25; trumpeter Duane Eubanks July 2; saxophonist Abraham Burton July 9; pianist Aaron Graves, July 16; saxophonist Victor North, July 23; the Landham Brothers, July 30; percussionist Randy Sutin, August 6; drummer Chris

Beck August 13; pianist Glenn Williams August 20; and Freddie and Sean, August 27. Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, Trenton, $20 Cover and $10 minimum drink order, free buffet, 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., www.candlelighteventsjazz. com.

Trenton First Friday art openings

and street events are bringing people downtown to share art, food, drink, and community at the following venues: 1911 Smokehouse BBQ Restaurant in cooperation with the African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County, 11 West Front Street, Trenton. 609-695-1911 or www.1911bbq.com; Trenton Social Restaurant 449 South Broad Street, Trenton.

609-989-7777 or www.facebook.com/ trentonsocial; Mill Hill Saloon 300 South Broad Street, Trenton. 609-989-1600 or www.facebook.com/millhillsaloon; Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 E. Front Street, www. passagetheatre.org; Artworks Trenton, 19 Everett Alley, artworkstrenton.org; and the Trenton Free Public Library, 120 Academy Street, www.trentonlib.org.

Festivities start at 6 p.m. with each venue having its own closing time.

While organizers are still concerned about the pandemic and may require masks and social distancing, it seems a good time to have some fun — while staying safe.

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