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Recap of New Jersey Youth Symphony at UCPAC for Women's History Month

(RAHWAY, NJ) -- Wharton Arts in partnership with Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) presented a free Education Concert on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Main Stage at UCPAC in Rahway. The New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), a program of Wharton Arts, performed for nearly 1,000 elementary and middle school students from Union, Essex, Morris, and Passaic counties in a special event celebrating Women's History Month.



New Giraffe Calf Born at Wild Safari in Jackson

(JACKSON, NJ) -- Six Flags Great Adventure Resort is thrilled to announce the birth of a new giraffe calf, Coral! Born on December 15th, Coral is a healthy female and is now nearly three months old. Her parents, Conan (father) and Mariah (mother), are both resident giraffes at Wild Safari.



Music at Bunker Hill presents Quintessential Quintets

(SEWELL, NJ) -- Continuing Music at Bunker Hill's mission of bringing great performers to the heart of Southern New Jersey, Quintessential Quintets appears on Sunday, March 30, 2025 with works by Mozart and Dvorak. This audience favorite string quintet is anchored by Danny Phillips, Marcy Rosen and William Frampton, joined by Emma Frucht and Cara Pogossian. Showtime is 3:00pm.



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 03-06-25

Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!










bergenPAC presents comedian David Spade

(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) presents comedian David Spade on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 8:00pm. Spade became a household favorite during his tenure as a cast member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live".



OCC Repertory Theatre Company presents "Amadeus" at Grunin Center

(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- The Ocean County College Repertory Theatre Company will present Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play, Amadeus, on March 14-16 and March 21-23, 2025. Performances will take place in the Black Box Theater (Building 11B) at the Grunin Center for the Arts, located on the main campus of Ocean County College.



The Clydes to Release Three New Singles

Good things come in threes, right? Veteran New Jersey alt-rock band The Clydes are set to release three new singles over the coming months. And at the end of it will come a new album.



Wordsmith and Wonder: An Author Talk with Jodi Picoult

(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Step into spring with a fascinating author talk with New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult about her newest novel, By Any Other Name. This free program will take place virtually on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The event begins at 7:00pm.



"Open Book(s)" - Adventures on the wild frontier of bookmaking, and meaning-making, in the first floor galleries of Mana Contemporary

by Tris McCall
published 2025-03-05

Books do not need to be beautiful objects to be cherished. Many indispensable books on my shelf were in poor condition when I brought them home from the shop. The publishers who put out the cheap yellow-page paperbacks that rocked my world and set my course when I was a child didn’t give much consideration to font, printing, or paper stock. All that mattered was readability. Could I open it fast, close it up quick, and chuck it in my bag when I was done? If anybody at the publishing company was making design decisions, those were their objectives. Any impediment to or distraction from the reading experience was unwelcome. They took it for granted that everything that mattered was inside the book.