5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (557+ words) TENAFLY, N.J.—The Presbyterian Church at Tenafly will present two free September concerts featuring internationally recognized musicians Elli Choi and Daniel Ficarri. Choi, a 2020 graduate of Tenafly High School and an award-winning violinist, will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, in the…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (363+ words) Halverstam joined Englewood-based Arts Horizons as a three-hour-a-week volunteer in 1986. She later became acting executive director and was formally named executive director in 2010. She retired in 2014. She subsequently served five years as a co-president of the National Council of Jewish…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (558+ words) ORADELL, N.J.—Bergen County Players will raise the curtain on its 94th season with the area premiere of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” running Sept. 19 through Oct. 10 at the Little Firehouse Theatre. The production arrives during a milestone year: 2026 marks both the 25th anniversary…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (1084+ words) RIVER VALE, N.J. — Kieran Scott knows that divorce changes a family. For her latest thriller, the River Vale author began wondering what it might do to everyone gathered around the marriage. “I’m at the age where people are starting to get…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (249+ words) WESTWOOD, N.J. — A new two-person exhibition at Sfumato Gallery brings those opposing qualities together through the work of painter Mher Khachatryan, known as The Smoke Artist, and sculptor Karen Akhikyan. “Smoke and Steel,” now on view at the gallery at 24 Booker…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (183+ words) DEMAREST, N.J. — The Art School at Old Church will present two summer ceramic exhibitions, In Hand III and The Figure: Interpretations in Clay, from June 11 through July 24. An opening reception for both exhibitions will be held Thursday, June 11, from 6 to 8 p.m....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (274+ words) ENGLEWOOD — For some of New Jersey’s most vulnerable young people, art is more than expression — it’s survival, healing, and a way to be seen. That idea will take center stage May 4 when Youth Consultation Service (YCS) hosts its 19th annual Blossoms…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (531+ words) WESTWOOD—If you lived in the Pascack Valley 90 years ago, and you had 15 cents to spare, Westwood’s Casino theater was one option for a Saturday evening out. This early movie house operated in the 1910s at the corner of Broadway and…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (160+ words) MONTVALE — The Montvale Public Library will host “Borscht Belt Architecture: Designs of the Jewish Alps” on Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. Presented by historian and collector Alex Prizgintas, the program is the second in his Borscht Belt lecture series. It…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1059+ words) A Local Author Spotlight by Michael Olohan MONTVALE—Over five decades in show business, Montvale’s Anthony “Tony” Salerno Jr. has worked with hundreds of top entertainers, celebrities and VIPs — from Frank Sinatra, John Lennon and Lucille Ball to George W....