Section: Entertainment
Cortese Composes For Friday’s Gallery Walk
The Montclair Gallery Walk is Friday night from 6 to 9 p.m. and Verona’s George Cortese has composed music to accompany the exhibit by Stefanie Silverman at 73 See Gallery. Cortese majored in music in college and now composes in addition to running a successful kitchen and design business. He has written pieces for ballets [...]
Bob Manley’s Band Plays Friday
Yes, Bob Manley serves on the Verona Town Council. But his other night job is music and this Friday night, May 18, his band Coolerator will be playing at the Rattlesnake Ranch Cafe on Rt. 53 in Denville. The band includes Manley on lead vocals and guitar, and two other Verona names you might recognize: [...]
VHS Creative Arts Festival Coming
Verona High School students will once again exhibit their creative endeavors from this year’s curricular and extracurricular activities on Wednesday, May 23, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 24. Parents, families, friends, VHS graduates and the community are all invited to attend the annual [...]
Verona-Cedar Grove Chorus To Perform
The Verona-Cedar Grove Chorus is gearing up for its 2012 Spring Concert, to be held on Sunday, May 20, at 4 p.m. at Verona High School. The chorus will perform a medley from “Phantom of the Opera” along with other choral highlights including Mozart’s “Alleluia”, as well as a compilation of popular music, jazz and [...]
Dragon Dances At Turtle Back
To help celebrate the luckiest year in the Chinese zodiac, this Saturday, May 12, Turtle Back Zoo will have special dragon dances performed by Yee’s Hung Ga International Kung Fu Association to celebrate the zoo’s new komodo dragon. Performances will occur between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The rain date is May 19. The art [...]
VHS Spring Concert Tonight
The Verona High School Music Department is closing out the year with a bang. The concert band’s Spring Concert is tonight, Thursday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. at VHS. Chamber Music Night is next Tuesday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m. All music students and color guard are then traveling to Ohio where they will perform [...]
New Anthony Robert Salon Opens
For months, it has been the worst-kept secret in Verona: Anthony Lombardi, the star of Jerseylicious, was not moving his Anthony Robert Salon out of Verona. Yes, the script of the reality TV show would have had you believe that Lombardi, who has operated from a tiny space next to the Peckman River for several [...]
Veronans Star In ‘Pippin’
The First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell will be performing “Pippin” this weekend, May 11-13, and there are several familiar Verona faces in the cast and behind the scenes. Verona High School junior Michael Hardenberg is the show’s lead, the role originated by Ben Vereen on Broadway. The Verona cast also includes Maura Cuddihy, Paul Salierno, [...]
‘All Shook Up’ At VHS Saturday
There’s going to be a lot of Elvis Presley music at Verona High School this Saturday night. All Shook Up is a musical that weaves the songs of the great rocker into a story modeled on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (think lots of mistaken identity and uptight characters that get their comeuppance). The cast includes some [...]
Stones That Tell Stories
Pamela Petro grew up around rocks. Her father Stephen Petro, who passed away in March, was an avid rock collector who would often talk about his finds with children at F.N. Brown elementary school. But Pamela Petro told her stories differently–or at least she used to. After graduating Verona High School with the class of [...]