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Grants Union Artist's Work to Be Featured on NJ Billboards NJIO A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, September 10, 2009 Page 19 POPCORN™ ‘Four Centuries’ Offers Taking Woodstock: 2 Hours Of Love, Peace and Crazy Parents Time-Travel Weekend COUNTY – Eleanor Roosevelt, terpreter who will appear as Eleanor One Popcorn, Poor • Two Popcorns, Fair • Three Popcorns, Good • Four Popcorns, Excellent Abraham Lincoln and the smallest state Roosevelt of 1933 visiting Mayor park in New Jersey all play a role in Nitschke. The First Lady will deliver a By MICHAEL S. GOLDBERGER ings-on within the pageant of time are Union Count’s 12th annual “Four Cen- message of goodwill and encourage- 2 and ½ popcorns Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton turies in a Weekend: A Journey through ment to residents living through the Point of disclosure: On Woodstock as Elliot’s parents, Jake and Sonia Union County History.” challenging times of the Great Depres- eve, my friend Judy called and asked if Teichberg, respectively. To these Twenty-five historic sites will offer a sion. I were going. “Nah, it’s going to rain,” hardworking, pogrom-imbued folk, free weekend time-travel opportunity Other participants include: I said. So much for being sensible. But Woodstock is but a hopeful field in the on Saturday, October 17, from 10 a.m. Mountainside, Deacon Andrew Hetfield although I no longer regret missing otherwise hard row they’ve had to to 5 p.m., and Sunday, October 18, from House; Summit, Carter House Reeves- those momentous three days of peace hoe…a chance to reap a couple bucks. noon to 5 p.m. Reed Arboretum; Westfield, Miller- and music in August 1969, a very sweet The screenplay is unclear in dispel- The 25 sites open to the public free of Cory House Museum. nostalgia nonetheless engulfed me ling Elliot’s relationship with his brood- charge during “Four Centuries in a For more information, call (908) 558- whilst viewing Ang Lee’s Taking ing, often curmudgeonly Mom and Dad. Weekend” are grouped into five his- 2550 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Woodstock. The same goes for Demetri Martin’s toric themes that describe periods of or e-mail [email protected]. Don’t expect the familiar, iconic problematic portrayal of the accidental major changes from colonial times un- chords associated with the mother of all mover and shaker. It is either an exer- til the early 1920s. NYC Gallery Hosts love-ins. There are several good sources cise in subtlety or just a lack of experi- Visitors can select a cluster of sites to for that, mastered and re-mastered ad ence that luckily seems to work as often tour, or mix and match from all 25 Cranford Artist’s Work infinitum. Rather, this is the back-story, as it doesn’t. locations that include the grand homes CRANFORD – After a successful the whimsical and sentimentally naïve Tangential snippets about his gay- of the Early Aristocracy; the settings showing of her collage paintings in July narrative that dwells behind the water- ness, delivered in curious allusion, have for the dangerous Revolutionary War 2009, artist Theodosia A.G. Tamborlane shed event. Accepted as such, it is as- us wondering if the director is trying to years; modest examples of hard Farm of Cranford has been invited to return to tute, informative and smartly under- make a more complex statement. Still, Life; the successful undertakings of New Century Artists Gallery in New stated. because he is adequately representative Commerce and Industry, and the gran- York City to present her new series of Based on the coming-of-age memoir of innocent youth, Martin’s Elliot serves deur and comfort of the Victorian Re- oil paintings, “Fleurs Des Temps.” penned by Elliot Tiber with the help of the story’s purpose. That he’s an unin- sorts and Suburbs. New Century Artists Gallery is lo- Tom Monte, he is Elliot Teichberg be- tentional hero pleases a sense of seren- Among the special events and exhib- cated at 530 West 25th Street in New fore the name change, heir to the crum- dipity. But look elsewhere for standout FLEURS DES TEMPS...Pictured here is “Bouquet with Grandma’s Bowl,” one its planned at the historic sites around York (between 10th and 11th Avenues). bling, about-to-be-foreclosed El Mo- acting. of the “Fleurs Des Temps” paintings by Cranford artist Theodosia A. G. Union County on the weekend of Octo- This show is on now until Saturday, naco Motel in Bethel, N.Y. Weird and Credit in that department goes to Tamborlane. See release at right. ber 17 and 18 are the following activi- September 26, with an open public struggling Mom and Dad have recalled Liev Schreiber as Vilma, a former ties: reception on Saturday, September 12, their prodigal son to the shores of White Marine turned cross-dresser/security The Osborn Cannonball House in from 3 to 6 p.m. Lake to save the day. Ah, happenstance. guard who arrives on the scene and Poetry Series in Fanwood Scotch Plains will host “The Civil War This new series presents Ms. At approximately that same moment sells his/her protective services. Not Marches through Union County” with Tamborlane’s intricate vision of vari- in time, an odd synergy of suits, would- only does Schreiber manage to make a re-enactment of memorial services ous flowers and Dutch flower gardens, be concert promoters and Hippies are real this potentially over-the-top char- Will Resume on Sept. 15 for artist Julian Scott of Plainfield, re- drawn from her travels and personal rebuffed from staging a music festival acter, but in the same breath imparts FANWOOD – The Carriage House Department at the New Jersey Institute cipient of the Army Medal of Honor, gardens. Other paintings by Ms. in Wallkill, N.Y. Elliot, who has risen to some philosophical details about the Poetry Series invites the public to at- of Technology in Newark. A Brooklyn and William Perrine, the last Civil War Tamborlane are permanently displayed president of the ragtag Bethel Chamber cultural landscape. tend a free poetry reading on Tuesday, native now living in Maplewood, he veteran who is buried in Hillside Cem- at the Simply Gallery, located at 11 of Commerce, finds himself in a pow- Hard to figure, though, except per- September 15, at 8 p.m. in the Kuran has published five collections of poems etery; Walnut Street in Cranford, and Boule- erful position. Okaying a venue for the haps as a stark contrast to the peace and Arts Center on Watson Road, off North and a sixth volume, “As If Free,” is The Springfield First Presbyterian vard Bistro, located at 301 South Av- consortium merely requires his rubber love scenery that has been painted all Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood forthcoming this year. Church will exhibit artifacts from the enue in Westfield. stamp. around her, is Imelda Staunton’s (Mom) Borough Hall. He is the editor of “The Facts on File nearby Cannon Ball House, including In addition to being a member of Concertgoers enter stage right by neurotic battle-ax. While Elliot’s The monthly series resumes after a Companion to 20th Century Ameri- relics from the Battle of Springfield and New Century Artists, Ms. Tamborlane car and truck, and from the sky by money-grubbing Mom exhibits the summer break, and the featured read- can Poetry,” and for more than 10 an original Watts Hymnal. The statue of is a member of the Allied Artists of helicopter, all manner of being befit- usual symptoms of one who has sur- ers will be the distinguished poets years, he was senior editor of Poetry a Continental Soldier out front is lo- America, the Contemporary Art Group ting the era. True, on first blush some vived the Great Depression, there’s Edwin Romond and Burt Kimmelman. New York: A Journal of Poetry and cated on the smallest state park, mea- of New Jersey and Studio Montclair. characterizations seem excessive. Then something else very wrong here, irk- Mr. Romond is a poet, playwright, Translation. He was featured recently suring 10 square feet, in New Jersey; To contact her, e-mail to again, traveling in those times was more somely left unexplained. composer and educator. Born in at Seton Hall University’s Poetry-in- The Oswald J. Nitschke House in [email protected] or call (908) 276- apt than not to put you in touch with Not so off-putting are the equally Woodbridge and now residing in Wind the-Round and at the White House Kenilworth will feature an historic in- 4967. Her website is tamborlane.com. more than one person a day who was obscure motivations attributed to Henry Gap, Pa., he has written four books of Poetry Revival in Limerick, Ireland. “going through a lot of heavy changes, Goodman’s Jake Teichberg, the long poetry, two musical plays and was a The Carriage House Poetry Series man…if you can dig it.” suffering spouse who manages to have public-school teacher for 32 years in is in its 11th season at the Kuran Arts NJIO Receives Arts Award, The throng of idealists, music lovers a few joyful beers with the invading Wisconsin and New Jersey. Center, an historic Gothic Revival and just big kids looking to have a blast hordes. It thus comes to mind that while His poems have appeared in many structure that was once a 19th century are all represented here. Pausing in all this parental baggage is important to literary journals, college textbooks, carriage house, hence the name of the Holds Open Houses in Sept.
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