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Review: Proof Adds up to a Fine Night of Theater in Holmdel

HOLMDEL, NJ—With many area theaters winding down their seasons, the Holmdel Theater Company, some twenty miles south of New Brunswick, is just starting theirs.

Confirming there is excellent theater in the Garden State year round, the somewhat countrified venue’s season kicks off with David Auburn’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning "Proof."

The drama's first public performance was at New Jersey’s own George Street Playhouse’s 1999 Next Stage New Play Festival.

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Hub City Music Festival Features a Dozen Shows Throughout the Area

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ —The New Brunswick Cultural Center and Iguana Music & Sound will be hosting the third annual Hub City Music Festival.

The festival will run from Thursday, April 9 through April 19, and includes live perfomances at venues throughout New Brunswick, Somerset, and Highland Park.

Local musicians, of diverse genres, including jazz, classical, and rock, will feature in the festival, in twelve separate events.

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Rutgers Club Tennis Competing in National Championship Tournament

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–On April 1, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced Rutgers University as one of the top 64 coed intramural and sport club tennis teams that have qualified to represent colleges and universities across the country in the 2015 USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship.

The tournament follows the World TeamTennis format and will be played at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, North Carolina on April 9-11.

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McDonald’s to Stop Using Chicken That Has Been Given Antibiotics

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–McDonald’s announced on March 4 new menu sourcing initiatives and said it would only obtain chicken raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicine, according to a press release.

In addition, McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. will offer customers milk jugs of low-fat white milk and fat-free chocolate milk from cows that are not treated with rbST, an artificial growth hormone.

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Free Art Exhibition at Rutgers Mason Gross School

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–This spring, Rutgers Mason Gross school of Arts is allowing its senior class to display the skills they have been developing over the past several years in a public forum.

Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory of Rutgers University. It is a  community of artists—dancers, filmmakers, musicians, theater artists, and visual artists—who study, teach, create, perform, and exhibit.