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New Jersey Monthly Magazine

Top Dentists 2009

Looking for a great dentist? Want to know how your dentist rates? Check out our new list of New Jersey's best dental professionals in nine specialties—from general dentists to endodontists to orthodontists and more.

    
Plain Sight: A Jersey Photo Blog
02. Jul 2009

The Owl Yard

You can find all manner of things here, but first you have to pay your respects to the owl...

Table Hopping with Rosie
02. Jul 2009

Food Events

7/3: A three-course July 3 fireworks dinner will be held at Restaurant Nicholas, 160 Rt 35 S, Middletown. Reservations are from 6 until 7:30 PM; fireworks are at 9:15 PM; $95. Call 732-345-9977 for reservations.

Southern Scene
01. Jul 2009

Jersey Shore Reads

Looking for a romance novel to keep you anchored to your beach chair? We checked out six books by Jersey authors for your beach bag’s consideration.

Green Divas
01. Jul 2009

Lavender Lemonade & Fresh Edible Flower Ideas

I always try to keep a healthy crop of lavender in the garden along with nasturtiums and other notoriously delicious flowers to add color and surprise to summer food platters.

On the Vine
26. Jun 2009

Cooling Off with Kir

The sun was shining yesterday and suddenly I had a hankering for Kir—that summertime apéritif I drank back in art school when I mistook myself for a femme du monde.

NJ My Way
25. Jun 2009

Weekend Picks: Fair, Jazz and Wine

Here come the brides…at the Morris County Museum (www.morrismuseum.org). See the exhibit that opened this week of gorgeous classic wedding gowns from the museum’s permanent collection.

From the Editors
15. Jun 2009

Don't Rain On My Hit Parade

The Beatles tribute band Rain played NJPAC yesterday afternoon. The five members of Rain can play, but the show, with its slavish impersonations and onslaught of strobes and smoke and flower-power visuals, indulges in something the Beatles had no truck with: schlock.

Lost in the Suburbs
03. Jun 2009

Down Yonder in New Orleans

I had to work last weekend, but don’t cry for me. The assignment was a magazine conference in New Orleans.

In This Issue

Top Dentists

Our cover story this month is an old reliable that returns to the New Jersey Monthly lineup after a four-year absence. “Top Dentists” is intended to help our readers identify the state’s finest dental practitioners.

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Shore Guide

100 Shore Things

If there is anyone out there who hasn’t spent time down the Shore lately, please raise your hand. Okay, you two in the back, this article is just for you.

Web Exclusive

New Faces NJ: Jonathan Rua

Jersey born Jon Rua is enjoying “the Heights” on Broadway.

By MaryLynn Schiavi

How Things Work
Courtesy of Six Flags Great Adventure.

Kingda Ka Roller Coaster

How did we describe life’s ups and downs before roller coasters?

By Merrell Noden

EcoLogic
Photo by Jupiter Images.

EcoLogic: Ripe Time, Ripe Place

We live in the Garden State, so why do many of our apples come from Washington and peppers from Mexico?

By Jessica Kitchin

Web Exclusive

The Sheeleigh Project: June Update

When I first visited the Sheeleigh house back in March to learn about the LEEDs project I was reporting on, there wasn’t much to look at.

By Deborah P. Carter

Food
Courtesy of TLC.

A Baking Bunch on Reality TV

"Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro talks (bake) shop.

By Alicia Staffa