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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Maplewood

Top 25 Restaurants 2011

Long gone are the days when New Jersey, sandwiched between two imposing cities, could only look outward for its best food. Now the top restaurants in the state stand shoulder to shoulder with the finest in the region. more

Maplewood Restaurant Week

Get ready for one of the better Restaurant Weeks in New Jersey—Maplewood Restaurant Week, March 21 to 27. more

Still on the Newark Beat

A former Star-Ledger sports and feature reporter scores a big hit with his first novel. more

Great (Inaccurate) Expectations

As the due date grew closer, the script went out the window for this mom-to-be. more

Independence Through Art

Leonard Bornstein volunteers with Arts Unbound in Maplewood. more

If You Love Django...

...Reinhardt, that is, the great Gypsy guitarist, still one of the most amazing guitar virtuosos of all time, then don't miss guitarist Stephane Wrembel at Arturo's restaurant in Maplewood this Wednesday, July 28, 6-9 pm...

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25 Best Restaurants 2010

For the best Jersey chefs, fresh, local, sustainable, and farm-to-table are not just buzzwords but delicious keys to creativity, style, and value. more

Dietz's Domain

At the Newark Museum, Ulysses S. Grant’s great-great-grandson presides over a vast collection of decorative art objects. more

Dateline: Maplewood

How one small suburban town became a big testing ground for online news reporting. (Photos by Sandra Nissen) more

A Walk In The Park

Autumn is an ideal time for a walk—and a picnic—in one of the area’s lush parks. more

25 Best Restaurants 2009

Our experts scoured the state to find elite dining establishments old and new. How did they fare? Read our Top 25 Restaurants list to find out. Feel free to comment on their findings. more

Adventures in Home Ownership: The First Block Party

Some of the credit has to go to the weather, no question. But the sunshine and perfect temperatures weren't the only things keeping us smiling at our first block party on Saturday.

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New Faces: Libby Christensen

With a passion for hair, a drive to write, and an endearing Scottish accent, 65-year-old Libby Christensen is becoming a Garden State celebrity. more

Adventures in Home Ownership: How to Be the Best Street Ever

With every passing day, we love our house—and our neighborhood—more and more. But our feelings about the new address shot through the roof last Friday, when we went to our first shindig at a neighbor's place two blocks down.

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Adventures in Home Ownership

A friend of mine bought a house in North Carolina a few years back, and when she first moved in, she slept with a hammer, a garage-door opener, Lysol spray, and her cell phone under her pillow. (The plan, apparently, was to distract an intruder by opening the garage door while spraying Lysol in his face, calling 911, and threatening him with a hammer). As an easily scared whimp, I figured I'd probably do the same thing someday.

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Chefs on the Move

John Bendokas IV is the chef de cuisine at Frank’s Waterside, 7800B River Rd, North Bergen (201-861-0700).

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Outbid in a Buyer's Market

A young couple find frustration trying to go from here to home equity. more

Exit Ramp: Silent Night

Lorena's

In Your Face

30 and Counting: Born in the U.S.A.

Highlawn Pavillion

Best of Jersey: Good Eating

Games: Disk Jockeys

Funny Bone

Indigo Smoke

Best of Jersey

We in the Garden State need to start demanding more. Here are a bunch who deliver. more

Best Downtowns

The Will to Win

Elisabeth Shue and her brother Andrew had a dream to honor their brother’s memory with a film about family and soccer. They didn’t trust Hollywood to get it right, so they financed and filmed it here at home. more

Food Fight!

The Sloppy Joe, as we know it, is a supremely Jersey concoction. Or is it? more

Night and Day

Hot Restaurants

Attention, foodies! Add these gustatory bastions and new sensations to your to-do list. Gentlemen, and ladies, start your forks. more