Subscribe to this tagIn a Pig's Eye
It's a little unnerving to be stared at by the creature that will provide your dinner...
moreWeekend Picks: Eat and Run
You can start this weekend off on a good foot at the first ever North Jersey Komen Race for the Cure, Sunday at Branch Brook Park in Newark, to benefit breast cancer research. You can register on the website, or beginning at 7 a.m. on race day at the park. There’s a 5K run/walk and the 1.5 mile Fun Walk. NJ My Way is a media sponsor of this event. Make sure you wave to our cameras!
moreGuzzle, Guzzle, Oil and Trouble
Oil prices fell Wednesday, the AP reported, after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and a government report said U.S. fuel supplies unexpectedly fell last week.
moreHappy Belated Earth Day!
The poet William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Well, how about in a thingamajig on top of a rusty metal fence in Edgemont Park in Montclair?
moreBright Lights, Small City
Best Feet Forward
Wendi Browne gives her clients Shiatsu, Swedish, and the other standard massages at her Hibiscus Therapy Center in Montclair But this masseuse, who retired from the U.S. Army, has one interesting technique that sets her apart.
moreA Lesson in Jersey Grammar from the Fab Faux
Flashback to First Night--December 31--in Montclair. Onstage, the Fab Faux, the mind-bogglingly good Beatles cover band.
"Happy New Year!" bassist Will Lee called to the audience. He's from Texas, but he spoke very well. (Years of playing in Paul Shaffer's Letterman band have ironed out his regionalisms.)
Guitarist Jimmy Vivino leaned into his mike and noted that on this side of the Hudson River, the correct greeting is "Happy New YEAZZ!" The audience, packed into the pews of the First Congregational Church on South Fullerton Avenue, shouted back in kind.
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