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52 Things You Must Do This Year
From Baggage Claim to the Ironbound
Last night, I flew into Newark, and my fiancé picked me up. As we were pulling out of the airport, he mentioned that there was nothing in the house for dinner, and what did I think about taking a trip to the Ironbound section of Newark? After a day of airport delays, the Brazilian and Portuguese food of the Ironbound felt like travelling internationally without need of a passport. Yes, please!
moreCorner Capers - The Reveal
On a hot sunny day on Halsey Street in Newark, two people share a slice of shade...
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Part Pac-Man, part rearing horse, part pentangle...
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All things considered, a busy intersection...
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Outside what appeared to be a pre-school on Halsey Street in Newark
moreDr. King and the Rabbi
Newark's Karmic Connection
Hitting the High Notes
Newark Shoots—and Scores!
Island in the City
Ready For Re-Entry?
The Last Synagogue
Seabra's Marisqueira
Grand Ole Gershwin
Oh Happy (Grammy) Day
Safety First?
Why We're Not the Jetsons
The Cantor's Kin
Dietz's Domain
Home Sweet Home
He's No Angel
Shudder And Quake
Holy Hero, Batman!
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Brick City Nitty Gritty
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.
moreBig Night with Lil Wayne
Some days you just get lucky. Yesterday, when tickets for the Lil Wayne concert fell in my lap, was one of those days.
moreBallet's Golden Years
Power Hour
The Race Is On
Finally PAC-ing It In
As a former Sunday School attendee and teacher, I've heard more than my fair share of "This Little Light of Mine." Listening to twenty or so gospel singers from South Africa belt it out, however, was an entirely new religious experience.
moreCharter Schools: Boon or Bust?
Classical Window Shopping
On Treat Place at the corner of Branford Place in Newark, there's a clothing store where what flanks the windows is more interesting--to me, anyway--than what is in the windows. Although they do look nice together.
moreBye-Bye Balthazar
Much of what you are about to see are known in baking as "laminated pastries."
Sounds like something you would break a tooth on but could leave out in the rain for weeks.
The truth, in this case, may not set you free, but it will melt in your mouth.
moreReaders' and Critics' Choice - Restaurant Poll Winners 2008
In the D.D. E.R.
Standing today in a spotless room stocked with vital fluids and equipment for delivering them, I had a flashback.
Just five and a half weeks ago, I spent several hours in a strangely similar room, having essential fluids dripped into my body from plastic packs hung from prongs on metal poles just like you see here.
moreTurn Around For Salami
Hard job selling insurance ten feet off the ground, day after day.
Aside from the stiff neck, the poor creature can't even turn around to locate the source of that powerful aroma of salami just 20 yards behind him on Branford Place in Newark.
moreOperation Salami Drop Update
As the New Jersey National Guard gears up for its biggest foreign deployment since World War II, Hobby's Deli in Newark is gearing up to support them. You can help.
moreThe Little Bake Shop That Could
Hardy-Har-Maher
Comedian, liberal firebrand, Cornell grad, and River Vale native Bill Maher preached to a sold-out concert hall at NJPAC in Newark on Friday night.
There probably wasn't a Republican in the house, but there certainly were Catholics and plenty of other Christians, plus people who take prescription drugs, heterosexuals, homosexuals, Hillary-ites and Obamaphiles, and most likely some NASCAR fans.
And they all laughed. And for good reason. Maher is an equal opportunity lacerator. But more than that, he's a newshound, and very funny.
morePassing Through
Driving along First Street in Newark yesterday,
returning from a doctor's appointment,
came to a red light.
moreOn Trauma Bay 3
Luck is when you have been struck by a car backing down a driveway (see yesterday's post), suffered a mild concussion, a hairline skull fracture, various contusions and abrasions, and yet are not in such terrible shape that you can't look at your surroundings with interest.
moreNear Death, But Not Too
No, this picture is not upside down. But if you are lying on your back on a gurney in a Level 1 Trauma Center, and your neck is in a brace, as mine was, about all you can do is tilt the camera up and backwards.
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