Summit
By Karen Tina Harrison -
November 28, 2011
The puffy, rosemary-flecked focaccia bread at La Focaccia in Summit is wonderful, Karen Tina Harrison writes. But that isn't all that's worth eating at the restaurant.
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By Melinda Newman -
August 15, 2011
Andrew McCarthy still acts and directs, but the Summit native has won new acclaim writing about his global travels.
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By Dave Kaplan -
August 15, 2011
Oak Knoll, a small private school in Summit, is fast becoming a national powerhouse in field hockey.
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By Tammy La Gorce -
March 14, 2011
The new curator of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Mary Birmingham, brings nine years of experience and an academic background to the position.
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By Lauren Payne -
February 15, 2011
There’s nothing shy about interior designer Nancee Brown’s colorful house. From orange to periwinkle, the tones flow seamlessly from room to room. (Photos by Melabee M. Miller)
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By Drew Anne Scarantino -
August 16, 2010
Sept 24–26: For an epicurean adventure, the Summit Wine and Food Festival at the Grand Summit Hotel is your destination.
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By Sam Kadko -
January 29, 2010
This traditional Italian restaurant, which occupies a handsome storefront in downtown Summit, is run by culinary veterans.
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By Tammy La Gorce -
January 12, 2010
CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer answers questions about being a "Jersey guy" and let's us know what's going on in the world of high finance.
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By Tammy La Gorce -
October 13, 2009
How one small suburban town became a big testing ground for online news reporting. (Photos by Sandra Nissen)
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There are more than 40 wineries in the Garden State. Many are taking part in some fun wine events this summer. Here’s a sampling.
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By Ed Christman, Robert Strauss, and Ken Schlager -
April 13, 2009
Mostly down the tubes, but Jersey still has some great places to shop for music.
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March 17, 2009
NJ Monthly offers a roundup of the best places to find ice cream, coffee, cocktails, crumb cake, cupcakes and plenty of other delicious food items that don't start with a "C."
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By Alicia Staffa -
December 8, 2008
By Laura Winberry -
November 11, 2008
By Emily Faherty -
November 10, 2008
A black lab named Maggie scurries through a Hoboken townhouse, climbing over couches and crawling under beds, circling in and out of closets, and sticking her nose into shoes and scattered clothes. Suddenly, Maggie stops her search and sits—a sign that confirms what many parents fear most.
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By Deborah P. Carter -
November 2, 2008
I was thinking it was time to head home when the streetlights came on. And then the yellow lights in the brick building.
I took the hint.
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It was beginning to get dark. Something flickering like a cartoon caught my eye from the corner of a demolished room. It sucked in the last bit of sun, glinting above the cathedral on the west side of the demolition site.
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Walking around the site, I came to a kind of loading dock.
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Not all parts of the Summit site are being demolished. Some are just undergoing a late spring cleaning.
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Last week I previewed a visit to an institutional site in Summit where an old wing of a building is being torn down. The question then and now is, can you identify the site?
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The daily Plain Sight thumbnail is different. It's always a detail cropped from the full picture. Today's thumbnail represents only about two or three percent of the entire picture.
To see the whole thing, click below.
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By Peter Golden -
February 8, 2008
By Jennifer Melick -
February 8, 2008
By Cara Birnbaum and Michael Aaron Rockland -
February 7, 2008
By Leo Carney -
February 5, 2008
By Jennifer Melick -
January 30, 2008
By Alison Blank -
January 29, 2008
By Jennifer Weiss -
January 29, 2008
By Michael Parillo -
January 28, 2008
By Karen Tina Harrison -
January 28, 2008
By Antoinette DeNise -
January 28, 2008
By Robert Strauss -
January 16, 2008
By Rachel Deahl -
January 16, 2008
By Valerie Sinclair -
December 26, 2007
By Nancy Brannigan Painter -
December 20, 2007
By Eric Levin, Janice Perrone, Terry Golway, Jen A. Miller, Liz George, Paul Drexel, Allen St John, Jason Schwartz, Jennifer Weiss, Merrell Noden, John T. Ward, Carol Weeg, and Jennifer Melick -
December 20, 2007
December 19, 2007
The Sloppy Joe, as we know it, is a supremely Jersey concoction. Or is it?
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