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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Bloomfield

In the Pink

When you are directed to rinse, you reach for the pink cup. The dentist also has a pink cup on her instrument tray...

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The Sun Dome

Maybe someday nuclear fusion will take place in devices no bigger than this...

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The Gold Standard

The cyclops of the dentist's office shows its true colors...

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Mes Rêves

From Vietnam to Bloomfield, a dream of fine French food becomes reality. more

Window Schlepping

There are window displays, carefully constructed, and then there is this...

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Bar Cara

The DePersio family of Fascino fame (Montclair) team up again with Bar Cara in Bloomfield. The results, writes Stan Parish, are mixed. more

Why Go Anywhere?

Interesting to find that question asked next to a gas station...

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Panel Discussion

Winter enclosure panels, removed for summer, congregate outside a restaurant...

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Telephone Booth With Bangs

Under droopy branches, a low-to-the-ground public telephone awaits discovery next to a Chinese restaurant...

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Sew Central

The tailor sits here...

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Threads

No heavy lifting today, as compared to the last two days of PS. Just a view of a tailor's shop I happen to frequent...

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Hangers On

White-collar collars of all colors, a community's collective answer to the question, which shirt today?

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Global Greening

Christine Eibs Singer was visiting a health clinic in Senegal in 1997 when she saw the light—literally. more

Jersey's Bumper Acropolis

A boom in ambitious new restaurants takes Greek cuisine beyond moussaka and gyro. more

Rinse, Please

A day at the dentist. Sip, swirl, spit. Ptooey in pink...

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At the Dentist

Excessive cuteness makes my teeth hurt, but in this case my tooth already hurt for another reason, and I found the tableau in the dentist's examining room amusing.

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Bloomsday

Upstart Bloomfield is nipping at the heels of über-dining-destination Montclair. more

The Orange Squirrel

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. That describes chef Francesco Palmieri and his enthusiasm for his new restaurant. But in the kitchen his passionate and serious side comes to the fore. more

Best of NJ: Food and Drink

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." more

Yella Lennuf

It may seem I'm speaking in tongues, but sadly  I'm simply succumbing to sophomoric silliness (and my.soft spot for same starting sounds, aka alliteration).

Yesterday's plain sight was Funnel Alley. Reverse that and you have today's Plain Sight.

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Funnel Alley

How many shapes do alleys come in? Has there ever been one exactly like this?

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Fall At My Feet

Running to my car in the rain, fumbling momentarily for my keys, I was struck by the photographic equivalent of "It's the economy, stupid."

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At the Dentist

I got into the chair and...what is that woman doing there?

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Stamna

Slideshow: Have You Ever Wondered...

...What the back of a garden center looks like?

Neither have I.

That is, until I accidentally wandered into one....

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It's Getting Pretty Orange Out There

Soon every front porch will have its own organic gargoyle sporting the only gap-toothed grins that don't need orthodonture.

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The Seamstress's Cubby

Across the street from Holsten's, where Tony Soprano went for his last double dip, stands a sunny corner storefront where I take my dry cleaning and have pants taken in or let out, depending on how many Holsten's visits I've recently racked up or been able to resist..

Click "read the rest of this post" to see full picture...

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State Street Grill

Cyclops, or, View From A Dental Chair 2

Once the hygienist lowers you to the horizontal, there is not much to look at other than the dental hygienist herself (very rude) or the dental light shining above your head....

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Butterflies Are Free, or, View From A Dental Chair

When I say I take my camera everywhere, I mean everywhere, even to the dentist's office.

You have a lot of time of your hands when the hygienist goes to process the digital x-rays. But if those hands are holding a camera...

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Day Trip: Montclair

This hip Essex County township has become one of the state’s prime dining and entertainment destinations. more

Toast

Mommy, Where Do Diners Come From?

Cheap Eats

This is Work?

Joe Piscopo Get's Serious

The funny man reaches out to at-risk Jersey kids with his Positive Impact Foundation more