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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Princeton

Squashing the Competition

Princeton's Todd Harrity will be the player to watch at this year's College Squash Association National Team Championships at Princeton University. more

52 Things You Must Do This Year

Feast or frolic, explore or extol, we’ve got you covered for a self-directed festival of discovery and delight. Every week, meet a bit of the Garden State you need to know by heart. more

Closing the Deal

Jon Tenney, Princeton-born star of TV’s The Closer, has a knack for turning small roles into big breaks. more

Jersey's Man of Science

As the lone physicist in the U.S. Congress, Rush Holt has become a voice for innovation and education. more

Dark Vision

This month we spoke with noted author and creative-writing professor at Princeton University Joyce Carol Oates about her work, her latest editing effort, and life in New Jersey. more

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

Ajihei

Alright, the atmosphere may be lacking, parties of more than five people are forbidden, the place is small, but as Robin Damstra & Jim Salant explain, Ajihei in Princeton is still worth a visit for its excellent sushi. more

The Alchemist & Barrister

The Governor, The First Lady: And The Other Woman

Forget the image of Woodrow Wilson as puritanical prude. The 28th president had hot blood in his veins. more

Dylan Revisited

Esteemed history scholar and Princeton professor Sean Wilentz tackles a different subject in his new book—legendary musician Bob Dylan. more

Peacock Inn

A multimillion dollar renovation brings an eighteenth-century Princeton mansion irresistibly into the present, with food and drink to match. more

Last Gasp of the Dinky?

For 145 years, a shuttle train called the Dinky has served Princeton’s intelligentsia. Now it might be headed for the last roundhouse. more

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

Mediterra

Two Hats, One Baton

Rossen Milanov is the music director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and Symphony C, a training orchestra based in Camden. more

Princeton Sports Bar and Grill

Wounded Trees of the Ivy League

Location: Princeton University campus...

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Sewers of the Ivy League

On the Princeton University campus, even the manhole covers have a pedigree...

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Kisses of a Kind

There are kisses and there are kisses. That photographs can be kisses is not an obvious idea, but you could imagine a list of ways that could get long before it came to the type of kiss embodied in the life and work of Emmet Gowin, who is retiring from Princeton University after 36 years of teaching photography and is the subject of a retrospective show at the Princeton University Art Museum through February 21.

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Verticals and Squiggles

The holidays linger in Palmer Square in Princeton...

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Boot Camp

Princeton University program manager in applied and computational mathematics Howard Bergman, of Branchburg, enjoys the Boot Camp workout. more

Witherspoon Grill

When Princeton restaurateur Jack Morrison snapped up a piece of prime real estate on Princeton Library Plaza in 2004 and dropped a substantial sum for the last available liquor license in town, it seemed he had a plan. Turns out, he didn’t. “It took months just to come up with a concept,” he says, laughing. “I like to pick a goal, then figure out the hardest route to get there.” more

Positively Enlightening

Regan Hofmann publishes a memoir designed to remove the stigma and allay some of the misconceptions about HIV and AIDS. more

Garden State Seafood Panzanella Salad

Jim Weaver, chef/owner of Tre Piani in Princeton, presented this easy to make (less than one hour) dish at the first annual Great American Seafood Cookoff in New Orleans in 2004. It's still one of his favorites. more

Jersey Bred and Broadway Bound

The Addams Family is coming to Broadway in a production so rife with Garden State connections that Morticia might well speak French with a Jersey accent. more

Miso-Glazed Salmon w/ Stir-Fried Vegetables

This main course salmon dish exemplifies the “health-forward approach” of chef Jason Hensle of Salt Creek Grille in Princeton. more

Slow Food For Fast Times

The Slow Food movement has an alternative to the traditional Labor Day cookout: the eat-in, a foodie version of the civil-rights era sit-in. more

Great Places to Work: Wegmans

To encourage employee growth, Wegmans has a unique Bubble Chart that indicates essential skills needed to succeed at each level within a store. Growth is also fostered through employee travel. Groups have been sent to salami factories, beef-cattle ranches, vineyards, and cheese farms, among other suppliers 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

Where Have All The Record Stores Gone?

Mostly down the tubes, but Jersey still has some great places to shop for music. more

Vintage Points

Three New Jersey homeowners—wine lovers all—create cool cellar spaces to store and enjoy their bottled bounty. more

A Conversation With Michael Graves

New Jersey’s renowned architect/designer reflects on form, function, and those fanciful whistling tea kettles. more

Best of NJ: Retail

Super shopping and better bargains await at these top NJ retails establishments. 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

Tortuga's Mexican Village

JL Ivy

Few mourned the 2004 closing of the Rusty Scupper, a seafood spot that offered Red Lobster-like fare at higher prices. But last May, when the vaulted post-and-beam space reopened as JL Ivy—“Serving French bistro fare and Princeton’s freshest sushi,” according to the website—many wondered if things had gone from bad to worse. more

Pete Carril's Princeton Offense

At this month’s annual orgy of college hoops, the NCAA Championships, you’ll see a lot of Pete Carril—or, rather, of the offensive system he devised as basketball coach at Princeton from 1967 to 1996. more

The Strange Sports Scene

Despite the Rutgers bowl victory last night and the reigning-Super Bowl-champion Giants' spot at the top of the NFC East, New Jersey still isn't quite recognized as a sports powerhouse. Princeton, even less so. (No offense, eggheads.)

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Here We Come A Caroling

I don't know what it is about the holidays that makes you want to watch shows, movies, and performances you've already seen a bunch of times. A combination of nostalgia and tradition, I suppose. But we're all sucked in.

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Princeton's Little Chef Comes Up Big

Power Issue: Shirley Tilghman

New Faces NJ: Stephen Seo

By the time Stephen Seo became an advertising executive in New York City, he had gotten used to the stares he often received during business meetings. more

Office Options

Two work-at-home professionals clearly illustrate that designing a home office isn't a paint-by-numbers formula. more

The Blue Point Grill

Day Trip: Princeton

Princeton University’s orange and black pride is splashed along the Ivy League sidewalks and historic architecture of Nassau Street. This central Jersey treasure is filled with upscale boutique shopping, secret sweet spots, engaging theatrical performances, and school spirit. more

Hello, Tow Dolly

Standing in front of something with a camera in your hands is no time to rationalize why you are drawn to it.

That can come later, when you decide whether the picture worked--that is, whether it transfers to two dimensions something of what you experienced in three (plus time.)

But that still doesn't explain why you were drawn to it.

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Triumph Brewery

Green Grows the Garden State

Jerseyans embrace sustainable energy, recycled building materials, computer reclamation, and other eco-smart ideas. more

Living Large

Downsizing with style is just a matter of passion, planning, patience, know-how—and, yes, resources. more

Pride of Place

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American Institute of Architects, the organization’s New Jersey chapter has selected the 150 best buildings and places in the state. Here are a few of the most notable, from a Gothic basilica to a funky old burger joint. more

Bright Lights, Small City

If all the world’s a stage, towns with local theaters are important players on it. more

Beer Here

Brendan Byrne's Greatest Hits

Meet the New Boss

They Love the Garden State

Myth...Or Not

House Parties

Parsing Baloney

The Many Faces of Our Founding Father

Soup's On

Where's the Fire?

Hot New Restaurants

The First Lady’s First Lady

Survival of the Richest

Roll Over and Say Cheese

Best of Jersey: Good Buys

Best of Jersey: At Your Service

America’s It Address

Best of Jersey: Good Eating

Worth the Trip: Princeton

Looking for a Cure

52 Things Every New Jerseyan Must Know

Best Dining Towns - Princeton

Anatomy of a Princeton Park

House Calls

Backporch: Trendspotting

Cheap Eats

Best of Jersey

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

Capitalist Tools

Forbes more

Best Downtowns

Gotta Have It: April

Marching to a Different Beat

When a rare wrist disease ended his dream of drumming, he set out on an unlikely path—and found fulfillment in the kitchen. more

Hot Restaurants

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

This is the Smallest Thing in the Universe

Ed Witten, Princeton’s world-renowned physicist, is “stringing” us all along in the theoretical world as he picks up where Einstein left off. more

Last Laugh

A Grave Undertaking

Dark Energy

Joyce Carol Oates more

P.O.T.U.S. Flower

Woodrow Wilson more

Renaissance Man

Paul Robeson more

Go Get'em, Tiger!