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Pizza On The Rocks

In New Jersey, where pizza reigns supreme, and no hometown strip mall or downtown exists without a favored slice-a-teria…we are passionate about our pies.

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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

Weekend Picks: Festivals and Fairs

It’s a big weekend for food and wine lovers at the Jersey Fresh Food and Wine Festival, Saturday and Sunday at Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington. Taste wines from the state’s vineyards, attend seminars by wine and food experts, and try food from Brothers Moon and Nomad Pizza Company in Hopewell, The Bent Spoon, Tre Piani Restaurant and Underground Café in Princeton, and High Street Grill in Mt. Holly.

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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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Weekend Picks: Cool Jazz, Slow Food

Used to be you needed a long memory to think of Asbury Park as a happening town. But look at all the renovation of classic Asbury places like Convention Hall and Paramount Theater, plus the restaurant scene, chic shopping, and like always, the beach. You see why it’s cool again. Or is it hot? Get both this weekend with the 20th annual Asbury Park Jazz Festival. Performers and schedule here.

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A Rare Ham

New Jerseyans who know their ham have been getting some mighty fine slices at Bon Appetit Fine Foods in Princeton since earlier this year, when the USDA finally approved import of the legendary Ibérico ham from Spain.

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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

Weekend Picks: A Loverly Weekend

From London to Newark, they will be dancing all night at NJPAC, which brought to New Jersey the 50th Anniversary London production of My Fair Lady, with original British cast members Christopher Cazenove and Lisa O’Hare — Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. Through Sunday, www.njpac.org for show times and tickets.

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Best Of Jersey: Food

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

Gifts Do Double Duty

Renaissance Man

Paul Robeson more

Go Get'em, Tiger!