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As a wine lover, I’m pleased to report that New Jersey ranks fourth in the nation for per- capita wine consumption. By comparison, for every four glasses of wine a Jersey girl or guy raises to toast, someone from Mississippi is only drinking one.
moreHow a Chef Learned to Slow Down
A Princeton chef finds inspiration in the Slow Food movement, and spearheads a Central Jersey chapter.
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Mann for All Seasons
The artistic director of Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center believes audiences are ready to be surprised by its line-up of performances.
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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.
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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.
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Closing the Deal
Jon Tenney, Princeton-born star of TV’s The Closer, has a knack for turning small roles into big breaks.
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Jersey's Man of Science
As the lone physicist in the U.S. Congress, Rush Holt has become a voice for innovation and education.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dylan Revisited
Esteemed history scholar and Princeton professor Sean Wilentz tackles a different subject in his new book—legendary musician Bob Dylan.
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Peacock Inn
A multimillion dollar renovation brings an
eighteenth-century Princeton mansion irresistibly into the present, with food and drink to match.
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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.
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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.
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Two Hats, One Baton
Rossen Milanov is the music director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and Symphony C, a training orchestra based in Camden.
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Wounded Trees of the Ivy League
Location: Princeton University campus...
moreSewers of the Ivy League
On the Princeton University campus, even the manhole covers have a pedigree...
moreKisses 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.
moreVerticals and Squiggles
The holidays linger in Palmer Square in Princeton...
moreBoot Camp
Princeton University program manager in applied and computational mathematics Howard Bergman, of Branchburg, enjoys the Boot Camp workout.
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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.”
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Positively Enlightening
Regan Hofmann publishes a memoir designed to remove the stigma and allay some of the misconceptions about HIV and AIDS.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Where Have All The Record Stores Gone?
Mostly down the tubes, but Jersey still has some great places to shop for music.
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Vintage Points
Three New Jersey homeowners—wine lovers all—create cool cellar spaces to store and enjoy their bottled bounty.
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A Conversation With Michael Graves
New Jersey’s renowned architect/designer reflects on form,
function, and those fanciful whistling tea kettles.
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Best of NJ: Retail
Super shopping and better bargains await at these top NJ retails establishments.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.)
moreHere 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.
moreNew 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.
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Office Options
Two work-at-home professionals clearly illustrate that designing a home office isn't a paint-by-numbers formula.
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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.
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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.
moreGreen Grows the Garden State
Jerseyans embrace sustainable energy, recycled building materials, computer reclamation, and other eco-smart ideas.
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Living Large
Downsizing with style is just a matter of passion, planning, patience, know-how—and, yes, resources.
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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.
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Bright Lights, Small City
If all the world’s a stage, towns with local theaters are important players on it.
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Best of Jersey
We in the Garden State need to start demanding more. Here are a bunch who deliver.
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Capitalist Tools
Forbes
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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.
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Hot Restaurants
Attention, foodies! Add these gustatory bastions and new sensations to your to-do list. Gentlemen, and ladies, start your forks.
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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.
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Dark Energy
Joyce Carol Oates
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P.O.T.U.S. Flower
Woodrow Wilson
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Renaissance Man
Paul Robeson
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