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Mess The Dress

We spend months — and often thousands of dollars — selecting and perfecting our wedding dress. What a shame that we only wear it once.  NOT.

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Last Medical Post. For Now.

In 2005, my father, Mel Levin, who was suffering from Alzheimer's, fell while walking with my mother, Roz, in their West Orange neighborhood.

He was not seriously injured, but he spent the next several days in confusion and pain in a room in St. Barnabus Hospital in Livingston.

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Could Have Been Worse

"Paula" posted a question about whether I am still on speaking terms with my next-door neighbor, who backed into me with his SUV while I was mowing my lawn on Sunday, sending me to the hospital in an ambulance with my neck in a brace.

How this freak accident happened I attempted to describe in Tuesday and Wednesday's Plain Sight.

The answer to Paula's question is...

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Four on the Floor

The telephone poles were taller than the trees in the new West Orange neighborhood my family moved to in 1963.

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Gaffer's Pub

Funny Business - Ed Rodriguez

Tough Crowd

A Double Helping

Good works and good service are the hallmarks of this year’s Family Business of the Year Award winners. more

Copeland

In Your Face

Highlawn Pavillion

Best of Jersey: Bragging Rights

Not Out of the Woods

Greens with Envy

It's a Family Affair

It Ain't Over

Can You Top This

No Doubting Thomas

Cheap Eats

Funny Bone

Best of Jersey

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

Current Event

West Orange answers the question: How many artists does it take to make a point about conserving energy? more

Writer in Residence

Newsweek Columnist Jonathan Alter interprets history as it happens.At home,he steeps himself in the past ,including the edigree of his Victorian dream house. more

The Greatest Golf Club of All

We took a dash of Pine Valley, sprinkled in some Baltusrol and Somerset Hills, and added a liberal helping of the state’s other storied layouts to create what could be the nation’s ultimate 18-hole course. more

Slide and the Family