A ten-part HBO miniseries in the style of Band of Brothers, and starring Jon Seda, will document the wartime exploits of Raritan native John Basilone in the Pacific theater of WWII. more

"This thing of ours." The phrase is a hushed acknowledgment, a hedge against uninvited ears. In 1999, an invitation was extended, and people around the world began a tutorial on the inner workings of an alleged waste-management firm in northern New Jersey. Eight years later, millions of people salt their vocabularies with phrases from their weekly sit-down with The Sopranos. And it’s all because a Jersey guy’s mom was driving him nuts. more