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Nai-Ni Chen and her company, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, prepare to perform their annual Chinese New Year celebration.
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The Art of the Sign
An Indiana native came to New Jersey, started a one-man business, and now gets commissions from around the globe.
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Bullied No More
13-year-old Dana Gaier, of Livingston, voiced the character of Edith in the animated hit Despicable Me.
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Heart of Glass
The Museum of American Glass celebrates New Jersey's rich glass-making heritage.
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At Zimmerli, the Secret is Out
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museumin New Brunswick is one of the largest university art museums in the country.
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Rutgers Amps Up Opera Studies
The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University looks to expand its opera program.
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Keeping the Coffeehouse Spirit Alive
The Folk Project, a nonprofit, artistic community centered around music, seeks to recapture the magic of the coffeehouse.
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Closing a Chapter
Gay Talese didn’t want to leave his Ocean City home, but his wife gave him little choice. Now the famed writer bids a sad farewell to the Shore.
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Whodunnit?
If it’s a best-selling crime novel, the answer is probably Ridgewood’s Harlan Coben.
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The Chairman's Wife
Barbara Sinatra recounts her 22-year marriage to the Chairman of the Board in her new memoir Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra.
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More Than a Memory
Pat DiNizio, front man for The Smithereens, talks to NJM about his band's Jersey roots, reuniting the group, and their upcoming tour.
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Reef Madness? (No, It's Art)
A Bay Head-based marine biologist and artist creates a 40-foot-long concrete and steel horseshoe crab for the state Department of Environmental Protection's artificial reef program.
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That's 'P'—as in Parenting
Maplewood resident Sandy Rustin presents her sketch-comedy musical about parenting at the South Orange Performing Arts Center.
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Newark's Karmic Connection
The Dalai Lama prepares for his fourth visit to the Brick City, where he will attend a centennial celebration of his homeland's art at the Newark Museum.
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Risk-Taking Playwrights Wanted
A noted artistic director trades Shakespeare in the Park for the Two River Theater in Red Bank.
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Gal with the Golden Ear
Beth Leavel dons a '60s look for her role as Florence Greenberg in Broadway's Baby It's You.
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New Vision for Art Center in Summit
The new curator of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Mary Birmingham, brings nine years of experience and an academic background to the position.
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Warming Up to Siberia
New Yorker writer and humorist Ian Frazier releases a new book—"Travels in Siberia."
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Classic Glass
An artist from South Jersey became a pioneer with an international reputation in glass flameworking.
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Fabulous (Free) Firsts
Sometimes, the best things in Jersey are free. Here are three towns that offer an evening of art and entertainment once a month at everybody’s favorite price tag.
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A Suburban Gem Keeps Shining
The Montclair Art Museum establishes itself as an outstanding regional museum with an extensive collection of American art.
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Evergreen Sounds
Conner Dugan and his sister Sharlys form a fiddle and harp ensemble affectionately dubbed Dugan's Hooligans.
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You Can't Make This Up
More amazing found art...
moreLost & Found in Post 9/11 World
A Princeton resident's second collection of stories makes waves on the national literary scene.
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Prized Prints
Jan 29-May 29: Starting this month, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum celebrates Highland Park native Joan Snyder in “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010.”
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Season's Readings
Literary gifts with a Jersey twist. Here are some holiday book suggestions from our staff.
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Newark Is New Nest for Peotry's Best
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is making waves again after poetry enthusiasts figured out that rumors of its demise were greatly exaggerated.
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Networked In
We sit down for a Q&A with Jesse Eisenberg, the 27-year-old East Brunswick-reared actor who plays Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's new film The Social Network.
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On Their Toes
The Youth Dance Festival of New Jersey, which will be held at Russ Berrie Center at Ramapo College in Mahwah, attracts 200 promising dancers from all over the globe.
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Water, Water, Everywhere
Sept 1–Jan 2: Rutgers University in New Brunswick welcomes students back this fall with a new, campus-wide, interdisciplinary initiative to explore the theme of water, not only as essential to life, but as a powerful metaphor in subjects including poetry, music, dance, and the visual arts.
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Bikini Blast From the Past
The Bikinis, a musical making its world premiere at the Carousel House in Asbury Park, has a Jersey Shore vibe.
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The Wheel Deal
Montclair resident Tom Nussbaum created the whimsical gate for the town's all-access playground.
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New Faces NJ: Rachel Moss
A talented high school student aims high.
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Papa Paparazzo
Montville’s Ron Galella made a career of photographing celebrities in unguarded moments. Along the way, he became a celebrity himself.
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The Holland Tunnel Museum of Art
One thing to be said for getting stuck in rush hour traffic at the Holland Tunnel, heading into New York City. You have plenty of time to study your surroundings, and some of what you see, especially in the viaduct, is striking...
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June 9–13: Get a taste of Paris close to home at the first-ever Cranford Plein Air event. Peer over the shoulders of more than 30 juried artists from across the country, who will paint throughout the downtown area in parks, along the river, and in various private homes, to capture the town’s historic architecture and natural landscapes on their canvases.
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Beach Reads
Looking for that perfect volume to tote down the Shore? Here are some Jersey-related titles to consider.
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A Feast for Film Fans
The New Jersey International Film Festival is becoming a force in the industry.
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Jersey: "The Most American State?"
What does a three-term United States Poet Laureate have to say about growing up in New Jersey? Find out in this month's Q & A with Robert Pinsky.
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Test Your NJ IQ
Think you know a lot about Jersey history and culture? Test yourself with this NJ Hall of Fame trivia quiz. All of the individuals named are Hall of Fame members.
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New Faces NJ: Dale Trumbore
A classic talent on the rise in the classical world.
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Love's Labour's Rewarded
Bonnie J. Monte, the artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, fights to deal with the reality of the cash-strapped institution's threatened longevity.
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By George!
Apr 1–11: Monmouth Museum’s exhibition “George Segal Everyman: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings,” (on display through April 11) features work by the late internationally acclaimed pop artist and South Brunswick resident.
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From Russia, With Memories
Elena Gorokhova uses vivid, captivating prose to describe her childhood in the Cold War Soviet Union in a new memoir.
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Cutting and Pasting the News
When was the last time you made a collage? Artist Peter Jacobs surely has you beat. He's made one every day for the past five years. 1,825 days and counting.
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Seeking Success in Suburbia
Themes of parental expectations, elitism, and suburban insularity drive Lauren Grodstein’s second novel, A Friend of the Family (Algonquin, 2009).
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An Arts District Takes Root in Orange
There's something of a Renaissance taking place in Orange, as a burgeoning local arts district is slowly, but surely, coming to life.
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Poetic License
What do a painting commissioned in 1943, poet William Carlos Williams, and the World Trade Center have in common? Read on to find out.
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Revisiting The Pacific
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.
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A Rocker for the Next Gen
The former bassist of the band From Good Homes has a new creative musical outlet—children's tunes.
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Eating, Praying, Loving—and Committing
Author Elizabeth Gilbert has found a sanctuary in Hunterdon County.
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Why We're Not the Jetsons
Have you ever wondered whatever happened to flying cars? Author Paul Milo has some ideas about failed technological predictions from the past.
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WheatonArts Holiday Sale
Hoping to avoid the Black Friday shopping crush? The Holiday Studio sale at WheatonArts and Cultural Center can help.
moreHard Time & Nursery Rhymes
Claudia Trupp’s impressively candid memoir, Hard Time & Nursery Rhymes (Rodale), chronicles the challenges this mother of three daughters faces juggling her domestic life with her career as a Manhattan criminal defense attorney.
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Totally Killer
Madison may be among the least sinister towns in New Jersey, so it’s a credit to debut novelist Greg Olear’s imagination that the thriller Totally Killer (HarperCollins) is authentically dark and savage.
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The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad
The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad (Wyatt-MacKenzie) by Joel Schwartzberg is a collection of 40 essays chronicling the Montclair resident’s experience with the unsettling see-saw of divorce.
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A Million And One Ways To Be One-In-A-Million
When it comes to careers, Steven J. Heaslip has seen it all. The New Jersey resident—who has 25 years of experience as a human relations professional—shares his insights about the workplace in his new book A Million and One Ways to be One-in-a-Million (AuthorHouse).
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Steel Pier Atlantic City
In its heyday, the Steel Pier in Atlantic City hosted big bands, movies, acrobats, and throngs of people who flocked to this all-in-one entertainment mecca.
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Bon Jovi When We Were Beautiful
After touring with the band, photographer Phil Griffin compiled new and old photos, along with snippets of conversations, for Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful (Collins Design).
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I Shudder
Paul Rudnick, a contributor to the New Yorker and other magazines, is also a playwright and screenwriter. But all you really need to know is that he is hilarious.
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How Not to Act Old
Still figuring out how to Twitter? (It’s “tweet,” don’cha know?) Wondering what “hooking up” means? Are you guilty of wearing mom jeans? Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of Pamela Redmond Satran’s How Not to Act Old (HarperCollins).
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Botanica Magnifica
Longtime Jersey resident and podiatrist Jonathan Singer rediscovered his love for photography five years ago when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
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Dietz's Domain
At the Newark Museum, Ulysses S. Grant’s great-great-grandson presides over a vast collection of decorative art objects.
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New Faces NJ: Bamboo Shoots
A music contest victory spells TV exposure and a recording deal for this Jersey-bred band.
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Lords A-Leaping
Nov. 12, 14, & 19: The Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company is jumping (in unison, of course) all over North Jersey.
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Point and Shoot
Nov. 3–27: See life captured through a Jersey lens at the New Jersey Photography Forum’s fifteenth annual exhibition at the Watchung Arts Center.
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Never Too Late
The Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken starts anew with a semi-solo album.
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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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Warhol's World
Sept 8–Dec 12: The George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University presents the art exhibit “Andy Warhol: Through a Glass Starkly,” which features 103 Polaroid and 50 silver gelatin prints by pop art icon Andy Warhol.
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What Artists Must Know
The headquarters are not exactly world-class—they’re in a former Marty’s shoe store in West Orange—but the concept may be.
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Treasures From The Shore
June 13–14: The inaugural Jersey Shore Fine Arts Festival features quality work from 200 established artists nationwide.
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Whole Lotta Love
With tangled plots and double lives, Jersey romance writers tug countless heartstrings.
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New Faces NJ: Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick finally took his own advice.
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Good Sport
When he was 14, James Fiorentino’s parents took him to see Joe DiMaggio at an autograph show. Fiorentino brought along a prized possession—a painting he had done of the Yankee great from an old photograph.
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Early Snowflakes
At a time when many people are, understandably, tightening the hold on their wallets, it's important not to overlook what matters most. Last weekend, scores of Jersey City kids demonstrated that they get it.
moreA New Life for a Still Life
The director’s office at the Jersey City Museum looked like a scene from Antiques Roadshow last May, when a patron brought in paintings that had been behind a dresser for years.
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Our Towns
Lloyd Garrison never thought he could make a business out of painting. But the Millstone resident did not anticipate the reaction people would have to his highly detailed military and historical scenes.
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Natural Wonder
Grounds for Sculpture
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