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.

Comedian, liberal firebrand, Cornell grad, and River Vale native Bill Maher preached to a sold-out concert hall at NJPAC in Newark on Friday night.

There probably wasn't a Republican in the house, but there certainly were Catholics and plenty of other Christians, plus people who take prescription drugs, heterosexuals, homosexuals, Hillary-ites and Obamaphiles, and most likely some NASCAR fans.

And they all laughed. And for good reason. Maher is an equal opportunity lacerator. But more than that, he's a newshound, and very funny.

Any fan of The Howard Stern Show would be hard pressed to find a better lineup than Artie Lange's show at the Borgata's Event Center in Atlantic City on February 16.