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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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Scoring With Lombardi Play
Plainfield native Tony Ponturo commissioned and co-produced Lombardi, Broadway's smash hit six-character play based on a biography of football legend Vince Lombardi.
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Fans Go Nose to Nose on New Stadium
The New Meadowlands Stadium cost a pretty penny ($1.6 billion) to construct, and drew a winning Super Bowl bid (New Jersey will host the event in 2014), but does the stadium actually improve on its predecessor? We ask the fans what they think. (Photos by Colin Archer)
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Almost Super
Our New Jersey Jets went from preseason nobodies to contending for an AFC Championship against the Indianapolis Colts. How did they do it?
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New York Giants Intercept Hunger
They may be Giants…but they do much more than simply play football. A Taste of the NFL charity event was held at the Stadium Club at Giants Stadium on Monday night. Fans and players (current and former) mingled amid a sprawling array of food sampling stations from premium metropolitan restaurants.
moreBuilt For Speed
Bayonne’s Kenny Britt set records catching footballs at Rutgers. Now he’ll test his talents (and smile) in the NFL.
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Away Game
When Rutgers hits the road, the playbook calls for precision planning, police escorts, and plenty of scarlet Twizzlers.
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Rooftop Football
Union City's new football stadium has views of Manhattan thanks to its location on the roof of its new high school.
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Shore Points
No matter your age, your shape, your interests or your hometown (out-of-staters also welcome), the Shore makes summer super.
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North/South Skirmishes
A film tries to draw the line between North and South Jersey.
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Leap Year
New Jersey Monthly contributor, and Rutgers University professor Michael Aaron Rockland ruminates on how bigtime football, and a few other things, brought change to the campus—and the state.
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Tuna Tartare
Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells
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Winning Formula
Vincent Thomas Lombardi
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Gentle Giant
Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier
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