Cheers to Haiti

Let’s face it. This “snowicane” sweeping across New Jersey right now is nothing compared to the disastrous earthquake that hit Haiti in January. Last night, at the Benefit for Haiti Relief at the Chandelier Room in the W Hoboken, I was reminded of this. And that’s a good enough reason for me to brave a little snow.

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Kisses of a Kind 2

Photographer Emmet Gowin, who retired from the Princeton University faculty last month after 36 years teaching photography, trained and inspired many students, so it's fitting that some of their work forms a tribute to him in the current exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum, "Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait."

Tags: photography | Princeton University Art Museum | Emmet Gowin,

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Kisses of a Kind

There are kisses and there are kisses. That photographs can be kisses is not an obvious idea, but you could imagine a list of ways that could get long before it came to the type of kiss embodied in the life and work of Emmet Gowin, who is retiring from Princeton University after 36 years of teaching photography and is the subject of a retrospective show at the Princeton University Art Museum through February 21.

Tags: Princeton | photography | Gowin, Emmet | Princeton University Art Museum

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Big Hair: Jersey Style

When I checked out Hairspray Tuesday night at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, I knew I was in for a great show. I already knew most of the songs (and dance moves), but what I didn’t realize was the number of talented New Jersey cast members who are adding their own style to the Broadway tour.

Tags: Morristown | Trenton | Broadway | Mayo Center for the Performing Arts | Hairspray | Sun National Bank Center

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The Gaslight Anthem Homecoming

New Brunswick band The Gaslight Anthem has been touring the country for the past year and a half promoting their latest album The ’59 Sound. But Friday night at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, the fun-loving, rock-and-rolling foursome showed that their hearts and music still belong to Jersey.

Tags: Music | New Brunswick | Montclair | Wellmont Theatre | The Gaslight Anthem

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If the Borgata Could Float

Reporting from Deck 5 (of 17) of the world's largest cruise ship, the Oasis of the Seas, on its maiden voyage from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It's hard to describe how big this ship is. Numbers (like 1,184 feet long) don't do it justice. Imagine, instead, being on the 17th floor of the Borgata or one of the other big AC casino hotels. And you look out the window and see nothing but ocean, and although the ship is making 20 knots or more, you feel no more sense of movement than if you were in a Boardwalk hotel.

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The DePersios Open a Second Restaurant

The DePersio family, who own and operate one of the most successful, and well reviewed, BYO restaurants in Essex County will be opening a second restaurant in January. They've been looking for the right location at the right price for three years, and they say they've now found it on Broad Street just north of Watchung Avenue in Bloomfield... 

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