Author: Michael Callahan

From July 1990: Donald Trump’s Atlantic City gamble on the Trump Taj Mahal.

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More than 300 years after our founding, we’re still a state whose top and bottom halves rarely see eye to eye. When it comes to the Best of New Jersey, who’s got the edge? We weigh the evidence.

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Where to find a great deal on clothing in New Jersey.

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Service sector jobs get some pub from New Jersey Monthly.

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A list of the best places and things in New Jersey.

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Where to find the best stuff in New Jersey.

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Chances are you haven’t heard the song “On the Dark Side” for years. But it’s one of those tunes that you’d recall instantly if it popped up on the car radio.

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Legendary Shore deejay Jerry Blavat was a skinny teenager whose ability to jump, jive, and wail made him a staple of American Bandstand. Fifty years and a million record spins later, he’s still rockin’ and rollin’.

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How well do you know your music? Take our Great Shore Music Trivia Quiz and find out.

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By the time I graduated college, back in what now feels like the Paleozoic Era of 1985, we’d progressed a bit up the Shore social ladder, renting a house on Landis Avenue in the heart of Sea Isle City, which in those days was just beginning to morph from a sleepy burg snidely nicknamed “Senile City” into a mecca for the just-out-of-college crowd that exalted in its cheap summer housing and even cheaper beer.

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