Arts & Entertainment

Cape Crusader

May 9, 2011

Roy Steinberg, an established Hollywood director and producer of soap operas, leaves LA for the stage in Cape May. ...
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Car Cultured

April 11, 2011

Couples can step back into the not-so-distant past at the Delsea Drive-In, where dinner-and-a-movie all takes place in one romantic location (on wheels)....
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New Yorker writer and humorist Ian Frazier releases a new book—Travels in Siberia (Farrar, Strauss, and Grioux)—about traveling in Russia. ...
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I’m Not Done Yet’

February 15, 2011

Hubert Sumlin, the progenitor of a sound that has roots in the Mississippi Delta, will play at Centenary College as part of a two day blues festival. ...
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The Montclair Art Museum establishes itself as an outstanding regional museum with an extensive collection of American art. ...
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Telling ACORN’s Story

January 17, 2011

A book about ACORN documents its transition from a successful grassroots organization to a scandal-plagued group that was the focus of a major congressional investigation. ...
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The New York Times’s editorial page editor has no lack of opinions....
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A noted Hollywood screenwriter uses her Jersey roots to help inform her storytelling. ...
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We All Walked Together

November 15, 2010

East Orange native Dionne Warwick reminisces about growing up in New Jersey, and how the music of the streets that surrounded her helped propel her to super-stardom....
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The Doctor Is In

October 11, 2010

Heart surgeon Mehmet Oz still cracks chests, but his bigger mission is making America healthy again....
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A new twist on the science-fiction classic "War of the Worlds" draws people to Cape May in search of adventure....
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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 upcoming film The Social Network....
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Cast System

August 16, 2010

For starry-eyed high school students, today’s ambitious musical productions mean longer hours, harder work—and a license to spit....
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A Q&A with Judge Nelson Johnson, whose book—Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City—was made into an HBO miniseries. ...
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The Watchman

July 12, 2010

Critic David Bianculli has made a career out of taking TV seriously....
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A new documentary film about New Jersey surfers making it on the professional scene is set for release....
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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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You probably recognize him from his stint on the celebrated NBC show The Apprentice, but NJ-native Randal Pinkett interests range far beyond television. ...
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What does a three-term U.S. poet laureate have to say about growing up in New Jersey? ...
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The Silverball Museum in Asbury Park is packed with historic (pinball-related) treasures to behold. ...
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