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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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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There's something of a Renaissance taking place in Orange, as a burgeoning local arts district is slowly, but surely, coming to life. ...
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A ten-part HBO miniseries in the style of Band of Brothers will document the wartime exploits of Raritan native John Basilone in the Pacific theater. ...
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The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad (Wyatt-MacKenzie) by Joel Schwartzberg is a collection of 40 essays chronicling the Montclair resident’s experience with the unsettling see-saw of divorce. ...
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At the Newark Museum, Ulysses S. Grant’s great-great-grandson presides over a vast collection of decorative art objects. ...
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With tangled plots and double lives, Jersey romance writers tug countless heartstrings....
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These were places Jersey music lovers rushed to on the day a much-anticipated album or single was released....
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Michael Graves’s designs are known worldwide, from the Swan and Dolphin Resort in Walt Disney World to the Alessi tea kettle with the whimsical bird spout—a project that propelled Graves to design stardom some twenty years ago....
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“To some people, dusty old books are often just dusty old things to get rid of,” says Shaw, a reference librarian at the New Jersey State Library in Trenton....
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Here is a look at three new books penned by three homegrown NJ writers. ...
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Portrait artists Kathryn Eddy and Pinky Adubato like to meet their subjects before they create artistic representations of pets. ...
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Fairview native Caitlin Sanchez is the new voice of precocious Latina heroine Dora the Explorer. ...
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To write Night of the Gun, a memoir of his years abusing drugs, booze, women, and anything that got in his way (until he got cancer), New York Times media columnist David Carr turned his reporter’s methods on himself....
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Thanks to Tom Meyers, founder of the Fort Lee Film Commission, proof that New Jersey pioneered the movie business is out of the dusty history books and in the can....
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