The Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken starts anew with a semi-solo album....
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Edison’s West Orange lab re-opens its doors after a five-year renovation. ...
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80 years ago, a young outfielder from New Jersey helped Philadelphia win the World Series....
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It’s not easy—or cheap—being a superhero. Just ask Newark police detective Genaro Ortiz Jr., who for eighteen years has donned a Batman suit to speak in front of schools and community groups about issues like Halloween street safety....
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He can’t leap tall buildings, but South Brunswick’s superman has strength to spare. ...
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When she started building houses for the Raritan Valley chapter of Habitat for Humanity, Kathryn Tanaka barely knew a hammer from a handsaw. “I knew basically nothing about building when I showed up,” says the Bridgewater resident....
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When Laura McKirdy hears success stories from former students of the Lake Drive Program, it reinforces why it has been her passion for the last 40 years....
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When people look at a garden, some see beauty, some see work. Ernest Cottrill, a retired software developer and 26-year resident of Warren Township, sees the solution to a critical problem—that of hunger in one of the state’s wealthiest counties....
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“I’m not the type of person who can sit idly by and let things happen,” says Bob Benjamin. “If I can do something, I do it.”...
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If you call Len and Arlene Lieberman a “power couple,” the pair will quickly demur. But their modesty doesn’t mask their achievements at NJPAC and the Newark Museum, respectively....
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Three years ago, he kicked off a spree of Jersey bank heists that netted $80,000 and left police baffled. Now the so-called Hat Bandit spends his days in a federal prison, still pondering the American Dream....
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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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A fifth grade student at P.J. Hill Elementary School in Trenton prepares for the bright lights of Broadway...where he'll star as Young Simba in The Lion King....
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At 92, Salo Enis long-lost music is rediscovered. ...
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Why New York wants to grab New Jersey’s hugely talented, most idiosyncratic chef, and why he doesn’t want to leave—yet....
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Anchorwoman Brenda Blackmon has covered the big stories—and along the way made history of her own....
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“I have this urge, a compulsion really, to turn the basic idea of a bookstore on its ear,” says Alex Dawson (above), co-owner and manager of the Raconteur, a used bookshop in Metuchen....
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A refugee from the Liberian civil war, MacDella Cooper became a fashion professional and started a foundation to aid Liberian orphans. Now her life of ups and downs has taken another unusual turn....
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On the 40th anniversary of his lunar landing, Buzz Aldrin still has personal frontiers to conquer....
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An interview with comic Demetri Martin....
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