"Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro talks (bake) shop. ...
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A chance encounter and the lessons of a lifetime....
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With tangled plots and double lives, Jersey romance writers tug countless heartstrings....
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With cute red hair and big brown eyes, Emma Kenney looks sweet and innocent. But this fourth grader at School One in Fanwood has a dark side....
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A 53-year-old financial services consultant invents a useful beach accessory. ...
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A Jersey town honors its wounded Iraq veteran with a place that’s truly his own....
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Joe Pope has his first starring role in a movie—sharing the marquee with James Gandolfini, no less—but he still hasn’t given up his day job....
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Glen Ridge native Eugene Smith leans to deal with the pressure of appearing on the Golf Channel's Big Break reality series. ...
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Most teenage girls obsess over buying the perfect prom dress. Andrea Maeng designed her own....
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When he was 14, James Fiorentino’s parents took him to see Joe DiMaggio at an autograph show. Fiorentino brought along a prized possession—a painting he had done of the Yankee great from an old photograph....
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Avery Gilbert has built a career on nosing around. Sometimes the work is rosy, sometimes it stinks....
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Concetta Bertoldi doesn’t believe there is anything special about her gift. The ability to talk to the dead, she says, is no different than any other talent, like painting, playing the piano, or having a keen sense of smell....
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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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Forget Shaq. The most groundbreaking basketball star to come out of New Jersey is Cranford’s own Carol Blazejowski. ...
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Now in his sixth decade as an entertainer, the Amazing Kreskin awaits the March release of a major motion picture based on his career as a mentalist and hypnotist. The Great Buck Howard stars John Malkovich as the Kreskin-like character, along with Tom Hanks and his son Colin....
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When it came to love, Helen Fisher figured she had done it all. She had explored the evolution of human pair-bonding; discovered a universal four-year itch that often led to divorce; and theorized that lust, romantic love, and attachment are each separate drives....
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Actor Mickey Rourke may be getting most of the accolades for his performance in The Wrestler, but New Jersey plays an important supporting role in the film....
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Ted, partner and co-chair of the litigation department for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, had one like it in the hotel room he used as an office while defending Citigroup against a $1.92 billion lawsuit from Parmalat—a five-month trial....
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At the age of 73, Loretta Weinberg may look like a kindly grandmother, but don’t underestimate her. She is a grandma, but this Democrat from Teaneck still bares her teeth....
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Nassau Hall has housed its share of independent thinkers. For a few tumultuous months in 1783, Princeton University’s oldest building was home to the entire U.S. government, and the Continental Congress once convened in its second-floor library....
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