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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New Jersey Love - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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Of the seventeen members of the Metcalfe family who were photographed in Hoboken around their “festive board,” as the 1929 newspaper caption put it, only two are alive today....
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Anchorman Brian Williams is as comfortable hosting Saturday Night Live as he is interviewing world leaders for NBC Nightly News. An avowed Springsteen fanatic, car nut, and adrenaline junkie, the Middletown native still clings to his Garden State roots....
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New Jersey Celebrities - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez, the E Street Band’s first drummer, lives for the music he and Bruce made in their Boardwalk days....
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Book Review - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ.Who says you have to go to New York to find the best up-and-coming writers? New Jersey has plenty to offer, with numerous Jersey-bred authors releasing the fruits of their labor this year....
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Toy Cars - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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For impounded pets—stray, wounded, ill, or just unwanted—survival may hinge on a call to Annie Trinkle’s Animal Alliance of New Jersey. It’s 7 pm, and Annie Trinkle is in her kitchen, experimenting with a new vegan recipe. As she presses out the last bit of water in the tofu, the phone rings. It’s an officer from the Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association....
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Scrabble Whiz - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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Ben Bailey talks about his hit contestant show, Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab....
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The first inductees into the New Jersey Hall of Fame are world-class achievers by any measure. And there are plenty more where they came from. Next step: brick-and-mortar....
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Anthony Colandro teaches gun safety for home defense, but his provocatively named company, Gun for Hire, attracts people who (like him) have a gleam in their eye. ...
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A world-famous DJ has rendered 3,000 people in the dance club unable to shake it one more time. Most of the city is sucking down coffee to kick-start the day, but these folks—New Yorkers and visitors from around the world—grudgingly admit they’ve got to go home and lie down or shower, then shuffle off to work....
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British writer influenced by Bruce Springsteen - New Jersey Monthly - The Best of Jersey. Sarfraz Manzoor, a British Muslim, publishes a tribute to the one man who helped him reconcile his conflicting backgrounds and cope with a rocky relationship with his father: none other than Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen. ...
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New Jersey Nets senior dance team - New Jersey Monthly - The best of NJ.The challenge facing the NETSational Dancers—the senior citizen dance team of the New Jersey Nets—is more mental than physical. ...
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One difference about this fashion show is that the models actually smile—and when they do, some of them reveal braces. Frequent cries of, “That’s my daughter!” fill the air as the girls, ages ten to seventeen, model clothes they have personally designed and sewn. ...
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Interviewing the hottest celebs is just another day at the office for Jane Sarkin. But time at home is where the fun really starts....
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After frustration in finding ballet videos geared towards young children, Essex County residents, Mary Kate Mellow's and Stephanie Troeller created a Prima Princessa ballet DVD inspired by their own little ballerinas....
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“Attention Ikea customers!” the speakers blared. “The store is now closed. Please bring all purchases to check out—some people have to sleep out here for crying out loud.”...
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