You’ve heard the expression “You are what you eat.” Well, there truly is something to that. Remember that nearly every restaurant has nutritious choices you should consider when you order. How should you choose your dishes? Read this article and find out. ...
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In the heyday of Manhattan’s La Grenouille, celebs were seated in the restaurant’s front room, while the unwashed masses—those gastronomically challenged folks who thought sweetbreads were dessert—occupied the back room, scornfully dubbed the ketchup room. Didier Jouvenet was La Grenouille’s maitre’d then, seating the likes of Henry Kissinger, Nancy Reagan, Oscar de la Renta, and Prince Rainier....
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Slapstick or sardonic, angry or angst-ridden, or sometimes just plain goofy, the geniuses of New Jersey comedy have kept the world laughing for generations....
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Once pilloried from Pompton Plains to Penny Pot, the former two-term governor is basking in his role as the unofficial state comedian. He recently weighed in with his top five one-liners....
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Ray Stearn doesn’t have much time to make a skeptical audience laugh. Good thing he hasn’t quit his day job....
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Is it possible to land a job shaping young minds with one well-executed bar trick?...
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For Virginia S. Bauer of Red Bank, CEO and Secretary of the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth & Tourism Commission....
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Can’t decide which holiday card to send to your favorite interfaith couple? A Hoboken company has the answer....
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Ed Rodriguez owns Rascals, the vanguard of New Jersey comedy clubs. Now he’s bringing the Rascals brand to cyberspace....
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Lately Mount Laurel businessman Robert Lipinski has gotten a lot of requests to show off his right hand. The 48-year-old Philadelphia Eagles fan submitted the highest bid on an eBay auction for the 2004 NFC Championship ring owned by All-Pro wide receiver Terrell Owens. ...
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New Jersey politics is known for being two steps ahead of peculiar (see: McGreevey, Jim). Filmmakers Kristian Fraga and Juan Dominguez capture the weirdness in Anytown, U.S.A., a documentary about the 2003 mayoral campaign in, of all places, Bogota....
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Life sure gets complicated when you look like TV’s most lovable sad sack....
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Paul Jennis recently spent six months to complete each of two murals in the renovated basement of the Church of St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi in Flemington —reproductions of The Crucifixion, by Renaissance artist Pietro Perugino, and The Pentecost, by 18th-century neoclassicist Jean Restout. ...
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Here’s hoping that this season doesn’t bring another performance of The Nutcases’ Suite. ...
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My ancestors arrived in New Jersey before General Washington set up his first camp. Trying to rake the leaves from my family tree is a full-time job. ...
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Comedy legends and wannabes alike know that all roads to success run through the Garden State. The next Chris Rock or Jerry Seinfeld could be playing at a club near you....
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Mila Tsang McDermott uses ancient Chinese art in a modern American way, designing neckties that feature traditional Eastern symbols....
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When soon-to-be-former acting Governor Richard J. Codey rejected the proposed state slogan “New Jersey: We’ll win you over”—too negative, the guv said—he asked the public for ideas....
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