Jersey Living

For Dennis Benigno of Clifton, executive director, Coalition for Brain Injury Research...
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Kavery Kaul always knew she wanted to make films. In high school, she read books on the subject and trekked into New York City from her home in Martinsville as often as she could for film premieres. ...
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Music Man

February 6, 2008

Ever wonder who comes up with the musical sound track for that grand cinematic kiss, dramatic chase scene, or heartbreaking goodbye? It just might be Hunterdon County composer and musician Robert Sands....
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You probably heard by now that Jim McGreevey will publish his memoir later this year. The onetime wunderkind of New Jersey politics certainly has a lot of great material to work with, having presided over the most scandal-plagued administration in recent memory. ...
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Jim Dratfield photographs animals—and occasionally their owners—from house pets to exotic creatures like skink lizards from the Solomon Islands. The 46-year-old Princeton native calls his art form petography....
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Every morning, artist Timothy Martin draws inspiration simply by walking down his driveway in picturesque Sergeantsville....
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Paterson applauds its funniest native son....
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Dick Vitale went from coaching kids at East Rutherford High to recruiting at Rutgers. "I love the Garden State! Now I’m Dickie V, ESPN’s go-to guy! I am a prime-time player, baaaaby! But I gotta tell ya, I am blessed. Without Lorraine, the kids, the grandkids, it’s nothin’....”...
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Richard J. Codey speaks frankly—doesn’t he always?—about fourteen intense months as boss of the Garden State....
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This month we look back at Bruce Springsteen’s March 1999 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The 1984 release of Born in the U.S.A. had clinched Springsteen’s status as a rock ’n’ roll legend....
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Was eating better and becoming more fit part of your personal improvement plan for this year? The truth is that most people who set this goal for themselves don’t achieve it by year’s end, and many have already given up. But there is a solution: Don’t diet. Change your lifestyle. Create good health by the choices you make....
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A guide to setting your child up at college. ...
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Jeffrey Citron made his name as the boy wonder of computerized day-trading, then ran afoul of federal regulators. Today, as CEO of Edison-based Vonage, he wants to revolutionize the telephone industry. Can he be trusted with your dial tone?...
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This month a group of academics will assemble at Monmouth University to engage in scholarly discourse on a matter of grave concern to New Jerseyans: the cultural significance of Bruce Springsteen. No, really....
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For husband and wife, Dr. Terry W. Hensle, director of pediatric urology at Children’s Hospital of New York, and Dr. Elizabeth A. Reiley, chief of pediatric urology at Hackensack University Medical Center....
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It started as a gift. As her wedding day approached, the former Jennifer Dublirer embroidered Soon to Be Mrs. Ross Titton across the back of her sweatshirt, and the piece was such a hit that she personalized sweat suits for her bridesmaids. “The response kept growing after the wedding,” Titton says....
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The plaintiff, clocked in the eye by a foul ball while buying a beer at a Newark Bears game, wanted to sue the stadium. But rookie state Supreme Court justice Roberto Rivera-Soto summed up the bench’s collective resistance to the idea....
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In stores this month is the latest in hand-held gadgetry from Burlington-based Franklin Electronic Publishers (www.franklin.com), designed to smooth your kids’ path to the Ivy League—or at least lighten some backpacks....
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Looking for an ecologically friendly way to unload your old computer? Call the New Outlook Pioneers of Morris County....
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Tibetan leader to bring message of peace to Piscataway.With his large-rimmed glasses and crimson robe, Tenzin Gyatso hardly looks the part of contemporary rock star. But his Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, might well fill 41,000-seat Rutgers Stadium to capacity when he delivers a talk there this month on “Peace, War, and Reconciliation.”...
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