Jersey Living

Freewheelin’

February 6, 2008

Weaving through the Mile-Square City’s narrow, clogged streets in pursuit of that elusive parking spot can drive a person mad. Enter pedal power. ...
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In pre-Castro Cuba, René Villarreal's world revolved around a literary giant and his glorious tales of travel. Today, at Villarreal's home in “Havana on the Hudson,” Hemingway is never far from his thoughts....
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It’s 5:30 am as a group of women gather at Bernards Township’s Harry Dunham Park for an intense hour of hopping over parking lot rails, hanging from jungle gyms, and assorted calisthenics. This is a story about the New Jersey Adventure Boot Camp. ...
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When Melissa Jacobs started her second novel, she decided she needed a change. Instead of writing in her mother’s basement, which is where her first book, Lexi James and the Council of Girlfriends, was born, she rented a studio overlooking Collingswood’s historic downtown....
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Debra Galant points to the view from Route 10 through Essex County as a stark reminder that the state’s green spaces are becoming extinct....
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An enterprising pair of cousins has turned the classic Jersey put-down into a marketing tool....
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For blues/rock guitarist and singer Chaz DePaolo of Kearny...
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For years, homeowners everywhere have cursed the dandelion for its pesky work-inducing, lawn-ruining tendencies—well, almost everywhere. ...
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The story of how a hip-hopping, break-dancing, tattooed dude named Mike Iaconelli from South Jersey shattered the tradition-bound world of professional bass fishing. ...
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Regardless of the length of your commute or your mode of transportation, there’s little for morning warriors to take pride in as they travel the Garden State’s roads or rails. ...
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Mutts is the creation of New Jersey cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, whose canine obsession led to a comic strip featuring a dog named Earl and his sidekick, a cat named Mooch. ...
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At 33, former Saddle Brook resident Doo-Ri Chung has become a darling of the fashion world....
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Order Healthy

February 5, 2008

We all know it takes willpower to make nutritious choices when dining out. To beat those cravings, choose foods that you enjoy, but order them prepared by the most healthful cooking techniques—baked, broiled, steamed, grilled, poached, or blackened....
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Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens has never been satisfied being merely a leading voice for alternative rock—which only partly explains why, at 50, he’s trying to make it as a professional baseball player....
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“I think almost every person likes chocolate. I mean, there are very few who don’t,” says Laura Waitze Zuckerman, a Bridgewater resident who parlayed her own passion for chocolate by starting Yummie (908-285-1494; yummiecookies.com), a mail-order confectionery, in December 2004....
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Lisa Savage, chef/owner of the new Savaradio restaurant in Linwood, remembers weeping from exhaustion during her first week of culinary school and wondering aloud, What have I done?...
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When my brother Paul and I were in middle school, we ordered a “personally engraved tribute plaque” for our mom a few weeks before Mother’s Day. Being teenagers, we forgot all about it until we found ourselves face-to-face with a tough-looking teenager at our front door holding a small plastic-wrapped object, stamped C.O.D....
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Each year on Memorial Day weekend, a spandex-clad army on wheels invades the normally sleepy seat of Somerset County to celebrate the Tour of Somerville cycling series. A four-day bonanza for amateur and professional racers, the event is the country’s oldest of its kind....
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Mel Prussack got hooked on Bob Dylan after seeing him perform “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” in 1965. The song was featured on Dylan’s album Bringing It All Back Home, and ever since, Prussack has been bringing Dylan-related memorabilia back to his home in Old Bridge. ...
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A Ringoes journalist reveals her deepest secret....
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