Jersey Living

Lead tiger trainer at the Temple of the Tiger at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, which opens full-time this month....
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Acting Out, a company founded and run by two New Jersey mothers, is reinventing the childhood pastime of dressing up with its line of musical costumes....
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Brett Yormark, president and CEO of the (don’t call them New Jersey) Nets, wants fans as passionate as the NASCAR faithful—never mind where the future leads....
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He’s a throwback to the days of the state’s Democratic machine. On the eve of his 80th birthday, John Gregorio shows no signs of easing the grip he’s held on Union County politics for 40 years....
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Rackstraw Downes has built a considerable reputation on his panoramic paintings of rural Maine, the Texas prairie, and the Manhattan cityscape, yet the industrial vistas on this side of the Hudson remain some of his favorite subjects....
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After completing those trying evaluations for our inaugural New Jersey Golf Awards, it was hard to find any losers. Check out the golf course nominees—and the winners....
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Family meals at NJ restaurants - NJ Monthly - The Best of Jersey...
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Tanks for the Memories

February 4, 2008

It’s not the great whites out in the open water but close encounters in Adventure Aquarium’s shark tank that get your pulse racing....
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Few figures in basketball history have done more to promote the game than Red Klotz of Margate. So how come he’s not in the Hall of Fame?...
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Considering the number of video games that glorify car wrecks, street killings, even prostitution, a graffiti game seems as harmless as a Frisbee. Hip-hop clothing impresario Marc Ecko of East Brunswick, acting on the notion that no legitimate fashion designer should be without his own video game, recently launched Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. ...
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The names inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. include those of the 1,525 New Jersey servicemen and -women who died in the Vietnam War. ...
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Like the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano in California every spring, polka lovers flock to Wildwood every summer for the annual Polka Spree by the Sea (polkaspree.com)....
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Have you always wanted to release your inner Martha but lacked the skills? Fret no more—1,450 square feet of North Plainfield real estate has been dedicated to teaching men, women, and children to sew....
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Singer Joshua Nelson blends his Jewish and Christian traditions....
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With a new book and DVD series, Point Pleasant native and world wrestling champ Diamond Dallas Page is out to change the way America views yoga—one Regular Guy at a time....
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Bob Gaudio didn’t think life could get any better. In the summer of 1969, he was living the life of a pop superstar, backing Frankie Valli as a member of the Four Seasons and writing the band’s smash hits. Then one day he got a call from the biggest star of all. Frank Sinatra needed some new songs....
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For many New Jerseyans, the return of warm weather evokes sweet childhood memories of the ice-cream truck coming down the street. But for Colts Neck resident Richard Emanuele, president of Mr. Green Tea Ice Cream, ice cream is more than a summertime sweet; it’s a twelve-month obsession....
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Some cook at home, some dine out, but even on days off, chefs and restaurateurs gotta eat....
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Three years after Moses Septytor was born in 1925, his parents, fleeing anti-Semitism and seeking opportunity, left their native Poland. The family settled in Newark, where Moses, a good student, graduated from a yeshiva....
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Chances are you haven’t heard the song “On the Dark Side” for years. But it’s one of those tunes that you’d recall instantly if it popped up on the car radio....
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