Legendary Shore deejay Jerry Blavat was a skinny teenager whose ability to jump, jive, and wail made him a staple of American Bandstand. Fifty years and a million record spins later, he’s still rockin’ and rollin’....
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By the time I graduated college, back in what now feels like the Paleozoic Era of 1985, we’d progressed a bit up the Shore social ladder, renting a house on Landis Avenue in the heart of Sea Isle City, which in those days was just beginning to morph from a sleepy burg snidely nicknamed “Senile City” into a mecca for the just-out-of-college crowd that exalted in its cheap summer housing and even cheaper beer....
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“I am never bored watching people eat hot dogs,” says Rena Levine Levy. “They are so particular about the preparation. Then you see ecstasy in their faces when it’s just right.”...
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Music at the Shore is as much a part of summer as sand, surf, sunburn, and saltwater taffy. But unlike those perennial ingredients, the music changes with each generation. ...
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Every summer for the past eighteen years, Chuck Guidotti, a retired Camden cop and grandfather from Haddon Heights, has vacationed for two weeks in Ocean City....
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Arturo Gatti, New Jersey’s favorite fighter, keeps firing. ...
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Tewksbury poet Sondra Gash, whose collection Silk Elegy (CavanKerry Press, 2002) honors her immigrant relatives and their connection to Paterson’s silk industry, will lead a creative writing workshop on the 13th for 30 middle- and high-school language arts teachers during the second annual Ellis Island Institute Summer Teachers’ Seminar. ...
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For Matthew Bogdanos, returning to Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey was something of a homecoming. ...
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Attention all sailors: Row, row, row your boats—gently, please—down to Beaton Boat Yard in Brick on the 18th for the New Jersey State Rowing Championships, the country’s largest lifeguard surfboat race (rowrace.com)....
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For one Irvington family, the real beauty of a home is found in the community that surrounds it....
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More than 40 years after playing his last Major League game, Yogi Berra, the pride of Montclair, remains fixed in the American imagination. Who’d-a thunk it?...
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In this era of Reality TV, let’s give credit to those New Jerseyans committed to the quaint pursuit of getting into the Guinness Book of World Records....
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Tips for losing weight when eating out -NJ Monthly - The Best of Jersey...
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If you live and breathe baseball, consider getting into GameWear. ...
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Amazing Hot Dog in Verona NJ - New Jersey Monthly - The Best of Jersey...
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Everyone knows New Jersey is funny. Outside of those not-so-hilarious “What exit?” jokes, we seem to breed some of America’s most famous comedians. So it makes sense that comedy’s latest rising star is one of us....
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He’s a Renaissance man in swim trunks, a lifeguard whose cartoons have been featured in The New Yorker for nearly 20 years. But John O’Brien has guarded the 22nd Street Beach in North Wildwood even longer, having joined the city’s beach patrol 36 years ago. Now 52, the Delran resident travels with a notepad, jotting down cartoon ideas often based on life’s everyday absurdities....
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For Peter Cocoziello of Oldwick, chairman of the New Jersey Italian American Heritage Foundation....
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How does one go about designing a diner? Read this story an find out. ...
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There’s nothing odd about a college kid with a part-time job, but what about one who owns his own clothing company with four of his friends?...
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