These days, restless baby boomers think nothing of spending large chunks of their kids’ inheritances to fulfill their wildest fantasies. Fighter-pilot training, anyone?...
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Here’s a catch-22 for the modern age: How do you get inside the head of a suicide bomber? If you’re John Updike, you set your 22nd novel in Paterson, where six 9/11 hijackers, including Hani Hanjour, the pilot of the plane that flew into the Pentagon, lived in the spring of 2001....
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It took him a lifetime to get it, but artist Paul Jennis finally landed his dream job. ...
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Jim McGreevey’s tell-all (okay, more likely “tell-some”) memoir is due out next month. In the interest of public service, we provide a handy guide for Trenton insiders....
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At age four, Chery Lin fell in love with handbags. Decades later, she fell in love with vintage handbags that revealed to her a kind of beauty she’d never seen. “Even something as simple as a handbag, if beautifully designed and crafted, can give you pleasure every day,” she says....
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The illegal immigrants gather each morning in search of a day’s work—cutting our grass, painting our homes, preparing our meals. ...
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Thomas Edison is one of the Garden State’s adopted sons and on the 75th anniversary of his death, there is still plenty of light to shine on his life....
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No one is likely to compare New Jersey to California’s Napa Valley. But the Garden State’s offerings, while certainly less visible, are receiving more and more favorable reviews these days....
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Here's a list of some high quality antique shops around the state. ...
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Fishing hot spots around the state. ...
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Where to pick what you can eat in the Garden State. ...
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Where to fly in the Garden State....
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A list of the best kayaking places in the state. ...
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Amazing hiking spots all over the state....
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State parks and trails around the state are perfect for biking. ...
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If it weren’t for the swift action of the Slow Food movement, a little delicacy known as the Delaware Bay oyster might be only a sweet memory. Once consumed widely throughout the United States, by the 1990s this local oyster was considered an endangered seafood, but since 2003 it has made a comeback....
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Charlene Napoleon was only a teenager when her obsession with cream puffs began. The Trenton native learned to make the creamy, dreamy treats from a friend’s dad—a professional baker—then spent the next couple of decades perfecting the art while working as a hairdresser and a trainer for Redken Laboratories....
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Attitude. That’s what we love about this cheeky little T-shirt from the ubertrendy Manhattan shop Olive and Bette’s....
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