Jim Cramer, Mad Money’s screaming stock picker, turns shockingly normal when the camera blinks off. In his new book, Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life, the hyperbolic pundit even counsels patience and investing for the long-term. ...
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The ground looks different to one who walks barefoot. “I watch out for black dots and pink dots,” says Ron Blechner, speaking of sidewalks....
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Marlboro native Erin Fogel gets a big-screen break as a wacky bride in Katherine Heigl’s flick. She’s ready for her close-up....
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Hi-Def TV is fine, but a sportswriter’s pilgrimage to the top ten athletic events not only puts him in touch with his past—it proves there’s no substitute for showing up....
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For musician Kevin Whelan, living alone is a double-edged sword. “I enjoy the peaceful time,” he says, “and I dislike the peaceful time.”...
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In the month leading up to February 14, says Nancy Laird, co-owner of the ultra-romantic restaurant Serenäde in Chatham, “The phone is ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing…That’s what we all do, is answer the phone.” Her husband, chef James Laird, says, “It’s no exaggeration. We turn away 5,000 phone calls for sure.”...
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I learned TWO things while working in a restaurant kitchen: First, you need about two solid days to prepare a decent suckling pig. Second, it’s hard work, with grueling hours....
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Reporter Matt Katz figured the best way to get a girl was to start a dating column. Three years later, he's South Jersey's Carrie Bradshaw....
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Recent college grads crammed into a shore house. Sleep a little, drink a lot. Develop a crush, get crushed. Sound familiar?...
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“In high school people used to say I was funny, but I never thought so,” says 24-year-old Gordon Baker-Bone. Pretty modest for the newly crowned Funniest College Student in New Jersey....
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If you build it, they will buy. At least, that’s what Pinnacle Custom thinks. The Chatham-based company is putting the finishing touches on an 18,000-square-foot home in Saddle River. With a price tag of $13.9 million, the castle-like, French manor-style mansion (think Newport, Rhode Island, in New Jersey) ranks among the most expensive spec homes ever built in the state....
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Boonton Township resident Megan McWilliams, who shuttered her health and sustainable living magazine, Relevant Times, fifteen years ago for family reasons, recently had an epiphany. The publication’s former readership had quietly moved from the fringe to the mainstream....
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Twenty years ago, the Baby M case shook the world. Since then, Thousands of New Jerseyans have created families with the help of reproductive medicine....
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If your immediate association with the word office is dull, check out the vibrant, high-ceilinged space at Smith Design in Glen Ridge, where the décor is a riot of memorabilia....
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“I was channel-surfing on a Sunday night and I flipped past this new show, thinking, I am not going to watch a show about some stupid singers,” says Sue Sadik, owner of a small delivery service in Jersey City. But the following week she recognized the cemetery near her office from seeing it on the HBO series. “I got hooked,” she says. Thus, “Soprano Sue” was born....
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A Rumson cottage built in the 1800s was in shambles when designer Susan Rosenthal and her family moved in. Nearly a decade later, the restored home’s appeal is on full display—inside and out...
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Jim McGreevey has reinvented himself as a man liberated from the confines of the closet. Does that absolve him of his political foibles?...
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From the laundry room to the coat closet, January is the perfect time to come clean....
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Quail eggs? Frog legs? Tofu? Bring ‘em on! But leave room for peanut butter on salami. ...
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