NJ Celebrities
At CBS, Nate Burleson Fulfills a Dream That’s Bigger Than Football
New Jersey resident Nate Burleson spent 11 years in the NFL. Now he’s enjoying a meteoric broadcasting career that’s transcended sports.
The Gaslight Anthem’s Reunion Comes With Great Expectations
After a years-long hiatus, the New Brunswick band announced a reunion in March. Now they're gearing up for a Jersey concert—and a brand-new album.
‘Clerks’ Director Kevin Smith Returns to a Jersey Shore State of Mind
The Red Bank native proves the Garden State is not just a quick stop. He's back to launch a film house and reboot his cult-classic film.
Parkway Rest Stop, Renamed for Celia Cruz, Prompts a Ride Down Memory Lane
For a writer whose late mother adored the barrier-breaking Queen of Salsa, the Forked River service area serves as a poignant link to the past.
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Gary Vaynerchuk has become an Internet celebrity with Wine Library TV, his popular daily wine blog. The director of operations at the Wine Library in Springfield, Vaynerchuk is known for his bold, irreverent comments about wine. ...
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New Faces: Nicole Atkins - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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Bogdan Grom - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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A 63-year-old Morristown volunteer firefighter is on a one-man crusade to save one of the town’s two antique fire trucks....
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To write Night of the Gun, a memoir of his years abusing drugs, booze, women, and anything that got in his way (until he got cancer), New York Times media columnist David Carr turned his reporter’s methods on himself....
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New Jersey Love - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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Of the seventeen members of the Metcalfe family who were photographed in Hoboken around their “festive board,” as the 1929 newspaper caption put it, only two are alive today....
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Anchorman Brian Williams is as comfortable hosting Saturday Night Live as he is interviewing world leaders for NBC Nightly News. An avowed Springsteen fanatic, car nut, and adrenaline junkie, the Middletown native still clings to his Garden State roots....
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Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez, the E Street Band’s first drummer, lives for the music he and Bruce made in their Boardwalk days....
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Book Review - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ.Who says you have to go to New York to find the best up-and-coming writers? New Jersey has plenty to offer, with numerous Jersey-bred authors releasing the fruits of their labor this year....
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Toy Cars - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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For impounded pets—stray, wounded, ill, or just unwanted—survival may hinge on a call to Annie Trinkle’s Animal Alliance of New Jersey. It’s 7 pm, and Annie Trinkle is in her kitchen, experimenting with a new vegan recipe. As she presses out the last bit of water in the tofu, the phone rings. It’s an officer from the Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association....
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Scrabble Whiz - New Jersey Monthly - Best of NJ...
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Ben Bailey talks about his hit contestant show, Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab....
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The first inductees into the New Jersey Hall of Fame are world-class achievers by any measure. And there are plenty more where they came from. Next step: brick-and-mortar....
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Anthony Colandro teaches gun safety for home defense, but his provocatively named company, Gun for Hire, attracts people who (like him) have a gleam in their eye. ...
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A world-famous DJ has rendered 3,000 people in the dance club unable to shake it one more time. Most of the city is sucking down coffee to kick-start the day, but these folks—New Yorkers and visitors from around the world—grudgingly admit they’ve got to go home and lie down or shower, then shuffle off to work....
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British writer influenced by Bruce Springsteen - New Jersey Monthly - The Best of Jersey. Sarfraz Manzoor, a British Muslim, publishes a tribute to the one man who helped him reconcile his conflicting backgrounds and cope with a rocky relationship with his father: none other than Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen. ...
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New Jersey Nets senior dance team - New Jersey Monthly - The best of NJ.The challenge facing the NETSational Dancers—the senior citizen dance team of the New Jersey Nets—is more mental than physical. ...
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