This month a group of academics will assemble at Monmouth University to engage in scholarly discourse on a matter of grave concern to New Jerseyans: the cultural significance of Bruce Springsteen. No, really....
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Looking for an ecologically friendly way to unload your old computer? Call the New Outlook Pioneers of Morris County....
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Tibetan leader to bring message of peace to Piscataway.With his large-rimmed glasses and crimson robe, Tenzin Gyatso hardly looks the part of contemporary rock star. But his Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, might well fill 41,000-seat Rutgers Stadium to capacity when he delivers a talk there this month on “Peace, War, and Reconciliation.”...
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In pre-Castro Cuba, René Villarreal's world revolved around a literary giant and his glorious tales of travel. Today, at Villarreal's home in “Havana on the Hudson,” Hemingway is never far from his thoughts....
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When Melissa Jacobs started her second novel, she decided she needed a change. Instead of writing in her mother’s basement, which is where her first book, Lexi James and the Council of Girlfriends, was born, she rented a studio overlooking Collingswood’s historic downtown....
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Debra Galant points to the view from Route 10 through Essex County as a stark reminder that the state’s green spaces are becoming extinct....
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For blues/rock guitarist and singer Chaz DePaolo of Kearny...
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The story of how a hip-hopping, break-dancing, tattooed dude named Mike Iaconelli from South Jersey shattered the tradition-bound world of professional bass fishing. ...
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At 33, former Saddle Brook resident Doo-Ri Chung has become a darling of the fashion world....
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Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens has never been satisfied being merely a leading voice for alternative rock—which only partly explains why, at 50, he’s trying to make it as a professional baseball player....
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“I think almost every person likes chocolate. I mean, there are very few who don’t,” says Laura Waitze Zuckerman, a Bridgewater resident who parlayed her own passion for chocolate by starting Yummie (908-285-1494; yummiecookies.com), a mail-order confectionery, in December 2004....
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Lisa Savage, chef/owner of the new Savaradio restaurant in Linwood, remembers weeping from exhaustion during her first week of culinary school and wondering aloud, What have I done?...
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Mel Prussack got hooked on Bob Dylan after seeing him perform “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” in 1965. The song was featured on Dylan’s album Bringing It All Back Home, and ever since, Prussack has been bringing Dylan-related memorabilia back to his home in Old Bridge. ...
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A Ringoes journalist reveals her deepest secret....
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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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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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Singer Joshua Nelson blends his Jewish and Christian traditions....
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