Though she would like to, Megan McCafferty won’t forget the day that Charmed Thirds—the third in her series of beloved novels about plucky young Jessica Darling—was published in April 2006....
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Does the smile look familiar? It should. Amy Birnbaum is the public face of her company, the Denville-based Royal Coachman limousine chauffeur service....
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Back in the 1990s, Bill Milbrodt of Howell bought a used Honda Accord and drove it until its odometer passed 185,000 miles. ...
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When fifteen-year-old Claire Marinello of Montville sets her mind to something, it’s as good as done. That’s clear from a glance at her Girl Scout vest adorned with merit badges....
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Musician Andrew Holtz remembers the seven miserable months he stuck it out working as an accountant at KPMG in Manhattan after graduating from Fordham University in 2003....
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A group of stagestruck kids from Hudson County just got its first taste of bottom-line show business....
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When the Sunday slab of newsprint hits the coffee table, do you leaf right to the obituaries? A Princeton-based independent publisher is hoping so. In fact, it is banking on attracting all the covert obituary fanatics out there....
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After years of bringing joy to the needy with his band, Holiday Express, multitalented good-guy Tim McLoone faces a medical crisis at home....
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Playing more than 100 shows a year around the country has given Nashville singer-songwriter Steve Forbert a train conductor’s connoisseurship of town names....
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If he had ditched his bow ties and gone back to Hoboken in 1944, after screaming Bobby Soxers mobbed him in Times Square, he’d still be a legend. But Sinatra became so much more than that scrawny crooner....
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“Touring,” says country-rocker Tom Gillam, “is 23 hours of doing absolutely nothing and one hour of doing that thing you’re there to do.” In between, “Drinking passes the time.”...
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WPLJ’s Brad Blanks—Hannah Montana doppelganger? He looked good, in a freaky sort of way, to a mom and daughter who’ll “Rock” Newark....
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Possibly the world’s first Jewish punk porn star with a BA from Rutgers, Oradell native Joanna Angel calls the shots on both sides of the camera and minds the bottom line. ...
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Montclair Internet entrepreneur Don Katz has made the spoken word Audible....
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The guy thought he was a big brain, but he found that you can’t keep sticking your finger in the government’s face and get away with it....
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When Englewood native Matt White was five years old, he met Bruce Springsteen in a diner. “When you’re from Jersey, that’s everything to you,” says White, now 28. “Every song of his makes me feel like a kid.”...
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When her son, Winston, was a rambunctious two-year-old, Sholeen Lou-Hsiao thought he could use a fun diversion. The Teaneck resident, who grew up in Taiwan, had seen research suggesting that teaching children Chinese as toddlers can boost their IQ. Unsatisfied with flash cards, Lou-Hsiao created her own teaching tool, and has gone from resourceful mom to entrepreneur....
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