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Where For Art Thou, Wi-Fi
Sure, there's eateries with free wireless internet access (Panera Bread, Cafe Eclectic), but now dentists are getting savvy. Seen in the waiting room of Bloomfield tooth mistress extraordinaire, Dr. Judith Post, a "wireless internet...
Pass The Mayo
A Jersey girl defends Glen Ridge, and Alex Beam, a Boston Globe columnist, eats crow:Two natives of Glen Ridge, N.J., objected to my calling their suburban Shangri-La a ''white-bread hell" in a column about...
A Brand That Isn’t Bland
We're not the only folks less than thrilled with the five finalists for state slogans. From the New York Times, the choices are garnering a lukewarm response... Nonetheless, New Jerseyans seemed to have an...
They’ve Got Game
Fowl play on Lloyd Road yesterday.
Just steps away from Montclair Kimberley and Bloomfield Ave, this group crossed the road, stopped traffic, then settled in front of their home?
They've got good taste...
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New Jersey: Will Work For Free
Anybody need $175,000 a year? Corzine, like many governors before him, is taking a pass. From Newsday...In the past 15 years, most New Jersey governors _ all of them career politicians, only one wealthy...
So, What’d You Get?
Come on, show off. What'd you get yesterday? Or, if you prefer, what did you give?
We'll start. The Barista got a portable DVD player, two pairs of earrings, a great blouse, an...
Joe Gets Comfortable
Or as comfortable as one can get in the land of "38,000 people, 38,000 opinions." Phil Read catches up with Montclair's Joseph Hartnett in today's Star Ledger, with a love letter of sorts to...
A Not-So-Silent Night in Little Falls
Christmas Eve celebrations in upper upper Montclair were interrupted last night by a huge explosion and fire, which lit up the sky around Clove and Long Hill Road (near the back entrance of...
Pi-Su on Earth, or at Least Glen Ridge
Nothing says "tasteful Christmas" better than luminaria, and Paul Zalewski recorded this graceful streetscape on Wildwood Terrace in Glen Ridge on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, the night before, a family across town on Midland...
A Big Screen, a Box of Popcorn and Thou
Tell us what you want, what you really really want... to see.
'Tis the Season....
What Movie are You Dying to See?
Brokeback Mountain
Munich
King Kong
The Producers
The...
Dark and Darker
For the second time in a week, the area around Watchung Ave and Broad Street in Bloomfield has been hit by a power outtage. This time, the area in the dark is the block...