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Dec 04, 2010

Lyndhurst to celebrate season with park party

The Record

LYNDHURST — The township is hosting its annual celebration at Town Hall Park today to usher in the holiday season.

Dubbed a Holiday in the Park, the three-hour gala has become a family event that utilizes the park’s community-oriented setting.

"I like to keep an ...

Dec 03, 2010

South Bergenite's top things to do this weekend

South Bergenite

Allweekend

1. See the nutcracker

NJ Ballet will perform "The Nutcracker" live at Englewood's ...

Hooray for earth, talking, and Lance Armstrong

Aim Jefferson

Hooray For Earth has been renowned for distorted guitar sounds and gloomy lyrics going above layered melodic vocals.

Dec 02, 2010

Trio blends traditional and contemporary music together

Community News (Fair Lawn Edition)

Dave Rowe Trio coming to the Hurdy Gurdy stage.

Ridgewood's Downtown for the Holidays schedule of events

The Ridgewood News

A list of Friday's festivities in downtown Ridgewood.

NYC's King Tut exhibit extended

The Record

"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibition in Times Square has been extended by two weeks.

Prayer vigil held for ailing Aretha Franklin

The Record

A community prayer vigil has been held in Detroit for Aretha Franklin, a day before organizers say the singing legend is to undergo a medical procedure.

Man sought in LA publicist's death kills himself as police try to speak with him

The Record

The slaying of a Hollywood publicist took another bizarre twist when a man police went to question in the case shot and killed himself in the lobby of a Los Angeles residential hotel.

Eminem leads Grammy nominations with 10

The Record

Other top nominees included Lady Antebellum, Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, who were all nominated for six each.

Upcoming events at Temple Sholom

Verona-Cedar Grove Times

On Dec. 5 at 2 p.m., award-winning concert pianist Evan Mitchell will appear at Temple Sholom of West Essex, located at 760 Pompton Ave. in Cedar Grove.

Cedar Grove pageant winner is on her way to national contest

Verona-Cedar Grove Times

Francine Popov recently took the Miss Photogenic crown at the Miss Pre-Teen Newark pageant.

Dec 01, 2010

Find the spirit of the season through holiday events in North Jersey and beyond

The Record

rim the tree. Buy the gifts. Mail the cards. Hang the lights. The holidays are supposed to be joyful — but most of us experience them as a blur of frantic activity, punctuated by bouts of overeating.

A suggestion? Slow down and smell the holly. There's a lot you can do ...

Nov 30, 2010

Billie Joe Armstrong to join ’Idiot’ for 50 shows

The Record

Producers say the Green Day frontman will reprise the role of St. Jimmy in the musical that his songs inspired beginning Jan. 1 and ending Feb. 27 at The St. James Theatre.

Lace up your skates for a Rockefeller tradition

The Record

Tales of a Rockefeller Center rink rookie

Nov 29, 2010

Gifts put new spin on classic Hannukah dreidel

The Record

These days, dreidels come in all sorts of variations. Here's what you'll find in North Jersey stores.

Nov 26, 2010

South Bergenite's top picks for things to do this weekend

South Bergenite

Saturday

1. Ring in the holidays in Rutherford

The Rutherford Downtown Partnership and the ...

Nov 25, 2010

"Mooseltoe" premieres Sunday in Morristown

The Record

Mooseltoe, a holiday musical, is at the Mayo Center for Performing Arts in Morristown.

Resident is college cheerleader

Verona-Cedar Grove Times

Brianna Raddi of Cedar Grove is a member of the 2010 cheerleading squad at Susquehanna University.

Local couple preparing for World Latin Dance Cup

Belleville Times

Marcus Nieves and Diana Osorio are preparing to compete in the World Latin Dance Cup, taking place next month in San Diego, Calif. The couple qualified for the event after winning a ...

Nov 24, 2010

Jennifer Grey wins 'Dancing With The Stars'; Bristol Palin comes in third

The Record

Actress Jennifer Grey and her professional dance partner, Derek Hough, were crowned winners of the "Dancing With the Stars" 11th season Tuesday evening, ending a weeks-long tempest over the ...

A rake's progress? It's getting slower every year

The Record

Bill Ervolino and his leaf-raking woes.

Nov 19, 2010

South Bergenite's top things to do this weekend

South Bergenite

Friday

1. Get creative with cupcakes

The Lyndhurst Public Library Young Adult Department will ...

Cupid & Psyche in the spotlight

Verona-Cedar Grove Times

Verona High School Players entertain with a Greek love story.

60s songbird Joan Baez falls from treehouse, hurt

The Record

Baez purposely had the treehouse built without walls because she wanted to sleep among birds at her Woodside, Calif., home.

Area orchestra begins 75th season

Teaneck Suburbanite

Since 1936 the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra has brought live classical music to local residents.

Palin's dancing feat sets tongues wagging

The Record

NEW YORK — Conservative blogger Kevin DuJan is psyched. He's actually starting to think Palin can win the whole kit and kaboodle.

No, not Sarah — though he hopes she'll be the next ...

Nov 18, 2010

Rocker Patti Smith wins National Book Award for non-fiction

The Record

Patti Smith became tearful as she accepted the nonfiction prize for "Just Kids," a bittersweet look back to New York City in the 1960s, when she and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe were just ...

Toy Story 3 on Ice comes to the Izod Center

The Record

Tuesday to Nov. 28, East Rutherford

TOYS ON ICE

Woody, Buzz and Jessie are back with their toy friends, trying to figure out what to do as Andy gets ready to leave for college. ...

Editorial: Reminding struggling teens they aren't alone

Nutley Sun

The name Tyler Clementi has become a name and a face associated with a silent and growing epidemic, young teens who face abuse by their peers and confusion about their own identity, some of which driven to take their own lives.

Nov 16, 2010

McCartney to play invitation-only show at Apollo Theater next month

The Record

The invitation-only concert will be held for Sirius XM listeners. It also will air live on six Sirius XM channels.

The Beatles on iTunes at last

NorthJersey.com

The addition of The Beatles fills a glaring gap in the collection of the world's largest music retailer

Nov 13, 2010

An App for everything

The Record

10 of our favorite apps right now.

Nov 12, 2010

South Bergenite's top picks for things to do this weekend

South Bergenite

All weekend

1. Taste some great wines at the racetrack

The Meadowlands Racetrack is ...

Kanye West cancels upcoming 'Today' performance after getting miffed

The Record

West became upset when during the interview "Today" showed a tape of when he interrupted Taylor Swift at last year's MTV Music Awards. The incident that prompted a tremendous backlash against ...

The pleasure principle with gift cards & podcasting

Aim Jefferson

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Festival of Opportunities will show how ‘Ridgewood Cares’

The Ridgewood News

Group plans all day festival

Nov 11, 2010

Mikhail Baryshnikov's NY house on sale for $4M

The Record

The house is in Snedens Landing. The artists' enclave is in the hamlet of Palisades, N.Y., about 20 miles north of the city.

Millburn High grad has four plays being performed in Montclair

The Item of Millburn and Short Hills

Plays range from drama to comedy

Quidditch jumps from the pages of 'Harry Potter' to real life

The Record

Quidditch teams descend on Manhattan for the 2010 Quidditch World Cup

Saddle River Valley Cultural Center upcoming events

Town Journal

The Saddle River Valley Cultural Center, 305 W. Saddle River Road in Upper Saddle River, offers the following events.

* Two performances, at 1 and 3 p.m., of "Cinderella" will be offered on Saturday, Nov. 13. Beautifully handcrafted marionettes and ingenious set ...

Radio City show Nov. 14

Verona-Cedar Grove Times

The Cedar Grove Recreation Department has secured 45 orchestra seats for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show on Nov. 14 at 10 a.m.

Palisades gets a special visit from Bulgaria

Northern Valley Suburbanite

TENAFLY ” The Palisades Folk Dancers received a special visitor Oct. 24. Professional dancer Nina Kavardjikova taught the members steps for the quick and slow beats of Bulgarian music while ...

Cedar Grove resident in Miss Pre-Teen pageant

Verona-Cedar Grove Times

Francine Popov won Miss Photogenic and was second runner-up in the Newark competition.

Nov 09, 2010

Screenwriter stresses it's about 'motivating yourself'

Town Journal

Saddle River Day School alumna Aline McKenna talks about 'long' path to writing hit movies.

Broadway to dim lights tonight in memory of Jill Clayburgh

The Record

Clayburgh died Friday after battling leukemia for over two decades. She was 66.

New Springsteen concert film rocks big-screen premiere

The Record

A uniquely crafted new Springsteen concert video promises to stoke the souls of insatiable Bruce buffs. And, judging from the wild response at its big-screen premiere, film fanatics may be ...

Conan O'Brien returns to late-night TV with ease

The Record

Conan O'Brien relaunched his TV career on Monday night with a stylishly back-to-basics hour that radiated hard-won lessons from his brief stay hosting "The Tonight Show."

Nov 07, 2010

Ervolino: Daylight's fading, and I got (circadian) rhythm

The Record

Bill Ervolino on the time-consuming task of turning his clocks back.

Nov 06, 2010

City's first Lionel train exhibit opens Sunday

The Record

The exhibition of the iconic model trains sets up at the Paterson Museum, in the very building that produced locomotives in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Actress Jill Clayburgh, 66, dies of leukemia

The Record

Her husband, Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe, said she died after a 21-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She was surrounded by her family and brother when she died at her ...

Nov 05, 2010

South Bergenite's top things to do this weekend

South Bergenite

Friday

1. Shop for purses, help some pooches

The Mid-Atlantic Bulldog Rescue organization will ...

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