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REVIEW: Cynthia Nixon reveals a chilly ‘Wit’

Pulitzer-winning drama about a dying college don revived by Manhattan Theatre Club

BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

BROADWAY REVIEW

The winner of the Pulitzer, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and virtually every prize given for playwriting when it premiered off-Broadway during the 1998-99 season, Margaret Edson’s “Wit” remains an exceptional drama.

“Wit” also is one very tricky play to...

Game show icons Pat Sajak and Vanna White: Drunk on 'Wheel of Fortune' ? (VIDEO)

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Longtime host of “Wheel of Fortune” Pat Sajak said that stories about game shows during their dinner breaks are tales of legend. But Sajak clarified that it had only been about a half dozen times that he had trouble “recognizing the alphabet” when he returned to his show’s tapings.

The 65-year old Sajak, who has hosted “Wheel of Fortune” since 1981, admitted on the "...

FBI secret revealed: Wants Facebook, Twitter app to fight terrorism

BY CHRISTINE SAVOIA

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has posted a social media application seeking contractors to build a system that can monitor social media for potential security threats. This news comes from the FBI’s Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC), which indicates that the system should be able to collect public or “open source” information from social...

Xbox 720 release may compete with Nintendo Wii U

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Reports are saying that the next Xbox will begin production late in the year and be released in fall 2013.

Production of Microsoft’s Xbox 720 is expected to begin by late in 2012 and will have a GPU coming from AMD’S 6000 series. IGN reports that the Xbox 720 is expected to have six times the graphic capability of the Xbox 360 and have 20 percent more power than Ninten...

Details of Christie's proposed 10% income tax cut to be examined by Senate Budget Committee

Assembly panel to consider mandated fluoridation of public water supplies

The Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee will hear testimony from David Rosen, the state Office of Legislative Services’ budget and finance officer, on the projected impacts and costs of Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed 10 percent across-the-board state income tax. State Treasurer Andrew Eristoff was also invited to tes...

Newt Gingrich pitches same-sex marriage and paganism comparison to Fla. conservatives

BY ADELE SAMMARCO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

After promising to create a base of operations on the moon if elected, Republican Presidential Candidate and Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is now comparing same-sex marriage to paganism.

For those of you who are unsure of the antiquated term, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a pagan is one who has little or no religion and who delights in sens...

Council on Local Mandates strikes down N.J.'s anti-bullying law

Allamuchy school board complained law costs money to enforce

BY TOM HESTER SR.

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The state Council on Local Mandates Friday struck down New Jersey’s anti-bullying law, declaring it represents an unfunded mandate on school districts and local governments.

The Allamuchy Board of Education complained to the council in August that the law would cost the district money to enforce and th...

N.J. Assembly to hold hearing on same-sex marriage bill next week

Christie has vowed to veto the measure

The Democratic-controlled Assembly Judiciary Committee will meet Thursday to consider legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey.

The bill, the Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act (A-1), would eliminate the civil unions that have been in place since 2007. Democrats maintain the law has not provided equal treatment to New Jersey’s same-sex...

Sen. Weinberg says Christie is afraid of same-sex marriage issue

Addressing the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce dinner in Washington Thursday night, Gov. Chris Christie spoke of “saving (social issues) until we can get everybody back to work in New Jersey,” an apparent reference to the Democratic-controlled Legislature effort to legalize same-sex marriage in the state.

Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) reacted to the comment Friday declaring that...

Ex-Westfield schools administrator Robert Berman gets probation for corruption

South Plainfield resident accepted $13,000 in windows and doors

Robert A. Berman of South Plainfield, the former Westfield School District business administrator, was given a year of probation Friday for accepting $13,000 in windows and doors from a contractor he recommended be hired by the district.

Berman, 55, received probation from state Superior Court Judge Joseph P. Donohue in Elizabeth. Berma...