newjerseynewsroom.com

1. Movie review: ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is an exciting thriller based on Stieg Larsson’s best seller
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY MIRIAM RINN NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM MOVIE REVIEW It's not easy to make research seem exciting, but director Niels Arden Oplev has done it in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," his compelling film ...

2. Shakira, Eva Longoria, Ricky Martin, others come out in support of Chile
(World/International)

... locating people: "I need news to reassure his father who lives in Argentina and has not heard from Raúl Dragonetti and his family, they live in (the hard-hit southern city of) Concepción, on the corner ...

3. Tribeca Cinemas offering up documentary series as film festival primer
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Feb. 8, the feature is "The Dungeon Masters," as Keven McAlester follows three devoted "Dungeons and Dragons" players. The film details their extravagantly imaginative adventures in the game, as well as ...

4. DRAGON HOUSE
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

JOHN SHORS IS A WONDERFUL AUTHOR. HIS WORKS MAKES THE READER FEEL LIKE THEY ARE RIGHT ALONG SIDE THE CHARACTERS

5. Children of Vietnam inspire John Shors’ novel ‘Dragon House’
(Life/Style)

... for their lives. The friends are fictional, characters in John Shors' new novel, "Dragon House". But, the problem of homeless children is real, and through his novel, Shors gives readers a chance to help ...

6. Seton Hall’s gamble pays off with victory over Cornell
(Sports/Professional)

... as Rutgers missed 19 of their 35 free throws. Sunday it was the 20 turnovers that stood out most. And the weekend could have been worse if not for Gregory Echenique's heroics versus the Dragons. Maybe ...

7. Clark’s Kurt Sutter, creator of FX’s ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ explains how he really feels about Jersey
(Entertainment/Movies)

... bring to my consciousness. But I just had a very, very vivid sort of twisted imagination...For me to go to those dark places, I might as well be dealing with dragons and fairies. It's just my imagination." ...

8. Jersey-based publisher FunFare reveals the ‘Hot Dozen' toys for holiday season
(Life/Style)

... is a mega-hot collectable toy game. Hot=fire. Fire=dragons. We see where Spin Master is coming from with this impressive monster, made up of six Bakugan traps plus a Dragonoid Bakugan. Play them individually ...

9. Beer Briefing: Quick notes about the New Jersey brewing scene
(Life/Style)

... next step in our ‘contiguous-growth' distribution model," he said. Try the Dragon's Milk Ale. It's one of the great American-made craft beers. In the same vein, the Ithaca Beer Company of New York ...

10. Mary Travers was as much a part of the '60s as The Beatles
(Entertainment/Movies)

... love, songs of protest, songs about loss and about a world threatening to blow itself into smithereens. We didn't have to wait long for "Puff," that dragon I sang about to my kids, and now to my grandkids. ...

11. Efforts to build Nets brand a model for other sports teams
(Sports/Professional)

... a futile attempt to change the name to the Swamp Dragons, a revolving door of players and coaches, even tragedy in the form of the untimely death of star player Drazen Petrovic, all seemed to keep the ...

12. Make friends with the Jersey Devil or other bogeymen
(Life/Style)

... root and fall to the ground, then get immediately clawed to death or eaten alive. Come on! it's just a bird/dog/dragon combo with a lot of bad press. Stare the sucker down. Pick up a limb and club it to ...

13. US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan: Ambassador for American poetry
(Life/Style)

... beginning with her self-published volume Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, in 1983. But it wasn't until the mid-1990s that she began to acquire a national reputation. In the meantime, she taught remedial ...

14. We don't need the General Motors Corporation
(Opinion/Commentary)

... where they are taken seriously. The Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa (MCC), a finance, manufacturing and distribution cooperative based in the Basque region of Spain, has 85,000 employees and operations ...