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1. N.Y. Fringe Festival reveals a Jersey side
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  Of course New Jersey artists and performers are swimming in the mix. At least two dozen Fringe productions boast Garden State roots among their makers, performers and/or content. Longtime Demarest ...

2. Explaining Lady Gaga and the middle finger to my 8-year-old daughter
(Life/Style)

... in the cool of a summer evening. Gregory J. Rummo is the author of "The View from the Grass Roots." Contact him from his website, GregRummo.com LIFE IN THE BOONIES Navigating New Jersey's interstates ...

3. Princeton professor emeritus Robert Tucker, renowned Soviet expert and Stalin biographer, dead at 92
(Life/Style)

... who want to understand Stalinism and the roots of the Cold War." Tucker's experiences as an attaché in Moscow gave him firsthand knowledge of how Stalin operated. He was the editor of the U.S. and British ...

4. The hybrid car can trace its roots back to Teaneck, N.J.
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM In the early 1930s, Victor Wouk was a student at the elite Townsend Harris High School in Manhattan and belonged to the school's science club. Almost as a lark, ...

5. Keynes, Obama and the future
(Opinion/Commentary)

... to pull on the strings of irresponsible Keynesian policy every time we face a setback. We lived without Lord Keynes from 1776 to 1929 and did just fine. I think it is time to get back to our roots of ...

6. Will Ackerman to perform at Two River Theater in Red Bank
(Entertainment/Movies)

... label opportunism had been done. "That put a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths," Ackerman says. "That really cut the legs out from what had been a very real grassroots, utterly genuine musical movement." ...

7. A memorable case of plagiarism has its roots in New Jersey
(Life/Style)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM One of the most notorious instances of literary plagiarism in modern times is recounted in the book "Stolen Words," by Thomas Mallon (Harcourt, 1989). What is ...

8. Navigating New Jersey’s interstates
(Life/Style)

... the DOT once in a while would also be appreciated. Gregory J. Rummo is the author of "The View from the Grass Roots." Contact him from his website, GregRummo.com LIFE IN THE BOONIES From the N.J. ...

9. Merging with Cherry Hill could save Merchantville
(Opinion/Commentary)

... honored to be supporting the efforts of Merchantville Connecting for the Future. They are pioneers in this grassroots movement. As Margaret Mead memorably stated, "Never doubt that a small group of ...

10. Study declares Tea Party is not a populist or independent revolt
(U.S./Nation)

... Monday by Democracy Corps, a Washington-based Democratic-leaning think tank. The Tea Party is a grass-roots, intensely ideological, conservative Republican movement, fired up by Fox News and Glenn Beck, ...

11. Thierry Henry and Barclay’s Soccer Challenge will bring buzz to N.Y. Red Bulls
(Sports/Professional)

... the New York franchise as been bereft of a "name" player since the demise of the Cosmos. The Metro Stars tried the route that has been the MLS model in other cities...strong grassroots plans and young ...

12. From the N.J. boonies to ‘somewhere over the rainbow’
(Life/Style)

... Oklahoma knowing that "I wasn't in New Jersey anymore." Gregory J. Rummo, is a businessman and the author of "The View from the Grass Roots." Contact him at GregRummo.com. LIFE IN THE BOONIES We're ...

13. Gulf oil spill exposes our loss of American ingenuity
(Opinion/Commentary)

... has its roots in the loss of the manufacturing base in the United States. "American ingenuity" used to be a buzzword. Generations of American tinkerers — people making things, no matter the scale — ...

14. Hollywood A-list celebrities who really are from N.J.
(Entertainment/Movies)

... are No. 1, really from New Jersey and No. 2, are really talented. Oxygen has done a special on them. The female-targeted cable network said Thursday that is will "uncover Hollywood's Jersey roots" with ...

15. We’re having a heat wave
(Life/Style)

... has been working overtime this week to moderate the summer's first heat wave. Gregory J. Rummo is the author of "The View from the Grass Roots." Contact him at GregRummo.com LIFE IN THE BOONIES Boyhood ...

16. Some unemployment benefits are better than others
(Life/Style)

... with, oh, I think you're getting it). Last week it was the Turtles, the Monkees, The Grass Roots, my son grinning as Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders quipped, "The sixties were great, really ...

17. Funeral for former Philadelphia 76er Manute Bol held in Washington
(Sports/Professional)

... his determination to grow grassroots reconciliation - whether that reconciliation is expressed in a country that divides or holds together, wherever the boundary lines are drawn. Manute stood for grassroots ...

18. The Steve Miller Band makes triumphant return
(Entertainment/Movies)

... blues roots, it also contains the band's signature rock and roll sound on tracks like "Rock Me Baby." Also featured are vintage blues tunes by Otis Rush, Elmore James, Earl King and Jimmy Reed. The ...

19. The (United) States of hockey is doing better than sports pundits think
(Sports/Professional)

... pretty good from the highest professional level down to the grass roots which probably comes as a shock to Canadian sportswriters along with American sports editors and alleged experts on sports talk radio. ...

20. Millions of Americans facing foreclosure
(U.S./Nation)

... into a grassroots movement that is strengthening the low-income, Dorchester section of Boston, Meacham said. "Many people who've never done activism come out and do civil disobedience," he said. The ...