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Hard-boiled eggs for Easter decorating: Do it the right way!

BY SAMANTHA NEGRAVAL

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Easter is upon us. If it was any closer than right now, the Easter Bunny would be rummaging through our produce draw for carrots. Don’t forget to leave a carrot out tonight for him. Wait a minute, that’s Christmas and the reindeer… Nevermind.

Forgot about Easter eggs but have the kit? Cool. Want to hard boil the eggs correctly? Don’t sweat it.

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‘ATM’ movie review, trailer: Money’s not the object

BY NANCY R. MANDELL

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

MOVIE REVIEW

“ATM” may not be the best movie around (and since it’s currently playing in only one Manhattan theatre, it’s not yet really “around”), but if you’re craving a taut, claustrophobic thriller set on a freezing near-Christmas eve this Easter weekend, it’s a good choice.

The debut feature of former film student and director David Brooks puts three fami...

Yankees and Rays will battle all season

BY FRANK VERDE

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

FRANKIE SAYS

Friday's Yankees-Rays opener could have provided us with a peek of how the 2012 American League East race will go this year: a lot of fireworks early, a lull as the season shakes out, and a big bang to end it all.

Figure these two clubs to be in the mid-90s in victories while they press to win their division and avoid a one-game wildcard playoff. Most ...

In Rutgers first scrimmage, Chas Dodd edges Gary Nova

BY MATT SUGAM

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PISCATAWAY – Kyle Flood made it clear this week that he’d like one quarterback. He said that’s what’s best for a football team, so he’d like to commit to one guy.

While he also said that guy may not emerge until seven to 10 days before the season opener, the first major test for Gary Nova and Chas Dodd was today at Rutgers first intrasquad scrimmage.

The sixth spring ...

Lady Gaga learns to drive in rare Audi...and complains on Twitter

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Lady Gaga has been taking driving lessons and the ever-bizarre singer did not exactly pick a lower scale model car in her efforts to obtain her first driver’s license.

The 26-year-old entertainer grew up in New York City and had a variety of public transit choices. According to Starpulse.com, she recently bought herself a new Audi R8 GT, one of only 333 that have been ...

Parole for Charles Manson? New prison photo released

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Charles Manson has made 11 attempts at parole since 1978- each one failing- and next week will be No. 12.

The first photo of Manson in three years has been released in advance of his parole hearing on April 11.

Manson’s prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi called Manson a very unusual murderer because "he sent other people out like robots to do the actual murders,"  accord...

Newark mosque makes 'open door' policy following NYPD surveillance

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

A Newark mosque that was involved in the NYPD surveillance report is taking the incident and turning it into a positive way to draw in more members.

The advertisement, which ran in the Star Ledger Thursday, said his mosque has an “open door” policy and that there is no need for the New York Police Department or other agencies to conduct undercover surveill...

‘Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope’ movie review, trailer: Not just for boys

BY MIRIAM RINN

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

MOVIE REVIEW

Some little boys never outgrow their obsessions. Young girls too have their fanatical interests–horses, Barbie, canasta for some of us–but either girls tend to move on or the culture at large is not as forgiving of their preoccupations; for whatever reason, the latency-age male’s devotion to comic books, fantasy, and tales of adventure among alien spe...

Amanda Bynes: Twitter's 'bad girl' hits cop car, arrested for DUI

BY ANDREW LAGOMARSINO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

If you are going to drink, please do not drive. And if you do drive…try at least to avoid hitting a cop car. So goes the sad saga of Hollywood actress Amanda Bynes.

The former Nickelodeon star turned 26 earlier this week and perhaps the partying never stopped.

She was arrested for driving under the influence in West Hollywood after she rammed her black BMW i...

Pancreatic cancer vaccine in N.J. clinical trial renews hope for patients

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

More than 44,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year, and nearly three-quarters of them die within a year, according to statistics.

But a trial conducted at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick has given renewed hopes in stabilizing a patient’s immunity.

“It’s a promising lead," Elizabeth Poplin from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey t...