Love Oysters? Love Dave Matthews Band

BY MARGARET MORGAN

SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The Dave Matthews Band, the very popular improvisational rock band, has given a grant of more than $16,000 to the NY/NJ Baykeepers group to help save thousands of baby oysters growing in a New Jersey bay. Researchers have gathered enough data to be able to say that an oyster-restoration program wrecked by Hurricane Sandy will work and this grant, w...

Motivation and Tempers: Coaches Must Change with the Times

BY JED HUGHES

VICE CHAIR, KORN/FERRY SPORTS

COMMENTARY

Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice lost his job just one day after a video showed him coaching overly aggressively.

In a world of sports obsession and 24/7 media coverage, head coaches routinely use videotaping of their own practices as a tool. It's actually surprising that this story had not surfaced earlier in our age of tabloid journalism...

'Motown: The Musical' Broadway Review: Motown's Greatest Hits Stack Up as a Show

BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Many of the greatest pop hits of our collective lifetimes just keep on coming in “Motown: The Musical,” and there simply is no resisting the powerfully familiar music that rocks the rafters of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where the new Broadway show opened on Sunday.

A multimillion dollar jukebox musical crammed with golden oldies, “Motown” is producer Berry Gor...

Tribeca Film Festival Returns with Dramatic Features, Strong Documentaries

BY JOE TYRRELL

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

With its 12th installment beginning this week, the Tribeca Film Festival might be said to have either outlived or achieved its original purpose.

Launched to spur the restoration of lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks, the festival now sits in the lengthening shadow of the new World Trade Center,

Bernard Baruch, American Investor, Saves Churchill's Fortune, Forges Friendship

BY WARREN BOROSON

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

BOROSON ON MONEY

Bernard Baruch was a great investor, and some of his shrewd observations about investing have become almost holy writ. Such as:

The only investors who buy at the lows and sell at the highs are liars.

And:

Buy straw hats in January.

Enter Bob and Dan Hurley: Rutgers Pursuing the Anti-Mike Rice Basketball Coach

BY MICHAEL HAYNE

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

COMMENTARY

The firing of abusive Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice and the subsequent scandal that came from the way it was handled has sort of put a replacement on the back burner.

Even though the Scarlet Knights lack an athletic director (he was also fired), the school is in major damage control and desperate for positive distractions.

It seems the school taint...

Corruption, the Demise of Newspapers and What Needs to be Done

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

CBS newsman Bob Schieffer is concerned about the future of journalism in the United States.

Schieffer says the large number of newspapers folding across the country is going to call for broadcasters to do more to keep their eyes on local government.

He said unless that happens, “we are going to see corruption in this country in a way never seen before,” according to T...

Mary Higgins Clark, 'Queen of Suspense' and Saddle River Resident, Still Going Strong at 85

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Mary Higgins Clark may be New Jersey’s most prolific author. The Saddle River resident has written over 40 books.

Her latest novel is titled “Daddy’s Gone A Hunting,” and was released this week.

Clark, 85, works out of the top floor of her three-story ranch house. She could have retired years ago, but says she has so many ideas that she's considering bringing in co-wr...

Kelly Ripa and 4 Other N.J. Natives Among Most Powerful People in Media

BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The Hollywood Reporter has named its list of the 35 Most Powerful People in Media, and New Jersey is well represented.

One of the honorees was morning talk show host Kelly Ripa, born in Stratford. Ripa has recently surprised people by admitting that she hasn’t kept in contact with former co-host Regis Philbin.

Ripa said, according to ETonline.com, "I haven't seen him, no."...

Gosling, Cooper make "Place Beyond the Pines" two-thirds great

BY JOE TYRRELL

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

MOVIE REVIEW

Director Derek Cianfrance, whose tiny jewel “Blue Valentine” achieved success beyond its scale, has returned with something larger and more sweeping in “The Place Beyond the Pines.”

Cianfrance even has one of the stars of his earlier work, Ryan Gosling, back for at least part of the ride. “Ride” is the operative word for the initial section of "Pines,"...