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1. For Jeremy Lin and R.A. Dickey, the best still lies ahead
(Sports/Professional)

BY JOE FAVORITO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM ON N.J. SPORTS MARKETING Last year if you said to a sports marketer the names “Lin" and "Dickey,” he or she may have thought you were talking about the former NFL ...

2. '30 Rock' star Alec Baldwin to play 'Orphans' con artist on Broadway
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... was the Roundabout’s 2006 production of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloan, which received so-so reviews but made headlines for conflicts he had with his co-star, Tony nominated-actress Jan Maxwell. There ...

3. Anthony Bourdain's 'Get Jiro!': Brash and bold chef dishes at new book launch
(Life/Style)

... was a kid, co-wrote “Get Jiro!” with Joel Rose, a seasoned author who wrote “The Blackest Bird” and “Kill Kill Faster Faster.” Bourdain approached DC Comics with their idea for the book, “in the unreasonable ...

4. Rutgers students team up with ShapingNJ to combat obesity
(Health/Healthquest)

... Trader Joe’s where I live,’’ Blount said. “People in my neighborhood don’t know about it. I feel like I should start teaching people in my community so they will want better than they are getting.’’  ...

5. 'Take This Waltz' movie review, trailer: Semi-autobiopic stunningly shot, eh?
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM MOVIE REVIEW "Everyone to the square for a public humiliation!" Those are the first words that the audience and Margot, the heroine, hear in the new romantic ...

6. 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World' movie review, trailer: Steve Carell and Keira Knightley go out without a bang
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM MOVIE REVIEW At the movies, the end is here. Though 2011 was the year of Apocalypse Noir, with dark forebodings in films large and small, “Seeking a Friend ...

7. "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' movie review, trailer: More biting action than character
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM MOVIE REVIEW After generations of sanctimony about the Civil War, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” finally provides a useful metaphor for the national blood-letting. ...

8. All-sports radio's 25th anniversary: Still strong and growing
(Sports/Professional)

BY JOE FAVORITO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM ON N.J. SPORTS MARKETING 25 years ago on July 1, 1987, I was in my office at SportsChannel in Woodbury, N.Y. (where I was Assistant Director for Marketing and ...

9. Ron Paul bashes Social Security, cashes his checks
(U.S./Nation)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Do as I say, not as I do? On an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul called for future generations to wean themselves ...

10. George Clooney adds producer power to 'August: Osage County' starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts
(Entertainment/Movies)

... against type as one of the milquetoast husbands of the two daughters. This seems to be Mr. Letts’s moment on film. A movie version of “Killer Joe,” one of Mr. Letts’s early plays, will open July 27. ...

11. 6-year-old arrested in Arizona as suspected illegal immigrant did not catch a break
(U.S./Nation)

... Post, a spokesman for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office, Chris Hegstrom, said, “She's been turned over to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to try to determine where she's from. She told us she's from ...

12. Watergate anniversary: 'Deep Throat' FBI insider Mark Felt gets a closer look
(U.S./Nation)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM To mark the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, the FBI invites the public to take a look inside the career of one of its heroic anti-heroes, the bureau ...

13. Medical waste scare on Long Beach Island resolved...for now
(N.J./State)

... debris which reportedly washed ashore. By 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, Long Beach Township Mayor Joe Mancini told NBC New York that the beaches had been opened again. "We are watching closely, all good for ...

14. New Riverfront Park in Newark step in right direction
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of riverfronts are often blocked by a landscape of factories, warehouses and shipping terminals. I recently spoke with Joe Della Fave, executive director of the Ironbound Community Corporation in Newark, ...

15. Hey New Yorkers: Let Mayor Mike Bloomberg ban everything!
(Opinion/Commentary)

... If you have a net worth of $22 billion, you are one hell of a smart person with an IQ greater than the average Joe or Jane. Recently, the Mayor has proposed a ban on the sale of 32 ounce soda containers, ...

16. 'Rock of Ages' movie review, trailer: Tom Cruise shines '80s style
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM MOVIE REVIEW Our past has caught up with us. Many people lived through the decade of the 1980s but have been able to move on, repress their memories of that ...

17. To Mets fans: Root for the Yanks this weekend
(Sports/Professional)

... like the number one picks that they were in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Yankees manager Joe Girardi got a glimpse of the teen phenom Harper in spring training and knows the kid is going to be a superstar ...

18. Remembering Warner Fusselle: Brooklyn Cyclones announcer and legend
(Sports/Professional)

BY JOE FAVORITO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM ON N.J. SPORTS MARKETING If you are a baseball fan of a certain age, you may not have known his name but you certainly knew his voice. Also if you happened to ...

19. 'Greedy' New York Mets lobby for R.A. Dickey no-hitter against Tampa Bay Rays
(Sports/Professional)

... one hit. But I did what I can do. There's not much more than I could do than that." --JOE GREENE, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM  ...

20. NASCAR's Joey Logano at Pocono Raceway: Not the only record breaker
(Sports/Professional)

... and a new pit road. The first of two summer races at Pocono broke some of the previous records held in NASCAR. During a qualifying run on Saturday driver Joey Logano broke the track record by running ...