Friday, May 18, 2012
Looking to avoid the mosh pits, Mom prepares for mega music festival with four teens on Saturday.
Like any good mom, I wanted to give my 15-year-old daughter something she really wanted for her birthday. So what did she want to do more than anything else this weekend to celebrate? Maybe a Broadway show? A Knicks game? A day at a spa? A trip to the beach? She wanted to go to the beach all right - to Bamboozle, the three-day music festival at Asbury Park that is expected to draw 90,000 concertgoers down the shore over the weekend. A few months ago, a concert on the beach sounded like a fun and reasonable thing to do – at least one day of it – so I let her pick a day, and I offered to drive and chaperone. I didn’t really think too much about what I was getting myself into. Now it’s here, and I’m getting bulletins about traffic and how to …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
With visions of 1994 dancing in metropolitan fans' heads, who do you think will win?
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Wednesday, May 16
It isn't always pretty. In fact, it rarely is. When the two top ice hockey squads in the New York-New Jersey metro area lace them up, it's always a spectacle. But it's never more so than when the matchups come in the playoffs. Of course, we're talking about the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers (sorry Islanders fans, but the '80s are behind us). The two teams begin their best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals series Monday night (8; NBC Sports Network) for the right to head to the Stanley Cup Finals. Of course, most fans remember the last time these two faced each other for that right. It was 1994. For Rangers fans, it was the precursor to a fantastic Stanley Cup championship victory over the Vancouver Canucks and the end of the…
Did you even noticed that it arrived recently, or has it been collecting dust?
A familiar yellow bag, with a familiar yellow book should have arrived on door steps in the area this past week. The 2012-13 phone book is here. Once upon a time, the arrival of the latest phone book meant a chance to see if there were some new businesses you might want to patronize, a chance to toss out the old and bring in the new. A chance to see if they finally spelled your name right (they didn't). Today, more often than not, the phone book has been relegated to the pile of forgotten items. It's still in its yellow bag, weeks later, collecting dust. Or, it's recycled just as quickly as it arrives. What about you? Are you using the phone book just as often as you did 10, 20 years ago? Do you use it at all? Do you wonder why we still …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
This year Mama wants the things money can’t buy: peace, quiet and a little less nose-picking.
As a mom of three boys, my days are busy, loud and sometimes covered in chocolate. I wouldn’t have it any other way. But after a decade of macaroni necklaces and still-partially-frozen waffles that land syrup-side down on my duvet cover before even roosters are stirring, I’d like to share some other easy-on-the-wallet Mother’s Day gift ideas. Now I’m not crazy, I don’t expect all these things to last year-round but for one day, any of the following “gifts” would be priceless. Here, in an open letter to my fellas, is what I do and don’t want, in no particular order: I do want you to dress yourselves but not like rodeo clowns. I don’t want to hear any senseless arguments or competing such as, “Look, there’s a cat in the window!” “Yeah, well…
Friday, May 11, 2012
A state legislative committee approved a bill this week that would bar the practice.
Can an employer force you to reveal your Facebook or other social media password as a condition for getting hired or keeping your job? That issue began to get some attention in March after a statistician in New York reported that during an interview with a potential employer, the woman interviewing him had searched for his Facebook and, upon discovering that it was private, asked him for the password. The statistician, Justin Bassett refused and left the interview, according to the Associated Press. But the story brought to light other instances where employers have sought similar access to social media accounts, and have led several states to consider legislation to ban the practice. California's assembly voted Thursday to approve such …
Friday, May 4, 2012
A Maplewood resident is working to educate kids — and their parents — about skin protection and care.
The story of Nutley, NJ mom Patricia Krentcil, 44, taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth has grabbed the public's attention. For the record: Back in April, Krentcil's daughter told her school nurse she got a sunburn from tanning with her mother, prompting the school to call child services. Police have since charged Krentcil with child endangerment. The story has prompted a lot of discussion — mostly because of Krentcil's extraordinary appearance. The Star-Ledger wrote that Krentcil's "deep tan makes the Jersey Shore crew look ghostly." Her own attorney has called her "obsessed with tanning." But one local expert reminds us to take this recent scandal seriously. "I suppose it’s great fun to mock Ms. Krentcil, but make no …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Deborah Goldstein will speak in Manhattan on Sunday
Listen to your mother! For the third time already, listen to your mother or at least to Deborah Goldstein. The South Orange resident, writer, Patch blogger, and mom will read her writing a the third annual LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER reading series. The series will takes place across ten cities at the end of April and in May including New York City on Sunday May 6th at the JCC in Manhattan at 2p.m. This series was born out of the creative work of mothers who publish online and across the country. "I'll be reading a piece from my blog, Peaches & Coconuts and providing a snapshot of a day in the life of two moms and two small boys," says Goldstein. The NYC show is being directed by Broadway and TV actress, The Huffington Post contributor, and …
Surrounded by soap opera stars, a Patch editor confesses to being starstruck in her hometown.
I admit it. I've always been a closet soap opera nut. Whether it was Luke and Laura, Cliff and Nina, or Tad and Dixie, I knew and loved them all. It started when I was little and my mother and I would enjoy As The World Turns together. We watched as stars like Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei, and Julianne Moore got their starts. Later we bonded over the trials and tributions of Reva Shayne on Guiding Light. That led to a love affair with All My Children that began in college and lasted—off and on—until last year, when the show was axed. So imagine my surprise when I moved to Montclair in the summer of 2009 and, lo and behold, who do I see at Jackie's Grillette on Valley Road? The amazingly talented Kim Zimmer, who played Shayne and later appeared …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Three Character Play Delves the Darkness in the Human Soul
A superb revival of the 2000 Tony Award-winning three-character drama “Copenhagen” by playwright Michael Frayn opened this past weekend at Luna Stage Theater Company in West Orange, running Thursdays to Sundays through May 20. Brilliantly acted, staged and directed, this production goes to the heart of matter—atomic physics—and the heart of darkness—the deployment of the atomic bomb, Nazi brutality, racism, chauvinism, deception and self deception. “Copenhagen” imagines a series of impassioned dialogues among the ghosts of two 20th century theoretical giants, the Danish Niels Bohr, a father of modern physics, and 1932 Nobel Laureate Werner Heisenberg, the German author of the revolutionary Heisenberg Principle. Their ghosts are joined by …
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Bloom peak expected last week in May; free family programs and weekly music events
This week I'd like to recommend a visit to a one-of-its-kind botanical garden less than five miles from downtown West Orange. If you've never been to the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens on Upper Mountain Avenue in Montclair, I hope I can convince you to make a visit. If you have, you'll definitely want to go again for this year's new and expanding offerings including a free Family Garden Party, a free al fresco family movie night, and a music series. For flower lovers, the garden offers the largest collection of iris in a public park on the planet, with over 10,000 plantings that will put out a show of 100,000 collective blooms at peak in a full-spectrum color kaleidoscope. Or if you like picnicking, photography, people-watching, painting, or…
Marcia Worth
11:21 am on Saturday, May 19, 2012
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