November 2004

Yes, you could go to a big box store this weekend, get trampled by the crowds and wait for hours in the checkout line. But that was, like, so 24 […]

The Montclair Times has a story about the $35 million school planned for Washington Street in Montclair. The school is expected to open in 2008, and will likely be an […]

There’s a blood shortage in New Jersey, particularly of the universal donor O variety. At some centers, the state health chief says, there’s less than a one-day supply. Here’s how […]

Yesterday, food. Today, food for thought. Click here for EPIC: 2014, a dystopian view of what things like Baristanet can lead to.  (Via Deanland.)

And they’re off! The weather cooperated for Glen Ridge’s big Thanksgiving Day race, the A8K. Below: Horace Ashenfelter, who won a gold medal 3,000-meter steeple-chase in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; […]

It looks like chunky Pepto-Bismol, but the Barista swears: left-leaning, blue-state, NPR-listening, Baristanet-reading cooks will love this famous recipe, offered up every year by Susan Stamberg of "All Things Considered." […]

About 700 runners are already registered, and 300 more are expected, for the A8K Classic — the traditional Thanksgiving Day race in Glen Ridge. The race, formerly called "The Turkey […]

Best to lay off the holiday schnapps the next few days — at least if you plan to get behind a wheel. A small battalion of unmarked state police cars […]

Could free taxpayer-subsidized pre-K become a thing of the past in Glen Ridge? The school district dropped a hint of the possibility in the Fall 2004 GRPS Report Card. Pre-K […]

Alliance Repertory Theater, locked out of its old space in Bloomfield and waiting for its new theater in Montclair to be renovated, has scrapped its entire fall schedule. But the […]

And speaking of shopping (see below), apparently those who ventured to the Short Hills Mall yesterday got swept up in a "24"-like anti-terrorism training simulation. While shoppers bustled in and […]

Even as preservationists gear up for a Dec. 3 court date on the fate of the Marlboro Inn, furniture, fixtures and bedding are being removed from the structure piece by […]

A reader reminds us that we almost closed out the day without mentioning the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination. Indeed — but only because we lost track of the […]

For all the indignation, in certain quarters, that Paris Hilton chose Glen Ridge as a place for slumming earlier this month, Barista respectfully submits this picture of some stained and […]