2004

Here’s one fellow you won’t be seeing tomorrow. Post offices and mail delivery are suspended tomorrow and federal offices will be closed, in honor of the Reagan funeral. State, county […]

As the TV coverage of Ronald Reagan’s demise got sappier and sappier, Montclair resident Thom Kennon got madder and madder. “I was overwhelmed over the weekend,” he said. “I thought: […]

Garrison Keillor is coming to New Jersey this weekend. Read more here.

Here’s proof that just because you’re looking through a camera doesn’t mean you’re actually seeing what’s going on. Now, let’s set the scene. It’s the last game of the baseball […]

Because how often do you get this kind of honesty from someone at the top of his game? “I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars They criticized […]

The Star Ledger reports today that $21.67 was spent on every voter who turned out for the Montclair mayoral election last month. Barista went trolling for what Montclairians might have […]

Sure, all those Republicans may look alike: silver hair, golf shirt, khaki pants, docksiders. But all that country club veneer didn’t do much to hide one of the nastiest intra-party […]

Samuel Johnson called second marriages a “triumph of hope over experience.” That’s how the Barista feels about gardening. All those marvelous pansies, petunias and begonias, so alluring in spring, wind […]

The Barista was pretty surprised when she saw this poll from the Record of Bergen, along with the headline that North Jerseyeans are more worried about traffic than they are […]

According to our friend The Proprietor, we ain’t getting the cicadas after all. If they haven’t come by now, they’re not coming. Whew. That’s one less plague to worry about.

She has instructions to call at the first bulldozer.

The Montclair Watercooler is all abuzz about outages of Comcast’s high-speed internet service. That’s terrible! Even if it the squirrels‘ fault. The Barista does wonder, though, how all those people […]

For those of you who didn’t watch The Sopranos tonight (Who are you, by the way? Inquiring minds want to know), you will be so upset to hear that Bloomfield’s […]