April 2005

Into our mailbox today, news that Joey DiVincenzo is building a new "state-of-the-art" mental hospital in Cedar Grove. Almost 25 years ago, family members of patients at the Essex County […]

Baristaville’s other minor league baseball team — the Newark Bears — has its home opener tomorrow night, and Glen Ridgers (who are on school vacation this week) ought to take […]

Trouble with ants in the kitchen this time of year? Soprano Sue has a remedy, and it doesn’t even involve hit men. Just spread some bay leaves around the kitchen, […]

Results just called in from the Essex County voting machine warehouse, where the print pack stuck in a Bloomfield voting machine last week was removed. The Bloomfield school budget passed […]

What does it mean when a house for sale is described as having "a celebrity pedigree?" For the answer, go to At Home.

Yesterday, there were plenty of open houses in Baristaville. There was also an interesting article about poor form at these events in the real estate section of the New York […]

Montclair residents Rachel Hott and Steven Leeds teach something called NLP training, a technique that involves the conscious mind and the unconscious mind and Ericksonian hypnosis, which helps you… Well, […]

This rare Batman appearance in Brookdale Park was captured by Scot Surbeck.

The Barista is giving a speech in a few weeks about Women in New Jersey and needs some statistical stuff to go in it. True, there’s already serious demographic analysis […]

Congratulations to our dead-tree rivals friends at the Montclair Times, who picked up a New Jersey Press Award on Thursday for weeklies with a circulation of more than 4,500.

Dear Betty, My child is going to lots of bar and bat mitzvahs this year, but I can’t find anyone who’ll level with me about what to give as a […]