March 2008

We hear there are four films from Montclair in the Garden State Film Festival, which takes place this week in Asbury Park, and received a nice write-up in the New […]

Pam Gould, a former Glen Ridger who actually wrote a dating column for Baristanet, has moved to Marin County, CA, and started her own Baristanet. More Marin is up and […]

“American Spring!” a free, informal, and unique arts & humanities festival of opera, drama, dance, and audience interaction featuring distinguished visiting authors and performers, as well as MSU College of […]

Our own Deb Galant is on Brian Lehrer this morning, talking scary yoga stuff from her new book. She’ll be live from 10:40 to 11 a.m., discussing Fear and Yoga […]

It’s official: Thrive Montclair will have its celebration on April 12. Press release here…(no word yet if there will be beignets…) Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban […]

Okay, Baristaville. How low can you go? With your camera, that is. We want to see tiny Baristaville–the smallest and sometimes overlooked parts of Baristaville, up close and personal. Like […]

…Until the real thing comes along, in this case, flowers on the branches of cherry trees, you can enjoy a lifelike simulation. The newly refurbished visitor’s center at Branchbrook Park […]

As a freshman entering high school in San Anselmo, California, I faced a requirement of one year of Latin, you know, the dead language, the language I’d only ever heard […]

Thanks to Pat Kenschaft for the tip: A worldwide Earth Hour is scheduled for this Saturday evening at 8:00 PM, when everyone is urged to turn all the lights off […]

It’s shaping up to be an artsy weekend in Baristaville: Tonight you’ll find poetry at Watchung Booksellers, cabaret night at MHS, “Philemon” premiering at 4th Wall and live music at […]

Five years in Iraq, 4,000 dead, 30,000 injured – and that’s just the American count…a war that’s costing taxpayers $5,000 every second (read this and weep) being paid with borrowed […]

Bill Merdinger, the tax assessor for Glen Ridge, is the most obstinate, cussed, curmudgeonly, infuriating person you’ll find in borough hall these days — and I think he would consider […]

Montclair, here’s your chance to throw back a few beers and get to know your candidates while everyone’s still smiling, instead of meeting them inside council chambers…It’s the campaign kick-off […]

You’ll find plenty of Equity actors in New York lamenting the fact that they devote weeks to rehearsing a showcase and then union rules limit them to just a dozen […]