• Record crowd expected to greet American Pharoah for Haskell

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Since breaking the 37-year-old Triple Crown curse with his wire-to-wire win at the Belmont Stakes June 13, American Pharoah has become an American folk hero. The 3-year-old thoroughbred has become a nationwide star, and that has brought increased attention to the sport. As a result, all eyes will be on…

  • Matrix to play for a spot in the AAABA National Tournament

    By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent The New Brunswick Matrix will take on the New York City League champions beginning Aug. 1 to determine which team will represent New York/New Jersey at the All American Amateur Baseball Association’s (AAABA) National Tournament in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The regional qualifier is best two-out-of-three and the first two games are set…

  • Winding up

    FRANK GALIPO Tinton Falls Little League Junior League pitcher Tyler Riccardi winds up for a pitch to a Two Rivers West batter during the July 22 District 19 tournament game played in Tinton Falls. The hosts won the game, 4-1, and are one win away from playing for the district title July 29 at the…

  • Garden club’s potato challenge underway

    Navesink Garden Club members are growing potatoes for its Flower Show, which is slated for Sept. 15. Varieties include Yellow Fin, All Blue, Red Norland, German Butterballs and Fingerlings. In May, the Red Bank River Center Association donated the potato seedlings to 16 gardeners and the Go Sprouts-Tiger Patch Learning Garden of the Atlantic Highlands…

  • Fun at the Middlesex County Fair

    TOP PICK For 77 years, the Middlesex County Fair has been a tradition that brings together thousands of residents for a week of summer fun. Some 85,000 visitors annually explore the county’s rich agricultural heritage, learn a new craft, try a new food, or go on a ride – all in a day’s visit at…

  • Did you know …

    Fred Armisen and Bill Hader in IFC’s “Documentary Now!” TYLER GOLDEN/IFC IFC is rewriting history with its new series, “Documentary Now!,” premiering on Thursday, August 20 at 10 p.m. Created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Myers and starring Armisen and Hader, this new comedy series lovingly parodies some of the world’s best known…

  • Five radio disc jockeys who rocked our socks off

    By Lucie M. Winborne Wolfman Jack With so much music out there to listen to, it always helps to have a good navigator. Such is the radio disc jockey, or DJ. And through the decades, a few are remembered as the ones who introduced America to its greatest hits. The term “disc jockey” was coined…

  • See, mom, all that video game playing can pay off

    In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com Who would have thought that footage of the 1982 World Video Game Championships would incite an extraterrestrial attack today? That, my friends, is the war we wage in the new film Pixels. In the ’80s, Sam, Will and Ludlow were great friends united over one common interest: They…

  • Being funny is all in the family for the Gaffigans

    The life and times of Jim and Jeannie By Kellie Freeze, www.channelguidemag.com “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” airing Wednesdays on TV Land, stars comedian Jim Gaffigan as a fictionalized version of himself — a food- and nap-loving devoted father of five, who is raising his brood of fair-haired kids in a two-bedroom apartment in New York…

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