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The Italian Chicks Variety Show
TOP PICK Presented by actor Danny Aiello, “The Italian Chicks” opens its East Coast tour on May 31 at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick. It is a one-night-only comedy and song event that kicks off the group’s tour. “The Italian Chicks” is a two-hour comedy revue variety show with a focus on family,…
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Devious Maids
“Devious Maids” returns to Lifetime PHOTO BY STUART PETTICAN Copyright 2015 Lifetime’s hit series, “Devious Maids,” will return for a third season on Monday, June 1 at 9 p.m. The series is set in a world where murder and mayhem collide in the mansions of Beverly Hills’ wealthiest and most powerful families. Season three picks…
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1970s Fashion: Rock goes soft, disco finds a beat and punk trashes everything
By Ali Datko, ReMIND Magazine Disco fashion rules in “Saturday Night Fever” (1977). By the ’70s, most fashion-related stigmas of the past had been overturned, clearing the way for even more experimentation and expression. This attitude ironically characterizes the three primary fashion subcultures of the ’70s, which are all strikingly different. The hippie look, continued…
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Don’t Stop Dreaming
In theaters now By Paul Hall Dreamers look to the future as a place that is full of endless possibilities. They don’t view today with doomand gloom pessimism; instead, the optimism flows from the dreamer like water rushing down a river with no dam in sight. The future is theirs for the taking, and that…
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Lifetime’s miniseries ‘Marilyn’ reveals the broken heart behind the bombshell
By Lori Acken Everybody knows “Marilyn Monroe” — she of the frothy halo of platinum hair, baby-doll voice and va-va-voom figure, splendidly showcased in her most memorable films. But few people know the real Marilyn Monroe, a.k.a. Norma Jeane Mortenson, a lonely foster child who used her kittenish charm, lush good looks — and, yes,…
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Community reacts to closing of McCarrick
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Emotions of sadness fell over the school community with the announcement that Cardinal McCarrick/St. Mary’s High School (CMHS) in South Amboy would be closing in June. “I’m so sad,” said DeAnne Fowler of Carteret, who attended the high school from 2001 to 2005. “Cardinal McCarrick was different from most high…
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Athletic club to host June 27 run, walk
The 38th annual Frog Hollow Swim and Tennis Club 5K Run and Health Walk will take place June 27 at the club, Ferris Street, off South Pine Avenue, South Amboy. In-person registration is set for 7:30 a.m. The Youth Fun Run will step off at 8:30 a.m. The 5K will begin at 9 a.m. The…
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Jumping through hoops
PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM PETERSON Logan Hooper of East Brunswick, the daughter of Arc of Middlesex’s walk co-chair, Kimberlee Hooper, enjoys the obstacle course at Roosevelt Park in Edison on May 16. More than 200 walkers helped raise more than $15,000 to support the organization for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
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Raritan Poets meet monthly at library
The Raritan Poets, a reading group and workshop active since 1994, will meet the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the East Brunswick Library, 1 Civic Center Drive. All ages are welcome. Bring 10 copies of the reading sample.
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