BY Debbie Galant | Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012 2:57pm | COMMENTS (9)
UPDATE: Thanks, we have our winners!
Haunting, dreamlike and winner of the 2011 Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography, Akram Khan Company’s Vertical Road will be presented at MSU’s Kasser Theater Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Peak Performances has five pairs of tickets to give away to Baristanet readers for tomorrow night’s performance (Wed. Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m.) Just be one of the first five to tell us in the comments. Continue Reading
BY Debbie Galant | Monday, Feb 06, 2012 8:52am | COMMENTS (3)
Photo by Geoff Gove.
UPDATE: It appears that Gov. Christie has pulled off a NJ rally for the Giants at their stadium after all/. It’s set to start at 3 p.m.
The Giants will be feted with a ticker tape parade in downtown Manhattan Tuesday morning. The parade will begin at Battery Place and Washington Street at 11 a.m. and continue northbound up the Canyon of Heroes to Worth Street. The parade will be followed by a ceremony at City Hall Plaza, where Mayor Bloomberg will present the Giants with keys to the city. More details here.
And will there be an event for the Jersey Giants fans at the stadium itself? Governor Christie, who got to hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy last night, apparently is working on it. Continue Reading
BY Christina Gillham | Friday, Feb 03, 2012 10:30am | COMMENTS (0)
As a pre-Superbowl “pep rally,” Mountainside Hospital’s School of Nursing will be holding a free sports health seminar tomorrow for those who have put their “health on the sidelines.”
The event, which takes place from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., will be in the form of a tailgate party, with a BBQ of healthy food options (guests are encouraged to bring folding lawn chairs). There will also be informative sessions on strengthening your core, heart health, concussions, prostate cancer prevention and treatment, when to go to the ER for a sports injury, and a robotic surgery demonstration with the DaVinci Robot.
CBS Correspondent Jim Axelrod, a Montclair resident and the author of “In the Long Run,” will be making a guest appearance to discuss his recent coverage of the primary elections as well as share a humorous account of his experience in Mountainside’s ER.
The event will include screenings for Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist Circumference, Baseline Concussion Exams & Prostate (PSA). To read more about the event and to RSVP, click here.
BY Georgette Gillmore | Thursday, Feb 02, 2012 3:30pm | COMMENTS (3)
This has been a strange winter. It’s been warm, practically snow-free and it’s going so fast. It’s already February! Usually winter makes me want to hibernate, but with temps this warm, I’m going out much more often. Here are some ways you can get out this weekend.
The world premiere of Reparation by Gino Dilorio at Luna Stage happens next weekend on February 9, but you can get a sneak peak of the play about an “investment banker who has made a career by playing the race card finding himself out of options and out of friends” tonight, February 2, at the West Orange Public Library. Tony nominated actor Frankie Faison will perform a scene from Reparation followed by a discussion, led by Luna’s artistic director Jane Mandel, with the playwright Gino Dilorio. It’s all part of WOPL’s Black History Month of sceduled events.
Scene from “Reparation” and Discussion
Thursday, February 2 at 7 pm
West Orange Public Library, 46 mount Pleasant Avenue, West Orange, NJ
Free. Advance registration is required. Sign up online or by calling 973.736.0198
BY Carolyn Maynard-Parisi | Thursday, Feb 02, 2012 3:00pm | COMMENTS (2)
The hunt will continue at Eagle Rock and Hilltop on Tuesdays and Thursdays through Feb. 23. The culling recently concluded at South Mountain Reservation.
The reservations and all parking areas and roads inside will be closed to the public on the days the program is held.
For more information, click here.
BY Carolyn Maynard-Parisi | Thursday, Feb 02, 2012 10:00am | COMMENTS (10)
Update: Ed did not see his shadow. About half of our poll-takers called it.
It seems almost churlish to ask Essex Ed to look for his shadow today. Even if he does predict six more weeks of winter, as Punxsutawney Phil did this morning in Pennsylvania, it has already felt spring-like anyway — so what’s the difference?
Ed will be playing meteorologist at the Turtle Back Zoo at noon today. This morning’s heavy cloud cover would seem to make it challenging to locate one’s shadow, but Groundhog Day 2011 was also very overcast and the little critter still seemed to spot it.
Essex Ed’s predictions have been correct for seven of the past eight years, county officials said last year. Since the period from December through March is typically the year’s coldest quarter, predicting a longer winter at the start of February is typically a good bet.
What do you think, Baristaville? Take our poll.
BY Carolyn Maynard-Parisi | Thursday, Feb 02, 2012 8:59am | COMMENTS (0)
The 66th Annual Glen Ridge Antique Show & Sale — the oldest antique show in Essex County and the oldest church-sponsored show in New Jersey — returns to the Glen Ridge Congregational Church this weekend. The show runs on Friday, Feb. 3 from 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
28 dealers from 4 states will bring country and formal furniture and accessories, as well as botanical prints, silver, pottery, jewelry, fine porcelain, vintage tiles, Victoriana and more. Verbal appraisals on portable items are available by John Robert Clark on Friday and Saturday from 1 – 4 p.m. in the Main Room, at a cost of $4 per item. Admission — which is good for both days — is $7; $5 for seniors. Continue Reading
BY Carolyn Maynard-Parisi, Debbie Galant | Wednesday, Feb 01, 2012 3:47pm | COMMENTS (2)
In 1889, Thomas Edison sent his chief sound engineer, Theo Wangemann, to Europe to introduce the invention of sound recording to the continent.
Wangemann — who the Parks Department has dubbed “the world’s first professional recording engineer” – returned with voice recordings of historical figures such as Otto von Bismarck as well as eminent musicans of the day. Those recordings, made on 12 wax cylinders, were recently released to the public by the National Parks Service. They can be heard here.
“When I read of this wonderful discovery I ran back to my own attic archives and dug out a yellowed issue of Scientific America I had researched when writing Edison: Inventing the Century,” said Edison biographer and Glen Ridge resident Neil Baldwin.
Baldwin found an editorial written in 1877, twelve years before the recordings were even made, titled: “A Wonderful Invention! Speech Capable of Indefinite Repetition from Automatic Records! The editorial posed the questions, “Perhaps we will no longer have to journey to the opera house to hear the great divas of our day? Perhaps letter writing will become obsolete?”
“Edison was ahead of his time — even when he was already ahead of his time,” said Baldwin.
The recordings were made during 1889-1890 in Germany, Austria, Prussia, and France. Museum curators found the cylinders (a total of 17, only 12 of which could be salvaged) in a damaged wooden box in 1957 in the Edison Laboratory. It wasn’t until 2011 that the museum was able to complete digitizing the cylinders and identify the voices and sounds.
This Saturday at noon, historian Patrick Feaster will present a one-hour program about the recordings, titled “Theo Wangemann: The Man Who Made the Phonograph Musical” at Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange. Visitors will also be able to see the phonograph Wangemann used to make the recordings. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 973-736-0550, ext. 89.
BY Liz George | Saturday, Jan 28, 2012 8:04am | COMMENTS (3)
Montclair has its own red carpet Oscars party and there’s no chance of being ambushed by Joan Rivers. Join Montclair Film Festival for the 2nd Annual Pre-Oscar Party on Saturday, February 25th at the Loft in Montclair. You’ll get to toast the year in film with delicious food, drink, raffles, and a Guess the Winning Oscars Contest! Dress code: Funky, casual attire.
Tickets to this event sold out very quickly last year, so purchase your tickets now. Speaking of Oscars, who do you like for Best Picture?
BY Christina Gillham | Friday, Jan 27, 2012 3:15pm | COMMENTS (3)
Health advocates have long pressed the argument that eating right can go a long way in warding off disease and illness. A new film, “Forks Over Knives,” examines this claim by following the work of two pioneers in the field, as well as several patients who see their lives transformed after they change their eating habits.
d*Fit, the new Montclair fitness studio, will be showing a screening of “Forks Over Knives” on Friday, Feb. 3. Tickets cost $25, which also includes a pre-movie tasting of vegan and raw foods and juices, and a post movie Q&A about the plant-based (vegan) lifestyle.
The Q&A panelists are Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, and author of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition” and Montclair’s own vegan dietician, Dina Aronson.
Tasting purveyors will include Four Seasons Kebab House, The Bread Co. Montclair and Rebecca Johns of RebeccaWholeHealth. Doors will open at 6:30pm at d*Fit. Tickets can be purchased online.
See a trailer for “Forks Over Knives” here:
