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“I love wine. There is an expression in the collecting world, which is ‘don’t become a victim of your own greed.’ And that’s what I’ve become… I want every record out there.”
“We just keep exploring. I guess if you stop, then you’re done. Art is like, you just keep searching. So we have fun with it.”
“We want to help people on the journey to self-sufficiency. The nature of that is we’re putting ourselves out of business. We want a world full of people who know how to make bread.”
Guster comes to Jersey on April 6; Drummer Brian Rosenworcel on the band’s 30-year run, Twitter, new music and more.
Kerri Schlottman will discuss her debut novel, Tell Me One Thing, at Watchung Books in Montclair on March 30.
The Jersey jamgrass band returns home March 17 with a show at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City
“It’s really nice for people with disabilities to have a place where they’re celebrated for who they are instead of trying to fix them or make them fit into society in a way that they’re not.”
“Let me tell you something, it’s not a lie when people talk about how the media can almost hypnotize you into thinking a certain way. The more dark and edgy content you watch, it starts to impact your own life, not just your interests.”
Point Pleasant native Shannon Hawley on using joy to sing about tragedy, and recording her powerful new album, Starthrowers.
Can we be so blinded by profit that we’d risk loss of life—in communities already unduly burdened by environmental issues? (History says… a-YUP!) How can we continue to elect limpdick politicians who can’t stand up to industry in the face of obvious infringements on our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
“I was going through sounds, and in the control room I could see them besides themselves, so I knew it was going to be a very good day.”
“The moment they taste, they’re like, ‘I’ve never had this before.’ … And then they start and it’s one after the next one, after the next one, and they can’t even believe