Entertainment

South Orange will have the blues big-time on Sunday, September 12. The town is turning Cameron Park and parts of its downtown over to an all-day music event, the first-ever South Orange International Blues Festival. There will be big-name performances at several venues across town, including Colin John, the Reddan Brothers, the One and...
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They’ve been practicing in the heat, they’ve been practicing in the rain. Now, they finally get to strut their stuff–literally. The Verona Marching Maroon and White will give a free preview of its fall show, “Tchaikovsky Resurrected”, tomorrow night (Thursday, August 26) at 8:30 p.m. on Centennial Field. That’s the turf field with the...
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Nightstand Creations, a Verona-based creator of animated children’s programs, has received two Emmy nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Mid-Atlantic Chapter. Nightstand’s “December Miracles” was nominated in the category of Outstanding Entertainment Program Feature/Segment. The program, which has aired on public television in New Jersey, is the story of a...
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The Verona-based Pushcart Players, a non-profit theater company, has received a grant of $30,263 from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. A total of $15,560,823 in state and federal funding was awarded on Tuesday to nearly 800 arts organizations, programs, projects and artists across the state, including $259,954 for the Montclair Art...
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You can listen to Matt Ryan and Dean Nevolis’ band, The Defending Champions, on its MySpace page. You can download its mix of rock, ska, reggae and soul from iTunes, CDBaby, Indie Rhythm and a whole bunch of other music sites. If you’re 21 or over, you can hear The Defending Champions play live...
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If you were one of the many people who lined up at Beth Freeman’s Trend Coffee Bar & Boutique in June to see Teresa Giudice, one of the stars of Bravo TV’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey“, you might want to know about this: Giudice is bankrupt and will be holding an auction at...
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The only one of the Essex County summer parks concerts that will be held in Verona will happen on Friday night, August 13, at 7:30 p.m., at Kip’s Castle. The featured group is the Garden State Concert Band, which will perform a variety of hits from the Big Band era, including songs by Glenn...
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Chris Place has been punched, kicked, lit on fire and hit by a car nine times. He’s fallen from high places, dodged a cannon blast and been grazed by musket fire. He was a thug for Tony Soprano and Jack Bauer has put a gun to his head. You’ve probably guessed by now that...
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Sonny’s on the Avenue has been having music on the patio most Thursday nights this summer. This Thursday, August 12, the entertainment will be Verona’s own Joey Arminio Trio. The music starts at 7:30 p.m. So grab a bottle of wine from home and head on down. You can make a reservations to get ...
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Everybody in the Verona High School class of 1993 knew James Wojtal Jr. would one day work for Muppet-maker Jim Henson. It was an easy guess about someone who’d been making puppets since kindergarten. Wojtal does make puppeteering seem easy as he glides Tank, a lovable but dim-witted orange fish through ImaginOcean, a kids...
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