Locals, we meet again. I hope you are all enjoying this warm weather and getting excited for summer! There are a few shows in our backyard that I cannot wait for, including Toothgrinder with Whitechapel at Asbury Lanes in mid-May and two nights of The Gaslight Anthem at The…

Shell Shocked: My Life With The Turtles, Flo & Eddie And Frank Zappa, Etc. (Backbeat Books)—by Howard Kaylan with Jeff Tamarkin—starts with Kaylan at the White House (The Turtles were Tricia Nixon’s favorite band) snorting coke on Abraham Lincoln’s desk.

This 262-page rock star memoir gets good after only…

Scary Movie 5

Dimension Films

Rated PG-13 for profanity, sexuality, gore, drug use, nudity, ethnic slurs, cartoon violence and crude humor.

A Host Of Celebrity Cameos Can’t Save Insulting Horror Spoof

What do Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Mike Tyson, Katt Williams and Snoop Dogg have in common? They’re…

All The President’s Men Revisited

Sunday, 9 p.m. (Discovery)

You couldn’t ask for a better reevaluation of the Watergate scandal than All The President’s Men Revisited. Robert Redford narrates the story of President Richard Nixon’s downfall, drawing on interviews with the journalists who broke the story (Bob Woodward, Carl…

Getting hyped about North Korea saber rattling in spring is tantamount to being floored about the flowers budding in the backyard. It is a rite of the season. Many of the nation’s goofy ritualistic observances happen around now. It is a military history. It is a military economy. No one…

I came of age amid the opening cusp of the time of the standardized test. During elementary school, the California Achievement Test came around every year to classify the dumbs from the smarts, and offer parents tangible quantification of their child’s intellectual worth.

I loved the tests. I was great…

Oh hi! Come right in. I’m guessing you saw the house on Zillow? Isn’t the future great? Well, this is it. What’s that? Yes, I know we only put two pictures of the exterior online, and that they were taken from down the street and out of focus, but that’s…

For the past few decades, patrons at one particular corner pub in Carteret have been seeing four colorful and oddly familiar figures hanging around by the back wall of the bar’s garage. They huddle together at the edge of the parking lot behind the tall blue plastic recycling barrels.…

Some professional sports teams—with the exception of the Miami Marlins and Houston Astros—have been “making it rain” like Adam “Pacman” Jones at a Vegas strip club. Money hasn’t been much of an issue when it comes to re-signing key players and making sure they don’t take their talents elsewhere.…

Locals, we meet again to chat about some of New Jersey’s hottest musicians. I know we are only apart for a week at a time, but lots of things can happen! I’ve been finding out about some new groups, some cover bands, new material, locals opening up for national…