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"How would you like to have a job where you can wear your pajamas all day?" Award winning author Wendy Mass addressed a crowd of more than fifty at the Highland Park Public Library on a recent Thursday evening.

Rutgers’ Indian Graduate Students Association celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors at New Brunswick’s Free Public Library.

Library staffer Kavita Pandey partnered with RIGSA for the second year to organize the afternoon's festivities.

On a windy Friday night Barry Cohen found time to sit down at Barry’s, his eclectic New Brunswick shop and chat about the life of a tobacconist.

Raised in Manalapan, and graduated from William Paterson University, Cohen was looking to change his “Career lifestyle into a Lifestyle career” and start a business in a community in his home state.

When you grow up within 15 miles of the training grounds of both Aston Villa and Birmingham City in the industrial midlands of England, you’re bound to develop a deep interest in soccer. That was the case for Highland Park resident and youth soccer coach Mark Draper.

“My uncle got me really into soccer during what we call infant school,” said the 49-year-old Draper, who proudly roots for Aston Villa. “At the time, I supported Birmingham City and my uncle was a Villa supporter and wanted to change that. So he took me to games and changed my alliance.”

The 90 minute talk was sponsored by the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series and the Livingston Campus Student Center. Lee electrified the large audience, making it seem like an intimate conversation with details from his own student days, career and childhood.

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But membership has grown steadily, and on December 5, 2010 she opened her own renovated storefront, across the street at 208 Raritan Avenue.

The evening begins in a Victorian parlor, with a dazzling Christmas tree and lots of presents. It's probably snowing outside as Clara and her brother Fritz receive a carved nutcracker from their grandfather.

Facing financial difficulties, high rents, and factionalism, many fear the demise of New York's radio station WBAI -- the only all-listener–sponsored station in the metropolitan area.