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Highland Park athletes will tell you that there’s something contagious about playing sports at the school. It’s a sense of familiarity that stays with you long after graduation and can be a factor in luring you back home. This is the case for 2002 graduate Tim Stark HPHS '02, who has returned to the Stockman Gym as assistant coach of girls basketball.

“To me, it’s familiar because this team is in the same spot I was in during my time here,” Stark said. “They’re competing for the lead in the Blue Division and preparing for a deep state tournament run. I’ve had the chance to learn a lot from [head coach] Erin Washington and the kids. In the end, I make decisions but they do all the work on the court.”

Princeton Ballet School, the educational arm of American Repertory Ballet, has found a permanent home on the fourth floor of Crossroads Theatre, a home that is perfect for an institution with deep roots in the city. The school has two other studios, in the Princeton Shopping Center and in Cranbury, but its New Brunswick location has changed several times recently. It was located at 80 Albany Street for almost eighteen years, and then moved briefly to New Brunswick High School before settling at Crossroads, in the heart of New Brunswick's theatre district.

Alfa Art Gallery kicked off its second year anniversary on January 29 with “The Caged Bird Sings,” a jam session featuring six musicians in a cage – for 24 hours with only meal and bathroom breaks.

Dancers added a visual aspect to the music at the opening, and juxtaposed it to the works of the rest of the artists, which they used as props in their routines.

The unifying idea was Albert Einstein's claim that "everything in life is a vibration," as interpreted by local experimental musician Michael Durek.

Playwright Daniel Beaty is a soft-spoken, polite and gentle man, but his passion for people is fierce.  Daniel believes passionately in the power and grace of mothers . . . . that children should have fathers . . . . that people should treat themselves and each other with dignity and respect.

One surprise for the Owls this season on the hardwood has come so far from senior small forward Lashaun Parkey. He's "our sixth man off the bench . . . (Parkey) changes the tempo of the game and the attitude of the team when he is in there," says Nobles.

Frank Husslein, a 6-6 senior center, transferred from East Brunswick last season and "didn't play at all last year . . . he is trying to be more balanced," said the coach. "He has a lot to learn and he needs to be more aggressive." Husslein leads the squad in rebounds for the season through Jan. 31.

Central Jersey is in the house—or should I say —on Facebook, with more than 500 search results for groups related to “Central Jersey.” Almost 20 of those groups, ranging in membership from two to 532 members, are about Central Jersey generally. The New Brunswick fan page has over 2150 fans.

 

If you’re on Facebook—and there’s a good chance you are—you’re among 350 million plus people worldwide who are storing much of their personal information on the Internet… indefinitely.

 

What’s in a name? What if you had a hand in renaming yourself? These are some of the questions playwright Will Powers asks in his new play, "Fetch Clay Make Man" at McCarter Theatre Center playing through February 14th. This fast-paced theater piece follows the relationship between 23 year-old Muhammad Ali (renamed from Cassius Clay) and a 63-year old Stepin Fetchit (actor Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), a man with many identities and names.

It's easy to enjoy the new freedom of college. But freedom can have its consequences. And with the added stress of new responsibilities and peer pressure, it makes it all that much easier to fall victim to poor lifestyle habits.

Whether it's 5 pounds or 15, weight gain is a common college phenomenon. However, even a few pounds can have a negative effect, with a loss in muscle mass due to decreased physical activity-and added weight is just the tip of the health iceberg; it's a pattern that threatens to spiral downward.

When Sandy and Michael Gildenberg of Highland Park, take their seven year old twins out to dinner each Friday night they always end up at Aposto, a small Italian bistro at 76 Raritan Avenue.

“My kids love the pizza and won’t eat it any place else,” Sandy said. “”My husband and I like the fresh food, the friendliness, and the full menu. the kids will even eat salad here.”