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Defending Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) champion Sky Blue FC has continued to put forth solid soccer in Piscataway during the 2010 summer campaign. Recently-promoted head coach Rick Stainton believes his team’s late-season adjustments have led to a more exciting brand of soccer.

This may be a bit too removed from objectivity and a lack of vested interest for a review, so fortunately it’s not a review. It is a profile of an artist who happens to be one of the first people I ever met. Agop Gemdjian's solo exhibition at Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick opened last week and runs through the month of June.

This is after all an article, so let me start with an objective quote from an early review. It's by Roumen Serafimov, art critic for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Varna, Bulgaria. Writing in 1990, he said that Gemdjian is “an artist who has ever demonstrated his bent for vanguard and figurative thinking, and non-traditional plastic creation."

Three-dimensional printing with plastic, robotic mice and bartenders, “lasers” cutting Lucite, and voiding the warranty by taking apart printers! “There’s a lot of mad science going on here,” says Fair Use Building and Research (FUBAR) Labs president Phil Gillhaus. Last Saturday, curious ‘Parkers had the opportunity to peek inside this weird science laboratory at the FUBAR Labs open house.