Cell Phone Disruption
The sun got a bit bit festive over the holiday weekend and let loose some flares on Christmas day that are expected to hit earth tonight and tomorrow.
December 28, 2011 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Archive for ‘December, 2011’
College Admission Planning Workshop
January College Admission Planning Workshop at the Oakland Public Library
Oakland resident Teresa Kilday will offer a College Admission Planning Workshop for High School sophomores, juniors, and their parents on Thursday, January 19th from 7:00 to 8:00pm at the Oakland Public Library.
Ms. Kilday’s experience as a college admission representative, an admission consultant for Kaplan, Inc, [...]
December 28, 2011 | Posted in Announcements | Read More »
Happy New You Year
12 Things for a Better New You Year
Be More Curious
Wonder more about things. Whether it’s art, music, politics or science, be more curious. Ask a few additional “whys” and then go seek the answers.
Make a Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is usually associated with a holy place, but you can define your own. Maybe it’s your hometown where [...]
December 28, 2011 | Posted in OaklandNJ | Read More »
Final Hearings to sell El Paso
The County of Bergen is permanently proposing to sell land rights to El Paso for $700,000 for construction of a pipeline and metering station. Final hearings are on January 25 at the Law and Public Safety Building, 281 Campgaw Road, Mahwah, and at the Bergen County Administration Building, Feb. 9.
Click here for Bergen [...]
December 27, 2011 | Posted in Local Events | Read More »
The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
Eric Rasmussen. The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
A character in Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology observes that people thought him mad because his life goal was to memorize the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Shakespearean scholar makes a similar profession of lunacy regarding his decades’-long [...]
December 27, 2011 | Posted in Ted Odenwald | Read More »
Sacred Molecules
God is Born
The history of the cosmos
is the history of the struggle of becoming.
When the dim flux of unformed life
struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself,
and broke at last into light and dark
came into existence as light,
came into existence as cold shadow
then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.
Behold, God is born!
He is bright [...]
December 24, 2011 | Posted in OaklandNJ | Read More »
The Mechanics of Santa Claus
The holiday season brings with it many joys, and many questions.
A lot of the questions revolve around Santa Claus, and how can he be real. How can an old overweight man travel the earth delivering toys to children? How can his reindeer fly? How can he carry all those toys? How can he fit down [...]
December 22, 2011 | Posted in OaklandNJ | Read More »
Hall of Fame Inductee
“I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.”- Branch Rickey
While many readers [...]
December 17, 2011 | Posted in Local Events | Read More »
Is the Reason for the Season Shopping? I hope not.
Reading this article from last year, I am fascinated to see how much the world has not really changed. This year as in years past, Black Friday was moved even earlier, but now to 9pm on Thanksgiving. From a day that is supposed to be about thankfulness and happiness comes a day filled with selfishness [...]
December 16, 2011 | Posted in Ryan Robinson | Read More »
Sick Pay Out
The mayors of Franklin Lakes & Wyckoff recently joined NJ’s Governor during a speech in Teaneck where Christie was seeking to build momentum for an end to “sick day payouts”
December 15, 2011 | Posted in OaklandNJ | Read More »
Goes Around, Comes Around
“It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful, but it is more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which we morally can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest [...]
December Teen Book Reviews
Zombies vs. Unicorns
Edited by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black
Justine and Holly, the editors of this anthology, are engaged in a heated, friendly argument about which is cooler: zombies or unicorns? Justine is all about zombies; they are obviously much, much cooler. But Holly insists that beneath their glittery charm, unicorns are just as dangerous and [...]
December 8, 2011 | Posted in Teen Book Reviews | Read More »
Pearl Harbor
Remembering Pearl Harbor for the lives lost and the lessons that can be learned from America’s response.
December 7, 2011 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Ali Brustofski WINS the Z100 Jingle Ball “Hometown Hero”
Local student Ali Brustofski WINS the Z100 Jingle Ball “Hometown Hero”
It was announced last night on Z100 Jingle Ball and Ali will perform at All Access Lounge on Friday! Performing with music stars Lady Gaga, Demi Lovato, Kelly Clarkson, David Guetta and many more. Congratulations Ali!!!
Click here to read the Z100 article.
December 6, 2011 | Posted in Local Events | Read More »
Roger Ebert. Life Itself: A Memoir
Roger Ebert. Life Itself: A Memoir.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011.
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
Rituals are an important part of Roger Ebert’s life. He revisits people and events that have been formative for him. He revisits places through which his education and career have taken him: his hometown, Urbana, Illinois; the University of Illinois, Venice, [...]
December 3, 2011 | Posted in Ted Odenwald | Read More »
December Book Reviews
Books reviewed by Andrea Dochney of the Oakland Public Library.
The Worst Twelve Days of Christmas
By: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
In an amusing twist on the traditional holiday song, older sister Joy laments sharing the holiday with her new baby brother. Frustration and exasperation arise as Joy deals with shattered ornaments and ripped cards courtesy her younger sibling. Any [...]
December 1, 2011 | Posted in Children's Book Reviews | Read More »
Christmas Food for Thought and Song
Christmas Food for Thought and Song
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
No one can deny the holidays are steeped in age-old traditions (well, unless you are an ardent follower of Festivus!). What’s interesting is that many foods mentioned in Christmas songs are foreign to most Americans. But they sure do sound good.
The Nutcracker, written by Pyotr [...]
