In 2011, Victoria Crisitello took a part-time job at St.Theresa School, a Catholic school in Kenilworth, New Jersey —the same school she attended as a child. Three years later, the school’s principal approached Crisitello about a full-time job teaching art to elementary school students. If she were to take the …
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When Annie Blackman was 13, she met Taylor Swift. It was the fall of 2011, and like countless middle schoolers, she’d been listening all year to Speak Now, marveling at perfectly phrased darts like “Dear John” and “Mean.” “I started the whole music journey as a big Taylor Swift girl,” …
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It’s a rite of passage for actors, especially of a certain age, to play an addict. Drugs, alcohol, pills, anything you might chug or snort or shoot in an unhealthy, pain-numbing fashion — the specific substance or substances they’re abusing will vary. But for stage and screen performers (especially screen …
Read More »New Jersey Lawmakers Finalize Recreational Marijuana Deal
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and top lawmakers in the state legislature have finalized a deal to legalize recreational marijuana, setting up a potential vote by the end of the month, NJ.com reports. Murphy, who was elected governor in 2017, campaigned on legalization and promised to enact it within his …
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