We grew up in a neighborhood in South Philadelphia, bounded by Snyder Avenue to the north and the Philadelphia Navy Yard to the south and from Broad Street east to 7th Street.  It was an ethnically mixed neighborhood.  I lived in the 2400 block of Hutchinson Street, and he lived in the 2300 block.  As [...]

“Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
 
When Shakespeare wrote that line, he failed to mention women as well as those who pursue greatness with a single-minded purpose.  But we must forgive him, for not even The Bard could have seen Janet Evanovich coming.  A native New [...]

It is an honor for WriteOnNewJersey to have communicated with Mark Chernoff, Vice President of Sports Programming, CBS Radio and Operations Manager of WFAN, past and current home to some of sports talk radio’s most distinguished luminaries in the genre’s pantheon.   He has graciously answered questions about his career in the medium, including his background [...]

Trying to find a good film nowadays is akin to hunting for good music on the radio.  Like a hit-and-run driver, commercialism runs unchecked on the silver screen.  Brokered by gratuitous violence, characters ripped from the pages of comic books, and of course, sex, Hollywood promotes young, improbably gorgeous actors in an effort to make [...]

Had James Dean ventured into the realm of music instead of film, he might have been Bruce Springsteen.   And had he lived through that fatal car crash, the actor might have evolved into the man that the Jersey boy would become.
 
Charismatic and deeply committed to their art, both men catapulted into the public’s consciousness as [...]