Defying pandemic, theaters get creative to stage shows anyway

More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan's theater district but on that same famed thoroughfare, Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays recently read his lines from a stage. But there was no applause. 

Struggling Broadway costume shop owners work to save their industry

John Kristiansen and Brian Blythe run a costume shop that has been hard-hit by the Broadway shutdown but they are innovating to survive and also help their competitors.

Thanksgiving meal hacks
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The Scotto family shares hacks they use to get Thanksgiving dinner on the table quicker and easier.

How Ben & Jerry’s in NYC’s heaviest tourist areas is finding new lifelines

The Ben & Jerry’s of Times Square once saw lines of tourists waiting for a scoop of Half Baked or Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream. Now the popular eatery is fighting to find visitors and business after months of coronavirus restrictions, riots, and a shuttered local economy.

2 restaurants find early success launching during pandemic

During a pandemic might not seem like the best time to open a restaurant. Thousands of restaurants have had to close over the past several months. But in September, two new spots opened just minutes from each other in Fort Lee. They're hoping to make it through the pandemic and beyond.

Jagged Little Pill earns 15 Tony nods in pandemic-shortened season

Broadway's coronavirus-shortened season is getting an awards process that reflects this tumultuous year — incomplete, seemingly unfair and filled with loss.

Broadway moves online with theater closures

Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall.

The quantum internet | The Big Idea

The foundation for the nation's quantum internet infrastructure (and what could one day become an unhackable internet) is located on Long Island.

Concerns about masks and facial-recognition software

With facemasks now a part of our lives, tech companies are tackling the challenge of updating facial-recognition software to handle them.

NJ Now
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NJ Now for Aug. 16.

Mango recipes by Chef Adrienne Cheatham
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Chef Adrienne Cheatham has three simple dishes that prove the mango can be versatile: a mango sauce (that can also be used as a salad dressing), a grilled shrimp and mango salad, and finally a chilled mango soup.