So it’s come to this: our trusted American existence compromised by our oil dependency. As gas prices fluctuate between $4.00 and $5.00 per gallon, we are forced to seek near-Marxist alternatives to our God-given automotive right, many of us choosing a primitivism we haven’t experienced since childhood.

New Brunswick is evolving along a familiar path. Contained within its meager borders are convenience stores and tire fires, grade schools and stoned bus drivers. The rumor mill is abuzz with talk of a nuclear power plant being constructed on Route 18. Our little city resembles the Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield [...]

On Sunday, May 4, the Hellrazors took another hard-fought victory, this time over the Western Mass Destruction (WMD) of Massachusetts. Locked in a grueling battle, the Hellrazors and WMD traded blows in 23 jams over the 40-minute match. A Bomb again dominated from the jammer position taking lead jammer in 7 of her [...]

I’d been trailing him for months by way of Oslo, Sri Lanka, Cairo, Edison. As each clue turned up another dead end, my mind obsessed over the question, “Where is Guy?”
I received word that Guy (that’s ghee, like the Indian clarified butter) had left 4 associates behind in New Jersey of all places. [...]

The Hellrazors delivered a crushing 83-58 defeat to Virginia’s Roller Girls on Sunday. From rinkside, we witnessed first-hand the damage wrought by the Hellrazors as they dominated the Roller Girls from the initial whistle. River City suffered several disadvantages while their jammers, the skaters who score points, were in the penalty box on [...]

The cracking of bone like distant gunfire, the penny-flavored blood that warms the tongue, the all-too-familiar reek of blackened leather, these can mean only one thing: a new season of roller derby is upon us. In this latest incarnation of the predominantly female sport, New Jersey is represented in the rink by a coven [...]

The whole city of New Brunswick is slowly adopting the habits and traits of New Orleans, coming into its own as a party city. There are several venues throughout the New Brunswick landscape that boast a festive Mardi Gras schedule around February, the most surprising of which is the State Theatre on Livingston Ave. [...]

Highlights include live original music, $2.50 cans of PBR, and arguably the best juke box in the state.
If there is a particular character to Old New Brunswick (pre-yuppification), it is alive and well and incredibly persistent at the Court Tavern. Standing in the shadow of the newly-built One Spring Street skyscraper, the Court Tavern looks [...]