Category Archives: Television

Adrienne Barbeau, pictured with hubby Billy Van Zandt and her books. The famed "scream queen" turned horror author will appear at a local signing on Thursday. By TOM CHESEK As the archetypal fox of the drive-in and the video store,...

John Astin, haunted by his famously macabre characterizations Gomez Addams and Edgar Allan Poe. The actor visits the area this week for a pair of special appearances. (Recent photo by David Colwell) By TOM CHESEK Who wouldn't want to be...

Jimmy Vivino appears in Red Bank Thursday night. By TOM CHESEK Guitarslinger extraordinaire Jimmy Vivino can appear to be everywhere at once. You know him from his standing... er, sitting... gig with The Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with...

Bob Sickles Bob Sickles and some of his employees from Sickles Farm Market found themselves on a television sound stage in the Chelsea section of Manhattan a couple of months back when who should walk in but Martha Stewart. Before...

Judas Priest! It's that guy from Idol as Iscariot, with the singer from Almost Queen as Jesus (we kid you not)! By TOM CHESEK House is in reruns; the Basie's about to go dark til autumn; you've got no gas...

Colin Mochrie, left, and Brad Sherwood accessorized in mousetraps. By TOM CHESEK There's Standing, Sitting, Bending. Scenes from a Hat, always a favorite. There's Helping Hands — although you'll need at least three participants for that one — and, of...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI Most days, JoAnn Pileggi's life is like any suburban mom’s as she runs after her 22-month-old twins, Faith and Francis, and five-year-old, Julian. But on Mondays and Fridays, she's chasing down fires, accidents, murders and natural...

Joe Piscopo at Retromedia Sound Studios with Joe Muccioli, left. We spotted Joe Piscopo trolling the rainy streets of downtown Red Bank earlier this week. Hunched over the wheel of an enormous black vehicle with a license plate that proclaims...

James Gleason By LINDA G. RASTELLI A former computer teacher at the High Technology High School in Lincroft has won a $25,000 Milken National Educator award from the Milken Family Foundation, established by former junk bond trader Michael Milken and...

Showdown at 9a sharp Tuesday, right here. Incumbent 12th-district Assemblyman Mike Panter and his running mate, Amy Mallet, may have been aiming primarily at one of their Republican opponents last week with their suggestion of cronyism in the Fair Haven...

Musician, sports commentator, restaurateur and marathon man Tim McLoone is featured in today's New York Times, which calls him "the voice of New Jersey." Now, before any Sinatra, Springsteen and Jon Bovi fans blow an artery, it's not meant to...

Everyone who attended the taping two weeks ago of the debut episode of Power of 10, a new TV game show, was sworn to secrecy about the outcome. Which meant that, true to her word, Sue Massie hadn't told anyone...

The Associated Press, via the Asbury Park Press, reports that graphic pornography was aired on cable television in Middletown Tuesday morning instead of a children's cartoon called "Handy Manny." A spokesman for Comcast confirmed that the smut appeared on the...

Look, you've been through this before. So you should know by now whether you've got the patience to set up the new computer, digital camera or i-Pod that you'll be giving or receiving as a gift this month. For those...

Tom Labetti is a big fan of Verizon’s new FiOS service. Couldn’t be a stronger advocate for the technology. Thinks it’s so good, in fact, that it’s going to all but annihilate the competition for both high-speed Internet access and...