Start the holiday with something to be thankful for from the Wine Cellar.
Wine Cellar wants you to try their great selections. With a table full of food, glasses need to be filled and to get the holidays started, the Montclair Wine Cellar is a convenient boutique wine shop that can accommodate your festivities. The Wine Cellar is a small shop that sells wines from a wide variety […]
A great start to the week with a fine fix from the Fine Grind. It will definitely have you coming back for more and more.
Fine Grind will have you craving more. If you take your coffee seriously, than the Fine Grind should be the first stop in your day. Keep calm and drink coffee: we should live by this motto every Monday. I decided to venture the outskirts of Montclair to the town of Little Falls, and settled in […]
With a name like "Nauna’s," you can expect Italian comfort food and the welcoming Italian feel of family.
Naunas Bella Casa is perfection. Naunas Bella Casa has been serving homemade Italian cuisine since 1986. The restaurant used to reside across the street from where it is now, but expanded in it’s current home from the ground up. Tom Moloughney bought the land and built the revamped Naunas, and they are now going on […]
Watchung Booksellers is a shop that brings books to people, but more importantly, people to books.
Watchung Booksellers offers the worm a nook for a book. Evidence suggesting the embrace of the Montclair community was evident during my talk with Watchung Booksellers owner Margot Sage-El. Encompassed by fiction and non-fiction reads, I was superseded by best sellers, suggested literature and the intelligence from a reliable source. “The guru,” one customer assured […]
Bad news for all the juniors out there currently slogging through the treachery of junior year: it doesn’t get any less stressful come senior year. In fact, it kind of gets a little bit worse.
Stressful Seniors are the new epidemic. Senior year is a lot more stressful than many members of the class of 2014 anticipated. While the year brings glorious events like graduation and senior prom, it also ushers in a whole mess of anxiety and stress thanks to the college application process. “College applications really [stink],” says […]
While I’ve been a freshman at New York University for nearly three months now, I haven’t forgotten what it took to get me here: the college application process. It feels like just yesterday that I was up in my kitchen, sitting at my counter, in front of my computer at 1:00 a.m., reworking and rewriting draft after draft of my Common Application essay and various supplements for multiple colleges.
College advice to ease the process. It was a long, tedious and excruciating process that I wouldn’t repeat even if someone paid me millions of dollars. However, it’s a necessity if you want to further your education, so sucking it up and pushing through is what you have to do. But to make undertaking such […]
Junior year is considered to be one of the worst years of high school. The work load is intense, the college pressure is just beginning to settle in and the feeling of, “Oh my god I’m in over my head but I still have one more year here” starts to make students panic.
Class of 2015 Juniors become worrisome. Many Montclair High School Juniors, Class of 2015 are currently struggling because they have given themselves extremely intense course loads. Come junior year, students load up on Advanced Placement and High Honors classes so that they’ll seem appealing to colleges down the road. However, in many cases, this piling […]
A kitchen-away-from-the-kitchen, because the kitchen is where the heart is.
Comfort Food Kitchen: The objective within the name. When you need a home-cooked meal or a family dinner night that when you don’t have time for the preparation of the meal, The Comfort Food Kitchen, should be the first and only option. Forget about take-out, “The Comfort Food Kitchen is all about slow-food,” states Suzanne […]
After a few months under bankruptcy protection, Barbarian Rugby Wear - now Barbarian Sports Wear - is happy to welcome a new owner to get them back in business.
Barbarian Brand is back and ready to be worn by the finest athletes. Barbarian Rugby Wear has emerged from under bankruptcy protection with a new leader and a new moniker. The Barbarian Brand will now be sold under the name “Barbarian Sports Wear.” The brand has been based in Canada for 32 years and produces […]
Fumé brings a familiar smell, with no dads in sight.
Fume shares the greatest variety of cigars. If you see a cloud of smoke emanate off Bloomfield Avenue, don’t hesitate to investigate. You will be pleased to find Fume. It is the cigar shop that is fully lounged and ready for you to relax. Fume is less of a shop and more of a tobacco […]