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Sep 25, 2012 12:00AM
For more than 40 years, Tony Amato has viewed the New Jersey music scene as a family, a brotherhood forged in Asbury Park and its iconic club The Stone Pony.
And like every family, there are painful losses along the way. Last month, Jersey said goodbye to one of its musical giants when Bruce Springsteen's longtime sax player Clarence Clemons, known as 'The Big Man,' died of a heart attack.
Amato...
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Sep 25, 2012 12:00AM
You might have heard of him. Some guy named Jim.It turns out the Canadian comedy giant has a new movie coming out June 17, 'Mr. Popper's Penguins,' and had a spare prop to send to his sister: One of the life-sized, stand-in penguins used in the film."He said he actually had to talk to the people who own the rights to the movie, because they didn't want to get rid of it," says Carrey, the GIANT FM ...
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Sep 25, 2012 12:00AM
Just Around the Corner is the award-winning film about music manager Bob Benjamin, whose battle against Parkinson's Disease inspired him to start the Light of Day Foundation in 2000. For his 40th birthday party, Benjamin asked friends and family to make a donation for Parkinson's research in lieu of a gift. He raised $2,000 that night, and presented the first Light of Day concert two years later i...
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Sep 25, 2012 12:00AM
New York roots rocker Joe D'Urso has played Light of Day shows across the world, but his heart is growing mighty fond of Niagara Falls.Now in its third year, the local fundraiser for Parkinson's Disease has gained a reputation as a rollicking, finely tuned show as good -or better - than some of the New Jersey shows where Light of Day originated, a decade ago."I had no idea of the community up ther...
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