Uncle Ebenezer News Today

Start by finding the Fred Scrooge in your personal Christmas Carol. Were already full upon Ebenezers. 

From the column: "All these years later, my siblings and I, with one glance at the photo, know exactly what was going on."

AEW: Full Gear in Newark, tributes to the Grateful Dead and Phish, and a holiday fair in LBI are among the things to do this weekend.

The Calcutta Cup headlines the opening weekend of the 2022 Six Nations. Thus, it is time to dust off our familiar tropes about the Scots. Stuart Hogg captains a well-settled side for a Lowlands coach who has finally accepted the wee madness of a brick-mason-turned-flyhalf, the Mighty Finn Russell, and they bring seven Lions to […]

The Calcutta Cup headlines the opening weekend of the 2022 Six Nations. Thus, it is time to dust off our familiar tropes about the Scots. Stuart Hogg captains a well-settled side for a Lowlands coach who has finally accepted the wee madness of a brick-mason-turned-flyhalf, the Mighty Finn Russell, and they bring seven Lions to […]

The Sherman Winter Jam returns to The Sherman Theater for the 16th year on Friday, Feb. 18. Enjoy a night of jam music with Mike Frank and Friends…

Kirsty from the "Friend" Production team reviews Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure story, "Kidnapped".

YOU know you’ve witnessed something magical when an entire audience to a play stands up and cheers. Tonight’s Garter Lane audience had experienced something…

View Comments After an extended set break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, live music is returning in a big way to stages across New Jersey this summer. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that as rusty strings are being dusted off, the sound at the forefront of live music’s resurrection is that of the Grateful Dead. “The people who come to see the Grateful Dead music, it’s beyond music, it’s community,” said Dana Carroll, bassist of the Dead tribute act Brown Eyed Women. “I thin...

The Social Order Scrooge will still send the goose around to the Cratchits, but the boy who delivers it will be wearing a mask. I imagine the nephew has called off his party, so that Uncle Ebenezer will not perform his usual Dickensian frolic (the geezer’s dance of grace and redemption). Instead, he will make the best of a bad time, sitting alone in the cold house and waving at his relatives through the Zoom lens. Christmas is not its old self. None of us is. The holiday is fraught and compro...