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...signed a record deal with Columbia Records, releasing his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. with a group of New Jersey-based musicians and friends who would later become The E-Street Band (named after a street in Belmar, New Jersey). The album, while critically acclaimed, sold only 25,000 copies in its first year; his second album The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle gained more traction and sold more than 150,000 copies by 1974. Springsteen's breakout didn't occur until his ambitious third album, 1975's Born to Run. (See pictures of Bruce...
...just colleges that have hit back at beer pongers. Belmar, N.J., outlawed outdoor beer pong in 2005 after the city council passed an ordinance declaring that it exposed neighbors to "foul language, rowdy and disorderly behavior." Two other Jersey Shore towns have followed suit. In Pennsylvania and Virginia, state officials have told bars to pack up their pong tables...
Could this mark the beginning of the end of beer pong? The game does have plenty more critics outside the walls of academia. The town of Belmar, N.J., for example, outlawed outdoor beer pong in 2005 after the city council passed an ordinance declaring that it exposed unconsenting neighbors to "foul language, rowdy and disorderly behavior and to examples of the consumption of alcohol under circumstances that are detrimental." Two other Jersey shore towns Manasquan and Sea Girt have followed suit, and state officials in Pennsylvania and Virginia have made bars put away their pong tables...
...plans for another movie? -Conor Egan, Belmar, N.J.I've got a film called Righteous Kill. It's myself, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Donnie Wahlberg, John Leguizamo. [Laughs]. If you ask me, I'm the next Denzel Washington...
Over the past two years, however, there has been a surprising streak of compliance. A national smoking law that had been predicted to be roundly ignored is instead almost universally obeyed. To better understand this twist, I track down an American writer friend, Sima Belmar, who moved to Naples two years ago and married a native, Antonio Capezzuto. He owns a small wine bar, and he has an explanation for the good behavior. "You respect the person who is running a business," he says, "not because it's the law." As we walk past colorful markets of produce and fresh...