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Jim Messina helped launch Kenny Loggins. Now he’s playing in Wayne
When Kenny Loggins arrived at Jim Messina’s home, he had shaggy hair, a scruffy beard and braces on his teeth. He had come to play music and hadn’t even brought a guitar. Messina, already a veteran of Buffalo Springfield and Poco , thought someone was playing a joke on him. “I’m wondering, am I being put on here? I wasn’t sure what was going on,” he said in a recent phone interview. He lent the visitor a guitar and recorded his songs. Loggins later told Messina that he did own a guitar that night. But he was embarrassed to bring the old thing along. Still, Loggins had an impressive voice. There was more here to work with than that first impression suggested, Messina thought. He decided to help Loggins assemble a band. He helped arrange the music. He would prepare the young songwriter for a career and produce his first album. Then he’d get back to producing other people. Instead, he became half of Loggins and Messina. It was an unexpected turn in a musical life that had already put him in the studio with Neil Young and Stephen Stills and on stage with Poco. The man who co-wrote “Your
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Jersey Families Have Gathered Around The Brick Ovens At Kinchley’s Tavern In Ramsey For Generations
Some kids in Ramsey learn to ride a bike, tie their shoes, and order a thin-crust pie, roughly in that order. One longtime fan first came to this tavern at about age eight and is now close to seventy, and the pizza has stayed loyal the whole time. The place...
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Rockland County Shelter Dog Cookie Has Waited Over Four Years for a Forever Home in Pomona, NY
POMONA, NY — A lovable shelter dog named Cookie has spent more than four years waiting for someone to give her a forever home at a Rockland County animal shelter in Pomona, New York. For Cookie, that means spending nearly half her life in a shelter, hoping that one...
The Montclair Pod
A Familiar Face Returns Downtown and Montclair Bagels Land in Austria: Montclair Stories You Might Have Missed
Montclair Center’s business district rehired Jason Gleason as executive director. School board members are asking whether schools need to close on Election Day, and the Finance Committee holds a public meeting on taxes and the revaluation Nov. 12. Plus, Brookdale Park’s rose garden gets a $471,500 makeover, and a Graz student who studied at Montclair State opened Montclair Bagels in Austria.
New Jersey Monthly
Joshua Henry Can Fill a Broadway Theater But Cherishes the Intimacy of His Montclair Barbershop
Before his powerhouse phrasing of a Ragtime verse was going viral; before he was belting Whitney Houston at the Met Gala; before learning, roughly 15 hours later, that he’d earned his fourth Tony nomination (culminating, weeks later, in his first win); before Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda was singing his praises for the TIME100 Next list; before Montclair Film began making a documentary about this whirlwind year of his life, Joshua Henry was a music-mad kid in Miami who fell asleep each night to hymns or R&B on his family’s cassettes, who salvaged his dad’s dusty guitar from the garage, and who assembled a slew of cover bands with his older brother.
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Philly Pretzel Factory reopens Clifton location after monthslong closure
A Philly Pretzel Factory location in Clifton reopened Tuesday after being closed since June. The store underwent cosmetic updates during the closure in preparation for the reopening, a company spokesperson said. Located at 859 Clifton Ave., the store is now operated by the owners of a Philly Pretzel Factory location in Allendale.