Jezebel: New Jersey

New Jersey Inches Closer to Marriage Equality

Anna North — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:30:00 EST

New Jersey's state Senate passed a bill legalizing gay marriage today. But don't worry, Gov. Chris Christie will protect the state's heterosexuals from the horrifying prospect of loving gay couples being allowed to legally wed. More »

Your Saturday Cry: A Teen Girl's Eye-Drenching Testimony for Marriage Equality

Jessica Coen — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:15:00 EST

After over six hours of testimony on Thursday, the New Jersey state Assembly approved legislation that would allow for same-sex marriage (don't worry, Governor Chris Christie has already promised to veto this nonsense). During the course of the day, 15-year-old Madison Galluccio testified before the Assembly, making an emotional case for her fathers' right to be married: More »

Woman Arrested For Fatal Dick Injection

Anna North — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:10:00 EST

A New Jersey woman has been charged with manslaughter after giving a man a fatal penis injection, demonstrating yet again that you should not let people inject silicone into your nether regions. More »

Mom Defends Daughter's Inalienable Right To Wear Racist Shirt To School

Anna North — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:50:00 EST

A teenager was recently suspended from her New Jersey middle school, allegedly for wearing a Confederate flag sweatshirt to class. Now her mom is threatening a lawsuit. The shirt isn't racist, she explains — her daughter just loves Virginia. More »

Court Rules Naming Your Kids After Nazis Isn't Abuse, Just Fucked Up

Erin Gloria Ryan — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:50:00 EDT

A New Jersey couple who named their children "Adolph Hitler" and "Aryan Nation" claim that a court found no evidence of abuse, yet hasn't granted them custody of their children. More »

Another Totally Not Gay Republican Can't Figure Out Who Took All Those Gay Pictures of Him

Erin Gloria Ryan — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:45:00 EDT

A male escort is claiming that he had a sexual encounter with Chris Myers, the Republican mayor of Medford, New Jersey, and he's offering photos as proof. The mayor vehemently denies the allegations, but can't explain how in tarnation that gay male escort got hold of pictures of a guy who looks kind of exactly like him in his skivvies. Magic, I suppose. Gay magic. More »

Judge in Tyler Clementi Case Claims Suicide Not Relevant

Erin Gloria Ryan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:50:00 EDT

The suicide and depression of Tyler Clementi is not relevant in the trial of his former roommate Dharun Ravi, a New Jersey judge has ruled. More »

Mother Tries To Sell Baby So She Can Go To Disney World

Erin Gloria Ryan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:30:00 EDT

A Newark mother has been arrested and ordered to never contact her infant son after several bad decisions culminating in a Facebook announcement that she was planning on selling him. Her reason? She didn't want to have another kid, because she wanted to go to Disney World. Most fucked up Disney-related maternal absence ever? More »

Do New Jersey's Anti-Bullying Policies Go Too Far?

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:30:00 EDT

Across the country schools are doing more to combat bullying, but no state is doing as much to address the problem as New Jersey. The state has passed the strictest legislation on bullying in the nation, and tomorrow the new law, known as the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, will go into effect. Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi's suicide nearly a year ago spurred New Jersey lawmakers to take the issue seriously, but now some are worried that schools will become too involved in normal childhood conflicts. More »

Homophobic Bridal Store Owner Gets Yelp-Bombed

Anna North — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:35:00 EDT

When a New Jersey bridal shop refused to sell a dress to a lesbian bride, critics took to Yelp to express their displeasure. But are some of them creating fake reviews? More »

New Jersey Repeals Laws Governing Ravishment

Anna North — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:15:00 EDT

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has gotten rid of several outdated state laws that discriminated against women in language that now seems absurd. More »

Extreme Jersey Prom So Totally Ruined By No-Show Party Bus

Whitney Jefferson — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:15:00 EDT

Nightline ventured to Manalapan, New Jersey to document the extravagant prom parties and expensive dresses the town's high school has become known for. Here, girls purchase their dresses in October for a June prom and their parents drop upwards of $3,000 in hopes of ensuring a perfect night for their spawn. When the cameras arrived, a pre-prom party (full of 24 couples and their families) was in full swing — until, of course, tragedy struck: the party bus that was booked to transport the teens to their actual prom never showed up. Cue mom screaming into a cell phone! More »

Another Jersey Shore Cast Member To Be Paid To Act Strangely In Front of Cameras

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:35:32 EST

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Kim Kardashian has a book deal, Lindsay Lohan has a fashion line, and now Jersey Shore's Pauly D is getting his own TV show. Meanwhile, you work for a guy who really loves Two And A Half Men. No justice! More »

New Jersey Pastor Who Told Congregation that Facebook Encourages Adultery Has Had Himself Some Of That Adultery

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:50:00 EST

Mmm. Adultery to the tune of a three-way relationship with his wife and another male employee of his church. And it goes down nice and smooth. More »

South Park Gets Invaded By Jersey Shore, Real Housewives

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:28:00 EDT

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On last night's episode of South Park, Jersey-based reality stars—like the Real Housewives and Snooki—moved into the Colorado town, wreaking havoc by flipping over tables, starting fights in hair salons, and partying in hot tubs. More »

Sex Over 40 Is Dangerous! And You Can Get Chlamydia In Your Eye!

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:30:00 EDT

A "glamorous" 70-year-old woman went into her doctor's office complaining of an eye infection. It turns out that she didn't have "dry eye" - a swab of in infected area showed she had chlamydia. In her eye.

Knitting Vandals Launch Purl Attack

Sadie Stein — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:40:00 EDT

A group of night-stalking, needle-wielding vandals are decorating the trees of Cape May, NJ, with hand-knitted yarn sleeves. The cunning crafters, who call themselves the Salty Knitters, say they intend to persevere in the face of community countermeasures. [CBS] More »

Living Large

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:40:00 EDT

New Jersey mom Donna Simpson has one goal: to become the world's fattest woman. She currently weighs over 600 lbs, but she will need to consume 12,000 calories per day to get up to her goal weight. [DailyMail] More »

Jersey Shore: 16 Notable Quotables

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:20:00 EST

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Last night, MTV aired two frickin' hours of Jersey Shore, during which a lotta shit went down involving eating disorders, pickles, stalkers, DIY T-shirts, and dancing (and falling) off furniture. In 16 soundbites, the cast will tell about it. More »

Everyone Hates The Shore And Sitch's Pants-less Antics

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:40:00 EST

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New Jersey residents - and Italian-Americans, and former sponsor Dell - want to make it clear that they have nothing but disdain for MTV's weirdly-enjoyable show. We're guessing they're also unamused by the Situation's recent clothing situation. [TMZ,ABC,MSNBC] More »

Jersey Shore: Beat Up The Beat, Not Snooki

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST

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On yesterday's episode, Snooki was on the receiving end of a now-infamous suckerpunch. It was shitty for many reasons, one of them being that it's more fun watching her have fun, because when she has fun, she does back flips! More »

Jersey Shore: "Like a Horror Movie"

Lindsay Robertson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST

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What's left to say about Jersey Shore that wasn't Tweeted last night as MTV's guido-sploitation reality show steamrolled west across our country's time zones like a manure-spreader, bringing us all together in mock-horror and self-satisfied contempt? Well, a couple things. More »

Hearts And Minds

Anna Holmes — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:10:00 EDT

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Real Housewives Star Denies Mafia Connection

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:40:00 EDT

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Caroline Manzo of The Real Housewives of New Jersey says of her father-in-law being found dead in his trunk in 1984, "there was never so much as an accusation of him being involved in organized crime." The county prosecutor's office responds: "his association with organized crime was well-known." [Daily Beast] More »

Mother Beats Molester

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:40:00 EDT

Prior to being sentenced to five years in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, Pascual Gonzalez was beaten yesterday in the courthouse hallway... by the girl's mother. More here: [MSNBC] More »

Real Housewives Of New Jersey Premiere: Spying, Fighting, And Gold Digging

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:00 EDT

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Last night's premiere was everything I was hoping for. One woman was stood up by a man she met on a social networking site, and then later there was a bitchfest in a beauty salon. More »

Real Housewives Of New Jersey: As Fake As The "Buh-Bies"

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:30:00 EDT

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey premieres tonight, and critics say it's the most "real" of Bravo's Real Housewives series... if you believe everything on The Sopranos was real. More »

Brazilian Bikini Waxing To Continue In Garden State

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:45:00 EDT

New Jersey state officials have dropped a proposed bikini wax ban after salon owners protested and the state's consumer affairs director refused to support the measure. More »

With Friends Like These...

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:45:00 EST

A woman thought she was headed to a party when her friends picked her up, but instead they drove her into the woods and abandoned her in 8-degree weather in a planned attack. More »

In America, We Value Most Lives

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:40:00 EST

Kalynn Moore has just learned that officials in New Jersey have called off the search for her son Bashere, who died shortly after his birth and was thrown out with the hospital's trash. [Fox, Fox] More »

Gay Harmony

Maria — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:30:00 EST

eHarmony will begin providing same-sex matches for gays and lesbians. The site had been heavily criticized for not catering to people seeking same-sex relationships and the decision to change policy came after a New Jersey man filed a complaint in 2005. Under the terms of the settlement, eHarmony can create a new or differently named web site for same-sex singles. Good news for the gays, but probably bad news for Chemistry.com, which ran a whole ad campaign by appealing to prude-y eHarmony's rejects. [LA Times, Never Blog] More »

Rollergirls Are A Hit In New Jersey • Georgia O'Keeffe To Get The 'Lifetime' Treatment

Maria — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:40:00 EST

• Women's roller derby is becoming popular in New Jersey, where seven leagues with more than a dozen teams have been created since 2005. • Fox Japan and Fuji TV network have announced that they're making a Japanese version of Sideways. • A British Muslim OB/GYN who has seen Muslim patients with bruises says she believes that domestic violence is more common in Muslim households because Muslim men fell they have "a God-given right" to beat their wives. • More »

Litigious Chicks With Douchebags

Maria — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:40:00 EDT

Some Hot Chicks do not appreciate getting attention for cavorting around with Douchebags. Three women had a photo (not the one at left) taken of themselves with some young gentlemen at a club in New Jersey. The picture ended up getting posted on the website Hot Chicks With Douchebags and eventually published in a book. The three are now suing, claiming they have had to undergo "medical treatment and psychological therapy" as a result. [TMZ] More »

Fat Cats

Maria — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:40:00 EDT

Good news: The 44-pound homeless kitty and overnight celebrity, Princess Chunk (or "Prince Chunk" according to this source, the sex of the kitty is still up for debate), has found a home. The feline from Camden County Animal Shelter in New Jersey had 400 people scrambling to adopt her after she caught the nation's attention with her full figure and lovable demeanor. She is a decade old and used to go by name of "Powder" until the family that previously owned her lost their home to foreclosure. [MSNBC] More »

Many Egyptian Men Think Women Deserve To Be Harassed

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT

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In a recent survey that could hurt Egypt's tourism industry, two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to harassing women and most of them blame women for wearing tight clothes and not being home by 8 pm. Of course, harassment is defined as everything from hollering at and ogling women to whipping it out and groping (more commonly referred to here as "crimes for which one can be jailed") but, regardless, foreign women and Egyptian women have one thing in common — they don't like it. More »

"My Girlfriend Has Had Four Abortions. Is That A Lot?"

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:20:00 EDT

It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this very special Summer Jamz at the Jerzey Shore episode, the Stevie B to my Stacey Q, Rich, helps me answer questions about fisting, "large" vaginas, and Mariah Carey. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.) P.S. We like pictures because they're easier than reading, so feel free to send some our way. More »

The "And You Thought Yesterday Was Bad" Edition

mcarpentier — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:30:00 EDT

After last night's fellatio-esque interview of John McCain, reporters ask Jon Stewart if he's a real journalist and if he should've tried harder to ask a real question. No, and yes. [Comedy Central, Time, Rolling Stone]