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Young NJ Restaurant Owner Says She's Getting Death Threats Amid Italian Food Feud Young NJ Restaurant Owner Says She's Getting Death Threats Amid Italian Food Feud
Young NJ Restaurant Owner Says She's Getting Death Threats Amid Italian Food Feud What started as a battle over pasta and pizza in a Monmouth County shopping plaza has turned into a full-blown war, complete with death threats, online attacks, and a legal showdown. A lawsuit, filed earlier this month by Luigi’s Famous Pizza, claims their lease agreement gives them the exclusive right to serve certain Italian dishes in the Lincroft Shopping Center.  While the suit names Tatum’s Table, owned by 21-year-old Tatum Menake, it targets the landlord—accusing them of allowing another tenant to sell prohibited food items. Despite this, Menake has been caught in the crossfire—…

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by Sam Barron & Cecilia Levine
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TikTok Trolls Say NJ Makeup Artist Is Catfishing — She Says She's Just Doing Her Job TikTok Trolls Say NJ Makeup Artist Is Catfishing — She Says She's Just Doing Her Job
TikTok Trolls Say NJ Makeup Artist Is Catfishing — She Says She's Just Doing Her Job Some call what Crystal Curtis is doing "catfishing." She calls it art. The New Jersey native has been going viral on TikTok for her makeup transformations by making herself look like an entirely different person.  Sure, she's got some haters. But she's also got skills. "People use the word 'catfishing' as an insult but I’m like, that just means I’m doing my job," said Curtis, who was born in Plainfield but grew up in Hackettstown and Andover. Scroll to the bottom for products Curtis uses in her transformations. Curtis has been interested in makeup for as long as she can remember. As a te…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Zoom Trolls Disrupt Asian-American NJ Church Service With Ethnic Slurs, Porn Zoom Trolls Disrupt Asian-American NJ Church Service With Ethnic Slurs, Porn
Zoom Trolls Disrupt Asian-American NJ Church Service With Ethnic Slurs, Porn Trolls hijacked the virtual service of a predominately Asian-American church in Bergen County, uttering ethnic slurs and posting pornographic images, authorities said. More than 150 congregants and others with the Englewood church were subject to the bias attack on Zoom, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Saturday. Although invasions of video conferences were once dismissed as trolling, that changed once the spread of COVID-19 made Zoom the app of choice for many forced to communicate remotely. The FBI considers the systemic “weaponization” of Zoom as hate speech and harassment. In o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: ‘Zoombombers’ Invade Asian-American Virtual Church Service Police: ‘Zoombombers’ Invade Asian-American Virtual Church Service
Police: ‘Zoombombers’ Invade Asian-American Virtual Church Service Several people hijacked a virtual service of a predominately Asian-American church in Englewood, uttering ethnic slurs and posting pornographic images, authorities said. More than 150 congregants and others with the Bergen County church were subject to the bias attack on Zoom, Police Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Saturday. Although invasions of video conferences were once dismissed as trolling, that changed once the spread of COVID-19 made Zoom the app of choice for many forced to communicate remotely. The FBI considers the systemic “weaponization” of Zoom as hate speech and harassme…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Pick My Cotton': Police Investigate TikTok Comments That Terrorized Elmwood Park Girl, 12 'Pick My Cotton': Police Investigate TikTok Comments That Terrorized Elmwood Park Girl, 12
'Pick My Cotton': Police Investigate TikTok Comments That Terrorized Elmwood Park Girl, 12 After all these months of remote learning, an Elmwood Park mom couldn’t figure out why her 7th-grade daughter resisted returning to a classroom. “She begged me not to send her back,” the young mom said. “I couldn’t understand why. She is well-liked and intelligent. It didn’t make sense.” Then her daughter showed her screen shots of racist comments left under a TikTok video of her dancing with friends by three male students at Elmwood Park Memorial Middle School.  A sampling: “KKK for life” “pick my cotton I need some more” “when I find you you will pay for escaping the farm” “HISPANIC L…

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by Jerry DeMarco