The Review - March 2002

Pianist brings ragtime to library

Metuchen – For those who remember the days when there was no cable and most television stations went off air by midnight, the name Mark Birnbaum may strike a note.

In those forgotten days the insomniac had only two choices of what to watch once "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" ended. One was the "Late Late Show," a movie on channel 2. The other was to turn to channel 9 and watch " Joe Franklin."

If you remember those days, then you might recall that the piano