The fans were mostly white guys from the Jersey suburbs.

"We grew up in the south Jersey suburbs without any art background, but we knew who he was, and we loved all his artists," Doug Starn added.

The most urban and urbane of horse shows has absconded for the Jersey suburbs.

The Jersey suburbs, they're not just about the Sopranos anymore.

This was no beered-up lout running on the field or starting a fight, just a kid from the Jersey suburbs going for a ball.

"Growing up in the Jersey suburbs fostered a well-developed sense of humor," she said in a recent e-mail message during a tour stop.

"I grew up in the Jersey suburbs, in Union County," she said.

Solidly middle class, he lived with his mother and younger brothers in the Jersey suburbs.

The punk pioneers Debbie Harry and Patti Smith were both from the Jersey suburbs.

During the day they had walked a little more than five miles through the silent sprawl of the east Jersey suburbs, heading west along Interstate 280 and crossing the Garden State Parkway.