Today, the reader gets the floor.

Last week we heard back from Rose Jakubaszek who attended the Hairspray premiere at NJPAC (www.njpac.org) with the pair of free tickets she won from us. Here’s her review:

The NJPAC volunteers were incredibly helpful, professional, relaxed and created an enjoyable environment—it rang out through the crowd—everyone was relaxed and having fun.

The Red Carpet was a great experience. The cast was very generous with reaching out to the crowd. One young girl, about 13, was so filled with emotion, her eyes were welling up, after she got a photo and Zac Efron's autograph.

As for Ms. Queen Latifah, she was warm and friendly… After someone next to me said, “you have fans on this side too,”, she turned, looked right at me and smiled. What a night. And by the way the movie was good too!

After all this, a DJ in the plaza with fireworks—the lights reflecting off the nearby office buildings. So how perfect can perfect be for a night at NJPAC? I'd say absolutely!

Here’s your chance to get VIP tickets for another great event—and it’s coming up this weekend: the QuikChek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning (www.balloonfestival.com).

We’re going to make it easy for you.

The fifth person to e-mail us by clicking on the Write The Editor tab at the bottom of this page, wins a pair of VIP tickets to the Creedence Clearwater Revisited concert at the festival on Saturday; the sixth person to e-mail wins two down low for Chuck Negron, voice of Three Dog Night, on opening night this Friday.

The tickets also include VIP parking plus access to the entire balloon festival and the great exhibits on the ground. You’ll even have entry to indoor, air conditioned restrooms.

Make it a great weekend at the Balloon Festival. And best of all, it’s on us.