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PHOTOS: The Everything Jersey City Festival

By • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog, News

Share/Save After some early morning showers, the weather cooperated yesterday and the second annual Everything Jersey City Festival kept throngs of people flowing up and down along Central Avenue for seven hours. The festival featured a wide array of street food, representatives from a number of local nonprofits and service agencies, as well as local [...]



Election Night: Golden Cicada with One Jersey City

By • May 13th, 2009 • Category: Blog, News, Politics

Share/Save At-Large candidate Emilio DeLia and mayoral candidate Dan Levin check a cell phone for the latest election results The One Jersey City team gathered at the Golden Cicada last night to celebrate both the end of a campaign and what they say is the beginning of a citywide movement. After the polls closed the [...]



Mayoral Candidates Discuss Their Plans for the Arts in Jersey City

By • Apr 10th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Featured, Politics

The arts are often a forgotten issue in municipal elections, but this year in Jersey City, the concerns of the art world shouldn’t go unnoticed. In recent conversations with JCI, three of the five mayoral candidates outlined what they envision when it comes to the city’s arts and cultural scene.



Jersey City Mural Arts Program Gets Rolling Downtown

By • Mar 23rd, 2009 • Category: Arts, Featured

Share/Save Downtown Jersey City got a splash of color on Tuesday when artists Jason Maloney, Bigfoot and Ron English kicked off work on a new mural at Hudson County Art Supply. This project, the first in a proposed series of murals to be painted by well-known local and national artists throughout the city, is part [...]



Five Jersey City Artists Receive NJ Arts Council Fellowships

By • Feb 19th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Featured

Share/Save Veronica Juyoun Byun works in her Monroe Center studio. Photo by Jon Whiten Jersey City ceramic artist Veronica Juyoun Byun didn’t believe it when she saw the email from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts congratulating her on her selection for a 2009 Artist Fellowship for $7,000. “I had to send the [...]

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