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Jersey City Dad: An Introduction

By Tad Hendrickson • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Jersey City Dad

Hi folks.
In what is likely to be a grand act of embarrassing myself, I’ve begun this blog — Jersey City Dad — to chronicle my adventures as a working-stay-at-home dad. My day job, if you can call it that, is as a freelance music journalist who covers jazz, world music, rock and other odds and [...]



Iris Records: A Vinyl Speakeasy Moves On

By Tad Hendrickson • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Featured

A shift in the retail scene here in Jersey City began earlier this month when Iris Records owner Steve Gritzan announced that Dec. 12 would be the last day for retail hours at his Brunswick Street store. The response was swift with tearful crate diggers near and far asking: “Why?” Another likely response, this time from some neighbors, was: “There’s a record store on Brunswick Street?” Little did they know, there had been for 13 years.



WFMU: A Radio Treasure Buried in Jersey City

By Tad Hendrickson • Nov 20th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Featured

A high-water mark by which open format radio stations around the globe measure themselves, WFMU has been called at one time or another the best radio station in the country by the Village Voice, CMJ and Rolling Stone.