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This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • May 17th, 2013 • Category: Arts, Blog

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY See art and buy local at the Creative Grove Artist and Designer Market (3 pm). Hamilton Square’s businesses band together to welcome the season with [...]



City Seedling: Tomato Poetry

By • May 17th, 2013 • Category: Blog, City Seedling

If summer has a taste, it’s a wedge of tomato, still warm from the sun, with a little sprinkle of salt. Pablo Neruda calls this mingling of flavors a “wedding” in his poem “Ode to Tomatoes.” If you want that glorious, tomato-y moment come August, you’ve got to get moving now. It’s late to start [...]



Curious Matter and JC Public Library Team Up for ‘A Time in Arcadia’ Art Exhibit

By • May 17th, 2013 • Category: Arts, Blog

A ripe new exhibit at Curious Matter, in collaboration with the Jersey City Free Public Library (JCFPL), is opening this Sunday with a look at how we interact with the botanical world and nature in general. “A Time in Arcadia” looks at plants, gardens and mankind’s longtime obsession with the fantasy of a verdant, idyllic, [...]



PHOTOS: Grove Street Farmers’ Market

By • May 17th, 2013 • Category: Blog, Food

Did you miss a farmers’ market this week? All over Jersey City, farmers’ markets are in full force. At the Historic Downtown Farmers’ Market at Grove Street PATH Plaza (Monday and Thursday, from 4 pm to 8 pm), customers can enjoy a wide variety of fresh, locally grown goods, from popcorn and ice cream to [...]



‘The Last Newspaper Man’ Explores Media Obsession with Crime, Celebrities

By • May 17th, 2013 • Category: Arts, Blog, News

Jodi Arias, Casey Anthony, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev–they’re all names you probably know, unless you make a habit out of hiding under a rock. It’s nearly impossible to avoid the media obsession with celebrity criminals and high-profile cases, an obsession that goes beyond covering the actual crime or legal developments, exploring minutiae until it becomes unclear what [...]



Friday Morning News Roundup

By • May 17th, 2013 • Category: Blog, News

Artists Aim for the Heights in Jersey City: The Riverview Arts District in the Jersey City Heights offers artists a place to live and work. WomenRising Celebrating Anniversary with Networking Event: WomenRising is marking its 108th anniversary at its Founder’s Day networking event on Wednesday at its offices at 270 Fairmount Ave. From a Moving [...]



Hamilton Square Businesses Holding Spring Blossom Party

By • May 16th, 2013 • Category: Blog, News

Several small businesses at Hamilton Square are banding together to bring in the season tomorrow with a Spring Blossom Party. At the event, which is cosponsored by all the shops and businesses at Hamilton Square, guests will enjoy music, wine, refreshments, free massages from Evolve|Revolution and more. There will also be a raffle with prizes [...]



Jersey City Medical Center Joining Barnabas Health

By • May 16th, 2013 • Category: Blog, News

The Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) will become part of the Barnabas Health System, officials announced today. Officials from both organizations gathered in JCMC’s seventh-floor sky lobby this morning on the nine-year anniversary of the hospital’s move into its Grand Street location to sign a partnership agreement and unveil JCMC’s new logo and signage under [...]



Thursday Morning News Roundup

By • May 16th, 2013 • Category: Blog, News

High of 80 Today, Possible Thunderstorm Tonight: Expect hot weather today. Also, the weather this weekend will be pleasant, with highs in the high 70s. Truck Crashes Through Church’s Wall and Into Pastor’s Office: A truck carrying orange juice yesterday crashed through the wall of the Zion Baptist Church on Bramhall Avenue, injuring the driver. [...]



Election Season Isn’t Over Yet? Election Season Isn’t Over Yet!

By • May 15th, 2013 • Category: Blog, News, Politics

Your recycling bin runneth over with campaign literature. Happy, smiling candidates imploring you for a vote — or, as the case often is, criticizing that other guy — still blow in streets of Jersey City. While the candidacies of the also-ran mayoral and Council hopefuls may seem a distant memory in your mind, they don’t [...]