GOP Presidential Candidate Buddy Roemer Visits Made with Love: Republican presidential candidate Buddy Roemer was in Jersey City yesterday to meet and greet supporters at Made With Love Organic Bakery & Cafe on Jersey Avenue. Look for more from JCI later today. Jersey City Comedian Patrice O’Neal Dies at 41: Comedian, actor and radio personality [...]
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 Indie singer-songwriter (and New Jersey native) Jenny Owen Youngs plays Brennan Coffee House ($15–$20, 7:30 pm). The concert is followed by an open mic session, [...]
For many non-Jersey residents — myself included — art programs such as the second annual Your Move dance series are the sparks that are much needed to excite New Yorkers to leave the confines of their own creative districts and explore other flourishing neighborhoods.
Over the past year vacant storefronts in Jersey City have been filling with restaurants, art galleries and other small businesses. Ordinary people with big ideas have been fueling the local economy by adding jobs and increasing consumer business. This week, these and other entrepreneurs will flock to Jersey City to take part in the fourth annual Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Three Councilmembers Absent at Election Forum: At last night’s forum for candidates in next week’s Jersey City special election for at-large council seats, the at-large incumbents Kalimah Ahmad and Ray Velazquez were both absent, as was Ward F councilwoman Viola Richardson. Meanwhile, Gov. Chris Christie and Mayor Jerramiah Healy received strong criticism from the candidates [...]
Dance with a narrative, dance theater, dancing as comedy and with an eye towards investigating space, movement, and the body. This is the broad scope that Insurgo Stage Project will be addressing over the course of four nights in November – the 10th to the 13th — for its second annual “Your Move” emerging choreographers [...]
It’s an unusually warm and sunny October day in Jersey City. Members of a band slowly trickle in to a rehearsal space; it’s been a while since these old friends have all been in the same room together. The seven members talk, catching up, before taking out their instruments and warming up. The drummer counts off: 3… 2… 1. No one misses a beat.
Story Haven, a creation of local professional actress Anna Nugent and her business partner Amy Elise de Jong, is currently entering its third season of programming aimed at inspiring creativity in Jersey City’s little ones. One eight-week workshop series kicks off Saturday at Art House Productions, while another six-week after-school workshop series starts October 3 at Grace Church Van Vorst.
When Christine Goodman was a teenager, she enrolled in a program of the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts and learned how to put on a play from start to finish. Then she performed in the production, a youth-oriented version of Pippin. Goodman, the executive director of Art House Productions, loved the process, connected with peers, [...]
Photographer Sandra Swieder had admired and shot the Twin Towers for years. She had seen them from homes in New York and New Jersey, from scattered job sites, and from within, when she worked briefly as a waitress at Windows on the World. From the age of 14, when she would take the PATH into Manhattan to explore and spend time with her friends, the towers were always there. Until, one day, they weren’t.
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