Assuming we can stave off the apocalypse, there are plenty of great events to enjoy in Jersey City this weekend. 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 Olga Slavnikova, dubbed one of [...]
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 It’s going to be the best day of the year so far, weather-wise, and if you want to chill outside and enjoy it, you’re in [...]
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 As Jersey City emerges from the downpour and gets ready for a near-spring weekend, the Creative Grove Artist Market will be out enjoying the sun’s [...]
“Our sense of Prohibition has been shaped by Al Capone movies. My stories are local Jersey City tales — I tell about the ‘mom and pop’ Italian restaurants that made red wine in the cellar, like Pipi’s on Orchard Street,” Leach says. “But there are Capone-style places too, like the Sip and Summit at Journal Square [where people] entered via a phone booth from a cigar store next door.”
- Manzo Trial: Comments and questions by federal appeals judges yesterday seemed to suggest that the panel will uphold a lower judge’s ruling that resulted in dismissal of four of six counts against former Jersey City mayoral candidate Louis Manzo and his brother Ronald Manzo. – Keeping Panasonic in NJ: Panasonic Corp. of North America [...]
The Jersey City Free Public Library has set a date and unveiled the 18 authors lined up for its third annual book festival, “A Tale of Our City.” Among the writers who will descend on Van Vorst Park this September 18 are Seton Hall Law School professor John B. Wefing, local historians Bob Leach and [...]
The Jersey City Free Public Library has set a date and location for the third annual “Tale of Our City” book festival — Sept. 18 in Van Vorst Park. Now it is beginning the search for authors who want to take part. Previous incarnations of the festival have focused on Jersey City authors, or authors [...]
Ahh, September: the air is getting cooler, the kids are going back to school and local authors are making their way out of the Free Public Library and into Van Vorst Park for the second annual Book Festival, or “A Tale of Our City,” as it’s being called. Authors with areas of expertise ranging from [...]
In the year 1806, in a stately mansion on a hill in Richmond, Va., in the heart of the fledgling nation, an old man struggles to lift himself off his bed to face his attending physician and pronounces with what little strength remains in his ailing body, “I am murdered.” Two weeks later, to the [...]
Most Jersey City residents are aware that the city has a rich and long history, but as they go through their daily routines, it can be easy for them to forget about the colorful characters and gritty neighborhoods that once called Chilltown home. That’s where local historian and storyteller Bob Leach comes in.
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