Posts Tagged ‘books’

Jersey City’s Free Book Exchange Wants to Trade Books With You

By • Oct 24th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Jersey City’s Grave Robber Computer Repair Service boasts on its website, “We bring dead PCs back to life!” But along with resuscitating aging circuitry and software, the computer repair service owner, Anthony Olszewski, also finds a new life for discarded books. Olszewski, who says he hates seeing “anything– particularly books– go to waste,” says the [...]



City Seedling: Flowery Prose

By • Oct 13th, 2011 • Category: Blog, City Seedling

  As a book person, I’ve spent many rainy/snowy/humid/icky days inside reading about gardening. As this garden season comes to a close, with the projected first frost date this Saturday, I thought I’d list a few of my favorite gardening books that might help nurse you through the long winter ahead. from Les Fleurs Animees, [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Oct 7th, 2011 • 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 58 Gallery hosts an opening reception for its annual group exhibition tonight; the show features work by a few handfuls of talented artists: Beau Stanton, [...]



Jersey City Author & LGBT Activist Taylor Siluwè Dies

By • Jun 21st, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog, News

Jersey City writer and LGBT activist Taylor Siluwè died Sunday after a short fight with lung cancer, according to Out in Jersey, where he used to be an editor and writer. He was 45 years old. Siluwè was the author of several books, including the novel Dancing With The Devil and the self-described “odd collection” [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • May 20th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

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 [...]



Mamarama: ‘Bambi,’ ‘Little House’ and Lost Innocence

By • May 20th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Mamarama

When my friend, the film aficionado, invited us over to watch Bambi on Blu-ray, I burst out laughing. It just didn’t seem like the kind of movie that warranted digitized Blu-ray technology for sound or visuals, but there it was — Bambi — staring us down like a deer in the headlights. Truthfully, I wasn’t [...]



Monday Morning News Roundup

By • Apr 25th, 2011 • Category: Blog

- Spectra & Local Gas Supply: One of Spectra Energy’s biggest arguments in favor of building its proposed natural gas pipeline through Jersey City is that it will help provide Hudson County and the rest of New Jersey with more gas, thereby lowering prices and, in theory, causing less overall pollution. But as the Reporter [...]



‘Jersey Sting’ Authors Discuss Federal Corruption Probe at Jersey City Appearance

By • Apr 8th, 2011 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

In a basement auditorium decorated with the pictures of top Democrats, including Mayor Jerramiah Healy — whom Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman report was the most-prominent target of the complex and lengthy FBI investigation — the authors explained their own investigation into the case, including the many loose ends that have caused feverish speculation in Jersey City since the FBI made dozens of arrests in July 2009.



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Mar 18th, 2011 • 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 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 [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Mar 11th, 2011 • 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 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 [...]

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