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Thousands gathered on a sunny day to listen to music, enjoy art, and feast on food from local vendors.
A warm day on Washington Street
Thousands gather for Hoboken Arts & Music Festival

Thousands of residents and visitors gathered in beautiful weather in Hoboken ont Sunday to partake of the annual Arts & Music Festival, an event featuring over 300 artists, sculptors, and musicia...
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STAYING CLOSE TO HOME – Comedian/Actor Joey “Coco” Diaz has produced a documentary celebrating his North Bergen roots.
Brazen comic
North Bergen resident creates documentary, comedy CD

Joey “Coco” Diaz has never forgotten where he comes from, and he is about to release a documentary that pays tribute to his childhood in North Bergen. The documentary will be released in mid-May, ...
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MONUMENTAL MIND – Sculptor Gunes Akseki works from his Union City studio to create three-dimensional pieces from two-dimensional symbols.
Shaping the social landscape
UC artist premieres massive work at Manhattan’s International Art Expo

Artist Gunes Akseki strolled triumphantly, though a tad wearily, around his eight-by-eight-by-four-foot sculpted amalgam of the classic symbols for male and female. As if resting after its hard-e...
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1930s BERLIN – Chillfest, the mostly gay and lesbian film series of Jersey City presents “Christopher and His Kind,” directed by Geoffrey Sax, on Sunday, May 20, at LITM, 140 Newark Ave. (near Grove Street), Jersey City. Matt Smith (the U.K.’s latest ‘Dr. Who’) plays young author Christopher Isherwood in this BBC-produced biopic. Doors open at 4 p.m. for food, drinks, and socializing, the screening is at 4:15 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door and $7 advance at www.chillfest.org
MIDWEEK BRIEFS
River Street resurfacing postponed until Monday, May 14 HOBOKEN – Due to the weather forecast for this week, on or about Monday, May 14 the postponed milling and resurfacing of River Street f...
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AN EVENING OUT – Hoboken dance legend Tracy Everitt will host a night of dinner and dancing at Arthur’s Tavern Saturday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Can’t stop the music
Hoboken legend looks to revitalize the city’s dance scene

Hoboken native Tracy Everitt once made a name for himself in his beloved city teaching ballroom dancing to eager students for roughly 20 years. As the popularity of ballroom dancing in America dec...
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ALL’S FAIR – On Saturday, May 19 the Central Avenue Special Improvement District will host the fifth annual Everything Jersey City Festival on Central Avenue. Photo credits: Baldwin Yun
It’s going to be a party!
Jersey City’s biggest street fair set for May 19

Other special improvement districts would like to duplicate it, but there’s only one Everything Jersey City Festival, the annual “block party” that celebrates all things JC while bringing attentio...
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KID’S CHOICE – Union City resident Alex Suarez (left) and her best friend and “Dora the Explorer” co-star Regan Mizrahi chat with press at the March 31 Kid’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
Being ‘Backpack’
UC child star acts alongside celebs, goes to Kids’ Choice Awards

Eleven-year-old Union City kid Alex Suarez recently dissected a worm and a frog at school. While she thought that was pretty cool, her class’s next victim is a pig. “I have mixed feelings about ...
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WOMAN OF MANY HATS – Weehawkenite Kay Miller sits with her dog Trixie beneath one of several portraits she painted that make up the self-authored, self-published, self-promoted children’s book, “Jews of the Wild West,” released in late March.
‘Jews of the Wild West’
Weehawken woman writes, illustrates, and publishes unique children’s book

What do you get when you mix Billy the Kid, Thurgood Marshall, some Apaches, a band of buffalo, a Weehawken art major, and years of Jewish genealogical research? Why, a brightly illustrated chi...
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HEAD CHEESES – Left to right: Mayor Michael Gonnelli, Product Manager Francisco Mendez, and Resident Cheese Maker Brian Civitello. Civitello is a “cheese technologist,” and is in charge of cheese quality, while Francisco Mendez ensures operations proceed smoothly.
From cow to consumer
Secaucus company makes a lotta mutz

Since 1993, Victor Paparazzo has been making the “mutz.” His Secaucus company churns out 40,000 pounds of cheese per day and supplies pizzerias and stores from coast to coast. Paparazzo opened h...
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JUST DON’T SCARE THE HORSES – J CITY Theater presents The Second Annual Kentucky Derby Party on Saturday, May 5, from 4 to 7 p.m. at The Embankment Restaurant, 234 10th Street, in Jersey City – the company’s one big fund raiser of the year. (See Brief below) Shown here in full regalia from the 2011 gala are (left to right, back row) Tatiana Alvarez, Whitney Bernard, Marylin Ploughman, Beth Bentley, Lorraine Saulino, Sandy Cockrell, Ruth Mitchell, Eileen Gaughan, and (front row) Nancy Sambul, Camile Wiedorn. (Photo courtesy of Tracey Noelle Luz)
MIDWEEK BRIEFS
J CITY Theater fund raiser this Saturday at The Embankment JERSEY CITY – J CITY Theater is a non-profit organization, and to support their work they hold only one major fund raiser each year:...
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SEARCHING – Last October, hundreds darted through Hoboken to participate in the TRUE Mentors scavenger hunt.
“Hoboken Games” tournament will be held Saturday
TRUE Mentors program seeks to support the community

A “Hoboken Games” tournament will be held this Saturday in order to benefit both the city’s youth as well as various businesses in the area. The event is sponsored by TRUE Mentors, a one-on-one ...
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CATCH THE WAVE – Static Sea frontmen Jimmy Francis (left) and Brandon Kleiber.
Static, but moving forward
Local band learns that time waits for no one

We know what becomes of most music legends: Fame, sometimes fortune, the inevitable decline, often a stint in rehab, then usually a comeback. But what becomes of the almost famous? For area band...
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