Hoboken native Michael Lisa has been the official photographer at the Meadowlands Racetrack for the last 10 years. Although photographing racehorses is a “dream job” for the Montville resident, la...
For the second season in a row, bad weather tried to dampen spirits at the Hoboken Fall Arts and Music Festival last Sunday. But with legendary rock ‘n’ roll acts like Leon Russell, thousands of ...
Hoboken’s Cantigas Women’s Choir auditions singers
Cantigas Women’s Choir seeks committed singers for its upcoming 2009-2010 season. The Hoboken-based all-female group brings women of the community together – from all ages and all backgrounds – t...
The Hoboken Fall Arts and Music Festival takes place today (Sunday, Sept. 27) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. featuring over 300 artists, sculptors, photographers and craftspeople from all around the tri-...
A citywide walking tour of artists’ studios returns to Jersey City this weekend. The 19th annual Jersey City Artists Studio Tour showcases the city’s bustling arts community from noon to 6 p.m. o...
Local artist featured in NYC show
Liz Cohen is president of hob’art, Hoboken’s artists’ cooperative, and a mixed media artist who enjoys using found and recycled materials to create cross-cultural artifacts. The finished dolls a...
A free summer concert series will heat up the Weehawken waterfront with live music from South America this Wednesday night. The New York-based band Folklore Urbano is a 12-piece musical ensemble ...
The Larkins
People assumed the Larkins would move afterward. Let me say up front, no one really knows why zombies choose certain homes. We would see the Larkins all the time and they always waved back. Sam o...
Skinny Forearms
I hate my wet-noodle forearms. I’ve spent 5,000 hours squeezing tennis balls to no avail. My brothers and father have bigger forearms. Most of my teachers, the crossing guards, even my priests ha...
Like many people, I recently watched the popular “Real Housewives of New York” reality series on Bravo. It can’t claim any educational value; it chronicles wealthy Manhattanites and their catfigh...
While the sun set on Manhattan behind them, two Ol’ Blue Eyes impersonators wowed the audience – and the judges – at the third annual Frank Sinatra Idol Contest in Hoboken last Friday. Sean Reill...
RECAP: The Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion
By Eileen Budd Part I – Face Off Note: The gathering takes place in a warehouse by a train station in an undisclosed location. This meeting is couched in more secrecy than Osama Bin Laden’s hid...
Sooner or Later
“Sooner or later one has to take sides if one is to remain human.” – Graham Greene, The Quiet American. If you can’t sense it, you’re walled in. It’s all around us, here on the so-called Gold C...