Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
. Golden Door Film festival kicks off The Golden Door Film Festival will hold its opening gala at the Landmark Loew’s Theatre on Sept. 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. This gala is sponsored by Tommy Hilfiger. The film festival will be held throughout Jersey City at eight different venues including The Loew’s Theater. …
Antonio Quinlan didn’t get into it for the honey. He got started raising bees because of his allergies. “Honey helps with the allergies, he said. “It’s homeopathic medicine but you have to take it every day. And it has to be local honey.” To Quinlan, who lives in North Bergen, you couldn’t get more local …
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In one of the most important scenes in Steven Spielberg’s classic film “ET,” the film’s hero sets the frogs free from his elementary biology class. An early symbolic act of environmental protest, the freeing of frogs and their attachment to the declining health of the planet becomes a test of faith for those who believe …
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Jersey City will be alive with the sound of music, if organizers of North River Sing have their way. This is the first community chorus in New Jersey dedicated to American musical theater, and is seeking volunteers to help celebrate songs from what the organizers call the Great American Songbook. The Great American Songbook reportedly …
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Holding ears of corn and other items from the nearby Grove Street Farmers Market, Meagan Woods and her company of dancers weave between the shoppers with an air of ritual. There is something very primitive in their movement, perhaps inspired by the down-to-earth atmosphere of the market, or by some connection between earth and dance …
Continue reading “A rite of summer?
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Jersey City remembers 9/11 A ceremony remembering the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack will be held at the Empty Sky Memorial in Liberty State Park on Sunday, Sept. 7 from 1 to 8 p.m. The memorial is located at Audrey Zapp Drive and is being organized by the New Jersey 9/11 Memorial …
If the Barclays tournament didn’t put Jersey City on the national golfing map, then how about the fact that the PGA selected Jersey City for the 2017 President Cup to be played at Liberty National? This is a Professional Golfers Association event in which the best American and international golfers compete – and to which …
Continue reading “A hole in one for Jersey City
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Officials at CarePoint Health had more reason than most to support efforts to raise funds for ALS research and treatment when they marched outside the front door of Christ Hospital on Aug. 27 to get a bucket of ice water dumped on their heads. One of their own, former executive director of Bayonne Medical Center …
Continue reading “Doing it for Dan
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When David Calamoneri yelled from the stage, “Hey, Hoboken!” the crowd erupted, several dozen fans screaming back at the top of their lungs. If not for the small blue sign on the back of the stage that said, “The Saint, Asbury Park,” you would have thought you were in the heart of the Mile Square …
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The first of possibly 15 new residential developments slated for the Journal Square area held a ribbon cutting in early August. The Kennedy Lofts, a three-minute walk to the Journal Square bus and PATH station, is the first luxury rental in the area, converting a former Hudson County government building into 56 one- and two-bedroom …
Continue reading “On the riseNew development cropping up around the city”