Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Did you just open a show? Is your band playing somewhere? Are you staging a dance recital? Sponsoring an event? Let us know. Send photos and/or information to: The Hudson Current, P.O. Box 3069, 1400 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ 07030. Or fax to: 798-0018. Or e-mail us at hudsoncurrent@hotmail.com Tada!, the theater company created by …
Sure. Some people don’t need any help with their fashion sense. Some people can drop thousands on size 2 Prada separates and look elegant. Some people can pull off the daring duds Patricia Field hands them and still charmingly send up their sex lives (or the ones writers imagine for them) weekly on HBO. But …
Continue reading “Don’t do it: Let us help you avoid the season’s pitfalls”
Weddings. They’re all about the bride balancing everyone else’s expectations for her big day. But even if your mom wants country classic, your mother-in-law favors urban formal and some woman who once babysat the groom insists it should be Hawaiian-themed, there is one aspect wherein the bride’s opinion is the only one that matters: her …
Continue reading “A bride’s dream: Couturier moves to Hoboken”
Five years ago, when the magazine Hipnosis was founded (it was called The Page then, but that’s a whole other story), it was dedicated to fostering local poets and visual artists. Among the many changes that the magazine has weathered is the addition of sonic artists to that group. Case in point: Sunday’s Arts & …
Continue reading “It’s all about Jersey: Local mag hosts music and art festival”
Dear Editor: I have written to your paper before about the upcoming march on Washington called the Million-Mom March. The march is being held to demonstrate our concern for the need for more stringent gun control in this country. The march will be on Sunday, May 14, 2000, Mother’s Day and we are hoping to …
Written and directed by Ben Younger; starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Tom Everett Scott and Ron Rifkin. Boiler Room, the new movie by first time writer and director Ben Younger, begins with a narration by the film’s protagonist, Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi). Seth quotes rap artist Biggie Smalls, “Either …
It has long been our belief at the Hudson Reporter that the letters-to-the-editor page belongs to you, our readers. The page is a forum where you can voice your thoughts, problems, praise, perceived injustices, thank-yous, and opinions on issues. Our policy of printing unsigned letters is an attempt to protect authors concerned with possible retribution …
Dear Editor: Is that the New Jersey portion of the national tobacco settlement going up in smoke? As president of the American Heart Association and as a New Jersey cardiologist, I’m extremely disappointed in New Jersey’s proposed budget plan for the appropriation of the tobacco settlement money. Recommendations from members of the public health community, …
Continue reading “AHA urges more money for tobacco control programs”
Dear Editor: Have you ever printed a letter to the editor from a “dead man?” On December 27, 1998, I was clinically dead, but thanks to a policeman and an automated external defibrillator (A-E-Ds), I’m alive and writing this letter. American Heart Month, which was February, has focused on strengthening the chain of survival through …
Dear Editor: As Mayor of the Township of North Bergen, I signed an important proclamation recognizing April 16-22, 2000 as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week (NOTDAW) in North Bergen. I did this because there exists an increasing need for organ and tissue donors in the State of New Jersey, where nearly 1,800 people …
Continue reading “Give the gift of life through donor registration”