Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
The common perception about teenagers is that they are not very civic-minded. They have more burning issues to worry about, like who’s dating whom, what they’re doing after school or whether to buy the new Britney Spears CD instead of the Backstreet Boys. But don’t try selling any of that to the North Bergen High …
Continue reading “High school club donates $1K to First Aid Squad”
Steve Howard doesn’t ever remember feeling like there was anything different about him, despite being born with only a left leg. While growing up in downtown Jersey City, he tried to be like every other child in the neighborhood – participating in sports, especially basketball. But it was never anything he took seriously. Just a …
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… if you want to pay $159 for a car. Not just any car, mind you, but the new BMW Z3 Pedal Car. A miniature version of the Z3 roadster, the 44″ x 22″ x 17″ features a foot-powered engine, chrome wheels, a behind-the-seat rollover bar and L-shaped taillights. You can buy it at the …
So I’m thinking this way: Susanna Kaysen takes 50 aspirin, washes them down with Vodka, speaks with a shrink, gets committed to a mental hospital for two years, writes a book about it, which is made into a movie, and now she’s living in Cambridge, financially secure for the rest of her life. Hmmm. I’m …
Ten years ago, while working at Comedy Central, then know simply as the comedy station, the author Ken Smith discovered one of the last unexplored vestiges of American popular culture: the classroom film – those 16 mm movies like Duck and Cover, Seduction of Innocence and Body Care and Grooming, that were designed specifically to …
Continue reading “Author Ken Smith brings classroom films to Maxwell’s”
Like the multitude of colors in lead singer and flutist Stefanie Seskin’s hair, Blue Number Nine’s members are diverse. Seskin, a Jersey City resident, is also the band’s leader, and left a solo musical career behind even though she’d always avoided joining a band. “I didn’t want to put a band together, because I hate …
Continue reading “JC-based group funks their way to a venue near you”
Has Richard Belzer become Det. John Munch? Or has Munch become Belzer? The man and the character have been together way back since Homicide began in the fall of 1992. At that time, Belzer was a successful comedian who had done some acting and was looking for the next step. Taking a different path than …
Take a left at the strip club, drive past several low, dreary, nondescript buildings where, for the most part, dreary, nondescript things happen. On the left, there’s one building with no particular indicator that it’s any different from its neighbors, except for the NYPD squad cars interspersed with SUVs and sub-compacts parked along the side. …
Take a left at the strip club, drive past several low, dreary, nondescript buildings where, for the most part, dreary, nondescript things happen. On the left, there’s one building with no particular indicator that it’s any different from its neighbors, except for the NYPD squad cars interspersed with SUVs and sub-compacts parked along the side. …
Take a left at the strip club, drive past several low, dreary, nondescript buildings where, for the most part, dreary, nondescript things happen. On the left, there’s one building with no particular indicator that it’s any different from its neighbors, except for the NYPD squad cars interspersed with SUVs and sub-compacts parked along the side. …