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. Talk to us. We’re at hudsoncurrent@hotmail.comHoboken resident Jennifer Hirsh will perform …
After seething critiques of the film industry like Robert Altman’s The Player, it’s hard not to think of movie producers as vapid creatures – money men adorned in beige linen blazers and collarless buttondowns, their duplicitous eyes shrouded behind a pair of Armani sunglasses. Mark Severini and Gary Palermo, the co-founders of the New York-based …
Continue reading “Hudson County natives set feature film in Hoboken”
Movie suggestions for couples and loners on Valentine’s DayOn Feb. 14, while half of the country, dripping in heart-shaped chocolates and long stem roses, sips champagne and celebrates love, the other half will invariably be alone trying to justify their independence. “It’s just a stupid Hallmark holiday,” they’ll think over a Hungry Man TV dinner …
Ah, Valentine’s Day. Nothing inspires such venom. Did St. Valentine know back in the third century that he died for bitter poetry and key scratches on an ex-lover’s Ferrari? Maybe I’m being cynical (but I’m a writer; cynicism’s my life). Then again, I don’t think the martyr priest meant to go in the name of …
Continue reading “Our first annual awards for Valentine’s Day extravaganzas, Current style.”
Until I was born again Bombs The ViewUntil I was born again You and I and our secret language No Arc of the Covenant this We sheltered under the bough of our parents’ love and traveled to the Sicily of our minds Where the visible heat rose up, crackling stones No, no Arc of the …
Send short, interesting missives to hudsoncurrent@hotmail.com. Or write Current, 1400 Washington St., Box 3069, Hoboken, NJ. Long, earnest letters on serious matters should go to the long, earnest journalistic side of the office.Frustrated feminist Is the ACLU aware that the Hoboken Motorcycle Club doesn’t allow women? – Jenna P., Hoboken That’s a good question. Why …
Roy North, known to many Hobokenites as the original owner of Hoboken Farmboy, the first natural food store to open in the mile-square city back in 1984, premiers a jazz cabaret in New York tonight. North, who has a degree in theater from Duke University, always wanted to pursue a career in showbiz, but decided …
Continue reading “Current Affairs, From vitamins to vibrato”
Obed Bazikian grew up in Weehawken and always wanted to be a wrestler when he went to high school. Despite his slight frame, Bazikian wanted to give high school wrestling a try. “If you like the sport, you’re willing to do anything for it,” Bazikian said. “I was willing to do anything to wrestle.” However, …
Continue reading “Secaucus-Weehawken wrestling cooperative takes off”
Donning backpacks and baseball caps, 20 Stevens Institute of Technology students gathered on a recent icy Thursday afternoon in the Pierce Building on River Street in Hoboken – but not to discuss fluid mechanics or the hot new computer language Java. They were listening to Prof. Edward Foster comb through the finer points of Baudelaire’s …
Donning backpacks and baseball caps, 20 Stevens Institute of Technology students gathered on a recent icy Thursday afternoon in the Pierce Building on River Street in Hoboken – but not to discuss fluid mechanics or the hot new computer language Java. They were listening to Prof. Edward Foster comb through the finer points of Baudelaire’s …