We continue our vegetable-forward look at Jersey City’s most acclaimed restaurants with a trip to Corto (507 Palisade Ave.), an established favorite in the Heights. Unlike Ondo, the subject of last month’s column, Corto isn’t squeaky-new. Its cooks, led by executive chef Matthew Moschella, have been serving streamlined, ambitious, unfussy Italian-inspired food to hungry visitors since […]
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This Weekend
This weekend, Jersey City is packed with events to get everyone excited for the summer season. Pride Month is underway, and there will be a Pride Month Drag Brunch Extravaganza at Canopy JC. There’s also the Hamilton Park Festival, a Native Plant Sale, not one but two outdoor film showings, and much more. North River […]
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Jersey City Jazz Festival Swings Into Action at Exchange Place
The Jersey City Jazz Festival kicked off this afternoon despite threats from iffy weather and the ongoing construction at Exchange Place. According to organizer Bryan Beninghove, it was touch-and-go this week as the city raced to replace water pipes under the soon-to-be renovated plaza at the foot of Montgomery Street. Whatever stress Beninghove was feeling, […]
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Art House Launches $500,000 Fundraising Campaign for New SpaceÂ
Art House Productions, one of Jersey City’s preeminent performing and visual arts organizations, is launching a fundraising campaign June 2, 2023, to raise $500,000 for capital and operating expenditures as it prepares to formally open its new space at 345 Marin Blvd. “The reopening of Art House Productions and our new home marks an exciting […]
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Contrasting Art Shows at Eonta Space and St. Paul’s for JC Fridays
You don’t have to be squeamish or euphemistic to think of the lavatory as the reading room. Bathrooms guarantee a kind of solitude that can be hard to find elsewhere in the apartment, and reading requires concentration. If you’re in the loo, you’re (probably) not on the computer. As literacy continues its agonizing decline, the […]
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Rogue Waves June: Jersey City Jazz Festival and More
The Jersey City Jazz Festival pitches a big tent. This year’s event is the most varied in its history, with very little redundancy in a lineup that involves more than two hundred musicians at thirty shows spread over four early June nights. Tonight’s ticketed kickoff event at White Eagle Hall (337 Newark, $25, show at 8 […]
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This Weekend
This weekend, Jersey City is packed with a wide variety of events. Not only is there the 10th annual Jersey City Jazz Festival, but also the 12th annual Jersey City Ward Tour, Access JC Fridays, and the Mizuho Americas Open golf event. Plus, there’s the Jersey City Night Market, theater, and more. Access JC Fridays […]
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Diana Schmertz: An Artist Takes on Book Banning and American Politics
If they’re sufficiently harsh, words can leave an impression. Lately, some of the harshest and most wounding have come from state legislatures. Certain lawmakers have framed non-straight Americans as a threat to children, and they’ve sought to excise their stories from school curriculum. Book banning — once thought of as a relic of a more […]
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The Vegetarian Option: Ondo
We’re launching our vegetable-forward exploration of Jersey City’s most acclaimed restaurants with a look at the modern Korean eatery Ondo (3 2nd St.). Korean food is often associated with barbecue, bibimbap with slices of spicy pork, and giant platters of bulgogi in thick folds. But what if you aren’t interested in eating meat? Is there […]
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Review: The Beyoncé Laser Show at Liberty Science Center
In autumn 2022, Liberty Science Center reinvigorated the laser show genre with a half hour set dedicated to the music of Taylor Swift.  That was great — so great that it was a sure thing that the science museum would try again with another artist.  It was also inevitable that that artist would be Beyoncé.  No other major […]