The blue shirts scattered like cockroaches in the kitchen when I aimed my point and shoot camera in their direction. “Nobody wants to see my ugly mug,” says one of the Spectra Energy reps at yesterday’s Open House in the gym at PS #9 on Mercer Street.
Texas-based Spectra, which wants to build a natural gas [...]
We used to walk to Journal Square from Downtown. When I was a kid, the Square had three movie theaters, any number of restaurants and several record stores where you could spend an entire Saturday, noon to past sundown. The Loews Theater holds a special place in my heart, as you know, and my first [...]
More and more to me, the 6th Street Embankment is becoming that symbolic line in the sand in the battle to save our city’s soul. I ain’t kiddin’. The Embankment Preservation Coalition has been fighting to save this hulking vestige of our broad shouldered, sweaty, smelly, toxic past for more than a decade. This week [...]
The first date I ever had was at the Loew’s theatre in Journal Square. I was 14. We sat in the balcony. Me, and my boys. She, and her girls. Separated by a couple of rows, I threw Milk Duds at her to get her attention. She took my cue and we met about ten [...]
I guess it’s fitting that his generation’s taste of Beatlemania comes in the form of a video game. The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores today (09/09/09) in what has been (I am told, over and over again) one of the most-anticipated game launches since, I dunno, Pac Man? This review says it’s gonna really be [...]
This is the time for piragua, that frozen concoction that helped me hang on for many a summer. Piragueros, the men who pushed their carts of block ice and fruit syrup bottles from corner to corner, were once more plentiful around Downtown. No Mr. Softee truck, the piraguero had to herald his own arrival, unplugged. [...]
Like you, I was shocked (shocked!) to learn that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority holds prime seats to concerts at PNC Bank Arts Center. The Star Ledger reports that the NJTA has up to 300 house seats available for sale to “its friends, employees and other insiders.”
The Ledger piece throws out names of “insiders” from [...]
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