Volume 16, No. 12
December 28th 2012 - January 9th 2013
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Hello 2013!
As we bid a final goodbye to 2012 and a happy hello to 2013, many of us will be doing it with family, friends and our kissable significant others. When deciding where to spend New Year’s Eve, we hope you’ll take a peek inside for all the great party deals our club and restaurant advertisers are offering. Make a reservation, have some fun and we’ll see you in January 2013 with more compelling issues of Riverview Observer and stories about the people who make Hudson a hip and happening culture hub.
Happy New Year! Riverview Observer Staff
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Bill LaRosa, Director of Cultural Affairs Keeps Hudson’s Arts Scene Alive and Swinging
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by Sally Deering
s Director of Hudson County’s Office
of Cultural & Heritage Affairs and Tourism, Bill LaRosa keeps his finger on the quickening pulse of the local growing arts scene. Working from his office at the William J. Brennan Court House in Jersey City and with a staff of four, LaRosa oversees grants for local arts groups; seminars on the business of art for Hudson’s resident artists; art installations in the Theodore Conrad Rotunda right outside his office; monthly coffeehouses featuring popular folksingers; and other outdoor arts presentations
throughout the county. LaRosa and his team are the liaisons to Hudson’s arts community and take their work supporting the artists who live and work here very seriously. In fact, several members of LaRosa’s staff are artists themselves including LaRosa who started his career working Off-Broadway with one of America’s top playwrights, David Mamet. con’t pg. 2