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Earth 2015; “It’s Turn to Lead” SINATRA: ANDay AMERICAN ICONOur Celebrates Sinatra’s Centennial Liberty StateMusic Park to Raise Eco Awareness Sinatra’s & Celebration Memorabilia at Library for Performing Arts

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t’s been 25 years since Hudson celebrated the first Earth Day in By Sally Deering Liberty State Park and on Sat, April 25 – rain or shine – the Hudson County Improvement Authority (HCIA), Friends of Liberty State Park, oboken’s ‘Native Son’ Frank and local and state community activists will be at the waterfront park to enlighten local residents on ecological issues in Hudson and the Sinatra grew up in a town quite world-at-large.

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Earth Day 2015 will kick off at 10 am with a 5k Walk and Run were no Starbucks or even There through the park; and for the kids there’ll be kite flying, arts and PATH trains when Sinatra was crafts, inflatable rides, interactive games, contests and giveaways, with a steady flow of entertainers on the main stage; and born in 1915. And when he was old refreshments, too. Hundreds of volunteers enough, the ‘skinny blue-eyed kid’ from city and state community groups and began singing in his parents’ organizations will present displays on local and world-wide ecological innovations saloon. That’s where Sinatra and reforms to inform visitors learned his trade, crooning to about the eco future. locals at Marty O’Brien’s saloon. cont’d pg. 4

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SISTERS IN SONG

Cabaret Sauvignon, All-Female Singing Group blends Voices & Friendships

By Sally Deering

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lena Zazanis, Alex Finger, Amanda Levie, and Amy Elise belt, croon and harmonize songs without any instruments, just a pitch pipe to locate important first notes. They’re known as Cabaret Sauvignon, “a female a cappella ensemble covering tantalizing tunes from torch to top 40.” The four songstresses layer their voices in harmonies that modernize classics like “Bie Mier Bis Du Shoen” by The Andrew Sisters and put a twist on Top 40 Pop hits like Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love”.

Cabaret Sauvignon can be seen in their first cabaret performance A MYSTERIOUS A CAPPELLA MURDER CABARET at the 16th annual Midtown International Theatre Festival in Manhattan for two shows, July 30 and August 2. The show is described as a “reality-theatre tale where four female vocalists

meet in fierce competition, surmount their backstage backstabs, form the a cappella group Cabaret Sauvignon, and allegedly murder their manager.”

Leading up to their first cabaret show, Cabaret Sauvignon has been performing since they met at Art House Productions in 2013.

“We did a workshop,” Amy says. “I heard and saw Elena sing. You know how you gravitate toward someone? I gravitated toward Elena and I wanted to be part of what she was doing.”

Amanda and Alex joined the group and they have become a welcome surprise when they give pop-up performances at restaurant and business opening receptions. They perform regularly at Two Boots on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, and recently gave a special performance of the classical piece Also Sprach Zarathustra by Johann Strauss that was used in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” for the Jersey City

Elena Zazanis, Alex Finger, Amanda Levie, and Amy Elise of Cabaret Sauvignon.

“Crazy” with Ceelo’s Writer’s Group.

“Crazy” and Beyoncé’s “The Jersey City Writ“Crazy in Love”. er’s Group had a sciencefiction night and we sang it They sing covers of Top 40 hits like Miley Cyrus’s “We for them,” Elena says.

Can’t Stop”, obscure tunes “They loved it,” Amanlike Fiona Apple’s “Hot da adds.

Knife” and folk songs like In September, they’re “Bottom of the River” by booked to sing at a wedthe Delta Ray Band. And ding.

Cabaret Sauvignon sings when each vocalist steps up for a solo, she makes it her unique medleys, stringing own. songs plucked from the “Alex takes a folk song Great American Songbook, and takes it to a soulful Top 40 hits and obscure level,” Elena says. tunes rarely heard. For inAll four members of the stance, one of their medleys group take turns singing is a tribute to being crazy lead, and each has her own and features Patsy Cline’s

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style that gives the group an interesting blend of voices and styles, each one as individual as their diverse musical background.

Elena studied music professionally; Amanda sang in choirs at Marymount Manhattan College and the University of Oregon; Amy grew up singing in children’s choirs; and Alex has a strong background in musical theater.

“I’m baffled that it works,” Amy says. “We’re all very opinionated, assertive Type ‘A’ personalities.”

“We keep each other in check,” Alex adds.

They take turns rehearsing in each other’s Jersey City apartment and they all agree that singing together has put their voices and their friendships in sync.

They went from working together to becoming friends and now they’re like family, Amy says. She remembers a song she sang in the choir when she was a girl, which seems to sum up Cabaret Sauvignon’s Cont’d on page 5

ArtSCENE A go-to guide to the Arts in Hudson July, Aug & Beyond Eggleston, Kelly Heaton, Kenneth Gomes, Marianne Trent, Megan Gulick, Mollie Thonneson, Samantha Corell and Vincent Minervini. (Pictured: “Seaweed” by Andrea McKenna.)

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MANA CONTEMPORARY, 818 Newark Ave, JC, (201) 604-2702, www.manacontemporary.com. Large art complex with exhibitions, artist studios, framing and restoration. Through Aug 1: YIGAL OZERI: REVOLUTION AT GIVERNY – A Return of Women in Nature.

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Ave, JC; (201) 565-3046; www.theravengalleryandboutique.com. Artists’ works curated by Javiera Rodriguez and Andrea McKenna. Showing through July: UNDERTOW, a group show featuring works by Abby Levine, Andrea B. D’Alessandro, Andrea McKenna, Bojana Coklyat Catherine Perry, Christine Johanns, Craig Radhuber, Deivis Garcia, Dorian Monsalve, Jeanette Centeno, Jim Tiongson, John Ruddy, Kate

experience and impact of color. Nine gallery rooms feature painting, drawing, collage, photography, sculpture and installation by Alan Walker, Andy Wilhelm, Dana Kane, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Ellie Murphy, Glenn Garver, Marianne DeAngelis, Meg Atkinson and Roger Sayre. Paintings on paper by Doug Holst in “The Tenth Room” Gallery Shop.

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philosophy: “People who make music together cannot be enemies,” Amy sings.

And the rest of the group smiles in agreement.

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A Photographic View of Demolition Exhibition Closing its doors on Saturday, July 4th, Demolition Exhibition the 100 Artists, 30,000 Square Foot Grafitti site which once housed Pep Boy’s at 410 Marin Boulevard in Jersey City has certainly left its artistic mark as seen throught our River View camera.

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OL’ BLUE EYES IS BACK! Cont’d from Cover Sinatra sang in the studio and performed onstage for more than 50 years, recording hundreds of songs, and performing thousands of shows. Jam packed with memorabilia, music and all things Sinatra, this exhibit is both a loving tribute and a peek into the complicated life journey Sinatra took, from small time Hoboken street kid to saloon singer to concert and film star and in his later years, show biz royalty.

The personal mementos Sinatra collected, the home movies that were taken of him with family, photos, correspondence, music, and awards on display shine a warm light on a popular and hard-working performer who juggled a star-studded career with the obligations of family.

Along his journey, Sinatra sought new challenges for his talents, from tap dancing with Gene Kelly to dramatic acting with Burt

Lancaster to painting abstracts on canvas a la Wassily Kandinsky. SINATRA: AN AMERICAN ICON is a visual and audio feast for Sinatra fans and those who want to know more about Ol’ Blue Eyes.

SINATRA’S HOBOKEN DAYS The exhibit begins in the library’s lobby with several black and white photographs including one taken in 1938 of a young and somewhat bewildered Sinatra at the microphone of the Rustic Cabin in Fort Lee where he worked as a singing waiter for $15 a week.

Inside the entrance, several platinum and gold albums he was given are on display including one for selling 1 million copies of “Come Fly with Me” and another for “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.”

Move on to a display of memorabilia from his early Hoboken days including parents Marty & Dolly Sinatra’s 1913 wedding portrait, a photo from when Marty, a Hoboken firefighter was burned during a fire; and one of the Hoboken saloon Marty O’Brien’s that Sinatra’s parents

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bought in 1920. Instead of naming the saloon Marty Sinatra’s, they gave it an Irish name because back then, Hoboken was divided into neighborhoods according to ethnicity and the bar was in the Irish section of town. Another Sinatra memento: Sinatra’s ID card from when he was a kid living at 841 Garden Street in Hoboken, printed in his own hand.

Ever since Sinatra was a kid, he would sing and accompany himself on the ukulele which is also on display: “While Frank’s primary interest was his voice, he had been playing ukulele since he was a boy,” it states next to the instrument on display. “He wooed his future bride the first time they met, serenading her with a song on the uke.”

The exhibit features a timeline of Sinatra’s life in Hoboken; his first marriage that took place in Jersey City and then a timeline of his early singing career where he crooned at the microphone as a soloist fronting Big Bands

A FILM STAR IS BORN Sinatra’s early radio days are on exhibit with rarely heard recordings of broadcasts including Sophie

Tucker’s private recording collection and a special 1945 V.J. Day show with Bob Hope, Meredith Cont’d on page 7

SINATRA: AN AMERICAN ICON Celebrates Sinatra’s Centennial Music & Memorabilia at Library for Performing Arts

Cont’d from page 6 Wilson, and Orson Welles.

In 1953, Sinatra was cast as Private Angelo Maggio in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, based on the novel by James Jones.

He won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Other films followed, some dramatic THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, and some called on him to be a song-and-dance man. The exhibit features the white dance shoes he and Gene Kelly wore in one of their dance numbers in “TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME.” SING WITH SINATRA In one room of the exhibit there’s a recording booth where a visitor can step inside and watch a video of Sinatra singing “The Theme from New York, New York.” It gets better. Visitors are given a

chance to sing with the Master, just by hitting a button on the Touch Screen.

The exhibit reveals a lot about Sinatra’s politics, too, says one visitor.

“What I took from the exhibit is that Sinatra was a very complicated man,” Stan Sinberg, a writer and former New Yorker visiting from San Francisco says.

“He was a pioneer in race relations. Just look at his TV shows in the 1950s and 60s where he’s singing with Ella Fitzgerald and they’re hugging and touching. This was rare back then. I was also surprised by his paintings. I had no idea he was a visual artist, too.”

Sinberg, who’s vacationing in Manhattan for several weeks, says he’s returning for a second look.

“There’s so much to see and listen to,” Sinberg says.

“I really liked the recording booth where you can sing a duet with Sinatra. And when you play back what you recorded, the “Make It Stop” option was hilarious. I also liked the tuxedo in the glass case. He really was a skinny guy when he was young.”

SINATRA’S LATER YEARS

Sinatra expanded his artistic chops when he

picked up a paintbrush and began expressing himself through oils and acrylics on canvas. Several of his paintings – bright abstracts with geometric shapes – are on view. He never sold his paintings, and preferred, instead, to give them away to family and friends – sometimes even fans.

Sinatra won Emmys, Oscars, a Golden Globe and so many more awards and well-deserved accolades during his career. His last official shows were December 1994 in Japan; right before his 79th birthday and his final show was on Feb. 25, 1995. He passed away three years later in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, at 82. The White House awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and in 1998 the Congressional Gold Medal, posthumously.

ALWAYS THE SALOON SINGER Sinatra always saw himself as a singer in a saloon, according to his daughter Nancy Sinatra, Jr. “My dad’s roots were in the saloon, and he never forgot that, never lost that,” Nancy Sinatra says.

Nobody knew that better than Sinatra, himself. If you wanted to know the real him, all you had to do

was listen.

“Just let me sing, baby,” he once said.

And so he sang…and we’re still listening.

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memories. Liberty Science Center plans to commemorate those moments with a summer-long space party designed to inspire the next generation of explorers to continue the quest. Join us as we celebrate with art and science experiences you won’t find anywhere else this side of the solar system. Artist Eric Lennartson makes his East Coast debut with Tape Gemini, a replica of the original 1960s space craft, and Tape Space, a massive wormhole-like climbing structure 16 ft. wide and over 20 ft. long. Both exhibits will be assembled by volunteers and made almost completely out of scotch tape.

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FIRE & VICE IN Old JERSEY CITY

Seasoned Reporter Pens Novel on 100-Year Old Sabotage Frank “Boss” Hague at Center of Controversy, Again!

Ron Semple, Author of BLACK TOM Terror on the Hudson, worked as a reporter for the Jersey Journal and Hudson Dispatch

By Sally Deering

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ome reporters seem to have ink in their veins; just the hint of a good tale propels them to find the facts, pinpoint the characters and put it in print.

That seems to be the case with Ron Semple, a 5th Generation Jersey Cityite who walked the Jersey City beat for the Hudson Dispatch and Jersey Journal in the 1950s and 60s, Semple wrote news and features and at 27 became the Jersey Journal’s City Editor with a crew of 50 reporters he could send out on a moment’s notice to get a story. More than 50 years later, Semple finds himself once again writing copy about his hometown.

In BLACK TOM, Terror on the Hudson (Top-Hat Books, 516 pgs.; $27.95) Semple turns back the calendar to 1916 when German saboteurs destroyed a large railroad munitions depot (Black Tom) on the Jersey City waterfront. The

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explosion killed and injured several night watchmen and caused extensive property damage costing millions of dollars.

“What was perplexing about “Black Tom” was that everyone maintained it was an ‘accident’ until the railroad sued Germany in 1924 for damages and years later collected $50 million dollars,” Semple says. “How could that have happened in a big city that was just a grouping of ethnic villages where no secrets were possible?”

That’s just a tip of the proverbial iceberg.

When the Black Tom explosion occurred, Semple wasn’t even around. Born in 1935, Semple’s dad left Semple and his mother when he was a year-old; his mother went to work in a dime store in Hoboken and Semple’s grandparents took care of him. Semple’s dad had been a reporter at the Jersey Journal and he would come back to visit his son and take him along to the paper’s newsroom

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in Journal Square.

“I would sit there banging away at a typewriter with two fingers,” Semple says Although his dad introduced him to a city newsroom, Semple says the real influence on his decision to be a journalist came from Fr. Raymond York at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City. Semple was trying out for the football team because “that’s how you got dates with girls” and he was lousy at punting the pigskin so Fr. York recruited him to write for the school newspaper. Semple penned a humor column and other stories for the high school reader and after graduation set off to Loyola University in New Orleans to study journalism.

He left Loyola to serve

in the U.S. Marines – at the tail end of the Korean War – and after his discharge he returned to Jersey City, attended Saint Peter’s College and took a job as a reporter for the Hudson Dispatch, a morning newspaper headquartered in Union City and distributed throughout Hudson. He left there to be a reporter for the Jersey Journal where, at 27, he was promoted to City Editor.

“That’s the job I really loved,” Semple says. “I had all these reporters and I could cover everything I wanted. I had a list of assignments and it would run five pages long. I enjoyed the control; you could tailor what the newspaper was going to be like. In those days, as City Editor you not only did that, you put out the front page. I learned how to read type upside down and backwards.”

Semple’s career path takes more twists and turns than the streets of Jersey City. He sailed to West Africa as a crewman on a freighter, traveled extensively in Scotland, Ireland and Sweden, worked as a truck driver, construction

laborer, and the mate on a charter fishing boat. Semple also worked as legislative secretary to a state senator and sold nuts and bolts in a hardware store.

These days, Semple lives in Advance, North Carolina with his wife Jane.

He was with FEMA for ten years working on hurricane rescues from Katrina to Superstorm Sandy. It was on a visit back to Jersey City to see former colleagues that Semple felt inspired to write about the Black Tom incident.

“I came up to Jersey City to visit friends, Bob Gallagher and Bob Waldron (former Jersey Journal reporters) and we went down to Liberty State Park where we could see the gap in the Skyline where the Twin Towers had been,” Semple says. “I saw a historical plaque on the Black Tom Explosion of 1916. I’m a 5th generation Jersey Cityite and City Editor for many years, and I never heard of Black Tom. I started reading about it and finally in 2013, I went to Warren Murphy’s 80th birthday party, and he said why don’t you stop talking about that damn book and write it.”

Murphy, a highlyCont’d on page 17

FIRE & VICE IN Old JERSEY CITY Cont’d from page 16 successful author and screenwriter wrote this on Semple’s BLACK TOM book jacket: “... Mr. Semple has managed to combine fact and fiction along with a family saga of a time in our history when it really was all different, so the book is history and epic and exciting and sometimes laugh-aloud funny, as it tells the down-home stories of the overlapping ethnic groups who peopled those cities that long century ago...”

Being a book author is another exciting chapter in Semple’s life, he says, and he’s already working on his next book.

“I quit newspapers at 52 and spent the next 30 years

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in emergency services,” Semple says. I’ve had a great life.”

BLACK TOM, Terror on the Hudson, can be purchased at Barnes & Noble; and online at amazon.com, and Books-a-million.com.

On Wed, Nov. 5th, at 7:30 pm Ron Semple will be appearing at WORD book store 123 Newark Ave, JC (201) 763-6611 www.wordbookstores.com

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in an attempt to break the World Record and win the title.

Hoboken’s Guitar Bar has been rocking along the Hudson for years with its All–Stars shows, bringing together Guitar Bar’s staff of great musicians for a rollicking night of music and fun. For the past two summers hundreds of local musicians – both professional and amateur -- joined the All-Stars in an attempt to break the world record.

Previous attempts were terrific, but didn’t top Germany which holds the record with 1,802 participants.

Guitar Bar now asks all strummers to come join the band.

They’re calling on everyone with an acoustic guitar, mandolin, ukulele (or any other acoustic string instrument) to play along with the All-Stars for a performance of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” followed by other easy songs even beginner guitarists can follow including tunes by Chuck Berry and other classics.

Whether you’re an experienced musician or just starting out, the Guitar Bar has tutorials on its YouTube page for guitar, mandolin and ukulele that will teach players all the basic chords of the songs. Join their event page on Facebook, connect with other people who’ll be joining the All-Stars, and get all the information needed to learn the chords at: guitarbar.com/worldrecord.

If you go: Thurs, July 23, 7 pm; (6:30 pm tutorial) GUITAR BAR ALL-STARS WORLD RECORD STRUM-ALONG Sinatra Park Sinatra Drive between 4th & 5th Streets, Hob. For more information, call James at (201) 222-0915 Email: james@guitarbar.com; or www.guitarbar.com/worldrecord

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J. Owen Grundy pier off Montgomery St. and Exchange Place Jersey City The Kennedy Dancers is non-profit professional dance company, based in Jersey City, N.J will present Summer Dance Fest every Thursday evening beginning now to August 13th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm all free of charge.

Summer Dance Fest takes place on the J.Owen Grundy Pier, at the foot of Montgomery St. on Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey.

Summer Dance Fest presents the Kennedy Dancers Repertory Co. (The professional dancers) and Kennedy’s Inner City Youth Jr. Dance Co. (teenagers who are part of an elite pre-professional training and scholarship program ages 12-17). This year The Kennedy Dancers Repertory Co under the direction of Diane Dragone (founder) celebrates their 38th year of professional dance studio. Bring a picnic, watch the dance concert and enjoy the best place to view the Manhattan skyline. This year the Kennedy Dancers will perform repertory works: “Force of Circumstances”A modern dance choreographed by internationally

renowned choreographer Sean Curran, music by Radio Head.

“Howl” - A modern dance by Artistic Director Diane Dragone, choreographed to Allan Ginsberg’s poem Howl and music by John Coltrane.

“In the Heights” - a Latin Jazz dance a new piece in repertory uniquely Theatrical to music from the award winning Broadway show “In the Heights”. The piece choreographed by Artistic Director Diane Dragone features Latin Salsa, Merengue and American Theatrical Jazz choreography.

Inner City Youth Junior Dance Co. will perform 4 dances by Diane Dragone featuring Hip-

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Hop, Jazz, Modern and even Belli Dance Technique. a.) Table Ya Issom b.) Cantalupo c.) Calling God d.) Tango to Evore Meadowlands Serenade – award winning modern dance about N.J. Meadowlands.

Artist Fermin Mendoza stands before his mural “ SKYWAY”, on the side of Metro Honda on Rte. 440 in Jersey City. Mendoza’s mural, which was unveiled on July 11, is part of the Jersey City Mural Arts Project.

“The “Skyway” mural depicts an iconic northern New Jersey roadway that has been indelibly burned into the landscape that makes up the gritty personality of the Garden State.,” Mendoza says. “It links Newark and Jersey City and it serves as a commuter’s road to New York City, and yet, to me this roadway symbolizes a path for greater recognition, resolve, and the resiliency of our community.” To view this photo in color log onto www.riverviewobserver.net

If You Go

Summer Dance Fest Thursdays through Aug.13th J.Owen Grundy Pier Jersey City

at the foot of Montgomery St. on Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey.

6:30 pm-8:00 pm Free to the public

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ArtSCENE

Cont’d from page 15 SPECIAL EVENTS

THE JERSEY CITY PROJECT. City Hall Plaza, Grove Street, JC. Sat & Sun, July 18 & 19, 11 am-7 pm. The Jersey City Project presents PROJECT: EATS Street Festival, a food-centric marketplace celebrating warm days, cool drinks, and delicious eats. Food Vendors galore both days.

“The JC Project team are long-time residents with a commitment to the Jersey City community. Combined, they’ve lived and owned businesses in Jersey City for more than more than a decade. “

world-class potential of the water that surrounds us and brings us together. Held at Maxwell Place Park in Hoboken, and on Governors Island, New York, the event draws thousands of people from throughout NY-NJ metropolitan region to participate in hundreds of unique, fun, and educational waterfront activities like the Cardboard Kayak Race, live music, children’s activities, boat tours, great food and more.

friendly event that brings the community together to celebrate Jersey City and its diversity. Sponsored by HDSID, 344 Grove St, JC; (201) 547-3554. “The HDSID is a public-private partnership through which property owners and business owners have a direct impact on Historic Downtown Jersey City neighborhoods and their development.”

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HOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 1301 Hudson St, HOB. (201) 656-2240. www. hobokenmuseum.org. Sat, July 18, 10 am-4 pm: “CITY OF WATER DAY FESTIVAL, is a free celebration of the

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6TH BOROUGH MARKET, Montgomery St & Marin Blvd, JC. Sun, July 26 (8/9, 8/23, 9/13, 9/27, 10/11, 10/25), at 11 am-5 pm.

Craft, Vintage, Food, Kid Stuff & More “We are thrilled to announce the third season of 6th Borough Market in historic downtown Jersey City.

This year the market is open two times per month - every 2nd and 4th Sunday from May to October. Come experience the outdoor market that has won rave reviews for its curated mix of over 60 high quality makers, collectors and chefs, and festive atmosphere.

From hand-knit baby gear, to hand-chosen vintage goods, to hand crafted foods, there is love and passion in every item and every interaction.

Interested in vending? Email: crew@6thboroughmarket. com.”

GROOVE ON GROVE. Free live concerts at the Grove PATH Plaza. Now through Sept, Weds, 6-9 pm.

Groove on Grove is a FREE weekly music series featuring a wide variety of musicians, performers, local businesses and sponsors. This is a family

HUDSON FLEA, Hewn Arts Center, 140 Sip Ave, JC. Sat & Sun, May 2-Aug. 19, 11 am-5 pm. Artists, collectors, performers and vendors are invited to participate. “If you are interested in reserving a table or private room to showcase your talent or merchandise we’d be happy to have you.

Participation fees are reasonable. 13,000 sq. feet of original artwork, handcrafted wares, vintage clothing & furniture, collectibles, housewares and much more.

Just steps from the Journal Sq. PATH station, easy access from all NJ Transit bus routes; street and validated parking available.”

OUT OF TOWN

NEWARK MUSEUM, 49 Washington St, Newark, NJ. (973) 596-6550; www.newarkmuseum.org. Now showing: City of Silver and Gold from Tiffany to Cartier.

“For more than a century, Newark was the thriving center of the precious metal industry in the United States

and home to the design workshops of famed jewelry goldsmiths and silversmiths such as Tiffany & Co. and Krementz. The glamorous core of this exhibition consists of unique Tiffany & Co. pieces that can be found in no other museum in the nation. The tall “Greek” vase (pictured) given to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ballantine in 1903 celebrated the great Newark beer-brewing family’s generosity. City of Silver and Gold showcases more than 100 objects drawn from the Museum’s holdings documenting the rise of the city’s gold and silver industry from modest beginnings in the early 1800s to national prominence by the turn of the 20th century.

SEND US YOUR ARTS LISTINGS. If you have an art opening or performances coming up including visual arts, performing arts and street arts, send an email to: Riverviewobserver@gmail.com and we’ll list it in ArtSCENE. ALL LISTINGS ARE FREE.

“Color Rules”:

An exhibition engaging the expression, experience and impact of color.

Nine gallery rooms featuring painting, drawing, collage, photography, sculpture and installation by Alan Walker, Andy Wilhelm, Dana Kane, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Ellie Murphy, Glenn Garver, Marianne DeAngelis, Meg Atkinson and Roger Sayre. Paintings on paper by Doug Holst in “The Tenth Room” Gallery Shop.

If You Go: Victory Hall Drawing Rooms July 11 through August 16, 180 Grand St Jersey City NJ 201 208 8032 Gallery Hours Th/Fri 4-7

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From the Bayonne Academy, one of their Jr. Brown Belts fought valiantly to take the Grand Championship title, won by Team Wright’s 6 year-old Brown Belt Chance Fischer, who entered and beat all Ranks including the Black Belt Champion. It was intense, fun, and action-packed to watch.

Spectators were in awe. Chance needed to fight over 6 different 1st place winners in the novice, white yellow, orange, green, brown, and black belt advanced divisions. At the end of the day, Jamal Bernard, from the UWA Martial Arts Jersey City branch fought similar to the Karate Kid Story, only he hurt his knee after being knocked down accidentally from a larger and taller opponent.

Jamal triumphed and won his Grand Championship Title with winning over 7 matches using his Jumping Hook Kick to Clinch the Sparring Division.

Winning Results: Bayonne School Sean Manillo, Julian Abdelaziz and Marcus Taylor received an Honorable Mention.

Intermediate Green Belt Robin Brito placed 2nd in Kata and Kumite Novice Division Georgy Aleksan placed 1st in Kata, 1st in Weapons, and 3rd in Kumite Advanced Division Chance Fischer placed 1st in Kata, 1st in Kumite, and 1st in GrandChampionship.

Jersey City School Black Belt Justin Gomez placed 2nd in Kumite in the Advanced Division

Orange Belt Lyriq Trinidad placed 2nd in Kumite in the Novice Division Green Belt Rohan Banoor placed 2nd in Kata and 3rd in Kumite in the Intermediate Division Brown Belt Keith Hampton placed 1st in Weapons and 1st in Kumite in the Advanced Division Advanced Brown Belt Jamal Bernard placed 1st in Weapons, 1st in Kumite, and 1st in Grand Championship Orange Belt Juan Marin placed 3rd in Kumite in the Novice Division.

Team Wright trains under the direct supervision of MultiDiscipline Grand Master Austin Wright Sr., certified Isshin-Ryu Karate and UWA Martial Arts Black Belt Instructor Sensei Keith Price, the 3rd Dan Chief Instructor at the Jersey City Academy, and Mr. Kenneth Thompson Sr., the 3rd Dan Chief Instructor at the Bayonne HQ’s.

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