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Volume 20 No. 3
Hudson County’s Bi-Weekly-Cultural, Lifestyle and Entertainment Publication In This Issue Pg. 2
ON THE COVER
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Nutsy (John) Fagan
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Great Adaptations Weekend
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Jersey City Theater Center explores IDENTIY in new Series Dance, Theater and Art Inspires Questions of Self in a Changing Culture -Cont’d from Cover
By Sally Deering “Before you can ask who are we, you must answer, who am I?” That’s the theme of the new show at the Jersey City Theater Center, IDENTITY, a six-week series of visual and performing arts that explores how people define themselves and their identities. The series, which opened Fri, Feb. 26 runs through Fri, May 13, and features theater and dance performances, play readings, films, and the Identity Art Exhibitions featuring more than 20 artists. Funded,, in part, by a grant from the Hudson County Department of Cultural Affairs, IDENTITY is the first offering of the JCTC’s 2016 season, and
terms of scale, Identity is offers presentations that the largest project JCTC explore themes like race, has so far undertaken.” ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and social expectations. Showcasing new voices inspired the series, JCTC Artistic Director Olga Levina said. “To really do a topic like ‘Identity’ justice, you need a range of perspectives,” Levina said. “We purposely sought out a diversity of distinct and talented voices to gain a better understanding of what identity truly means. We are giving equal opportunities to different artists, theater companies, performers and organizations to present their expression of identity. The programming we’ve selected deeply delves into the question of identity. In
Opening Night featured Grigory Gurevich performing two pantomimes. A visual and performance artist from Russia who makes his home in Jersey City founded a pantomime troupe during his years in his homeland and continues to perform here in the U.S. Gurevich, working solo,
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did a pantomime with a stubborn red umbrella, and then with several masks he made himself. Gurevich also has a piece in the art show on exhibit. Cont’d on page 4 The River View Observer Supporting the Arts in Hudson Since 1998
VAUDEVILLE HERITAGE Jersey City Comedian John “Nutsy” Fagan Inherits Grandfather’s Funny bone From the Classroom to the Stage, John Fagan still goes for the Laugh By Sally Deering
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rowing up in Jersey City, one of John Fagan’s favorite things to do was to make his friends laugh. While a student at Saint Peter’s Prep, he would often do impressions of his teachers that even fooled his classmates. These days, he still works the room for laughs but now he goes by the name Nutsy Fagan, his grandfather’s stage name when he worked Vaudeville. On a recent Saturday night, Catch a Rising Star, which books Nutsy (John) Fagan in clubs throughout the country, recently booked him as the opening act for Vincent Pastore and the Gangster Squad at the Masonic Lodge in Bayonne. In his act, Fagan talked about his dad who drank too much and the woes of working as a concierge in downtown Jersey City. “My dad worked for the employment and my mother worked for the unemployment,” Fagan says, on a break from his day job. “My dad’s dad was “Nutsy” Fagan, who played
(Nutsy (John) Fagan performs at the Masonic Lodge in Bayonne) Vaudeville. He also wrote a Jersey City – Portside Towfew things for Jackie Gleaers – been there 15 years. I son’s ‘The Honeymooners’. hire the guys for the front My grandfather, who was desk for several buildings.” from Jersey City, was wellFagan fuels his comedy known. I was doing a show with stories from his childin Vegas, and Steve Rossi hood, being raised in an Irish came up to me and said, I Catholic family where he saw your grandfather perwas one of six kids He grew form. The apple doesn’t fall up around Harrison Avenue far from the tree.” in Jersey City, he says, and John Fagan took his went to St. Aloysius gramgrandfather’s stage name mar school and Dickinson when he decided to perform High School, after spending stand-up comedy. his freshman year at Saint “Comedy was always Peter’s Preparatory School. my avocation,” Fagan says. “When I was in high “I have a good job. I’m the school I used to do things,” Concierge Service Manager Fagan says. “I did a lot of for Equity Residentials in impressions, I did the
teachers, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson.” When Fagan was doing stand-up back in the 1990s, he had to deal with a life issue tougher than any heckler in the audience. In 1990, he discovered a tumor in his jaw, underwent surgery and after healing, considered doing stand-up again, but felt self-conscious, he says. In 1994, after he decided to stop drinking, he attended a talent show. His friends encouraged him to get up on stage and compete and he did. “I wound up winning the show,” Fagan says. “People said to me, you need to get back into comedy.” Able to work off a crowd and improvise, Fagan says he looks up to great comics like the late Richard Pryor. “Nobody even comes close to him,” Fagan says. “Pryor was just funny, period. I also like George Carlin, Robert Klein, and Robin Williams. One of my favorites, I love Groucho.” Performing as the opening act for Vincent Pastore and the Gangster Squad last week, Fagan told stories that some might think were politically incorrect. “There is nothing sacred in comedy,” Fagan says. “People want something
they can identify with, what they can relate to, like the big Irish Catholic family, the crazy uncle. They have it in their families. If you’re telling a story and they laugh that’s what you use on stage. Funny is funny.” Fagan spent some time working with an improve troupe made up of stand-up comics called “Men Avoiding Work.” He says thatwhen you get up on stage, you don’t necessarily have to tell jokes. He says: “It’s about making fun of everyday things that everyone can relate to.” Fagan enjoys watching and learning from other comics like Ellen DeGeneres, Joan Rivers, Louis C.K, because he knows how hard it is to get up on stage by yourself and make people laugh. “I think it’s the hardest form of comedy because you’re by yourself,” Fagan says. “There are guys in a bar who are the funniest guys in the world, but can’t get up on stage.” To book Nutsy (John) Fagan, contact Suzy at www.CatchaRisingStar.com. Tell a friend you read this story in the River View Observer and like us on www. Facebook.com/riverviewobserver
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Grigory Gurevich performing one of his pantomimes Cont’d from pg. 2 white masks. The piece Following Gurevich, featured Bob Armstrong, a The Body Project, a group resident of Jersey City. of actors in black, who “I worked with Olga beworked the past few weeks fore,’ Armstrong says, “and with Artistic Director Olga I think what she’s doing is Lavina created a perforextraordinary Theater artmance where they interact- ists, painters, dancers; this ed with each other wearing is a hardware store and
she’s turned it into a lovely performance and exhibition space. It’s a really interesting opportunity for Jersey City and its part of the change that’s going on here. I heard somebody say Jersey City is becoming another Brooklyn, and it’s true.” On March 4, from 8-10:30 pm, the Golden Door International Film Festival presents a series of films with the IDENTITY theme: CONNECTED, a documentary about young girls exploring their identities through new media; MOMMY, a romantic comedy about a mother whose controversial past is discovered by her son; and SID’S NEW GLASSES,
a dramedy following an elderly man who suddenly sees the world and his true self in a new light. The Writers Theatre of New Jersey which focuses on women’s identity issues will showcase four nights of play readings beginning March 5 that will include ENDS OF THE EARTH by Lea Romeo about a couple going through a marriage crisis. On Mar. 12, J’Wante will present “Yass, I’m Cumming,” a multimedia one man show he wrote. On Mar. 26 and April 2, THAT DISGUSTING THING CALLED INTIMACY will take audiences on a “unique, controversial and provocative exploration of gender, political power structures, sexuality and pop culture.”
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(“Panito by Carolos Frias.) Nearly two dozen artists are featured in the Identity Art Show including Luis Alves, Ricardo Barros, Carlos Bautista, Allyson Block, C Ray Borck, Jenny Brover, Luca Cusolito, John Delaney, Junia Flavia, Rita Flores, Cory Ford, Carlos Frias, Grigory Gurevich, Daniel Hilton, Andrea Artemis Morin, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, Cont’d on page 5
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Cover Story Cont’d from page 4 Alex Pergament, Jeanette Sperone, Nikita Polyansky, Clara Richardson, Theda Sandiford, Giovani Santoro, Carol Scavotto and Fay van Eeden. The artists depict identity through video, printmaking, papermaking, oils, acrylics, collage, illustration and photography.
(Curator Lucy Rovetto)
“The work in this show is powerful because it prompts viewers to question what goes into forming their own identity,” Lucy Rovetto, Curator of the Identity Art Show, said. “There is an innate conflict between who we think we are, and who society either wants us to be or wants to define us as being. Conflict also arises from the tension between the person we are and the person we think should be.” Rovetto told the audience that when she put the call out to artists to send in their work to be considered for the show, she was impressed by the amount of feeling and emotion exhibited in the work. Jenny Brovar, whose photograph “How Elegance
Erodes” was taken in front of a beautiful old red building said she discovered something about her identity by doing a self-portrait. “This photograph, I thought of it as my identity,” Brovar said. “Identity can include a lot of things. I was happy to see people took the theme and went with a real serious intention to convey identity.” If you go Through May 13 IDENTITY Jersey City Theater Center Merseles Studios 339 Newark Ave, JC (201) 795 5385 www.jctcenter.org
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RAVEN GALLERY & BOUTIQUE, 304 Newark Ave. JC. (201) 565-3046; www.theravengalleryandboutique@gmail.com. The Raven Gallery and Boutique is a unique shop that sells art and handmade goods from local artists. HOURS: Sat, 1-6 pm; and Sun, 1-5 pm. Opens Sat, Mar. 5: RAVEN GALLERY TURNS 2. Fifty(50) artists
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JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER, Merseles Studios, 339 Newark Ave, JC. www. jctc.org. Now through May 13: IDENTITY. “This new series by JCTC looks at the many ways individuals define themselves and each other, and how our definitions of self are affected by the world we live in, and in turn, influences both our culture and our community. Theater, performances, readings, film, dance a visual arts exhibition – and Talk-Back sessions are featured as part of most events. JCTC takes audiences on a multi-faceted journey of inquiry about the meaning of self and its relationship to society.” (Pictured: “SelfPortrait with QR Code” by Rita Flores.)
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Michael Scoggins: I LOVE YOU, BUT YOU MAKE ME COMPLETELY CRAZY. “Galerie Ernst Hilger presents a husband and wife artist couple examining how their respective creative outputs exist both together and separately. I LOVE YOU, BUT YOU MAKE ME COMPLETELY CRAZY explores the depths and idiosyncrasies of human connection and isolation. This exhibition exposes two sides of a marriage to examine how the personal, domestic life, with all its wavering heights of bliss and depths of despair, intersects with the studio life in its own unpredictable roller coaster. Gingrow and Scoggins have been partnered since 2005 and in that time have always maintained very separate practices. This exhibition brings together two bodies of work that, though created in the private space of each partner’s respective heart, head, and studio, demonstrate the paths we all walk seemingly alone, but never without the influence of the lives around us, for better or for worse.”
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Bayonne’s Broadway Diner & Bistro serves Italian, Nouveau and Blue Plate Specials By Sally Deering New Jersey Diners are a comfort zone for those who love pancakes for dinner and meatloaf for breakfast. Nowhere on earth does a chef flip a burger while seasoning a poached salmon. Diners are known for their staples and specials. If you want a good salad bar, you go to Coach House; for delicious Greek Baklava, it’s the River View; the Malibu has terrific tuna and egg salads; 4-Star Diner has yummy Fish & Chips; and for a Diner with a deli counter and Italian specialties on the menu, it’s Broadway Diner & Bistro in Bayonne. Owners Rocky and Janet Coviello and their partner, Chef Scott Smith, offer their customers a traditional menu of Diner staples and then take it up a notch with authentic Italian, and Nouveau dishes added to the mix. Smack dab in the middle of the Diner, there’s an Italian deli where you can purchase Italian entrees and sandwiches to take back home. The deli is so popular, in order to keep up, they have to make fresh mozzarella three times a day. The menu features Baked Pasta Dishes, Deep Dish Pizzas baked in a Brick Oven, Fresh Deli Sandwiches, Burgers, and a Breakfast Menu featuring Waffles, French toast and
Lobster Ravioli and Breakfast Sandwiches. Signature dishes include the Chicken Cutlet with Mozzarella and Hot Peppers sandwich, that’s a big sell, Chef Smith says. So is the Prime Rib Sandwich with Mozzarella and Hot Peppers. And every day Broadway Diner & Bistro has some tasty specials like the Lobster Rolls, Crabcakes and Mac ‘n’ Cheese served on Fridays. Fresh seafood is key, Chef Smith says, especially for dishes like Grilled Salmon with Black Bean and Avocado Salsa. “I wake up at 3:30 in the morning and go to the fish market in Hunts Point, The Bronx,” Chef Smith says. “The scallops we serve, you can eat them raw. Everything’s fresh.” There’s an “All You Can Eat Italian Buffet” ever Sunday between 3 and 9 pm that features authentic homemade Italian delicacies for a traditional Sunday dinner. And if the Broadway Diner & Bistro feels familiar it may be you’ve dined at Chef Smith and Rocky and Janet Coviello’s other eateries in Bayonne, Summit and Red Bank. All four restaurants have the same high
standards: good food, fresh ingredients, and affordable prices – with a versatile chef who makes sure only the best goes on the customer’s plate.
Piraña Bowl
Artichokes Oreganata
Homemade Desserts
“Along with the Italian specialties, we make the best pancakes, so on weekends we sell lots of pancakes, and dishes like French toast stuffed with Nutella, served with raspberries,” Chef Smith says. “We also make our own desserts like our fresh cupcakes. And we make an excellent cheesecake.” If you go Broadway Diner & Bistro 226 Broadway, Bayonne (201) 455-8239 www.broadwaybistrobayonne.com Hours: 6 am to 11 pm, 7 days a week
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Secaucus, N.J. Selected for U.S. Navy Band’s Tour
America’s Navy is coming to Secaucus, New Jersey, one of 23 cities in 5 states to host a performance by the United States Navy Band during its 2016 tour -one of the Navy’s signature outreach programs. The United States Navy Band Concert Band performance is scheduled for March 13, 2016, 3 p.m. at Secaucus High School. The Navy Concert Band, the premier wind ensemble of the U.S. Navy, presents a wide array of marches, patriotic selections, orchestral transcriptions and modern wind ensemble repertoire. As the original ensemble of the Navy Band, the Concert Band has been performing public concerts and participating in high-profile events for nearly 90 years. One of the U.S. Navy Band’s primary responsibilities involves touring the country. All of the band’s primary performing units embark each year on concert tours throughout
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specified regions of the country, allowing the band to reach out to audiences in areas of the country that do not have opportunities to see the Navy’s premier musical ensembles on a regular basis. The concerts are family-friendly events, meant to be entertaining to veterans, families,
individuals and those interested in joining the Navy. All Navy Band performances are free and open to the public. If You Go Secaucus High School March 13, 2016, 3 p.m. Millridge Rd Secaucus, New Jersey 07094 201-974-2033
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“Reveal” A Multimedia Group Exhibition hob’art co-operative gallery
This exhibition showcases recent work by hob’art members Adele Pedulla, Donna O’Grady, Miriam Untoria, Ibou Ndoye, and Liz Cohen. Their artwork will be in a variety of mediums, including photography, digital collage, acrylic & oil paint, and pastel. Each of these exhibiting artists draws inspiration from their environment, bringing light to the shared collective. Rendering off-kilter, shifting compositions of light, color, form, movement, and texture, Ibou Ndoye’s paintings speak a universal language that empowers viewers to unearth and embrace their own experiences. His reverse glass paintings (a technique he perfected in his home country, Senegal) and his
found art pieces evoke his love of street life both here and in Africa.
Liz Cohen, “Alphabet Carpet,” 2015 Liz Cohen draws inspiration from cultures she has visited in her world travels. She combines her ideas while channeling her love for textures, fabric, and three dimensional form through her paintings and sculptures. Donna O’Grady is exhibiting new bold, layered and textured paintings that incorporate antique tile with her
original compositions. Continuing her s series of surreal paintings, Miriam Untoria utilizes her considerable skill and technique with acrylics to create evocative and moving images. Her paintings will excite and activate memories and a sense of nostalgia for all viewers. Adele Pedulla expresses herself through photography. She produces images that are mysterious, deep and thoughtprovoking. Puzzling enigmas appear in the juxtaposition of shapes and colors in her photos. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 5, from 6 to 8pm. On Sunday, March 20, at 3:30pm, the artists will discuss their work and will
Adele Pedulla -Art 2 2015 Miriam Untoria, “Angel,”2015
Donna O’Grady Trees at Dusk 2015 welcome questions from visitors. The building entrance is on 8th Street between Monroe and Jackson streets. Free parking is available at the rear of the building on Jackson Street.
Ibou Ndoye, “Faces,” 2015 If You Go hob’art co-operative gallery The Monroe Center 720 Monroe Street, E208, Hoboken, NJ 07030 Friday, March 4 – Saturday, March 26, 2016 Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 1–5pm and by appointment, (201) 683-6252 www.hob-art.org
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EXIT On The Hudson Realty of Bayonne Announces Six Honorees for the 2015 NJ REALTORS® Circle of Excellence Sales Award
At a dinner dance held just recently , the Liberty Board of Realtors honored the top producing Real Estate professionals for the 2015 production year. These individuals are selected to receive the award based on successful completion of a minimum number of transactions that generate qualifying dollar levels of sales. EXIT On The Hudson Realty of Bayonne is pleased and proud to announce that six members of their sales staff have received that honor (In alphabetical order) : Wilson Cheng, Disheng “Dee” Huang, Anita Jakubowski, Maria Mascola, Kathlene Meadows, and Annette Rubin. This is the first year that the company had this many award winners. Annette Rubin, franchise owner and Broker of Record of EXIT On The Hudson Realty said,” I am extremely proud of my staff and their individual and collective hard work. This is no small achievement.” Mrs. Rubin attributed the success to several factors. “Foremost is the company culture we operate with. We don’t compete against each other – our goal is to work together for the best interest of our clients, you seldom achieve success in this industry without putting the client first.” She also stressed that skill-set training and continuing education of the agents are high priority in her office. “Staying informed of programs for financing options, what the inventory has to offer, and how best to negotiate are all key pieces of the process. These agents each have years of experience and great people skills! ” For more information about the office, the staff, or for questions about your Real Estate needs and goals, please call EXIT On The Hudson Realty directly at 201-437-0411 or visit their office at 808 Broadway, between 36 th and 37th Streets in Bayonne. EXIT On The Hudson Realty serves all of New Jersey for Residential, and Commercial Real Estate, both sales and rentals.
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