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Art House Productions presents
THE ART HOUSE Poets * Musicians * Performance Artists Coming together in Jersey City THURSDAY, JANUARY 3RD, 2008 * 8-10PM * $5 Featuring Palestinian-American Poet and Activist SUHEIR HAMMAD  Tony-Award winning cast member of Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and featured on HBO?s Def Poetry Jam www.suheirhammad.com Art House Productions Hamilton Square 1 McWilliams Place, Roof Jersey City, NJ 07302 (SE Corner of Hamilton Park, near Erie St./8th St.) * 5 minute open mike for poets, musicians, comics and performance artists * taped for television This and all of Art House Productions' programs are made possible by the generous support of Exeter Properties and Hamilton Square For more information, please visit: www.livingonthepark.com For more information, visit: www.arthouseproductions.org or call (201) 915-9911
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Re: Newark's Revival: It's No Joke - Oft-Ridiculed Spot Is Northeast's Fastest-Growing Big City
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A similar walk? I wasn't aware that PH was a gated, secure parking lot. I'll take my chances walking around PH at night, you Beaconites can enjoy your uh, "safer" evening parking lot strolls 
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String it yourself.
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The Newark Penn Station to EWR leg of the trip is where you always get screwed. What I like to do is take the PATH to Newark and then hop into one of the taxis waiting in front of the train station. From there it's usually less than 10 mins to the airport (unless it's rush hour), and a flat fare of $15. Only a bit more than taking the Air Train, but a lot less hassle than dealing with NJ Transit's retarded timetables - especially on weekends - and the super slow monorail at the airport. The taxi will also drop you off right in front of your airline's check-in area.
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I just visited Brick Haus over the weekend. The $199 enrollment fee only applies if you want to go on a month-by-month payment plan. If you pay for an entire year's membership upfront (which is how I typically pay for my gym memberships), it's $899, no enrollment fee. That works out to $75/month. Sure, Synergy is less than half the price, but you get what you pay for - there's no classes and the equipment isn't maintained very well. Even though the cardio equipment in the back is only a little over a year old, one of the treadmills just broke. I'm willing to bet at least 2-3 other treadmills will also break soon, and it'll be weeks before they get anyone in there to fix 'em (that's what happened with the last batch). Some of the elliptical cross trainers need maintenance. The place also is feeling seedier and seedier - there are leaks all over the place and for awhile, the women's locker room smelled like sewage. The steam room at Brick Haus really had me drooling - but maybe the weather had something to do with it. Does anyone have pricing details for Club H - and who really believes they'll open up on time??
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Re: Newark's Revival: It's No Joke - Oft-Ridiculed Spot Is Northeast's Fastest-Growing Big City
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I think the current JC administration and the police are doing much better than Booker's administration is doing in Newark -- though I like him! That administration just lost one of their own to gun violence -- meanwhile -- did you read the article just today about how low JC's murder rate has gotten? Offhand, I can only think of one murder downtown last year. ============================== Re-posted ----------------------------------------------------------- Murders down in Hudson County for second straight year by Michaelangelo Conte Jersey Journal January 02, 2008 There were 27 homicides in Hudson County in 2007, a drop of more than 25 percent from the 37 murders in 2006, officials said today. It was the second straight year homicides went down, and a nearly 50 percent reduction from 2005, when there were 50. There were 21 homicides in Jersey City in 2007, a reduction from the 2006 total of 24, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said today. In 2005 there were 37 homicides in the city, the highest number since 1982. There were four homicides in West New York in 2007, one more than in 2006, DeFazio said. There was one murder each in Bayonne and Union City. Seventeen of Hudson County's 2007 homicides were the result of shootings, said DeFazio. "People are resorting to the use of a guns in incidents where in the past there would not be a firearm used," DeFazio said. Most of Jersey City's homicides are related to gangs and drugs and occur in areas known for drug trafficking, said DeFazio. He called the murder rate in Jersey City "surprisingly low . . . compared to other urban areas in New Jersey." "I think there is to some degree more community and neighborhood action and I think the crime problem overall can only be confronted when neighbors or neighborhoods look after the people and are concerned about the people that live there," DeFazio said.
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The challenges are massive, but I do think that the tide is starting to turn in Newark. One thing that is very encouraging is some of the quality of life initiatives the mayor and police have undertaken. Following a model that helped NYC prosper is a step in the right direction. It would be great to see the current JC administration take such a zero tolerance approach.
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Jersey City gets no promises from gov on school $$
by Ken Thorbourne Jersey Journal Wednesday January 02 Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy and other elected officials told Gov. Jon Corzine today his proposed school spending plan -- scheduled to be voted on today in the state Senate -- would either drive up taxes in Jersey City or force deep cuts in the schools. "He (Corzine) has come out with his funding formula and that's all well and good, but it increases Jersey City's funding 2 percent, when our expenses are going up 4 1/2 percent every year," Healy said. "This governor is trying to get this administration, this City Council, and this mayor to raise the balance of that 2 1/2 percent off taxpayers ... and this administration is not going to do that," Healy added. Healy was joined in the meeting at the governor's office in Trenton by Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, state Sen. Sandra Bolden Cunningham, and outgoing Assemblyman Charles. T. Epps Jr., who is also Jersey City's superintendent of schools. The state Assembly is scheduled to vote on the formula Monday. Healy and Newark Mayor Cory Booker are scheduled to hold a news conference on the Statehouse steps in Trenton tomorrow blasting Corzine's proposal, details of which were released two weeks ago. "This process involves give and take," said Lilo Stainton, the governor's press secretary. "Gov. Corzine is committed to maintaining the progress we've seen in the Abbott and other districts and he believes this policy is the best way to balance the need of taxpayers with the needs of school children throughout the state." At present, more than 50 percent of the state's $7.8 million in school funding currently goes to 31 so-called "Abbott" school districts identified by the courts as needing special assistance due a preponderance of poor students. Corzine's formula seeks to have the extra money follow the poor students whether they live in Jersey City or Summit. "He didn't budge and we didn't budge," is how Quigley summed up the meeting with Corzine. Former Bayonne mayor and the state's commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, Joseph V. Doria Jr., attended the meeting and offered to help the city find a way to avoid property tax hikes, Quigley said. In a statement, Bolden Cunningham said she is "extremely concerned" by the governor's proposed formula. "Jersey City schools could lose as much as $110 million dollars within the first three years," she said. Epps didn't return phone calls to comment. See more in Education -- Jersey Journal's website
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Re: Ron Paul for President
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AMo wrote: Bolew, I agree that force is an ambiguous term. That is exactly why laws are required to flesh out what a violation of one's property rights is and why some type of enforcement mechanism is needed. The libertarian utopia simply can't work. Much as the communist utopia, it isn't based on what we know humans to be but on what we wish they were.
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check out club h fitness opening in february i hope, i think only $75 per month no initial fee. probably much bigger and more luxury for less $$.
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I don't think I've mis-represented R. Paul at all. I've only taken him at his word. He is quite open about being a libertarian.
The fact that he speaks of letting the states handle certain areas does not impress me or change my opinion. Historically those who advocated "leaving it to the states" have been those who advocated doing nothing. (Think back to the 60's and the civil rights struggle. "States rights" meant leaving the states alone to discriminate as they pleased.) Bolew, I agree that force is an ambiguous term. That is exactly why laws are required to flesh out what a violation of one's property rights is and why some type of enforcement mechanism is needed. The libertarian utopia simply can't work. Much as the communist utopia, it isn't based on what we know humans to be but on what we wish they were.
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St. Anastasia's Montessori pre-K, Teaneck, circa 1973. I talked too much one day so they put a band-aid on my mouth to shut me up.
True story. (This is for a laugh, not an anti-Montessori message. Actually, probably a pro-Montessori message, now that I think about it... ) 
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Montessori winter break is 2.5 weeks and no, not going stir crazy w/my child at home. My daughter absolutely loves the school despite the fact that they don't have an indoor gym.
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Michael was there and he initially was talking to me and was really nice / willing to work with me -- then the lady walked in and things went down hill fast....I wasn't really looking for a break just something in the contract that said if I had a legit reason to cancel that I could
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That sucks. For what it's worth, they are probably signing up a million new years resolution members and maybe she was sort of fried. She still shouldn't have been a bitch though. If you are still interested, I'd suggest going back and asking to talk to Michael, the other owner, who is awesome. I asked a million questions and tried to haggle the price down and he humored me throughout (this was a few months ago though). Oh, pretend you saw me there tonight if anyone asks, okay? Way to blow a resolution two days in... 
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well I went in there tonight to sign up for a full year and when I pointed out that the contract didn't have any language about what happens if you pay up front and have to cancel they got a little nasty with me (ie disabled/move for work etc) - the lady who I was told was the owner basically treated me like an idiot and I ended up walking out when she started on her if I die my relatives have to keep paying my gym membership speech and if I don't like it too bad
current rate is $199 enrollment and $74 monthly place was pretty nice inside though and I am a little upset as I was all ready to work out too
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Here's hoping you are right. I don't know anyone who wouldn't want to see Newark succeed, but the challenges are massive. There are certain cities that just can't seem to turn themselves around. (Jersey City is a definite exception but still has a way to go.) Let's meet back here in exactly 15 years and see what happened.
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People scoffed at people flocking to Jersey City in the early 90s thinking they lost their minds as JC was supposedly undesirable. The same will happen with Newark when 15 years from now, it will be another "it" location. It pays (literally and figuratively) to be a prescient pioneer.
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Re: This City Needs an Indie Movie Theater
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I am glad to see the JCMuseum is doing the upcoming film festival. I was just at the museum for the Family Day Event they did over the holidays. It was quite well orchestrated, beautiful space and nice theater with comfortable seating.
I went to school in Rhode Island and was always at this place. It was an interesting space (furnished with sofas, and different types of chairs so you felt like you were in somebody's house rather than traditional seating which made it intimate and cozy) and they showed all the latest indie art house films. http://www.cablecarcinema.com/
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+1. Curious if anyone has checked out the LITM Sunday night movie series? Looks like they are showing some cool films and I am wondering what the turnout has been. Also, re: Nafco, just because a lot of "artists" live here doesn't mean they all like independent movies, not to mention the same kind of independent movies. (And us non-artists like non-mainstream movies too, by the way.) Would I welcome a cool theater that showed really interesting films? You betcha. But then we would all start bitching about their film selection or their prices or their concession stand or their seats or WHATEVER and then no one would go and then it would close and then we would be sad. 
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I 2nd Metropolis on Newark. The owners are great.
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I have used AAA Taxi several times and they have been great so far. I think the rate is about $65-70 to JFK from downtown JC. www.aaataxiservice.com
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thank you so much. I love this site. Everyone is always so willing to help.
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Murders down in Hudson County for second straight year
by Michaelangelo Conte Jersey Journal January 02, 2008 There were 27 homicides in Hudson County in 2007, a drop of more than 25 percent from the 37 murders in 2006, officials said today. It was the second straight year homicides went down, and a nearly 50 percent reduction from 2005, when there were 50. There were 21 homicides in Jersey City in 2007, a reduction from the 2006 total of 24, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said today. In 2005 there were 37 homicides in the city, the highest number since 1982. There were four homicides in West New York in 2007, one more than in 2006, DeFazio said. There was one murder each in Bayonne and Union City. Seventeen of Hudson County's 2007 homicides were the result of shootings, said DeFazio. "People are resorting to the use of a guns in incidents where in the past there would not be a firearm used," DeFazio said. Most of Jersey City's homicides are related to gangs and drugs and occur in areas known for drug trafficking, said DeFazio. He called the murder rate in Jersey City "surprisingly low . . . compared to other urban areas in New Jersey." "I think there is to some degree more community and neighborhood action and I think the crime problem overall can only be confronted when neighbors or neighborhoods look after the people and are concerned about the people that live there," DeFazio said.
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yea, im not saying they dont play good movies, but im saying they dont play any good NEW movies. Reference Loews on Wikipedia and see that they dont play any movies in a current release. Im not so sure one indie theater in this entire city would tank. i think there would be enough interest being that there are only two theaters in the city as it is and they mostly play garbage mainstream movies. Another theater that plays quality movies with decent access through public transit should be able to make it with all the artists that do still live here.
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Go to Metropolis on Newark between Coles and 2nd st. The owner, Mark, is real nice and great with guitars. Address is 240 newark ave.
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I was told at the time of being wait listed, as in not yet officially confirmed St. Bridget's will be using a lottery system this year. As for PS3 and other J.C. public schools, look for the open enrollment period, which IIRC is around March/April. The enrollment period is open for about a month, but I'd recommend registering early. It is advertised in the local newspapers, including the Jersey Journal. It's easy - you need proof of residence (i.e. phone bill) and copy immunization records of your child. You can find more information here: http://www.jcboe.org/
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I have a guitar that's been in the closet for years. I want to give it to a family member but a string is missing. Anyone know where I can have it replaced??
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Let's face it: an indie movie theatre would crash and burn in this town. I'd like it as much as the next person, but it would be shuttered within 6 months. There's just not a big enough audience here. The Loews shows great stuff (mostly not child oriented -- I'm not sure what the other poster was talking about) and if it was in NYC, they'd sell out every screening, but there's rarely more than a couple hundred people at any screening from my estimates (with the notable exception of the very excellent Frankenstein weekend a few years back.)
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