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MUSIC FOR A CAUSE – Clifton-based band Blisserine will hold a benefit concert at Lua, 1300 Sinatra Dr. in Hoboken, to benefit cancer research on March 25 beginning at 8 p.m. Fifty percent of the $10 cover charge, and all of the proceeds of the auctioned guitar will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Making music for a cause
Benefit concert in Hoboken to support cancer research

by Sean Allocca
Reporter correspondent

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A local rock band with a hard rock edge and a high school filmmaker are on a mission to raise money for cancer research. Clifton-based band Blisserine and Clifton High School senior Victoria Korty...

PLAY ON -- The Passion Play at Park PAC opens this weekend.

Passion behind ‘The Passion’
Historic play to open for 95th season

Bus tours are expected to come from as far as Tennessee to see the critically acclaimed Passion Play at the Park Performing Arts Center in Union City, which opens this weekend. The Passion Play c...

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Room for Improvement
3/11/10

Some people like to slow down on the highway to get an eyeful of grisly car accidents. Lots of us will stare transfixed at photos of spectacular train wrecks. The peculiar fascination of these re...

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LOCAL FUNDRAISER – Mile Square Theater hosts the eighth annual “Seventh Inning Stretch” in the DeBaun Auditorium, Fifth and Hudson Street in Hoboken, on Saturday, March 13 at 8 p.m.

Play ball
Theater group honors Hoboken’s favorite sport

Hoboken’s namesake theater company, Mile Square Theater ( MST ), is hosting a play next week to honor one of Hoboken’s most famous claims to fame: baseball. The eighth annual “Seventh Inning Stre...

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Beethoven concert coming March 21
“Two Chicks and a ‘Cellist,” an ensemble in residence at The Hudson School, presents a family chamber music concert on Sunday, March 21, at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at The Hudson School, 601 Park Ave., ...

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ART OPENING
“behind bluer boroughs” is an exhibit of the paintings of Ryan Ford, opening March 5 and running through March 23 at the Fish with Braids Gallery, 521 Jersey Ave., Jersey City. The painting of the...

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NEW EXHIBIT – Hair Tactics, a Jersey City Museum exhibit running from now until Aug. 22, features over 30 visual artists whose artworks explore hair as subject matter and medium.

JC Museum presents exhibit focused on hair
Jersey City Museum presents Hair Tactics, an exhibition guest-curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and on view at Jersey City Museum from Feb. 5 though Aug. 22. The opening reception for Hair Tac...

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PLAY BALL
Mile Square Theatre’s production of “7th Inning Stretch,” its eighth annual fundraiser, features a selection of seven 10-minute plays from some of America’s finest writers, including Constance Con...

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LIVE MUSIC – The Hudson County Office of Cultural Affairs and Tourism awarded ArtsEcho Galleria, 3809 Park Ave. in Union City, with an estimated $5,000 grant to promote live music at the boutique.

Unique boutique
Hudson County gives grant to local art gallery

A vintage clothing boutique turned art gallery is making noise on Park Avenue in Union City. The almost two-year old ArtsEcho Galleria recently received an estimated $5,000 grant from the Hudson ...

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‘The Test’
Fiction by Evette Delgrado

Juan Pecador Casanova is a handsome man. He loves the college look. He dresses in nothing but shirts and jeans and – with his dark hair and a closely shaved face – he appears somewhat younger tha...

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PLUG AND PLAY – Brooklyn-based artist Mikal Hameed’s new exhibit “Urban Audio Manifesto #3,” lets viewers plug their smart devices right into the artwork and play their favorite music. For more information visit: www.fifty8.com. Photos by Joe Russo

Show off your own soundtrack
Local ‘plug and play’ art exhibit opens in JC

“It’s all about the essence of the boom box,” said Brooklyn-based artist Mikal Hameed, whose new exhibit “Urban Audio Manifesto #3,” lets viewers plug in their iPods or smart phones into the work...

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Barnes & Ignoble
You, the businessman. Explain it to me. You eliminate book groups, writing groups, author signings, events like Gotham Writers free instruction and Toastmasters demonstration on public speaking, ...

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BACK AGAIN – Freedy Johnston, who got his start in Hoboken in the late ’80s, released his new album “Rain on the City” three weeks ago.

Music from the mile square
Former Hobokenite Freedy Johnson’s first album in over eight years

One of Hoboken’s celebrated musicians is back on the music scene with a highly anticipated album and a West Coast tour. Freedy Johnston, best known for his 1994 hit single “Bad Reputation,” recor...

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Oddfellows Rest offers week-long Mardi Gras celebration

Peace?
1/28/10

Cold Hands
1/28/10

Jets get green light
Locals prepare for big game

Kings
1/21/10

MIDWEEK BRIEFS
1/21/10

Teen talk sensation
Kid grabs internet radio success in Jersey City

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