River View Observer December 1-December 15, 2021

December 1-December 15, 2021

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HUDSON HAPPENINGS

Light Rail stations. That is why the holiday seaFREE FOUR-HOUR PARKING FOR son parking program was NON-COMMERCIAL VEHICLES modified to allow four IN BAYONNE hours of free parking at Mayor Jimmy Davis an- the 2021 holiday season.” a time for a given nonThe four-hour program nounced that the Bayonne commercial vehicle. does not apply to comParking Utility lots will Regular parking chargmercial vehicles or to offer free four-hour parkes in the lots will resume on-street parking meters. ing for non-commercial for non-commercial vevehicles from Wednesday, All commercial and nonhicles on Monday, January commercial drivers must December 1, through 3, 2022. Mayor Davis continue feeding the meSunday, January 2. said, “The purpose of the Regular parking charges ters on the streets. The four-hour free parking in the lots will resume for paid permit program for program in the lots is to commercial vehicles that non-commercial vehicles encourage people to shop park overnight in the lots on Monday, January 3, in Bayonne during the will remain in effect.

2022. Mayor Davis said, holiday season.”

“The purpose of the four- On certain dates in the Mayor Davis thanked the hour free parking program holiday season that will be Bayonne Parking Utility in the lots is to encourage announced, parking charg- for supporting the fourpeople to shop in Bayonne es will not be enforced for hour free parking policy the entire day. Otherwise, again this year. He said, during the holiday the free parking will be season.”

“The Parking Utility deMayor Davis thanked the limited to four hours. In serves our thanks for ofsome previous years, there fering free four-hour parkBayonne Parking Utility was free parking around for supporting the fouring to non-commercial the clock for a month. hour free parking policy vehicles in the lots during However, the program again this year. He said, the 2021 holiday season.” was abused by certain “The Parking Utility deThe four-hour program commuters who left their serves our thanks for ofdoes not apply to comfering free four-hour park- vehicles in free spaces all mercial vehicles or to onday, in order to avoid pay- street parking meters. All ing to non-commercial vehicles in the lots during ing for spaces at commercial and nonASSISTED LIVING

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On certain dates in the holiday season that will be announced, parking charges will not be enforced for the entire day. Otherwise, the free parking will be limited to four hours. In some previous years, there was free parking around the clock for a month.

However, the program was abused by certain commuters who left their vehicles in free spaces all day, in order to avoid paying for spaces at Light Rail stations. That is why the holiday season parking program was modified to allow four hours of free parking at a time for a given non-commercial vehicle.

SCOT J. WITTMAN: SOLO EXHIBITION AT DVORA

Dvora Gallery presents the digital map collages of Scot J. Wittman.

Wittman meticulously redraws digital maps of historic places of the world, then cuts and reforms the prints into classic and legendary portraits and whimsical figures.

Show runs from now through 1/12/22.

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JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER ANNOUNCES TAYLOR MAC’S HOLIDAY SAUCE...BOOSTER! JCTC TO HOST LIVE TAPINGS OF THE BELOVED ANNUAL SEASONAL VARIETY SHOW ON DECEMBER 8 AT WHITE EAGLE HALL Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) presents

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EST at White Eagle Hall (337 Newark Ave., Jersey City). Mac, long-time collaborators, and surprise special guests will film their celebrated holiday extravaganza in front of live studio audiences.

“We look forward to providing this opportunity for audiences to participate in the making of Holiday Sauce,” shares Olga Levina, JCTC’s executive producer. “It is an honor to work in partnership with Pomegranate Arts to present Taylor Mac, one of America’s most unique voices, and an artist who shares our commitment to providing a platform where all artistic voices – especially those underrepresented or marginalized – are heard.”

Following the taping at White Eagle Hall, London’s Centre will broadcast Holiday Sauce...

Booster! on December 10, 17 and 24. Then beginning at 5:00 pm EST on December 24, Pomegranate Arts will offer the show for ondemand viewing at www.TaylorMacHoliday

Sauce.com Tickets ($25) to both live tapings are currently on sale at www. jctcenter.org and www. seetickets.us: 6:00 p.m.: https://www. seetickets.us/event/ TAYLOR-MACSHOLIDAY-SAUCEBOOSTER-6PMShow/454767 9:00 p.m.: https://www. seetickets.us/event/ TAYLOR-MACSHOLIDAY-SAUCEBOOSTER-9PMShow/454771 If You Go Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce White Eagle Hall 337 Newark Avenue Jersey City, NJ 07302 Wednesday, December 8 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm

A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL “ELLIOT & ME” OPENS THIS THURSDAY DECEMBER 2ND Elliot and Steven both reflect on the volatile ups and downs of their shared experiences: from their raucous “wonder years” growing up in Bayonne, NJ; to the painful conflict when Elliot defies the expectations of his traditional middle-class Jewish

Photos by Chase Newhart With Eric Briarley and Drew Seigla family and drops out of medical school to write pop songs; to Elliot’s rise to stardom writing hits for Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and Steven’s starryeyed admiration for his Hollywood lifestyle; and eventually to their role reversals when Elliot’s career hits a few bumps in the road and he needs to rely on Steven for help. Elliot & Me is filled with humor, colorful personalities, unexpected situations, and uplifting musical moments.

If You Go Hudson Theatre Works 54 Sterling Avenue Weehawken NJ 07086 December 2 to 12 Performances Thu - Sat: 8:00PM, Sun: 3:00PM Music by Elliot Willensky Book by Steven Willensky & Scott Coulter Musical Arrangements by Micheal Holland Tickets $15-$25 https://www.eventbrite. com/e/elliot-me-a-musicaltickets-209838832597 hudsontheatreworks@gmail. com

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HUDSON HAPPENINGS playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993.The short plays are almost all comedies (or comedydramas), focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existential perspectives on life ALL IN and meaning, as well THE TIMING as the complications

by David Ives involved in romantic Playing at the Bayonne High School, relationships.

Alexander X. O’Connor “As we return from virtual schooling, I was Auditorium. looking for a comedy Presented by The that had few students Bayonne High School Drama Society is play- on stage at once, that ing at the Alexander X. also explored ideas of life, love and human O’Connor Auditorium at Bayonne High School existence...something we all had a lot of time starting on Friday, to deal with over the last December 3rd through Sunday, December 5th. year and a half. ALL IN THE TIMING definitely All in the Timing is fit the bill.” -Brendan a collection of one-act Wahlers, Director. plays by the American

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MILE SQUARE THEATRE OPENS ITS DOORS IN DECEMBER WITH BROADWAY’S MARGO SEIBERT

show on December 10 and 11 is the next step to returning to normal. I think our audience is in for a delightful evening with Margo!”

About Emergence When the world paused and live performance was deemed unsafe, Margo (and most artists) experienced a heartbreaking absence of their passion and livelihood. Faced with the unknown and performance for which it’s coupled with life’s stunknown. ning twists and turns, Broadway star, songwriter Margo takes us on a and Hoboken local Margo journey through the last Seibert comes to MST year and a half, filled with song, celebration, with her original solo show Emergence. Seibert and honesty. The evening’s musical landscape presents an evening of musical theatre, folk rock, includes Broadway favorites both new and old, and her own original Seibert’s original tunes, music.

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The full event descriptions and event map are available on www.jcfridays. com JC Fridays is a seasonal multi-arts festival featuring art events that take place in restaurants, galleries, stores, and event spaces in almost every neighborhood in Jersey City. All events are free and open to the public. As one of the preeminent art scenes in the tri-state area, Jersey City is abound with visual and performing artists of all types, musicians, and individuals with unique talents; JC Fridays is one of the best times for them to share their newest projects and works.

Printable event listings can be found here: https:// bit.ly/32etN1E Art House Productions is committed to accessibility and inclusivity in all the public programming presented by our organization. A list of wheelchair accessible events can be found here: www.jcfridays.com/blog/categories/ wheelchair-accessible For questions about venue COVID-19 safety protocols, please contact the hosts directly. Art House encourages all patrons to follow all CDC Guidance and adhere to each event’s requirements.

JC Fridays Event Listings Lineup - December 3, 2021

Vegan AF: The Art Show Must Go On! Since day ONE local artists Robert Piersanti, Lawrence Ciarallo, Distort and Qassim Muñoz have offered to support us by displaying their art on our walls and an amazing mural on the front of the restaurant. This show is for them and for all the local artists that are always there for the community. The art show must go on!

Triangle Park Community Center: Viva Greenville!

Featuring the works of two Jersey City natives; Susana Martin & Maria Lupuanez!

Exhibiting the inner beauty of our people and community, Viva Greenville demonstrates that we are resilient in the midst of all that is taking place in our world...Let’s continue to live!!

Artist Ben Fine will Spicer. MUYU reopen his studio for a launches online this holiday sale - offering winter -- catch them in person this JC Fridays! framed limited edition prints of his cityscapes.

CMPND x Nachalie These cityscapes were Rodriguez: Circle of painted from a fourthLife Series floor window overlookWe’ll be hosting an ing a corner of Hamilton exhibition for artist Park during the lockNachalie Rodriguez down of 2020. as she showcases her NOW Project Space for Circle of Life series.

Join us on December 3 the Arts: Hopeful NOW Project Space for at 97 Newkirk Street.

Viewing will be on our the Arts welcomes artist Charlie Hewitt in the third floor in the cowalk by public art winworking lounge. dows. NPSA welcomes Outlander Gallery: Vikki Michalios in the ‘The Maiden & The walk by public works Crone’ windows.

A multi-media experiArt150: Holiday ential solo exhibition Market & Open Studios by artist Christy E. Art150 will have an O’Connor. extensive exhibition of Team Wilderness Photography Collection artwork for $250 or less, as well as further origiTeam Wilderness’ Photography Club gives nal artwork available in the more than 50 artist local teens an opporProject Greenville: Winter tunity to develop prostudios (including Paul Wonderland Weekend Wirhun/Eggman and fessional photography Join us Friday and m.gluck). The artists of skills while embarking Saturday for one of our Art150 include painters, on wilderness excurfavorite community photographers, sculptors sions. This will be the art events, The Winter and mixed media artfirst peak at their budWonderland Weekend! ists. The Art150 space Featuring winter and holi- ding skills. also includes the Pro New Jersey City day art--of all kinds--by Arts gallery, which will local artists...refreshments, University Galleries: have arts vendors durWonder Women Artist holiday cheer and a cozy Talk: Health and Art in ing JC Fridays, as well way to start the season in as Art House Gallery, Greenville! Bring a new a Global Pandemic which will have its Very or gently used toy for our Join us for our free donation bin :) Affordable Art Show on Virtual Artist talk, or MUYU Market at display. stop by the galleries SMUSH Gallery in-person to see our ex- Art House Productions Join MUYU, a local hibits! Virtual art talk by Gallery: The Very cultural incubator for four artists from the cur- Affordable Art Show low-income creatives, rent exhibit in the Visual “The Very Affordable for a holiday market Art Show” includes Arts Gallery, Wonder at SMUSH Gallery! works of art all priced Women 12: A Health Artist-vendors include at $250 and under.

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ART HOUSE JCFridays JCFridays Cont’d pg. 7 affordable for the holiday season. Works include paintings, small sculptures, handmade gifts, and more!

Theda Sandiford Art: Free Your Mind: Public Social Justice Art Project Free Your Mind is a collection of personal narratives. Participants are invited to write onto a ribbon an experience with microaggressions and then, tie the ribbon onto a net, to release this story from their personal narrative. Later, artist Theda Sandiford will weave the story ribbons into a protective blanket.

Pro Arts Holiday Bazaar at ART150 A Holiday Bazaar at ART150 featuring local artisans, crafters and artists, just in time for the Holiday Season. With goodies and gifts for sale during the kickoff of the Season, this event is not to be missed!

Dvora Pop-Up Gallery: Scot J. Wittman: Solo Exhibition Dvora Gallery presents the digital map collages of Scot J. Wittman.

Wittman meticulously redraws digital maps of historic places of the world, then cuts and reforms the prints into classic and legendary portraits and whimsical figures.

175 2nd Street: The Art Project Tour 14 floors of soloartist lobbies of area artists! Produced by Drawing Rooms and Shuster Management.

Fine Arts Gallery at Saint Peter’s University: Inside Outside: Paintings by Jennifer Krause Chapeau and Linda Streicher In a complex world, Inside Outside explores the dualities of inside and outside space. It is possible to experience and to see this space at the same time.

That is where the magic begins. How does our perception change as we move through it? Where do these worlds meet and cross over?

SILVERMAN and Majestic Theatre Condominiums Presents: Eeriness, Ghosts, and Forgotten Goddesses Featuring Stephanie Guillen Curated by: Kristin J. DeAngelis The SILVERMAN and Hamilton Square Condominiums Present: BODY LANGUAGE By: OCCIPITAL An exhibition exploring how emotion subconsciously translates through body language.

Art House Productions is generously supported

by The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, SILVERMAN, The Princeton Foundation, The New Jersey Theatre Alliance, The Hudson County Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Alliance of Resident Theatres / New York.

For more information about Art House programs, please visit our website at www.arthouseproductions. org. Follow on social media @arthouseproductions @arthouseprods To sign up for Art House’s mailing list, please click here: http://eepurl.com/hd1FCj If You Go JCFridays Varitey of Events

Brighten Someone’s Holiday Season with Christmas Cactus

by Melinda Myers The holidays have arrived and so has the Christmas cactus. Set this favorite holiday plant in a basket, decorative pot or foil wrap and it will be ready to give as a gift or add to your holiday décor.

With proper care this holiday favorite can flower for four to eight weeks and grow for decades, becoming a family heirloom handed down from one generation to the next.

The plant sold as a Christmas cactus may actually be a Thanksgiving cactus. The true Christmas cactus blooms later and has small segments with rounded edges. The Thanksgiving cactus, though often sold as the Christmas cactus, has toothed or jagged segments and typically blooms prior to Christmas.

Fortunately, their growing requirements and care are basically the same so the plants will do fine no matter the name on the label. These, or hybrids of the two plants, flower with cool nights and long uninterrupted dark periods.

A third holiday plant, the Easter cactus, sets flowers in spring as the days start to lengthen.

Christmas and Thanksgiving cacti are epiphytes that naturally grow on trees in shaded and humid forests along the coast of Brazil. They all prefer bright indirect light, high humidity and a thorough watering when the top few inches of soil begins to dry. Don’t over water but don’t let the soil dry completely. Water a bit more often when the plant is in bloom.

Grow them in an organic well-drained potting mix

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for best results. Water thoroughly and pour off the excess that collects in the saucer to avoid root rot. Reduce maintenance and improve the growing conditions with the help of gravel trays. Place a layer of pebbles, decorative stones or marbles in the saucer or bottom of the foil wrap or basket. The pot will be elevated above any excess water that collects in the pebbles. As the water evaporates, it increases the humidity around the plant.

Keep your flowering cactus in a cool bright location to extend its bloom time. Avoid drafts of hot and cold air, moisture stress and other changes in the environment that can cause buds and flowers to drop.

Fertilize with a dilute solution of flowering houseplant fertilizer once it has finished blooming and throughout spring and summer as needed. Grow your cactus in a northfacing window or set back from an east- or westfacing window where it receives bright indirect light throughout the year.

Too much sun turns the leaf segments dark red.

Don’t be anxious to move these plants to a bigger container. They prefer to be somewhat potbound and can remain in the

same pot for years.

Encourage a new flush of flowers with cooler night temperatures around 55 to 60 degrees and slightly drier soil. An uninterrupted dark period will also help promote flowering.

Start the dark treatment in early to mid October for holiday flowers. Cover the plants or move them to a location free of any artificial light, indoors or outside, each night and provide bright indirect light each day. Any interruption in the dark period from outdoor, street or reading lights can delay or prevent flowering.

Many experts find providing the same dark treatment as poinsettias, 14 hours of dark each night, promotes flowering.

Michigan State University recommends providing 16 hours of total darkness and eight hours of light for at least eight days to promote flowering.

Add a Christmas cactus to your indoor plant collection and share a few with friends and family over the holidays. These easy-care flowering beauties are sure to brighten the recipient’s mood and holiday décor.

Melinda Myers has written more than 20 gardening books, including The Midwest Gardener’s Handbook and Small Space Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses “How to Grow Anything” DVD series and the nationally-syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio program.

Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine. Her web site is www. melindamyers.com.

HUDSON HAPPENINGS Dresdner Robin Completes Work on 21,700-Square-Foot Veterans’ Housing Complex in Jersey City

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“Exposed Man with Gun in Hand” are featured in the narrative film program innovation with specialfollowing a lively discusties in site/civil engision about their work. neering, land surveying, The film program inenvironmental services, cludes, “No Place,” by planning, surveying and Gabriel Amaral, São landscape architecture in the revival of urban land- Paulo, Brazil Land-use consultancy provided civil engineering, scapes. Dresdner Robin’s When Nego discovers that landscape and site lighting design for low- and multi-functional teams are the cacao farm he lives moderate-income housing, with space for social strategically located in of- and works on is going to support services be sold, he must face not fices throughout the New York City, New Jersey and only the loss of his home Philadelphia metro areas. and job, but also the daily contact he has with the For more information land he cherishes so much. about Dresdner Robin, This moving film deals “This is an excellent visit www.dresdnerrobin. with the hierarchical and addition to the city, and com. co-dependent relationship it’s fulfilling to have the Thomas Edison between employer and opportunity to provide Film Festival employee, specifically our services on a project within the context of a and the Hoboken like this,” said Dresdner Historical Museum developing country where Robin’s Mark Vizzini, present Meet the the power one holds over the associated director the other is often unconFilmmakers – of land development, scionable; “Exposed Man The Art of who also served as projwith Gun in Hand,” by ect manager. “The facil- Storytelling, featur- Francisco Saco, San José, ing Gabriel Amaral ity’s amenities will go Costa Rica - An armed and Francisco far beyond just housing. man tries to rid himself of Saco in converIt will provide counthe burden that is his agsation with Jane gression. The weapon he seling and support to Steuerwald, TEFF wields acts as a symbol of our local veterans, and (Photos courtesy of Tantum Real Estate) Director. the patterns of behavior strengthen the Jersey New Jersey-based landexpert testimony regardSTREAMING produced by an overly use consultancy Dresdner ing site planning and City community as a FOR FREE from violent society; “Pipo and Robin announced the design. Dresdner Robin whole.”

December 1st – Blind Love,” by Hugo Le firm has completed civil secured municipal enTantum Real Estate December 31st, Gourrierec, Paris, France engineering, landscape titlements and necessary is partnering with sev- In a de-humanized world 2021. and lighting design serregulatory land-use pereral organizations that where emotions are ravices for a veterans’ mits, and provided plan offer veterans support tioned and measured by housing complex at 526 construction drawings and and skills programs, a gauge, Pipo, a factory Ocean Avenue in Jersey construction administraincluding Collaborative worker, falls in love with a City, which officially tion services.

Support Programs of woman sitting on a bench. opened yesterday. The “It’s been a pleasure to New Jersey (CSPNJ), a He will try anything to 21,700-square-foot lowwork with Dresdner Robin peer-led not-for-profit attract her attention and and moderate-income throughout the developOn Wednesday, organization, providing seduce her with his own housing facility includes ment of this project,” says December 1st, the Thomas flexible, communitylanguage; and “Twinkle 20 units reserved for Debra Tantleff, founder Edison Film Festival and based services that Twinkle Little Star,” veterans, with some earTantum Real Estate. “It’s the Hoboken Historical promote responsibility,

by Shiyue Xu, Tianjin, marked for homeless indi- very gratifying to work Museum launch Meet China & Glendale, CA, viduals who served. The with companies like theirs, recovery, and wellness. the Filmmakers: The Art US - “Twinkle Twinkle About Dresdner Robin four-story building also who not only care about of Storytelling – feaLittle Star” is the story of includes 1,500-square-feet their craft but also the Dresdner Robin is a turing Gabriel Amaral a boy’s pursuit to achieve of ground-floor commercommunities that they leading land-use consul- and Francisco Saco in his dream of becoming a cial space for social supwork in.” tancy covering the New conversation with Jane pianist but having to give port services.

In 2016, Jersey City York, New Jersey and Steuerwald, TEFF direcThe project was apRedevelopment Agency Philadelphia metro mar- tor. The program streams up his dream when reality sets in. The song of the proved by the Jersey (JCRA), an organization kets. The full-service live on Wednesday same name was used and City Planning Board in that provides project faDecember 1st and will firm provides creative 2017 following Dresdner cilitation, site assemblage solutions that emphasize run through December 31, adapted into various compositions to mirror the Robin’s engineering deand clearance, environ2021. Amaral’s film “No service, client Cont’d on page 12 sign analysis and mental remediation, and

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HUDSON HAPPENINGS the globe. The Festival’s touring program reaches out to diverse audiences in diverse settings with screenings of cuttingedge, cross-genre films including narrative, experimental, animation, and documentary. The and click on - Meet the Festival’s homebase is Filmmakers – The Art of the Hoboken Historical Storytelling.

Museum where we work To make a donation together to enrich the to the Thomas Edison community.

Film Festival visit http:// This program is made tefilmfest.org and click possible through the on Donate in the menu generous support of the bar. To make a donation Hudson County Office to the Hoboken Historical of Cultural and Heritage Museum visit https:// Affairs and Tourism www.hobokenmuseum.

Development. org and click on Join & To learn more about Give. the Thomas Edison For 40 years, the Film Festival visit Thomas Edison Film TEFilmFestival.org.

Festival has been advancTo learn more about ing the unique creativity the Hoboken Historical and power of the short Museum visit https:// form. The Festival is an www.hobokenmuseum. international juried comorg. petition open to all genres The Thomas Edison and filmmakers across Thomas Edison Film Series Cont’d from pg. 11

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