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Jersey City’s New Mayor Steven M. Fulop Envisions the City’s Cultural Future

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By Sally Deering

elatively unknown before he took office as the Mayor of Jersey City on July 1, 2013, Steven M. Fulop now has his own page on Wikipedia.

Gaining in popularity, a local paper put him 4th on a list of Hudson’s 50 most influential people.

Mayor Fulop, 36, seems to have a vision for Jersey City’s cultural scene with plans to bring the city to greater heights that reflect its stature as the second largest city in New Jersey. By raising the standards of the arts scene, Fulop envisions Jersey City as an arts mecca similar to New York City that will attract visitors in huge numbers and big name acts to its performance venues while providing public spaces for resident artists, filmmakers, dancers, actors and musicians.

Moving forward, in the short time he’s been in office, Mayor Fulop has already been in meetings with Cordish Companies of Baltimore, the prospective developers of the Powerhouse building in downtown Jersey City. He has supported legislation to reinstate the tax credits to

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filmmakers who want to shoot on location in Jersey City; and, he has approved projects by mural artists to paint designated buildings in Jersey City. Mayor Fulop also has plans to turn the old movie palace, the Loew’s Jersey City in Journal Square into a performing arts center like NJPAC. con’t pg. 5

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IN THE CLUBS

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A Classy Treat The Powerhouse Lounge in Jersey City

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he Powerhouse Lounge is a Jersey City nightclub with food service, mostly loved for their incredible pizza, and sushi. It opened three years ago in 2010 and now you don’t have to journey into New York City for a classy trendy club because it’s here.

There is a doorman so always dress to impress – bring your corporate I.D., and wear business attire to get in – especially if you are interested in the corporate happy hour from 5-to-8 pm. It’s a deal offering

food and drinks for just $20.

Once inside you’ll notice the ambiance is very stylish: dark leather seating, a cascading waterfall behind the bar, and 3 gel-fueled, wall-mounted fireplaces. According to the General Manager Walter Sawicki, “We wanted to create a dark, sexy, trendy, place equal or better than any New York City lounge”.

There is a bottle service deal and the cost varies according to the liquor brand you choose. Average cost for 4 people is $220 and up.

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On Friday, and Saturday nights there is a live DJ accompanied by a percussionist. On Thursday nights all their large screens play the video of the Top 40 music the DJ is playing.

The seating is very well arranged in sections. There are V.I.P. areas where you and your friends can have privacy but are still right in the mix. If you feel like dancing you have plenty of room to bust out that move, or you can just sit at the comfortable bar and chill or make new friends.

There is a coat check policy which is great

since winter is coming and you don’t want to lug around your outer wear.

This is not your neighborhood sports bar so be prepared to indulge in a classy treat.

If you go: The Powerhouse Lounge 360 Marin Blvd.

Jersey City (201) 918-5125 www. powerhouselounge.com Hours: Tues-Thurs, 4 pm-2 am Fri, Sat, 4 pm-3am

Odd Teen Out Joe Montaperto suffers an Identity Crisis in his new Memoir THE EDGE OF WHITENESS

By Sally Deering

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oe Montaperto grew up in the 1970s, a time of race riots, culture-clashes and mash-ups. Born and raised in an Italian Brooklyn neighborhood, Montaperto’s parents moved him and the family to Roselle, New Jersey, with the hope of getting away from the racially-charged clashes playing out on Brooklyn’s streets. Instead, the teenage Montaperto enrolled in a high school where AfricanAmerican teenagers were bussed in from the innercity and Montaperto, who is of Italian dissent, how to find a way to cope in this unexpected and sometimes

violent culture clash.

This all happens on the first page of THE EDGE OF WHITENESS, Montaperto’s memoir published

by Oak Tree Press and available on Amazon.com and Montaperto’s website (www.JoeMontaperto. com). On Thurs, Jan.9th at 6:30 pm, Montaperto will read excerpts of THE EDGE OF WHITENESS at the Heights branch of the Jersey City Free Public Library on Zabriskie Street.

“It was a story I had to tell,” Montaperto says. “I was born in Brooklyn and we moved to Roselle New Jersey. It was an insidious town – it looked pretty nice, but it was kind of a

dangerous place. We were from Brooklyn. We lived in an Italian neighborhood and we moved to Roselle.

It was very white and the high school was mostly black. It was kind

of a weird cultural shock, like Jackie Robinson in reverse. I remember feeling totally on the outside from everybody. It was pretty rough until when I turned 15. I suddenly looked Puerto Rican and I learned how to box and that probably saved me, those two things.”

The story begins in 1969, “as Brooklyn smolders in the aftermath of the past summer’s race riots.”

Montaperto and his family move from their Italian neighborhood to start fresh in a New Jersey suburb.

Ironically, the high school there is “forcefully-integrated” and Montaperto is confronted with a brutal

racial conflict. When he is unexpectedly rescued from a hallway ambush, he finds himself entering a new world – at least to him – of African-American culture.

Before becoming an author, Montaperto started out his career as an actor and comedian, performing in comedy clubs in the 1980’s.

Later, he applied his training and background to his one man show FOUR DEGREES OF DISCONNECTION, which he performed in and around New York City. Soon, he began feeling burned out, so Montaperto went soul-searching in the Amazon jungle.

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Con’t from page 3 resident, Montaperto was a hit at the Jersey City Free Public Library’s annual book fair in September where he read excerpts of THE EDGE OF WHITENESS “It’s a fascinating book,” Michele Dupuy, Public Information Officer for the Jersey City Free Public Library says.

“I really related to his book.”

These days, Montaperto works as a bartender for a catering company to pay the bills while he works on his second book, a sequel to THE EDGE OFWHITENESS. “It’s called LOVELY CHAOS,” Montaperto says.

“When I was a comedian in New York, I was going back and forth between my

quest for a spiritual life and the nightlife, a seedy world of crack gangs, pimps and prostitutes. I had my share of beatings and revenge. It was really kind of wild, almost a continuation of what went on in high school. It was total chaos, but I loved it. A part of me really loved the rush of everything. Being a comedian is the

Author Joe Montaperto ultimate rush on stage and then being on the street at 3 o’clock in the morning, that’s a rush, too. Everybody’s roaming the streets

looking to get something.”

Montaperto works on LOVELY CHAOS in his favorite writing spot, Panera’s Bread on Washington Street in Hoboken.

That’s where he wrote THE EDGE OF WHITENESS, too.

“I’ve been writing at Panera’s for years,” Montaperto says “You find yourself coming to tears and in a public place and you don’t care. I’m hoping they never close.”

If you go: Thurs, Jan. 9, 2014, 6:30 pm Joe Montaperto reads from his book THE EDGE OF WHITENESS Jersey City Free Public Library Heights Branch 14 Zabriskie St. Jersey City (201) 547-4556 THE EDGE OF WHITENESS is available on Amazon. com as a Kindle download; www.smashwords.com and www.joemontaperto. com For River View Observer rates & information 201-349-4336

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Jersey City’s New Mayor Steven M. Fulop Envisions the City’s Cultural Future Con’t from cover

On a recent November morning, Mayor Fulop took time out of his busy schedule to speak with Riverview Observer about some of his plans and projects for Jersey City’s cultural scene.

RVO: Mayor Fulop do you have any personal association with the arts – did you play the trumpet in high school, that sort of thing?

MSF: I have a great appreciation for music and I have friends in the arts community, thus I’ve been engaged in it. I took piano lessons during my childhood and up until last year.

I play classical music and I started studying Jazz. Classical is straight-forward, you’re reading notes and I could do that very well, but I couldn’t improvise. It’s a totally different skillset.

My piano teacher moved, though, and now I’m looking for a new one, so if you know anybody,..

professional management.

You’ll see that on the Council agenda coming forward. That’s a big step.

From a city standpoint, I can’t put $10-$15 million dollars into something that has the “potential” for success. The Loew’s is the size of NJPAC and across from the Journal Square PATH. You could get big names, and people coming from al over for art, music, restaurants. The Loew’s is really a key component of what we’re trying to do.

at our Halloween fair.

There was a petting zoo, rides; it was a safe and festive place. Cultural Affairs needs to be thinking like that. Twenty people for a flag-raising; I don’t need seven employees administering flag-raising – telling people ‘go here to get permits’. What are you doing for 2014 and where are the new plans for things that are going to be substantially large? To me, it’s more than just an art show in a rotunda for a few artists. Cultural Affairs has to be good branding for Jersey City. We haven’t increased (the budget) until we have a plan.

RVO: According to the Jersey City Redevelopment Authority, proposals by the Cordish Companies of Baltimore will transform the Powerhouse building into an “art and entertainment mixed use center with multi-floor retail and commercial space.” Can you elaborate?

MSF: We’d like to see progress here. The developer submitted two proposals: one was more elaborate; one less elaborate. Both proposals are from a cultural perspective. One has a type of performance space; one is more marketing-retail oriented. They are both different and both have different costs with some public and private partnership. I feel comfortable Cont’d on page 6

RVO: Over the years, RVO: Do you have any funding for Jersey City interest in a specific area Cultural Affairs has of the arts in Jersey City? dropped from $700,000 MSF: I’ve realized in order to $100,000. Will this be to make Jersey City really turned around during shine it needs a thriving your administration? arts community. That’s MSF: We’re working with what attracts people here.

Cultural Affairs to revisit Transportation won’t just how it functions in the city. do it, you need culture and A cultural affairs group that art. We’re working with is just hanging art work or Senator (Steve) Lesniak doing flag-raising is not to reinstate the film tax how I envision Cultural credit; legislation will be Affairs. We’re looking for introduced next week. things that are going to We’re looking to see how have thousands of people to put more money into the there. We had 2000 people Loew’s and bring in Page 5- November 22nd -December 13th, 2013 River View Observer

Fulop

cont’d from page 5 with either of them.

RVO: You mentioned the art gallery Mana Contemporary on Newark Avenue in Jersey City as a good representation of how the arts can attract people.

Can you elaborate?

MSF: If you go to their art openings, there are 10,000 people from all over New Jersey. They have some of the world’s best artists from the performing arts, visual arts. There are paintings

by Andy Warhol. Mana is going to be the major arts institution for Jersey City.

RVO: Can you tell our readers if and when the Jersey City Museum will re-open?

MSF: It’s still a problem.

We don’t have clarity around the inventory. In

fairness to (former mayor) Jerry Healy, he inherited a very tough situation on the museum. Where they built that museum, there’s no parking, it’s a tough location to attract visitors and attract global artists on a large scale. To compete with the New York City market you have to have something special. There are a lot of things special about this place. We should be thinking big. If it’s not big, it’s not interesting to me.

RVO: The arts in Jersey City seem to exist despite a lack of space. A good example is the Grassroots Community Art Space on Newark Ave, a public art space run by artists.

In the future, will the city provide more venues for artists?

MSF: The market dictates

Operation Christmas Child Kindergarten Classes fill Shoeboxes for Underprivileged Children Mayor Fulop also has plans to turn the old movie palace, the Loew’s Jersey City in Journal Square into a performing arts center like NJPAC.

that. Some things happen organically. We have a black-box theater, a 400seat theater opening up on Bay Street. It’s going to be given to the city and will be a city asset. (But) it’s hard to have government in that role. Government is not good at owning assets.

It’s not our skillset. What we do is create a cultural environment. It’s about creating a brand in Jersey City that goes beyond Jersey City.

To learn more about Jersey City’s cultural arts scene, go to: www.cityofjerseycity.com.

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Lending a helping hand Kindergarten students from All Saint’s Catholic Academy in Bayonne, Mrs. Cronin and Mrs. Olvesen classes KA and KB filled shoeboxes as part of Operation Christmas Child. The children excited to help underprivileged children understood the purpose and decorated and filled the boxes with goodies and wrote notes to the children who will be receiving the boxes.

Happenings Cantigas Women’s Choir presents its 12th annual winter concert entitled HOW MERRILY WE LIVE: Songs of the Season on Saturday, December 14 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Matthew Trinity Church at 57 Eighth Street (at Hudson Street) in Hoboken, N.J. The suggestion donation for the concert is $15 ($5 for seniors and students).

The Big/ Small Painting Show Now through Dec.21st A selection of innovative and current paintings by various artists from all over New Jersey.

The Drawing Room 180 Grand Street Jersey City, NJ

Gallery hours are: Thursday and Friday 4pm -7pm and Saturday and Sunday 2 -6 pm Jersey City Nutcracker December 21st and 22nd

Nimbus Dance Works announces the fourth year of the company’s annual holiday tradition: Jersey City Nutcracker tells the story of two children’s urban holiday adventure leading them through fantasy, adversity and celebration and teaching them lessons about friendship and community along the way.

Frank R. Conwell Middle School #4 Auditorium 107 Bright Street Jersey City, NJ Send us you Happenings riverviewobser@gmail.com

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“A LEGEND OF COMMUNIPAW: THE PLAY” PREMIERING IN JERSEY CITY “A Legend of Communipaw: The Play,” based on the Washington Irving short story of the same name, is making its world premiere this fall from Dec. 5 through 15 in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J. The story, which is set in 17-century Jersey City, follows the partnership of two men who meet in Communipaw in the early years of British governance -- one Dutch, one African, both with outsider attitudes -- who join forces to achieve what neither could alone. Along the way, they face pirates, riotous parties, threat of persecution, sea storms and in classic Irving fashion, even the supernatural.

The themes in “A Legend of Communipaw,” including commercial ambition and pan-ethnic business and personal relationships, are rooted firmly in the early days of European settlement and are as familiar and fresh to people today as they were to Washington Irving almost 200 years ago.

“This play combines history, literature and theater is a new way that offers entertainment and education in one delicious serving. It is set and staged in the same geographic area, and also has global appeal for its story and context in international history and current global realities that cannot be separated from the events of the play,” said director Trish Szymanski.

“More than ever, a popular understanding of the impact of history is needed to engage more parts of society to make change, not only in academic settings but also in entertainment and a variety of cultural programming.”

A Legend of Communipaw Art by Loura Vander Muele Each evening will begin John Timon and Mitchell with a talk about the New Vargas.

Netherland period as well as The production will also the impact of Dutch culture feature set design by artist in Jersey City and beyond by Loura van der Meule and mua local historian and expert in sic by ethnomusicologist and the field from the Jersey City world-music specialist Neva Landmarks Conservancy.

Wartell.

This will be the directori“A Legend of Commual debut of Jersey City actress nipaw” will run Thursdays and artist Trish Szymanski, through Sundays from Dec. 5 who also adapted the play through 15 at 7:30 pm except using only Irving’s words and for two showtimes: Saturday, plays Floris Valstrikker, a sup- Dec. 14 at 8 pm and Sunday, porting role.

Dec. 8 at 3 pm. All shows The play stars Yvonne Her- will be at St. Paul’s Episcopal nandez, Charles Herrion and Church, 38 Duncan Ave., JerTim Kutka. Supporting actors sey City, NJ. Tickets are $20, include Mike Fass, John $10 for students and seniors Jayme, Julia Lomba, Dolores and are available at ALegendReyes, Juliette Reyes, Trish ofCommunipaw.brownpaperSzymanski, Patrick Taaffe, tickets.com.

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ME Casa (Su Casa) Shining a Spotlight on Fine Puerto Rican Cuisine in Jersey City

By Sally Deering Eighteen months ago Chef Ed Cotto, Jr., and his wife Maria discovered a little nook on Varick Street in Jersey City and turned it into ME Casa, a divine little restaurant where the star is traditional Puerto Rican cuisine served in grand style. Cotto, who was born and raised in Brooklyn and spent much of his childhood in his family’s native Puerto Rico, has a special ingredient he adds to all his dishes: he calls it heart and soul.

“I’m a little disturbed Latin cuisine hasn’t elevated,” Cotto says on a recent afternoon as he prepares for the evening dinner crowd.

“I went to Puerto Rico a couple years ago and not only didn’t they change their physical décor, it was

Me Casa’s intimate dining room in Jersey City is intimate and warm with the same dishes I had 20 Latin music playing softly years ago. Puerto Ricans in the background. It’s a have been content selling Puerto Rican food to Puerto BYOB restaurant and Cotto encourages his guests to Ricans. My challenge is bring their own wine or beer to sell it to people of other cultures. Roast pork is roast to complement his menu, which offers select tradipork, how do you make it tional Puerto Rican dishes differently? ”

by Cotto.

The dining room, red“My boss is the people bricked lined with tables who sit here in these covered in white linens,

Chef Ed Cotto Jr. in front of his restaurant Me Casa in Jersey City chairs,” Cotto says. “Good pulled pork. A real standout food and hospitality, it has is the Alcapurias, fried to go hand in hand. I want mashed green banana and my customers to connect.” plantain filled with beef Cotto offered a visitor Picadillo. This appetizer a few ME Casa signature is served with a choice of dishes to taste like the three sauces, one of which Mofongo Al Pilon, mashed is the “Incredible Hulk” a green plantains and garlic tomato-based sauce that is topped with beef (shrimp not too spicy. Served like or chicken) stew which was a mini turnover, the Alvery tasty. The beef in the capurias has an outside texstew was tender and the ture with nice crunch while gravy had some really nice the ground beef inside is flavors. Another delicious lighter than air – a delicious house specialty is the Pernil combination of flavors and Asado, traditional marinated Cont’d on page 18

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restaurant VIEWS textures. No wonder Yelp has named ME Casa No. 1 in its league.

“These are real traditional dishes,” Cotto says.”

Our Roast Pork Pernil, I render it down for 12-14 hours. It’s not like southern-pulled pork, but it’s as moist as you can get before dipping. I serve it with crispy pork crackling on top. You can’t have pulled pork without crispy pork crackling on top.”

The menu also features appetizers like Chicharron De Pollo, crispy deepfried chicken pieces; the Empanada Sampler with a choice of three chicken, beef or shrimp empanadas; and Mini Mofongos, garlicmashed green plantain cups filled with beef, chicken and shrimp.

Entrees include Filete De Tilapia, pan-seared tilapia topped with fresh spicy mango salsa or Mojo Isleno style (garlic and onion red sauce); Chuleta Frita, fried pork chops topped with caramelized onions;

Asopao De Camarones, shrimp gumbo; Pollo Boracho, chicken breast prepared in Sofrito, onions and beer; Bistec Encebollado, sirloin steak topped with caramelized onions; and Carne Guisada, traditional Latino beef stew.

Before studying to be a chef, Cotto started his career in finance, working at Smith Barney, Deutche Bank, Barclays and Goldman Sachs. He was Vice President at Nomura Securities when he decided to open his own restaurant.

“I went to the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City at night,” Cotto says. “I first learned how to cook as a kid. My mother had a small catering business in Brooklyn.”

In the 1990s, Cotto says he studied other restaurants that specialized in Puerto Rican cuisine, but it seemed they were more like bars and nightclubs that served Puerto Rican food as an after-thought.

“What they’re marketing is

their bar or club; we don’t want to do that,” Cotto says. “Here, at ME Casa, the customer is getting quality food. Who knows Puerto Rican cuisine better than I do? My mom.”

ME Casa caters corporate events and private parties on site or on location and Cotto has done his research, connecting with local businesses and hospitals who are booking his catering services for their holiday parties. And now its pasteles season, so he has a special chef who makes them for the many orders he fills. Pasteles are meat turnovers wrapped in green banana and served as a traditional treat during the Christmas season.

“Pasteles season is right now,” Cotto says. “We sell them by the dozen, beef, chicken, pork and vegetarian. It’s a traditional dish – Puerto Rican comfort food.”

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If you go: ME Casa (Su Casa) 356 Varick Street, Jersey City (201) 706-2242 www.mecasajc.com Info@mecasajc.com Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11:30 am-10 pm Fri, 11:30 am-11 pm -Sat, 1-11 pm; Sun, 1-10 pm

The Bayonne High School Drama Society invites you to come out and solve “The Mystery of Edwin Drood!” on December 6th, 7th, & 8th!

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