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Jersey City Fashion Week announces the designer that will be featured September 24-28.  

Jersey City, September 2014: Jersey City Fashion Week (JCFW) announces the designer line up for the week:

9/24 Wednesday (Opening Night)

Rue 114 – Serwah Asante

LeVirage Fashion – Nadu Lawson

9/25 Thursday (VIP Night)

Vampire Life – Jim Jones

DLM – Darrell Reid (Former NFL Player and Give to Live Board Member)

Planet Zero Motor Sport – Kenya Smith

House of Sadia - Sadia Hussain

Helen Castillo (preview)

9/26 Friday (Children’s Show)

P.S. Aeropostle

Pinky Sez

Victoria Gibbs

Tyrone Chablis

Kendra Law Bella Bebe

Keystone Club Designers

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Andrew’s Café and Restaurant in Bayonne: Vegan, Vegetarian and Gluten-Free Dishes Fit for a President

Andrew Perera
Andrew Perera
By Sally Deering
Andrew Perera opened his café and restaurant in Bayonne in August 2009, ten years after he met and designed a vegan menu for President Bill Clinton. At Andrew’s in Bayonne, Perera serves his customers the same fare he designed for the former president — vegan soups, salads, sandwiches, entrees and desserts.

He serves a few meat dishes too.

“Andrew’s is the only restaurant serving organically healthy cuisine in this Bayonne area,” Perera says, sitting outside his café on a sunny weekday afternoon. “A lot of people come from Staten Island, East Rutherford, Linden, Queens – I have people coming here because the food is healthy. Soups, appetizers, entrees, desserts, our customers are crazy for everything vegan, especially the desserts and the soups.” Continue reading Andrew’s Café and Restaurant in Bayonne: Vegan, Vegetarian and Gluten-Free Dishes Fit for a President

Community Pillar- St. Dominic Academy to Honor Maryanne Kelleher, Director of Jersey City Cultural Affairs

By Sally Deering

MaryanneKelleherheadshotOn Thurs, Nov. 21, Saint Dominic Academy (SDA) will honor Jersey City Cultural Affairs Director Maryanne Kelleher, Class of ’90, with the Dominican Pillar Award, the highest honor given to “outstanding individuals whose personal and professional lives reflect the values of Saint Dominic.” The 15th Annual SDA Leadership Awards Gala will be held at Nanina’s in the Park in Belleville and the money raised will to go to SDAs scholarship fund.

“It is a special thing to be honored by the community that I serve,” Kelleher says, “but to have SDA reach out to me to say, ‘You’ve done well, kid,’ twenty-three years after graduation is a whole other experience all-together.  This is very touching and a personal honor which I will cherish for years to come.”

Jersey City’s Director of Cultural Affairs since 1996, Kelleher has worked for several administrations including Mayors Bret Schundler, Glenn Cunningham, L. Harvey Smith, Jerramiah T. Healy, and the newly-elected Mayor Steven M. Fulop. Her primary mission as a public servant, she says, is to remain keenly aware of the needs within the creative, ethnic and preservation communities and advocate on their behalf to realize their goals. She encourages Jersey City artists — dancers, actors, writers – to contact her office if they need help with their projects.

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Bayonne High School Art Students create T-Shirt Designs

T-ShirtDesignwinners-2013 In photo – L to R:   Kester Canda, Abraam Tawfik

.The original designs of two BHS Computer Graphics students were selected for the annual Senior Day and Project Graduation T-Shirts.

 Abraam Tawfik’s design was chosen for the Senior Day T-shirt and distributed to all seniors on Monday, June 17 to be worn at the annual event held at Veteran’s Stadium that day.  Once Abraam was informed that his design was chosen, he was directed to create a second design for the back of the shirt which read “B.H.S. and I.M.T.T.  Partners in Education”.

 Kester Canda’s design for the Project Graduation T-shirt was worn by all those who attended the event after the 2013 BHS graduation ceremony.

 Over 45 designs from the Computer Graphics classes were submitted for consideration under the direction of Mrs. Charlann Meluso, Computer Graphics teacher. Both Abraam and Kester each received a $25 award for their efforts.

 

 

Fashionista Water Vitaminwater Flavors Inspire Unique Fashions at Runway Competition in Hoboken

 
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By Sally Deering                   Photo’s by Steveamack.com

Elena Vasilevsky, winner of the National Vitaminwater Color Collection Competition held at the W Hotel in Hoboken poses with her runway models.
Elena Vasilevsky, winner of the National Vitaminwater Color Collection Competition held at the W Hotel in Hoboken poses with her runway models.

 Glaceau’s “vitaminwater zero” is a naturally sweetened bottled-water drink put out by Coca-Cola that’s nutrient enhanced, flavored with a mix of familiar and exotic fruits and branded with names like “Glow,” “Squeezed,” “Drive” and “XXX.”

 On a recent Wednesday evening, the National vitaminwater Color Collection Competition was held at the W hotel in Hoboken where vitaminwater made a huge splash as the inspiration for five up-and-coming fashion designers who created couture dresses that exemplified their take on the flavors, tastes and vibrant colors of the vitaminwater line The New Jersey-based designers – Thomas Layone, Liz Fields, Devon Thomas, Ralph Thurin, and Elena Vasilevsky — put on a beautiful show of dazzling, edgy, and elegant dresses, pantsuits and evening gowns – as they competed for a $1,000 prize and the chance to have their designs strut the runway at October’s New Jersey Fashion Week.

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Fashion – The One Shoulder Dress -Falls Hottest Trend

infphoto_1079959_jpg_fullThe One -Shoulder Dress this Fall’s Hottest Fashion Trend is worn by Reality TV Star Kim Kardashian 

The style is everywhere from Hollywood to Bollywood and all over the world women are opting for the one-shoulder dress.  A throwback to an 80s style dress which has become popular today, especially on the party scene.

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