RHAPSODY IN HEELS

Cantigas Women’s Choir Brings Voices to Global Music and Harmony to Local Communty by Sally Deering Once a week, gathered inside the music room of an elementary school in Hoboken, women of varying ages and walks of life harmonize together as members of the Cantigas Women’s Choir. This all-girl community glee club performs the music [...]

Daniel Radcliffe Joined by Tammy Blanchard, Christopher J. Hanke & More How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying On Broadway in 2011

River View Observer best bet Broadway  play for 2011 Known the world over for is role as Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe will appear March 2011 in the Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Along with Radcliffe, actress Tammy Blanchard, who earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Louise [...]

Sam Shephard’s “True West” presented by Jersey City’s Attic Ensemble

Directed by CHRISTINE DALZELL   Featuring: JAMIE EFFROS J MICHAEL POLICASTRO PAULINE WALSH BRANAN WHITEHEAD     Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm; Sunday matinees at 3 pm and Thursday September 30th at 7 pm. In this American classic, sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, [...]

ACCLAIMED SINGER SONGWRITER JENNIFER KNAPP CONTINUES TOUR ACROSS THE COUNTRY -Will Play Maxwells In Hoboken

LETTING GO FIRST ALBUM IN SEVEN YEARS Singer songwriter Jennifer Knapp returned from a seven-year hiatus with her new album Letting Go (Gravlin/RED), released on May 11th 2010. The Grammy nominated, Dove Award winning artist is currently on a cross-country tour, which included performances at SXSW and the re-vamped Lilith Fair. Recorded in Nashville, Letting [...]

Taking a Laugh Break with Jersey City’s Own Comedian -Mike Marino

Know through out the world as “New Jersey ‘s Bad Boy of Comedy” watch this video to see Jersey City’s own Mike Marino  doing what he does best…Making audience laugh with his standup comedy. And who doesn’t need a good laugh these days…Enjoy Share this:

COVER STORY-Leading The Kennedy Dancers

Diane Dragone (still) has the Dancer in Her Soul by Sally Deering   In the 1920s, when Shirley Temple tapped into America’s hearts with her bouncing ringlets, ruffled crinolines and shiny black tap shoes, mothers from Canarsie to Kenosha trundled their daughters off to their local dance school dreaming of their baby girl’s name in lights. [...]

Introducing the One and Only “Johnny Martin”

Successful  Businesman and Former Hudson County Resident Follows His Passion for Music   by Evelyn Bonilla Record producers will tell you that in order to make it in the music business you have to be equipped with; a good strong voice, loads of confidence and the ability to perform on the spot, and to have passion! [...]

Attic Ensemble Presents WORKING

River View Observer “Best Pick” Local Theater Performance April 23-May 9   FEATURIN: LY BEATTY / JENNY FERSCH / MARK DUNN ERIN FLANAGAN ES E. SPLOND  Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm;  Thursdays, April 29 and May 6 at 7pm. ms, joys and concerns of the average working American are the focus of this [...]

MUSIC River View Observer Best Pick New Artist Chrissi Poland

Chrissi Poland Songs from the Concrete Imagine the songwriting inspiration of Joni Mitchell, steeped in the soulful sensibility of Donny Hathaway, played by the cream of the world’s musicians and sung with the voice of an angel…one whose very life experience pours out of every song. This is the magic that is contained in Songs [...]

“Hollywood Behind-The-Scenes”

FANS THRILLED TO ATTEND TAPING OF KENNY ROGERS’ TV SPECIAL     By Alice O’Neill Fans from all over the U.S., and even Europe and Asia, are jumping at the chance to see their favorite country performer, Kenny Rogers, tape a show at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard, CT. April 10. The stars are coming [...]