Feast of Holy Rosary A Street Festival with Heart and Spirit- August 11th – August 15th, 2010

August 11, 2010 admin Leave a comment

La Festa Italiana 2010: Â The Holy Rosary Church organizesÂ this wonderful Â street festival, celebrating Italian-American traditions, spirituality, withÂ Â evenings of music, dance and authentic Italian foods.

Since I can remember the Holy Rosary Feast has always been a downtown Jersey City tradtion. Holy Rosary was my parish and my family has lived in the Village section of Jersey CityÂ around the corner from Holy Rosary, for for over 90 years. I love the area and the people. The old time Village people and the new residents that have made it home in the lastÂ 15 years. Wonderful people all of them living and loving their neighborhoods.Â This is the fabric of the Village section of Jersey City, andÂ the Holy Rosary feast. This feastÂ gets better every year.

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Business Travel-New Complimentary Shuttle Service at The Westin Jersey City

August 10, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Newport Helps Business Travelers Save on Transportation

FREE Shuttle takes hotel guests to locations within a 3 mile radius of the hotel

JERSEY CITY, NJ (August 10, 2010) – The Westin Jersey City Newport, located just 10 minutes from downtown Manhattan, has just announced a new service for its business travel guests that will help them save time and money – a complimentary shuttle service. The hotel’s new shuttle service now operates, 7 a.m. – 9.a.m. and 4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. daily, and drives guests to meeting destinations within a three mile radius of the hotel including, Exchange Place and Harborside Financial area. The hotel’s shuttle is branded with a Westin logo making it instantly recognizable to guests.

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CAKE BOSS-CARLO’S BAKERY DRAWS CROWDS EVERYDAY IN HOBOKEN

August 10, 2010 admin Leave a comment

This is a typical day in front of Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, home of the Cake Boss, Buddy Valastro’s Bakery.
Record crowds brave the sweltering heat and wait on line for one of the Cake Boss’ Lobster Claws and other sweet delights or a chance to meet Buddy’s sisters or Mother.

Â If you look close the line stretches for two blocks or more.

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Pop Tarts Theme Restaurant Opens in Time Square- Pop Tarts World Serving-Ants on a Log

August 9, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Hudson County residents only have to take a 20 minute subway ride and arrive in the greatest city in the world- New York. According to Newser a new restaurant is going to open who’s main theme is Pop Tarts. Pop Tarts World, Yes, those very same treats we all enjoy for breakfast and ran home to have after school.
But this restaurant will have some variations: serving 30Â kinds -Â like Ants on the Log for one, a combination made up of celery, peanut butter, and chunks of, whatelse, Pop-Tarts and according to Newser Pop-Tarts sushiâ€”three kinds of tarts minced and wrapped in a fruit roll-up.

Can’t get enough of the Pop Tarts theme this restaurant will also have a six-story billboard above the store, light Shows, Pop Tart merchandise.

Hey, where’s the giant toaster?

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Business -Are you a â€œWantreprenuer?â€

August 5, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Wantrepenuer -some one who wants to start a business but never does. The opposite of Entrepenuer. –

3 Reasons Why Most People Will Never Earn More Money â€” And What You Can Do About It!

Â This is a guest post by best-selling author and blogger Ramit Sethi.

For years, the most requested topic on my site, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, has been earning more money.Â Yet I intentionally stayed away because it’s almost always sleazy, attracting a ton of losers who simply want a silver bullet instead of actually working hard to earn money.

But if you’ve read my stuff, you know that I don’t spend much time on frugality, which I mostly consider a waste of time. Instead, I encourage people to focus on the Big Wins – automation, investing, negotiating, and understanding the psychology of money.

Source: TrenttheSimpleDollar.com &Â Manvs.Debt.com -Â thanks to Jeffery Fry for the term Wantreprenuer

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Alexan City View Revisited- Bayonne Peninsula Apartment Community

August 4, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Â Alexan CityView, a vibrant, brand-newÂ Â mid-rise apartment community, is now open on the Bayonne Peninsula. Alexan CityView is the only new multi-family development in Bayonne, and is just a short walk or complimentary shuttle bus ride to the 34th Street New Jersey Light Rail station, and around the corner from the Liberty Cruise Terminal and 9/11 Memorial.

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Spalding Memories and the Games We Used to Play

August 4, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Nicholas Balesterri’s Childhood Games Inspire a Book and (maybe) a Reality ShowÂ Â Â Â Â

Â By Sally Deering

In the 1960s, Nicholas Balesterri and his pals – all Baby Boomers – grew up around 7^th and Brunswick Street in Jersey City and played all sorts of games on one of the greatest game boards in town – the four corners of their neighborhood.Â This was back in the day before Nintendo, IBox and other electronic games that are giving our kids “couch potato syndrome.”

Balesterri remembers those street games and the fun he had with his pals when all they had to amuse themselves was a Spalding, a high-bouncing, pink rubber ball they picked up at the corner store for 19 cents.Â Balesterri and his pals would use that Spalding for all sorts of inventive challenges: Stick Ball, Box Ball, Stick Ball against the Wall, OUT, Point on the Ledge – games they played with sticks, cans and their own ingenuity.

Â These games and others like them are the theme for the book Balesterri and his sister Amelia Fano are working on, “”The Games We Used to Play, Sticks, Balls and Cans,” that explains how the games are played and features anecdotes of Balesterri’s memories “growing up on the corner.”Â

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Local flower shop, Flowers By Candle-Lite, Denville, will be hosting an exclusive book signing byTeresa Guidice, from BRAVO TV’S Real Housewives of New Jersey.

July 30, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Teresa will be signing her newÂ cookbook, Skinny Italian,Â which hit the New York Times best seller list. Teresa will beÂ at Flowers By Candle-LiteÂ located at 559 East Main Street ( Route 53 – RattleSnakeÂ Ranch Cafe / FoodtownÂ Shopping Center) Denville, NJ 07834 in person on Thursday, August 12, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m to meet and sign her book. Skinny ItalianÂ will be available to purchase on night of the signing or you may call to reserve your copy now! Every book purchase includes aÂ free rose! Â

Flowers By Candle-LiteÂ is located at 559 East Main Street ( Route 53 – RattleSnakeÂ Ranch Cafe / FoodtownÂ Shopping Center) Denville, NJ 07834. The shop is a family owned business and has been located at the same location for 40 years. Â Visit Flowersbycandlelite.comÂ for more details or find them on facebook. Call Flowers By Candle-LiteÂ 973.625.0010

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CAKE BOSS -NAME LOSS? Hoboken’s Buddy Valastro’s Hit Reality Show Must Undergo Name Change at the End of the Third Season

July 28, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Name change- not the icing on the Cake for Cake Boss?

by Herb FlukeÂ

Now with all due respect to Discovery Communications TLC”s parent company,Â the Â creators ofÂ Cake Boss-Shouldn’t the first thing you do when you take a name for a business Â isÂ do a simpleÂ search for that name before deciding to use that name ? Especially in the Internet age. Especially for a high budget reality show like Cake Boss.Â Â Â ItÂ Â seemsÂ Â DiscoveryÂ CommunicationsÂ didn’t think they had to or it wouldn’t matter,Â and now a Â Seatle software company: Masters Software Inc; has come foreward to say that they own the name Cake Boss having used it Â two years before the showÂ ever hit the airwaysÂ to market a business management software for professional cake bakers called CakeBoss.

Read our Interview with Buddy Valastro

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Saving the Stacks with a Stacked Hollywood Blonde

July 27, 2010 admin Leave a comment

Marilyn Monroe Memorabilia to Help Fund Library Capital Improvements

Â by Sally Deering

Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe lit up the silver screen with her simmering sexuality, bootyliscious bod and a killer smile that warmed film-lovers hearts. Â Playing the bubble-headed blonde roles producers cast her in, Monroe delivered sex-appeal by the D-cupful with an added twist of vulnerability, like her character Sugar Kane in “Some Like it Hot.”Â When Sugar tells “girl musicians” Josephine and Daphne, (played Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon,)Â “I’m tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop,” the chord strikes like an arrow threw the heart and although the line belongs to writer/director Billy Wilder and his co-writer I.A.L. Diamond, the delivery is all Marilyn.