Buddy Valastro star of “Cake Boss” according to NBC 4 New York was arrested in New York City Thursday morning on drunk driving charges.
The reality TLC TV Star of “Cake Boss is being held pending an arraignment hearing
Source: NBC 4 New York
‘Joey Pants,’ as he is affectionately known, is a masterful character as seen in “Risky Business,” “The Goonies,” “La Bamba,” “Midnight Run,” “Bad Boys I and II,” “Empire of the Sun,” “The Fugitive,” “The Matrix,” “Memento,” “Daredevil” and, finally, his portrayal of the eccentric mobster Ralphie Cifaretto in HBO’s landmark series “The Sopranos,” won him a 2003 Primetime Emmy Award.
On December 7, 2010 the Hoboken, Edward A. Dalton Boys & Girls Club will host their 13th Annual fundraiser, “An Evening with Two Guys from Hoboken,” honoring the efforts of the neighborhood’s own Joe Pantoliano and Rich Pèpe. In collaboration with Hoboken’s oldest restaurant, event sponsor “Leo’s Grandesvous,” the duo will cook a family style Italian dinner for guests using Pèpe & Pants Pasta Sauce. Also another neighborhood famous business, Carlos Bakery known for the home of the CAKE BOSS will be donating their famous cake for the evening’s event. This family style event will raise funds to support the community’s youth development programs, as well as Pantoliano’s No Kidding, Me Too! NKM2 is Pantoliano’s own non-profit organization is dedicated to removing the stigma associated with mental illness. All of the profits from Pèpe & Pants Pasta sauce is donated to NKM2. Continue reading BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS HONOR JOE PANTOLIANO WITH THE HELP OF THE CAKE BOSS AT “AN EVENING WITH TWO GUYS FROM HOBOKEN”
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.
If you look close the line stretches for two blocks or more.
Name change- not the icing on the Cake for Cake Boss?
by Herb Fluke
Now with all due respect to Discovery Communications TLC”s parent company, the creators of Cake Boss-Shouldn’t the first thing you do when you take a name for a business is do a simple 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. It seems Discovery Communications didn’t think they had to or it wouldn’t matter, and now a Seatle software company: Masters Software Inc; has come foreward to say that they own the name Cake Boss having used it two years before the show ever hit the airways to market a business management software for professional cake bakers called CakeBoss.
Read our Interview with Buddy Valastro
Here is a bit of Nostalgia for anyone who grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey or knows Hoboken as it is today.
Source You Tube- Thanks Roger Muller-Muller Insurance
By Sally Deering Photos by David Bayne
No disrespect to Frank Sinatra, but Hoboken’s bouncing a new favorite son on its knee, a charismatic cake baker who followed in the floured footsteps of his father to become the star of his own reality TV show.
The Star of The Learning Channel’s Docu-Series Kicks Off the College’s 2009-2010 Lecture Series on Thursday, November 19th
Confectioner extraordinaire Buddy Valastro, the accomplished fourth-generation baker and the owner of Carlo’s City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, will be the first speaker in this season’s free Lecture Series at Hudson County Community College. Mr. Valastro will appear on Thursday, November 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the College’s Culinary Arts Institute/Conference Center, 161 Newkirk Street – two blocks from the Journal Square PATH Station in Jersey City. There is no charge for admission. Continue reading Hudson County Community College Takes the Cake with the Cake Boss, Hudson County’s Own Buddy Valastro