Awwww yeeaahh girl, looks like Snooks and the J-Wowwwwww are coming to Hoboken! About Town can't wait to party with them and pick their brains about SOPA.

Apparently About Town is the only Hobokenite happy they may be coming. People are revolting, especially the young ones who've seen Jersey Shore. Hoboken's a classy town they say. Heck no to Snooki they say. Just like those loathsome lines of soccer moms clogging the sidewalk around Carlo's. What an abomination! Though inciting thousands of hooligans for St. Pat's Saturday, that's okay.

Anyway, the things that slowed after New Year's are churning again. Last Monday About Town attended Sing Out for Justice, a concert Hoboken Charter School held at All Saints Episcopal Church to honor Martin Luther King.

America is very fortunate that MLK inspired equality and civil rights. The nation is also super lucky his parents give him a middle name because it's a lot cooler chanting someone's initials when there's three of them.

The school, which is dedicated to service learning, celebrates the King holiday every year. The Friday before it marched to City Hall, and earlier on Monday the students presented the artwork they made to honor King and other civil rights leaders.

During the concert Hoboken Charter students sang and played songs like “This Train is Bound for Glory,” and were joined by others including the Mustard Seed School and the United Synagogue, and were backed by a house band featuring Don DePascale, who is the coolest guy in Hoboken when he's blowing his trumpet. Nice to see everyone celebrate a timeless and transcendent message of fellowship.

Later on Monday About Town stopped by Black Bear (grrr) where Assemblyman Ruben Ramos and Freeholder Anthony Romano hosted a party for new Assemblyman Sean Connors. Probably 75 people were there upstairs at any given time, including Councilmembers Theresa Castellano and Michael Russo, and an About Town favorite, the affable Perry Belfiore.

We only got to speak to Connors, the Jersey City police detective, on our way out. “Who's got the better parties, Jersey City or Hoboken?” we asked.

“They're equal,” Connors said.

That's a great answer, and it's great to have Connors around Hoboken. He can help arrest J-WOWW after she inevitably pummels a nanny in Columbus Park.

On Wednesday About Town went to the Hoboken Bar & Grill where the Hoboken Rotary was having the first of what it plans as a new monthly mixer. The idea is to have another gathering for people later in the day who can't make the club's weekly lunches at the Brass Rail, explained rotarian Ryan Mitchell. While the lunches are for club business, the new mixers are for professional contacts and open to everyone, rotarians or not. About Town saw rotarians Andrew Brown, Greg Dell'Aquila and Christopher Mackin, and several people we had never seen before.

Later that night About Town went to a mixer at Lola's Topless, er, Lola's Tapas Bar for the Hoboken Chamber of Commerce's Women in Business Council. A few days before the mixer we ran into Elizabeth Barry, one of the organizers, who promised we'd meet lots of successful women in black cocktail dresses. Of course we'd be there! To set the tone while getting dressed we listened to the most misogynistic gangsta rap in our Winamp shuffle.

At Lola's About Town chatted with businesswomen Barry, Laura Miani and Dr. Katia Roberts, and also non-women Luis Acevedo, Cliff Godfrey and Ken Howitt.

Finally, on Thursday About Town went to hMAG Magazine's monthly mixer, this time at the Tilted Kilt.

About Town isn't wowed by the scant Scottish themed clothing the women working there wear. There's plenty of time for that, just show us some personality first. If About Town ran a theme bar, the waitresses would all play literary characters – here's your table and your server Madame Bovary.

hMAG publishers Simon Dabkowski and Joe Mindak were there (at the Tilted Kilt, not About Town's fantasy dork bar) plus Rory Chadwick, rotarian Rich Marsh and Brian Murray of the Hoboken Dads.

The current edition of hMAG salutes Hoboken's veterans, about a half dozen of who came to the mixer, all gray men who survived the horrors of WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

A few of them spoke and thanked hMAG for recognizing them. Look at that. America owes them everything and they're the ones saying thank you. They deserve all the veneration the country can give them, the best health care in their remaining years, a 21 gun salute and the chance to pose for photos with women in short tartan skirts and bust pushing bras. No sirs, thank you.

Alan Skontra was a big dork who never went anywhere. Then he started writing the About Town column for Patch, and now he's everywhere. Have a hot tip on an event in Hoboken? Send an invitation, questions and comments too, to alanskontra@hotmail.com, and peep his tweets @alanskontra.