Together since 2005, MayOrWest got their start practicing at guitarist Pete Cataldo's apartment on Hoboken's Jackson Street. The four-piece alternative punk rock band has since performed throughout Mile Square City at venues including Maxwell's and The Dubliner, the location of their first show. "Our friend bartended there and said he could get us a gig. We only had three original songs, [so I told him] we could play a bunch of covers," Cataldo said. The band played nearly 30 songs for three-and-a-half hours. An enjoyable experience, they've been performing and recording ever since. I sat …
These days, you'll find me in the back of the pack, but it wasn't always that way. When I first joined the Hoboken Harriers in 1990 I was forty two, but fit enough to keep up with all but the fastest runners. Now, twenty years later, collecting Social Security, I'm somewhat embarrassed at my reduced pace. Two knee operations, diabetes, and high blood pressure have contributed to it. Every Tuesday night, I see a group of HoHa runners take from 13th and Washington Streets, and within a minute the group is a diminishing pack of dots moving along the waterfront as I chug along, staying within …
It was 12-year-old Maddy Novak's dream to one day perform on Broadway. "I never thought it'd be so soon," said Novak after a free lunch-time performance at New York City's Bryant Park on Thursday afternoon. Novak plays the part of Margaret Gormly, who is one of the ballet girls on the show, in the Broadway musical Billy Elliot. Billy Elliot, based on the movie from 2000 with music by Elton John, won ten Tony awards in 2009. The lunch performance, in front of hundreds of New Yorkers who enjoyed show tunes with their lunch, does not include the usual eight shows Novak performs per week. On …
One of Hoboken's charms is that the city is teeming with people who relish spirited socio-political debate. The Mile Square is alive with dialogue unfolding on the websites of the local newspapers and over a network of citizen folk blogs, which started with local blogger Perry Klaussen's Hoboken411, allowing the populace to muse about issues facing the nation down to those facing their very block. Second ward resident John Bredin is the latest Hobokenite to foray into the citizen media sphere with something a bit quaint for the Internet age: a TV show. Bredin, 47, recently began hosting and …
Former Hoboken resident Jon Horowitz might seem an unlikely candidate to be starring in a movie given his career in the financial system. But Horowitz will be doing just that when he appears on the big screen in The Pit, an independent documentary making its area debut Sunday at the Hoboken International Film Festival in Teaneck. The Pit centers on a handful of gritty commodities traders working on the floor of the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) during the last days of open outcry trading, the longtime trading method used until the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) acquired NYBOT in 2007 and …
