Painter Paul Lempa is showing his baseball player portraits at Gallery 1200.
The city known as a birthplace of baseball has a new art exhibit that celebrates the game's most iconic faces, thanks to Gallery 1200 hosting a solo show of works by painter Paul Lempa. The gallery's director, local artist Laura Renee Meyerson, said that she often walks past the Washington Street plaque that demarcates the Elysian Fields, the now-paved over park where two teams played what historians recognize as the first modern baseball game on June 19, 1846. “With the anniversary coming up I thought it would be nice to bring that history back to Hoboken through art,” Meyerson said. Meyerson met Lempa recently through a mutual friend and invited him to exhibit his work, which is the first solo show Gallery 1200 has had since it opened …
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Mile Square Theatre's 8th annual "7th Inning Stretch" production tells poignant tales of the baseball diamond.
It was yet another home run on Saturday for Mile Square Theatre's eighth annual production of "7th Inning Stretch," a collection of short plays about baseball. DeBaun auditorium had filled up quickly for the show, which consisted of seven 10-minute plays about baseball, commissioned solely for the production by artistic director Chris O'Connor. "Thanks for coming out on this beautiful evening," said O'Connor to the crowd, while outside heavy rain and wind pounded the city. Mayor Dawn Zimmer and Human Services Director Leo Pellegrini threw the ceremonial "first pitch" before the proverbial curtain was raised for the show. The first short play was an excerpt from "Rounding Third," a full-length comedy by Richard Dresser about a little league…
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Redrider765
8:01 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Rory, it is a personal boycott of the venue based on my distaste of the person who is using it as a tax write-off. It is no different than not patronizing businesses that advertised on 411 or any other business who's business practices I disagree with. And I for sure am not going to delete my comments. You go spend your money there if you so choose to help Beth Mason write off her campaign HQ by … more ›