This week, I want to thank the Newark Art Supply for their sponsorship of the Daily Newarker.
The store, located downtown around the corner from Rutgers University and down the street from 27 Mix on Halsey, provides art supplies and a forum for conversation about the arts in Newark. The store frequently hosts exhibitions and [...]
NJPAC will continue with its series of free outdoor concerts this summer, starting today at 5:45 PM. The “genre-bending” concert series features everything from jazz to hip hop to salsa to gospel, and are held in the performing arts center courtyard.
Tonight’s acts include:
DJ Jihad Muhammed
Berkana feat. Nat Janoff
Jubilation Gospel Choir
and Andre
Food and [...]
Newark’s murder rate on track to beat all-time low
The NPD may be on pace to cut the murder rate nearly in half by the end of 2008. With the market going to crap, commodities prices going through the roof, and the potential (well, okay, rumor) of mayhem in the Middle East, this news is [...]
Early Saturday morning, my 11-year-old son and I rode our bicycles in the middle of Market Street, once the most automobile-congested street in the country. Of course, we could not do it without over a hundred fellow Newarkers, who joined the Brick City Bike Tour.
“That’s how it feels in a city without cars,” my [...]
Newark is the fastest growing city in the Northeast, leading the nationwide trend of people migrating into cities. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece describing the demographic aspect of this move—boomers and millennials, mostly—and identifying higher energy prices as one of the main reasons for this trend.
The Journal (and a similar CNN piece [...]
The Colleoni apartments have opened in the heart of a community that’s been reinventing itself as the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District: Regan Completes $6M Apartment Rehab.
Originally constructed as a grand-style apartment building, Colleoni Apartments was later divided into smaller, lower-quality units before ultimately being shuttered in the mid-’90s. Regan’s rehab has returned [...]
In 1997, Jonathan Cole, the Provost of Columbia University, walked around the Morningside neighborhood in New York City, disturbed by the shabby conditions of a few older bookstores. After failing to lure the legendary bookseller Jack Cella from the Seminary Co-op Bookstore of Chicago, Columbia offered Chris Doeblin and his partner Cliff Simms a university-owned [...]
So, we really puzzled over a way to share the Portugal Day Festival experience here on the blog. Truth be told, from the art shows this week, to the festival tonight, to the parade tomorrow, there are so many things to experience that we just couldn’t possibly attend them all.
But you can. This [...]
This was a weird election. While Booker wanted to consolidate political strength by taking seats in the South Ward and determine the party chair for the Central Ward, his opponents in this election were able to hold the line. The long and short of it, as I see it, is a stalemate: no [...]
The New Jersey School of Architecture is requesting artist submissions for an upcoming exhibition of the Newark Westinghouse building. The Westinghouse building, which once housed the early industrial work of Thomas Edison, is being razed to make way for the city’s plans to build a transit village in Downtown Newark, across from Broad Street [...]
