Alone and Together: Tintype Portrait Studio at Gallery Aferro October 3 + 4th, 1-7 PM
email ewilcox@aferro.org for an appointment, or walk in.
Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley is inviting the public to have their portrait taken at Gallery Aferro on October 3 and 4th from 1-7 PM. Sitters can come solo or with a loved one. The sittings [...]
“NJIT gets $250K to keep developing child-proof ’smart gun’”:http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/njit_gets_250k_to_keep_develop.html
Good to see my alma-mater making a difference. It’s important to point out — lest we wake the trolls — that this technology is used to prevent child-related accidents, not deter crime.
NJIT has spent the last nine years on a “dynamic grip recognition” technology that can [...]
“Ringling Bros. coming to Newark arena”:http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/ringling_bros_coming_to_newark.html
First, “bulls running loose”:http://dailynewarker.com/blog/2006/11/newark-residents-had-enough-bull/ in the city, now the Ledger has pictures of elephants storming Prudential Center.
Well, not quite. Minnie the Elephant is a part of the Ringling Bros Circus, posing with Mayor Booker and Bello the daredevil clown. The circus will be returning to the [...]
“City of Newark Hosts End of Summer Festival”:http://ci.newark.nj.us/press/press_releases/end_of_summer_festival_at_boylan_recreation_center.php
It’ll be a busy weekend in Newark! In addition to the Brazilian Independence Festival at Riverbank Park, the city will be hosting an End of Summer Festival at the Boylan Recreation Center with music, karaoke, double-dutch exhibitions, face painting and fashion show. The festival will take [...]
Alone and Together: Tintype Portrait Studio at Gallery Aferro
October 3 + 4th, 1-7 PM
Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley is inviting the public to have their portrait taken at Gallery Aferro on October 3 and 4th from 1-7 PM. Sitters can come solo or with a loved one. The sittings are free. A print of the image is [...]
“CITY OF NEWARK ISSUES HEALTH ALERT TO WARN RESIDENTS ABOUT WEST NILE VIRUS”:http://dailynewarker.com/blog/2008/09/city-of-newark-issues-health-alert-to-warn-residents-about-west-nile-virus/
Parents, take note: the city has issued a health alert about West Nile found in Newark and Irvington mosquitos. Preventative measures are listed in the press release after the jump.
The West Nile Virus is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito that [...]
This weekend, Diesa Siedel’s organization, United Initiatives for Peace, will be hosting an open 3-on-3 girls basketball tournament called Scholars for Ballers to promote athletics and education. The tournament will take place Saturday at 10:00 AM at St. Peter’s Recreational Center on Lyons Ave (map below) and is open to the public. Girls [...]
“Newark schools chief says 30,000 elementary students will wear uniforms”:http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/newark_schools_chief_says_3000.html
Promised as a part of a larger reform package, shiny new Newark schools Superintendent Clifford Janey will require 30k students to wear uniforms to class starting in the winter of 2009.
Some schools already require students wear uniforms so the new policy won’t come as [...]
“A Bullet Tears Through a Ceiling, and 2 Lives”:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/nyregion/16newark.xml
The Times shares the lives of the two teenagers who were involved in Thursday’s accidental fatal shooting. Bukhari Washington was slain by a bullet from an assault rifle owned by Terrance Perry in the downstairs apartment while Perry was toying with the weapon.
How the rifle [...]
“Tomorrow: Free Movies Under the Stars at Ivy Hill Park”:http://branchbrookpark.org/
Festivities begin at 7:30 pm; movies begin after sundown, approximately 8:30 pm. Update: this was RESCHEDULED due to rainy forecast to Aug 22.
“The Great Debaters,” starring Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise and directed by Denzel Washington will be shown FREE outdoors at Essex County’s [...]
“Schollars for Ballers”:http://unitedinitiatives.blogspot.com/2008/04/scholars-for-ballers.html
“United Initiatives for Peace”:http://unitedinitiatives.org, a non-profit organization that “collaborates with a variety of institutions (charitable, governmental, religious, educational, medical, corporate) to establish philanthropic and humanitarian service projects” is hosting a 3-on-3 girls’ basketball tourny in Newark.
The tournament will provide opportunities to earn college scholarships. Registration is open for the event: [...]
“At Struggling School, Pride Displaces Failure”:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/20Rschoolnj.xml
The Newton School celebrates a jump in standardized test scores that may have saved it from complete shutdown.
Just last summer, the Newark Teachers Union invested $100,000 into an improvement program at Newton, though they had poured more than half of that into “political attack billboard ads”:http://dailynewarker.com/2007/07/04/teachers-union-reforms-newton-street-school/ around the city.
The [...]
“$28.8M plan makes recreation a priority in Newark”:http://www.nj.com/newark/index.ssf/2008/07/post_18.html
The Ledger details the parks plan “previously announced by City Hall”:http://dailynewarker.com/2008/07/22/new-parks-coming-to-newark/. The excitement about new and rehabilitated parks was palpable among those present when Booker noted this in his “State of the City address”:http://dailynewarker.com/2008/02/08/state-of-the-city-spindown-its-all-about-momentum/ earlier this year.
We live in walking distance of Independence Park, which has had [...]
*Yvonne:* Where were you last night?
*Rick:* That’s so long ago, I don’t remember.
*Yvonne:* Will I see you tonight?
*Rick:* I never make plans that far ahead.
Casablanca
Got plans for tonight? Love classic movies? You might want to check out Casablanca at Movies Under the Stars, the Branch Brook Park open-air movie viewing. Head up [...]
“Sponsor a Newark Kid for Summer Camp”:http://web.mac.com/theshac/Site_5/Welcome.html
Sponsorship for a whole summer for one child is possible through a tax-deductible $250 donation. Please consider “sponsoring a kid”:http://web.mac.com/theshac/Site_5/Sponsor_Me.html at Safe Haven — the program there is amazing, and I know that Danny and Kim Iverson are some of the most hardworking people in Newark. Donations [...]
