Hoboken

Happening: Sausage Slam at DBGB; Dishcrawl in Hoboken

Monday, March 18 Seamus Mullen Cooks at Louro Chef Seamus Mullen of Tertulia will guest-cook at Louro on Monday night as part of the restaurant's Nossa Mesa Supper Club. He and chef David Santos will serve an Asian-inspired menu. Reservations can be made on Open Table. BYO beer and wine. 142 W. 10th ... More >>

Hoboken's Roast Beef Battle: Brooklyn and Manhattan Fight Back!

Gravesend's version of the sainted roast-beef mozzarella hero Last week, FiTR pitted a pair of excellent Italian-American roast beef heros found in Hoboken, New Jersey against each other. These classic sandwiches featured roast beef done rare to medium rare and thinly sliced, just-made mozzarella ... More >>

Yo La Tengo

Head to Hoboken for Mutzfest

Over the bridge and through the PATH train to Hoboken we go. This Sunday the New Jersey neighborhood will celebrate the First Annual Mutzfest. Hoboken has become known as one of the best places near NYC to get mozzarella. Shocking to some, but you can't deny great mutz. The hood is filled with fam ... More >>

After Nearly Two And A Half Months, The PATH Train Returns

This will probably be the last post-Sandy transportation post of its kind. Unless, of course, the H Train in the Rockaways becomes a permanent thing.Shuttered due to Sandy, the PATH Train was barely functional until after Thanksgiving and only then was it running on a limited sch ... More >>

Simit--'Turkish Bagel'--Invades the Upper West Side

The simit tastes pretty good, but is it actually a bagel? Above: the whole wheat simit A neophyte chain called Simit Smith has introduced a new sort of bagel to the Upper West Side. In Turkey, it's known as a simit, but there are a half-dozen other names for it in the Middle East, Greece, Romani ... More >>

Pecan Danish Ring Coffee Cake at Carlo's City Hall Bakery in Hoboken, the 'Cake Boss' Bakery

Fine-textured and slightly yeasty, and sticky as hell, this might be the kind of old-fashioned coffee cake you dream of. Most of you have probably enjoyed the reality TV show Cake Boss, which features owner Buddy Valastro and his family as they make elaborate and crazy cakes for special events. Th ... More >>

DREIDEL ROCK

Eight holy nights 
of Yo la Tengo

Reading Around

A Hoboken murder, an e-book revolution, and a challenge to re-conceive the economy

Q&A: Bettina Richards of Thrill Jockey Records On The 20th Anniversary Of Her Label

The iconic and staunchly independent label Thrill Jockey Records may be Chicago-based since the mid '90s, but its roots lie here in New York and along the grimy Path train tunnel where Hoboken stands. Two decades ago, L.E.S. resident Bettina Richards founded Thrill Jockey while working the rounds at ... More >>

8 CRAZY NIGHTS

Yo La Tengo light their menorah

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Yo La Tengo's Eight Nights Of Hanukkah Will Again Take Place Over (Yes) The Eight Nights Of Hanukkah

​Which is a sort of snarky way of saying that tickets for this year's Eight Nights of Hannukah celebration go on sale tomorrow at noon. For those unfamiliar with the tradition, every year Yo La Tengo brings together a bunch of friends whose identities "will not be divulged until the last possi ... More >>

Mark Lugo, Who Stole a Picasso, Had Another Stolen Picasso Hanging on His Wall

Saddest mugshot ever?​Mark Lugo, the Hoboken man recently busted in a hotel in Napa for the theft of Picasso's 1965 "Tete de Femme" drawing, which he had snatched from San Francisco's Weinstein Gallery and then fled by taxi, is really more of a Thomas Crown than we had originally hoped for. Th ... More >>

4 Great Places to Watch the Fireworks on the Fourth

​Since 1958, the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display has been a New York City tradition. The fireworks were originally set off on the Hudson, but in 1976 they moved to the East River. Last year, they returned to the Hudson to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of ... More >>

Tom Postilio

For Shame: Park Slope Food Coop Members Send in Nannies to Cover Shifts; Mocktails A-Go-Go

​New research shows that diners are eating outside the comfort zone of the "big three" ethnic cuisines -- Italian, Mexican, and Chinese -- and opting for Caribbean, Japanese, and Thai. [Nation's Restaurant News] One out of eight restaurant workers has come to work at least twice in the past y ... More >>

Wednesday Night's Big Guest at Yo La Tengo's Final Maxwell's Show? Probably The National

Take it with a grain of salt, but we hear pretty reliably that the big guest for Yo La Tengo's eighth-night finale at Maxwell's will be none other than Brooklyn's the National. If true, they'd follow a murderer's row of guests YLT have already had out to Hoboken this year: M. Ward and tonight's Vi ... More >>

ROCKIN’ HANUKKAH

Eight nights of gifts from Yo La Tengo

Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls Cancel Their Tours

​Alas. Crocodiles (left) had a show at Maxwell's in Hoboken tonight; Dum Dum Girls were set for Music Hall of Williamsburg with Frankie Rose and the Outs on November 1. Both shows/tours have been scrapped entirely, per a family emergency (Brandon Welchez from the Crocs and Dee Dee from the Dum ... More >>

The Clean

Yo La Tengo Doing Their Maxwell's Hannukah Shows Again

​It just wasn't the same without them. Yo La Tengo's annual epic run of Hannukah-themed shows at Maxwell's in Hoboken was sorely missed last year, the first time they'd opted out since 2001, robbing us all of a crucial winter tradition, stuffed with holiday cheer and the inevitable super-secre ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Wants to Impose Indian Cig Tax, As If Smokers Would Then Buy in NYC (Bonus: Cheap Cig Maps Prices)

​In an interview with WOR radio host John Gambilng, Mayor Bloomberg essentially laid the smack down on Governor Paterson, saying that he should tax Indian cigarette sales and "let the federal government sue us" if there is a problem. The cigarette tax in New York City caused a 35 percent drop in ... More >>

Southern Culture on the Skids

The Week of New York's Free Nicotine Fix: Reasons to Sign Up That Don't Involve Quitting Smoking

​Do you smoke? Doesn't matter. You should register for New York City's free patch and gum program going on for the next two weeks. Not because you're going to quit -- because, let's face it: you won't -- but because it's there for the taking. To be clear:

'Freaks Ball X Presents Anders Osborne & the Black Hollies'

What's Happening This Week: Cooking with Italian Grandmas; Eating Sushi with a Concierge

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! SLOW U: Cooking with Nonna, Cenone di Natale ($45) Astor Center November 30 Who cooks better than Italian Grandmas? Not too many people, according to Rossella Rago, host of the onli ... More >>

Tonight! Cave In, The Reigning Sound, Dylan (Last Time), And Miles Benjamin Etc.

​Massachusetts metalheads Cave In have had quite a varied career, vacillating from screamy hardcore to what Spin once dubbed "emo-metal Radiohead" (2000's Jupiter is indeed pretty righteous to not-quite-ascendant major-label hopefuls to... whatever they are now. They'll be it, whatever it is, ... More >>

Barrett: Bill Thompson Questions Graduation Rates; City Responds With Its Shady Numbers Man

When Bill Thompson issued a recent audit questioning the high school graduation rate claims of the Bloomberg administration, the Department of Education enlisted its prestigious outside auditor, Ernst & Young, to rebut the comptroller's findings. But the E&Y partner who signed the unusual Ju ... More >>

FBI Arrests Jersey Mayors, Rabbis in Corruption Bust

The FBI swooped in this morning and arrested a bunch of New Jersey politicians -- and rabbis! -- in an international money laundering and corruption investigation. Among the former class of detainee: Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano (pictured), Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City Council Presiden ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Phish!

Props to Zach for intentionally running the words "Phish in a barrel" on this website. Starting today, the legendary jam band wanks three nights away at Jones Beach. Isis do metaphysics by way of doom metal at Irving Plaza, plus a set by sludgy post-rockers Pelican. Sweden is weathering the rece ... More >>

Choice Eats Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

On Tuesday March 31st, the Village Voice will throw the second annual Choice Eats event at the 69th Street Armory. Those of you who loved last year's event (it was awesome) will be happy to know that this year's Choice Eats is basically the same deal, only with more restaurants and more space. Also ... More >>

Live: All Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo

photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

The Individuals' Sex-Crazed Rhythms

Vintage, awkward teenage lust from Hoboken

Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Shows: Final 2!

Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Shows: What's Happened So Far

Menorah Report

A Hanukkah fete with Yo La Tengo, the only band worth trudging all the way to Hoboken for

Another Brave New World

Glenn Mercer's solo debut could be a Feelies reunion. He's just too nice to make it one.

Walk Unafraid

Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

Still On the Waterfront

Long plagued by Johnny Friendlys, dockworkers fight to take back a mob-infested union

Close-Up on Hoboken, New Jersey

Still a Contender

Guilt, self-justification, and Brando's career performance in Kazan's 50-year-old classic

Close-Up on Weehawken

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Close-Up on Jersey City

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Close-Up On: Hoboken

Hawaiian Hunch

One-bedroom apartment in tenement building