Subject: Newark

• Questions Await New Atlantic Yards Ombudsman

  November 28, 2007

• Where to Eat off the Jersey Turnpike

  March 28, 2008

• American Idols Live! Tour 2008: New Jersey Edition

  August 4, 2008

• Transportation Alternatives: Mayor Backs Bridge Tolls and (Surprise!) Airport Slot Auctions

  August 11, 2008

• Sorry, Pops: NY Firms Fail to Crack Older-Worker Top 25

  September 23, 2008

• Our Man Sietsema and the Undercover Cops

  September 24, 2008

• Live: Tina Turner Celebrates Her 69th Birthday in Newark

  December 1, 2008

• Week in Review: We Got into Fights!

  December 5, 2008

• Have a Happy Flight-Delayed Christmas

  December 24, 2008

• Undertaker Gets Cremated

  A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, has agreed to have his license revoked and pay $40,000 in civil penalties after it was found that, between 2001 and 2005, he was harvesting body tissue from the dead. The tissue was then used in surgica

  January 6, 2009

• The Early Word -- Woodburning Pit

  Best Dish: Pork rib I've made no secret of my enthusiasm for the Portuguese neighborhood barbecues of Newark's Ironbound, corner bars that hand-rotisserie massive racks of ribs and whole splayed chickens with pirir-piri sauce over lump charcoal. Now Bay Ridge has its own Portuguese barbecue (known as a churrasqueira, not a churrascaria--that's Brazilian), The Woodburning Pit. The name constitutes something of a misnomer, since the open pit in the middle of the dining room uses charcoal briquet

  January 21, 2009

• New Fast Train Will Take You to Atlantic City, Penury

  February 6, 2009

• Plane from Newark crashes into Buffalo house; 49 killed

  Eyewitness footage A commuter plane from Newark, Continental Connection Flight 3407, smashed into a house near Buffalo at 10:20 last night. Everybody on the plane was killed. Reuters: "Doomed plane suddenly lost contact - tower tapes" Buffalo News: "After the crash, tower warned other planes to watch for icing" Times story. Times slideshow. Post: "AIR-CRASH HORROR: 49 DIE AS NEWARK PLANE HITS BUFFALO HOME" Post: "Widow Of 9/11 Victim Dies In Buffalo Plane Crash"

  February 13, 2009

• Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark smashes into Buffalo house; all 49 die, plus 1 on ground

  Eyewitness footage A commuter plane from Newark, Continental Connection Flight 3407, smashed into a house near Buffalo at 10:20 last night. Everybody on the plane, and one resident of the house, was killed. Two people from the house escaped with minor injuries. Reuters: "Doomed plane suddenly lost contact - tower tapes" Buffalo News: "After the crash, tower warned other planes to watch for icing" Times story. Times slideshow. Post: "AIR-CRASH HORROR: 49 DIE AS NEWARK PLANE HITS BUFFALO H

  February 13, 2009

• Hotter and Faster at McWhorter Barbecue

  Ribs, chicken, and cops in Newark's Ironbound

  September 23, 2008

• Arcos in Astoria: Portuguese Barbecue and Seafood

  April 1, 2008

• Contain Yourself!

  March 2, 2004

• Holy Squat, Jazzman!

  December 8, 1998

• Men at Work

  February 14, 2006

• Humpless

  March 7, 2006

• 'Urbanscapes'

  June 27, 2006

• Raw Shit and Rubber Duckies

  August 1, 2006

• The Unflashiest

  November 17, 1998

• There Goes The Neighborhood

  March 2, 1999

• Sports

  January 18, 2000

• Sports

  February 15, 2000

• Jewel Boxes

  May 9, 2000

• Beating the Bushes

  June 27, 2000

• Sports

  June 12, 2001

• Seize the Seat

  April 2, 2002

• Heaven, Hell, and Jersey

  November 26, 2002

• Close-Up on Elizabeth, New Jersey

  July 8, 2003

• Two Rivers

  February 24, 2004

• Close-Up on Newark

  March 9, 2004

• Poetic Poultry

  August 24, 2004

• Pumping Meat

  March 1, 2005

• Dense Alt-Rap Poundcakes Get A Little Too Light And Fluffy

  February 20, 2007

• Outing Cardinal Egan

  January 31, 2006

• Close-Up on Newark, New Jersey

  January 24, 2006

• Obama Gets a Wine Named After Him; Jay-Z and his Crew Skip Out on the Bill

  Some sectors of the food industry have resorted to hiring state employees to do inspections in an effort to fill in gaps where current regulation has failed. But safety advocates warn that conflicts of interest could arise. [NY Times] PETA is calling for the mayor of Newark to ban new fast-food joints in the city, citing a 2007 study that exposed Newark as the fattest city in New Jersey, and another study that suggests those who leave near fast-food chains are more likely to suffer a stroke. [A

  April 17, 2009

• Nazi Pentagon Experiments in Queens!

  As Schizo Letters of the Week go, this one is in a league of its own. If only all crazy people wrote with such clarity and style... There is mounting evidence that the military is using aircraft that was outfitted with technology intended for warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan to conduct experiments on the residents of Queens. It has also become apparent that the Bush administration granted the Pentagon permission to do this and that now it is up to the Obama administration to stop it. A torre

  April 24, 2009

• The Eel Has Landed at Sol-Mar

  Squid large enough to frighten swimmers at Newark Marisqueira

  May 6, 2009

• This Week in the Voice

  Is it Trekalicious? Or Trek Jerky? Robert Wilonsky weighs in on the Star Trek movie, in which Spock is a "tormented youth in revolt." Ward Sutton does the funny cartoon version. We're accustomed to think of William Thompson as Mr. Clean. But he's a friend of William Howell, and as city comptroller has been party to deals where a "good deed also benefited a good friend." Tom Robbins reports. There's a children's-but-not-really story called Coraline opening soon at the Lucille Lortel. The mu

  May 5, 2009

• Pix from Sol-Mar

  This week, Counter Culture swims into Sol-Mar, a Lisbon-style marisquiera (seafood specialist) in the hardscrabble east side of Newark's Ironbound. The food proves spectacular, and cheap as hell compared to Manhattan seafood spots. And there's bunny on the menu, too... dive into the next page for some pictures of the food found there

  May 6, 2009

• Pilot Dies Mid-Atlantic Flight, "First Officers" Flying It to Newark (UPDATE: Plane Lands Safely)

  A transcontinental Continental Airlines flight, the pilot of which died in mid-flight and which is being piloted at present by its two first officers, in due shortly at Newark Airport. The plane left Brussels at about 4 a.m. and its 61-year-old pilot died sometime thereafter. Newark says it will give the aircraft "priority handling" when it arrives. You can watch this obsessively via video feed at MSNBC. Flights at Newark are delayed about two and a half hours. Update: MSNBC says the plane ha

  June 18, 2009

• Meadowlands to Swap Nets to Newark for Concerts?

  ​Rumors of the Nets moving to Newark to join the Devils are as old as Jason Kidd's knees, but hoops-by-the-Ironbound may finally be a reality, as early as next season. After the Newark Star-Ledger reported yesterday that unnamed team sources were saying the Nets would consider a temporary relocation to Newark while awaiting their new Brooklyn digs, today's Bergen Record followed up with actual quotes from a real person — or as real as you believe "New Jersey's economic czar" to be &m

  October 23, 2009

• Rock Hall Show at MSG Includes A Couple of Jersey Guys

  The Rock and Roll Hame of Fame 25th Anniversary events kicked off last night at Madison Square Garden with key Jersey representation, including sets by Paul Simon of Newark and Bruce Springsteen of Long Branch. Here's Simon and former collaborator Art Garfunkel really milking "Sounds of Silence." You can also see Springsteen milking the intro to "10th Avenue Freeze Out" and other hambone performances at YouTube. Full set list here. This year's HoF inductees are Jeff Beck, Metallica, Bobby Wom

  October 30, 2009

• Newark Grocers Push Fruits & Veggies; Jonathan Safran Foer Asks, 'Why Not Eat Dog?'

  ​Costco will start accepting food stamps nationally after it started to accept them in New York earlier this year. The program should be operational in half the company's 407 warehouse-style stores by Thanksgiving, according to company officials. [NY Times] Small corner grocery stores in Newark are being approached by public health organizations and economic development agencies with offers of new equipment and marketing expertise to encourage them to stock more fresh produce and other he

  November 2, 2009

• Clip Job: Tom Hayden Goes from Newark to Hanoi

  ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 20, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 14 Tom Hayden: Prophet Comes to Sodom By Jack Newfield For the last year-and-a-half Tom Hayden, 26, has been invisible to the mass media as he worked to build a community union in Newark's Negro ghetto. He led an exhausting, spartan life there. He ate and slept irregularly, worked hard, lived with frustration and failure. But NCUP (Newark Community Union Project) persevered, and slowly laid down ro

  November 11, 2009

• Incredibly Cheap Eats: Meat Combinations at Newark's Ferry St. Barbecue

  ​Ribs and chicken struggle to escape the french fry quicksand. Love barbecue but hate paying top dollar? Jump on the PATH train, which swoops over the picturesque Meadowlands, and take a quick trip to Newark's Ironbound neighborhood, just a few blocks from the terminus of the PATH at Newark's Penn Station.

  November 16, 2009