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before he took office as the Mayor of Jersey City on July 1, 2013, Steven M. Fulop now has his own page on Wikipedia. Gaining in popularity, a local paper put him 4th on a list of Hudson’s 50 most influential people. Mayor Fulop, 36, seems to have a vision for Jersey City’s cultural scene with plans to bring the city to greater heights that reflect its stature as the second largest city in New Jersey. By raising the standards of the arts scene, Fulop envisions Jersey City as an arts mecca similar to New York City that will attract visitors in huge numbers and big name acts to its performance venues while providing public spaces for resident artists, filmmakers, dancers, actors and musicians.

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Jersey City’s New Mayor Steven M. FulopEnvisions the City’s Cultural Future

Moving forward, in the short time he’s been in office, Mayor Fulop has already been in meetings with Cordish Companies of Baltimore, the prospective developers of the Powerhouse building in downtown Jersey City. He has supportedlegislation to reinstate the tax credits to

filmmakers who want to shoot on location in Jersey City; and, he has approved projects by mural artists to paint designated buildings in Jersey City. Mayor Fulop also has plans to turn the old movie palace, the Loew’s Jersey City in Journal Square into a performing arts center like NJPAC.

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food and drinks for just $20. Once inside you’ll notice the ambiance is very stylish: dark leather seating, a cascading water-fall behind the bar, and 3 gel-fueled, wall-mounted fireplaces. According to the General Manager Wal-ter Sawicki, “We wanted to create a dark, sexy, trendy, place equal or better than any New York City lounge”. There is a bottle service deal and the cost varies ac-cording to the liquor brand you choose. Average cost for 4 people is $220 and up.

On Friday, and Saturday nights there is a live DJ ac-companied by a percussion-ist. On Thursday nights all their large screens play the video of the Top 40 music the DJ is playing. The seating is very well arranged in sections. There are V.I.P. areas where you and your friends can have privacy but are still right in the mix. If you feel like dancing you have plenty of room to bust out that move, or you can just sit at the comfortable bar and chill or make new friends. There is a coat check policy which is great

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Odd Teen Out Joe Montaperto suffers an Identity Crisis in his new Memoir THE EDGE OF WHITENESS

By Sally Deering

Joe Montaperto grew up in the 1970s, a time of race riots, culture-clashes and mash-ups. Born and raised in an Italian Brook-lyn neighborhood, Monta-perto’s parents moved him and the family to Roselle, New Jersey, with the hope of getting away from the racially-charged clashes playing out on Brooklyn’s streets. Instead, the teenage Montaperto enrolled in a high school where African-American teenagers were bussed in from the inner-city and Montaperto, who is of Italian dissent, how to find a way to cope in this unexpected and sometimes

violent culture clash. This all happens on the first page of THE EDGE OF WHITENESS, Monta-perto’s memoir published by Oak Tree Press and available on Amazon.com and Montaperto’s website (www.JoeMontaperto.com). On Thurs, Jan.9th at 6:30 pm, Montaperto will read excerpts of THE EDGE OF WHITENESS at the Heights branch of the Jersey City Free Public Library on Zabriskie Street. “It was a story I had to tell,” Montaperto says. “I was born in Brooklyn and we moved to Roselle New Jersey. It was an insidious town – it looked pretty nice, but it was kind of a

dangerous place. We were from Brooklyn. We lived in an Italian neighborhood and we moved to Roselle. It was very white and the high school was mostly black. It was kind

of a weird cultural shock, like Jackie Robinson in reverse. I remember feeling totally on the outside from everybody. It was pretty rough until when I turned 15. I suddenly looked Puerto Rican and I learned how to box and that prob-ably saved me, those two things.” The story begins in 1969, “as Brooklyn smol-ders in the aftermath of the past summer’s race riots.” Montaperto and his fam-ily move from their Italian neighborhood to start fresh in a New Jersey suburb. Ironically, the high school there is “forcefully-inte-grated” and Montaperto is confronted with a brutal

racial conflict. When he is unexpectedly rescued from a hallway ambush, he finds himself entering a new world – at least to him – of African-American culture. Before becoming an au-thor, Montaperto started out his career as an actor and comedian, performing in comedy clubs in the 1980’s. Later, he applied his train-ing and background to his one man show FOUR DE-GREES OF DISCONNEC-TION, which he performed in and around New York City. Soon, he began feel-ing burned out, so Montap-erto went soul-searching in the Amazon jungle. Currently a Jersey City

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ODD TEEN OUTCon’t from page 3 resident, Montaperto was a hit at the Jersey City Free Public Library’s annual book fair in September where he read excerpts of THE EDGE OF WHITENESS “It’s a fascinating book,” Mi-chele Dupuy, Public Informa-tion Officer for the Jersey City Free Public Library says.

“I really related to his book.” These days, Montaperto works as a bartender for a catering company to pay the bills while he works on his second book, a sequel to THE EDGE OFWHITENESS. “It’s called LOVELY CHAOS,” Montaperto says. “When I was a comedian in New York, I was going back and forth between my

quest for a spiritual life and the nightlife, a seedy world of crack gangs, pimps and prostitutes. I had my share of beatings and revenge. It was really kind of wild, al-most a continuation of what went on in high school. It was total chaos, but I loved it. A part of me really loved the rush of everything. Be-ing a comedian is the

ultimate rush on stage and then being on the street at 3 o’clock in the morning, that’s a rush, too. Every-body’s roaming the streets

Author Joe Montaperto

looking to get something.”Montaperto works on LOVELY CHAOS in his favorite writing spot, Panera’s Bread on Wash-ington Street in Hoboken. That’s where he wrote THE EDGE OF WHITENESS, too. “I’ve been writing at Pan-era’s for years,” Montap-erto says “You find yourself coming to tears and in a public place and you don’t care. I’m hoping they never close.”

If you go:Thurs, Jan. 9, 2014, 6:30 pmJoe Montaperto reads from his book THE EDGE OF WHITENESSJersey City Free Public LibraryHeights Branch14 Zabriskie St.Jersey City(201) 547-4556

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Jersey City’s New Mayor Steven M. Fulop Envisions the City’s Cultural FutureCon’t from cover On a recent November morning, Mayor Fulop took time out of his busy sched-ule to speak with Riverview Observer about some of his plans and projects for Jer-sey City’s cultural scene.

RVO: Mayor Fulop do you have any personal association with the arts – did you play the trumpet in high school, that sort of thing? MSF: I have a great ap-preciation for music and I have friends in the arts community, thus I’ve been engaged in it. I took piano lessons during my child-hood and up until last year. I play classical music and I started studying Jazz. Clas-sical is straight-forward, you’re reading notes and I could do that very well, but I couldn’t improvise. It’s a totally different skillset. My piano teacher moved, though, and now I’m look-ing for a new one, so if you know anybody,..

RVO: Do you have any interest in a specific area of the arts in Jersey City?MSF: I’ve realized in order to make Jersey City really shine it needs a thriving arts community. That’s what attracts people here. Transportation won’t just do it, you need culture and art. We’re working with Senator (Steve) Lesniak to reinstate the film tax credit; legislation will be introduced next week. We’re looking to see how to put more money into the Loew’s and bring in

professional management. You’ll see that on the Council agenda coming forward. That’s a big step. From a city standpoint, I can’t put $10-$15 million dollars into something that has the “potential” for suc-cess. The Loew’s is the size of NJPAC and across from the Journal Square PATH. You could get big names, and people coming from alover for art, music, restau-rants. The Loew’s is really a key component of what we’re trying to do.

RVO: Over the years, funding for Jersey City Cultural Affairs has dropped from $700,000 to $100,000. Will this be turned around during your administration?MSF: We’re working with Cultural Affairs to revisit how it functions in the city. A cultural affairs group that is just hanging art work ordoing flag-raising is not how I envision Cultural Affairs. We’re looking for things that are going to have thousands of peoplethere. We had 2000 people

at our Halloween fair. There was a petting zoo, rides; it was a safe and fes-tive place. Cultural Affairs needs to be thinking like that. Twenty people for a flag-raising; I don’t need seven employees admin-istering flag-raising – tell-ing people ‘go here to get permits’. What are you doing for 2014 and where are the new plans for things that are going to be sub-stantially large? To me, it’s more than just an art show in a rotunda for a few art-ists. Cultural Affairs has to be good branding for Jersey City. We haven’t increased (the budget) until we have a plan.

RVO: According to the Jersey City Redevelop-ment Authority, pro-posals by the Cordish Companies of Baltimore will transform the Pow-erhouse building into an “art and entertainment mixed use center with multi-floor retail and commercial space.” Can you elaborate?MSF: We’d like to see progress here. The develop-er submitted two proposals: one was more elaborate; one less elaborate. Both proposals are from a cul-tural perspective. One has a type of performance space; one is more marketing-re-tail oriented. They are both different and both have different costs with some public and private partner-ship. I feel comfortable Cont’d on page 6

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Fulop cont’d from page 5 with either of them.

RVO: You mentioned the art gallery Mana Contem-porary on Newark Avenue in Jersey City as a good representation of how the arts can attract people. Can you elaborate?MSF: If you go to their art openings, there are 10,000 people from all over New Jersey. They have some of the world’s best artists from the performing arts, visual arts. There are paintings by Andy Warhol. Mana is going to be the major arts institution for Jersey City.

RVO: Can you tell our readers if and when the Jersey City Museum will re-open? MSF: It’s still a problem. We don’t have clarity around the inventory. In

fairness to (former mayor) Jerry Healy, he inherited a very tough situation on the museum. Where they built that museum, there’s no parking, it’s a tough location to attract visitors and attract global artists on a large scale. To compete with the New York City market you have to have something special. There are a lot of things special about this place. We should be thinking big. If it’s not big, it’s not interesting to me.

RVO: The arts in Jersey City seem to exist despite a lack of space. A good example is the Grassroots Community Art Space on Newark Ave, a public art space run by artists. In the future, will the city provide more venues for artists?MSF: The market dictates

that. Some things happen organically. We have a black-box theater, a 400-seat theater opening up on Bay Street. It’s going to be given to the city and will be a city asset. (But) it’s hard to have government in that role. Government is not good at owning assets. It’s not our skillset. What we do is create a cultural environment. It’s about creating a brand in Jersey City that goes beyond Jersey City. To learn more about Jersey City’s cultural arts scene, go to: www.cityofjerseycity.com.

Mayor Fulop also has plans to turn the old movie palace, the Loew’s

Jersey City in Journal Square into a performing arts center like NJPAC.

Operation Christmas ChildKindergarten Classes fill Shoeboxes for Underprivileged Children

Lending a helping handKindergarten students from All Saint’s Catholic Academy in Bayonne, Mrs. Cronin and Mrs. Olvesen classes KA and KB filled shoeboxes as part of Operation Christ-mas Child. The children excited to help underprivileged children understood the purpose and decorated and filled the boxes with goodies and wrote notes to the children who will be receiving the boxes.

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HappeningsCantigas Women’s Choirpresents its 12th annual winter concert entitled HOW MERRILY WE LIVE: Songs of the Season on Saturday, December 14 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Matthew Trinity Church at 57 Eighth Street (at Hudson Street) in Hoboken, N.J. The sugges-tion donation for the con-cert is $15 ($5 for seniors and students).

The Big/ Small Painting ShowNow through Dec.21stA selection of innovative and current paintings by various artists from all over New Jersey. The Drawing Room180 Grand StreetJersey City, NJ

Gallery hours are:Thursday and Friday 4pm -7pm and Saturday and Sunday 2 -6 pm

Jersey City NutcrackerDecember 21st and 22ndNimbus Dance Works an-nounces the fourth year of the company’s annual holiday tradition: Jersey City Nut-cracker tells the story of two children’s urban holi-day adventure leading them through fantasy, adversity and celebration and teaching them lessons about friendship and community along the way.Frank R. Conwell Middle School #4 Auditorium107 Bright Street Jersey City, NJ

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“A LEGEND OF COMMUNIPAW: THE PLAY” PREMIERING IN JERSEY CITY “A Legend of Communi-paw: The Play,” based on the Washington Irving short story of the same name, is making its world premiere this fall from Dec. 5 through 15 in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J. The story, which is set in 17-century Jersey City, follows the partnership of two men who meet in Com-munipaw in the early years of British governance -- one Dutch, one African, both with outsider attitudes -- who join forces to achieve what neither could alone. Along the way, they face pirates, riotous par-ties, threat of persecution, sea storms and in classic Irving fashion, even the supernatu-ral. The themes in “A Legend of Communipaw,” includ-ing commercial ambition and pan-ethnic business and personal relationships, are rooted firmly in the early days of European settlement and are as familiar and fresh to people today as they were to Washington Irving almost 200 years ago. “This play combines his-tory, literature and theater is a new way that offers entertain-ment and education in one delicious serving. It is set and staged in the same geographic area, and also has global ap-peal for its story and context in international history and current global realities that cannot be separated from the events of the play,” said direc-tor Trish Szymanski.“More than ever, a popular understanding of the impact of history is needed to engage more parts of society to make change, not only in academic settings but also in entertain-ment and a variety of cultural programming.”

Each evening will begin with a talk about the New Netherland period as well as the impact of Dutch culture in Jersey City and beyond by a local historian and expert in the field from the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy. This will be the directori-al debut of Jersey City actress and artist Trish Szymanski, who also adapted the play using only Irving’s words and plays Floris Valstrikker, a sup-porting role. The play stars Yvonne Her-nandez, Charles Herrion and Tim Kutka. Supporting actors include Mike Fass, John Jayme, Julia Lomba, Dolores Reyes, Juliette Reyes, Trish Szymanski, Patrick Taaffe,

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ME Casa (Su Casa)Shining a Spotlight on Fine

Puerto Rican Cuisine in Jersey CityBy Sally Deering Eighteen months ago Chef Ed Cotto, Jr., and his wife Maria discovered a little nook on Varick Street in Jersey City and turned it into ME Casa, a divine little restaurant where the star is traditional Puerto Rican cuisine served in grand style. Cotto, who was born and raised in Brooklyn and spent much of his childhood in his family’s native Puerto Rico, has a special ingredi-ent he adds to all his dishes: he calls it heart and soul. “I’m a little disturbed Latin cuisine hasn’t elevat-ed,” Cotto says on a recent afternoon as he prepares for the evening dinner crowd. “I went to Puerto Rico a couple years ago and not only didn’t they changetheir physical décor, it was

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Chef Ed Cotto Jr. in front of his restaurant Me Casa in Jersey City

the same dishes I had 20 years ago. Puerto Ricans have been content selling Puerto Rican food to Puerto Ricans. My challenge is to sell it to people of other cultures. Roast pork is roast pork, how do you make it differently? ” The dining room, red-bricked lined with tables covered in white linens,

is intimate and warm with Latin music playing softly in the background. It’s a BYOB restaurant and Cotto encourages his guests to bring their own wine or beer to complement his menu, which offers select tradi-tional Puerto Rican dishes by Cotto. “My boss is the people who sit here in these

chairs,” Cotto says. “Good food and hospitality, it has to go hand in hand. I want my customers to connect.” Cotto offered a visitor a few ME Casa signature dishes to taste like the Mofongo Al Pilon, mashed green plantains and garlic topped with beef (shrimp or chicken) stew which was very tasty. The beef in the stew was tender and the gravy had some really nice flavors. Another delicioushouse specialty is the Pernil Asado, traditional marinated

pulled pork. A real standout is the Alcapurias, friedmashed green banana and plantain filled with beef Picadillo. This appetizer is served with a choice of three sauces, one of which is the “Incredible Hulk” a tomato-based sauce that is not too spicy. Served like a mini turnover, the Al-capurias has an outside tex-ture with nice crunch while the ground beef inside is lighter than air – a delicious combination of flavors and

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textures. No wonder Yelp has named ME Casa No. 1 in its league. “These are real tradi-tional dishes,” Cotto says.” Our Roast Pork Pernil, I render it down for 12-14 hours. It’s not like south-ern-pulled pork, but it’s as moist as you can get before dipping. I serve it with crispy pork crackling on top. You can’t have pulled pork without crispy pork crackling on top.” The menu also features appetizers like Chichar-ron De Pollo, crispy deep-fried chicken pieces; the Empanada Sampler with a choice of three chicken, beef or shrimp empanadas; and Mini Mofongos, garlic-mashed green plantain cups filled with beef, chicken and shrimp. Entrees include Filete De Tilapia, pan-seared tila-pia topped with fresh spicy mango salsa or Mojo Isleno style (garlic and onion red sauce); Chuleta Frita, fried pork chops topped with caramelized onions;

Asopao De Camarones, shrimp gumbo; Pollo Bora-cho, chicken breast pre-pared in Sofrito, onions and beer; Bistec Encebollado, sirloin steak topped with caramelized onions; and Carne Guisada, traditional Latino beef stew. Before studying to be a chef, Cotto started his career in finance, working at Smith Barney, Deutche Bank, Barclays and Gold-man Sachs. He was Vice President at Nomura Secu-rities when he decided to open his own restaurant. “I went to the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City at night,” Cotto says. “I first learned how to cook as a kid. My mother had a small catering business in Brooklyn.” In the 1990s, Cotto says he studied other restau-rants that specialized in Puerto Rican cuisine, but it seemed they were more like bars and nightclubs that served Puerto Rican food as an after-thought. “What they’re marketing is

their bar or club; we don’t want to do that,” Cotto says. “Here, at ME Casa, the customer is getting quality food. Who knows Puerto Rican cuisine better than I do? My mom.” ME Casa caters cor-porate events and private parties on site or on loca-tion and Cotto has done his research, connecting with local businesses and hospitals who are booking his catering services for their holiday parties. And now its pasteles season, so he has a special chef who makes them for the many orders he fills. Pasteles are meat turnovers wrapped in green banana and served as a traditional treat during the Christmas season. “Pasteles season is right now,” Cotto says. “We sell them by the dozen, beef, chicken, pork and vegetarian. It’s a traditional dish – Puerto Rican com-fort food.”

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