9 Responses to ** Hoboken Summer Enchanted Evenings 2008 **

1. 1. bornandraisedbuster | June 6th, 2008 at 12:41 am

   With all of the amazing musical talent available in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area, is this the best we can do? Every summer Brooklyn regularly has exciting and memorable, city sponsored, music and art events. People come fron all over the region and the world for that matter, to check these events out and to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the city. Hoboken is stuck in a time and talent warp of mediocrity. Horrible local acts brow beat the cultural events “czar”, Gerri Fallo, for gigs and inevitably we get the same crap every summer. Gerri is way past her prime when it comes to providing the kind of events and entertainment that this city could so easily put on if she only would cede some of her horrible decision making powers to someone younger, hipper and more in touch with the world outside of her head. She couldn’t play it any safer if she lived in a bomb shelter! Let her run her movie series on the Pier. That is how she started and she is good at it. Music? Did you say bring on Bill McGarvey for the thousandt time and how about Gene the Plumber while you’re at it? These people don’t need gigs, they need jobs. Someone should pay them not to perform.

2. 2. bornandraisedbuster | June 6th, 2008 at 1:02 am

   Okay, no Bill McGarvey? He must have finally gotten a job. Well there is alway Kate Jacobs for the Millionth time! And you might say “We have to be sensitive to the born and raised community and what they might like”. I say “throw in some mummified doo wop act with none of the original members” B n R’s just love their Doo Wop. Especially Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge. “The Worst That Could Happen” is like the B n’R national anthem I think. Give them their Doo Wop and you can book whomever else you want. Also throw in a salsa band to placate the hispanic community. (Plus I like salsa. It makes girls shake their butts!)

3. 3. ImaTree90 | June 6th, 2008 at 11:22 am

   Well, what can you expect. Sad to say -there’s very little new, creative talent left in Hoboken, or even nearby. They’ve all been priced outta’ town….like many others. Working as a pharmaceutical rep is not very condusive to the artistic community, neither are pastey-white-post-fratenal young republicans. I feel bad for the few people who live here and would like to see this town conduct itself in a more artistic manner. After all that’s how all the “buzz” about Hoboken came about. Funny, the irony of how this( and recent past) administrations play up the “art and music community” thing, yet do absolutely do NOTHING to support it. The Neuman leather building is a picture perfect example, happening right now—-right this minute—- before our eyes.
   Nah…..Hoboken’s just another jersey suburb town now, a NYC bedroom community where nothing really happens creatively, and that seems to be ok with the newbies. After all, artists and musicians are all dirty, lazy, unemployed, unbathed liberal pot smokers—who needs ‘em?!!! (besides me)
   So we might as well be lost in a time warp like Bayonne, because people are eatin’ it up!
   To them, this stuff is artistic. Who wants to see a “different” musical act? Just gimme the same ol’ stuff and don’t you dare challenge me. That’s why girly-man Roberts and Ms. Fallow are PERFECT for the job.
   CHANGE ?????? Something NEW ????? —Fuck that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. 4. strand tramp | June 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

   QUESTION how much money can be shaved off the city “budget” if we reduce all these socail services/fairs/free lunches?
   i would ask the city council to IMMEDIATELY put a moratorium on ANY new festivals or welfare state programs.
   the “hoboken film festival”? disaster! cancel it immediately!
   let’s go city council, you may never have a better opportunity to take an AX to our bloated budget!
   baby parades? 4-6-8 street festivals a year? why? we have a FEW traditions that should certainly be observed, but we do not need to bilk taxpayers and shut down the city every month just to help the f’n poor starving bar owners. how about rolling back closing time to 2am? how about NO arts & crap festival? it means nothing to anyone that lives here anyway.
   CLEAN UP THIS CITY. STOP SPENDING MY MONEY!!

5. 5. devilbat | June 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

   I enjoy the film Festival.

6. 6. emarche | June 6th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

   Agreed strand…it’d be one thing if the street festivals were any different, but year in/out it’s the SAME GOD DAMN THING.

   And how about those new segways for the HPD? How about sending those back?

7. 7. Journey | June 6th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

   strand tramp wrote:

   how about NO arts & crap festival? it means nothing to anyone that lives here anyway.
   CLEAN UP THIS CITY. STOP SPENDING MY MONEY!!

   I don’t know how all the fairs are funded, I wouldn’t mind knowing.

   I went to the OLG fair last weekend, and was sorely disappointed. The arts and crafts were not much to be spoken for. Maybe I’m biased as I grew up with a mom in the PTA that ran a fund-raising Arts and Craft Show. A very successful one. People had to pay to have a table, the crafts were of good quality, from simple but nice beadwork, to actual silversmiths and oil painters. By the time I was in middle school, our little elementary school craft fair had to rent the middle school to accommodate all the artists.

   Some events like this can make a town money if done right, which I somehow doubt is happening here.

8. 8. matt_72 | June 6th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

   I think more than a few of the festivals (as annoying as they are) do indeed bring in a ton of money to the city coffers. They make money off the tickets/citations, taxes collected from businesses & the fees vendors pay to participate. And to tell you the truth, I don’t mind having some festivals in town. But get rid of that film festival already. That one in particular seems to only exist to enrich a few insiders. And be more agressive policing quality of life crimes at some of the other festivals (St. Patty’s day in particular - that one I avoid like the plague). But the Arts festival I do enjoy (though I freely admit I don’t live right next to it and absolutely understand why many hate that festival). I just wish we had a few more artists and a few less T-shirt vendors there…….

9. 9. Topaz | July 16th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

   bornandraisedbuster wrote:

   I say “throw in some mummified doo wop act with none of the original members” B n R’s just love their Doo Wop. Especially Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge. “The Worst That Could Happen” is like the B n’R national anthem I think.

   Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge are celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2008. They still have four original members: Johnny Maestro, Les Cauchi, Fred Ferrara & Jimmy Rosica. In Nov. 2008, it will be 50 years since Johnny sang lead with The Crests on “16 Candles”. Maestro’s voice is better than ever, and he and The Bridge released a CD in 2007 titled “Songs of Inspiration”.

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