Hudson County and surrounding areas are under a winter weather advisory at midnight

Snow, ice, then more snow, then ice, then rain will be making an appearance over the Hudson County area starting later tonight. The area is under a Winter Weather Advisory from midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow night. We're expecting anywhere from 3-5 inches of snow, and perhaps a tenth of an inch of icing is possible.

Wunderground gives us the rest:
Tonight
Cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening...then snow after midnight. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Lows in the mid 20s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 80 percent.

Wednesday
Snow in the morning...mixing with freezing rain and sleet early in the afternoon...then changing to rain. Total snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Ice accumulation of up to a tenth of an inch. Highs in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy. Rain...freezing rain and sleet likely in the evening...tapering off by midnight. Little or no ice accumulation. Breezy with lows in the mid 20s. North winds 15 to 20 mph...becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

Big music news thrillseekers, Neko Case at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square April 13th, and 14th

Of course Johnny was a weasel and didn't announce this until he got his tickets (for the April 14th show) but really, this tour was announced only yesterday. Neko will be touring for her new 'Middle Cyclone' record (yes, record, we're old school here) which is due out March 3rd. We've heard one track off of it and it's very very good. If you've never heard Neko's music we highly advise a trip to the Nokia Theatre, she's got a voice like no other and her arrangements are tip top music fans. Click here for the link on the tour enjoy an early morning song on Johnny and the staff....

Neko with 'I Wish I Was the Moon' to put you in a ticket buying mood

Late night open thread

Tonight we bring you an image from around our fair city...

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

A new Harrison PATH train station planned

Good new for those of you on the Newark side of town, a new PATH station is planned for the Harrison stop said Susan Bass Levin, first deputy executive director of the Port Authority. She also said PATH would be adding a new fleet of train cars to upgrade the system and add more passenger space. This is good news, anything that helps the PATH or subway systems (for the most part) is money well spent.

Johnny enjoys going past the Harrison stop on his way to Devils games, that stop is looking pretty run down. A good call by the Port Authority. We're hoping the new train cars will have vending machines, shoe buffers, iPod docking stations, a bar car and hopefully the popcorn guy in Newark can branch out and sell fresh popped corn on the PATH train.

Monday morning open thread

Johnny has meetings all morning and was up all night knocking a giant gorilla off the top of the Empire State Building, talk amongst yourselves...

Late night open thread

On this day in history, in 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn as you'll recall looked a lot like super hottie Natalie Portman.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Warm up your best Beavis and Butthead imitations....

Dateline: Crapstone England. Wait, it's gets better than Crapstone. The New York Times hips us to a most unfortunate road sign in Crapstone. By going and reading the article you'll learn that what you're about to see doesn't mean what you're about to see. It won't stop you from snickering however.

Nice to see the incoming administration won't be cowed by terrorists, they seek to reopen the Statue of Liberty's crown to the public

New Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar visited the Statue of Liberty and said a top priority of his, meaning the Obama Administration, was to reopen the crown to the public. You'll recall it was closed after the 9/11 attacks for some apparent reason. The Bushies said it was out of concern to the safety of the public which still to this day sounds like a red herring. Then why not close the viewing deck on the Empire State Building? Secretary Salazar said "This is an American treasure. . I don't think there is a better symbol of the fact that there is one America than this island."

We here at the Jersey City Desk agree. Sure it's a narrow 168 steps. So? No doubt someone has had a heart attack or fallen ill at some point doing it over the decades it's been open. They didn't close the St. Louis arch after 9/11. We need to get over this innate fear of "the terrorists". Sure it's a possibility. It's a possibility geese will bring down your plane in the Hudson River.

Jersey City's Statue of Liberty is THE greatest symbol of America, but how can it be if it's closed because we're afraid of bad guys? We heartily applaud Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama Administration for this call.

Late night open thread

Johnny got his shop on today in the India Square area of Jersey City today looking for a gift for his mom's birthday. He picked up some gorgeous head scarves in those fabulous Indian fabrics and designs and colors. Yep, he was the only caucasian male (Hell, male period) in the shop and he thinks they got a kick out of a non-traditional shopper in there. Wonderful ladies working there who were very helpful and Johnny'd like to give some online love to Om Saris at 11 Liberty Ave. (Just off of Newark). Good stuff, and if Johnny was in the market to buy a sari, he'd get it there.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Famed Greenwich Village bakery now selling "drunken negro head" cookies

Wow, for a second there Johnny, we thought you said a bakery is selling cookies called "drunken negro heads".

Yep, that's EXACTLY what Johnny said. The owner of the Lafayette French Pastry bakery (featured on Sex in the City) is selling (or was until people were offended and the news media showed up on his doorstep) cookies he's calling "drunken negro heads' or last Tuesday, Inauguration Day they were called "Obama Heads". One patron said he dropped the word "nigger" into the discussion. Others said owner Ted Kefalinos made mention of the fact President Obama was trying to follow in President Lincoln's footsteps and actually said he'd wind up the same way; "He'll get his".

What does a "drunken negro head" cookie look like?

(image from the Gothamist website).

The website Gothamist has the full story, go check it out. We're wondering how some "Black eyed and broken nosed Kefalinos" cookies would look like. We're not advocating violence, we just wonder what they'd look like.